Re: Suspend to disk partition on ThinkPad T20

2001-03-13 Thread Frank Mehnert
On Tuesday 13 March 2001 06:01, Jacek M. Wuwer wrote: > 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 ... Try the following: In the Linux config in the "console drivers" secti

Re: Suspend to disk partition on ThinkPad T20

2001-03-13 Thread Russell Coker
On Saturday 10 March 2001 15:34, Alexander Clouter wrote: > On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Jacek M. Wuwer wrote: > >- Has anyone managed to successfully persuade BIOS to use suspend to > >disk partition instead of file on FATXX ( active ?? ) partition ? The > >file size with decent amount of RAM on T20 drives

Re: Suspend to disk partition on ThinkPad T20

2001-03-13 Thread Alexander Clouter
On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Russell Coker wrote: > > I have not seen any facility in IBM laptops to do this. All the facilities > that I have used have been based on the "ps2.exe" program which uses space on > an existing partition. The space requirement is RAM + Video RAM + a small > amount. > On the o

Re: Suspend to disk partition on ThinkPad T20

2001-03-13 Thread Russell Coker
On Tuesday 13 March 2001 15:23, Alexander Clouter wrote: > On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Russell Coker wrote: > > I have not seen any facility in IBM laptops to do this. All the > > facilities that I have used have been based on the "ps2.exe" program > > which uses space on an existing partition. The spac

Re: Suspend to disk partition on ThinkPad T20

2001-03-13 Thread Andreas Mohr
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 04:22:18PM +0100, Russell Coker wrote: > On Tuesday 13 March 2001 15:23, Alexander Clouter wrote: > > On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Russell Coker wrote: > > > I have not seen any facility in IBM laptops to do this. All the > > > facilities that I have used have been based on the "ps

Re: Weird sound problem

2001-03-13 Thread JParker
G'Day ! An educated guess here is that the 'Analog to Digital' chip/board and/or your 'Digital to Analog' board has failed Trying replacing the sound card with a new one. cheers, Jim Parker Sailboat racing is not a matter of life and death It is far more important than that !!!

debian-laptop@lists.debian.org

2001-03-13 Thread Dieter Faulbaum
Hello, I try to install a 2.2-system on such a laptop (a 486DX2 with 8MB memory) but get thesh error messages after loading the root.bin disc (the last lines several times): Freeing unused kernel memory: 148K freed VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd Can anyone tell me what can be wrong

debian-laptop@lists.debian.org

2001-03-13 Thread Andreas Mohr
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 05:46:31PM +0100, Dieter Faulbaum wrote: > > Hello, > > I try to install a 2.2-system on such a laptop (a 486DX2 with 8MB > memory) but get thesh error messages after loading the root.bin > disc (the last lines several times): > > Freeing unused kernel memory: 148K freed

debian-laptop@lists.debian.org

2001-03-13 Thread Francois BOTTIN
--- Andreas Mohr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > > AFAICT this is only informative, not critical. > > But OTOH ICBW :-) > Ouch! Please speak plain english. It's hard enough to understand for non native englishspeaking people... Thank you. Francois. = Francois BOTTIN -- "How kin

Badiane: make-kpkg PCMCIA conflict

2001-03-13 Thread Badiane Ka
I have created a deb package with make-kpkg and upon executing dpkg -i I get a message saying that there is conflict between my custom 2.2.18pre1 image and pcmcia. How do I compile, install and get a kernel to run under debian without running into a bunch of module problems. I would like to be ab

Re: Badiane: make-kpkg PCMCIA conflict

2001-03-13 Thread Francois BOTTIN
--- Badiane Ka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have created a deb package with make-kpkg and upon > executing dpkg -i I get a message saying that there is > conflict between my custom 2.2.18pre1 image and > pcmcia. How do I compile, install and get a kernel to > run under debian without running in

Re: Suspend to disk partition on ThinkPad T20

2001-03-13 Thread Heather
> 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 m

