Re: problems configuring X on my Dell laptop

2005-02-25 Thread João Paulo Vanzuita
i can't see vesa configuration in your XF86Config, you say that used dpkg-reconfigure, it creates XF86Config-4 , maybe xfree is reading your XF86Config-4 and not XF86Config. On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 18:55:15 -0800 Cyprian Laskowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I have recently installed

problems configuring X on my Dell laptop

2005-02-24 Thread Cyprian Laskowski
Hello, I have recently installed debian (sarge) on a Dell Inspiron 1150 with an XGA 15 inch monitor, and an Intel 852GM/GME/GMV (64MB) video controller. However, I have not been able to configure and successfully start X (version 4.3.0.1). I have very little experience with this, and am not comf

Re: How to enable the windows key on a dell laptop?

2005-02-24 Thread Kai Hildebrandt
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 20:53:14 -0500 Angelina Carlton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > I have a Dell inspiron 8200 and would like enable the windows key at > the bottom left of the kb, inbetween fn and alt. > > I installed xkeymap but it does not have maps for dell la

Re: How to enable the windows key on a dell laptop?

2005-02-24 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 20:53 -0500, Angelina Carlton wrote: > Hi > > I have a Dell inspiron 8200 and would like enable the windows key at > the bottom left of the kb, inbetween fn and alt. > > I installed xkeymap but it does not have maps for dell laptop kb's. > Th

How to enable the windows key on a dell laptop?

2005-02-23 Thread Angelina Carlton
Hi I have a Dell inspiron 8200 and would like enable the windows key at the bottom left of the kb, inbetween fn and alt. I installed xkeymap but it does not have maps for dell laptop kb's. The closest was "PC 104 wide delete, short enter" which isnt quite right but it does hav

Re: dell laptop

2004-08-08 Thread Paul Johnson
"Julie Boyden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I can't turn off the "blue keys". For instance, if I want to type the > letter "u" I get a 4. It works if I hold down the Fn key all the > timebut then I can't type with one hand! Can you help? Turn off number lock. pgpzssbXlr9Tq.pgp Descriptio

Re: dell laptop

2004-08-08 Thread MB
Do you have the "NumLk" on? That would cause the symtoms you describe on various dell laptops. Mark Julie Boyden wrote: Hi, I can't turn off the "blue keys". For instance, if I want to type the letter "u" I get a 4. It works if I hold down the Fn key all the timebut then I can't ty

dell laptop

2004-08-08 Thread Julie Boyden
Hi, I can't turn off the "blue keys". For instance, if I want to type the letter "u" I get a 4. It works if I hold down the Fn key all the timebut then I can't type with one hand! Can you help? Julie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) P.S. thanks if you can figure this out.

Re: dell laptop

2004-08-08 Thread Paul Johnson
"Julie Boyden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I can't turn off the "blue keys". For instance, if I want to type the > letter "u" I get a 4. It works if I hold down the Fn key all the > timebut then I can't type with one hand! Can you help? Turn off number lock. pgpTzXiTdE4vu.pgp Descriptio

Re: dell laptop

2004-08-08 Thread MB
Do you have the "NumLk" on? That would cause the symtoms you describe on various dell laptops. Mark Julie Boyden wrote: Hi, I can't turn off the "blue keys". For instance, if I want to type the letter "u" I get a 4. It works if I hold down the Fn key all the timebut then I can't type wit

dell laptop

2004-08-08 Thread Julie Boyden
Hi, I can't turn off the "blue keys". For instance, if I want to type the letter "u" I get a 4. It works if I hold down the Fn key all the timebut then I can't type with one hand! Can you help? Julie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) P.S. thanks if you can figure this out. _

Re: Dell Laptop comparison

2004-04-12 Thread Eric Peterson
Michael, I just upgraded from a Dell 7500 to a 5100 - graphics are nice and it installed without much trouble (and dual-head worked perfectly until my last debian upgrade :-(. The only thing that doesn't seem to be working is suspend-mode - and I don't care enough about that t

Re: Dell Laptop comparison

2004-04-12 Thread Andrew Porter
On Mon, 2004-04-12 at 21:46, Michael K O'Brien wrote: > Anyway, if anyone on this list has strong opinions about running Debian on the > Inspiron 8600 or M60, I'd like to hear them. Not too sure abot the 8600 but i've had unstable on my 8500 for the last 8 months and am very please with it - ever

