Re: asus eeepc 1225

2019-11-21 Thread eric
se for you netbook or look at the small distributions such as tiny core linux http://tinycorelinux.net/ or puppy linux http://puppylinux.com/ or even go back to ubuntu 12.04 but be weary of internet use. Regards, Eric

Re: no graphics for Debian buster on Dell Inspiron

2019-11-20 Thread eric
On 11/20/19 3:42 AM, Matteo Semplice wrote: On 16/11/19 23:08, eric wrote: On 11/16/19 9:22 AM, Matteo Semplice wrote: Hi, after nearly 20 years of happiness with Debian distros I am struggling to get Debian buster working on a Dell Inspiron 14 2-in-1. The installer completes, but I have

Re: no graphics for Debian buster on Dell Inspiron

2019-11-16 Thread eric
ninstalled them, but if you think that a newer kernel may help I can try to reinstall and boot it without the quiet option to see what goes wrong. Thanks in advance for any suggestion. Best ?? Matteo I have little experience in this regard but do have a cybertron laptop with the hybrid intel/nvidia graphics. There is a lot of confusing information on the web. I would start with blacklisting the nouveau driver and removing all the nvidia drivers to see if you can get just the intel graphics to work. Regards, Eric

Re: richiesta ordine (fwd)

2018-12-03 Thread Fraga, Eric
On Monday, 3 Dec 2018 at 09:57, Dave Horsfall wrote: > Have you idiots ever thought of implementing some simple anti-spam Have you ever learned how to behave in polite company? -- Eric S Fraga via Emacs 27.0.50 & org 9.1.14 on Debian buster/sid

Re: Lenovo IdeaPad 320 laptop doesn't wake up after suspend

2018-09-02 Thread eric
d by a bug in your video driver. Regards, Eric

Re: Swap

2016-02-08 Thread Eric S Fraga
current laptop has only an SSD for storage (256 GB, I believe, half for Linux and half for Windows). I use Linux on it 98% of the time. Swap space allocated on the SSD. No problem at all so far in 1 year of operation. -- : Eric S Fraga, GnuPG: 0xFFFCF67D : in Emacs 25.0.90.1 + Ma Gnus v0.14 + evil-git-ff74cfb : BBDB version 3.1.2 (2015-10-28 10:47:01+00:00)

Re: Aw: Change home and root directories

2016-02-07 Thread Eric S Fraga
igured sudoers file, there should seldom be a need to log in as root. Not never, of course, but with such infrequency and so little disk use as to be negligible. -- : Eric S Fraga, GnuPG: 0xFFFCF67D : in Emacs 25.0.50.1 + Ma Gnus v0.16 + evil-git-ff74cfb : BBDB version 3.1.2 (2015-10-28 10:47:01+00:00)

Re: Swap

2016-02-04 Thread Eric S Fraga
ncur. For my use case, if I needed more than 1GB of swap, the system would likely end up thrashing so I only typically allocate 1GB for RAM >= 4GB. -- : Eric S Fraga, GnuPG: 0xFFFCF67D : in Emacs 25.0.50.1 + Ma Gnus v0.14 + evil-git-ff74cfb : BBDB version 3.1.2 (2015-10-28 10:47:01+00:00)

Re: Swap

2016-02-04 Thread Eric S Fraga
should not be an issue. I could see, maybe, how suspend may need some swap, mind you, as it does use RAM but very little over and above what is currently being used by the running programs? -- : Eric S Fraga, GnuPG: 0xFFFCF67D : in Emacs 25.0.50.1 + Ma Gnus v0.14 + evil-git-ff74cfb : BBDB version

Re: Wireless connection falls

2015-11-28 Thread Eric S Fraga
lan0 power off -- : Eric S Fraga, GnuPG: 0xFFFCF67D : in Emacs 25.0.50.2 + Ma Gnus v0.14 + evil-git-ff74cfb : BBDB version 3.1.2 (2014-04-28 23:20:47+00:00)

