Re: Inspiron 4100, APM, blinking lights

2006-01-31 Thread Tim Connors
On Wed, 1 Feb 2006, Michael Perry wrote: > I'm wondering if anyone running a Dell Inspiron 4100, debian kernel > sources 2.6.15, with apm compiled in has seen a periodic problem with APM > suspends where the numlock and screenlock lights just blink on and off > repeatedly and the resume does not w

Re: DRI and XV gone to the doghouse -- inspiron4000

2006-01-10 Thread Tim Connors
On Mon, 9 Jan 2006, Tim Connors wrote: > G'day all, > > I have an Dull Inspiron 4000, which always used to have working DRI and XV > under kernel 2.4 and XFree86 4.x. The video card is a Rage 128: Hrm.. Now seems to be working, possibly because I resorted to modprobing

DRI and XV gone to the doghouse -- inspiron4000

2006-01-09 Thread Tim Connors
G'day all, I have an Dull Inspiron 4000, which always used to have working DRI and XV under kernel 2.4 and XFree86 4.x. The video card is a Rage 128: > lspci -vvv ... :01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility M3 AGP 2x (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Subsys

Re: Dynamic MMap ran out of room!!!

2005-07-20 Thread Tim Connors
On Wed, 20 Jul 2005, Steve Lamb wrote: > Tim Connors wrote: > > Or what about > > automatically doubling each time it runs out of room, and starting again > > (along with an appropriate warning message as to how not to keep doing > > this)? > > Kinda defeats t

Re: Dynamic MMap ran out of room!!!

2005-07-20 Thread Tim Connors
On Wed, 20 Jul 2005, Adam Aube wrote: > Will Ness wrote: > > > I have an old laptop that I installed debian on. Everything works > > except apt!! Everytime I run apt, it does its thing but at the very > > end it says: > > > > Error! > > Dynamic MMap ran out of room > > > I did some googling an

Re: Debian on Slow laptops. What setup is best?

2005-06-22 Thread Tim Connors
On Wed, 22 Jun 2005, Benedek Frank wrote: > On Wednesday 22 June 2005 11:36, you wrote: > > All those other k* programs are just useless helper apps to kde. Blow kde > > away, and that'll free up a bit. > > I have realized that. Actually, having the machine rebootet, with KDM and KDE > taken out

Re: Debian on Slow laptops. What setup is best?

2005-06-22 Thread Tim Connors
On Wed, 22 Jun 2005, Benedek Frank wrote: > Hi. Can you check to see if I use something really that I shouldnt use at all? > > THanks, and the RES column is that shows the "m" after numbers. Maybe stands > for for MB? Yes it does. Also, if you don't already know, the first memory column is the t

Re: ATI M3 / Kernel 2.6.10

2005-05-12 Thread Tim Connors
On Thu, 12 May 2005, Lee Turner wrote: > I appear to have everything except > r128 and agpgart > > are these kernel modules? > > > > lsmod | grep -E '(agp|r128)' > > r128 80244 1 > > agpgart19208 3 > > Indeed. Probably unlikely that they are compiled statica

Re: ATI M3 / Kernel 2.6.10

2005-05-07 Thread Tim Connors
On Sat, 7 May 2005, Jordan Smith wrote: > I don't believe that the dri ati drivers support direct rendering. > DISPLAY=:0 glxinfo | grep Yes direct rendering: Yes > lspci | grep M3 :01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility M3 AGP 2x (rev 02) > uname -a Linux sc

Re: Laptop safe for flight in planes?

