Hints for notebook users

2002-03-06 Thread Rogério Brito
Dear people, Some time ago, I wrote a small list of hints for people using Debian/Linux on noteboks. During that time I, I was more or less focused on hints regarding low memory, HD space and power (battery) consumption. In fact, low power

Re: kernel 2.4 on dell latitude

2002-03-06 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Klaas Gadeyne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.03.04.1324 +0100]: > Do this kernel-image has apic enabled? If yes, you'll have to go for the > sources and compile your own and be sure to disable these: > > # CONFIG_X86_UP_APIC is not set > # CONFIG_X86_UP_IOAPIC is not set > > I had similar

Getting CardBus NIC support from Woody floppies

2002-03-06 Thread Shay Elkin
am trying to install Woody through the net. My ethernet card is a LG GoldStream (www.lgnetwork.com/css/product/information/product_html/lpnc-ii-10-100.html), which is actually an RealTek 8139 based. Alas, the installation floppies doesn't have the appropriate modules (http://www.scyld.com/n

dhclient

2002-03-06 Thread Tom Allison
I'm running into a little problem. or rather a couple of them. I have two cards on my notebook -- really! One's a land-line eepro100 and the other is a wireless pcmcia card. I want one of them to run with dhcp and the other static. How/Where is dhclient called so that I can modify it to inclu

Re: dhclient

2002-03-06 Thread Anton Gyllenberg
On Wed, Mar 06 2002, at 06:29:28 -0500, Tom Allison wrote: > How/Where is dhclient called so that I can modify it to include a > statement from: 'dhclient' to 'dhclient eth1'? > > Also, on a slightly related problem. Has anyone ever seen an error > associated with ipup where it calls an error a

Re: dhclient

2002-03-06 Thread Dirk Kredler
On Mittwoch, 6. März 2002 12:29 wrote Tom Allison: > I'm running into a little problem. > or rather a couple of them. > > I have two cards on my notebook -- really! One's a land-line > eepro100 and the other is a wireless pcmcia card. > I want one of them to run with dhcp and the other static. > >

Re: Hints for notebook users

2002-03-06 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 04:12:16AM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > Some time ago, I wrote a small list of hints for people using > Debian/Linux on noteboks. > > During that time I, I was more or less focused on hints > regarding low memory, HD space and power (battery) > consumption. > > [...] > >

Re: Getting CardBus NIC support from Woody floppies

2002-03-06 Thread Romain FRANCOISE
Shay Elkin writes: > My ethernet card is a LG GoldStream which is actually an RealTek 8139 > based. > Alas, the installation floppies doesn't have the appropriate modules > (http://www.scyld.com/network/rtl8139.html). I own a similar RealTek 8139 based CardBus card and it won't work with these d

Re: Getting CardBus NIC support from Woody floppies

2002-03-06 Thread Shay Elkin
Romain FRANCOISE wrote: Shay Elkin writes: My ethernet card is a LG GoldStream which is actually an RealTek 8139 based. Alas, the installation floppies doesn't have the appropriate modules (http://www.scyld.com/network/rtl8139.html). I own a similar RealTek 8139 based CardBus card and it won

Re: Getting CardBus NIC support from Woody floppies

2002-03-06 Thread Alessandro Speranza
Hi On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Shay Elkin wrote: > > Worst case scenario, I'll either download most of the woody tree, > installing from hd, or get the ISOs, and try to find someone with a CD > writer and ethernet port, willing to commit them to plastic for me. > Though I wish not do it - it would wast

Re: Getting CardBus NIC support from Woody floppies

2002-03-06 Thread Shay Elkin
Alessandro Speranza wrote: Where do you get the woody's iso's? I couldn't finde them They aren't ISOs per-se: I don't think there's a file on an official mirror: but using jigdo (cdimage.debian.org/~costar/jigdo), you can get an unofficial image. The .jigdo files itself are hosted at ftp:/

Re: Hints for notebook users

2002-03-06 Thread alberto
Hi Rogerio, Is ejecting the card necessary? I use /etc/init.d/pcmcia stop to stop the cardmanager. Wouldn't that be enough? alberto. 12) Eject PCMCIA cards when they're not being used (they usually draw some power from the notebook battery, even when they're not being used). I

