Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Memory Problem
Hi, My laptop is crashing alot (it's not a methodical procedure, but a random one), since i've double boot, i've checked on windows and it also crashes. I'm having some Machine Check Exception errors on both operating systems, and booom! crash! :-) I've checked my memory, (not mine's, the laptop's memory :-)) using memtest86+ (www.memtest.org) and i'm always getting 2 errors on test #5, (moving a large block of data). If i remove a SODIMM that i bought a few months ago i never get the 2 errors. My question is: Since the error is only shown on test #5, can i assume that it is a faulty ram block or not? Thanks, Paulo Lopes -- Paulo Lopes Save time... see it my way. <>
Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo A7600 BIOS update
I've just updated my BIOS from 1.09 to 1.10 and it seems that the laptop get hotter faster than in previous version. Does anyone know anything about it? Thanks, Paulo Lopes -- Paulo Lopes Save time... see it my way. <>
Mouse setup under X
Hi, i've a laptop with a touchpad that can be easely configured on X, my question is how can i configure it to enable an external mouse WITH scrollwheel. The problem is that both the touchpad and the external mouse are PS2. my current config is: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "External Mouse" Driver "mouse" Option "CorePointer" Option "Device""/dev/psaux" Option "Protocol" "PS/2" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection in order to enable the scrollwheel i've to change the Protocol to ImPS/2, but then, if i've no external mouse on /dev/psaux (i'm using the touchpad) it's impraticable to use it, because the mouse pointer is always junping to the lower left part of the screen... Can someone tel me how to setup two mouses on the same device, using two diferrent protocols? Thanks! Paulo.
Re: Mouse setup under X
Hi again, my laptop does not have a serial DB9 port, only PS2, USB or FireWire... :-) I guess i'll keep changing the protocol on XF86Config-4 whenever i need to use the wheelmouse... Paulo. cyn wrote: it just occured to me - could you use the external mouse with a ps2 -> serial converter and as a serial mouse? I'm sure if you don't have one lying around you could pick one up for a buck or two at your local radioshack or computing store. just another possibility. A bit of an unfortunate workaround, but if the other solutions don't work - this at least would. - This email has been sent as a single line of query, and in no way indicates the senders interest in or acceptance of any promotions or "opt-in"'s unless otherwise EXPRESSLY noted.
Re: Mouse setup under X
Jeremy Petzold wrote: Paulo Lopes wrote: Hi again, my laptop does not have a serial DB9 port, only PS2, USB or FireWire... :-) I guess i'll keep changing the protocol on XF86Config-4 whenever i need to use the wheelmouse... very simple solution. use the wheel mouse protocol for bothit will work fine on the pad even without the wheel, and it willwork fine when you plug in the wheel mouse. No it doesn't work! if i use the wheelmouse protocol the touch pad is always jumping back to lower left part of the screen. I can drag it but if i move over any widget such as textfields, buttons, etc... sudentlly the mouse sends a click and jumps to the lower left part of the screen... Paulo Lopes.
Creative USB Webcam Go Plus
Is there any driver to enable the connection of a Video Blaster WebCam Go II Plus on Linux? I've been looking on sourceforge.net and i found out a project that stopped about a year ago but the driver didn't work... I've installed the CPIA driver on my kernel... but i can't connect to the webcam... Is my webcam a piece of junk under linux? :-) Please if anyone know how to enable it let me know!!! Thanks, Paulo Lopes
Help on Laptop Tunning :-)
Hi, I have a laptop with Debian Woody stable. (i'm a newbie to debian, so please this probably is a stupid question :-) I've installed KDE3.0.4 and KDevelop 2.1.3, and among these packages i've installed htdig (Kdevelop said it would be nice to have it installed...) the problem is that every day i start my laptop it runs HTDIG... the problem is that if i'm on batery... i think i'll waste lots of power with this process... I want to be able to run HTDIG only when i want or something like once a month or week... (since my files don't change alot) I've been looking on htdig.conf but i can't find out where can i tell when to run... and i've been looking under /etc/init.d/ and don't find any script to run htdig... the second problem is my network... when i'm offline the laptop performs allright, but when i'm on the network it get's too hot... my configuration is: under /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost shadow 10.0.0.22 shadow # The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts # (added automatically by netbase upgrade) ::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback fe00::0 ip6-localnet ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix ff02::1 ip6-allnodes ff02::2 ip6-allrouters ff02::3 ip6-allhosts under /etc/network/interfaces # The loopback interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback # The first network card - this entry was created during the Debian instalation # (network, broadcast and gateway are optional) auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 10.0.0.22 netmask 255.255.255.0 network 10.0.0.0 broadcast 10.0.0.255 gateway 10.0.0.1 and finally under /etc/resolv.conf # search domain nameserver 212.18.170.2 212.18.170.3 the strange thing i notice is that my hub get's lot's of colisions. (I've been using these configurations on a windows machine and they were allright...) the interfaces file is run on boot of my debian system so i don't know what is making so much colisions? can it be the SAMBA deamons? or the LISA server?
Samsung MP3 Player YEPP-NEU
Hi, I've a samsung mp3 player, a yepp-neu with 32 Mb + 64 on flash and i'm looking for an app to enable the upload of mp3 to it... I've been looking on the web for such an app. but all i could find was the sulu project. (a Gtk app). The problem is that in the main page it's said that the app. can connect to the YEPP but not to mine :-) I've been looking it's source code, i've no experience on linux programming :-(, and i found out that the USB id for the YEPP device was not the same i got when i connect the YEPP to my linux laptop and typed dmesg. Under the code it was defined: #define YEPP_PRODUCT0x5A03 But my YEPP says 0x5A00, so i changed it compiled it and crashed :-) (it say's that there was an error with the protocol) don't know why... So... is there any app. that can connect to my stupid mp3 player? Thanks, Paulo Lopes.
SAMBA resolv configuration
Hi, I've a woody laptop system and i change alot from network to network at my job. Usually all the networks i join are windows machines networks using smb protocol to communicate. I wanted to know if there's any way to resolv the windows domain names under linux? example: on the current network there's a machine called shadow, under windows i can do ping shadow and it will anwser back. On linux i've to make something like: smbclient -L shadow, look for the ip in the anwser then ping , because ping shadow returns :unknown host shadow. probably that's a smb configuration that i've missed, but i'm new to linux :-) Thanks, Paulo Lopes.
Re: SAMBA resolv configuration
David B Harris wrote: On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 15:38:34 + Paulo Lopes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I've a woody laptop system and i change alot from network to network at my job. Usually all the networks i join are windows machines networks using smb protocol to communicate. I wanted to know if there's any way to resolv the windows domain names under linux? example: on the current network there's a machine called shadow, under windows i can do ping shadow and it will anwser back. On linux i've to make something like: smbclient -L shadow, look for the ip in the anwser then ping , because ping shadow returns :unknown host shadow. probably that's a smb configuration that i've missed, but i'm new to linux :-) I suspect that you're not resolving "windows domain names", but rather that, in the Windows installation, it's set to search a default domain. So "shadow" is really "shadow.foo.com", but it's set to search "foo.com", so you can use 'shadow' as a shorthand for 'shadow.foo.com'. Typically, DHCP does this for you. If not, you can add "search" lines to /etc/resolv.conf: search mtnk.phub.net.cable.rogers.com eelf.ddts.net oftc.net So were I to 'ping shadow', it'd first try 'shadow.mtnk.phub.net.cable.rogers.com', then 'shadow.eelf.ddts.net', then 'shadow.oftc.net', then try the regular DNS route (which won't work, because there's no .shadow top-level domain). That's not what i need... i need to resolve NetBIOS names such as other names. The network does not have a WINS server nor DNS server. All names on the network are resolved from netbios... (it's a small network 20 windows machines) Also this network doesn't have DHCP.
Re: SAMBA resolv configuration
Nyk Tarr wrote: On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 08:30:22PM +, Paulo Lopes wrote: David B Harris wrote: On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 15:38:34 + Paulo Lopes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I've a woody laptop system and i change alot from network to network at my job. Usually all the networks i join are windows machines networks using smb protocol to communicate. I wanted to know if there's any way to resolv the windows domain names under linux? example: on the current network there's a machine called shadow, under windows i can do ping shadow and it will anwser back. On linux i've to make something like: smbclient -L shadow, look for the ip in the anwser then ping , because ping shadow returns :unknown host shadow. probably that's a smb configuration that i've missed, but i'm new to linux :-) I suspect that you're not resolving "windows domain names", but rather that, in the Windows installation, it's set to search a default domain. So "shadow" is really "shadow.foo.com", but it's set to search "foo.com", so you can use 'shadow' as a shorthand for 'shadow.foo.com'. Typically, DHCP does this for you. If not, you can add "search" lines to /etc/resolv.conf: search mtnk.phub.net.cable.rogers.com eelf.ddts.net oftc.net So were I to 'ping shadow', it'd first try 'shadow.mtnk.phub.net.cable.rogers.com', then 'shadow.eelf.ddts.net', then 'shadow.oftc.net', then try the regular DNS route (which won't work, because there's no .shadow top-level domain). That's not what i need... i need to resolve NetBIOS names such as other names. The network does not have a WINS server nor DNS server. All names on the network are resolved from netbios... (it's a small network 20 windows machines) The next level back from /etc/resolve.conf is /etc/nsswitch.conf which tells the resolver which services to look for names in, but doesn't seem to include netbios, perhaps for some of the reasons stated in the article below... A quick google brought up: http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-1999-01/lw-01-thereandback-p6.html which discusses what you want to do. I haven't read far enough to see if he comes to a solution - I suspect not. nbtscan should give you a list of names and numbers though. hth nyk thanks, i've allready been to that page... he didn't came to a solution...
dhcp setup on debian woody
hi, i want to connect my laptop to a dhcp network and i've been using it with static IP. I've been reading the /etc/network/interfaces file and don't know exactly what to do for dhcp. Nevertheless i've been trying to make it work and in the howto's i've read it says that i need to install "dhcpcd", i do apt-get install dhcpcd and i get a reply that that package does not exist (at least on my distro woody/stable). Can someone tell me how to configure it? i've a ip static network on eth1 (pcmcia and working) and need a dhcp on eth0 (internat ethernet adapter) all the modules work and were built for the 2.4.18 kernel. All i need it dhcpcd or something else that can do the same, and a sample /etc/network/interfaces, of course if there's anything else you can let me know :-) Thanks, Paulo.