Re: Suspend to disk partition on ThinkPad T20

2001-03-13 Thread Peter Cordes
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 04:22:18PM +0100, Russell Coker wrote: > Making a DOS partition is a problem as I don't have Windows installed and it > seems that there is no DOS software to setup such a partition. Who needs DOS? yeti:~$ grep mkdosfs /pub/debian/Contents-i386 sbin/mkdosfs

Re: Badiane: make-kpkg PCMCIA conflict

2001-03-13 Thread Peter Cordes
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 09:44:47AM -0800, Francois BOTTIN wrote: > > --- Badiane Ka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have created a deb package with make-kpkg and upon > > executing dpkg -i I get a message saying that there is > > conflict between my custom 2.2.18pre1 image and > > pcmcia. How do

Re: Toshiba and Macintosh !

2001-03-13 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Net Shu wrote: > Hi Everyone: Hello, > Question 2: "Are You out of your mind?" an old friend said this to > Me! > > Recently, I got two very old Macintosh computer, one is "Power Book > 520" with only one floppy, gray scale LCD monitor, but luckily have > Ether Talk connector, another on

Re: Suspend to disk partition on ThinkPad T20

2001-03-13 Thread Heather
> On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Russell Coker wrote: > > > > I have not seen any facility in IBM laptops to do this. All the facilities > > that I have used have been based on the "ps2.exe" program which uses space > > on > > an existing partition. The space requirement is RAM + Video RAM + a small > > a

Re: Suspend to disk partition on ThinkPad T20

2001-03-13 Thread Heather
> > Hmm. Could someone with a DOS partition setup please tell me the name and > > attributes of such a file? Maybe if I use a file with the right name and > > attributes it'll just work... > Nope. Nope because it needs the correct beginning contents, not because it wasn't a good thought. > Th

Re: Badiane: make-kpkg PCMCIA conflict

2001-03-13 Thread Jeff Coppock
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 04:52:54PM -0400, Peter Cordes wrote: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 09:44:47AM -0800, Francois BOTTIN wrote: > > > > --- Badiane Ka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have created a deb package with make-kpkg and upon > > > executing dpkg -i I get a message saying that there is

debian-laptop@lists.debian.org

2001-03-13 Thread Peter Cordes
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 06:02:50PM +0100, Andreas Mohr wrote: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 05:46:31PM +0100, Dieter Faulbaum wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I try to install a 2.2-system on such a laptop (a 486DX2 with 8MB > > memory) but get thesh error messages after loading the root.bin > > disc (t

Re: Badiane: make-kpkg PCMCIA conflict

2001-03-13 Thread Drew Parsons
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 09:30:44AM -0800, Badiane Ka wrote: > I have created a deb package with make-kpkg and upon > executing dpkg -i I get a message saying that there is > conflict between my custom 2.2.18pre1 image and > pcmcia. How do I compile, install and get a kernel to > run under debian w

The Xircom RealPort Ethernet 10/100O+Modem 56 REM56-100 card...

2001-03-13 Thread Ricardo Diz
Hi there! It all begun when I begun installing potato on a toshiba laptop. My objective is to install Sid on it, but since for this I need to have potato installed I thought about putting a basic installation of potato and then do a dist-upgrade on it. I was able to put a basic installation of

Re: maximum hard drive limitations?

2001-03-13 Thread Morgan Hall
One more data point -- 335 CDS -- I put a 20 gb drive in it. The bios can only see about 10. I partitioned w/ Debian, left abt. 4 gb for hda2 and played several games to re-install windoze from the lame Tosh diskette. Dual boots fine. Morgan Hall Wilsonville, Oregon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) On Fr

Re: The Xircom RealPort Ethernet 10/100O+Modem 56 REM56-100 card...

