dekkz...@gmail.com wrote:
> Glad to see you fixed it, but a question are you running in DRI3 mode?
No. It I am sure it defaults to DRI2 mode. (Pretty sure anyway. I
no longer have immediate access to that machine. I'll see it again
soon enough though. If I learn otherwise later I will update
Bjørn Mork wrote:
> Bob Proulx writes:
> > Fresh install of Debian Stretch 9. X11 starts in software rendering
> > mode. The same laptop with Ubuntu 16.04 runs with hardware rendering.
> >
> > Any hints on how what is needed for hardware rendering with this
> > h
dekkz...@gmail.com wrote:
> On 05/13, Bob Proulx wrote:
> > This following is on the problematic machine.
> > Graphics: Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] RV530/M56 GL [Mobility
> > FireGL V5200] bus-ID: 01:00.0
> > Display Server: X.org 1.19.2 dr
dekks herton wrote:
> The current FOSS ati driver works fine on my T60p with V5250, installed first
> time.
Yes. Me too! Although this happens to be an older version of the
software. Makes me worry that it would start failing upon an upgrade.
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micr
Michael wrote:
> I abandoned my TP60 many years ago but i remember the prorietary
> fglrx driver for X worked best, in comparison the alternate free X
> driver was not optimized.
I happen to be typing this message on my T60p which is a slightly
newer model with a slightly newer graphics adapter.
IBM ThinkPad T60p
Intel T2600 cpu (32-bits)
AMD/ATI RV530/M56 GL Mobility FireGL V5200 graphics
Fresh install of Debian Stretch 9. X11 starts in software rendering
mode. The same laptop with Ubuntu 16.04 runs with hardware rendering.
Any hints on how what is needed for hardware rendering with t
Gerard Bekhuis wrote:
> If you also cannot hear any music, it's the problem of the browser firefox
> c.q. iceweasel. Then that is the problem what I have.
The audio is functioning okay. I can control the volume using
'alsamixer' for example. And of course in a desktop environment such
as Xfce th
d...@nc.rr.com wrote:
> Kirill Shilov wrote:
> > Very strange, i have X220 and X230 and all functional working correctly out
> > of the box.(not a mic led of course).
I have had other people report the same thing. But not for me. This
(so far) is a stock installation of Jessie running Xfce. Ho
I am trying to set up Debian Jessie on a Thinkpad X220. Most things
work fine out of a fresh install. There are a few things that are not
working however and I am hoping that one of the other folks here have
already solved the problems.
The laptop buttons for audio have no reaction. Also not th
Robert Stone wrote:
> I'm running:-
> Linux roblaptop 4.5.0-2-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.5.3-2 (2016-05-08) x86_64
> GNU/Linux
That looks like either Testing or Unstable.
> I was running out of room on /dev/sda1 and to make some more space I used
> synaptic to find out the obsolete packages.
> I end
Estelmann, Christian wrote:
> schrieb Tomasz Kundera:
> > Is there an easy way to remove or block that stupid renaming?
>
> In
> http://askubuntu.com/questions/704361/why-is-my-network-interface-named-enp0s25-instead-of-eth0
> there is a link to
> https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/P
Dwijesh Gajadur wrote:
> Hannu Virtanen wrote:
> > I tried to go through the Expert Install as you suggested however
>
> I did not see any option to directly install grub. Can you tell me
> where this option is found?
>
> I don't remember it exactly.
>
> Certainly some others can remember it bett
Hannu Virtanen wrote:
> The problem is that with 'jessie' I don't get any automatic notice,
> if there are (security) updates available. With previous versions
> that was no issue.
>
> I'm using gnome.
Previously in Wheezy 7 and before there were packages called:
update-notifier
update-noti
Jan-Rens Reitsma wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> > If my laptop had a slot to insert another dimm that would be great. I
> > would happily stuff several more gigs into it. But I can't. My
> > ThinkPad T60p is already max'd out at 4G. I could buy many more 4G
>
Dave Horsfall wrote:
> What do I do now to get the GUI? It's the Acer Aspire E15 with the
> proprietary Atheros WiFi chip that neither 7.7 nor 7.8 would see, but 8.0
> installed just fine from the "live" CD and then wireless; I could've sworn
> that 7 came up in the GUI afterwards.