Re: dhcp setup on debian woody
Ionel Mugurel Ciobica wrote: On 26-11-2002, at 10h 27'59", Paulo Lopes wrote to debian-laptop about "dhcp setup on debian woody" hi, i want to connect my laptop to a dhcp network and i've been using it with static IP. I've been reading the /etc/network/interfaces file and don't know exactly what to do for dhcp. Nevertheless i've been trying to make it work and in the howto's i've read it says that i need to install "dhcpcd", i do apt-get install dhcpcd and i get a reply that that package does not exist (at least on my distro woody/stable). Can someone tell me how to configure it? Try "apt-get install pump" or "apt-get install dhcp-client", "apt-get install dhcpcd" should work as well. How did you installed you debian? From CD's? From the net? In the worse of cases go to www.debian.org -> Debian Packages and search for it, then after you downloaded you can install it with dpkg: dpkg -i dhcpcd*.deb dhcpcd does not show up on my cd installation woody 3.0r0 updated with security.debian.org patches. (i don't use testing/unstable packages because last time i've done it, my the upgrade to lilo made my system not to boot again. :-) I've installed the pump package, thanks. i've a ip static network on eth1 (pcmcia and working) and need a dhcp on eth0 (internat ethernet adapter) all the modules work and were built for the 2.4.18 kernel. All i need it dhcpcd or something else that can do the same, and a sample /etc/network/interfaces, of course if there's anything else you can let me know :-) In /etc/network/interfaces for a static setup you need: iface eth0 inet static address xx.xx.xx.xx netmask yy.yy.yy.yy gateway zz.zz.zz.zz auto eth0 For a dynamic setup with dhcp you need: iface eth0 inet dhcp auto eth0 Good luck, Ionel
Re: dhcp setup on debian woody
James Tappin wrote: On Tue, 26 Nov 2002 12:01:08 + Paulo Lopes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: PL> dhcpcd does not show up on my cd installation woody 3.0r0 updated PL> with security.debian.org PL> patches. (i don't use testing/unstable packages because last time PL> i've done it, my the upgrade PL> to lilo made my system not to boot again. :-) Doing "dpkg -l dhcp\*" will give you a full list of available dhcp packages, you need either dhcp-client or dhcp3-client (and -common apt-get will add that for you). James Well i've messing arround with this configuration, and really can't figure out what's wrong... this is what i've configured and the result: shell:# dpkg -l dhcp\* Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name VersionDescription +++-==-==- un dhcp(no description available) un dhcp-beta (no description available) rc dhcp-client2.0pl5-11 DHCP Client un dhcp-client-be (no description available) un dhcp-dns(no description available) un dhcp-relay (no description available) un dhcp-relay-bet (no description available) ii dhcp3-client 3.0+3.0.1rc9-2 DHCP Client ii dhcp3-common 3.0+3.0.1rc9-2 Common files used by all the dhcp3* packages un dhcp3-dev (no description available) un dhcp3-relay (no description available) un dhcp3-server(no description available) un dhcpcd (no description available) un dhcpd (no description available) un dhcpdump(no description available) un dhcping (no description available) shell:# ifconfig irda0 Link encap:IrLAP HWaddr 65:e5:ce:b8 UP RUNNING NOARP MTU:2048 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:8 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:171587 (167.5 KiB) shell:# cat /etc/network/interfaces # /etc/network/interfaces -- configuration file for ifup(8), ifdown(8) # The loopback interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback # The first network card - this entry was created during the Debian installation # (network, broadcast and gateway are optional) auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp shell:# iptables -L Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination shell:# cat /etc/hosts.allow # /etc/hosts.allow: list of hosts that are allowed to access the system. # See the manual pages hosts_access(5), hosts_options(5) # and /usr/doc/netbase/portmapper.txt.gz # shell:# cat /etc/hosts.deny # /etc/hosts.deny: list of hosts that are _not_ allowed to access the system. # See the manual pages hosts_access(5), hosts_options(5) # and /usr/doc/netbase/portmapper.txt.gz # shell:# /etc/init.d/networking start Setting up IP spoofing protection: rp_filter. Configuring network interfaces: Internet Software Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.1rc9 Copyright 1995-2001 Internet Software Consortium. All rights reserved. For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP irda0: unknown hardware address type 783 irda0: unknown hardware address type 783 Listening on LPF/eth0/00:90:f5:07:99:8d Sending on LPF/eth0/00:90:f5:07:99:8d Sending on Socket/fallback DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7 DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 14 DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9 DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9 DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12 DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 10 No DHCPOFFERS received. No working leases in persistent database - sleeping. done. -- what have i done wrong? It works under windows :-P
KDE3 printing
Hi, i've installed kde3 from kde.org binary packages and i want to add a printer to my kde desktop apps. Whenever i opne the kde print wizard from the k control center the printer drivers list is always blank and i can't choose a printer driver to add. do i need any aditional package? such as CUPS? In this case which packages do i need? Thanks, Paulo Lopes
Hauppauge WinTV USB
Hi, Has anyone made this usb tv frame capture "card" work under linux? i've been searching the web and get lot's information for the PCI version, can someone give me some pointers how to do it with usb? (not like this one char *ptr; :-) i need some place where i can get that info, or some howto. Thanks, Paulo.
APM + KDE3 bug, i guess...
Hi, I've a laptop with Debian Woody with KDE 3.0.5 only with stable packages, and when i don't use it for a while the KDE turns on the screen saver, and after a while the APM subsystem turns the LDC off to save power. This works fine when i'm connected to power. When i'm on battery it works fine until the time that APM turns my LCD off. When ever this happends, the LCD turns on and the system crashes! (the keyboard or mouse does not respond and even if i try to get into the laptop from another computer from the network, the LAPTOP seams to be offline.) Is this a bug? or do i need any patch to my kernel? i've kernel 2.4.18 and if i'm not mistache it worked fine on KDE 3.0.3 (not shure for 3.0.4). I only get this problem while i'm on batteries. My laptop is a Clevo 2700C (sometimes it explains everything :-) Thanks, Paulo Lopes PS: Sorry for my english, i'm not a native speaker.
Re: APM + KDE3 bug, i guess...
David Goodenough wrote: On Tuesday 17 December 2002 12:14, Paulo Lopes wrote: Hi, I've a laptop with Debian Woody with KDE 3.0.5 only with stable packages, and when i don't use it for a while the KDE turns on the screen saver, and after a while the APM subsystem turns the LDC off to save power. This works fine when i'm connected to power. When i'm on battery it works fine until the time that APM turns my LCD off. When ever this happends, the LCD turns on and the system crashes! (the keyboard or mouse does not respond and even if i try to get into the laptop from another computer from the network, the LAPTOP seams to be offline.) Is this a bug? or do i need any patch to my kernel? i've kernel 2.4.18 and if i'm not mistache it worked fine on KDE 3.0.3 (not shure for 3.0.4). I only get this problem while i'm on batteries. My laptop is a Clevo 2700C (sometimes it explains everything :-) Thanks, Paulo Lopes PS: Sorry for my english, i'm not a native speaker. Are you using the drivers from www.winischhoffer.net, or are you using the ones that ship with the kernel and XFree? If the latter, switch to the former, they work much better. David I'm using those from winischhoffer.net
APM or KDE stupid bug, i guess...
Hi, I've a Clevo 2700C and installed woody on it, and all stable packages from security.debian.org and new kernel and XFree from http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/packages/. I've compiled the kernel 2.4.20 and the bug is this: When i'm on batery power, everytime the KDE starts the PowerSavings the laptop just hangs, the image freezes, and even if i try i can't switch to text mode. This problem probably isn't related with this kernel, i've tryed 2.4.18 with the same configuration and it hangs. The stupid thing is that, when i'm on AC power, it never crashes This is very stupid, why do i need a laptop if i can only use it when i'm on AC power :-) I think it worked fine with older kde versions such as 3.0.3, not shure with 3.0.4. Currently i have 3.0.5a. Can this be a bug in my BIOS? i'm using the 1.13 version. Thanks for your time
XFree86 DRI and SiS630
Hi, I've a debian woody stable system and would like to have DRI enabled on my XFree86. I'd like to install XFree86 4.2.1 but wich packages should i choose? i've tryed http://people.debian.org/~branden/ packages, but they are pre beta... then i've tryed http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/packages/ and they seam to work fine... but there's a problem... I've downloaded the xfree driver from http://www.winischhofer.net/ and the DRI stuff doesn't work... how can i make it work? Thanks for your time.
Re: APM or KDE stupid bug, i guess...
Paulo Lopes wrote: Hi, I've a Clevo 2700C and installed woody on it, and all stable packages from security.debian.org and new kernel and XFree from http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/packages/. I've compiled the kernel 2.4.20 and the bug is this: When i'm on batery power, everytime the KDE starts the PowerSavings the laptop just hangs, the image freezes, and even if i try i can't switch to text mode. This problem probably isn't related with this kernel, i've tryed 2.4.18 with the same configuration and it hangs. The stupid thing is that, when i'm on AC power, it never crashes This is very stupid, why do i need a laptop if i can only use it when i'm on AC power :-) I think it worked fine with older kde versions such as 3.0.3, not shure with 3.0.4. Currently i have 3.0.5a. Can this be a bug in my BIOS? i'm using the 1.13 version. Thanks for your time Hi thanks for those who replyed to me, i've fixed my bug :-) I've reinstalled my Debian from my cd set of woody 3.0r0 and recompiled the kernel. What i've changed from the last kernel that stop this stupid bug: PCI Access Mode was BIOS and now is DIRECT APIC was Enabled now is Disabled it never crashed again :-) probably it was a bios bug... who knows? my laptop is a Clevo 2700C, BIOS 1.13
Re: XFree86 DRI and SiS630
Paulo Lopes wrote: Hi, I've a debian woody stable system and would like to have DRI enabled on my XFree86. I'd like to install XFree86 4.2.1 but wich packages should i choose? i've tryed http://people.debian.org/~branden/ packages, but they are pre beta... then i've tryed http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/packages/ and they seam to work fine... but there's a problem... I've downloaded the xfree driver from http://www.winischhofer.net/ and the DRI stuff doesn't work... how can i make it work? Thanks for your time. Hi, i have fix it :-) this is how i've done it (if anyone is interested of course): I've started from scratch, i grabed my 7 cd set of debian woody 3.0r0 and installed it as usual only with stable packages. Since i wasn't home and had only a dial up connection to the world i couldn't update my system with security.debian.org, i'll do it this week :-) (it would take to much time and money :-)) I had a cd with XFree86 4.2.1 (a mirror from http://people.debian.org/~braden/) and KDE3.0.5a and Thomas latest driver (at the moment) from 6 of January 2003. I've installed all the XFree86 packages and KDE and then i've configured my XF86Config-4 with the Debian dpkg-reconfigure tool. At first i've choosen the default driver from the XFree packages. Later on i've recompiled the linux kernel 2.4.18-5 with the sisfb patch, then i've started to look to XFree logs and then i've seen that that XFree version had already a SiS driver from Thomas (an old one) I've been reading the Thomas site and looked for the DRI module and all i've understood is that the file sis_dri.so is only needed because his X driver has a special C Struct that the DRI module needs to read. So i only aplied the new X-Driver and tested. I've looked again in the Logs and tcharam: (II) SIS(0): [drm] created "sis" driver at busid "PCI:1:0:0" (II) SIS(0): [drm] added 8192 byte SAREA at 0xe08eb000 (II) SIS(0): [drm] mapped SAREA 0xe08eb000 to 0x40014000 (II) SIS(0): [drm] framebuffer handle = 0x8800 (II) SIS(0): [drm] added 1 reserved context for kernel (II) SIS(0): [drm] Registers = 0x8000 (II) SIS(0): [drm] drmAgpEnabled succeeded (II) SIS(0): [drm] failure adding irq 0 handler, stereo disabled (II) SIS(0): [dri] visual configs initialized. (II) SIS(0): Frame Buffer From (0,0) To (1024,6142) (II) SIS(0): Using XFree86 Acceleration Architecture (XAA) Screen to screen bit blits Solid filled rectangles 8x8 mono pattern filled rectangles Indirect CPU to Screen color expansion Solid Lines Dashed Lines Offscreen Pixmaps Setting up tile and stipple cache: 32 128x128 slots 26 256x256 slots 12 512x512 slots (==) SIS(0): Backing store disabled (==) SIS(0): Silken mouse enabled (**) Option "dpms" (**) SIS(0): DPMS enabled (II) SIS(0): Using SiS300/310/325 series HW Xv (II) SIS(0): X context handle = 0x0001 (II) SIS(0): [drm] installed DRM signal handler (II) SIS(0): [DRI] installation complete (II) SIS(0): Direct rendering enabled DRI enabled :-)
APM and Power Savings not working...