Re: Bluetooth manager for connecting to Android

2015-09-13 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Monday, 14 Sep 2015 at 00:47, Michael wrote: > Eric, > > I'm on the road now and only occasionally online. > >> FYI, gphotofs and gthumb, tools that depend on gphoto2, work very well >> for a cable connection with Android phones, at least for photos. > > But

Re: Bluetooth manager for connecting to Android

2015-09-09 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Monday, 7 Sep 2015 at 16:28, Michael wrote: > but they wont use a cable connection, which, anyway, did not work on > linux for me so far. FYI, gphotofs and gthumb, tools that depend on gphoto2, work very well for a cable connection with Android phones, at least for photos. > But i won't try t

Re: I get a black screen and the Laptop continues to be turned on

2015-07-03 Thread Eric S Fraga
huts down instead of hibernates if the power goes too low? Shutting down may seem extreme but at least it will be in a better state. -- : Eric S Fraga, GnuPG: 0xFFFCF67D : in Emacs 25.0.50.1 + Ma Gnus v0.14 + evil-git-ff74cfb : BBDB version 3.1.2 (2015-05-23 14:39:47 -0500) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Linux Heating Issue

2015-05-23 Thread Eric
for your particular machine. Eric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/5561253a.3090...@cox.net

Re: Now that I've installed 8.0.0...

2015-05-16 Thread Eric S Fraga
ng present (although I don't have it installed) deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free in my /etc/apt/sources.list file. Did you maybe not put the hyphen in "non-free"? -- : Eric S Fraga, GnuPG: 0xFFFCF67D : in Emacs 25.0.50.1 + Ma Gnus v0.12 + evil-gi

Re: Memory usage Debian Jessie (stable)

2015-05-13 Thread Eric S Fraga
a 600 MHz processor which I overclock to 800 MHz but memory is not the bottleneck. With X11, a window manager (ratpoison or lxde), emacs and a few xterms, I am comfortably within the RAM I have. If I start up Firefox (iceweasel), then problems do arise... so I use other browsers such as dillo, l

Re: Memory usage Debian Jessie (stable)

2015-05-09 Thread Eric S Fraga
There are plenty of browsers to choose from in Debian, many of which are low memory. Iceweasel (Firefox) is not the best choice necessarily... -- : Eric S Fraga, GnuPG: 0xFFFCF67D : in Emacs 25.0.50.1 + Ma Gnus v0.12 + evil-git-4892acc : BBDB version 3.1.2 (2014-05-06 11:45:08 -0500) --

Re: Memory usage Debian Jessie (stable)

2015-05-09 Thread Eric S Fraga
ral instances of emacs, several xterms, and various sundry utilities (conky, music) running. You'll see that about 1.5 GB is green: that's the actual memory footprint of the active processes. The other memory use is mostly buffered memory. There's a smidgen of swap as well. -- : Eric

Re: Circulant matrix

2015-05-08 Thread Eric S Fraga
r needs to be rotated one element to the right > relative to the preceding row vector. Find a smooth surface. Put one finger in the centre of the laptop. Use the other hand to spin the laptop. What does this have to do with debian-laptop? -- : Eric S Fraga, GnuPG: 0xFFFCF67D : in Emacs 25.0

Re: Memory usage Debian Jessie (stable)

2015-05-08 Thread Eric S Fraga
well use the memory as much as you can. -- : Eric S Fraga, GnuPG: 0xFFFCF67D : in Emacs 25.0.50.1 + Ma Gnus v0.12 + evil-git-4892acc : BBDB version 3.1.2 (2014-05-06 11:45:08 -0500) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

Re: Graphical display is black after upgrade from Debian 7 to 8

2015-05-06 Thread Eric S Fraga
rt to learn to do things with > the CLI. Very true ... but maybe not very helpful for the OP? For the OP, have you (a) looked at the system logs (which you can easily do in text mode) and maybe (b) reconfigured the X server? -- : Professor Eric S Fraga, CPSE, Chemical Engineering

