Re: ACPI and suspend

2002-03-29 Thread Joris
On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 06:24:31PM +1100, Daniel Pittman wrote: > On Sat, 30 Mar 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 09:47:48AM +1100, Daniel Pittman wrote: > >> On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, Alan Shutko wrote: > >> > Derek Broughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Perhaps a bit

Re: ACPI and suspend

2002-03-29 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Sat, 30 Mar 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 09:47:48AM +1100, Daniel Pittman wrote: >> On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, Alan Shutko wrote: >> > Derek Broughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Perhaps a bit irellevant, but if you really want suspend to disk and > your kernel/machin

Re: pcmcia support

2002-03-29 Thread Hubert Chan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > "Samuel" == Samuel Parsons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Samuel> what are the deb packages that I need for pcmcia support on Samuel> debian potato? pcmcia-cs and pcmcia-modules- If you intend to compile your own custom kernel, you'll need pcmcia

pcmcia support

2002-03-29 Thread Samuel Parsons
what are the deb packages that I need for pcmcia support on debian potato? sam _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Re: ACPI and suspend

2002-03-29 Thread Joris
On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 09:47:48AM +1100, Daniel Pittman wrote: > On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, Alan Shutko wrote: > > Derek Broughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Perhaps a bit irellevant, but if you really want suspend to disk and your kernel/machine combination doesn't support it, there is always softwa

Re: pcmcia support

2002-03-29 Thread Hubert Chan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > "Samuel" == Samuel Parsons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Samuel> what are the deb packages that I need for pcmcia support on Samuel> debian potato? pcmcia-cs and pcmcia-modules- If you intend to compile your own custom kernel, you'll need pcmci

pcmcia support

2002-03-29 Thread Samuel Parsons
what are the deb packages that I need for pcmcia support on debian potato? sam _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: Periodic distro question

2002-03-29 Thread Nagy Gabor
On 02-Mar-29 07:23, Tom Allison wrote: > something called 'ae' and not 'vi'. Make 'crontab -e' a little > foreign to me. Someone, somewhere, mentioned that there is some > defaults controlling application for setting things like the default > editor and that fixed me up. > Until I got the mess

Re: ACPI and suspend

2002-03-29 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, Alan Shutko wrote: > Derek Broughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Almost. Level 1 is easy and fully supported. If you're running the >> latest ACPI patches with swsusp you can do suspend-to-disk, but over >> on ACPI-devel they're still arguing about how much of the swsusp

Re: Periodic distro question

2002-03-29 Thread Nagy Gabor
On 02-Mar-29 07:23, Tom Allison wrote: > something called 'ae' and not 'vi'. Make 'crontab -e' a little > foreign to me. Someone, somewhere, mentioned that there is some > defaults controlling application for setting things like the default > editor and that fixed me up. > Until I got the mes

Re: ACPI and suspend

2002-03-29 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, Alan Shutko wrote: > Derek Broughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Almost. Level 1 is easy and fully supported. If you're running the >> latest ACPI patches with swsusp you can do suspend-to-disk, but over >> on ACPI-devel they're still arguing about how much of the swsusp

Re: Periodic distro question

2002-03-29 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"vivek" == vivek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: vivek> [ Note - this sig picked at random - the sig picker is just vivek> a little psychic from time to time... ] vivek> -- Manual? We've just been pushing buttons til it works... Aahhhthe new, improved (TM) Debianized fortune pa

Re: ACPI and suspend

2002-03-29 Thread Alan Shutko
Derek Broughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Almost. Level 1 is easy and fully supported. If you're running the > latest ACPI patches with swsusp you can do suspend-to-disk, but over > on ACPI-devel they're still arguing about how much of the swsusp stuff > to incorporate. Cool! Is that in the

Re: Periodic distro question

2002-03-29 Thread Tom Allison
I would like to thank all of those who listened to my rant and gave me positive feedback. It was never my intention to Flame anyone or Debian as a whole. I appreciate very much that it was not perceived as such but taken seriously. My faith is renewed! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

Re: IRDA

2002-03-29 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Hi Those of you who got bored with my longish session that ranted on about not being able to get Irda working with Debian GNU/Linux might like to know that I have solved my problem. How did I do that ? Well, I just got hold of a Motorola V66e mobile phone which has tri-band networks and GPRS

Re: Periodic distro question

2002-03-29 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"vivek" == vivek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: vivek> [ Note - this sig picked at random - the sig picker is just vivek> a little psychic from time to time... ] vivek> -- Manual? We've just been pushing buttons til it works... Aahhhthe new, improved (TM) Debianized fortune p

Re: ACPI and suspend

2002-03-29 Thread Alan Shutko
Derek Broughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Almost. Level 1 is easy and fully supported. If you're running the > latest ACPI patches with swsusp you can do suspend-to-disk, but over > on ACPI-devel they're still arguing about how much of the swsusp stuff > to incorporate. Cool! Is that in th

