Re: X windows hang (green screen) when upgraded from A03 to A08 BIOS on Dell Latitude D400.

2006-02-19 Thread Amarendra Godbole
On 2/19/06, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I upgraded from A03 to A08 BIOS for Dell Latitude D400, which runs > > Debian sarge. Now, when it boots, I get a complete green screen. This > > seems to be caused because of the BIOS upgrade, as with A03 things > > were fine. > Do you get i

wpasupplicant and 256 bit wep

2006-02-19 Thread H.S.
Hi, I am trying to make my wireless card work in Inspiron 5160 using the bcm43xx module in Debian Sid running 2.6.15 kernel. I have "kind of" made thing chug along using wpa_supplicant (0.4.7 IIRC). I was wondering, I am not able to make it work using 256 bit WEP key, does wpa_supplicant support

Re: Configuring inittab

2006-02-19 Thread Henrique Rennó
Hello Everybody!!! Thanks for all the answers!!! I'll take a look at each option all of you have passed to me. Regards -- Henrique

Re: X windows hang (green screen) when upgraded from A03 to A08 BIOS on Dell Latitude D400.

2006-02-19 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon, 20 Feb 2006 00:20:21 +0530 "Amarendra Godbole" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I upgraded from A03 to A08 BIOS for Dell Latitude D400, which runs > Debian sarge. Now, when it boots, I get a complete green screen. This > seems to be caused because of the BIOS upgrade, as with A03 thin

Re: Configuring inittab

2006-02-19 Thread Sergio Pereira
Henrique Rennó escreveu: Hello!!! I have a line in /etc/inittab like this: id:3:initdBuefault: Level 3 is for the system to boot in shell login, but my system is going directly to a x login screen (like level 5). Is there something else I have to set to fix it? Regards -- Henrique Hi.

X windows hang (green screen) when upgraded from A03 to A08 BIOS on Dell Latitude D400.

2006-02-19 Thread Amarendra Godbole
Hi, I upgraded from A03 to A08 BIOS for Dell Latitude D400, which runs Debian sarge. Now, when it boots, I get a complete green screen. This seems to be caused because of the BIOS upgrade, as with A03 things were fine. It would be great if someone can help me fix this. Thanks very much in advance

Re: xserver-xorg hangs with radeon / ati driver

2006-02-19 Thread Raúl Sánchez Siles
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 André Wendt wrote: > Hi, > > >> flgrx is delivered as only binary and Ati says that this binary driver > > will only work for 6.8, it is not a constraint from xorg. > > I don't think so. Since ATI drivers are proprietary, it is up to Debian to > c

Re: Fwd: backlight stays off

2006-02-19 Thread Raúl Sánchez Siles
David Berg wrote: > On 2/18/06, Richard Mittendorfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Also sprach "David Berg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Sat, 18 Feb 2006 >>14:12:02 -0600): >> >>>On 2/18/06, Richard Mittendorfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Also sprach "David Berg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Sat, 18 Feb

Configuring inittab

2006-02-19 Thread Henrique Rennó
Hello!!! I have a line in /etc/inittab like this: id:3:initdBuefault: Level 3 is for the system to boot in shell login, but my system is going directly to a x login screen (like level 5). Is there something else I have to set to fix it? Regards -- Henrique

Re: easy laptop install?

2006-02-19 Thread A. F. Cano
On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 05:21:26AM +, Richard Lyons wrote: > I know this list is committed to debian on laptops, but see quite a few > references to debian derivatives, so perhaps this is not entirely OT. > > When I install on a desktop box, I can be reasonably sure to get most of > a working

Re: easy laptop install?

2006-02-19 Thread Charles Muller
Richard Lyons wrote: Are there distros that install on laptops with as much success as standard net-install does on a desktop? I know that some live cd's overcome hardware issues better than the normal install. I originally arrived at debian via knoppix3.1, for example. I keep seeing ubuntu

Re: xserver-xorg hangs with radeon / ati driver

2006-02-19 Thread André Wendt
Hi, > flgrx is delivered as only binary and Ati says that this binary driver will only work for 6.8, it is not a constraint from xorg. I don't think so. Since ATI drivers are proprietary, it is up to Debian to classify the dependencies. And there are a couple of people out there using the lates

Re: Reconfiguring network on the fly

2006-02-19 Thread Nigel Ridley
Neil McGovern wrote: On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 10:20:20PM +0200, Nigel Ridley wrote: Hi, I've been lurking for a while meaning to ask about getting my [oldish] laptop 'mobile' - being able to change from 'home' use to 'office' use. At home we have a static ip setup, whilst at the 'office' it's

Re: bug in etch pcmcia NIC configuration?

2006-02-19 Thread cga
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Selon [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello. I submitted a bug report against debian-installer saying this: Package: debian-installer I installed Debian with the Sarge netinstall cdrom, version 3.1r1. During the installation, the pcmcia networking card were recognized wi

Re: Installing lmule

2006-02-19 Thread Martin Hauser
Hello, > I'm trying to install lmule on Debian Sarge 3.1 and I did the > following steps: > > - downloaded lmule from sourceforge. > - executed configure script. It needed a libexpat library. > - apt-get install expat > - ln -s /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1.0.0 /usr/lib/libexpat.so - configure > wasn't