Yet another list statistics for debian-laptop

2009-01-17 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, as you can read in my lightning talk at DebConf http://people.debian.org/~tille/talks/200808_lightning/ I did some investigation on who is frequently posting on our mailing lists. I now created graphs until end of last year and write a short summary for those lists I regard worth a comme

ACPI problems??

2005-06-01 Thread Andreas Tille
Hello, I have a Fujitsu-Siemens Lifebook E-Series E4010. I configured this laptop to use Suspend to Disk when closing the lid. Normally it awakes automatically once I reopen the lid. It also switches on and boots if I open the lid after a previous halt (to boot from scratch). This is more tha

There is more discussion about SPAM than SPAM. Stop that

2005-05-25 Thread Andreas Tille
Sorry people I did not read your rubish discussion about SPAM and I will not do so in the future. You are more annoying than the real SPAM which is catched by my SpamFilter. Please recognise that also Google connects Debian with the keywords you are continuely using in your superflous mails to th

Re: Screenshots alternatives (was: ImageMagic: Problem with display's grab function)

2005-04-26 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Jan T. Kim wrote: I have a problem with the display program of imagemagick 6.0.6.2-2.2: I tried to grab a snapshot of a window by using File -> Open... and clicking the "Grab" button in the file selector, but instead of proceeding with the "Enter any delay in seconds" dialog, I

Re: vga-out + lcd together

2005-03-07 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sat, 5 Mar 2005, sime wrote: The multi-head options are different with each video card. You can try doing a "man drivername" where drivername is the name of the X11 driver you are using. For me, man radeon shows me the dual head options that I needed to manually add to the X config file. My ba

Re: vga-out + lcd together

2005-03-03 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, sime wrote: My Toshiba BIOS gives me the option to boot with the VGA-Out and LCD being mirror. Which works partially, the kernel boot messages are displaying on both screens fine. But when X starts, the LCD screen turns off, VGA-Out is fine. I believe that this is an issue w

Re: New hibernate shows strange behaviour

2005-02-24 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, Steven Ihde wrote: Flushing all pending writes/journal entries is a good idea but I don't think it will solve the problem. The suspended kernel may also have clean disk blocks cached in memory when you suspend. You may boot another kernel and change a file, which resides on on

Re: New hibernate shows strange behaviour

2005-02-24 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, Otavio Salvador wrote: at> Sure, this perfectly descirbes the situation. But IMHO it would be better at> if the SwSuspend2 would flush all write operations and work down the at> journal of your file system to minimize the potential data loss. While at> I perfectly know (even

Re: New hibernate shows strange behaviour

2005-02-24 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, Otavio Salvador wrote: While I was looking for swsusp2 I found a interesting entry in FAQ about booting with normal kernels. I'm attaching it here: http://softwaresuspend.berlios.de/HOWTO-4.html#dataloss1 Sure, this perfectly descirbes the situation. But IMHO it would be bette

Re: New hibernate shows strange behaviour

2005-02-24 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, Dawood Morady Garawand wrote: Or perhaps resume2=swap:/dev/hda2?!! It just doesn't matter whether you add the "swap:" before the device or if you use "resume" or "resume2" - it all works if you only have a working grub entry: The removal of my newly baken 2.6.10 kernel package

Re: New hibernate shows strange behaviour

2005-02-23 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Otavio Salvador wrote: || On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 17:34:23 +0100 (CET) || Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: at> --- at> Booting 'Resume from Suspend on Disk' at> root (hd0,0) at>

New hibernate shows strange behaviour

2005-02-23 Thread Andreas Tille
Hello, yesterday I tried to upgrade my Kernel from 2.6.9 to 2.9.10 as well as hibernate and ipw2100-source. I had certain trouble with the kernel which I do not want to discuss in this thread (I just haf fsck errors which need manual intervention for one partition and later for another partition -

Re: Laptop safe for flight in planes?

2005-02-22 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Loren A. Linden Levy wrote: In fact lufthansa is now offering in-flight wireless internet service as well as the FAA thinking about allowing cell phones again. I've heard this. But I would like to be prepared anyway. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To

Re: SwSusp 2.1.7 and kernel-source-2.6.10

2005-02-22 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Andreas Tille wrote: I just try to apply the patches available at http://softwaresuspend.berlios.de/ to the Debian packaged kernel-source for 2.6.10 but failed: /usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.10$ /usr/src/SwSuspend/software-suspend-2.1.7-for-2.6.10/apply Applying 100-kdb

SwSusp 2.1.7 and kernel-source-2.6.10

2005-02-22 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, I just try to apply the patches available at http://softwaresuspend.berlios.de/ to the Debian packaged kernel-source for 2.6.10 but failed: /usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.10$ /usr/src/SwSuspend/software-suspend-2.1.7-for-2.6.10/apply Applying 100-kdb-v4.4-2.6.10-common-1 ... Applying 101-kdb

Laptop safe for flight in planes?

