Re: Warning !!!! HP Pavillon

2009-06-14 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Sat, 2009-06-13 at 17:06 -0300, SAMUEL JOSE PEREIRA CARNEIRO MACDOWELL wrote: > thank you for your suggestion but I must remind that the device BCM4312 > 802.11b/g was working perfectly well under Lenny and Vista as well. > > The problem is with HP laptop itself, as you may confirm at the HP si

Re: OpenOffice.org Base problem

2009-05-14 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 22:20 +0200, Frank Zimmermann wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm having trouble opening a HSQL-DB (created with OOo 3.0) in OOo 3.1 > The error message goes like this: > The connection to the data source "Buch-Datenbank" could not be established. > SQL Status: HY000 > The connection to

Re: Help!!!!

2009-05-01 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Fri, 2009-05-01 at 08:59 -0400, Alejandro De Leon wrote: > -Hello!!! please i have one laptop HP Pavilion dv5-1250us amd turion > x2 ultra but i install debian linux and i have drivers problems, > sound, video, wireless, etc. please i need help!!! Sure, we would be pleased to help... But we can

Re: cpufreq_conservative on Lenny AMD64? [SOLVED]

2009-04-26 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Hi, On Sun, 2009-04-26 at 00:08 +, s. keeling wrote: > Matus UHLAR - fantomas : > > On 23.04.09 20:26, s. keeling wrote: > > > I'd never heard of acpi-cpufreq. However: > > > > > > (0) [root] infidel /root_ modprobe acpi-cpufreq > > > FATAL: Error inserting acpi_cpufreq > > > (/lib/modules

Re: cpufreq_conservative on Lenny AMD64?

2009-04-22 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
[Follow-up on debian-laptop. Dropping other lists/newsgroups] Hi, On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 00:46 +, s. keeling wrote: > > This box is an HP Pavilion dv4, AMD64. [..] it's always running hot. The fan > is > always on. I'd like to have this thing ramp its CPU frequency back to > its minimum wh

Re: can not select video card and set resolution with dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

2009-04-09 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Loredana Loconte wrote: > On Wed, 8 Apr 2009, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > >> Nowadays, there is (almost) no need to specify the video driver and >> resolution in /etc/X11/xorg.conf... thanks to xorg auto-configuration >> and X-Window's randr. > > It helps to have a

Re: can not select video card and set resolution with dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

2009-04-08 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Hi, On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 10:11 +0800, gulfstream wrote: > 2009/4/9 Frank Lin PIAT > > On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 10:03 +0800, gulfstream wrote: > > My debian is testing. I found I can't use dpkg-reconfigure > > xserver-xorg to select the vid

Re: can not select video card and set resolution with dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

2009-04-08 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Hello, On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 10:03 +0800, gulfstream wrote: > My debian is testing. I found I can't use dpkg-reconfigure > xserver-xorg to select the video card and set resolution yesterday. I > could set keybord layout, but the interface for selecting the video > card and seting resolution does n

ExpressCard SSD?

2009-04-05 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Hello, I am considering to switch my system to an Express Card SSD. Various reviews reports very different performances (see below). Do you have some experience with expresscard SSDs? (on a Thinkpad T60)? Thanks, Franklin www .notebookreview .com/default.asp?newsID=3771 www .pcworld.idg .com.

Re: apt-get error

2009-04-03 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Hello, On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 11:04 +0530, POP3 Access wrote: > Today I have installed Lenny and it is working fine. > But when I try to run apt-get update, I am receving the following error > @ http://paste.debian.net/32292/. > > /home/lenny# apt-get update [..] > Get:7 ftp://ftp.hk.debian.org le

RE: Broadcom 4321AG on Lenny/amd64 with ndiswrapper

2009-03-16 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Thu, 2009-03-12 at 19:41 -0700, John Wesley Cooper wrote: > I haven't quite gotten it fixed, but I have managed to successfully set up a > ndiswrapper kernel! Now all would appear to need is a driver... so I looked > through the archives and found one that looked right, but the instructions > f

