Re: What is ACPI, exactly?

2004-03-16 Thread Calum Mackay
arief# wrote: How exactly I use it? I've tried xset dpms force standby, but the backlight still not off. At least not the same as apm suspend gave me. Try: xset dpms force off cheers, c.

Re: What is ACPI, exactly?

2004-03-16 Thread Calum Mackay
arief# wrote: How exactly I use it? I've tried xset dpms force standby, but the backlight still not off. At least not the same as apm suspend gave me. Try: xset dpms force off cheers, c. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: full screen console under 2.6, + some small bugs

2003-12-06 Thread Calum Mackay
Matt Price wrote: gaah. I think the new code is justSomehow not ocmpatible with my video hardware! Or do y'all sti3ll haves ome suggestions up your sleeve? I think there's a bug in 2.6 somewhere... I used vga=0x31a (VESA mode 0x11a: 1280x1024x16, 160x64) under 2.4 and it worked perfectly. D

Re: full screen console under 2.6, + some small bugs

2003-12-06 Thread Calum Mackay
Matt Price wrote: gaah. I think the new code is justSomehow not ocmpatible with my video hardware! Or do y'all sti3ll haves ome suggestions up your sleeve? I think there's a bug in 2.6 somewhere... I used vga=0x31a (VESA mode 0x11a: 1280x1024x16, 160x64) under 2.4 and it worked perfectly. Doesn

Re: IBM Thinkapad T23 & soundcard problem

2003-10-09 Thread Calum Mackay
Huba Zsolt wrote: This notebook has Intel 82801CA/CAM AC'97 card according to lspci. I've read some article about how to configure the soundcard. Some says it works with oss driver (i810_audio), some says it only works with alsa (intel8x0). I've tried both, but the end was the same. The modules l

Re: IBM Thinkapad T23 & soundcard problem

2003-10-09 Thread Calum Mackay
Huba Zsolt wrote: This notebook has Intel 82801CA/CAM AC'97 card according to lspci. I've read some article about how to configure the soundcard. Some says it works with oss driver (i810_audio), some says it only works with alsa (intel8x0). I've tried both, but the end was the same. The modules loa

Re: Hardware router performance

2003-09-13 Thread Calum Mackay
tvn wrote: Before my computers all connect to a hub and share cable internet by having one machine runing linux acting as a router (it has 2 nics connecting to the hub+cable modem). Now I just got a laptop and therefore interested in wireless so got a router/switch/ap hardware one. It seems tha

Re: Hardware router performance

2003-09-13 Thread Calum Mackay
tvn wrote: Before my computers all connect to a hub and share cable internet by having one machine runing linux acting as a router (it has 2 nics connecting to the hub+cable modem). Now I just got a laptop and therefore interested in wireless so got a router/switch/ap hardware one. It seems that

Re: upgrading Xfree86 4.2 to 4.3 the debian way, intel extreme graphics

2003-06-06 Thread Calum Mackay
As a last resort alternative, and obviously not the Debian Way, it's pretty trivial to build the latest XFree86 from CVS sources, and install it into somewhere separate, e.g. /usr/local/X11, without distrubing any Debian packages. I can help with this if anyone wants any. cheers, c. -- To UNSU

Re: upgrading Xfree86 4.2 to 4.3 the debian way, intel extreme graphics

2003-06-05 Thread Calum Mackay
As a last resort alternative, and obviously not the Debian Way, it's pretty trivial to build the latest XFree86 from CVS sources, and install it into somewhere separate, e.g. /usr/local/X11, without distrubing any Debian packages. I can help with this if anyone wants any. cheers, c.

