Re: Battery Life

2003-02-17 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
[Jumping into the thread a bit late...] On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 11:25:07AM -0500, David Z Maze wrote: > Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > You may find that it goes from 40% to 1% in a matter of minutes as my > > Thinkpads do when their battery's are over a year old. > > I've noticed

Re: starting blackbox with woody - how?

2003-02-17 Thread mi
Robert Michel wrote: >Salve, > >I'm not so fit with x-servers ;( can you give me a hint, >how I can start blackbox instead of Gnome or KDE? >Is there a chance to start bb with the Gnome Window Manager, >or is bb to start manualy? When insatlling a windowmanager, it should be added to the login-mana

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Re: starting blackbox with woody - how?

2003-02-17 Thread Frank Van Damme
On Monday 17 February 2003 00:56, Rubén Gómez Antolí wrote: > If you use gdm or kdm to start your X session, only do: > > update-alternatives [kwg]dm > > and automatically blackbox is added to select type session menu in these > managers. And if you don't: edit .xinitrc. -- Frank Van Damme htt

Re: Debian with ZONET PC Card

2003-02-17 Thread Frank Van Damme
On Monday 17 February 2003 02:29, Mr. Jan Hearthstone wrote: > Dear People, > I am still an utter novice and this seems a task too > big for me: > I have only CDROM drve and no floppy drive on my > laptop. At present the only way I can get online is at > a University - they have Ethernet. >

Re: starting blackbox with woody - how?

2003-02-17 Thread Ionel Mugurel Ciobica
On 17-02-2003, at 12h 50'35", Frank Van Damme wrote to debian-laptop about "Re: starting blackbox with woody - how?" > On Monday 17 February 2003 00:56, Rubén Gómez Antolí wrote: > > > If you use gdm or kdm to start your X session, only do: > > > > update-alternatives [kwg]dm > > > > and automati

Re: CompactFlash PC Card Adapter

2003-02-17 Thread Florian Reichert
Hello! Thank You all for your Help! It seems that my PC-Card has a Hardware damage. Today I tried it in an other Notebook (Win) an it doesn't work. So I ordered a new Card. I will give yo an update wetehr the new Card is working or not! THX Florian

What happen with my screen

2003-02-17 Thread ildottofabio
-- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 17-Feb-2003 Time: 11:27:55 Thismessage was sent by XFMail -- Hy, my video changed color from white, first to pink, then to red and now to violet. It seems that a trasparent colored sheet is between

Re: CD-reader on SONY VAIO SR27K

2003-02-17 Thread blair . kelly
Andrew Perrin wrote: > I don't know if this will work -- on my Vaio (PCG-Z505HS) > when I boot to the CD-ROM I have to enter the following > at the emergency boot prompt: > > linux linux ide1=0x170,0x376 > > and then it works. (This is from memory - can't find my > notes right now.) YMMV. It d

Re: What happen with my screen

2003-02-17 Thread James Tappin
On Mon, 17 Feb 2003 15:49:59 +0100 (CET) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: II> Hy, II> my video changed color from white, first to pink, then to red and II> now to violet. II> It seems that a trasparent colored sheet is between my video II> and my eyes, I can read the writing but with some difficult. You

Re: CD-reader on SONY VAIO SR27K

2003-02-17 Thread Heather Stern
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 03:43:13PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Andrew Perrin wrote: > > > I don't know if this will work -- on my Vaio (PCG-Z505HS) > > when I boot to the CD-ROM I have to enter the following > > at the emergency boot prompt: > > > > linux linux ide1=0x170,0x376 > > > > and

Re: starting blackbox with woody - how?

2003-02-17 Thread Robert Michel
Salve hugH, Karl, mi, Frank, Ionel! Thank you very much for your support. I tried 2 hours today to make it run but faild. So I will start with reading and learning the basics of X-server, windowmanager and desktop manager. I will postpone this after my exam in two weeks, but I promise to write he

Re: What happen with my screen

2003-02-17 Thread Aritz Beraza Garayalde
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 03:49:59PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > -- > E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: 17-Feb-2003 > Time: 11:27:55 > > Thismessage was sent by XFMail > -- > Hy, > my video changed color from white, first to pi

Re: CD-reader on SONY VAIO SR27K

2003-02-17 Thread blair . kelly
I wrote: > Does anyone have an idea what the message that I get > in /etc/syslog when I insert the PCMCIA card for the > CD-reader means: > > : cardmgs[339]: get dev info on socket 0 failed: Resource temporarily > unavailable Heather Stern replied: : The "resource" in question might be IRQs -

Re: CD-reader on SONY VAIO SR27K

2003-02-17 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"blair" == blair kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: blair> Does anyone have an idea what the message that I get in blair> /etc/syslog when I insert the PCMCIA card for the CD-reader blair> means: blair> : cardmgs[339]: get dev info on socket 0 failed: Resource blair> tempor

Re: Battery Life

2003-02-17 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
[Jumping into the thread a bit late...] On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 11:25:07AM -0500, David Z Maze wrote: > Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > You may find that it goes from 40% to 1% in a matter of minutes as my > > Thinkpads do when their battery's are over a year old. > > I've noticed

Re: starting blackbox with woody - how?