>
> Hmmm...
Jan-Rens Reitsma wrote:
> 4 GB DDR3(L) modules are not very expensive.
If my laptop had a slot to insert another dimm that would be great. I
would happily stuff several more gigs into it. But I can't. My
ThinkPad T60p is already max'd out at 4G. I could buy many more 4G
dimms but I can't get t
Eric S Fraga wrote:
> real bas wrote:
> > It's early to talk about but the memory usage it's too much (3.5 GB RAM)
> > with Debian Jessie. I using ISO (cd-1) of debian.org and have this problem.
It does not matter that you installed from CD#1 or by another method
such as DVD or network installatio
Arghya Das wrote:
> wondering if UDP protocol doesn't have any mechanism of error contol like
> TCP and no ordering of data packets
No. UDP is an unreliable datagram protocol. Adding reliability is up
to the application *if* the application desires or needs it.
> then how does VOIP calls work..
Celejar wrote:
> Reco wrote:
> > Linux's minimum requirement of 32 bits is really pushing the limit of
> > "embedded".
>
> Your opinion, but you haven't provided any real source for your
> stringent definition.
It isn't completely black and white. It is a gray scale. But
generally by the time y
peter.schleichm...@t-online.de wrote:
> I've found an old laptop (MAXDATA Artist Stanford) with 64mb ram and
> tried to install a minimal Debian system. The installer warned me
> about low system memory but I could continue. I didn't select any
> additional kernel module and continued again. After
Dave Horsfall wrote:
> 02:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9565 Wireless
> Network Adapter (rev 01)
> ...
> So it's an Atheros chip.
Try installing the firmware-atheros package.
# apt-get install firmware-atheros
Bob
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Michael wrote:
> I didn't know that partitions are just only logical things
> nowadays. Does that mean partition layouts are obsolete now ?
A partition layout simply says give such and such space to this and
such and such space to that in the logical address space. Specifying
how much space to al
Michael wrote:
> Ah, but since fstrim works only on a mounted filesystem, there is
> already a difference to a reset by SSD BIOS. A filesystem allocates
> lots of blocks, for tables and journal and the redundancy
> backups. (I wonder if that's even anymore useful with a SSD, and if
> there are spec
Brian Flaherty wrote:
> Like many, I have a laptop that I use in multiple settings:
> - home wired
> - home wireless
> - work wired
> - work wireless
> - roaming around (hotels, coffee shops, airports etc.)
Me too.
> Right now, I used wicd, but I get different IPs at home whether I'm on wired
> o
Yates, Alexandra wrote:
> I just installed an out of the box debian distribution (from
> http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/7.6.0/amd64/iso-cd/) on a
> Haswell. However, the graphics X.org driver doesn't support intel
> Haswell chipset. It supports previous versions of intel chipset
> such as Sa
Aniyan Rajan wrote:
> I am planning to buy a new VPS from DigitalOcean. The following is the
> configuration:
>
> KVM Virtualization, *512MB* , 1 CORE CPU, *20GB* SSD Disk, *1TB* Transfer,
> Debian 7.0.
>
> Digital Ocean said that I can install 64-bit Debian in this VPS. But what do
> you suggest
Stefan Monnier wrote:
> Gerard ROBIN wrote:
> > I want to buy a laptop but I want a laptop in which it is easy to change
> > the fan or change the thermal paste etc ... without the need to disassemble
> > everything.
>
> Traditionally, Thinkpads are considered reasonably well designed (and
> well
Nick wrote:
> > It both motivated me that I should get an ARM laptop
>
> So firstly, the Chromebook Pixel isn't an ARM. Some other
> Chromebooks are, but this one is x86_64.
