Re: persistent interface

2004-06-11 Thread Arjen Verweij
Yeah, so install it? Or can't you install programs on that systems? apt-get install discover as root. Jim McCloskey wrote: * Ross Burton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: |> Do you have discover installed? I found that discover likes |> bringing up any interfaces it finds on boot. Thanks a lot for th

Re: persistent interface

2004-06-11 Thread Arjen Verweij
Oh duh. I completely misread Ross' post. nm me :) Jim McCloskey wrote: Arjen Verweij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |> Yeah, so install it? Or can't you install programs on that systems? |> |> apt-get install discover |> |> as root. Oh I could install it OK, bu

Re: Firefox problems

2005-03-08 Thread Arjen Verweij
I have a completely unrelated problem with Firefox in Sid, it just "dies" sometimes when I click on pdf urls. Pretty annoying. Do you have that to? Also, when browsing really large forumthreads (i.e. 1000 posts + pics) Firefox and X will hog memory like there is no tomorrow. I haven't found an

Re: Firefox problems

2005-03-09 Thread Arjen Verweij
ue, 08 Mar 2005 21:00:22 +0100, Arjen Verweij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have a completely unrelated problem with Firefox in Sid, it just "dies" sometimes when I click on pdf urls. Pretty annoying. Do you have that to? Also, when browsing really large forumthreads (i.e. 1000 posts

Re: partition table numberings

2005-03-20 Thread Arjen Verweij
The only shrinking of lifetime is due to the rebooting. Depending on your drive it has (for instance) 10 MTBF. Every reboot costs you an hour (rule of thumb) if the harddrive spins down before rebooting. Other than that I would not worry, and a few reboots won't break your disc either. Rega

Re: Standby/Resume works only during Grub

2005-06-04 Thread Arjen Verweij
Or try acpi-devel ]ta[ sf.net, which is where Len Brown etc. reside. Even though he is on Intel's payroll, he's been known to help us AMD renegades. ;) Arjen Andrew McMillan wrote: On Sat, 2005-06-04 at 14:02 +0200, Frank wrote: With ACPI disabled, you may have to "modprobe apm" to get A

Re: LVM on notebook

2005-06-08 Thread Arjen Verweij
I don't think you can shrink ReiserFS or XFS, but I might be wrong. danny wrote: On 2005-06-06, Ritesh Raj Sarraf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How good is it to have the installation on notebook on LVM2 ? I have been using LVM on my servers, desktops, laptops for years, could'nt

Re: LVM on notebook

2005-06-08 Thread Arjen Verweij
Seems I was wrong for ReiserFS, sorry for the confusion. Arjen Verweij wrote: I don't think you can shrink ReiserFS or XFS, but I might be wrong. danny wrote: On 2005-06-06, Ritesh Raj Sarraf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How good is it to have the installation on noteb

Re: IBM 760XL

2005-06-16 Thread Arjen Verweij
Sleeping is an ACPI feature. Maybe your LID event doesn't get processed. Look into how to configure ACPI for you laptop. I can't really help with XF86, and I think others may need some type of error message from the logfile as well. Regards, Arjen Brian Ronk wrote: I just moved my 760XL fr

Re: Debian on Slow laptops. What setup is best?

2005-06-25 Thread Arjen Verweij
Nice ftp client: ncftp (no gui) Workaround for Konsole like xterm: start one xterm, then fire up "screen". A new shell is only a keyclick away. Benedek Frank wrote: Hi All My project is going fairly well. I have got to the point, that when I boot my laptop, it uses only about 60MB of ram. Th

External monitor on a Compaq Presario 1600

2003-06-29 Thread Arjen Verweij
L.S., I am wondering if it is possible to swap physical displays in Linux like I can with W2K. My laptop has a Trident Micorsystems CyberBlade i1 (rev 106) according to cat /proc/pci. In my XF86 config I use the "trident" driver. When I hook up an external monitor, it gets fed a signal and I can

External monitor with Compaq Presario 1600

2003-06-30 Thread Arjen Verweij
L.S., I am wondering if it is possible to swap physical displays in Linux like I can with W2K. My laptop has a Trident Microsystems CyberBlade i1 (rev 106) according to cat /proc/pci. In my XF86 config I use the "trident" driver. When I hook up an external monitor, it gets fed a signal and I can