2003-02-17 Thread mi
Robert Michel wrote: >Salve, > >I'm not so fit with x-servers ;( can you give me a hint, >how I can start blackbox instead of Gnome or KDE? >Is there a chance to start bb with the Gnome Window Manager, >or is bb to start manualy? When insatlling a windowmanager, it should be added to the login-mana

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Re: starting blackbox with woody - how?

2003-02-17 Thread Frank Van Damme
On Monday 17 February 2003 00:56, Rubén Gómez Antolí wrote: > If you use gdm or kdm to start your X session, only do: > > update-alternatives [kwg]dm > > and automatically blackbox is added to select type session menu in these > managers. And if you don't: edit .xinitrc. -- Frank Van Damme htt

Re: Debian with ZONET PC Card

2003-02-17 Thread Frank Van Damme
On Monday 17 February 2003 02:29, Mr. Jan Hearthstone wrote: > Dear People, > I am still an utter novice and this seems a task too > big for me: > I have only CDROM drve and no floppy drive on my > laptop. At present the only way I can get online is at > a University - they have Ethernet. >

Re: starting blackbox with woody - how?

2003-02-17 Thread Ionel Mugurel Ciobica
On 17-02-2003, at 12h 50'35", Frank Van Damme wrote to debian-laptop about "Re: starting blackbox with woody - how?" > On Monday 17 February 2003 00:56, Rubén Gómez Antolí wrote: > > > If you use gdm or kdm to start your X session, only do: > > > > update-alternatives [kwg]dm > > > > and automati

Re: CompactFlash PC Card Adapter

2003-02-17 Thread Florian Reichert
Hello! Thank You all for your Help! It seems that my PC-Card has a Hardware damage. Today I tried it in an other Notebook (Win) an it doesn't work. So I ordered a new Card. I will give yo an update wetehr the new Card is working or not! THX Florian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

What happen with my screen

2003-02-17 Thread ildottofabio
-- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 17-Feb-2003 Time: 11:27:55 Thismessage was sent by XFMail -- Hy, my video changed color from white, first to pink, then to red and now to violet. It seems that a trasparent colored sheet is between

Re: CD-reader on SONY VAIO SR27K

2003-02-17 Thread blair . kelly
Andrew Perrin wrote: > I don't know if this will work -- on my Vaio (PCG-Z505HS) > when I boot to the CD-ROM I have to enter the following > at the emergency boot prompt: > > linux linux ide1=0x170,0x376 > > and then it works. (This is from memory - can't find my > notes right now.) YMMV. It d

Re: What happen with my screen

2003-02-17 Thread James Tappin
On Mon, 17 Feb 2003 15:49:59 +0100 (CET) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: II> Hy, II> my video changed color from white, first to pink, then to red and II> now to violet. II> It seems that a trasparent colored sheet is between my video II> and my eyes, I can read the writing but with some difficult. You

Re: CD-reader on SONY VAIO SR27K

2003-02-17 Thread Heather Stern
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 03:43:13PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Andrew Perrin wrote: > > > I don't know if this will work -- on my Vaio (PCG-Z505HS) > > when I boot to the CD-ROM I have to enter the following > > at the emergency boot prompt: > > > > linux linux ide1=0x170,0x376 > > > > and

Re: starting blackbox with woody - how?

2003-02-17 Thread Robert Michel
Salve hugH, Karl, mi, Frank, Ionel! Thank you very much for your support. I tried 2 hours today to make it run but faild. So I will start with reading and learning the basics of X-server, windowmanager and desktop manager. I will postpone this after my exam in two weeks, but I promise to write he

Re: What happen with my screen

2003-02-17 Thread Aritz Beraza Garayalde
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 03:49:59PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > -- > E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: 17-Feb-2003 > Time: 11:27:55 > > Thismessage was sent by XFMail > -- > Hy, > my video changed color from white, first to pi

Re: CD-reader on SONY VAIO SR27K

2003-02-17 Thread blair . kelly
I wrote: > Does anyone have an idea what the message that I get > in /etc/syslog when I insert the PCMCIA card for the > CD-reader means: > > : cardmgs[339]: get dev info on socket 0 failed: Resource temporarily unavailable Heather Stern replied: : The "resource" in question might be IRQs - che

Re: CD-reader on SONY VAIO SR27K

2003-02-17 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"blair" == blair kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: blair> Does anyone have an idea what the message that I get in blair> /etc/syslog when I insert the PCMCIA card for the CD-reader blair> means: blair> : cardmgs[339]: get dev info on socket 0 failed: Resource blair> tempor

Re: What happen with my screen

2003-02-17 Thread Pietro Calogero
I am having a similar problem with my ThinkPad770, and I am pretty sure the screen is dying. Another indication is uneven brightness; the bottom left corner of my screen is bright and washed out; the rest is dim. I tried replacing the inverter which powers the screen, but it did not help at a