ATI Radeon and Inspiron 4100

2001-10-13 Thread Philipp Bliedung
Hi, I'm planning on getting a Dell Inspiron 4100 but I can't find any information whether the ATI Radeon Mobility (16Mb) card is supported under Linux. I'm using unstable. Can anybody tell me whether it is supported or where I could find things like that. (All I could find were things about ATI

Install on Compaq

2001-10-13 Thread Keri
I have a Compaq Armada 7730MT which doesn't have the CD ROM, I use an external one. This is my first install on a laptop and I'm approaching it carefully. It has Win 98 on it, but I want a laptop running Linux. First step? It's been awhile and I really mean 'first step'! Besides approaching it ca

Re: ATI Radeon and Inspiron 4100

2001-10-13 Thread Vivek
On Sat, 13 Oct 2001, Philipp Bliedung wrote: > Hi, > > I'm planning on getting a Dell Inspiron 4100 but I can't find any > information whether the > ATI Radeon Mobility (16Mb) card is supported under Linux. > I'm using unstable. The ATI Radeon Mobility, iirc, has only just come out - probably tak

netgear fa511 (cardbus ethernet card)

2001-10-13 Thread Thomas Vogels
Hi, The Netgear FA511 cardbus ethernet card is advertised to be working with Redhat. Has anybody gottne this card to work in a debian system? I'm running stable (2.2 kernel, pcmcia-cs up-to-date) and using netgear's drivers. I just get error messages from eth0. Thanks, -tom

Help W/ Compaq Installation P2

2001-10-13 Thread Keri
Am using fips to make new partitions in order to keep Win98 on this system. It is asking me to reformat the partitions, i.e. old, cylinder, and new. The docs are excellent, but I remain hesitant about going on with this. I don't know what to change them to, any help would be appreciated. Enter st

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2001-10-13 Thread keihneahnung
Hello @all, My problem is my graphics-chip: A Trident Cyberblade i1 AGP... I have woody installed on my Gericom 1st Supersonic, and I want X to work with the framebuffer-device. If I run KNOPPIX (the live-from-cd-booting-linux in graphics-mode, based on debian) and type "linux vga=791" at the boot

Re: Wireless ethernet problems (and apt-get)

2001-10-13 Thread Tiberian
Alrighty, thanks to everyone who helped me with this. The break came when talking to one of their administrators I happened to run into at a bar. (Shades of "Free as in Beer"?) He mentioned that the MAC addresses of all the wireless ethernet cards had to be registered before they were allowed o

Re: ATI Radeon and Inspiron 4100

2001-10-13 Thread Paul Paradise
On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 09:41:59AM +0200, Philipp Bliedung wrote: > Hi, > > I'm planning on getting a Dell Inspiron 4100 but I can't find any > information whether the > ATI Radeon Mobility (16Mb) card is supported under Linux. > I'm using unstable. > > Can anybody tell me whether it is supported

Enlightenment theme Customization...

2001-10-13 Thread Ricardo Diz
Hi there! I'm trying to change some defaults in theme BlueSteel for Enlightenment, specially the borders. I mean, I know I can change them for any window I want and then use the remember option, but I want it to be the default with BlueSteel. BTW, where can I get I "Do-a-theme-yourself-HOWTO"

Re: Wireless ethernet problems (and apt-get)

2001-10-13 Thread Serge Rey
On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 03:15:57PM -0400, Tiberian wrote: > > Alrighty, thanks to everyone who helped me with this. > Thanks, I'm new to debian and it's working out well on my laptop, better > then slackware, but the libraries and apt-get drive me nuts. apt-get seems > to have a wicked tendency

Re: Enlightenment theme Customization...

2001-10-13 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Ricardo Diz: > > Hi there! > > I'm trying to change some defaults in theme BlueSteel for Enlightenment, > specially the borders. I mean, I know I can change them for any window I want > and then use the remember option, but I want it to be the default with > BlueSteel. > > BTW, whe

Re: Enlightenment theme Customization...