Oh! Sorry. I had thought all of the Chromebooks were ARMs. Knowing
that it is and amd64 architecture isn't quite as exc
Nick wrote:
> I just created a wiki page explaining how to set up the Chromebook
> Pixel on Debian. It'd be great if someone could take a look and
> check that it's sane and good. I've been using Debian on this laptop
> for a while now, and it works very well indeed.
>
> https://wiki.debian.org
Aniyan Rajan wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> > Also the most important detail you left out. How much memory do you
> > have? Do you have more than 4 gig of memory?
>
> No, I have only 2 gig.
With only 2G of ram there is no significant advantage to you to be
running a 64-bit sy
Aniyan Rajan wrote:
> I have a Debian/Squeeze 32-bit stable release (6.0.3), which is
> natively installed in my laptop. The processor is a 64-bit processor
> (Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7250 @ 2.00GHz). Now, I would like to
> upgrade the OS to Wheezy 64-bit.
Why? What benefit do you expect from
Carl Fink wrote:
> My point is that the terminology could be improved ...
Let's go with that for a moment. What would it be called instead? It
is all very well and good to say that something is bad. Lots of
things are bad. But if it is to be improved then it must have an
improvement available.
Carl Fink wrote:
> OK, that terrible and confusing name was picked by upstream. Thanks.
>
> You know, the kernel project doesn't have to use a terrible,
> misleading name because AMD says so.
I don't understand. It doesn't seem terrible. What is misleading
about the name? Also any alternative t
Carl Fink wrote:
> Facundo Aguirre wrote:
> > >From http://www.debian.org/ports/amd64/:
> > The port consists of a kernel for all AMD 64bit CPUs with
> > AMD64 extension and all *Intel CPUs* with Intel 64 extension,
> > and a common 64bit userspace.
>
> Thank you. Also, what a terrible
Vladan Cvejic wrote:
> few days ago I was playing with idle3-tools on WD that was clicking due to
> head parking every 2-3 mins. In 24 hours of work I managed to gain 600 load
> cycles.
I have that problem of continuously increasing load cycle count from
head parking with a brand new Seagate 2T dr
sting wing wrote:
> Question: how does a person know if their /dev is a static or dynamic /dev
This is when it changed:
http://www.debian.org/releases/etch/i386/release-notes/ch-whats-new.en.html#s-kernel-udev
That was way back in Etch 4.0. So any system newer than that, Lenny,
Squeeze, Whee
Nate Bargmann wrote:
> Console 1 (F1) will have the bootup messages printed to it, but that is
> the only thing that makes it special.
This has been true in Debian up through Squeeze 6. But in the soon to
be released Wheezy 7 very unfortunately in my opinion the /sbin/getty
in the util-linux pack
Jens Peter Nielsen wrote:
> Ubuntu 12.10 made the display on a HP Compaq 8510w flicker and go
> black. This happened with the setup, nouveau driver i guess.
> ...
> I did a new installation with ubuntu 12.10 - flickering problem
> persisted, but it worked on external monitor - but somehow, after
>
sirquij...@lavabit.com wrote:
> First: is it possible to sleep or suspend from the CLI? No GUI installed
> at all, nor is one wanted. I'm not looking for data to be written to the
> HDD, a la "hibernation".
As already suggested there is pm-hibernate and pm-suspend. For an
alternative see s2disk
Matthew Dawson wrote:
> Harvey Kelly wrote:
> > Running Wheezy and the multimedia/volume keys don't work in
> > Windowmaker (they work fine with Gnome and Xfce4), nor from the
> > console.
>
> I think your problem may occur because you have nothing listening to
> those key strokes. Gnome, Xfce 4,
Chris Evans wrote:
> I can vouch for that fixing both the screen resolution and the
> suspend problem.
Yay!
Just to add more information here for other people with that laptop,
which kernel did you end up using for your machine?
Bob
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Chris Evans wrote:
> > Marek Straka wrote:
> > Install debian - wheezy. It is nearly stable. You have quite new
> > hardware in your notebook.
