Dear People,
I am very sorry for my being so challenged, - but I
like the philosophy of Debian, and therefore I want to
learn Debian rather than other distributions, or OS's.
What values do I put in xf86config for ThinkPad380ED
(I have Debian2.2 - "potato")?
What books should someone like
Hello.
I'm a newbie and took a giant leap into the unknown by "upgrading" my
original Debian install to the Progeny distro (http://www.progeny.com). I
will be starting my first compilation exercise to get the USB working, as
well as the jog-dial. Has anyone on this list used Progeny, and have you a
Hi Christopher,
Huh.. not that I'm against writing my own drivers, but I have
plenty of brand spankin' new hardware that worked great the
first time. My HP Omnibook 4150 ( top of the line when my
company bought it a couple months back ) was no problem to
get working with Debian. USB, video, audi
On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 02:00:44AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> yeah, me too, same card. i get:
>
> No response to 4 echo-requests
> Serial link appears to be disconnected.
> Terminating on signal 15.
>
> is this the same for you. i thought it was noisy phone lines or
> something, but i
On 2001-02-19 11:57 +0100, Christopher Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Heck, hardware's not a problem as long as 1) you write all your own
> drivers, or 2) you don't buy anything manufactured in the last 2 years. Of
> course, even this doesn't hold for video cards. Unless you have free year
On Sun, 18 Feb 2001, Christopher Wolf wrote:
> At 09:04 PM 2/18/2001 +0100, A. Demarteau (linux rules!) wrote:
>>On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, Jan van Veldhuizen wrote:
>> > This afternoon I bought a box with Suse Linux 7 and a set of books.
>> > It took me 2 hours, but now X Windows is running properly. Bu
Hi All,
I have a Sony PCG-XG29. The Display on my laptop is not working. Please
help.
Thanks and Regards,
Uday S Sandhar
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Bud,
In your answer you are drifting away from what it is really about. Jan's
point is that, and I agree fully with that, it is virtually impossible to
configure and tune a Linux machine for a (relative) newbie. The fact that
Microsoft has a dominant position, other installation techniques and a c
Hi all,
is here some way how my X11 will be working on Toshiba Satelite 2655XDVD?
Card si trident cyber 9525dvd but deosn't work to me, somethind is wrong.
thank you.
O.
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I gave it a try on my Toshiba 8100, but got in a bit of a rut with
mysql/php/apache dependencies, so I rolled back to 2.2r2.
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> Sent: 19 February 2001 06:19
> To: Debian-Laptop (E-mail)
> Subject: Progeny on Vaio Z505NR
At 10:42 PM 2/18/2001 -0800, Rob Helmer wrote:
Huh.. not that I'm against writing my own drivers, but I have
plenty of brand spankin' new hardware that worked great the
first time. My HP Omnibook 4150 ( top of the line when my
company bought it a couple months back ) was no problem to
get workin
On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 06:23:58AM -0800, Ondrej Krehel wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> is here some way how my X11 will be working on Toshiba Satelite 2655XDVD?
> Card si trident cyber 9525dvd but deosn't work to me, somethind is wrong.
> thank you.
Sorry, but could you please tell us something instead of s
Here are some concrete positives (in my experience) for why you would
*want* to run Linux as more than just a hobbyist.
(1) You control the interface. You have a choice of window managers,
GNOME, KDE. *You* get to decide how you want to interact with the
computer, not Bill Gates.
(2) Stability
I want to second what Craig Milling said: Linux isn't for everyone, but if you
need or prefer a very stable system that allows you the power and control of
Unix, then Linux is great.
I have two machines...a Gateway desktop, which I got about four years ago, and
a Dell laptop that is now just a
- Original Message -
From: "Craig T. Milling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'Debian-Laptop (E-mail)"
Cc: "Christopher Wolf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Craig Milling"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 6:44 PM
Subject: Re: Back to Windows??
>
> Here are some concrete positives (in
Hans Verschoor and Jennie Kohsiek wrote:
- Original Message -From: "Craig T. Milling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>To: "'Debian-Laptop (E-mail)" Cc: "Christopher Wolf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Craig Milling"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 6:44 PMSubject: Re: Back to Windows??
Here a
On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 08:12:09PM +0100, Hans Verschoor and Jennie Kohsiek
wrote:
>
> - Original Message -
> From: "Craig T. Milling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "'Debian-Laptop (E-mail)"
> Cc: "Christopher Wolf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Craig Milling"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, F
On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 08:12:09PM +0100, Hans Verschoor and Jennie Kohsiek
wrote:
> - Original Message -
> From: "Craig T. Milling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "'Debian-Laptop (E-mail)"
> Cc: "Christopher Wolf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Craig Milling"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, Feb
one the one hand, there's little to be gained by from an OS argument.
and it all pretty much boils down to personal taste.
on the other hand, i have to respond to this ...
On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Hans Verschoor and Jennie Kohsiek wrote:
>
> - Original Message -
> From: "Craig T. Milling" <[
On Monday 19 February 2001 07:09, Jan Hearthstone wrote:
> I am very sorry for my being so challenged, - but I
> like the philosophy of Debian, and therefore I want to
> learn Debian rather than other distributions, or OS's.
> What values do I put in xf86config for ThinkPad380ED
> (I have Debia
On Monday 19 February 2001 21:46, you wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 08:12:09PM +0100, Hans Verschoor and Jennie Kohsiek
wrote:
> > - Original Message -
> > From: "Craig T. Milling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: "'Debian-Laptop (E-mail)"
> > Cc: "Christopher Wolf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Cr
On Monday 19 February 2001 21:06, Duane Powers wrote:
> > Hans Verschoor and Jennie Kohsiek wrote:
> > - Original Message -
> > From: "Craig T. Milling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: "'Debian-Laptop (E-mail)"
> > Cc: "Christopher Wolf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Craig Milling"
> > <[EMAIL PROTEC
Hi. I have a Toshiba 2775XDVD, and I've been able to get almost everything to
work. However, I have a few questions still:
1) How do I get events from the shiny silver keys directly above the floppy? I
have tried using xev, which doesn't register anything, hotkey(s), and one other
program th
On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 10:24:06PM +0100, Russell Coker wrote:
>
> I compiled a kernel with VESA frame-buffer support and put "vga=788" in
> /etc/lilo.conf
In my experience vga=788 works for Mandrake/RedHat, but not Debian. I use
vga=0x314 for 800x600x16bpp with Debian.
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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also... my .config is attached...
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Hello Craig,
Sorry about not greeting you in the previous message, but that whas not my
intention.
On Monday 19 February 2001 21:52, you wrote:
> one the one hand, there's little to be gained by from an OS argument.
> and it all pretty much boils down to personal taste.
> on the other hand, i ha
Hello Andreas,
On Tuesday 20 February 2001 04:45, Andreas Mohr wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 08:12:09PM +0100, Hans Verschoor and Jennie Kohsiek
wrote:
> > - Original Message -
> > From: "Craig T. Milling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: "'Debian-Laptop (E-mail)"
> > Cc: "Christopher Wolf
On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 10:46:54AM -0600, Christopher Wolf wrote:
> At 10:42 PM 2/18/2001 -0800, Rob Helmer wrote:
> >Huh.. not that I'm against writing my own drivers, but I have
> >plenty of brand spankin' new hardware that worked great the
> >first time. My HP Omnibook 4150 ( top of the line wh
Hans Verschoor and Jennie Kohsiek wrote:
> Bud,
>
> I have the same bitter experience as Jan has: a printer that does not work,
> a tape streamer that does not work, no way to get an ADSL modem running
> a.s.o. Many of the responses to posters of the sort of messages like Jan's
> mention issues li
At 11:18 PM 2/19/2001 +1100, Daniel Pittman wrote:
On Sun, 18 Feb 2001, Christopher Wolf wrote:
> At 09:04 PM 2/18/2001 +0100, A. Demarteau (linux rules!) wrote:
>>On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, Jan van Veldhuizen wrote:
>> > This afternoon I bought a box with Suse Linux 7 and a set of books.
>> > It took
> I think you've been spoiled. I have a Matrox Millenium card, pretty
> common. Never have black bars under windows, nor matter which settings I
> use. Always have them under Linux. Pushed the equations as far as they'd
> go using the raw numbers from the manuals, and could not remove them.
On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 07:11:26PM -0500, xsdg wrote:
> 3) How do I get suspend and standby to work correctly? After each
> reboot, the first time that I try to use standby mode, the hard
> drive spins down, the screen shuts off for a second, and then the
> screen turns back on. Whenever I try to s
At 05:35 PM 2/19/2001 -0800, Rob Helmer wrote:
Everyone who writes free software does so for their own reasons; while
I commend user friendliness and try to make my own software friendly
and try to help others ( if they want it ) through patches and so forth,
I would rather have free software ov
i shut down my card power (cardctl eject 1) when not in use, and shut down
networking altogether because i don't use it, and have had recent success with
keeping the modem up, but the jury's still out. it was up last night all night
with no freezes. incidentally, restarting pcmcia (/etc/init.d
On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 09:41:11PM -0600, Christopher Wolf wrote:
> At 05:35 PM 2/19/2001 -0800, Rob Helmer wrote:
>
> >Everyone who writes free software does so for their own reasons; while
> >I commend user friendliness and try to make my own software friendly
> >and try to help others ( if they
On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 02:00:44AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> yeah, me too, same card. i get:
>
> No response to 4 echo-requests
> Serial link appears to be disconnected.
