Problems booting Debian 3.1 on Acer 4100

2005-07-14 Thread Ram Kumar DANGETI
Hi, Iam having a Acer Extensa 4102WLMi laptop(Intel Pentium-M 740 1.73GHz FSB533 2MB L2 Cache, Intel 915PM Express Chipset, 15.4" WXGA CrystalBrite TFT, Resulution: 1280x800, ATI Mobility Radeon X700 128MB ). I tried to install debian using debian-31r0a-i386-netinst.iso image and e

problem with /dev/hdc and DVD player

2005-07-14 Thread tickfigure
Hello, I'm running Debian Sarge on a IBM R50E laptop. I cannot seem to get the DVD/CD-RW to function correctly. I receive the following error when trying to mount a DVD/CD with mount /cdrom: mount: special device /dev/hdc does not exist The following links do exist: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root r

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Re: memory stick

2005-07-14 Thread Derek Broughton
Juraj Ziegler wrote: > Colin Cotter wrote: >> Is the consensus that I need to reformat the stick then? I'm a bit >> nervous about this because of the "paperweight" rumours, also this >> seems like a strange solution as the stick works fine with Windows, >> also it worked on my colleague's RedHat m

Re: i810 driver and X

2005-07-14 Thread Takis Diakoumis
Hi all been fiddling a little since the original post. i did try the xorg packages suggested - unfortunately no change. i also noticed some other funnies with xorg (at least the packages i downloaded - later said to be dated and buggy). in any case, i've been scared off the xorg packages, probab

Re: memory stick

2005-07-14 Thread Juraj Ziegler
Colin Cotter wrote: > Is the consensus that I need to reformat the stick then? I'm a bit > nervous about this because of the "paperweight" rumours, also this > seems like a strange solution as the stick works fine with Windows, > also it worked on my colleague's RedHat machine. It is a fairly > sta

Re: memory stick

2005-07-14 Thread Colin Cotter
> For what it's worth, I have run ``mkfs -t vfat'' on a memory stick once, > after it had accumulated some weird and (as far as I recall) undeletable > files (due to a sequence of events involving unplugging without dismounting, > Windows or Macintosh system freezes, and other things). The stick ha

Re: memory stick

2005-07-14 Thread Jan T. Kim
On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 05:16:43PM -0300, Derek Broughton wrote: > s. keeling wrote: > > > Colin Cotter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> On 7/12/05, Steffen Waldherr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> > If this doesn't work, you might > >> > want to try "fdisk /dev/sda" to see the partition > >> > ta

Re: memory stick

2005-07-14 Thread Derek Broughton
s. keeling wrote: > Colin Cotter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> On 7/12/05, Steffen Waldherr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > If this doesn't work, you might >> > want to try "fdisk /dev/sda" to see the partition >> > table of the stick and maybe repartition and/or >> > reformat it to your needs. >

Re: Screen sometimes goes black during Xscreensaver

2005-07-14 Thread Alan Pope
On 14/07/05, Kevin Zhao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi here is my strange problem. Generally the xscreensaver is running > very well on may laptop. But sometimes the screen turns black(it is > not off, as I can see the "background light") and I could never turn > it back. I have tried the Fn keys,

Screen sometimes goes black during Xscreensaver

2005-07-14 Thread Kevin Zhao
Hi here is my strange problem. Generally the xscreensaver is running very well on may laptop. But sometimes the screen turns black(it is not off, as I can see the "background light") and I could never turn it back. I have tried the Fn keys, switching to console terminal but nothing happened. I gues