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2003-03-31 Thread FlyWind
 

Presario config files

2003-03-31 Thread Pamkathal
Hello, I found your web page regarding config files. Would you happen to know if i could get a copy of my Presario 1220 notebook config files from anywhere?  Unfortunately I  have made several unsuccessful changes, only to learn recently that i should have firstly made a backup copy. Regards Rich

Re: Presario config files

2003-03-31 Thread goneaway
You might try http://www.dotfiles.com/ as a starting point. On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 02:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > I found your web page regarding config files. > Would you happen to know if i could get a copy of my Presario 1220 > notebook config files from anywhere? Unfortunately I

Strange thing with framebuffer

2003-03-31 Thread Lukasz Wiechec
Hi, since I added `ywrap' parameter in my lilo.conf's 'video=vesa:ywrap', I have notice strange behaviour: every now and then my screen get shifted downwards by two lines (which makes bottom lines unreadable, as they are "off the screen" then). After awhile those two lines dissapear and everythi

Re: Strange thing with framebuffer

2003-03-31 Thread Werner Heuser
> since I added `ywrap' parameter in my lilo.conf's 'video=vesa:ywrap', I > have notice strange behaviour: every now and then my screen get shifted > downwards by two lines (which makes bottom lines unreadable, as they are > "off the screen" then). After awhile those two lines dissapear and > ever

ACPI blanks screen at the end of the boot process

2003-03-31 Thread mkamp
Hi, I compiled 2.4.20 with all ACPI questions answered yes, powermgmt yes and apm no. When booting all looks nice until the very ned. Network seems to be up, at least the boot process is past dhcp, but I haven't seen any x-stuff yet and then the console blanks and nothing happens anymore. It

Re: Serious crash

2003-03-31 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Frank Trenkamp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Maybe the (upgraded) amount of RAM doesn't fir to the existing partition > > size > > (no more). Then it would overwrite some Megs. No wonder fsck is slightly > > overcharged. > > Unlikely. IIRC, the machine was a Dell laptop. If system memory + vg

Re: ACPI blanks screen at the end of the boot process

2003-03-31 Thread Ivar Alm
At 16:41 2003-03-31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I compiled 2.4.20 with all ACPI questions answered yes, powermgmt yes and apm no. When booting all looks nice until the very ned. Network seems to be up, at least the boot process is past dhcp, but I haven't seen any x-stuff yet and then the

ANN: Infrared-HOWTO 3.5

2003-03-31 Thread Werner Heuser
Hi, there is a new issue of the InfraRed-HOWTO available in different formats: HTML http://tuxmobil.org/howtos.html SGML http://tuxmobil.org/howtos.html IPK feed for PDAs http://tuxmobil.org/feed.html Please note these URLs have moved from mobilix.org to tuxmobil.org because of severe trademark

Problems withs uspend on IBM thinkpad 380xd - screens stay blank on resume

2003-03-31 Thread Dwaine Gonyier
I am trying to get suspend, hibernate, etc. working on an IBM thinkpad 380xd. I managed to recompile a kernel with the thinkpad modules included. The problem I am having is that the laptop seems to enter supsend OK, but on resume, the display stays blank (the backlight turns on though). I can ping,

Mouse cursor corrupted on "BAT LOW" warning

2003-03-31 Thread N M
If I let my battery get too low, the BIOS brings up a "BAT LOW" warning. After that happens, my mouse cursor gets changed to be the words "BAT LOW". There does not seem to be a way to disable this feature of the BIOS. If I switch to a virtual console and then back to X, the mouse reverts to b

Newbie to Linux Questions

2003-03-31 Thread Jacob Tennant
I am in the preliminary process of converting my IBM Thinkpad 770 from Win98se to linux and have a few questions. 1. Is there anything special I need to know before I start this about setups? I have seen the web page refering to this laptop and debian linux but some of the links are dead. 2. Can

Re: Newbie to Linux Questions

2003-03-31 Thread Michael Perry
On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 05:27:58PM -0500, Jacob Tennant wrote: > I am in the preliminary process of converting my IBM Thinkpad 770 from > Win98se to linux and have a few questions. > > 1. Is there anything special I need to know before I start this about > setups? I have seen the web page refering

Re: Newbie to Linux Questions

2003-03-31 Thread Martin Fluch
Hi! The TP770 is in my opinion an easy one. I had debian runing on it and now I have it on a TP600. On both I got everything working. Accelerated X, sound, USB, PCMCIA, serial, printer, hotswaping of the IDE devices (only on the TP770)... Cheers, - Martin On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, Jacob Tennant wr

Re: Newbie to Linux Questions

2003-03-31 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
Quoting Michael Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 05:27:58PM -0500, Jacob Tennant wrote: > > I am in the preliminary process of converting my IBM Thinkpad 770 from > > Win98se to linux and have a few questions. > > > > 1. Is there anything special I need to know before I start t

Re: Newbie to Linux Questions

2003-03-31 Thread Aritz Beraza Garayalde
On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 05:27:58PM -0500, Jacob Tennant wrote: > I am in the preliminary process of converting my IBM Thinkpad 770 from > Win98se to linux and have a few questions. > > 1. Is there anything special I need to know before I start this about > setups? I have seen the web page refering

What all CD's do I need?