2005-02-21 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, my former Laptop had no internal WLAN card so I was safe that it is no source of any radio frequencies. But my new laptop has a cantrino chip with WLAN and I will go for a quite long flight. How can I ENSURE that the WLAN module is completely silent? Is it enough to use a Kernel which just d

Re: Power-Button

2004-11-16 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo wrote: El mar, 16-11-2004 a las 11:07 +0100, Andreas Tille escribió: [...] and Centrino WLAN http://ipw2100.sourceforge.net/ Only a little note for the list record: this module can be compiled using ipw2100-source package (in contrib). After

Re: Power-Button

2004-11-16 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, Koen Vermeer wrote: ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF] That kind of conflicts with an earlier question: KV: > Do you have something like 'ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]' in dmesg? AT: No. I was aware this conflict when I wrote this mail - but at the time I wrote my first response t

Re: Power-Button

2004-11-16 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, Koen Vermeer wrote: Just asking the obvious: Have you tried loading these modules or are they loaded in the boot process automatically? Can you do a grep ACPI dmesg? My last experiment shows a further hint that the modules seem to be loaded correctly: # /etc/init.d/acpid stop S

Re: Power-Button

2004-11-16 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, Micha Feigin wrote: You need the following as root: Try stopping acpid /etc/init.d/acpid stop and then cat /proc/acpi/event Well, this is more or less the same as I reported in a previous mail: # cat /proc/acpi/event button/lid LID 0080 0003 button/lid LID 0080

Re: Power-Button

2004-11-16 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, Koen Vermeer wrote: Just asking the obvious: Have you tried loading these modules or are they loaded in the boot process automatically? I guess and hope they are loaded automatically. I do not know the modules names but some of the modules which are printed by lsmod sound very

Re: Power-Button

2004-11-16 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, Koen Vermeer wrote: Can you show the ACPI options in your .config file and the ACPI stuff from dmesg? (I don't know all the details, but I do know it works on my relatively new laptop and on a rather old one. So, it's like 'spot the 10 differences'.) $grep -i -e suspend -e acpi

Re: Power-Button

2004-11-16 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, Martin [iso-8859-1] Theiß wrote: Try to use acpi_listen as root to figure out, whether the powerbutton does generate an acpi event. # acpi_listen button/lid LID 0080 000b button/lid LID 0080 000c I pressed the lid once and the power button a couple of t

Re: Power-Button

2004-11-16 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, Ralf Gerlich wrote: Have a look at /proc/acpi/button/. $ ls -l /proc/acpi/button/ total 0 dr-xr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Nov 16 13:09 lid dr-xr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Nov 16 13:09 power $ ls -l /proc/acpi/button/power/ total 0 dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Nov 16 13:10 PWRF $ ls -l /proc/a

Re: suspend, power save or saving, hibernate mode in Indpiron 5160

2004-11-16 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, Koen Vermeer wrote: If you mean something like suspend-to-ram (which means that the computer isn't running anymore), Yes, this is what I meant. then that should be possible with ACPI as well. Good news. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Power-Button

2004-11-16 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, Koen Vermeer wrote: - The Debian repository you mentioned does not seem to contain the 1.00 version of the hibernate script, which is required for the 2.1.5 version of swsusp2. This is what I wanted to express when I wrote I used the package source to build packages for 1.00.

