On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 09:07:53PM +0100, Angel wrote:
> Are apple powerbooks and debian good friends?
You may have a look at http://tuxmobil.org/apple.html there is a
huge list of links to Linux installation reports on Apple laptops.
There are different Linux distributions mentioned. IMHO PowerBo
On Thursday 22 January 2004 06:57, Russell Coker wrote:
> Or APM. APM works fine on all 2.4.x kernels on all laptops I've tried, it
> seems broken in 2.6 though.
APM works here. As does ACPI. Running Kernel 2.6 from sid on an ASUS A1300
laptop.
Anders
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Hi,
I have a Dell D600 running Debian/sid. The box is equipped with
a "3Com 11 a/b/g Wireless PC Card" in addition to the default
"Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5702 Gigabit Ethernet"
The wireless interface runs nicely at 54Mb/s using the atheros
driver extracted from the CVS server of the madwifi proje
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 18:05, Anders Ellenshøj Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> On Thursday 22 January 2004 06:57, Russell Coker wrote:
> > Or APM. APM works fine on all 2.4.x kernels on all laptops I've tried,
> > it seems broken in 2.6 though.
>
> APM works here. As does ACPI. Running Kernel
On Thursday 22 January 2004 10:17, Russell Coker wrote:
> > APM works here. As does ACPI. Running Kernel 2.6 from sid on an ASUS
> > A1300 laptop.
>
> Do you have apmd installed? What happens when you do an APM suspend?
Can't say, as I have never done that. I haven't felt the need to. I turn it
On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 12:10:45PM +1100, Raymond Wan wrote:
> I have no experience with Mac OS, either, but I heard that the OS
> is based on Unix, so I don't see a reason for installing Debian over it.
Surely, the same reasons as installing Debian over any
RedHat...
Y.
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Hi everybody,
This might be off-topic, but Yves started it :)
We're evaluating a professional platform that can run enterprise
applications. We need reliability, good threading, responsiveness,
stability, performance, but also easy management (if there's such a thing)
and good support.
Sadly, th
Remember that distros can be merged.
Using Red Hat or Mandrake, I installed using tarball. Using Debian, I used 'alien' to
get RPMs into .deb format, and I still use tarballs.
I believe Alan Cox once used the term "Slackhat" as an example of such hybrids.
My point is: you can pick distro X bec
Hello Stephanie,
Here are some ideas you might use.
Debian Testing, can use a 2.6.x kernel, today. I do not believe,
but I'm not certain, that RH does not TODAY have 2.6.x kernels
available. What's important about 2.6.x ?
a. Security. Russell Coker's work on the NSA's SElinux code
is g
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 21:05, Anders Ellenshøj Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> On Thursday 22 January 2004 10:17, Russell Coker wrote:
> > > APM works here. As does ACPI. Running Kernel 2.6 from sid on an ASUS
> > > A1300 laptop.
> >
> > Do you have apmd installed? What happens when you do an
On Thursday 22 January 2004 19:11, Russell Coker wrote:
> > So from my perspective apm "works" as long as the fans start up before
> > the cpu burns a whole through the keyboard.
>
> Therefore you have not tested Linux APM support at all! Probably if you
> test it you will discover that it doesn'
Hello,
i searched google and ebay up and down, asked me through several irc
channels and crawled more than a dozen of selling platforms in the
internet but i couldn't find an USB PCMCIA Adapter for my old (i don't
think it's old) Laptop which has no 32bit Cardbus but only 16bit
PCMCIA.
So i ask y
On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 07:21:26PM +0100, Anders Ellenshøj Andersen wrote:
> How do you then explain that without APM or ACPI, the fans do not start up
> leaving the system frozen after even small amounts of CPU load?
If the fans don't start up, your system freezes? That's
unexepected, I'd though
Incoming from Marcel Meckel:
>
> i searched google and ebay up and down, asked me through several irc
> channels and crawled more than a dozen of selling platforms in the
> internet but i couldn't find an USB PCMCIA Adapter for my old (i don't
> think it's old) Laptop which has no 32bit Cardbus bu
> Incoming from Marcel Meckel:
> > So i ask you - did someone of you ever heard about an USB Adapter
> > which can be used with 16bit PCMCIA interface?
> I'm speaking from ignorance here, but are you sure it's not backward
> compatible? Ie., maybe Cardbus slots can accept/handle 16 bit
> pcmcia/
Russell Coker wrote:
> Or APM. APM works fine on all 2.4.x kernels on all laptops I've tried, it
> seems broken in 2.6 though.
I'm running 2.6.1-mm4 on a ThinkPad R40 2722-CDG with APM. Suspend and
Hibernation work as well as in 2.4.24. They didn't in earlier versions of
2.6, though...
