Re: 3d Acceleration Radeon 7500M - Tuxracer runs really slow!

2003-05-02 Thread Ben Southwood
ahhh..! thanks for your help on that, still can't run tuxracer though! :( Joao Pedro Clemente wrote: Hi Jochen, installed Kxconfig, ran it and configured modelines in that, still no joy, no errors appearing in XF86 log, can ctr+alt change resolutions now, but everything (1024x768, 800x600 e

Re: Writing Cd's with TOSHIBA SD-R21021715

2003-04-29 Thread Ben Southwood
You said: [snip] Okay let me see: At first you should use my advice and use cdrecord without ide-scsi modul. Then your line should be: cdrecord -audio -pad dev=ATAPI:0,0,0 speed=8 -eject -v *.wav (if they are wave files) from the dir where the wave files are will do, just have to do anothe

apmd v acpi...

2003-04-17 Thread Ben Southwood
just wondering, with all this talk of apmd and acpi, which is considered the better way to go? any suggestions, thoughts on the matter?

Re: compiling & installing kernels

2003-04-15 Thread Ben Southwood
Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 01:27:28PM +1000, ben wrote: [snip] 2. Install the new kernel - cd /usr/src/linux - cp /usr/usr//.config /usr/src/linux/.config - make oldconfig 3. Enable ACPI, and remove APM (the old power management modules/tools)

Re: laptop recommendation

2003-04-09 Thread Ben Southwood
Try the Asus L3C series, Mine is a 1.7GHZ 512Mb DDR ATI Radeon M7500 Ram 15" 1400x1050 40Gb HDD CD-RW/DVD combo drive not tooo heavy big screen, love it! currently running Woody, RH7.3 & M$ XP Pro (the things you have to do for work..!) needed to update sndconfig & XFree86 from unstable to get

Re: Wireless problems, orinoco chipset

2003-04-09 Thread Ben Southwood
David Gibson wrote: On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 10:36:13AM +, ben wrote: Hi! I am having a little dificulty setting up my wireless network under Debian woody kernel 2.4.18bf (Ithink!) when i run iwconfig i get this reply: Warning: Driver for device eth1 has been compiled with version 12

USB mouse not working in woody2.4

2003-03-28 Thread Ben Southwood
All you Gurus: I can't work this out! (neither can Google!) My USB mouse does not work. The lights are on but nobodies home... Kernel is bf2.4 unstable Kernel has been compiled for USB mouse. XFree86 is: 4.2.1 dmesg shows: usb.c: registered new driver hiddev usb.c: registered new driver hid hid

USB mouse not working in woody2.4

2003-03-28 Thread Ben Southwood
All you Gurus: I can't work this out! (neither can Google!) My USB mouse does not work. The lights are on but nobodies home... Kernel is bf2.4 unstable Kernel has been compiled for USB mouse. XFree86 is: 4.2.1 dmesg shows: usb.c: registered new driver hiddev usb.c: registered new driver hid hid-c

Debian woody & ATI radeon m7500

2003-03-26 Thread Ben Southwood
Hi all, Just wondering if anyone has managed to get XFree86 working with an ATI radeon m7500 graphics card as yet? should I perhaps update my version of XFree86? I have tried using generic ati driver & radeon driver without success. error logs as follows: This is a pre-release version of XFr

Debian woody & ATI radeon m7500

2003-03-26 Thread Ben Southwood
Hi all, Just wondering if anyone has managed to get XFree86 working with an ATI radeon m7500 graphics card as yet? should I perhaps update my version of XFree86? I have tried using generic ati driver & radeon driver without success. error logs as follows: This is a pre-release version of XFree86

debian cannot find cdrom (version II)

2003-03-25 Thread Ben Southwood
I am attempting to install debian on my laptop (using woody stable & bf2.4). I have included below all of the information I can think of that may be relevant: I have booted the laptop using cdrom, initial kernel compilaton of kernel runs smoothly, installing from cdrom. after initial install of

debian cannot find cdrom (version II)

2003-03-25 Thread Ben Southwood
I am attempting to install debian on my laptop (using woody stable & bf2.4). I have included below all of the information I can think of that may be relevant: I have booted the laptop using cdrom, initial kernel compilaton of kernel runs smoothly, installing from cdrom. after initial install of ker

debian cannot find cdrom

2003-03-24 Thread Ben Southwood
I'm not sure if this is specific to laptops, but when installing debian woody 2.2.20 & bf2.4 after doing initial install of kernel debian cannot find my cdrom. it seems that the relevant modules are not being installed/configured/compiled. The links from /cdrom /dev/cdrom to /dev/hdc are correc

debian cannot find cdrom

2003-03-24 Thread Ben Southwood
I'm not sure if this is specific to laptops, but when installing debian woody 2.2.20 & bf2.4 after doing initial install of kernel debian cannot find my cdrom. it seems that the relevant modules are not being installed/configured/compiled. The links from /cdrom /dev/cdrom to /dev/hdc are correct