Intel 855GM with 1400x1050 works

2004-06-04 Thread Martin Röhricht
Hello together, good news for all of you who work with a Laptop that uses the graphics chip mentioned above and were not able to switch to a resolution of 1400x1050, for example on an Acer Travelmate 661LMi. Alain Poirier developed a C program that is able to change the provided BIOS resoluti

Intel 855GM with 1400x1050 works

2004-06-04 Thread Martin Röhricht
Hello together, good news for all of you who work with a Laptop that uses the graphics chip mentioned above and were not able to switch to a resolution of 1400x1050, for example on an Acer Travelmate 661LMi. Alain Poirier developed a C program that is able to change the provided BIOS resolution

Re: Debian an Acer Travelmate 291lmi

2004-05-04 Thread Martin Röhricht
On 04.05.2004 04:18 Jan Koch wrote: Hello, last week i bought this notebook (from Mediamarkt) and wanted experience linux the first time. Because i want to understand linux i wanted to choose debian. But i have a critical problem. I can't start the installation. :( The cd and even dvd (Book: D

Re: Debian an Acer Travelmate 291lmi

2004-05-04 Thread Martin Röhricht
On 04.05.2004 04:18 Jan Koch wrote: Hello, last week i bought this notebook (from Mediamarkt) and wanted experience linux the first time. Because i want to understand linux i wanted to choose debian. But i have a critical problem. I can't start the installation. :( The cd and even dvd (Book: Deb

Re: linux on an Acer TravelMate 800

2004-04-11 Thread Martin Röhricht
On 05.04.2004 13:09 Luis Mendes wrote: Hi all, I am about to buy a new laptop and after searching a couple of different brands I came across the Acer TravelMate 800 series which has most of the features I am looking for. Has anyone on this list got any experience with this laptop? I am planing t

Re: linux on an Acer TravelMate 800

2004-04-11 Thread Martin Röhricht
On 05.04.2004 13:09 Luis Mendes wrote: Hi all, I am about to buy a new laptop and after searching a couple of different brands I came across the Acer TravelMate 800 series which has most of the features I am looking for. Has anyone on this list got any experience with this laptop? I am planing to

Re: Compaq NX 9005

2004-02-27 Thread Martin Röhricht
On 27.02.2004 07:26 Fabio Silva wrote: Hi... i want to install debian on my compaq nx 9005, anyone have a how to??? If you do not feel comfortable installing Debian, you should try to use one of the Live-CDs, like Knoppix, Gnoppix or Morphix, and install from them onto harddrive. Knoppix is a

Re: Compaq NX 9005

2004-02-27 Thread Martin Röhricht
On 27.02.2004 07:26 Fabio Silva wrote: Hi... i want to install debian on my compaq nx 9005, anyone have a how to??? If you do not feel comfortable installing Debian, you should try to use one of the Live-CDs, like Knoppix, Gnoppix or Morphix, and install from them onto harddrive. Knoppix is a mix

Re: buy new laptop

2004-02-15 Thread Martin Röhricht
On 15.02.2004 05:51 Johannes Zarl wrote: On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 06:53:13PM -0500, Martin R?hricht wrote: Sorry for the late response.. Here everything works fine with acme and the hotkeys for the sound on a Acer Travelmate 803LmiB. I don't know what I configured some months ago, but those thr

Re: buy new laptop

2004-02-15 Thread Martin Röhricht
On 15.02.2004 05:51 Johannes Zarl wrote: On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 06:53:13PM -0500, Martin R?hricht wrote: Sorry for the late response.. Here everything works fine with acme and the hotkeys for the sound on a Acer Travelmate 803LmiB. I don't know what I configured some months ago, but those three

Re: ACPI problem

2004-02-13 Thread Martin Röhricht
On 13.02.2004 22:35 Martin Röhricht wrote: I got some problems on my Notebook since I did an "apt-get upgrade" on my Debian sid. Either acpi or acpid was involved in my last upgrade and when I was asked which configuration I would like to use, I chose the manufacture's one (may

ACPI problem

2004-02-13 Thread Martin Röhricht
Hello together, I got some problems on my Notebook since I did an "apt-get upgrade" on my Debian sid. Either acpi or acpid was involved in my last upgrade and when I was asked which configuration I would like to use, I chose the manufacture's one (maybe that was the mistake). Anyway, after thi

Re: ACPI problem

2004-02-13 Thread Martin Röhricht
On 13.02.2004 22:35 Martin Röhricht wrote: I got some problems on my Notebook since I did an "apt-get upgrade" on my Debian sid. Either acpi or acpid was involved in my last upgrade and when I was asked which configuration I would like to use, I chose the manufacture's one (may

