Re: ATI Mobility M4

2001-08-20 Thread noah
At 06:57 PM 19/08/2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just bought an Inspiron 8000. I cannot get X going. None of the drivers work for it. Everyone says the Rage128 is the one, but apparently is not, unless I'm doing something wrong. I have tried to upgrade to XFree86 4.1.0. This didn't solve

Re: Debian setup freezes when trying to remove pcmcia

2001-08-20 Thread noah
At 11:14 PM 20/08/2001, Bart Szyszka wrote: Hi, I just got a Dell Inspiron 8000 and am getting stuck trying to get the thing to work. I have WindowsMe setup on a seperate partition, but after trying to install Debian once I can't get to WinMe because the Debian setup option to boot from harddriv

Debian setup freezes when trying to remove pcmcia

2001-08-20 Thread Bart Szyszka
Hi, I just got a Dell Inspiron 8000 and am getting stuck trying to get the thing to work. I have WindowsMe setup on a seperate partition, but after trying to install Debian once I can't get to WinMe because the Debian setup option to boot from harddrive didn't let me specify what partitions should

Re: thinkpad A21p display restore problem when opening top in X11

2001-08-20 Thread Alan Shutko
Peter Amstutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > By the way, has anyone tried the DRI 3D support on the ATI Mobility M3 > (the video chipset the TP A21p has) in X4? What is involved in setting > this up in debian? X4, the kernel modules (and you need different ones for 4.1.0, read the README.Debian),

Re: thinkpad A21p display restore problem when opening top in X11

2001-08-20 Thread Peter Amstutz
On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Peter Amstutz wrote: > On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Vivek wrote: > > > 1) Are you using an fb console? [the r128 fb console might not work - if so > > try the vesa one] > > 2) Does using the fb console work around this? > > I did try the r128 console when I first recompiled the kern

Re: ATI Mobility M4

2001-08-20 Thread noah
At 06:57 PM 19/08/2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I just bought an Inspiron 8000. I cannot get X going. None of the >drivers work for it. Everyone says the Rage128 is the one, but apparently >is not, unless I'm doing something wrong. I have tried to upgrade to >XFree86 4.1.0. This didn't s

Re: Debian setup freezes when trying to remove pcmcia

2001-08-20 Thread noah
At 11:14 PM 20/08/2001, Bart Szyszka wrote: >Hi, > >I just got a Dell Inspiron 8000 and am getting stuck trying to get the thing >to work. I have WindowsMe setup on a seperate partition, but after trying >to install Debian once I can't get to WinMe because the Debian setup option to >boot from har

Debian setup freezes when trying to remove pcmcia

2001-08-20 Thread Bart Szyszka
Hi, I just got a Dell Inspiron 8000 and am getting stuck trying to get the thing to work. I have WindowsMe setup on a seperate partition, but after trying to install Debian once I can't get to WinMe because the Debian setup option to boot from harddrive didn't let me specify what partitions shoul

Re: thinkpad A21p display restore problem when opening top in X11

2001-08-20 Thread Alan Shutko
Peter Amstutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > By the way, has anyone tried the DRI 3D support on the ATI Mobility M3 > (the video chipset the TP A21p has) in X4? What is involved in setting > this up in debian? X4, the kernel modules (and you need different ones for 4.1.0, read the README.Debian)

Re: thinkpad A21p display restore problem when opening top in X11

2001-08-20 Thread Peter Amstutz
On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Peter Amstutz wrote: > On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Vivek wrote: > > > 1) Are you using an fb console? [the r128 fb console might not work - if so > > try the vesa one] > > 2) Does using the fb console work around this? > > I did try the r128 console when I first recompiled the ker

Re: thinkpad A21p display restore problem when opening top in X11

2001-08-20 Thread Peter Amstutz
On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Vivek wrote: > On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Peter Amstutz wrote: > > > I just recently bought a Thinkpad A21p and it's a wonderful machine. I'm > > running Debian unstable (Cid, I belive) and so far I have encountered only > > one major problem: when I close the top for just a minut

