> The second is when I bought it, it had windows 95 on it with no
> documention. My development efforts involve OpenGL (really MESA)
> and I need some rudimentry X support. Does anyone know which
> chipset this laptop uses and more importantly which X-server to use?
Try VGA16.
We used it on an o
> The second is when I bought it, it had windows 95 on it with no
> documention. My development efforts involve OpenGL (really MESA)
> and I need some rudimentry X support. Does anyone know which
> chipset this laptop uses and more importantly which X-server to use?
Try VGA16.
We used it on an
> I sort of assumed on a laptop list that you would expect it to be an lcd.
Oops... missed hat one. Too many debian newsgroups in one folder :-/
> and yes, I think suddenly, as in I noticed it once it was there.
OK.
> Until I bring up the X-window manager - i.e. at the just booted stage, the
>
> I sort of assumed on a laptop list that you would expect it to be an lcd.
Oops... missed hat one. Too many debian newsgroups in one folder :-/
> and yes, I think suddenly, as in I noticed it once it was there.
OK.
> Until I bring up the X-window manager - i.e. at the just booted stage, the
>
> A vertical damage line (single column of pixels showing red on black
> background) has appeared on my screen exactly at the centre which is
> luckily between the 2 windows I normally use.
Hm... What do you mean with ``black background''? If it is one
column...
> Is it possible I have done this
> A vertical damage line (single column of pixels showing red on black
> background) has appeared on my screen exactly at the centre which is
> luckily between the 2 windows I normally use.
Hm... What do you mean with ``black background''? If it is one
column...
> Is it possible I have done thi
> This should be an easy one to answer. When I print ascii files, I often
> get word-overflow. In other words, a word at the end of a line gets
> split between that line and the next like this:
>
> Printing ASCII should be rela
> tively easy, but for newbies
> it is not.
>
>
> I have read the p
> This should be an easy one to answer. When I print ascii files, I often
> get word-overflow. In other words, a word at the end of a line gets
> split between that line and the next like this:
>
> Printing ASCII should be rela
> tively easy, but for newbies
> it is not.
>
>
> I have read the
> I've got my first notebook a Dell Inspiron 5000. For all I've read,
> I thought this one would work with Linux. But:
> First thing, Linux complains about the harddisk which was preinstalled
> with WIN98 (sorry for the words...). It has 12GB. After killing all
> partitions under DOS, formatting a
> >> - The cardmgr complains the pcmcia modules are not for this kernel,
> >> and I have to compile/install pcmcia modules manually.
>
> Kero> I had the same. Documented feature, as far as I recollect.
>
> Well, it is documented that you have to recompile them, but I
> couldn't recompile with ma
> Hi, does anybody compiles his own kernel with
> flavor around here? When I did this, I had
> the following problems:
>
> - The modules go to /lib/modules/`uname -r`-flavor
> but the module loader searches on /lib/modules/`uname -r`
Worked fine with me, kernel 2.2.14
You'd not happen to use an
> I trying to find a way to shut down my laptop
> *really* quick (1 - 2 seconds) from the console.
>
> I can't wait until all processes have died. What I
> want to do is "sync" - "close all open filehandles"
> "umount" "poweroff"
>
> the problem is that unmount often says that
> some filesystems
> Hi,
>
> I installed debian's base and X on my notebook. but failed to follow
> the advice not to start X at boot time.
>
> Now, X got started, but then frozes.
Log in from a remote server, issue `chvt 1` as root.
You should (with some luck) be back at the console now, with a frozen
X still liv
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