>
> Yes, I wondered if that was the way to go. Am I right in thinking
> that there's a wheezy live install option? I'm sure that if there
> is, that shou
Chris Evans wrote:
> I hope this is the right list for what will probably be a series of questions.
It is. And although I may not be able to help I will start off by
asking some clarifying questions.
> I've now installed Squeeze on the Toshiba and can't get hiher
> resolution that 1024*768
> ...
Bob Proulx wrote:
> > design capacity: 4400 mAh
> > last full capacity: 3334 mAh
> > remaining capacity: 4400 mAh
Oh! I just saw something else too. This is definitely conflicting
information from the battery. The last full capacity is 3.3 AH but it
has 4.4
Peter Rapisarda wrote:
> cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/info
> present: yes
This information is in conflict with the previous information that you
posted saying that you didn't have any battery directories but just AC
directories. Perhaps between then and now your battery became
conn
Peter Rapisarda wrote:
> This is something I was afraid of. I have NO idea what version of debian I
> installed, and I don't know how to find out.
You can tell the version of Debian by looking at the
/etc/debian_version file.
cat /etc/debian_version
That will say one of the following:
5.0.
Peter Rapisarda wrote:
> to complement my studying I decided to resurrect an old laptop which is a
> Dell Inspiron 2200 with a Intel Celeron M processor. The hard drive had
> gone bad so I replaced it
Should be fine. My main laptop is of similar vintage. I have
replaced the battery however.
>
Vladan Cvejic wrote:
> Please,
>
> if someone could prevent this from happening - this is obviously spam with
> porn commercials. And this is not the only one ... I am receiving similar
> from other countries via debian-laptop, debian-firewall etcSomeone
> should check mails
Please do NOT rep
Gary Kline wrote:
> HUANG WEI wrote:
> > what's wrong with it?
>
> Nothing, obviously, as I see. It is just that this list is not
> very active, and I am looking for an active, busy Debian list.
Why?
But in that case please subscribe to debian-user instead. That is a
high volume ma
Alexander Batischev wrote:
> We're talking in English here, but as far as there's no
> debian-user-spanish@, I think that's not a big deal.
There is debian-user in Spanish here:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user-spanish/
I am not concerned but just wanted to point out the mailing list.
Bob
Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
> You just MUST mention this. People here tend to send followups to mailing
> list so others may add their comments.
That is documented official mailing list policy:
http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct
- When replying to messages on the mailing lis
Paulo Diovani wrote:
> Do someone knows if there is and easy and fast way to upgrade udev rules?
> I have hundreds of WARNINGs at boot due to deprecated syntax on then.
Are these coming from xserver-xorg-input-wacom? Something like this:
udevd[499]: SYSFS{}= will be removed in a future udev ve
Ji ZhengYu wrote:
> Yes, I do as what Bob said, and everything seems to OK.
So you get a boot and a text console streaming boot up messages okay?
> But when I reboot system again, the X system can't work any more.
> Screen is black (nothing), and no logs exist in /var/log/X.log.
In Squeeze the X
Paulo Diovani wrote:
> Well people, I managed to upgrade successfully. Install the new
> kernel and reboot prior to update did the trick.
Good news.
> Sure that i'm with a lot of problems now... no X server, no Wireless
> network (i'll start another thread for that). That's why I didn't
> want t
Paulo Diovani wrote:
> And what if i can't install aptitude without installing all the
> packages marked to install? :/
You don't need aptitude. Just install the Squeeze kernel with apt-get
and then reboot. After booting to the new kernel then you will be
able to upgrade udev and proceed normal
Nikolay Bitsadze wrote:
> Seems like the only way to do things right is clean install? Learned from
> other people's mistakes.
No. It is not necessary to reinstall. However the change in udev to
require a newer kernel is both inconvenient and annoying and will trip
up many people. The solution
Joe Emenaker wrote:
> Yeah, I saw IBAM, but it looked like it just generated plain ol' .png
> files or something. I was hoping for something a little more snazzy.