Re: thinkpad A21p display restore problem when opening top in X11

2001-08-20 Thread Vivek
On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Peter Amstutz wrote: > I just recently bought a Thinkpad A21p and it's a wonderful machine. I'm > running Debian unstable (Cid, I belive) and so far I have encountered only > one major problem: when I close the top for just a minute and then reopen > it, the display is almost

thinkpad A21p display restore problem when opening top in X11

2001-08-20 Thread Peter Amstutz
I just recently bought a Thinkpad A21p and it's a wonderful machine. I'm running Debian unstable (Cid, I belive) and so far I have encountered only one major problem: when I close the top for just a minute and then reopen it, the display is almost always messed up. This does _not_ happen when I s

Re: thinkpad A21p display restore problem when opening top in X11

2001-08-20 Thread Peter Amstutz
On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Vivek wrote: > On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Peter Amstutz wrote: > > > I just recently bought a Thinkpad A21p and it's a wonderful machine. I'm > > running Debian unstable (Cid, I belive) and so far I have encountered only > > one major problem: when I close the top for just a minu

Re: thinkpad A21p display restore problem when opening top in X11

2001-08-20 Thread Vivek
On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Peter Amstutz wrote: > I just recently bought a Thinkpad A21p and it's a wonderful machine. I'm > running Debian unstable (Cid, I belive) and so far I have encountered only > one major problem: when I close the top for just a minute and then reopen > it, the display is almos

thinkpad A21p display restore problem when opening top in X11

2001-08-20 Thread Peter Amstutz
I just recently bought a Thinkpad A21p and it's a wonderful machine. I'm running Debian unstable (Cid, I belive) and so far I have encountered only one major problem: when I close the top for just a minute and then reopen it, the display is almost always messed up. This does _not_ happen when I

PCMCIA Card

2001-08-20 Thread Paul Tansom
Has anoyone tried getting a Panasonic SD PC Card Adapter working with Linux - particularly Debian? I have one that I use to read digital still images from my camcorder SD/MultiMedia card, and it would be nice not to have to boot to Windows every tim I want to do that! I haven't managed to find an

Re: dialing question

2001-08-20 Thread Dhruva B. Reddy
1800xxx,,,xx Each comma is (I believe) a 3-second pause. You will want to manually go through this process to see exactly how long you need to wait to dial each number. On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 01:52:01PM -0700, Mark Barnes wrote: > I use the scripts configured with pppconfig

Re: dialing question

2001-08-20 Thread Lee Bradshaw
W is wait for second dial tone on some modems when the result codes are set to X3 or higher. Look for a reference to the AT command set or use something like minicom to connect to the modem and try ATD$ - on some modems that will give you help on the dialing commands. On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 09:30

PCMCIA Card

2001-08-20 Thread Paul Tansom
Has anoyone tried getting a Panasonic SD PC Card Adapter working with Linux - particularly Debian? I have one that I use to read digital still images from my camcorder SD/MultiMedia card, and it would be nice not to have to boot to Windows every tim I want to do that! I haven't managed to find a

Re: dialing question

2001-08-20 Thread Clayton Carter
Try using commas (,). eg: 1800CALLATT,,1234,,123455MYISP The commas usually insert pauses into the dialing string. I guess this is standard (I remember using it on Windows to cancel call waiting (ie - *70,5551234) and I've used it under GNU/Linux also) but I had to dig pretty d

Re: dialing question

2001-08-20 Thread Dhruva B. Reddy
1800xxx,,,xx Each comma is (I believe) a 3-second pause. You will want to manually go through this process to see exactly how long you need to wait to dial each number. On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 01:52:01PM -0700, Mark Barnes wrote: > I use the scripts configured with pppconfig

Re: dialing question

2001-08-20 Thread Lee Bradshaw
W is wait for second dial tone on some modems when the result codes are set to X3 or higher. Look for a reference to the AT command set or use something like minicom to connect to the modem and try ATD$ - on some modems that will give you help on the dialing commands. On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 09:3

Re: IDE errors on mounting DVDs

2001-08-20 Thread Calum Mackay
Alexander Clouter wrote: On Sun, 19 Aug 2001, Sam Tingleff wrote: Isn't that part of the copy protection? You need an app like VideoLAN or Xine to do the DeCSS key stuff with the drive. I think this is only true to *play* the VOB files, not to actually read or copy the VOB files. Much in t

Re: ThinkPad A21m sound card instructions request.

