Re: Drivers for Toshiba Tecra-R840-10T (PT429E-00M007EP)

2011-06-10 Thread chris
On Sat, 2011-06-11 at 02:24 +0100, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > Hi, > > I'd assume this list to be more appropriate than debian-user. I'm > considering this laptop (or a similar one) but i'd like to know if > there are drivers for it first.So far i haven't found any decent specs > regarding the chipset

Re: Installing Debian (currently squeeze) on Toshiba Satellite L750-170

2013-02-09 Thread chris
t; > To: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org > Sent: Friday, 8 February, 2013 7:15:44 PM > Subject: Re: Installing Debian (currently squeeze) on Toshiba Satellite > L750-170 > > Chris Evans wrote: > > I can vouch for that fixing both the screen resolution and the > > suspend prob

Re: UPDATE - Good cell phone to use as modem with Debian? Some success...

2006-01-07 Thread Chris
n box (Kmail, and Kaddressbook) but havn't found any way to do it. If someone has a suggestion here I'd really appreciate it! I did experiment with Evolution and some tool for synching that, the name of which I can't remember, but that didn't work so well (double entries and oth

Re: Linksys wireless USB stick

2007-09-02 Thread Chris
Encryption key: my_key_here Security mode:open Link Quality=79/100 Signal level=35/100 Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 vmnet1no wireless extensions. vmnet8no wireless extensions. In my experience, setting up network interfaces in debian can be a really time consuming and frustrating experience. Unfortunately I have never found a really good HowTo, and have always had to piece information together from several sources. Good luck, Chris -- C. Hurschler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Problems with 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Audio Controller on Evo N800v

2004-02-25 Thread Chris
x), SiS 7012, NVidia nForce Audio or AMD 768/8112x" as module. Before, the version which still runs now, has built-in "Ensoniq AudioPCI (ES1370)" and "Creative Ensoniq AudioPCI 97 (ES1371)" What do I have to do? Can anyone help me? Cheers, Chris -- Chris T. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problems with 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Audio Controller on Evo N800v

2004-02-25 Thread Chris
Thx for the tips concerning the mixer. But.. I don't think every audioprogram crashes when ALSA is muted? The Mixer crashes too, all with Memoryaccess error. Shutting down the machine hangs at "Shutting down ALSA (version ):" Chris > By default, ALSA loads muted. Run alsamixer

Problems with 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Audio Controller on Evo N800v

2004-02-25 Thread Chris
x), SiS 7012, NVidia nForce Audio or AMD 768/8112x" as module. Before, the version which still runs now, has built-in "Ensoniq AudioPCI (ES1370)" and "Creative Ensoniq AudioPCI 97 (ES1371)" What do I have to do? Can anyone help me? Cheers, Chris -- Chris T. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problems with 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Audio Controller on Evo N800v

2004-02-26 Thread Chris
Thx for the tips concerning the mixer. But.. I don't think every audioprogram crashes when ALSA is muted? The Mixer crashes too, all with Memoryaccess error. Shutting down the machine hangs at "Shutting down ALSA (version ):" Chris > By default, ALSA loads muted. Run alsamixer

Re: Debian-based system not booting on Dell Inspiron laptop

2009-02-08 Thread Chris Jones
On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 09:55:59AM EST, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > On Sun, 2009-02-08 at 13:25 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > I have a two-week old Kubuntu 8.04 installation that is now failing > > to boot. Why 8.04 two weeks ago? Shouldn't you have installed 8.10 .. if I understand the *ubuntu dis

Re: URGENT - v5.0.0 amd64 (stable): Broadcom 4321AG Wi-Fi adapter not detected

2009-03-07 Thread Chris Bannister
59 for how to build. > > > > Must not have been that urgent... Or he is not subscribed? -- Chris. == I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss

Re: How to turn the screen off, while working in console

2010-01-17 Thread Chris Bannister
nutes > without touching the keyboard). > Does anybody have an idea, how to do that? edit /etc/console-tools/config -- Chris. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: External screen