Re: dhclient

2002-03-06 Thread Andreas Tscharner
On Wed, 06 Mar 2002 06:29:28 -0500 Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How/Where is dhclient called so that I can modify it to include a > statement from: 'dhclient' to 'dhclient eth1'? Normally it's all in /etc/network/interfaces This file has a very good manpage (man interfaces) which exp

Windows XP + Linux

2002-03-06 Thread Luis Mendes
Hi, I am about to install Woody in my new Toshiba 1800-314 which came with a copy of WinXp Home Edition installed. In the past I had linux coexisting with different flavours of Windows (3.11, 95, 98) but never with XP. I am a bit worried because after a search I got conflicting views on how easy

RE : Windows XP + Linux

2002-03-06 Thread Axel Minck
Hi, I have windows XP installed on my laptop with Woody. I had no problem of coexistence. Win XP is installed with NTFS file system and i have no problem to see this NTFS partition from linux Axel smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

Re: Windows XP + Linux

2002-03-06 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Wed, 2002-03-06 at 12:39, Luis Mendes wrote: > > Hi, > > I am about to install Woody in my new Toshiba 1800-314 which came with > a copy of WinXp Home Edition installed. In the past I had linux > coexisting with different flavours of Windows (3.11, 95, 98) but never > with XP. I am a bit worr

Re: Windows XP + Linux

2002-03-06 Thread German Poo Caaman~o
El mié, 06-03-2002 a las 15:39, Luis Mendes escribió: > I am about to install Woody in my new Toshiba 1800-314 which came with > a copy of WinXp Home Edition installed. In the past I had linux > coexisting with different flavours of Windows (3.11, 95, 98) but never > with XP. I am a bit worried bec

RE: Windows XP + Linux

2002-03-06 Thread Sam Stern
> -Original Message- > From: Luis Mendes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hi, > > I am about to install Woody in my new Toshiba 1800-314 which came with > a copy of WinXp Home Edition installed. In the past I had linux > coexisting with different flavours of Windows (3.11, 95, 98) but n

Re: Windows XP + Linux

2002-03-06 Thread Mark Janssen
On Wed, 2002-03-06 at 19:39, Luis Mendes wrote: > I am about to install Woody in my new Toshiba 1800-314 which came with > a copy of WinXp Home Edition installed. > anyone in this list tried it sucssefuly? One other related issue is > that XP comes installed in a WIN32 filesystem but I can convert

Re: Windows XP + Linux

2002-03-06 Thread German Poo Caaman~o
El mié, 06-03-2002 a las 15:59, Alex Malinovich escribió: > [...] > My desktop machine is currently running XP and Debian in a dual boot > configuration with no problems (running Cygwin with XFree86 while in > Windows to make it bearable). I am using the XP bootloader however, so > if you're intend

Re: Windows XP + Linux

2002-03-06 Thread Martin Hermanowski
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 06:39:03PM +, Luis Mendes wrote: > > Hi, > > I am about to install Woody in my new Toshiba 1800-314 which came with > a copy of WinXp Home Edition installed. In the past I had linux > coexisting with different flavours of Windows (3.11, 95, 98) but never > with XP. I

Re: Windows XP + Linux

2002-03-06 Thread Luis Mendes
On 6 Mar 2002, Alex Malinovich wrote: > Well, personally, I would call Toshiba, demand a refund for XP after > rejecting the license terms, and then proceed to put Debian on there. > HOWEVER, in regards to your questions: That crossed my mind but there was a plastic wrapper covering he laptop sea

Re: Windows XP + Linux

2002-03-06 Thread Brian Nelson
Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 2002-03-06 at 12:39, Luis Mendes wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I am about to install Woody in my new Toshiba 1800-314 which came with > > a copy of WinXp Home Edition installed. In the past I had linux > > coexisting with different flavours of

Re: Dell Inspiron 2500

2002-03-06 Thread Baptiste Malguy
> I have no trouble with X. ALSA was simple once I finally realized that the > .deb package wasn't creating a required link from /etc/modutils/alsa -> > /etc/alsa/modutil/0.9. APM is definitely toast. PCMCIA works fine for me, > but that seems fairly dependent on the cards you're using. There are