Dell Laptop comparison

2004-04-12 Thread Michael K O'Brien
Hola~ I've had a Dell Inspiron 8000 for a couple of years. I've been running Debian unstable and MS Win2k with great success with both OS's. Other than the weight and the graphics chip (I bought mine when Dell only shipped the Inspiron with the ATI Mobility chip), I've had a great experience with

Re: Dell Laptop comparison

2004-04-12 Thread Eric Peterson
Michael, I just upgraded from a Dell 7500 to a 5100 - graphics are nice and it installed without much trouble (and dual-head worked perfectly until my last debian upgrade :-(. The only thing that doesn't seem to be working is suspend-mode - and I don't care enough about that t

Re: Dell Laptop comparison

2004-04-12 Thread Andrew Porter
On Mon, 2004-04-12 at 21:46, Michael K O'Brien wrote: > Anyway, if anyone on this list has strong opinions about running Debian on the > Inspiron 8600 or M60, I'd like to hear them. Not too sure abot the 8600 but i've had unstable on my 8500 for the last 8 months and am very please with it - ever

Dell Laptop comparison

2004-04-12 Thread Michael K O'Brien
Hola~ I've had a Dell Inspiron 8000 for a couple of years. I've been running Debian unstable and MS Win2k with great success with both OS's. Other than the weight and the graphics chip (I bought mine when Dell only shipped the Inspiron with the ATI Mobility chip), I've had a great experience with

Re: Video out of Dell laptop

2004-04-07 Thread François TOURDE
Le 12516ième jour après Epoch, Stephane Provost écrivait: > "repasser" is "to iron" > > :) > > comme en Francais, "passer le fer a repasser" :) Merci beaucoup :) Je sais pas si ma femme en sera fière, mais en tout cas, je suis heureux de pouvoir replacer ça ;) D'autant plus que je suis un lamer

RE: Video out of Dell laptop

2004-04-07 Thread Provost, Stephane
"repasser" is "to iron" :) comme en Francais, "passer le fer a repasser" :) --Stéphane -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 3:58 PM To: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Video out

Re: Video out of Dell laptop

2004-04-07 Thread Alex Martin
://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=linux+video+out+for+dell+laptop Goes here: http://www.whacked.net/ldl/faq/ Ends here: http://freshmeat.net/projects/atitvout Gotta love google. Give it a try. Alex Martin http://www.rettc.com - Original Message - From: &

Re: Video out of Dell laptop

2004-04-07 Thread François TOURDE
Le 12515ième jour après Epoch, Jaap Haitsma écrivait: > Hi, > > Is there anybody out there who has the video out of their Dell Laptop > working under Linux (my laptop is a Latitude C600)? What do you mean by video? I'm using my Dell C840 as a DVD player when my wife "repa

Re: Video out of Dell laptop

2004-04-07 Thread François TOURDE
Le 12516ième jour après Epoch, Stephane Provost écrivait: > "repasser" is "to iron" > > :) > > comme en Francais, "passer le fer a repasser" :) Merci beaucoup :) Je sais pas si ma femme en sera fière, mais en tout cas, je suis heureux de pouvoir replacer ça ;) D'autant plus que je suis un lamer

Video out of Dell laptop

2004-04-07 Thread Jaap Haitsma
Hi, Is there anybody out there who has the video out of their Dell Laptop working under Linux (my laptop is a Latitude C600)? How should I get this working?? Thanks Jaap

RE: Video out of Dell laptop

2004-04-07 Thread Provost, Stephane
"repasser" is "to iron" :) comme en Francais, "passer le fer a repasser" :) --Stéphane -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 3:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Video out of Dell la

Re: Video out of Dell laptop

2004-04-07 Thread Alex Martin
://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=linux+video+out+for+dell+laptop Goes here: http://www.whacked.net/ldl/faq/ Ends here: http://freshmeat.net/projects/atitvout Gotta love google. Give it a try. Alex Martin http://www.rettc.com - Original Message - From: &

Re: Video out of Dell laptop

2004-04-07 Thread François TOURDE
Le 12515ième jour après Epoch, Jaap Haitsma écrivait: > Hi, > > Is there anybody out there who has the video out of their Dell Laptop > working under Linux (my laptop is a Latitude C600)? What do you mean by video? I'm using my Dell C840 as a DVD player when my wife "repa

Video out of Dell laptop

2004-04-07 Thread Jaap Haitsma
Hi, Is there anybody out there who has the video out of their Dell Laptop working under Linux (my laptop is a Latitude C600)? How should I get this working?? Thanks Jaap -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dell laptop support and i8kutils on a I7500?

