Problems with HDD after upgrade from lenny to squeeze

2011-07-21 Thread James Brown
I use Debian AMD64 on my laptop AcerTravel Mate 3040. HDD: Model Family: Seagate Momentus 7200.4 series Device Model: ST9500420AS In the beginning ot this year I had the next report of smartctl: 193 Load_Cycle_Count0x0032 089 089 000Old_age Always - 23521 (af

Acer OrbiCam don't work

2011-04-02 Thread James Brown
I have a laptop "Acer TravelMate 3043" with "Acer OrbiCam": $ lsusb Bus 005 Device 002: ID 046d:0896 Logitech, Inc. OrbiCam That cam don't work: 1) > > ~$ mplayer tv:// > > MPlayer SVN-r31918 (C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team > > Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0: No such file or directory > > Ca

Problem with fonts in console

2011-04-02 Thread James Brown
I use the Debian OS on my laptopAcer TravelMate 3043. Earlier I used Debian Lenny AMD64, which I have upgraded to Debian Squeeze AMD64. > ~$ dmesg | grep -i video > [0.971306] pci :00:02.0: Boot video device > [5.070696] input: Video Bus as > /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/PNP0A08:00

How can I set up Scroll Lock on my notebook?

2010-11-13 Thread James Brown
I have an Acer Travel Mate 3043 WTMi. OS - Debian AMD Lenny. My key "Scroll Lock" (that used on it under Windows as Fn+F12 - it have no special key for "Scroll Lock") don't works under dafaul settings of X11. I have the next settings in /etc/X11/xorg.conf: > Section "InputDevice" > Identifi

Re: Problem with Asus eee PC900ax (Problem resolved)

2010-09-19 Thread James Brown
Alexander Batischev wrote: > On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 05:44:44AM +0000, James Brown wrote: > # modprobe pciehp pciehp_force=1 > > But if you don't constantly disable and enable your networking module, your > 900HA would work just great under Squeeze. > > And last bu

Re: Problem with Asus eee PC900ax

2010-09-18 Thread James Brown
Oleg Bodnaruk wrote: > Hello, James. > What NIC is installed on this netbook? It is likely that this NIC is > not supported by Lenny's kernel 2.6.26-(1|2). > > On 19 September 2010 08:44, James Brown wrote: >> I am trying to install Debian Lenny on the above netbook.

Problem with Asus eee PC900ax

2010-09-18 Thread James Brown
I am trying to install Debian Lenny on the above netbook. The installer don't see any network interface controller. The network interface controller works under windows, i.e. it is not a problem with hardware. Some months ago I succesfully insttalled Debian Lenny on another such netbook, Asus eee P

Re: Problem with my HDD and FS's after upgrade and cloning the HDD

2009-09-25 Thread James Brown
Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 12:17:24PM +0400, James Brown wrote: > >> Hi all, >> I use the Debian Lenny AMD64 on my laptop Acer TravelMate 3043. >> After upgrading from my old HDD 120GB to 500GB and cloning the first to >> the last, I have t

Problem with my HDD and FS's after upgrade and cloning the HDD

2009-09-25 Thread James Brown
Hi all, I use the Debian Lenny AMD64 on my laptop Acer TravelMate 3043. After upgrading from my old HDD 120GB to 500GB and cloning the first to the last, I have the next problem: sudo fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 500 GB, 500105249280 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders Units = cylinders

What do you think about the OpenBIOS?

2009-08-06 Thread James Brown
http://www.openfirmware.info/Welcome_to_OpenBIOS Did anybody use it on laptops/PS, including using it with the Debian AMD64 on laptops? Is there a sence to change my preinstalled BIOS to it? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Re: The Acer's notebooks don't suppot vt at all

2009-07-29 Thread James Brown
Mihira Fernando wrote: > On Tuesday 28 July 2009 09:26:27 am James Brown wrote: > >> When I tried to install and to rum the kvm on my Acer TravelMate3043WTMi >> (under Debian Lenny AMD64) the system told me that I needed to have >> vt-support in my CPU and/or enable it i