2003-03-31 Thread Jacob Tennant
I am doing a basic install of debian on my TP770 and have had a friend download CD1 so far. Is this enough to get started or do I need to download all ? number of CD's. For those of you that are ham radio operators, I am trying to setup a basic system for running Xastir.(www.xastir.org) Jacob Te

Re: What all CD's do I need?

2003-03-31 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Monday 31 March 2003 19:03, Jacob Tennant wrote: > I am doing a basic install of debian on my TP770 and have had a friend > download CD1 so far. > > Is this enough to get started or do I need to download all ? number of > CD's. > > For those of you that are ham radio operators, I am trying to se

Re: What all CD's do I need?

2003-03-31 Thread Jacob Tennant
Does anybody know if the pcmcia support is on CD1 or CD2? Need to know as I will have to beg to download another big file if it is as my phone modem is a pcmcia card! Jacob Tennant K8JWT PS: Does the basic install include some type of web browser and or email? > cd 1 is designed to be a basic

Re: Problems withs uspend on IBM thinkpad 380xd - screens stay blank on resume

2003-03-31 Thread Dwaine Gonyier
I think figured it out: Creating the file /etc/pcmcia/apm.opts with the line APM=eject seems to make supsend, redisafe, and hibernate magically start working now... Dwaine Gonyier wrote: > I am trying to get suspend, hibernate, etc. working on > an IBM thinkpad 380xd. I managed to recompile a ke

Re: What all CD's do I need?

2003-03-31 Thread ronin2
On Mon, 31 Mar 2003 22:48:15 -0500 "Jacob Tennant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anybody know if the pcmcia support is on CD1 or CD2? Yes, I do know. It's on CD1. If you're using 3.0r1 you have the choice of installing a 2.2 kernel (the default installation) or a 2.4 kernel (type "bf24" at t

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2003-03-31 Thread FlyWind
 

Presario config files

2003-03-31 Thread Pamkathal
Hello, I found your web page regarding config files. Would you happen to know if i could get a copy of my Presario 1220 notebook config files from anywhere?  Unfortunately I  have made several unsuccessful changes, only to learn recently that i should have firstly made a backup copy. Regards Rich

Re: Presario config files

2003-03-31 Thread goneaway
You might try http://www.dotfiles.com/ as a starting point. On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 02:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > I found your web page regarding config files. > Would you happen to know if i could get a copy of my Presario 1220 > notebook config files from anywhere? Unfortunately I

Strange thing with framebuffer

2003-03-31 Thread Lukasz Wiechec
Hi, since I added `ywrap' parameter in my lilo.conf's 'video=vesa:ywrap', I have notice strange behaviour: every now and then my screen get shifted downwards by two lines (which makes bottom lines unreadable, as they are "off the screen" then). After awhile those two lines dissapear and everythi

Re: Strange thing with framebuffer

2003-03-31 Thread Werner Heuser
> since I added `ywrap' parameter in my lilo.conf's 'video=vesa:ywrap', I > have notice strange behaviour: every now and then my screen get shifted > downwards by two lines (which makes bottom lines unreadable, as they are > "off the screen" then). After awhile those two lines dissapear and > ever

ACPI blanks screen at the end of the boot process

2003-03-31 Thread mkamp
Hi, I compiled 2.4.20 with all ACPI questions answered yes, powermgmt yes and apm no. When booting all looks nice until the very ned. Network seems to be up, at least the boot process is past dhcp, but I haven't seen any x-stuff yet and then the console blanks and nothing happens anymore. It

Re: Serious crash

2003-03-31 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Frank Trenkamp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Maybe the (upgraded) amount of RAM doesn't fir to the existing partition size > > (no more). Then it would overwrite some Megs. No wonder fsck is slightly > > overcharged. > > Unlikely. IIRC, the machine was a Dell laptop. If system memory + vga car

Re: ACPI blanks screen at the end of the boot process

2003-03-31 Thread Ivar Alm
At 16:41 2003-03-31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I compiled 2.4.20 with all ACPI questions answered yes, powermgmt yes and apm no. When booting all looks nice until the very ned. Network seems to be up, at least the boot process is past dhcp, but I haven't seen any x-stuff yet and then the co