Re: suspend, power save or saving, hibernate mode in Indpiron 5160

2004-11-16 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, Bob Proulx wrote: 5) Does the closing the lid and making the laptop go to suspend/hibernate work? Not unless you had an event script to activate suspend upon the lid closing event. See the 'acpid' for one way to handle this. Is there any hint how to exactly do this with Softwa

Power-Button

2004-11-16 Thread Andreas Tille
Hello, I just compiled Kernel 2.6.9 (from Debian source packages) with the additional patches for SoftwareSuspend2 http://download.berlios.de/softwaresuspend/software-suspend-2.1.5-for-2.6.9.tar.bz2 and Centrino WLAN http://ipw2100.sourceforge.net/ Both patches applied fine and compiled with

ACPI on E-Series Lifebook

2004-09-03 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, setting up a recent daily Sarge snapshot on this Laptop worked like a charm. The only thing I'm missing is the folowing functionality I had with my former Fujitsu/Siemens laptop using APM: - Closing the lid: Laptop went into suspend mode until I pressed power button. The harddisk s

ACPI on E-Series Lifebook

2004-09-03 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, setting up a recent daily Sarge snapshot on this Laptop worked like a charm. The only thing I'm missing is the folowing functionality I had with my former Fujitsu/Siemens laptop using APM: - Closing the lid: Laptop went into suspend mode until I pressed power button. The harddisk stop

Re: Ati Mobility Performance

2001-05-14 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 14 May 2001, Andrew McMillan wrote: > lspci -v on my laptop gives: > > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Mobility M3 AGP 2x > (rev 02) > (prog-if 00 [VGA]) > Subsystem: IBM: Unknown device 0155 > Flags: bus master, stepping, fast Back2Back, 66Mhz, medium

Re: Ati Mobility Performance

2001-05-14 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 14 May 2001, Johan Romin wrote: > Nope.. it's not the r128 chipset. That chip is based on the old RagePro chip, > which at the moment don't have a working DRI version. > At least none that I know of.. I still use 3.3.6 and UtahGLX om my RagePro > based laptop. What is UtahGLX? > If some

Re: Ati Mobility Performance

2001-05-14 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 14 May 2001, Andrew McMillan wrote: > lspci -v on my laptop gives: > > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Mobility M3 AGP 2x (rev 02) > (prog-if 00 [VGA]) > Subsystem: IBM: Unknown device 0155 > Flags: bus master, stepping, fast Back2Back, 66Mhz, medium d

Re: Ati Mobility Performance

2001-05-14 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 14 May 2001, Johan Romin wrote: > Nope.. it's not the r128 chipset. That chip is based on the old RagePro chip, which >at the moment don't have a working DRI version. > At least none that I know of.. I still use 3.3.6 and UtahGLX om my RagePro based >laptop. What is UtahGLX? > If someo

Re: Ati Mobility Performance

2001-05-14 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, 13 May 2001, Vivek Dasmohapatra wrote: > Ah, in this case you will probably have to do something similar to what I > had to do for one of my machines that was supported by the dri.sourceforge It is the one named "Radeon" which I have to use for a ~> grep ATI /proc/pci VGA compatible

Re: Ati Mobility Performance

2001-05-14 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, 13 May 2001, Vivek Dasmohapatra wrote: > Ah, in this case you will probably have to do something similar to what I > had to do for one of my machines that was supported by the dri.sourceforge > branch: I installed the debian XFree86 woody package [just updated to > 4.03, btw], then fetched

Re: Ati Mobility Performance

2001-05-14 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, 13 May 2001, Vivek Dasmohapatra wrote: > Ah, in this case you will probably have to do something similar to what I > had to do for one of my machines that was supported by the dri.sourceforge It is the one named "Radeon" which I have to use for a ~> grep ATI /proc/pci VGA compatibl

Re: Ati Mobility Performance

2001-05-14 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, 13 May 2001, Vivek Dasmohapatra wrote: > Ah, in this case you will probably have to do something similar to what I > had to do for one of my machines that was supported by the dri.sourceforge > branch: I installed the debian XFree86 woody package [just updated to > 4.03, btw], then fetche

Re: apm with kernel 2.4.3

2001-05-03 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 3 May 2001, Sylvester Keil wrote: > hi! i use a sony vaio notebook (sr1k) with debian potatoand upgraded the > kernel to version 2.4.3 with the effect that i cannot get apm to work. > > in the past i have used 2.4.2 however (to my shame) i don't remember what > my apm configuration looked

Re: apm with kernel 2.4.3

2001-05-03 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 3 May 2001, Sylvester Keil wrote: > hi! i use a sony vaio notebook (sr1k) with debian potatoand upgraded the > kernel to version 2.4.3 with the effect that i cannot get apm to work. > > in the past i have used 2.4.2 however (to my shame) i don't remember what > my apm configuration looke

