Re: It's a simple question....

2007-02-16 Thread Micha
- Problem with onboard network card is common on laptops. When the network isn't working properly, maybe not reliable, then many more secondary problems will appear. Like with netinstall, Samba or even the starting gnome session. (which might be querying for samba netgroups/computers). Just t

It's a simple question....

2007-02-16 Thread Justin Hartman
In the past few months that I've used Debian I've now successfully managed to install unstable on an Apple iBook G4, Apple mac mini (both PowerPC) and Intel Celeron PC. I've also installed testing on a server that I run which is powered by Intel P4 chips. That's now 4 machines without many proble

Re: gpm (etch)

2007-02-16 Thread Detlef Lechner
Am Fri, 16 Feb 2007 17:30:20 +0100 schrieb Gerard Robin: > Hello, > I am turning round betwen gnome-power-manager, hibernate, hal, > acpi_support ... and their man pages and other docs, but gpm doesn't > work at all. Follow the advice given in http://acpi.sourceforge.net/ Regard, Detlef -- De

Re: fglrx, kernel 2.6.20, dri and composite problem

2007-02-16 Thread Inko IA
Hi Ivan! I used one of this Howtos, I don't remember which one: http://wiki.debian.org/Compiz http://sonique54.free.fr/xgl/xgl.htm BUT, I think Compiz xgl is for gnome. I remember that once I executed it on KDE and it changed the windows schemes to a gnome ones. Maybe there are some options in

Re: CPU power management

2007-02-16 Thread Mattia Dongili
On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 06:22:29PM +0100, Mattia Dongili wrote: > On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 11:26:24PM +0200, Eddy Petri??or wrote: > [...] > > I have installed Debian GNU/kFreeBSD and indeed, the levels are many > > more than on Linux: > > > > sysctl dev.cpu.0.freq_levels > > > > Results in a list

Re: CPU power management

2007-02-16 Thread Mattia Dongili
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 11:26:24PM +0200, Eddy Petri??or wrote: [...] > I have installed Debian GNU/kFreeBSD and indeed, the levels are many > more than on Linux: > > sysctl dev.cpu.0.freq_levels > > Results in a list of frequencies down to 31 MHz. I tried some script I > found on the freebsd lis

gpm (etch)

2007-02-16 Thread Gerard Robin
Hello, I am turning round betwen gnome-power-manager, hibernate, hal, acpi_support ... and their man pages and other docs, but gpm doesn't work at all. Only one thing works, independently of gpm, display sleeps after 10 minutes of inactivity. hibernate works in an xterm but the machine reboots i

Re: fglrx, kernel 2.6.20, dri and composite problem

2007-02-16 Thread Ivan Glushkov
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Inko, thanks for the advice. Could you point me to a how-to for installation of xgl + compiz (preferrebly + KDE) on Debian? I found some repository, but nothing useful. How did you install those? Cheers, Ivan Inko IA wrote: > Hi!

Re: CPU power management

2007-02-16 Thread Florian Reitmeir
On Fre, 16 Feb 2007, Eddy Petri??or wrote: > Florian Reitmeir wrote: > > On Don, 15 Feb 2007, Eddy Petri??or wrote: > >> Eddy Petri??or wrote: > >>> Florian Reitmeir wrote: > >> Results in a list of frequencies down to 31 MHz. I tried some script I > >> found on the freebsd lists[1] to test the sp