The Acer's notebooks don't suppot vt at all

2009-07-27 Thread James Brown
When I tried to install and to rum the kvm on my Acer TravelMate3043WTMi (under Debian Lenny AMD64) the system told me that I needed to have vt-support in my CPU and/or enable it in my BIOS. I tried to find whether my CPU Intel T5500 supported this feature or not I didn't resolve this matter becous

Re: VM Ware Player under Debian Lenny AMD64 on laptop

2009-07-27 Thread James Brown
Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 12:06:42AM +0400, James Brown wrote: > >> And hear http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=27253 they wrote that >> T5500 supportes VT >> Are they, intel team, idiots, if they write one in one place, and >&

Re: Unexpected unset of domainname

2009-07-26 Thread James Brown
Frederico Lemos пишет: > James Brown escreveu: >> My router define my machine now as unknown. >> > I had the same problem here, my router did not recognize my hostname. > I solved it by editing /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf and uncommenting the > line 16: > > se

Re: Unexpected unset of domainname

2009-07-24 Thread James Brown
justin joseph wrote: > On 7/24/09, James Brown wrote: > >> I think it's OK with this file, don't it? >> >>> test with dnsdomainname >>> >>> >>> >> $ dnsdomainname >> JMS >> >> Is it quite right?

Re: VM Ware Player under Debian Lenny AMD64 on laptop

2009-07-24 Thread James Brown
C M Reinehr wrote: > On Fri 24 July 2009 02:45:31 pm James Brown wrote: > >> C M Reinehr wrote: >> >>> On Fri 24 July 2009 12:45:18 pm James Brown wrote: >>> >>>> Lennart Sorensen wrote: >>>> >&

Re: VM Ware Player under Debian Lenny AMD64 on laptop

2009-07-24 Thread James Brown
Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 10:48:22PM +0400, James Brown wrote: > >> Is it possible install on qemu Windows? It seems to me that only Linux, >> am I wrong? >> Does it maintain booting from raw disks and using USB? >> > > kvm and qe

Re: VM Ware Player under Debian Lenny AMD64 on laptop

2009-07-24 Thread James Brown
Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 10:48:22PM +0400, James Brown wrote: > >> Is it possible install on qemu Windows? It seems to me that only Linux, >> am I wrong? >> Does it maintain booting from raw disks and using USB? >> > > kvm and qe

Re: VM Ware Player under Debian Lenny AMD64 on laptop

2009-07-24 Thread James Brown
Victor Padro wrote: > On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 1:48 PM, James Brown wrote: > >> Lennart Sorensen wrote: >> >>> On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 09:47:07PM +0400, James Brown wrote: >>> >>> >>> Another option is qemu using kqemu. Not quite as fas

Re: VM Ware Player under Debian Lenny AMD64 on laptop

2009-07-24 Thread James Brown
Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 09:47:07PM +0400, James Brown wrote: > > > Another option is qemu using kqemu. Not quite as fast as kvm, but still > very good and the same feature set. kqemu is probably about the speed > of vmware. > Is it possible in

Re: VM Ware Player under Debian Lenny AMD64 on laptop

2009-07-24 Thread James Brown
Bjørn Mork wrote: > > You'll probably have to check the Intel or AMD web sites to find out if > your CPU is supposed to have such support. > > > Bjørn > > > I am afraid that my chipset don't maintain this function: $ dmesg | grep Chipset [6.694009] agpgart: Detected an Intel 945GM Chipset.

Re: VM Ware Player under Debian Lenny AMD64 on laptop

2009-07-24 Thread James Brown
Bjørn Mork wrote: > James Brown writes: > > >> When I tried install the kvm, the system tell me: "Your system does not >> have the CPU extensions required to use KVM. Not doing anything. failed!" >> > > from the kvm package description: > >

Re: Unexpected unset of domainname

2009-07-24 Thread James Brown
justin joseph wrote: > On 7/24/09, James Brown wrote: > > >> There is my hostname in my "/etc/hostname", it was not unset. >> I don't understand why my system doesn't determine my domain name from the >> hostname accordinly with the man of &qu