Re: Broadcom 4321AG not detected on lenny/amd64

2009-03-12 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Hello, Please use short and descriptive message subject. I my user agent, your message title was truncated to "URGENT - v5.0.0 amd64 (stable): Bro". Don't expect me (and others) to read the message body to know what your mail is about. Some other words that aren't useful in message subject: - pr

Re: Xorg failure

2009-03-08 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Hello, Don't post as HTML please. Also, just quote the important of the previous mail. see http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct On Sun, 2009-03-08 at 01:04 -0800, Baz wrote: > bazcis...@gmail.com wrote: > > Intel. Like you, etch worked for me too. Did

Re: Phone recording software

2009-03-02 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Hello, On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 21:43 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > I need to record a phone interview. Is there any software that will > let me plug the a phone line into the modem jack of my laptop (Dell > Inspiron 6400), and record the voice? [..] Asterisk which is a bit > complicated for this purpo

Re: Lenny. How to add WPA encryption to installer?

2009-02-26 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 18:10 -0500, Daryl Styrk wrote: > Mark Goldshtein wrote: > > > > > > Yes, think so. Seems to be strange a bit. Isn't WPA (or WPA2) a widely > > used encryption method? > > > It's all I have ever used. That's reasonable. > I hope to see WPA supported in the near future. T

Re: Lenny. How to add WPA encryption to installer?

2009-02-26 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 21:09 +0300, Mark Goldshtein wrote: > Mark Goldshtein wrote: > On 2/26/09, Robert Goley wrote: > > Not sure about this on the Lenny installer. > If the wpa_supplicant command exists, you

Re: hibernation with new kernels

2009-02-19 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 11:18 PM, Gerard Robin > wrote: > On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 08:34:17PM +0330, Nima Azarbayjany > wrote: > From: Nima Azarbayjany > > To: Frank Lin PIAT , >SmartList &

Re: hibernation with new kernels

2009-02-18 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 20:18 +0330, Nima Azarbayjany wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a Dell Inspiron E1505 laptop with Debian Lenny installed on it. > I have regularly installed the updates. I had no problem with > hibernation until the latest kernel updates were installed. It works, > but much slowe

Re: suitable sources.list

2009-02-15 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Sun, 2009-02-15 at 14:25 +0100, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > I fount those unofficial repositories: > > South Africa >(also useful for Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, >Swaziland and Zimbabwe ??) > > * TENET: Tertiary Education Network >http://debian

Re: suitable sources.list

2009-02-15 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Hello Gerard, On Sun, 2009-02-15 at 17:55 +0500, Gerard Robin wrote: > Currently I am in Mauririus and I tried: > mu -> Mauritius > mz -> Mozambique > zw -> Zimbabwe > bz -> Botswana > za -> south africa > mg -> madagascar > > but none of these countries seem to have a mirror debian, only the >

Re: Debian-based system not booting on Dell Inspiron laptop

2009-02-08 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Sun, 2009-02-08 at 13:25 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > I have a two-week old Kubuntu 8.04 installation that is now failing to > boot. When I start the computer, I get the Kubuntu graphic, then it > drops to tty1 and I get a text login. When I log in with my username > and password I get a message

Re: Debian Wiki: New WiFi help pages

2009-02-05 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Hi, On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 04:04 +1100, Geoff Simmons wrote: > > For those interested, the following new and updated content concerning > wireless LAN chipset support (and device usage) is now available on > the Debian Wiki. Thank you for working on all those Wifi pages. I found them to be high q

Re: plugin flash player AMD64

2009-02-01 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Hi, javier melendez wrote: > > pdt: im sorry but my english is more or less. That's no problem. However this mailing list is for laptop related topics. You should have used the debian-user mailing list. > i have a problem. I have a laptop with a AMD64. i have a linux-gnu debian > lenny and i ins

Re: [OT] Sidux, New HP AMD/ATI dv4 Pavilion - sound, fan, ...

