Re: Good window manager for laptop

2000-09-19 Thread Daniel Reuter
Hello there, I could also recommend the ones others have recommended: * blackbox: nice, lightweight * uwm (from ude): used it for some time, this one is really lightweight, smallest memory footprint of the windowmanagers I already used (blackbox, fvwm, windowmaker, sawfish, icewm, uwm), and still

LinModems

2000-09-19 Thread Patrick Cherry
Hi, I ahve an Acer TravelMate 521, which contains a Lucent WinModem. Allegedly the modem sits in the equivalent of the AMR slot. I compiled Richard Cross's ltmodem utility, which can detect PCI or ISA versions of the utility, but how do I detect the modem in an AMR slot? I know that in some peop

Re: LinModems

2000-09-19 Thread Tobias Bachmor
Hi Patrick, > I ahve an Acer TravelMate 521, which contains a Lucent WinModem. > Allegedly the modem sits in the equivalent of the AMR slot. I compiled > Richard Cross's ltmodem utility, which can detect PCI or ISA versions of > the utility, but how do I detect the modem in an AMR slot? I know t

Re: printing ascii files

2000-09-19 Thread kmself
On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 01:18:21PM -0400, Anand Saxena ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi everybody, > > This should be an easy one to answer. When I print ascii files, I often > get word-overflow. In other words, a word at the end of a line gets > split between that line and the next like this: >

Re: LinModems

2000-09-19 Thread Patrick Cherry
Hi Tobias, > Nevertheless the kernel-module 'ltmodem.o' provided by Lucent did (and > does!) > work without problems. You should take a look at > > http://www.linmodems.org/ > > if you have not done so already. Well, I did look at that but I had problems loading the module. First it complain

Damage line on screen

2000-09-19 Thread Clare Johnstone
Dear All, A vertical damage line (single column of pixels showing red on black background) has appeared on my screen exactly at the centre which is luckily between the 2 windows I normally use. Is it possible I have done this by some error in /etc/X11/XF86Config? (I had to guess HorizSync at 31.5

Re: Compaq Presario drive replacement?

2000-09-19 Thread Mikel
When we do such in my shop we use an adapter from the laptop ide interface to a standard ide...then clone the drive onto a regular size drive. Once we are satisfied that the system is aok we then reverse the process substituting the new laptop drive. The whole process can take approximately two

Re: PCMCIA modules - custom kernel - unresolved symbols

2000-09-19 Thread Ole Sebastian Stein
On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, matthschulz wrote: > > I get unresolved symbols in these modules: > > epic_cb.o and parport_cs.o > > in /lib/modules/2.2.17/pcmcia/ > > when I compile a custom kernel. I have tried to compile the PCMCIA modules > > as well (not using the pcmcia-modules package) but that doesn't

Re: alsa sound on vaio (neomagic 256qv) chipset / ymfpci

2000-09-19 Thread Noah Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I think you're on the right track here. I ran in to the exact same problem with ALSA on my PCG-XG28 (or whatever it is) with the same audio hardware. It turned out that I had everything set up just fine in Linux and that I needed to change a BIOS

Re: Damage line on screen

2000-09-19 Thread Kero van Gelder
> A vertical damage line (single column of pixels showing red on black > background) has appeared on my screen exactly at the centre which is > luckily between the 2 windows I normally use. Hm... What do you mean with ``black background''? If it is one column... > Is it possible I have done this

lucent modem on a toshiba satellite

2000-09-19 Thread nagreen
Hi, all. I was wondering if anyone here has tried to install the Lucent modem driver onto a toshiba satellite 2210/cdt. (if you didn't know, lucent recently released a linux driver for their lt winmodem chipset). I think that the install program was written for redhat or one of the other "eas

Re: Good window manager for laptop

2000-09-19 Thread kmself
On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 02:16:43PM -0400, Harry Henry Gebel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I have a Pentium 90 laptop with 16MB of memory running Mandrake Linux > and XFCE. I am planning on putting Debian on this laptop, and since I > don't have any permanent data stored on it I will just completely