Re: VM Ware Player under Debian Lenny AMD64 on laptop

2009-07-24 Thread James Brown
Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 09:10:49PM +0400, James Brown wrote: > >> I intend to install on my laptop under Debian Lenny AMD 64 the VM Ware >> Player 2.5.2 from http://www.vmware.com/download/player/download.html >> (becouse there is no VMWar

Re: VM Ware Player under Debian Lenny AMD64 on laptop

2009-07-24 Thread James Brown
Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 09:10:49PM +0400, James Brown wrote: > >> I intend to install on my laptop under Debian Lenny AMD 64 the VM Ware >> Player 2.5.2 from http://www.vmware.com/download/player/download.html >> (becouse there is no VMWar

VM Ware Player under Debian Lenny AMD64 on laptop

2009-07-24 Thread James Brown
I intend to install on my laptop under Debian Lenny AMD 64 the VM Ware Player 2.5.2 from http://www.vmware.com/download/player/download.html (becouse there is no VMWare Player in the official repositories of the Debian). Which of the packege do I need - rpm or bundle? How do install it on Debian?

Unexpected unset of domainname

2009-07-24 Thread James Brown
The laptop - Acer TravelMate 3043WTMi, OS - Debian Lenny AMD 64. When installing Debian on my laptop, I had set domainname which unexpectedly was unseted some days ago. My router define my machine now as unknown. Before this unexpected unsetting of my laptop's domainame I only change my MAC-adre

Re: What is the matter with the "http://people.debian.org/~rafael/skype-amd64/"?

2009-07-24 Thread James Brown
Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 01:55:57PM +0400, James Brown wrote: > > The fact skype is p2p is part of why I hate it. It is a complete > nightmare to try and deal with on company networks. Trying to allow > skype (because some people insist on it being a

Re: I want all my 4GB!!!

2009-07-23 Thread James Brown
Stefan Monnier wrote: >> I don't have time to check your machine's specs, but many chipsets of >> a few years ago only recognized a maximum of 3GB (even though they >> correctly work with 4GB installed). My Thinkpad T60 is among them. >> In this case, there's nothing you can do about it, short of

Re: What is the matter with the "http://people.debian.org/~rafael/skype-amd64/"?

2009-07-22 Thread James Brown
Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 01:55:57PM +0400, James Brown wrote: > >> Becouse it I think it needs to build new system of internet telephony >> like skype but running under open sourse programs and protocols. >> I think it need that new open-source b

Re: I want all my 4GB!!!

2009-07-22 Thread James Brown
Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 10:30:09PM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: > >> This is probably irrelevant but it may help someone searching the >> archives. I bought a Thinkpad X61 with 4GB a while back. At first it >> would recognise more than 3gb on either windows or squeeze.

Re: What is the matter with the "http://people.debian.org/~rafael/skype-amd64/"?

2009-07-22 Thread James Brown
Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 11:59:34AM +0400, James Brown wrote: > >> I know about ekiga and such but they do not serve for all my aims. >> I (and many people in my country - Russia, when existing terrible and >> bloody dictatorship of tyrants Puti

Re: I want all my 4GB!!!

2009-07-22 Thread James Brown
Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 12:08:58AM +0400, James Brown wrote: > >> I have a laptop Acer TravelMate 3043WTMi under Lenny AMD64 with 4GD RAM. >> But the system "see" only 3GB: >> dmesg |grep Memory >> [0.004000] Memory: 308118

Re: What is the matter with the "http://people.debian.org/~rafael/skype-amd64/"?

2009-07-21 Thread James Brown
Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 06:20:04PM +0400, James Brown wrote: > >> It will be very interesting if anybody skilled in programming will >> create an open sourse analogue programm like the skype. >> > > There are plenty, like ekiga and

Re: I want all my 4GB!!!

2009-07-20 Thread James Brown
Mark Allums wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: >> James Brown wrote: >>> Bob Proulx wrote: >>>> Hmm... I recommend installing memtest86+ and then seeing how much >>>> memory it detects at boot time. >>>> >>>> apt-get install memtest86+

Re: I want all my 4GB!!!

