dell inspiron 8200 2.6 kernel problems

2006-04-21 Thread Blars Blarson
erhaps some of the others could be cured by configuring acpi and alsa. I use the nv driver in X if that matters. Can anyone offer any ideas on how to cure these problems? -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html With Mic

Re: dist-upgraded sarge (on Dell Inspiron 8200) and things got funky

2004-08-19 Thread Blars Blarson
akes a good rescue disk. I've had to repair my laptop a couple of times when /lib was corrupted by a disk crash. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html With Microsoft, failure is not an option. It is a standard f

Re: The Nvidia driver ????

2004-11-21 Thread Blars Blarson
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >The Nvidia driver that is on the Debian site I noticed >doen not make mention of the GeForce Go which >is in my Dell laptop. Will it still work??? The sarge/sid nv driver works fine with the nvidia geforce2go in my dell inspiron 8200. --

Re: running debian on a laptop

2002-11-01 Thread Blars Blarson
;ve found but not tested a linmodem driver for the modem. Sound and network work fine. Untested are usb, firewire, and pcmcia. When buying direct from dell, watch their prices. They want $400 more now for the system I have than I payed three weeks ago. (The display option caused a

Re: "Woody" XFree86-4 Laptop:Toshiba Satellite 3000-400 screen refresh rates

2002-12-06 Thread Blars Blarson
(I didn't try the non-free nvidia driver.) I think there's a backport of X 4.2.1 for woody somewhere, which may be worth a try if you wish to avoid unstable. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html "Tex

Re: got stuck in dpkg-available-cache

2003-01-15 Thread Blars Blarson
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >Try using 'apt-get update' along with the equivalent in dselect 'dselect update' is a superset of 'apt-get update', there's no need to do the 'apt-get update'. (o

Re: Dell Inspiron 8200

2003-01-18 Thread Blars Blarson
on-free nvidia driver. Untested modem, (found closed-source drivers) firewire, pcmcia. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html "Text is a way we cheat time." -- Patrick Nielsen Hayden

Re: DELL Inspiron and some problems

2003-02-28 Thread Blars Blarson
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >clock is loosing around 5 Minutes an hour. :-( My inspiron 8200 was so poor at keeping time ntp refused to sync the clock. I eventually found "tickadj 10270" made it close enough that ntp would work.

Re: Unstable 'sid' release

2003-04-05 Thread Blars Blarson
s were fixed within a day, and I've lived with the minor ones. (vorbis migration, abiword uninstallable, etc.) If you have the disk space, you could have a dual boot system with woody. (Share /home and swap.) Another thing I've seen is woody with a sid chroot where m

Re: Confused... Linux Kernel 2.4.20 on Gericom Bellagio

2003-04-09 Thread Blars Blarson
making sure to have the initrd options on the appropriate lilo stanzas and rerun lilo. Once you have this working, you can start playing with make menuconfig and changeing kernel options. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/b

Re: Sendmail doing reverse lookups in various networks

2003-04-15 Thread Blars Blarson
want appended to your username rather than your.domain. Add Cw your.domain if you want to accept mail for your.domain. If you don't want the domain appended on local email, remove the FEATURE(always_add_domain)dnl line. After editing the file, cd /etc/mail, run make, and restart s

Re: using an old laptop as a base station

2003-04-19 Thread Blars Blarson
address proxy-arp router. See http://www.blars.org/sapaf.html for my draft writup of how to do this. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html "Text is a way we cheat time." -- Patrick Nielsen Hayden

Re: ACPI sleep/hibernation mode

2003-05-07 Thread Blars Blarson
o. After closing the cover, I need to switch vt's away from the x one and back to get the screen correct. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html "Text is a way we cheat time." -- Patrick Nielsen Hayden

Re: Possible fix: Toshiba 2430-S255 & 2.4.20 kernel...

2003-05-09 Thread Blars Blarson
he >kernel and the Pentium 4? Are you recompiling all the modules to match? Laptops tend to have things like pcmcia that is in a seperate module. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html "Text is a way we

Re: Laptop Losing Time

2003-06-20 Thread Blars Blarson
stem is shut down, so I put it into an init script. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html "Text is a way we cheat time." -- Patrick Nielsen Hayden

Re: Laptop Losing Time

2003-06-22 Thread Blars Blarson
n not using ntp. Only when your clock is so far off that ntp refuses to sync will it be needed with ntp. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html "Text is a way we cheat time." -- Patrick Nielsen Hayden

Re: Virus Detected by Network Associates, Inc. Webshield SMTP V4.5 MR1a

2003-06-29 Thread Blars Blarson
ecent worms, the authors know damn well their messages are nothing but spam for their products. Please just report it as spam to the upstream of the sending system, and don't annoy the mailing list further. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ht

Re: port 80 access while downloading over ppp ?