> Terminating on signal 15.
>
> is this the same for you. i thought it was noisy phone lines or
> something, but
On 2001-02-19 11:57 +0100, Christopher Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Heck, hardware's not a problem as long as 1) you write all your own
> drivers, or 2) you don't buy anything manufactured in the last 2 years. Of
> course, even this doesn't hold for video cards. Unless you have free year
On Sun, 18 Feb 2001, Christopher Wolf wrote:
> At 09:04 PM 2/18/2001 +0100, A. Demarteau (linux rules!) wrote:
>>On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, Jan van Veldhuizen wrote:
>> > This afternoon I bought a box with Suse Linux 7 and a set of books.
>> > It took me 2 hours, but now X Windows is running properly. B
Hi All,
I have a Sony PCG-XG29. The Display on my laptop is not working. Please
help.
Thanks and Regards,
Uday S Sandhar
_
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Bud,
In your answer you are drifting away from what it is really about. Jan's
point is that, and I agree fully with that, it is virtually impossible to
configure and tune a Linux machine for a (relative) newbie. The fact that
Microsoft has a dominant position, other installation techniques and a
Hi all,
is here some way how my X11 will be working on Toshiba Satelite 2655XDVD?
Card si trident cyber 9525dvd but deosn't work to me, somethind is wrong.
thank you.
O.
__
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I gave it a try on my Toshiba 8100, but got in a bit of a rut with
mysql/php/apache dependencies, so I rolled back to 2.2r2.
> --
> From: Wong, Aaron[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 19 February 2001 06:19
> To: Debian-Laptop (E-mail)
> Subject: Progeny on Vaio Z505N
At 10:42 PM 2/18/2001 -0800, Rob Helmer wrote:
>Huh.. not that I'm against writing my own drivers, but I have
>plenty of brand spankin' new hardware that worked great the
>first time. My HP Omnibook 4150 ( top of the line when my
>company bought it a couple months back ) was no problem to
>get wo
On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 06:23:58AM -0800, Ondrej Krehel wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> is here some way how my X11 will be working on Toshiba Satelite 2655XDVD?
> Card si trident cyber 9525dvd but deosn't work to me, somethind is wrong.
> thank you.
Sorry, but could you please tell us something instead of
Here are some concrete positives (in my experience) for why you would
*want* to run Linux as more than just a hobbyist.
(1) You control the interface. You have a choice of window managers,
GNOME, KDE. *You* get to decide how you want to interact with the
computer, not Bill Gates.
(2) Stabilit
I want to second what Craig Milling said: Linux isn't for everyone, but if you
need or prefer a very stable system that allows you the power and control of
Unix, then Linux is great.
I have two machines...a Gateway desktop, which I got about four years ago, and
a Dell laptop that is now just
- Original Message -
From: "Craig T. Milling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'Debian-Laptop (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Christopher Wolf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Craig Milling"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 6:44 PM
Subject: Re: Back to Windows??
>
> Here are some co
Hans Verschoor and Jennie Kohsiek wrote:
003601c09aa7$db663b60$b500140a@tphav">- Original Message -From: "Craig T. Milling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>To: "'Debian-Laptop (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Cc: "Christopher Wolf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Craig Milling"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Sent: Monday, Februar
On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 08:12:09PM +0100, Hans Verschoor and Jennie Kohsiek wrote:
>
> - Original Message -
> From: "Craig T. Milling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "'Debian-Laptop (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: "Christopher Wolf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Craig Milling"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 08:12:09PM +0100, Hans Verschoor and Jennie Kohsiek wrote:
> - Original Message -
> From: "Craig T. Milling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "'Debian-Laptop (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: "Christopher Wolf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Craig Milling"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
one the one hand, there's little to be gained by from an OS argument.
and it all pretty much boils down to personal taste.
on the other hand, i have to respond to this ...
