Re: maximum hard drive limitations?

On Thursday 08 March 2001 21:59, Heather wrote: > 2) The BIOS may have trouble addressing larger disks, if it was made in an >era when all drives were smaller. Under Linux this usually isn't a >problem, as long as the kernel is within recognizable "low" disk space >for LILO. After we

Re: Suspend to disk partition on ThinkPad T20

On Saturday 10 March 2001 06:53, Jacek M. Wuwer wrote: > I've recently started fixing some remaining glitches on my T20, and > couldn't quite solve them the way I planned. Here they are: > > - Has anyone managed to successfully persuade BIOS to use suspend to > disk partition instead of file on FAT

hibernation

Can anyone help me to understand how my hibernation system works so I can try to restore it? I have a Sony Vaio F340 and the bios is Phoenix. (Phoenix Bios 4, release 6). Hibernation has not worked since I installed Debian. In fact, when I try to invoke hibernation the screen freezes up and I hav

Re: X setup roadblock

G'Day ! I had the same problem with my Dell Latitude LX ... I had to delete all my mode lines till I found the one that worked :-( Can you send more information on the "override_valid_modes" option ? cheers, Jim Parker Sailboat racing is not a matter of life and death It is far more imp

Re: hibernation

Steven K Thompson wrote: >[...] > Is it reasonable for me to infer from this that hibernation used the end of > the original "C" partition hda1? What I read mostly says hibernation > uses hda4 but the partition tables did not list an hda4 before I > created it to install Debian. Also, now that I

Re: hibernation

Thanks for the explanation, Sylvain. I was able to recreate the hibernation file using this advice from Tom Allison: You might try this: >From windows partition turn off Hibernation (BIOS SETTING?) and boot into Windows. Reset (ON) the Hibernation and boot into Windows. Then while in windows t

Visual artifacts with XFree86 4.0.2-7 on a Sony VAIO PCG-735

Hi, debian-laptop folks, I posted this question on the debian-x list a few days ago and got no replies. I'll try a different crowd here: I recently upgraded my Sony VAIO PCG-735 laptop to unstable (sid), including XFree86 4.0.2-7. This laptop uses the Neomagic MagicGraph NM2160 chipset with an 8

Re: Xfree 4 and Thinkpad 560

Hello, I have an IBM Thinkpad 560 (not C, E, or Z) that has a dual-scan screen, and even it can do 800x600 with 256 colors. With an external monitor, the machine is capable of a little more, but under Linux, I never achieved 800x600 with 16M colors on a monitor. I run XFree 3.something, and my

Re: Suspend to disk partition on ThinkPad T20

Thanks everyone. I'll got my new kernel compiled with framebuffer support. Yes, I have played with vga=ask parameter - T20 just doens't like those old EGA modes ... I've not tried the TextSVGA package, it didn't look promising since the Savage IX card has been supported for about 5 months ( and on

Re: maximum hard drive limitations?

On Thursday 08 March 2001 21:59, Heather wrote: > 2) The BIOS may have trouble addressing larger disks, if it was made in an >era when all drives were smaller. Under Linux this usually isn't a >problem, as long as the kernel is within recognizable "low" disk space >for LILO. After we

Re: Suspend to disk partition on ThinkPad T20

On Saturday 10 March 2001 06:53, Jacek M. Wuwer wrote: > I've recently started fixing some remaining glitches on my T20, and > couldn't quite solve them the way I planned. Here they are: > > - Has anyone managed to successfully persuade BIOS to use suspend to > disk partition instead of file on FA

hibernation

Can anyone help me to understand how my hibernation system works so I can try to restore it? I have a Sony Vaio F340 and the bios is Phoenix. (Phoenix Bios 4, release 6). Hibernation has not worked since I installed Debian. In fact, when I try to invoke hibernation the screen freezes up and I ha

Re: X setup roadblock

G'Day ! I had the same problem with my Dell Latitude LX ... I had to delete all my mode lines till I found the one that worked :-( Can you send more information on the "override_valid_modes" option ? cheers, Jim Parker Sailboat racing is not a matter of life and death It is far more im

Re: hibernation

Steven K Thompson wrote: >[...] > Is it reasonable for me to infer from this that hibernation used the end of > the original "C" partition hda1? What I read mostly says hibernation > uses hda4 but the partition tables did not list an hda4 before I > created it to install Debian. Also, now that

Re: hibernation

Thanks for the explanation, Sylvain. I was able to recreate the hibernation file using this advice from Tom Allison: You might try this: >From windows partition turn off Hibernation (BIOS SETTING?) and boot into Windows. Reset (ON) the Hibernation and boot into Windows. Then while in windows

Visual artifacts with XFree86 4.0.2-7 on a Sony VAIO PCG-735

Hi, debian-laptop folks, I posted this question on the debian-x list a few days ago and got no replies. I'll try a different crowd here: I recently upgraded my Sony VAIO PCG-735 laptop to unstable (sid), including XFree86 4.0.2-7. This laptop uses the Neomagic MagicGraph NM2160 chipset with an

Re: Xfree 4 and Thinkpad 560

Hello, I have an IBM Thinkpad 560 (not C, E, or Z) that has a dual-scan screen, and even it can do 800x600 with 256 colors. With an external monitor, the machine is capable of a little more, but under Linux, I never achieved 800x600 with 16M colors on a monitor. I run XFree 3.something, and my

Re: Suspend to disk partition on ThinkPad T20

Thanks everyone. I'll got my new kernel compiled with framebuffer support. Yes, I have played with vga=ask parameter - T20 just doens't like those old EGA modes ... I've not tried the TextSVGA package, it didn't look promising since the Savage IX card has been supported for about 5 months ( and o