I didn't
On Wednesday, 21. January 2004 23:48, M. Mueller wrote:
> Try Knoppix first - runs off CD. Then google on how to load Knoppix
> to your hard disk.
On my new laptop, Asus M6800N, Knoppix V 3.3 always freezes if I'm
working with the ac-adaptor, without mostly not. Now it runs with SuSE
9.0, but thi
i am very sorry if this isn't anything you can be bothered about, but if you have any info to impart on it, you will be a figure of myth and legend, and my hero, and there will be a movie about you and it will be huge. or whatever you like, cars, houses... here it is:
just got a toshiba laptop
On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 09:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> just got a toshiba laptop because we had this wretched little compaq (that
> we will now drive over with an SUV and crush to a fine dust). the compaq
> had this nefarious little quirk... as you passed the cursor over anything,
> an icon or text,
Most likely a mouse misconfigured, or a touchpad with tapping enabled? Try
disabling tapping from the touchpad is what springs to my mind.
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> i am very sorry if this isn't anything you can be bothered about, but if you
> have any info to impart on it, y
On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 05:21, Anders Ellenshøj Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> > APM does not permit the OS to control fans etc. It is totally different
> > to ACPI. The fact that your fan works is a matter of hardware and BIOS,
> > if it didn't work then it would not be any fault of Linux's
On 22.01.2004 18:11 Hermann Moser wrote:
On Wednesday, 21. January 2004 23:48, M. Mueller wrote:
Try Knoppix first - runs off CD. Then google on how to load Knoppix
to your hard disk.
On my new laptop, Asus M6800N, Knoppix V 3.3 always freezes if I'm
working with the ac-adaptor, without mostly not
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
so imagine my surprise when the minute i start typing on the brand new
toshiba, the very same thing is happening, with the same frequency. i
feel like it might have to do with static electricity, i don't even know
why i think that, but it's all that comes to me, and i a
Marcel Meckel wrote:
You don't understand me :)
32bit Cardbus is downwards compatible, sure. You can insert a 16bit
PCMCIA card into 32bit Cardbus slot.
But: You can *not* insert a 32bit Cardbus Card into a 16bit PCMCIA
slot. And my laptop has such an ancient :) 16bit PCMCIA interface,
not a 32bi
On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 09:07:53PM +0100, Angel wrote:
> Are apple powerbooks and debian good friends?
You may have a look at http://tuxmobil.org/apple.html there is a
huge list of links to Linux installation reports on Apple laptops.
There are different Linux distributions mentioned. IMHO PowerBo
On Thursday 22 January 2004 06:57, Russell Coker wrote:
> Or APM. APM works fine on all 2.4.x kernels on all laptops I've tried, it
> seems broken in 2.6 though.
APM works here. As does ACPI. Running Kernel 2.6 from sid on an ASUS A1300
laptop.
Anders
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Hi,
I have a Dell D600 running Debian/sid. The box is equipped with
a "3Com 11 a/b/g Wireless PC Card" in addition to the default
"Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5702 Gigabit Ethernet"
The wireless interface runs nicely at 54Mb/s using the atheros
driver extracted from the CVS server of the madwifi proje
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 18:05, Anders Ellenshøj Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> On Thursday 22 January 2004 06:57, Russell Coker wrote:
> > Or APM. APM works fine on all 2.4.x kernels on all laptops I've tried,
> > it seems broken in 2.6 though.
>
> APM works here. As does ACPI. Running Kernel
On Thursday 22 January 2004 10:17, Russell Coker wrote:
> > APM works here. As does ACPI. Running Kernel 2.6 from sid on an ASUS
> > A1300 laptop.
>
> Do you have apmd installed? What happens when you do an APM suspend?
Can't say, as I have never done that. I haven't felt the need to. I turn it
On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 12:10:45PM +1100, Raymond Wan wrote:
> I have no experience with Mac OS, either, but I heard that the OS
> is based on Unix, so I don't see a reason for installing Debian over it.
Surely, the same reasons as installing Debian over any
RedHat...
Y.
Hi everybody,
This might be off-topic, but Yves started it :)
We're evaluating a professional platform that can run enterprise
applications. We need reliability, good threading, responsiveness,
stability, performance, but also easy management (if there's such a thing)
and good support.
Sadly, th
Remember that distros can be merged.
Using Red Hat or Mandrake, I installed using tarball. Using Debian, I used
'alien' to get RPMs into .deb format, and I still use tarballs.
I believe Alan Cox once used the term "Slackhat" as an example of such hybrids.
