Re: vga=791 nno longer works

2005-10-09 Thread L.V.Gandhi
On 10/10/05, marc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi,This is a bit odd. I've just upgraded my laptop to etch and xorg. Today,I compiled a new 2.6.13.3 kernel. To my grub entry I added the option,vga=791, to the kernel line, but now this has the effect of blanking the screen until the boot process has co

Re: remote X weirdness

2005-10-09 Thread Neil Youngman
On Sunday 09 Oct 2005 22:18, Willie McKemie wrote: > I "ssh -XC ", then "firefox" or "firefox&". Sure enough, I get > Firefox on my local display. But, it gives every indication that it is > a local Firefox, not Firefox on the remote box; the URL "file:///" > shows the local filesystem. Other X

Re: DSL connection

2005-10-09 Thread David R. Litwin
On 09/10/05, martina ackermann < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi everybody,I am a Linux newby.Trying to get into the internet using my laptop (thinkpad R 40) at home.I have debian and knoppix on it.The guy that installed  the software on it set up an ethernet connection. What I do to connect via ether

hibernate/sleep howto

2005-10-09 Thread Ganeshram Iyer
hello experts, I have debian sarge on a dell inspiron 5000. i was looking at using either a sleep or hibernate function on it. but whatever info i am able to find online requires me to path and compile my own kernel. i have a very slow PC and limited space on my had (about 1gb) so do not want to in

Re: vga=791 nno longer works

2005-10-09 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 marc on Monday 10 Oct 2005 00:30 wrote: > Hi, > > This is a bit odd. I've just upgraded my laptop to etch and xorg. Today, > I compiled a new 2.6.13.3 kernel. To my grub entry I added the option, > vga=791, to the kernel line, but now this has the ef

remote X weirdness

2005-10-09 Thread Willie McKemie
This is not a strictly laptop problem, but I see it on a laptop :-) It happens at least on Libranet 2.8, and I seem to recall seeing it happen on other Debians. I "ssh -XC ", then "firefox" or "firefox&". Sure enough, I get Firefox on my local display. But, it gives every indication that it

Re: DSL connection

2005-10-09 Thread Christian Schuerer
Hello Martina, On Sunday 09 October 2005 21:44, martina ackermann wrote: > At home I now have a DSL-connection. When I typ "pump" into the > root-commandline it answers: e100 : eth0 NIC Link is up 100 Mps Full Duplex > > When I open the browser in x-windows and search for the "google" pages > it w

Re: I and K keys stop working after a while...

2005-10-09 Thread Denis Haskin
Okay, I'm pretty sure this is a hardware problem. I checked a little more closely and it's the 8, i, k, and "," keys, so there's probably a loose connection. Guess it's time to take apart the laptop... dwh Denis Haskin wrote: Hmm... I don't know if this is just a hardware problem... I'm ru

I and K keys stop working after a while...

2005-10-09 Thread Denis Haskin
Hmm... I don't know if this is just a hardware problem... I'm running Debian on a Dell Inspiron 3800. After it's been on for a while the I and K keys stop working. No other keys seem to be affected. I don't think it's an X server problem; they don't work even at the console. I guess it's pro

DSL connection

2005-10-09 Thread martina ackermann
Hi everybody, I am a Linux newby. Trying to get into the internet using my laptop (thinkpad R 40) at home. I have debian and knoppix on it. The guy that installed the software on it set up an ethernet connection. When I was at a linux install-fest on 10/01/05 all I had to do was connect my la

Belkin Pre-N card in debian laptop?

2005-10-09 Thread Denis Haskin
Anyone know if the Belkin Pre-N card (F5D8010, see [1]) can be used in a laptop running Debian? So far my web research seems to indicate the answer is no, but I'm hoping I'm wrong... I'm getting crummy range with my current Dlink setup, and the Belkin router/notebook-card combo is really cheap

Re: ACPI and KDE

2005-10-09 Thread Kai Hildebrandt
Hi. Bob Alexander wrote: > I have installed a script which responds to Fn-F7 by issuing a > radeontool dac on and off (toggle) on my Thinkpad T40. > > How can I get some nice message box on KDE just like what I see when I > give other ACPI events like echo level 7 > /proc/acpi/ibm/brightness > (

Re: battstat-applet

2005-10-09 Thread Norton
Thanx guys, it worked... Em Sáb, 2005-10-08 às 14:14 +0200, Robin Haunschild escreveu: > Am Samstag, 8. Oktober 2005 12:21 schrieb Koen Vermeer: > > On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 23:33 +0100, Norton wrote: > > > Right... I googled and found just nothing... then I went to etch's > > > packages and found no

Re: How to use password-protected wireless networks?

2005-10-09 Thread Daniel Pittman
John O'Hagan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> John O'Hagan wrote: > [...] >> >One situation which has stumped me, however, is when the network requires >> > a password (which I have, of course, been given!): how do I enter the >> > password? > [...] > > Thanks to everyone who replied, you have pointe

Re: How to use password-protected wireless networks?

2005-10-09 Thread John O'Hagan
> John O'Hagan wrote: [...] > >One situation which has stumped me, however, is when the network requires > > a password (which I have, of course, been given!): how do I enter the > > password? [...] Thanks to everyone who replied, you have pointed me in the right direction: here is the relevant b