Wireless Roaming

2007-03-03 Thread Benedek Frank
Hi I have a Madwifi based card, and it works like a charm. I have 2 wifi networks I need to connect daily, both at home, and a 3rd one at work which I need to use weekly few times. I have been using a really dumb script which replaces the /etc/network/interfaces file with the 3 versions I

Re: PCMCIA card 32bit and Sonypi module clash

2007-01-16 Thread Benedek Frank
On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 22:51:17 +0100 Mattia Dongili <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 09:35:32PM +0100, Benedek Frank wrote: > [...] > > This is what I see in /proc/ioports (only the necessary parts) > > > > 1000-10ff : PCI CardBus #01 > >

Re: PCMCIA card 32bit and Sonypi module clash

2007-01-14 Thread Benedek Frank
On Sat, 13 Jan 2007 21:51:49 +0100 Benedek Frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > I have a Vaio PCG-U1 on which I recently installed Debian Etch with 2.6.18 > kernel. I want to use the jogdial for scrolling, but it wont work when I have > the PCMCIA wifi card in th

PCMCIA card 32bit and Sonypi module clash

2007-01-13 Thread Benedek Frank
Hi I have a Vaio PCG-U1 on which I recently installed Debian Etch with 2.6.18 kernel. I want to use the jogdial for scrolling, but it wont work when I have the PCMCIA wifi card in the slot. Its a madwifi driven PCGA-C300s and its a 32 bit card. If I use a 16bit card, all is fine. THe symphtom

Re: Strip down my sarge laptop

2005-09-11 Thread Benedek Frank
Hi I have gone through this as well, and got a lot of feedback from this forum, and I also included all info on my website, so you might get some ideas from there.. http://celifornia.com/linux/article.php?story=20050624170314179 If you have any addition to the site, just let me know. Cheers

Re: Sony PCG-C1VE sonypi camera and/et fnkeyinit activation

2005-07-20 Thread Benedek Frank
On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 07:10:28 + "Lau Mig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bonjour, > > Je poss鐡e un Sony PCG-C1VE. > En faisant dmesg, je vois que la camera et fnkeyinit sont _ off. > D駸ireux d置tiliser ma motion eye webcam de mon portable, je dois > mettre ces deux param鑼res _ on. > J誕i essay_ e

Convert emails from KMail, or from Sylpheed

2005-07-18 Thread Benedek Frank
Hi I am sure this isnt a thread that will make people happy, but here it is anyways. I need some of my emails on a Windoze box, so I need to convert it so that Outlook Express can convert it. I have my emails in two computers. One has KMAIL so it is in Maildir format, and the other uses Sylphee

Re: Convert emails from KMail, or from Sylpheed

2005-07-18 Thread Benedek Frank
On Monday 18 July 2005 10:48 pm, Joel HATSCH wrote: > On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 22:16:16 +0200 > > Benedek Frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi > > > > I am sure this isnt a thread that will make people happy, but here it > > is anyways. I need some of m

Re: Slow boot with Kernel 2.6.12, why? Incredible slow.

2005-07-11 Thread Benedek Frank
On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 09:54:34 +1000 Daniel Pittman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12 Jul 2005, Benedek Frank wrote: > > I was using 2.6.11 kernel on my Vaio Picturebook, and I had some > > outstanding issues with ACPI, so I wanted to install the 2.6.12 > > kerne

Slow boot with Kernel 2.6.12, why? Incredible slow.

2005-07-11 Thread Benedek Frank
2.6.12 is 4min5secs. Why would that be? There are no errors, etc. Just really slow booting. Does all the same, just slowly. Thanks Benedek Frank -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Aterm startdir, how to set?

2005-07-08 Thread Benedek Frank
Hi When I start aterm, it starts in a werid /etc/whatever directory. How can I make it start in ~/ directory? Thanks Benedek -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Batch Resize, how to?

2005-07-02 Thread Benedek Frank
On Saturday 02 July 2005 04:51 pm, you wrote: > Benedek Frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I am trying to organize my pictures, and I am looking for a batch > > resizing program for my laptop. I was googling for a while, but I didnt > > find anything, only one progr

Re: Batch Resize, how to?

2005-07-02 Thread Benedek Frank
On Saturday 02 July 2005 04:42 pm, Jochen Issing wrote: > Hi, > > On Saturday 02 July 2005 16:25, Benedek Frank wrote: > > Hi > > > > I am trying to organize my pictures, and I am looking for a batch > > resizing program for my laptop. I was googling for a whi

Batch Resize, how to?

