Re: Dell Inspiron 2500 and potato

2002-05-14 Thread Derek Broughton
Preben Randhol wrote: Derek Broughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 14/05/2002 (20:42) : It's Dell's fault that the DSDT (a major part of ACPI) is broken. I'm not sure whether it's Dell's or Intel's fault processor limits aren't supported. It's definitely Dell's fault that Thermal and Fan cont

Re: Dell Inspiron 2500 and potato

2002-05-14 Thread Preben Randhol
Derek Broughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 14/05/2002 (20:42) : > > It's Dell's fault that the DSDT (a major part of ACPI) is broken. I'm > not sure whether it's Dell's or Intel's fault processor limits aren't > supported. It's definitely Dell's fault that Thermal and Fan controls > aren't imp

Re: Dell Inspiron 2500 and potato

2002-05-14 Thread Derek Broughton
Preben Randhol wrote: > Derek Broughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 14/05/2002 > (20:42) : > >>It's Dell's fault that the DSDT (a major part of ACPI) is broken. I'm >>not sure whether it's Dell's or Intel's fault processor limits aren't >>supported. It's definitely Dell's fault that Thermal an

Re: Dell Inspiron 2500 and potato

2002-05-14 Thread Preben Randhol
Derek Broughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 14/05/2002 (20:42) : > > It's Dell's fault that the DSDT (a major part of ACPI) is broken. I'm > not sure whether it's Dell's or Intel's fault processor limits aren't > supported. It's definitely Dell's fault that Thermal and Fan controls > aren't im

Re: Dell Inspiron 2500 and potato

2002-05-14 Thread Derek Broughton
> Derek Broughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 13/05/2002 (15:38) : > > From: "Preben Randhol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > Woody is stable. And when released in some weeks it will be the new > > > stable distribution and then security fixes will only be towards woody. > > > > I think it'll be mor

Re: Dell Inspiron 2500 and potato

2002-05-14 Thread Preben Randhol
Derek Broughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 13/05/2002 (15:38) : > From: "Preben Randhol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Woody is stable. And when released in some weeks it will be the new > > stable distribution and then security fixes will only be towards woody. > > I think it'll be more than a few

Re: Dell Inspiron 2500 and potato

2002-05-14 Thread Derek Broughton
> Derek Broughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 13/05/2002 (15:38) : > > From: "Preben Randhol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > Woody is stable. And when released in some weeks it will be the new > > > stable distribution and then security fixes will only be towards woody. > > > > I think it'll be mo

Re: Dell Inspiron 2500 and potato

2002-05-14 Thread Preben Randhol
Derek Broughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 13/05/2002 (15:38) : > From: "Preben Randhol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Woody is stable. And when released in some weeks it will be the new > > stable distribution and then security fixes will only be towards woody. > > I think it'll be more than a fe

Re: Dell Inspiron 2500 and potato

2002-05-13 Thread Derek Broughton
From: "Preben Randhol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Woody is stable. And when released in some weeks it will be the new > stable distribution and then security fixes will only be towards woody. I think it'll be more than a few weeks - it has to go to "frozen" first. > I have Dell Inspirion 2500 running

Re: Dell Inspiron 2500 and potato

2002-05-13 Thread Preben Randhol
Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 13/05/2002 (13:57) : > * Derek Broughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2002-05-13 07:22 -0400: > > From: "Andre Berger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Hi Derek! > > > > installing potato (don't want woody yet) on it. The stock kernel > > > > Why not? There's no good re

Re: Dell Inspiron 2500 and potato

2002-05-13 Thread Derek Broughton
Andre Berger wrote: > >>>installing potato (don't want woody yet) on it. The stock kernel >> >>Why not? There's no good reason to avoid woody. Potato is way too old, >>now. > > I'm a stability freak :) You obviously belong on the Debian development team, since woody is extremely stable. :-) Only

Re: Dell Inspiron 2500 and potato

2002-05-13 Thread Andre Berger
* Derek Broughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2002-05-13 07:22 -0400: > From: "Andre Berger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi Derek! > > installing potato (don't want woody yet) on it. The stock kernel > > Why not? There's no good reason to avoid woody. Potato is way too old, > now. I'm a stability freak :)

