Re: strange melting screen when X starts

2000-07-30 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
Once upon a time, I heard name say > Thanks for everybody's help! > > I've done it. I found an option in my BIOS setup called 'resolution > expended', and it was enabled by default. I disabled it and the melting > screen never show again. But there is a trade off. I can only get 640x480 > small

Re: Debian on a thinkpad i1540

2000-07-30 Thread Andrei Popov
--- Carlos Hernandez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have an IBM thinkpad i-series 1540 with a Netgear FA410tx pcmcia > card, I > want to install debian from the net, but I didn't have success > trying with > debian 2.1, It didn't recognize the pcmcia card. Any ideas? One: as stated in pcmcia doc

Help required: pcmcia-source/kernel-source-2.2.17 problems

2000-07-30 Thread Etienne M. Gagnon
Hi there! I am running a laptop with Debian unstable. Everything works fine with the stock kernel-image (2.2.17 pre 6) and related pcmcia-modules packages, but I'd like to build a custom kernel to add sound support. (To make myself clear: If I uses Debian's binary kernel & pcmcia packages, eve

vaio 505JE and ethernet + usb

2000-07-30 Thread Seth Daniel
All, I recently purchased a Sony Vaio PCG-Z505JE. There is a page for it off of the Linux Laptops page: http://larve.net/people/hugo/2000/07/linux-vaio Anyway, on several pages with similar laptops it is mentioned that the ``Plug And Play OS'' option (in the BIOS) needs to be turned off in o

problem of XFree4.0 and apm [WAS: strange melting screen when X starts]

2000-07-30 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
Since experimental XFree 4.0.1 deb is out, check x-strikeforce page. I just put it on my laptop which use trident cyber 9525dvd and have it run fine, mostly. The only problem I experienced is when I do apm stuffs wither suspend or standby then resume back, X would freeze up the whole machine, on

Re: strange melting screen when X starts

2000-07-30 Thread Alexander Clouter
On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, Chanop Silpa-Anan wrote: > > Use framebuffer, you will get full screen console mode at 800x600. > With both 2.2 & 2.4 kernel, I pass vga=0x315 as a kernel parameter via > either grub or lilo. Check lilo/grub/kernel document for more info. BTW, > it > seems that current kernel

Re: Help required: pcmcia-source/kernel-source-2.2.17 problem?

2000-07-30 Thread Alexander Clouter
you don't say what type of laptop you have. Some laptops don't use 100% Cardbus compatible protocols, so this hangs the machine. Recompile your pcmcia drivers with 32bit cardbus turned off. Hopefully this will solve your problems. Alex -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Help required: pcmcia-source/kernel-source-2.2.17 problem?

2000-07-30 Thread Etienne M. Gagnon
Hi Alexander, Alexander Clouter wrote: > you don't say what type of laptop you have. I have a Compaq Presario 1060, with a Linksys EtherFast 10/100 (PCMCIA) Ethernet card. > Some laptops don't use 100% Cardbus compatible protocols, so this hangs > the machine. Recompile your pcmcia drivers wit

Re: vaio 505JE and ethernet + usb

2000-07-30 Thread Hugo Haas
On Sun, Jul 30, 2000, Seth Daniel wrote: > Anyway, on several pages with similar laptops it is mentioned that > the ``Plug And Play OS'' option (in the BIOS) needs to be turned > off in order to use USB and sound. The problem is that when this > option is turned off I can't configure the internal

Re: Help required: pcmcia-source/kernel-source-2.2.17 problem?

2000-07-30 Thread Felix Kronlage
On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 04:18:12PM -0400, Etienne M. Gagnon wrote: [Cardbus-Support] > How do I turn this off? (This may be a dumb question, but I don't > remember seeing anything about Cardbus in "make xconfig"...) He meant, to turn that off recompiling the pcmcia-utils. Get the source of the

Re: Help required: pcmcia-source/kernel-source-2.2.17 problem?

