Re: wireless card

2005-04-29 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I recommend you burn this image and use it to install Sarge: http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/i386/rc3/sarge-i386-netinst.iso You can then upgrade to Sid if you want.

Re: wireless card

2005-04-29 Thread Dot Deb
Are you sure you really want to run woody? "testing" or "unstable" perform very well. I've run only unstable for years without severe problems. I only install stable on server machines. On 4/29/05, Emmanuele Salvati <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi all, > > i'm a new user of debian, i have install

Re: X on laptop going nuts

2005-04-29 Thread Dot Deb
I'm sorry but I missed the beginning of this thread, so I'm not sure to say useful things. It happened to me that, starting some months ago, the nvidia driver compeltely freeze my box: no useful messages, no remote connection, no soft reboot. Quite deceived, I used the nv driver for months. But t

wireless card

2005-04-29 Thread Emmanuele Salvati
hi all, i'm a new user of debian, i have installed a woody 2.0 on a laptop, but i can't use my wireless card, i guess because in the old default kernel it is not supported. the wireless card is the following: Belkin 5D7010 is it supported in the new kernels? thank you -- emmanuele

Re: X on laptop going nuts

2005-04-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 29 April 2005 17:29, Paul Puschmann wrote: > There is an issue with nvidia and udev, that is used by sarge (on most > machines). Well, it is most noticeably pulled in as a dependency from hal and usbmount, and hal is installed when you install Gnome. So "most machines" is probably "any

Re: X on laptop going nuts

2005-04-29 Thread Paul Puschmann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 sime wrote: > Paul Puschmann wrote: > >> Try to use the nv drivers for your XFree86 and not the nvidia driver. > > > Doing so now. > >> If the problem is gone, try to reinstall your nvidia-binary-drivers. > > > I do not believe this to be the pro

Re: X on laptop going nuts

2005-04-29 Thread Adrien Caillot
sime wrote: The whole system is unresponsive, doesn't respond to any keyboard commands. Have you tried to log in to your laptop using SSH when this problem happens ? I have the same issue with an other Toshiba laptop (Satellite Pro 4600) : when I log out of X, sometimes the screen becomes blank

Re: X on laptop going nuts

2005-04-29 Thread sime
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When this happens, can you press Ctrl+Alt+F1/F2/etc and switch to another terminal? Can you press Ctrl+Alt+Backspace and restart X? The whole system is unresponsive, doesn't respond to any keyboard commands. Have you checked /var/log/XFree86.log.0? (might be several) I wil

Re: X on laptop going nuts

2005-04-29 Thread sime
Paul Puschmann wrote: Try to use the nv drivers for your XFree86 and not the nvidia driver. Doing so now. If the problem is gone, try to reinstall your nvidia-binary-drivers. I do not believe this to be the problem directly, as I always upgrade my driver with each nvidia release and this has been

Re: support for Intel(R) Celeron(R) M in kernel 2.6.11

2005-04-29 Thread Radoslav Kolev
Hi! > Suggest you try the speedstep_ich module. Although mine is not the same > processor, maybe this [1] thread gives you some more info. I have tried all modules, speedstep_ich, acpi cpufreq, speedstep_centrino and any other I can get my hands on. The only module that loads succesfully is the p

Re: support for Intel(R) Celeron(R) M in kernel 2.6.11

2005-04-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 29 April 2005 10:21, Radoslav Kolev wrote: > p4-clockmod: Warning: Pentium M detected. The speedstep_centrino > module offers voltage scaling in addition of frequency scaling. You > should use that instead of p4-clockmod, if possible. > p4-clockmod: P4/Xeon(TM) CPU On-Demand Clock Modulat

support for Intel(R) Celeron(R) M in kernel 2.6.11

2005-04-29 Thread Radoslav Kolev
Hi, all! I just both a new laptop and of course installed Linux on it. It has a Intel Celeron M processor, and I can't quite figure out what it is capable of. I'm running kernel 2.6.11. The only power saving feature I have managed to get working is frequency scaling using the p4-clockmod module. W