2009-07-20 Thread James Brown
Bob Proulx wrote: > James Brown wrote: > >> Bob Proulx wrote: >> >>> Hmm... I recommend installing memtest86+ and then seeing how much >>> memory it detects at boot time. >>> >>> apt-get install memtest86+ >>> >>&

Re: I want all my 4GB!!!

2009-07-20 Thread James Brown
data, 392k init) > > I've 4Gb without sharing memory (video). Make sure that you aren't > sharing memory for video. > > bye > > Andrés > > Quoting James Brown > gmail.com>: > > > Andrés Reyes Douglas wrote: > >> > >> Please

Re: I want all my 4GB!!!

2009-07-20 Thread James Brown
Bob Proulx wrote: > James Brown wrote: > >> I have a laptop Acer TravelMate 3043WTMi under Lenny AMD64 with 4GD RAM. >> But the system "see" only 3GB: >> dmesg |grep Memory >> [0.004000] Memory: 3081184k/3136000k available (2225k kernel code, &

Re: I want all my 4GB!!!

2009-07-20 Thread James Brown
Victor Padro wrote: > On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Victor Padro wrote: > >> On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 3:41 PM, James Brown wrote: >> >>> Victor Padro wrote: >>> >>>> On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 3:08 PM, James Brown wrote: >>

Re: I want all my 4GB!!!

2009-07-20 Thread James Brown
Victor Padro wrote: > On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 3:08 PM, James Brown wrote: > >> I have a laptop Acer TravelMate 3043WTMi under Lenny AMD64 with 4GD RAM. >> But the system "see" only 3GB: >> dmesg |grep Memory >> [0.004000] Memory: 3081184k/3136000k

Re: I want all my 4GB!!!

2009-07-20 Thread James Brown
Andrés Reyes Douglas wrote: > > Please send your: > > uname -ra > > Quoting James Brown : > > > I have a laptop Acer TravelMate 3043WTMi under Lenny AMD64 with 4GD RAM. > > But the system "see" only 3GB: > > dmesg |grep Memory > > [0.00

I want all my 4GB!!!

2009-07-20 Thread James Brown
I have a laptop Acer TravelMate 3043WTMi under Lenny AMD64 with 4GD RAM. But the system "see" only 3GB: dmesg |grep Memory [0.004000] Memory: 3081184k/3136000k available (2225k kernel code, 54428k reserved, 1080k data, 392k init) $ cat /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 3088108 kB How can I get all

Re: What is the matter with the "http://people.debian.org/~rafael/skype-amd64/"?

2009-07-17 Thread James Brown
Joerg Jaspert wrote: >> http://people.debian.org/~anibal/skype/http://people.debian.org/~anibal/skype-amd64/ >> >>> Do you know will anybody intend to maintain the skype packages for >>> Debian? >>> >> I'll see if I can build those packages using sid. >> > > Please *stop* distribut

Re: What is the matter with the "http://people.debian.org/~rafael/skype-amd64/"?

2009-07-15 Thread James Brown
Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote: > On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 07:53:43AM +0400, James Brown wrote: > >> Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 07:22:16AM +0400, James Brown wrote: >>> >>> >>>> The "ht

Re: What is the matter with the "http://people.debian.org/~rafael/skype-amd64/"?

2009-07-15 Thread James Brown
Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote: > On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 07:53:43AM +0400, James Brown wrote: > >> Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 07:22:16AM +0400, James Brown wrote: >>> >>> >>>> The "ht

Re: What is the matter with the "http://people.debian.org/~rafael/skype-amd64/"?

2009-07-15 Thread James Brown
Michael Neuffer wrote: > Wolodja Wentland wrote: > >> On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 07:53 +0400, James Brown wrote: >> >>> Do you know will anybody intend to maintain the skype packages for Debian? >>> >> I am not aware of any DD maintainin

Re: What is the matter with the "http://people.debian.org/~rafael/skype-amd64/"?

