Re: Random crashes with testing on IBM T22

2001-10-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 01:31:36AM +0200, Martin Skøtt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi > I got Debian testing running on my Thinkpad T22 a couple of months ago thanks > to this list and it has been working almost like a charm ever since :-) > The problem is that I am experiencing random lockups of

Re: Random crashes with testing on IBM T22

2001-10-03 Thread Rolf Heckemann
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 08:28:26PM +0200, Martin Sk?tt wrote: > OK, my machine just crashed again, but this time when it just stood there > running Star Office while I was reading when it locked up. Its starting to get > really annoying. How are your experiences with delivering IBM equipment for

Re: Random crashes with testing on IBM T22

2001-10-03 Thread Martin Skøtt
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 10:18:48PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > Things I'd check: > > - Memory. Hmm, should I try memtest86 > - Swap partition corruption. How do I test that? > - System logs. They are absolutely empty. The first indication I get in the logs is when the machine reboots. >

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RE: Random crashes with testing on IBM T22

2001-10-03 Thread James Martinez
Usually if you return a computer desktop or laptop to the manufacture for repair they have their own diagnostic programs that they run to test it. So it shouldn't matter what you are running on the hard drive. They will more than likely plug their own hard drive in to run tests or use a bootable fl

RE: Debian install to subnotebook

2001-10-03 Thread Bruce Best \(CRO\)
Thanks for all your suggestions. To make things more difficult, of course, we cannot now install Win98 over Win2k, because the Win98 installer will not run from within NT, i.e., it too would require a boot disk or bootable CD. It seems that Win2k won't easily budge. The best recommendation I have

Re: Debian install to subnotebook

2001-10-03 Thread Gustaf Erikson
"Bruce Best (CRO)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks for all your suggestions. > > To make things more difficult, of course, we cannot now install > Win98 over Win2k, because the Win98 installer will not run from > within NT, i.e., it too would require a boot disk or bootable CD. It > seems th

Re: Debian install to subnotebook

2001-10-03 Thread Mathias Jansson
Gustaf Erikson writes: > "Bruce Best (CRO)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Thanks for all your suggestions. > > > > To make things more difficult, of course, we cannot now install > > Win98 over Win2k, because the Win98 installer will not run from > > within NT, i.e., it too would requ

RE: Debian install to subnotebook

2001-10-03 Thread Bruce Best \(CRO\)
Hmmm.. I'd thought of looking into a netboot as a solution, but have no idea of how to do it. There did not appear to be any such option in the BIOS, which has only "Floppy, CD, Hard Drive" as boot options. Having neither the floppy or CD, this of course leaves... Is it possible to do a net boot f

I am stuck: X on a Compaq Armada M300 (ATI Rage Lt Pro)

2001-10-03 Thread HdV
Hi out there, I tried, but it seems I lack the experience needed to solve this. I hope some kind soul on the list can help me out. Today I've installed potato on a Compaq Armada M300, which was easy enough to do. After I finished the base install without X I did some of the necessary stuff, like

Booting from ZIP drive (was: Debian install to subnotebook)

2001-10-03 Thread Bruce Best \(CRO\)
Thought I'd take another look at booting my Debian install from a Zip (or booting to DOS, then using loadlin); I went to the Iomega site and looked around. I found the following rather troubling "answer", at http://www.iomega.com/support/documents/10372.html, "At this time, Iomega® does not suppo

RE: Debian install to subnotebook

2001-10-03 Thread Bruce Best \(CRO\)
Thanks for the link, but it appears that USB Zip drives are not bootable, at least according to this page (and I haven't seen anything to contradict it); http://pw1.netcom.com/~deepone/zipjaz/special.html#boot Bruce >-Original Message- >From: Gustaf Erikson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >

Re: I am stuck: X on a Compaq Armada M300 (ATI Rage Lt Pro)

2001-10-03 Thread Richard van Dommelen
Dear HdV, I've upgraded to woody on my armada E500 but installed it as potato. X ran fine on it. It has the same graphic cards so it must work on your system too. No screens found means the total of the xserver is not installed. try xserver-xfree86 or something. You'r almost there... Suc6 R

What to choose

2001-10-03 Thread Søren Neigaard
Hi I don't know that to install on my Dell Laptop, Debian or Mandrake. Mandrake claims to have something like apt-get, do you know if it works as good as you apt-get (I have heard a lot of positive things about Debain apt-get). Well... Give me some buzzwords, why should I prefer Debian? -- Med v

Re: I am stuck: X on a Compaq Armada M300 (ATI Rage Lt Pro)

2001-10-03 Thread Vincent N. Virgilio
Attached is an X config file that works with my ATI Rage 128 Mobility LF and 1400x1050 LCD (IBM model ITSX93). Maybe it will help. Vince Virgilio # XF86Config-4 (XFree86 server configuration file) generated by Dexconf, the # Debian X Configuration tool, using values from the debconf database. # #

Dell Latitude C800 & PCMCIA-CS -- locks hard?

