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2003-09-08 Thread Norton_AntiVirus_Gateways
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keyboard mapping issues

2003-09-08 Thread Dave Harrison
hi all, I have an IBM Thinkpad R31 and Im trying to do a really simple keymapping. I just want to swap my escape key with my caps lock key. Doesnt sound tough does it ? ;-) Ive tried using xkeymap to generate an xmodmap file for me, and Ive tried using the one I had before. But the problem i

Re: keyboard mapping issues

2003-09-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Dave Harrison wrote: > I just want to swap my escape key with my caps lock key. Doesnt > sound tough does it ? ;-) No. I do something similar. For me caps is always control, like the vt100 intended. Plus control becomes an additional escape, because I really liked where the HP HIL keyboards p

Re: keyboard mapping issues

2003-09-08 Thread David Reviejo
* Dave Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030908 10:06]: > I just want to swap my escape key with my caps lock key. Doesnt sound > tough does it ? ;-) No. I have a similar key swap in my laptop with caps_lock and control. Just google for "swap escape caps_lock"; from the first match (tip from VimOnlin

Re: PCMCIA / Kernel Bothers

2003-09-08 Thread Alistair J Ross
Hi Firstly, a huge thanks to Osman -- You started the ball rolling for me again, I was getting close to giving up for a while. I changed the appropriate file to say yenta_socket, and the yenta module was loaded as expected. At first, this was no different than

Some help with a ASUS L2480D

2003-09-08 Thread Flavio
Hello all, I need some help to get debian woody working on a friend of mine's ASUS L2480D laptop (it's the very first time I install Linux on a laptop). I followed http://studenti.ing.unipi.it/~s244797/L2460D/ and quite everything works but: 1) when starting X the display "blinks" (the same wa

Re: usb mouse not recognised in kernel 2.4.22

2003-09-08 Thread Ben
Mattia Dongili wrote: On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 11:39:23PM +1000, Ben wrote: I have a laptop which is running debian (sarge), I have recently upgraded the kernel from 2.4.18 to 2.4.22 to tacke advantage of acpi and now I can't get the mouse to work.. the mouse is detected ok: Sep 7 23:36:28

Re: usb mouse not recognised in kernel 2.4.22

2003-09-08 Thread Mattia Dongili
On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 10:32:05PM +1000, Ben wrote: > Mattia Dongili wrote: > > >On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 11:39:23PM +1000, Ben wrote: > > [...] > >using X, gpm from console or what else? > > > using x, kde3/gnome.. > > > >>if I boot back to bf24 kernel it works! > >>kernel 2.4.22 modules are the

Re: Some help with a ASUS L2480D

2003-09-08 Thread Alistair J Ross
Flavio, 1) Hmm I've often had issues with similar SiS I/C's but on mainboards in the past. It probably has something to do with the way the driver or the hardware retains VRAM information. I can't help much there, is it a severe issue or just an eyesore for a few se

Cannot use mouse during games

2003-09-08 Thread tvn
I use Sarge , XF4.2, Radeon 7500 on a Dell Inspirton 5100. When trying to play games like Quake3 or Tuxracer, they don't recognize any of the mouse devices (neither the touchpad nor the usb mouse). Other than those games, both devices work perfectly. Any one faces similiar situation ? This

Re: Some help with a ASUS L2480D

2003-09-08 Thread Thomas Winischhofer
Flavio wrote: > 1) when starting X the display "blinks" (the same way as if it starts, > is immediately killed, and started again) for trhee, four times; then > it finally works. Additionally when switching from X to a console, the How do you start X? xdm? kdm? ?dm? Or startx? > screen remains "

Re: Some help with a ASUS L2480D

2003-09-08 Thread Flavio
Alle 15:50, lunedì 8 settembre 2003, Alistair J Ross ha scritto: > Flavio, > > 1) Hmm I've often had issues with similar SiS I/C's but on > mainboards in the past. It probably has something to do with the way > the driver or the hardware retains VRAM information. I can't help > much there, is

