Josef Bailey wrote:
> Hello Joey / Debian laptop list
>
> Joey saw a reply you did to a person named Carl.. It was about Touchscreen
> Ultrabooks running Debian
>
> I see that you gave him a link for https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn
>
> I looked at the link and it was some good info .
Carl Fink writes:
> I also found this page:
> http://www.debian.org/misc/laptops/
>
> All it does is recommend this mailing list and a couple of old sites that
> don't mention touchscreens.
That page should have this link added to it, which is getting detailed
information about Debian on at least
Tim Folger wrote:
> Thanks very much for your advice, Joey. At this point I've altered the
> configuration files so much that I might have to reinstall debian to
> straighten things out
Hardly, you just need to dpkg --force-depends --purge pcmcia-cs and then
reinstall it with apt.
> , so I thin
Tim Folger wrote:
> Thanks very much for your advice, Joey. At this point I've altered the
> configuration files so much that I might have to reinstall debian to
> straighten things out
Hardly, you just need to dpkg --force-depends --purge pcmcia-cs and then
reinstall it with apt.
> , so I thin
Tim Folger wrote:
> I'm a linux newbie, and have just installed debian woody with the 2.4.18
> kernel on a fujitsu laptop. I've installed wireless tools and pcmcia
> support. I have an orinoco gold card that I'm trying to configure, and
> think I"m almost there. I've entered my network essid, e
Tim Folger wrote:
> I'm a linux newbie, and have just installed debian woody with the 2.4.18
> kernel on a fujitsu laptop. I've installed wireless tools and pcmcia
> support. I have an orinoco gold card that I'm trying to configure, and
> think I"m almost there. I've entered my network essid, e
Description: puts a laptop to sleep during inactivity
apm-sleep is a daemon to force laptops to enter apm sleep after some
period of inactivity. This is useful if your laptop does not automatically
go to sleep when you aren't using it, and, like me, you often forget to
shut it off.
I might upl
Description: puts a laptop to sleep during inactivity
apm-sleep is a daemon to force laptops to enter apm sleep after some
period of inactivity. This is useful if your laptop does not automatically
go to sleep when you aren't using it, and, like me, you often forget to
shut it off.
I might up
I have just uploaded to incoming the noflushd daemon.
Description: allow your laptop's hard disk to spin down
Noflushd is a daemon that spins down disks that have not been read from
after a certain amount of time, and then prevents disk writes from
spinning them back up. The effect is that the
I have just uploaded to incoming the noflushd daemon.
Description: allow your laptop's hard disk to spin down
Noflushd is a daemon that spins down disks that have not been read from
after a certain amount of time, and then prevents disk writes from
spinning them back up. The effect is that th
Ian Redfern wrote:
> I raised this as bug 42258, and Herbert Xu fixed it in his upload a week ago.
> It
> was a Debian request ages ago that got APM to be boot-time configurable even
> if
> compiled in, although on unpatched kernels it still defaults to on rather than
> off.
>
> Some documentati
Ian Redfern wrote:
> I raised this as bug 42258, and Herbert Xu fixed it in his upload a week ago.
> It
> was a Debian request ages ago that got APM to be boot-time configurable even
> if
> compiled in, although on unpatched kernels it still defaults to on rather than
> off.
>
> Some documentati
I just installed kernel 2.2.12 on my laptop, and was having some trouble
getting apm working. it said "apm disabled on user request" at boot time.
Well, some grepping the kernel sources found that passing "apm=on" to the
kernel at boot time enables it now. I can't find any record or docs of this
ch
I just installed kernel 2.2.12 on my laptop, and was having some trouble
getting apm working. it said "apm disabled on user request" at boot time.
Well, some grepping the kernel sources found that passing "apm=on" to the
kernel at boot time enables it now. I can't find any record or docs of this
ch
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