2003-07-10 Thread Blars Blarson
istinging to 127.0.0.1. Since you are using inetd, that's not an option, so you should filter out such attempts with iptables (or ipchains if you are using a 2.2 kernel). I'd use this at the appropriate place: iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 80 -s ! 127.0.0.1 -j DROP --

Re: worm infection on linux host ? was: port 80 access while downloading over ppp ?

2003-07-11 Thread Blars Blarson
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >Am Donnerstag, 10. Juli 2003 22:18 schrieb Blars Blarson: >> iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 80 -s ! 127.0.0.1 -j DROP >...dropping anything tcp on port 80 but from 127.0.0.1 ? Yes. >Somehow I get confused - what po

802.11b cards

2003-08-17 Thread Blars Blarson
y firewall/router running Debian Woody, that has usb and pci. I could of course add another ethernet card and use a ethernet connected one. (Tunelling IP over ssh or using another encryption scheme for security.) -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Looking for Advice on setting up Potato (3.01) on Sony Vaio PCG-XG28

2003-08-18 Thread Blars Blarson
potato as the subject said. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html With Microsoft, failure is not an option. It is a standard feature.

Re: No fsck in battery mode

2003-09-08 Thread Blars Blarson
d by a kernel that doesn't support ext3. While ext3 reduces the chance of corrupted disks, it does not eliminate it. You should still be running fsck on all your disks occasionally. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blar

Re: Old batteries - or ... ?

2002-09-20 Thread Blars Blarson
rge by a slight LOWERING of the battery voltage. (I don't know about LiOn.) -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html "Text is a way we cheat time." -- Patrick Nielsen Hayden

Re: Old batteries - or ... ?

2002-09-20 Thread Blars Blarson
rge by a slight LOWERING of the battery voltage. (I don't know about LiOn.) -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html "Text is a way we cheat time." -- Patrick Nielsen Hayden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: running debian on a laptop

2002-11-01 Thread Blars Blarson
;ve found but not tested a linmodem driver for the modem. Sound and network work fine. Untested are usb, firewire, and pcmcia. When buying direct from dell, watch their prices. They want $400 more now for the system I have than I payed three weeks ago. (The display option caused a

Re: "Woody" XFree86-4 Laptop:Toshiba Satellite 3000-400 screen refresh rates

2002-12-06 Thread Blars Blarson
(I didn't try the non-free nvidia driver.) I think there's a backport of X 4.2.1 for woody somewhere, which may be worth a try if you wish to avoid unstable. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html "Tex

Re: got stuck in dpkg-available-cache

2003-01-15 Thread Blars Blarson
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >Try using 'apt-get update' along with the equivalent in dselect 'dselect update' is a superset of 'apt-get update', there's no need to do the 'apt-get update'. (o

Re: Dell Inspiron 8200

2003-01-18 Thread Blars Blarson
on-free nvidia driver. Untested modem, (found closed-source drivers) firewire, pcmcia. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html "Text is a way we cheat time." -- Patrick Nielsen Hayden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: DELL Inspiron and some problems

2003-02-28 Thread Blars Blarson
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >clock is loosing around 5 Minutes an hour. :-( My inspiron 8200 was so poor at keeping time ntp refused to sync the clock. I eventually found "tickadj 10270" made it close enough that ntp would work.

Re: Unstable 'sid' release

2003-04-05 Thread Blars Blarson
s were fixed within a day, and I've lived with the minor ones. (vorbis migration, abiword uninstallable, etc.) If you have the disk space, you could have a dual boot system with woody. (Share /home and swap.) Another thing I've seen is woody with a sid chroot where m

Re: Laptop Losing Time

2003-06-20 Thread Blars Blarson
stem is shut down, so I put it into an init script. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html "Text is a way we cheat time." -- Patrick Nielsen Hayden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

Re: Laptop Losing Time

2003-06-22 Thread Blars Blarson
n not using ntp. Only when your clock is so far off that ntp refuses to sync will it be needed with ntp. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html "Text is a way we cheat time." -- Patrick Nielsen Hayden -- To UN

Re: Virus Detected by Network Associates, Inc. Webshield SMTP V4.5 MR1a

2003-06-29 Thread Blars Blarson
recent worms, the authors know damn well their messages are nothing but spam for their products. Please just report it as spam to the upstream of the sending system, and don't annoy the mailing list further. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: port 80 access while downloading over ppp ?

