Re: time

2000-06-08 Thread Brendan Simon
I think a combination of "hwclock" and "date" commands should do it for you.  Read the man pages.  You can set the time/date with "date" and then set the hardware clock to reflect this using "hwclock". Regards, Brendan Simon. Jack Morgan wrote: I'm having trouble setting my time on a Toshib

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2000-06-08 Thread Andrius Aštrauskas
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2000-06-08 Thread Jack Morgan
I'm having trouble setting my time on a Toshiba 2100cds. I did a clean install of potato a week ago and the time reads Jan 1 1990? (1) How do I change this? (2) How do I keep the time accurate when I turn off it off? Thanks for any help Jack Morgan

Re: Another X Question

2000-06-08 Thread Christophe TROESTLER
On Wed, 31 May 2000, Charles Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Okay, I installed potato on my old Dell XPi 133ST laptop. > Everything seems to be fine now, except the mouse in X. In the /dev > directory /dev/mouse is linked to gpmdata. I assume this was done > by the gpm install. With this

Re: Sony Vaio N505* vs Toshiba Portege 34*

2000-06-08 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Thomas 'Mike' Michlmayr wrote: > On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 06:34:22 -0700, > Serge Rey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > > If you do go with the Vaio and get Debian up, please let me know. > > i have a Z505R running under potato. some small minor while installing, > but that was with old bootdisk

Re: Suspend and X

2000-06-08 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
> Your suspend to disk, is it an "hibernate"? No. Hugo

Re: Debian on an IBM Thinkpad 570E

2000-06-08 Thread A.C. Almeida
Hi, why don't you have a look at Harkers "linux for laptop" pages at http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/ ? There are some links about TP 570 ... Bye Antonio

Re: Sony Vaio N505* vs Toshiba Portege 34*

2000-06-08 Thread Stephan
> I'm running Debian on an N505VE, and everything is going fine so far. I did an ftp install because the cd's I had were for slink. I did need to grab X 3.3.6 to get X working (the debian ftp gave me 3.3.2 which doesn't really work). I bought a D-Link modem/ethernet card which works great. I'm sti

Re: Sony Vaio N505* vs Toshiba Portege 34*

2000-06-08 Thread Thomas 'Mike' Michlmayr
On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 06:34:22 -0700, Serge Rey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > If you do go with the Vaio and get Debian up, please let me know. i have a Z505R running under potato. some small minor while installing, but that was with old bootdisks, and in the end everything worked. the onl

Re: Sony Vaio N505* vs Toshiba Portege 34*

2000-06-08 Thread Arthur H. Edwards
I am using an Acer Travelmate 342T (I think that is the number). It has a 9 G hard drive, 500MHz PIII eithernet and winmodem outside pcmcia. I installed slink without PCMCIA and upgraded to potato. I still have to work out the winmodem, although others have. Ethernet works easily. It's very light w

Re: Sony Vaio N505* vs Toshiba Portege 34*

2000-06-08 Thread cls--colo spgs
Stephen Turner wrote: > > I'm thinking of getting an ultra-light laptop -- probably either a Sony Vaio > or a Toshiba Portege. Of course the primary requirement is Debian > compatibility. :) Anyone have any comments, good or bad, about Debian on > either of these models, or a comparison between th

Re: PCMCIA oddities with 2.2.15 on TP 760ED

2000-06-08 Thread Jeffrey Knight
Just to throw my hat in the ring: I've also been having the same pcmcia problems others have described. - Original Message - From: "Nate Bargmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2000 10:25 PM Subject: Re: PCMCIA oddities with 2.2.15 on TP 760ED > Well gang, I'm at a

Re: PCMCIA modules recompilation: Undefined symbols

2000-06-08 Thread Gary Hennigan
Keith Geffert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've been running potato for a while and have upgraded kernels when they > released new ones into the distribution points. So, I use kpkg to make > my > custom kernels and I've done it three or four times now and I've got my > routine > now. But since t

Re: Sony Vaio N505* vs Toshiba Portege 34*

2000-06-08 Thread Serge Rey
On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 12:48:39PM +0100, Stephen Turner wrote: > I'm thinking of getting an ultra-light laptop -- probably either a Sony Vaio > or a Toshiba Portege. Of course the primary requirement is Debian > compatibility. :) Anyone have any comments, good or bad, about Debian on > either of t

Re: PCMCIA oddities with 2.2.15 on TP 760ED

2000-06-08 Thread Thomas J Vogels
Nate, I have to admit I don't quite remember what I did to fix this problem on my laptop. Shame on me. But here are some pointers: - You have tried minicom, right? - You have compiled the serial support as module and it is along with the pcmcia modules loaded upon insertion of the

Re: Suspend and X

2000-06-08 Thread jvicente
>No ideas about your problem, here's what happens for me in X: > > apm -s change to vt 1, suspend to disk > close on ac power no effect (bios option) > close on batterychange to vt1, suspend to disk Your suspend to disk, is it an "hibernate"?

Sony Vaio N505* vs Toshiba Portege 34*

2000-06-08 Thread Stephen Turner
I'm thinking of getting an ultra-light laptop -- probably either a Sony Vaio or a Toshiba Portege. Of course the primary requirement is Debian compatibility. :) Anyone have any comments, good or bad, about Debian on either of these models, or a comparison between the two, or a suggestion for other