2005-07-02 Thread Benedek Frank
Hi I am trying to organize my pictures, and I am looking for a batch resizing program for my laptop. I was googling for a while, but I didnt find anything, only one program for GIMP, but that didnt work. Any good plugins for GIMP? Or command line tool? Thanks Benedek Frank -- To

Re: LESS for reading, and VI for editing, but not working anymore

2005-07-01 Thread Benedek Frank
On Fri, 01 Jul 2005 15:10:12 +0200 Sebastian Haglund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 14:43 +0200, Benedek Frank wrote: > > Here are all my variables, generated by "env". I dont see those in > > there, but VI still wont load from less. > > ..

Re: LESS for reading, and VI for editing, but not working anymore

2005-07-01 Thread Benedek Frank
On Fri, 01 Jul 2005 14:55:46 +0200 Sebastian Haglund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 14:32 +0200, Benedek Frank wrote: > > > Check your VISUAL and EDITOR environment variables. > > > > Hi. Could you walk me through it please? I am not very comfo

Re: LESS for reading, and VI for editing, but not working anymore

2005-07-01 Thread Benedek Frank
On Fri, 01 Jul 2005 14:14:58 +0200 Sebastian Haglund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 14:00 +0200, Benedek Frank wrote: > > Hi > > > > Always, when I read a file, I type for example > > > > less /etc/acpi/acpi > > > > And i

Re: LESS for reading, and VI for editing, but not working anymore

2005-07-01 Thread Benedek Frank
On Fri, 01 Jul 2005 14:14:58 +0200 Sebastian Haglund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 14:00 +0200, Benedek Frank wrote: > > Hi > > > > Always, when I read a file, I type for example > > > > less /etc/acpi/acpi > > > > And i

LESS for reading, and VI for editing, but not working anymore

2005-07-01 Thread Benedek Frank
Hi Always, when I read a file, I type for example less /etc/acpi/acpi And in LESS, I can press "v" and I will get into vi for editing. It was very fne upuntil now, but nowdays I was removing quite a few packages, and suddenly when I press "v" inside "less" I will get mc's (Midnight Commander) e

Re: ACPI suspend resume trouble

2005-06-30 Thread Benedek Frank
On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 16:04:31 -0400 MJD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm having trouble with my suspend/resume. It works ok in windows, but > in linux it doesn;t matter what and where i echo stuff, it won't go. > Could anyone help, please! I really would like this so i can > suspend/resume when

Re: Sonypi driver, and Jogdial on Sony Vaio Picturebook

2005-06-30 Thread Benedek Frank
led, so that Jogdiald or sjog or rsjog can take over. Thanks Ben > > On 6/30/05, Benedek Frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 20:15:58 -0400 > > MJD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Try disabling the middle mouse butt

Re: Sonypi driver, and Jogdial on Sony Vaio Picturebook

2005-06-29 Thread Benedek Frank
lem. > If that doesn't work, try googling Yes I thought of that, but I like the middle mouse button, what I dont like is that the jogdial acts as a middle mouse button. Can I disable it somehow? THanks Ben > > On 6/29/05, Benedek Frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >

Re: Latest ipw2200 driver breaks when used with wpa_supplicant

2005-06-29 Thread Benedek Frank
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 15:30:27 -0700 Joe Emenaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After upgrading to the 1.0.4 driver (and to the 2.3 firmware) for the > ipw2200 in my Dell Inspiron, Kismet finally worked (yea!). However, > when I tried to enable WPA by switching from waproamd to > wpa_supplicant, my

Sonypi driver, and Jogdial on Sony Vaio Picturebook

2005-06-29 Thread Benedek Frank
Hi I am a bit confused. I hope someone knows about this sonypi and sonypid daemon. I have this Vaio, and it has the jogdial, for scrolling. Since kernels 2.6.9, the scroll is built in. Basically anytime I am on a website, I can scroll with the jogdial, by default. I wanted to have more options, s

Re: Sony Vaio S4HP

2005-06-28 Thread Benedek Frank
On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 18:43:30 +0200 Miroslav Maiksnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I am considering purchase of Vaio S4HP notebook, but I am not sure > with its linux support. I googled out it should be generally usable > with linux, but not a word about ACPI (suspend to RAM and/or HDD), >

"Write" doesnt work. Permission issue?

2005-06-27 Thread Benedek Frank
Hi I am trying to write a console message to another user, who is in via SSH, and it goes through, no problem. WHen he tries to write back to me, it wont let him. So I tried, and it wont let me write to myself either, except from a Root account. So I thought, mesg might be disabled, but not. When

Re: Debian on Slow laptops. What setup is best?

