Re: /dev/gpmctl

2000-09-24 Thread Daniel E. Baumann
On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear all, > > During an upgrade, somehow I lost the /dev/gpmctl and the mouse no longer > function > in mc. I'd grateful to any pointer on how to restore it. > > Also where can I find the documentation "Linux Allocated Devices"? I guess there > may

Re: compaq 1700 pci ethernet

2000-09-24 Thread Pat Mahoney
On Sun, Sep 24, 2000 at 10:38:20PM +0200, Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn wrote: > On Sun, 24 Sep 2000, Pat Mahoney wrote: > > > My friend has a compaq presario 1700 with a bultin ehternet card on the pci > > bus. It may or may not be combined with a modem on the same card. We > > cannot get the networ

/dev/gpmctl

2000-09-24 Thread ShunTim . Luk
Dear all, During an upgrade, somehow I lost the /dev/gpmctl and the mouse no longer function in mc. I'd grateful to any pointer on how to restore it. Also where can I find the documentation "Linux Allocated Devices"? I guess there may be some relevant information. Regards, ST -- -- To UNS

Re: compaq 1700 pci ethernet

2000-09-24 Thread Pat Mahoney
On Sun, Sep 24, 2000 at 10:38:20PM +0200, Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn wrote: > On Sun, 24 Sep 2000, Pat Mahoney wrote: > > > My friend has a compaq presario 1700 with a bultin ehternet card on the pci > > bus. It may or may not be combined with a modem on the same card. We > > cannot get the netwo

Re: compaq 1700 pci ethernet

2000-09-24 Thread Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn
On Sun, 24 Sep 2000, Pat Mahoney wrote: > My friend has a compaq presario 1700 with a bultin ehternet card on the pci > bus. It may or may not be combined with a modem on the same card. We > cannot get the network card to work (potato install, kernel 2.2.17). > > Looking around at the kharker l

compaq 1700 pci ethernet

2000-09-24 Thread Pat Mahoney
My friend has a compaq presario 1700 with a bultin ehternet card on the pci bus. It may or may not be combined with a modem on the same card. We cannot get the network card to work (potato install, kernel 2.2.17). Looking around at the kharker laptop site at various other compaq presarios, I thi

Re: Suspend/Resume on Inspiron 7500 potato

2000-09-24 Thread Sten Anderson
On Sun, Sep 24, 2000 at 07:14:10PM +0100, Christian Lemer wrote: > > 2. I'm really not convinced that the suspend-to-disk is correct >because it takes only 1-2 seconds to suspend and maybe 3 seconds to >resume I think I remember that I've read somewhere that on the >Inspiron, when

Re: compaq 1700 pci ethernet

2000-09-24 Thread Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn
On Sun, 24 Sep 2000, Pat Mahoney wrote: > My friend has a compaq presario 1700 with a bultin ehternet card on the pci > bus. It may or may not be combined with a modem on the same card. We > cannot get the network card to work (potato install, kernel 2.2.17). > > Looking around at the kharker

Re: Suspend/Resume on Inspiron 7500 potato

2000-09-24 Thread Johan Romin
On Sun, Sep 24, 2000 at 07:14:10PM +0100, Christian Lemer wrote: > > Suspend and Resume seems to work right... but > > 1. When resuming my network (PCMCIA/DHCP) is stuck and I cannot manage >to make it work again. > You are proboly using the debian default utility called pump for dhcp mana

Suspend/Resume on Inspiron 7500 potato

2000-09-24 Thread Christian Lemer
I recently installed Potaton on my Inspiron 7500 and have to say that I'm really happy with it. The installation was quite straightforward but I still have some little annoyances, and my major one is about the Suspend/Resume. I try to suspend-to-disk and rebuild a 'suspend' partition with the de

compaq 1700 pci ethernet

2000-09-24 Thread Pat Mahoney
My friend has a compaq presario 1700 with a bultin ehternet card on the pci bus. It may or may not be combined with a modem on the same card. We cannot get the network card to work (potato install, kernel 2.2.17). Looking around at the kharker laptop site at various other compaq presarios, I th

Re: Suspend/Resume on Inspiron 7500 potato

2000-09-24 Thread Sten Anderson
On Sun, Sep 24, 2000 at 07:14:10PM +0100, Christian Lemer wrote: > > 2. I'm really not convinced that the suspend-to-disk is correct >because it takes only 1-2 seconds to suspend and maybe 3 seconds to >resume I think I remember that I've read somewhere that on the >Inspiron, when

Re: Suspend/Resume on Inspiron 7500 potato

2000-09-24 Thread Johan Romin
On Sun, Sep 24, 2000 at 07:14:10PM +0100, Christian Lemer wrote: > > Suspend and Resume seems to work right... but > > 1. When resuming my network (PCMCIA/DHCP) is stuck and I cannot manage >to make it work again. > You are proboly using the debian default utility called pump for dhcp mana

Suspend/Resume on Inspiron 7500 potato

2000-09-24 Thread Christian Lemer
I recently installed Potaton on my Inspiron 7500 and have to say that I'm really happy with it. The installation was quite straightforward but I still have some little annoyances, and my major one is about the Suspend/Resume. I try to suspend-to-disk and rebuild a 'suspend' partition with the d

Re: X-Fonts too big

2000-09-24 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Sun, 24 Sep 2000, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've just installed potato on my Sharp PC 9090 notebook. I used to run > slink with no problem, but in potato the fonts in Xwindows are > displayed far too big. I first noticed it when I started Communicator > and the text beneath the icons (back,

Re: X-Fonts too big

2000-09-24 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Sun, 24 Sep 2000, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've just installed potato on my Sharp PC 9090 notebook. I used to run > slink with no problem, but in potato the fonts in Xwindows are > displayed far too big. I first noticed it when I started Communicator > and the text beneath the icons (back,