Re: what is vesa error -6

2005-01-29 Thread Rino Mardo
i checked and there are no typos. what i did noticed was that the 2.6.10 kernel doesn't have a selection for the S3 video adapter which this laptop is using. i see selections for ATI, Matrox, but not S3. maybe i should look in that direction. On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 19:32:34 +0100, Georg Wittenburg

Re: Debian & irda

2005-01-29 Thread Ralph Bacolod
--- Ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > I am attempting to set up irda on my Asus l3800C without much success > and am looking for help! > > I believe I have the kernel configured correctly, lsmod shows: > Module Size Used byNot tainted > irtty

Re: ATI Radeon Mobility 9000

2005-01-29 Thread Pablo Fischer
Hi, > I'm not sure if many laptop users will be using the fglrx drivers, since > they don't support suspend / resume. Yes :-), I seen that when I tried to hibernate :-(. BTW, I'm using the fglrx drivers, I get better rendering with those than with 'radeon'. So, if someone is using this card with

Re: ATI Radeon Mobility 9000

2005-01-29 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Sat, 2005-01-29 at 15:34 -0600, Pablo Fischer wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to get a better velocity in my ATI card (in a 600m). I'm > using the fglrx Debian drivers [1] and I have already tried with the > 'radeon' card. > > The average of my fps is: 800 fps with fglrx and 600 with radeon driver

Debian & irda

2005-01-29 Thread Ben
Hi All, I am attempting to set up irda on my Asus l3800C without much success and am looking for help! I believe I have the kernel configured correctly, lsmod shows: Module Size Used byNot tainted irtty 8544 0 (unused) ircomm-tty 33600 0 (

ATI Radeon Mobility 9000

2005-01-29 Thread Pablo Fischer
Hi, I'm trying to get a better velocity in my ATI card (in a 600m). I'm using the fglrx Debian drivers [1] and I have already tried with the 'radeon' card. The average of my fps is: 800 fps with fglrx and 600 with radeon driver. I'm getting this with glxgears. And yes, I'm using direct rendering

/dev/thinkpad keeps disappearing

2005-01-29 Thread Pollywog
I have an old Thinkpad and I have installed the thinkpad-modules but I can't get them to work. First, I am not sure how to get /dev/nvram to have chmod 664 permissions after a reboot or if this is a good idea. I am the only user of the laptop, btw. The bigger problem is that /dev/thinkpad dis

Re: OT: Sarge released?

2005-01-29 Thread Richard Ibbotson
> Any one heard when Sarge will be officially released? http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/01/msg00011.html -- Richard www.sheflug.co.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: Sarge released?

2005-01-29 Thread Curt Howland
The Oracle will only say, "Soon..." On Saturday 29 January 2005 16:20, James was heard to say: > Any one heard when Sarge will be officially released? > > > James -- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and central planning advocates in American history -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: OT: Sarge released?

2005-01-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 29 January 2005 22:20, James wrote: > Any one heard when Sarge will be officially released? Unfortinately the only answer that can be given to that question is... when it's ready. However: - the fix of some kernel security updates looks about complete; - the final build of debian inst

OT: Sarge released?

2005-01-29 Thread James
Any one heard when Sarge will be officially released? James -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Problem of installation sur Asus A2000D

2005-01-29 Thread sebastien . fessard
Hello I have tried to install the sarge version with the minimal installer and the full installer too but when I choose the kernel (any version) after the decompression of kernel and his loading, my screen stays black and the computer seems to do nothing. I have tried too with the stable version. I

what is vesa error -6

2005-01-29 Thread Rino Mardo
folks, i have 64MB RAM HP OmniBook with 10GB harddisk. i've installed woody and i'm using kernel 2.6.10 because i want fb support. now my new kernel boots fine except i can't get 1024x768 on my console whereas before with slackware i can. i get this error message from dmesg: probe of vesafb0 faile

Re: how does debian know how many times it has been rebooted? (was disable dosfsck)

2005-01-29 Thread Ben
Michael Schiansky wrote: Hi Ben! First of all, please fix your mailheader. Writing to public mls without your realname in 'From' is most of the time a good reason to prevent others from replying. Noted. Usually I use ben<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> as my from address (which probably isn't that good anyway)

Re: how does debian know how many times it has been rebooted? (was disable dosfsck)

2005-01-29 Thread Martin Fluch
Hi Ben, it is the filesystem which keeps track of this information (not every filesystem supports this information, but ext2/ext3 does). For example when I do on my system (where /dev/hda1 is one partition with ext2/ext3 file system) dumpe2fs /dev/hda1 I get a long list of information, among

Re: how does debian know how many times it has been rebooted? (was disable dosfsck)

2005-01-29 Thread Michael Schiansky
Hi Ben! First of all, please fix your mailheader. Writing to public mls without your realname in 'From' is most of the time a good reason to prevent others from replying. On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 10:48:05PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I presume that there is a script somewhere in my init.d t

how does debian know how many times it has been rebooted? (was disable dosfsck)

2005-01-29 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi All, Well my subject just about says it all and I know its not really laptop specific but.. I presume that there is a script somewhere in my init.d that checks how many times each partition has been mounted and when that number is reached does a fsck.. is this correct? can anyone tell me wh

Re: disable dosfsck

2005-01-29 Thread Ben
Michael Schiansky wrote: On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 03:40:38PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the reply, for some reason I don't seem to be getting mail from the list, which is odd as all the spam sent to my debian address still gets through...! CCed you for this reason. #

Re: Re: disable dosfsck?

2005-01-29 Thread Michael Schiansky
On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 03:40:38PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thanks for the reply, for some reason I don't seem to be getting mail > from the list, which is odd as all the spam sent to my debian address > still gets through...! CCed you for this reason. > # > /dev/hda1