Re: Xircom CardBus and Kernel 2.4

2002-05-13 Thread Gregor Hoffleit
* Thomas R. Shannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020512 22:50]: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > On Sunday 12 May 2002 02:33, you wrote: > > > I'm a Debian newbie who just installed Potato on my laptop, a Dell > > > Inspiron 7500. I have a Xircom CardBus Ethernet 10/100 + Modem 56 PCI > > > card. This

Re: Xircom CardBus and Kernel 2.4

2002-05-13 Thread Gregor Hoffleit
* Thomas R. Shannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020512 22:50]: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > On Sunday 12 May 2002 02:33, you wrote: > > > I'm a Debian newbie who just installed Potato on my laptop, a Dell > > > Inspiron 7500. I have a Xircom CardBus Ethernet 10/100 + Modem 56 PCI > > > card. Thi

TP760E: How to boot a Linux image from Win95 ?

2001-08-10 Thread Gregor Hoffleit
Hi, I know this is a pretty dumb question, but time is pressing and I just don't get it: I bought a used ThinkPad 760E with Win95 installed. The machine has a slot for either a CD-ROM or a floppy drive. Obviously the floppy drive is defective (doesn't read disks under Win95 at all), and the BIOS

TP760E: How to boot a Linux image from Win95 ?

2001-08-10 Thread Gregor Hoffleit
Hi, I know this is a pretty dumb question, but time is pressing and I just don't get it: I bought a used ThinkPad 760E with Win95 installed. The machine has a slot for either a CD-ROM or a floppy drive. Obviously the floppy drive is defective (doesn't read disks under Win95 at all), and the BIOS

Small fonts: try grdb

2000-05-26 Thread Gregor Hoffleit
Some time ago, the problem was discussed that most X11 applications have too big fonts for small laptop displays, and how to change that. In the meantime, I noticed grdb (http://bucket.pp.ualr.edu/~bit/grdb.html): "grdb provides a simple way to set the X resources of legacy applications consi

Re: Status of battery

2000-03-18 Thread Gregor Hoffleit
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 10:38:11AM -0800, Heather wrote: > > > > Another feature I miss is suspend-to-disk. My laptop has a replaced hard > > > > disk, and obviously the BIOS doesn't support the suspend feature with > > > > this > > > > disk (it doesn't work with Win95 or DOS either). > > Have yo

Re: Status of battery

2000-03-17 Thread Gregor Hoffleit
On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 10:47:36AM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > > > Another feature I miss is suspend-to-disk. My laptop has a replaced hard > > disk, and obviously the BIOS doesn't support the suspend feature with this > > disk (it doesn't work with Win95 or DOS either). > > > Most lapt

Re: Status of battery

2000-03-15 Thread Gregor Hoffleit
On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 11:22:10PM +, Christian Rishøj wrote: > Using apmd on my laptop (Acernote 350) I can see if I am on-line (AC) or > running batterypowered - but I am not able to get any info on the > current charge. I heard that apmd needed to "feel" the battery fully > charged and empty