Re: DRI Problems with XFree 4.2.1 and ATI Mobility Radeon LY

2003-05-31 Thread Calum Mackay
If it's of any help, I would recommend compiling X from cvs sources. I'm doing this on my laptop (with i830 graphics) and my main system (with ATI 9100), both Debian unstable, and have DRI working perfectly. lemme know if you want to do this and need any help. cheers, c. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: DRI Problems with XFree 4.2.1 and ATI Mobility Radeon LY

2003-05-31 Thread Calum Mackay
sorry, you posted glxinfo output already... OK, I'm flummoxed; no idea why this is failing. are the glxinfo and radeon libs all from the same matched X release as your server? Jesse, I think you need to post this to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] for better help than I can give. cheers, c. -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: DRI Problems with XFree 4.2.1 and ATI Mobility Radeon LY

2003-05-31 Thread Calum Mackay
Jesse D. Guardiani wrote: I installed all of the necessary DRI and DRM stuff, and it's enabled in my XF86Config-4, but I'm still having mucho troublo getting Direct Rendering to work. Do you have agpgart and radeon.so kernel modules loaded? Is the latter under /lib/modules? If not, you'll need to l

Re: DRI Problems with XFree 4.2.1 and ATI Mobility Radeon LY

2003-05-30 Thread Calum Mackay
If it's of any help, I would recommend compiling X from cvs sources. I'm doing this on my laptop (with i830 graphics) and my main system (with ATI 9100), both Debian unstable, and have DRI working perfectly. lemme know if you want to do this and need any help. cheers, c.

Re: DRI Problems with XFree 4.2.1 and ATI Mobility Radeon LY

2003-05-30 Thread Calum Mackay
sorry, you posted glxinfo output already... OK, I'm flummoxed; no idea why this is failing. are the glxinfo and radeon libs all from the same matched X release as your server? Jesse, I think you need to post this to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] for better help than I can give. cheers, c.

Re: DRI Problems with XFree 4.2.1 and ATI Mobility Radeon LY

2003-05-30 Thread Calum Mackay
Jesse D. Guardiani wrote: I installed all of the necessary DRI and DRM stuff, and it's enabled in my XF86Config-4, but I'm still having mucho troublo getting Direct Rendering to work. Do you have agpgart and radeon.so kernel modules loaded? Is the latter under /lib/modules? If not, you'll need

Re: DRI Problems with XFree 4.2.1 and ATI Mobility Radeon LY

2003-05-30 Thread Calum Mackay
Jesse D. Guardiani wrote: I installed all of the necessary DRI and DRM stuff, and it's enabled in my XF86Config-4, but I'm still having mucho troublo getting Direct Rendering to work. Do you have agpgart and radeon.so kernel modules loaded? Is the latter under /lib/modules? If not, you'll need to

Re: DRI Problems with XFree 4.2.1 and ATI Mobility Radeon LY

2003-05-29 Thread Calum Mackay
Jesse D. Guardiani wrote: I installed all of the necessary DRI and DRM stuff, and it's enabled in my XF86Config-4, but I'm still having mucho troublo getting Direct Rendering to work. Do you have agpgart and radeon.so kernel modules loaded? Is the latter under /lib/modules? If not, you'll need

Re: Installation Screen Resolution problem

2003-03-28 Thread Calum Mackay
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 00:18:49 - "Richard Lewis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: during the installation process was wrong - it seemed that about four or five lines of text were missing from the bottom of the screen! This meant that I couldn't see all the options properl

Re: Installation Screen Resolution problem

2003-03-28 Thread Calum Mackay
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 00:18:49 - "Richard Lewis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: during the installation process was wrong - it seemed that about four or five lines of text were missing from the bottom of the screen! This meant that I couldn't see all the options properly an

Re: stock X nv driver for nvidia

2002-12-23 Thread Calum Mackay
Steffen Elste wrote: What kind of nvidia graphics card are you talking about? It's a GeForce 2 Ti. AFAIK, the 'mobile' versions (GeForce 2 Go e.g.) are not supported by XFree's nv driver ... It's supported OK, but whenever I try to run a GL prog, like glxgears, it gets a SEGV. This happe

Re: stock X nv driver for nvidia

2002-12-23 Thread Calum Mackay
Steffen Elste wrote: What kind of nvidia graphics card are you talking about? It's a GeForce 2 Ti. AFAIK, the 'mobile' versions (GeForce 2 Go e.g.) are not supported by XFree's nv driver ... It's supported OK, but whenever I try to run a GL prog, like glxgears, it gets a SEGV. This happens

stock X nv driver for nvidia

2002-12-23 Thread Calum Mackay
Has anyone tried the stock X driver for Nvidia'a cards, the nv driver, as opposed to using the debs of the official driver? I want to use a current cvs version of X, and am having trouble with both the deb official drivers, and also the cvs "nv" driver. cheers, Calum.

