Re: Can't get into my BIOS

2004-01-19 Thread Tom Badran
On Monday 19 January 2004 18:24, Galli, Al (Bolton) wrote: > I have an old Omnibook 4100 which I bought second hand. > Just recently, I have tried to get into my BIOS but found it to be password > protected. > Is there a way around this? Open the laptop case, and remove and reinsert the bios batte

Re: Can't get into my BIOS

2004-01-19 Thread Tom Badran
On Monday 19 January 2004 18:24, Galli, Al (Bolton) wrote: > I have an old Omnibook 4100 which I bought second hand. > Just recently, I have tried to get into my BIOS but found it to be password > protected. > Is there a way around this? Open the laptop case, and remove and reinsert the bios batte

Re: laptop recommendation

2003-04-10 Thread Tom Badran
On Thursday 10 Apr 2003 12:59 pm, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > What exactly is the Pentium-M chip? I checked the Intel site recently > > but couldn't see anything about the difference between a Pentium-M and > > P3/P4. > > Similar to Mobile Athlon but a bit better. Partially redesigned Pentium > proces

Re: PPP install possible?

2003-01-21 Thread Tom Badran
On Tuesday 21 Jan 2003 11:55 pm, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: > I have a laptop with no NIC, just a serial interface. Is it possible > to do a network install over PPP? its probably easier to use plip or slip, and plip will be faster (parallel port if you have the right cable, slip is same for seria

Re: PPP install possible?

2003-01-21 Thread Tom Badran
On Tuesday 21 Jan 2003 11:55 pm, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: > I have a laptop with no NIC, just a serial interface. Is it possible > to do a network install over PPP? its probably easier to use plip or slip, and plip will be faster (parallel port if you have the right cable, slip is same for seria

Re: Netgear MA401 (wireless network card) trouble

2003-01-04 Thread Tom Badran
On Saturday 04 Jan 2003 11:36 am, Weinzierl Stefan wrote: > Karl Eklund schrieb: > > Sometimes (maybe once every day) the transfer speed goes down to about > > 12 kB/s (the connection is much faster) and it's slow to do several > > things at the same time (for example, an SSH terminal session becom

Re: Netgear MA401 (wireless network card) trouble

2003-01-04 Thread Tom Badran
On Saturday 04 Jan 2003 11:36 am, Weinzierl Stefan wrote: > Karl Eklund schrieb: > > Sometimes (maybe once every day) the transfer speed goes down to about > > 12 kB/s (the connection is much faster) and it's slow to do several > > things at the same time (for example, an SSH terminal session becom

Re: Hardware for a Presario with Linux support

2002-10-07 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 07 Oct 2002 2:23 pm, Vicente Aguilar wrote: > Hi everyone. > > I've got a Compaq Presario 905 and I'm planning on buying a wireless > network card and a webcam for it, and of course, I want them to work > with Linux. I'm running Debian Woody

Re: Hardware for a Presario with Linux support

2002-10-07 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 07 Oct 2002 2:23 pm, Vicente Aguilar wrote: > Hi everyone. > > I've got a Compaq Presario 905 and I'm planning on buying a wireless > network card and a webcam for it, and of course, I want them to work > with Linux. I'm running Debian Woody

Re: 3d support for Ati Mobility M1?

2002-09-14 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 14 Sep 2002 3:02 am, Jeff wrote: > mliste, 2002-Sep-14 01:34 +0200: > > 3d games goes really slow on my computer, if they work at all. I have > > tried to upgrade to freex 4.2.0, without any improvement. > > > > Is there anything I can do?

Re: sid freezes on tecra 8000

2002-08-29 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 29 Aug 2002 9:26 am, Stein Stromme wrote: > [Amir Tal] > > | well, it DOES help (thanks) but seems like kinda stupid. > | why in the world should KDE care about DNS resolutions ? it affect > | applications that has nothing to do with commun

Re: Rage Mobility and DRI

2002-07-16 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 16 Jul 2002 8:02 pm, Valéry Febvre wrote: > > I really hope one of you guys can help me, im all out of ideas. > > Yes, your chipset belong to mach64 chipset familly probably. > Goto http://dri.sf.net/snapshots/bleeding-edge/ and download the

Rage Mobility and DRI

2002-07-16 Thread Tom Badran
I have a laptop (thinkpad a22m) with a rage mobility card. Depending on where i look (lspci, proc etc) it is reported as either a Rage Mobility LF, or a Rage Mobility P/M. I have x working nicely (very smooth dvd playback etc) but i cant get DRI to work at all (using 2.4.18 kernel with many dr