2005-02-22 Thread Tim Connors
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi, > > my former Laptop had no internal WLAN card so I was safe that it is no > source of any radio frequencies. Um? Actually, you know your 1.4GHz machine? It emits 1.4GHz, as well as every harmonic above - 2.8, 4.2, 5.6, Ghz. And if you are o

Re: laptop_mode doesn't seem to work: kjournald waking up disks frequently

2004-07-17 Thread Tim Connors
On Sat, 17 Jul 2004, Micha Feigin wrote: > On Sat, Jul 17, 2004 at 03:08:08AM +1000, Tim Connors wrote: > > On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, Bartek Kania wrote: > > A while ago, I looked at the code in one of the filesystems (either ext3 > > or jfs - the two fs's I use), and I wasn

Re: laptop_mode doesn't seem to work: kjournald waking up disks frequently

2004-07-17 Thread Tim Connors
On Sat, 17 Jul 2004, Micha Feigin wrote: > On Sat, Jul 17, 2004 at 03:08:08AM +1000, Tim Connors wrote: > > On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, Bartek Kania wrote: > > A while ago, I looked at the code in one of the filesystems (either ext3 > > or jfs - the two fs's I use), and I wasn

Re: laptop_mode doesn't seem to work: kjournald waking up disks frequently

2004-07-16 Thread Tim Connors
On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, Bartek Kania wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > I'm trying to use laptop_mode to get my disks to stay down to save > > energy in kernel 2.6.7. I used the script from kernel 2.6.7, put it in > > sbin. I also compiled the monitor in laptop_mode.txt to

Re: laptop_mode doesn't seem to work: kjournald waking up disks frequently

2004-07-16 Thread Tim Connors
On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, Bartek Kania wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > I'm trying to use laptop_mode to get my disks to stay down to save > > energy in kernel 2.6.7. I used the script from kernel 2.6.7, put it in > > sbin. I also compiled the monitor in laptop_mode.txt to

Re: List based subject line

2004-05-28 Thread Tim Connors
On Wed, 26 May 2004, Larry Colen wrote: > I use this account for all my linux related mailing lists. All of the > lists but this one have the list name at the start of the subject: > ie. > Subject: [debian-laptop] list based subject line > > I'd like to propose that this list do so as well. I can'

Re: List based subject line

2004-05-27 Thread Tim Connors
On Wed, 26 May 2004, Larry Colen wrote: > I use this account for all my linux related mailing lists. All of the > lists but this one have the list name at the start of the subject: > ie. > Subject: [debian-laptop] list based subject line > > I'd like to propose that this list do so as well. I can'

Re: Dual Display on a Laptop?

2004-03-26 Thread Tim Connors
On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, s. keeling wrote: > Incoming from Tim Connors: > > > > Does anyone have r128 mobility working (mine is in a Dell I4K). > > Sure. Works great here. Dell i4k, Woody/stable, XFree86 4.2.1.1 > (Debian 4.2.1-3.woody3). Dual display? What's your X-co

Re: Dual Display on a Laptop?

2004-03-26 Thread Tim Connors
On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, s. keeling wrote: > Incoming from Tim Connors: > > > > Does anyone have r128 mobility working (mine is in a Dell I4K). > > Sure. Works great here. Dell i4k, Woody/stable, XFree86 4.2.1.1 > (Debian 4.2.1-3.woody3). Dual display? What's your X-co

Re: Dual Display on a Laptop?

2004-03-26 Thread Tim Connors
On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Hubert Chan wrote: > > "Arief" == arief# <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Arief> Is it possible to use different X-Window client on a laptop > Arief> VGA-port? > > Maybe. It depends on whether your video chip supports it (some do, > some can only do mirroring). If your c

Re: Dual Display on a Laptop?

2004-03-26 Thread Tim Connors
On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Hubert Chan wrote: > > "Arief" == arief# <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Arief> Is it possible to use different X-Window client on a laptop > Arief> VGA-port? > > Maybe. It depends on whether your video chip supports it (some do, > some can only do mirroring). If your c

Re: noflushd: making/having drives spin down.

2004-01-05 Thread Tim Connors
On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, Mike Mestnik wrote: > I had not yet upgraded to test11. > > , s/hdtune/hdparm/g > > I think I am using journalling, as it's a laptop it's more likely to suddenly > loose power. What > dose this mean for noflushd? Are there any links or bug reports to track? No bugs - just j

Re: noflushd: making/having drives spin down.

