Re: Newbie Questions

2002-07-16 Thread Dave Thayer
On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 10:10:50PM -0400, Designer wrote: > Hello Debian Laptop List, > > > I'm going to purchase a new portable, but, I'm having trouble getting > specific hardware information. By trade I'm an embedded systems > programmer. Here goes: > > 1. Is there documentation with informat

Re: pro's and con's of Evolution mail reader?

2002-07-16 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
[evo?] Yo! While I use evo still, I'm not really fond of it. - it's horribly bloated (startup takes much too long). - gpg support is severely broken. This will be better in 1.2, but only for MIME PGP, inline PGP will probably be broken forever. - Mail account system is questionable. IMHO the

Re: pro's and con's of Evolution mail reader?

2002-07-16 Thread Mattia Dongili
Hi, I'd strongly suggest to use sylpheed. I'm using version 0.7.4 (in the testing tree) and it's lightweight and stable. USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND mattia 520 0.3 4.8 10228 6116 pts/0S08:59 0:08 sylpheed bye -- mattia On Mon, 15 Jul 20

Linux status survey of laptop manufacturers updated

2002-07-16 Thread Werner Heuser
Hi, I have updated my survey of laptop manufacturers and their Linux status: ToC: * Most Wanted * Manufacturer Blurb * Microsoft Tax? * Certifications * Independent Vendors * Bogus URLs * Manufacturers A-Z Besides Linux also other UniXes are mentioned and some hints about laptops with other CPU

Re: pro's and con's of Evolution mail reader?

2002-07-16 Thread Tobias Hunger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 15 July 2002 18:09, Gale Stafford wrote: > I've been using Kmail for a month now with only a few problems. But I'm > hearing good things about Evolution. I have just 80 MB of RAM, though. How > does Evolution compare to other mail readers in

Re: XFree86 - startx

2002-07-16 Thread Helgi Örn
On Tue, 2002-07-16 at 04:50, Dom Leon wrote: > My XF86Config file is not working. StartX is failing > with 'no screens found' > > I found the following links with Toshiba 3110ct specs, > but I would like to know if you can provide me with > you XF86Config? > > http://cdgenp01.csd.toshiba.com/cont

Re: pro's and con's of Evolution mail reader?

2002-07-16 Thread Derek Broughton
> Pine does it by default. Which is far from sufficient reason to use pine. Sylpheed, in fact, does everything I want. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Using PS/2 and ImPS/2 in X

2002-07-16 Thread Allan Sandfeld Jensen
On Monday 15 July 2002 04:29, Jeff wrote: > Oh Ye Debian Guru's! > > I have a Dell Latitude CPx with the combo touchpad and stylus > (eraser-head) mouse. These input devices share the PS/2 interface > along with the PS/2 connector on the back of the laptop. Also, this > touchpad/stylus is a regul

RE: Newbie Questions

2002-07-16 Thread Kozikowski, Mark
James, Just for information, Quatech (http://www.quatech.com/comm_main.htm#pcd) provides 1, 2, and 4 port RS232 serial PCMCIA cars. Mark -Original Message- From: Designer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 10:11 PM To: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org Subject: Newbie Que

Xircom RBEM56G100

2002-07-16 Thread Edward Murphy
Hey all, I have a Xircom Real-Port ethernet and modem card. (RBE M56G 100) that loads as far as the system is consernce (i.e. ifconfig see's it etc) but as soon as I ping anything i get TX and Carrier Errors. A couple of things: 1) This is the 2nd card that i've tryed (ahh swaping cards @ work is

Re: pro's and con's of Evolution mail reader?

2002-07-16 Thread Bem Ajani Jones-Bey
Mutt can be setup to use the handlers given in /etc/mailcap or ~/.mailcap for arbitrary mime types. For example, to get automatic viewing of html email inline with my client, I added the following to my .muttrc: auto_view text/html and in my .mailcap: text/html; w3m -T text/html -dump %s; copio

Re: Sony Vaio 680: IrDA to Nokia 7110 and IrDA to Nokia 6310 - whats the difference?

2002-07-16 Thread Dmitry Astapov
DA> Problem: I can use Nokia 7110 as modem via IrDA and cannot do the same DA> thing with Nokia 6310. Can someone share a useful hint with me? What DA> is the difference between handsets? M.b. I can tweak my IrDA config DA> somehow? (Sorry for a long post) [skip] I posted this to irda-users

how to disable a "pop-up help text" in Gnome?

2002-07-16 Thread Gale Stafford
You know that little box that automatically pops up and displays the text: Button1-Move move-window-interactively Button1-Off2 toggle-window-shaded Button2 .. Button2 .. (... etc, etc) that appears when you position the pointer on the bar-above-the-menu-bar? ( I dont know what to call that bar,

Re: how to disable a "pop-up help text" in Gnome?

2002-07-16 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Gale" == Gale Stafford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Gale> You know that little box that automatically pops up and displays Gale> the text: ... tooltip Gale> that appears when you position the pointer on the Gale> bar-above-the-menu-bar? ( I dont know what to call that bar, or Gale> even if

RE: how to disable a "pop-up help text" in Gnome?

2002-07-16 Thread Lewis, James M.
> You know that little box that automatically pops up and > displays the text: > > Button1-Move move-window-interactively > Button1-Off2 toggle-window-shaded > Button2 .. > Button2 .. > (... etc, etc) > > that appears when you position the pointer on the > bar-above-the-menu-bar? ( I dont kn

Re: pro's and con's of Evolution mail reader?

