Re: advice on upgrading hard drive and cpu of laptop

2001-01-04 Thread Heather
[Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > On Friday 05 January 2001 08:50, Dan Christensen wrote: > > First, the hard drive: the main reason I want to upgrade is to get > > something faster. My HD is a 6G Hitachi that came with my Vivante > > when I bought it almost two years ago

Re: Stolen laptop - how to increase security?

2001-01-04 Thread Heather
> On my Thinkpad I have a sticker that clearly says "Does Not Run Windows". My (main) laptop has a debian 1" x 1" square tab next to the Ricoh OEM logo, and another 1" "tux the penguin" OEM tab elsewhere on the machine. It doesn't -say- that it doesn't run windows... but it doesn't, that's tru

Re: advice on upgrading hard drive and cpu of laptop

2001-01-04 Thread Russell Coker
On Friday 05 January 2001 14:25, Kamath wrote: > I think you are speaking something of what I am looking for here!! > I have been thinking seriously about upgrading my lap-top, which has > survived long... > I have a "toy" 486 lap-top (486 DX4 75 Mhz to be precise) And how can I > upgrade the proce

Re: Stolen laptop - how to increase security?

2001-01-04 Thread Russell Coker
On Friday 05 January 2001 02:57, Jérôme Lacoste wrote: > Some of you may have read one of my last mail in the list on the 29th. > Don't bother to answer the questions as my nice little laptop disappeared > from my office yesterday while I was at home due to flooding in my > apartment. Bad day :( O

Re: advice on upgrading hard drive and cpu of laptop

2001-01-04 Thread Kamath
I think you are speaking something of what I am looking for here!! I have been thinking seriously about upgrading my lap-top, which has survived long... I have a "toy" 486 lap-top (486 DX4 75 Mhz to be precise) And how can I upgrade the processor etc on this please!! My laptop is a Compaq LTE Eli

Re: advice on upgrading hard drive and cpu of laptop

2001-01-04 Thread Russell Coker
On Friday 05 January 2001 08:50, Dan Christensen wrote: > First, the hard drive: the main reason I want to upgrade is to get > something faster. My HD is a 6G Hitachi that came with my Vivante > when I bought it almost two years ago. I find it to be very slow. > Can anyone recommend a faster dri

Re: advice on upgrading hard drive and cpu of laptop

2001-01-04 Thread Russell Coker
On Friday 05 January 2001 14:25, Kamath wrote: > I think you are speaking something of what I am looking for here!! > I have been thinking seriously about upgrading my lap-top, which has > survived long... > I have a "toy" 486 lap-top (486 DX4 75 Mhz to be precise) And how can I > upgrade the proc

Re: Stolen laptop - how to increase security?

2001-01-04 Thread Russell Coker
On Friday 05 January 2001 02:57, Jérôme Lacoste wrote: > Some of you may have read one of my last mail in the list on the 29th. > Don't bother to answer the questions as my nice little laptop disappeared > from my office yesterday while I was at home due to flooding in my > apartment. Bad day :(

Re: advice on upgrading hard drive and cpu of laptop

2001-01-04 Thread Kamath
I think you are speaking something of what I am looking for here!! I have been thinking seriously about upgrading my lap-top, which has survived long... I have a "toy" 486 lap-top (486 DX4 75 Mhz to be precise) And how can I upgrade the processor etc on this please!! My laptop is a Compaq LTE El

Re: advice on upgrading hard drive and cpu of laptop

2001-01-04 Thread Russell Coker
On Friday 05 January 2001 08:50, Dan Christensen wrote: > First, the hard drive: the main reason I want to upgrade is to get > something faster. My HD is a 6G Hitachi that came with my Vivante > when I bought it almost two years ago. I find it to be very slow. > Can anyone recommend a faster dr

Parallel attached CDR - recomendations?

2001-01-04 Thread Nate Bargmann
Hello all. I am looking for a method to archive a bunch of stuff off of a couple different computers and since one is a laptop and one a desktop, it seems a parallel attached CDR drive might be the answer (I'm not enthused about Zip or Iomega drives). I know that the kernel has support for these

Re: Stolen laptop - how to increase security?

2001-01-04 Thread Mike
Jérôme Lacoste wrote: > [pre-scriptum: if anybody thinks this has nothing to do with the > debian-laptop, please redirect me] > > Hei, > > Some of you may have read one of my last mail in the list on the 29th. Don't > bother to answer the questions as my nice little laptop disappeared from my > o

advice on upgrading hard drive and cpu of laptop

2001-01-04 Thread Dan Christensen
This message isn't debian specific, but I'm hoping that some of the people on the list will have some useful information to share, and that others will benefit as well. I am thinking of upgrading the hard drive and CPU in my Vivante SE laptop made by Transmonde (now out of business). First, the h

problems with adding hard-drive to the docking station.

