Re: Debian & sound

2002-09-05 Thread Dave Swegen
On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 12:20:48PM +0300, Alexei Khlebnikov wrote: > What I recommend you to do. Have your card working in windows. Write down > its parameters (io,irq,dma,dma16,mpu,etc). Run sndconfig and provide these Don't know if this makes any difference, but I have noticed that some cards do

Re: Install on X22 without floppy and cdrom

2002-08-28 Thread Dave Swegen
On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 05:34:31PM -0700, River Y. Liu wrote: > I ran LILO on /dev/hda2, which is my root partition. And I even could > boot from my desktop. But when I insert the hard disk back to the > laptop, the error appeared. Last night I installed windows 98. I thought > maybe the two machin

Re: Install on X22 without floppy and cdrom

2002-08-27 Thread Dave Swegen
On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 10:56:44PM -0700, River Y. Liu wrote: > Hi all, > > Does someboby have the experience of installing Linux on Ibm Thinkpad > X22? My machine is Windows 2000 preinstalled, which can't be booted in > Linux from pure Dos mode. I didn't buy Ultra base because I have > network a

Re: how to make my Thinkpad a Linux box

2002-07-22 Thread Dave Swegen
On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 10:44:28AM -0300, Leonardo Boiko wrote: > On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 10:22:40AM -0300, Luciano Andino wrote: > > Hi to everyone! I'm new with Linux and laptops and want to put maybe? > > Debian on it. My problem is: My IBM Thinkpad 560X 200MHz (win98) has no > > cdrom o floppy,

Re: journaling file system on thinkpad?

2002-05-09 Thread Dave Swegen
On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 10:39:55AM -0500, Jeremy Turner wrote: > Hi, > > You should be able to do: > `tune2fs -j /dev/hdxx` > > It will create a .journal in the root of the partition. If you want the > journal file hidden, unmount the partition and do it again. You'd > probably need a rescue di

Re: ACPI under WindowMaker

2002-02-04 Thread Dave Swegen
On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 11:58:41AM -0800, Audin Malmin wrote: > On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 02:15:32PM -0500, Ignasi Palou-Rivera wrote: > > I have APM and use wmapm. It partially works: it detects whether I'm > > wmapm works quite well for me as well...though my bios lies about > the total rema

Re: ACPI under WindowMaker

2002-02-04 Thread Dave Swegen
On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 11:58:41AM -0800, Audin Malmin wrote: > On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 02:15:32PM -0500, Ignasi Palou-Rivera wrote: > > I have APM and use wmapm. It partially works: it detects whether I'm > > wmapm works quite well for me as well...though my bios lies about > the total rem

Re: Intel Wireless 2011 PCMCIA on Debian

2002-01-03 Thread Dave Swegen
On Tue, Dec 25, 2001 at 05:25:59PM +0800, Patrick Hsieh wrote: > Hello, > > I am currently running linux-2.4.17 on Debian woody with > pcmcia-cs-3.1.30.tar.gz and spectrum24t-1.03a.tar.gz > > When I extracted pcmcia-cs tarball and extracted spectrum24t to > pcmcia-cs dir, following the README.Spe

Re: Intel Wireless 2011 PCMCIA on Debian

2002-01-03 Thread Dave Swegen
On Tue, Dec 25, 2001 at 05:25:59PM +0800, Patrick Hsieh wrote: > Hello, > > I am currently running linux-2.4.17 on Debian woody with > pcmcia-cs-3.1.30.tar.gz and spectrum24t-1.03a.tar.gz > > When I extracted pcmcia-cs tarball and extracted spectrum24t to > pcmcia-cs dir, following the README.Sp

Re: Intel Wireless 2011 PCMCIA on Debian

2001-12-17 Thread Dave Swegen
On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 01:14:55PM +0800, Patrick Hsieh wrote: > Hello list, > > I am trying to put my intel wireless 2011 pc card on debian and make it > work. Is there anyone who has been working on it? Any howto or > instructions are highly appreciated. You'll need to get the spectrum 24 drive