2009-01-22 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 20:32 +, s. keeling wrote: > s. keeling : > > Daryl Styrk : > > > s. keeling wrote: > > > > Hi. This is a nice box. I've installed Sidux' latest on it. > > > > > > > > The fan runs constantly. Gkrellm reports 161.6 F; is that normal? > > > > [snip] > > > > AMD Turion

Re: Fujitsu Lifebook B-2131 : touchscreen doesen't work

2009-01-06 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Hello, I don't have such laptop, and I don't use touchscreen. however... On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 20:11 +0100, Kim B.Christensen wrote: > Hi - > I'm running a Debian 4.0 on the above hardware - updated to today. > I have tried for a few days now to get the touchscreen to work: i need this > machine

Re: test ipw2100 / ipw2200 firmware [manually upgrade the package]

2009-01-06 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Hello, On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 02:36 +0100, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > > I have submitted a patch to provide ipw2100/ipw2200 firmware [1],[2]. > I would appreciate if a Debian/Testing user of those chipsets could test > the generated packages. > URL: http://wiki.debian.org/ipw2200?ac

Re: WiFi para Debian en LapTop ACER

2008-12-11 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
[No top-quoting and no html, please] > > On 12/12/2008, Norma Angelica Ruiz Servin wrote: > > > Hola :) > > > > > > > > > Mi LapTop ACER tiene interconstruido el WiFi pero ya no funciona muy bien > > > [..] > > > > From: Jonas Andradas > > > > I'll do my best to translate this me

Re: Linux server with many virtual terminals

2008-12-06 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Hello, This mail is off-topic on this mailing list. The debian-user list is appropriate. On Sat, 2008-12-06 at 03:05 -0800, Areba Collins wrote: > I intend to set up a cyber cafe and to maximize on my investment (and > assure myself a good resale value for my computers) , i seek to use > brand ne

Re: Debian Etch and a half

2008-11-22 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
[re CC'ing debian-laptop and debian-user, so others can help] On Sat, 2008-11-22 at 14:40 -0800, jeffry killen wrote: > On Nov 22, 2008, at 12:47 PM, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > > > On Sat, 2008-11-22 at 11:22 -0800, jeffry killen wrote: > >> I downloaded the netinst and w

Re: Debian Etch and a half

2008-11-22 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Sat, 2008-11-22 at 11:22 -0800, jeffry killen wrote: > I downloaded the netinst and want to install [..] I have static ip > address service with my ISP. IIRC, Debian installer will try DHCP, then offer to configure the interface manually. > The installer wants to get on the net using dhcp so I

Re: Replacing Ubuntu with Debian Etch

2008-11-19 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Wed, 2008-11-19 at 09:47 -0800, jeffry killen wrote: > Hello: > I recently purchased a laptop from Linux Certified > of Sunnyvale California. > I [..] want to switch to Debian Etch 4.0 r1 > (for AMD64) > The First problem: > I insert the Debian install disc 1 and reboot > setting CMOS to boot

Re: test ipw2100 / ipw2200 firmware

2008-11-07 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Fri, 2008-11-07 at 20:11 +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 19:08:43 +0100, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 12:13 +0100, didier gaumet wrote: > > > > > > I just tested your ipw2200 firmware on my laptop (Dell Inspiron 1300,

Re: test ipw2100 / ipw2200 firmware

2008-11-06 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 12:13 +0100, didier gaumet wrote: > Hi, > > I just tested your ipw2200 firmware on my laptop (Dell Inspiron 1300, > Debian testing=Lenny): > - removed existing firmware in /lib/firmware > - halted > - boot, installed ipw2200 firmware package > - reboot > - firmware loaded, co

test ipw2100 / ipw2200 firmware

2008-11-05 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Hello, I have submitted a patch to provide ipw2100/ipw2200 firmware [1],[2]. I would appreciate if a Debian/Testing user of those chipsets could test the generated packages. Thanks, Franklin URL: http://wiki.debian.org/ipw2200?action=AttachFile MD5sums: b965970ce6308d4a0e29222ef69e3bc4 firmw

Re: wireless on an old Thinkpad 600

2008-10-29 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Hello, On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 00:44 +0100, Bernard wrote: > > I would like to install wireless facilities on my old Thinkpad. It has > a 300 Mhz processor, 128 MB of RAM, and 4.1 GB of space on hard disk. > It used to run on RedHat 7.2, which stayed there for about six years > without any problem.