stock X nv driver for nvidia

2002-12-23 Thread Calum Mackay
Has anyone tried the stock X driver for Nvidia'a cards, the nv driver, as opposed to using the debs of the official driver? I want to use a current cvs version of X, and am having trouble with both the deb official drivers, and also the cvs "nv" driver. cheers, Calum. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: Yet another "what laptop should I buy?" question

2002-12-13 Thread Calum Mackay
martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Jérôme Marant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.12.12.2225 +0100]: Could anyone give me opinions and advices? I vote for IBM or Toshiba. Just don't buy a Dell! Out of interest, why not? I've had an Inspiron 7500, and now have a Latitude C400. Both have worked v

Re: Yet another "what laptop should I buy?" question

2002-12-13 Thread Calum Mackay
martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Jérôme Marant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.12.12.2225 +0100]: Could anyone give me opinions and advices? I vote for IBM or Toshiba. Just don't buy a Dell! Out of interest, why not? I've had an Inspiron 7500, and now have a Latitude C400. Both have worked ve

Re: fan activity during suspend

2002-12-12 Thread Calum Mackay
Calum Mackay wrote: Janne Enoksson wrote: I'm running Debian unstable on a Thinkpad R30 and everything works (mostly) to my satisfaction with two exceptions: the suspend and standby mode. Going into both modes work just fine, as does coming out of them. The annoying thing is that th

Re: fan activity during suspend

2002-12-12 Thread Calum Mackay
Janne Enoksson wrote: I'm running Debian unstable on a Thinkpad R30 and everything works (mostly) to my satisfaction with two exceptions: the suspend and standby mode. Going into both modes work just fine, as does coming out of them. The annoying thing is that the fan starts working at full speed

Re: fan activity during suspend

2002-12-12 Thread Calum Mackay
Calum Mackay wrote: Janne Enoksson wrote: I'm running Debian unstable on a Thinkpad R30 and everything works (mostly) to my satisfaction with two exceptions: the suspend and standby mode. Going into both modes work just fine, as does coming out of them. The annoying thing is that the fan s

Re: fan activity during suspend

2002-12-12 Thread Calum Mackay
Janne Enoksson wrote: I'm running Debian unstable on a Thinkpad R30 and everything works (mostly) to my satisfaction with two exceptions: the suspend and standby mode. Going into both modes work just fine, as does coming out of them. The annoying thing is that the fan starts working at full speed

Re: installation problem: My laptop cannot have CD and floppy the same time.

2002-11-28 Thread Calum Mackay
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 12:34:04AM -0800, ben park wrote: During the installation, I was asked to make a startup floppy, but my laptop (a Dell CPX H500) cannot have cd and floppy the same time. Creating one later on should be as simple as: dd if=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.19 of=/dev/fd0; sync

Re: installation problem: My laptop cannot have CD and floppy thesame time.

2002-11-28 Thread Calum Mackay
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 12:34:04AM -0800, ben park wrote: During the installation, I was asked to make a startup floppy, but my laptop (a Dell CPX H500) cannot have cd and floppy the same time. Creating one later on should be as simple as: dd if=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.19 of=/dev/fd0; sync as I re

Re: Temperatur weirdnes

2002-11-27 Thread Calum Mackay
Just out of interest, I have the following noted: fn+zcause bios to reread thermal sensors fn+dblank screen fn+hput hard disk to sleep fn+asuspend to disk am I missing any? cheers, c.

Re: Temperatur weirdnes

2002-11-27 Thread Calum Mackay
Just out of interest, I have the following noted: fn+zcause bios to reread thermal sensors fn+dblank screen fn+hput hard disk to sleep fn+asuspend to disk am I missing any? cheers, c. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject o

Re: inspiron 7500 - shutdown pblm

2002-10-09 Thread Calum Mackay
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have an inspiron 7500 running a sarge with kernel 2.4.19 when i do a poweroff ... it's doing "init 0" and then i have the last line : "Power Down." i have to press the button power for shutting it down ... normally the puter should turn off itself ... i tried many opt