Re: Intel Wireless 2011 PCMCIA on Debian

2001-12-17 Thread Dave Swegen
On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 01:14:55PM +0800, Patrick Hsieh wrote: > Hello list, > > I am trying to put my intel wireless 2011 pc card on debian and make it > work. Is there anyone who has been working on it? Any howto or > instructions are highly appreciated. You'll need to get the spectrum 24 driv

Re: IBM A Series, Mod. 26523VG

2001-11-20 Thread Dave Swegen
On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 05:29:51PM -0500, Philipp Pagel wrote: > Hi! > > > I'm about to order an IBM A Series, model 26523VG. My main > > concern is on the Ethernet adaptor that I've never heard about: > > Communication Daughter Card (CDC) > > Does anybody knows any

Re: IBM A Series, Mod. 26523VG

2001-11-20 Thread Dave Swegen
On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 05:29:51PM -0500, Philipp Pagel wrote: > Hi! > > > I'm about to order an IBM A Series, model 26523VG. My main > > concern is on the Ethernet adaptor that I've never heard about: > > Communication Daughter Card (CDC) > > Does anybody knows any

Re: Debian 2.2 on Thinkpad A21M

2001-09-23 Thread Dave Swegen
Right, it should be straightforward. First of all make sure you have either eepro100 driver loaded as either a module, or in the kernel. Next edit /etc/network/interfaces. Take a look at the interfaces(5) man page. Mine (on my desktop machine) looks as follows: --- # /etc/network/interfaces --

Re: Debian 2.2 on Thinkpad A21M

2001-09-23 Thread Dave Swegen
Right, it should be straightforward. First of all make sure you have either eepro100 driver loaded as either a module, or in the kernel. Next edit /etc/network/interfaces. Take a look at the interfaces(5) man page. Mine (on my desktop machine) looks as follows: --- # /etc/network/interfaces --

Re: Debian 2.2 on Thinkpad A21M

2001-09-23 Thread Dave Swegen
Glad you got it working :) I don't know if it is the cause, but I understand there might be issues if you toggle the power supply on and off, as the speedstep stuff throws the kernel timings around. I've had some problems with this, causing lockups and crashes (but that could also be the pcmcia stu

Re: Debian 2.2 on Thinkpad A21M

2001-09-23 Thread Dave Swegen
Glad you got it working :) I don't know if it is the cause, but I understand there might be issues if you toggle the power supply on and off, as the speedstep stuff throws the kernel timings around. I've had some problems with this, causing lockups and crashes (but that could also be the pcmcia st

Re: Debian 2.2 on Thinkpad A21M

2001-09-23 Thread Dave Swegen
On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 09:40:01PM -0700, Shawn Wheatley wrote: > I am trying to become a new convert to Debian. I had > previously installed Progeny and would like to try > full blown Debian from scratch. I saw a link on the > Debian Laptop list archive > (http://lists.debian.org/debian-laptop/2

Re: Debian 2.2 on Thinkpad A21M

2001-09-23 Thread Dave Swegen
On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 09:40:01PM -0700, Shawn Wheatley wrote: > I am trying to become a new convert to Debian. I had > previously installed Progeny and would like to try > full blown Debian from scratch. I saw a link on the > Debian Laptop list archive > (http://lists.debian.org/debian-laptop/

Re: Laptop suggestions

2001-06-07 Thread Dave Swegen
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 11:46:18AM +0100, Bruce Stephens wrote: > Bruce Stephens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [...] > > > (Presuming the 4000 comes with the same graphics card (ATI 3D Rage > > Mobility---a Mach64), then I can send you an XFree86-4 if you want.) > > One thing I didn't mention

Re: Laptop suggestions

2001-06-07 Thread Dave Swegen
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 03:06:01PM +0200, Alex Suzuki wrote: > > Not officially. However, the GATOS project > > (http://www.linuxvideo.org/gatos/) have got drivers that do. Using these > > I have managed to get DVD playback at fullscreen on my Thinkpad. > > Is it sufficient just to install package