2009-07-14 Thread James Brown
Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote: > On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 07:22:16AM +0400, James Brown wrote: > >> The "http://people.debian.org/~rafael/skype-amd64/"; is not found too. >> Do anybody know what is the matter with this resource? >> > > His home dire

What is the matter with the "http://people.debian.org/~rafael/skype-amd64/"?

2009-07-14 Thread James Brown
Hi everybody, I had installed the skype package from the "http://people.debian.org/~rafael/skype-amd64/"; and add the next in my source.list: deb http://people.debian.org/~rafael/skype-amd64 ./ deb-src http://people.debian.org/~rafael/skype-amd64 ./ Since yesterday I had the next error when orderi

Using Trendnet TVP-SP1B and TBW-104UB on a laptop under Lenny AMD64

2009-07-08 Thread James Brown
Hi to all, I have a laptop Acer TraveMate 3043WTMi Core2 Duo CPU 1.66 GGz RAM 4 Gbt under Lenny AMD64 with GNOME. I want to use the skype installed on my laptop with CleatSky Bluetooth Phone Trendnet TVP-SP1B. An applet Bluetooth 0.27 for GNOME detect the bluetoth modul Trendnet TBW-104UB and throu

Re: Ответ: Acer TravelMate 3043WTMi

2009-04-22 Thread James Brown
my web-cam now work very nicely! But you can need in other version of such packet. (apt-cache search gspca). 2009/4/19, Kurian Thayil : Hi James, Does it have a webcam? If yes, did u get it running. Regards, Kurian Thyail. On Sun, 2009-04-19 at 18:47 +0400, James Brown wrote: Hel

Re: Acer TravelMate 3043WTMi

2009-04-19 Thread James Brown
Florian Reitmeir wrote: > On Sun, 19 Apr 2009, James Brown wrote: > >> I have sucsessful installed the Lenny AMD64 on my Acer notebook >> TravelMate 3043WTMi CPU Core 2 Duo 1,6 GHz 4,0 GB RAM. >> It work nice > > how did you solve your boot problem? > Maybe

Re: Acer TravelMate 3043WTMi

2009-04-19 Thread James Brown
Florian Reitmeir wrote: > On Sun, 19 Apr 2009, James Brown wrote: > >> I have sucsessful installed the Lenny AMD64 on my Acer notebook >> TravelMate 3043WTMi CPU Core 2 Duo 1,6 GHz 4,0 GB RAM. >> It work nice > > how did you solve your boot problem? > I don&#x

Re: Acer TravelMate 3043WTMi

2009-04-19 Thread James Brown
Kurian Thayil wrote: > Hi James, > > Does it have a webcam? If yes, did u get it running. > > Regards, > > Kurian Thyail. > > On Sun, 2009-04-19 at 18:47 +0400, James Brown wrote: > >> Hello, >> I have sucsessful installed the Lenny AMD64 on my Acer

Acer TravelMate 3043WTMi

2009-04-19 Thread James Brown
Hello, I have sucsessful installed the Lenny AMD64 on my Acer notebook TravelMate 3043WTMi CPU Core 2 Duo 1,6 GHz 4,0 GB RAM. It work nice -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Problems with Lenny AMD64 on Acer TravelMate 3043

2009-04-18 Thread James Brown
Florian Reitmeir wrote: > On Sat, 18 Apr 2009, James Brown wrote: > >> I have an Acer notebook TravelMate 3043WTMi CPU Core 2 Duo 1,6 GHz 4,0 >> GB RAM >> I have installed the Lenny AMD64 on it in addition to earlier installed >> Windows XP. >> When I try to boo

Problems with Lenny AMD64 on Acer TravelMate 3043

2009-04-18 Thread James Brown
I have an Acer notebook TravelMate 3043WTMi CPU Core 2 Duo 1,6 GHz 4,0 GB RAM I have installed the Lenny AMD64 on it in addition to earlier installed Windows XP. When I try to boot Lenny AMD64 I cannot do it becouse the grub tell me the follows: [ 16.1313901] tg3 Flow control is off for TX and off