Re: Installing Debian with only 64mb RAM

2015-04-19 Thread Eric S Fraga
AM so very large in comparison! :) -- : Eric S Fraga, GnuPG: 0xFFFCF67D : in Emacs 25.0.50.1 + Ma Gnus v0.12 + evil-git-bdeb602 : BBDB version 3.1.2 (2014-05-06 11:45:08 -0500) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe&qu

Re: Debian on Acer Aspire E15

2015-03-09 Thread Eric S Fraga
forehand, but the laptop > was offered as a special deal. You may need to install firmware from the non-free Debian repository. For instance, on my Dell laptop, I needed to install firmware-iwlwifi to get the WiFi working. What does 'lspci -v' show as output? -- : Eric S Fraga, GnuPG:

Re: Huawei E3372: still a problem

2015-02-27 Thread Eric S Fraga
est moving completely to Jessie: update the sources list and do an 'apt-get dist-upgrade'... Or, if you have /home separate, install Jessie over whatever you have installed currently. This often works best and is one of the main reasons for having separate disk partitions for / and

Re: Problem with Intel HD graphics

2015-01-19 Thread Eric S Fraga
date driver. -- : Eric S Fraga, GnuPG: 0xFFFCF67D : in Emacs 25.0.50.1 + Ma Gnus v0.12 + evil-git-2748228 : BBDB version 3.1.2 (2014-05-06 11:45:08 -0500) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lis

Re: Problem with Intel HD graphics

2015-01-18 Thread Eric S Fraga
check the output of "lspci -v" to see what the graphics card is specifically. -- : Eric S Fraga, GnuPG: 0xFFFCF67D : in Emacs 25.0.50.1 + Ma Gnus v0.12 + evil-git-2748228 : BBDB version 3.1.2 (2014-05-06 11:45:08 -0500) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@list

Re: please guide how install debian squeeze on asus eee pc 1215b

2011-11-29 Thread Eric Cooper
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 07:09:28PM -0800, manmath sahu wrote: > please guide how install debian squeeze on asus eee pc 1215b See http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org wit

SOLVED: Re: suspend no longer works after upgrading something: Samsung N220

2011-05-04 Thread Eric S Fraga
Eric S Fraga writes: > Hello, > > I was hoping somebody could suggest where to start looking to try to > sort out a problem with my laptop. I have a Samsung N220 which has been > running Debian testing+unstable for over a year now. I have been able > to suspend (not

suspend no longer works after upgrading something: Samsung N220

2011-04-27 Thread Eric S Fraga
-cut here---end--->8--- Any suggestions very welcome indeed! Thanks, eric -- : Eric S Fraga (GnuPG: 0xC89193D8FFFCF67D) in Emacs 24.0.50.1 + No Gnus v0.16 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

no statistics for wlan0 on samsung n220

2010-12-03 Thread Eric S Fraga
! Any pointers welcome. Thanks, eric -- Eric S Fraga (: http://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucecesf/ :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87fwufq6oy@ucl.ac.uk

Re: lenny -> squeeze, questions ...

2010-11-28 Thread Eric S Fraga
Gérard Robin writes: [...] > I feel that listening music on command line is no longer fashionable. It may not be fashionable (although I am not sure how this has been quantified) but it's my preferred way of listening to music on a computer. I use moc, by the way. -- Eric S Frag

Re: Debian squeeze on Samsung N220: almost working very well but no control of brightness

2010-03-21 Thread Eric S Fraga
ll under development, from what I understand, so this isn't surprising. It's not a major worry as re-booting fixes it and doesn't take that long. eric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact li

Re: Debian squeeze on Samsung N220: almost working very well but no control of brightness

2010-03-19 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:03:58 +, Eric S Fraga wrote: > I recently acquired a Samsung N220 laptop (Intel Atom N450 chip, 10" [...] > which I cannot seem to control in any way: I cannot adjust the > brightness of the display. The display is stuck at a fairly low level &

