Re: naive question: XFree86 4.1 and Debian Potato: after installation

2001-11-12 Thread Rolf Heckemann
On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 12:22:06AM +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > I have just install Maple 7: > the Windows interface (which use Xmotif) behaves strangely: > all colors change. X Window applications can install what is called a private color map if the number of colors available from the X server

Re: Xfree downgrade

2001-11-12 Thread Daniel Frencham
It's a Samsung SENS800 laptop, with a 1 MB Cirrus Logic 7543 PCI graphics card. I noticed the packages are under 'stable', is there any way I can use apt-get to grab them without changing my sources.list? Daniel - Original Message - From: "Adam C Powell IV" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMA

Re: [ltp] A21m won't park /dev/hda

2001-11-12 Thread ben knight
You need to install noflushd. It's a debian package [noflushd, surprisingly enough]. This will make sure that your hard disk stays spun down for as long as possible, saving battery etc. > the hard drive spin down, then right back up again. > Another minute, down, then up again. rgds, b [EMAIL P

A21m won't park /dev/hda

2001-11-12 Thread Tom Allison
I have Debian (woody) running on my IBM A21m. kernel=2.4.12 kde 2.1.2 is my desktop. I am trying to read some docs in the konquerer and I am listenting to the hard drive spin down, then right back up again. Another minute, down, then up again. syslog.conf has everything precede with a '-' no c

Re: [ltp] A21m won't park /dev/hda

2001-11-12 Thread ben knight
You need to install noflushd. It's a debian package [noflushd, surprisingly enough]. This will make sure that your hard disk stays spun down for as long as possible, saving battery etc. > the hard drive spin down, then right back up again. > Another minute, down, then up again. rgds, b [EMAIL

A21m won't park /dev/hda

2001-11-12 Thread Tom Allison
I have Debian (woody) running on my IBM A21m. kernel=2.4.12 kde 2.1.2 is my desktop. I am trying to read some docs in the konquerer and I am listenting to the hard drive spin down, then right back up again. Another minute, down, then up again. syslog.conf has everything precede with a '-' no cr

naive question: XFree86 4.1 and Debian Potato: after installation

2001-11-12 Thread Jerome BENOIT
> Thank you very much for the information: > I have installed it and it works fine. Ooops ! I have just install Maple 7: the Windows interface (which use Xmotif) behaves strangely: all colors change. I guess the solution is basic, but I cannot figure out the problem. Any idea? Jerome BENOIT

naive question: XFree86 4.1 and Debian Potato: after installation

2001-11-12 Thread Jerome BENOIT
> Thank you very much for the information: > I have installed it and it works fine. Ooops ! I have just install Maple 7: the Windows interface (which use Xmotif) behaves strangely: all colors change. I guess the solution is basic, but I cannot figure out the problem. Any idea? Jerome BENOIT

Ati Rage Mobilty: X on wrong positon

2001-11-12 Thread Dirk Haage
Hi! I have a new Sharp PC-AX40 notebook with an ATI Rage Mobility Graphic Chip. I´m using XFree 4.1 from woody and everything is working ok except one thing: The screen ist some lines to high. This means, the upper ca. 10 lines are not visible and the last lines are mirrored or something (the mous

Re: Recognizing Kernel Update to 2.4.12 -- CORRECTION

2001-11-12 Thread stnick
eDoc wrote: > > > You need to untar the source: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src# tar -xvzf > > After that, change the directory name to 'linux', so that your > uncompressed, > > untarred sources are in /usr/src/linux: > > The usr/src/linux directory that was missing before has been created, > app

Re: Xfree downgrade

2001-11-12 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Daniel Frencham wrote: I'm using Woody on my laptop, and have been trying to get X to work. I just found out that my video card isn't supported under Xfree 4.x only xfree 3.x. Is there anyway I can install xfree86 3.3.1 under woody ? There should be v3 X servers, such as xserver-svga

Ati Rage Mobilty: X on wrong positon

2001-11-12 Thread Dirk Haage
Hi! I have a new Sharp PC-AX40 notebook with an ATI Rage Mobility Graphic Chip. I´m using XFree 4.1 from woody and everything is working ok except one thing: The screen ist some lines to high. This means, the upper ca. 10 lines are not visible and the last lines are mirrored or something (the mou

Re: Recognizing Kernel Update to 2.4.12 -- CORRECTION

2001-11-12 Thread stnick
eDoc wrote: > > > You need to untar the source: > > root@hostname:/usr/src# tar -xvzf > > After that, change the directory name to 'linux', so that your > uncompressed, > > untarred sources are in /usr/src/linux: > > The usr/src/linux directory that was missing before has been created, > appare

Re: Xfree downgrade

2001-11-12 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Daniel Frencham wrote: > I'm using Woody on my laptop, and have been trying to get X to work. > > > > I just found out that my video card isn't supported under Xfree 4.x > only xfree 3.x. > > > > Is there anyway I can install xfree86 3.3.1 under woody ? > There should be v3 X servers, such a

Re: kernel & PCMCIA compilation

2001-11-12 Thread hlawson
On 11 Nov 2001, Brian P. Flaherty wrote: > Harry Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I'm a bit confused with how this works in Debian (in spite of the > > "we've greatly simplified this with Debian's kernel-package" etc > > etc). I'm wondering if there is a kernel-image package that inc

Re: AW: naive question: XFree86 4.1 and Debian Potato

2001-11-12 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Thank you very much for the information: I have installed it and it works fine. Regards, Jerome Ronny Spiegel wrote: > > Hi, > > just us the packages found under: > > people.debian.org/~cpbotha/ > > Follow the instructions given in the file READ.THIS inside > the xfree_410 directory. > > Reg

Re: kernel & PCMCIA compilation

2001-11-12 Thread hlawson
On 11 Nov 2001, Brian P. Flaherty wrote: > Harry Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I'm a bit confused with how this works in Debian (in spite of the > > "we've greatly simplified this with Debian's kernel-package" etc > > etc). I'm wondering if there is a kernel-image package that in

Re: AW: naive question: XFree86 4.1 and Debian Potato

2001-11-12 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Thank you very much for the information: I have installed it and it works fine. Regards, Jerome Ronny Spiegel wrote: > > Hi, > > just us the packages found under: > > people.debian.org/~cpbotha/ > > Follow the instructions given in the file READ.THIS inside > the xfree_410 directory. > > Re

Xfree downgrade

2001-11-12 Thread Daniel Frencham
I'm using Woody on my laptop, and have been trying to get X to work.   I just found out that my video card isn't supported under Xfree 4.x only xfree 3.x.   Is there anyway I can install xfree86 3.3.1 under woody ?   Thanks