Re: Some help with a ASUS L2480D

2003-09-08 Thread Flavio
Alle 19:18, lunedì 8 settembre 2003, Thomas Winischhofer ha scritto: > Flavio wrote: > > 1) when starting X the display "blinks" (the same way as if it > > starts, is immediately killed, and started again) for trhee, four > > times; then it finally works. Additionally when switching from X > >

Re: No fsck in battery mode

2003-09-08 Thread Blars Blarson
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >3. Edit "/etc/fstab", pick the correct line, and change the > filesystem parameter from "ext2" to "ext3". Even better is to use "ext3,ext2". That way the filesystem can be mounted by a kernel that doesn't support ext3. While ext3 reduc

Re: Toshiba T1910CS power problem

2003-09-08 Thread Elizabeth Barham
The Toshiba Satellite T1910CS Laptop's CMOS/RAM Battery with Ni-MH 4K3 markings is available from: http://www.batterysavings.com/site/1/Product/7/245/994914/B-453/1/a.aspx >From that page: Chemistry NiMH Original Amp 0.6 Volts 1.2 AmpHours 0.8 Description Cylindrica

Re: No fsck in battery mode

2003-09-08 Thread Tony Godshall
According to [EMAIL PROTECTED], > On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 10:04:33AM +0200, Harry Brueckner wrote: > > Hello, > > > > is there a way to avoid the regular fsck run (every n mounts or after m > > days) when the laptop is in battery mode? > > > > I think its quite a waste of battery power for the f

Re: No fsck in battery mode

2003-09-08 Thread Luke Davis
Please show the hdparm bit. There is the problem of routine file accesses, flushing, etc., spinning up the drive immediately after it spins down. I would be interested in how you deal therewith. Luke On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Tony Godshall wrote: > According to [EMAIL PROTECTED], > > On Mon, Sep 01,

Wireless speed

2003-09-08 Thread tvn
Just wondering, how fast is everyone wireless speed on a 802.11b card when transfering data from a wired ethernet machine in a LAN ? I only get about 400KB/s ... Is that normal ?

Re: Wireless speed

2003-09-08 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, tvn wrote: > Just wondering, how fast is everyone wireless speed on a 802.11b card > when transfering data from a wired ethernet machine in a LAN ? I only > get about 400KB/s ... Is that normal ? Pretty much. After you take into account the overheads, the theoretical limit i

Re: Wireless speed

2003-09-08 Thread Luke Davis
What about non-802.11 wireless technologies? Is anyone using something else, and if so: what are you getting? I'm debating building a network of wireless machines for a small school, where wired is impractical. Luke On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Daniel Pittman wrote: > On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, tvn wrote: >

Re: keyboard mapping issues

2003-09-08 Thread Joe Wreschnig
(Please wrap your lines at ~72 columns.) On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 02:23, Dave Harrison wrote: > hi all, > > I have an IBM Thinkpad R31 and Im trying to do a really simple keymapping. > > I just want to swap my escape key with my caps lock key. Debian's X configuration utility (dpkg-reconfigure xse

Re: usb mouse not recognised in kernel 2.4.22

2003-09-08 Thread Ben
Mattia Dongili wrote: On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 10:32:05PM +1000, Ben wrote: Mattia Dongili wrote: On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 11:39:23PM +1000, Ben wrote: [...] using X, gpm from console or what else? using x, kde3/gnome.. if I boot back to bf24 kernel it works!