Hi, I've installed debian woody on my laptop and recompiled the kernel with APM on boot but it seams not to be working correctly. Under X when the laptop is inactive for a while, the laptop seams to enter the APM standby mode, but (don't know why) right after the LCD and the disk is stoped, my disk starts to spin again and the standby is aborted. I need the maximum time of batery i can get, because i use my laptop on the move, and my batery sucks and only lasts for 1 and a half hour... It's a Clevo 2700C I've switched my root FS from ext2 to ext3 can this be the problem? My APM bios timeout for disk is 5 minutes, and my XFree config has this: Section "ServerFlags" Option "BlankTime" "3" Option "StandbyTime""10" Option "SuspendTime""15" EndSection My KDE 3.0.5a has the Power Control like this: Energy: Standby: 5min Suspend: Disabled Power Off: 10min Laptop Power Control: Not Powered: Standby: 5min Powered: Off: 20min ScreenSaver (enabled): Blank Screen: 2min My Kernel config for APM is like this: CONFIG_PM=y # CONFIG_ACPI is not set CONFIG_APM=y # CONFIG_APM_IGNORE_USER_SUSPEND is not set CONFIG_APM_DO_ENABLE=y CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE=y # CONFIG_APM_DISPLAY_BLANK is not set # CONFIG_APM_RTC_IS_GMT is not set # CONFIG_APM_ALLOW_INTS is not set # CONFIG_APM_REAL_MODE_POWER_OFF is not set RTC_IS_GMT is not set because i've a dual boot with windows2000, shame on me :-) besides this i also have the noflushd instaled (it install by default with debian, and since i didn't know quite well how to configure it i used the default config: TIMEOUT=5 DISKS="/dev/hda" Can someone give me some hints to to make my laptop suspend by it self instead of me pressing the Fn+Esc (the key combination for my laptop to suspend) Thanks, Paulo Lopes. PS: Sorry for my bad english
Re: APM and Power Savings not working...
Arne Koewing wrote: Paulo Lopes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi, I've installed debian woody on my laptop and recompiled the kernel with APM on boot but it seams not to be working correctly. Under X when the laptop is inactive for a while, the laptop seams to enter the APM standby mode, but (don't know why) right after the LCD and the disk is stoped, my disk starts to spin again and the standby is aborted. I need the maximum time of batery i can get, because i use my laptop on the move, and my batery sucks and only lasts for 1 and a half hour... It's a Clevo 2700C I've switched my root FS from ext2 to ext3 can this be the problem? i think i've read something about ext3 writing regularly someting to disk so this could be your problem (did it work with ext2?) arne Well i can't tell that for shure, i think it worked well, but i've upgraded my system with XFree86 4.2.1 and KDE 3.0.5a when i switched to ext3 fs...
Re: APM and Power Savings not working...
mw wrote: Hello Paulo ! Arne's seems to be right. Ther was a thread on this list - please enter the deb-lap archive at ( I'm not really good in digging other archives than my own :) Re: 2.4 kernel tweaking Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 18:30:34 +0200 From: Dietmar Nusch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Interesting spot, anyway. So ext2 won't get xpired too soon ...? hth -- michl Hi, I think i've solved my problem, i've been kernel hacking hehe and edited the file journal.c on: /usr/src/linux/fs/jbd/journal.c and switched the commit internal from HZ * 5 to HZ* 30 Now my laptop suspends right! i've been posting this question to APM lists and they told me that the problem could be that my suspend could take more than 5 seconds, so if i change the commit internal to 30 seconds the suspend process should be over at that time! Probably there's a better way to change the timeout instead of kernel hacking but i'm new to linux and don't know very much of it. I just looked at the code and made a tweak :-) Thanks anyway for all your tips. Paulo Lopes.
Re: X crashes if I'm idle
Ivan Uemlianin wrote: Dear All I'm running Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 on an IBM Thinkpad A31p. X is in VESA mode, as the Thinkpad has unsupported Radeon video. If I'm in X (Gnome) and I'm idle for a while (10 mins?) X crashes. The error messages seem to be to do with trying to run a screensaver. Now, I have xscreensaver installed, but opening Gnome Control Center's screensaver tab causes X to crash instantly. Same thing happens when xscreensaver is not installed. I'm happy not to have a screensaver, and/or for the screen to just go blank like it does when in console mode. Hi, I had the same problem and i think i've fixed it. My laptop is a Clevo 2700C with a SiS 630s core, and my debian is Woody 3.0r1 with security.debian.org updates and kde3.0.5a from kde and XFree86 4.2.1. What i've done: Recompiled the kernel without any BIOS support: CONFIG_PCI=y # CONFIG_PCI_GOBIOS is not set CONFIG_PCI_GODIRECT=y I've setup my APM like this: CONFIG_PM=y # CONFIG_ACPI is not set CONFIG_APM=y # CONFIG_APM_IGNORE_USER_SUSPEND is not set CONFIG_APM_DO_ENABLE=y CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE=y # CONFIG_APM_DISPLAY_BLANK is not set # CONFIG_APM_RTC_IS_GMT is not set # CONFIG_APM_ALLOW_INTS is not set # CONFIG_APM_REAL_MODE_POWER_OFF is not set and my processor setup is like this: # # Processor type and features # # CONFIG_M386 is not set # CONFIG_M486 is not set # CONFIG_M586 is not set # CONFIG_M586TSC is not set # CONFIG_M586MMX is not set # CONFIG_M686 is not set CONFIG_MPENTIUMIII=y # CONFIG_MPENTIUM4 is not set # CONFIG_MK6 is not set # CONFIG_MK7 is not set # CONFIG_MELAN is not set # CONFIG_MCRUSOE is not set # CONFIG_MWINCHIPC6 is not set # CONFIG_MWINCHIP2 is not set # CONFIG_MWINCHIP3D is not set # CONFIG_MCYRIXIII is not set CONFIG_X86_WP_WORKS_OK=y CONFIG_X86_INVLPG=y CONFIG_X86_CMPXCHG=y CONFIG_X86_XADD=y CONFIG_X86_BSWAP=y CONFIG_X86_POPAD_OK=y # CONFIG_RWSEM_GENERIC_SPINLOCK is not set CONFIG_RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM=y CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT=5 CONFIG_X86_TSC=y CONFIG_X86_GOOD_APIC=y CONFIG_X86_PGE=y CONFIG_X86_USE_PPRO_CHECKSUM=y # CONFIG_TOSHIBA is not set # CONFIG_I8K is not set # CONFIG_MICROCODE is not set # CONFIG_X86_MSR is not set # CONFIG_X86_CPUID is not set CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM=y # CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G is not set # CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G is not set # CONFIG_MATH_EMULATION is not set CONFIG_MTRR=y # CONFIG_SMP is not set CONFIG_X86_UP_APIC=y CONFIG_X86_UP_IOAPIC=y CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC=y CONFIG_X86_IO_APIC=y After this, my KDE never crashed anymore when it went idle. Hope it helps you. Bye, Paulo Lopes.
KDE makes my batery run out in no time :-(
Hi, I've recently installed KDE3.1 on my Woody system and i think it's cool. But I've a small problem... With 3.1 my laptop harddisk light is always blinking and besides the pshycadelic feeling :-) my batery runs out of power to fast... How can i check what is making my disk spin? I've a Clevo 2700C with a PIII-1000Mhz, 512Mb of RAM (32 shared for video) i've been watching to the 'top' command output, and found that the process X is the one that consumes more processor when i'm doing nothing... (about 3%) can it be X the one that is making my harddisk spin? Probably not, because when i've only kdm loaded (haven't made login yet) the harddisk light is off when i'm idle... This is very odd... probably it is a broken package, because i'd lot's of troubles installing the new kde, but i'd like to know how can i find you wich process is making my disk spin... Thanks, Paulo Lopes
Li-ion battery doesn't charge
Hi, I've a Li-ion battery on my laptop that says that it's capacity is of 3600mAH, but i've compiled my kernel with acpi and i've been reading the proc fs under /proc/acpi/battery/0/info and it says that my battery last charge was only of 596mAH. This is bad since i can only use my laptop during 30 minutes... I'm using the debian kernel-source 2.4.18 from stable and with acpi + acpid i can only shutdown my laptop, i can't even suspend it. I've tryed the acpi patches from acpi.sf.net (the latest for 2.4.18) and with that my kde doesn't recognize the acpi subsystem. (it recognizes with the default acpi subsystem, without patches) Does anyone know how to charge the battery to the maximum? thanks.
How to disable the 'Stand-By' mode on APM? and ACPI problem...
Hi, I don't know why but my laptop crashes whenever it enters the stand-by mode. (it works fine with suspend) how can i disable it, or, make it behave like the suspend mode? I'm using kernel-24.18-5 from debian how can i use acpi to do the same as apm? i've compiled it with acpi and all i can get from acpi is system shutdown. i can't suspend or stand-by. if i apply the acpi patches from acpi.sf.net my kde doesn't recognizes the acpi subsystem. if i use the default kernel acpi my kde (3.0.5a) recognizes but can only show the battery status). Thanks, Paulo Lopes.
Re: Li-ion battery doesn't charge
Michael Still wrote: On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Paulo Lopes wrote: How old is your Li-ion battery? They have a very short life compared with other batteries, and it simply might be garbage. Mine lasted 18 months... about 18 months, less than 2 years for sure.
Re: How to disable the 'Stand-By' mode on APM? and ACPI problem...
Thomas Hood wrote: Try standing by by doing apm --standby instead of pressing the "standby" key on your machine. I don't have a stand-by button :-) and my bios doesn't have anything about stand-by. The problem is that when my laptop enters the stand-by the keyboard goes dead, but i can use it via ssh/telnet/etc... since it's a laptop to use on the road i don't have another laptop to wake up the 1st one :-) Thanks, Paulo Lopes
Re: Li-ion battery doesn't charge
Mark Janssen wrote: On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 13:01, Paulo Lopes wrote: Hi, I've a Li-ion battery on my laptop that says that it's capacity is of 3600mAH, but i've compiled my kernel with acpi and i've been reading the proc fs under /proc/acpi/battery/0/info and it says that my battery last charge was only of 596mAH. This is bad since i can only use my laptop during 30 minutes... If it's an older laptop it's probably just that the battery is dead. The maximum charge on batteries becomes less with use. My own laptop only lasted about 30 minutes in the end. After a battery swap (I had a spare) i'm back to more then 2 hours. The laptop is a clevo 2700c with ~2 years Does anyone know how to charge the battery to the maximum? thanks. If it's not an older battery/laptop... try discharging it fully and then do a full charge with the laptop turned off.
Re: Li-ion battery doesn't charge
I have a Clevo 2700T and mine died after about a year. It got to the point of apparently charging fully, and then going down to about 1:04hour and then suddenly saying that it only had 4 minutes. I replaced it with a new 8 cell battery and I now get 3hours 40minutes which is wonderful. It cost #80, but it is very useful. Humm... can you give more info on your battery? brand, references, where to buy? 3h 40m is pretty cool for me (at least is better than 15 minutes :-) Paulo Lopes
Re: vmlinuz too big
Joel Alexandre wrote: Portanto virei-me para a maneira tradicional. fui buscar a versao 2.4.20 a kernel.org e pus o patch de acpi. Uma pergunta estúpida... tens o bzip2 instalado? se calhar consegues compilar o kernel, mas no final não o comprimes porque não tens o bzip2... (se utilizares os pacotes da debian obrigatoriamente é instalado do bzip, mas como não estás a utilizar tens de o instalar manualmente). make menuconfig make dep make bzImage Sem mais, Paulo Lopes.
XFree86 and IOmega ZIP (ppa) conflict
Hi, I've a IOmega zip drive (old model, ppa module) and when i connet it to my laptop that is already on XFree86 4.2.1 running kde 3.0.5a and make a file transfer, my mouse (/dev/psaux) behaves very strange, and it becomes useless. If i mount, copy and unmount the drive on console mode and then switch to X, it works fine... is there anything that can conflict between X and ppa ? my parallel port is using interrupt instead of pooling (it has the same behaviour on pooling) Thanks, Paulo Lopes
Re: White screen before install
Rubén Caparrós wrote: Hello guys/ladys I trieing to install debian woody in my laptop but before configure the cd drive to boot the cd, it ask me ENTER to boot. I do and something seems to be loading but inmediatly screen become white. I can even see nothing in the installation so I can not change anything. How can I resolve this problem?. I had a simillar problem with my laptop, probably you have a SiS shipset based laptop. The solution is: when the "boot:" prompt apears try and use "linux video=vesa" instead of just pressing enter. Then after installing all the packages you want install the kernel source and compile it with your video card support. (is you have a SiS, check this site: http://www.winischhofer.net/) I hope it helps. Thank you everybody = Rubén Caparrós García http://www.eurobotics.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Yahoo! Messenger - Nueva versión GRATIS Super Webcam, voz, caritas animadas, y más... http://messenger.yahoo.es
fam, imon question...
