Re: Intel(r) AC'97 Audio Controller - SigmaTel Codec
At 20:24 2002-11-25, Jeremy Petzold wrote: you need to patch the kernel with the ACPI patch and then compile all the ACPI options(except one near the top of the list that blanks out the rest) into the kernel. then you will magicly have sound as long as you have your sound module and sound support set as modules or compiled in. Just one short question... I have read all over about the ACPI patch. Is that something different from the ACPI options in my kernel config? Can I compile a kernel for ACPI directly, or do I have to apply a patch for it after compilation/installation? //Ivar - ** Ivar Alm ! Where does Microsoft want to drag you today? ! Umeå, Sweden ! Do you really want to go there? ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.acc.umu.se/~octo
Re: Intel(r) AC'97 Audio Controller - SigmaTel Codec
Ouch... Better clean my glasses... Or rather get a pair? At 21:39 2002-11-25, Jeremy Petzold wrote: no no...what you see in the kernel is APCI...it is diffrent than ACPI. - Original Message - From: "Ivar Alm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 3:05 PM Subject: Re: Intel(r) AC'97 Audio Controller - SigmaTel Codec At 20:24 2002-11-25, Jeremy Petzold wrote: >you need to patch the kernel with the ACPI patch and then compile all the >ACPI options(except one near the top of the list that blanks out the rest) >into the kernel. then you will magicly have sound as long as you have your >sound module and sound support set as modules or compiled in. Just one short question... I have read all over about the ACPI patch. Is that something different from the ACPI options in my kernel config? Can I compile a kernel for ACPI directly, or do I have to apply a patch for it after compilation/installation? //Ivar - ****** Ivar Alm ! Where does Microsoft want to drag you today? ! Umeå, Sweden ! Do you really want to go there? ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.acc.umu.se/~octo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] - ****** Ivar Alm ! Where does Microsoft want to drag you today? ! Umeå, Sweden ! Do you really want to go there? ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.acc.umu.se/~octo
Re: network config for a wireless Debian client at home?
At 03:08 2002-12-14, Levi Waldron wrote: The host computer which is connected to the internet is an windows box, which is set up to communicate with other boxes in the house with its built-in internet sharing software. (I don't know exactly how as I didn't set this up, but I can find out more if needed) All I know is the (internal network) IP address of the host computer and and my client computer. I believe I have the Raylink wireless PCMCIA card in the client working under Debian using cardmgr. How do I do the network config part on the Debian client so it can actually communicate with the outside world? I have the same setup at home, but with a dynamic ip of my client computer. If you use a static IP of your laptop it's even easier. You need to edit /etc/network/interfaces. There you set up your IP, netmask, gateway etc. The gateway IP should be the same as your host computer. Try 'man interfaces' for more info. Second, edit /etc/resolv.conf and add your dns servers. That should be it. //I - ****** Ivar Alm ! Where does Microsoft want to drag you today? ! Umeå, Sweden ! Do you really want to go there? ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.acc.umu.se/~octo
Re: SMC2632W V.2
At 20:57 2002-12-21, Maximilian Pascher wrote: Hi, I hava here a SMC2632W version 2 wlan card and it simply doesn't work. I hear a beep (the low frequent one) when I insert it, but I can't find anything in any logfiles... I already tried the atmel-chipset driver that can be found on sourceforge, but it didn't work. I use the 2.4.19 kernel from kernel.org. Anyone any ideas? Thanks Max What does 'lspci' say? Can you use other pcmcia nic's? //I -- ***** Ivar Alm ! Where does Microsoft want to drag you today? ! Umeå, Sweden ! Do you really want to go there? ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.octofingers.com
Re: No network connection with a Xircom RealPort Cardbus Ethernet 10/ 100 + Modem 56 (RBEM56G-100)
At 18:02 2003-01-17, Irish, Jon D MEVATEC wrote: I just installed Debian 3.0r1 on a Gateway Solo 2500 with a Xircom RealPort Cardbus Ethernet 10/100 + Modem 56 (RBEM56G-100)card in it. During the install, it failed to setup networking as it claimed there was no adapter present. I finished the install from the CD and logged in as root. Running dmesg, I see this: tulip_attach (device 20:00.0) tulip.c:v0.91g-ppc 7/16/99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (modified by danilo#cs.uni-magdeburg.de for XIRCOM CBE, fixed by Doug Ledford). eth0: Xircom Cardbus Adapter (DEC 21143 compatible mode) rev 3 at 0x400, 00:10:A4:FB:53:D2, IRQ 10. eth0: MII transceiver #0 config 3100 status 7809 advertising 01e1. Then, lspci gives me this: 20:00.0 Ethernet controller: Xircom Cardbus Ethernet 10/100 (rev 03) But ifconfig only shows a loopback adapter. Obiously, the system "sees" the card, but it isn't be used. How can I fix this problem/ Have you tried 'ifconfig -a'? Shows all adaptersm including those down. Are the modules loaded ok? What does 'lsmod' show? You might have to specify your network properties (eg IP, NetMask etc) and start the interface with ifconfig. See the man page. //Ivar -- ********* Ivar Alm ! Where does Microsoft want to drag you today? ! Umeå, Sweden ! Do you really want to go there? ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.octofingers.com
Re: prevent APM-Standby on lid-close
At 18:24 2003-01-20, Derek Broughton wrote: From: "Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Monday 20 January 2003 08:11, Christian Link wrote: > > Hi, > > > > how can i prevent the APM Daemon to send my notebook into standby mode > > when I close the lid. I'm using Debian Woody, got an Inspiron 5000e and > > have kernel 2.4.19-ck7 with APM turned on an not checked 'Ignore User > > Suspend'. I guess there's an entry to comment in one of the APM config > > files. > > > > most laptops config this in BIOS. Really? Not either of the laptops I've owned (a Dell Inspiron and a Thinkpad), and since it's an option in every version of Windows I've used, M$ obviously expects it to be under software control. I know how I would enable/disable standby on my Inspiron using ACPI, but I don't know what you'd do with APM. On my (a little older) Thinkpad 290, the setting is in BIOS. Cannot remember the exact syntax there, but it has to do with lid close. The auto suspend annoyed me a lot until I managed to fint it and turn it off. //I -- * Ivar Alm ! Where does Microsoft want to drag you today? ! Umeå, Sweden ! Do you really want to go there? ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.octofingers.com
Re: prevent APM-Standby on lid-close
At 14:02 2003-01-21, Derek Broughton wrote: From: "busab" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > how do you enable standby with ACPI? I've got a Gericom 1400, ACPI give me > nice info about battery state or systeme temperature but i don't know how to > activate standby (without swsuspend). > thanks echo 1 >/proc/acpi/sleep I tried that, and it totally freezed my computer. I haven't checked though if I have that kernel option checked... //I -- ***** Ivar Alm ! Where does Microsoft want to drag you today? ! Umeå, Sweden ! Do you really want to go there? ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.octofingers.com
Re: Automatically suspend when X minutes battery time remain.
At 13:23 2003-01-23, Alex Polite wrote: I have apm + apmd installed on my notebook. I can successfully "apm -s" from command line and resume by pressing the power on button. I want the system to automatically suspend when x minutes of battery time remain. Check this page for 'swsusp'. http://fchabaud.free.fr/English/default.php3?COUNT=3&FILE0=Tricks&FILE1=Laptop&FILE2=Swsusp There are some scripts to dl there that shuts down/suspends the machine according to battery status. I haven't tried them myself yet, but it can be worth lookin at. Perhaps this only works with acpi, not sure... //Ivar -- ***** Ivar Alm ! Where does Microsoft want to drag you today? ! Umeå, Sweden ! Do you really want to go there? ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.octofingers.com
Re: Kernel 2.4.20 + PCMCIA not working (testing)
At 01:35 2003-01-24, Nate Bargmann wrote: Hi All. I haven't found a great deal of help on this subject after Googling for a while. I've installed a base of Woody on a larger hard drive in my Thinkpad 760ED. The base install with kernel 2.2.20 and the pcmcia-cs modules worked flawlessly as it always had under Potato. Tried yenta_socket instead of pcmcia_cs? //I -- ***** Ivar Alm ! Where does Microsoft want to drag you today? ! Umeå, Sweden ! Do you really want to go there? ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.octofingers.com
Re: acer 630 weird mouse behavior & keyboard freeze
At 17:54 2003-01-27, Giuseppe Ciotta wrote: hi! i have an acer 630 laptop, using it, sometimes (today happened 4 times) the mouse cursor do weird movements on the screen and the keyboard is unusable, the only solution is to kill XFree and restart it, and i lost all of my unsaved work :( what could it be ? i use a 2.4.21-pre3 + acpi kernel (but i had the same problem with 2.4.20 + acpi) any ideas ? this really makes me impossible to work! gpm often has some strange effects on mouse in X. If it also may affect the keyboard seems unlikely, but for the mouse problems, kill gpm. //I -- * Ivar Alm ! Where does Microsoft want to drag you today? ! Umeå, Sweden ! Do you really want to go there? ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.octofingers.com
make-kpkg, was: Getting PCMCIA to work?
At 08:53 2003-02-08, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >>"Mike" == Mike Leone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, it didn't work when I did it the make-kpkg way (I believe I was > following the direction on the WIRELESS-LAN-HOWTO). Doing it the standard > Linux way (aka "the hard way") works every time, and on every Linux distro. I don't know what the WIRELESS-LAN-HOWTO says, but, for the record, I also make my own kernel images and pcmcia modules, and it works every time, for the only Linux distribution I really care about. manoj For the record, I made my kernels the "Linux way" before, but as I got acquainted with make-kpkg, I stick to it. The only modification I need is that after the installation of created kernel package, I need to modify some link names in the root dir. Since I have more than one kernel installed, I cannot have them all named 'vmlinuz'... :) It is so convenient to have a .deb package to install... //I -- ********* Ivar Alm ! Where does Microsoft want to drag you today? ! Umeå, Sweden ! Do you really want to go there? ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.octofingers.com
Re: after knx-hdinstall howto network configure ?