Re: alsa sound on vaio (neomagic 256qv) chipset / ymfpci

2000-09-19 Thread Bruno Waes
i found what was the problem i wasnt in the audio group ... but what is strange is that in xmms i cant change the volume of an mp3 ? is this normal, or is there any way to change the volume by another tool ? thanks bruno - Original Message - From: "Noah Meyerhans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To

Re: lucent modem on a toshiba satellite

2000-09-19 Thread Joerg Braukhoff
On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 11:08:34AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, all. I was wondering if anyone here has tried to install the Lucent > modem driver onto a toshiba satellite 2210/cdt. (if you didn't know, lucent > recently released a linux driver for their lt winmodem chipset). > > I th

Re: LinModems

2000-09-19 Thread Russell Coker
On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Tobias Bachmor wrote: >Hi Patrick, > >> I ahve an Acer TravelMate 521, which contains a Lucent WinModem. >> Allegedly the modem sits in the equivalent of the AMR slot. I compiled >> Richard Cross's ltmodem utility, which can detect PCI or ISA versions of >> the utility, but ho

Re: LinModems

2000-09-19 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 07:33:21AM -0100, Tobias Bachmor wrote: > Nevertheless the kernel-module 'ltmodem.o' provided by Lucent did (and > does!) work without problems. You should take a look at > As many infortunate owners of LT winmodems are discovering, the ltmodem.o works only up to 2.2.14.

Re: lucent modem on a toshiba satellite

2000-09-19 Thread m.nine.six
Joerg Braukhoff wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 11:08:34AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, all. I was wondering if anyone here has tried to install the Lucent > > modem driver onto a toshiba satellite 2210/cdt. (if you didn't know, > > lucent recently released a linux driver for the

Re: hibernation mode does not work

2000-09-19 Thread m.nine.six
hi, i have a thinkpad 570. to use the hibernation mode you have to install the dos hibernation utility which comes from ibm. the hibernation file should be on it's own partition. as far as i know the utility creates its own partition (it should be primary and somekind of fat16 also called "ibm th

Re: LinModems

2000-09-19 Thread m.nine.six
Francesco Bochicchio wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 07:33:21AM -0100, Tobias Bachmor wrote: > > > Nevertheless the kernel-module 'ltmodem.o' provided by Lucent did (and > > does!) work without problems. You should take a look at > > > As many infortunate owners of LT winmodems are discovering

Re: LinModems

2000-09-19 Thread m.nine.six
Russell Coker wrote: > Is there any working open-source code for this? If so I can port it to 2.4.0 > myself. Otherwise is there any support for 2.4.0 coming from Lucent? as far as i know there is only gpl source is on http://www.close.u-net.com/ltmodem.html and the lucent doesn't support the e

Re: lucent modem on a toshiba satellite

2000-09-19 Thread m.nine.six
"m.nine.six" wrote: > > Joerg Braukhoff wrote: > > > > On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 11:08:34AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Hi, all. I was wondering if anyone here has tried to install the Lucent > > > modem driver onto a toshiba satellite 2210/cdt. (if you didn't know, > > > lucent recent

Re: Good window manager for laptop

2000-09-19 Thread jeff
Why not just use twm? It works well in 8-bit color, and can be easily customized in it's .twmrc file. It's not gorgeous (like enlightnment), or really useful (like window maker). But it works and if you throw gnome on top of it, it's pretty slick. It has it's annoyances of course, but don't the

Re: Good window manager for laptop

2000-09-19 Thread Daniel Reuter
Hello there, I could also recommend the ones others have recommended: * blackbox: nice, lightweight * uwm (from ude): used it for some time, this one is really lightweight, smallest memory footprint of the windowmanagers I already used (blackbox, fvwm, windowmaker, sawfish, icewm, uwm), and stil