2000-07-30 Thread Alexander Clouter
On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, Etienne M. Gagnon wrote: > > Alexander Clouter wrote: > > you don't say what type of laptop you have. > > I have a Compaq Presario 1060, with a Linksys EtherFast 10/100 (PCMCIA) > Ethernet card. > > > Some laptops don't use 100% Cardbus compatible protocols, so this hangs >

Re: strange melting screen when X starts

2000-07-30 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
Once upon a time, I heard name say > Thanks for everybody's help! > > I've done it. I found an option in my BIOS setup called 'resolution > expended', and it was enabled by default. I disabled it and the melting > screen never show again. But there is a trade off. I can only get 640x480 > small s

Re: Debian on a thinkpad i1540

2000-07-30 Thread Andrei Popov
--- Carlos Hernandez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have an IBM thinkpad i-series 1540 with a Netgear FA410tx pcmcia > card, I > want to install debian from the net, but I didn't have success > trying with > debian 2.1, It didn't recognize the pcmcia card. Any ideas? One: as stated in pcmcia docs

Re: Debian on a thinkpad i1540

2000-07-30 Thread Jack Morgan
Jens Helweg wrote: > > Carlos Hernandez wrote: > > > I have an IBM thinkpad i-series 1540 with a Netgear FA410tx pcmcia card, I > > want to install debian from the net, but I didn't have success trying with > > debian 2.1, It didn't recognize the pcmcia card. Any ideas? I used the boot disk for

Help required: pcmcia-source/kernel-source-2.2.17 problems

2000-07-30 Thread Etienne M. Gagnon
Hi there! I am running a laptop with Debian unstable. Everything works fine with the stock kernel-image (2.2.17 pre 6) and related pcmcia-modules packages, but I'd like to build a custom kernel to add sound support. (To make myself clear: If I uses Debian's binary kernel & pcmcia packages, ever

vaio 505JE and ethernet + usb

2000-07-30 Thread Seth Daniel
All, I recently purchased a Sony Vaio PCG-Z505JE. There is a page for it off of the Linux Laptops page: http://larve.net/people/hugo/2000/07/linux-vaio Anyway, on several pages with similar laptops it is mentioned that the ``Plug And Play OS'' option (in the BIOS) needs to be turned off in or

problem of XFree4.0 and apm [WAS: strange melting screen when X starts]

2000-07-30 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
Since experimental XFree 4.0.1 deb is out, check x-strikeforce page. I just put it on my laptop which use trident cyber 9525dvd and have it run fine, mostly. The only problem I experienced is when I do apm stuffs wither suspend or standby then resume back, X would freeze up the whole machine, onl

Re: strange melting screen when X starts

2000-07-30 Thread Alexander Clouter
On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, Chanop Silpa-Anan wrote: > > Use framebuffer, you will get full screen console mode at 800x600. > With both 2.2 & 2.4 kernel, I pass vga=0x315 as a kernel parameter via > either grub or lilo. Check lilo/grub/kernel document for more info. BTW, > it > seems that current kernel s

Re: Help required: pcmcia-source/kernel-source-2.2.17 problem?

2000-07-30 Thread Alexander Clouter
you don't say what type of laptop you have. Some laptops don't use 100% Cardbus compatible protocols, so this hangs the machine. Recompile your pcmcia drivers with 32bit cardbus turned off. Hopefully this will solve your problems. Alex

Re: Help required: pcmcia-source/kernel-source-2.2.17 problem?

2000-07-30 Thread Etienne M. Gagnon
Hi Alexander, Alexander Clouter wrote: > you don't say what type of laptop you have. I have a Compaq Presario 1060, with a Linksys EtherFast 10/100 (PCMCIA) Ethernet card. > Some laptops don't use 100% Cardbus compatible protocols, so this hangs > the machine. Recompile your pcmcia drivers with

Re: vaio 505JE and ethernet + usb

2000-07-30 Thread Hugo Haas
On Sun, Jul 30, 2000, Seth Daniel wrote: > Anyway, on several pages with similar laptops it is mentioned that > the ``Plug And Play OS'' option (in the BIOS) needs to be turned > off in order to use USB and sound. The problem is that when this > option is turned off I can't configure the internal

Re: Help required: pcmcia-source/kernel-source-2.2.17 problem?

2000-07-30 Thread Felix Kronlage
On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 04:18:12PM -0400, Etienne M. Gagnon wrote: [Cardbus-Support] > How do I turn this off? (This may be a dumb question, but I don't > remember seeing anything about Cardbus in "make xconfig"...) He meant, to turn that off recompiling the pcmcia-utils. Get the source of the p

Re: Debian on a thinkpad i1540

2000-07-30 Thread Jack Morgan
Jens Helweg wrote: > > Carlos Hernandez wrote: > > > I have an IBM thinkpad i-series 1540 with a Netgear FA410tx pcmcia card, I > > want to install debian from the net, but I didn't have success trying with > > debian 2.1, It didn't recognize the pcmcia card. Any ideas? I used the boot disk fo