Re: Dell Inspiron 2500 and potato

2002-05-13 Thread Derek Broughton
From: "Andre Berger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > My friend has got this Dell Inspiron 2500, and I have some problems > installing potato (don't want woody yet) on it. The stock kernel Why not? There's no good reason to avoid woody. Potato is way too old, now. > 2.2.19 hangs at the initialization of

Re: Dell Inspiron 2500 and potato

2002-05-13 Thread Derek Broughton
From: "Preben Randhol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Woody is stable. And when released in some weeks it will be the new > stable distribution and then security fixes will only be towards woody. I think it'll be more than a few weeks - it has to go to "frozen" first. > I have Dell Inspirion 2500 runnin

Re: Dell Inspiron 2500 and potato

2002-05-13 Thread Preben Randhol
Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 13/05/2002 (13:57) : > * Derek Broughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2002-05-13 07:22 -0400: > > From: "Andre Berger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Hi Derek! > > > > installing potato (don't want woody yet) on it. The stock kernel > > > > Why not? There's no good r

Re: Dell Inspiron 2500 and potato

2002-05-13 Thread Derek Broughton
Andre Berger wrote: > >>>installing potato (don't want woody yet) on it. The stock kernel >> >>Why not? There's no good reason to avoid woody. Potato is way too old, >>now. > > I'm a stability freak :) You obviously belong on the Debian development team, since woody is extremely stable. :-) Onl

Re: Dell Inspiron 2500 and potato

2002-05-13 Thread Andre Berger
--sdtB3X0nJg68CQEu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable * Derek Broughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2002-05-13 07:22 -0400: > From: "Andre Berger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi Derek! > > installing potato (don't want woody yet)

Re: Dell Inspiron 2500 and potato

2002-05-13 Thread Derek Broughton
From: "Andre Berger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > My friend has got this Dell Inspiron 2500, and I have some problems > installing potato (don't want woody yet) on it. The stock kernel Why not? There's no good reason to avoid woody. Potato is way too old, now. > 2.2.19 hangs at the initialization of

Re: Dell Inspiron 2500

2002-03-06 Thread Baptiste Malguy
> > If you're interested in working with me on this, I'd suggest we keep trying > > and report back to this list and acpi-devel with our results. We seem to be > > at a pretty similar point. > Yes, I thought the same. However, for the next weeks, I'm pretty (I start my > last exams tomorrow). + bu

Re: Dell Inspiron 2500

2002-03-06 Thread Baptiste Malguy
> I have no trouble with X. ALSA was simple once I finally realized that the > .deb package wasn't creating a required link from /etc/modutils/alsa -> > /etc/alsa/modutil/0.9. APM is definitely toast. PCMCIA works fine for me, > but that seems fairly dependent on the cards you're using. There are

Re: Dell Inspiron 2500

2002-03-06 Thread Baptiste Malguy
> > If you're interested in working with me on this, I'd suggest we keep trying > > and report back to this list and acpi-devel with our results. We seem to be > > at a pretty similar point. > Yes, I thought the same. However, for the next weeks, I'm pretty (I start my > last exams tomorrow). + b

Re: Dell Inspiron 2500

2002-03-06 Thread Baptiste Malguy
> I have no trouble with X. ALSA was simple once I finally realized that the > .deb package wasn't creating a required link from /etc/modutils/alsa -> > /etc/alsa/modutil/0.9. APM is definitely toast. PCMCIA works fine for me, > but that seems fairly dependent on the cards you're using. There ar

Re: Dell Inspiron 2500

2002-03-05 Thread Derek Broughton
From: "Baptiste Malguy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > 1) My Inspiron 2500: > > > I have to say that even if now it works pretty well with most of the > functionnalities ready, it has not always been true. > Many trouble with ALSA, X, APM, ACPI, PCMCIA ... I have no trouble with X.

Re: Dell Inspiron 2500

2002-03-05 Thread Derek Broughton
From: "Baptiste Malguy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > 1) My Inspiron 2500: > > > I have to say that even if now it works pretty well with most of the > functionnalities ready, it has not always been true. > Many trouble with ALSA, X, APM, ACPI, PCMCIA ... I have no trouble with X.