2001-03-13 Thread Drew Parsons
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 02:42:08AM +, Ricardo Diz wrote: > > I checked my logs and saw that cardmgr recognized my card as a Xircom CEM56 > :(( . > As far as the software is concerned, RealPort cards are the same as the older credit-card type cards. I presume the chipset inside is the same s

Re: Suspend to disk partition on ThinkPad T20

2001-03-13 Thread Frank Mehnert
On Tuesday 13 March 2001 06:01, Jacek M. Wuwer wrote: > 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 ... Try the following: In the Linux config in the "console drivers" sect

Re: Suspend to disk partition on ThinkPad T20

2001-03-13 Thread Russell Coker
On Saturday 10 March 2001 15:34, Alexander Clouter wrote: > On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Jacek M. Wuwer wrote: > >- Has anyone managed to successfully persuade BIOS to use suspend to > >disk partition instead of file on FATXX ( active ?? ) partition ? The > >file size with decent amount of RAM on T20 drive

Re: Suspend to disk partition on ThinkPad T20

2001-03-13 Thread Alexander Clouter
On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Russell Coker wrote: > > I have not seen any facility in IBM laptops to do this. All the facilities > that I have used have been based on the "ps2.exe" program which uses space on > an existing partition. The space requirement is RAM + Video RAM + a small > amount. > On the

Re: Suspend to disk partition on ThinkPad T20

2001-03-13 Thread Russell Coker
On Tuesday 13 March 2001 15:23, Alexander Clouter wrote: > On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Russell Coker wrote: > > I have not seen any facility in IBM laptops to do this. All the > > facilities that I have used have been based on the "ps2.exe" program > > which uses space on an existing partition. The spa

Re: Suspend to disk partition on ThinkPad T20

2001-03-13 Thread Andreas Mohr
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 04:22:18PM +0100, Russell Coker wrote: > On Tuesday 13 March 2001 15:23, Alexander Clouter wrote: > > On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Russell Coker wrote: > > > I have not seen any facility in IBM laptops to do this. All the > > > facilities that I have used have been based on the "p

debian-laptop@lists.debian.org

2001-03-13 Thread Dieter Faulbaum
Hello, I try to install a 2.2-system on such a laptop (a 486DX2 with 8MB memory) but get thesh error messages after loading the root.bin disc (the last lines several times): Freeing unused kernel memory: 148K freed VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd Can anyone tell me what can be wron

debian-laptop@lists.debian.org

2001-03-13 Thread Andreas Mohr
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 05:46:31PM +0100, Dieter Faulbaum wrote: > > Hello, > > I try to install a 2.2-system on such a laptop (a 486DX2 with 8MB > memory) but get thesh error messages after loading the root.bin > disc (the last lines several times): > > Freeing unused kernel memory: 148K freed

debian-laptop@lists.debian.org

2001-03-13 Thread Francois BOTTIN
--- Andreas Mohr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > > AFAICT this is only informative, not critical. > > But OTOH ICBW :-) > Ouch! Please speak plain english. It's hard enough to understand for non native englishspeaking people... Thank you. Francois. = Francois BOTTIN -- "How ki

Badiane: make-kpkg PCMCIA conflict

2001-03-13 Thread Badiane Ka
I have created a deb package with make-kpkg and upon executing dpkg -i I get a message saying that there is conflict between my custom 2.2.18pre1 image and pcmcia. How do I compile, install and get a kernel to run under debian without running into a bunch of module problems. I would like to be a

Re: Badiane: make-kpkg PCMCIA conflict

2001-03-13 Thread Francois BOTTIN
--- Badiane Ka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have created a deb package with make-kpkg and upon > executing dpkg -i I get a message saying that there is > conflict between my custom 2.2.18pre1 image and > pcmcia. How do I compile, install and get a kernel to > run under debian without running i

Re: Suspend to disk partition on ThinkPad T20

2001-03-13 Thread Heather
> 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

Re: Suspend to disk partition on ThinkPad T20

2001-03-13 Thread Peter Cordes
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 04:22:18PM +0100, Russell Coker wrote: > Making a DOS partition is a problem as I don't have Windows installed and it > seems that there is no DOS software to setup such a partition. Who needs DOS? yeti:~$ grep mkdosfs /pub/debian/Contents-i386 sbin/mkdosfs

Re: Badiane: make-kpkg PCMCIA conflict

2001-03-13 Thread Peter Cordes
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 09:44:47AM -0800, Francois BOTTIN wrote: > > --- Badiane Ka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have created a deb package with make-kpkg and upon > > executing dpkg -i I get a message saying that there is > > conflict between my custom 2.2.18pre1 image and > > pcmcia. How d

Re: Toshiba and Macintosh !

