Re: X keymaps

2001-05-18 Thread Peter Cordes
On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 03:29:03PM +1000, Martin wrote: > Hi guys > > i have debian up and running on my portege 7020ct but the keymap is really > screwed up... > > ie 'y' and 'z' swapped over, half the symbol keys produce different symbols, > backspace or other funky control characters... > >

Re: New ... please help

2001-05-18 Thread Peter Cordes
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 10:12:20AM -0600, Razvan Roncov wrote: > hello... > I just installed Debian on my laptop ... but I have 3 "little" (I hope they are >little) > problems: > 1. My network card was not installed Surecom (pcmcia slot) Is that a Surecom EP-427X? If so, do you have time

Re: install on Toshiba 430CDT laptop

2001-05-18 Thread Peter Cordes
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 05:52:29PM -0300, Edson Akio Maruyama wrote: > At 12:57 16/05/01 -0700, you wrote: > >I have a Toshiba 430CDT laptop, and I installed the > >base system of Potato on the machine, which seemed to > > [diet quote] > > i?ve gotta had the net adapter "manually" configured...

Re: Inspiron 8000 & Progeny install woes

2001-05-18 Thread Peter Cordes
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 05:28:45PM +0100, Vivek Dasmohapatra wrote: > On Fri, 18 May 2001, Jim Richardson wrote: > > > Which video card would you recommend for this laptop? (I am about to buy > > one) the GeForce or ATi? > > iirc, nvidia require you to use a binary only driver, which means you'd

X keymaps

2001-05-18 Thread Martin
Hi guys i have debian up and running on my portege 7020ct but the keymap is really screwed up... ie 'y' and 'z' swapped over, half the symbol keys produce different symbols, backspace or other funky control characters... is there any good resources on 'Xresources' fixes for things like this? a

Re: PCMCIA D-LINK DFE 650 TX

2001-05-18 Thread Jeff
Is eth0 getting setup when you pop in the card? You should see something like this in syslog: May 17 21:47:09 localhost cardmgr[175]: executing: './network start eth0' And, ifconfig -a should display eth0 as well. If eth0 is there, are you configuring the IP interface right?

Re: New ... please help

2001-05-18 Thread Jeff
Thusly Thwacked By Razvan Roncov: > >hello... > >I just installed Debian on my laptop ... but I have 3 "little" (I hope >they are little) > >problems: > >1. My network card was not installed Surecom (pcmcia slot) I just went through the lastest pcmcia info

D-Link 650 Ethernet on Debian

2001-05-18 Thread Fabiano Sousa
Hi Jules Kongslie    I am with the same problem that you had months ago with that PCMCIA in Debian.  Would I like to know if you got to solve the problem? And how?    Respectfully   Fabiano SousaAnalista de Sistemas[EMAIL PROTECTED]NT Software e Consultoria  Ltda.    

PCMCIA D-LINK DFE 650 TX

2001-05-18 Thread Fabiano Sousa
    Does anybody know how to do that PCMCIA to work in Debian?  Debian recognizes but to you ligth don´t  blink and he much less communicates with the net.  In the files Log see only mensages of Timeout TX    Att   Fabiano SousaAnalista de Sistemas[EMAIL PROTECTED]NT Software e Consultoria 

TOSHIBA SATELLITE 1605CDS, D-LINK DFE 650 TX AND DEBIAN

2001-05-18 Thread Fabiano Sousa
  Hi All,   I don't get to do my PCMCIA to communicate with the local net. The program cardinfo and cardctrl no report any mistake. The light LN/ACK is on, it doesn't blink!   How do I do for that PCMCIA to work in Debian??     Fabiano Sousa

Re: install on Toshiba 430CDT laptop

2001-05-18 Thread Edson Akio Maruyama
hi there irwin & peter... what´s up? well... i´ve had some kinda of a similar problem... At 12:57 16/05/01 -0700, you wrote: I have a Toshiba 430CDT laptop, and I installed the base system of Potato on the machine, which seemed to [diet quote] i´ve gotta had the net adapter "manually" conf