2004-01-05 Thread Tim Connors
On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, Mike Mestnik wrote: > I had not yet upgraded to test11. > > , s/hdtune/hdparm/g > > I think I am using journalling, as it's a laptop it's more likely to suddenly loose > power. What > dose this mean for noflushd? Are there any links or bug reports to track? No bugs - just j

Re: noflushd: making/having drives spin down.

2004-01-05 Thread Tim Connors
On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Micha Feigin wrote: > On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 01:36:48PM -0800, Mike Mestnik wrote: > > I have a dell8900 and I can't seam to get the drive to spin down on > > 2.6.0-test9. The drive makes > > a noticeable whine that can be heard across the room. I'd like the noise > > to g

Re: noflushd: making/having drives spin down.

2004-01-05 Thread Tim Connors
On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Micha Feigin wrote: > On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 01:36:48PM -0800, Mike Mestnik wrote: > > I have a dell8900 and I can't seam to get the drive to spin down on 2.6.0-test9. > > The drive makes > > a noticeable whine that can be heard across the room. I'd like the noise to go >

Re: driver

2003-12-18 Thread Tim Connors
On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Trong Tram wrote: > I want driver for IR HP omnibook 4100 I want to be able to juggle properly. -- TimC -- http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/staff/tconnors/ E = MC ** 2 +- 3db

Re: driver

2003-12-17 Thread Tim Connors
On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Trong Tram wrote: > I want driver for IR HP omnibook 4100 I want to be able to juggle properly. -- TimC -- http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/staff/tconnors/ E = MC ** 2 +- 3db -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMA

Re: hi

2003-12-09 Thread Tim Connors
On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, clifford padgett wrote: > hi i have a epson actionnote 500c i lost my password to get in to it > how can i get in to my notebook now > clifford padgett Sorry, you have the wrong list. This is not the "how to break into stolen laptops" list. Oh, and we post in plain text, not

Re: hi

2003-12-09 Thread Tim Connors
On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, clifford padgett wrote: > hi i have a epson actionnote 500c i lost my password to get in to it > how can i get in to my notebook now > clifford padgett Sorry, you have the wrong list. This is not the "how to break into stolen laptops" list. Oh, and we post in plain text, not

Re: Debian Users...

2003-11-20 Thread Tim Connors
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Jan T. Kim wrote: > On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 09:35:23PM -0800, Larry Colen wrote: > > > I've been using fvwm for years. Now I'm running fvwm2. It has some > > features I really like and haven't seen easily in other desktops. Also > > the last time I tried another desktop it was

Re: Debian Users...

2003-11-20 Thread Tim Connors
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Jan T. Kim wrote: > On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 09:35:23PM -0800, Larry Colen wrote: > > > I've been using fvwm for years. Now I'm running fvwm2. It has some > > features I really like and haven't seen easily in other desktops. Also > > the last time I tried another desktop it was

Re: Debian Users...

2003-11-20 Thread Tim Connors
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Russell Coker wrote: > On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 21:40, Tim Connors <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Fvwm is cool. It takes a fair bit of configuration, but it's fast, > > > small and absolutely bomb-proof in my experience. And several of the &g

Re: Debian Users...

2003-11-20 Thread Tim Connors
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Russell Coker wrote: > On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 21:40, Tim Connors <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Fvwm is cool. It takes a fair bit of configuration, but it's fast, > > > small and absolutely bomb-proof in my experience. And several of the &g

Re: Debian Users...

2003-11-20 Thread Tim Connors
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 01:29:27PM +1100, Tim Connors wrote: > > > >Geez, no fvwm users yet? > >(Not that I usually answer these polls) > > > >Of course, I have a setup I have been happy with for 6 years, so it was >

Re: Debian Users...

2003-11-20 Thread Tim Connors
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 01:29:27PM +1100, Tim Connors wrote: > > > >Geez, no fvwm users yet? > >(Not that I usually answer these polls) > > > >Of course, I have a setup I have been happy with for 6 years, so it was >

Re: Debian Users...