2005-06-27 Thread Benedek Frank
On Mon, 27 Jun 2005 09:57:57 +0200 Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Benedek Frank: > > > > [...] MC for console is pretty good, but I cannot browse SAMBA > > shares with it. > > Why not? My mc from sarge has an entry both in the "Left" an

Re: Debian on Slow laptops. What setup is best?

2005-06-26 Thread Benedek Frank
On Sun, 26 Jun 2005 18:34:24 +0200 Koen Vermeer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Without having looked at the other answers, just my suggestions: > > On Sat, 2005-06-25 at 08:56 +0200, Benedek Frank wrote: > > I am looking for a nice FTP client. Not fancy, just capable. I used

Re: Debian on Slow laptops. What setup is best?

2005-06-25 Thread Benedek Frank
On Sat, 25 Jun 2005 16:49:57 +0300 Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 25 Jun 2005 13:23:27 +0200 > Benedek Frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 21:05:26 +0300 > > Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > &

Re: Debian on Slow laptops. What setup is best?

2005-06-25 Thread Benedek Frank
On Sat, 25 Jun 2005 16:41:53 +0300 Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 25 Jun 2005 13:23:27 +0200 > Benedek Frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 21:05:26 +0300 > > Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > &

Re: Debian on Slow laptops. What setup is best?

2005-06-25 Thread Benedek Frank
On Sat, 25 Jun 2005 16:49:57 +0300 Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 25 Jun 2005 13:23:27 +0200 > Benedek Frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 21:05:26 +0300 > > Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > &

Re: Debian on Slow laptops. What setup is best?

2005-06-25 Thread Benedek Frank
On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 21:05:26 +0300 Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 19:22:40 +0200 > Benedek Frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 09:54:12 -0600 > > Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: &g

Re: Debian on Slow laptops. What setup is best?

2005-06-24 Thread Benedek Frank
Hi All My project is going fairly well. I have got to the point, that when I boot my laptop, it uses only about 60MB of ram. That is outstanding compare to what it used to use. I learned a lot, and I appreciate all the help. Few more outstanding issues. I still look for a browser that uses less

Re: Debian on Slow laptops. What setup is best?

2005-06-23 Thread Benedek Frank
ce when I launch XFce, which is a desktop. Can somebody enlighten me? Thanks, and yes, I will give fluxbox a try. Ben > > On 6/23/05, Benedek Frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 14:57:01 +0300 > > Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

Re: Debian on Slow laptops. What setup is best?

2005-06-23 Thread Benedek Frank
On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 14:57:01 +0300 Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 13:01:31 +0200 > Benedek Frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wednesday 22 June 2005 11:36, you wrote: > > > On Wed, 22 Jun 2005, Benedek Frank wrote: >

Re: Debian on Slow laptops. What setup is best?

2005-06-23 Thread Benedek Frank
On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 09:29:18 +0200 Tormod Friis Pettersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 6/21/05, Koen Vermeer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 12:53 -0700, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > > > > Yes, I am kind of married to Kmail. One reason is that I have > > > > thousands of emails

Re: Debian on Slow laptops. What setup is best?

2005-06-23 Thread Benedek Frank
On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 13:47:26 +0200 Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Benedek Frank: > > would be great. > > > > K02mountvirtfs S05bootlogd S30checkfs.sh S48console-screen.sh > > K36discover S05initrd-tools.shS30procps.sh

Re: Debian on Slow laptops. What setup is best?

2005-06-22 Thread Benedek Frank
On Wednesday 22 June 2005 11:36, you wrote: > On Wed, 22 Jun 2005, Benedek Frank wrote: > > Hi. Can you check to see if I use something really that I shouldnt use at > > all? > > > > THanks, and the RES column is that shows the "m" after numbers. Maybe > >

Re: Debian on Slow laptops. What setup is best?

2005-06-21 Thread Benedek Frank
etc/sysctl.conf and put vm.swappiness=10" > FWIW, I have a 400 Mhz PII laptop, with 352 megs of memory and a fast > HDD. I run WindowMaker, Evolution, Firefox, and Eclipse at the same > time and have a reasonably responsive system. > > HTH, > Ian > I am hoping to get a good

Re: Debian on Slow laptops. What setup is best?

2005-06-21 Thread Benedek Frank
On Tuesday 21 June 2005 19:34, Tom Olson wrote: > On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 06:13:35PM +0200, Benedek Frank wrote: > > Hi > > > > I am seeking info from other people who has slow laptops, or just know > > how to save memory and CPU usage on a Debian system. > > >

Debian on Slow laptops. What setup is best?