At 15:05 2003-02-22, a.lefranc wrote: Le Samedi 22 Février 2003 10:34, Johan Ehnberg a écrit : > /etc/network/interfaces. There you should have the following entry: > > auto eth0 > iface eth0 inet static > address 10.0.0.3# I believe this was your laptop > netmask 255.0.0.0 > gateway 10.0.0.138 > > > For name resolving, edit /etc/resolv.conf > There you should have your DNS server specified: > > search netpratique.fr > nameserver 62.210.164.14 > thanks I have done that but when I want to make a ping... network is unreachable... ha it's difficult when you are a newbie... What does 'ifconfig' and 'route' say? If ping cannot reach network, it does not have to do with name resolving. At least not if you give it an ip adress. //I -- ***** Ivar Alm ! Where does Microsoft want to drag you today? ! Umeå, Sweden ! Do you really want to go there? ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.octofingers.com
Re: Color bash prompt in function of the charge of battery (acpi based)
At 23:18 2003-03-04, Fabio Sirna wrote: I do some change on the bash script that I've posted few days ago. This works better. It must be in the .bashrc. Sorry for a "rtfm" question, but can I write this to a separate file and "#include" it in some way in .bashrc? //I -- ***** Ivar Alm ! Where does Microsoft want to drag you today? ! Umeå, Sweden ! Do you really want to go there? ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.octofingers.com
swsusp
Hi there... Anyone had any luck with swsusp? I had my kernel patched and compiled - no problems. I downloaded the suspend.sh script, and installed it with config file and the created 'hibernate' script. I have a problem when resuming (or suspending). This is that the 'networking' service returns an error. I don't know why it doesn't work. It only gives me the "Configuring network interfaces : Operation failed." How can I set a more verbose error report from 'networking'? If I only know why it gives me that error, it's alot easier to fix the problem... After the resume, my eth0 isn't restored. 'ifup' gives the "interface already configured" so I need to run 'ifdown'. After that ifup works just fine, and all my networking is back to normal. Why I get errors when resuming, and afterwards can run an ifdown/ifup and it works is pretty confusing to me. Any suggestions? //Ivar -- * Ivar Alm ! Where does Microsoft want to drag you today? ! Umeå, Sweden ! Do you really want to go there? ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.octofingers.com
Re: swsusp
At 11:04 2003-03-13, Mattia Dongili wrote: hi, > After the resume, my eth0 isn't restored. 'ifup' gives the "interface > already configured" so I need to run 'ifdown'. After that ifup works > just fine, and all my networking is back to normal. Why I get errors > when resuming, and afterwards can run an ifdown/ifup and it works is > pretty confusing to me. > > Any suggestions? yes, try to ifdown/rmmod _before_suspending_ and ifup/modprobe _after_resuming_, it should do the trick. many drivers still don't have any power management code, so you need unload modules before suspend and reload them after resume. The hibernate script does idfown/rmmod, as well as stopping some services, and reverses the procedure on resume. I believe that the problem is the order in which services and modules are restarted... Just thinking if someone else have had the same problem, and perhaps solved it... //I -- ***** Ivar Alm ! Where does Microsoft want to drag you today? ! Umeå, Sweden ! Do you really want to go there? ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.octofingers.com
Re: swsusp [perhaps solved]
At 11:32 2003-03-13, busab wrote: Mattia Dongili wrote: hi, After the resume, my eth0 isn't restored. 'ifup' gives the "interface already configured" so I need to run 'ifdown'. After that ifup works just fine, and all my networking is back to normal. Why I get errors when resuming, and afterwards can run an ifdown/ifup and it works is pretty confusing to me. Any suggestions? yes, try to ifdown/rmmod _before_suspending_ and ifup/modprobe _after_resuming_, it should do the trick. many drivers still don't have any power management code, so you need unload modules before suspend and reload them after resume. it can be done in config file generated by the script available here : http://fchabaud.free.fr/English/default.php3?COUNT=3&FILE0=Tricks&FILE1=Laptop&FILE2=Swsusp I never make it work on my laptop but work well on the others. Sometimes I got some trouble with sound (I use esd) or hardware acceleration (solved by using the nvidia option in the config file). I read through the 'networking' script, and the script runs ifup/ifdown. The 'hibernation' script runs them as well, so I took a chance and removed 'networking' from services to be stopped and restarted on suspend/resume. So far it works. I haven't found any problems (yet). I think this might have to do with the fact that there is no builtin nic. I only have a CardBus nic. //I -- * Ivar Alm ! Where does Microsoft want to drag you today? ! Umeå, Sweden ! Do you really want to go there? ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.octofingers.com
Re: your mail
At 04:26 2003-03-19, mi wrote: Derek Broughton: > He appears to be using pcmcia nics, in which case changing anything in > .../interfaces won't do him a bit of good. In the past that would have been true. Now it's changed and the pcmcia tools join with etc/network/interfaces. Code's in movement, anytime. I have never understood (nor looked seriously at) /etc/pcmcia/network.opts. I have only used /etc/interfaces, when setting up my pcmcia nic(s). Perhaps it works but is the "wrong" way to do it? I might go back and rt(fine)m, but on the other hand - it works now. //I -- ********* Ivar Alm ! Where does Microsoft want to drag you today? ! Umeå, Sweden ! Do you really want to go there? ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.octofingers.com
Re: ACPI blanks screen at the end of the boot process
At 16:41 2003-03-31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I compiled 2.4.20 with all ACPI questions answered yes, powermgmt yes and apm no. When booting all looks nice until the very ned. Network seems to be up, at least the boot process is past dhcp, but I haven't seen any x-stuff yet and then the console blanks and nothing happens anymore. It does not respond to CTRL+ALT+BS and CTRL+ALT+F1 and CTRL+F7. When compiling with apm and acpi all off, the machine works fine. Check for ACPI messages in syslog. Check for error messages in dmesg as well. When compiling with acpi off and apm on, the machine works fine and does even suspend when closing the lid. So a) Any idea, why acpi does blank my screen and b) what are the reasons to switch to acpi? Afaik suspend wouldn't work with acpi, would it? When you mean suspend, I assume you mean suspend to disk, also called hibernate? That works fine with swsusp and the scripts that follows. My only problems with the scripts was that I needed to rewrite some parts to resolve som annoying issues with them. //I -- ***** Ivar Alm ! Where does Microsoft want to drag you today? ! Umeå, Sweden ! Do you really want to go there? ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.octofingers.com
Re: ACPI blanks screen at the end of the boot process
At 20:38 2003-04-01, Mariano Kamp wrote: Hi Ivar, On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 18:23, Ivar Alm wrote: > At 16:41 2003-03-31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Hi, > > > > I compiled 2.4.20 with all ACPI questions answered yes, powermgmt yes and > >apm no. > > > > When booting all looks nice until the very ned. Network seems to be up, at > >least the boot process is past dhcp, but I haven't seen any x-stuff yet and > >then the console blanks and nothing happens anymore. It does not respond to > >CTRL+ALT+BS and CTRL+ALT+F1 and CTRL+F7. > > > > When compiling with apm and acpi all off, the machine works fine. > > Check for ACPI messages in syslog. Check for error messages in dmesg as well. dmesg does contain the messages from the last boot, doesn't it? In order to access dmesg I need to reboot with acpi off and don't see anything relevant in dmesg anymore, do I? You're right in that probably only syslog contains acpi error messages. I'm not that sure actually. To be honest, I'm not an expert in Linux, not even experienced, but I have acpi, swsusp installed and functional. Battery display and hibernation, so I will try to help as well as I can... Apr 1 10:15:00 red kdm[435]: Server for display :0 terminated unexpectedly Apr 1 10:15:00 red kdm[435]: Display :0 is being disabled (restarting too fast) Been googling that? I found several hits when doing that, but haven't so far read them in detail. > > When compiling with acpi off and apm on, the machine works fine and does > >even suspend when closing the lid. So a) Any idea, why acpi does blank my > >screen and b) what are the reasons to switch to acpi? Afaik suspend > >wouldn't work > >with acpi, would it? > > When you mean suspend, I assume you mean suspend to disk, also called > hibernate? Well, I am pretty open in that respect ;-) To be honest I don't have a clue. The opposite would be to suspend to ram, right? I haven't set aside a dedicated partition on my disk for suspending. If it is not doing it implicitly (swap space or something), than I would say I use suspend to ram, right? It doesn't take long to suspend, just 3 to 4 seconds and I've got 256MB ram. That also adds to my assumption that I am suspending to ram. Afaik suspend to ram is not supposed to work with 2.4 kernels. The 2.5 kernels are working with that, and hopefully we will se a functional suspend to ram in the 2.6 kernel. > That works fine with swsusp and the scripts that follows. swsup with acpi? Which script? Here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/swsusp/ Check that page and the project homepage. The documentation sux, but that are details we could handle then. This page contains a kernel patch, both for the vanilla and the acpi patched kernel, as well as a few scripts for hibernation and battery monitoring. These scripts are supposed to run with an --install switch and then install themselves in /usr/local/sbin, and put config files in /etc. The editing I had to do were fixes to get my nic up after resume and a few more things. The best thing you can do is to compile with the patc, install the hibernation (and/or) the battery scripts and try. If it works - happy you, if not - send us a mail. :) I also use acpid ( a deb package i think ) that monitors acpi events, like lid close, pwr button etc, and can execute scripts according to events. This way I have a shutdown script coupled to the pwr button event. Check http://sourceforge.net/projects/acpid/ This might be somwthing to start with. I still have no answer to your first prob, but try googling the error messages. //I -- * Ivar Alm ! Where does Microsoft want to drag you today? ! Umeå, Sweden ! Do you really want to go there? ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.octofingers.com
Re: (PCMCIA NIC && Mitac 5033 && Debian) = False ?