Re: Dell Inspiron 2500

2002-03-06 Thread Baptiste Malguy
> > If you're interested in working with me on this, I'd suggest we keep trying > > and report back to this list and acpi-devel with our results. We seem to be > > at a pretty similar point. > Yes, I thought the same. However, for the next weeks, I'm pretty (I start my > last exams tomorrow). + bu

Re: Dell Latitude Ls and the neomagic X server in unstable

2002-03-06 Thread Jacek M. Wuwer
On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 11:29:17AM -0800, Michael Perry wrote: > Kind of curious whether others using the neomagic driver in the most > recent X in unstable see problems with a frozen display when switching > to a VC and then back IF the vc is active for a long time. I tend to > switch away for se

Re: Windows XP + Linux

2002-03-06 Thread Jeff
Martin Hermanowski, 2002-Mar-06 20:22 +0100: > > I got a pre-installed XPpro on my TP A30, it works well with woody. I > can mount the NTFS XP-Partition (readonly), and XP can be started easily > by lilo. Yeah, I don't trust Linux to write to NTFS yet either, so I created a small (500MB) FAT32 pa

Re: Windows XP + Linux

2002-03-06 Thread Hubert Chan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > "Luis" == Luis Mendes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Luis> Other replies to the list seem to indicate that it shoudl also Luis> work with LILO. Just in case, where is the XP bootloader located? I use GRUB, which is more powerful than LILO. If you

Re: Windows XP + Linux

2002-03-06 Thread Ilia Lobsanov
- Original Message - From: "Hubert Chan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 4:36 PM Subject: Re: Windows XP + Linux > FWIW, I have Linux, and XP on the same drive on my laptop (IBM > ThinkPad). I didn't encounter any problems, except that XP got > installed on a

ridiculous olvwm mouse cursor

2002-03-06 Thread t3lo
hi, i'm running woody on a dell i8k, x 4.1.0 and olvwm for about a year now. when i installed some dozens of new packages today (new connection, i finally could install some of the bigger packages), my olvwm mouse cursor lost its shape. the normal cursor looks like being stretched sidewards, so doe

Re: kernel 2.4 on dell latitude

2002-03-06 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Klaas Gadeyne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.03.04.1324 +0100]: > Do this kernel-image has apic enabled? If yes, you'll have to go for the > sources and compile your own and be sure to disable these: > > # CONFIG_X86_UP_APIC is not set > # CONFIG_X86_UP_IOAPIC is not set > > I had simila

Getting CardBus NIC support from Woody floppies

2002-03-06 Thread Shay Elkin
am trying to install Woody through the net. My ethernet card is a LG GoldStream (www.lgnetwork.com/css/product/information/product_html/lpnc-ii-10-100.html), which is actually an RealTek 8139 based. Alas, the installation floppies doesn't have the appropriate modules (http://www.scyld.com/ne

dhclient

2002-03-06 Thread Tom Allison
I'm running into a little problem. or rather a couple of them. I have two cards on my notebook -- really! One's a land-line eepro100 and the other is a wireless pcmcia card. I want one of them to run with dhcp and the other static. How/Where is dhclient called so that I can modify it to includ

Re: dhclient

2002-03-06 Thread Anton Gyllenberg
On Wed, Mar 06 2002, at 06:29:28 -0500, Tom Allison wrote: > How/Where is dhclient called so that I can modify it to include a > statement from: 'dhclient' to 'dhclient eth1'? > > Also, on a slightly related problem. Has anyone ever seen an error > associated with ipup where it calls an error

Re: dhclient

2002-03-06 Thread Dirk Kredler
On Mittwoch, 6. März 2002 12:29 wrote Tom Allison: > I'm running into a little problem. > or rather a couple of them. > > I have two cards on my notebook -- really! One's a land-line > eepro100 and the other is a wireless pcmcia card. > I want one of them to run with dhcp and the other static. >

Re: Hints for notebook users

2002-03-06 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 04:12:16AM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > Some time ago, I wrote a small list of hints for people using > Debian/Linux on noteboks. > > During that time I, I was more or less focused on hints > regarding low memory, HD space and power (battery) > consumption. > > [...] >