Hi, I've installed the fam daemon to "look" at my files when i use KDE on my debian laptop, but i read on the fam package that it uses the imon kernel modules to check whenever a file changes, or if the imon monitor isn't available it uses pooling... I've been digging :-) the oss.sgi.com site and found the imon kernel patch and applyed it to my kernel 2.4.18 (had to fix 2 files). The kernel compiles fine, the imon modules exists and loads ok, but whenever i use the fam daemon it seams that it doesn't use the imon modules... If it doesn't use the imon modules, probably it is pooling my fs... Is there any configuration needed to make fam use the imon module? My system is a Pentium3 class laptop with stable packages for woody and kernel 2.4.18 with imon + xfs patches from oss.sgi.com I've read that fam can also use the dnotify, but i can't locate it when i configure my kernel... Thanks, Paulo Lopes.
Re: KDE3 + noflushd
Gabor FLEISCHER wrote: Is there anyone who succeeded with KDE3, noflushd? I could set up my system to spin down the disks when I don't run KDE. But with KDE it always has some disk usage. I was searching in google, and I saw other people had the same problem about a year ago, but nobody had any answer. Gavriel I've installed the xfs (X file system) kernel patch and the fam daemon and my disk works like a charm with noflushd. before i had ext3 and the disk couldn't stop spinning
IrOBEX Linux to Windows and Windows to Linux
Hi, I've a laptop with debian woody 3.0r1 with IrDA configured and working (at least i can use my mobile phone modem) but i'd like to exchange files with windows machines... When i use windows, and i put my laptop near other laptop, there's an icon that say's that another computer is near and i can send/receive files... How can i do this with my linux laptop? i've heard and read that windows uses the OBEX protocol, how can i use it on linux? do i need extra modules? how do i send a file? what do i need to do to receive a file? Thanks, Paulo Lopes.
Re: urgent doubt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good evening. I have experienced a problem while installing Debian GNU Linux(Woody version)on my Laptop. It seems that the main instalation screen,the one which appears when you make the boot from CD,does not appear completly! there's a small part that doesn't appear,probably due to bad display config.This won't let me see the main function buttons on partitioning the disk for Debian Linux. I have an Airis Mercurio P4-2,5Ghz with a SiS650 graphics chipset. Can you please help me? Thank You instant_karma _ CO.PT - domínios internet: Livre, Instantâneo! http://www.co.pt Hi, You have to install debian using the vesa framebuffer, instead of the usual video driver, when you get the lilo prompt, you should type something like: linux video=vesa vga=791 vga=791 means vga resolution of 1024x768 16 color bits then after you install, you should choose the kernel-source package and patch it for a working video driver that supports sis6xx chipsets. Those drivers can be found on: http://www.winischhofer.net/ At that site you can learn exactly how to patch the kernel and the X-window to support hardware acceleration. Paulo Lopes, PS: remember after you install debian and whenever you reboot, while you haven't patched your kernel you'll have to start your linux with linux video=vesa vga=791 if you don't want a high resolution display on console mode, just ignore the vga=791.
Conceptronic C22C wireless card, trouble
Hi, Did anyone on the list made this card to work? i don't even know the chipset, so i really don't know where to start... Thanks, Paulo Lopes
Re: Debian <---> Gentoo
Johannes Graumann wrote: Hello, This might be a provoking question but I was wondering whether anybody on the list had tried Gentoo Linux ... I get the impression that the custom compiling done through this distribution might be the right thing for the limited resources of a laptop? Please let me hear your opinion! Joh Hi, I've tryed it. I started to use linux for real on my laptop with debian and a few months ago i heard about gentoo and it looked like the best for my not so new laptop. The first impression i got from it was that it would make things work faster. The reality was that i took about two weeks compiling everything i had on my debian system, xfree, kde, gimp, dev tools, etc and then i've noticed that whenever there's an package upgrade like from kde 3.1.1a to 3.1.2 i had to compile the hole thing again about 2 days... To be honnest i didn't like it, well it's perfect for tunning your laptop to the max, but now that i've returned to woody (because i had a severe crash and my filesystem was completly destroyed and i couldn't wait for another two weeks for making all work again) i don't notice much increase of speed comparing to my woody system... It's fun to have a system all compiled for your cpu, and what so ever hardware you have but in my humble opinion it doesn't worth the night's of compiling and the crashes due to overheat of being compiling for days... Anyway, if you want the gentoo for fun, go ahead... Paulo Lopes
How can i cool down my CPU?
Hi, I've a debian woody system and although my system load is low, (i make a top and the i get arround 99.3% idle) my laptop burns my legs... I've enabled APM and the options Make Idle calls when Idle in the kernel but that doesn't seam to do anything... I runned windows on the laptop in the past and back then it didn't get so hot like with linux... Any tips for cooling it down? I've a P3 (not mobile) and i've tryed ACPI and i got the same issue... Is there any daemon or whatever app to force the CPU to idle and cool down? Thanks. Paulo Lopes
Re: How can i cool down my CPU?
Heather Stern wrote: On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 10:36:49AM +0100, Paulo Lopes wrote: Hi, I've a debian woody system and although my system load is low, (i make a top and the i get arround 99.3% idle) my laptop burns my legs... You don't mention which hardware, so I can't tell if that's normal (a desktop chip being used in a mobile chassis, perhaps?) or an immediate warning to seek out a laptop repair center. It's a clevo 2700C (www.clevo.com.tw) Core logic: SiS630 Processor PentiumIII 1000Mhz Copermine Laptop Bios version from clevo 1.13 APM Bios 1.2 APM flags 0x03 (cpu slows on idle) ACPI 1.0b (doesn't suspend, does not support S3 state) RAM 512Mb Is this "I can heat my lunch iunder there" warm or "I had to get treated for welts" hot? :-) if i turn it on in the morning i can frie some eggs if i want too :-) If it's an Intel you might be able to get it to speedstep down to its slower mode. I've applyed the cpufreq kernel patch and tryed the cpufreqd and it doesn't work, speedstep reports that my processor is not supported it ain't a speedstep, it's a Pentium3 Copermine (as it says on /proc/cpuinfo) Paulo Lopes
Is Compaq Presario 2158 worth for linux?
Hi, I'm thinking in buying one of those laptops but i'm not sure because of the video card, At hp site they say that that model has a ATI Mobility Radeon with 64MB SDRAM DDR shared. Does Xfree 4.3 support that card? what about DRI? can it do 3d stuff? or the x driver is on 2d? What about overall performance? does anyone have one of that laptops? are you satisfied? What are the major flaws on that model? Thanks, Paulo Lopes
Compaq Presario 2158 and Xfree86 4.3 help
Hi, I'd like to enable DRI and all 3D stuff on a Compaq Presario 2158, i've read the manual and it says that it has a ATI Mobility Radeon with 64Mb shared memory, does anyone have one of these? is it possible to get all 3d features enabled on xfree 4.3? how can i do it? I had a sis630 laptop and xfree 4.2.1 and 3d worked fine, but now i don't know how to configure this one. There's more than one driver for ATI, wich one should e choose? can someone send me the XFConfig-4 portion that configures this card? Thanks, Paulo Lopes
How does Transmeta Crusoe laptop perform on linux?
Hi, I've been thinking in "upgrading" my laptop and i've been looking to ECS i-Buddie 530, it's not a regular laptop, it's what they call a desknote. It's a laptop without a battery assembled with regular pc components. To me it's what i need because, i only use my laptop where i can plug it into electricity and network, so no big deal... What i'd like to know is if the Transmeta Crusoe processor work fine with linux, do i need to apply any patch to the kernel or will it run out of the box. What about the powersavings that transmeta talks about, is it really worth? The next thing that i wanted to know is about the video card, does anyone have a ECS i-Buddie 530, what video card does it came with? wich are known to work with transmeta? and wich ones are known to work with X using DRI? Thanks, Paulo Lopes
Re: How does Transmeta Crusoe laptop perform on linux?
Thorsten Haude wrote: What about the powersavings that transmeta talks about, is it really worth? Yes, my notebook runs for 10 hours on battery. IIRC you need a patch for this feature though. Nice! BTW, what's your laptop model?
SiS 305, does anyone know about this video chip?
Hi, I'm looking for a new laptop and found out one with a SiS305 video chipset, i've searched google and Thomas Winnishoffer site for sis driver and he never talks about SiS305, only 300 series and 315 chip. Can i assume that 305 is a 300 series? Or not?
Re: SiS 305, does anyone know about this video chip?
Paulo Lopes wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a new laptop and found out one with a SiS305 video chipset, i've searched google and Thomas Winnishoffer site for sis driver and he never talks about SiS305, only 300 series and 315 chip. Can i assume that 305 is a 300 series? Or not? According to Thomas Winischhofer , 305 = 300. But DRI is slow on these, and it is not in 4.3. It is in 4.2 and will be in 4.4.
IRDA + Clevo 2700C
Hi, I have a Clevo 2700C laptop and i've decided to move from windows OS to Debian 3 (Woody). I've configured almost everything... I'm no linux expert, but i made my way arround... At the point i've configured: - SiS900 network card - Trident (sound) using ALSA - SiS630s (Graphics Accelerated under X and Console (sisfb)) - APM 1.2 works fine - CDRW Matsushita UJDA310 - Touchpad + PS/2 port - USB (not tested yet...) - PCMCIA (not tested) - Internal Modem softmodem SLMDM Now i want to use my infrared port and i don't know how?! i've installed irda-utils package (i only have install the stable packages on my system) and compiled the kernel with irda support. the irda package created an irlan device that shows up under 'ifconfig' but i want to connect to it a mobile phone. (it worked fine under windows) now i try the minicom to /dev/ircomm0 and cannot connect to the phone... can someone tell me how to do this? Thanks. Paulo Lopes.
Re: IRDA + Clevo 2700C
Thanks for the tip, i want to connect to a Nokia 7110, i know the Hayes AT command set, all i need is to find the /dev entry... (as i said i'm no linux expert :-) I'll try gnokii... Paulo Lopes. Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: On Mon, Sep 16, 2002 at 06:24:56PM +0100, Paulo Lopes wrote: Hi, I have a Clevo 2700C laptop and i've decided to move from windows OS to Debian 3 (Woody). I've configured almost everything... [snip...] Now i want to use my infrared port and i don't know how?! i've installed irda-utils package (i only have install the stable packages on my system) and compiled the kernel with irda support. the irda package created an irlan device that shows up under 'ifconfig' but i want to connect to it a mobile phone. (it worked fine under windows) now i try the minicom to /dev/ircomm0 and cannot connect to the phone... It depends on what sort of phone it is - not all I/R phones accept Hayes-style commands; some use a protocol of their own. If your phone allegedly supports at commands (e.g. Nokia 7110 and probably others) [1], then it should be relatively easy (that seems to be the route you have taken). Other phones need their own special "drivers" to simulate a modem - gnokii can provide this for most Nokia models. [1] More precisely: "have a built-in modem", i think. I'm no expert on that area. I *think* that if an irdadump shows the phone supporting IRCOMM then it has a built-in modem.
