Strange behaviour of keyboard and xorg

2006-10-02 Thread Christian Schuerer
Hello, I have a new Dell Latitude D620 notebook (Intel Core 2 Duo, nVidia Quadro) and installed Debian on it. With the normal x.org-driver for nvidia (nv), I can't get the resolution of 1440x900 working. So I installed the drivers from nvidia. Compiling it was no problem at all, but I experienc

Re: Problems with Intel Dual Core processor

2006-09-18 Thread Christian Schuerer
Hello, On Monday 18 September 2006 17:10, David Navas wrote: > Please, Sometimes you need to deactivate the APM to let the kernel > recognize the dual core. You can do it in the BIOS, and check if the > dual core is recognized after that. > > ACPI can works but not APM Okay, thank you very much f

Re: Problems with Intel Dual Core processor

2006-09-18 Thread Christian Schuerer
Hello, On Monday 18 September 2006 16:08, Glenn English wrote: > Christian Schuerer wrote: > > Do I need to load any special modules? Shouldn't the kernel be > > SMP-capable? How can I get the 2nd core to work? > > Are you using the smp kernel? > > (Sorry if this

Problems with Intel Dual Core processor

2006-09-18 Thread Christian Schuerer
Hello, I've Debian testing/sid installed on a Sony notebook (VGN-SZ1M/B), which has a Intel T2300 dual core processor in it. I'm using the latest 2.6.17-kernel. Unfortunately, only one processor core is recognised. I had Kubuntu 6.06/Dapper installed before (2.6.15-kernel), which recognised bot

Proper way to configure input devices

2006-07-31 Thread Christian Schuerer
Hello, since I've purchased a new keyboard + mouse (wireless, from BenQ) I ask myself which is the right way to set up input devices for X.org 7 and KDE (3.5.4, Debian sid). I'm using a laptop computer with a synaptics touchpad. Sometimes I've just the built-in keyboard and touchpad, and somet

Re: Xorg 7.0 and ATI working!

2006-06-24 Thread Christian Schuerer
Hello, On Friday 23 June 2006 21:40, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Christian Schuerer wrote: > > By chance I found out that you have to use the tool called "dexconf": > I had the same problem too. I guess it's a bug that only dexconf > produces that file that I

Re: Xorg 7.0 and ATI working!

2006-06-21 Thread Christian Schuerer
Hi, On Wednesday 21 June 2006 00:19, Bill Wohler wrote: > 4. dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg STILL doesn't give you a > configuration file. I determined some workarounds: > > sudo sh -c "readlink /etc/X11/X | md5sum > /var/lib/x11/X.md5sum" > sudo rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf > sudo vi /var/lib/dpkg/

Re: bootlogd

2005-11-23 Thread Christian Schuerer
Hello Colin, On Tuesday 22 November 2005 13:32, Colin Cotter wrote: > I've noticed a number of strange things in my boot messages and I > would like to take a closer look. The first stage in this is to get > bootlogd working. > > I set Yes in my /etc/default/bootlogd and when I boot I get > >

Re: DSL connection

2005-10-09 Thread Christian Schuerer
Hello Martina, On Sunday 09 October 2005 21:44, martina ackermann wrote: > At home I now have a DSL-connection. When I typ "pump" into the > root-commandline it answers: e100 : eth0 NIC Link is up 100 Mps Full Duplex > > When I open the browser in x-windows and search for the "google" pages > it w

Re: double OS?

2005-09-26 Thread Christian Schuerer
On Monday 26 September 2005 17:18, Christian Schuerer wrote: > For the exact procedure please google a bit. Normally you just have to boot > with a LiveCD, mount your boot-partition (where /boot is located) and > invoke grub to reinstall itself. http://www.sorgonet.com/linux/gr

Re: double OS?

2005-09-26 Thread Christian Schuerer
On Monday 26 September 2005 16:57, Brandon Richards wrote: > Just to let you know you have to install Windows first and then Linux. > I am not exactly why this is but I am sure if you do a google search on The reason is simple: Microsoft just doesn't bother whether there are other OS installed. Y

Solved: Re: [OT] RS232 to USB adapter

2004-06-09 Thread Christian Schuerer
On Tuesday 08 June 2004 21:20, Christian Schuerer wrote: > unfortunately my laptop doesn't have any standard serial port (RS232), but > I would need one for my studies. I googled if there are any linux-supported > Serial-to-USB adapters, but didn't find anything. > >

Solved: Re: [OT] RS232 to USB adapter

2004-06-09 Thread Christian Schuerer
On Tuesday 08 June 2004 21:20, Christian Schuerer wrote: > unfortunately my laptop doesn't have any standard serial port (RS232), but > I would need one for my studies. I googled if there are any linux-supported > Serial-to-USB adapters, but didn't find anything. > >

[OT] RS232 to USB adapter

2004-06-08 Thread Christian Schuerer
Hello, unfortunately my laptop doesn't have any standard serial port (RS232), but I would need one for my studies. I googled if there are any linux-supported Serial-to-USB adapters, but didn't find anything. Does anyone know about a Serial-to-USB adapters which is known to work with linux? Is

[OT] RS232 to USB adapter

2004-06-08 Thread Christian Schuerer
Hello, unfortunately my laptop doesn't have any standard serial port (RS232), but I would need one for my studies. I googled if there are any linux-supported Serial-to-USB adapters, but didn't find anything. Does anyone know about a Serial-to-USB adapters which is known to work with linux? Is

Re: ALT+F1-7: Switching consoles doesn't work

2004-06-03 Thread Christian Schuerer
Hello Jens, On Thursday 03 June 2004 01:28, Jens Nachtigall wrote: > my setup: > debian sid, Fujitsu Siemens Amilo M 7400 (centrino), kde > > my problem: > I can switch *once* from X to another console using CTRL+ALT+F1-6. However, > I can then neither switch back to X (ALT+F7) nor can I switch to

Re: ALT+F1-7: Switching consoles doesn't work

2004-06-02 Thread Christian Schuerer
Hello Jens, On Thursday 03 June 2004 01:28, Jens Nachtigall wrote: > my setup: > debian sid, Fujitsu Siemens Amilo M 7400 (centrino), kde > > my problem: > I can switch *once* from X to another console using CTRL+ALT+F1-6. However, > I can then neither switch back to X (ALT+F7) nor can I switch to