Re: Atir radeon mobility and svideo outpout

2002-11-18 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 19 Nov 2002, Simon Wong wrote: > On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 10:41, Daniel Pittman wrote: >> Have a look at the X log file if using the VESA modes fails and see >> why X doesn't like the mode. > I checked out the log and it's not accepting any of the 800x600 modes > from the examples file due to eith

Re: Atir radeon mobility and svideo outpout

2002-11-18 Thread Simon Wong
On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 10:41, Daniel Pittman wrote: > Have a look at the X log file if using the VESA modes fails and see why > X doesn't like the mode. I checked out the log and it's not accepting any of the 800x600 modes from the examples file due to either horizontal or vertical sync being out o

Re: Atir radeon mobility and svideo outpout

2002-11-18 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 19 Nov 2002, Simon Wong wrote: > On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 10:41, Daniel Pittman wrote: >> Have a look at the X log file if using the VESA modes fails and see >> why X doesn't like the mode. > I checked out the log and it's not accepting any of the 800x600 modes > from the examples file due to eith

Re: Atir radeon mobility and svideo outpout

2002-11-18 Thread Simon Wong
On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 10:41, Daniel Pittman wrote: > Have a look at the X log file if using the VESA modes fails and see why > X doesn't like the mode. I checked out the log and it's not accepting any of the 800x600 modes from the examples file due to either horizontal or vertical sync being out o

Re: HD performance question

2002-11-18 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 19 Nov 2002, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > Daniel Pittman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: >> > I'm a minimalist and rolled my own kernel. It was absolutely bare >> > bones and that had a noticable effect on hard disk performance. So >> > I tinkered around a

Re: HD performance question

2002-11-18 Thread Derek Gladding
On Monday 18 November 2002 02:28 am, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Dear .debs, > > I'm a minimalist and rolled my own kernel. It was absolutely bare > bones and that had a noticable effect on hard disk performance. So I > tinkered around a bit with k

Re: HD performance question

2002-11-18 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Daniel Pittman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > > I'm a minimalist and rolled my own kernel. It was absolutely bare > > bones and that had a noticable effect on hard disk performance. So I > > tinkered around a bit with kernel options and tested perfo

Re: Atir radeon mobility and svideo outpout

2002-11-18 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 19 Nov 2002, Simon Wong wrote: > On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 22:58, Daniel Pittman wrote: >> 5. Set the resolution to 800x600 or less.[2] > > Could you show me how to set that resolution? It just works for me, using the built-in VESA modes. Try removing all the modeline statements from your monitor

Re: HD performance question (3hd raid)

2002-11-18 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Robert Michel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Monday, 18. November 2002 13:01, Daniel Pittman wrote: > > On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > > > > Question 2: Can I do better than this? > > > > No. > > > > > I still think hard disk performance is a bit slow but that may be just > > > m

Re: Atir radeon mobility and svideo outpout

2002-11-18 Thread Simon Wong
On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 22:58, Daniel Pittman wrote: > 5. Set the resolution to 800x600 or less.[2] Could you show me how to set that resolution? I have the following lines in my XF86config-4 file but only 1400x1050 works. Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor0" Vendo

Re: HD performance question

2002-11-18 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 19 Nov 2002, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > Daniel Pittman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: >> > I'm a minimalist and rolled my own kernel. It was absolutely bare >> > bones and that had a noticable effect on hard disk performance. So >> > I tinkered around a

Re: HD performance question

2002-11-18 Thread Derek Gladding
On Monday 18 November 2002 02:28 am, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Dear .debs, > > I'm a minimalist and rolled my own kernel. It was absolutely bare > bones and that had a noticable effect on hard disk performance. So I > tinkered around a bit with k

Re: HD performance question

2002-11-18 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Daniel Pittman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > > I'm a minimalist and rolled my own kernel. It was absolutely bare > > bones and that had a noticable effect on hard disk performance. So I > > tinkered around a bit with kernel options and tested perfo

Re: Atir radeon mobility and svideo outpout

2002-11-18 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 19 Nov 2002, Simon Wong wrote: > On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 22:58, Daniel Pittman wrote: >> 5. Set the resolution to 800x600 or less.[2] > > Could you show me how to set that resolution? It just works for me, using the built-in VESA modes. Try removing all the modeline statements from your monitor

Re: HD performance question (3hd raid)

2002-11-18 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Robert Michel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Monday, 18. November 2002 13:01, Daniel Pittman wrote: > > On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > > > > Question 2: Can I do better than this? > > > > No. > > > > > I still think hard disk performance is a bit slow but that may be just > > > m