LinModems

2000-09-19 Thread Patrick Cherry
Hi, I ahve an Acer TravelMate 521, which contains a Lucent WinModem. Allegedly the modem sits in the equivalent of the AMR slot. I compiled Richard Cross's ltmodem utility, which can detect PCI or ISA versions of the utility, but how do I detect the modem in an AMR slot? I know that in some peo

Re: LinModems

2000-09-19 Thread Tobias Bachmor
Hi Patrick, > I ahve an Acer TravelMate 521, which contains a Lucent WinModem. > Allegedly the modem sits in the equivalent of the AMR slot. I compiled > Richard Cross's ltmodem utility, which can detect PCI or ISA versions of > the utility, but how do I detect the modem in an AMR slot? I know

Re: printing ascii files

2000-09-19 Thread kmself
On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 01:18:21PM -0400, Anand Saxena ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi everybody, > > This should be an easy one to answer. When I print ascii files, I often > get word-overflow. In other words, a word at the end of a line gets > split between that line and the next like this: >

Re: LinModems

2000-09-19 Thread Patrick Cherry
Hi Tobias, > Nevertheless the kernel-module 'ltmodem.o' provided by Lucent did (and > does!) > work without problems. You should take a look at > > http://www.linmodems.org/ > > if you have not done so already. Well, I did look at that but I had problems loading the module. First it complai

Damage line on screen

2000-09-19 Thread Clare Johnstone
Dear All, A vertical damage line (single column of pixels showing red on black background) has appeared on my screen exactly at the centre which is luckily between the 2 windows I normally use. Is it possible I have done this by some error in /etc/X11/XF86Config? (I had to guess HorizSync at 31.

Re: Compaq Presario drive replacement?

2000-09-19 Thread Mikel
When we do such in my shop we use an adapter from the laptop ide interface to a standard ide...then clone the drive onto a regular size drive. Once we are satisfied that the system is aok we then reverse the process substituting the new laptop drive. The whole process can take approximately tw

Re: PCMCIA modules - custom kernel - unresolved symbols

2000-09-19 Thread Ole Sebastian Stein
On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, matthschulz wrote: > > I get unresolved symbols in these modules: > > epic_cb.o and parport_cs.o > > in /lib/modules/2.2.17/pcmcia/ > > when I compile a custom kernel. I have tried to compile the PCMCIA modules > > as well (not using the pcmcia-modules package) but that doesn'

Re: alsa sound on vaio (neomagic 256qv) chipset / ymfpci

2000-09-19 Thread Noah Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I think you're on the right track here. I ran in to the exact same problem with ALSA on my PCG-XG28 (or whatever it is) with the same audio hardware. It turned out that I had everything set up just fine in Linux and that I needed to change a BIOS

Re: Damage line on screen

2000-09-19 Thread Kero van Gelder
> A vertical damage line (single column of pixels showing red on black > background) has appeared on my screen exactly at the centre which is > luckily between the 2 windows I normally use. Hm... What do you mean with ``black background''? If it is one column... > Is it possible I have done thi

lucent modem on a toshiba satellite

2000-09-19 Thread nagreen
Hi, all. I was wondering if anyone here has tried to install the Lucent modem driver onto a toshiba satellite 2210/cdt. (if you didn't know, lucent recently released a linux driver for their lt winmodem chipset). I think that the install program was written for redhat or one of the other "eas

Re: Good window manager for laptop

2000-09-19 Thread kmself
On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 02:16:43PM -0400, Harry Henry Gebel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I have a Pentium 90 laptop with 16MB of memory running Mandrake Linux > and XFCE. I am planning on putting Debian on this laptop, and since I > don't have any permanent data stored on it I will just completely

Re: alsa sound on vaio (neomagic 256qv) chipset / ymfpci

2000-09-19 Thread Bruno Waes
i found what was the problem i wasnt in the audio group ... but what is strange is that in xmms i cant change the volume of an mp3 ? is this normal, or is there any way to change the volume by another tool ? thanks bruno - Original Message - From: "Noah Meyerhans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> T