Re: Laptop suggestions

2001-06-07 Thread Dave Swegen
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 05:16:40PM +0200, Alex Suzuki wrote: > On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 02:23:58PM +0100, Dave Swegen wrote: > > >From the package description it doesn't look like it includes the > > updated X drivers, so at a guess no. > > > > Cheers > >

Re: Laptop suggestions

2001-06-07 Thread Dave Swegen
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 05:16:40PM +0200, Alex Suzuki wrote: > On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 02:23:58PM +0100, Dave Swegen wrote: > > >From the package description it doesn't look like it includes the > > updated X drivers, so at a guess no. > > > > Cheers > >

Re: Laptop suggestions

2001-06-07 Thread Dave Swegen
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 03:06:01PM +0200, Alex Suzuki wrote: > > Not officially. However, the GATOS project > > (http://www.linuxvideo.org/gatos/) have got drivers that do. Using these > > I have managed to get DVD playback at fullscreen on my Thinkpad. > > Is it sufficient just to install packag

Re: Laptop suggestions

2001-06-07 Thread Dave Swegen
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 11:46:18AM +0100, Bruce Stephens wrote: > Bruce Stephens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [...] > > > (Presuming the 4000 comes with the same graphics card (ATI 3D Rage > > Mobility---a Mach64), then I can send you an XFree86-4 if you want.) > > One thing I didn't mention

Re: modem on a TP A21m

2001-05-17 Thread Dave Swegen
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 10:55:56AM +0200, Colazzo Eugenio wrote: > Hy everibody, > > does anibody know where can i find docs about A21m modem and how to make it > work? I found drivers for the modem at the follwoing page: http://www.pc.ibm.com/qtechinfo/MIGR-4VFTT3.html?up=unknownuser986205137&se

Re: modem on a TP A21m

2001-05-17 Thread Dave Swegen
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 10:55:56AM +0200, Colazzo Eugenio wrote: > Hy everibody, > > does anibody know where can i find docs about A21m modem and how to make it > work? I found drivers for the modem at the follwoing page: http://www.pc.ibm.com/qtechinfo/MIGR-4VFTT3.html?up=unknownuser986205137&s

Lost mail

2001-05-16 Thread Dave Swegen
Last week I received some mail regarding debian/linux on thinkpads. However, since my machine went belly up over the weekend I have lost these peoples email addresses. Therefore, if you did mail me regarding thinkpads, and haven't received a reply, please mail me again, and I will try and help you

Lost mail

2001-05-16 Thread Dave Swegen
Last week I received some mail regarding debian/linux on thinkpads. However, since my machine went belly up over the weekend I have lost these peoples email addresses. Therefore, if you did mail me regarding thinkpads, and haven't received a reply, please mail me again, and I will try and help you

Thinkpad A12m DVD instructions

2001-04-11 Thread Dave Swegen
OK, I've put up a brief guide to getting DVD playback working under debian at http://people.debian.org/~dsw/tp-dvd.html. It was written in a hurry, so expect it to have massive holes in the narrative, as well as serious speling mistakes. Please feel free to mail me comments and/or questions. Chee

Thinkpad A12m DVD instructions

2001-04-11 Thread Dave Swegen
OK, I've put up a brief guide to getting DVD playback working under debian at http://people.debian.org/~dsw/tp-dvd.html. It was written in a hurry, so expect it to have massive holes in the narrative, as well as serious speling mistakes. Please feel free to mail me comments and/or questions. Che

Thinkpad A21m successful install

2001-04-05 Thread Dave Swegen
Yesterday I finally managed to get the last part of my new A21m notebook working (this excludes IrDA, for which I have no use). This does include fullscreen, regionfree DVD playback and the modem. If anyone has any questions feel free to get in touch. If there is enough interest I will try and put

Thinkpad A21m successful install

2001-04-05 Thread Dave Swegen
Yesterday I finally managed to get the last part of my new A21m notebook working (this excludes IrDA, for which I have no use). This does include fullscreen, regionfree DVD playback and the modem. If anyone has any questions feel free to get in touch. If there is enough interest I will try and put