randomly distorted display

2004-12-09 Thread Dirk Reiss
Hello, on my Dell Inspiron 5150 i randomly (i.e., sometimes several times a day, sometimes not at all for several days) experience problems with a completely distorted display. It looks like some kind of small symmetric blinds all over the screen (under X) and on the tty consoles there are some

Re: Noisy cooling fan

2004-12-02 Thread Dirk Reiss
Hi Dan, On Thursday 02 December 2004 16:49, Dan Davison wrote: > I have a year-old laptop with a pentium 4, running Debian testing with > kernel 2.6.6. After an initial 5 minutes of calm after booting, the > cooling fan comes on and remains on in a state of relatively high > activity; it is very n

Re: Testing on Inspiron 5150 (or 5160)

2004-09-28 Thread Dirk Reiss
H. S. wrote: [...] I learn that the BIOS that Dell is giving out, later than A08 if I am not wrong, causes some troubles with ACPM or something like this? Sorry, am not familiar with laptop so feel free to explain things to me. Thanks, ->HS Hello H. (?), i have an a 5150 (the one with ATI

Re: Testing on Inspiron 5150 (or 5160)

2004-09-28 Thread Dirk Reiss
H. S. wrote: [...] I learn that the BIOS that Dell is giving out, later than A08 if I am not wrong, causes some troubles with ACPM or something like this? Sorry, am not familiar with laptop so feel free to explain things to me. Thanks, ->HS Hello H. (?), i have an a 5150 (the one with ATI graphi

Re: cpufreqd died

2004-08-22 Thread Dirk Reiss
Mattia Dongili wrote: On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 04:21:16PM +0200, Dirk Reiss wrote: Mattia Dongili wrote: [...] could you reproduce this behaviour manually (eg: restarting syslogd manually)? You can eventually submit a bug against cpufreqd bye >> [...] well, you can try to

Re: cpufreqd died

2004-08-22 Thread Dirk Reiss
Mattia Dongili wrote: On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 04:21:16PM +0200, Dirk Reiss wrote: Mattia Dongili wrote: [...] could you reproduce this behaviour manually (eg: restarting syslogd manually)? You can eventually submit a bug against cpufreqd bye >> [...] well, you can try to launch cpufreq

Re: cpufreqd died

2004-08-22 Thread Dirk Reiss
Mattia Dongili wrote: On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 03:02:12AM +0200, Dirk Reiss wrote: Hello all, since some days, cpufreqd seems to stop running at non-deterministic times, sometimes it seems to happen when syslog is being restarted (every night via cron). I have entries from cpufreqd in syslog

Re: cpufreqd died

2004-08-22 Thread Dirk Reiss
Mattia Dongili wrote: On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 03:02:12AM +0200, Dirk Reiss wrote: Hello all, since some days, cpufreqd seems to stop running at non-deterministic times, sometimes it seems to happen when syslog is being restarted (every night via cron). I have entries from cpufreqd in syslog.0

cpufreqd died

2004-08-21 Thread Dirk Reiss
Hello all, since some days, cpufreqd seems to stop running at non-deterministic times, sometimes it seems to happen when syslog is being restarted (every night via cron). I have entries from cpufreqd in syslog.0 (after restart) but syslog (used after restart) does not contain any of these. cp

cpufreqd died

2004-08-21 Thread Dirk Reiss
Hello all, since some days, cpufreqd seems to stop running at non-deterministic times, sometimes it seems to happen when syslog is being restarted (every night via cron). I have entries from cpufreqd in syslog.0 (after restart) but syslog (used after restart) does not contain any of these. cpuf

Re: inspiron 5150 and 2.4.24 kernel

2004-01-26 Thread Dirk Reiss
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Re: inspiron 5150 and 2.4.24 kernel

2004-01-26 Thread Dirk Reiss
Noam Chomsky +--+-----+ | Dirk Reiss |phone: ++49 (0) 531 7996276 | | Helmstedter Str. 134 |mobile: ++49 (0) 162 8925618 | | D - 38102 Braunschweig | | | Germany