CLEVO 2xxxC SIR/IrDA Config
Hi, Can someone "teach" me how to configure the IrDA for my laptop? I own a Clevo 2700C and according to the manual the IR port is: - Fast Infrared (FIR) file transfer, IrDA 1.1 or ASKIR (SHARP standard) I've compiled my kernel (2.4.18) with IrDA support and build all the FIR modules. The problem is that i can load any, because they all fail... I've checked the /dev for the device "ircomm0" and it's there with the major mumber 161, then i tryed "minicom /dev/ircomm0" with a mobile phone (Nokia 7110) with the IR link activated but i can't connect... minicom starts and i try to write "ATZ\r" but the phone doesn't seam to be connected... Does anyone know how to configure this? Thanks! Paulo Lopes.
Re: CLEVO 2xxxC SIR/IrDA Config
Mark Janssen wrote: On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 14:00, Paulo Lopes wrote: Can someone "teach" me how to configure the IrDA for my laptop? I own a Clevo 2700C and according to the manual the IR port is: I've just played with this on my 2700C last week (to get my palm to sync over irda) Make sure the bios settings for IR are as follows (won't work in other modes) HPSIR/FAST-IR COM-2 (2F8, IRQ 3, DMA 3) It should then be usable from /dev/ircomm0 or /dev/ircomm1. Using irdadump you should see packets going across when you put an IR-capable device (palm/phone/other laptop) in front of it.. I've checked my BIOS settings and choosed FAST-IR COM-2 (2F8, IRQ3, DMA 3) i've started "irdadump" and in another "window" i've tryed "minicom /dev/ircomm0" (the phone was connected with the irda link) and nothing happend on irdadump, and on minicom the status was offline. Then i tryed minicom /dev/ircomm1 -> it returned /dev/ttyS1 is locked i've listed the modules, "lsmod" and here's the dump: Module Size Used byNot tainted sis48320 2 irtty 5472 1 (autoclean) ircomm-tty 18816 1 (autoclean) ircomm 7068 0 (autoclean) [ircomm-tty] irda 78284 1 (autoclean) [irtty ircomm-tty ircomm] usb-ohci 17728 0 (unused) usbcore47840 1 [usb-ohci] agpgart12416 3 sis900 12036 1 af_packet 11560 0 rtc 5528 0 (autoclean) i've cheched the ifconfig and there were a irda0 entry, i've stopped it with "ifconfig irda0 down" and tryed to remove the modules but they don't move out (don't know why)... and every time i try the minicom doesn't work... Paulo Lopes.
Re: IRDA + Clevo 2700C
Thanks for the tip, i want to connect to a Nokia 7110, i know the Hayes AT command set, all i need is to find the /dev entry... (as i said i'm no linux expert :-) I'll try gnokii... Paulo Lopes. Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: >On Mon, Sep 16, 2002 at 06:24:56PM +0100, Paulo Lopes wrote: > > >>Hi, >> >>I have a Clevo 2700C laptop and i've decided to move from >>windows OS to Debian 3 (Woody). I've configured almost >>everything... >> >> > >[snip...] > > > >>Now i want to use my infrared port and i don't know how?! >>i've installed irda-utils package (i only have install the stable >>packages on my system) and compiled the kernel with irda support. >> >>the irda package created an irlan device that shows up >>under 'ifconfig' but i want to connect to it a mobile phone. >>(it worked fine under windows) now i try the minicom to /dev/ircomm0 >>and cannot connect to the phone... >> >> > >It depends on what sort of phone it is - not all I/R phones accept >Hayes-style commands; some use a protocol of their own. > >If your phone allegedly supports at commands (e.g. Nokia 7110 and >probably others) [1], then it should be relatively easy (that seems to be >the route you have taken). Other phones need their own special "drivers" >to simulate a modem - gnokii can provide this for most Nokia models. > >[1] More precisely: "have a built-in modem", i think. I'm no expert on >that area. I *think* that if an irdadump shows the phone supporting >IRCOMM then it has a built-in modem. > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CLEVO 2xxxC SIR/IrDA Config
Hi, Can someone "teach" me how to configure the IrDA for my laptop? I own a Clevo 2700C and according to the manual the IR port is: - Fast Infrared (FIR) file transfer, IrDA 1.1 or ASKIR (SHARP standard) I've compiled my kernel (2.4.18) with IrDA support and build all the FIR modules. The problem is that i can load any, because they all fail... I've checked the /dev for the device "ircomm0" and it's there with the major mumber 161, then i tryed "minicom /dev/ircomm0" with a mobile phone (Nokia 7110) with the IR link activated but i can't connect... minicom starts and i try to write "ATZ\r" but the phone doesn't seam to be connected... Does anyone know how to configure this? Thanks! Paulo Lopes. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CLEVO 2xxxC SIR/IrDA Config
Mark Janssen wrote: >On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 14:00, Paulo Lopes wrote: > > >>Can someone "teach" me how to configure the IrDA for my laptop? I own a >>Clevo 2700C and according to the manual the IR port is: >> >> > >I've just played with this on my 2700C last week (to get my palm to sync >over irda) > >Make sure the bios settings for IR are as follows (won't work in other >modes) > >HPSIR/FAST-IR >COM-2 (2F8, IRQ 3, DMA 3) > >It should then be usable from /dev/ircomm0 or /dev/ircomm1. > >Using irdadump you should see packets going across when you put an >IR-capable device (palm/phone/other laptop) in front of it.. > > I've checked my BIOS settings and choosed FAST-IR COM-2 (2F8, IRQ3, DMA 3) i've started "irdadump" and in another "window" i've tryed "minicom /dev/ircomm0" (the phone was connected with the irda link) and nothing happend on irdadump, and on minicom the status was offline. Then i tryed minicom /dev/ircomm1 -> it returned /dev/ttyS1 is locked i've listed the modules, "lsmod" and here's the dump: Module Size Used byNot tainted sis48320 2 irtty 5472 1 (autoclean) ircomm-tty 18816 1 (autoclean) ircomm 7068 0 (autoclean) [ircomm-tty] irda 78284 1 (autoclean) [irtty ircomm-tty ircomm] usb-ohci 17728 0 (unused) usbcore47840 1 [usb-ohci] agpgart12416 3 sis900 12036 1 af_packet 11560 0 rtc 5528 0 (autoclean) i've cheched the ifconfig and there were a irda0 entry, i've stopped it with "ifconfig irda0 down" and tryed to remove the modules but they don't move out (don't know why)... and every time i try the minicom doesn't work... Paulo Lopes. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mouse setup under X
Hi, i've a laptop with a touchpad that can be easely configured on X, my question is how can i configure it to enable an external mouse WITH scrollwheel. The problem is that both the touchpad and the external mouse are PS2. my current config is: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "External Mouse" Driver "mouse" Option "CorePointer" Option "Device""/dev/psaux" Option "Protocol" "PS/2" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection in order to enable the scrollwheel i've to change the Protocol to ImPS/2, but then, if i've no external mouse on /dev/psaux (i'm using the touchpad) it's impraticable to use it, because the mouse pointer is always junping to the lower left part of the screen... Can someone tel me how to setup two mouses on the same device, using two diferrent protocols? Thanks! Paulo. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mouse setup under X
Hi again, my laptop does not have a serial DB9 port, only PS2, USB or FireWire... :-) I guess i'll keep changing the protocol on XF86Config-4 whenever i need to use the wheelmouse... Paulo. cyn wrote: it just occured to me - could you use the external mouse with a ps2 -> serial converter and as a serial mouse? I'm sure if you don't have one lying around you could pick one up for a buck or two at your local radioshack or computing store. just another possibility. A bit of an unfortunate workaround, but if the other solutions don't work - this at least would. - This email has been sent as a single line of query, and in no way indicates the senders interest in or acceptance of any promotions or "opt-in"'s unless otherwise EXPRESSLY noted. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mouse setup under X
Jeremy Petzold wrote: Paulo Lopes wrote: Hi again, my laptop does not have a serial DB9 port, only PS2, USB or FireWire... :-) I guess i'll keep changing the protocol on XF86Config-4 whenever i need to use the wheelmouse... very simple solution. use the wheel mouse protocol for bothit will work fine on the pad even without the wheel, and it willwork fine when you plug in the wheel mouse. No it doesn't work! if i use the wheelmouse protocol the touch pad is always jumping back to lower left part of the screen. I can drag it but if i move over any widget such as textfields, buttons, etc... sudentlly the mouse sends a click and jumps to the lower left part of the screen... Paulo Lopes. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Creative USB Webcam Go Plus
Is there any driver to enable the connection of a Video Blaster WebCam Go II Plus on Linux? I've been looking on sourceforge.net and i found out a project that stopped about a year ago but the driver didn't work... I've installed the CPIA driver on my kernel... but i can't connect to the webcam... Is my webcam a piece of junk under linux? :-) Please if anyone know how to enable it let me know!!! Thanks, Paulo Lopes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Help on Laptop Tunning :-)
Hi, I have a laptop with Debian Woody stable. (i'm a newbie to debian, so please this probably is a stupid question :-) I've installed KDE3.0.4 and KDevelop 2.1.3, and among these packages i've installed htdig (Kdevelop said it would be nice to have it installed...) the problem is that every day i start my laptop it runs HTDIG... the problem is that if i'm on batery... i think i'll waste lots of power with this process... I want to be able to run HTDIG only when i want or something like once a month or week... (since my files don't change alot) I've been looking on htdig.conf but i can't find out where can i tell when to run... and i've been looking under /etc/init.d/ and don't find any script to run htdig... the second problem is my network... when i'm offline the laptop performs allright, but when i'm on the network it get's too hot... my configuration is: under /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost shadow 10.0.0.22 shadow # The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts # (added automatically by netbase upgrade) ::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback fe00::0 ip6-localnet ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix ff02::1 ip6-allnodes ff02::2 ip6-allrouters ff02::3 ip6-allhosts under /etc/network/interfaces # The loopback interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback # The first network card - this entry was created during the Debian instalation # (network, broadcast and gateway are optional) auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 10.0.0.22 netmask 255.255.255.0 network 10.0.0.0 broadcast 10.0.0.255 gateway 10.0.0.1 and finally under /etc/resolv.conf # search domain nameserver 212.18.170.2 212.18.170.3 the strange thing i notice is that my hub get's lot's of colisions. (I've been using these configurations on a windows machine and they were allright...) the interfaces file is run on boot of my debian system so i don't know what is making so much colisions? can it be the SAMBA deamons? or the LISA server? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Samsung MP3 Player YEPP-NEU
Hi, I've a samsung mp3 player, a yepp-neu with 32 Mb + 64 on flash and i'm looking for an app to enable the upload of mp3 to it... I've been looking on the web for such an app. but all i could find was the sulu project. (a Gtk app). The problem is that in the main page it's said that the app. can connect to the YEPP but not to mine :-) I've been looking it's source code, i've no experience on linux programming :-(, and i found out that the USB id for the YEPP device was not the same i got when i connect the YEPP to my linux laptop and typed dmesg. Under the code it was defined: #define YEPP_PRODUCT0x5A03 But my YEPP says 0x5A00, so i changed it compiled it and crashed :-) (it say's that there was an error with the protocol) don't know why... So... is there any app. that can connect to my stupid mp3 player? Thanks, Paulo Lopes. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SAMBA resolv configuration
Hi, I've a woody laptop system and i change alot from network to network at my job. Usually all the networks i join are windows machines networks using smb protocol to communicate. I wanted to know if there's any way to resolv the windows domain names under linux? example: on the current network there's a machine called shadow, under windows i can do ping shadow and it will anwser back. On linux i've to make something like: smbclient -L shadow, look for the ip in the anwser then ping , because ping shadow returns :unknown host shadow. probably that's a smb configuration that i've missed, but i'm new to linux :-) Thanks, Paulo Lopes. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SAMBA resolv configuration