Re: External monitor with Compaq Presario 1600

2003-07-02 Thread Arjen Verweij
ut no in Linux. Can anyone help me out? Regards, Arjen On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Heather Stern wrote: > On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 09:12:31PM +0200, Arjen Verweij wrote: > > L.S., > > > > I am wondering if it is possible to swap physical displays in Linux like I > > can w

Re: External monitor with Compaq Presario 1600

2003-07-03 Thread Arjen Verweij
DOS 8) Thanks for the hint, maybe it will turn up something. On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Heather Stern wrote: > On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 10:28:05PM +0200, Arjen Verweij wrote: > > I was playing with this some more, and I discovered that I /can/ swap > > physical displays in the lilo-menu scre

Re: External monitor with Compaq Presario 1600

2003-07-07 Thread Arjen Verweij
guing problem? Thanks. Arjen On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Heather Stern wrote: > On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 10:28:05PM +0200, Arjen Verweij wrote: > > I was playing with this some more, and I discovered that I /can/ swap > > physical displays in the lilo-menu screen before I choose a boot

Re: External monitor with Compaq Presario 1600

2003-07-08 Thread Arjen Verweij
Hrm, I do have [M] nvram support, but I'm not sure how to do what you suggested. Thanks for the tip, I'll see what I can learn about this so I might try it. Regards, Arjen On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Heather Stern wrote: > On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 11:20:02PM +0200, Arjen Verweij wrote

Re: Woody rescue disk for Libretto L50/70/100/110

2003-08-08 Thread Arjen Verweij
I don't think installing woody by upgrading from potato is the recommended approach if you are doing a fresh install anyway. It is just intended for potato users that want to upgrade and alledgedly a road paved with (minor) inconveniencies. On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, Tapio Lehtonen wrote: > On Thu, Aug

Re: Multimedia Keys

2003-09-25 Thread Arjen Verweij
Got a link for us :) ? On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Robert Krugmann wrote: > Hi, > > to use multimedia keys with linux I found a nice little guide how to do that. > O.K. it is written for a LogitechCordlessDesktop and the author uses > Mandrake, but for my Knoppix/Debian system it works right fine. > > C

Installing Debian 3.0 on Compaq Presario 1600 with Argosy EN210

2002-08-11 Thread Arjen Verweij
Hi, I'm having difficulty making Debian detect my pcmcia netdevice properly. It is an Argosy EN210. According to various stuff google turned up it should just work with pcnet_cs no strings attached. However, when I configure the network after having configured PCMCIA, it says the network has not b

Re:

2002-08-18 Thread Arjen Verweij

Re:

2002-08-18 Thread Arjen Verweij
that enabling this will increase the resolution for tools like zgv. Best regards, Arjen Verweij On Sun, 18 Aug 2002, Arjen Verweij wrote: > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >

Re: PCMCIA support broken after installing X?!

2002-09-16 Thread Arjen Verweij
this? It is reassuring to know that I can still use the machine by removing and re-inserting the card, but I would prefer it to be like it was before obviously. Thank you so much in advance. Arjen Verweij

Re: 2.4 kernel tweaking

2002-10-14 Thread Arjen Verweij
On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Harald Staub wrote: > This is probably stupid, but I am quite happy with the following > "solution". I hacked the source. The 5 second commit interval is hardcoded > in > > fs/jbd/journal.c: > > journal->j_commit_interval = (HZ * 5); > > I changed 5 to 300. What

Re: 2.4 kernel tweaking

2002-10-14 Thread Arjen Verweij
On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Harald Staub wrote: > This is probably stupid, but I am quite happy with the following > "solution". I hacked the source. The 5 second commit interval is hardcoded > in > > fs/jbd/journal.c: > > journal->j_commit_interval = (HZ * 5); > > I changed 5 to 300. What