My point is: you can pick distro X bec
Hello Stephanie,
Here are some ideas you might use.
Debian Testing, can use a 2.6.x kernel, today. I do not believe,
but I'm not certain, that RH does not TODAY have 2.6.x kernels
available. What's important about 2.6.x ?
a. Security. Russell Coker's work on the NSA's SElinux code
is
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 21:05, Anders Ellenshøj Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> On Thursday 22 January 2004 10:17, Russell Coker wrote:
> > > APM works here. As does ACPI. Running Kernel 2.6 from sid on an ASUS
> > > A1300 laptop.
> >
> > Do you have apmd installed? What happens when you do an
On Thursday 22 January 2004 19:11, Russell Coker wrote:
> > So from my perspective apm "works" as long as the fans start up before
> > the cpu burns a whole through the keyboard.
>
> Therefore you have not tested Linux APM support at all! Probably if you
> test it you will discover that it doesn'
Hello,
i searched google and ebay up and down, asked me through several irc
channels and crawled more than a dozen of selling platforms in the
internet but i couldn't find an USB PCMCIA Adapter for my old (i don't
think it's old) Laptop which has no 32bit Cardbus but only 16bit
PCMCIA.
So i ask y
On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 07:21:26PM +0100, Anders Ellenshøj Andersen wrote:
> How do you then explain that without APM or ACPI, the fans do not start up
> leaving the system frozen after even small amounts of CPU load?
If the fans don't start up, your system freezes? That's
unexepected, I'd though
Incoming from Marcel Meckel:
>
> i searched google and ebay up and down, asked me through several irc
> channels and crawled more than a dozen of selling platforms in the
> internet but i couldn't find an USB PCMCIA Adapter for my old (i don't
> think it's old) Laptop which has no 32bit Cardbus bu
> Incoming from Marcel Meckel:
> > So i ask you - did someone of you ever heard about an USB Adapter
> > which can be used with 16bit PCMCIA interface?
> I'm speaking from ignorance here, but are you sure it's not backward
> compatible? Ie., maybe Cardbus slots can accept/handle 16 bit
> pcmcia/
Russell Coker wrote:
> Or APM. APM works fine on all 2.4.x kernels on all laptops I've tried, it
> seems broken in 2.6 though.
I'm running 2.6.1-mm4 on a ThinkPad R40 2722-CDG with APM. Suspend and
Hibernation work as well as in 2.4.24. They didn't in earlier versions of
2.6, though...
I didn't
On Wednesday, 21. January 2004 23:48, M. Mueller wrote:
> Try Knoppix first - runs off CD. Then google on how to load Knoppix
> to your hard disk.
On my new laptop, Asus M6800N, Knoppix V 3.3 always freezes if I'm
working with the ac-adaptor, without mostly not. Now it runs with SuSE
9.0, but thi
i am very sorry if this isn't anything you can be bothered about, but if you have any info to impart on it, you will be a figure of myth and legend, and my hero, and there will be a movie about you and it will be huge. or whatever you like, cars, houses... here it is:
just got a toshiba laptop
On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 09:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> just got a toshiba laptop because we had this wretched little compaq (that
> we will now drive over with an SUV and crush to a fine dust). the compaq
> had this nefarious little quirk... as you passed the cursor over anything,
> an icon or text,
Most likely a mouse misconfigured, or a touchpad with tapping enabled? Try
disabling tapping from the touchpad is what springs to my mind.
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> i am very sorry if this isn't anything you can be bothered about, but if you
> have any info to impart on it, y
On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 05:21, Anders Ellenshøj Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> > APM does not permit the OS to control fans etc. It is totally different
> > to ACPI. The fact that your fan works is a matter of hardware and BIOS,
> > if it didn't work then it would not be any fault of Linux's
On 22.01.2004 18:11 Hermann Moser wrote:
On Wednesday, 21. January 2004 23:48, M. Mueller wrote:
Try Knoppix first - runs off CD. Then google on how to load Knoppix
to your hard disk.
On my new laptop, Asus M6800N, Knoppix V 3.3 always freezes if I'm
working with the ac-adaptor, without mostl
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
so imagine my surprise when the minute i start typing on the brand new
toshiba, the very same thing is happening, with the same frequency. i
feel like it might have to do with static electricity, i don't even know
why i think that, but it's all that comes to me, and i
Marcel Meckel wrote:
You don't understand me :)
32bit Cardbus is downwards compatible, sure. You can insert a 16bit
PCMCIA card into 32bit Cardbus slot.
But: You can *not* insert a 32bit Cardbus Card into a 16bit PCMCIA
slot. And my laptop has such an ancient :) 16bit PCMCIA interface,
not a 3
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