2011-03-31 Thread Chris Brennan
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 10:33 AM, Klistvud wrote: Dne, 31. 03. 2011 16:17:57 je Johann Spies napisal(a): > > I have a Dell Latitute E6410 and have a mixture of Testing and Sid on it. >> Recently I got an external Dell flatscreen. >> >> It happened several times now that when I connect the screen

Installing Debian (currently squeeze) on Toshiba Satellite L750-170

2013-01-27 Thread Chris Evans
be linked to #2 or even go away if I could get better fit between Squeeze and the graphics hardware perhaps. TIA, Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: ht

Re: Installing Debian (currently squeeze) on Toshiba Satellite L750-170

2013-01-28 Thread Chris Evans
013 7:28:23 AM > Subject: Re: Installing Debian (currently squeeze) on Toshiba Satellite > L750-170 > > Chris Evans wrote: > > I hope this is the right list for what will probably be a series of > > questions. > > It is. And although I may not be able to help

Re: Installing Debian (currently squeeze) on Toshiba Satellite L750-170

2013-01-28 Thread Chris Evans
arly stable. You have quite new > hardware in your notebook. Yes, I wondered if that was the way to go. Am I right in thinking that there's a wheezy live install option? I'm sure that if there is, that should be a good next step. Many thanks, Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to d

Re: Installing Debian (currently squeeze) on Toshiba Satellite L750-170

2013-02-07 Thread Chris Evans
what I had to tweak now. Many thanks to Bob and all who helped: hugely appreciated. Chris - Original Message - > From: "Bob Proulx" > To: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org > Sent: Monday, 28 January, 2013 11:27:52 PM > Subject: Re: Installing Debian (currently sque

Toshiba satellite L750-170 locking up

2013-02-14 Thread Chris Evans
. quite early in the boot shortly after unlocking my main / which is luks encrypted. That message, and there are several apparently similar or identical lines of it, says that as SCSI connection is not writeable or words to that effect. That's not in dmesg after the reboot but this is:

Re: Toshiba satellite L750-170 locking up

2013-02-14 Thread Chris Evans
- Original Message - > From: "Jakub Ambrożewicz" > To: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org > Sent: Thursday, 14 February, 2013 7:37:20 PM > Subject: Re: Toshiba satellite L750-170 locking up > > Dnia 2013-02-14, czw o godzinie 09:22 +, Chris Evans pisze:

Another question about Debian on laptops: Dell Inspiron 15R?

2014-05-16 Thread Chris Evans
l, at least in the UK, don't sell the Inspiron other than with Windoze.) Many thanks in anticipation of advice/experiences, Chris -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/2034560997.7028805.1400233259904.javamail.zim...@psyctc.org

Re: A notebook for Debian?

2005-10-23 Thread Chris Beggy
d G41, all for the sake of my preference for the magicpoint type device. I was shocked that Toshiba got rid of the magicpoint feature. Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Set VBE failed

2005-11-20 Thread Chris Bannister
s = 0xa, size = 65536 ^ Did you copy 'n' paste the error? It looks like you typed it. How can anyone tell if the rest is correct? -- Chris. == Reproduction if desired may be handled locally. -- rfc3 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Thinkpad middle mouse button scroll and paste

2006-01-04 Thread Chris Dos
least it no longer works since the upgrade). Did the experimental package not trickle down into unstable with the patch intact? Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ipw2200 [Wifi Driver] compile problems

2006-03-11 Thread chris jackson
erfaces to circumvent network-admin completely, I haven't fiddled with it. hope that's a bit useful to you! chris James Brown wrote: All, I'm fairly new to Debian and have Etch installed on a Samsung M40 with a custom kernel: # uname -a # Linux cloudburst 2.6.8 #1 Su

network interfaces

2006-04-07 Thread chris jackson
le faster than opening a terminal. I'm running etch with a 2.6.15 kernel. chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: network interfaces

2006-04-08 Thread chris jackson
sounds good. i knew it'd be something easy, I just couldn't think of where to attack it from. chris John Schmidt wrote: On Friday 07 April 2006 14:02, chris jackson wrote: why, after working just fine for over a month, would my computer start assigning different numbers to

Re: Dual boot on Dell X300

2006-10-20 Thread Chris Bannister
n /dev/hda1) > root(hd0,0) > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.17-2-486 root=/dev/hda1 > initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.17-2-486 > savedefault > boot What does dpkg-reconfigure linux-image do? then What does an update-grub do? That *might* recreate the init

Re: Hostap PCMCIA driver problem

2006-11-06 Thread Chris Bannister
card, hostap module is not loaded, but if I execute: > > $ cardmgr -f > > yes, it does. What's the problem? If you are running a 2.6 kernel have you got pcmciautils installed? -- Chris. == " ... the official version cannot be abandoned because the implication

Re: Hostap PCMCIA driver problem

2006-11-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 12:14:24PM +0100, Jaime Martin Jimenez wrote: > Chris Bannister wrote: > >If you are running a 2.6 kernel have you got pcmciautils installed? > > > Yes, but it doesn't work. The problem is hostap_cs module is not > assigned to the PCMCIA wireless

Re: Xwindows doesn't start on new install

2007-01-07 Thread Chris Bannister
then modprobe nvidia (although this now may be automatic - but it won't hurt) THEN try nvidia in your xorg.conf. Post back if you need more help. - You should not need to reinstall. See: http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/Debian-nVidia/installation.html Hopefully its still relevant :) -- Chr

Re: system time - thank you

2007-09-24 Thread Chris Bannister
ter a conversion. > > 3 - 'hwclock --show --localtime' : _I explicitly_ say - no matter if > this is the truth or not - to hwclock that the RTC is in LOCALTIME, > than it shows the time got from the hardware,without a conversion. Is that meant to be then?

Re: sources.list file for sarge

2007-11-05 Thread Chris Bannister
s.usc.edu/pub/linux/distributions/debian oldstable main contrib non-free -- Chris. == -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sources.list file for sarge

2007-11-05 Thread Chris Bannister
ose sources are for backports, which would be amazing if people were still backporting packages for Sarge. Sarge is now oldstable. -- Chris. == -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: hibernate and swap partition size (newbie question)

2008-02-21 Thread Chris Riley
Is High memory support turned on in the kernel? This could explain why hibernation is working whilst you have 2gig's in the system. Processor type and features -> High Memory Support On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 9:11 PM, Jimmy Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 12:07

Re: Thanks for the great system / installation successfull report

2008-03-15 Thread Chris Bannister
ill be changed to stable when Lenny comes of age. There are plenty of people who are dissilusioned into thinking that "testing" is some sort of a more up to date stable. If you want convenience, i.e. no unpleasant surprises, no jumping through hoops after a dist-upgrade etc.

Re: want to speed up laptop

2008-03-25 Thread Chris Bannister
. :-) Also for general performance, try not to run X if you can help it. :-) -- Chris. == -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: want to speed up laptop

2008-03-29 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 09:12:06AM -0500, Preston Boyington wrote: > Chris Bannister wrote: > >> Where are your bottlenecks? > > currently my two biggest bottlenecks are with the networking and the > MTA. i installed "ifplugd" and set a faster timeout for the

Re: LCD display

2008-04-02 Thread Chris Bannister
ay as XFree86. > > Please, I need some help to configure my Xserver. > > What do you recommend me to do? What do you mean by "LCD display as XFree86"? I noticed you sent the exact same message to debian-user. It is considered bad manners to multi post. -- Chris. == -- To

Boot old laptop off of USB flash drive?

2008-10-19 Thread Chris Jones
This old laptop's BIOS only lets me boot off of a floppy/CD-ROM/hard drive. Is there any way I could boot off of a USB flash drive - as in booting off of a floppy or the hard drive and switching to /dev/sda when the time comes to load the kernel? Thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

USB 1.1 too slow to burn DVD's?

2008-10-22 Thread Chris Jones
The old laptop only has USB 1.1 and I believe I read somewhere - can't find where .. that this is too slow to burn DVD's .. only CD's. Is there any truth to this .. any workaround? Thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PR

Re: USB 1.1 too slow to burn DVD's?

2008-10-22 Thread Chris Jones
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 03:14:07PM EDT, Paolo wrote: > On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 01:18:30PM -0400, Chris Jones wrote: > > The old laptop only has USB 1.1 and I believe I read somewhere - can't > > find where .. that this is too slow to burn DVD's .. only CD's. >

Re: Boot old laptop off of USB flash drive?

2008-10-22 Thread Chris Jones
On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 11:40:00PM EDT, Rob Smith wrote: > On Sun, 2008-10-19 at 22:15 -0400, Chris Jones wrote: > > This old laptop's BIOS only lets me boot off of a floppy/CD-ROM/hard > > drive. > > > > Is there any way I could boot off of a USB flash drive - a

Re: Boot old laptop off of USB flash drive?

2008-10-22 Thread Chris Jones
On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 11:11:37PM EDT, Celejar wrote: > On Sun, 19 Oct 2008 22:15:51 -0400 > Chris Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This old laptop's BIOS only lets me boot off of a floppy/CD-ROM/hard > > drive. > > > > Is there any way I

Re: USB 1.1 too slow to burn DVD's?

2008-10-23 Thread Chris Jones
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 09:04:21PM EDT, Richard Hector wrote: > On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 20:21 -0400, Chris Jones wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 03:14:07PM EDT, Paolo wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 01:18:30PM -0400, Chris Jones wrote: > > > > The old laptop on

Re: USB 1.1 too slow to burn DVD's?

2008-10-23 Thread Chris Jones
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 07:26:37AM EDT, Tim Wood wrote: > Chris Jones wrote: [..] > >Any recommendations? > > Not a recommendation but a comment as I did this. > > Be careful of the power requirement. I has a USB hard drive which needed > 1 amp. I bought a Connectland

Re: Boot old laptop off of USB flash drive?

2008-10-23 Thread Chris Jones
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 07:16:31PM EDT, Celejar wrote: > On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 20:32:01 -0400 > Chris Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 11:11:37PM EDT, Celejar wrote: > > > On Sun, 19 Oct 2008 22:15:51 -0400 > > >

Re: Pen Drive Boot

2008-11-08 Thread Chris Jones
On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 05:50:10PM EST, Jim Smith wrote: > I made a bootable pen drive using the "create USB startup disk" option. > The laptop in question is a Sony VAIO VGN FJ200 series running Ubuntu > 8.10. The pen drive will boot as I verified it on another machine just > now. The problem seem

USB 1.1 too slow for burning DVD's [update/revisited]

2008-11-17 Thread Chris Jones
I eventually bought a Panasonic UJ850 DVD burner and I am able to copy my daily backup to a DVD+WR w/o any problems. I have done a few restores to confirm that. Since my daily backup resides on a Flash Drive accessed via USB 1.1, I now strongly suspect that I could have bought an external USB DVD

Re: USB 1.1 too slow for burning DVD's [update/revisited]

2008-11-18 Thread Chris Jones
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 04:05:29PM EST, Paolo wrote: > On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 05:07:25PM -0500, Chris Jones wrote: > ... > > now strongly suspect that I could have bought an external USB DVD burner > > at a lesser cost and that I would have had no problems burning my > &g

Re: USB 1.1 too slow for burning DVD's [update/revisited]

2008-12-06 Thread Chris Jones
On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 05:10:06AM EST, Paolo wrote: > On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 07:41:29PM -0500, Chris Jones wrote: > > > > Do you know of good in-depth documentation of linux+PC hardware issues? > > > > sorry, overlooked this one - well there's plenty

Re: Suspend/X workaround: security issue

2000-06-09 Thread Chris Waters
ul lot of work. Possibly more than debugging the X vs. suspend conflicts. -- Chris Waters, Systems Engineer, Critical Path, Inc. phone: 1(415) 344-5518 or 1(415) 254-5913 (mobile) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: apt-cache (was as86 ...)