External monitor on a Compaq Presario 1600

2003-06-29 Thread Arjen Verweij
L.S., I am wondering if it is possible to swap physical displays in Linux like I can with W2K. My laptop has a Trident Micorsystems CyberBlade i1 (rev 106) according to cat /proc/pci. In my XF86 config I use the "trident" driver. When I hook up an external monitor, it gets fed a signal and I can

External monitor with Compaq Presario 1600

2003-06-30 Thread Arjen Verweij
L.S., I am wondering if it is possible to swap physical displays in Linux like I can with W2K. My laptop has a Trident Microsystems CyberBlade i1 (rev 106) according to cat /proc/pci. In my XF86 config I use the "trident" driver. When I hook up an external monitor, it gets fed a signal and I can

Re: External monitor with Compaq Presario 1600

2003-07-02 Thread Arjen Verweij
ut no in Linux. Can anyone help me out? Regards, Arjen On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Heather Stern wrote: > On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 09:12:31PM +0200, Arjen Verweij wrote: > > L.S., > > > > I am wondering if it is possible to swap physical displays in Linux like I > > can w

Re: External monitor with Compaq Presario 1600

2003-07-03 Thread Arjen Verweij
DOS 8) Thanks for the hint, maybe it will turn up something. On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Heather Stern wrote: > On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 10:28:05PM +0200, Arjen Verweij wrote: > > I was playing with this some more, and I discovered that I /can/ swap > > physical displays in the lilo-menu scre

Re: External monitor with Compaq Presario 1600

2003-07-07 Thread Arjen Verweij
guing problem? Thanks. Arjen On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Heather Stern wrote: > On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 10:28:05PM +0200, Arjen Verweij wrote: > > I was playing with this some more, and I discovered that I /can/ swap > > physical displays in the lilo-menu screen before I choose a boot

Re: External monitor with Compaq Presario 1600

2003-07-08 Thread Arjen Verweij
Hrm, I do have [M] nvram support, but I'm not sure how to do what you suggested. Thanks for the tip, I'll see what I can learn about this so I might try it. Regards, Arjen On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Heather Stern wrote: > On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 11:20:02PM +0200, Arjen Verweij wrote

Re: Woody rescue disk for Libretto L50/70/100/110

2003-08-14 Thread Arjen Verweij
I don't think installing woody by upgrading from potato is the recommended approach if you are doing a fresh install anyway. It is just intended for potato users that want to upgrade and alledgedly a road paved with (minor) inconveniencies. On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, Tapio Lehtonen wrote: > On Thu, Aug

Re: Multimedia Keys

2003-09-25 Thread Arjen Verweij
Got a link for us :) ? On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Robert Krugmann wrote: > Hi, > > to use multimedia keys with linux I found a nice little guide how to do that. > O.K. it is written for a LogitechCordlessDesktop and the author uses > Mandrake, but for my Knoppix/Debian system it works right fine. > > C

Re: Debian on a 486sx thru PCMCIA NIC

2003-11-02 Thread Arjen Verweij
David, I have exactly the same problem with my laptop. It is a compaq presario 1600, and pcmcia will not work during the installation process. Usually it comes up after rebooting, but I never found out why. Another quirk is that the "discover" package seems to interfere with pcmcia on my laptop.

Re: Audio on Inspiron 5100

2003-12-13 Thread Arjen Verweij
Upgrading to 2.4.22 is a bad idea because it has the sys_brk() vulnerability. 2.4.23 sounds like a beter option, or debian's 2.4.18 kernel which isn't affected as it seems. On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I suspect that you are going to have to solve your kernel compiling problem i

Re: cursor problem please help!!!!!

2004-01-22 Thread Arjen Verweij
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

Re: Just some questions

2004-01-23 Thread Arjen Verweij
Gnoppix? Have you tried Morphix as well? On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, [ISO-8859-1] Martin Röhricht wrote: > 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

Re: questions on ACPI

2004-01-23 Thread Arjen Verweij
Try filing a bug report on bugzilla.kernel.org, check out acpi.sf.net to find out what the bug report should entail. Len and friends are squashing a lot of laptop bugs, related to ACPI. On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Anders [iso-8859-1] Ellenshøj Andersen wrote: > On Friday 23 January 2004 01:55, Russell C

Re: How to mount and access ntfs partition as regular user

2004-01-25 Thread Arjen Verweij
> Nitpicking: > You're right in that the OP mentioned bf24 kerneli (which I overlooked). > But I'm running 2.6.1 which has NTFS write support: > > % zgrep NTFS /proc/config.gz > CONFIG_NTFS_FS=m > CONFIG_NTFS_DEBUG=y > CONFIG_NTFS_RW=y Only very -limited- write support... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: Woody(2.4.21) Sarge(2.6x)

2004-01-27 Thread Arjen Verweij
http://www.backports.org/debian/dists/woody/module-init-tools/ Now you can try 2.6 with woody :) No need to upgrade to sarge if you don't want to. On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, James wrote: > Hello, > > I already have a portable(Prostar 8880 > x86) running woody (stable) with several > kernel options, th

Re: Problems with ACPI - Compaq Presario 700, 2.4.25

2004-05-24 Thread Arjen Verweij
Well, if you want to solve it you should probably try running the latest kernel first, and if the problem persists, surf to http://acpi.sf.net for information on how to submit a bug report. Looking at your attached stuff, your ACPI is from January and there is no error to be seen except for maybe

Re: Debian on a 486sx thru PCMCIA NIC

2003-11-02 Thread Arjen Verweij
David, I have exactly the same problem with my laptop. It is a compaq presario 1600, and pcmcia will not work during the installation process. Usually it comes up after rebooting, but I never found out why. Another quirk is that the "discover" package seems to interfere with pcmcia on my laptop.

Re: Audio on Inspiron 5100

2003-12-13 Thread Arjen Verweij
Upgrading to 2.4.22 is a bad idea because it has the sys_brk() vulnerability. 2.4.23 sounds like a beter option, or debian's 2.4.18 kernel which isn't affected as it seems. On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I suspect that you are going to have to solve your kernel compiling problem i

Re: cursor problem please help!!!!!

2004-01-22 Thread Arjen Verweij
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

Re: Just some questions

2004-01-23 Thread Arjen Verweij
Gnoppix? Have you tried Morphix as well? On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, [ISO-8859-1] Martin R?hricht wrote: > 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

Re: questions on ACPI

2004-01-23 Thread Arjen Verweij
Try filing a bug report on bugzilla.kernel.org, check out acpi.sf.net to find out what the bug report should entail. Len and friends are squashing a lot of laptop bugs, related to ACPI. On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Anders [iso-8859-1] Ellensh?j Andersen wrote: > On Friday 23 January 2004 01:55, Russell C

Re: How to mount and access ntfs partition as regular user

2004-01-25 Thread Arjen Verweij
> Nitpicking: > You're right in that the OP mentioned bf24 kerneli (which I overlooked). > But I'm running 2.6.1 which has NTFS write support: > > % zgrep NTFS /proc/config.gz > CONFIG_NTFS_FS=m > CONFIG_NTFS_DEBUG=y > CONFIG_NTFS_RW=y Only very -limited- write support...

Re: Woody(2.4.21) Sarge(2.6x)

2004-01-27 Thread Arjen Verweij
http://www.backports.org/debian/dists/woody/module-init-tools/ Now you can try 2.6 with woody :) No need to upgrade to sarge if you don't want to. On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, James wrote: > Hello, > > I already have a portable(Prostar 8880 > x86) running woody (stable) with several > kernel options, th

Re: Problems with ACPI - Compaq Presario 700, 2.4.25

2004-05-25 Thread Arjen Verweij
Well, if you want to solve it you should probably try running the latest kernel first, and if the problem persists, surf to http://acpi.sf.net for information on how to submit a bug report. Looking at your attached stuff, your ACPI is from January and there is no error to be seen except for maybe

Re: persistent interface

2004-06-11 Thread Arjen Verweij
Yeah, so install it? Or can't you install programs on that systems? apt-get install discover as root. Jim McCloskey wrote: * Ross Burton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: |> Do you have discover installed? I found that discover likes |> bringing up any interfaces it finds on boot. Thanks a lo

Re: persistent interface

2004-06-11 Thread Arjen Verweij
Oh duh. I completely misread Ross' post. nm me :) Jim McCloskey wrote: Arjen Verweij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |> Yeah, so install it? Or can't you install programs on that systems? |> |> apt-get install discover |> |> as root. Oh I could install it OK, bu

Attaching to a remote desktop?

