From: "Preben Randhol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Barb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 02/02/2002 (14:23) :
> > I have a 2500 and I have been running Mandrake because Debian (and
several
> > other distros I've tried) lock up on boot up at md (whatever that is).
I'd
> > love to know what that is and how to
From: "cyn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Actually, just tonight I learned that win2k (and probably ME + XP) do
> their suspend to disk into a file - hiberfile.sys I believe. So it seems
> to me that whatever the case is with suspending to disk, ACPI seems to
> 'allow' more control for where the OS write
From: "Preben Randhol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Barb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 02/02/2002 (14:23) :
> > I have a 2500 and I have been running Mandrake because Debian (and
several
> > other distros I've tried) lock up on boot up at md (whatever that is).
I'd
> > love to know what that is and how t
From: "cyn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Actually, just tonight I learned that win2k (and probably ME + XP) do
> their suspend to disk into a file - hiberfile.sys I believe. So it seems
> to me that whatever the case is with suspending to disk, ACPI seems to
> 'allow' more control for where the OS writ
On Sun, 2002-02-03 at 14:26, Preben Randhol wrote:
> Rob Bradford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 03/02/2002 (15:11) :
> >
> > Is the 2500 like the 4000? I've got a 4000 and wrote an article about
> > it for debianplanet. You can read it at
> > http://www.debianplanet.org/article.php?sid=258
>
> No
On Wed, 2002-01-30 at 20:52, Preben Randhol wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have read about the problems of installing Debian on Inspiron 2500 and
> solved that. Now before installing I wonder about some things I
> haven't found answers to on the net:
>
> 1. I see that the hard disk has a 32Mb partition called
On Sun, 2002-02-03 at 14:26, Preben Randhol wrote:
> Rob Bradford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 03/02/2002 (15:11) :
> >
> > Is the 2500 like the 4000? I've got a 4000 and wrote an article about
> > it for debianplanet. You can read it at
> > http://www.debianplanet.org/article.php?sid=258
>
> N
Barb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 02/02/2002 (14:23) :
> I have a 2500 and I have been running Mandrake because Debian (and several
> other distros I've tried) lock up on boot up at md (whatever that is). I'd
> love to know what that is and how to make it go away.
>
> About the only advice I can
On Wed, 2002-01-30 at 20:52, Preben Randhol wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have read about the problems of installing Debian on Inspiron 2500 and
> solved that. Now before installing I wonder about some things I
> haven't found answers to on the net:
>
> 1. I see that the hard disk has a 32Mb partition calle
Barb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 02/02/2002 (14:23) :
> I have a 2500 and I have been running Mandrake because Debian (and several
> other distros I've tried) lock up on boot up at md (whatever that is). I'd
> love to know what that is and how to make it go away.
>
> About the only advice I ca
quot;Preben Randhol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Joseph Fannin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc:
Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2002 1:19 PM
Subject: Re: Need advice installing Debian on Inspiron 2500
I have a 2500 and I have been running Mandrake because Debian (and several
other dis
quot;Preben Randhol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Joseph Fannin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2002 1:19 PM
Subject: Re: Need advice installing Debian on Inspiron 2500
I have a 2500 and I have been running Mandrake because Debia
Joseph Fannin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 02/02/2002 (12:22) :
> Powering the machine off is all that ACPI seems to be good for ATM
> as well, but I have some hope that the battery monitoring functions
> could be fixed soon (at least, it seems close enough to working and I
> have enough inform
Joseph Fannin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 02/02/2002 (12:22) :
> Powering the machine off is all that ACPI seems to be good for ATM
> as well, but I have some hope that the battery monitoring functions
> could be fixed soon (at least, it seems close enough to working and I
> have enough infor
Barb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 02/02/2002 (14:23) :
> I have a 2500 and I have been running Mandrake because Debian (and several
> other distros I've tried) lock up on boot up at md (whatever that is). I'd
> love to know what that is and how to make it go away.
It was a bit tricky, but it can
I have a 2500 and I have been running Mandrake because Debian (and several
other distros I've tried) lock up on boot up at md (whatever that is). I'd
love to know what that is and how to make it go away.