2003-11-19 Thread Tim Connors
On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Dutch wrote: > > Just sorta takin an informal poll here... > > Debian users, > -how many of you are running Gnome? > > -how many are running WindowMaker (me) > > -If not WM,then which windowmanager doyou use/prefer? Geez, no fvwm users yet? (Not that I usually answer these po

Re: Debian Users...

2003-11-19 Thread Tim Connors
On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Dutch wrote: > > Just sorta takin an informal poll here... > > Debian users, > -how many of you are running Gnome? > > -how many are running WindowMaker (me) > > -If not WM,then which windowmanager doyou use/prefer? Geez, no fvwm users yet? (Not that I usually answer these po

Re: [OT] Virusses (many!) via list?

2003-09-26 Thread Tim Connors
On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Mike Hommey wrote: > > I think, I will install an M$-Outlook filter witch sends a > > Message to the sender that I dont like to be in his/her Adressbook. > > Useless, cf. my previous mail on the subject [1] > > Mike > > [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-laptop/2003/debian-lap

Re: [OT] Virusses (many!) via list?

2003-09-26 Thread Tim Connors
On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Mike Hommey wrote: > > I think, I will install an M$-Outlook filter witch sends a > > Message to the sender that I dont like to be in his/her Adressbook. > > Useless, cf. my previous mail on the subject [1] > > Mike > > [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-laptop/2003/debian-lap

Re: OpenSSH hack (linux is vulnerable?)

2003-09-17 Thread Tim Connors
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, jhorton wrote: > Hello, > > I do not know if anyone on this list is interested in Linux security, > but, there appears to be an > exploit of OpenSSH. Linux is vulnerable. The remedy is to upgrade to > OpenSSH 3.7p1 Don't do that. Update to your distributions latest update - a

Re: OpenSSH hack (linux is vulnerable?)

2003-09-16 Thread Tim Connors
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, jhorton wrote: > Hello, > > I do not know if anyone on this list is interested in Linux security, > but, there appears to be an > exploit of OpenSSH. Linux is vulnerable. The remedy is to upgrade to > OpenSSH 3.7p1 Don't do that. Update to your distributions latest update - a

Re: Xfree 4.2.1-6 with ATI Rage Mobility...

2003-05-22 Thread Tim Connors
On Wed, 21 May 2003, Nicolas Delestre wrote: > Hi, > Since i updated my debian sarge on my Dell laptitude CPxJ 650 (with an ATI > Rage > Mobility video card), that installed a new version of xfree (to the 4.2.1.6 > version), i can not use the crt port to display X on a monitor (it continue to >

Re: KDE3 + noflushd + call for comments

2003-04-03 Thread Tim Connors
On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Gabor FLEISCHER wrote: > Is there anyone who succeeded with KDE3, noflushd? I don't run KDE3, but... > I could set up my system to spin down the disks when I don't run KDE. > But with KDE it always has some disk usage. I was searching in google, and I > saw other people had t

Re: KDE3 + noflushd + call for comments

2003-04-03 Thread Tim Connors
On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Gabor FLEISCHER wrote: > Is there anyone who succeeded with KDE3, noflushd? I don't run KDE3, but... > I could set up my system to spin down the disks when I don't run KDE. > But with KDE it always has some disk usage. I was searching in google, and I > saw other people had t

Re: lots of Zombie Processes on Vaio PCG-Z600LEK

2003-03-28 Thread Tim Connors
In linux.debian.laptop, you wrote: >Hello, > > I have a problem with zombie processes on my laptop(debian woody). >Applications that seem to spawn child processes don't seem to get rid >off them when finnished, for example XMMS creates a process for every >track, but these never get killed,

Re: lots of Zombie Processes on Vaio PCG-Z600LEK

2003-03-28 Thread Tim Connors
In linux.debian.laptop, you wrote: >Hello, > > I have a problem with zombie processes on my laptop(debian woody). >Applications that seem to spawn child processes don't seem to get rid >off them when finnished, for example XMMS creates a process for every >track, but these never get killed,