Re: installing w/udma66

2001-04-05 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 04:00:15PM -0500, Dave Linsalata wrote: > I was wondering - if I have an udma66 HD, can I use the udma66 installation > disk set to install Debian with the HD on the ata/66 channel? Or do I still > have to switch it to the ata/33 channel to install it? Possibly this Problem

Re: installing w/udma66

2001-04-04 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 04:00:15PM -0500, Dave Linsalata wrote: > I was wondering - if I have an udma66 HD, can I use the udma66 installation > disk set to install Debian with the HD on the ata/66 channel? Or do I still > have to switch it to the ata/33 channel to install it? Possibly this Proble

Re: APM under 2.4

2001-03-27 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Oleksandr Moskalenko wrote: > I had this problem on my notebook, too. It turned out that I set > CONFIG_APM_REAL_MODE_POWER_OFF, but > forgot to set CONFIG_APM=y (it was "m"), so I either had to do "insmod Well I have set CONFIG_APM=m and you are right, that halt works if I

Re: APM under 2.4

2001-03-27 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Oleksandr Moskalenko wrote: > I had this problem on my notebook, too. It turned out that I set >CONFIG_APM_REAL_MODE_POWER_OFF, but > forgot to set CONFIG_APM=y (it was "m"), so I either had to do "insmod Well I have set CONFIG_APM=m and you are right, that halt works if I

APM under 2.4

2001-03-23 Thread Andreas Tille
Hello, I have observed changes in the behaviour of APM on my E-Series Lifebook afgter upgrading to Testing + Kernel 2.4. Formerly the Notebook did a suspend after closing the Display (or pressing the little sensor wich detects closing). This is not the case anymore. Moreover a halt doesn't swit

APM under 2.4

2001-03-23 Thread Andreas Tille
Hello, I have observed changes in the behaviour of APM on my E-Series Lifebook afgter upgrading to Testing + Kernel 2.4. Formerly the Notebook did a suspend after closing the Display (or pressing the little sensor wich detects closing). This is not the case anymore. Moreover a halt doesn't swi

Re: dhcp with pcmcia

2001-03-22 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Daniel Yoo wrote: > > I did a /etc/init.d/networking start nothing happened, i.e. ifconfig > > showed no output. This is really strange and I havn't any explanation > > for this behaviour. Seems I have to do some research. > > How about /etc/init.d/pcmcia restart? For me,

Re: dhcp with pcmcia

2001-03-22 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Daniel Yoo wrote: > > I did a /etc/init.d/networking start nothing happened, i.e. ifconfig > > showed no output. This is really strange and I havn't any explanation > > for this behaviour. Seems I have to do some research. > > How about /etc/init.d/pcmcia restart? For me,

Re: dhcp with pcmcia

2001-03-21 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Chris Halls wrote: > Erm, actually I have the opposite experience: My 3com Megahertz 3CCFEM556BI > does not work with pump, either the Potato or Woody versions. But dhclient > works OK with the card. > > It's definitely Pump, not my machine configuration: I have a 3com 3c58

Re: Mouse under X

2001-03-21 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, John Miskinis wrote: > I suspect you may not have the "correct" type of keyboard > specified in your XF86Config file... I'm no expert on these > new keyboards with the funny "Windows?" key, but I > I remember seeing information a while back on the 102, versus > 103, or whatev

Re: dhcp with pcmcia

2001-03-21 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Chris Halls wrote: > Erm, actually I have the opposite experience: My 3com Megahertz 3CCFEM556BI > does not work with pump, either the Potato or Woody versions. But dhclient > works OK with the card. > > It's definitely Pump, not my machine configuration: I have a 3com 3c5

Re: Mouse under X

2001-03-21 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, John Miskinis wrote: > I suspect you may not have the "correct" type of keyboard > specified in your XF86Config file... I'm no expert on these > new keyboards with the funny "Windows?" key, but I > I remember seeing information a while back on the 102, versus > 103, or whate

Mouse under X

2001-03-21 Thread Andreas Tille
Hello, usually Laptops have only two mouse buttons (near touchpad or something else). I noticed that under gpm at console the right button works as paste and I like this so far (don't know why - havn't explicitely done something to enforce this - but it's fine). Unfortunately under X this isn't t

Mouse under X

2001-03-21 Thread Andreas Tille
Hello, usually Laptops have only two mouse buttons (near touchpad or something else). I noticed that under gpm at console the right button works as paste and I like this so far (don't know why - havn't explicitely done something to enforce this - but it's fine). Unfortunately under X this isn't