2001-03-13 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Net Shu wrote: > Hi Everyone: Hello, > Question 2: "Are You out of your mind?" an old friend said this to > Me! > > Recently, I got two very old Macintosh computer, one is "Power Book > 520" with only one floppy, gray scale LCD monitor, but luckily have > Ether Talk connector, another o

Re: Suspend to disk partition on ThinkPad T20

2001-03-13 Thread Heather
> On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Russell Coker wrote: > > > > I have not seen any facility in IBM laptops to do this. All the facilities > > that I have used have been based on the "ps2.exe" program which uses space on > > an existing partition. The space requirement is RAM + Video RAM + a small > > amoun

Re: Suspend to disk partition on ThinkPad T20

2001-03-13 Thread Heather
> > Hmm. Could someone with a DOS partition setup please tell me the name and > > attributes of such a file? Maybe if I use a file with the right name and > > attributes it'll just work... > Nope. Nope because it needs the correct beginning contents, not because it wasn't a good thought. > T

Re: Badiane: make-kpkg PCMCIA conflict

2001-03-13 Thread Jeff Coppock
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 04:52:54PM -0400, Peter Cordes wrote: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 09:44:47AM -0800, Francois BOTTIN wrote: > > > > --- Badiane Ka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have created a deb package with make-kpkg and upon > > > executing dpkg -i I get a message saying that there i

debian-laptop@lists.debian.org

2001-03-13 Thread Peter Cordes
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 06:02:50PM +0100, Andreas Mohr wrote: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 05:46:31PM +0100, Dieter Faulbaum wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I try to install a 2.2-system on such a laptop (a 486DX2 with 8MB > > memory) but get thesh error messages after loading the root.bin > > disc (

Re: Badiane: make-kpkg PCMCIA conflict

2001-03-13 Thread Drew Parsons
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 09:30:44AM -0800, Badiane Ka wrote: > I have created a deb package with make-kpkg and upon > executing dpkg -i I get a message saying that there is > conflict between my custom 2.2.18pre1 image and > pcmcia. How do I compile, install and get a kernel to > run under debian

The Xircom RealPort Ethernet 10/100O+Modem 56 REM56-100 card...

2001-03-13 Thread Ricardo Diz
Hi there! It all begun when I begun installing potato on a toshiba laptop. My objective is to install Sid on it, but since for this I need to have potato installed I thought about putting a basic installation of potato and then do a dist-upgrade on it. I was able to put a basic installation of

Re: maximum hard drive limitations?

2001-03-13 Thread Morgan Hall
One more data point -- 335 CDS -- I put a 20 gb drive in it. The bios can only see about 10. I partitioned w/ Debian, left abt. 4 gb for hda2 and played several games to re-install windoze from the lame Tosh diskette. Dual boots fine. Morgan Hall Wilsonville, Oregon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) On F

Re: The Xircom RealPort Ethernet 10/100O+Modem 56 REM56-100 card...

2001-03-13 Thread Drew Parsons
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 02:42:08AM +, Ricardo Diz wrote: > > I checked my logs and saw that cardmgr recognized my card as a Xircom CEM56 :(( . > As far as the software is concerned, RealPort cards are the same as the older credit-card type cards. I presume the chipset inside is the same ser

Re: Weird sound problem

2001-03-13 Thread JParker
G'Day ! An educated guess here is that the 'Analog to Digital' chip/board and/or your 'Digital to Analog' board has failed Trying replacing the sound card with a new one. cheers, Jim Parker Sailboat racing is not a matter of life and death It is far more important than that !!!