Alienware M18 Install
I love Debian and want to help if I can with my limited ability. So I hope this report is of some value. I don't want to publish any information that would open me up to problems so didn't include a lot of files and logs listed in the template. Since this isn't a bug report I didn't think you really needed them, however if there's something that you want I'm glad to help. Keep up the good work... Thank you mclou...@frontiernet.net DebianON.odt Description: application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text
Re: laptop experiences...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (CaT) writes: > So... my quesiton is, how well are they supported under > debian/linux? Is ibm's linux support more then just hot air? Will I > be able to do the funky things like hibernation and stuff under > them? And so on... basically, is there anything icky about trying to > run linux under these suckers that'd make one preferable over the > other. I have never had any experience of IBM's Linux friendliness, but I do run Debian GNU/Linux on a ThinkPad 570 and I've done so for about a year now. Yes, APM control, hibernation and stuff works. I haven't tried the sound support, the USB port nor the IR port, so I can't tell you anything about that. The only gripes I have, so far, are: 1. The vanilla kernel wouldn't boot on the thing, if I recall correctly. I did a search for the TECRA kernel and booted off that and compiled my own as soon as possible. 2. The external keyboard port messes up. If I attach a PS/2 mouse, everything works. If I attach a keyboard and type some random keys it seems to register _mouse_ events and the mouse cursor (both under X and with GPM running in console) moves spastically. If I attach a PS/2 splitter, neither keyboard nor mouse works. Any ideas? Other than that, I'm very pleased with the small 570. It's very light, doesn't have built-in CD-ROM, disk drive or anything like that. I don't use any of those passed the OS installation anyway, so it works wonderfully. Also, its battery life is great. I get about 2.5 hours of battery life if I do heavy compiles and run tests. If I'm just replying to e-mail and doing general text editing, I can get more like 3 hours. -- Mikael "MC" Cardell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Temple of the Moby Hack Any connection between your reality and mine is purely coincidental.
Re: laptop experiences...
Another gripe about the TP 570, btw: I didn't get the Linux framebuffer code to work on its Neomagic chip. X, in a recent version of XFree86, works fine, though. Mostly, I run SVGATextMode, however, which works fine. When I'm stationary, I attach a terminal (a DEC VT420) to it, since I didn't get the external keyboard to work. -- Mikael "MC" Cardell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Temple of the Moby Hack Any connection between your reality and mine is purely coincidental.
Re: laptop experiences...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phil Gregory) writes: > On my thinkpad (755CSE), all I had to do to get hibernation working > was create a DOS partition and use IBM's utility (PS2.EXE, I think) > to create a hibernation file in the DOS partition. Really? I guess I'm not that up to date with terminology here. I'm very new to the laptop world. What's the difference between hibernation and suspending? The manual page of apm(1) doesn't mention "hibernate" at all; it only mentions "suspend mode" and "standby mode". Both of these work on my Thinkpad 570 without explicitly creating a FAT partition. It seems that "standby mode" is a battery savings mode, but keeps most of the box running. "Suspend mode", on the other hand, stops the CPU. When I restart from suspend mode, I can continue where I left off. All processes are still running. I usually only reboot when I'm upgrading the kernel. -- Mikael "MC" Cardell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Temple of the Moby Hack Any connection between your reality and mine is purely coincidental.
Re: laptop experiences...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phil Gregory) writes: > > > On my thinkpad (755CSE), all I had to do to get hibernation working > > was create a DOS partition and use IBM's utility (PS2.EXE, I think) > > to create a hibernation file in the DOS partition. > > Really? I guess I'm not that up to date with terminology here. I'm > very new to the laptop world. To clarify my own post, I want to add that I have only two visible partitions on the Thinkpad, one Ext2 for / and one for Linux swap. I haven't created any partition for suspend mode. I assumed the kernel simply swapped out all running processes and picked them up from there when restarting. That seems like the natural thing to do, right? I haven't looked into the APM support in the kernel to confirm this. Can anyone tell me about it? -- Mikael "MC" Cardell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Temple of the Moby Hack Any connection between your reality and mine is purely coincidental.
Re: laptop experiences...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (CaT) writes: > I believe hibernation is where it dumps the system state to disc and > turns the laptop off, so you can later turn it on and restart it. > > VERY useful as you can imagine. :) That seems like the "suspend mode" I was talking about. It seems to swap out all runing processes and stops the CPU. When the CPU begins to run again (because I open to case), everything is swapped back in and all processes continue, just as I left them. I'm using it all the time when moving from place to place, so yeah, it works on a Thinkpad 570 with Linux 2.2.16. -- Mikael "MC" Cardell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Temple of the Moby Hack Any connection between your reality and mine is purely coincidental.