Re: got stuck in dpkg-available-cache

2003-01-15 Thread Tim Connors
On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Bjoern Rueffer wrote: > I tried the following > dpkg --forget-old-unavail > dpkg --clear-avail > > but it didn't have the result as hoped for. > > How do I clear this available-cache with the version numbers in it? I'm > using sid if anyone thinks that matters. > > Thanks in a

Re: got stuck in dpkg-available-cache

2003-01-15 Thread Tim Connors
On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Bjoern Rueffer wrote: > I tried the following > dpkg --forget-old-unavail > dpkg --clear-avail > > but it didn't have the result as hoped for. > > How do I clear this available-cache with the version numbers in it? I'm > using sid if anyone thinks that matters. > > Thanks in a

Re: Problems on Shutdown with X

2003-01-06 Thread Tim Connors
On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, Richard Palfalvi wrote: > Most of the time (I'd say 8 times out of 10) X doesn't shutdown correctly. > When I turn off my computer with the shutdown-menu-button in gdm the screen > first gets black and after 3 seconds the screen gets brighter and brighter > beginning from the b

Re: Problems on Shutdown with X

2003-01-06 Thread Tim Connors
On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, Richard Palfalvi wrote: > Most of the time (I'd say 8 times out of 10) X doesn't shutdown correctly. > When I turn off my computer with the shutdown-menu-button in gdm the screen > first gets black and after 3 seconds the screen gets brighter and brighter > beginning from the b

Re: Dell cpu speed toggle (was: Temperatur weirdnes)

2002-12-05 Thread Tim Connors
On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Dan Christensen wrote: > For the high speed test, the machine was sometimes in light use, > sometimes idle. For the low speed test, it was completely idle. > > So for me, the slow speed is no use. Heh bizzare. Must have been because the cosmic rays were being partially blocke

Re: Dell cpu speed toggle (was: Temperatur weirdnes)

2002-12-05 Thread Tim Connors
On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Dan Christensen wrote: > For the high speed test, the machine was sometimes in light use, > sometimes idle. For the low speed test, it was completely idle. > > So for me, the slow speed is no use. Heh bizzare. Must have been because the cosmic rays were being partially blocke

Re: Dell cpu speed toggle (was: Temperatur weirdnes)

2002-12-01 Thread Tim Connors
On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, Dan Christensen wrote: > "Karl E. Jorgensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On I4000 (bios A16): > > fn+#Toggle CPU speed Yes - I had tried that before with no luck. But the missing peice of info was the X keycode. Thanks for that one... > For the record,

Re: Dell cpu speed toggle (was: Temperatur weirdnes)

2002-11-30 Thread Tim Connors
On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, Dan Christensen wrote: > "Karl E. Jorgensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On I4000 (bios A16): > > fn+#Toggle CPU speed Yes - I had tried that before with no luck. But the missing peice of info was the X keycode. Thanks for that one... > For the record,

Re: Random keystrokes lost

2002-11-26 Thread Tim Connors
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Karl E. Jorgensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.11.27.0147 +0100]: > > Bad luck for you :-) For me the system would freeze less than .5 > > seconds every 3 or 4 seconds. Just enough to make me wonder whether I > > was given de-caf by mistake..

Re: Random keystrokes lost

2002-11-26 Thread Tim Connors
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Karl E. Jorgensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.11.27.0147 +0100]: > > Bad luck for you :-) For me the system would freeze less than .5 > > seconds every 3 or 4 seconds. Just enough to make me wonder whether I > > was given de-caf by mistake..

Re: Modeline for 800x600 on Dell Inspiron 8000, Rage 128

2002-11-21 Thread Tim Connors
On 21 Nov 2002, Simon Wong wrote: > Does anyone ou there have a modeline that will work for 800x600 on a > Dell Inspiron 8000 with an ATI Rage 128 video card? > > I want to get the TV out going for which you need 800x600. I don't have mine handy (and don't know whether I have used 800x600), but

Re: Modeline for 800x600 on Dell Inspiron 8000, Rage 128

2002-11-20 Thread Tim Connors
On 21 Nov 2002, Simon Wong wrote: > Does anyone ou there have a modeline that will work for 800x600 on a > Dell Inspiron 8000 with an ATI Rage 128 video card? > > I want to get the TV out going for which you need 800x600. I don't have mine handy (and don't know whether I have used 800x600), but

Re: Laptop 386dx40 with 4 MByte and 40 MByte

2002-11-20 Thread Tim Connors
On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Wookey wrote: > On Wed 20 Nov, David B Harris wrote: > > On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 14:09:59 +0200 > > Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello laptop.deb's, > > > > > > I have gotten a NEW OLD LAptop and I like to install Debian. > > > MS-Dos 6.2 was no problem, but..

