Re: Sucky performance under disk load

2003-01-22 Thread Dominique MASSONIE
David Z Maze wrote: This is with my Dell Latitude C600. Somewhat recently, I've noticed that, when there's heavy disk activity, the entire system grinds almost to a halt. I suspect I've noticed it more since I've installed postgresql and imported a reasonably large data set into it; running VAC

Re: Smart relay setting for Exim...

2003-01-22 Thread Florian Jenn
Derek Broughton schrieb am Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 09:47:17AM -0400: > 'whereami' comes with support to change the exim smarthost Does it? Both the script here on my notebook (Woody) and the author's homepage don't mention setting the exim smarthost (only sendmail and postfix). Is there some addit

Re: Smart relay setting for Exim...

2003-01-22 Thread Chris Halls
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 01:26:36PM +0100, Florian Jenn wrote: > Derek Broughton schrieb am Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 09:47:17AM -0400: > > > 'whereami' comes with support to change the exim smarthost > > Does it? Both the script here on my notebook (Woody) and the author's > homepage don't mention se

Re: prevent APM-Standby on lid-close

2003-01-22 Thread Fedor Karpelevitch
On Вторник 21 Январь 2003 05:02, Derek Broughton wrote: > From: "busab" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > how do you enable standby with ACPI? I've got a Gericom 1400, > > ACPI give me nice info about battery state or systeme temperature > > but i don't know how to activate standby (without swsuspend). > >

Re: prevent APM-Standby on lid-close

2003-01-22 Thread Derek Broughton
From: "Fedor Karpelevitch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Вторник 21 Январь 2003 05:02, Derek Broughton wrote: > > From: "busab" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > how do you enable standby with ACPI? I've got a Gericom 1400, > > > ACPI give me nice info about battery state or systeme temperatur

RE: prevent APM-Standby on lid-close

2003-01-22 Thread Fedor Karpelevitch
> -Original Message- > From: Derek Broughton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 8:26 AM > To: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: prevent APM-Standby on lid-close > > > From: "Fedor Karpelevitch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > On Вторник 21 Янва

Re: prevent APM-Standby on lid-close

2003-01-22 Thread Derek Broughton
From: "Fedor Karpelevitch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I tried swsusp again (using the supplied script). Looked like > it successfully deconfigured everything, but never actually > suspended the machine (or maybe it did but then woke up immidiately?). > What logs should I look at to tell what was actua

netenv doesn't do anything at all

2003-01-22 Thread Martin NospamHenne
I've installed Woody on my Laptop and I found that cute little package 'netenv', which allows to choose a proper network-environment, depending on the location I connect my machine, at boot-time. The package seems to just write the chosen configuration to a file called '/etc/netenv/netenv', but i

Ovislink BPCM32D

2003-01-22 Thread Juan L. Garabana Barro
Hello all: I have a DUAL AIO-6200 laptop with 32 Mb RAM, 2 Gb HD Fujitsu, and a OVISLINK BPCM32D PCMCIA net card. (Realtek 8139C) My problem is: The laptop works perfectly. When I plug the pcmcia it work awhile. Then when I use the network (ej: X -query server, apt-get install "all package

nec versa ultralite 600MHz transmeta install

2003-01-22 Thread x y
I have an nec versa ultralite sublaptop. The model number is very compicated, but it has a 600MHz Crusoe processor. I have been having a hard time installing Debian. I bought a set of official CDs only to learn that my USB-based CD-ROM drive is not supported by them. So I tried to use a USB

Re: Sucky performance under disk load

2003-01-22 Thread Dominique MASSONIE
David Z Maze wrote: This is with my Dell Latitude C600. Somewhat recently, I've noticed that, when there's heavy disk activity, the entire system grinds almost to a halt. I suspect I've noticed it more since I've installed postgresql and imported a reasonably large data set into it; running VACU

Re: Smart relay setting for Exim...

2003-01-22 Thread Florian Jenn
Derek Broughton schrieb am Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 09:47:17AM -0400: > 'whereami' comes with support to change the exim smarthost Does it? Both the script here on my notebook (Woody) and the author's homepage don't mention setting the exim smarthost (only sendmail and postfix). Is there some addit

Re: Smart relay setting for Exim...

2003-01-22 Thread Chris Halls
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 01:26:36PM +0100, Florian Jenn wrote: > Derek Broughton schrieb am Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 09:47:17AM -0400: > > > 'whereami' comes with support to change the exim smarthost > > Does it? Both the script here on my notebook (Woody) and the author's > homepage don't mention se

Re: prevent APM-Standby on lid-close

2003-01-22 Thread Fedor Karpelevitch
On Вторник 21 Январь 2003 05:02, Derek Broughton wrote: > From: "busab" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > how do you enable standby with ACPI? I've got a Gericom 1400, > > ACPI give me nice info about battery state or systeme temperature > > but i don't know how to activate standby (without swsuspend). > >

Re: prevent APM-Standby on lid-close

2003-01-22 Thread Derek Broughton
From: "Fedor Karpelevitch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Вторник 21 Январь 2003 05:02, Derek Broughton wrote: > > From: "busab" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > how do you enable standby with ACPI? I've got a Gericom 1400, > > > ACPI give me nice info about battery state or systeme temperature > > > but i

RE: prevent APM-Standby on lid-close

2003-01-22 Thread Fedor Karpelevitch
> -Original Message- > From: Derek Broughton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 8:26 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: prevent APM-Standby on lid-close > > > From: "Fedor Karpelevitch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > On Вторник 21 Январь 2003 05:02, Derek Br

Re: prevent APM-Standby on lid-close

2003-01-22 Thread Derek Broughton
From: "Fedor Karpelevitch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I tried swsusp again (using the supplied script). Looked like > it successfully deconfigured everything, but never actually > suspended the machine (or maybe it did but then woke up immidiately?). > What logs should I look at to tell what was actua

netenv doesn't do anything at all

2003-01-22 Thread Martin NospamHenne
I've installed Woody on my Laptop and I found that cute little package 'netenv', which allows to choose a proper network-environment, depending on the location I connect my machine, at boot-time. The package seems to just write the chosen configuration to a file called '/etc/netenv/netenv', but i

Ovislink BPCM32D

2003-01-22 Thread Juan L. Garabana Barro
Hello all: I have a DUAL AIO-6200 laptop with 32 Mb RAM, 2 Gb HD Fujitsu, and a OVISLINK BPCM32D PCMCIA net card. (Realtek 8139C) My problem is: The laptop works perfectly. When I plug the pcmcia it work awhile. Then when I use the network (ej: X -query server, apt-get install "all packages"

nec versa ultralite 600MHz transmeta install

2003-01-22 Thread x y
I have an nec versa ultralite sublaptop. The model number is very compicated, but it has a 600MHz Crusoe processor. I have been having a hard time installing Debian. I bought a set of official CDs only to learn that my USB-based CD-ROM drive is not supported by them. So I tried to use a USB