Re: laptop experiences...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Ferlito) writes: > Hibernate is suually different to suspend. In suspend there is > usuallay still stuuf in RAM being kept there by the battery. Easy > test put the laptop into suspend pull out the battery wait a bit put > it back. If it still works then you're in hibernate which means > everything was saved to disk. If it's rebooted then it's just > suspend. I see. Thanks for explaining, John. I think it would be possible, in most cases, to use the swap partition to save the state for hibernate, though. What do you think? Does the APM code in the kernel rely on the APM BIOS to do the actual writing of the RAM image? If it does, wouldn't it be possible to fool it and make do without any FAT partitions? I have to look into this, but any input from someone who has allready done so is welcome. -- Mikael "MC" Cardell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Temple of the Moby Hack Any connection between your reality and mine is purely coincidental.
Re: Don't use swap partition for hibernation! (was Re: laptop experiences...)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Whoa! You won't be able to use the swap partition for this purpose! > Consider: You are running lots of apps (and hence using lots of > memory and swap-space), you tell the machine to hibernate and it > saves it's memory contents _over_the_top_of_the_swap_space_! This, > as you can imagine, will cause all sorts of bad things to happen > when you resume... I think we're talking about different things. I was talking about making the kernel very aware of the whole hibernation thing and tidying up everything in VM before actually going into hibernation. This, however, would most likely mean that one would have to have as much swap as physical memory and can't use more VM than available swap space at the time of hibernation. (This is not unlike VM under old SunOS, IIRC.) -- Mikael "MC" Cardell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Temple of the Moby Hack Any connection between your reality and mine is purely coincidental.
Re: /home replication on laptop
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joseph Schlecht) writes: > I have three PC's and a laptop running debian. They are all > networked together, one of the PC's is soon to be an NFS/NIS > server. I am doing this to share /home and other common directories. > > Sharing /home should be no problem for the PC's, however I don't know what I > am going to do with my laptop. Since I am always roaming other networks, I > would like to have /home from my network replicated on my laptop and when I > get to my home network, sync up any changes that are made. I do most of my work on an IBM Thinkpad 570 running Debian GNU/Linux, but for safety I keep my home directory synchronized on three different servers as well; the home server in the Area 41 collective, the private server box I keep at work and, of course, the NFS server at work. I do the actual synchronization manually, using rsync over ssh. I use this: rsync -e ssh -q --links --times --update --delete -r --exclude 'no-rsync' ~/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:. aliased as "jobsync", for ease of typing. For more information on rsync, visit: http://rsync.samba.org> I'm really interested in development of offline capabilities in network filesystems such as Coda, but I wouldn't trust any of them in a production environment just yet. I put my faith in rsync for the time being. It hasn't failed me yet. -- Mikael "MC" Cardell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Temple of the Moby Hack Any connection between your reality and mine is purely coincidental.
Re: laptop experiences...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (CaT) writes: > So... my quesiton is, how well are they supported under > debian/linux? Is ibm's linux support more then just hot air? Will I > be able to do the funky things like hibernation and stuff under > them? And so on... basically, is there anything icky about trying to > run linux under these suckers that'd make one preferable over the > other. I have never had any experience of IBM's Linux friendliness, but I do run Debian GNU/Linux on a ThinkPad 570 and I've done so for about a year now. Yes, APM control, hibernation and stuff works. I haven't tried the sound support, the USB port nor the IR port, so I can't tell you anything about that. The only gripes I have, so far, are: 1. The vanilla kernel wouldn't boot on the thing, if I recall correctly. I did a search for the TECRA kernel and booted off that and compiled my own as soon as possible. 2. The external keyboard port messes up. If I attach a PS/2 mouse, everything works. If I attach a keyboard and type some random keys it seems to register _mouse_ events and the mouse cursor (both under X and with GPM running in console) moves spastically. If I attach a PS/2 splitter, neither keyboard nor mouse works. Any ideas? Other than that, I'm very pleased with the small 570. It's very light, doesn't have built-in CD-ROM, disk drive or anything like that. I don't use any of those passed the OS installation anyway, so it works wonderfully. Also, its battery life is great. I get about 2.5 hours of battery life if I do heavy compiles and run tests. If I'm just replying to e-mail and doing general text editing, I can get more like 3 hours. -- Mikael "MC" Cardell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Temple of the Moby Hack Any connection between your reality and mine is purely coincidental. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: laptop experiences...