About the only advice I can give is for me, with the i815, the best I can
do in X is 15 bi
Joseph Fannin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 02/02/2002 (12:22) :
>
> > btw, I did find one thing that you can do with APM. If the apm.o module is
> > loaded, shutdown actually halts the system. If it isn't, shutdown leaves
> > you at a "Power Off" prompt :-)
>
> (Whoops, I forgot to CC my l
Barb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 02/02/2002 (14:23) :
> I have a 2500 and I have been running Mandrake because Debian (and several
> other distros I've tried) lock up on boot up at md (whatever that is). I'd
> love to know what that is and how to make it go away.
It was a bit tricky, but it ca
I have a 2500 and I have been running Mandrake because Debian (and several
other distros I've tried) lock up on boot up at md (whatever that is). I'd
love to know what that is and how to make it go away.
About the only advice I can give is for me, with the i815, the best I can
do in X is 15 bi
Joseph Fannin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 02/02/2002 (12:22) :
>
> > btw, I did find one thing that you can do with APM. If the apm.o module is
> > loaded, shutdown actually halts the system. If it isn't, shutdown leaves
> > you at a "Power Off" prompt :-)
>
> (Whoops, I forgot to CC my
> btw, I did find one thing that you can do with APM. If the apm.o module is
> loaded, shutdown actually halts the system. If it isn't, shutdown leaves
> you at a "Power Off" prompt :-)
(Whoops, I forgot to CC my last reply to the list.)
Powering the machine off is all that ACPI seems
Actually, just tonight I learned that win2k (and probably ME + XP) do
their suspend to disk into a file - hiberfile.sys I believe. So it seems
to me that whatever the case is with suspending to disk, ACPI seems to
'allow' more control for where the OS writes it (perhaps to avoid the
whole bios lim
> btw, I did find one thing that you can do with APM. If the apm.o module is
> loaded, shutdown actually halts the system. If it isn't, shutdown leaves
> you at a "Power Off" prompt :-)
(Whoops, I forgot to CC my last reply to the list.)
Powering the machine off is all that ACPI seem
Actually, just tonight I learned that win2k (and probably ME + XP) do
their suspend to disk into a file - hiberfile.sys I believe. So it seems
to me that whatever the case is with suspending to disk, ACPI seems to
'allow' more control for where the OS writes it (perhaps to avoid the
whole bios li
From: "Preben Randhol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Joseph Fannin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 01/02/2002 (07:23) :
> >When I say the BIOS is broken, I mean anything involving APM --
> > even reading battery status -- causes a kernel OOPS, which when
> > traced, fails when calling the system BIOS. A
From: "Preben Randhol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Joseph Fannin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 01/02/2002 (07:23) :
> >When I say the BIOS is broken, I mean anything involving APM --
> > even reading battery status -- causes a kernel OOPS, which when
> > traced, fails when calling the system BIOS.
Joseph Fannin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 01/02/2002 (07:23) :
>When I say the BIOS is broken, I mean anything involving APM --
> even reading battery status -- causes a kernel OOPS, which when
> traced, fails when calling the system BIOS. Apparently things have
> been this way with every BIO
cyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 01/02/2002 (07:23) :
> not flaming or attacking or anything like that - just being cautionary...
>
> No, don't delete that - 10:1 chances are that you have 32mb of ram and
> that's your suspend partition - when you suspend to disk, the contents of
> your ram have t
Joseph Fannin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 01/02/2002 (07:23) :
>When I say the BIOS is broken, I mean anything involving APM --
> even reading battery status -- causes a kernel OOPS, which when
> traced, fails when calling the system BIOS. Apparently things have
> been this way with every BI
On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 12:08:40AM -0500, cyn wrote:
> not flaming or attacking or anything like that - just being cautionary...
>
> No, don't delete that - 10:1 chances are that you have 32mb of ram and
> that's your suspend partition - when you suspend to disk, the contents of
> your ram have to
not flaming or attacking or anything like that - just being cautionary...
No, don't delete that - 10:1 chances are that you have 32mb of ram and
that's your suspend partition - when you suspend to disk, the contents of
your ram have to be written... to your disk, and I suspect this is also
why our
cyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 01/02/2002 (07:23) :
> not flaming or attacking or anything like that - just being cautionary...
>
> No, don't delete that - 10:1 chances are that you have 32mb of ram and
> that's your suspend partition - when you suspend to disk, the contents of
> your ram have
On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 12:08:40AM -0500, cyn wrote:
> not flaming or attacking or anything like that - just being cautionary...
