Re: Safe install

2009-09-26 Thread Clive Menzies
Sayeh Ebrahimi wrote: Hello all, Has anyone installed Debian on a Thinkpad without destroying the original Windows/Service partition, or the original master boot record needed to access the Rescue and Recovery? Regards, Sayeh mailto:sayeh...@gmail.com>> Hi Sayeh I've got a X61 Tablet Thinkp

Re: I want all my 4GB!!!

2009-07-21 Thread Clive Menzies
Clive Menzies wrote: > > > Michelle Konzack wrote: >> Am 2009-07-21 01:03:08, schrieb James Brown: >> >>> There is 3071MB RAM I can see in my BIOS. >>> >>^^ ^^^ >> >> IF THE BIOS does only f

Re: I want all my 4GB!!!

2009-07-21 Thread Clive Menzies
Michelle Konzack wrote: > Am 2009-07-21 01:03:08, schrieb James Brown: > >> There is 3071MB RAM I can see in my BIOS. >> >^^ ^^^ > > IF THE BIOS does only find 3 GByte, then tere is something wrong with > your Laptop or the BIOS and this has nothing

Re: frequent X crashes

2009-05-09 Thread Clive Menzies
Johan Sandblom wrote: > I am running Debian unstable on a Lenovo Thinkpad X61. I dist-upgrade > frequently. Since about two weeks I get thrown out of my X sessions a > lot, and then I have to log in again, which of course is very > annoying. No specific precipitator of the crashes has become eviden

Re: cpufreq_conservative on Lenny AMD64?

2009-04-22 Thread Clive Menzies
s. keeling wrote: > I've been fighting with this for weeks, trying to learn everything I > need to know. Unfortunately, I don't appear to be getting anywhere. > > This box is an HP Pavilion dv4, AMD64. Lenny mostly runs great on it > (better than Sidux :-), however it's always running hot. The f

Re: Thinkpad T23 external VGA port problem

2009-02-27 Thread Clive Menzies
Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: Hi! I recently got a Thinkpad T23 (S3 Inc. SuperSavage IX/C SDR (rev 05) graphics adaptor) which works very well with Lenny. However, I have problems using the external VGA port. According to the Thinkwiki[1] I tried to use "s3switch" to enable / disable the

Re: Laptop Shopping Questions

2006-05-18 Thread Clive Menzies
On (17/05/06 23:57), Scarletdown wrote: > I ended up going with a Gateway MX6440 instead of the Acer, since the > specs were a little better, it uses an ATI graphics chipset instead of > SiS, it was on sale for about $800 at Best Buy, and I was able to pop a > Mepis CD into the display model at Bes

Re: cdrom problem installing etch

2006-05-17 Thread Clive Menzies
On (17/05/06 10:03), Daniele wrote: > I am an old Debian user and I would like to update a little bit my Toshiba > M40 > laptop. I am trying to install etch (now I have sarge) on the Toshiba. > Unfortunately the etch installer is unable to mount the cdrom. It begins the > installation without an

Re: Laptop Shopping Questions

2006-05-16 Thread Clive Menzies
On (16/05/06 01:24), Scarletdown wrote: > I'm finally shopping for a decent laptop, and will of course be putting > Debian on it. There is one in particular that I have in mind that seems > to have a pretty decent bang for the buck; the Acer Aspire > AS5003WLMi-XPH. > > However, since I am buying

Re: Configuring Network

2006-02-12 Thread Clive Menzies
On (11/02/06 18:29), Henrique Rennó wrote: > I'm using static. > > ifconfig results: > > eth0Encapsulamento do Link: EthernetEndereço de HW 00:C0:9F:88:E6:52 > inet end.: 192.168.0.1 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Masc: 255.255.255.0 > UP BROADCASTRUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500

Re: Configuring Network

2006-02-11 Thread Clive Menzies
On (11/02/06 16:04), Henrique Rennó wrote: > I'm a new debian user (just one week ago) and I'm posting again about > configuring the network. > > I know it's not a question concerning laptops but I've just installed > debian Sarge 3.1 in my laptop Acer Aspire 3002LCI and I'm not able to > connect

Re: OSS Sound broken

2006-02-10 Thread Clive Menzies
On (10/02/06 15:48), André Wendt wrote: > for a couple of days my OSS sound on Debian/testing is broken, probably > due to some upgrade. No packages have been purged. /var/log/aptitude says: > > [UPGRADE] libsdl1.2debian-oss 1.2.9-0.0 -> 1.2.9-0.1 > > I can't seem to find anything else remotely r

Re: List of all installed packages

2006-02-07 Thread Clive Menzies
On (07/02/06 09:26), Marco Kunze wrote: > This is not really a specific question for laptops, but I hope I can get > an answer here anyway ;-) > > I would like to get a list of all packages installed on a system, > including their version in order to track the changes that has been made > durin

Re: acpi battery event

2006-02-02 Thread Clive Menzies
On (02/02/06 07:06), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Looking for a program that gives all the info on the state of battery > charge life and so forth. I think you need the module: Install modconf run modconf as root or sudo select /kernel/drivers/acpi various modules including battery are available