Another gripe about the TP 570, btw: I didn't get the Linux framebuffer code to work on its Neomagic chip. X, in a recent version of XFree86, works fine, though. Mostly, I run SVGATextMode, however, which works fine. When I'm stationary, I attach a terminal (a DEC VT420) to it, since I didn't get the external keyboard to work. -- Mikael "MC" Cardell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Temple of the Moby Hack Any connection between your reality and mine is purely coincidental. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: laptop experiences...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phil Gregory) writes: > On my thinkpad (755CSE), all I had to do to get hibernation working > was create a DOS partition and use IBM's utility (PS2.EXE, I think) > to create a hibernation file in the DOS partition. Really? I guess I'm not that up to date with terminology here. I'm very new to the laptop world. What's the difference between hibernation and suspending? The manual page of apm(1) doesn't mention "hibernate" at all; it only mentions "suspend mode" and "standby mode". Both of these work on my Thinkpad 570 without explicitly creating a FAT partition. It seems that "standby mode" is a battery savings mode, but keeps most of the box running. "Suspend mode", on the other hand, stops the CPU. When I restart from suspend mode, I can continue where I left off. All processes are still running. I usually only reboot when I'm upgrading the kernel. -- Mikael "MC" Cardell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Temple of the Moby Hack Any connection between your reality and mine is purely coincidental. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: laptop experiences...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phil Gregory) writes: > > > On my thinkpad (755CSE), all I had to do to get hibernation working > > was create a DOS partition and use IBM's utility (PS2.EXE, I think) > > to create a hibernation file in the DOS partition. > > Really? I guess I'm not that up to date with terminology here. I'm > very new to the laptop world. To clarify my own post, I want to add that I have only two visible partitions on the Thinkpad, one Ext2 for / and one for Linux swap. I haven't created any partition for suspend mode. I assumed the kernel simply swapped out all running processes and picked them up from there when restarting. That seems like the natural thing to do, right? I haven't looked into the APM support in the kernel to confirm this. Can anyone tell me about it? -- Mikael "MC" Cardell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Temple of the Moby Hack Any connection between your reality and mine is purely coincidental. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: laptop experiences...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (CaT) writes: > I believe hibernation is where it dumps the system state to disc and > turns the laptop off, so you can later turn it on and restart it. > > VERY useful as you can imagine. :) That seems like the "suspend mode" I was talking about. It seems to swap out all runing processes and stops the CPU. When the CPU begins to run again (because I open to case), everything is swapped back in and all processes continue, just as I left them. I'm using it all the time when moving from place to place, so yeah, it works on a Thinkpad 570 with Linux 2.2.16. -- Mikael "MC" Cardell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Temple of the Moby Hack Any connection between your reality and mine is purely coincidental. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: laptop experiences...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Ferlito) writes: > Hibernate is suually different to suspend. In suspend there is > usuallay still stuuf in RAM being kept there by the battery. Easy > test put the laptop into suspend pull out the battery wait a bit put > it back. If it still works then you're in hibernate which means > everything was saved to disk. If it's rebooted then it's just > suspend. I see. Thanks for explaining, John. I think it would be possible, in most cases, to use the swap partition to save the state for hibernate, though. What do you think? Does the APM code in the kernel rely on the APM BIOS to do the actual writing of the RAM image? If it does, wouldn't it be possible to fool it and make do without any FAT partitions? I have to look into this, but any input from someone who has allready done so is welcome. -- Mikael "MC" Cardell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Temple of the Moby Hack Any connection between your reality and mine is purely coincidental. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Don't use swap partition for hibernation! (was Re: laptop experiences...)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Whoa! You won't be able to use the swap partition for this purpose! > Consider: You are running lots of apps (and hence using lots of > memory and swap-space), you tell the machine to hibernate and it > saves it's memory contents _over_the_top_of_the_swap_space_! This, > as you can imagine, will cause all sorts of bad things to happen > when you resume... I think we're talking about different things. I was talking about making the kernel very aware of the whole hibernation thing and tidying up everything in VM before actually going into hibernation. This, however, would most likely mean that one would have to have as much swap as physical memory and can't use more VM than available swap space at the time of hibernation. (This is not unlike VM under old SunOS, IIRC.) -- Mikael "MC" Cardell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Temple of the Moby Hack Any connection between your reality and mine is purely coincidental. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /home replication on laptop