Have you looked at the gkrellm-ibam? It is still rather plain and I
wouldn't argue about wanting more. But it is at least something
Joe Emenaker wrote:
> I'm looking for a good battery charge/discharge profiler tool for my
> Ubuntu laptop.
Of course I am sure that you know you are posting about Ubuntu to the
Debian laptop mailing list? The least you could do is to lie to us
and say you are running Debian when posting to a D
Ionreflex wrote:
> Situation : I've just booted up an old laptop which has debian on it, and
> debian it will stay : the fdd is defect, the cdd is defect and not only some
> of the keyboard keys are defect, the ps/2 port is not functional...
I assume you are connecting to it over the network? Doe
roberto wrote:
> i am about to double the size of my laptop ram from 1 to 2GB;
> actually the swap space is 1906 MB (almost twice as the ram) but i
> wonder if it is mandatory or simply better to double it again when i
> double the size of the ram as well;
In the default Linux kernel configuration
Florian Marienfeld wrote:
> - battery charge is at e.g. 70%
> - I plug in the ac connector
> - $(acpi -a) says "on-line", but battery goes down
> - after 1:15 hours, at 2% charge, recharging starts
> - after 2:00 hours it gets to 100%
Let me guess. My ThinkPad doesn't behave this way wen booted D
Harvey Kelly wrote:
> Geoff Simmons wrote:
> > This is a known issue with NetworkManager in Squeeze.
> > See http://wiki.debian.org/NetworkManager#NetworkManagerinSqueeze
Ah... Now all is clear. Thanks for that.
> The page also said: "Comment the relevant lines in
> /etc/network/interfaces to r
Harvey Kelly wrote:
> Gerard Robin wrote:
> > When you run ifconfig does eth0 appear ?
>
> Yes, here it is:
>
> eth0Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1f:16:63:65:90
> inet addr:192.168.0.2 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
> inet6 addr: fe80::21f:16ff:fe63:6590/64 Scop
Harvey Kelly wrote:
> allow-hotplug eth0
> iface eth0 inet dhcp
That should be okay and should allow network-manager to manage the
device.
Are you in the 'netdev' group?
$ id | grep --color netdev
If not then add yourself to it.
# adduser USERNAME netdev
Then make sure you log out and log
Harvey Kelly wrote:
> 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 accidentally clicked
> on the icon in
Nima Azarbayjany wrote:
> I actually installed Kubuntu 9.10 to give the new KDE a try. It was
> then that I realized the new kernel in Kubuntu does a better job so I
> reinstalled Lenny (I always return to Debian) with the newer kernel. In
> Kubuntu it worked very well out of box so this mu
James Clark wrote:
> I have a Toshiba laptop: Satellite L300, model PSLB8A-0FM004.
> ...
> I migrated to Debian (squeeze/sid (2.6.30-2-686)). The fan never
> spins down.
I don't know but you might try the 'toshset' package and see if there
is something in there that is helpful.
http://www.schw
Celejar wrote:
> I thought that s2disk, unlike s2ram, really doesn't involve any
> special low-level, device-specific quirks, and should work pretty
> much anywhere.
Unfortunately no. For example even after working the problem very
hard for a significant time I never got the stock in-kernel swsus
Dot Deb wrote:
> Recently I found a problem with the hibernate method on my
> lenovo/thinkpad/x200s.
What method do you use to invoke hiberate? For example having the
GNOME Desktop running and then using the Power Manager icon by default
in the Notification Area and then selecting the Hibernate a
Dot Deb wrote:
> I just woke up, re-inserted the battery and switched the computer on:
> the charge is the same as when I switched it off 7hr ago.
Well, at least you know it isn't the battery.
> The problem is the suspend-to-disk method: in my laptop (lenovo
> thinkpad) the "platform" method do b
Celejar wrote:
> By 'hibernate', I assume that we're talking about suspend-to-disk.
I am assuming that too. Hibernate is suspend-to-disk and the machine
is then turned off. Standby/Suspend would be suspend-to-ram and would
need continuous power to keep the ram alive.