2005-06-29 Thread Arjen Verweij
ndows machines, and didn't stop to think that it might not work the same way when the VNC server was on a Debian box. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Regards, Arjen Verweij -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Attaching to a remote desktop?

2005-06-29 Thread Arjen Verweij
Thank you very much, it sounds like that is what will get the job done. Regards, Arjen Verweij Vincent Bernat wrote: OoOEn cette fin de matinée radieuse du mercredi 29 juin 2005, vers 11:34, Arjen Verweij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait: I'm looking for a mechanism to connect t

Re: Attaching to a remote desktop?

2005-06-29 Thread Arjen Verweij
OK, thank you. I will give this suggestion a try also. Regards, Arjen Verweij - Original Message - From: "Mika Tapojärvi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 12:47 Subject: Re: Attaching to a remote desktop? Hi I'm looking for a mech

Re: Attaching to a remote desktop?

2005-06-29 Thread Arjen Verweij
rk with others, like 80/443. It seems x11vnc requires two ports at all times, which is cumbersome, but I'm betting on 80/443 being available in most networks ;) Regards Arjen Verweij Ross Burton wrote: On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 13:24 +0200, Jorge Tomé Hernando wrote: It doesn'

Re: Attaching to a remote desktop?

2005-06-29 Thread Arjen Verweij
Hernando <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, June 29, 2005 11:34, Arjen Verweij said: L.S., I'm looking for a mechanism to connect to a machine that runs Debian. My client (laptop) runs Debian SID. Basically I want some sort of VNC that will give me the desktop the user at the

Re: Toshiba Laptop, ACPI, Phoenix Bios

2005-08-04 Thread Arjen Verweij
What year and model is your laptop? Peter Meier wrote: > Hi guys, > > I'd tried to install Sarge on a Toshiba Laptop with a Phoenix Bios > (SM30X). > > If I try to load the Toshiba specific kernel module, I'll get the > error message: Device not found. > > During some search in the internet, I fo

Re: Kernel and modules configuration optimized for IBM ThinkPad R50e

2005-08-20 Thread Arjen Verweij
Just go with kernel-image-2.6-686, and install libc6-i686. You really don't need much more "optimization", most of the time hotplug will save you. Gorjanc Gregor wrote: >Hello! > >I just bought IBM ThinkPad R50e and I successfully installed Debian >testing on it. Works nice. Is there anyone who

Re: Satellite M35x-S161

2005-09-01 Thread Arjen Verweij
I don't think you can govern that property with gmail. It is set by default and after having a quick look I don't see the option to alter it. Arjen >2) to not set a Reply-to to your private address on list mail without also > including the list itself. > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Re: KDE vs Gnome

2005-09-13 Thread Arjen Verweij
I think I used debfoster for this once (or was it deborphan?) to get rid of KDE and it was an exceedingly tedious job. Bob Alexander wrote: > Dear friends, > I currently run a Gnome desktop but also have some KDE appls I cannot > seem to live with including Konqueror and k3b. > > Of Gnome I like

Re: Quick Newbie Question: Archictecture Type for Centrino?

2005-09-23 Thread Arjen Verweij
And use libc6-i686 on machines that support it. Dave Patterson wrote: >* Alan Ianson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-09-23 18:59:30 -0700]: > > > > >>probably kernel-image-2.6.8-i686 (likely will be installed by >>default). >> >> > >Nope. 2.6.8-i386 installs by default. Better performance can

Re: Quick Newbie Question: Archictecture Type for Centrino?

2005-09-26 Thread Arjen Verweij
(for developers) manpages-pt-dev - Portuguese Versions of the Manual Pages termcap-compat - Compatibility package for old termcap-based programs. xviewg - XView shared libraries [libc6] xviewg-dev - XView development tools [libc6] James Brown wrote: > Dave Patterson wrote: > >> * Arje