Re: Amilo A1630 - Somebody with this laptop out there

2004-10-14 Thread David Goodenough
On Thursday 14 October 2004 04:15, Christian Bjälevik wrote: > Tobias Krais wrote: > > Hi List Users, > > > > I search users with a Amilo A1630 Notebook out there. At the moment I > > have serveral problems, maybe somebody of you solved one: > > - IrDA / FIR > > - Modem > > - Ralink Wireless > > >

[solved] No sound after installing KDE...

2004-10-14 Thread Rony
Hi, >> Curt Howland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I am using kmix to watch the problem and turn the volume up, it seems >> to work fine and I haven't had any lock problems. Yes, it turned out that the KMix volume is set to minimum... What a wierd default value... >> Fede <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wr

Re: [solved] No sound after installing KDE...

2004-10-14 Thread Anders =?iso-8859-1?q?Ellensh=F8j_Andersen?=
On Thursday 14 October 2004 12:36, Rony wrote: > Yes, it turned out that the KMix volume is set to minimum... What a > wierd default value... It's not really KMix that does this but alsa. Alsa mutes all channels by default. Can throw you off the first couple of times you install a new system.

Re: [solved] No sound after installing KDE...

2004-10-14 Thread Michael Graham
Rony wrote: > Yes, it turned out that the KMix volume is set to minimum... What a > wierd default value... Yes alsa defaults all sounds channels to mute. I believe the logic is that if you set it to any other value it might be /really/ loud. For instance if you had your speakers turned up to 100%

Re: [solved] No sound after installing KDE...

2004-10-14 Thread Derek Broughton
On Thursday 14 October 2004 07:36, Rony wrote: > > And... thx for all the advices of creating deb package for JDK. But I > was too eager to install the JDK, so I ran the self-extracting file... > Anybody know how to uninstall it if I want to install a newer version > later? ^_^ > Just delete the f

Re: Amilo A1630 - Somebody with this laptop out there

2004-10-14 Thread Tobias Krais
Hi David & Christian, Well, I haven't got THAT notebook, but what I do have is one of Ralinks WLAN mini-PCIs (MSI MP54G2). They have a driver for it on http://www.ralinktech.com/supp-1.htm. The driver is really odd and IMHO would need to be GPL to be fixed. I haven't even seen the license, but anyw

debian sarge rc1 boot floppy disk doesn't recognize my hard drive

2004-10-14 Thread Edgard Pineda
Hello: I have an AcerNote Light, without CD-ROM, with a 3com ethernet 3c589 pcmcia card and 1GB of space in hdd (and for now 24MB of ram), I want to install debian sarge on it, but when i boot this laptop with de boot.img first, then continuing with root.img and net-drivers.img, the hard dr

anti-aliasing and fonts

2004-10-14 Thread ben van 't ende [netcreators]
Hi, I really couldn't find a good answer to this. I am in the precess of moving all my windows systems to debian. My workstation with 19'' bla etcetera works wonderful and the screenfonts look beautiful as well. However on my Toshiba Satellite A50 the fonts look really shitty. Even trying to ad

Re: debian sarge rc1 boot floppy disk doesn't recognize my hard drive

2004-10-14 Thread Edgard Pineda
well... finally I use debian sid floppy images of 12/10/04, and... it works!! I liked very much the new installer's step where you can select individuals modules to load during installation process... with a laptop with low mem it's very nice. Edgard. El jue, 14-10-2004 a las 16:51, Edgard Pine

Re: anti-aliasing and fonts

2004-10-14 Thread Derek Broughton
On Thursday 14 October 2004 17:06, ben van 't ende [netcreators] wrote: > Hi, > > I really couldn't find a good answer to this. I am in the precess of > moving all my windows systems to debian. My workstation with 19'' bla > etcetera works wonderful and the screenfonts look beautiful as well. > How

Re: anti-aliasing and fonts

2004-10-14 Thread aec
On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 10:06:56PM +0200, ben van 't ende [netcreators] wrote: > Hi, > > I really couldn't find a good answer to this. I am in the precess of > moving all my windows systems to debian. My workstation with 19'' bla > etcetera works wonderful and the screenfonts look beautiful as w

Re: Amilo A1630 - Somebody with this laptop out there

2004-10-14 Thread =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Christian_Bj=E4levik?=
Tobias Krais wrote: Hi David & Christian, Well, I haven't got THAT notebook, but what I do have is one of Ralinks WLAN mini-PCIs (MSI MP54G2). They have a driver for it on http://www.ralinktech.com/supp-1.htm. The driver is really odd and IMHO would need to be GPL to be fixed. I haven't even seen t

Re: anti-aliasing and fonts

2004-10-14 Thread Tom von Schwerdtner
On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 22:06 +0200, ben van 't ende [netcreators] wrote: Hi, I really couldn't find a good answer to this. I am in the precess of moving all my windows systems to debian. My workstation with 19'' bla etcetera works wonderful and the screenfonts look beautiful as well. Howev

Various questions...

2004-10-14 Thread Rony
Hi, I have few questions: Debian automatically does the file checking every mounting 24 times, how to configure this? It's too frequent for me. Do we need to defrag in Linux? If yes, what tool to use? I'm using ext3 as the file system. My Linux time is not correct, i have dual boot with XP. I k

Re: Various questions...

2004-10-14 Thread Nick Hastings
* Rony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [041015 11:40]: > Hi, > > I have few questions: > > Debian automatically does the file checking every mounting 24 times, > how to configure this? It's too frequent for me. Use the command `tune2fs' with the -c flag. Eg to set from 24 to 500 for /dev/hda2 tune2fs -c 50

Re: anti-aliasing and fonts

2004-10-14 Thread Anders =?iso-8859-1?q?Ellensh=F8j_Andersen?=
On Thursday 14 October 2004 22:06, ben van 't ende [netcreators] wrote: > However on my Toshiba Satellite A50 the fonts look really shitty. Even Are you using the correct graphics card driver, and is it working properly. If I remember correctly, the driver needs support the xrender extension in o

Re: anti-aliasing and fonts

2004-10-14 Thread Anders =?iso-8859-1?q?Ellensh=F8j_Andersen?=
On Friday 15 October 2004 03:03, Derek Broughton wrote: > Probably, but I'm sure it would be better asked on an appropriate list - > debian-kde? What desktop software are you using? This could very well be a driver issue, and thus appropriate for this list. Anders -- This email was generated u