Re: How to turn the screen off, while working in console

2010-01-17 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 05:32:16PM +0100, Krzysztof Walkiewicz wrote: > Hi, > > I have a problem: lately i work just in console (to do my job I do > not need to run the X, and this is quite old laptop), but I cannot > figure out, how to turn the screen off (lets say after 5 minutes > without touch

Re: URGENT - v5.0.0 amd64 (stable): Broadcom 4321AG Wi-Fi adapter not detected

2009-03-07 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 07:12:47PM +0700, Dave Patterson wrote: > * Mykola Nikishov [2009-03-02 22:03:42 +0200]: > > > "John Wesley Cooper" writes: > > > > > Unfortunately, the installation apparently did not detect my Broadcom > > > 4321AG Wi-Fi adaptor, and thus I am unable to connect to my 1

Re: LCD display

2008-04-02 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 12:28:50PM -0300, Leandro Carmo wrote: > Hi folks, > > I have a HP Pavilion laptop and I've tried to configure Xorg without > success. > I've tried perform dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg but I haven't seen any > option about LCD display as XFree86. > > Please, I need some

Re: want to speed up laptop

2008-03-29 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 09:12:06AM -0500, Preston Boyington wrote: > Chris Bannister wrote: > >> Where are your bottlenecks? > > currently my two biggest bottlenecks are with the networking and the > MTA. i installed "ifplugd" and set a faster timeout for the

Re: want to speed up laptop

2008-03-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 04:24:48PM -0500, Preston Boyington wrote: > I generally use my laptop for writing, browsing, messaging, listening to > music, and the occasional game. After installing Debian on several > other systems I started wondering what others install or configure to > speed u

Re: Thanks for the great system / installation successfull report

2008-03-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 11:31:29AM +0100, Luis Motta Campos wrote: > I donwloaded the last testing distro DVD (I never use stable, unless > on very important server machines, where stability and security is more > important than convenience), and booted the laptop. Are you suggesting that runnin

Re: sources.list file for sarge

2007-11-05 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 05:45:42AM +0100, Franklin PIAT wrote: [Please do not top post] > Hello, > > I am not sure if it's because of the email (line wrapping)... > Anyway, a typical line should look like : > > deb ftp://ftp.mx.kernel.org/debian/ sarge main contrib > > I guess your file shoul

Re: sources.list file for sarge

2007-11-05 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 08:31:06PM -0700, Marc wrote: > Hi everyboy there !!! > I have sarge installed in my system (VAIO VGN-FE770G), my sources.list > file has the following links: [snip not-working sources.list] > They are not working so I am unable to make updates to sarge. Does any > one kno

Re: system time - thank you

2007-09-24 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 01:14:16PM +0200, daniele pendenza wrote: > Just to make it clear to everyone interested - also in the future : > > 1 - 'hwclock --show' : reads by its own the content of '/etc/adjtime' > (if this file does not exist the dafault(*) is localtime) to understand > if the R

Re: Xwindows doesn't start on new install

2007-01-07 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Jan 06, 2007 at 10:47:04AM -0700, jdaues wrote: > modconf shows: > kernel/drivers/video/nvidia > so i tried that, but no joy. > I've now tried vesa, nv, and nvidia with no effect. > > I then tried: > apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-nv > but no effect Umm, xserver-xorg-video-nv provides

Re: Hostap PCMCIA driver problem

2006-11-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 12:14:24PM +0100, Jaime Martin Jimenez wrote: > Chris Bannister wrote: > >If you are running a 2.6 kernel have you got pcmciautils installed? > > > Yes, but it doesn't work. The problem is hostap_cs module is not > assigned to the PCMCIA wireless

Re: Hostap PCMCIA driver problem

2006-11-06 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 08:16:51PM +0100, Jaime Martin Jimenez wrote: > Hi, > > I have a Dell Inspiron 4150 laptop with a USR2410 PCMCIA Wireless card. > This card works fine with orinoco_cs or hostap_cs modules. Hostap is > better because it allows monitor mode, fewer bugs than orinoco, better >

Re: Dual boot on Dell X300

2006-10-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 11:20:01PM -0400, Daniel Devost wrote: > Hi, > > I have a Dell X300 and I want to dual boot between Sarge and Etch. I > have two drives, /dev/hda that holds Etch (/dev/hda1) and /dev/sda that > holds Sarge (/dev/sda1). Both drives have swap space and grub and fstab >