2003-07-10 Thread Blars Blarson
istinging to 127.0.0.1. Since you are using inetd, that's not an option, so you should filter out such attempts with iptables (or ipchains if you are using a 2.2 kernel). I'd use this at the appropriate place: iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 80 -s ! 127.0.0.1 -j DROP --

Re: worm infection on linux host ? was: port 80 access while downloading over ppp ?

2003-07-11 Thread Blars Blarson
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >Am Donnerstag, 10. Juli 2003 22:18 schrieb Blars Blarson: >> iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 80 -s ! 127.0.0.1 -j DROP >...dropping anything tcp on port 80 but from 127.0.0.1 ? Yes. >Somehow I get confused - what po

802.11b cards

2003-08-17 Thread Blars Blarson
y firewall/router running Debian Woody, that has usb and pci. I could of course add another ethernet card and use a ethernet connected one. (Tunelling IP over ssh or using another encryption scheme for security.) -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Looking for Advice on setting up Potato (3.01) on Sony Vaio PCG-XG28

2003-08-18 Thread Blars Blarson
potato as the subject said. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html With Microsoft, failure is not an option. It is a standard feature. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsub

Re: No fsck in battery mode

2003-09-08 Thread Blars Blarson
d by a kernel that doesn't support ext3. While ext3 reduces the chance of corrupted disks, it does not eliminate it. You should still be running fsck on all your disks occasionally. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blar

Re: Install Report --- Dell 8200

2004-04-21 Thread Blars Blarson
280 screen, one of the main reasons I selected laptop. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html With Microsoft, failure is not an option. It is a standard feature. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

Re: Install Report --- Dell 8200

2004-04-22 Thread Blars Blarson
cover leaves the display messed up. (Top half on bottom, and bottom on top.) Control-Alt-F1 Alt-F7 fixes the problem. I think this is a bios problem restoring the display settings. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.or

Re: Install Report --- Dell 8200

2004-04-22 Thread Blars Blarson
Depth 1 Modes "1600x1200" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 4 Modes "1600x1200" EndSubSection SubSection "Display"

Re: Ati Mobility 9700

2004-04-30 Thread Blars Blarson
This appears to be bug 246642 due to a kernel change, see http://bugs.debian.org/246642 -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html With Microsoft, failure is not an option. It is a standard feature. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Install Report --- Dell 8200

2004-04-21 Thread Blars Blarson
280 screen, one of the main reasons I selected laptop. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html With Microsoft, failure is not an option. It is a standard feature.

Re: Install Report --- Dell 8200

2004-04-22 Thread Blars Blarson
cover leaves the display messed up. (Top half on bottom, and bottom on top.) Control-Alt-F1 Alt-F7 fixes the problem. I think this is a bios problem restoring the display settings. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.or

Re: Install Report --- Dell 8200

2004-04-22 Thread Blars Blarson
Depth 1 Modes "1600x1200" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 4 Modes "1600x1200" EndSubSection SubSection "Display"

Re: Ati Mobility 9700

2004-04-30 Thread Blars Blarson
This appears to be bug 246642 due to a kernel change, see http://bugs.debian.org/246642 -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html With Microsoft, failure is not an option. It is a standard feature.

Re: dist-upgraded sarge (on Dell Inspiron 8200) and things got funky

2004-08-19 Thread Blars Blarson
akes a good rescue disk. I've had to repair my laptop a couple of times when /lib was corrupted by a disk crash. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html With Microsoft, failure is not an option. It is a standard feature.

Re: display in 1600*1200 and mouse in 1600*600

2005-08-13 Thread Blars Blarson
s twice smaller than it should be and it acts on the whole >height of the screen. Try using the free (part of xserver-xfree86 and xserver-xorg) "nv" driver. It works fine on my Inspiron 8200. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED]