Re: Battery monitor tools?

2010-04-19 Thread Aioanei Rares
On 04/20/2010 01:40 AM, Simon Chen wrote: I may be a light debian user. 'Cause i simply use GNOME power manager as battery tool, supposed to be the default power manager in GNOME. I think it is kind of dull. I've found battery using up much more quickly under debian than it under windows(yes, i

Re: How to turn the screen off, while working in console

2010-01-16 Thread Aioanei Rares
Krzysztof Walkiewicz wrote: Hi, I have a problem: lately i work just in console (to do my job I do not need to run the X, and this is quite old laptop), but I cannot figure out, how to turn the screen off (lets say after 5 minutes without touching the keyboard). Does anybody have an idea, ho

Re: Only wireless, no eth0

2010-01-14 Thread Aioanei Rares
entry has disappeared when I open it up again. 2010/1/14 Aioanei Rares: On 01/14/2010 07:31 PM, Harvey Kelly wrote: Yes, sorry should've said that. Network-Manager is 0.7.2-2 H 2010/1/14 Aioanei Rares: On 01/14/2010 07:25 PM, Harvey Kelly wrote: Hello

Re: Only wireless, no eth0

2010-01-14 Thread Aioanei Rares
On 01/14/2010 07:31 PM, Harvey Kelly wrote: Yes, sorry should've said that. Network-Manager is 0.7.2-2 H 2010/1/14 Aioanei Rares: On 01/14/2010 07:25 PM, Harvey Kelly wrote: Hello all, I've returned to the fold from Ubuntu, and installed Lenny yesterday, followed by an

Re: Only wireless, no eth0

2010-01-14 Thread Aioanei Rares
On 01/14/2010 07:25 PM, Harvey Kelly wrote: Hello all, I've returned to the fold from Ubuntu, and installed Lenny yesterday, followed by an immediate upgrade to Squeeze. Everything works great, except I'm connected via wireless, not the ethernet. I've only just noticed this(!) when I accidenta

Re: Safe install

2009-09-28 Thread Aioanei Rares
Sayeh Ebrahimi wrote: I had a hard time restoring an old T42 Thinkpad's master boot record after trying to install Ubuntu on an external USB hard disk. The installer appeared so smart and gave proper warnings about Windows partitions on the first drive. It did properly install Ubuntu on the s

Re: Safe install

2009-09-26 Thread Aioanei Rares
Sayeh Ebrahimi wrote: Hello all, Has anyone installed Debian on a Thinkpad without destroying the original Windows/Service partition, or the original master boot record needed to access the Rescue and Recovery? Regards, Sayeh mailto:sayeh...@gmail.com>> Well, boot a live/rescue CD/DVD and era

Re: Laptop detects only part of the RAM memory

2009-09-26 Thread Aioanei Rares
j.andra...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, last week, when booting a virtual machine, I discovered that my laptop only recognizes one of the RAM modules (supposed to be 1 GB, but truly providing 880 MB). I realized this when VirtualBox complained that I had configured more than the available RAM to

Re: DMA on sata drives

2009-04-24 Thread Aioanei Rares
Dotan Cohen wrote: On a Debian-derived distro (Kubuntu 9.04) on a Dell Inspiron (2 GHz Intel, 2 GiB RAM), I notice that my hard drive does not have DMA enabled: $ sudo hdparm /dev/sda /dev/sda: IO_support= 0 (default) readonly = 0 (off) readahead = 256 (on) geometry = 97