ANN: Infrared-HOWTO 3.5

2003-03-31 Thread Werner Heuser
Hi, there is a new issue of the InfraRed-HOWTO available in different formats: HTML http://tuxmobil.org/howtos.html SGML http://tuxmobil.org/howtos.html IPK feed for PDAs http://tuxmobil.org/feed.html Please note these URLs have moved from mobilix.org to tuxmobil.org because of severe trademark

Problems withs uspend on IBM thinkpad 380xd - screens stay blank on resume

2003-03-31 Thread Dwaine Gonyier
I am trying to get suspend, hibernate, etc. working on an IBM thinkpad 380xd. I managed to recompile a kernel with the thinkpad modules included. The problem I am having is that the laptop seems to enter supsend OK, but on resume, the display stays blank (the backlight turns on though). I can ping,

Mouse cursor corrupted on "BAT LOW" warning

2003-03-31 Thread N M
If I let my battery get too low, the BIOS brings up a "BAT LOW" warning. After that happens, my mouse cursor gets changed to be the words "BAT LOW". There does not seem to be a way to disable this feature of the BIOS. If I switch to a virtual console and then back to X, the mouse reverts to b

Newbie to Linux Questions

2003-03-31 Thread Jacob Tennant
I am in the preliminary process of converting my IBM Thinkpad 770 from Win98se to linux and have a few questions. 1. Is there anything special I need to know before I start this about setups? I have seen the web page refering to this laptop and debian linux but some of the links are dead. 2. Can

Re: Newbie to Linux Questions

2003-03-31 Thread Michael Perry
On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 05:27:58PM -0500, Jacob Tennant wrote: > I am in the preliminary process of converting my IBM Thinkpad 770 from > Win98se to linux and have a few questions. > > 1. Is there anything special I need to know before I start this about > setups? I have seen the web page refering

Re: Newbie to Linux Questions

2003-03-31 Thread Martin Fluch
Hi! The TP770 is in my opinion an easy one. I had debian runing on it and now I have it on a TP600. On both I got everything working. Accelerated X, sound, USB, PCMCIA, serial, printer, hotswaping of the IDE devices (only on the TP770)... Cheers, - Martin On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, Jacob Tennant wr

Re: Newbie to Linux Questions

2003-03-31 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
Quoting Michael Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 05:27:58PM -0500, Jacob Tennant wrote: > > I am in the preliminary process of converting my IBM Thinkpad 770 from > > Win98se to linux and have a few questions. > > > > 1. Is there anything special I need to know before I start t

Re: Newbie to Linux Questions

2003-03-31 Thread Aritz Beraza Garayalde
On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 05:27:58PM -0500, Jacob Tennant wrote: > I am in the preliminary process of converting my IBM Thinkpad 770 from > Win98se to linux and have a few questions. > > 1. Is there anything special I need to know before I start this about > setups? I have seen the web page refering

What all CD's do I need?

2003-03-31 Thread Jacob Tennant
I am doing a basic install of debian on my TP770 and have had a friend download CD1 so far. Is this enough to get started or do I need to download all ? number of CD's. For those of you that are ham radio operators, I am trying to setup a basic system for running Xastir.(www.xastir.org) Jacob Te

Re: What all CD's do I need?

2003-03-31 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Monday 31 March 2003 19:03, Jacob Tennant wrote: > I am doing a basic install of debian on my TP770 and have had a friend > download CD1 so far. > > Is this enough to get started or do I need to download all ? number of > CD's. > > For those of you that are ham radio operators, I am trying to se

Re: What all CD's do I need?

2003-03-31 Thread Jacob Tennant
Does anybody know if the pcmcia support is on CD1 or CD2? Need to know as I will have to beg to download another big file if it is as my phone modem is a pcmcia card! Jacob Tennant K8JWT PS: Does the basic install include some type of web browser and or email? > cd 1 is designed to be a basic

Re: Problems withs uspend on IBM thinkpad 380xd - screens stay blank on resume

2003-03-31 Thread Dwaine Gonyier
I think figured it out: Creating the file /etc/pcmcia/apm.opts with the line APM=eject seems to make supsend, redisafe, and hibernate magically start working now... Dwaine Gonyier wrote: > I am trying to get suspend, hibernate, etc. working on > an IBM thinkpad 380xd. I managed to recompile a ke

Re: What all CD's do I need?

2003-03-31 Thread ronin2
On Mon, 31 Mar 2003 22:48:15 -0500 "Jacob Tennant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anybody know if the pcmcia support is on CD1 or CD2? Yes, I do know. It's on CD1. If you're using 3.0r1 you have the choice of installing a 2.2 kernel (the default installation) or a 2.4 kernel (type "bf24" at t