Re: Debian squeeze on Samsung N220: almost working very well but no control of brightness

2010-03-18 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 22:53:06 +0100, Martin Ågren wrote: > > [Off-list] > > On 18 March 2010 20:03, Eric S Fraga wrote: > > I recently acquired a Samsung N220 laptop (Intel Atom N450 chip, 10" > > screen, etc).  After some playing around, yesterday I was able to

Debian squeeze on Samsung N220: almost working very well but no control of brightness

2010-03-18 Thread Eric S Fraga
nstallation. (I prefer Debian to ubuntu for a number of reasons) Thanks, eric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87bpeltpsx.wl%ucec...@ucl.ac.uk

ath5k issue on Dell Latitude e6500

2009-08-02 Thread Eric Sheesley
2 18:38:42 skynet kernel: [ 12.609417] ath5k_pci :04:00.0: registered as 'phy0' Aug 2 18:38:42 skynet kernel: [ 12.912966] ath5k_pci: probe of :04:00.0 failed with error -110 I have the same kernel versions for both kernels so am very confused by this. Any help would b

Re: Lenny. How to start X from console with a chosen DM?

2009-02-27 Thread Eric S Fraga
On 2009-02-27, Mark Goldshtein wrote: > Actually, the task is not to start WindowMaker instead of KDE. I need > them both and seek for ability to choose one at the moment of X > session started. According to your method, will I have a chance to > start X session with KDE? I do the following (you'

Re: wireless on an old Thinkpad 600 - more specifically sound on 600E

2008-10-31 Thread Eric De Mund
g a Debian rescue and removing the of- fending entries in and , I rebooted. Then I manually followed the first 4 steps above, reboot- ed, and lo, I had sound. Aggravating to not know why it worked now while before it didn't. Regardless, there you have

Re: Toshiba A215-S5808 info

2008-02-18 Thread Eric S Fraga
At Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:53:12 -0600, Preston Boyington wrote: > > I am looking at picking up this laptop for a friend of mine this > afternoon and will be installing Debian on it shortly thereafter (I > don't plan to boot this thing up into Vista at all). Seeing as how this > is a 64 bit machin

Re: [SOLVED] dual head support for Dell Latitude D630

2007-11-19 Thread Eric S Fraga
ed possible solutions to my problem! cheers, eric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

dual head support for Dell Latitude D630

2007-11-16 Thread Eric S Fraga
d also get back to the X system by A-F7. In looking for a solution to the dual head display problem, I ran across a solution to this problem: simply add the option 'vga=0x318' to the boot kernel parameters. Thanks, eric -- details --- Xorg.0.

Re: dual head support for Dell Latitude D630

2007-11-16 Thread Eric S Fraga
At Fri, 16 Nov 2007 16:36:17 +, I wrote: > Can anybody help? I have attached my current xorg.conf file which > is based on one I found on the 'net. I guess it would help if I had actually attached the file... sigh. eric xorg.conf Description: Binary data

Re: xterm font size

2007-07-13 Thread Eric Cooper
On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 05:02:13AM -0400, Zach wrote: > On 7/11/07, Eric Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Note that recent xterms can also use antialiased TrueType fonts, which >> look much better IMO. But the option syntax is completely different: >> Fo

Re: xterm font size

2007-07-11 Thread Eric Cooper
XTerm*faceSize4: 12 XTerm*faceSize5: 16 XTerm*faceSize6: 20 (I use a big monitor, and I have aging eyes, so I like bigger fonts ...) -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

getting PS/2 wheelmouse's scrollwheel to work on Thinkpad 600?

