Re: Dell Inspiron 8000 and Geforce2go

2001-09-11 Thread Daniel Povlsen
Hi all, I can only recommend downloading the debian source packages from the unstable archive and follow the instructions in the README. This will allow you to fetch the binaries off nvidias site and build your own debian packages. It solves problems with DVD playing, the missing line in modu

Re: Dell Inspiron 8000 and Geforce2go

2001-09-11 Thread Richard Watson
Kai Martens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It is quite true that you need NVIDIA's own drivers and GLX package (I had > no success with the corresponding debian packages there). This driver > (downloaded it from the NVIDIA web site is not in binary format though, > but distributed as source code t

Re: Toshiba CDT740

2001-09-11 Thread Tom Breza
Hi Glenn I think I will say it from all folks, we are glad that you are ok, and we are very absed about this what happen, that is a nightmare but we can't wakup to finish it, I don't understand what kind of best done somthing like this about your laptop, I think you can find here http://www

Re: Dell Inspiron 8000 and Geforce2go

2001-09-11 Thread Kai Martens
It is quite true that you need NVIDIA's own drivers and GLX package (I had no success with the corresponding debian packages there). This driver (downloaded it from the NVIDIA web site is not in binary format though, but distributed as source code that I compiled against my own kernel code. The on

Re: Toshiba CDT740

2001-09-11 Thread Tom Breza
Hi Glenn I think I will say it from all folks, we are glad that you are ok, and we are very absed about this what happen, that is a nightmare but we can't wakup to finish it, I don't understand what kind of best done somthing like this about your laptop, I think you can find here http://ww

Toshiba CDT740

2001-09-11 Thread Glenn Becker
Hi, I just won a Toshiba 470CDT Pentium laptop on eBay. It has a 2G HD. Am thinking of shrinking the Win98 installation down to a minimum and partitioning so as to squeeze Debian on there. Alternately (if this is possible), I'd like to go DOS only + Debian. Has anyone done this, or any combinati

Re: Dell Inspiron 8000 and Geforce2go

2001-09-11 Thread Philipp Zabel
Hi Jonerik! > My only problem is the nVidia driver. I'm using XFree86 Version 4.1.0.1 > / X Window System and the internal nv drivers won't work, so instead I'm > using the vesa drivers. Suffice to say, this doesn't make full use of my > hardware. Has anyone here had similar problems getting the n

Re: Dell Inspiron 8000 and Geforce2go

2001-09-11 Thread Kai Martens
It is quite true that you need NVIDIA's own drivers and GLX package (I had no success with the corresponding debian packages there). This driver (downloaded it from the NVIDIA web site is not in binary format though, but distributed as source code that I compiled against my own kernel code. The o

Toshiba CDT740

2001-09-11 Thread Glenn Becker
Hi, I just won a Toshiba 470CDT Pentium laptop on eBay. It has a 2G HD. Am thinking of shrinking the Win98 installation down to a minimum and partitioning so as to squeeze Debian on there. Alternately (if this is possible), I'd like to go DOS only + Debian. Has anyone done this, or any combinat

Re: Dell Inspiron 8000 and Geforce2go

2001-09-11 Thread Philipp Zabel
Hi Jonerik! > My only problem is the nVidia driver. I'm using XFree86 Version 4.1.0.1 > / X Window System and the internal nv drivers won't work, so instead I'm > using the vesa drivers. Suffice to say, this doesn't make full use of my > hardware. Has anyone here had similar problems getting the

Re: Wavy Screen using 'Option "Display" "CRT"' on ATI 128 Rage Mobility

2001-09-11 Thread Daniel Farnsworth Teichert
Okay, here's another little oddity--if I use the laptops function-F8 key combination to switch over to the external monitor manually *before* I start up X (with the diplay option set to CRT), it comes up clear as a bell (and thinking it's hooked up to a CRT--it will let me display 1600x1200, for in

Re: 3com PCMCIA card recommendation?