>
> No, don't delete that - 10:1 chances are that you have 32mb of ram and
> that's your suspend partition - when you suspend to disk, the contents of
> your ram have t
On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 09:52:48PM +0100, Preben Randhol wrote:
Hi
>
> I have read about the problems of installing Debian on Inspiron 2500 and
> solved that. Now before installing I wonder about some things I
> haven't found answers to on the net:
>
> 1. I see that the hard disk has a 32Mb part
not flaming or attacking or anything like that - just being cautionary...
No, don't delete that - 10:1 chances are that you have 32mb of ram and
that's your suspend partition - when you suspend to disk, the contents of
your ram have to be written... to your disk, and I suspect this is also
why ou
On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 09:52:48PM +0100, Preben Randhol wrote:
Hi
>
> I have read about the problems of installing Debian on Inspiron 2500 and
> solved that. Now before installing I wonder about some things I
> haven't found answers to on the net:
>
> 1. I see that the hard disk has a 32Mb par
From: "Alan Shutko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Preben Randhol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Try ACPI not APM
>
> Last I checked, ACPI didn't support save to disk yet. Does it these
> days (in a non-2.5 kernel)? That would be cool!
I don't know, but if we could get ACPI to work we should be able
Preben Randhol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Try ACPI not APM
Last I checked, ACPI didn't support save to disk yet. Does it these
days (in a non-2.5 kernel)? That would be cool!
--
Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a variety of flavors!
Laughing at you is like drop kicking a wounded hummin
Derek Broughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 31/01/2002 (15:40) :
> > Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 31/01/2002 (10:01) :
> > > First you need to create the S2D partition. I believe you can
>
> Actually no. First you need to get apm working. I can't
Try ACPI not APM
I haven't tried yet
From: "Alan Shutko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Preben Randhol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Try ACPI not APM
>
> Last I checked, ACPI didn't support save to disk yet. Does it these
> days (in a non-2.5 kernel)? That would be cool!
I don't know, but if we could get ACPI to work we should be able
> Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 31/01/2002 (10:01) :
> > First you need to create the S2D partition. I believe you can
Actually no. First you need to get apm working. I can't
Other than that, feel free to contact me for things like X configs. My
i2500 runs almost exclusively with Debi
Preben Randhol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Try ACPI not APM
Last I checked, ACPI didn't support save to disk yet. Does it these
days (in a non-2.5 kernel)? That would be cool!
--
Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a variety of flavors!
Laughing at you is like drop kicking a wounded hummi
Derek Broughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 31/01/2002 (15:40) :
> > Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 31/01/2002 (10:01) :
> > > First you need to create the S2D partition. I believe you can
>
> Actually no. First you need to get apm working. I can't
Try ACPI not APM
I haven't tried ye
> Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 31/01/2002 (10:01) :
> > First you need to create the S2D partition. I believe you can
Actually no. First you need to get apm working. I can't
Other than that, feel free to contact me for things like X configs. My
i2500 runs almost exclusively with Deb
Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 31/01/2002 (10:01) :
> First you need to create the S2D partition. I believe you can
> get a utility from Dell that will create it. I recall some
> discussion on this subject on this list awhile ago, check the
> archives. There may be another utility (phdisk com
Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 31/01/2002 (10:01) :
> First you need to create the S2D partition. I believe you can
> get a utility from Dell that will create it. I recall some
> discussion on this subject on this list awhile ago, check the
> archives. There may be another utility (phdisk co
There doesn't appear to be much info available for this one, but
here are a few notes:
Preben Randhol, 2002-Jan-30 21:52 +0100:
> Hi
>
> I have read about the problems of installing Debian on Inspiron 2500 and
> solved that. Now before installing I wonder about some things I
> haven't found answe
There doesn't appear to be much info available for this one, but
here are a few notes:
Preben Randhol, 2002-Jan-30 21:52 +0100:
> Hi
>
> I have read about the problems of installing Debian on Inspiron 2500 and
> solved that. Now before installing I wonder about some things I
> haven't found answ
Hi
I have read about the problems of installing Debian on Inspiron 2500 and
solved that. Now before installing I wonder about some things I
haven't found answers to on the net:
1. I see that the hard disk has a 32Mb partition called Dell Utility
Can I safely delete this? What is it?
2. How do
Hi
I have read about the problems of installing Debian on Inspiron 2500 and
solved that. Now before installing I wonder about some things I
haven't found answers to on the net:
1. I see that the hard disk has a 32Mb partition called Dell Utility
Can I safely delete this? What is it?
2. How d
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