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joseph Schlecht) writes: > I have three PC's and a laptop running debian. They are all > networked together, one of the PC's is soon to be an NFS/NIS > server. I am doing this to share /home and other common directories. > > Sharing /home should be no problem for the PC's, however I don't know what I > am going to do with my laptop. Since I am always roaming other networks, I > would like to have /home from my network replicated on my laptop and when I > get to my home network, sync up any changes that are made. I do most of my work on an IBM Thinkpad 570 running Debian GNU/Linux, but for safety I keep my home directory synchronized on three different servers as well; the home server in the Area 41 collective, the private server box I keep at work and, of course, the NFS server at work. I do the actual synchronization manually, using rsync over ssh. I use this: rsync -e ssh -q --links --times --update --delete -r --exclude 'no-rsync' ~/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:. aliased as "jobsync", for ease of typing. For more information on rsync, visit: http://rsync.samba.org> I'm really interested in development of offline capabilities in network filesystems such as Coda, but I wouldn't trust any of them in a production environment just yet. I put my faith in rsync for the time being. It hasn't failed me yet. -- Mikael "MC" Cardell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Temple of the Moby Hack Any connection between your reality and mine is purely coincidental. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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AST Ascentia M Series
Please, anyone out there got sound working on an AST Ascentia M Series and might be able to throw me a few pointers. All I want is to play midis. Everything else seems fine under Debian 2.2.20. I am forced to use XFree86 3.* as there is no support in XFree86 4.* for the Cirrus Logic 7555 video chip ? -- Joe Mc Cool Tangent Computer Research BT71 7LN (www.tangent-research.com) voice:(44)2837-548074fax:(44)-870-0520185 The more you say the less the better.
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AST Ascentia M Series
Please, anyone out there got sound working on an AST Ascentia M Series and might be able to throw me a few pointers. All I want is to play midis. Everything else seems fine under Debian 2.2.20. I am forced to use XFree86 3.* as there is no support in XFree86 4.* for the Cirrus Logic 7555 video chip ? -- Joe Mc Cool Tangent Computer Research BT71 7LN (www.tangent-research.com) voice:(44)2837-548074fax:(44)-870-0520185 The more you say the less the better. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: 2.6.5 -- I broke the internet
On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 08:34:55PM -0400, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: > dmesg can be found at: > www.xtrinsic.com/geek/config/26.dmesg.txt | 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.27 | eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xd0832000, 00:00:e2:8d:22:8b, IRQ 10 | eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8100B/8139D' The card is recognized, the driver loads. > smeagol:~ 19:50:28 $ ifconfig ifconfig -a (ifconfig without parameters shows configured devices only) > smeagol:~ 19:50:48 $ sudo ifup eth0 > Ignoring unknown interface eth0=eth0. > smeagol:~ 19:50:59 $ sudo ifup eth1 > ifup: interface eth1 already configured > smeagol:~ 19:51:01 $ ping google.ca > ping: unknown host google.ca I can not tell wether your interfaces is correctly configured, you might want to try to manually bring the interface up: ifconfig eth0 netmask route add default gw (If the automagic way doesnt work, try it manually and see wether something fails with a more or less intuitive failure-message.) -- Rico -mc- Gloeckner | 1024D/61F05B8C | jabber:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ukeer.de |RICO-RIPE | sip:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 2.6.5 -- I broke the internet
On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 08:34:55PM -0400, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: > dmesg can be found at: > www.xtrinsic.com/geek/config/26.dmesg.txt | 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.27 | eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xd0832000, 00:00:e2:8d:22:8b, IRQ 10 | eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8100B/8139D' The card is recognized, the driver loads. > smeagol:~ 19:50:28 $ ifconfig ifconfig -a (ifconfig without parameters shows configured devices only) > smeagol:~ 19:50:48 $ sudo ifup eth0 > Ignoring unknown interface eth0=eth0. > smeagol:~ 19:50:59 $ sudo ifup eth1 > ifup: interface eth1 already configured > smeagol:~ 19:51:01 $ ping google.ca > ping: unknown host google.ca I can not tell wether your interfaces is correctly configured, you might want to try to manually bring the interface up: ifconfig eth0 netmask route add default gw (If the automagic way doesnt work, try it manually and see wether something fails with a more or less intuitive failure-message.) -- Rico -mc- Gloeckner | 1024D/61F05B8C | jabber:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ukeer.de |RICO-RIPE | sip:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