2007-05-06 Thread Eric De Mund
EndSection I'm using KDE, and the applications that don't scroll in response to the scrollwheel are: o rxvt o IceWeasel o Emacs Interestingly, xev(1) prints events out in response to all mouse events except scrollwheel forward and scrollwheel back: o yes mouse movement o

sound on IBM Thinkpad 600 (Type 2645-51U) under Etch (Debian 4.0r0)

2007-05-05 Thread Eric De Mund
- That's it. If these steps don't work for you, make sure plug-and-play is disabled in your Thinkpad 600's BIOS. Cheers, Eric -- Eric De Mund | Ixian Systems | email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>| 650 Castro St, #120-210 | ICQ: 811788 http://www.i

Re: 3d Acceleration, Resolution etc

2007-01-12 Thread Eric Cooper
24 Modes "1680x1250" EndSubSection EndSection If the driver doesn't understand that resolution, you may also have to specify an explicit ModeLine for it (try Google). HTH. -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Command Language Reference Book (Website)

2006-12-05 Thread Eric Cooper
torial -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Followup on Compaq Armada Wireless Config

2006-10-11 Thread Marsh Eric
ifconfig to get the machine to recognize the device and then install bind9 and everything that goes along with it. I then had to reconfigure ifconfig. Anyhow, it seems to be running so I'm doing an upgrade. Hope that doesn't break things. Thanks for the help. Eric -- To U

Configuring a Compaq Armada for wireless

2006-10-10 Thread Marsh Eric
t sure if I need the whole set or just one or two to get me going. Can anyone point me in the right direction to help me get this thing going, even if it just means referring me to an article somewhere? Thanks, any help is appreciated. Eric Marsh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Re: TV tuner in LINUX

2006-01-26 Thread Eric Brown
add a tuner to your linux machine. There are many applications for watching tv. I have been using mythtv for a while and recommend it for recording tv, playing music and movies etc. Eric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Automatic removing of unneeded .deb files?

2005-11-23 Thread Eric Cooper
if ! dpkg-query -Wf '${Status}' $pkg | grep -q ' installed'; then echo $pkg: not installed # uncomment this to remove it ... # rm $deb fi done -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Automatic removing of unneeded .deb files?

2005-11-22 Thread Eric Cooper
ot;apt-get clean" for example). The important information about your installation is kept in /var/lib/dpkg/. -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: pcmcia + acpi + suspend2 seems impossible...

2005-11-15 Thread Eric van der Paardt
> -Original Message- > From: Martin Hauser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 2:20 AM > To: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: pcmcia + acpi + suspend2 seems impossible... -snip- > > So far I haven't been able to get all three of these together in one >

Re: Securing services on my T40

2005-10-05 Thread Eric Cooper
tc/default/portmap, where you can say OPTIONS="-i 127.0.0.1" Exim4 has the local_interfaces directive. Apache has the Listen directive. You get the idea -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Pointers to a Debian cum XOrg installation

2005-09-14 Thread Eric Cooper
sid, but I've seen conflicting recommendations about this. Is there a Right Way? -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Pointers to a Debian cum XOrg installation

2005-09-14 Thread Eric Cooper
to install only some pieces from testing If you want everything from sid, you shouldn't be asking this question :-) -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 70 seconds to load kernel on Thinkpad R50e normal?

2005-08-13 Thread Eric Cooper
s 70 whole seconds before the dots end and I see: > Bios Data Check OK > or whatever. > > Does that sound normal for a IBM Thinkpad R50e? If you're using LILO on the laptop, make sure you have specified the "compact" option in your lilo.conf file. -- Eric Cooper

Re: gnome-terminal

2005-07-17 Thread Eric Cooper
lications menu and choose Web Browser. -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2005-06-22 Thread Eric Cooper
"orphaner" front-end automates the process of removing a package, finding newly orphaned packages, and repeating. -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: LVM on notebook

2005-06-07 Thread Eric Brown
is supported in LVM2 ? > > ciao > Max > -- > Follow the white penguin. I've extended volumes a couple of times always with ext3 fs. Works without problems following the directions in the howto. -- - Eric Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re:

2005-05-13 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
since X is mostly OS indepenent, my 505tx has been running versions of X since FreeBSD 2.something, and currently runs FreeBSD 4.11, and X. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

fwd from freebsd-mobile, a "which version for IBM X40" query

2005-04-21 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
I don't have an X40, so I've no idea. Anyone else? --- Forwarded Message On 4/21/05, paul beard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If anyone has some suggestions (I realize he asked for Linux expertise, > but perhaps he's open to a different kind of switch), maybe leave him a > comment on his blo

Re: Anyone with an IBM T21?