2005-06-21 Thread Benedek Frank
Hi I am seeking info from other people who has slow laptops, or just know how to save memory and CPU usage on a Debian system. I am an owner of a Sony Vaio PCG-C1VRX/K laptop, that has a Transmeta Crusoe 600MHZ CPU, which is very slow in nowdays, but I refuse to change it as I love it. I have

Re: /root/.kde folder missing. What to do now?

2005-06-21 Thread Benedek Frank
On Tuesday 21 June 2005 16:24, teefour wrote: > > Benedek Frank wrote: > >> When I check the /root/.kde folder is missing as it is. What should I do > >> to replace it? I tried to log in to KDE as root, hoping it would > >> recreate it, but it seems KDE wont let

startx wont start what I need it to start

2005-06-17 Thread Benedek Frank
Hi I upgraded to X4.5 as the ATI driver didnt work with my laptop, only in the recent version. I am on Sarge by the way. SInce I have upgraded, startx just brings up the regular basic X window, with the strange greenish bacground and 3 open terminals with white backgournds. I hope you know what

Re: Debian on a Sony VGN-S260

2005-06-17 Thread Benedek Frank
Hi Welcome to Debian. There are a few rewievs about this laptop with Linux, but not with Debian. However this should boot you off, as many things are the same with Debian as with other distros. http://tuxmobil.org/sony.html BOttom of the page, you will find them. Ben On Friday 17 June 2005

Re: ACPI battery charge strange, %-age decreases even on AC

2005-06-17 Thread Benedek Frank
On Friday 17 June 2005 11:04, you wrote: > OoO En cette matinée pluvieuse du vendredi 17 juin 2005, vers 10:16, > > Benedek Frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait: > > My Sony Vaio got a new (non-OEM) battery. It works good, gives me a > > little over 2 hours of battery time

ACPI battery charge strange, %-age decreases even on AC

2005-06-17 Thread Benedek Frank
Hi My Sony Vaio got a new (non-OEM) battery. It works good, gives me a little over 2 hours of battery time. However, when I charge it up and leave the laptop plugged in for days, it will start to loose its charge. About 1% in two days. This goes as follows: I charge it, it is 100%. Two days la

/root/.kde folder missing. What to do now?

2005-06-15 Thread Benedek Frank
Hi On my laptop, every 30th reboot, the fsck program runs and checks the files on /dev/hda. At this time, when I booted, there were errors, like File duplicates. Something like that. It went into fixing it, but couldnt, so it asked for root pass, and I ran again fsck. It found a lot of duplicat

Re: Video Conferencing between Debian and Windows

2005-06-12 Thread Benedek Frank
On Sunday 12 June 2005 20:47, Joerg Beyer wrote: > Benedek Frank wrote: > > Hi > > > > I have a Sony VAIO laptop with a builtin camera, and I can get video > > shown from Gnomemeeting, but for some reason I am unable to communicate > > with Netmeeting. I h

Re: suspend/resume leads to blank screen

2005-06-12 Thread Benedek Frank
On Sunday 12 June 2005 18:25, Joan Tur wrote: > Es Diumenge, 12 de Juny de 2005 17:50, en Tom Olson va escriure: > | I've installed Debian on my Panasonic Toughbook 18, and am slowly > | setting everything up.  I'm running 'testing'.  I've got kernel 2.6.11 > | installed (via the kernel-image packa

Video Conferencing between Debian and Windows

2005-06-12 Thread Benedek Frank
Hi I have a Sony VAIO laptop with a builtin camera, and I can get video shown from Gnomemeeting, but for some reason I am unable to communicate with Netmeeting. I have all ports set up, both on the gnomemeeting and netmeeting side, but still wouldnt work for some reason. I am now looking for an

Re: Sarge on Sony Vaio (now english ;-) )

2005-06-11 Thread Benedek Frank
On Saturday 11 June 2005 21:40, you wrote: > Servus Benedek, > > Benedek Frank wrote: > > www.celifornia.com/documents/dell700m.html > > thanx a lot, this has helped me! > > On your webpage I have read about acpi powermanagement. > You write one must have a kernel

Re: Sarge on Sony Vaio (now english ;-) )

2005-06-11 Thread Benedek Frank
On Saturday 11 June 2005 20:34, Wolfgang Egger wrote: > Servus, > > sorry, that I didn't recognize, that this is an english list. > So try again in english: > > Yesterday, after years using Suse-Linuy, i have installed sarge on my > Sony Vaio Laptop. Beside some trouble with the installing procedur

Re: Upgrade and update sources.list

2005-06-11 Thread Benedek Frank
Happened to me too. I had to change testing to sarge and not to stable and is working fine. Cheers On Saturday 11 June 2005 19:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have sarge installed, but I get errors when trying to run apt-get update. > The sources.list file used to work, but not any more. I use

