Re: XFree86 4.1.0-14 Problems / Compaq M700

2002-04-16 Thread Olaf Stetzer
Am Dienstag, 16. April 2002 02:56 schrieb mike: > The installation of XFree86 4.1.0-14 just wont configure properly. Error > messages saying "it cant detect the mouse" after running XFree86 > -configure. Even after editing the config file to "PS/2" and /dev/psaux , > which were the settings for

Re: XFree86 4.1.0-14 Problems / Compaq M700

2002-04-16 Thread Olaf Stetzer
Am Dienstag, 16. April 2002 02:56 schrieb mike: > The installation of XFree86 4.1.0-14 just wont configure properly. Error > messages saying "it cant detect the mouse" after running XFree86 > -configure. Even after editing the config file to "PS/2" and /dev/psaux , > which were the settings for

Re: XFree: LCD and CRT simultaneously

2002-02-25 Thread Olaf Stetzer
wo Screen/Monitor configs i made ignoring the other one... But I am glad to be able to switch CRT/LCD with Fn-F6. I couldn't find any documentation or HOWTO on this issue (XFree +LCD+CRT on Notebooks)!!! Is there any? Olaf -- Dr. Olaf Stetzer Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe Institut für Mete

Re: XFree: LCD and CRT simultaneously

2002-02-25 Thread Olaf Stetzer
wo Screen/Monitor configs i made ignoring the other one... But I am glad to be able to switch CRT/LCD with Fn-F6. I couldn't find any documentation or HOWTO on this issue (XFree +LCD+CRT on Notebooks)!!! Is there any? Olaf -- Dr. Olaf Stetzer Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe Institut für Mete

XFree: LCD and CRT simultaneously

2002-02-21 Thread Olaf Stetzer
Hello list, I just received a port replicator for my Notebook, so I can use a normal mouse/keyboard and monitor in my Office. It all works fine (having both displays at the same time) but the timing (videomode) for the external CRT seems to be bad. Now I am not sure how to configure XFree to have

XFree: LCD and CRT simultaneously

2002-02-21 Thread Olaf Stetzer
Hello list, I just received a port replicator for my Notebook, so I can use a normal mouse/keyboard and monitor in my Office. It all works fine (having both displays at the same time) but the timing (videomode) for the external CRT seems to be bad. Now I am not sure how to configure XFree to hav

XFree still unstable on ATI Rage LT Pro

2002-02-10 Thread Olaf Stetzer
Hello list, I believe this is a known problem but I wonder if there is a workaraound for this: Sometimes when the screen goes to "sleep" due to powersaving or if I switch to console (less often) the display/keyboard is sometimes blocked leaving me with an unuseable computer (remote login to kill

XFree still unstable on ATI Rage LT Pro

2002-02-10 Thread Olaf Stetzer
Hello list, I believe this is a known problem but I wonder if there is a workaraound for this: Sometimes when the screen goes to "sleep" due to powersaving or if I switch to console (less often) the display/keyboard is sometimes blocked leaving me with an unuseable computer (remote login to kil

Re: Unable to boot from hdd with recent lilo/mbr packages!!!

2001-05-30 Thread Olaf Stetzer
Am Mittwoch, 30. Mai 2001 14:09 schrieb Santiago Garcia Mantinan: > > No, it did not! :-( I now tried to install debina-mbr on /dev/hda and > > lilo on /dev/hda2, nothing! The output of dd is added to this mail > > again. > > Umm this is weird, and you forgot to attach the output of dd this ti

Re: Unable to boot from hdd with recent lilo/mbr packages!!!

2001-05-30 Thread Olaf Stetzer
Am Mittwoch, 30. Mai 2001 12:35 schrieb Russell Coker: > On Wednesday 30 May 2001 11:45, Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote: > > > Well, the lilo.conf i sent was just the last configuration I tried, > > > before that I also tried boot=/dev/hda! > > > > Well, you now have a LILO mbr at /dev/hda, so debi

Re: Unable to boot from hdd with recent lilo/mbr packages!!!

2001-05-30 Thread Olaf Stetzer
Am Mittwoch, 30. Mai 2001 14:09 schrieb Santiago Garcia Mantinan: > > No, it did not! :-( I now tried to install debina-mbr on /dev/hda and > > lilo on /dev/hda2, nothing! The output of dd is added to this mail > > again. > > Umm this is weird, and you forgot to attach the output of dd this t

Re: Unable to boot from hdd with recent lilo/mbr packages!!!

2001-05-30 Thread Olaf Stetzer
Am Mittwoch, 30. Mai 2001 12:35 schrieb Russell Coker: > On Wednesday 30 May 2001 11:45, Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote: > > > Well, the lilo.conf i sent was just the last configuration I tried, > > > before that I also tried boot=/dev/hda! > > > > Well, you now have a LILO mbr at /dev/hda, so deb

Re: Unable to boot from hdd with recent lilo/mbr packages!!!

2001-05-30 Thread Olaf Stetzer
Am Mittwoch, 30. Mai 2001 10:21 schrieb Santiago Garcia Mantinan: > > I have CC'd this message to the MBR maintainer in case they are not > > subscribed to this list. > > Yes, I'm not on debian-laptop even thouh I have one. > > > OK. However I notice that you are putting the boot sector on /dev/hd

Re: Unable to boot from hdd with recent lilo/mbr packages!!!

2001-05-30 Thread Olaf Stetzer
Am Mittwoch, 30. Mai 2001 10:21 schrieb Santiago Garcia Mantinan: > > I have CC'd this message to the MBR maintainer in case they are not > > subscribed to this list. > > Yes, I'm not on debian-laptop even thouh I have one. > > > OK. However I notice that you are putting the boot sector on /dev/h

Unable to boot from hdd with recent lilo/mbr packages!!!

2001-05-28 Thread Olaf Stetzer
Hello *, Since 5 weeks after updating some packages from unstable (including lilo and mbr) I am no longer able to boot my laptop from hdd!! :-( After some investigations I found that lilo may be incompatible with SystemSonft Bioses and so I tried to use boot-compat.b instead of boot.b . I tried a

Unable to boot from hdd with recent lilo/mbr packages!!!

2001-05-28 Thread Olaf Stetzer
Hello *, Since 5 weeks after updating some packages from unstable (including lilo and mbr) I am no longer able to boot my laptop from hdd!! :-( After some investigations I found that lilo may be incompatible with SystemSonft Bioses and so I tried to use boot-compat.b instead of boot.b . I tried

Notebook without video-memory running debian-linux?

2000-10-13 Thread Olaf Stetzer
choice is a Xeron Sonic pro 500SLX, anyone with experience running debian on this notebook? Thanks, Olaf -- -- -- Olaf Stetzer -- EC/JRC/Institute for Transuranium Elements -- -- PGP-key ID: 1937B13D(key on

Notebook without video-memory running debian-linux?

2000-10-13 Thread Olaf Stetzer
choice is a Xeron Sonic pro 500SLX, anyone with experience running debian on this notebook? Thanks, Olaf -- -- -- Olaf Stetzer -- EC/JRC/Institute for Transuranium Elements -- -- PGP-key ID: 1937B13D(key on