[OT] US laptop in Germany

2004-07-06 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
Hello, I'm travelling to Jena, Germany in a couple weeks and I'd like to use my laptop there. I have an IBM X31 and the transformer says input is 100 - 240 V, 1.2A-0.7A, and 50/60Hz. According to http://users.pandora.be/worldstandards/electricity.htm, Germany is 230 V and 50 Hz. So, it seems to

[OT] US laptop in Germany

2004-07-06 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
Hello, I'm travelling to Jena, Germany in a couple weeks and I'd like to use my laptop there. I have an IBM X31 and the transformer says input is 100 - 240 V, 1.2A-0.7A, and 50/60Hz. According to http://users.pandora.be/worldstandards/electricity.htm, Germany is 230 V and 50 Hz. So, it seems to

Re: ACPI on IBM Thinkpad T30

2003-11-18 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
Serge Gebhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 23:44:00 -0500 > Mike Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Mike, > >> > does anyone get ACPI working on the IBM Thinkpad T30? I tried quite >> > some patches, kernel 2.4.x, 2.5.x and up to 2.6-test5, without >> > success. I als

Re: ACPI on IBM Thinkpad T30

2003-11-18 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
Serge Gebhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 23:44:00 -0500 > Mike Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Mike, > >> > does anyone get ACPI working on the IBM Thinkpad T30? I tried quite >> > some patches, kernel 2.4.x, 2.5.x and up to 2.6-test5, without >> > success. I als

Re: Inittab runlevel problem

2003-11-10 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > How can I fix this,so that I stay at the > virtual terminal screen, without having to press Alt F1 ? Stop gdm from running, and you will stop at the console login prompt. I think this command will do it, but you might want to check the man page: update-rc.d -f gdm rem

Re: Inittab runlevel problem

2003-11-10 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > How can I fix this,so that I stay at the > virtual terminal screen, without having to press Alt F1 ? Stop gdm from running, and you will stop at the console login prompt. I think this command will do it, but you might want to check the man page: update-rc.d -f gdm rem

Re: console framebuffer [Solved]

2003-08-14 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
Hello, After much googling (with many different search terms), I found a recent post about matroxfb and kernel-2.6.0-test2: http://lkml.org/lkml/2003/7/29/12 The key point is that (for some reason) the fb device needs to be compiled into the kernel, not as a module. I recompiled 2.6.0-test2 (De

Re: console framebuffer [Solved]

2003-08-12 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
Hello, After much googling (with many different search terms), I found a recent post about matroxfb and kernel-2.6.0-test2: http://lkml.org/lkml/2003/7/29/12 The key point is that (for some reason) the fb device needs to be compiled into the kernel, not as a module. I recompiled 2.6.0-test2 (De

console framebuffer

2003-08-11 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
Hello, When I installed the 2.4.21 kernel-image, I gave the radeonfb a try. I have an IBM X31 with a Radeon Mobility M6 LY (according to lspci), and I really liked the console with the framebuffer. (I liked it so much that I started to learn screen.) However, I was also quite interested in get

console framebuffer

2003-08-10 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
Hello, When I installed the 2.4.21 kernel-image, I gave the radeonfb a try. I have an IBM X31 with a Radeon Mobility M6 LY (according to lspci), and I really liked the console with the framebuffer. (I liked it so much that I started to learn screen.) However, I was also quite interested in get

Re: Suspending successfully from X-windows

2002-01-29 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
Oliver Johns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [some material deleted below] > Some notebooks seem to suspend OK from a virtual terminal, but not from > X-windows. I had that problem and found a solution. The setup here is a > Gateway Solo3350 with a Phoenix NoteBIOS 4.0 release 6.0 (serial 25.04).

Re: Suspending successfully from X-windows

2002-01-29 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
Oliver Johns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [some material deleted below] > Some notebooks seem to suspend OK from a virtual terminal, but not from > X-windows. I had that problem and found a solution. The setup here is a > Gateway Solo3350 with a Phoenix NoteBIOS 4.0 release 6.0 (serial 25.04)

Re: kernel & PCMCIA compilation

2001-11-11 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
Harry Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm a bit confused with how this works in Debian (in spite of the > "we've greatly simplified this with Debian's kernel-package" etc > etc). Well, I don't know how detailed I can get, but I just did this yesterday and I was very pleased with how simp

Re: kernel & PCMCIA compilation

2001-11-11 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
Harry Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm a bit confused with how this works in Debian (in spite of the > "we've greatly simplified this with Debian's kernel-package" etc > etc). Well, I don't know how detailed I can get, but I just did this yesterday and I was very pleased with how sim

Re: Cursor Gets Stuck

2001-08-29 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
the standard one is `msc.' Also tell X the device is /dev/gmpdata. I believe that should work. -- Brian P. Flaherty -- /"\ \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN XAGAINST HTML MAIL / \

Re: Cursor Gets Stuck

2001-08-29 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
the standard one is `msc.' Also tell X the device is /dev/gmpdata. I believe that should work. -- Brian P. Flaherty -- /"\ \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN XAGAINST HTML MAIL / \ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &q

Re: turning off (LCD+) backlight without suspending

2001-07-20 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
Could you do what you want with xset? When I type `xset dpms force standby`, I get a blank screen, but nothing else seems to slow down. It also looks like you could disable 'suspend' and 'off' modes so it would stay in perpetual standby while you ride home. Brian -- /"\ \ / A

IDE kernel messages after potato install

2001-07-17 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
Hello, I am not trying to spam the debian mail lists, I am simply trying to get the opinions of people more knowledgeable than I. The original message sent to debian-user follows. Any thoughts will be appreciated. > Hello, > > I have had two messages in kern.log since installing potato 2.2-r3