Re: Suspend to disk.

2000-10-12 Thread Neil L. Roeth
On Oct 12, Heather ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > probably gonna be quite some work since you need to make a new > > partition > > > > that I think must be located as the first one on the disk and that > > screws > > > > up a number of things like lilo, fstab etc, not to mention the f

Re: Suspend to disk.

2000-10-12 Thread Neil L. Roeth
On Oct 12, Heather ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > probably gonna be quite some work since you need to make a new partition > > > > that I think must be located as the first one on the disk and that screws > > > > up a number of things like lilo, fstab etc, not to mention the fact that >

(Fwd) Re: Dell Latitude LX

2000-10-12 Thread Jay W. Anderson
Jim - Check out www.dell.com You should be able to find all you need at their site. There should be a service tag code and/or a express service code # some where on the machine. On my Inspirion 7500. they are located on the bottom of the box. I have seen them on the backs & bottoms of D

Dell Latitude LX

2000-10-12 Thread JParker
G'Day ! About a year ago, I bought a Dell Latitude LX (yes an old 486 monster), so I could edit source files while away from my desktop. With RCS, Emacs and a basic command line, eveything worked great. BUT, the project grew and I needed more capability. Namely X-window and an ethernet connecti

(Fwd) Re: Dell Latitude LX

2000-10-12 Thread Jay W. Anderson
Jim - Check out www.dell.com You should be able to find all you need at their site. There should be a service tag code and/or a express service code # some where on the machine. On my Inspirion 7500. they are located on the bottom of the box. I have seen them on the backs & bottoms of

Dell Latitude LX

2000-10-12 Thread JParker
G'Day ! About a year ago, I bought a Dell Latitude LX (yes an old 486 monster), so I could edit source files while away from my desktop. With RCS, Emacs and a basic command line, eveything worked great. BUT, the project grew and I needed more capability. Namely X-window and an ethernet connect

Re: broken mouse after undocking

2000-10-12 Thread Heather
> There are those who would have you believe that Richard Black wrote: > > Hi all > > > > Most of the day I use my laptop is a docking station with an external > > mouse. I've noticed that when I remove my laptop from its docking > > station and open it up, I have X okay, but no mouse. > > > > I

Re: broken mouse after undocking

2000-10-12 Thread Manfred Wassmann
On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Richard Black wrote: > Hi all > > Most of the day I use my laptop is a docking station with an external > mouse. I've noticed that when I remove my laptop from its docking > station and open it up, I have X okay, but no mouse. > > Is there are way to get X to recognise my m

Re: broken mouse after undocking

2000-10-12 Thread Andy Bastien
There are those who would have you believe that Richard Black wrote: > Hi all > > Most of the day I use my laptop is a docking station with an external > mouse. I've noticed that when I remove my laptop from its docking > station and open it up, I have X okay, but no mouse. > > Is there are way

broken mouse after undocking

2000-10-12 Thread Richard Black
Hi all Most of the day I use my laptop is a docking station with an external mouse. I've noticed that when I remove my laptop from its docking station and open it up, I have X okay, but no mouse. Is there are way to get X to recognise my mouse (i.e. the one on the laptop, not an external one) wh

Re: broken mouse after undocking

2000-10-12 Thread Heather
> There are those who would have you believe that Richard Black wrote: > > Hi all > > > > Most of the day I use my laptop is a docking station with an external > > mouse. I've noticed that when I remove my laptop from its docking > > station and open it up, I have X okay, but no mouse. > > > >

Re: Suspend to disk.

2000-10-12 Thread Heather
> > > probably gonna be quite some work since you need to make a new partition > > > that I think must be located as the first one on the disk and that screws > > > up a number of things like lilo, fstab etc, not to mention the fact that > > > you have to move your linux partition (I suppose?).

Re: broken mouse after undocking

2000-10-12 Thread Manfred Wassmann
On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Richard Black wrote: > Hi all > > Most of the day I use my laptop is a docking station with an external > mouse. I've noticed that when I remove my laptop from its docking > station and open it up, I have X okay, but no mouse. > > Is there are way to get X to recognise my

Re: broken mouse after undocking

2000-10-12 Thread Andy Bastien
There are those who would have you believe that Richard Black wrote: > Hi all > > Most of the day I use my laptop is a docking station with an external > mouse. I've noticed that when I remove my laptop from its docking > station and open it up, I have X okay, but no mouse. > > Is there are way

potato vanillla boot-floppies package cant make boot floppy on HP Omnibook 6000

2000-10-12 Thread Dave Williams @ Home
Two problems to mention: Firstly:- 2.2.16 boot-floppies and vanilla rescue/root image from latest potato disk image (reported as Linux 2.2.17 from Kernel-image- 2.2.17-2.2.17pre6-1) cannot make a boot floppy. I've tracked the problem down to utilities/dbootstrap/bootconfig.c where the superformat

broken mouse after undocking

2000-10-12 Thread Richard Black
Hi all Most of the day I use my laptop is a docking station with an external mouse. I've noticed that when I remove my laptop from its docking station and open it up, I have X okay, but no mouse. Is there are way to get X to recognise my mouse (i.e. the one on the laptop, not an external

Re: Suspend to disk.

2000-10-12 Thread Heather
> > > probably gonna be quite some work since you need to make a new partition > > > that I think must be located as the first one on the disk and that screws > > > up a number of things like lilo, fstab etc, not to mention the fact that > > > you have to move your linux partition (I suppose?)

potato vanillla boot-floppies package cant make boot floppy on HP Omnibook 6000

2000-10-12 Thread Dave Williams @ Home
Two problems to mention: Firstly:- 2.2.16 boot-floppies and vanilla rescue/root image from latest potato disk image (reported as Linux 2.2.17 from Kernel-image- 2.2.17-2.2.17pre6-1) cannot make a boot floppy. I've tracked the problem down to utilities/dbootstrap/bootconfig.c where the superforma