On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 18:03, Mike Mestnik wrote:
>
> I think I am using journalling, as it's a laptop it's more likely to
> suddenly loose power.
What! My laptop comes with a _built-in_ _UPS_ - only _one_ of the guys
in the office with a _desktop_ machine can boast that one, _his_ UPS
only runs
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 10:40:08PM +1300, Andrew McMillan wrote:
> If you are running low on battery you get plenty of warning to shut
> down, and you _certainly_ are a lot more resilient to the "toddler yanks
> plug" problem that my youngest is only recently growing out of.
Normally you should al
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> However, I'd be interested to know why you chose cpufreqd over
> cpudynd. I use cpudynd but for no particular reason. Is there
> anything that makes cpufreqd actually superior?
I looked at cpufreqd, cpudyn and powernowd.
Powernowd is intentionally
Hi,
> Here I have an ACER TM803 laptop running perfectly except one thing:
> PCMCIA.
> I use a Debian SID GNU/Linux with a vanilla 2.6.0 kernel. All has been
> done accordingly to advice I receive here and there. It has support for
> PCMCIA devices, Wireless and orinoco support. So I am using a wi
This morning I upgraded the kernel on my Sony Vaio PCG-Z505HS from 2.4.20
to 2.4.22. Everything went very smoothly, until I rebooted the machine --
at which point it seemed to begin fine, then tried the fsck on /dev/hda4
which holds / . fsck says "bad superblock" and drops into single-user
mode wi
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 02:44:01PM +1100, Tim Connors wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Micha Feigin wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 01:36:48PM -0800, Mike Mestnik wrote:
> > > I have a dell8900 and I can't seam to get the drive to spin down on 2.6.0-test9.
> > > The drive makes
> > > a noticeab
On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 09:03:54PM -0800, Mike Mestnik wrote:
> I had not yet upgraded to test11.
>
2.6.1-rc2 is already out.
> , s/hdtune/hdparm/g
>
> I think I am using journalling, as it's a laptop it's more likely to suddenly loose
> power. What
> dose this mean for noflushd? Are there a
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 11:07:35AM +, Yves Rutschle wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 10:40:08PM +1300, Andrew McMillan wrote:
> > If you are running low on battery you get plenty of warning to shut
> > down, and you _certainly_ are a lot more resilient to the "toddler yanks
> > plug" problem th
--- Yves Rutschle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 10:40:08PM +1300, Andrew McMillan wrote:
> > If you are running low on battery you get plenty of warning to shut
> > down, and you _certainly_ are a lot more resilient to the "toddler yanks
> > plug" problem that my youngest is
Hi,
On Tuesday 06 January 2004 12:07, Yves Rutschle wrote:
> Normally you should also be able to set up so that the
> laptop goes automatically to sleep when running out of
> power. With this setting, the only way to actually kill the
> computer is to let the battery run out, then let the laptop
>
Quoting Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> This morning I upgraded the kernel on my Sony Vaio PCG-Z505HS from 2.4.20
> to 2.4.22. Everything went very smoothly, until I rebooted the machine --
> at which point it seemed to begin fine, then tried the fsck on /dev/hda4
> which holds / . fsck says
Yes, I know - but unfortunately what I was trying to do was "fdisk
/dev/hda" -- that is, view the partition table. The fact that /dev/hda was
unreadable even at that point is what made me question the drivers.
ap
--
Andrew J Perr
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 11:57:35AM -0800, Mike Mestnik
wrote:
> > Normally you should also be able to set up so that the
> > laptop goes automatically to sleep when running out of
> > power. With this setting, the only way to actually kill
> > the computer is to let the battery run out, then let th
Try setting the Software-based Cursor option in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 .
On my laptop, the hardware cursor starts out fine but gets fritzed when
the BIOS displays its "LOW BAT" warning.
Example:
Section "Device"
Identifier "Generic Video Card"
Driver "ati"
Opt
You apparently meant to write to
'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
but you wrote to
'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
instead.
According to Bjarne Ursin,
>
>
>
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Hi, all.
[ sorry if you got this twice- I sent it to debian-user
first, by mistake :-( ]
Just got a good deal on a Dell 8600 with a WUXGA display
(1920x1200). Got it running at 1600x1200 with Xandros 1.0
(Debian-based, the former Corel Linux, and apparently what
LindowsOS is based on), but tryi
Indeed I did - and that was the problem. Thanks - for others who may have
rushed headlong into upgrading into devfs, what I did to fix it was to
boot to a rescue disk, type "linux root=/dev/hda4" (insert your /
partition there), and edit /etc/fstab to use the devfs style devices
(e.g., /dev/discs/d
On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 18:03, Mike Mestnik wrote:
>
> I think I am using journalling, as it's a laptop it's more likely to
> suddenly loose power.