Re: Set VBE failed

2005-11-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 12:04:45PM +0200, Ogz wrote: > Hi. > > After the suggestions i installed only x-window-system-core and icewm. > > But here is the error part when i write startx at the prompt: > > (II) VESA(0): initializing int10 > (II) VESA(0): Primary V_BIOS Segment is: 0xc000 > (II) VE

Re: Latest ipw2200 driver breaks when used with wpa_supplicant

2005-07-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 08:03:41AM +0200, Benedek Frank wrote: [..] > As far as I know, once you put it into modprobe, you dont need discover > to find it. Put it in the blacklist of discover, and it will be loaded > with the real options you wanted it to be loaded. > > On a sidenote, I had disc

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

2005-06-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 02:05:40PM +0200, Richard Mittendorfer wrote: > Also sprach Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Fri, 24 Jun 2005 > 23:29:13 +1200): > > won't like going back to it. :-) I guess when I have my 64bit desktop > > machine finished and running I w

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

2005-06-24 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 04:23:28PM +0200, Benedek Frank wrote: > On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 14:57:01 +0300 > Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [..] > Yes, I have slypheed now myself too, but I didnt go for the -claws version, > as "apt-cache search sylpheed" showed the -clwas version as the "bl

Re: OSS community interaction (was: Re: *** bluber *** Re: Male xxxxxx enhancement formula^)

2005-06-05 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 11:43:29AM -0600, s. keeling wrote: > Incoming from Ian Greenhoe: > > On Mon, 2005-05-30 at 16:35 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > > > A C/R system on a mailing list? Please don't even consider it. > > Use of C/R is an excellent

Re: OSS community interaction (was: Re: *** bluber *** Re: Male xxxxxx enhancement formula^)

2005-06-04 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 11:06:34PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Am 2005-05-31 09:16:44, schrieb Derek Broughton: > > > I don't consider the confirmation message to subscribe to this mailing > > > list C/R. > > > > To subscribe, you send a request to the list admin interface, it sends you >

Re: OSS community interaction (was: Re: *** bluber *** Re: Male xxxxxx enhancement formula^)

2005-05-31 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 01:48:34AM -0700, Ian Greenhoe wrote: > On Mon, 2005-05-30 at 16:35 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > A C/R system on a mailing list? Please don't even consider it. > > Other suggestions are welcome. Please contribute some. If you have

Re: *** bluber *** Re: Male xxxxxx enhancement formula^

2005-05-30 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, May 29, 2005 at 10:28:57PM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote: > On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 04:34:33PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > Then again, each time I reply to a nessage I have to set the "To" > > field manually because I assume the "To" field should be

Re: OSS community interaction (was: Re: *** bluber *** Re: Male xxxxxx enhancement formula^)

2005-05-29 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, May 28, 2005 at 09:18:29PM -0700, Ian Greenhoe wrote: > On Sat, 2005-05-28 at 19:36 +0200, sascha brossmann wrote: > > 2) the newbie argument is IMHO far overrated: this problem has been > > ~ vastly discussed in the literature for interface & interaction > > ~ design (see e. g. cooper

Re: *** bluber *** Re: Male xxxxxx enhancement formula^

2005-05-29 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, May 28, 2005 at 09:24:18PM -0700, Ian Greenhoe wrote: > On Sat, 2005-05-28 at 22:49 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 03:57:06PM -0700, Ian Greenhoe wrote: > > > > > My experience is the *exact* opposite. Personally, I'd rather have t

Re: *** bluber *** Re: Male xxxxxx enhancement formula^

2005-05-29 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, May 28, 2005 at 08:41:44AM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote: > On Sat, May 28, 2005 at 05:22:10PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: > > > IF I WANT CCs, because there is something of > > urgence then I set Mail-Followup-To: too. > > Good. And hope they respect it. How much time do you want to spe

Re: *** bluber *** Re: Male xxxxxx enhancement formula^

2005-05-28 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 03:57:06PM -0700, Ian Greenhoe wrote: > On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 23:15 +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: > > Am 2005-05-24 13:28:04, schrieb Ian Greenhoe: > > > There are several solutions that I can see: > > > > > > 1) Have the mailserver reject the first delivery attempt by a

Re:

2005-05-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 03:18:37PM -0500, Brandon Richards wrote: > made by developers who arent in conjunction with a corporation. As I am > a Windows hater and I will be the first to tell u that I wish bill gates > would die, I actually am running a limited windows desktop with only That's