Re: Atir radeon mobility and svideo outpout

2002-11-18 Thread Simon Wong
On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 22:58, Daniel Pittman wrote: > 5. Set the resolution to 800x600 or less.[2] Could you show me how to set that resolution? I have the following lines in my XF86config-4 file but only 1400x1050 works. Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor0" Vendo

xf86OpenSerial, the answer

2002-11-18 Thread Eric Aumont
Sorry, I delete my previous message and cannot write this one in the same thread. Someone helped me a lot. It was not a problem of mouse. I had just to delete the line option "DMPS" in my XF86Config-4 and now it works ! Eric Just to help to find for other people : Dell Latitude C610 Caught s

Re: Help on Laptop Tunning :-)

2002-11-18 Thread Derek Broughton
From: "Paulo Lopes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I have a laptop with Debian Woody stable. (i'm a newbie to debian, so > please this probably is a stupid question :-) > > I've installed KDE3.0.4 and KDevelop 2.1.3, and among these packages > i've installed htdig (Kdevelop said it would be nice to have it

Re: Help on Laptop Tunning :-)

2002-11-18 Thread Joerg Rieger
Hello, On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 12:30:56PM +, Paulo Lopes wrote: > I want to be able to run HTDIG only when i want or something like once a > month or week... (since my files don't change alot) I've been looking on > htdig.conf but i can't find out where can i tell when to run... and i've >

xf86OpenSerial, the answer

2002-11-18 Thread Eric Aumont
Sorry, I delete my previous message and cannot write this one in the same thread. Someone helped me a lot. It was not a problem of mouse. I had just to delete the line option "DMPS" in my XF86Config-4 and now it works ! Eric Just to help to find for other people : Dell Latitude C6

Re: Help on Laptop Tunning :-)

2002-11-18 Thread Derek Broughton
From: "Paulo Lopes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I have a laptop with Debian Woody stable. (i'm a newbie to debian, so > please this probably is a stupid question :-) > > I've installed KDE3.0.4 and KDevelop 2.1.3, and among these packages > i've installed htdig (Kdevelop said it would be nice to have it

XFree86 32bit color depth on Thinkpad 770X

2002-11-18 Thread ezra daniel
Hello At work I have a IBM ThinkPad 770X. I've been able to do 1280x1024 with vesa driver (cause trident wont go further 640x480) with a color depth of 16. I'd like to have a 24bit color depth. Has anyone managed to accomplish this? This message is address to 770X users, but just in case, thi

Samsung MP3 Player YEPP-NEU

2002-11-18 Thread Paulo Lopes
Hi, I've a samsung mp3 player, a yepp-neu with 32 Mb + 64 on flash and i'm looking for an app to enable the upload of mp3 to it... I've been looking on the web for such an app. but all i could find was the sulu project. (a Gtk app). The problem is that in the main page it's said that the app

Help on Laptop Tunning :-)

2002-11-18 Thread Paulo Lopes
Hi, I have a laptop with Debian Woody stable. (i'm a newbie to debian, so please this probably is a stupid question :-) I've installed KDE3.0.4 and KDevelop 2.1.3, and among these packages i've installed htdig (Kdevelop said it would be nice to have it installed...) the problem is that every

Creative USB Webcam Go Plus

2002-11-18 Thread Paulo Lopes
Is there any driver to enable the connection of a Video Blaster WebCam Go II Plus on Linux? I've been looking on sourceforge.net and i found out a project that stopped about a year ago but the driver didn't work... I've installed the CPIA driver on my kernel... but i can't connect to the web

Re: Help on Laptop Tunning :-)

2002-11-18 Thread Joerg Rieger
Hello, On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 12:30:56PM +, Paulo Lopes wrote: > I want to be able to run HTDIG only when i want or something like once a > month or week... (since my files don't change alot) I've been looking on > htdig.conf but i can't find out where can i tell when to run... and i've >

XFree86 32bit color depth on Thinkpad 770X

2002-11-18 Thread ezra daniel
Hello At work I have a IBM ThinkPad 770X. I've been able to do 1280x1024 with vesa driver (cause trident wont go further 640x480) with a color depth of 16. I'd like to have a 24bit color depth. Has anyone managed to accomplish this? This message is address to 770X users, but just in case, this

Samsung MP3 Player YEPP-NEU

2002-11-18 Thread Paulo Lopes
Hi, I've a samsung mp3 player, a yepp-neu with 32 Mb + 64 on flash and i'm looking for an app to enable the upload of mp3 to it... I've been looking on the web for such an app. but all i could find was the sulu project. (a Gtk app). The problem is that in the main page it's said that the app.