Re: Sarge on Sony Vaio

2005-06-11 Thread Benedek Frank
> Servus miteinand, > > ich hab gestern, nachdem ich jahrelang mit Suse gearbeitet hatte, auf > meinem Laptop (Sony Vaio) Sarge installiert. Abgesehen von einigen > Problemen mit dem Installer, bin ich mittlerweile ziemlich angetan ;-) > > Gibt es irgendwo Infos über die Unterschiede zwischen Suse

Re: Man pages are going crazy

2005-06-10 Thread Benedek Frank
On Friday 10 June 2005 20:55, you wrote: > On Fri, 10 Jun 2005, Benedek Frank wrote: > > Thanks for that. That Alias thing sounds good, but unfortunately I have > > no idea where to start. Can you go into that a little further? I dont > > have the knowledge to set that up, wha

Re: Man pages are going crazy

2005-06-10 Thread Benedek Frank
On Friday 10 June 2005 19:08, you wrote: > On Fri, 10 Jun 2005, Benedek Frank wrote: > > Hi > > > > I have a Debian Sarge 2.6.11 kernel Vaio Picturebook, and I added > > Japanese support by adding this to my Xsession file > > [cut] > > > SInce I have don

Sony Vaio PCG-C1VRX/K Picturebook, Suspend to Ram works, but has a strange effect on the idle display

2005-06-10 Thread Benedek Frank
Hi I finally got my Suspend to RAM working with my Picturebook. If interested how, please go to www.celifornia.com/documents/sonyvaio.html But I have got one problem. If I try the suspend with the 2.6.11 kernel that I have, it wil do it beautifuly, but it will not resume from suspend no matter

Man pages are going crazy

2005-06-10 Thread Benedek Frank
Hi I have a Debian Sarge 2.6.11 kernel Vaio Picturebook, and I added Japanese support by adding this to my Xsession file export LANGUAGE=en export LINGUAS=en #export LC_CTYPE=ja_JP# May break certain things like window maker; untested export LC_TIME=C # Format time as English export

Upgrade to Xfree86 4.5 from 4.3 and fonts are displayed as squares

2005-05-04 Thread Benedek Frank
Hi On my Sony PCG-C1VRX I couldnt make Video to display 1024x480 with 4.3 X. Later I found on a Japanese site, that the 43 and 4.4 ATI driver wont work for me, unless in 8Bit mode. So I went ahead and downloaded the sources and installed 4.5 . Now I get a nice 1024x480 crisp clear display, but

Fonts Dissapeared after Xfree86 Upgrade, Sony Vaio PCG-C1VRX

2005-05-02 Thread Benedek Frank
Hi I got this laptop yesterday, and tried t install Debian Sarge, which was successful except that X 4.3 didnt like the 1024x480 resolution. I went ahead and upgraded to Xfree86 4.5 and now my resolution is flawless, except whenever X starts I cannot see any fonts, just Squares instead of lette

Re: Install Debian No CDROM, USB Floppy and Wireless Card

2005-04-24 Thread Benedek Frank
all the rest of the distro from the NET. Thanks for the help, and I am already making a Document on how to install Sarge on the Libretto, so soon it will be listed on tuxmobil.org Cheers Bence On Monday 25 April 2005 01:11 am, Tim Cutts wrote: > On 22 Apr 2005, at 8:46 am, Benedek Frank wr

Install Debian No CDROM, USB Floppy and Wireless Card

2005-04-22 Thread Benedek Frank
Hi I just got an old Toshiba Libretto L1 from Japan, that has no CDrom, nor LAN. I have a Netgear 401 card that works fine with Debian, at least when I do a CD install with Sarge, from the 110MB install CD, it detects my Card as Orinoco just fine and I can do a Network install. Now, I am askin

Re: Suddenly I cannot compile anymore

2005-04-14 Thread Benedek Frank
On Thursday 14 April 2005 09:44 pm, Jean-Philippe THIERRY wrote: > Selon Benedek Frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi > > > > I have my Dell700m working for ages now, and I have had no problem since, > > up until now. I am running Debian Sarge, always up to date, I do

Suddenly I cannot compile anymore

2005-04-14 Thread Benedek Frank
Hi I have my Dell700m working for ages now, and I have had no problem since, up until now. I am running Debian Sarge, always up to date, I do the upgrades every day. Just today, I tried to compile a little Dockable WM applications to show the CPU speed at all times, but it failed.How strange I

Dell700m Wireless LED

2005-04-06 Thread Benedek Frank
Hi I was wondering if somebody knew of a solution to make the Wireless LED active on a Dell700m laptop running a 2.6.9 kernel, and built IPW2200 driver. This Dell uses a Hardware handled Switch for the Wireless, which means by FN + F2 you can enable disable the Wireless Radio. But the LED will

Re: 700m SD driver link

2005-03-09 Thread Benedek Frank
Yes, but this is for Windows, and this is a Debian forum, hence I was looking for a Linux driver. Thanks for the link though, I wish they had a Linux driver as well. On Thursday 10 March 2005 08:20 am, Tim Maynard Jewel Lo wrote: > http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx?c=us >

Dell 700m SD card reader, possible to make it work? TI PCI7420/PCI7620 controller.