2001-01-04 Thread Kamath
Hello all-- I am adding a new hard drive to my system here. The hard-drive is being added to the docking station. Do I have to configure this to be the primary master?? and how do I access hard-drives via docking stations?? what is the name of the device? anyone who has worked on Docks, can you

Parallel attached CDR - recomendations?

2001-01-04 Thread Nate Bargmann
Hello all. I am looking for a method to archive a bunch of stuff off of a couple different computers and since one is a laptop and one a desktop, it seems a parallel attached CDR drive might be the answer (I'm not enthused about Zip or Iomega drives). I know that the kernel has support for these

Re: Stolen laptop - how to increase security?

2001-01-04 Thread Mike
Jérôme Lacoste wrote: > [pre-scriptum: if anybody thinks this has nothing to do with the > debian-laptop, please redirect me] > > Hei, > > Some of you may have read one of my last mail in the list on the 29th. Don't > bother to answer the questions as my nice little laptop disappeared from my >

advice on upgrading hard drive and cpu of laptop

2001-01-04 Thread Dan Christensen
This message isn't debian specific, but I'm hoping that some of the people on the list will have some useful information to share, and that others will benefit as well. I am thinking of upgrading the hard drive and CPU in my Vivante SE laptop made by Transmonde (now out of business). First, the

problems with adding hard-drive to the docking station.

2001-01-04 Thread Kamath
Hello all-- I am adding a new hard drive to my system here. The hard-drive is being added to the docking station. Do I have to configure this to be the primary master?? and how do I access hard-drives via docking stations?? what is the name of the device? anyone who has worked on Docks, can you

Re: Stolen laptop - how to increase security?

2001-01-04 Thread Hubert Chan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > "Jérôme" == Jérôme Lacoste <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jérôme> My goal is to try to make an up-to-date list of the current means Jérôme> to secure both the hardware and the data (for a laptop). What I Jérôme> think is important is no

Re: smi lynx3dm (fwd)

2001-01-04 Thread Sebastian Schaffert
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 05:50:16PM +, Jo Geraerts wrote: > Hello, > > is there anyone out there who has got XFree 3.3.6 running on a smi > lynx3dm chip? According to the driver status on xfree86.org, this chip is > supported. But i don't get it to work. > Currently i'm using the framebuffer >

Re: Stolen laptop - how to increase security?

2001-01-04 Thread Werner Heuser
Hi, ... > Anyway, I just had a quick look to the security chapter in the Laptop HOW-TO > and in the Security HOW-TO as well. I think that security associated with > laptop devices require specific attention. ... You may find some additional information at my page DATABASES OF STOLEN LAPTOPS http:

booting Toshiba Tecra 8100 off CD-ROM

2001-01-04 Thread Eric
Hii everyone, happy new year ! I've just installed Debian on my new Toshiba Tecra 8100 laptop and it wasn't easy hehe but I finally got it running. My main concern is : the laptop doesn't want to boot from the debian cd's (cd1 or cd2 from 2.2r0). 2 points : 1) I can boot other laptops with the

Re: Parallel Printer Port Problem

2001-01-04 Thread JParker
G'Day ! Well at least the laptop now sees the printer ... that is probably the hard part.  I think you now have to read the Printing-HOWTO very carefully, and make sure your permissions are correct (always bite me in the past  ;-) Are you able to print anythng on the printer (ASCII text perhaps)

Re: Parallel Printer Port Problem

2001-01-04 Thread Jeffrey S. Coppock
Hey-ya Paul, How's the weather down-under? It's cold here (San Francisco). The only two things that don't work are the sound and the parallel printer. On the sound, the chipset is the ESS Maestro 3 which so new there are no drivers that work that are included in the distribution. However, the

Re: Parallel Printer Port Problem

2001-01-04 Thread Jeffrey S. Coppock
Well, it's still doesn't work. I've added an options line in the /etc/modules.conf file specifying io=0x378 dma=3 irq=7. With lp reloaded, I see in the /proc/parport/0 that these options are set and that my printer is being seen. The syslog shows the following: Jan 4 07:36:20 localhost kern

Stolen laptop - how to increase security?

2001-01-04 Thread Jérôme Lacoste
[pre-scriptum: if anybody thinks this has nothing to do with the debian-laptop, please redirect me] Hei, Some of you may have read one of my last mail in the list on the 29th. Don't bother to answer the questions as my nice little laptop disappeared from my office yesterday while I was at home du

Re: Stolen laptop - how to increase security?

2001-01-04 Thread Hubert Chan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > "Jérôme" == Jérôme Lacoste <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jérôme> My goal is to try to make an up-to-date list of the current means Jérôme> to secure both the hardware and the data (for a laptop). What I Jérôme> think is important is n

Re: smi lynx3dm (fwd)

2001-01-04 Thread Sebastian Schaffert
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 05:50:16PM +, Jo Geraerts wrote: > Hello, > > is there anyone out there who has got XFree 3.3.6 running on a smi > lynx3dm chip? According to the driver status on xfree86.org, this chip is > supported. But i don't get it to work. > Currently i'm using the framebuffer >

Re: Stolen laptop - how to increase security?