David B Harris wrote: On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 15:38:34 + Paulo Lopes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I've a woody laptop system and i change alot from network to network at my job. Usually all the networks i join are windows machines networks using smb protocol to communicate. I wanted to know if there's any way to resolv the windows domain names under linux? example: on the current network there's a machine called shadow, under windows i can do ping shadow and it will anwser back. On linux i've to make something like: smbclient -L shadow, look for the ip in the anwser then ping , because ping shadow returns :unknown host shadow. probably that's a smb configuration that i've missed, but i'm new to linux :-) I suspect that you're not resolving "windows domain names", but rather that, in the Windows installation, it's set to search a default domain. So "shadow" is really "shadow.foo.com", but it's set to search "foo.com", so you can use 'shadow' as a shorthand for 'shadow.foo.com'. Typically, DHCP does this for you. If not, you can add "search" lines to /etc/resolv.conf: search mtnk.phub.net.cable.rogers.com eelf.ddts.net oftc.net So were I to 'ping shadow', it'd first try 'shadow.mtnk.phub.net.cable.rogers.com', then 'shadow.eelf.ddts.net', then 'shadow.oftc.net', then try the regular DNS route (which won't work, because there's no .shadow top-level domain). That's not what i need... i need to resolve NetBIOS names such as other names. The network does not have a WINS server nor DNS server. All names on the network are resolved from netbios... (it's a small network 20 windows machines) Also this network doesn't have DHCP. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SAMBA resolv configuration
Nyk Tarr wrote: On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 08:30:22PM +, Paulo Lopes wrote: David B Harris wrote: On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 15:38:34 + Paulo Lopes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I've a woody laptop system and i change alot from network to network at my job. Usually all the networks i join are windows machines networks using smb protocol to communicate. I wanted to know if there's any way to resolv the windows domain names under linux? example: on the current network there's a machine called shadow, under windows i can do ping shadow and it will anwser back. On linux i've to make something like: smbclient -L shadow, look for the ip in the anwser then ping , because ping shadow returns :unknown host shadow. probably that's a smb configuration that i've missed, but i'm new to linux :-) I suspect that you're not resolving "windows domain names", but rather that, in the Windows installation, it's set to search a default domain. So "shadow" is really "shadow.foo.com", but it's set to search "foo.com", so you can use 'shadow' as a shorthand for 'shadow.foo.com'. Typically, DHCP does this for you. If not, you can add "search" lines to /etc/resolv.conf: search mtnk.phub.net.cable.rogers.com eelf.ddts.net oftc.net So were I to 'ping shadow', it'd first try 'shadow.mtnk.phub.net.cable.rogers.com', then 'shadow.eelf.ddts.net', then 'shadow.oftc.net', then try the regular DNS route (which won't work, because there's no .shadow top-level domain). That's not what i need... i need to resolve NetBIOS names such as other names. The network does not have a WINS server nor DNS server. All names on the network are resolved from netbios... (it's a small network 20 windows machines) The next level back from /etc/resolve.conf is /etc/nsswitch.conf which tells the resolver which services to look for names in, but doesn't seem to include netbios, perhaps for some of the reasons stated in the article below... A quick google brought up: http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-1999-01/lw-01-thereandback-p6.html which discusses what you want to do. I haven't read far enough to see if he comes to a solution - I suspect not. nbtscan should give you a list of names and numbers though. hth nyk thanks, i've allready been to that page... he didn't came to a solution... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
dhcp setup on debian woody
hi, i want to connect my laptop to a dhcp network and i've been using it with static IP. I've been reading the /etc/network/interfaces file and don't know exactly what to do for dhcp. Nevertheless i've been trying to make it work and in the howto's i've read it says that i need to install "dhcpcd", i do apt-get install dhcpcd and i get a reply that that package does not exist (at least on my distro woody/stable). Can someone tell me how to configure it? i've a ip static network on eth1 (pcmcia and working) and need a dhcp on eth0 (internat ethernet adapter) all the modules work and were built for the 2.4.18 kernel. All i need it dhcpcd or something else that can do the same, and a sample /etc/network/interfaces, of course if there's anything else you can let me know :-) Thanks, Paulo. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dhcp setup on debian woody
Ionel Mugurel Ciobica wrote: On 26-11-2002, at 10h 27'59", Paulo Lopes wrote to debian-laptop about "dhcp setup on debian woody" hi, i want to connect my laptop to a dhcp network and i've been using it with static IP. I've been reading the /etc/network/interfaces file and don't know exactly what to do for dhcp. Nevertheless i've been trying to make it work and in the howto's i've read it says that i need to install "dhcpcd", i do apt-get install dhcpcd and i get a reply that that package does not exist (at least on my distro woody/stable). Can someone tell me how to configure it? Try "apt-get install pump" or "apt-get install dhcp-client", "apt-get install dhcpcd" should work as well. How did you installed you debian? From CD's? From the net? In the worse of cases go to www.debian.org -> Debian Packages and search for it, then after you downloaded you can install it with dpkg: dpkg -i dhcpcd*.deb dhcpcd does not show up on my cd installation woody 3.0r0 updated with security.debian.org patches. (i don't use testing/unstable packages because last time i've done it, my the upgrade to lilo made my system not to boot again. :-) I've installed the pump package, thanks. i've a ip static network on eth1 (pcmcia and working) and need a dhcp on eth0 (internat ethernet adapter) all the modules work and were built for the 2.4.18 kernel. All i need it dhcpcd or something else that can do the same, and a sample /etc/network/interfaces, of course if there's anything else you can let me know :-) In /etc/network/interfaces for a static setup you need: iface eth0 inet static address xx.xx.xx.xx netmask yy.yy.yy.yy gateway zz.zz.zz.zz auto eth0 For a dynamic setup with dhcp you need: iface eth0 inet dhcp auto eth0 Good luck, Ionel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dhcp setup on debian woody
James Tappin wrote: On Tue, 26 Nov 2002 12:01:08 + Paulo Lopes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: PL> dhcpcd does not show up on my cd installation woody 3.0r0 updated PL> with security.debian.org PL> patches. (i don't use testing/unstable packages because last time PL> i've done it, my the upgrade PL> to lilo made my system not to boot again. :-) Doing "dpkg -l dhcp\*" will give you a full list of available dhcp packages, you need either dhcp-client or dhcp3-client (and -common apt-get will add that for you). James Well i've messing arround with this configuration, and really can't figure out what's wrong... this is what i've configured and the result: shell:# dpkg -l dhcp\* Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name VersionDescription +++-==-==- un dhcp(no description available) un dhcp-beta (no description available) rc dhcp-client2.0pl5-11 DHCP Client un dhcp-client-be (no description available) un dhcp-dns(no description available) un dhcp-relay (no description available) un dhcp-relay-bet (no description available) ii dhcp3-client 3.0+3.0.1rc9-2 DHCP Client ii dhcp3-common 3.0+3.0.1rc9-2 Common files used by all the dhcp3* packages un dhcp3-dev (no description available) un dhcp3-relay (no description available) un dhcp3-server(no description available) un dhcpcd (no description available) un dhcpd (no description available) un dhcpdump(no description available) un dhcping (no description available) shell:# ifconfig irda0 Link encap:IrLAP HWaddr 65:e5:ce:b8 UP RUNNING NOARP MTU:2048 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:8 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:171587 (167.5 KiB) shell:# cat /etc/network/interfaces # /etc/network/interfaces -- configuration file for ifup(8), ifdown(8) # The loopback interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback # The first network card - this entry was created during the Debian installation # (network, broadcast and gateway are optional) auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp shell:# iptables -L Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination shell:# cat /etc/hosts.allow # /etc/hosts.allow: list of hosts that are allowed to access the system. # See the manual pages hosts_access(5), hosts_options(5) # and /usr/doc/netbase/portmapper.txt.gz # shell:# cat /etc/hosts.deny # /etc/hosts.deny: list of hosts that are _not_ allowed to access the system. # See the manual pages hosts_access(5), hosts_options(5) # and /usr/doc/netbase/portmapper.txt.gz # shell:# /etc/init.d/networking start Setting up IP spoofing protection: rp_filter. Configuring network interfaces: Internet Software Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.1rc9 Copyright 1995-2001 Internet Software Consortium. All rights reserved. For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP irda0: unknown hardware address type 783 irda0: unknown hardware address type 783 Listening on LPF/eth0/00:90:f5:07:99:8d Sending on LPF/eth0/00:90:f5:07:99:8d Sending on Socket/fallback DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7 DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 14 DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9 DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9 DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12 DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 10 No DHCPOFFERS received. No working leases in persistent database - sleeping. done. -- what have i done wrong? It works under windows :-P -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
KDE3 printing
Hi, i've installed kde3 from kde.org binary packages and i want to add a printer to my kde desktop apps. Whenever i opne the kde print wizard from the k control center the printer drivers list is always blank and i can't choose a printer driver to add. do i need any aditional package? such as CUPS? In this case which packages do i need? Thanks, Paulo Lopes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hauppauge WinTV USB
Hi, Has anyone made this usb tv frame capture "card" work under linux? i've been searching the web and get lot's information for the PCI version, can someone give me some pointers how to do it with usb? (not like this one char *ptr; :-) i need some place where i can get that info, or some howto. Thanks, Paulo. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
APM + KDE3 bug, i guess...
Hi, I've a laptop with Debian Woody with KDE 3.0.5 only with stable packages, and when i don't use it for a while the KDE turns on the screen saver, and after a while the APM subsystem turns the LDC off to save power. This works fine when i'm connected to power. When i'm on battery it works fine until the time that APM turns my LCD off. When ever this happends, the LCD turns on and the system crashes! (the keyboard or mouse does not respond and even if i try to get into the laptop from another computer from the network, the LAPTOP seams to be offline.) Is this a bug? or do i need any patch to my kernel? i've kernel 2.4.18 and if i'm not mistache it worked fine on KDE 3.0.3 (not shure for 3.0.4). I only get this problem while i'm on batteries. My laptop is a Clevo 2700C (sometimes it explains everything :-) Thanks, Paulo Lopes PS: Sorry for my english, i'm not a native speaker. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: APM + KDE3 bug, i guess...
David Goodenough wrote: On Tuesday 17 December 2002 12:14, Paulo Lopes wrote: Hi, I've a laptop with Debian Woody with KDE 3.0.5 only with stable packages, and when i don't use it for a while the KDE turns on the screen saver, and after a while the APM subsystem turns the LDC off to save power. This works fine when i'm connected to power. When i'm on battery it works fine until the time that APM turns my LCD off. When ever this happends, the LCD turns on and the system crashes! (the keyboard or mouse does not respond and even if i try to get into the laptop from another computer from the network, the LAPTOP seams to be offline.) Is this a bug? or do i need any patch to my kernel? i've kernel 2.4.18 and if i'm not mistache it worked fine on KDE 3.0.3 (not shure for 3.0.4). I only get this problem while i'm on batteries. My laptop is a Clevo 2700C (sometimes it explains everything :-) Thanks, Paulo Lopes PS: Sorry for my english, i'm not a native speaker. Are you using the drivers from www.winischhoffer.net, or are you using the ones that ship with the kernel and XFree? If the latter, switch to the former, they work much better. David I'm using those from winischhoffer.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
XFree86 DRI and SiS630
Hi, I've a debian woody stable system and would like to have DRI enabled on my XFree86. I'd like to install XFree86 4.2.1 but wich packages should i choose? i've tryed http://people.debian.org/~branden/ packages, but they are pre beta... then i've tryed http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/packages/ and they seam to work fine... but there's a problem... I've downloaded the xfree driver from http://www.winischhofer.net/ and the DRI stuff doesn't work... how can i make it work? Thanks for your time. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
APM or KDE stupid bug, i guess...