> What do you mean by 'enou
Dot Deb wrote:
> Some time ago (don't know exactly when) it started this strange
> behaviour of using battery power while on hibernate with AC
> disconnected.
>
> Today I made a check: 4% in 3 hr.
I suspect that your battery has developed a slow discharge due to
internal shorting. This is one of
Jonas Andradas wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> > Also, if you have an Apache web server enabled then the clients can
> > pull files by http. That may be even simpler for your purpose than
> > using ftp. However that would be a one way copy only. Still might be
> > usef
Dotan Cohen wrote:
> >> Can I configure an FTP server locally, that would allow for easy
> >> connection via Windows Explorer, Konqueror, and Nautilus? I need the
> >> ability to transfer files in both directions. Thanks in advance for
> >> any ideas.
MS-Windows machines have an ftp client by defa
James Brown wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> > apt-get install memtest86+
>
> It see only 3GB, not 4GB.
I looked up the Acer TravelMate 3040 series and supposedly it has two
200-pin sodimm slots. This is an obvious question but are you sure
your two slots both have a 2G dimm
James Brown wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> > Hmm... I recommend installing memtest86+ and then seeing how much
> > memory it detects at boot time.
> >
> > apt-get install memtest86+
> >
> > This should automatically install a grub boot entry and be very
James Brown wrote:
> I have a laptop Acer TravelMate 3043WTMi under Lenny AMD64 with 4GD RAM.
> But the system "see" only 3GB:
> dmesg |grep Memory
> [0.004000] Memory: 3081184k/3136000k available (2225k kernel code, 54428k
> reserved, 1080k data, 392k init)
Hmm... I recommend installing mem
"J.Keßler" wrote:
> well the system is currently up to date (I always use the command line
> stuff). So it looks like some gnome setting or version mis-match.
> The system update also runs without any problems.
Oh! My mistake. I saw gnome-volume-manager and read in my mind
gnome-update-manager!
"J.Keßler" wrote:
> since some update the gnome-volume-manager does not work anymore.
> The question is now how do I debug this ?
Since I don't use gnome-volume-manager this is a little bit foreign to
me and so I didn't say anything earlier. But here are some general
ideas.
The update manager pe
Richard Werst wrote:
> I wanted to get the "Syndaemon" to work in Lenny, so that my touchpad is
> disabled while typing, and for some reason I can't get the SHMConfig to
> be acknowledged properly.
I use this utility too.
> It is set to "true" in my xorg.conf file, and it worked in Etch, but now
Florian Kulzer wrote:
> Heather W. Reichgott wrote:
> > I'm trying to install Wicd on a Thinkpad T60 running Debian etch.
Since Lenny is now the current Stable release it is much recommended
that you upgrade your Etch installation to Lenny. Lenny is now the
best stable version of Debian available
Eli L. wrote:
> I've been looking for a way to setup a local mail system to get email
> from services, mainly tripwire/other cron jobs, without running a full
> MTA.
You could install 'nullmailer' and have it deliver all local mail to
your smarthost where you could read it in your main mailbox.
>
Nima Azarbayjany wrote:
> I did in fact thought of doing this but it is not doable for me. What is
> the most general way of determining whether a specific piece of hardware is
> supported by Debian? Things on the web seem quite confusing to me.
Debian uses the Linux kernel (the Linux in Debian
John Wesley Cooper wrote:
> As of this moment, I am now thoroughly annoyed, as when I execute the
> following as root:
>
> EXCALIBUR:/home/DRIVER# apt-get install ndiswrapper-utils-1.9
> ndiswrapper-common
>
> This is the result:
>
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dep
Paolo wrote:
> Gerard Robin wrote:
> >(host [3]smtp.free.fr[212.27.48.4] refused to talk to me: 554 5.7.1
> >: Client host rejected: Access denied)
>
> your IP [41.212.157.172] from [telecomplus,Mauritius] is likely a dynamic IP
> so smtp.free.fr refused to serve requests from it; likely s
Robert Smith wrote:
> Is this list moderated? The below message is SPAM, and offensive at that!