Re: TV out

2002-03-29 Thread Márcio de Araújo Benedito
* Mike Alborn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 06:19:11AM -0300, M?rcio de Ara?jo Benedito wrote: > > I have a HP OmniBook XE3 laptop, and the TV out don't work. The video > > adapter is a s3savage, and I have debian woody + X

Re: Periodic distro question

2002-03-29 Thread Tom Allison
I would like to thank all of those who listened to my rant and gave me positive feedback. It was never my intention to Flame anyone or Debian as a whole. I appreciate very much that it was not perceived as such but taken seriously. My faith is renewed! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Re: IRDA

2002-03-29 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Hi Those of you who got bored with my longish session that ranted on about not being able to get Irda working with Debian GNU/Linux might like to know that I have solved my problem. How did I do that ? Well, I just got hold of a Motorola V66e mobile phone which has tri-band networks and GPRS

Re: Periodic distro question

2002-03-29 Thread Vivek
On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, Tom Allison wrote: > Most of the packages I have looked into are either strictly the > authors instructions or some abbreviated changelog file. There isn't > a bridge between how the author set it up and how Debian would do it > by their philosophy. It's called the debian po

Re: Periodic distro question

2002-03-29 Thread Tom Allison
Ralf Hein wrote: Debian comes with a lot of documentation if one cares to install it. And, most important, you can always use the original docs (of packages / programs) for configuration, which is not true on any other dist i'm aware of. Most try to solve everything their way, while debian seem

Re: Periodic distro question

2002-03-29 Thread Tom Allison
Derek Broughton wrote: Tom Allison wrote: I guess this is really just a vent/rant but... I am a current user of Debian. I picked it from Slackware because I was in favor of a faster install process than slackwares. Of course I had fewer questions in Slackware because I was always RTMing. D

MPlayer. It works vey well! Thanks. (was: divx and codecs)

2002-03-29 Thread Alberto Vecchiato
I installed the MPlayer deb packages found at http://www.mplayer.fr.st/ and at http://marillat.free.fr/, along with the ffmpeg codecs and a bunch of other things. All seem to work very well and the ffmpeg codecs are really efficient, fast and give a smooth reproduction even on my laptop. The only

Re: TV out

2002-03-29 Thread Márcio de Araújo Benedito
* Mike Alborn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 06:19:11AM -0300, M?rcio de Ara?jo Benedito wrote: > > I have a HP OmniBook XE3 laptop, and the TV out don't work. The video > > adapter is a s3savage, and I have debian woody +

Thinkpad 770X / woody sound now working - the solution

2002-03-29 Thread Craig Morrison
Hello, I now have a solution to my audio woes, in no small way due to all those who responded to my original email. To summarise, the problem was that the sound was not working in any shape or form for my Thinkpad 770X running woody with either kernel 2.2.20 or 2.4.18. In the spirit of putting som

Re: Periodic distro question

2002-03-29 Thread Vivek
On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, Tom Allison wrote: > Most of the packages I have looked into are either strictly the > authors instructions or some abbreviated changelog file. There isn't > a bridge between how the author set it up and how Debian would do it > by their philosophy. It's called the debian p

Re: Periodic distro question

2002-03-29 Thread Tom Allison
Ralf Hein wrote: > Debian comes with a lot of documentation if one cares to install it. And, > most important, you can always use the original docs (of packages / programs) > for configuration, which is not true on any other dist i'm aware of. Most try > to solve everything their way, while deb

Re: ACPI and suspend

2002-03-29 Thread Goran Ristic
Hi Derek! On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Derek Broughton wrote: |> I don't think so. He's got an 8000, not an 8100, and I believe it's |> APM. You definitely can't do half the ACPI stuff on a 2500 you can do |> on an 8100, because our BIOS is buggy - but if I ever manage to get a |> working ASL compil

Re: Periodic distro question

2002-03-29 Thread Nagy Gabor
On 02-Mar-28 23:01, Ralf Hein wrote: > The whole idea > about releases should maybe be put on discussion, because nobody is using a > 'stable' for daily use. Linux is evolving to quickly to ever be able to > release a stable _and_ up-to-date (in terms of features and hardware-support) > distrib

Re: Periodic distro question

2002-03-29 Thread Tom Allison
Derek Broughton wrote: > Tom Allison wrote: > >> I guess this is really just a vent/rant but... >> >> I am a current user of Debian. >> I picked it from Slackware because I was in favor of a faster install >> process than slackwares. Of course I had fewer questions in Slackware >> because I wa

Re: yikes! locked out of own system!

2002-03-29 Thread nick phillips
thanks mike for your help! however, seems things are a bit royally screwed.. i tried this method and i'm taken to a debian log-in. when i enter the password, i get logged in ok, but then i receive the error messages: cannot execute /bin/bash: no such file or directory then i'm returned to the pro

Re: yikes! locked out of own system!