Re: lucent modem on a toshiba satellite

2000-09-19 Thread Joerg Braukhoff
On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 11:08:34AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, all. I was wondering if anyone here has tried to install the Lucent modem >driver onto a toshiba satellite 2210/cdt. (if you didn't know, lucent recently >released a linux driver for their lt winmodem chipset). > > I thi

Re: LinModems

2000-09-19 Thread Russell Coker
On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Tobias Bachmor wrote: >Hi Patrick, > >> I ahve an Acer TravelMate 521, which contains a Lucent WinModem. >> Allegedly the modem sits in the equivalent of the AMR slot. I compiled >> Richard Cross's ltmodem utility, which can detect PCI or ISA versions of >> the utility, but h

Re: LinModems

2000-09-19 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 07:33:21AM -0100, Tobias Bachmor wrote: > Nevertheless the kernel-module 'ltmodem.o' provided by Lucent did (and > does!) work without problems. You should take a look at > As many infortunate owners of LT winmodems are discovering, the ltmodem.o works only up to 2.2.14.

Re: lucent modem on a toshiba satellite

2000-09-19 Thread m.nine.six
Joerg Braukhoff wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 11:08:34AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, all. I was wondering if anyone here has tried to install the Lucent modem >driver onto a toshiba satellite 2210/cdt. (if you didn't know, lucent recently >released a linux driver for their lt

Re: hibernation mode does not work

2000-09-19 Thread m.nine.six
hi, i have a thinkpad 570. to use the hibernation mode you have to install the dos hibernation utility which comes from ibm. the hibernation file should be on it's own partition. as far as i know the utility creates its own partition (it should be primary and somekind of fat16 also called "ibm t

Re: LinModems

2000-09-19 Thread m.nine.six
Francesco Bochicchio wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 07:33:21AM -0100, Tobias Bachmor wrote: > > > Nevertheless the kernel-module 'ltmodem.o' provided by Lucent did (and > > does!) work without problems. You should take a look at > > > As many infortunate owners of LT winmodems are discoverin

Re: LinModems

2000-09-19 Thread m.nine.six
Russell Coker wrote: > Is there any working open-source code for this? If so I can port it to 2.4.0 > myself. Otherwise is there any support for 2.4.0 coming from Lucent? as far as i know there is only gpl source is on http://www.close.u-net.com/ltmodem.html and the lucent doesn't support the

Re: lucent modem on a toshiba satellite

2000-09-19 Thread m.nine.six
"m.nine.six" wrote: > > Joerg Braukhoff wrote: > > > > On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 11:08:34AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Hi, all. I was wondering if anyone here has tried to install the Lucent modem >driver onto a toshiba satellite 2210/cdt. (if you didn't know, lucent recently >releas

Re: Good window manager for laptop

2000-09-19 Thread jeff
Why not just use twm? It works well in 8-bit color, and can be easily customized in it's .twmrc file. It's not gorgeous (like enlightnment), or really useful (like window maker). But it works and if you throw gnome on top of it, it's pretty slick. It has it's annoyances of course, but don't th

Re: Damage line on screen

2000-09-19 Thread Clare Johnstone
Sorry Kero, I sort of assumed on a laptop list that you would expect it to be an lcd. and yes, I think suddenly, as in I noticed it once it was there. Until I bring up the X-window manager - i.e. at the just booted stage, the screen is black with whitish words on it. I was unable to find anything

RE: Ethernet card.

2000-09-19 Thread Sreekanth Narasimhan
Dear Sir, I have a toshiba laptop. (Satellite 4020 cdt). I have to buy a ethernet card for this for the dsl line connection. Coould you please tell me if there is a particular configuration i must look for (only for laptops), and as to where i can buy and one. Can i install it myself ? Thanking