Re: PCMCIA to SCSI cards

2001-01-10 Thread Werner Heuser
.. > often and I already have a SCSI burner. I was also looking into USB burners but > the list of supported burners is not very big. ... You may find a list of SCSI and USB capable devices at my page about portable CD writers: http://mobilix.org/portable_cdwr.html Werner -- -= Werner Heuser

loadlin hangs after loading kernel and root image

2001-01-10 Thread Ookhoi
Hi! With the help of Maarten Slaets I managed to let winme have the option to boot into dos. So now loadlin works, but it hangs after loading the kernel and root image. If I type (from the install.bat): loadlin linux root=/dev/ram initrd=root.bin disksize=1.44 it says that it loads the kernel

X 4.0.2 and tecra 8000

2001-01-10 Thread sean hendershot
Hello, I just upgraded my toshiba tecra 8000 to sid this afternoon and have a few new problems. After the dist-upgrade to X 4.0.2, X started up fine. I went and grabed kernel 2.4.0 and rebooted using it. Helixcode gdm logged me in and gnome started up. I went ahead and switched to a console

X 4.0.2 and tecra 8000

2001-01-10 Thread sean hendershot
Hello, I just upgraded my toshiba tecra 8000 to sid this afternoon and have a few new problems. After the dist-upgrade to X 4.0.2, X started up fine. I went and grabed kernel 2.4.0 and rebooted using it. Helixcode gdm logged me in and gnome started up. I went ahead and switched to a console

RE: PCMCIA to SCSI cards

2001-01-10 Thread Stephen . Oxley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- G'day, Well, I can't speak for Adaptec cards or anything, but I will tell you to keep away from the latest version of New Media Bus Toaster card. As this is a public forum, I cannot type the words I want to use to describe this useless, miserable, stench-ridden

Re: Turning off esd

2001-01-10 Thread Richard Black
Even if the below works, you may still have trouble with gnome (at least I do). I find that when I stop esd and restart it, the panel doesn't make its cool sounds anymore--and indeed can freeze up in an effort to play anything! cheers Richard Robert Guthrie wrote: > On Saturday 30 December 2000

Re: PCMCIA to SCSI cards

2001-01-10 Thread pascal heisel
I have got an Adaptec Slim SCSI which is recognized fairly well. I have not tried to use it with a burner Bye Jens Helweg a écrit : > Hi, > > I'm also looking into a CD burner for my Laptop. I don't have to carry it > with me > too > often and I already have a SCSI burner. I was also looking in

Re: Turning off esd

2001-01-10 Thread Robert Guthrie
On Saturday 30 December 2000 16:39, Felix E. Klee wrote: > Hi, > > 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 resumi

RE: PCMCIA to SCSI cards

2001-01-10 Thread Stephen . Oxley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- G'day, Well, I can't speak for Adaptec cards or anything, but I will tell you to keep away from the latest version of New Media Bus Toaster card. As this is a public forum, I cannot type the words I want to use to describe this useless, miserable, stench-ridde

Re: Gericom Overdose SII

2001-01-10 Thread Heather
[Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > Am Mittwoch, 10. Januar 2001 04:11 schrieb Jeroen Coumans: > > I've recently bought this laptop, featuring a nice PIII 650, SiS 630 AGP > > videocard with 4-64 MB shared memory and a 18GB Fujitsu HD. > > Hi, > > maybe u want to point your

Re: Turning off esd

2001-01-10 Thread Richard Black
Even if the below works, you may still have trouble with gnome (at least I do). I find that when I stop esd and restart it, the panel doesn't make its cool sounds anymore--and indeed can freeze up in an effort to play anything! cheers Richard Robert Guthrie wrote: > On Saturday 30 December 200

Re: PCMCIA to SCSI cards

2001-01-10 Thread pascal heisel
I have got an Adaptec Slim SCSI which is recognized fairly well. I have not tried to use it with a burner Bye Jens Helweg a écrit : > Hi, > > I'm also looking into a CD burner for my Laptop. I don't have to carry it with me > too > often and I already have a SCSI burner. I was also looking into

PCMCIA to SCSI cards

2001-01-10 Thread Jens Helweg
Hi, I'm also looking into a CD burner for my Laptop. I don't have to carry it with me too often and I already have a SCSI burner. I was also looking into USB burners but the list of supported burners is not very big. So my question is: Does anyone have a PCMCIA to SCSI card working with Linux and

Re: trapped in the throes of install...

2001-01-10 Thread David Reviejo
* Andreas Somogyi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010110 12:41]: > Anybody got any tips on how to get X working well on a Toshiba > satellite 2540 CDS? I get terrible display flickers when moving > windows and scrolling... Hi, Andreas Take a look at this thread: http://lists.debian.org/debian-laptop-991

Re: Turning off esd

2001-01-10 Thread Robert Guthrie
On Saturday 30 December 2000 16:39, Felix E. Klee wrote: > Hi, > > 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 resum

Re: Gericom Overdose SII

2001-01-10 Thread Heather
[Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > Am Mittwoch, 10. Januar 2001 04:11 schrieb Jeroen Coumans: > > I've recently bought this laptop, featuring a nice PIII 650, SiS 630 AGP > > videocard with 4-64 MB shared memory and a 18GB Fujitsu HD. > > Hi, > > maybe u want to point you

Re: booting Toshiba Tecra 8100 off CD-ROM

2001-01-10 Thread Norman Walsh
/ Eric VB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: | Mike, did you get your sound card working ? Mine is still silent. See http://wtsupport.metatec.net/technotes/alsasound-tecra8100.html They instructions claim to be for RedHat, but they were easy to adapt for Debian.

