Re: very poor performance of DVD using vesa or fglrx-driver

2006-05-19 Thread John Miller
Is the DVD drive running in DMA mode? Almost certainly is, but worth a quick check of dmesg. --John B Thomas wrote: > Hi, > > On my Dell Insprion 9400 (1.83 Ghz dual core with 256Mb ATI Radeon > x1400) DVD playing is much slower (choppy infact) as compared to > my ancient 900 Mhz Athlong with RI

Re: Cant install Sarge on my new laptop

2006-04-25 Thread John Miller
Hi Zouari, I've run into a similar problem when installing in expert26 mode (I used the full-CD install, though). Have you tried ignoring the errors and seeing if they come up again? Try installing in spite of the errors. If that doesn't work, I see no reason why you should switch to the 2.4 se

Re: Install problem - Toshiba atellite 335CDT

2006-03-04 Thread John Miller
Hi Joe, The yenta_socket modules are for CardBus laptops, which I'm pretty sure yours predates (my 420 CDT is too old for CardBus). I'm not 100% fluent with the kernel boot options, but if there's a 'no pcmcia' option, you might give that a try. You might also try the expert24 or expert26 boot m

Re: No sound in xmms, on Dell Latitude D400, with Debian sarge r1.

2006-02-22 Thread John Miller
Hi Amarendra, Did you choose the 2.4 or 2.6 series kernel when installing Sarge?  With the 2.6 series kernel, ALSA comes along for the ride. Since you're using Totem, I'm guessing that you're using GNOME as well, right?  If not, what desktop system are you using (KDE or basic window manager)?

Re: Calling on Toshiba users

2005-11-04 Thread John Miller
Great! I'll give this a try with my Satellite 2435XCDT. My new Toshiba laptop is Phoenix BIOS-based, so no love yet with it yet. Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >[I am not on -laptop, so please CC me when replying from that list] > >Greetings, > >I maintain the Debian package for toshutils. I have p

Re: Instalation problem Debian, Fedora Windows

2005-10-14 Thread John Miller
It shouldn't matter that Fedora and Windows are already installed, so long as your Debian installation didn't overwrite either. You'll just have to add the Fedora entry to your /boot/grub/menu.lst file. You'll probably have to do this manually, with a text editor, but give the update-grub sc