2004-03-22 Thread Jerome BENOIT
I have a Dell Inspiron 8200 running with 2.4.24: it is Ok. Futhermore i8kutils seems to work (to be franck I do not like to use it). Have you try google ? hth, Jerome Kai Klesatschke wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, works the dell laptop support within kernel 2.4

dell laptop support and i8kutils on a I7500?

2004-03-22 Thread Kai Klesatschke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, works the dell laptop support within kernel 2.4 with a Inspiron 7500? And do the i8kutils work properly? Are their any workarounds or similar packages? Kai -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG

Re: dell laptop support and i8kutils on a I7500?

2004-03-22 Thread Jerome BENOIT
I have a Dell Inspiron 8200 running with 2.4.24: it is Ok. Futhermore i8kutils seems to work (to be franck I do not like to use it). Have you try google ? hth, Jerome Kai Klesatschke wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, works the dell laptop support within kernel 2.4 with

dell laptop support and i8kutils on a I7500?

2004-03-22 Thread Kai Klesatschke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, works the dell laptop support within kernel 2.4 with a Inspiron 7500? And do the i8kutils work properly? Are their any workarounds or similar packages? Kai -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with

Re: [kernel 2.4.19] X hangs when logging out on Dell laptop

2002-11-16 Thread Christian G. Warden
On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 01:14:12PM -0500, Jeremy Petzold wrote: > dri comes with x-window-system. I don't understand why you are having > troubles unless you are using an unsupported card. i believe it's because xfree86 4.2.1 doesn't include the patch to get more than the 1MB of video ram allocate

Re: [kernel 2.4.19] X hangs when logging out on Dell laptop

2002-11-16 Thread Jeremy Petzold
p" Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2002 1:09 PM Subject: Re: [kernel 2.4.19] X hangs when logging out on Dell laptop > On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 12:36:28PM +0100, Preben Randhol wrote: > > Hi > > > > I upgraded from 2.4.17 to 2.4.19, and it works except for that when I >

Re: [kernel 2.4.19] X hangs when logging out on Dell laptop

2002-11-16 Thread Christian G. Warden
On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 12:36:28PM +0100, Preben Randhol wrote: > Hi > > I upgraded from 2.4.17 to 2.4.19, and it works except for that when I > log out from Gnome the kernel cannot manage to restart the X server. It > looks to be a problem with the i810 chip support. I have tried different > comp

Re: [kernel 2.4.19] X hangs when logging out on Dell laptop

2002-11-16 Thread Christian G. Warden
On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 01:14:12PM -0500, Jeremy Petzold wrote: > dri comes with x-window-system. I don't understand why you are having > troubles unless you are using an unsupported card. i believe it's because xfree86 4.2.1 doesn't include the patch to get more than the 1MB of video ram allocate

Re: [kernel 2.4.19] X hangs when logging out on Dell laptop

2002-11-16 Thread Jeremy Petzold
Laptop" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2002 1:09 PM Subject: Re: [kernel 2.4.19] X hangs when logging out on Dell laptop > On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 12:36:28PM +0100, Preben Randhol wrote: > > Hi > > > > I upgraded from 2.4.17 to 2.4.19, and it works

Re: [kernel 2.4.19] X hangs when logging out on Dell laptop

2002-11-16 Thread Christian G. Warden
On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 12:36:28PM +0100, Preben Randhol wrote: > Hi > > I upgraded from 2.4.17 to 2.4.19, and it works except for that when I > log out from Gnome the kernel cannot manage to restart the X server. It > looks to be a problem with the i810 chip support. I have tried different > comp

[kernel 2.4.19] X hangs when logging out on Dell laptop

2002-11-16 Thread Preben Randhol
Hi I upgraded from 2.4.17 to 2.4.19, and it works except for that when I log out from Gnome the kernel cannot manage to restart the X server. It looks to be a problem with the i810 chip support. I have tried different compile combinations, but none seem to help. Have other also experienced this?

[kernel 2.4.19] X hangs when logging out on Dell laptop

2002-11-16 Thread Preben Randhol
Hi I upgraded from 2.4.17 to 2.4.19, and it works except for that when I log out from Gnome the kernel cannot manage to restart the X server. It looks to be a problem with the i810 chip support. I have tried different compile combinations, but none seem to help. Have other also experienced this?