What! My laptop comes with a _built-in_ _UPS_ - only _one_ of the guys
in the office with a _desktop_ machine can boast that one, _his_ UPS
only runs
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 10:40:08PM +1300, Andrew McMillan wrote:
> If you are running low on battery you get plenty of warning to shut
> down, and you _certainly_ are a lot more resilient to the "toddler yanks
> plug" problem that my youngest is only recently growing out of.
Normally you should al
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> However, I'd be interested to know why you chose cpufreqd over
> cpudynd. I use cpudynd but for no particular reason. Is there
> anything that makes cpufreqd actually superior?
I looked at cpufreqd, cpudyn and powernowd.
Powernowd is intentionally
Hi,
> Here I have an ACER TM803 laptop running perfectly except one thing:
> PCMCIA.
> I use a Debian SID GNU/Linux with a vanilla 2.6.0 kernel. All has been
> done accordingly to advice I receive here and there. It has support for
> PCMCIA devices, Wireless and orinoco support. So I am using a wi
This morning I upgraded the kernel on my Sony Vaio PCG-Z505HS from 2.4.20
to 2.4.22. Everything went very smoothly, until I rebooted the machine --
at which point it seemed to begin fine, then tried the fsck on /dev/hda4
which holds / . fsck says "bad superblock" and drops into single-user
mode wi
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 02:44:01PM +1100, Tim Connors wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Micha Feigin wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 01:36:48PM -0800, Mike Mestnik wrote:
> > > I have a dell8900 and I can't seam to get the drive to spin down on
> > > 2.6.0-test9. The drive makes
> > > a noticeab
On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 09:03:54PM -0800, Mike Mestnik wrote:
> I had not yet upgraded to test11.
>
2.6.1-rc2 is already out.
> , s/hdtune/hdparm/g
>
> I think I am using journalling, as it's a laptop it's more likely to suddenly
> loose power. What
> dose this mean for noflushd? Are there a
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 11:07:35AM +, Yves Rutschle wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 10:40:08PM +1300, Andrew McMillan wrote:
> > If you are running low on battery you get plenty of warning to shut
> > down, and you _certainly_ are a lot more resilient to the "toddler yanks
> > plug" problem th
--- Yves Rutschle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 10:40:08PM +1300, Andrew McMillan wrote:
> > If you are running low on battery you get plenty of warning to shut
> > down, and you _certainly_ are a lot more resilient to the "toddler yanks
> > plug" problem that my youngest is
Quoting Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> This morning I upgraded the kernel on my Sony Vaio PCG-Z505HS from 2.4.20
> to 2.4.22. Everything went very smoothly, until I rebooted the machine --
> at which point it seemed to begin fine, then tried the fsck on /dev/hda4
> which holds / . fsck says
Yes, I know - but unfortunately what I was trying to do was "fdisk
/dev/hda" -- that is, view the partition table. The fact that /dev/hda was
unreadable even at that point is what made me question the drivers.
ap
--
Andrew J Perr
Hi,
On Tuesday 06 January 2004 12:07, Yves Rutschle wrote:
> Normally you should also be able to set up so that the
> laptop goes automatically to sleep when running out of
> power. With this setting, the only way to actually kill the
> computer is to let the battery run out, then let the laptop
>
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 11:57:35AM -0800, Mike Mestnik
wrote:
> > Normally you should also be able to set up so that the
> > laptop goes automatically to sleep when running out of
> > power. With this setting, the only way to actually kill
> > the computer is to let the battery run out, then let th
Try setting the Software-based Cursor option in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 .
On my laptop, the hardware cursor starts out fine but gets fritzed when
the BIOS displays its "LOW BAT" warning.
Example:
Section "Device"
Identifier "Generic Video Card"
Driver "ati"
Opt
You apparently meant to write to
'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
but you wrote to
'debian-laptop@lists.debian.org'
instead.
According to Bjarne Ursin,
>
>
>
--
-- Tony
Hi, all.
[ sorry if you got this twice- I sent it to debian-user
first, by mistake :-( ]
Just got a good deal on a Dell 8600 with a WUXGA display
(1920x1200). Got it running at 1600x1200 with Xandros 1.0
(Debian-based, the former Corel Linux, and apparently what
LindowsOS is based on), but tryi
Indeed I did - and that was the problem. Thanks - for others who may have
rushed headlong into upgrading into devfs, what I did to fix it was to
boot to a rescue disk, type "linux root=/dev/hda4" (insert your /
partition there), and edit /etc/fstab to use the devfs style devices
(e.g., /dev/discs/d
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