ACPI and KDE

2005-10-05 Thread Bob Alexander
I have installed a script which responds to Fn-F7 by issuing a radeontool dac on and off (toggle) on my Thinkpad T40. How can I get some nice message box on KDE just like what I see when I give other ACPI events like echo level 7 > /proc/acpi/ibm/brightness (a nice grey box with "Brightness" l

Re: Asus M2400: How to update Bios

2005-10-05 Thread Neil Youngman
On Tuesday 04 Oct 2005 21:09, Sascha Berkenkamp wrote: > Hi, > > I think my Kernel 2.6.12 and 2.6.13 does not work with my current Bios > Version. When I start Linux with lilo and the Option: acpi=off they > will run. > So I downloaded a newer Bios Version. It's a ROM file. I don't know > how to up

Re: Asus M2400: How to update Bios

2005-10-05 Thread Basile STARYNKEVITCH
Le Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 08:13:11AM +0100, Neil Youngman écrivait/wrote: > On Tuesday 04 Oct 2005 21:09, Sascha Berkenkamp wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I think my Kernel 2.6.12 and 2.6.13 does not work with my current Bios > > Version. When I start Linux with lilo and the Option: acpi=off they > > will ru

applet showing the current XkbLayout

2005-10-05 Thread gustavo halperin
Hello I'm using enlightenment without KDE and without Gnome. My XFree86 is configured with three keyboard layout: Option "XkbLayout" "es,il,us" Option "XkbOptions""grp:shift_toggle" My question is how I can cache when ever the keyboard Layout change and

Re: Securing services on my T40

2005-10-05 Thread Eric Cooper
On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 02:21:32PM +, Bob Alexander wrote: > I see quite a few services active on my Thinkpad. Most of them should be > usable only from loopback and not on the eth0 interface. I tried looking > at inetd.conf but it's empty. > > Where do I go to bind some (perl is webmin, exi

Re: Securing services on my T40

2005-10-05 Thread Bob Alexander
Eric Cooper wrote: On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 02:21:32PM +, Bob Alexander wrote: I see quite a few services active on my Thinkpad. Most of them should be usable only from loopback and not on the eth0 interface. I tried looking at inetd.conf but it's empty. Where do I go to bind some (perl i

Re: Asus M2400: How to update Bios

2005-10-05 Thread Sascha Berkenkamp
* Basile STARYNKEVITCH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [05.10.2005 10:13]: > I installed a > FreeDOS on a DOS-FAT partition on my MSI S270 Turion laptop.=20 ok thank you. I will try this at the weekend. I think it's much easier than creating a bootable CD-Rom. I've got an old partition with about 20 MB free.

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Re: CDROM problem!

2005-10-05 Thread Koen Vermeer
On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 20:46 +0100, marc wrote: > One further questions: does that mean that the kernel demands an answer > for every option? So, if there are 100 kernel options, but only 95 in > the config file, then it will *always* ask about the other 5? Thus, if > you didn't have a config fil

"Alt Gr" button does't work

2005-10-05 Thread Oddbyte
Dear all, I have installed Debian 3.1 on my Toshiba Tecra M2 Laptop. It seems to work everything, but I have a small trouble with the combined chars (eg: "ALT Gr + @"). The keyboard is Italian and it seems to be configurated in right way, but "AltGr" doesn't work. Any suggestions? Thank you.

Re: WiFi Problems (It doesn't work properly)

2005-10-05 Thread David R. Litwin
Alrigh. Before I was so rudely interrupted by the Evacuation of my College, I had foudn some thing out: The wireless works fine here.This means that there is definitely some thing wrong with the way I set up the Nework at my home: It isn't Linux or the Driver; it is some thing else. Now, cat /etc/r

Re: WiFi Problems (It doesn't work properly)

2005-10-05 Thread David R. Litwin
Here is what can be changed; what I think may be the problem. Home Networking modem IP Network IP Address: IP Netmask:Default Gateway:  or Use WAN Host Name: DHCP Server: EnableDisableStart IP Range: End IP Range: Default Gateway:  or Self DNS: or  Use WANDomain Name:Lease Time (mins): Requires

Slow Orinoco Wifi on Sarge

2005-10-05 Thread Robert Neff
I've freshly installed Debian Sarge (now stable) on a Dell Lattitude CPiR (P-II-400). with a Dell Truemobile 1150 802.11b PCMCIA wifi card. This is a rebadged Orinoco Card. The base station is a Netgear MR814V2 with updated firmware. I apt-get'ed up to the 2.6 kernel. I get really slow performa

Dell inspiron 4100... custom kernel install

2005-10-05 Thread James Gibbon
I'm having a bit of trouble installing Debian on my inspiron 4100.  I've identified the problem.  The solution is in a kernel rebuild. I can't get the kernel to rebuild because the system freezes before the laptop can rebuild the kernel.  It doesn't usually stay alive for more than two or three min

Re: Dell inspiron 4100... custom kernel install

2005-10-05 Thread Felipe Törnvall N .
linux24 linux26 bf24 bf22   - Original Message - From: James Gibbon To: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 6:39 AM Subject: Dell inspiron 4100... custom kernel install I'm having a bit of trouble ins