Re: Wireless speed

2003-09-08 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Luke Davis wrote: > What about non-802.11 wireless technologies? Assuming that you want a LAN style environment, there isn't much that isn't under the 802.11 banner. the 802.11g and other fast efforts /might/ give you some joy, but all are pretty new. Last time I looked, the

Device Driver for Legacy (DOS) Application

2003-09-08 Thread Linda Hoyt
I have an IBM Thinkpad i 1400/1500 with a RAGE MOBILITY - MAGP video adapter.  I want to run a DOS program which is compatible with "VMI" and  "Most Super VGA" cards at 1024x768 (256 colors).  Are there any drivers for the RAGE adapter that will emulate either of the supported cards?   Rober

Re: Wireless speed

2003-09-08 Thread Luke Davis
For the building in question, we're talking: 7 to 8 PCs (Win flavors). 1 server (Debian Linux) Off another card of the server, will be a wired 12-16 Win machine network, probably on a different subnet. There may at some point, also be a DSL link, on a third server card. The longest distance to

Re: Wireless speed

2003-09-08 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Luke Davis wrote: > For the building in question, we're talking: > > 7 to 8 PCs (Win flavors). > 1 server (Debian Linux) Oh. That's really small. :) For this, expect decent performance for anything but bulk file transfer or editing Word documents over SMB to the file server.

Re: Wireless speed

2003-09-08 Thread Luke Davis
On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Daniel Pittman typed something of the following sort: > > 7 to 8 PCs (Win flavors). > > 1 server (Debian Linux) > > Oh. That's really small. :) Yah.:) The students get a lab. The teachers get desks, in a rented building, which requires fire-rated Cat 5, which the school does

problems with dhclient and IPADDR

2003-09-08 Thread ironblunt
Hi all - I have a Sony VAIO srx87 with debian installed on it for about a year now. I've had no problems with it until I decided to do an apt-get upgrade. everything looks great but my wireless ethernet card no longer gets configured on boot. Looking through /etc/pcmcia/network, I see the follo

wireless linksys wpc11 v3

2003-09-08 Thread Dave Harrison
Hi all, I have a PCMCIA wireless card, a Linksys WPC11 v3 card. After modifying the /etc/pcmcia/hermes.conf file I have been able to see the interface come up in ifconfig, and it appears to be allocated the IP I want. With iwconfig I can set the ESSID correctly too. However I just cant get the

keyboard mapping issues

2003-09-08 Thread Dave Harrison
hi all, I have an IBM Thinkpad R31 and Im trying to do a really simple keymapping. I just want to swap my escape key with my caps lock key. Doesnt sound tough does it ? ;-) Ive tried using xkeymap to generate an xmodmap file for me, and Ive tried using the one I had before. But the problem i

Re: keyboard mapping issues

2003-09-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Dave Harrison wrote: > I just want to swap my escape key with my caps lock key. Doesnt > sound tough does it ? ;-) No. I do something similar. For me caps is always control, like the vt100 intended. Plus control becomes an additional escape, because I really liked where the HP HIL keyboards p

Re: keyboard mapping issues

2003-09-08 Thread David Reviejo
* Dave Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030908 10:06]: > I just want to swap my escape key with my caps lock key. Doesnt sound > tough does it ? ;-) No. I have a similar key swap in my laptop with caps_lock and control. Just google for "swap escape caps_lock"; from the first match (tip from VimOnlin

Re: PCMCIA / Kernel Bothers

2003-09-08 Thread Alistair J Ross
Hi Firstly, a huge thanks to Osman -- You started the ball rolling for me again, I was getting close to giving up for a while. I changed the appropriate file to say yenta_socket, and the yenta module was loaded as expected. At first, this was no different than

Some help with a ASUS L2480D

2003-09-08 Thread Flavio
Hello all, I need some help to get debian woody working on a friend of mine's ASUS L2480D laptop (it's the very first time I install Linux on a laptop). I followed http://studenti.ing.unipi.it/~s244797/L2460D/ and quite everything works but: 1) when starting X the display "blinks" (the same wa

Re: usb mouse not recognised in kernel 2.4.22

2003-09-08 Thread Ben
Mattia Dongili wrote: On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 11:39:23PM +1000, Ben wrote: I have a laptop which is running debian (sarge), I have recently upgraded the kernel from 2.4.18 to 2.4.22 to tacke advantage of acpi and now I can't get the mouse to work.. the mouse is detected ok: Sep 7 23:36:28 ze