2002-03-29 Thread Derek Broughton
Chris Howells wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > > On Thursday 28 March 2002 4:48 pm, nick phillips wrote: > > >> I'm pretty sure the same login screen said "Debian user" or >> something like that. When I try any of my passwords, they now >> don't work! I'm not sure >> > > Wh

MPlayer. It works vey well! Thanks. (was: divx and codecs)

2002-03-29 Thread Alberto Vecchiato
I installed the MPlayer deb packages found at http://www.mplayer.fr.st/ and at http://marillat.free.fr/, along with the ffmpeg codecs and a bunch of other things. All seem to work very well and the ffmpeg codecs are really efficient, fast and give a smooth reproduction even on my laptop. The only

Thinkpad 770X / woody sound now working - the solution

2002-03-29 Thread Craig Morrison
Hello, I now have a solution to my audio woes, in no small way due to all those who responded to my original email. To summarise, the problem was that the sound was not working in any shape or form for my Thinkpad 770X running woody with either kernel 2.2.20 or 2.4.18. In the spirit of putting so

Re: ACPI and suspend

2002-03-29 Thread Goran Ristic
Hi Derek! On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Derek Broughton wrote: |> I don't think so. He's got an 8000, not an 8100, and I believe it's |> APM. You definitely can't do half the ACPI stuff on a 2500 you can do |> on an 8100, because our BIOS is buggy - but if I ever manage to get a |> working ASL compi

Re: Periodic distro question

2002-03-29 Thread Tom Allison
Marco Fioretti wrote: > Hello, > > not to drop gasoline on the fire, but, as an user of another distro > intending to try debian, I am obviously interested in the issues you > raise. > > May I ask you to clarify a bit more what you mean by > > "the extensive bloat that Debian has shown" > > an

Re: Periodic distro question

2002-03-29 Thread Nagy Gabor
On 02-Mar-28 23:01, Ralf Hein wrote: > The whole idea > about releases should maybe be put on discussion, because nobody is using a > 'stable' for daily use. Linux is evolving to quickly to ever be able to > release a stable _and_ up-to-date (in terms of features and hardware-support) > distri

Re: Periodic distro question

2002-03-29 Thread Tom Allison
Marco Fioretti wrote: Hello, not to drop gasoline on the fire, but, as an user of another distro intending to try debian, I am obviously interested in the issues you raise. May I ask you to clarify a bit more what you mean by "the extensive bloat that Debian has shown" and "the continued abst

Re: yikes! i've fixed it! but how?

2002-03-29 Thread Brett Sealey
You probably just messed up the keyboard settings, not your passwords. You were still able to log into vt5. Brett On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, nick phillips wrote: > me again, > > so i think i've fixed the problem by escaping the login (fn+F5) then running > XF86Setup, loading in my original configur

Re: yikes! locked out of own system!

2002-03-29 Thread nick phillips
thanks mike for your help! however, seems things are a bit royally screwed.. i tried this method and i'm taken to a debian log-in. when i enter the password, i get logged in ok, but then i receive the error messages: cannot execute /bin/bash: no such file or directory then i'm returned to the pr

Re: divx on linux

2002-03-29 Thread Franz Keferboeck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 There's a inofficial debian-apt-able source for mplayer: deb http://marillat.free.fr/ unstable main deb http://mplayer.nmeos.net unstable/ give it a go... nice packages with libdecss and so on;-) MfG Schnoopy - -- Wenn auch die Sicherheit vor den

Re: Periodic distro question

2002-03-29 Thread Ralf Hein
Having migrated from SuSe not that long ago, I can't quite subscribe to your points. Most of what you critise is what made me change. On Wednesday 27 March 2002 12:23, Tom Allison wrote: > I am a current user of Debian. > I picked it from Slackware because I was in favor of a faster install > pr

Re: yikes! i've fixed it! but how?

2002-03-29 Thread Mike Alborn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 12:02:26PM -0500, nick phillips wrote: > me again, > > so i think i've fixed the problem by escaping the login (fn+F5) then running > XF86Setup, loading in my original configuration, and resaving it. then when > i ran startx,

Re: yikes! locked out of own system!

2002-03-29 Thread Derek Broughton
Chris Howells wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > > On Thursday 28 March 2002 4:48 pm, nick phillips wrote: > > >> I'm pretty sure the same login screen said "Debian user" or >> something like that. When I try any of my passwords, they now >> don't work! I'm not sure

Re: yikes! locked out of own system!

2002-03-29 Thread Mike Alborn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 11:48:07AM -0500, nick phillips wrote: > hello again list, > > so i'm not sure how it happened but i've managed to lock myself out of my > system. i had installed debian 2.2.19 and installed enlightenment as the > deskop manag

Re: yikes! locked out of own system!

2002-03-29 Thread Chris Howells
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 28 March 2002 4:48 pm, nick phillips wrote: > I'm pretty sure the same login screen said "Debian user" or something like > that. When I try any of my passwords, they now don't work! I'm not sure What happens if you use CTRL+ALT+F1 and tr

ignore system APM suspend on AC power

2002-03-29 Thread Chris Hanson
Date: 28 Mar 2002 17:57:17 +0100 From: Jaume Guasch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I would like my laptop to ignore system APM suspend and standby requests from BIOS calls when on AC power. The relevant (Woody default) part of /etc/apm/apmd_proxy reads: == SUSPEND_ON_AC=false