At 10:09 2003-04-02, Marco Merit wrote: Hi ! I think that my question aren't new ! :-) But! there is any way to install a PCMCIA NIC based on 8139too module without recompile the kernel? Acutally I've complete an BF24 installations but my NIC dosen't work at all! But my modem (also PCMCIA) works fine. There's any work around to use nic ? At least you need to compile the module and install (if that isn't done) and then modprobe it. There should be no need to recompile the kernel. //I -- ***** Ivar Alm ! Where does Microsoft want to drag you today? ! Umeå, Sweden ! Do you really want to go there? ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.octofingers.com
Re: Compaq Armada M700: "poweroff" does not power off
At 11:30 2003-04-03, Remo Inverardi wrote: I'm using a Compaq Armada M700 laptop, running SID with vanilla, self compiled 2.4.20 and 2.4.21-pre6 kernels. Under both kernel versions, a "poweroff" does a shutdown, but no power off. I played around with kernel options, trying to both shutdown using real and protected mode. You need to compile apm or acpi into the kernel to make a complete shutdown to work. //Ivar -- ********* Ivar Alm ! Where does Microsoft want to drag you today? ! Umeå, Sweden ! Do you really want to go there? ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.octofingers.com
Re: Compaq Armada M700: "poweroff" does not power off
At 14:08 2003-04-03, Remo Inverardi wrote: Ivar, > You need to compile apm or acpi into the kernel to make a > complete shutdown to work. APM is compiled and linked into my kernel. As far as I can tell, APM works fine (/proc/apm shows battery stats etc). ACPI did no seem to work with the M700 when I last tried it using kernel version 2.4.20. Ok... I have no experience from your machine. I use a Thinkpad 390 myself, and my shutdown began to work after I compiled my kernel for apm. One thing you might want to check is whether this option is set: CONFIG_APM_POWER_OFF=y I believe it might have to do with it. For the moment I use ACPI on my machine, so I cannot test my advices myself... :) Check and let me know //Ivar -- * Ivar Alm ! Where does Microsoft want to drag you today? ! Umeå, Sweden ! Do you really want to go there? ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.octofingers.com
Re: Acer TM 634 fan always on
At 16:57 2003-04-11, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 02:28:35PM +0200, Emil Pedersen wrote: > If you know how to compile your own kernel simply choose acpi instead of > apm (never got anything working with apm on my TM632), I do know how to recompile. I'm not sure what all the options are that I should check off though. In make menuconfig under "General Setup" I have the following (everything is currently UNchecked unless noted): Power management support (currently checked) ACPI support ACPI Debug Statements ACPI Bus Manager Advanced Power Management BIOS support (currently checked) Ignore user suspend enable PM at boot time make CPU idle calls when idle enable console blanking using APM RTC stores time in GMT allow interrupts during APM BIOS calls use real mode APM BIOS call to power off Would it be correct for me to UNcheck "Advanced Power Management BIOS support" and CHECK "ACPI support", "ACPI Debug Statements", and "ACPI Bus Manager"? Are there any other options I need to find? What about any of the sub-items for APM BIOS support? Should they all be unchecked? thanks! emma FAIK, uncheck ACPI Debug Statements!! They will flood you with those statements... That was my first mistake... Check all other items. //I -- ***** Ivar Alm ! Where does Microsoft want to drag you today? ! Umeå, Sweden ! Do you really want to go there? ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.octofingers.com
Re: can't restore from suspend
At 03:09 2003-04-16, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: So what I thought was a sucessful suspend was just a screen saver. I don't understand how acpid works, but there must be a way to: a) figure out how to restore the laptop from a suspended state b) turn off suspend I looked through the man pages for acpid and I'm guessing that suspend is an "event", but I don't understand how to manipulate it. Does anyone know of a resource that explains how to do (a) or (b)? thanks! emma :) First try to find out WHY the machine suspends. If you find that out, then you can start to explore why the machine doesn't restore/wake up. My tip is for you to check out swsusp. That gives you a way to hibernate/wake up in a controlled way. There are perhaps other ways, but I managed to get my laptop hibernate and wake up as expected with swsusp. I don't remember the web page exactly, but try swsusp.sourceforge.net. Swsusp exists as a deb package as well if I don't remember wrong. Good luck. //Ivar -- ********* Ivar Alm ! Where does Microsoft want to drag you today? ! Umeå, Sweden ! Do you really want to go there? ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.octofingers.com
Re: suspending with acpi
At 15:39 2003-04-23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just wondering... can anyone tell me how to (or point me to a how to) suspend/hibernate/put onstandby a laptop? I have an Asus L3800c running debian woody 3.0 with kernel 2.4.20 (from kernel.org) patched with 2.4.20 acpi and also asus patch. cheers, Smerk http://fchabaud.free.fr/English/default.php3?COUNT=3&FILE0=Tricks&FILE1=Laptop&FILE2=Swsusp There you have a (working) solution to hibernation. I had some problems, but managed to solve them quite fast. The documentation isn't that great though, but exists in some way. //Ivar -- ***** Ivar Alm ! Where does Microsoft want to drag you today? ! Umeå, Sweden ! Do you really want to go there? ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.octofingers.com
Re: ACPI sleep/hibernation mode
At 10:32 2003-04-28, =?iso-8859-2?q?Mat=ECj=20Hausenblas?= wrote: Hi List, I have some little trouble finding documentation on putting an purely ACPI (no APM support) laptop (Acer TravelMate 435LC) to sleep. The apm -s command doesn't work since apm isn't enabled. I would like to ask if there's an equivalent to that command but for acpi. I've heard something about pmtools, swsusp and acpi SX states, but I didn't find more precise links. Thanks Matej I user swsusp to hibernate my acpi enabled laptop. http://fchabaud.free.fr/English/default.php3?COUNT=3&FILE0=Tricks&FILE1=Laptop&FILE2=Swsusp //Ivar -- ***** Ivar Alm ! Where does Microsoft want to drag you today? ! Umeå, Sweden ! Do you really want to go there? ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.octofingers.com
Re: ACPI on Compaq Presario 1400
At 12:32 2003-05-10, flubie wrote: Hi all, Does anybody here succeed in installing ACPI on Compaq Presario 1400? I recompiled 2.4.20 kernel with ACPI included (not as a module), and it seems that ACPI is recognized, but Laptop Battery in KDE gives me the following message: Your computer seems to have a partial ACPI installation. ACPI was probably enabled, but some of the sub-options were not - you need to enable at least 'AC Adaptor' and 'Control Method Battery' and then rebuild your kernel. I'm sure that I have enabled those adaptor and control method. Any suggestions? Did you apply the acpi patch? The built in acpi of the kernel source is not enough unfortunately. Check the patches here http://sourceforge.net/projects/acpi and apply them and then try to recompile. I believe that will help you. //Ivar -- ***** Ivar Alm ! Where does Microsoft want to drag you today? ! Umeå, Sweden ! Do you really want to go there? ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.octofingers.com
Re: ACPI HOWTO (draft)
At 03:14 2003-06-07, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: The second draft of a HOWTO that I'm working on is ready: http://xtrinsic.com/geek/articles/acpi.phtml Please let me know if you have any comments, find anything wrong, confusing, etc. Dunno if it's only me, but I cannot read that page with Opera. I see one screen page, but if I scroll down, there is nothing but black... There is some minor layout problems with Opera on the visible part as well. Anyone else had any probs? //Ivar -- ***** Ivar Alm ! Where does Microsoft want to drag you today? ! Umeå, Sweden ! Do you really want to go there? ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.octofingers.com
Re: asus l3800c (l3c) state of the art
At 09:14 2003-06-26, Gabor Melis wrote: What I've read so far: http://tuxmobil.org/asus_l3800c_e.html http://developer.kde.org/~howells/l3800c My laptop runs Sarge with KDE3.1 from Sid. Most of the above seems to be correct, but in the power mgmt department I experience some deviations: - fn+Z freezes the machine if X (4.2.1 without DRI) is running - closing the lid doesn not freeze it, but the CPU, interrupt handling all seem to be suspended, but it stays hot and the fan goes on (end when it is opened the clock is lagging) - sometimes the CPU clock speed is reduced to 1200, but I don't know why It is with 2.4.20 + apm. Also: - the buttons next to the power button are not useable, not even with lineakd Anyone with similar experience? Or preferably better setup? Ok, I do not know that machine you use, so I might step into something by this... First, the "state of the art" implies to me that the machine is comparably new. Are you sure you have support for apm? In your case there might be a better idea to take the deep dive into the ACPI ocean. I've set up my old Thinkpad for ACPI, and it works very nice for me. At least it satisfies my needs. Take a look at ACPI. //Ivar -- ***** Ivar Alm ! Where does Microsoft want to drag you today? ! Umeå, Sweden ! Do you really want to go there? ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.octofingers.com
Re: About my Acer . Laptoc.