Re: inspiron 7500 - shutdown pblm

2002-10-09 Thread Calum Mackay
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i have an inspiron 7500 running a sarge with kernel 2.4.19 > when i do a poweroff ... it's doing "init 0" and then i have the last > line : "Power Down." > i have to press the button power for shutting it down ... > normally the puter should turn off itself ... > i trie

Re: inspiron 7500 & power down pblm

2002-05-27 Thread Calum Mackay
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have a pblm for powering off the puter ... when i type 'poweroff' in the tty* the system enter in init 0 level ... display all teh daemon which are stopped and the last line i got is : 'Power down.' works fine on my 7500, Debian with 2.4.18. Config: CONFIG_PM=y # CON

Re: inspiron 7500 & power down pblm

2002-05-27 Thread Calum Mackay
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i have a pblm for powering off the puter ... when i type 'poweroff' in the > tty* the system enter in init 0 level ... display all teh daemon which are > stopped and the last line i got is : > 'Power down.' works fine on my 7500, Debian with 2.4.18. Config: CONFIG_PM=y

Re: good PCMCIA NICs?

2002-01-16 Thread Calum Mackay
On Mon, 14 Jan 2002 22:46:26 -0500, Andy Winnenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Andy> Hey folks, I don't know if this has come up before... sorry if Andy> it's a repost... I was wondering if anyone had advice on good Andy> PCMCIA NICs. I'm setting up a cable modem account with a local Andy> I

Re: good PCMCIA NICs?

2002-01-16 Thread Calum Mackay
>>On Mon, 14 Jan 2002 22:46:26 -0500, Andy Winnenberg ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Andy> Hey folks, I don't know if this has come up before... sorry if > Andy> it's a repost... I was wondering if anyone had advice on good > Andy> PCMCIA NICs. I'm setting up a cable modem account with a

Re: IDE errors on mounting DVDs

2001-08-20 Thread Calum Mackay
Alexander Clouter wrote: On Sun, 19 Aug 2001, Sam Tingleff wrote: Isn't that part of the copy protection? You need an app like VideoLAN or Xine to do the DeCSS key stuff with the drive. I think this is only true to *play* the VOB files, not to actually read or copy the VOB files. Much in t

Re: IDE errors on mounting DVDs

2001-08-20 Thread Calum Mackay
Alexander Clouter wrote: > On Sun, 19 Aug 2001, Sam Tingleff wrote: > >>Isn't that part of the copy protection? You need an app like VideoLAN >>or Xine to do the DeCSS key stuff with the drive. >> >> > I think this is only true to *play* the VOB files, not to actually read or > copy the VOB file

IDE errors on mounting DVDs

2001-08-19 Thread Calum Mackay
Hi, I'd appreciate any comments on the following problem I'm having when I mount a DVD: VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,0) UDF-fs DEBUG lowlevel.c:57:udf_get_last_session: XA disk: no, vol_desc_start=0 UDF-fs DEBUG super.c:1410:udf_read_super: Multi-session=0 hdc: command error:

IDE errors on mounting DVDs

2001-08-19 Thread Calum Mackay
Hi, I'd appreciate any comments on the following problem I'm having when I mount a DVD: VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,0) UDF-fs DEBUG lowlevel.c:57:udf_get_last_session: XA disk: no, vol_desc_start=0 UDF-fs DEBUG super.c:1410:udf_read_super: Multi-session=0 hdc: command error: st

Re: apm with kernel 2.4.3

2001-05-03 Thread Calum Mackay
> I had to disable CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE last time I compiled a 2.4.0 > kernel: it caused 'kapmd' to use 30% of CPU when idled ! Not really what > expected. > May be this was fixed in later 2.4 kernels, I didn't checked. Yep, as Alan noted, that's normal; it's just the kernel's idle loop. My kapm-id

Re: apm with kernel 2.4.3

2001-05-03 Thread Calum Mackay
> I had to disable CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE last time I compiled a 2.4.0 > kernel: it caused 'kapmd' to use 30% of CPU when idled ! Not really what > expected. > May be this was fixed in later 2.4 kernels, I didn't checked. Yep, as Alan noted, that's normal; it's just the kernel's idle loop. My kapm-i

Re: apm with kernel 2.4.3

2001-05-03 Thread Calum Mackay
> 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 like exactly. anyway, i was able to read >

Re: apm with kernel 2.4.3

2001-05-03 Thread Calum Mackay
> 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 like exactly. anyway, i was able to read

Re: I need phdisk.exe

2001-04-19 Thread Calum Mackay
> I need phdisk for my laptop. > Could you send me phdisk.exe? You can download version 4.32j from the Dell website: http://support.dell.com/us/en/filelib/download/index.asp?fileid=R20313 although I don't *think* it should be Dell-specific. cheers, Calum.

