Re: Debian 3.0

2002-07-29 Thread Erich Schubert
> Can anyone describe the correct command for configuration ? Tried > xf86config and XF86Setup. Neither worked. ATI Rage LTpro graphics > card. I recommend installing "discover", "mdetect" and "read-edid" (which are suggested by Xfree) then run "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86" most hardware

Re: strange mouse pointer behaviour

2002-07-29 Thread Derek Broughton
From: "Mattia Dongili" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Are you running gpm while in X? > if so you should stop gpm ('man gpm' and look for BUGS) Well, lots of people claim to have gpm working properly with Dell/synaptics touchpads (if you have the ALPS touchpad, I can't help you), though I could never mak

Re: external mouse

2002-07-29 Thread Derek Broughton
From: "Jay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I'm starting to see a pattern here...most posts that I have read in this > forum, users complain about some fault with debian, specially with Dell > Inspiron models. I will steer clear from Dell laptops from now on. That's completely wrong. Most people who post

Re: Getting sound working on Thinkpad

2002-07-29 Thread Marty Pauley
On Mon Jul 29 10:31:17 2002, Daniel Pittman wrote: > On Sun, 28 Jul 2002, Ivan Uemlianin wrote: > > 2. The spec for the A31p says it has a "Sound Blaster Pro 16 > > compatible sound system". However, trying to install the kernel module > > sb (for Sound Blaster compatible sound systems) failed with

Fwd: ide-floppy. LS-120

2002-07-29 Thread alberto
Hi all I'm having problems in using regular floppies on my LS-120 drive of a NEC Versa SX, a zip-like drive wich is also capable of reading usual 1.44M floppies. This is how the drive gets recognised at boot time: # dmesg hdc: LS-120 SLIM3 00 UHD Floppy, ATAPI FLOPPY drive If I try to load i

Tecra 8200 WiFi problem not solved yet

2002-07-29 Thread Łukasz Studziński
As I mentioned earlier a friend of mine ask me to help him in transition from windows to linux. But there is a slight problem with wireless network card. I've been advised to use wvlan_cs instead wavelan kernel module - and I did - but still nothing. Maybe I did something wrong? On startup I get s

announce:sysrq keys reconfiguration

2002-07-29 Thread Tuukka Toivonen
Maybe not the best list for this, but nevertheless, let me announce the first version of the magic sysrq reconfigurator. As most of you probably know, Linux has the "magic sysrq" key feature. For example, if computer hangs, you can press Sysrq+U (to remount disk readonly), Sysrq+S (to sync) and fin

Alsa setup on Toshiba

2002-07-29 Thread Bill Moseley
I'm trying to get sound working on my Toshiba laptop running 2.4.18-bf2.4-xfs. I've got sound working on my desktop, but I'm not sure how I did it. I think I just kept installing things until it started working ;). I'd much rather install just what is needed. But frankly, I don't really underst

Re: Alsa setup on Toshiba

2002-07-29 Thread kiss the sun and walk on air
On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 12:30:50PM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote: > lspci shows: > > 00:0c.0 Multimedia audio controller: Yamaha Corporation YMF-754 > [DS-1E Audio Controller] > > My kernel would seem to support this. I can run modconf and see an

Re: announce:sysrq keys reconfiguration

2002-07-29 Thread Walter Hofmann
On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, Tuukka Toivonen wrote: > Unfortunately, my laptop is missing Sysrq+U. Sysrq is actually Fn+F9, but > Fn also enables the embedded numeric keypad which changes U to 4. Did you try Fn+F9+(lift Fn, hold F9)+U ? Walter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj

Re: Alsa setup on Toshiba

2002-07-29 Thread Bill Moseley
At 03:35 PM 07/29/02 -0400, kiss the sun and walk on air wrote: >use the ymfpci driver, from either the kernel or alsa. Why that made it easy. Thanks! Still not sure what or when or why to use Alsa, but that can now be left for another day. Any suggestions for a basic mixer for X (I'm running f

Re: Alsa setup on Toshiba

2002-07-29 Thread Mike Alborn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Off the top, I'd suggest installing package aumix-gtk. Basically aumix, but with a gtk interface, so it runs natively under X HTH, Bill Moseley wrote: | At 03:35 PM 07/29/02 -0400, kiss the sun and walk on air wrote: | |>use the ymfpci driver, from

UMAX ActionBook 570T

2002-07-29 Thread Michal Tarana
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, ^ I am going to buy UMAX ActionBook 570T and I would pleased to get some informations about support of this product in Debian. Especially, I would like to know some experiences with X-windows. On the XFree86 project homepage is information

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2002-07-29 Thread Shawn P. Garbett
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Re: announce:sysrq keys reconfiguration

2002-07-29 Thread Tuukka Toivonen
On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, Walter Hofmann wrote: >Did you try Fn+F9+(lift Fn, hold F9)+U ? Damn. Never thought of that. It seems to work. Thanks for tip. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[OT] Access Point suggestions

2002-07-29 Thread Bill Moseley
I've got and SMC 2652W Access Point and a Cisco 352 pcmcia card for use at home. The connection drops every once in a while, and I often need to power-cycle the access point to get it to re-sync. Rebooting the laptop or removing and reinstalling the pcmcia card doesn't seem to help. I assumed th

ACPI questions

2002-07-29 Thread Carl B. Constantine
I'm curious what the general concensus is around ACPI in the kernel. Are other people using it? How stable is it? I have a compaq Presario 720CA. -- __ _ Carl B. Constantine

Re: ACPI questions

2002-07-29 Thread Erich Schubert
> I'm curious what the general concensus is around ACPI in the kernel. Are > other people using it? How stable is it? I'm using ACPI as of 20020503, that version is running just fine for me. There have been several updates on acpi.sf.net in the meantime, so i guess ACPI has been improved a lot in