Hi there. Try be a little more specific about when it does happen. Is half the screen black all the time? Only in X? If you see that half the screen is black during the bios start (before kernel boot), the problem is probably damaged hardware - you need to get your machine repaired. //Ivar At 19:19 2003-08-02, co8ly wrote: Hello... My computer Laptoc ACER Model Extensa 390 have problems in the screen LCD, alone I can see 50 percent of the screen LCD the other one half this in black. Somebody can tell me which is the problem and as solving it. Thank you in advance. Eduardo Somoano C. Santiago de Cuba. Cuba. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ***** Ivar Alm ! Where does Microsoft want to drag you today? ! Umeå, Sweden ! Do you really want to go there? ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.octofingers.com
Re: APM locks up Ashton Digital Passport 2100
At 14:09 2003-09-03, Overkill of TASF wrote: So, I've got this nice laptop from Ashton Digital that I'm trying to put Debian on... But EVERY time it does anything with APM, whether adding a kernel module or activating the debian package for it, everything hard locks, immediately. Has anyone had any experience with this laptop, or this problem? Are you sure your kernel supports APM? Maybe ACPI is the correct way to go. //I -- ***** Ivar Alm ! Where does Microsoft want to drag you today? ! Umeå, Sweden ! Do you really want to go there? ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.octofingers.com
Re: APM locks up Ashton Digital Passport 2100
At 19:00 2003-09-03, Overkill of TASF wrote: The kernel is 2.4, I'm doing a BF24 install. I can't seem to keep APM from starting up I do an apt-get remove apm, apt-get remove apmd It's kind of frustrating... No matter what I do (Er, what I've tried) APM somehow starts up at boot, and locks the kids up! You cannot boot the machine so you have a prompt? If you can, you seem to have been able to use apt-get, try kill the 'apmd' deamon. Try locating that running program. It's the apm deamon, and if you can kill that one, you should have no apm running. You probably selected to have apm sometimes during install. IIRC, the installation program asks for that... //I -- ********* Ivar Alm ! Where does Microsoft want to drag you today? ! Umeå, Sweden ! Do you really want to go there? ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.octofingers.com
Re: Unsubscribe
At 19:31 2002-04-15, Charles Bray wrote: On Sun 14 Apr 2002 at 11:06, Josh Knarr wrote: I no longer wish to supscribe to this mailing list. I've mailed the admin on my particular issue and received no response. Please remove the address [EMAIL PROTECTED] from the list. In my experience also, the Debian List unsubscribe system has significant problems. Some months ago I very patiently followed the relevant instructions similar to: To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] I do not know wether there is a difference between all the lists, but I unsubscribed from debian-user by mailing debian-user-REQUEST with an empty subject, and "unsubscribe" in the body. Could it really be this hard? //I - ****** Ivar Alm ! Where does Microsoft want to drag you today? ! Umeå, Sweden ! Do you really want to go there? ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.acc.umu.se/~octo
Thinkpad 390
I have a simple problem with my (rather old by now) IBM Thinkpad 390. Well, problem or problem, I cannot get my resolution to exceed 800x600. It is very annoying, since the graphics card should support 1024x768, at least since it has 2MB of memory. Not internal, it uses the RAM. My 390 has the NeoMagic 256 graphics, 32MB ram, and a 200MHz Pentium. If this helps anybody to see the answer. I have edited my config files, so the resolutions above 800x600 shouldn't be discarded because of sync rates. There exist modes within the entered ranges. Should the machine be capable of displaying 1024x768, or am I totally wrong? Plz //Ivar - ** Ivar Alm ! Where does Microsoft want to drag you today? ! Umeå, Sweden ! Do you really want to go there? ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.acc.umu.se/~octo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Thinkpad 390
At 09:51 2002-04-23, you wrote: On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Ivar Alm wrote: >I have a simple problem with my (rather old by now) IBM Thinkpad 390. Well, >problem or problem, I cannot get my resolution to exceed 800x600. >It is very annoying, since the graphics card should support 1024x768, at >least since it has 2MB of memory. There are many models of 390. Please check out whether the model number is - 2626-20U (P-233, 12.1" TFT, 800x600) - 2626-50U (PII-233, 12.1" TFT, 800x600) - 2626-70U (PII-266, 14.1" TFT, 1024x768) It should read on the bottom. The model is a 2626-2SW. Cannot even find information about this one at the IBM site... >Not internal, it uses the RAM. I don't understand this sentence: do you mean you're using external monitor? The card has no memory of it's own if I'm not mistaking, it uses the computers ram. I've been thinking that I don't run the correct version of XFree86. I have v4.1.0.1 installed. Checked that with XFree86 -version, but I see that the X link in /etc/X11 refers to XF86_SVGA, but that is an older 3.3.6 version. How do I make sure that I use the latest version? Sorry about perhaps some stupid questions, but although I have some computer experience, I am a complete newbie in the Linux world. //Ivar - ********** Ivar Alm ! Where does Microsoft want to drag you today? ! Umeå, Sweden ! Do you really want to go there? ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.acc.umu.se/~octo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: No sound on NEC versa aptitude
At 17:10 2002-06-04, Stephane wrote: Hello, I have been trying for about a week to get an ess Allegro sound card to work under Linux( Debian 3.0 ) and/or BSD (FreeBSD 4.5 ). The card is recognized under Linux (using the maestro3.o module on kernel 2.4 and 2.2) with the following parameters : IRQ 5 io=0x1400 ... , but no sound is emitted. Have you checked that Windows recognizes the same parameter settings? //I - ** Ivar Alm ! Where does Microsoft want to drag you today? ! Umeå, Sweden ! Do you really want to go there? ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.acc.umu.se/~octo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: LAN help requested
At 00:51 2002-06-11, Mail User wrote: The ethernet cards ARE supported by the kernel images i'm using in each machine, and no i don't need to load modules. I use ifconfig to program each card with an IP. Here's what my ifconfig -a looks like from one laptop: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:10:5A:1B:F3:6B inet addr:10.0.0.1 Bcast:10.255.255.255 . . As stated, include full output... Now according to the network administrators guide, I should add a route entry; so i do this "route add -host 10.0.0.3" to which i get the error code: SIOCADDRT: No such device. Yes, since they are on the same subnet (10.0.0.x) you need no route table. Otherwise the error "No such device" is because you have stated that there exist another host on the net (10.0.0.3) but not which gateway to use to get to this host. Check the man page for route later. You might need it. By heart it is something like: route add -host hostip gw gatewayip ^ This is what you missed... Specify gateway. Check that the cable is crossed first. That's a common problem. :) //I - ********** Ivar Alm ! Where does Microsoft want to drag you today? ! Umeå, Sweden ! Do you really want to go there? ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.acc.umu.se/~octo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Multiple users (perhaps OT)
Hi all. I have a question that migh be OT. Doesn't have to do with laptops specifically. I want to allow more than one user to connect to the X server. The thing is that we are two people using my machine regularly at home, me and my girlfriend. I would like to log in as myself, start X and still have the possibility for her to su to her user and launch X programs. At the moment, the X server doesn't allow any other than the user who started X to start X applications. And if she wants to write texts and save to her user, we need to restart X, or she needs to work in a terminal. Can I authorize other users (not remotely?) logged in to start X applications? //Ivar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Multiple users (perhaps OT)
--- > >>>>> "Ivar" == Ivar Alm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Ivar> Hi all. I have a question that migh be OT. Doesn't have to do > Ivar> with laptops specifically. I want to allow more than one user to > Ivar> connect to the X server. The thing is that we are two people > Ivar> using my machine regularly at home, me and my girlfriend. > > [...] > > I don't know if it's feasible for you (in terms of memory requirements, > etc), but you might want to launch two X servers, one on vt7, and one on > vt8. Then, if you're working on something, and your girlfriend wants to > use the computer, she can switch to vt8 and log in as herself. This > way, she gets to keep all her preferences, etc. > Heh... Perhaps not on my Thinkpad 390... P233 w 32MB ram... *s* //I -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Multiple users (perhaps OT)
--- > > Sure: > > xhost +localhost > su - username > export DISPLAY=localhost:0 > > >From here you can launch your X based apps. Change localhost and :0 > respectively. > ThinkPad:~$ xhost +ThinkPad ThinkPad being added to access control list ThinkPad:~$ su - octo ThinkPad:~$ export DISPLAY=ThinkPad:0 ThinkPad:~$ xclock Error: Can't open display: ThinkPad:0 Hmmm Cannot really understand why... "ThinkPad" is the right name btw. Anyone knows? //I -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Net startup commands...
Hi. This might be a bit lazy to ask here. Two questions: At first, I need to have some commands for route and network interface startup at boot. When the machine is powered down (it actually happens), eth0 is taken down and my route table is reset. Where can I place commands for these to be restored at startup? It is not good to need to login as root to set this at startup. Another thing about this. I logged in as my normal user, and in the console, su'ed and started eth0 and set route table. When i exited from root and started X as "normal" user, the settings where gone. If I su'ed in a terminal after starting X, setting the network, it all worked fine again. Do these settings apply to one console only? I use route and ifconfig... Second, how do I stop and start pcmcia? Today myc pcmcia card happened to eject. Can I repace it, and restart it? //Ivar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Net startup commands...
> >Another thing about this. I logged in as my normal user, and in the > >console, su'ed and started eth0 and set route table. When i exited > >from root and started X as "normal" user, the settings where gone. If > >I su'ed in a terminal after starting X, setting the network, it all > >worked fine again. > > > Strange. Maybe you've changed runlevel and thus "restored" wrong settings. Does startx change runlevel? Where do I find information about the runlevels? I never understood hem... //I -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Kernel sizes
Hi. Tride to compile kernel 2.4.16. Seemed to work fine, used xconfig, selected all modules I needed, mostly unselected unessecary ones. Compiled to bzImage without problems. I copied the image to /boot/, created a symlink from /vmlinuz to my image. When I run lilo afterwards, it gives me an error: Kernel - Fatal: vmlinuz too large Why this? What to do? //I - ** Ivar Alm ! Where does Microsoft want to drag you today? ! Umeå, Sweden ! Do you really want to go there? ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.acc.umu.se/~octo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kernel sizes
At 22:38 2002-07-21, Nyk Tarr wrote: On Sun, Jul 21, 2002 at 05:56:35PM +0200, Ivar Alm wrote: > Hi. > > Tride to compile kernel 2.4.16. Seemed to work fine, used xconfig, selected > all modules I needed, mostly unselected unessecary ones. > Compiled to bzImage without problems. I copied the image to /boot/, created > a symlink from /vmlinuz to my image. > When I run lilo afterwards, it gives me an error: > Kernel - Fatal: vmlinuz too large > > Why this? What to do? You probably copied vmlinux across. This is an uncompressed file and not what you were looking for. Try copying arch/i386/boot/bzImage to /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.16 or similar. You also need to copy System.map to /boot/System.map-2.4.16 make-kpkg (apt-get install kernel-package) is an easier way to get kernels installed in the Debian way. When i ran 'make bzlilo', it installed a much smaller file in my root dir together with the map file. I copied all to /boot/ and created a symlink - voila! lilo accepted it. But... make-kpkg? Never looked at it. Are there any howtos describing it in more detail? I managed to boot my compiled kernel, but lacked several important modules that could start my pcmcia etc. How do I find out what modules are important? Seems to be a bit akward to write down all modules I think my current kernel loads, and then mark them at the next compile. Could make-kpkg help in this? //I Sorry for all newbie questions, but what else to do? Thanx in advance all... :) - ********** Ivar Alm ! Where does Microsoft want to drag you today? ! Umeå, Sweden ! Do you really want to go there? ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.acc.umu.se/~octo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Testing
Seems I haven't gotten any mail from this list in a week... Just testing if I get this one... - ** Ivar Alm ! Where does Microsoft want to drag you today? ! Umeå, Sweden ! Do you really want to go there? ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.acc.umu.se/~octo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Install on X22 without floppy and cdrom
At 10:04 2002-08-28, Dave Swegen wrote: On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 05:34:31PM -0700, River Y. Liu wrote: > I ran LILO on /dev/hda2, which is my root partition. And I even could > boot from my desktop. But when I insert the hard disk back to the > laptop, the error appeared. Last night I installed windows 98. I thought > maybe the two machines had two different BIOS. It still producted error. > Do you think my hard disk is damaged? Or because IBM has some wierd > setting for hard disk in BIOS. Silly question, but did you reinsert the HD the right way up? I seem to recall that unlike 3 1/2" HDs the 2 1/2" HDs can be inserted either way. If you have inserted the HD the correct way, I'd say that since the HD works OK with the desktop machine, and since the win2k used to boot on the laptop, that the HD is fine, but that possibly the pins in the HD bay might have got bent or somesuch. I doubt very much that the BIOS settings would make any difference. Just to be on the safe side try restoring them to the default settings (if you have changed them). Hope you manage to get it to work. Cheers Dave Perhaps another silly question, but it cannot be the case that one of the bioses is too old to identify the full drive? If the drive is large (>10GB) some older bioses indentify it as approx. 8.5GB, and when a drive is partitioned and formatted with such a bios, I have no idea what that drive will look like in a bios that identifies the full drive. Have anyone tried this? Will the drive seem to contain only 8.5GB of partitions and the rest unpartitioned? Trashed my old mails, so I cannot see if you have specified the bioses and drive size earlier... //Ivar - ********** Ivar Alm ! Where does Microsoft want to drag you today? ! Umeå, Sweden ! Do you really want to go there? ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.acc.umu.se/~octo
Re: Old batteries - or ... ?