TOSHIBA SATELLITE 1605CDS, D-LINK DFE 650 TX AND DEBIAN

2001-05-18 Thread Fabiano Sousa
Hi All,   I don't get to do my PCMCIA to communicate with the local net. The program cardinfo and cardctrl no report any mistake. The light LN/ACK is on, it doesn't blink!   How do I do for that PCMCIA to work in Debian??     Fabiano Sousa

Re: New ... please help

2001-05-18 Thread p
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 10:12:20AM -0600, Razvan Roncov wrote: > hello... > I just installed Debian on my laptop ... but I have 3 "little" (I hope they > are little) > problems: [snip] > 3. does Debian support USB mouse ... if yes ... how could i configure it ... ? I would appreciate any advice

D-Link 650 Ethernet on Debian

2001-05-18 Thread Fabiano Sousa
Hi Jules Kongslie    I am with the same problem that you had months ago with that PCMCIA in Debian.  Would I like to know if you got to solve the problem? And how?    Respectfully   Fabiano SousaAnalista de Sistemas[EMAIL PROTECTED]NT Software e Consultoria  Ltda.    

TOSHIBA SATELLITE 1605CDS, D-LINK DFE 650 TX AND DEBIAN

2001-05-18 Thread Fabiano Sousa
  Hi All,   I don't get to do my PCMCIA to communicate with the local net. The program cardinfo and cardctrl no report any mistake. The light LN/ACK is on, it doesn't blink!   How do I do for that PCMCIA to work in Debian??     Fabiano Sousa

PCMCIA D-LINK DFE 650 TX

2001-05-18 Thread Fabiano Sousa
    Does anybody know how to do that PCMCIA to work in Debian?  Debian recognizes but to you ligth don´t  blink and he much less communicates with the net.  In the files Log see only mensages of Timeout TX    Att   Fabiano SousaAnalista de Sistemas[EMAIL PROTECTED]NT Software e Consultoria 

Re: install on Toshiba 430CDT laptop

2001-05-18 Thread Edson Akio Maruyama
hi there irwin & peter... what´s up? well... i´ve had some kinda of a similar problem... At 12:57 16/05/01 -0700, you wrote: >I have a Toshiba 430CDT laptop, and I installed the >base system of Potato on the machine, which seemed to [diet quote] i´ve gotta had the net adapter "manually" conf

updating system clock after resume

2001-05-18 Thread Michael Schmidt
Hi, My laptop seems to be running great except the system clock is not updated when the laptop resumes. I know I can run hwclock --hctosys but I would like this to happen automatically. I looked in /etc/apm/event.d/ and I see a file 00hwclock. Should this be renamed hwclock? Thanks for any he

TOSHIBA SATELLITE 1605CDS, D-LINK DFE 650 TX AND DEBIAN

2001-05-18 Thread Fabiano Sousa
Hi All,   I don't get to do my PCMCIA to communicate with the local net. The program cardinfo and cardctrl no report any mistake. The light LN/ACK is on, it doesn't blink!   How do I do for that PCMCIA to work in Debian??     Fabiano Sousa

Re: Inspiron 8000 & Progeny install woes

2001-05-18 Thread Christoph Ulrich Scholler
hi jim, is 3d-performance an issue for you? i've seen comparisons (done with the 1ghz inspiron 8000) between ati and nvidia. the nvidia card is significantly faster than the ati chip (+70% 3dmark 2000, up to +161% quake3, source: c't (german computer mag) 10/2001). greetings, uLI On Fri, May

Re: New ... please help

2001-05-18 Thread p
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 10:12:20AM -0600, Razvan Roncov wrote: > hello... > I just installed Debian on my laptop ... but I have 3 "little" (I hope they are >little) > problems: [snip] > 3. does Debian support USB mouse ... if yes ... how could i configure it ... ? I would appreciate any advice

Re: Inspiron 8000 & Progeny install woes

2001-05-18 Thread Vivek Dasmohapatra
On Fri, 18 May 2001, Jim Richardson wrote: > Which video card would you recommend for this laptop? (I am about to buy > one) the GeForce or ATi? iirc, nvidia require you to use a binary only driver, which means you'd be pretty much on your own if you had kernel related problems, as nobody outsi