2002-07-16 Thread Jeff
Mattia Dongili, 2002-Jul-16 09:48 +0200: > Hi, > I'd strongly suggest to use sylpheed. I'm using version 0.7.4 (in the testing > tree) and it's lightweight and stable. > I took a look at sylpheed once and I noticed that it didn't sort by thread properly. I played with it for awhile, but compari

Re: how to disable a "pop-up help text" in Gnome?

2002-07-16 Thread Gale Stafford
Ah, thank you! I changed the setting in Gnome Control Panel > Sawfish > Miscellaneous > Tool Tips. Excellent! Gale Stafford On Tue, 16 Jul 2002 13:37:48 -0400 "Lewis, James M." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > You know that little box that automatically pops up and > > displays the text: >

Rage Mobility and DRI

2002-07-16 Thread Tom Badran
I have a laptop (thinkpad a22m) with a rage mobility card. Depending on where i look (lspci, proc etc) it is reported as either a Rage Mobility LF, or a Rage Mobility P/M. I have x working nicely (very smooth dvd playback etc) but i cant get DRI to work at all (using 2.4.18 kernel with many dr

Re: Rage Mobility and DRI

2002-07-16 Thread Valéry Febvre
On Tue, 16 Jul 2002 20:32:13 +0100 Tom Badran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a laptop (thinkpad a22m) with a rage mobility card. Depending on where > i look (lspci, proc etc) it is reported as either a Rage Mobility LF, or a > Rage Mobility P/M. > > I have x working nicely (very smooth dv

printing setup

2002-07-16 Thread steve thompson
Can anyone advise on the best/easiest way to set up a printing and printer now? The printing howto, in a brief section on Debian, suggests apsfilter and CUPS. I just used apsfilterconfig to set up the printer and it printed a test page successfully, but I want to have a graphical interface such

mail readers

2002-07-16 Thread steve thompson
There has recently been a lot of discussion of mail readers Evolution vs Sylpheed, with some discussion of Mutt. More widely, does anyone have experience with Mozilla mail in comparison to Sylpheed, Evolution, or any other mail client with a graphical interface? Steve _

Re: Your password!

2002-07-16 Thread yan
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Re: mail readers

2002-07-16 Thread Ken Shan
Another mail reader question: I use Mutt currently. I rely a lot on mail being delivered into various folders (by procmail, unison, etc.) while Mutt is running on the same folders. I checked out Evolution, KMail, and Mozilla Mail; they all seem to want to fetch incoming mail themselves and perfo

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2002-07-16 Thread GroupShield for Exchange \(MARYLAND\)
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Re: X on IBM TP 760XL?

2002-07-16 Thread Stefano Canepa
lunedì 15 luglio 2002, alle 15:10, Michael Mol: : Has anyone ever managed to get any version of X (that are available in : potato or woody) to work at 800x600 on the LCD of an IBM ThinkPad 760XL? : I do not know how to help you directly but I suggest you can find something interesting on www.linu

Re: how to load a module for vfat fs support?

2002-07-16 Thread Nyk Tarr
On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 02:23:39PM -0500, Gale Stafford wrote: > I'm trying to mount a floppy disk with a vfat filesystem. But it seems my > kernel doesn't handle vfat at this point. I thought I enabled vfat support as > a loadable module before compiling the kernel, but it seems I goofed. > > I

Re: mail readers

2002-07-16 Thread Derek Gladding
On Tuesday 16 July 2002 12:28 pm, Ken Shan wrote: > Another mail reader question: > > I use Mutt currently. I rely a lot on mail being delivered into > various folders (by procmail, unison, etc.) while Mutt is running on > the same folders. I checked out Evolution, KMail, and Mozilla Mail; > they

Re: mail readers

2002-07-16 Thread Erich Schubert
> Mozilla mail in comparison to Sylpheed, Evolution, or I've tried evolution and sylpheed, they were ok, but i always use mutt, although they use the very same mail directories and i could use them at the same time, i only run mutt. It's just more convenient for me. I'll only use evolution (which

Re: mail readers

2002-07-16 Thread Ken Shan
On 2002-07-16T13:22:03-0700, Derek Gladding wrote: > KMail will handle maildir format as well as the POP/IMAP stuff. > Settings/Configure KMail/Network/Receiving/Add/Maildir Mailbox The problem is, as far as I can tell, KMail insists on moving the mail that is delivered into the Maildir away into

Re: mail readers

2002-07-16 Thread Derek Gladding
On Tuesday 16 July 2002 02:51 pm, Ken Shan wrote: > On 2002-07-16T13:22:03-0700, Derek Gladding wrote: > > KMail will handle maildir format as well as the POP/IMAP stuff. > > Settings/Configure KMail/Network/Receiving/Add/Maildir Mailbox > > The problem is, as far as I can tell, KMail insists on mo

Re: Rage Mobility and DRI

2002-07-16 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 16 Jul 2002 8:02 pm, Valéry Febvre wrote: > > I really hope one of you guys can help me, im all out of ideas. > > Yes, your chipset belong to mach64 chipset familly probably. > Goto http://dri.sf.net/snapshots/bleeding-edge/ and download the

Re: XFree86 - startx

2002-07-16 Thread Dom Leon
It turned out to be the wrong driver which xf86config placed in the XF86Config file. It wrote 'vga' while it should have been a 'trident' driver. Now that I have XFree86 running does anyone know why the 800x600 is not workting properly? The only section where the video resolution is entered in the