2005-03-07 Thread Benedek Frank
Hi. I have a Dell 700m with a built in SD card controller, that is I think connected to the PCMCIA in some way. I never used it before, but I would like to now, as I have SD cards now. lspci outputs the following with using 2.6.9 kernel :02:04.3 Unknown mass storage controller: Texas Ins

Re: Laptop recomendation?

2005-01-01 Thread Benedek Frank
Hi I am using a Dell 700m, and it is very fine with Sarge. I can use the built in IPW2200 Wifi, the screen is fantastic, but needs patch for the 1280-800 resolution. The touchpad is the new synaptics touchpad, that works great with Linux after installing driver. Pros: New Dothan CPU, ACPI wor

Re: OT Dell/HP Support [was Re: HD problem, Debian Sarge 2.6.9, 30GB IBM HD]

2004-12-30 Thread Benedek Frank
2004 at 10:57:05PM -0800, Benedek Frank wrote: > > HDD. I have to say, that DELL's customer service is top notch. I chated > > with them, they advised me to do a few things, update BIOS, reseat HDD. I > > did all > > I'm glad you had a positive experience, they are

Re: HD problem, Debian Sarge 2.6.9, 30GB IBM HD

2004-12-29 Thread Benedek Frank
n On Wednesday 29 December 2004 10:40 pm, Seehow Youare wrote: > Go to Dell support site and search the Downloads for your HDD model > number. There are a few patches on the Dell site for fixing ticnking > noises in certain HDDS. > > Cheers > > > On 26 Dec 2004 at 20:27, Bened

Re: How to flash BIOS Dell 700m, no floppy drive, no widnows, etc

2004-12-28 Thread Benedek Frank
On Tuesday 28 December 2004 07:42 pm, you wrote: > On Tuesday 28 December 2004 06:40 pm, Benedek Frank wrote: > > Hi > > > > Does anybody has another > > idea how to do this? > > > > Any help would be appreciated. > > > > Bence > >

How to flash BIOS Dell 700m, no floppy drive, no widnows, etc

2004-12-28 Thread Benedek Frank
Hi I have been having trouble with my HDD and Dell wouldnt send me a replacement until I flashed my BIOS up to date, and see if problem still exist. This laptop has no Floppy drive, and the flash is not the old fashioned .bin file, but an .exe file. I have VMware, so I could run the .exe comman

Re: HD problem, Debian Sarge 2.6.9, 30GB IBM HD

2004-12-28 Thread Benedek Frank
On Tuesday 28 December 2004 10:34 am, omega_monk wrote: > --- William Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hard drives fail. It happens. Use this as an opportunity > > to get a bigger drive with a higher RPM. > > If this is a new Dell, it should be replaced under warranty. Yes, I know. The pro

Re: HD problem, Debian Sarge 2.6.9, 30GB IBM HD

2004-12-27 Thread Benedek Frank
On Sunday 26 December 2004 10:10 pm, William Ballard wrote: > On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 09:31:05PM -0800, Benedek Frank wrote: > > positive statement about my harddrive. It is 30GB by the way, not 60. > > Hope that makes a difference. > > That was just one particular run,

Re: HD problem, Debian Sarge 2.6.9, 30GB IBM HD

2004-12-26 Thread Benedek Frank
On Sunday 26 December 2004 09:26 pm, William Ballard wrote: > On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 08:38:29PM -0800, Benedek Frank wrote: > > On Sunday 26 December 2004 08:38 pm, William Ballard wrote: > > > On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 08:27:31PM -0800, Benedek Frank wrote: > > > >

Re: HD problem, Debian Sarge 2.6.9, 30GB IBM HD

2004-12-26 Thread Benedek Frank
On Sunday 26 December 2004 08:38 pm, William Ballard wrote: > On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 08:27:31PM -0800, Benedek Frank wrote: > > Hi > > > > On my dell laptop, I hear weird clicks now and then. I had no idea what > > it was, and nobody had similar issues on this forum