It would be impossible to moderate the lists.debian.org mailing
lists. They receive thousands of valid messages every day. But the
lists are extensively filtered. This means that some spam will
inevi
Paolo wrote:
> 225 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 001 001 070Old_age Always FAILING_NOW
> 3812632
A good example that a high load cycle count doesn't mean that your
disk is required to die. That one is quite large and I am glad to
hear that it is still working well.
> with uptimes of month
Dotan Cohen wrote:
> Adrian Levi wrote:
> > You might be interested to read the applicable Debian bug:
> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=448673
>
> Thanks, Adrian, it seems that I'm right there! I'll start looking
> for
> a new hard drive now, before the data loss. (I do keep reg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I don't know if here is the rigth place do ask this question:
It is a generic question and isn't specific to Debian on laptops.
There isn't anything laptop specific about it and therefore would
apply to Debian in general instead of specifically to laptops.
Therefore the
James Robertson wrote:
> I have a Lenovo Thinkpad R61.
I have a T42. It is similar. But it is also slightly different. Let
me give a warning that you may find that my instructions here are
slightly different than what you need. But I think they will be
pretty close.
> I'm running Debian Lenny
A. C. Censi wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> > One option that has worked for me in other similar but different
> > situations is to move/remove the module from the filesystem. With it
> > gone from the disk the kernel couldn't load it. That worked for me
> > without
A. F. Cano wrote:
> I have a 600E and had no end of trouble with the sound card. I posted
> questions to this list a long time ago and the one suggestion that
> worked was to compile a kernel without the cs46xx driver.
>
> It appears that the kernel insisted on loading this in preference to
> oth
Andreas Richter wrote:
> schrieb Bob Proulx:
> My swap-partition is 4G big. I tested hibernate with a 8G swap file and it
> doesn't work either.
Sigh. Oh well...
> > To get to 4G all that is needed is CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y and that is the
> > default in stock Debian
Laurent Guignard wrote:
> Andreas Richter a écrit :
> > schrieb Ji ZhengYu:
> >> As you have 4G memory, maybe change kernel to another which have
> >> `bigmem' support is a good idea, and you will try this if it doesn't work
> >> after doing above.
This shouldn't be needed for 4G of ram. That wou
Isaac MacFarlane wrote:
> The cat /proc/meminfo results in a MemTotal of 224436 kb.
Okay.
> When I try the mem=288M it gives me an Error 28: Selected item
> cannot fit into memory.
I believe that is a grub error. Grub doesn't believe there is that
much memory present.
> I find that puzzling si
Isaac MacFarlane wrote:
> Hello all. I have 288MB installed in my system and the BIOS does see it all,
> but Debian is only recoginizing 220MB.
What indicators show only 220M of memory? This problem sounds very
unusual to me. Also 288M seems like a lot of memory for the 770.
After boot the 'dme
Buehl, Reiner (HPS EMEA, DO-C&I) wrote:
> To be more precice: If it says you have an INTEL cpu - no matter how many
> cores you have or if your cpu is 32 or 64 bits, using an AMD optimized kernel
> is a bad idea! It will work but you will end up with a slower system then you
> have now.
Let me hel
javier melendez wrote:
> i have a intel celeron, dual core, when i see the file /proc/cpuinfo
> he show me that my processor is a INTEL CELERON CPU E1200 1.6 GHZ. i
> installed the debian i386 but my quenstion is, can i install the
> amd64debian in my machine? "for usefull the power of the 2
> pro
daniele wrote:
> Simple question : does anyone know why in a standard debian installation
> the developers chose to add these two links (initrd.img and vmlinuz) in
> the root partition ? Are there any specific needs or something ?
It is tradition. In the old days the Unix kernel would be placed
Noah Meyerhans wrote:
> Noah Meyerhans wrote:
> > My new ThinkPad X300 can suspend just fine if I use the hibernate-ram
>
> Hmm. Never mind. ... Hibernate seems to be working...
Just to mention that for your ThinkPad that the ThinkWiki is a really
good resource of information. If you haven't se
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