On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Hans Verschoor and Jennie Kohsiek wrote:
>
> - Original Message -
> From: "Craig T. Milling" <
On Monday 19 February 2001 07:09, Jan Hearthstone wrote:
> I am very sorry for my being so challenged, - but I
> like the philosophy of Debian, and therefore I want to
> learn Debian rather than other distributions, or OS's.
> What values do I put in xf86config for ThinkPad380ED
> (I have Debi
On Monday 19 February 2001 21:46, you wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 08:12:09PM +0100, Hans Verschoor and Jennie Kohsiek
wrote:
> > - Original Message -
> > From: "Craig T. Milling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: "'Debian-Laptop (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Cc: "Christopher Wolf" <[EM
On Monday 19 February 2001 21:06, Duane Powers wrote:
> > Hans Verschoor and Jennie Kohsiek wrote:
> > - Original Message -
> > From: "Craig T. Milling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: "'Debian-Laptop (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Cc: "Christopher Wolf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Craig Milling
Hi. I have a Toshiba 2775XDVD, and I've been able to get almost everything to work.
However, I have a few questions still:
1) How do I get events from the shiny silver keys directly above the floppy? I have
tried using xev, which doesn't register anything, hotkey(s), and one other program
t
On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 10:24:06PM +0100, Russell Coker wrote:
>
> I compiled a kernel with VESA frame-buffer support and put "vga=788" in
> /etc/lilo.conf
In my experience vga=788 works for Mandrake/RedHat, but not Debian. I use
vga=0x314 for 800x600x16bpp with Debian.
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Oops...forgot two things...
*Do not CC me*
also... my .config is attached...
--xsdg
--
___
/ Error reading FAT record: \
\ Try the SKINNY one? (Y/N)/
/http://xsdg.hypermart.net|[EMAIL
Hello Craig,
Sorry about not greeting you in the previous message, but that whas not my
intention.
On Monday 19 February 2001 21:52, you wrote:
> one the one hand, there's little to be gained by from an OS argument.
> and it all pretty much boils down to personal taste.
> on the other hand, i h
Hello Andreas,
On Tuesday 20 February 2001 04:45, Andreas Mohr wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 08:12:09PM +0100, Hans Verschoor and Jennie Kohsiek
wrote:
> > - Original Message -
> > From: "Craig T. Milling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: "'Debian-Laptop (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > C
On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 10:46:54AM -0600, Christopher Wolf wrote:
> At 10:42 PM 2/18/2001 -0800, Rob Helmer wrote:
> >Huh.. not that I'm against writing my own drivers, but I have
> >plenty of brand spankin' new hardware that worked great the
> >first time. My HP Omnibook 4150 ( top of the line w
Hans Verschoor and Jennie Kohsiek wrote:
> Bud,
>
> I have the same bitter experience as Jan has: a printer that does not work,
> a tape streamer that does not work, no way to get an ADSL modem running
> a.s.o. Many of the responses to posters of the sort of messages like Jan's
> mention issues l
At 11:18 PM 2/19/2001 +1100, Daniel Pittman wrote:
>On Sun, 18 Feb 2001, Christopher Wolf wrote:
> > At 09:04 PM 2/18/2001 +0100, A. Demarteau (linux rules!) wrote:
> >>On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, Jan van Veldhuizen wrote:
> >> > This afternoon I bought a box with Suse Linux 7 and a set of books.
> >> >
> I think you've been spoiled. I have a Matrox Millenium card, pretty
> common. Never have black bars under windows, nor matter which settings I
> use. Always have them under Linux. Pushed the equations as far as they'd
> go using the raw numbers from the manuals, and could not remove them.
On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 07:11:26PM -0500, xsdg wrote:
> 3) How do I get suspend and standby to work correctly? After each
> reboot, the first time that I try to use standby mode, the hard
> drive spins down, the screen shuts off for a second, and then the
> screen turns back on. Whenever I try to
At 05:35 PM 2/19/2001 -0800, Rob Helmer wrote:
>Everyone who writes free software does so for their own reasons; while
>I commend user friendliness and try to make my own software friendly
>and try to help others ( if they want it ) through patches and so forth,
>I would rather have free software
i shut down my card power (cardctl eject 1) when not in use, and shut down networking
altogether because i don't use it, and have had recent success with keeping the modem
up, but the jury's still out. it was up last night all night with no freezes.
incidentally, restarting pcmcia (/etc/init.
On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 09:41:11PM -0600, Christopher Wolf wrote:
> At 05:35 PM 2/19/2001 -0800, Rob Helmer wrote:
>
> >Everyone who writes free software does so for their own reasons; while
> >I commend user friendliness and try to make my own software friendly
> >and try to help others ( if the
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