2001-08-20 Thread Tony Green
* This one time, at band camp, Stef?n F. Stef?nsson said: > Hello. > > I'm wondering if anybody has instructions on how to get the sound card > on an IBM ThinkPad A21m to work. > > Currently I get the following error message when I log in using X (KDE) > as a regular user: > > Error while

Re: dialing question

2001-08-20 Thread Clayton Carter
Try using commas (,). eg: 1800CALLATT,,1234,,123455MYISP The commas usually insert pauses into the dialing string. I guess this is standard (I remember using it on Windows to cancel call waiting (ie - *70,5551234) and I've used it under GNU/Linux also) but I had to dig pretty

ATI Mobility M4

2001-08-20 Thread Cajus Pollmeier
On Monday, 20. August 2001 00:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I just bought an Inspiron 8000. I cannot get X going. None of the drivers > work for it. Everyone says the Rage128 is the one, but apparently is not, > unless I'm doing something wrong. I have tried to upgrade to XFree86 > 4.1.0. Thi

Re: ThinkPad A21m sound card instructions request.

2001-08-20 Thread Allan Sandfeld Jensen
On Monday 20 August 2001 12:27, Stefán F. Stefánsson wrote: > Hello. > > I'm wondering if anybody has instructions on how to get the sound card > on an IBM ThinkPad A21m to work. > > Currently I get the following error message when I log in using X (KDE) > as a regular user: > > Error while i

ThinkPad A21m sound card instructions request.

2001-08-20 Thread Stefán F . Stefánsson
Hello. I'm wondering if anybody has instructions on how to get the sound card on an IBM ThinkPad A21m to work. Currently I get the following error message when I log in using X (KDE) as a regular user: Error while initializing the sound driver: device /dev/dsp can't be opened (Pe

Re: IDE errors on mounting DVDs

2001-08-20 Thread Calum Mackay
Alexander Clouter wrote: > On Sun, 19 Aug 2001, Sam Tingleff wrote: > >>Isn't that part of the copy protection? You need an app like VideoLAN >>or Xine to do the DeCSS key stuff with the drive. >> >> > I think this is only true to *play* the VOB files, not to actually read or > copy the VOB file

Re: ThinkPad A21m sound card instructions request.

2001-08-20 Thread Tony Green
* This one time, at band camp, Stef?n F. Stef?nsson said: > Hello. > > I'm wondering if anybody has instructions on how to get the sound card > on an IBM ThinkPad A21m to work. > > Currently I get the following error message when I log in using X (KDE) > as a regular user: > > Error while

ATI Mobility M4

2001-08-20 Thread Cajus Pollmeier
On Monday, 20. August 2001 00:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I just bought an Inspiron 8000. I cannot get X going. None of the drivers > work for it. Everyone says the Rage128 is the one, but apparently is not, > unless I'm doing something wrong. I have tried to upgrade to XFree86 > 4.1.0. Th

Re: ThinkPad A21m sound card instructions request.

2001-08-20 Thread Allan Sandfeld Jensen
On Monday 20 August 2001 12:27, Stefán F. Stefánsson wrote: > Hello. > > I'm wondering if anybody has instructions on how to get the sound card > on an IBM ThinkPad A21m to work. > > Currently I get the following error message when I log in using X (KDE) > as a regular user: > > Error while

ThinkPad A21m sound card instructions request.

2001-08-20 Thread Stefán F. Stefánsson
Hello. I'm wondering if anybody has instructions on how to get the sound card on an IBM ThinkPad A21m to work. Currently I get the following error message when I log in using X (KDE) as a regular user: Error while initializing the sound driver: device /dev/dsp can't be opened (P

Acer Travel Mate 610TXV

2001-08-20 Thread Osvaldo
I want to buy the notebook in the subject, Can I install Debian on this notebook ??? Thanks Osvaldo P.S. Sorry for my English

Re: ATI Mobility M4

2001-08-20 Thread Cajus Pollmeier
> >To: "debian-laptop@lists.debian.org" > >Subject: ATI Mobility M4 > >Resent-From: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org > > > >I just bought an Inspiron 8000. I cannot get X going. None of the > > drivers work for it. Everyone says the Rage128 is the one, but > > apparently is not, unless I'm doing