Re: usb mouse not recognised in kernel 2.4.22

2003-09-08 Thread Mattia Dongili
On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 10:32:05PM +1000, Ben wrote: > Mattia Dongili wrote: > > >On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 11:39:23PM +1000, Ben wrote: > > [...] > >using X, gpm from console or what else? > > > using x, kde3/gnome.. > > > >>if I boot back to bf24 kernel it works! > >>kernel 2.4.22 modules are the

Re: Some help with a ASUS L2480D

2003-09-08 Thread Alistair J Ross
Flavio, 1) Hmm I've often had issues with similar SiS I/C's but on mainboards in the past. It probably has something to do with the way the driver or the hardware retains VRAM information. I can't help much there, is it a severe issue or just an eyesore for a few se

Cannot use mouse during games

2003-09-08 Thread tvn
I use Sarge , XF4.2, Radeon 7500 on a Dell Inspirton 5100. When trying to play games like Quake3 or Tuxracer, they don't recognize any of the mouse devices (neither the touchpad nor the usb mouse). Other than those games, both devices work perfectly. Any one faces similiar situation ? This

Re: Some help with a ASUS L2480D

2003-09-08 Thread Thomas Winischhofer
Flavio wrote: > 1) when starting X the display "blinks" (the same way as if it starts, > is immediately killed, and started again) for trhee, four times; then > it finally works. Additionally when switching from X to a console, the How do you start X? xdm? kdm? ?dm? Or startx? > screen remains "di

Re: Some help with a ASUS L2480D

2003-09-08 Thread Flavio
Alle 15:50, lunedì 8 settembre 2003, Alistair J Ross ha scritto: > Flavio, > > 1) Hmm I've often had issues with similar SiS I/C's but on > mainboards in the past. It probably has something to do with the way > the driver or the hardware retains VRAM information. I can't help > much there, is

Re: Some help with a ASUS L2480D

2003-09-08 Thread Flavio
Alle 19:18, lunedì 8 settembre 2003, Thomas Winischhofer ha scritto: > Flavio wrote: > > 1) when starting X the display "blinks" (the same way as if it > > starts, is immediately killed, and started again) for trhee, four > > times; then it finally works. Additionally when switching from X > >

Re: No fsck in battery mode

2003-09-08 Thread Blars Blarson
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >3. Edit "/etc/fstab", pick the correct line, and change the > filesystem parameter from "ext2" to "ext3". Even better is to use "ext3,ext2". That way the filesystem can be mounted by a kernel that doesn't support ext3. While ext3 reduc

Re: Toshiba T1910CS power problem

2003-09-08 Thread Elizabeth Barham
The Toshiba Satellite T1910CS Laptop's CMOS/RAM Battery with Ni-MH 4K3 markings is available from: http://www.batterysavings.com/site/1/Product/7/245/994914/B-453/1/a.aspx >From that page: Chemistry NiMH Original Amp 0.6 Volts 1.2 AmpHours 0.8 Description Cylindrica

Re: No fsck in battery mode

2003-09-08 Thread Tony Godshall
According to [EMAIL PROTECTED], > On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 10:04:33AM +0200, Harry Brueckner wrote: > > Hello, > > > > is there a way to avoid the regular fsck run (every n mounts or after m > > days) when the laptop is in battery mode? > > > > I think its quite a waste of battery power for the f

Re: No fsck in battery mode

2003-09-08 Thread Luke Davis
Please show the hdparm bit. There is the problem of routine file accesses, flushing, etc., spinning up the drive immediately after it spins down. I would be interested in how you deal therewith. Luke On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Tony Godshall wrote: > According to [EMAIL PROTECTED], > > On Mon, Sep 01,

Wireless speed

2003-09-08 Thread tvn
Just wondering, how fast is everyone wireless speed on a 802.11b card when transfering data from a wired ethernet machine in a LAN ? I only get about 400KB/s ... Is that normal ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Wireless speed