Re: Laptop 386dx40 with 4 MByte and 40 MByte

2002-11-20 Thread Tim Connors
On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Wookey wrote: > On Wed 20 Nov, David B Harris wrote: > > On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 14:09:59 +0200 > > Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello laptop.deb's, > > > > > > I have gotten a NEW OLD LAptop and I like to install Debian. > > > MS-Dos 6.2 was no problem, but..

Re: Ugly mozilla fonts

2002-11-17 Thread Tim Connors
On Sun, 17 Nov 2002, Anders E. Andersen wrote: > After installing j2re (and some ghostview font package which was needed) > suddenly my mozilla looks like this: > > http://www.fys.ku.dk/~andersa/mozilla.png > > Does anybody know what's wrong? Looks fine to me. Must be the beer. -- TimC --

Re: Ugly mozilla fonts

2002-11-17 Thread Tim Connors
On Sun, 17 Nov 2002, Anders E. Andersen wrote: > After installing j2re (and some ghostview font package which was needed) > suddenly my mozilla looks like this: > > http://www.fys.ku.dk/~andersa/mozilla.png > > Does anybody know what's wrong? Looks fine to me. Must be the beer. -- TimC --

Re: kcore eating my disk space

2002-10-16 Thread Tim Connors
In linux.debian.laptop, you wrote: > ps: I have 256 M of ram and 320M is around the sum of my ram and the > swap space thats being used so I assume it's the combined total of > memory that the kernel is using. So I probably don't want to get rid of > it do I :) just of my root partition if it wa

Re: kcore eating my disk space

2002-10-15 Thread Tim Connors
In linux.debian.laptop, you wrote: > ps: I have 256 M of ram and 320M is around the sum of my ram and the > swap space thats being used so I assume it's the combined total of > memory that the kernel is using. So I probably don't want to get rid of > it do I :) just of my root partition if it w

Re: Old batteries - or ... ?

2002-09-20 Thread Tim Connors
On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > System info:[DH]ell Inspiron 4000, BIOS A16, kernel 2.4.18 with apm, > Li-ion batteries Shite! I wish I saw this earlier! This is my laptop, and it developed a bad battery in December last year. I replcaced it under waranty, and

Re: Old batteries - or ... ?

2002-09-20 Thread Tim Connors
On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > System info:[DH]ell Inspiron 4000, BIOS A16, kernel 2.4.18 with apm, > Li-ion batteries Shite! I wish I saw this earlier! This is my laptop, and it developed a bad battery in December last year. I replcaced it under waranty, an

Re: Dell's hibernate partition (was: Debian on a Dell 4150?)

2002-09-09 Thread Tim Connors
On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, Erich Schubert wrote: > > initialize the s2d partition, dell's very own tool (the latest > > version) complains that it does not support systems with more than 768 > > Did you try this lphtool? > Dells BIOS might be a Phoenix one, and there's a linux utility for > creating hibe

Re: speedstep

2002-08-16 Thread Tim Connors
On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 09:37:01PM +1000, Tim Connors wrote: > > At one stage in the past, I discoevered a magic fn-key incantation that > > will tell my dell inspiron 4000 laptop to slow down from 650MHz to 250 or > > 200MHz

speedstep

2002-08-15 Thread Tim Connors
At one stage in the past, I discoevered a magic fn-key incantation that will tell my dell inspiron 4000 laptop to slow down from 650MHz to 250 or 200MHz or so, on the fly. It emitted a low pitched beep when told to go slower, and high pitched when fast. But I can't remember the dang keystrokes any

Re: After discussing on LCDs in Debian-laptop, did you get spammed by Sharp Systems as well?