Re: Inspiron 8000 & Progeny install woes

2001-05-18 Thread Jim Richardson
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 07:35:46PM +0200, Dr. Guenter Bechly wrote: > On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 08:28:14AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Has anyone had any success installing Progeny on the Dell Inspiron 8000? If > > you have, how about a nice step-by-step guide to how you did it? > > Well, no

New ... please help

2001-05-18 Thread Razvan Roncov
hello... I just installed Debian on my laptop ... but I have 3 "little" (I hope they are little) problems: 1. My network card was not installed Surecom (pcmcia slot) 2. My resolution for XServer all though I set it to 800x600 ... it still displays a biger resolution    therefore I cant s

updating system clock after resume

2001-05-18 Thread Michael Schmidt
Hi, My laptop seems to be running great except the system clock is not updated when the laptop resumes. I know I can run hwclock --hctosys but I would like this to happen automatically. I looked in /etc/apm/event.d/ and I see a file 00hwclock. Should this be renamed hwclock? Thanks for any h

Re: Inspiron 8000 & Progeny install woes

2001-05-18 Thread Christoph Ulrich Scholler
hi jim, is 3d-performance an issue for you? i've seen comparisons (done with the 1ghz inspiron 8000) between ati and nvidia. the nvidia card is significantly faster than the ati chip (+70% 3dmark 2000, up to +161% quake3, source: c't (german computer mag) 10/2001). greetings, uLI On Fri, May

Re: Inspiron 8000 & Progeny install woes

2001-05-18 Thread Vivek Dasmohapatra
On Fri, 18 May 2001, Jim Richardson wrote: > Which video card would you recommend for this laptop? (I am about to buy > one) the GeForce or ATi? iirc, nvidia require you to use a binary only driver, which means you'd be pretty much on your own if you had kernel related problems, as nobody outs

Re: Inspiron 8000 & Progeny install woes

2001-05-18 Thread Jim Richardson
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 07:35:46PM +0200, Dr. Guenter Bechly wrote: > On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 08:28:14AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Has anyone had any success installing Progeny on the Dell Inspiron 8000? If > > you have, how about a nice step-by-step guide to how you did it? > > Well, n

New ... please help

2001-05-18 Thread Razvan Roncov
hello... I just installed Debian on my laptop ... but I have 3 "little" (I hope they are little) problems: 1. My network card was not installed Surecom (pcmcia slot) 2. My resolution for XServer all though I set it to 800x600 ... it still displays a biger resolution    therefore I cant s

Re: lilo display

2001-05-18 Thread Russell Coker
On Thursday 17 May 2001 19:43, James wrote: > The new versions of lilo are more informative with a nice > menu. Only if you use boot-menu.b. > On Thu, 17 May 2001, Steven K Thompson wrote: > > I did not get any response when I asked this query before. It > > would be great if someone knows how t

Re: lilo display

2001-05-18 Thread Russell Coker
On Thursday 17 May 2001 19:43, James wrote: > The new versions of lilo are more informative with a nice > menu. Only if you use boot-menu.b. > On Thu, 17 May 2001, Steven K Thompson wrote: > > I did not get any response when I asked this query before. It > > would be great if someone knows how

Re: Xircom and Potatoe

2001-05-18 Thread Peter Cordes
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 07:21:14PM -0300, Edson Akio Maruyama wrote: > At 16:38 14/05/01 +0100, you wrote: > >Hi > > > >Hopefully someone can put me out of my misery with this card FYI, common usage of the expression "put something out of its misery" means to end the misery by ending the things l

Re: lilo display

2001-05-18 Thread Peter Cordes
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 01:40:26PM -0400, Steven K Thompson wrote: > I did not get any response when I asked this query before. It > would be great if someone knows how to get a more straightforward > display of the available operating systems at bootup, especially > if it is someone besides mysel

Re: my dell runs

2001-05-18 Thread Peter Cordes
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 06:52:58AM -0700, Ignasi Palou-Rivera wrote: > --- Matthias Weiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The simple solution was: I had no window manager installed 8-() > > Further I had to disable gpm mouse service otherwise I couldn't use > > the mouse under X. > > Same thing hap