2001-09-11 Thread Heather
> I need to purchase a network card for a laptop. I need dual 100/10 > support and I want to purchase a 3com card. This will be used on a T22 > IBM portable running stable (2.2.18pre21 kernel). > > Are there any recommendations about which 3com card to purchase or stay > away from? > > Regards, >

Re: Req. advice on upgrades: kernel, X, libc

2001-09-11 Thread Heather
> On Sunday 09 September 2001 09:03 pm, Scott Bigham wrote: [ snip ] > [...] > > - XFree86: 3.3.6 -> 4.1.0 > > > > My notebook is a Toshiba Portege 7020CT, which has a NeoMagic NM2200 > > video chip. The XFree86 site lists this chip as "Support > > (accelerated)" in 4.1.0;[1] do I l

Re: 3com PCMCIA card recommendation?

2001-09-11 Thread Petter Abrahamsson
Hi Randy, I'm using a 3com 575-CT card for my Dell Inspiron 7500 and I've successfully used it with both Potato and now Woody. Very happy with this purchase. /petter - Original Message - From: "Randolph S. Kahle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 3:20 PM Subject:

Dell Inspiron 8000 and Geforce2go

2001-09-11 Thread Jonerik Sjolander
Hi! I'm having a problem. I use a Dell Inspiron 8000 (thanks for recommending it to me btw) with the 15" TFT screen and the 16mb geforce2go. My only problem is the nVidia driver. I'm using XFree86 Version 4.1.0.1 / X Window System and the internal nv drivers won't work, so instead I'm using

3com PCMCIA card recommendation?

2001-09-11 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
I need to purchase a network card for a laptop. I need dual 100/10 support and I want to purchase a 3com card. This will be used on a T22 IBM portable running stable (2.2.18pre21 kernel). Are there any recommendations about which 3com card to purchase or stay away from? Regards, Randy

Re: Thinkpad A21m SoundFusion

2001-09-11 Thread Martin Skøtt
On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 02:02:58PM +0200, Nicolas SABOURET wrote: > Hi all ! > > By looking in the archive 1.5 month ago, I took contact with someone to > get help on having my Crystal SoundFusion card to work on the my > ThinkPad A21m. I have an T22, but the chip should be the same :-) > However

Re: Wavy Screen using 'Option "Display" "CRT"' on ATI 128 Rage Mobility

2001-09-11 Thread Daniel Farnsworth Teichert
Okay, here's another little oddity--if I use the laptops function-F8 key combination to switch over to the external monitor manually *before* I start up X (with the diplay option set to CRT), it comes up clear as a bell (and thinking it's hooked up to a CRT--it will let me display 1600x1200, for i

Re: 3com PCMCIA card recommendation?

2001-09-11 Thread Heather
> I need to purchase a network card for a laptop. I need dual 100/10 > support and I want to purchase a 3com card. This will be used on a T22 > IBM portable running stable (2.2.18pre21 kernel). > > Are there any recommendations about which 3com card to purchase or stay > away from? > > Regards,

Re: Req. advice on upgrades: kernel, X, libc

2001-09-11 Thread Heather
> On Sunday 09 September 2001 09:03 pm, Scott Bigham wrote: [ snip ] > [...] > > - XFree86: 3.3.6 -> 4.1.0 > > > > My notebook is a Toshiba Portege 7020CT, which has a NeoMagic NM2200 > > video chip. The XFree86 site lists this chip as "Support > > (accelerated)" in 4.1.0;[1] do I

Re: 3com PCMCIA card recommendation?

2001-09-11 Thread Petter Abrahamsson
Hi Randy, I'm using a 3com 575-CT card for my Dell Inspiron 7500 and I've successfully used it with both Potato and now Woody. Very happy with this purchase. /petter - Original Message - From: "Randolph S. Kahle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 20

Re: Thinkpad A21m SoundFusion

2001-09-11 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Wed, 2001-09-12 at 00:02, Nicolas SABOURET wrote: > Hi all ! > > By looking in the archive 1.5 month ago, I took contact with someone to > get help on having my Crystal SoundFusion card to work on the my > ThinkPad A21m. > However, I can't remember the guy's name, and I still have the problem,