2005-04-16 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
Linksys WPC11 cards. I'm a happy camper, with no parts newer than 1Q2001. Next is packet-radio. Should anyone need their hand held with a T21 feel free to contact me. Cheers all, Eric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Anyone with an IBM T21?

2005-04-15 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
I've a couple of dead stupid questions for someone who has a T21. Off-list please. TiA, Eric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: IBM T21 running 2.6 and 3.1 and screen hangs

2005-04-07 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
Howdy, To close the loop, an apt-get update/install on the 5th/6th has produced a 2.6.11.6/3.1 system that hasn't failed under use that caused failure on the same system prior to that date. Eric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

IBM T21 running 2.6 and 3.1 and screen hangs

2005-04-05 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
ped a clue in my lap(top). The time and number of mouse events to hang is a variable, but a "short" one, with a hang coming in between 5 and 15 minutes of not very vigorous mousing about with a browser, running an aquarium screensaver (or "hanger"), or just moving xterms about.

Re: small laptop with only floppy drive

2005-04-04 Thread Eric Cooper
rive that works with your laptop, and use discs that you download and burn on your desktop machine. I think the old Backpack CD drives that connect via the parallel port were well-supported by the install floppies. -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

RE: what's the best way to deal with a disconnect eth0?

2005-02-16 Thread Eric van der Paardt
-snip Have a look at ifplugd; I guess it does exactly what you're looking for. Koen Thanks Koen it works great... still pauses, but not nearly as long as waiting for that DHCP timeout, and was easy as could be to setup. E

what's the best way to deal with a disconnect eth0?

2005-02-16 Thread Eric van der Paardt
he does plug it into something…    So is there a way with the /etc/interfaces stuff to only try to auto-configure eth0 if there is a cable plugged in?   Eric G. van der Paardt Systems Administrator 715-485.9312x3198 Bishop Fixture & Millwork 101 Eagle Dr. Balsam

Re: Laptop recomendation?

2005-01-01 Thread Eric Hanchrow
Boy, you sure got a lot of responses. All I have to add is one gotcha: I've never been able to figure out how to get wireless working on either Linux of FreeBSD, even though I have a card that works (at least some of the time :-() on Windows. My laptop is a used Dell Latitude C640, but I suspect

RE: MIC's loud and Speaker screams when sound module loads. Why?

2004-12-03 Thread Eric van der Paardt
I had a different sound issue, where my blacklisted modules where being loaded by 'discover' long before I wanted them to be. Adding the line 'skip modulename' to /etc/discover.conf was all I needed to get the module to quit loading... For my sound to work I had to actually load it from an init

RE: Debian RC2 on an IBM ThinkPad 600e

2004-11-23 Thread Eric van der Paardt
Tuesday 23 November 2004 16:58, Eric van der Paardt wrote: > How can I get it to QUIT loading cs46xx on boot up, I've tried > blacklisting it... but it loads before that apparently... when I do a > lspci the audio card is identified incorrectly (as a PCI card, even > though I've be

Debian RC2 on an IBM ThinkPad 600e

2004-11-23 Thread Eric van der Paardt
).  The card is NOT PNP… I know I probably could just rename the .ko, but I’m trying to actually understand how the boot process works.   Anyone have any really handy links of kernel startup and/or hotplug.  Am I missing something really simple?   TIA for any pointers.   Eric G. van der

Re: Trying to achieve hi-res console (framebuffer)