Re: /home replication on laptop

2001-01-10 Thread Uwe . Nestmann
> "JS" == Joseph Schlecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JS> Can I do this with NFS? I've considered the option of JS> keeping /home on my laptop and when I'm on my home JS> network, mount the NFS share on a 'dummy' directory and JS> sync the two. However, this seems cumbersome and not JS> very

Re: advice on upgrading hard drive and cpu of laptop

2001-01-10 Thread Steve Stancliff
> 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 drive, which is also relatively energy > efficient? 8 to 9

PCMCIA to SCSI cards

2001-01-10 Thread Jens Helweg
Hi, I'm also looking into a CD burner for my Laptop. I don't have to carry it with me too often and I already have a SCSI burner. I was also looking into USB burners but the list of supported burners is not very big. So my question is: Does anyone have a PCMCIA to SCSI card working with Linux and

Re: trapped in the throes of install...

2001-01-10 Thread David Reviejo
* Andreas Somogyi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010110 12:41]: > Anybody got any tips on how to get X working well on a Toshiba > satellite 2540 CDS? I get terrible display flickers when moving > windows and scrolling... Hi, Andreas Take a look at this thread: http://lists.debian.org/debian-laptop-99

Re: booting Toshiba Tecra 8100 off CD-ROM

2001-01-10 Thread Norman Walsh
/ Eric VB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: | Mike, did you get your sound card working ? Mine is still silent. See http://wtsupport.metatec.net/technotes/alsasound-tecra8100.html They instructions claim to be for RedHat, but they were easy to adapt for Debian.

Re: /home replication on laptop

2001-01-10 Thread Uwe . Nestmann
> "JS" == Joseph Schlecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JS> Can I do this with NFS? I've considered the option of JS> keeping /home on my laptop and when I'm on my home JS> network, mount the NFS share on a 'dummy' directory and JS> sync the two. However, this seems cumbersome and not JS> very

Re: advice on upgrading hard drive and cpu of laptop

2001-01-10 Thread Steve Stancliff
> 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 drive, which is also relatively energy > efficient? 8 to

Re: /home replication on laptop

2001-01-10 Thread Joseph Schlecht
Thanks everyone for the great suggestions. You never fail me! Joseph Schlecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: /home replication on laptop

2001-01-10 Thread Joseph Schlecht
Thanks everyone for the great suggestions. You never fail me! Joseph Schlecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: /home replication on laptop

2001-01-10 Thread Elrond
Hi! I also faced this issue a few months ago, with no 'smart' solution involving NFS. However, CODA might do the trick, if you can afford the quite large disk and cpu requirements it requires on the server. Oh, and last time I tried I have had a tough time configuring it properly, so you

Re: Gericom Overdose SII

2001-01-10 Thread Michael Brandt
Am Mittwoch, 10. Januar 2001 04:11 schrieb Jeroen Coumans: > I've recently bought this laptop, featuring a nice PIII 650, SiS 630 AGP > videocard with 4-64 MB shared memory and a 18GB Fujitsu HD. Hi, maybe u want to point your browser to: http://www.xfree86.org/4.0.2/Status30.html#30 there u can

Re: /home replication on laptop

2001-01-10 Thread Torbjorn Pettersson
Christian Rehn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Joseph Schlecht writes: > > Hi Everyone! > > > > I have three PC's and a laptop running debian. They are all networked > > together, one of the PC's is soon to be an NFS/NIS server. I am doing this > to > > share /home and other common director

Re: /home replication on laptop

2001-01-10 Thread Christian Rehn
Joseph Schlecht writes: > Hi Everyone! > > I have three PC's and a laptop running debian. They are all networked > together, one of the PC's is soon to be an NFS/NIS server. I am doing this > to > share /home and other common directories. > > Sharing /home should be no problem for the

Re: /home replication on laptop

2001-01-10 Thread Elrond
Hi! I also faced this issue a few months ago, with no 'smart' solution involving NFS. However, CODA might do the trick, if you can afford the quite large disk and cpu requirements it requires on the server. Oh, and last time I tried I have had a tough time configuring it properly, so you

Re: /home replication on laptop

2001-01-10 Thread mc
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joseph Schlecht) writes: > I have three PC's and a laptop running debian. They are all > networked together, one of the PC's is soon to be an NFS/NIS > server. I am doing this to share /home and other common directories. > > Sharing /home should be no problem for the PC's, howe

Re: Gericom Overdose SII

2001-01-10 Thread Michael Brandt
Am Mittwoch, 10. Januar 2001 04:11 schrieb Jeroen Coumans: > I've recently bought this laptop, featuring a nice PIII 650, SiS 630 AGP > videocard with 4-64 MB shared memory and a 18GB Fujitsu HD. Hi, maybe u want to point your browser to: http://www.xfree86.org/4.0.2/Status30.html#30 there u ca

Re: /home replication on laptop

2001-01-10 Thread Torbjorn Pettersson
Christian Rehn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Joseph Schlecht writes: > > Hi Everyone! > > > > I have three PC's and a laptop running debian. They are all networked > > together, one of the PC's is soon to be an NFS/NIS server. I am doing this to > > share /home and other common directorie

Re: /home replication on laptop

2001-01-10 Thread Christian Rehn
Joseph Schlecht writes: > Hi Everyone! > > I have three PC's and a laptop running debian. They are all networked > together, one of the PC's is soon to be an NFS/NIS server. I am doing this to > share /home and other common directories. > > Sharing /home should be no problem for the PC'

Re: /home replication on laptop

2001-01-10 Thread mc
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joseph Schlecht) writes: > I have three PC's and a laptop running debian. They are all > networked together, one of the PC's is soon to be an NFS/NIS > server. I am doing this to share /home and other common directories. > > Sharing /home should be no problem for the PC's, how