Dell Inspiron 8000 and Geforce2go

2001-09-11 Thread Jonerik Sjolander
Hi! I'm having a problem. I use a Dell Inspiron 8000 (thanks for recommending it to me btw) with the 15" TFT screen and the 16mb geforce2go. My only problem is the nVidia driver. I'm using XFree86 Version 4.1.0.1 / X Window System and the internal nv drivers won't work, so instead I'm using t

Thinkpad A21m SoundFusion

2001-09-11 Thread Nicolas SABOURET
Hi all ! By looking in the archive 1.5 month ago, I took contact with someone to get help on having my Crystal SoundFusion card to work on the my ThinkPad A21m. However, I can't remember the guy's name, and I still have the problem, so I decided to write to the list. I use Potato with kernel 2.2

3com PCMCIA card recommendation?

2001-09-11 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
I need to purchase a network card for a laptop. I need dual 100/10 support and I want to purchase a 3com card. This will be used on a T22 IBM portable running stable (2.2.18pre21 kernel). Are there any recommendations about which 3com card to purchase or stay away from? Regards, Randy --

Re: Thinkpad A21m SoundFusion

2001-09-11 Thread Martin Skøtt
On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 02:02:58PM +0200, Nicolas SABOURET wrote: > Hi all ! > > By looking in the archive 1.5 month ago, I took contact with someone to > get help on having my Crystal SoundFusion card to work on the my > ThinkPad A21m. I have an T22, but the chip should be the same :-) > Howeve

Re: Thinkpad A21m SoundFusion

2001-09-11 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Wed, 2001-09-12 at 00:02, Nicolas SABOURET wrote: > Hi all ! > > By looking in the archive 1.5 month ago, I took contact with someone to > get help on having my Crystal SoundFusion card to work on the my > ThinkPad A21m. > However, I can't remember the guy's name, and I still have the problem,

Re: pcmcia-cs and configuring network...

2001-09-11 Thread Drew Parsons
On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 05:03:12PM +0200, Chris Halls wrote: > On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 12:09:11AM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote: > > The thing I'd find autodetection useful for is shuffling /etc/exim.conf > > around, one configuration for dialup (setting the ISP's SMTP server as > > mailserver, to avoi

Thinkpad A21m SoundFusion

2001-09-11 Thread Nicolas SABOURET
Hi all ! By looking in the archive 1.5 month ago, I took contact with someone to get help on having my Crystal SoundFusion card to work on the my ThinkPad A21m. However, I can't remember the guy's name, and I still have the problem, so I decided to write to the list. I use Potato with kernel 2.2

Re: Kernal Image

2001-09-11 Thread Chris Halls
Hi Eric On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 01:29:16PM -0400, Eric Borton wrote: > After the make bzimage command (for those familiar with the process) I was > not able to see the file bzImage in the > /usr/src/kernel-2.4.4-source/.../i386/boot/ folder. Well, you were looking in the right place. I'm not sur

Re: pcmcia-cs and configuring network...

2001-09-11 Thread Drew Parsons
On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 05:03:12PM +0200, Chris Halls wrote: > On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 12:09:11AM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote: > > The thing I'd find autodetection useful for is shuffling /etc/exim.conf > > around, one configuration for dialup (setting the ISP's SMTP server as > > mailserver, to avo

Re: Kernal Image

2001-09-11 Thread Chris Halls
Hi Eric On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 01:29:16PM -0400, Eric Borton wrote: > After the make bzimage command (for those familiar with the process) I was > not able to see the file bzImage in the > /usr/src/kernel-2.4.4-source/.../i386/boot/ folder. Well, you were looking in the right place. I'm not su

IR success!(was info: fixed irda-common upgrade to woody)

2001-09-11 Thread Andrew Taylor
Well I was able to get the printer (a BJC-80) working with the Linux IRDA stack. I think it had something to do with my kernel configuration. I was using the 2.4.8 kernel with the entire IRDA stack modularized. After the successful installation of the irda-common and irda-tools packages, the ou