At 17:51 2002-09-20, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 20 September 2002 03:29 am, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > [Although laptop-related, it is not debian-specific. But you're a > helpful lot, aren't you? :-) ] > > I'm suspecting that the batteries in my laptop are getting old - or that > something is buggy in hardware / bios. > Greetings Jorgensen: The batteries could be both getting old, and also needing a complete cycling to reset the values. In my bios, I have a special *mode* that completely discharges the batteries, then charges them completely and *learns* the cycle, then repeats the procedure. Yet as batteries age, they will give less service life. [major snip] Hi all! Just a bit curious. What happens when Li-ion batteries age? They have no such "memory" as the older NiCad batteries. Perhaps it will work with a recondition procedure, but with Li-ion, I am a bit sceptical. The discharge curve seems ok, since it will drop faster as the battery looses charge, but maybe the time is a bit short. With no (or little) energy saving options, the battery probably will last no more than an hour and a half at anyway. The charge curve is odd I must confess, but some of that behaviour probably originates from the measurment of the battery power. There could rather be a problem there. How old is the battery? How many recharges has it been through? //Ivar - ****** Ivar Alm ! Where does Microsoft want to drag you today? ! Umeå, Sweden ! Do you really want to go there? ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.acc.umu.se/~octo
Re: base-config hangs after install on hp xt6200
At 13:57 2002-10-16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After installation from cd (ISO-image) and boot Debian start the system configuration (base-config). This hangs on the startup-screen does not react to keystrokes. After some minutes the screen turns black. Someone knows how to find out, what makes it hang? Regards, Ganesh This is not an attempt to present a solution, but to me it seems as the fact that the screen goes black after a few minutes is the screen blanking of the computer. Probably has nothing to do with the config hangup. //Ivar - ** Ivar Alm ! Where does Microsoft want to drag you today? ! Umeå, Sweden ! Do you really want to go there? ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.acc.umu.se/~octo
Thinkpad NeoMagic sound problem
Hi there. After a lot fo trying and failing, I ask thee - "What am I doing wrong?!" I am trying to get my sound working on my Thinkpad 390. According to lspci there is a NeoMagic MagiceMedia 256AV, which seems correct. Downloaded the ALSA source and tried to compile my module. Configuring and compiling went alright, no complaints, but when trying to modprobe the module it fails. According to some info I found, I installed soundcore before trying to install snd-nm256, but that didn't change anything. When I do modprobe snd-nm256, the error says I have to have ac97 installed. That can be forced by using modprobe snd-nm256 snd_force_ac97=yes, but that totally hangs my computer. It also says something about not finding the soundchip or that the device is busy. I have tried passing parameters regarding I/O, IRQ and so forth, as I read them from CMOS-setup, but that didn't change anything. The INSTALL readme says that on some machines the module might hang-up during install when autoprobing the buffer top adress. I suspect that might be the cause of the hang-up when I use the snd_force_ac97=yes option. The solution is to specify it manually with option snd_buffer_top, but I cannot find out what adress that might be. Anyone had any succes with ALSA and Neomagic 256AV on Thinkpad? //Ivar - ********** Ivar Alm ! Where does Microsoft want to drag you today? ! Umeå, Sweden ! Do you really want to go there? ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.acc.umu.se/~octo
Re: PCMCIA network card
At 02:36 2002-10-27, Carmen Alfaro wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to find a pcmcia network card that will be fully supported under linux, Debian woody 3.0r0 bf24 specifically, but after several hours spent browsing around the net I haven't found any. I've tried the 3Com site, but for almost every model they list the same remark is shown: 'will not work on systems other than windows'. So I'm a tad lost. Can any one advise me on any pcmcia card I can use with my laptop? Thanks in advance. I use a rather simple DLink DE-660+. Very cheap, but works perfectly. //I - ****** Ivar Alm ! Where does Microsoft want to drag you today? ! Umeå, Sweden ! Do you really want to go there? ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.acc.umu.se/~octo
Re: Unsubscribe
At 19:31 2002-04-15, Charles Bray wrote: On Sun 14 Apr 2002 at 11:06, Josh Knarr wrote: I no longer wish to supscribe to this mailing list. I've mailed the admin on my particular issue and received no response. Please remove the address [EMAIL PROTECTED] from the list. In my experience also, the Debian List unsubscribe system has significant problems. Some months ago I very patiently followed the relevant instructions similar to: To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] I do not know wether there is a difference between all the lists, but I unsubscribed from debian-user by mailing debian-user-REQUEST with an empty subject, and "unsubscribe" in the body. Could it really be this hard? //I - ****** Ivar Alm ! Where does Microsoft want to drag you today? ! Umeå, Sweden ! Do you really want to go there? ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.acc.umu.se/~octo
Thinkpad 390
I have a simple problem with my (rather old by now) IBM Thinkpad 390. Well, problem or problem, I cannot get my resolution to exceed 800x600. It is very annoying, since the graphics card should support 1024x768, at least since it has 2MB of memory. Not internal, it uses the RAM. My 390 has the NeoMagic 256 graphics, 32MB ram, and a 200MHz Pentium. If this helps anybody to see the answer. I have edited my config files, so the resolutions above 800x600 shouldn't be discarded because of sync rates. There exist modes within the entered ranges. Should the machine be capable of displaying 1024x768, or am I totally wrong? Plz //Ivar - ** Ivar Alm ! Where does Microsoft want to drag you today? ! Umeå, Sweden ! Do you really want to go there? ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.acc.umu.se/~octo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Thinkpad 390
At 09:51 2002-04-23, you wrote: >On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Ivar Alm wrote: > > >I have a simple problem with my (rather old by now) IBM Thinkpad 390. Well, > >problem or problem, I cannot get my resolution to exceed 800x600. > >It is very annoying, since the graphics card should support 1024x768, at > >least since it has 2MB of memory. > >There are many models of 390. Please check out whether the model number is >- 2626-20U (P-233, 12.1" TFT, 800x600) >- 2626-50U (PII-233, 12.1" TFT, 800x600) >- 2626-70U (PII-266, 14.1" TFT, 1024x768) >It should read on the bottom. The model is a 2626-2SW. Cannot even find information about this one at the IBM site... > >Not internal, it uses the RAM. > >I don't understand this sentence: do you mean you're using external >monitor? The card has no memory of it's own if I'm not mistaking, it uses the computers ram. I've been thinking that I don't run the correct version of XFree86. I have v4.1.0.1 installed. Checked that with XFree86 -version, but I see that the X link in /etc/X11 refers to XF86_SVGA, but that is an older 3.3.6 version. How do I make sure that I use the latest version? Sorry about perhaps some stupid questions, but although I have some computer experience, I am a complete newbie in the Linux world. //Ivar - ** Ivar Alm ! Where does Microsoft want to drag you today? ! Umeå, Sweden ! Do you really want to go there? ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.acc.umu.se/~octo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: No sound on NEC versa aptitude
At 17:10 2002-06-04, Stephane wrote: >Hello, > >I have been trying for about a week to get an ess Allegro sound card to >work under Linux( Debian 3.0 ) and/or BSD (FreeBSD 4.5 ). >The card is recognized under Linux (using the maestro3.o module on kernel >2.4 and 2.2) with the following parameters : IRQ 5 io=0x1400 ... , but no >sound is emitted. Have you checked that Windows recognizes the same parameter settings? //I - ****** Ivar Alm ! Where does Microsoft want to drag you today? ! Umeå, Sweden ! Do you really want to go there? ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.acc.umu.se/~octo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: LAN help requested
At 00:51 2002-06-11, Mail User wrote: >The ethernet cards ARE supported by the kernel images >i'm using in each machine, and no i don't need to load >modules. I use ifconfig to program each card with an >IP. Here's what my ifconfig -a looks like from one >laptop: > >eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:10:5A:1B:F3:6B >inet addr:10.0.0.1 Bcast:10.255.255.255 > . > . As stated, include full output... >Now according to the network administrators guide, I >should add a route entry; so i do this "route add -host >10.0.0.3" to which i get the error code: >SIOCADDRT: No such device. Yes, since they are on the same subnet (10.0.0.x) you need no route table. Otherwise the error "No such device" is because you have stated that there exist another host on the net (10.0.0.3) but not which gateway to use to get to this host. Check the man page for route later. You might need it. By heart it is something like: route add -host hostip gw gatewayip ^ This is what you missed... Specify gateway. Check that the cable is crossed first. That's a common problem. :) //I - ** Ivar Alm ! Where does Microsoft want to drag you today? ! Umeå, Sweden ! Do you really want to go there? ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.acc.umu.se/~octo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Multiple users (perhaps OT)
Hi all. I have a question that migh be OT. Doesn't have to do with laptops specifically. I want to allow more than one user to connect to the X server. The thing is that we are two people using my machine regularly at home, me and my girlfriend. I would like to log in as myself, start X and still have the possibility for her to su to her user and launch X programs. At the moment, the X server doesn't allow any other than the user who started X to start X applications. And if she wants to write texts and save to her user, we need to restart X, or she needs to work in a terminal. Can I authorize other users (not remotely?) logged in to start X applications? //Ivar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Multiple users (perhaps OT)
--- > >>>>> "Ivar" == Ivar Alm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Ivar> Hi all. I have a question that migh be OT. Doesn't have to do > Ivar> with laptops specifically. I want to allow more than one user to > Ivar> connect to the X server. The thing is that we are two people > Ivar> using my machine regularly at home, me and my girlfriend. > > [...] > > I don't know if it's feasible for you (in terms of memory requirements, > etc), but you might want to launch two X servers, one on vt7, and one on > vt8. Then, if you're working on something, and your girlfriend wants to > use the computer, she can switch to vt8 and log in as herself. This > way, she gets to keep all her preferences, etc. > Heh... Perhaps not on my Thinkpad 390... P233 w 32MB ram... *s* //I -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Multiple users (perhaps OT)
--- > > Sure: > > xhost +localhost > su - username > export DISPLAY=localhost:0 > > >From here you can launch your X based apps. Change localhost and :0 > respectively. > ThinkPad:~$ xhost +ThinkPad ThinkPad being added to access control list ThinkPad:~$ su - octo ThinkPad:~$ export DISPLAY=ThinkPad:0 ThinkPad:~$ xclock Error: Can't open display: ThinkPad:0 Hmmm Cannot really understand why... "ThinkPad" is the right name btw. Anyone knows? //I -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Old batteries - or ... ?