2000-07-06 Thread Chris Waters
fantastic! > I think it can. Try it on a package that you haven't got installed. > Brendan Simon. No -- the reason it works in this particular case is because as86 is mentioned in the description of bin86. If a file isn't mentioned in the description, or somewhere similar, apt-cach

Re: DHCPCD Boot configuration problem

2000-08-27 Thread Chris Feist
and it works perfectly.. (In fact I'm using it right now). You also might want to try the pump package for confiugring your dhcp too. Chris On Sun, Aug 27, 2000 at 12:12:18PM +0200, Debian User wrote: > Hi at all. > I have a Compaq Armada

eth0(pcmcia) network not starting up at bootup.

2000-01-04 Thread Chris Hoover
being automated. I don't remember exactly when this started, but it was a couple of upgrades ago. thanks, chris

Re: eth0(pcmcia) network not starting up at bootup.

2000-01-05 Thread Chris Hoover
On Tue, 04 Jan 2000, Brian Mays wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Hoover) wrote: > > > Can someone tell me what to modify to get my ethernet to start after > > booting the machine. > > Chris - Are you using DHCP? No, it has a static ip > > > I can manually st

Re: eth0(pcmcia) network not starting up at bootup.

2000-01-05 Thread Chris Hoover
What rc file should be incharge of calling the /etc/pcmcia stuff? On Tue, 04 Jan 2000, Chanop Silpa-Anan wrote: > On Tue, Jan 04, 2000 at 11:15:25AM -0500, Chris Hoover wrote: > > Can someone tell me what to modify to get my ethernet to start after booting > > the machine. Ev

Re: Thank you!

2000-01-10 Thread Chris Waters
d get X to work acceptably on my laptop. cheers -- Chris Waters [EMAIL PROTECTED] | I have a truly elegant proof of the or[EMAIL PROTECTED] | above, but it is too long to fit into http://www.dsp.net/xtifr | this .signature file.

Re: HP 4150 Sound Problem

2000-01-13 Thread Chris Lawrence
to use software emulation. Off the top of my head, I can't remember the config I had to use, but you do need a recent 2.2.x (or 2.3.x) kernel for it to work properly. I think 2.2.13+. But I've not had a problem with reboots or anything (CivCTP works perfectly, for example). Chris -- =

Re: PCMICA Network and Modem card

2000-01-13 Thread Chris Lawrence
ded up with two Ethernet cards... Chris -- ===== | Chris Lawrence | You have a computer. Do you have Linux? | | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http:/

Re: Shutdown causes time loss on a Toshiba Tecra 8000

2000-01-18 Thread Chris Waters
k at the moment -- if installing apm doesn't fix this, send me email to my work addr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, and I'll investigate further. -- Chris Waters [EMAIL PROTECTED] | I have a truly elegant proof of the or[EMAIL PROTECTED] | above, but it is too long to fit into http://www.dsp.net/xtifr | this .signature file.

Re: Shutdown causes time loss on a Toshiba Tecra 8000

2000-01-19 Thread Chris Waters
o provide apm support without this. If none of that helps, then I may have to confess myself stumped. HTH, Chris

Re: IBM Thinkpad 560X

2000-02-05 Thread Chris Waters
glitches in the frozen boot-floppies, but overall, it was still a huge improvement. Sound may be an issue though -- I haven't got sound working on either machine yet, though I confess I haven't tried very hard. cheers -- Chris Waters [EMAIL PROTECTED] | I have a truly elegant proof

Re: package compilation madness

2000-02-09 Thread Chris Waters
that to happen though :) For now, putting the package on hold is probably your best bet. cheers (This thread really belongs on debian-user, so I've set the reply-to field.) -- Chris Waters [EMAIL PROTECTED] | I have a truly elegant proof of the or[EMAIL PROTECTED] | above, but it is too long to fit into http://www.dsp.net/xtifr | this .signature file.

Re: How to re-install from PCMCIA-SCSI-CDROM?