Hi, I've a Clevo 2700C and installed woody on it, and all stable packages from security.debian.org and new kernel and XFree from http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/packages/. I've compiled the kernel 2.4.20 and the bug is this: When i'm on batery power, everytime the KDE starts the PowerSavings the laptop just hangs, the image freezes, and even if i try i can't switch to text mode. This problem probably isn't related with this kernel, i've tryed 2.4.18 with the same configuration and it hangs. The stupid thing is that, when i'm on AC power, it never crashes This is very stupid, why do i need a laptop if i can only use it when i'm on AC power :-) I think it worked fine with older kde versions such as 3.0.3, not shure with 3.0.4. Currently i have 3.0.5a. Can this be a bug in my BIOS? i'm using the 1.13 version. Thanks for your time -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: APM or KDE stupid bug, i guess...
Paulo Lopes wrote: Hi, I've a Clevo 2700C and installed woody on it, and all stable packages from security.debian.org and new kernel and XFree from http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/packages/. I've compiled the kernel 2.4.20 and the bug is this: When i'm on batery power, everytime the KDE starts the PowerSavings the laptop just hangs, the image freezes, and even if i try i can't switch to text mode. This problem probably isn't related with this kernel, i've tryed 2.4.18 with the same configuration and it hangs. The stupid thing is that, when i'm on AC power, it never crashes This is very stupid, why do i need a laptop if i can only use it when i'm on AC power :-) I think it worked fine with older kde versions such as 3.0.3, not shure with 3.0.4. Currently i have 3.0.5a. Can this be a bug in my BIOS? i'm using the 1.13 version. Thanks for your time Hi thanks for those who replyed to me, i've fixed my bug :-) I've reinstalled my Debian from my cd set of woody 3.0r0 and recompiled the kernel. What i've changed from the last kernel that stop this stupid bug: PCI Access Mode was BIOS and now is DIRECT APIC was Enabled now is Disabled it never crashed again :-) probably it was a bios bug... who knows? my laptop is a Clevo 2700C, BIOS 1.13 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86 DRI and SiS630
Paulo Lopes wrote: Hi, I've a debian woody stable system and would like to have DRI enabled on my XFree86. I'd like to install XFree86 4.2.1 but wich packages should i choose? i've tryed http://people.debian.org/~branden/ packages, but they are pre beta... then i've tryed http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/packages/ and they seam to work fine... but there's a problem... I've downloaded the xfree driver from http://www.winischhofer.net/ and the DRI stuff doesn't work... how can i make it work? Thanks for your time. Hi, i have fix it :-) this is how i've done it (if anyone is interested of course): I've started from scratch, i grabed my 7 cd set of debian woody 3.0r0 and installed it as usual only with stable packages. Since i wasn't home and had only a dial up connection to the world i couldn't update my system with security.debian.org, i'll do it this week :-) (it would take to much time and money :-)) I had a cd with XFree86 4.2.1 (a mirror from http://people.debian.org/~braden/) and KDE3.0.5a and Thomas latest driver (at the moment) from 6 of January 2003. I've installed all the XFree86 packages and KDE and then i've configured my XF86Config-4 with the Debian dpkg-reconfigure tool. At first i've choosen the default driver from the XFree packages. Later on i've recompiled the linux kernel 2.4.18-5 with the sisfb patch, then i've started to look to XFree logs and then i've seen that that XFree version had already a SiS driver from Thomas (an old one) I've been reading the Thomas site and looked for the DRI module and all i've understood is that the file sis_dri.so is only needed because his X driver has a special C Struct that the DRI module needs to read. So i only aplied the new X-Driver and tested. I've looked again in the Logs and tcharam: (II) SIS(0): [drm] created "sis" driver at busid "PCI:1:0:0" (II) SIS(0): [drm] added 8192 byte SAREA at 0xe08eb000 (II) SIS(0): [drm] mapped SAREA 0xe08eb000 to 0x40014000 (II) SIS(0): [drm] framebuffer handle = 0x8800 (II) SIS(0): [drm] added 1 reserved context for kernel (II) SIS(0): [drm] Registers = 0x8000 (II) SIS(0): [drm] drmAgpEnabled succeeded (II) SIS(0): [drm] failure adding irq 0 handler, stereo disabled (II) SIS(0): [dri] visual configs initialized. (II) SIS(0): Frame Buffer From (0,0) To (1024,6142) (II) SIS(0): Using XFree86 Acceleration Architecture (XAA) Screen to screen bit blits Solid filled rectangles 8x8 mono pattern filled rectangles Indirect CPU to Screen color expansion Solid Lines Dashed Lines Offscreen Pixmaps Setting up tile and stipple cache: 32 128x128 slots 26 256x256 slots 12 512x512 slots (==) SIS(0): Backing store disabled (==) SIS(0): Silken mouse enabled (**) Option "dpms" (**) SIS(0): DPMS enabled (II) SIS(0): Using SiS300/310/325 series HW Xv (II) SIS(0): X context handle = 0x0001 (II) SIS(0): [drm] installed DRM signal handler (II) SIS(0): [DRI] installation complete (II) SIS(0): Direct rendering enabled DRI enabled :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
APM and Power Savings not working...
Hi, I've installed debian woody on my laptop and recompiled the kernel with APM on boot but it seams not to be working correctly. Under X when the laptop is inactive for a while, the laptop seams to enter the APM standby mode, but (don't know why) right after the LCD and the disk is stoped, my disk starts to spin again and the standby is aborted. I need the maximum time of batery i can get, because i use my laptop on the move, and my batery sucks and only lasts for 1 and a half hour... It's a Clevo 2700C I've switched my root FS from ext2 to ext3 can this be the problem? My APM bios timeout for disk is 5 minutes, and my XFree config has this: Section "ServerFlags" Option "BlankTime" "3" Option "StandbyTime""10" Option "SuspendTime""15" EndSection My KDE 3.0.5a has the Power Control like this: Energy: Standby: 5min Suspend: Disabled Power Off: 10min Laptop Power Control: Not Powered: Standby: 5min Powered: Off: 20min ScreenSaver (enabled): Blank Screen: 2min My Kernel config for APM is like this: CONFIG_PM=y # CONFIG_ACPI is not set CONFIG_APM=y # CONFIG_APM_IGNORE_USER_SUSPEND is not set CONFIG_APM_DO_ENABLE=y CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE=y # CONFIG_APM_DISPLAY_BLANK is not set # CONFIG_APM_RTC_IS_GMT is not set # CONFIG_APM_ALLOW_INTS is not set # CONFIG_APM_REAL_MODE_POWER_OFF is not set RTC_IS_GMT is not set because i've a dual boot with windows2000, shame on me :-) besides this i also have the noflushd instaled (it install by default with debian, and since i didn't know quite well how to configure it i used the default config: TIMEOUT=5 DISKS="/dev/hda" Can someone give me some hints to to make my laptop suspend by it self instead of me pressing the Fn+Esc (the key combination for my laptop to suspend) Thanks, Paulo Lopes. PS: Sorry for my bad english -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: APM and Power Savings not working...
Arne Koewing wrote: Paulo Lopes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi, I've installed debian woody on my laptop and recompiled the kernel with APM on boot but it seams not to be working correctly. Under X when the laptop is inactive for a while, the laptop seams to enter the APM standby mode, but (don't know why) right after the LCD and the disk is stoped, my disk starts to spin again and the standby is aborted. I need the maximum time of batery i can get, because i use my laptop on the move, and my batery sucks and only lasts for 1 and a half hour... It's a Clevo 2700C I've switched my root FS from ext2 to ext3 can this be the problem? i think i've read something about ext3 writing regularly someting to disk so this could be your problem (did it work with ext2?) arne Well i can't tell that for shure, i think it worked well, but i've upgraded my system with XFree86 4.2.1 and KDE 3.0.5a when i switched to ext3 fs... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: APM and Power Savings not working...
mw wrote: Hello Paulo ! Arne's seems to be right. Ther was a thread on this list - please enter the deb-lap archive at ( I'm not really good in digging other archives than my own :) Re: 2.4 kernel tweaking Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 18:30:34 +0200 From: Dietmar Nusch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Interesting spot, anyway. So ext2 won't get xpired too soon ...? hth -- michl Hi, I think i've solved my problem, i've been kernel hacking hehe and edited the file journal.c on: /usr/src/linux/fs/jbd/journal.c and switched the commit internal from HZ * 5 to HZ* 30 Now my laptop suspends right! i've been posting this question to APM lists and they told me that the problem could be that my suspend could take more than 5 seconds, so if i change the commit internal to 30 seconds the suspend process should be over at that time! Probably there's a better way to change the timeout instead of kernel hacking but i'm new to linux and don't know very much of it. I just looked at the code and made a tweak :-) Thanks anyway for all your tips. Paulo Lopes. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X crashes if I'm idle
Ivan Uemlianin wrote: Dear All I'm running Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 on an IBM Thinkpad A31p. X is in VESA mode, as the Thinkpad has unsupported Radeon video. If I'm in X (Gnome) and I'm idle for a while (10 mins?) X crashes. The error messages seem to be to do with trying to run a screensaver. Now, I have xscreensaver installed, but opening Gnome Control Center's screensaver tab causes X to crash instantly. Same thing happens when xscreensaver is not installed. I'm happy not to have a screensaver, and/or for the screen to just go blank like it does when in console mode. Hi, I had the same problem and i think i've fixed it. My laptop is a Clevo 2700C with a SiS 630s core, and my debian is Woody 3.0r1 with security.debian.org updates and kde3.0.5a from kde and XFree86 4.2.1. What i've done: Recompiled the kernel without any BIOS support: CONFIG_PCI=y # CONFIG_PCI_GOBIOS is not set CONFIG_PCI_GODIRECT=y I've setup my APM like this: CONFIG_PM=y # CONFIG_ACPI is not set CONFIG_APM=y # CONFIG_APM_IGNORE_USER_SUSPEND is not set CONFIG_APM_DO_ENABLE=y CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE=y # CONFIG_APM_DISPLAY_BLANK is not set # CONFIG_APM_RTC_IS_GMT is not set # CONFIG_APM_ALLOW_INTS is not set # CONFIG_APM_REAL_MODE_POWER_OFF is not set and my processor setup is like this: # # Processor type and features # # CONFIG_M386 is not set # CONFIG_M486 is not set # CONFIG_M586 is not set # CONFIG_M586TSC is not set # CONFIG_M586MMX is not set # CONFIG_M686 is not set CONFIG_MPENTIUMIII=y # CONFIG_MPENTIUM4 is not set # CONFIG_MK6 is not set # CONFIG_MK7 is not set # CONFIG_MELAN is not set # CONFIG_MCRUSOE is not set # CONFIG_MWINCHIPC6 is not set # CONFIG_MWINCHIP2 is not set # CONFIG_MWINCHIP3D is not set # CONFIG_MCYRIXIII is not set CONFIG_X86_WP_WORKS_OK=y CONFIG_X86_INVLPG=y CONFIG_X86_CMPXCHG=y CONFIG_X86_XADD=y CONFIG_X86_BSWAP=y CONFIG_X86_POPAD_OK=y # CONFIG_RWSEM_GENERIC_SPINLOCK is not set CONFIG_RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM=y CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT=5 CONFIG_X86_TSC=y CONFIG_X86_GOOD_APIC=y CONFIG_X86_PGE=y CONFIG_X86_USE_PPRO_CHECKSUM=y # CONFIG_TOSHIBA is not set # CONFIG_I8K is not set # CONFIG_MICROCODE is not set # CONFIG_X86_MSR is not set # CONFIG_X86_CPUID is not set CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM=y # CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G is not set # CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G is not set # CONFIG_MATH_EMULATION is not set CONFIG_MTRR=y # CONFIG_SMP is not set CONFIG_X86_UP_APIC=y CONFIG_X86_UP_IOAPIC=y CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC=y CONFIG_X86_IO_APIC=y After this, my KDE never crashed anymore when it went idle. Hope it helps you. Bye, Paulo Lopes. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
KDE makes my batery run out in no time :-(
Hi, I've recently installed KDE3.1 on my Woody system and i think it's cool. But I've a small problem... With 3.1 my laptop harddisk light is always blinking and besides the pshycadelic feeling :-) my batery runs out of power to fast... How can i check what is making my disk spin? I've a Clevo 2700C with a PIII-1000Mhz, 512Mb of RAM (32 shared for video) i've been watching to the 'top' command output, and found that the process X is the one that consumes more processor when i'm doing nothing... (about 3%) can it be X the one that is making my harddisk spin? Probably not, because when i've only kdm loaded (haven't made login yet) the harddisk light is off when i'm idle... This is very odd... probably it is a broken package, because i'd lot's of troubles installing the new kde, but i'd like to know how can i find you wich process is making my disk spin... Thanks, Paulo Lopes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Li-ion battery doesn't charge
Hi, I've a Li-ion battery on my laptop that says that it's capacity is of 3600mAH, but i've compiled my kernel with acpi and i've been reading the proc fs under /proc/acpi/battery/0/info and it says that my battery last charge was only of 596mAH. This is bad since i can only use my laptop during 30 minutes... I'm using the debian kernel-source 2.4.18 from stable and with acpi + acpid i can only shutdown my laptop, i can't even suspend it. I've tryed the acpi patches from acpi.sf.net (the latest for 2.4.18) and with that my kde doesn't recognize the acpi subsystem. (it recognizes with the default acpi subsystem, without patches) Does anyone know how to charge the battery to the maximum? thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How to disable the 'Stand-By' mode on APM? and ACPI problem...