At 17:51 2002-09-20, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >Hash: SHA1 > >On Friday 20 September 2002 03:29 am, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > > [Although laptop-related, it is not debian-specific. But you're a > > helpful lot, aren't you? :-) ] > > > > I'm suspecting that the batteries in my laptop are getting old - or that > > something is buggy in hardware / bios. > > > >Greetings Jorgensen: > >The batteries could be both getting old, and also needing a complete cycling >to reset the values. In my bios, I have a special *mode* that completely >discharges the batteries, then charges them completely and *learns* the >cycle, then repeats the procedure. Yet as batteries age, they will give less >service life. [major snip] Hi all! Just a bit curious. What happens when Li-ion batteries age? They have no such "memory" as the older NiCad batteries. Perhaps it will work with a recondition procedure, but with Li-ion, I am a bit sceptical. The discharge curve seems ok, since it will drop faster as the battery looses charge, but maybe the time is a bit short. With no (or little) energy saving options, the battery probably will last no more than an hour and a half at anyway. The charge curve is odd I must confess, but some of that behaviour probably originates from the measurment of the battery power. There could rather be a problem there. How old is the battery? How many recharges has it been through? //Ivar - ** Ivar Alm ! Where does Microsoft want to drag you today? ! Umeå, Sweden ! Do you really want to go there? ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.acc.umu.se/~octo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: base-config hangs after install on hp xt6200
At 13:57 2002-10-16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >After installation from cd (ISO-image) and boot Debian start the system >configuration (base-config). This hangs on the startup-screen does not react >to keystrokes. After some minutes the screen turns black. >Someone knows how to find out, what makes it hang? >Regards, >Ganesh This is not an attempt to present a solution, but to me it seems as the fact that the screen goes black after a few minutes is the screen blanking of the computer. Probably has nothing to do with the config hangup. //Ivar - ****** Ivar Alm ! Where does Microsoft want to drag you today? ! Umeå, Sweden ! Do you really want to go there? ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.acc.umu.se/~octo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thinkpad NeoMagic sound problem
Hi there. After a lot fo trying and failing, I ask thee - "What am I doing wrong?!" I am trying to get my sound working on my Thinkpad 390. According to lspci there is a NeoMagic MagiceMedia 256AV, which seems correct. Downloaded the ALSA source and tried to compile my module. Configuring and compiling went alright, no complaints, but when trying to modprobe the module it fails. According to some info I found, I installed soundcore before trying to install snd-nm256, but that didn't change anything. When I do modprobe snd-nm256, the error says I have to have ac97 installed. That can be forced by using modprobe snd-nm256 snd_force_ac97=yes, but that totally hangs my computer. It also says something about not finding the soundchip or that the device is busy. I have tried passing parameters regarding I/O, IRQ and so forth, as I read them from CMOS-setup, but that didn't change anything. The INSTALL readme says that on some machines the module might hang-up during install when autoprobing the buffer top adress. I suspect that might be the cause of the hang-up when I use the snd_force_ac97=yes option. The solution is to specify it manually with option snd_buffer_top, but I cannot find out what adress that might be. Anyone had any succes with ALSA and Neomagic 256AV on Thinkpad? //Ivar - ********** Ivar Alm ! Where does Microsoft want to drag you today? ! Umeå, Sweden ! Do you really want to go there? ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.acc.umu.se/~octo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PCMCIA network card
At 02:36 2002-10-27, Carmen Alfaro wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to find a pcmcia network card that will be fully supported under linux, Debian woody 3.0r0 bf24 specifically, but after several hours spent browsing around the net I haven't found any. I've tried the 3Com site, but for almost every model they list the same remark is shown: 'will not work on systems other than windows'. So I'm a tad lost. Can any one advise me on any pcmcia card I can use with my laptop? Thanks in advance. I use a rather simple DLink DE-660+. Very cheap, but works perfectly. //I - ****** Ivar Alm ! Where does Microsoft want to drag you today? ! Umeå, Sweden ! Do you really want to go there? ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.acc.umu.se/~octo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Intel(r) AC'97 Audio Controller - SigmaTel Codec
At 20:24 2002-11-25, Jeremy Petzold wrote: you need to patch the kernel with the ACPI patch and then compile all the ACPI options(except one near the top of the list that blanks out the rest) into the kernel. then you will magicly have sound as long as you have your sound module and sound support set as modules or compiled in. Just one short question... I have read all over about the ACPI patch. Is that something different from the ACPI options in my kernel config? Can I compile a kernel for ACPI directly, or do I have to apply a patch for it after compilation/installation? //Ivar - ** Ivar Alm ! Where does Microsoft want to drag you today? ! Umeå, Sweden ! Do you really want to go there? ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.acc.umu.se/~octo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Intel(r) AC'97 Audio Controller - SigmaTel Codec
Ouch... Better clean my glasses... Or rather get a pair? At 21:39 2002-11-25, Jeremy Petzold wrote: no no...what you see in the kernel is APCI...it is diffrent than ACPI. - Original Message - From: "Ivar Alm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 3:05 PM Subject: Re: Intel(r) AC'97 Audio Controller - SigmaTel Codec At 20:24 2002-11-25, Jeremy Petzold wrote: >you need to patch the kernel with the ACPI patch and then compile all the >ACPI options(except one near the top of the list that blanks out the rest) >into the kernel. then you will magicly have sound as long as you have your >sound module and sound support set as modules or compiled in. Just one short question... I have read all over about the ACPI patch. Is that something different from the ACPI options in my kernel config? Can I compile a kernel for ACPI directly, or do I have to apply a patch for it after compilation/installation? //Ivar - ****** Ivar Alm ! Where does Microsoft want to drag you today? ! Umeå, Sweden ! Do you really want to go there? ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.acc.umu.se/~octo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] - ****** Ivar Alm ! Where does Microsoft want to drag you today? ! Umeå, Sweden ! Do you really want to go there? ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.acc.umu.se/~octo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: network config for a wireless Debian client at home?
At 03:08 2002-12-14, Levi Waldron wrote: The host computer which is connected to the internet is an windows box, which is set up to communicate with other boxes in the house with its built-in internet sharing software. (I don't know exactly how as I didn't set this up, but I can find out more if needed) All I know is the (internal network) IP address of the host computer and and my client computer. I believe I have the Raylink wireless PCMCIA card in the client working under Debian using cardmgr. How do I do the network config part on the Debian client so it can actually communicate with the outside world? I have the same setup at home, but with a dynamic ip of my client computer. If you use a static IP of your laptop it's even easier. You need to edit /etc/network/interfaces. There you set up your IP, netmask, gateway etc. The gateway IP should be the same as your host computer. Try 'man interfaces' for more info. Second, edit /etc/resolv.conf and add your dns servers. That should be it. //I - ****** Ivar Alm ! Where does Microsoft want to drag you today? ! Umeå, Sweden ! Do you really want to go there? ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.acc.umu.se/~octo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SMC2632W V.2
At 20:57 2002-12-21, Maximilian Pascher wrote: Hi, I hava here a SMC2632W version 2 wlan card and it simply doesn't work. I hear a beep (the low frequent one) when I insert it, but I can't find anything in any logfiles... I already tried the atmel-chipset driver that can be found on sourceforge, but it didn't work. I use the 2.4.19 kernel from kernel.org. Anyone any ideas? Thanks Max What does 'lspci' say? Can you use other pcmcia nic's? //I -- ***** Ivar Alm ! Where does Microsoft want to drag you today? ! Umeå, Sweden ! Do you really want to go there? ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.octofingers.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: No network connection with a Xircom RealPort Cardbus Ethernet 10/ 100 + Modem 56 (RBEM56G-100)
At 18:02 2003-01-17, Irish, Jon D MEVATEC wrote: I just installed Debian 3.0r1 on a Gateway Solo 2500 with a Xircom RealPort Cardbus Ethernet 10/100 + Modem 56 (RBEM56G-100)card in it. During the install, it failed to setup networking as it claimed there was no adapter present. I finished the install from the CD and logged in as root. Running dmesg, I see this: tulip_attach (device 20:00.0) tulip.c:v0.91g-ppc 7/16/99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (modified by danilo#cs.uni-magdeburg.de for XIRCOM CBE, fixed by Doug Ledford). eth0: Xircom Cardbus Adapter (DEC 21143 compatible mode) rev 3 at 0x400, 00:10:A4:FB:53:D2, IRQ 10. eth0: MII transceiver #0 config 3100 status 7809 advertising 01e1. Then, lspci gives me this: 20:00.0 Ethernet controller: Xircom Cardbus Ethernet 10/100 (rev 03) But ifconfig only shows a loopback adapter. Obiously, the system "sees" the card, but it isn't be used. How can I fix this problem/ Have you tried 'ifconfig -a'? Shows all adaptersm including those down. Are the modules loaded ok? What does 'lsmod' show? You might have to specify your network properties (eg IP, NetMask etc) and start the interface with ifconfig. See the man page. //Ivar -- ********* Ivar Alm ! Where does Microsoft want to drag you today? ! Umeå, Sweden ! Do you really want to go there? ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.octofingers.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: prevent APM-Standby on lid-close
At 18:24 2003-01-20, Derek Broughton wrote: From: "Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Monday 20 January 2003 08:11, Christian Link wrote: > > Hi, > > > > how can i prevent the APM Daemon to send my notebook into standby mode > > when I close the lid. I'm using Debian Woody, got an Inspiron 5000e and > > have kernel 2.4.19-ck7 with APM turned on an not checked 'Ignore User > > Suspend'. I guess there's an entry to comment in one of the APM config > > files. > > > > most laptops config this in BIOS. Really? Not either of the laptops I've owned (a Dell Inspiron and a Thinkpad), and since it's an option in every version of Windows I've used, M$ obviously expects it to be under software control. I know how I would enable/disable standby on my Inspiron using ACPI, but I don't know what you'd do with APM. On my (a little older) Thinkpad 290, the setting is in BIOS. Cannot remember the exact syntax there, but it has to do with lid close. The auto suspend annoyed me a lot until I managed to fint it and turn it off. //I -- * Ivar Alm ! Where does Microsoft want to drag you today? ! Umeå, Sweden ! Do you really want to go there? ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.octofingers.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: prevent APM-Standby on lid-close
At 14:02 2003-01-21, Derek Broughton wrote: From: "busab" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > how do you enable standby with ACPI? I've got a Gericom 1400, ACPI give me > nice info about battery state or systeme temperature but i don't know how to > activate standby (without swsuspend). > thanks echo 1 >/proc/acpi/sleep I tried that, and it totally freezed my computer. I haven't checked though if I have that kernel option checked... //I -- ***** Ivar Alm ! Where does Microsoft want to drag you today? ! Umeå, Sweden ! Do you really want to go there? ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.octofingers.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Automatically suspend when X minutes battery time remain.