Re: Getting CardBus NIC support from Woody floppies

2002-03-06 Thread Romain FRANCOISE
Shay Elkin writes: > My ethernet card is a LG GoldStream which is actually an RealTek 8139 > based. > Alas, the installation floppies doesn't have the appropriate modules > (http://www.scyld.com/network/rtl8139.html). I own a similar RealTek 8139 based CardBus card and it won't work with these

Re: Getting CardBus NIC support from Woody floppies

2002-03-06 Thread Shay Elkin
Romain FRANCOISE wrote: > Shay Elkin writes: > >>My ethernet card is a LG GoldStream which is actually an RealTek 8139 >>based. >>Alas, the installation floppies doesn't have the appropriate modules >>(http://www.scyld.com/network/rtl8139.html). > > I own a similar RealTek 8139 based CardBus ca

Re: Getting CardBus NIC support from Woody floppies

2002-03-06 Thread Alessandro Speranza
Hi On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Shay Elkin wrote: > > Worst case scenario, I'll either download most of the woody tree, > installing from hd, or get the ISOs, and try to find someone with a CD > writer and ethernet port, willing to commit them to plastic for me. > Though I wish not do it - it would was

Re: Getting CardBus NIC support from Woody floppies

2002-03-06 Thread Shay Elkin
Alessandro Speranza wrote: > Where do you get the woody's iso's? I couldn't finde them They aren't ISOs per-se: I don't think there's a file on an official mirror: but using jigdo (cdimage.debian.org/~costar/jigdo), you can get an unofficial image. The .jigdo files itself are hosted at ftp://

Re: Hints for notebook users

2002-03-06 Thread alberto
Hi Rogerio, Is ejecting the card necessary? I use /etc/init.d/pcmcia stop to stop the cardmanager. Wouldn't that be enough? alberto. 12) Eject PCMCIA cards when they're not being used (they usually draw some power from the notebook battery, even when they're not being used).

Re: dhclient

2002-03-06 Thread Andreas Tscharner
On Wed, 06 Mar 2002 06:29:28 -0500 Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How/Where is dhclient called so that I can modify it to include a > statement from: 'dhclient' to 'dhclient eth1'? Normally it's all in /etc/network/interfaces This file has a very good manpage (man interfaces) which ex

Windows XP + Linux

2002-03-06 Thread Luis Mendes
Hi, I am about to install Woody in my new Toshiba 1800-314 which came with a copy of WinXp Home Edition installed. In the past I had linux coexisting with different flavours of Windows (3.11, 95, 98) but never with XP. I am a bit worried because after a search I got conflicting views on how eas

RE : Windows XP + Linux

2002-03-06 Thread Axel Minck
Hi, I have windows XP installed on my laptop with Woody. I had no problem of coexistence. Win XP is installed with NTFS file system and i have no problem to see this NTFS partition from linux Axel smime.p7s Description: application/pkcs7-signature

Re: Windows XP + Linux

2002-03-06 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Wed, 2002-03-06 at 12:39, Luis Mendes wrote: > > Hi, > > I am about to install Woody in my new Toshiba 1800-314 which came with > a copy of WinXp Home Edition installed. In the past I had linux > coexisting with different flavours of Windows (3.11, 95, 98) but never > with XP. I am a bit wor

Re: Windows XP + Linux

2002-03-06 Thread German Poo Caaman~o
El mié, 06-03-2002 a las 15:39, Luis Mendes escribió: > I am about to install Woody in my new Toshiba 1800-314 which came with > a copy of WinXp Home Edition installed. In the past I had linux > coexisting with different flavours of Windows (3.11, 95, 98) but never > with XP. I am a bit worried be

RE: Windows XP + Linux

2002-03-06 Thread Sam Stern
> -Original Message- > From: Luis Mendes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Hi, > > I am about to install Woody in my new Toshiba 1800-314 which came with > a copy of WinXp Home Edition installed. In the past I had linux > coexisting with different flavours of Windows (3.11, 95, 98) but

