Flashing screen in X with Chips 65540

2000-01-26 Thread Christian Rishøj
Hi, When running X in 15 bpp or more using the xfree86 server and the specific model "chips 65540" on my Acernote 350 a lot of "trash" occurs on the screen when moving the mouse pointer or when there is any acticity on the screen. This can be fixed by entering the text-mode hardware APM configu

eeek!! I deleted /var/lib/var !!

2000-01-26 Thread Drew Parsons
Ouch! I need help! I just accidentally deleted /var/lib/dpkg (don't ask), and now dpkg (and hence dselect) doesn't have a clue what I've got installed. And to make things worse, apt-get calmly thinks everything is in perfect order, and says 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove an

Re: eeek!! I deleted /var/lib/var !!

2000-01-26 Thread Yann Vernier
On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 08:24:38PM -0800, Drew Parsons wrote: > And when I try to reinstall from dselect, it proceeds to download all the > files, but then as soon as it tries to unpack them, it says > > Unpacking ldso (from .../ldso_1.9.11-5_i386.deb) ... > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/a

Re: Flashing screen in X with Chips 65540

2000-01-26 Thread Daniel Reuter
Hello there, > When running X in 15 bpp or more using the xfree86 server and the > specific model "chips 65540" on my Acernote 350 a lot of "trash" occurs > on the screen when moving the mouse pointer or when there is any > acticity on the screen. I encountered a similiar problem with a chips&tec

Re: Flashing screen in X with Chips 65540

2000-01-26 Thread Christian Rishøj
Daniel Reuter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Similar case with me: When I do a LCD/CRT hardware switch (Fn+F5) and back > again, the problem is fixed, and X runs well. But terminating X, the > console, from which I started X, is crumbled and I have to do the same > again. I grabbed this from the

RE: Can't use dselect to read CD after compiling kernel 2.2.13

2000-01-26 Thread jvicente
I´ve tried this, but it didn't work. Somebody in the spanish list gave me a solution. I will try it and comment later. Destinatarios: JUAN VICENTE/BANELCO/AR CC: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org Asunto: RE: Can't use dselect to read CD after compiling kernel 2.2.13 Content-type: text/p

Re: Can't use dselect to read CD after compiling kernel 2.2.13

2000-01-26 Thread Russell Coker
On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I have an ATAPI CD on my Thinkpad 390E, and after compiling the kernel >2.2.13 it doesn't work under dselect. > >I have tried to compile it as a module and built-into the kernel, but I >have no success. > >The problem is only with dselect, because I ca

sound for Armada 4131T

2000-01-26 Thread Richard Hinojos
i'm trying to get sound configured for my Compaq Armada 4131T. has anyone on the list successfully done this? i'm running Corel Linux (based on Debian), kernel 2.2.12. i've tried adding sound support to the kernel, but i'm not having much luck; i'm new to Linux. any help would be app

Re: Flashing screen in X with Chips 65540

2000-01-26 Thread Daniel Reuter
On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Christian Rishøj wrote: > I grabbed this from the Xfree86 website: > > "Textmode is not properly restored > This has been reported on some configurations. Many laptops use the > programmable clock of the 6554x chips at the console. It is not always > possible to find out the

Re: eeek!! I deleted /var/lib/var !!

2000-01-26 Thread Drew Parsons
On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 09:41:53AM +0100, Yann Vernier wrote: > You need the info directory. Here's a listing of subdirectories > to /var/lib/dpkg (on my system): > /var/lib/dpkg/info > /var/lib/dpkg/updates > /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives > /var/lib/dpkg/methods > /var/lib/dpkg/methods/dis

Hmm...

2000-01-26 Thread Tim Sailer
I just picked up a Dell Latitude CPt, and so far so good, with one exception... I have a Xircom RealPort (tm) CardBus Ethernet 10/100+Modem 56 card, and, although it's found by the potato pcmcia stuff, the card doesn't pass packets. Until... I did ifconfig -a, and noticed that it was racking up a l

Sound on IBM Thinkpad 390E

2000-01-26 Thread Bryan K. Walton
Hello to the list, I am trying to get sound to work on my IBM Thinkpad 390E running Debian 2.1. I have been unable to get sound to work until very recently. I was told that I could type the following, as root, upon bootup, to make sound work: insmod soundcore insmod esssolo1 mixctrl 7 0