Help on Laptop Tunning :-)

2002-11-18 Thread Paulo Lopes
Hi, I have a laptop with Debian Woody stable. (i'm a newbie to debian, so please this probably is a stupid question :-) I've installed KDE3.0.4 and KDevelop 2.1.3, and among these packages i've installed htdig (Kdevelop said it would be nice to have it installed...) the problem is that every d

Creative USB Webcam Go Plus

2002-11-18 Thread Paulo Lopes
Is there any driver to enable the connection of a Video Blaster WebCam Go II Plus on Linux? I've been looking on sourceforge.net and i found out a project that stopped about a year ago but the driver didn't work... I've installed the CPIA driver on my kernel... but i can't connect to the webca

Re: HD performance question (3hd raid)

2002-11-18 Thread Mike Dresser
On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Robert Michel wrote: > Salve Mike, > > no no, I wouldn't buy a golden case for my laptop either, > I thought about an selfmade and cheap raid, > Linux-dell-laptop is also discussing how to change CPUs of Laptops, > to make them faster (and the battery running time shorter). >

Re: HD performance question (3hd raid)

2002-11-18 Thread Robert Michel
On Monday, 18. November 2002 15:55, Mike Dresser wrote: > On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Robert Michel wrote: > > Just for speed fetishists ;-) > > No - my hds is fust enough but I would be interested if someone already > > heared about it and has a report or know a webpage about it . > > There's a couple la

xf86OpenSerial

2002-11-18 Thread Eric Aumont
Hello, May be someone could help me. I cannot run kde on my woody 3.0 rev0. On my desktop, it's OK, but on my laptop, a Dell C610, I get a problem with the mouse. I launch first the kdm. From it, I can start Gnome, but not KDE (that seems strange) : I come back to kdm. In the XFree86.0.log, at

Re: HD performance question (3hd raid)

2002-11-18 Thread Mike Dresser
On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Robert Michel wrote: > Salve Mike, > > no no, I wouldn't buy a golden case for my laptop either, > I thought about an selfmade and cheap raid, > Linux-dell-laptop is also discussing how to change CPUs of Laptops, > to make them faster (and the battery running time shorter). >

Re: HD performance question (3hd raid)

2002-11-18 Thread Robert Michel
On Monday, 18. November 2002 15:55, Mike Dresser wrote: > On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Robert Michel wrote: > > Just for speed fetishists ;-) > > No - my hds is fust enough but I would be interested if someone already > > heared about it and has a report or know a webpage about it . > > There's a couple la

xf86OpenSerial

2002-11-18 Thread Eric Aumont
Hello, May be someone could help me. I cannot run kde on my woody 3.0 rev0. On my desktop, it's OK, but on my laptop, a Dell C610, I get a problem with the mouse. I launch first the kdm. From it, I can start Gnome, but not KDE (that seems strange) : I come back to kdm. In the XFree86.0.l

Re: HD performance question (3hd raid)

2002-11-18 Thread Mike Dresser
On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Robert Michel wrote: > Just for speed fetishists ;-) > No - my hds is fust enough but I would be interested if someone already heared > about it and has a report or know a webpage about it . There's a couple laptops out there with bays for up to four hard drives, Eurocom.ca s

Re: HD performance question (3hd raid)

2002-11-18 Thread Robert Michel
On Monday, 18. November 2002 13:01, Daniel Pittman wrote: > On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > > Question 2: Can I do better than this? > > No. > > > I still think hard disk performance is a bit slow but that may be just > > me. > > It is. You have a laptop, which means a 5400RPM drive

pcmcia services

2002-11-18 Thread davec
i have a new micropro laptop that i am trying to install debian onto. each time that the system reboots, it will hang on pcmcia services, is there a way to disable this or remove it completely?   laptop:http://www.micropro.com/syslist.htm?product=Notebooks&sub=Notebook%2015%22%20TFT%20(Intel-B

Re: HD performance question (3hd raid)

2002-11-18 Thread Mike Dresser
On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Robert Michel wrote: > Just for speed fetishists ;-) > No - my hds is fust enough but I would be interested if someone already heared > about it and has a report or know a webpage about it . There's a couple laptops out there with bays for up to four hard drives, Eurocom.ca s

Re: X in Compaq Presario 900

2002-11-18 Thread Jean Delvare
> > This is what lspci is saying to me : > > VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M6 > > LY > > And this is what I get on my 905EA: > > VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4336 > > :-( > > I've tried to force X use the M6 LY driver with t

Re: X in Compaq Presario 900

2002-11-18 Thread Vicente Aguilar
El jue, 14-11-2002 a las 22:52, Julien MARY escribió: > This is what lspci is saying to me : > VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M6 LY And this is what I get on my 905EA: VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4336 :-( I've tried to force

Re: HD performance question

2002-11-18 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > I'm a minimalist and rolled my own kernel. It was absolutely bare > bones and that had a noticable effect on hard disk performance. So I > tinkered around a bit with kernel options and tested performance with > hdparm -tT. Now I'd like to know wha