Hi, I don't know why but my laptop crashes whenever it enters the stand-by mode. (it works fine with suspend) how can i disable it, or, make it behave like the suspend mode? I'm using kernel-24.18-5 from debian how can i use acpi to do the same as apm? i've compiled it with acpi and all i can get from acpi is system shutdown. i can't suspend or stand-by. if i apply the acpi patches from acpi.sf.net my kde doesn't recognizes the acpi subsystem. if i use the default kernel acpi my kde (3.0.5a) recognizes but can only show the battery status). Thanks, Paulo Lopes. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Li-ion battery doesn't charge
Michael Still wrote: On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Paulo Lopes wrote: How old is your Li-ion battery? They have a very short life compared with other batteries, and it simply might be garbage. Mine lasted 18 months... about 18 months, less than 2 years for sure. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to disable the 'Stand-By' mode on APM? and ACPI problem...
Thomas Hood wrote: Try standing by by doing apm --standby instead of pressing the "standby" key on your machine. I don't have a stand-by button :-) and my bios doesn't have anything about stand-by. The problem is that when my laptop enters the stand-by the keyboard goes dead, but i can use it via ssh/telnet/etc... since it's a laptop to use on the road i don't have another laptop to wake up the 1st one :-) Thanks, Paulo Lopes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Li-ion battery doesn't charge
Mark Janssen wrote: On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 13:01, Paulo Lopes wrote: Hi, I've a Li-ion battery on my laptop that says that it's capacity is of 3600mAH, but i've compiled my kernel with acpi and i've been reading the proc fs under /proc/acpi/battery/0/info and it says that my battery last charge was only of 596mAH. This is bad since i can only use my laptop during 30 minutes... If it's an older laptop it's probably just that the battery is dead. The maximum charge on batteries becomes less with use. My own laptop only lasted about 30 minutes in the end. After a battery swap (I had a spare) i'm back to more then 2 hours. The laptop is a clevo 2700c with ~2 years Does anyone know how to charge the battery to the maximum? thanks. If it's not an older battery/laptop... try discharging it fully and then do a full charge with the laptop turned off. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Li-ion battery doesn't charge
I have a Clevo 2700T and mine died after about a year. It got to the point of apparently charging fully, and then going down to about 1:04hour and then suddenly saying that it only had 4 minutes. I replaced it with a new 8 cell battery and I now get 3hours 40minutes which is wonderful. It cost #80, but it is very useful. Humm... can you give more info on your battery? brand, references, where to buy? 3h 40m is pretty cool for me (at least is better than 15 minutes :-) Paulo Lopes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: vmlinuz too big
Joel Alexandre wrote: Portanto virei-me para a maneira tradicional. fui buscar a versao 2.4.20 a kernel.org e pus o patch de acpi. Uma pergunta estúpida... tens o bzip2 instalado? se calhar consegues compilar o kernel, mas no final não o comprimes porque não tens o bzip2... (se utilizares os pacotes da debian obrigatoriamente é instalado do bzip, mas como não estás a utilizar tens de o instalar manualmente). make menuconfig make dep make bzImage Sem mais, Paulo Lopes. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
XFree86 and IOmega ZIP (ppa) conflict
Hi, I've a IOmega zip drive (old model, ppa module) and when i connet it to my laptop that is already on XFree86 4.2.1 running kde 3.0.5a and make a file transfer, my mouse (/dev/psaux) behaves very strange, and it becomes useless. If i mount, copy and unmount the drive on console mode and then switch to X, it works fine... is there anything that can conflict between X and ppa ? my parallel port is using interrupt instead of pooling (it has the same behaviour on pooling) Thanks, Paulo Lopes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: White screen before install
Rubén Caparrós wrote: Hello guys/ladys I trieing to install debian woody in my laptop but before configure the cd drive to boot the cd, it ask me ENTER to boot. I do and something seems to be loading but inmediatly screen become white. I can even see nothing in the installation so I can not change anything. How can I resolve this problem?. I had a simillar problem with my laptop, probably you have a SiS shipset based laptop. The solution is: when the "boot:" prompt apears try and use "linux video=vesa" instead of just pressing enter. Then after installing all the packages you want install the kernel source and compile it with your video card support. (is you have a SiS, check this site: http://www.winischhofer.net/) I hope it helps. Thank you everybody = Rubén Caparrós García http://www.eurobotics.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Yahoo! Messenger - Nueva versión GRATIS Super Webcam, voz, caritas animadas, y más... http://messenger.yahoo.es -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: KDE3 + noflushd
Gabor FLEISCHER wrote: Is there anyone who succeeded with KDE3, noflushd? I could set up my system to spin down the disks when I don't run KDE. But with KDE it always has some disk usage. I was searching in google, and I saw other people had the same problem about a year ago, but nobody had any answer. Gavriel I've installed the xfs (X file system) kernel patch and the fam daemon and my disk works like a charm with noflushd. before i had ext3 and the disk couldn't stop spinning -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
IrOBEX Linux to Windows and Windows to Linux
Hi, I've a laptop with debian woody 3.0r1 with IrDA configured and working (at least i can use my mobile phone modem) but i'd like to exchange files with windows machines... When i use windows, and i put my laptop near other laptop, there's an icon that say's that another computer is near and i can send/receive files... How can i do this with my linux laptop? i've heard and read that windows uses the OBEX protocol, how can i use it on linux? do i need extra modules? how do i send a file? what do i need to do to receive a file? Thanks, Paulo Lopes. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Conceptronic C22C wireless card, trouble
Hi, Did anyone on the list made this card to work? i don't even know the chipset, so i really don't know where to start... Thanks, Paulo Lopes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
fam, imon question...
Hi, I've installed the fam daemon to "look" at my files when i use KDE on my debian laptop, but i read on the fam package that it uses the imon kernel modules to check whenever a file changes, or if the imon monitor isn't available it uses pooling... I've been digging :-) the oss.sgi.com site and found the imon kernel patch and applyed it to my kernel 2.4.18 (had to fix 2 files). The kernel compiles fine, the imon modules exists and loads ok, but whenever i use the fam daemon it seams that it doesn't use the imon modules... If it doesn't use the imon modules, probably it is pooling my fs... Is there any configuration needed to make fam use the imon module? My system is a Pentium3 class laptop with stable packages for woody and kernel 2.4.18 with imon + xfs patches from oss.sgi.com I've read that fam can also use the dnotify, but i can't locate it when i configure my kernel... Thanks, Paulo Lopes. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian <---> Gentoo
Johannes Graumann wrote: Hello, This might be a provoking question but I was wondering whether anybody on the list had tried Gentoo Linux ... I get the impression that the custom compiling done through this distribution might be the right thing for the limited resources of a laptop? Please let me hear your opinion! Joh Hi, I've tryed it. I started to use linux for real on my laptop with debian and a few months ago i heard about gentoo and it looked like the best for my not so new laptop. The first impression i got from it was that it would make things work faster. The reality was that i took about two weeks compiling everything i had on my debian system, xfree, kde, gimp, dev tools, etc and then i've noticed that whenever there's an package upgrade like from kde 3.1.1a to 3.1.2 i had to compile the hole thing again about 2 days... To be honnest i didn't like it, well it's perfect for tunning your laptop to the max, but now that i've returned to woody (because i had a severe crash and my filesystem was completly destroyed and i couldn't wait for another two weeks for making all work again) i don't notice much increase of speed comparing to my woody system... It's fun to have a system all compiled for your cpu, and what so ever hardware you have but in my humble opinion it doesn't worth the night's of compiling and the crashes due to overheat of being compiling for days... Anyway, if you want the gentoo for fun, go ahead... Paulo Lopes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How can i cool down my CPU?
Hi, I've a debian woody system and although my system load is low, (i make a top and the i get arround 99.3% idle) my laptop burns my legs... I've enabled APM and the options Make Idle calls when Idle in the kernel but that doesn't seam to do anything... I runned windows on the laptop in the past and back then it didn't get so hot like with linux... Any tips for cooling it down? I've a P3 (not mobile) and i've tryed ACPI and i got the same issue... Is there any daemon or whatever app to force the CPU to idle and cool down? Thanks. Paulo Lopes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How can i cool down my CPU?
Heather Stern wrote: On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 10:36:49AM +0100, Paulo Lopes wrote: Hi, I've a debian woody system and although my system load is low, (i make a top and the i get arround 99.3% idle) my laptop burns my legs... You don't mention which hardware, so I can't tell if that's normal (a desktop chip being used in a mobile chassis, perhaps?) or an immediate warning to seek out a laptop repair center. It's a clevo 2700C (www.clevo.com.tw) Core logic: SiS630 Processor PentiumIII 1000Mhz Copermine Laptop Bios version from clevo 1.13 APM Bios 1.2 APM flags 0x03 (cpu slows on idle) ACPI 1.0b (doesn't suspend, does not support S3 state) RAM 512Mb Is this "I can heat my lunch iunder there" warm or "I had to get treated for welts" hot? :-) if i turn it on in the morning i can frie some eggs if i want too :-) If it's an Intel you might be able to get it to speedstep down to its slower mode. I've applyed the cpufreq kernel patch and tryed the cpufreqd and it doesn't work, speedstep reports that my processor is not supported it ain't a speedstep, it's a Pentium3 Copermine (as it says on /proc/cpuinfo) Paulo Lopes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Is Compaq Presario 2158 worth for linux?
Hi, I'm thinking in buying one of those laptops but i'm not sure because of the video card, At hp site they say that that model has a ATI Mobility Radeon with 64MB SDRAM DDR shared. Does Xfree 4.3 support that card? what about DRI? can it do 3d stuff? or the x driver is on 2d? What about overall performance? does anyone have one of that laptops? are you satisfied? What are the major flaws on that model? Thanks, Paulo Lopes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Compaq Presario 2158 and Xfree86 4.3 help
Hi, I'd like to enable DRI and all 3D stuff on a Compaq Presario 2158, i've read the manual and it says that it has a ATI Mobility Radeon with 64Mb shared memory, does anyone have one of these? is it possible to get all 3d features enabled on xfree 4.3? how can i do it? I had a sis630 laptop and xfree 4.2.1 and 3d worked fine, but now i don't know how to configure this one. There's more than one driver for ATI, wich one should e choose? can someone send me the XFConfig-4 portion that configures this card? Thanks, Paulo Lopes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