2001-10-13 Thread Adam Kessel
On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 06:28:57PM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote: > http://www.themes.org used to be quite good for this sort of thing, but > they seem to be down right now. You could try The site seems to work if you go to http://classic.themes.org. Some of the links are broken, in that case you ju

ATI Radeon and Inspiron 4100

2001-10-13 Thread Philipp Bliedung
Hi, I'm planning on getting a Dell Inspiron 4100 but I can't find any information whether the ATI Radeon Mobility (16Mb) card is supported under Linux. I'm using unstable. Can anybody tell me whether it is supported or where I could find things like that. (All I could find were things about ATI

Install on Compaq

2001-10-13 Thread Keri
I have a Compaq Armada 7730MT which doesn't have the CD ROM, I use an external one. This is my first install on a laptop and I'm approaching it carefully. It has Win 98 on it, but I want a laptop running Linux. First step? It's been awhile and I really mean 'first step'! Besides approaching it c

Re: ATI Radeon and Inspiron 4100

2001-10-13 Thread Vivek
On Sat, 13 Oct 2001, Philipp Bliedung wrote: > Hi, > > I'm planning on getting a Dell Inspiron 4100 but I can't find any > information whether the > ATI Radeon Mobility (16Mb) card is supported under Linux. > I'm using unstable. The ATI Radeon Mobility, iirc, has only just come out - probably ta

netgear fa511 (cardbus ethernet card)

2001-10-13 Thread Thomas Vogels
Hi, The Netgear FA511 cardbus ethernet card is advertised to be working with Redhat. Has anybody gottne this card to work in a debian system? I'm running stable (2.2 kernel, pcmcia-cs up-to-date) and using netgear's drivers. I just get error messages from eth0. Thanks, -tom -- To UNSUBSCR

Help W/ Compaq Installation P2

2001-10-13 Thread Keri
Am using fips to make new partitions in order to keep Win98 on this system. It is asking me to reformat the partitions, i.e. old, cylinder, and new. The docs are excellent, but I remain hesitant about going on with this. I don't know what to change them to, any help would be appreciated. Enter st

[no subject]

2001-10-13 Thread keihneahnung
Hello @all, My problem is my graphics-chip: A Trident Cyberblade i1 AGP... I have woody installed on my Gericom 1st Supersonic, and I want X to work with the framebuffer-device. If I run KNOPPIX (the live-from-cd-booting-linux in graphics-mode, based on debian) and type "linux vga=791" at the boo

Re: Wireless ethernet problems (and apt-get)

2001-10-13 Thread Tiberian
Alrighty, thanks to everyone who helped me with this. The break came when talking to one of their administrators I happened to run into at a bar. (Shades of "Free as in Beer"?) He mentioned that the MAC addresses of all the wireless ethernet cards had to be registered before they were allowed

Re: ATI Radeon and Inspiron 4100

2001-10-13 Thread Paul Paradise
On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 09:41:59AM +0200, Philipp Bliedung wrote: > Hi, > > I'm planning on getting a Dell Inspiron 4100 but I can't find any > information whether the > ATI Radeon Mobility (16Mb) card is supported under Linux. > I'm using unstable. > > Can anybody tell me whether it is supporte

Re: Wireless ethernet problems (and apt-get)

2001-10-13 Thread Serge Rey
On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 03:15:57PM -0400, Tiberian wrote: > > Alrighty, thanks to everyone who helped me with this. > Thanks, I'm new to debian and it's working out well on my laptop, better > then slackware, but the libraries and apt-get drive me nuts. apt-get seems > to have a wicked tendenc

Enlightenment theme Customization...

2001-10-13 Thread Ricardo Diz
Hi there! I'm trying to change some defaults in theme BlueSteel for Enlightenment, specially the borders. I mean, I know I can change them for any window I want and then use the remember option, but I want it to be the default with BlueSteel. BTW, where can I get I "Do-a-theme-yourself-HOWTO"

Re: Enlightenment theme Customization...

2001-10-13 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Ricardo Diz: > > Hi there! > > I'm trying to change some defaults in theme BlueSteel for Enlightenment, specially >the borders. I mean, I know I can change them for any window I want and then use the >remember option, but I want it to be the default with BlueSteel. > > BTW, where c

Re: Enlightenment theme Customization...

2001-10-13 Thread Adam Kessel
On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 06:28:57PM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote: > http://www.themes.org used to be quite good for this sort of thing, but > they seem to be down right now. You could try The site seems to work if you go to http://classic.themes.org. Some of the links are broken, in that case you j