Re: Dell Inspiron 2500 PCMCIA issues

2002-02-21 Thread sageFool
I think 2.4.X PCI support is just jacked. I went and got 2.2.20, setup the kernel the way I want it, installed the pcmcia-cs package, fixed the module naming problem (wavelan_cs vs orinoco_cs) rebooted and boop beep my card is regonized. I haven't gotten a chance to configure it yet since I'm at

Re: Dell Inspiron 2500 PCMCIA issues

2002-02-21 Thread sageFool
I think 2.4.X PCI support is just jacked. I went and got 2.2.20, setup the kernel the way I want it, installed the pcmcia-cs package, fixed the module naming problem (wavelan_cs vs orinoco_cs) rebooted and boop beep my card is regonized. I haven't gotten a chance to configure it yet since I'm at

Re: Dell Inspiron 2500 PCMCIA issues

2002-02-21 Thread Derek Broughton
sageFool wrote: Hi, so I compiled the kernel with the PCMCIA/CARDBUS support turned on. WHen I run ./test_setup I get: debian:/usr/src/pcmcia-cs-3.1.31/debug-tools# ./test_setup Current kernel: 2.4.17 #6 Tue Feb 19 07:50:28 PST 2002 /lib/modules/2.4.17/pcmcia/pcmcia_core.o not found. The P

Re: Dell Inspiron 2500 PCMCIA issues

2002-02-21 Thread Derek Broughton
sageFool wrote: > Hi, so I compiled the kernel with the PCMCIA/CARDBUS support turned on. > > WHen I run ./test_setup I get: > > debian:/usr/src/pcmcia-cs-3.1.31/debug-tools# ./test_setup > Current kernel: 2.4.17 #6 Tue Feb 19 07:50:28 PST 2002 > /lib/modules/2.4.17/pcmcia/pcmcia_core.o not fo

Re: Dell Inspiron 2500 PCMCIA issues

2002-02-20 Thread sageFool
Hi, so I compiled the kernel with the PCMCIA/CARDBUS support turned on. WHen I run ./test_setup I get: debian:/usr/src/pcmcia-cs-3.1.31/debug-tools# ./test_setup Current kernel: 2.4.17 #6 Tue Feb 19 07:50:28 PST 2002 /lib/modules/2.4.17/pcmcia/pcmcia_core.o not found. The PCMCIA modules are no

Re: Dell Inspiron 2500 PCMCIA issues

2002-02-20 Thread sageFool
Hi, so I compiled the kernel with the PCMCIA/CARDBUS support turned on. WHen I run ./test_setup I get: debian:/usr/src/pcmcia-cs-3.1.31/debug-tools# ./test_setup Current kernel: 2.4.17 #6 Tue Feb 19 07:50:28 PST 2002 /lib/modules/2.4.17/pcmcia/pcmcia_core.o not found. The PCMCIA modules are n

Re: Dell Inspiron 2500 PCMCIA issues

2002-02-20 Thread Sol
Hi! I've just been working on the same problem ;) And one of the things I figured out was that it was very important that the pcmcia-cs package is to be found under /usr/src/modules/pcmcia-cs/ when you compiles the kernel and the modules. (in my place it was default put under /usr/src/pcmcia-cs

Re: Dell Inspiron 2500 PCMCIA issues

2002-02-20 Thread Derek Broughton
sageFool wrote: I have a Inspiron 2500, with debian/unstable installed on it. I'm running the 2.4.17 kernel (downloaded the source package and recompiled a million times) Me too, but I've only compiled about a thousand times :-) I have PCMCIA support turned off in the kernel and am using

Re: Dell Inspiron 2500 PCMCIA issues

2002-02-20 Thread Sol
Hi! I've just been working on the same problem ;) And one of the things I figured out was that it was very important that the pcmcia-cs package is to be found under /usr/src/modules/pcmcia-cs/ when you compiles the kernel and the modules. (in my place it was default put under /usr/src/pcmcia-c

Re: Dell Inspiron 2500 PCMCIA issues

2002-02-20 Thread Derek Broughton
sageFool wrote: > > I have a Inspiron 2500, with debian/unstable installed on it. I'm > running the 2.4.17 kernel (downloaded the source package and > recompiled a million times) Me too, but I've only compiled about a thousand times :-) > I have PCMCIA support turned off in the kernel and a