2002-08-14 Thread Tim Connors
On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, Erich Schubert wrote: > > I have to say, I am terribly surprise gnu.org and debian.org archive our > > mail without obfuscation :( > > Obfuscation doesn't help, even if you use some rotating obfuscation. > Most, if not all of these, can easily be broken by Perl Regexps. > So a

Re: After discussing on LCDs in Debian-laptop, did you get spammed by Sharp Systems as well?

2002-08-14 Thread Tim Connors
On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Alexei Khlebnikov wrote: > > Today i got a spam by Sharp Systems, offering a LCD display. > > Did any of you (especially the ones who did participate in a discussion > > related to LCD displays) get that spam, too? > > Please tell me, i'm trying to find out why they spammed me

Re: Unsubscribe

2002-04-14 Thread Tim Connors
On Sun, 14 Apr 2002, Josh Knarr wrote: > > I no longer wish to supscribe to this mailing list. I've mailed the > admin on my particular issue and received no response. Please remove > the address [EMAIL PROTECTED] from the list. You may want to set your newsreader to not strip the stuff below s

Re: Unsubscribe

2002-04-14 Thread Tim Connors
On Sun, 14 Apr 2002, Josh Knarr wrote: > > I no longer wish to supscribe to this mailing list. I've mailed the > admin on my particular issue and received no response. Please remove > the address [EMAIL PROTECTED] from the list. You may want to set your newsreader to not strip the stuff below

Re: Which filesystem for a notebook?

2002-04-11 Thread Tim Connors
On 11 Apr 2002, Mark Janssen wrote: > On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 13:22, Michal Frackowiak wrote: > > Mark Janssen wrote: > > > > >On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 13:02, Michal Frackowiak wrote: > > >If you want more battery life, stick with ext2, since the journaling > > >filesystems keep the harddisk spinning a

Re: Which filesystem for a notebook?

2002-04-11 Thread Tim Connors
On 11 Apr 2002, Mark Janssen wrote: > On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 13:22, Michal Frackowiak wrote: > > Mark Janssen wrote: > > > > >On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 13:02, Michal Frackowiak wrote: > > >If you want more battery life, stick with ext2, since the journaling > > >filesystems keep the harddisk spinning

Re: backlight off w/o suspend

2002-03-04 Thread Tim Connors
On Sun, 3 Mar 2002, Remy Indebetouw wrote: > I'd like to turn off the backlight when I'm away for the day, but leave > unsuspended so I can connect back from work via the cable modem. > > There was a similar question last summer and the suggestion to switch to > CRT; something like that would be f

Re: backlight off w/o suspend

2002-03-04 Thread Tim Connors
On Sun, 3 Mar 2002, Remy Indebetouw wrote: > I'd like to turn off the backlight when I'm away for the day, but leave > unsuspended so I can connect back from work via the cable modem. > > There was a similar question last summer and the suggestion to switch to > CRT; something like that would be

Re: Dell Latitude - Screen problems

2001-10-11 Thread Tim Connors
On 11 Oct 2001, Patrice Neff wrote: > Hi all, > > I recently bought a Dell Latitude CPt and it runs really nice now. I > have only one problem with the screen. In the middle of the screen > there is a very thin vertical bar. I usually don't see it unless I > have a black background. I'm not reall

Re: Dell Latitude - Screen problems

2001-10-11 Thread Tim Connors
On 11 Oct 2001, Patrice Neff wrote: > Hi all, > > I recently bought a Dell Latitude CPt and it runs really nice now. I > have only one problem with the screen. In the middle of the screen > there is a very thin vertical bar. I usually don't see it unless I > have a black background. I'm not real

Re: 2.4.10 and apm !