2004-11-15 Thread Eric Hanchrow
Here's another datapoint: 2.6.8 (from a recent Debian Sarge installation CD) works fine with a Dell Latitude C640, with ``vga=773''. -- I ... don't want programming to be "really interesting" any more than I want my toaster to be "really interesting". I want my toaster to get the job done and I d

Re: Debian on Averatec 5110H wireless and modem configuration

2004-09-14 Thread Eric Brown
network. Does the module that you compiled get loaded? Have you configured the network in /etc/network/interfaces? Read the relevant section of the Networking chapter in the Debian Reference. http://qref.sourceforge.net/Debian/reference/ch-gateway.en.html#s-trigger-pcmcia Eric -- Eric Brown

Re: Debian on Averatec 5110H wireless and modem configuration

2004-09-14 Thread Eric Brown
network. Does the module that you compiled get loaded? Have you configured the network in /etc/network/interfaces? Read the relevant section of the Networking chapter in the Debian Reference. http://qref.sourceforge.net/Debian/reference/ch-gateway.en.html#s-trigger-pcmcia Eric -- Eric B

Re: External monitor

2004-08-17 Thread Eric Peterson
ck the X server into recognizing the external monitor. Regards, Eric On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 08:49:03AM +0200, Piero Furiesi wrote: > Hi all, > > someone can tell me how to configure my hp omnibook xe3gf w/ Debian Woody for > an external monitor? > > When I plug it, screen remains

Re: External monitor

2004-08-17 Thread Eric Peterson
ck the X server into recognizing the external monitor. Regards, Eric On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 08:49:03AM +0200, Piero Furiesi wrote: > Hi all, > > someone can tell me how to configure my hp omnibook xe3gf w/ Debian Woody for an > external monitor? > > When I plug it, screen remains

Re: pcmcia and wireless help =)

2004-08-10 Thread Eric Brown
  - Original Message - From: Ognjen To: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 11:55 AM Subject: pcmcia and wireless help =) Hi all, I am having problems with a new installation of debian woody (3.0), when it starts up it

Re: pcmcia and wireless help =)

2004-08-10 Thread Eric Brown
  - Original Message - From: Ognjen To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 11:55 AM Subject: pcmcia and wireless help =) Hi all, I am having problems with a new installation of debian woody (3.0), when it starts up it detects both

PCMCIA Ethernet net install problems

2004-07-23 Thread Eric D. Hedekar
cary drivers to automatically detect the card. Has anyone had any experience with this or similar cards and how do I work around it? -Eric

PCMCIA Ethernet net install problems

2004-07-23 Thread Eric D. Hedekar
cary drivers to automatically detect the card. Has anyone had any experience with this or similar cards and how do I work around it? -Eric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Jog dial vaio

2004-04-30 Thread Eric at Free
Hi,   The URL that you gave to download the jog dial vaio does not longer work. Could  you please provide sent the file or provide me an alterative to get this driver.   Looking forward to hearing from you.   Eric Phanithavong 38 Rue de Bellevue 92100 Boulogne Billancourt (FR) 0033

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2004-04-30 Thread Eric at Free
    Eric Phanithavong 38 Rue de Bellevue 92100 Boulogne Billancourt (FR) 0033 +(0) 1 41 31 44 20  

Jog dial vaio

2004-04-30 Thread Eric at Free
Hi,   The URL that you gave to download the jog dial vaio does not longer work. Could  you please provide sent the file or provide me an alterative to get this driver.   Looking forward to hearing from you.   Eric Phanithavong 38 Rue de Bellevue 92100 Boulogne Billancourt (FR) 0033

[no subject]

2004-04-30 Thread Eric at Free
    Eric Phanithavong 38 Rue de Bellevue 92100 Boulogne Billancourt (FR) 0033 +(0) 1 41 31 44 20  