At 13:23 2003-01-23, Alex Polite wrote: I have apm + apmd installed on my notebook. I can successfully "apm -s" from command line and resume by pressing the power on button. I want the system to automatically suspend when x minutes of battery time remain. Check this page for 'swsusp'. http://fchabaud.free.fr/English/default.php3?COUNT=3&FILE0=Tricks&FILE1=Laptop&FILE2=Swsusp There are some scripts to dl there that shuts down/suspends the machine according to battery status. I haven't tried them myself yet, but it can be worth lookin at. Perhaps this only works with acpi, not sure... //Ivar -- ***** Ivar Alm ! Where does Microsoft want to drag you today? ! Umeå, Sweden ! Do you really want to go there? ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.octofingers.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kernel 2.4.20 + PCMCIA not working (testing)
At 01:35 2003-01-24, Nate Bargmann wrote: Hi All. I haven't found a great deal of help on this subject after Googling for a while. I've installed a base of Woody on a larger hard drive in my Thinkpad 760ED. The base install with kernel 2.2.20 and the pcmcia-cs modules worked flawlessly as it always had under Potato. Tried yenta_socket instead of pcmcia_cs? //I -- ***** Ivar Alm ! Where does Microsoft want to drag you today? ! Umeå, Sweden ! Do you really want to go there? ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.octofingers.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: acer 630 weird mouse behavior & keyboard freeze
At 17:54 2003-01-27, Giuseppe Ciotta wrote: hi! i have an acer 630 laptop, using it, sometimes (today happened 4 times) the mouse cursor do weird movements on the screen and the keyboard is unusable, the only solution is to kill XFree and restart it, and i lost all of my unsaved work :( what could it be ? i use a 2.4.21-pre3 + acpi kernel (but i had the same problem with 2.4.20 + acpi) any ideas ? this really makes me impossible to work! gpm often has some strange effects on mouse in X. If it also may affect the keyboard seems unlikely, but for the mouse problems, kill gpm. //I -- * Ivar Alm ! Where does Microsoft want to drag you today? ! Umeå, Sweden ! Do you really want to go there? ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.octofingers.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
make-kpkg, was: Getting PCMCIA to work?
At 08:53 2003-02-08, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >>"Mike" == Mike Leone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, it didn't work when I did it the make-kpkg way (I believe I was > following the direction on the WIRELESS-LAN-HOWTO). Doing it the standard > Linux way (aka "the hard way") works every time, and on every Linux distro. I don't know what the WIRELESS-LAN-HOWTO says, but, for the record, I also make my own kernel images and pcmcia modules, and it works every time, for the only Linux distribution I really care about. manoj For the record, I made my kernels the "Linux way" before, but as I got acquainted with make-kpkg, I stick to it. The only modification I need is that after the installation of created kernel package, I need to modify some link names in the root dir. Since I have more than one kernel installed, I cannot have them all named 'vmlinuz'... :) It is so convenient to have a .deb package to install... //I -- ********* Ivar Alm ! Where does Microsoft want to drag you today? ! Umeå, Sweden ! Do you really want to go there? ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.octofingers.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: after knx-hdinstall howto network configure ?
At 15:05 2003-02-22, a.lefranc wrote: Le Samedi 22 Février 2003 10:34, Johan Ehnberg a écrit : > /etc/network/interfaces. There you should have the following entry: > > auto eth0 > iface eth0 inet static > address 10.0.0.3# I believe this was your laptop > netmask 255.0.0.0 > gateway 10.0.0.138 > > > For name resolving, edit /etc/resolv.conf > There you should have your DNS server specified: > > search netpratique.fr > nameserver 62.210.164.14 > thanks I have done that but when I want to make a ping... network is unreachable... ha it's difficult when you are a newbie... What does 'ifconfig' and 'route' say? If ping cannot reach network, it does not have to do with name resolving. At least not if you give it an ip adress. //I -- ***** Ivar Alm ! Where does Microsoft want to drag you today? ! Umeå, Sweden ! Do you really want to go there? ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.octofingers.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Color bash prompt in function of the charge of battery (acpi based)
At 23:18 2003-03-04, Fabio Sirna wrote: I do some change on the bash script that I've posted few days ago. This works better. It must be in the .bashrc. Sorry for a "rtfm" question, but can I write this to a separate file and "#include" it in some way in .bashrc? //I -- ***** Ivar Alm ! Where does Microsoft want to drag you today? ! Umeå, Sweden ! Do you really want to go there? ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.octofingers.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
swsusp
Hi there... Anyone had any luck with swsusp? I had my kernel patched and compiled - no problems. I downloaded the suspend.sh script, and installed it with config file and the created 'hibernate' script. I have a problem when resuming (or suspending). This is that the 'networking' service returns an error. I don't know why it doesn't work. It only gives me the "Configuring network interfaces : Operation failed." How can I set a more verbose error report from 'networking'? If I only know why it gives me that error, it's alot easier to fix the problem... After the resume, my eth0 isn't restored. 'ifup' gives the "interface already configured" so I need to run 'ifdown'. After that ifup works just fine, and all my networking is back to normal. Why I get errors when resuming, and afterwards can run an ifdown/ifup and it works is pretty confusing to me. Any suggestions? //Ivar -- * Ivar Alm ! Where does Microsoft want to drag you today? ! Umeå, Sweden ! Do you really want to go there? ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.octofingers.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: swsusp
At 11:04 2003-03-13, Mattia Dongili wrote: hi, > After the resume, my eth0 isn't restored. 'ifup' gives the "interface > already configured" so I need to run 'ifdown'. After that ifup works > just fine, and all my networking is back to normal. Why I get errors > when resuming, and afterwards can run an ifdown/ifup and it works is > pretty confusing to me. > > Any suggestions? yes, try to ifdown/rmmod _before_suspending_ and ifup/modprobe _after_resuming_, it should do the trick. many drivers still don't have any power management code, so you need unload modules before suspend and reload them after resume. The hibernate script does idfown/rmmod, as well as stopping some services, and reverses the procedure on resume. I believe that the problem is the order in which services and modules are restarted... Just thinking if someone else have had the same problem, and perhaps solved it... //I -- ***** Ivar Alm ! Where does Microsoft want to drag you today? ! Umeå, Sweden ! Do you really want to go there? ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.octofingers.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: swsusp [perhaps solved]
At 11:32 2003-03-13, busab wrote: Mattia Dongili wrote: hi, After the resume, my eth0 isn't restored. 'ifup' gives the "interface already configured" so I need to run 'ifdown'. After that ifup works just fine, and all my networking is back to normal. Why I get errors when resuming, and afterwards can run an ifdown/ifup and it works is pretty confusing to me. Any suggestions? yes, try to ifdown/rmmod _before_suspending_ and ifup/modprobe _after_resuming_, it should do the trick. many drivers still don't have any power management code, so you need unload modules before suspend and reload them after resume. it can be done in config file generated by the script available here : http://fchabaud.free.fr/English/default.php3?COUNT=3&FILE0=Tricks&FILE1=Laptop&FILE2=Swsusp I never make it work on my laptop but work well on the others. Sometimes I got some trouble with sound (I use esd) or hardware acceleration (solved by using the nvidia option in the config file). I read through the 'networking' script, and the script runs ifup/ifdown. The 'hibernation' script runs them as well, so I took a chance and removed 'networking' from services to be stopped and restarted on suspend/resume. So far it works. I haven't found any problems (yet). I think this might have to do with the fact that there is no builtin nic. I only have a CardBus nic. //I -- * Ivar Alm ! Where does Microsoft want to drag you today? ! Umeå, Sweden ! Do you really want to go there? ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.octofingers.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: your mail
At 04:26 2003-03-19, mi wrote: Derek Broughton: > He appears to be using pcmcia nics, in which case changing anything in > .../interfaces won't do him a bit of good. In the past that would have been true. Now it's changed and the pcmcia tools join with etc/network/interfaces. Code's in movement, anytime. I have never understood (nor looked seriously at) /etc/pcmcia/network.opts. I have only used /etc/interfaces, when setting up my pcmcia nic(s). Perhaps it works but is the "wrong" way to do it? I might go back and rt(fine)m, but on the other hand - it works now. //I -- ********* Ivar Alm ! Where does Microsoft want to drag you today? ! Umeå, Sweden ! Do you really want to go there? ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.octofingers.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ACPI blanks screen at the end of the boot process
At 16:41 2003-03-31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I compiled 2.4.20 with all ACPI questions answered yes, powermgmt yes and apm no. When booting all looks nice until the very ned. Network seems to be up, at least the boot process is past dhcp, but I haven't seen any x-stuff yet and then the console blanks and nothing happens anymore. It does not respond to CTRL+ALT+BS and CTRL+ALT+F1 and CTRL+F7. When compiling with apm and acpi all off, the machine works fine. Check for ACPI messages in syslog. Check for error messages in dmesg as well. When compiling with acpi off and apm on, the machine works fine and does even suspend when closing the lid. So a) Any idea, why acpi does blank my screen and b) what are the reasons to switch to acpi? Afaik suspend wouldn't work with acpi, would it? When you mean suspend, I assume you mean suspend to disk, also called hibernate? That works fine with swsusp and the scripts that follows. My only problems with the scripts was that I needed to rewrite some parts to resolve som annoying issues with them. //I -- ***** Ivar Alm ! Where does Microsoft want to drag you today? ! Umeå, Sweden ! Do you really want to go there? ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.octofingers.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ACPI blanks screen at the end of the boot process