HD problem, Debian Sarge 2.6.9, 30GB IBM HD

2004-12-26 Thread Benedek Frank
Hi On my dell laptop, I hear weird clicks now and then. I had no idea what it was, and nobody had similar issues on this forum, as I asked before. My problem isnt when the harddrive clicks several times, for me its just one click, and then silence for a long time, and click again. Now I got fu

Re: Debian vs. Fedora on Laptops

2004-12-26 Thread Benedek Frank
On Sunday 26 December 2004 02:58 pm, Ryan D'Baisse wrote: > On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 23:10:56 +0100, Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Choose Debian if you want freedom, modularity, APT, and attention to > > technical detail.  Choose Libranet or Ubuntu if you want all of the > > above plus easi

Re: LID button Event ACPI malfunction

2004-12-23 Thread Benedek Frank
On Thursday 23 December 2004 06:26 am, Derek Broughton wrote: > On Wednesday 22 December 2004 18:10, Benedek Frank wrote: > > Hi Derek > > > > It seems I sent the email too early. I discovered new things. > > > > While ACID is shut down, I cat-ed for /proc/acpi/eve

Re: LID button Event ACPI malfunction

2004-12-22 Thread Benedek Frank
er suspend. But it just gets stored in some cache, and when I stop the machine, it does the suspend again as it finds the wandering suspend event? It is really over my knowledge, so I am just throwing ideas out. Can you help? Thanks Ben On Wednesday 22 December 2004 01:52 pm, Benedek Frank w

Re: LID button Event ACPI malfunction

2004-12-22 Thread Benedek Frank
Hi Derek Thanks for picking up this subject with me. > > Subject: Re: LID button Event ACPI malfunction > Date: Wednesday 22 December 2004 04:50 am > From: Derek Broughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org > > On Tuesday 21 December 2004

LID button Event ACPI malfunction

2004-12-21 Thread Benedek Frank
Hi When I shut down, my machine goes into suspend to ram twice. I have to wake it up, and it goes further, sleeps again, wake it up, and finally shuts down. I just had ACPI worked out, and since just recently I can go to suspend to RAM and DISK as well. Now, why a shut down triggers a suspend-t

Re: ACPI suspend Dell 700m 2.6.9 kernel, wont wake up?

2004-12-21 Thread Benedek Frank
the NVIDIA Graphics chipc (fx5200go) > > Any Idea how to wake it up? > > On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 09:00:41 -0800, Benedek Frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sunday 19 December 2004 06:39 am, Pedro Villavicencio Garrido wrote: > > > Hey, > > > > &g

Re: resume from standby with power button

2004-12-20 Thread Benedek Frank
Try SSH-ing into the box from another box, or just pinging it. There is (Baproblem that some computers wont post video after resume. (B (BTry, suspend the computer, and then close the lid, and open. The computer (Bshould come back up, even with no video. Of course, try using the latest (Bk

Re: ACPI suspend Dell 700m 2.6.9 kernel, wont wake up?

2004-12-20 Thread Benedek Frank
uld do "rmmod b44" and upon wakening would do a "modprobe b44" How can I put this in the script? I guess it is done with a "If - then" scenario , but I am not in the level to do this by myself. Thanks for the help in advanced Ben > On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 09:00

Re: toshiba m30x-131 with 1280x800

2004-12-19 Thread Benedek Frank
Hi Sorry, completely my fault. I forgot to ask what chipset you have. This is only for the Intel 855, and not your ATI. Ben On Saturday 18 December 2004 05:14 pm, Christian Christmann wrote: > On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 23:40:11 +0100, Benedek Frank wrote: > > Hi > > > > Sure,

Re: toshiba m30x-131 with 1280x800

2004-12-19 Thread Benedek Frank
Hi Sure, I use it already, it can get done. But you need to run a script every time you boot. http://perso.wanadoo.fr/apoirier/ Here is the patch, and how to use it. I personally made a script called "resolutionfix" and put it in /etc/init.d/ and made it executable. I then ran "rcconfig" in w

Re: ACPI suspend Dell 700m 2.6.9 kernel, wont wake up?

2004-12-19 Thread Benedek Frank
e. Ben On Sunday 19 December 2004 10:18 am, Julien Wolf wrote: > the same problem is with my dell inspiron 5150: It doesn't really wake > up probably because of the NVIDIA Graphics chipc (fx5200go) > > Any Idea how to wake it up? > > On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 09:00:41 -0800, Be

Re: ACPI suspend Dell 700m 2.6.9 kernel, wont wake up?

