Re: my kde sound problem

2005-01-03 Thread Mikhail Gusarov
You ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > far so good, but seems have problem with the sound. When i'm playing > mp3 using XMMS, it would stop after playing few songs and popup a > dialog to inform me to check if the sound is not blocked. I'm using > OSS. Any idea what's wrong? And everytime i exit KMix,

my kde sound problem

2005-01-03 Thread Rony
Hi, I'm a linux newbie, installed Sarge on my Toshiba laptop before. Thanks to this mailing list for helping me a lot that time. About a month ago, i miraculously mess up the kernel/lilo/whatever when using aptitude to auto upgrade the kernel. Now i'm making a clean install again, using the Debia

my kde sound problem

2005-01-03 Thread Rony
Hi, I'm a linux newbie, installed Sarge on my Toshiba laptop before. Thanks to this mailing list for helping me a lot that time. About a month ago, i miraculously mess up the kernel/lilo/whatever when using aptitude to auto upgrade the kernel. Now i'm making a clean install again, using the Debia

Re: ACPI problem: console and X black after resume on supsend-to-ram

2005-01-03 Thread Martin Theiss
Hi Kai Hildebrandt, *, Kai Hildebrandt wrote: > I just compiled a 2.6.9 kernel on my debian sarge notebook with ACPI > support. I also configured tpb but some keys do not work. The notebook > is a IBM thinkpad r50p. > > What can I do to get the key to change the video output (Fn + F7) > working?

Re: Re: Pentium-Classic Laptop/PCMCIA-Ethernet-Card

2005-01-03 Thread Michael Jarosch
Hello again! I've bought another pcmcia card, named "FiberLine 10M Ethernet COMBO FL-4680" and - well - everything's working fine: The card is recognized correctly, the modules are loaded and last not least I already connected to my private network. Still, the Goldstar-Card is not working! So, I

poor tft display/misconfiguration. some hints?

2005-01-03 Thread Leonardo Canducci
A few months ago I bought a travelmate 291. I'm quite satisfied with it except for its 15" tft display: view angle is limited (thogh still decent) and colors and detail are really poor (that's a serious issue when watching videos or pictures from my camera). I also own a 17" tft of the same brand

Re: ACPI and Screen Resolution :)

2005-01-03 Thread Nico Golde
Hello Elizabeth, * Elizabeth Palomino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-01-03 23:24]: > Greetings :) > > I'm running Debian Testing on my laptop. Everything seems to be working > ok but I have two quick questions :) > > The screen resolution seems fixed. My laptop is a Toshiba M3X-S149. The > video card

ACPI and Screen Resolution :)

2005-01-03 Thread Elizabeth Palomino
Greetings :) I'm running Debian Testing on my laptop. Everything seems to be working ok but I have two quick questions :) The screen resolution seems fixed. My laptop is a Toshiba M3X-S149. The video card is an intel 855 I believe. No matter what I set the resolution to in the XF86CONFIG it never

Re: acpi monitoring software

2005-01-03 Thread Nico Golde
hi, * Nico Golde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-01-03 18:36]: > I decided to write an own acpi monitoring software for > textmode using ncurses because i dont like the normal acpi > package of debian. > > You can find it on > http://www.ngolde.de/download/tacpi-0.0.2.tar.gz > I write because i don't kn

ACPI problem: console and X black after resume on supsend-to-ram

2005-01-03 Thread Kai Hildebrandt
Hi all. I just compiled a 2.6.9 kernel on my debian sarge notebook with ACPI support. I also configured tpb but some keys do not work. The notebook is a IBM thinkpad r50p. What can I do to get the key to change the video output (Fn + F7) working? Is there any chance to get my notebook to work af

XFree86 problems on ASUS L3500 - video chipset SiS 650

2005-01-03 Thread Laboratorio di Ecologia Applicata
Hi, about six months ago, I installed debian woody (kernel 2.4.22) on my ASUS L3500. Having a SiS 65x/M650/740 VGA display adapter, I used the SiS driver provided by T. Winischhofer (http://www.winischhofer.at/linuxsisvga.shtml) with XFree86 (I don't rememeber the version) and fluxbox as window man

Re: Laptop recomendation?