Re: I need phdisk.exe

2001-04-19 Thread Calum Mackay
> I need phdisk for my laptop. > Could you send me phdisk.exe? You can download version 4.32j from the Dell website: http://support.dell.com/us/en/filelib/download/index.asp?fileid=R20313 although I don't *think* it should be Dell-specific. cheers, Calum. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: XFree86 4.0.1 and keyboard mappings

2000-12-11 Thread Calum Mackay
> Calum> Wonderful! "setxkbmap gb" did exactly what I wanted :) > > Calum> Now, is there a "correct" place to put this command (for > system-wide > Calum> use), rather than in my .profile? > > Does adding > Option "XkbLayout" "gb" > to your XF86Config-4 file in the keyboard "Input

Re: XFree86 4.0.1 and keyboard mappings

2000-12-11 Thread Calum Mackay
Thanks Hubert. > Calum> I've just upgraded (actually re-installed the whole system) from > Calum> 3.x, and it's all change - now my keys are all in the "wrong" > Calum> place. This used to be controlled via the XF86Config file, but no > Calum> more. > > XF86 4 uses the XF86Config-

Re: XFree86 4.0.1 and keyboard mappings

2000-12-11 Thread Calum Mackay
> Calum> Wonderful! "setxkbmap gb" did exactly what I wanted :) > > Calum> Now, is there a "correct" place to put this command (for system-wide > Calum> use), rather than in my .profile? > > Does adding > Option "XkbLayout" "gb" > to your XF86Config-4 file in the keyboard "InputDe

Re: XFree86 4.0.1 and keyboard mappings

2000-12-11 Thread Calum Mackay
Thanks Hubert. > Calum> I've just upgraded (actually re-installed the whole system) from > Calum> 3.x, and it's all change - now my keys are all in the "wrong" > Calum> place. This used to be controlled via the XF86Config file, but no > Calum> more. > > XF86 4 uses the XF86Config

XFree86 4.0.1 and keyboard mappings

2000-12-11 Thread Calum Mackay
Is anyone running XFree86 4.0.1 and able to help me with keyboard mappings? I'm running on a Dell Inspiron 7500 (Debian woody). I've just upgraded (actually re-installed the whole system) from 3.x, and it's all change - now my keys are all in the "wrong" place. This used to be controlled via the X

XFree86 4.0.1 and keyboard mappings

2000-12-11 Thread Calum Mackay
Is anyone running XFree86 4.0.1 and able to help me with keyboard mappings? I'm running on a Dell Inspiron 7500 (Debian woody). I've just upgraded (actually re-installed the whole system) from 3.x, and it's all change - now my keys are all in the "wrong" place. This used to be controlled via the

RE: Inspiron 7500 network setup

2000-01-14 Thread Calum Mackay - Computer Systems CTE
> Thanks. After a bit of work I got it working. The eepro100 is the > driver to use, but, interestingly enough, only after a cold boot. > This is a dual boot (Windows/Linux) machine and once Windows is > booted, the machine has to be shutoff for the Linux driver to > work. Yep, that matches my fin

Re: Inspiron 7500 network setup

2000-01-09 Thread Calum Mackay - Computer Systems CTE
Harley, > I've got a Dell Inspiron 7500 with a NIC built into the docking > station (not a PCMCIA card). I've got a base Debian partition > running that was built from floppies. > > Anyone have any idea how to get the NIC in the docking station > recognized so I can finish configuring Linux and r

Re: Inspiron 7500 network setup

2000-01-09 Thread Calum Mackay - Computer Systems CTE
Harley, > I've got a Dell Inspiron 7500 with a NIC built into the docking > station (not a PCMCIA card). I've got a base Debian partition > running that was built from floppies. > > Anyone have any idea how to get the NIC in the docking station > recognized so I can finish configuring Linux and r