Re: Windows XP + Linux

2002-03-06 Thread Mark Janssen
On Wed, 2002-03-06 at 19:39, Luis Mendes wrote: > I am about to install Woody in my new Toshiba 1800-314 which came with > a copy of WinXp Home Edition installed. > anyone in this list tried it sucssefuly? One other related issue is > that XP comes installed in a WIN32 filesystem but I can convert

Re: Windows XP + Linux

2002-03-06 Thread German Poo Caaman~o
El mié, 06-03-2002 a las 15:59, Alex Malinovich escribió: > [...] > My desktop machine is currently running XP and Debian in a dual boot > configuration with no problems (running Cygwin with XFree86 while in > Windows to make it bearable). I am using the XP bootloader however, so > if you're inten

Re: Windows XP + Linux

2002-03-06 Thread Martin Hermanowski
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 06:39:03PM +, Luis Mendes wrote: > > Hi, > > I am about to install Woody in my new Toshiba 1800-314 which came with > a copy of WinXp Home Edition installed. In the past I had linux > coexisting with different flavours of Windows (3.11, 95, 98) but never > with XP. I

Re: Windows XP + Linux

2002-03-06 Thread Luis Mendes
On 6 Mar 2002, Alex Malinovich wrote: > Well, personally, I would call Toshiba, demand a refund for XP after > rejecting the license terms, and then proceed to put Debian on there. > HOWEVER, in regards to your questions: That crossed my mind but there was a plastic wrapper covering he laptop se

Re: Windows XP + Linux

2002-03-06 Thread Brian Nelson
Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 2002-03-06 at 12:39, Luis Mendes wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I am about to install Woody in my new Toshiba 1800-314 which came with > > a copy of WinXp Home Edition installed. In the past I had linux > > coexisting with different flavours of

Re: Dell Inspiron 2500

2002-03-06 Thread Baptiste Malguy
> I have no trouble with X. ALSA was simple once I finally realized that the > .deb package wasn't creating a required link from /etc/modutils/alsa -> > /etc/alsa/modutil/0.9. APM is definitely toast. PCMCIA works fine for me, > but that seems fairly dependent on the cards you're using. There ar

Re: Dell Inspiron 2500

2002-03-06 Thread Baptiste Malguy
> > If you're interested in working with me on this, I'd suggest we keep trying > > and report back to this list and acpi-devel with our results. We seem to be > > at a pretty similar point. > Yes, I thought the same. However, for the next weeks, I'm pretty (I start my > last exams tomorrow). + b

Re: Dell Latitude Ls and the neomagic X server in unstable

2002-03-06 Thread Jacek M. Wuwer
On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 11:29:17AM -0800, Michael Perry wrote: > Kind of curious whether others using the neomagic driver in the most > recent X in unstable see problems with a frozen display when switching > to a VC and then back IF the vc is active for a long time. I tend to > switch away for s

Re: Windows XP + Linux

2002-03-06 Thread Jeff
Martin Hermanowski, 2002-Mar-06 20:22 +0100: > > I got a pre-installed XPpro on my TP A30, it works well with woody. I > can mount the NTFS XP-Partition (readonly), and XP can be started easily > by lilo. Yeah, I don't trust Linux to write to NTFS yet either, so I created a small (500MB) FAT32 p

Re: Windows XP + Linux

2002-03-06 Thread Hubert Chan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > "Luis" == Luis Mendes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Luis> Other replies to the list seem to indicate that it shoudl also Luis> work with LILO. Just in case, where is the XP bootloader located? I use GRUB, which is more powerful than LILO. If yo

Re: Windows XP + Linux

2002-03-06 Thread Ilia Lobsanov
- Original Message - From: "Hubert Chan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 4:36 PM Subject: Re: Windows XP + Linux > FWIW, I have Linux, and XP on the same drive on my laptop (IBM > ThinkPad). I didn't encounter any problems, except that XP

ridiculous olvwm mouse cursor

2002-03-06 Thread t3lo
hi, i'm running woody on a dell i8k, x 4.1.0 and olvwm for about a year now. when i installed some dozens of new packages today (new connection, i finally could install some of the bigger packages), my olvwm mouse cursor lost its shape. the normal cursor looks like being stretched sidewards, so do