2001-10-03 Thread Zorak
Hello All, Trying to get an install of Potato going on a Dell Latitude C800, but the PC Card Services doesn't seem to want to play. The system locks hard immediately after /etc/init.d/pcmcia is started. Most of the time the laptop will actually power down shortly after the lockup, sometim

Strange system-clock behaviour on Twinhead Powerslim600

2001-10-03 Thread Geoffrey Hausheer
I am having some very strange behaviour from my system clock. I am not sure whether it is a kernel problem or not. The problem is that my kernel does not keep consistent time. It doesn't have a regular drift, but instead jumps radically every once in a while. I have had this problem since swi

Re: What to choose

2001-10-03 Thread Teppo Hytönen
Hi there. What comes to choosing between the two, it's personal preference that matters. I myself recommend Debian: I love it myself, and yes, apt-get is great. Then again, I haven't used Mandrake, but haven't heard a single positive comment about it, other than that it is easy to install; many

Re: svgalib on an ATI Rage Mobility LF rev 2

2001-10-03 Thread Vincent N. Virgilio
Thank you! 'chipset VESA' works beautifully. Though not without a little effort. 'vgatest' first complained that src/driver.h/MAX_REGS was not large enough, so I installed the source package, and recompiled with the recommended value. After that vgatest ran, but was corrupting my console's font.

Re: What to choose

2001-10-03 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Teppo Hytönen wrote: Giving a list about what's good in Debian would take a while, I don't think I'll even start on that, hehe : ) I gave it a try a while ago, and came up with the list at http://lyre.mit.edu/~powell/debian.html . Additions/corrections welcome. It would be cool to have a ge

Re: What to choose

2001-10-03 Thread Hubert Chan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > "Søren" == Søren Neigaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Søren> Hi I don't know that to install on my Dell Laptop, Debian or Søren> Mandrake. Mandrake claims to have something like apt-get, do you Søren> know if it works as good as you apt-get (I

Re: Random crashes with testing on IBM T22

2001-10-03 Thread Rolf Heckemann
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 08:28:26PM +0200, Martin Sk?tt wrote: > OK, my machine just crashed again, but this time when it just stood there > running Star Office while I was reading when it locked up. Its starting to get > really annoying. How are your experiences with delivering IBM equipment for

Re: Random crashes with testing on IBM T22

2001-10-03 Thread Martin Skøtt
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 10:18:48PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > Things I'd check: > > - Memory. Hmm, should I try memtest86 > - Swap partition corruption. How do I test that? > - System logs. They are absolutely empty. The first indication I get in the logs is when the machine reboots. >

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RE: Random crashes with testing on IBM T22

2001-10-03 Thread James Martinez
Usually if you return a computer desktop or laptop to the manufacture for repair they have their own diagnostic programs that they run to test it. So it shouldn't matter what you are running on the hard drive. They will more than likely plug their own hard drive in to run tests or use a bootable f

RE: Debian install to subnotebook

2001-10-03 Thread Bruce Best (CRO)
Thanks for all your suggestions. To make things more difficult, of course, we cannot now install Win98 over Win2k, because the Win98 installer will not run from within NT, i.e., it too would require a boot disk or bootable CD. It seems that Win2k won't easily budge. The best recommendation I hav

Re: Debian install to subnotebook

2001-10-03 Thread Gustaf Erikson
"Bruce Best (CRO)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks for all your suggestions. > > To make things more difficult, of course, we cannot now install > Win98 over Win2k, because the Win98 installer will not run from > within NT, i.e., it too would require a boot disk or bootable CD. It > seems t

Re: Debian install to subnotebook

2001-10-03 Thread Mathias Jansson
Gustaf Erikson writes: > "Bruce Best (CRO)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Thanks for all your suggestions. > > > > To make things more difficult, of course, we cannot now install > > Win98 over Win2k, because the Win98 installer will not run from > > within NT, i.e., it too would req

RE: Debian install to subnotebook

2001-10-03 Thread Bruce Best (CRO)
Hmmm.. I'd thought of looking into a netboot as a solution, but have no idea of how to do it. There did not appear to be any such option in the BIOS, which has only "Floppy, CD, Hard Drive" as boot options. Having neither the floppy or CD, this of course leaves... Is it possible to do a net boot

I am stuck: X on a Compaq Armada M300 (ATI Rage Lt Pro)