2004-12-19 Thread Benedek Frank
r on this laptop), the laptop wakes up into console. Ben On Sunday 19 December 2004 10:18 am, Julien Wolf wrote: > the same problem is with my dell inspiron 5150: It doesn't really wake > up probably because of the NVIDIA Graphics chipc (fx5200go) > > Any Idea how to wake it up? &

Re: ACPI suspend Dell 700m 2.6.9 kernel, wont wake up?

2004-12-19 Thread Benedek Frank
On Sunday 19 December 2004 06:39 am, Pedro Villavicencio Garrido wrote: (B> Hey, (B> (B> On Sat, 2004-12-18 at 22:57 -0800, Benedek Frank wrote: (B> > Hi (B> > (B> > On my Dell 700m I am trying to make suspend work. The battery life is (B> > just horrible, 2

ACPI suspend Dell 700m 2.6.9 kernel, wont wake up?

2004-12-18 Thread Benedek Frank
Hi On my Dell 700m I am trying to make suspend work. The battery life is just horrible, 2 hours flat, so suspend is a must. I installed a 2.6.9 kernel. When I do a suspend to memory echo "mem" > /sys/power/state It goes into suspend and the power light starts to blink. That is perfect. Howe

Re: K3B CD-burning Dell 700m laptop, Only burns while root

2004-12-17 Thread Benedek Frank
Thanks Compiling 2.6.9 now. Hope that fixes it. Ben On Friday 17 December 2004 01:35 pm, you wrote: > If you are running a 2.6.8+ kernel, you can only burn cds as root. > > Robert > > On Fri, 2004-12-17 at 15:59, Benedek Frank wrote: > > Hi > > > > I installed

K3B CD-burning Dell 700m laptop, Only burns while root

2004-12-17 Thread Benedek Frank
Hi I installed k3b to burn CD's but only able to do so while I am root. I did all things possible (I think) to make burning for user available. I installed cdrecord with SUID enabled, and also I updated the permissions so that my username is in the "burning" group and also in the "cdrom" group.

Re: Loud Harddrive Clicking noise periodicaly-Dell700m

2004-12-16 Thread Benedek Frank
ive Clicking noise periodicaly-Dell700m > > On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 11:33 am, Anders Ellenshøj Andersen wrote: > > Torsdag den 16. december 2004 01:33 skrev Benedek Frank: > > > On my laptop, a Dell 700m, which has a 30GB HDD, I hear a loud click > > > every now and then

Loud Harddrive Clicking noise periodicaly-Dell700m

2004-12-15 Thread Benedek Frank
Hi On my laptop, a Dell 700m, which has a 30GB HDD, I hear a loud click every now and then. I think I read it somewhere, that some harddrives or controllers have a problem. Or it may have been a BIOS problem, but I cannot recall it. I read it somewhere some time ago. Did anybody has the same p

Re: Dell 700m SD cardslot - HowToUse?

2004-12-15 Thread Benedek Frank
the Texas Instruments PCI7420/PCI7620 controller has the same issue. I saw Sony's, Acer's etc. Ben On Wednesday 15 December 2004 12:57 pm, you wrote: > Benedek Frank wrote: > > Can you tell me if there is a way to know which device name it is using? > > Like hde or hdf e

Re: Dell 700m SD cardslot - HowToUse?

2004-12-15 Thread Benedek Frank
On Wednesday 15 December 2004 08:23 am, Juraj Ziegler wrote: > Derek Broughton wrote: > > On Wednesday 15 December 2004 04:10, Juraj Ziegler wrote: > >>Benedek Frank wrote: > >>>lspci reports the following. > >>> > >>>:02:04.3 Unknown m

Re: Dell 700m Touchpad problem - TAP isn't recognized

2004-12-14 Thread Benedek Frank
uot;/dev/ps2mouse" EndSection Now go to the bottom to the Section "ServerLayout" Insert a line InputDevice "Mouse[1]" "CorePointer" and also comment out the "Configured Mouse" line # InputDevice "Configured Mouse" Re

Dell 700m SD cardslot - HowToUse?

2004-12-14 Thread Benedek Frank
Hi On my new Dell 700m I found a cardslot, that I cannot utilize. I have external USB card reader, and when I install that I use sg3-utils to utilize it. sg_scan -i will show me where the device it sg_map will show me what is the /dev/ name of it, so I can mount it. Now, when I do those steps

Dell 700m Touchpad problem - TAP isn't recognized

2004-12-14 Thread Benedek Frank
Hi I have a Dell Inspiron laptop, which works mostly with Debian Sarge. One thing that bothers me, is that the touchpad wont recognize the TAP of a finger. For example, I cannot click with the touchpad itself, but I have to press the buttons below the touchpad. Does anybody experienced this? H

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