Re: Touchscreen Ultrabooks running Debian?

2013-09-23 Thread Carl Fink
ional writer) feeling that using confusing words is bad, even if you somehow believe that free software projects are bound to use the words selected by the marketing departments of chip makers. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. R

Re: Touchscreen Ultrabooks running Debian?

2013-09-23 Thread Carl Fink
bits of terminology. Why do these bad choices make other bad choices better? -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...

Re: Touchscreen Ultrabooks running Debian?

2013-09-22 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 09:50:58PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > 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. >

Re: Touchscreen Ultrabooks running Debian?

2013-09-22 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 01:25:58PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > 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 a

Re: Touchscreen Ultrabooks running Debian?

2013-09-21 Thread Carl Fink
userspace. Thank you. Also, what a terrible idea! Is that stupid and confusing name chosen by the Debian kernel team, or upstream? -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct!

Re: Touchscreen Ultrabooks running Debian?

2013-09-21 Thread Carl Fink
which uses the Core i5 and i7 series CPUs from Intel. Why use the AMD64 kernel? -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@l

Re: Touchscreen Ultrabooks running Debian?

2013-09-20 Thread Carl Fink
fast, excellent support on this. Everyone have a good weekend. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debi

Touchscreen Ultrabooks running Debian?

2013-09-19 Thread Carl Fink
n anyone maybe recommend a better touchscreen ultrabook, either with Debian pre-installed or a known quantity for installing it? Thanks. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct!

Re: No sound on earphones after setting up HDMI

2012-07-27 Thread Carl Fink
he earphone too. The sound port is fine, too > (I booted using a LiveCD). > > How can this be fixed? Thanks. > -- Carl Fink c...@finknetwork.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/182490e6d7377cda1601d238acaad1ae.squir...@mail.panix.com

Re: Problem with netbook trackpad: random clicks and motion

2010-11-10 Thread Carl Fink
On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 08:01:48PM +, ael wrote: > On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 10:36:24PM -0500, Carl Fink wrote: > > I have a Gateway LT3013U netbook. I have successfully installed Debian (the > > regular distro, not any special netbook version) on it. Everything works >

Problem with netbook trackpad: random clicks and motion

2010-11-08 Thread Carl Fink
ticsTouchpad without success. I am running Debian Squeeze, freshly updated this morning. The xorg synaptics driver is installed. A USB mouse works fine. I would be grateful for any help. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Revie

Re: PC Speaker cannot be disabled

2008-09-10 Thread Carl Fink
/inputrc > # do not bell on tab-completion > # set bell-style none > # set bell-style visible How about 'modprobe -r pcspkr'? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can

Hibernate: mouse is lost

2008-07-17 Thread Carl Fink
recognized when plugged in after waking. Problem with USB detection? I haven't tried any other peripherals. Any suggestions? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBS

Re: Setting up HP Pavililion DV6458

2008-06-25 Thread Carl Fink
built-in GNOME wireless gimmick to enter the WEP key, and away I went. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

Re: Switching to external monitor.

2008-06-22 Thread Carl Fink
very subject in last month's Linux Journal. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Setting up HP Pavilion DV 6458

2008-05-16 Thread Carl Fink
did it with my new network device. However: isn't this a failure in Debian, that it's so absurdly difficult to set up WiFi devices? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct!

Re: Setting up HP Pavilion DV 6458

2008-05-15 Thread Carl Fink
o/rtl8187b/ So I have to carry another stupid USB device everywhere, but the cost was minimal. Maybe someday b43 will support the built-in WiFi. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can

Re: Setting up HP Pavilion DV 6458

2008-05-11 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 04:13:19AM -0600, JD. Brown wrote: > On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 4:31 PM, Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You appear to be doing Ndiswrapper right. Make sure you uninstall the > BCM43xx and the B43 driver from your repo completely, I would go as &g

Re: Setting up HP Pavilion DV 6458

2008-05-10 Thread Carl Fink
step? Honestly, I did read the Wireless-HOWTO and search the Debian Wiki among other places, but I have no idea what I'm missing. I will as before appreciate any help--I really do appreciate it, Gabriele. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at blog.nitpicki

Setting up HP Pavilion DV 6458

2008-04-21 Thread Carl Fink
uld be appreciated. Thank you. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: XF86Config...

1999-12-31 Thread Carl Fink
tpctl homepage I haven't made tpctl work yet on my 755CE, but it's supposed to give you the same control as the Windows "Thinkpad control" applets, at least partially. The first and third have sample XF86Config files for various ThinkPads. -- Carl Fink

Re: XF86Config...

1999-12-31 Thread Carl Fink
tpctl homepage I haven't made tpctl work yet on my 755CE, but it's supposed to give you the same control as the Windows "Thinkpad control" applets, at least partially. The first and third have sample XF86Config files for various ThinkPads. -- Carl Fink