Re: Problems using internal speakers on Inspiron 8600

2004-04-26 Thread Eric Peterson
, mixed results with alsamixer. KMix seems to work better for me. Regards, Eric -- Q: What do monsters eat? A: Things. Q: What do monsters drink? A: Coke. (Because Things go better with Coke.) Eric Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problems using internal speakers on Inspiron 8600

2004-04-26 Thread Eric Peterson
, mixed results with alsamixer. KMix seems to work better for me. Regards, Eric -- Q: What do monsters eat? A: Things. Q: What do monsters drink? A: Coke. (Because Things go better with Coke.) Eric Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

acpi on Compaq Evo

2004-04-22 Thread Eric Pineault
Hello, I have debian sid with 2.6.4 kernel on a compaq evo n610c. ACPI seems OK but power usage when on battery is very high, usefull battery time is at the most one hour after, while with windows XP I have up to 3 hours. Is there any way I can manage the power usage and improve power management wi

acpi on Compaq Evo

2004-04-22 Thread Eric Pineault
Hello, I have debian sid with 2.6.4 kernel on a compaq evo n610c. ACPI seems OK but power usage when on battery is very high, usefull battery time is at the most one hour after, while with windows XP I have up to 3 hours. Is there any way I can manage the power usage and improve power management wi

Re: Dell Laptop comparison

2004-04-12 Thread Eric Peterson
about that to get it working (I've heard it will work with the 2.6 kernels). I'd recommend this box. Regards, Eric On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 01:46:43PM -0700, Michael K O'Brien wrote: > Hola~ > > I've had a Dell Inspiron 8000 for a couple of years. I've

Re: Dell Laptop comparison

2004-04-12 Thread Eric Peterson
about that to get it working (I've heard it will work with the 2.6 kernels). I'd recommend this box. Regards, Eric On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 01:46:43PM -0700, Michael K O'Brien wrote: > Hola~ > > I've had a Dell Inspiron 8000 for a couple of years. I've

Dual-headed X problems

2004-04-07 Thread Eric Peterson
X-server: XFree86 Version 4.3.0.1 (Debian 4.3.0-7 20040318043201 [EMAIL PROTECTED]) This all worked fine prior to my latest dselect upgrade, any ideas would be appreciated. Regards, Eric -- Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won&

Dual-headed X problems

2004-04-07 Thread Eric Peterson
X-server: XFree86 Version 4.3.0.1 (Debian 4.3.0-7 20040318043201 [EMAIL PROTECTED]) This all worked fine prior to my latest dselect upgrade, any ideas would be appreciated. Regards, Eric -- Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won&

Re: Installation instructions for Laptop

2004-03-28 Thread Eric Pineault
If you've found this list then you probably have heard of this site: http://tuxmobil.org/ if not check it out you might find your machine. I suggest you try a knoppix system (knoppix.org) to check what works and what doesn't, work on from there. That's if you want to stay away from a commercial di

Re: Installation instructions for Laptop

2004-03-28 Thread Eric Pineault
If you've found this list then you probably have heard of this site: http://tuxmobil.org/ if not check it out you might find your machine. I suggest you try a knoppix system (knoppix.org) to check what works and what doesn't, work on from there. That's if you want to stay away from a commercial di

Re: Kernel Source - Broadcom BCM4400x

2004-01-14 Thread Eric Heldreth
Thanks to everyone for your help. I upgraded to the 2.6 kernel and this seems to have solved my problem. I may have messed up the kernel source when I started messing with it manually. Thanks again Eric --- Michael Tuschik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > > my network dri

Re: Kernel Source - Broadcom BCM4400x

2004-01-14 Thread Eric Heldreth
Thanks to everyone for your help. I upgraded to the 2.6 kernel and this seems to have solved my problem. I may have messed up the kernel source when I started messing with it manually. Thanks again Eric --- Michael Tuschik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > > my network dri

Kernel Source - Broadcom BCM4400x

2004-01-08 Thread Eric Heldreth
seem to build the drivers for my network card and was hoping someone could tell me if I missed something. Eric __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus

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