SOLVED: Re: acpi and backlight issue

2006-02-24 Thread David Berg
An upgrade of the bios (AMI) from version 1.01 to version 1.11 solved the problem. Thanks for your help. --Dave On 2/22/06, David Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I recently switched my uniwill 245II0 laptop from Ubuntu to Debian > Sarge with the 2.6.8 kernel. Upon doing so my backlight stoppe

DRIScreenInit fails on i915GM Debian Etch x.org KDE 3.5

2006-02-24 Thread Robert C. Auch
Title: DRIScreenInit fails on i915GM Debian Etch x.org KDE 3.5 sudo egrep -i "\((WW|EE)\)" /var/log/Xorg.0.log   (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (WW) The directory "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/CID" does not exist. (WW) The directory "/var/lib/

HP Pavilion ze2401xt Notebook

2006-02-24 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
I wonder if there are any ideas/recommendations/pointers to install sid or sarge in this machine. I have made X work with vesa driver, the problems that i have so far are: * no sound (altec lansing), alsoconf from sarge didnt see any sound card, will try next sid's version. * the ati driver do

Re: 2.6.15 on HP ZV6100 ( similar to compaq R4000)

2006-02-24 Thread Florian Kulzer
Robert Goley wrote: I would like to know the trick about loading earlier that you are talking about. I load all main drivers from the initrd. You must for all boot hardware anyway. My experience is that if it is built as a module, hdparm will not be allowed to change DMA settings. Compiling

Re: 2.6.15 on HP ZV6100 ( similar to compaq R4000)

2006-02-24 Thread Robert Goley
I would like to know the trick about loading earlier that you are talking about. I load all main drivers from the initrd. You must for all boot hardware anyway. My experience is that if it is built as a module, hdparm will not be allowed to change DMA settings. Robert On Fri, 2006-02-24 at 16:

Re: 2.6.15 on HP ZV6100 ( similar to compaq R4000)

2006-02-24 Thread Florian Kulzer
Leonardo Boselli wrote: [I am not subscribed to this list, so please reply to my own address] I have a HP ZV6100 . I have installed debian serge, then updated to etch. but either with 2.6.8 or 2.6.15, k7 or 486 i am unable to activate dma and in turn the computer freeze almost completely during d

Re: 2.6.15 on HP ZV6100 ( similar to compaq R4000)

2006-02-24 Thread Robert Goley
The problem most likely is that support for your IDE controller is not built into the kernel. This a problem I have encountered several times and it is quite annoying. If the controller drivers are not built into the kernel, you can not enable DMA. I wish someone would fix this bu they currently

2.6.15 on HP ZV6100 ( similar to compaq R4000)

2006-02-24 Thread Leonardo Boselli
[I am not subscribed to this list, so please reply to my own address] I have a HP ZV6100 . I have installed debian serge, then updated to etch. but either with 2.6.8 or 2.6.15, k7 or 486 i am unable to activate dma and in turn the computer freeze almost completely during disk access (expecailly if

addition to set vbe probşem in mitac 5021

2006-02-24 Thread OguzY
lspci -n http://pastebin.com/570005 lspci -v http://pastebin.com/570009 and #modprobe vesafb modprobe: Cant't locate module vesafb Oguz Yarimtepe

vbe problem revisited

2006-02-24 Thread OguzY
I decided to add the logs. Let me remention my problem. I have a Mitac 5021 laptop that has woody installed. I installed the base system and xserver-xfree86 and icevm. Whenever the x server tries to run i got a SetVBE error. So i couldt get the icewm running. Here are the some helpfull logs. #lsp