Re: Atir radeon mobility and svideo outpout

2002-11-18 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Francois Chenais wrote: > How can I select 'svideo' output on my Radeon Mobility M6 ? This works > under Win. With difficulty, and without the niceness of the Windows driver features, because ATI don't release details of the hardware. 1. Install the 'atitvout' package. 2. Plu

Re: HD performance question (3hd raid)

2002-11-18 Thread Robert Michel
On Monday, 18. November 2002 13:01, Daniel Pittman wrote: > On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > > Question 2: Can I do better than this? > > No. > > > I still think hard disk performance is a bit slow but that may be just > > me. > > It is. You have a laptop, which means a 5400RPM drive

pcmcia services

2002-11-18 Thread davec
i have a new micropro laptop that i am trying to install debian onto. each time that the system reboots, it will hang on pcmcia services, is there a way to disable this or remove it completely?   laptop:http://www.micropro.com/syslist.htm?product=Notebooks&sub=Notebook%2015%22%20TFT%20(Intel-B

Re: HP Laptop acpi

2002-11-18 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Mike Kelland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have the acpi package installed through apt on the (knoppix) 2.4.19-xfs > kernel. Can anyone tell me what I need to do to enable it (ie create the > /proc/acpi file)? You don't write which HP laptop you own, but I think that kernel 2.4.19 doesn't hav

HD performance question

2002-11-18 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear .debs, I'm a minimalist and rolled my own kernel. It was absolutely bare bones and that had a noticable effect on hard disk performance. So I tinkered around a bit with kernel options and tested performance with hdparm -tT. Now I'd like to

Re: X in Compaq Presario 900

2002-11-18 Thread Jean Delvare
> > This is what lspci is saying to me : > > VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M6 > > LY > > And this is what I get on my 905EA: > > VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4336 > > :-( > > I've tried to force X use the M6 LY driver with t

Re: export DISPLAY / remote Xclient?

2002-11-18 Thread Ionel Mugurel Ciobica
On 13-11-2002, at 22h 39'39", Shyamal Prasad wrote to debian-laptop about "Re: export DISPLAY / remote Xclient?" > > In my case it is started with gdm. The file /etc/gdm/gdm.conf > contains a line at the end that specifies the X command line. Like > this: > > command=/usr/bin/X11/X -deferglyphs

Re: X in Compaq Presario 900

2002-11-18 Thread Vicente Aguilar
El jue, 14-11-2002 a las 22:52, Julien MARY escribió: > This is what lspci is saying to me : > VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M6 LY And this is what I get on my 905EA: VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4336 :-( I've tried to force

Re: HD performance question

2002-11-18 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > I'm a minimalist and rolled my own kernel. It was absolutely bare > bones and that had a noticable effect on hard disk performance. So I > tinkered around a bit with kernel options and tested performance with > hdparm -tT. Now I'd like to know wha

Re: Atir radeon mobility and svideo outpout

2002-11-18 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Francois Chenais wrote: > How can I select 'svideo' output on my Radeon Mobility M6 ? This works > under Win. With difficulty, and without the niceness of the Windows driver features, because ATI don't release details of the hardware. 1. Install the 'atitvout' package. 2. Plu

Re: HP Laptop acpi

2002-11-18 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Mike Kelland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have the acpi package installed through apt on the (knoppix) 2.4.19-xfs > kernel. Can anyone tell me what I need to do to enable it (ie create the > /proc/acpi file)? You don't write which HP laptop you own, but I think that kernel 2.4.19 doesn't hav

HD performance question

2002-11-18 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear .debs, I'm a minimalist and rolled my own kernel. It was absolutely bare bones and that had a noticable effect on hard disk performance. So I tinkered around a bit with kernel options and tested performance with hdparm -tT. Now I'd like to

Atir radeon mobility and svideo outpout

2002-11-18 Thread Francois Chenais
Hello, How can I select 'svideo' output on my Radeon Mobility M6 ? This works under Win. Thanks by advance. François 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M6 LY (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Subsystem: NEC Corporation: Unknown

Re: export DISPLAY / remote Xclient?

2002-11-18 Thread Ionel Mugurel Ciobica
On 13-11-2002, at 22h 39'39", Shyamal Prasad wrote to debian-laptop about "Re: export DISPLAY / remote Xclient?" > > In my case it is started with gdm. The file /etc/gdm/gdm.conf > contains a line at the end that specifies the X command line. Like > this: > > command=/usr/bin/X11/X -deferglyphs

Atir radeon mobility and svideo outpout

2002-11-18 Thread Francois Chenais
Hello, How can I select 'svideo' output on my Radeon Mobility M6 ? This works under Win. Thanks by advance. François 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M6 LY (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Subsystem: NEC Corporati