2000-02-20 Thread Chris Waters
finitely say go potato. > Many thanks for any info. I could not find the debian-laptop-FAQ > mentioned a few months ago in the archives! Slink had issues with a number of laptops (including most TPs). Potato doesn't seem to (at least, none that aren't covered in the normal Linux-la

Maestro and slowed sound when on battery power

2000-03-07 Thread Chris McClimans
is distorted. I'm going to eventutally have to get that fixed but I'm working on getting X running first. -- chris On Sun, Mar 05, 2000 at 11:22:04AM +0200, Dan Pomohaci wrote: > Hello > > I have Micron TransPort Trek 2. I installed potato with the kernel 2.2.12 > and everithin

Re: mp3 use - laptop purchase

2000-04-06 Thread Chris Lawrence
t know how well they work, though. I'd imagine a lot of the "external CD-ROM/DVD" devices for laptops are IDE-based, though. Chris -- = | Chris Lawrence|Visit my home p

Re: Suspend/X workaround: security issue

2000-06-09 Thread Chris Waters
ul lot of work. Possibly more than debugging the X vs. suspend conflicts. -- Chris Waters, Systems Engineer, Critical Path, Inc. phone: 1(415) 344-5518 or 1(415) 254-5913 (mobile) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt-cache (was as86 ...)

2000-07-06 Thread Chris Waters
that'd be fantastic! > I think it can. Try it on a package that you haven't got installed. > Brendan Simon. No -- the reason it works in this particular case is because as86 is mentioned in the description of bin86. If a file isn't mentioned in the description, or somewhere sim

Re: DHCPCD Boot configuration problem

2000-08-27 Thread Chris Feist
and it works perfectly.. (In fact I'm using it right now). You also might want to try the pump package for confiugring your dhcp too. Chris On Sun, Aug 27, 2000 at 12:12:18PM +0200, Debian User wrote: > Hi at all. > I have a Compaq Armada

Re: vlock from x11?

2000-09-26 Thread Chris Waters
to make it work the way you described, I'd try reserving a VT, and using chvt+vlock in a script. But I can't guarantee that'll work, so some testing might be in order. :-) I don't know of any way to trigger that off of an inactivity timeout though... cheers -- Chris Waters, Systems Engineer, Critical Path, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: vlock from x11?

2000-09-27 Thread Chris Waters
d in the kernel. Definitely a good plan. :-) Anyway, this is not very laptop-related any more (was it ever?) so I'm going to drop the thread now. cheers -- Chris Waters, Systems Engineer, Critical Path, Inc. phone: 1(415) 344-5518 or 1(415) 254-5913 (mobile) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: thinkpad T20: no sound after suspend

2000-09-28 Thread Chris Waters
panel mixer for just this reason. Esound can also be annoying on a Thinkpad because of this problem. -- Chris Waters, Systems Engineer, Critical Path, Inc. phone: 1(415) 344-5518 or 1(415) 254-5913 (mobile) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: TPAD 600E CD-ROM

2000-09-29 Thread Chris Waters
e, and had no problems. Not sure what else to suggest, but at least now you know that it *should* work. Sometimes that knowledge alone can be enough to motivate one to find the actual problem. :-) cheers (and best of luck) -- Chris Waters, Systems Engineer, Critical Path, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Modem not working in Linksys PCMCIA Ethernet + modem combo

2000-11-21 Thread Chris Lawrence
o, I've noticed some bad interactions between pump (DHCP client) and PPP, so you may want to disable DHCP in /etc/pcmcia/network.opts (and run /etc/init.d/pcmcia reload) while using the modem. pump seems to hog the default route even when there's no DHCP server to be found, and there doe

Re: ALSA and ThinkPad 560

2000-11-24 Thread Chris Black
ALSA works perfectly on my Thinkpad A20p. You may want to check out www.linux-thinkpad.org (although it seems to be down at the moment) which has a long list of links describing how to install and configure the various eccentric drivers in the different Thinkpad models. --Chris On Friday 24

Re: ALSA and ThinkPad 560

2000-11-26 Thread Chris Black
On Sunday 26 November 2000 00:32, Guy Davis wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 05:32:24PM -0500 or thereabouts, Chris Black wrote: > > ALSA works perfectly on my Thinkpad A20p. > > When you "sleep" your A20p doesn't sound still work after you bring it > back

Advice needed on which new laptop to purchase...