Re: Dell Laptop

2002-09-26 Thread Preben Randhol
Derek Broughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 26/09/2002 (14:50) : > > > Im wondering can you help me, Ive having the same problem with my > Laptop. > > > Its a Inspirion 2500, and Im getting the fan error. Once i get back from > > What fan error? What same problem? None of the Inspiron problems

Re: Dell Laptop

2002-09-26 Thread Derek Broughton
> > Im wondering can you help me, Ive having the same problem with my Laptop. > > Its a Inspirion 2500, and Im getting the fan error. Once i get back from What fan error? What same problem? None of the Inspiron problems I've seen here recently had anything to do with a fan. ime, the fan on an i

Re: Dell Laptop

2002-09-26 Thread Preben Randhol
Derek Broughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 26/09/2002 (14:50) : > > > Im wondering can you help me, Ive having the same problem with my > Laptop. > > > Its a Inspirion 2500, and Im getting the fan error. Once i get back from > > What fan error? What same problem? None of the Inspiron problems

Re: Dell Laptop

2002-09-26 Thread Derek Broughton
> > Im wondering can you help me, Ive having the same problem with my Laptop. > > Its a Inspirion 2500, and Im getting the fan error. Once i get back from What fan error? What same problem? None of the Inspiron problems I've seen here recently had anything to do with a fan. ime, the fan on an

Dell Laptop

2002-09-26 Thread Rory Mooney
> Hi Debian, > Im wondering can you help me, Ive having a problem with my Laptop. Its a > Inspirion 2500, and Im getting the fan error. Once i get back from > holidays Ill be able to send it in for repair, but the question I have for > you is. Is it dangerous to be working the Laptop while this "F

Dell Laptop

2002-09-26 Thread Rory Mooney
> Hi Debian, > Im wondering can you help me, Ive having a problem with my Laptop. Its a > Inspirion 2500, and Im getting the fan error. Once i get back from > holidays Ill be able to send it in for repair, but the question I have for > you is. Is it dangerous to be working the Laptop while this "

RE: Re: [SLUG] Dell Laptop with Potato

2001-03-08 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
@slug.org.au, debian-laptop@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: [SLUG] Dell Laptop with Potato Bill, I got one these for work yesterday and now have a happy Debian system. The only issue I know of and haven't tried to get working yet is that Potato does not have support for the audio chipset - Maestro 3

RE: Re: [SLUG] Dell Laptop with Potato

2001-03-08 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SLUG] Dell Laptop with Potato Bill, I got one these for work yesterday and now have a happy Debian system. The only issue I know of and haven't tried to get working yet is that Potato does not have support for the audio chipset - Maestro 3 - and

Re: [SLUG] Dell Laptop with Potato

2001-03-08 Thread Craige McWhirter
ch as 256MB RAM, PIII850, 20GB IDE HDD, > etc. > > I was just wandering if anyone has bought a Dell laptop similar to the > spec above. If so, how smooth does debian potato run on these machines? > > Your reply would be much appreciated. > > cheers

Re: [SLUG] Dell Laptop with Potato

2001-03-08 Thread Craige McWhirter
ch as 256MB RAM, PIII850, 20GB IDE HDD, > etc. > > I was just wandering if anyone has bought a Dell laptop similar to the > spec above. If so, how smooth does debian potato run on these machines? > > Your reply would be much appreciated. > > cheers

Re: Dell Laptop with Potato

2001-03-08 Thread Steve Dobson
. > > I was just wandering if anyone has bought a Dell laptop similar to the > spec above. If so, how smooth does debian potato run on these machines? > > Your reply would be much appreciated. > I have two Dells running Debian - no real bother. If you c

Re: Dell Laptop with Potato

2001-03-08 Thread Steve Dobson
. > > I was just wandering if anyone has bought a Dell laptop similar to the > spec above. If so, how smooth does debian potato run on these machines? > > Your reply would be much appreciated. > I have two Dells running Debian - no real bother. If you c

Dell Laptop with Potato

2001-03-08 Thread Bill Shui
Hi there, I am thinking of buying a laptop for work/uni, etc. I came across the Dell Latitude C600 series. With some modification such as 256MB RAM, PIII850, 20GB IDE HDD, etc. I was just wandering if anyone has bought a Dell laptop similar to the

Dell Laptop with Potato

2001-03-08 Thread Bill Shui
Hi there, I am thinking of buying a laptop for work/uni, etc. I came across the Dell Latitude C600 series. With some modification such as 256MB RAM, PIII850, 20GB IDE HDD, etc. I was just wandering if anyone has bought a Dell laptop similar to the