2001-09-25 Thread Tim Connors
> what happened to apm support on 2.4.10 > apm -S does not work anymore :( Works for me. You have compiled apm into the kernel, or as a module, haven't you? Incidentally, most of the time, apm -S "standby"'s my machine, blanks the screen and spins donw HD, but then the screen pretty much immediat

Re: 2.4.10 and apm !

2001-09-25 Thread Tim Connors
> what happened to apm support on 2.4.10 > apm -S does not work anymore :( Works for me. You have compiled apm into the kernel, or as a module, haven't you? Incidentally, most of the time, apm -S "standby"'s my machine, blanks the screen and spins donw HD, but then the screen pretty much immedia

xfree86 4.1.0 ati rage 128

2001-08-16 Thread Tim Connors
I had no problems with xfree86 4.0.x on my dell inspiron 4000, but after upgrading to 4.1.0, I now have crud all over my text console when I either quit X or go to the console. I have temporarily solved this problem by using a savetextmode/textmode combination, but this is tedious for everytime I

xfree86 4.1.0 ati rage 128

2001-08-16 Thread Tim Connors
I had no problems with xfree86 4.0.x on my dell inspiron 4000, but after upgrading to 4.1.0, I now have crud all over my text console when I either quit X or go to the console. I have temporarily solved this problem by using a savetextmode/textmode combination, but this is tedious for everytime I

Re: power button dell inspiron 4000

2001-06-08 Thread Tim Connors
On Fri, 8 Jun 2001, Andrew Taylor wrote: > Tim - > > I have an Inspiron 7000 which had this feature, it was a BIOS fix. This > issue is buried in their web site - you can find model specific info w/ > your system service tag. > > Andy > > > > Sorry, that is not my problem... That works fine.

Re: power button dell inspiron 4000

2001-06-08 Thread Tim Connors
On Fri, 8 Jun 2001, Andrew Taylor wrote: > Tim - > > I have an Inspiron 7000 which had this feature, it was a BIOS fix. This > issue is buried in their web site - you can find model specific info w/ > your system service tag. > > Andy > > > > Sorry, that is not my problem... That works fine

Re: power button dell inspiron 4000

2001-06-07 Thread Tim Connors
On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Eric Richardson wrote: > Tim Connors wrote: > > > > One annoying um, feature, of the dell laptop, is the ability to shut down > > immediately upon pressing the power button. I have not found anything on > > the web to disable the power butt

Re: power button dell inspiron 4000

2001-06-07 Thread Tim Connors
On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Eric Richardson wrote: > Tim Connors wrote: > > > > One annoying um, feature, of the dell laptop, is the ability to shut down > > immediately upon pressing the power button. I have not found anything on > > the web to disable the power butt

power button dell inspiron 4000

2001-06-07 Thread Tim Connors
One annoying um, feature, of the dell laptop, is the ability to shut down immediately upon pressing the power button. I have not found anything on the web to disable the power button (seems there are lots of references to toshiba laptops though), has anyone else found anything useful? Unfortuneat

power button dell inspiron 4000

2001-06-04 Thread Tim Connors
One annoying um, feature, of the dell laptop, is the ability to shut down immediately upon pressing the power button. I have not found anything on the web to disable the power button (seems there are lots of references to toshiba laptops though), has anyone else found anything useful? Unfortunea

dell inspiron 4000 Xircom CBEII-10/100

2001-04-10 Thread Tim Connors
I found that the xircom_tulip_cb module is needed for my card, as opposed to tulip_cb, and so added device "xircom_tulip_cb" class "network" module "cb_enabler", "xircom_tulip_cb" and card "Xircom CBEII-10/100 CardBus 10/100 Ethernet" version "Xircom", "*", "CBEII-10/100" bind "xircom_tul

dell inspiron 4000 Xircom CBEII-10/100

2001-04-10 Thread Tim Connors
I found that the xircom_tulip_cb module is needed for my card, as opposed to tulip_cb, and so added device "xircom_tulip_cb" class "network" module "cb_enabler", "xircom_tulip_cb" and card "Xircom CBEII-10/100 CardBus 10/100 Ethernet" version "Xircom", "*", "CBEII-10/100" bind "xircom_tu