At 20:38 2003-04-01, Mariano Kamp wrote: Hi Ivar, On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 18:23, Ivar Alm wrote: > At 16:41 2003-03-31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Hi, > > > > I compiled 2.4.20 with all ACPI questions answered yes, powermgmt yes and > >apm no. > > > > When booting all looks nice until the very ned. Network seems to be up, at > >least the boot process is past dhcp, but I haven't seen any x-stuff yet and > >then the console blanks and nothing happens anymore. It does not respond to > >CTRL+ALT+BS and CTRL+ALT+F1 and CTRL+F7. > > > > When compiling with apm and acpi all off, the machine works fine. > > Check for ACPI messages in syslog. Check for error messages in dmesg as well. dmesg does contain the messages from the last boot, doesn't it? In order to access dmesg I need to reboot with acpi off and don't see anything relevant in dmesg anymore, do I? You're right in that probably only syslog contains acpi error messages. I'm not that sure actually. To be honest, I'm not an expert in Linux, not even experienced, but I have acpi, swsusp installed and functional. Battery display and hibernation, so I will try to help as well as I can... Apr 1 10:15:00 red kdm[435]: Server for display :0 terminated unexpectedly Apr 1 10:15:00 red kdm[435]: Display :0 is being disabled (restarting too fast) Been googling that? I found several hits when doing that, but haven't so far read them in detail. > > When compiling with acpi off and apm on, the machine works fine and does > >even suspend when closing the lid. So a) Any idea, why acpi does blank my > >screen and b) what are the reasons to switch to acpi? Afaik suspend > >wouldn't work > >with acpi, would it? > > When you mean suspend, I assume you mean suspend to disk, also called > hibernate? Well, I am pretty open in that respect ;-) To be honest I don't have a clue. The opposite would be to suspend to ram, right? I haven't set aside a dedicated partition on my disk for suspending. If it is not doing it implicitly (swap space or something), than I would say I use suspend to ram, right? It doesn't take long to suspend, just 3 to 4 seconds and I've got 256MB ram. That also adds to my assumption that I am suspending to ram. Afaik suspend to ram is not supposed to work with 2.4 kernels. The 2.5 kernels are working with that, and hopefully we will se a functional suspend to ram in the 2.6 kernel. > That works fine with swsusp and the scripts that follows. swsup with acpi? Which script? Here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/swsusp/ Check that page and the project homepage. The documentation sux, but that are details we could handle then. This page contains a kernel patch, both for the vanilla and the acpi patched kernel, as well as a few scripts for hibernation and battery monitoring. These scripts are supposed to run with an --install switch and then install themselves in /usr/local/sbin, and put config files in /etc. The editing I had to do were fixes to get my nic up after resume and a few more things. The best thing you can do is to compile with the patc, install the hibernation (and/or) the battery scripts and try. If it works - happy you, if not - send us a mail. :) I also use acpid ( a deb package i think ) that monitors acpi events, like lid close, pwr button etc, and can execute scripts according to events. This way I have a shutdown script coupled to the pwr button event. Check http://sourceforge.net/projects/acpid/ This might be somwthing to start with. I still have no answer to your first prob, but try googling the error messages. //I -- * Ivar Alm ! Where does Microsoft want to drag you today? ! Umeå, Sweden ! Do you really want to go there? ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.octofingers.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: (PCMCIA NIC && Mitac 5033 && Debian) = False ?
At 10:09 2003-04-02, Marco Merit wrote: Hi ! I think that my question aren't new ! :-) But! there is any way to install a PCMCIA NIC based on 8139too module without recompile the kernel? Acutally I've complete an BF24 installations but my NIC dosen't work at all! But my modem (also PCMCIA) works fine. There's any work around to use nic ? At least you need to compile the module and install (if that isn't done) and then modprobe it. There should be no need to recompile the kernel. //I -- ***** Ivar Alm ! Where does Microsoft want to drag you today? ! Umeå, Sweden ! Do you really want to go there? ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.octofingers.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Compaq Armada M700: "poweroff" does not power off
At 11:30 2003-04-03, Remo Inverardi wrote: I'm using a Compaq Armada M700 laptop, running SID with vanilla, self compiled 2.4.20 and 2.4.21-pre6 kernels. Under both kernel versions, a "poweroff" does a shutdown, but no power off. I played around with kernel options, trying to both shutdown using real and protected mode. You need to compile apm or acpi into the kernel to make a complete shutdown to work. //Ivar -- ********* Ivar Alm ! Where does Microsoft want to drag you today? ! Umeå, Sweden ! Do you really want to go there? ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.octofingers.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Compaq Armada M700: "poweroff" does not power off
At 14:08 2003-04-03, Remo Inverardi wrote: Ivar, > You need to compile apm or acpi into the kernel to make a > complete shutdown to work. APM is compiled and linked into my kernel. As far as I can tell, APM works fine (/proc/apm shows battery stats etc). ACPI did no seem to work with the M700 when I last tried it using kernel version 2.4.20. Ok... I have no experience from your machine. I use a Thinkpad 390 myself, and my shutdown began to work after I compiled my kernel for apm. One thing you might want to check is whether this option is set: CONFIG_APM_POWER_OFF=y I believe it might have to do with it. For the moment I use ACPI on my machine, so I cannot test my advices myself... :) Check and let me know //Ivar -- * Ivar Alm ! Where does Microsoft want to drag you today? ! Umeå, Sweden ! Do you really want to go there? ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.octofingers.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ACPI HOWTO (draft)
At 03:14 2003-06-07, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: The second draft of a HOWTO that I'm working on is ready: http://xtrinsic.com/geek/articles/acpi.phtml Please let me know if you have any comments, find anything wrong, confusing, etc. Dunno if it's only me, but I cannot read that page with Opera. I see one screen page, but if I scroll down, there is nothing but black... There is some minor layout problems with Opera on the visible part as well. Anyone else had any probs? //Ivar -- ***** Ivar Alm ! Where does Microsoft want to drag you today? ! Umeå, Sweden ! Do you really want to go there? ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.octofingers.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: asus l3800c (l3c) state of the art
At 09:14 2003-06-26, Gabor Melis wrote: What I've read so far: http://tuxmobil.org/asus_l3800c_e.html http://developer.kde.org/~howells/l3800c My laptop runs Sarge with KDE3.1 from Sid. Most of the above seems to be correct, but in the power mgmt department I experience some deviations: - fn+Z freezes the machine if X (4.2.1 without DRI) is running - closing the lid doesn not freeze it, but the CPU, interrupt handling all seem to be suspended, but it stays hot and the fan goes on (end when it is opened the clock is lagging) - sometimes the CPU clock speed is reduced to 1200, but I don't know why It is with 2.4.20 + apm. Also: - the buttons next to the power button are not useable, not even with lineakd Anyone with similar experience? Or preferably better setup? Ok, I do not know that machine you use, so I might step into something by this... First, the "state of the art" implies to me that the machine is comparably new. Are you sure you have support for apm? In your case there might be a better idea to take the deep dive into the ACPI ocean. I've set up my old Thinkpad for ACPI, and it works very nice for me. At least it satisfies my needs. Take a look at ACPI. //Ivar -- ***** Ivar Alm ! Where does Microsoft want to drag you today? ! Umeå, Sweden ! Do you really want to go there? ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.octofingers.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: About my Acer . Laptoc.
Hi there. Try be a little more specific about when it does happen. Is half the screen black all the time? Only in X? If you see that half the screen is black during the bios start (before kernel boot), the problem is probably damaged hardware - you need to get your machine repaired. //Ivar At 19:19 2003-08-02, co8ly wrote: Hello... My computer Laptoc ACER Model Extensa 390 have problems in the screen LCD, alone I can see 50 percent of the screen LCD the other one half this in black. Somebody can tell me which is the problem and as solving it. Thank you in advance. Eduardo Somoano C. Santiago de Cuba. Cuba. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ***** Ivar Alm ! Where does Microsoft want to drag you today? ! Umeå, Sweden ! Do you really want to go there? ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.octofingers.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: APM locks up Ashton Digital Passport 2100
At 14:09 2003-09-03, Overkill of TASF wrote: So, I've got this nice laptop from Ashton Digital that I'm trying to put Debian on... But EVERY time it does anything with APM, whether adding a kernel module or activating the debian package for it, everything hard locks, immediately. Has anyone had any experience with this laptop, or this problem? Are you sure your kernel supports APM? Maybe ACPI is the correct way to go. //I -- ***** Ivar Alm ! Where does Microsoft want to drag you today? ! Umeå, Sweden ! Do you really want to go there? ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.octofingers.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: APM locks up Ashton Digital Passport 2100
At 19:00 2003-09-03, Overkill of TASF wrote: The kernel is 2.4, I'm doing a BF24 install. I can't seem to keep APM from starting up I do an apt-get remove apm, apt-get remove apmd It's kind of frustrating... No matter what I do (Er, what I've tried) APM somehow starts up at boot, and locks the kids up! You cannot boot the machine so you have a prompt? If you can, you seem to have been able to use apt-get, try kill the 'apmd' deamon. Try locating that running program. It's the apm deamon, and if you can kill that one, you should have no apm running. You probably selected to have apm sometimes during install. IIRC, the installation program asks for that... //I -- ********* Ivar Alm ! Where does Microsoft want to drag you today? ! Umeå, Sweden ! Do you really want to go there? ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.octofingers.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