Acer TravelMate 3040

2009-03-12 Thread James Brown
Hello, I intend to transfer my working notebook Acer TravelMate 3040 from Windows to Debian 5.0. Can anyone told me is it possible? Do you know this notebook workes with Deb ot not? And if it work does it work stable? Very thanks, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.or

Re: Установка сканнер а

2009-03-01 Thread James Brown
Запускаю scanimage из-под рута (не из-под рута почему то не работает, в т.ч. с использованием sudo), работает, однако записывает какую то полную хрень в терминале Как сделать, чтобы писало в файл? Иван Лох пишет: > On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 11:03:27AM +0400, Джеймс Браун wrote: > >> Автоматически

Fujitsu Siemens Lifebook C 2234

2009-02-28 Thread James Brown
Hi, I have tried Debian 5.0 lenny on the above notebook and it's work! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: ipw2200 [Wifi Driver] compile problems

2006-03-12 Thread James Brown
James Brown wrote: chris jackson wrote: [...] Hi Chris, Yes, that's helpful thank you. I guess I need to compile the latest kernel for Etch and check the options for ipw2200 during make menuconfig. Also, do you know if there any options I should be checking to get WPA and WEP suppo

Re: ipw2200 [Wifi Driver] compile problems

2006-03-12 Thread James Brown
chris jackson wrote: I installed etch about a week and a half ago, and it picked up the ipw2200 as part of the regular installation routine. All I had to do was download the firmware (as you'll find it on the sourceforge page for the ipw2200 driver), put it into the hotplug directory (/usr/li

ipw2200 [Wifi Driver] compile problems

2006-03-11 Thread James Brown
All, I'm fairly new to Debian and have Etch installed on a Samsung M40 with a custom kernel: # uname -a # Linux cloudburst 2.6.8 #1 Sun Oct 2 00:46:23 BST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux I'd like to install the ipw2200 Wifi drivers, but am struggling. Here's what I'm doing: 1. apt-get update 2. m-a a-i

Re: Quick Newbie Question: Archictecture Type for Centrino?

2005-09-25 Thread James Brown
Dave Patterson wrote: * Arjen Verweij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-09-24 08:09:06 +0200]: And use libc6-i686 on machines that support it. Thanks, missed that one... I'm not entirely sure what you mean by this. Here's what I have at the moment: # apt-show-versions | grep libc6 libc6-dev/

Re: Quick Newbie Question: Archictecture Type for Centrino?

2005-09-25 Thread James Brown
Dave Patterson wrote: You won't do damage to the machine by running the stock kernel, but it's kind of like running on a slow track with Talledega-style restrictor plates in the manifold - you won't see the best performance for the environment. LOL! I appreciate the advice. I'm just compilin

Quick Newbie Question: Archictecture Type for Centrino?

2005-09-23 Thread James Brown
Folks, I have a very simple newbie question, which I couldn't seem to find an answer to after googling. Which architecture type should one choose for installing a 2.6.x kernel with a Centrino laptop? My exact processor type is "Intel Pentium M Processor (Banias & Dothan)" on a Samsung M40.

Re: Opinions of Sony Vaio VGN-A417S for Debian

2005-09-05 Thread James Brown
Iain Georgeson wrote: It's not. I've got Debian on my A417M, but it took a considerable amount of surgery, and I'm still missing support for some fairly handy bits like suspend and soft keys. Could you shed some light on what was difficult please? Which version of Debian did you use? I hav

Re: Opinions of Sony Vaio VGN-A417S for Debian

2005-09-04 Thread James Brown
Luca Pireddu wrote: I'll dispute the claim that "Sony make the least Linux-friendly laptops." I own a Sony vaio s360 and it works great. In fact, almost everything worked right out of the box. However, it doesn't meet your 17" screen criterion. Luca Luca, Thanks for the reply. I pr

Opinions of Sony Vaio VGN-A417S for Debian

2005-09-03 Thread James Brown
All, I 'm fairly new to Linux (used Sarge for ~6months) and the time has come for me to buy a laptop. I will be living in continental Europe (Frankfurt, Milan, Paris) for 2 years (on business) so I need a decent spec since it will be my only machine at home. My requirements are: * Can run De