Re: X.Org using Intel 915GM on Dell Latitude D610

2005-08-29 Thread Ismael Valladolid Torres
Alexandre Rossi escribe: > Another message in the thread you found tells us a bit more on the > modular and built-in versions of framebuffer drivers. It also brings > in initrd wich is a good alternative of built-in drivers. Using kernel-package, initrd support is more or less straightforward. I s

Touchpad device changing from event1 to event0

2005-08-29 Thread Michelasso
I have notice today that the touchpad of my Acer Aspire 5024 wasn't recognized anymore by the x server as a synaptics one, even if the kernel says (according to dmesg) that it is a synaptics one. After investigating for a while I have noticed that the device associated to it has changed from /dev/

Re: Touchpad device changing from event1 to event0

2005-08-29 Thread Mattia Dongili
On Mon, August 29, 2005 2:59 pm, Michelasso said: > I have notice today that the touchpad of my Acer Aspire 5024 wasn't > recognized anymore by the x server as a synaptics one, even if the > kernel says (according to dmesg) that it is a synaptics one. After > investigating for a while I have notic

Re: gnome CPU scaling monitor

2005-08-29 Thread Matthew
You need to set cpufreq-selector as suid root. To do that run (as root): chown root:root /usr/bin/cpufreq-selector chmod +s /usr/bin/cpufreq-selector. Then retart gnome-cpufreq-applet. Note, though, that this can be a security risk because anyone who runs it runs it as root and can change your cp

Re: Touchpad device changing from event1 to event0

2005-08-29 Thread Michelasso
On 8/29/05, Mattia Dongili <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, something might have changed in the input susbsystem probing routine. > To avoid this issue in the future it's advisable to use > > Option "Device""/dev/psaux" > Option "Protocol" "auto-dev" > > in your s

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cpu throttling--what is it?

2005-08-29 Thread Luca Pireddu
Could someone explain to me (or point me to where I can find an answer) what CPU throttling is? My sony vaio has 8 CPU throttling levels: $ cat /proc/acpi/processor/CPU0/throttling state count: 8 active state:T0 states: *T0: 00% T1:

Re: Netgear wg511, 2.6/Sarge - weird?

2005-08-29 Thread Florian Gossin
Rusty Carruth a écrit : > I got a lot of helpful replies from folks, I'll use the last one as the > pulpit from > which I'll speak ;-) > > Thanks to all for their help, here's what I've found: > > > Jordan Smith wrote: > >> I was running this card on Sarge when it was still Testing. Did you

Re: cpu throttling--what is it?

2005-08-29 Thread Jochen Schulz
Luca Pireddu: > Could someone explain to me (or point me to where I can find an answer) what > CPU throttling is? My sony vaio has 8 CPU throttling levels: It is a cheap replacement for real performance states (and probably doesn't give you much additional battery lifetime, if at all). If you th

Re: Netgear wg511, 2.6/Sarge - weird?

2005-08-29 Thread Rusty Carruth
Jochen Schulz wrote: Rusty Carruth: eth1 NOT READY! ESSID:off/any This is bad. You can try do 'iwconfig mode monitor' or 'iwconfig mode managed' and see whether the output still stays the same. well, the 'NOT READY' stays the same, but Mode does change from managed to monit

Re: Touchpad device changing from event1 to event0

2005-08-29 Thread Mattia Dongili
On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 04:20:36PM +0200, Michelasso wrote: [...] > some minor problems I have with the touchpad. When I use it with the > synaptics xfree86 drivers loaded often it happens that even if I am > moving the finger on the touchpad the cursor doesn't move, and I have > to release the fin

Re:Cisco 350 with WEP - SOLVED

2005-08-29 Thread Patrick Wiseman
In-Reply-To:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Apologies, but my mail clients won't let me set the In-Reply-To header, so I'm resorting to the above, and cc'ing the OP.  And I'm not on this list, so please CC me with any replies.)   I was having extraordinary difficulty getting my Cisco Aironet 350 to connect t

Re: Wireless network card

2005-08-29 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu August 25 2005 06:52 am, RAZEK wrote: > El mié, 24-08-2005 a las 09:27 -0700, Alan Ianson escribió: > > Hello List, > > > > I would like to get wireless access working on my laptop, an hp pavilion > > ze4400. When I bought the laptop it was running windows with a 3com > > 3crshpw196 that was

Re: Wireless network card

2005-08-29 Thread Luca Pireddu
On Monday 29 August 2005 21:19, Alan Ianson wrote: > > Thanks for the tip. I did go buy this card and built the madwifi package > and it seems to work quite well. Looking back I think the 3com card was > also working, I just didn't know how to configure debian to get it up and > running. I have an

Help, Asus W3 laptop

2005-08-29 Thread Rony
Hi, I've tried to install Debian, Ubuntu, SUSE on this Asus W3 wide screen laptop. When in graphic mode, i only get vertical stripes. When installing SUSE, it goes to graphic mode during installation, but after finish the installation and reboot, also display vertical stripes. On WindowsXp i use r

Re: Wireless network card

2005-08-29 Thread Freddie Cash
> On Thu August 25 2005 06:52 am, RAZEK wrote: > Thanks for the tip. I did go buy this card and built the madwifi > package and it seems to work quite well. Looking back I think the > 3com card was also working, I just didn't know how to configure > debian to get it up and running. I have an open u

Re: Kernel decision

2005-08-29 Thread Tobias Krais
Hi Koen, >>I was planning on getting the vanilla 2.6.13 as soon as it is out and apply >>the MM patchset (good idea for laptops?). > > Enlighten me: What does the 2.6.13 kernel and/or the mm patches > specifically add for laptop users? Kernel 2.6.13 has better ACPI support (Suspent to disk, su

Re: Kernel decision

2005-08-29 Thread Koen Vermeer
On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 08:30 +0200, Tobias Krais wrote: > Kernel 2.6.13 has better ACPI support (Suspent to disk, suspend to RAM) > - that is what I read. I have S3 and S4 working with 2.6.12 as well, with suspend2 (for S4). So there's not much to gain for me in that area :-) > And the mm patches