Shutdown causes time loss on a Toshiba Tecra 8000

Hi, A friend of mine has Debian on a Toshiba Tecra. He is experiencing problems when he suspends it, namely that the clock seems to go to sleep as well as everything else. This means that when he resumes, the clock is slow. Surely this shouldn't happen? Does anyone have an idea on what's wrong

use slink or potatoe for installation?

hi there, first of all, thanks to all debian-developers here! my first impression of debian is a much better one than that i had with the other distros. but i got a question for u regarding the installation of debian on a sony vaio n505x (that's a european model only, i guess i do not need to men

Compaq LTE elite 4/75CX & 15bpp

Hi all. I am running the latest potato on a Compaq LTE Elite 4/75CX. I'm attempting to get 15bpp to work in X - to no avail. The chipset is a WD90C24 I believe, one of the supported ones. There is 1024k of video RAM. When attempting to start in 15bpp mode, the X server (SVGA) quits, claiming that

Re: laptop budget, need advice

On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Mikel wrote: > Yeah, and Dell also has claimed to be big into linux...but thus far > only for their servers...infact when I got the i7500 they stuck in the > stupid ltwin modem anyway...and on top of that they could deinstall > the presnt os...but I'd still have to pay for it

Re: SCSI question

On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, William Heindl wrote: > > Hello again, > One thing I notice is that the Adaptec SCSI driver it's loading seems > to be for a different model (aha152X not apa1460). Biff, from the PCMCIA HOWTO, http://www.LinuxDoc.org/HOWTO/PCMCIA-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.6: "All the currently s

MiniDVD

Has anyone here ever gotten one of the Archos' Mini* Disk series working on their laptop? I'm currently playing with MiniDVD and pcmcia-cs keeps saying it is an unsupported card and will not give me any Product Information so I can hack /etc/pcmcia/config. Is there a line that any of you know curre

Re: Upgrading pcmcia-* breaks ppp

Hi Christopher S. Swingley; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: > > What did you change the irq to, and how? I tried to do this by excluding > IRQ's in the PCMCIA config.opts file but each time it still failed, until > finally there were no IRQ's left and the serial module wouldn't load. > I _ha

Getting XFree86 3.3.5?

Is it possible to get the old Xfree86 3.3.5 packages? I upgraded to 3.3.6 and it seems to work a little worse with my laptop. The screen flickers a little bit and breaking out of X breaks the text mode. Thanks, Mark Get your