Re: Toshiba A105-S2101 Laptop - minor issues

2006-09-18 Thread David R. Litwin
On 18/09/06, Preston Boyington <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: I have loaded Debian "Testing" on my Toshiba A105-S2101 laptop.  Ihave to say that I am pleased overall.I have a  Toshiba A70 (Canadian version). I dislike it. I shall tell you why, The 2.6.15 & 2.6.17 kernels work well, although 2.6.16

Toshiba A105-S2101 Laptop - minor issues

2006-09-18 Thread Preston Boyington
I have loaded Debian "Testing" on my Toshiba A105-S2101 laptop. I have to say that I am pleased overall. The 2.6.15 & 2.6.17 kernels work well, although 2.6.16 seems to cause the audio to "loop". The internal network card works without any problems. The internal modem and wireless networking d

Re: Problems with Intel Dual Core processor

2006-09-18 Thread Florian Reitmeir
On Mon, 18 Sep 2006, Christian Schuerer wrote: > On Monday 18 September 2006 16:08, Glenn English wrote: > > Christian Schuerer wrote: > > > Do I need to load any special modules? Shouldn't the kernel be > > > SMP-capable? How can I get the 2nd core to work? > > Are you using the smp kernel? > > (

Re: Problems with Intel Dual Core processor

2006-09-18 Thread Christian Schuerer
Hello, On Monday 18 September 2006 17:10, David Navas wrote: > Please, Sometimes you need to deactivate the APM to let the kernel > recognize the dual core. You can do it in the BIOS, and check if the > dual core is recognized after that. > > ACPI can works but not APM Okay, thank you very much f

Re: Problems with Intel Dual Core processor

2006-09-18 Thread David Navas
Hello, Please, Sometimes you need to deactivate the APM to let the kernel recognize the dual core. You can do it in the BIOS, and check if the dual core is recognized after that. ACPI can works but not APM Christian Schuerer wrote: > Hello, > > On Monday 18 September 2006 16:08, Glenn English

Re: processor dual core

2006-09-18 Thread Evgeni Golov
Hi, On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 10:15:07 +0100 Gerard Robin wrote: > the recent laptops have a processor dual core, but there are still > laptops with centrino or turion processors. I think you're mixing somethin up. Centrino isn't a processor, but a kind of bundle. If the laptops does have an Intel mob

Re: Problems with Intel Dual Core processor

2006-09-18 Thread Christian Schuerer
Hello, On Monday 18 September 2006 16:08, Glenn English wrote: > Christian Schuerer wrote: > > Do I need to load any special modules? Shouldn't the kernel be > > SMP-capable? How can I get the 2nd core to work? > > Are you using the smp kernel? > > (Sorry if this is obvious, but I've been there...

Re: Problems with Intel Dual Core processor

2006-09-18 Thread Glenn English
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Christian Schuerer wrote: > Do I need to load any special modules? Shouldn't the kernel be SMP-capable? > How can I get the 2nd core to work? Are you using the smp kernel? (Sorry if this is obvious, but I've been there...) ... Hmmm. There doesn't

Re: Loss of hardware acceleration after fglrx upgrade to 8.28.8-0.1 in sid on a Thinkpad T43

2006-09-18 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
André Wendt wrote: > > I have a T41p and am just curious: How can you tell that HW acceleration > is not enabled? Also, you might want to try > > grep fglrx /var/log/Xorg.0.log > > and look for any warnings (WW) or errors (EE) at the beginning of lines. > Although most of the things that don't

Re: Problems with Intel Dual Core processor

2006-09-18 Thread Lubos Vrbka
Christian Schuerer wrote: I've Debian testing/sid installed on a Sony notebook (VGN-SZ1M/B), which has a Intel T2300 dual core processor in it. I'm using the latest 2.6.17-kernel. Unfortunately, only one processor core is recognised. I had Kubuntu 6.06/Dapper installed before (2.6.15-kernel), w

Problems with Intel Dual Core processor

2006-09-18 Thread Christian Schuerer
Hello, I've Debian testing/sid installed on a Sony notebook (VGN-SZ1M/B), which has a Intel T2300 dual core processor in it. I'm using the latest 2.6.17-kernel. Unfortunately, only one processor core is recognised. I had Kubuntu 6.06/Dapper installed before (2.6.15-kernel), which recognised bot

processor dual core

2006-09-18 Thread Gerard Robin
Hello, the recent laptops have a processor dual core, but there are still laptops with centrino or turion processors. Which one is better to purchase ? (for the same price): dual core or centrino/turion. Is the dual core really an advantage ? tia. -- Gérard