ACPI problem

2004-02-13 Thread Martin Röhricht
Hello together, I got some problems on my Notebook since I did an "apt-get upgrade" on my Debian sid. Either acpi or acpid was involved in my last upgrade and when I was asked which configuration I would like to use, I chose the manufacture's one (maybe that was the mistake). Anyway, after this

Re: buy new laptop

2004-02-06 Thread Martin Röhricht
On 06.02.2004 09:41 Johannes Zarl wrote: On Thursday 05 February 2004 23:27, Micha Feigin wrote: Try acme for the multimedia buttons. It got the buttons on my sony vaio to work when everything else failed (you will need to configure it to do what you want with them though if it works). This unf

Re: buy new laptop

2004-02-06 Thread Martin Röhricht
On 06.02.2004 09:41 Johannes Zarl wrote: On Thursday 05 February 2004 23:27, Micha Feigin wrote: Try acme for the multimedia buttons. It got the buttons on my sony vaio to work when everything else failed (you will need to configure it to do what you want with them though if it works). This unfort

Re: buy new laptop

2004-02-05 Thread Martin Röhricht
On 05.02.2004 04:09 Fusco Francesco wrote: On Wed, 04 Feb 2004 13:10:05 +0100, Johannes Zarl wrote: > Could you tell me what is the best laptop to buy for working linux? > What's about the Acer TM803? It is well-supported? I have one myself and almost everything works. The things I didn't get

Re: buy new laptop

2004-02-05 Thread Martin Röhricht
On 05.02.2004 04:09 Fusco Francesco wrote: On Wed, 04 Feb 2004 13:10:05 +0100, Johannes Zarl wrote: > Could you tell me what is the best laptop to buy for working linux? > What's about the Acer TM803? It is well-supported? I have one myself and almost everything works. The things I didn't get to w

Re: Just some questions

2004-01-24 Thread Martin Röhricht
On 23.01.2004 04:41 Arjen Verweij wrote: Gnoppix? Have you tried Morphix as well? I didn't know about Morphix. Sounds good. Morphix is based on Debian unstable, whereas Gnoppix is based on Debian stable with a lot of backports. So maybe you should decide on those two ones from which starting

Re: Just some questions

2004-01-24 Thread Martin Röhricht
On 23.01.2004 04:41 Arjen Verweij wrote: Gnoppix? Have you tried Morphix as well? I didn't know about Morphix. Sounds good. Morphix is based on Debian unstable, whereas Gnoppix is based on Debian stable with a lot of backports. So maybe you should decide on those two ones from which starting poi

Re: Just some questions

2004-01-22 Thread Martin Röhricht
On 22.01.2004 18:11 Hermann Moser wrote: On Wednesday, 21. January 2004 23:48, M. Mueller wrote: Try Knoppix first - runs off CD. Then google on how to load Knoppix to your hard disk. On my new laptop, Asus M6800N, Knoppix V 3.3 always freezes if I'm working with the ac-adaptor, without mostl

Re: Just some questions

2004-01-22 Thread Martin Röhricht
On 22.01.2004 18:11 Hermann Moser wrote: On Wednesday, 21. January 2004 23:48, M. Mueller wrote: Try Knoppix first - runs off CD. Then google on how to load Knoppix to your hard disk. On my new laptop, Asus M6800N, Knoppix V 3.3 always freezes if I'm working with the ac-adaptor, without mostly not

Re: Acer TM 803 and fan noise

2004-01-12 Thread Martin Röhricht
On 04.01.2004 05:46 Martin Röhricht wrote: this summer I bought an Acer Travelmate 803 LMiB with a 1,6GHz Pentium M processor. Unfortunately the fan runs every few minutes for about 30 seconds with full speed which is a very noisy and annoying act. I can only help myself by pushing the

Re: Acer TM 803 and fan noise

2004-01-12 Thread Martin Röhricht
On 04.01.2004 05:46 Martin Röhricht wrote: this summer I bought an Acer Travelmate 803 LMiB with a 1,6GHz Pentium M processor. Unfortunately the fan runs every few minutes for about 30 seconds with full speed which is a very noisy and annoying act. I can only help myself by pushing the

Acer TM 803 and fan noise

2004-01-04 Thread Martin Röhricht
Hello together, this summer I bought an Acer Travelmate 803 LMiB with a 1,6GHz Pentium M processor. Unfortunately the fan runs every few minutes for about 30 seconds with full speed which is a very noisy and annoying act. I can only help myself by pushing the processor speed down to 600MHz wit

Acer TM 803 and fan noise

2004-01-04 Thread Martin Röhricht
Hello together, this summer I bought an Acer Travelmate 803 LMiB with a 1,6GHz Pentium M processor. Unfortunately the fan runs every few minutes for about 30 seconds with full speed which is a very noisy and annoying act. I can only help myself by pushing the processor speed down to 600MHz with