2001-01-04 Thread Werner Heuser
Hi, ... > Anyway, I just had a quick look to the security chapter in the Laptop HOW-TO > and in the Security HOW-TO as well. I think that security associated with > laptop devices require specific attention. ... You may find some additional information at my page DATABASES OF STOLEN LAPTOPS http

booting Toshiba Tecra 8100 off CD-ROM

2001-01-04 Thread Eric
Hii everyone, happy new year ! I've just installed Debian on my new Toshiba Tecra 8100 laptop and it wasn't easy hehe but I finally got it running. My main concern is : the laptop doesn't want to boot from the debian cd's (cd1 or cd2 from 2.2r0). 2 points : 1) I can boot other laptops with th

Re: Parallel Printer Port Problem

2001-01-04 Thread JParker
G'Day ! Well at least the laptop now sees the printer ... that is probably the hard part.  I think you now have to read the Printing-HOWTO very carefully, and make sure your permissions are correct (always bite me in the past  ;-) Are you able to print anythng on the printer (ASCII text perhaps)

Re: Parallel Printer Port Problem

2001-01-04 Thread Jeffrey S. Coppock
Hey-ya Paul, How's the weather down-under? It's cold here (San Francisco). The only two things that don't work are the sound and the parallel printer. On the sound, the chipset is the ESS Maestro 3 which so new there are no drivers that work that are included in the distribution. However, th

Re: Parallel Printer Port Problem

2001-01-04 Thread Jeffrey S. Coppock
Well, it's still doesn't work. I've added an options line in the /etc/modules.conf file specifying io=0x378 dma=3 irq=7. With lp reloaded, I see in the /proc/parport/0 that these options are set and that my printer is being seen. The syslog shows the following: Jan 4 07:36:20 localhost ker

Stolen laptop - how to increase security?

2001-01-04 Thread Jérôme Lacoste
[pre-scriptum: if anybody thinks this has nothing to do with the debian-laptop, please redirect me] Hei, Some of you may have read one of my last mail in the list on the 29th. Don't bother to answer the questions as my nice little laptop disappeared from my office yesterday while I was at home d

Re: sound on vaio 505tr

2001-01-04 Thread Joshua S. Freeman
I've read ALL the 505Tr sites.. to no avail. Thanks though. J. On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Pierre Neihouser wrote: > You should be able to get more information at the following URL: > > http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/ > > Hope it helps... > > On Wednesday, January 3, 2001, at 07

Re: sound on vaio 505tr

2001-01-04 Thread Pierre Neihouser
You should be able to get more information at the following URL: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/ Hope it helps... On Wednesday, January 3, 2001, at 07:20 PM, Joshua S. Freeman wrote: > has anyone successfully gotten sound to work on a vaio 505tr running > debian linux?

Re: sound on vaio 505tr

2001-01-04 Thread Joshua S. Freeman
I've read ALL the 505Tr sites.. to no avail. Thanks though. J. On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Pierre Neihouser wrote: > You should be able to get more information at the following URL: > > http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/ > > Hope it helps... > > On Wednesday, January 3, 2001, at 0

Re: Installation problem w/ ASUS S82000

2001-01-04 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I just had a similar problem myself. If you look in the archives for > this list for december, the last email by "dude" has a fairly detailed > answer. Basically, the system does a scan whenever it starts cardmgr. > If there is a resource conflict in the areas it scans, it will hang. > I had to

Re: sound on vaio 505tr

2001-01-04 Thread Pierre Neihouser
You should be able to get more information at the following URL: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/ Hope it helps... On Wednesday, January 3, 2001, at 07:20 PM, Joshua S. Freeman wrote: > has anyone successfully gotten sound to work on a vaio 505tr running > debian linux?

Re: Turning off esd

2001-01-04 Thread YH Gian
> I would like to automatically turn off the Enlightenment Sound Deamon > (esd) and remove the sound modules before suspending my laptop and turn > everything back on when resuming. Otherwise sound does not work anymore > after resuming and I have to reload the modules manually. I tried > putting "

Re: Installation problem w/ ASUS S82000

2001-01-04 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I just had a similar problem myself. If you look in the archives for > this list for december, the last email by "dude" has a fairly detailed > answer. Basically, the system does a scan whenever it starts cardmgr. > If there is a resource conflict in the areas it scans, it will hang. > I had t

Re: Turning off esd

2001-01-04 Thread YH Gian
> I would like to automatically turn off the Enlightenment Sound Deamon > (esd) and remove the sound modules before suspending my laptop and turn > everything back on when resuming. Otherwise sound does not work anymore > after resuming and I have to reload the modules manually. I tried > putting