Re: screen goes black

2000-12-20 Thread Thomas Vogels
Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I did install a new X server (ver 4.0) at the same time. But the problem > also occurs in console mode with no X server running. hm, you never even touch X? What I mean is, if you boot into single user mode, where you're sure X has no chance of st

Problems getting mouse to work

2000-12-20 Thread Jonathan Sunderland
Title: Jonathan Stationery I've installed and configured Linux, and got the X display to work (albeit in lo-res) but I get problems with the mouse.   I'm running on a Dell Latitude XPi with trackball, whenever I move the mouse it shoots to the top corner and "jiggles" about. Reading elsewher

Re: Problems getting mouse to work

2000-12-20 Thread Yuan An
Hi, I got the same problem when I first intalled Debian on my laptop(Dell latitude CPi), but I fixed it: try different mouse type such that "microsoft" "PS/2" and different device "/dev/gpmdata" "/dev/psaux". One of combinations will fit your mouse. Good luck. yuan On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, Jonathan

Re: Problems getting mouse to work

2000-12-20 Thread xsdg
On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 03:02:43PM -, Jonathan Sunderland wrote: > Jonathan StationeryI've installed and configured Linux, and got the X > display to work (albeit in lo-res) but I get problems with the mouse. > > I'm running on a Dell Latitude XPi with trackball, whenever I move the mouse > it

eth0 (Xircon) does not exist

2000-12-20 Thread Alberto Bigazzi
Dear all, I've got a pcmcia ethernet+modem card which I'm trying hard to setup with very poor outcome: > ifconfig eth0 eth0: error fetching interface information: Device not found Here is some debug output. Does anyone out there see what I'm doing wrong? Thanks very much. Alberto.

RE: Problems getting mouse to work

2000-12-20 Thread Jonathan Sunderland
Thanks, There's no /dev/gpmdata - have I missed something out on the install? Jonathan -Original Message- From: Yuan An [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 20 December 2000 15:34 To: Jonathan Sunderland Cc: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Problems getting mouse to work Hi, I got

Re: eth0 (Xircon) does not exist

2000-12-20 Thread Jon Middleton
On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 05:31:15PM +0100, Alberto Bigazzi wrote: > > Dear all, > > I've got a pcmcia ethernet+modem card which I'm trying hard to setup with > very poor outcome: > >> ifconfig eth0 >eth0: error fetching interface information: Device not found > > Here is some debug ou

Re: screen goes black

2000-12-20 Thread Terry 'Mongoose' Hendrix II
Russell Coker wrote: That's a nice theory. But when I use CPU intensive programs like gzip on SPARC and Intel machines I find that I get about the same amount of work done MHz for MHz on Intel and SPARC. In my tests a P2 @ 400MHz is faster than a SPARC at 250MHz. gzip is I/O intensive, so

Re: screen goes black

2000-12-20 Thread Russell Coker
On Thursday 21 December 2000 08:45, Terry 'Mongoose' Hendrix II wrote: > Russell Coker wrote: > > That's a nice theory. But when I use CPU intensive programs like gzip on > > SPARC and Intel machines I find that I get about the same amount of work > > done MHz for MHz on Intel and SPARC. > > In my

Re: eth0 (Xircon) does not exist

2000-12-20 Thread xsdg
On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 05:31:15PM +0100, Alberto Bigazzi wrote: > > Dear all, > > I've got a pcmcia ethernet+modem card which I'm trying hard to setup with > very poor outcome: > >> ifconfig eth0 >eth0: error fetching interface information: Device not found > > Here is some debug ou

Re: screen goes black

2000-12-20 Thread Thomas Vogels
Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I did install a new X server (ver 4.0) at the same time. But the problem > also occurs in console mode with no X server running. hm, you never even touch X? What I mean is, if you boot into single user mode, where you're sure X has no chance of s

Problems getting mouse to work

2000-12-20 Thread Jonathan Sunderland
Title: Jonathan Stationery I've installed and configured Linux, and got the X display to work (albeit in lo-res) but I get problems with the mouse.   I'm running on a Dell Latitude XPi with trackball, whenever I move the mouse it shoots to the top corner and "jiggles" about. Reading elsewher

Re: Problems getting mouse to work

2000-12-20 Thread Yuan An
Hi, I got the same problem when I first intalled Debian on my laptop(Dell latitude CPi), but I fixed it: try different mouse type such that "microsoft" "PS/2" and different device "/dev/gpmdata" "/dev/psaux". One of combinations will fit your mouse. Good luck. yuan On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, Jonatha

Re: Problems getting mouse to work

2000-12-20 Thread xsdg
On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 03:02:43PM -, Jonathan Sunderland wrote: > Jonathan StationeryI've installed and configured Linux, and got the X > display to work (albeit in lo-res) but I get problems with the mouse. > > I'm running on a Dell Latitude XPi with trackball, whenever I move the mouse > i

eth0 (Xircon) does not exist

2000-12-20 Thread Alberto Bigazzi
Dear all, I've got a pcmcia ethernet+modem card which I'm trying hard to setup with very poor outcome: > ifconfig eth0 eth0: error fetching interface information: Device not found Here is some debug output. Does anyone out there see what I'm doing wrong? Thanks very much. Alberto.

RE: Problems getting mouse to work

2000-12-20 Thread Jonathan Sunderland
Thanks, There's no /dev/gpmdata - have I missed something out on the install? Jonathan -Original Message- From: Yuan An [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 20 December 2000 15:34 To: Jonathan Sunderland Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Problems getting mouse to work Hi, I got the same p

Re: eth0 (Xircon) does not exist

2000-12-20 Thread Jon Middleton
On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 05:31:15PM +0100, Alberto Bigazzi wrote: > > Dear all, > > I've got a pcmcia ethernet+modem card which I'm trying hard to setup with > very poor outcome: > >> ifconfig eth0 >eth0: error fetching interface information: Device not found > > Here is some debug o

Re: screen goes black

2000-12-20 Thread Terry 'Mongoose' Hendrix II
Russell Coker wrote: > That's a nice theory. But when I use CPU intensive programs like gzip on > SPARC and Intel machines I find that I get about the same amount of work done > MHz for MHz on Intel and SPARC. > In my tests a P2 @ 400MHz is faster than a SPARC at 250MHz. gzip is I/O intensiv

Re: screen goes black

2000-12-20 Thread Russell Coker
On Thursday 21 December 2000 08:45, Terry 'Mongoose' Hendrix II wrote: > Russell Coker wrote: > > That's a nice theory. But when I use CPU intensive programs like gzip on > > SPARC and Intel machines I find that I get about the same amount of work > > done MHz for MHz on Intel and SPARC. > > In m

Re: eth0 (Xircon) does not exist

2000-12-20 Thread xsdg
On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 05:31:15PM +0100, Alberto Bigazzi wrote: > > Dear all, > > I've got a pcmcia ethernet+modem card which I'm trying hard to setup with > very poor outcome: > >> ifconfig eth0 >eth0: error fetching interface information: Device not found > > Here is some debug o