2003-09-08 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, tvn wrote: > Just wondering, how fast is everyone wireless speed on a 802.11b card > when transfering data from a wired ethernet machine in a LAN ? I only > get about 400KB/s ... Is that normal ? Pretty much. After you take into account the overheads, the theoretical limit i

Re: Wireless speed

2003-09-08 Thread Luke Davis
What about non-802.11 wireless technologies? Is anyone using something else, and if so: what are you getting? I'm debating building a network of wireless machines for a small school, where wired is impractical. Luke On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Daniel Pittman wrote: > On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, tvn wrote: >

Re: keyboard mapping issues

2003-09-08 Thread Joe Wreschnig
(Please wrap your lines at ~72 columns.) On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 02:23, Dave Harrison wrote: > hi all, > > I have an IBM Thinkpad R31 and Im trying to do a really simple keymapping. > > I just want to swap my escape key with my caps lock key. Debian's X configuration utility (dpkg-reconfigure xse

Re: usb mouse not recognised in kernel 2.4.22

2003-09-08 Thread Ben
Mattia Dongili wrote: On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 10:32:05PM +1000, Ben wrote: Mattia Dongili wrote: On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 11:39:23PM +1000, Ben wrote: [...] using X, gpm from console or what else? using x, kde3/gnome.. if I boot back to bf24 kernel it works! kernel

Re: Wireless speed

2003-09-08 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Luke Davis wrote: > What about non-802.11 wireless technologies? Assuming that you want a LAN style environment, there isn't much that isn't under the 802.11 banner. the 802.11g and other fast efforts /might/ give you some joy, but all are pretty new. Last time I looked, the

Device Driver for Legacy (DOS) Application

2003-09-08 Thread Linda Hoyt
I have an IBM Thinkpad i 1400/1500 with a RAGE MOBILITY - MAGP video adapter.  I want to run a DOS program which is compatible with "VMI" and  "Most Super VGA" cards at 1024x768 (256 colors).  Are there any drivers for the RAGE adapter that will emulate either of the supported cards?   Rober

Re: Wireless speed

2003-09-08 Thread Luke Davis
For the building in question, we're talking: 7 to 8 PCs (Win flavors). 1 server (Debian Linux) Off another card of the server, will be a wired 12-16 Win machine network, probably on a different subnet. There may at some point, also be a DSL link, on a third server card. The longest distance to

Re: Wireless speed

2003-09-08 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Luke Davis wrote: > For the building in question, we're talking: > > 7 to 8 PCs (Win flavors). > 1 server (Debian Linux) Oh. That's really small. :) For this, expect decent performance for anything but bulk file transfer or editing Word documents over SMB to the file server.

Re: Wireless speed

2003-09-08 Thread Luke Davis
On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Daniel Pittman typed something of the following sort: > > 7 to 8 PCs (Win flavors). > > 1 server (Debian Linux) > > Oh. That's really small. :) Yah.:) The students get a lab. The teachers get desks, in a rented building, which requires fire-rated Cat 5, which the school does

problems with dhclient and IPADDR

2003-09-08 Thread ironblunt
Hi all - I have a Sony VAIO srx87 with debian installed on it for about a year now. I've had no problems with it until I decided to do an apt-get upgrade. everything looks great but my wireless ethernet card no longer gets configured on boot. Looking through /etc/pcmcia/network, I see the follo

wireless linksys wpc11 v3

2003-09-08 Thread Dave Harrison
Hi all, I have a PCMCIA wireless card, a Linksys WPC11 v3 card. After modifying the /etc/pcmcia/hermes.conf file I have been able to see the interface come up in ifconfig, and it appears to be allocated the IP I want. With iwconfig I can set the ESSID correctly too. However I just cant get the

Re: No fsck in battery mode

2003-09-08 Thread Tony Godshall
[Harry] > > > > is there a way to avoid the regular fsck run (every n mounts or after m > > > > days) when the laptop is in battery mode? > > > > > > > > I think its quite a waste of battery power for the fsck run and > > > > rescheduling for the next reboot (with powersupply available) would be ve