2005-01-03 Thread Hanspeter Kunz
On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 11:10 -0400, Derek Broughton wrote: > On Friday 31 December 2004 20:51, Mark M wrote: > > > > 1. What gotachas are there? eg. I have found out about a partition you > > should keep intact for hibernation mode. Is this OS independant? Or > > only for MSwindows? Is there anythin

acpi monitoring software

2005-01-03 Thread Nico Golde
Hi, I decided to write an own acpi monitoring software for textmode using ncurses because i dont like the normal acpi package of debian. You can find it on http://www.ngolde.de/download/tacpi-0.0.2.tar.gz I write because i don't know, if this program works on other systems then mine (asus m6800nb

Re: Debian vs. Fedora on Laptops

2005-01-03 Thread Alvin Smith
On Monday 03 January 2005 07:29 am, Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo wrote: > El jue, 30-12-2004 a las 13:28 -0400, Derek Broughton escribió: > [...] > > > Ubuntu installed on my Dell Inspiron right out of the box. Too bad I > > forgot what I used for the root password :-) > > Boot from Ubuntu Live CD or

Re: kernel 2.6.9 and thinkpad source package

2005-01-03 Thread Derek Broughton
On Sunday 02 January 2005 08:28, S. Anthony Sequeira wrote: > I have followed the README instructions to compile the thinkpad modules > for my custom 2.6.9 kernel, built using make-kpkg. > > Unfortunately, the thinkpad modules seem to be installed > in /lib/modules/2.6.9 instead of what seems to b

Re: Laptop recomendation?

2005-01-03 Thread Derek Broughton
On Friday 31 December 2004 20:51, Mark M wrote: > > 1. What gotachas are there? eg. I have found out about a partition you > should keep intact for hibernation mode. Is this OS independant? Or > only for MSwindows? Is there anything else I really need to know (of > course I will be installing debia

Re: Firewall and Laptop

2005-01-03 Thread Derek Broughton
On Friday 31 December 2004 14:21, Marcus C. Gottwald wrote: > > I do like the way iptables is used in woody: You create your > chains and rules any way you like and once you're done, you tell > it to save the current state (by executing > "/etc/init.d/iptables save active"). You can easily make cop

Re: Debian vs. Fedora on Laptops

2005-01-03 Thread Marcel Gschwandl
On Monday, 3. January 2005 13.29, Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo wrote: > El jue, 30-12-2004 a las 13:28 -0400, Derek Broughton escribiÃ: > [...] > > > Ubuntu installed on my Dell Inspiron right out of the box. Too bad I > > forgot what I used for the root password :-) > > Boot from Ubuntu Live CD or K

Re: Debian vs. Fedora on Laptops

2005-01-03 Thread Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo
El jue, 30-12-2004 a las 13:28 -0400, Derek Broughton escribiÃ: [...] > > Ubuntu installed on my Dell Inspiron right out of the box. Too bad I forgot > what I used for the root password :-) > Boot from Ubuntu Live CD or Knoppix, mount root partition on /mnt or something like that, edit /et/pa

Re: minipci card for dell inspiron 4100

2005-01-03 Thread Marcus Crafter
Hi Michael, Hope all is going well mate. I've got an Inspiron 8500, and I bought/installed the Proxim Orinoco Gold card, which was a 802.11a/b/g mini-PCI card. It works fine under Debian with the GPL madwifi (atheros) driver. There's also a debian package available for building kernel module so

Re: kernel 2.6.9 and thinkpad source package

2005-01-03 Thread Thomas Hood
On Sun, 02 Jan 2005 13:30:15 +0100, S. Anthony Sequeira wrote: > I have followed the README instructions to compile the thinkpad modules > for my custom 2.6.9 kernel, built using make-kpkg. > > Unfortunately, the thinkpad modules seem to be installed > in /lib/modules/2.6.9 instead of what seems t