Re: DELL Inspiron 5000 wrong harddisk-size

Hi! I just installed potato to Dell Inspiron 7500 with a 18 GB disk with no problems. What kernel are you using? I think the older kernels won't support large drives. Also, take a look to Large-Disk-HOWTO. Hope this helps... Kari On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Klaus Drews wrote: > Hallo, > > I've got

Finding additional memory on Thinkpad 600

I added an additional 64 MB to my Thinkpad 600, for a total of 128 MB of memory. When booting, all 128 MB is visible, but when I boot Linux, only 64 MB is visible. tpctl -ic includes the following output. Does anyone know how to fix this problems laminaria:/home/kevin# tpctl -ic info from cmos

Re: New Sony VAIO support?

Hi, For the extra keys on a keyboard, if they are reported as exotic keycodes, you can make them recognized by the kernel with the "setkeycodes" command and then assign them new tasks with "loadkeys". See the man pages for further info (I have a Multimedia Trust keyboard with my desktop, th

Re: Finding additional memory on Thinkpad 600

Hi, It is a well-known fact that with 2.0.x kernels and more than 64Mb of RAM you have to add the "mem=XXX" parameter to the kernel when booting (check lilo.conf). If you are using bare slink, you should do it. If you are using a 2.2 kernel, then it's strange. "mem=XXX" never hurts, though

Re: New Sony VAIO support?

Was wondering if someone succeeded in having full apm support for the F30x models ? First time the laptop enters in sleep mode, it comes back properly, then when I renew the command I have a nice frozen computer (v.2.2.13 and 14). kernel 2.3.99 is under test now, but if someone had alread