2001-10-03 Thread HdV
Hi out there, I tried, but it seems I lack the experience needed to solve this. I hope some kind soul on the list can help me out. Today I've installed potato on a Compaq Armada M300, which was easy enough to do. After I finished the base install without X I did some of the necessary stuff, like

Booting from ZIP drive (was: Debian install to subnotebook)

2001-10-03 Thread Bruce Best (CRO)
Thought I'd take another look at booting my Debian install from a Zip (or booting to DOS, then using loadlin); I went to the Iomega site and looked around. I found the following rather troubling "answer", at http://www.iomega.com/support/documents/10372.html, "At this time, Iomega® does not supp

RE: Debian install to subnotebook

2001-10-03 Thread Bruce Best (CRO)
Thanks for the link, but it appears that USB Zip drives are not bootable, at least according to this page (and I haven't seen anything to contradict it); http://pw1.netcom.com/~deepone/zipjaz/special.html#boot Bruce >-Original Message- >From: Gustaf Erikson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

Re: I am stuck: X on a Compaq Armada M300 (ATI Rage Lt Pro)

2001-10-03 Thread Richard van Dommelen
Dear HdV, I've upgraded to woody on my armada E500 but installed it as potato. X ran fine on it. It has the same graphic cards so it must work on your system too. No screens found means the total of the xserver is not installed. try xserver-xfree86 or something. You'r almost there... Suc6 Ric

What to choose

2001-10-03 Thread Søren Neigaard
Hi I don't know that to install on my Dell Laptop, Debian or Mandrake. Mandrake claims to have something like apt-get, do you know if it works as good as you apt-get (I have heard a lot of positive things about Debain apt-get). Well... Give me some buzzwords, why should I prefer Debian? -- Med

Re: I am stuck: X on a Compaq Armada M300 (ATI Rage Lt Pro)

2001-10-03 Thread Vincent N. Virgilio
Attached is an X config file that works with my ATI Rage 128 Mobility LF and 1400x1050 LCD (IBM model ITSX93). Maybe it will help. Vince Virgilio # XF86Config-4 (XFree86 server configuration file) generated by Dexconf, the # Debian X Configuration tool, using values from the debconf database. #

Dell Latitude C800 & PCMCIA-CS -- locks hard?

2001-10-03 Thread Zorak
Hello All, Trying to get an install of Potato going on a Dell Latitude C800, but the PC Card Services doesn't seem to want to play. The system locks hard immediately after /etc/init.d/pcmcia is started. Most of the time the laptop will actually power down shortly after the lockup, someti

Strange system-clock behaviour on Twinhead Powerslim600

2001-10-03 Thread Geoffrey Hausheer
I am having some very strange behaviour from my system clock. I am not sure whether it is a kernel problem or not. The problem is that my kernel does not keep consistent time. It doesn't have a regular drift, but instead jumps radically every once in a while. I have had this problem since sw

Re: What to choose

2001-10-03 Thread Teppo Hytönen
Hi there. What comes to choosing between the two, it's personal preference that matters. I myself recommend Debian: I love it myself, and yes, apt-get is great. Then again, I haven't used Mandrake, but haven't heard a single positive comment about it, other than that it is easy to install; many

Re: svgalib on an ATI Rage Mobility LF rev 2

2001-10-03 Thread Vincent N. Virgilio
Thank you! 'chipset VESA' works beautifully. Though not without a little effort. 'vgatest' first complained that src/driver.h/MAX_REGS was not large enough, so I installed the source package, and recompiled with the recommended value. After that vgatest ran, but was corrupting my console's font

Re: What to choose

2001-10-03 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Teppo Hytönen wrote: >Giving a list about what's good in Debian would take a while, I don't >think I'll even start on that, hehe : ) > I gave it a try a while ago, and came up with the list at http://lyre.mit.edu/~powell/debian.html . Additions/corrections welcome. It would be cool to have a g

Re: What to choose

2001-10-03 Thread Hubert Chan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > "Søren" == Søren Neigaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Søren> Hi I don't know that to install on my Dell Laptop, Debian or Søren> Mandrake. Mandrake claims to have something like apt-get, do you Søren> know if it works as good as you apt-get (I

Copy/Paste in KDE

2001-10-03 Thread Curt Howland
Hi. When I've put something to the clipboard under *nix before, and hit the "paste" button in Netscape, it has correctly copied what was on the clipboard. It didn't matter if it was copied out of a term window by simply highlighting, or from another application. However, right now it does not w

Re: Copy/Paste in KDE

2001-10-03 Thread Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă
Hi, I am not an expert on KDE, but I figure it out that if you want to paste something to Netscape 4.77 the text has to be still highlighted, otherwise nothing is pasted to Netscape. More than that if the window where you selected the text is no longer available is not to much to be done. You may