2000-12-08 Thread Chris Ivanovich
e recommended? Thanks in advance for all of your thoughts, Chris -- The plan was simple. Unfortunately, so was Bullwinkle.

Re: Mac Laptop with Linux

2001-01-14 Thread Chris Ivanovich
, but the new G4 PowerBook (out in two weeks or so) is said to have a 5 hour batter life. When I get mine, I'll be able to report first hand. Chris -- The plan was simple. Unfortunately, so was Bullwinkle.

HP Pavilion N5270 (info requested)

2001-02-12 Thread Chris Jenks
ith the windows option so I can play certain games, and DVDs. Thank you in advance Chris

Re: HP Pavilion N5270 (info requested)

2001-02-12 Thread Chris Jenks
nth (still need to order vmware) I hope. http://www.hp.com/notebooks/us/eng/products/pavilion_n5270/pavilion_n5270_su mmary.htm Chris Oh, one more thing, the stickers on it says it's designed for windows me. Not sure what parts yet, and I don't want to call hp just yet. At 03:30 PM 2/1

Re: Extra `mouse' button on a Thinkpad T21

2001-03-05 Thread Chris Shabsin
mouse devices recently and don't have access to the appropriate system at the moment. -Chris Shabsin [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Software Engineer, Dimensional Insight, Inc. echo Prpv a\'rfg cnf har cvcr | tr Pacfghnrvp Cnpstuaeic

Re: dhcp with pcmcia

2001-03-21 Thread Chris Halls
ns. But dhclient works OK with the card. It's definitely Pump, not my machine configuration: I have a 3com 3c589c that works with both pump and dhclient. Chris

Re: dhcp with pcmcia using pump

2001-03-22 Thread Chris Halls
> On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Andreas Tille wrote: > > > On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Chris Halls wrote: > > > > > Erm, actually I have the opposite experience: My 3com Megahertz 3CCFEM556BI > > > does not work with pump, either the Potato or Woody versions. But d

Re: ailing gpm - tp380ED

2001-03-29 Thread Chris Waters
eater is not necessary -- only those people who are having problems (or who want the features the repeater offers) should set up the repeater or purge gpm. cheers -- Chris Waters, Systems Engineer, Critical Path, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ailing gpm - tp380ED

2001-03-29 Thread Chris Waters
e been able to come to is that things work fine except when they don't. cheers -- Chris Waters, Systems Engineer, Critical Path, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Autoneg issues

2001-04-30 Thread Chris Brackett
Hello, I was reading some past exchanges regarding eth0 autonegotioation, and linux on laptops, and was wondering if this ever came up. I have an HP Omnibook 3100, with dual booting OS (Windoze on one side [for the wife] and SuSE 7.1 on the other [for me]) Now, whne I take this book to work, and

pcmcia locks my system

2001-05-23 Thread Chris Flipse
I recently got a Dell Latitiude C800, and have been spending the day trying to debug this ... The pcmcia-cs package, when run, hardlocks my system. Things run fine when I turn it off from etc/pcmcia.conf, however, any attempt to run the pcmcia userland deamons hardlocks the system. I have to pul

APM on Dell Lat. c800

2001-06-07 Thread Chris Flipse
Is having some issues, and before I manage to fsck my install to death, I figured I ought to see what other poeple think ... I upgraded to kernel 2.4.5 from 2.2.19 two days ago, for the appropriate sound modules. Since then, I've been having problems with APM. Specifically, while the system will

What's your favorite inexpensive Linux laptop?

2001-06-15 Thread Chris Ivanovich
but certainly not the most important consideration. And I _won't_ be running Windoze on it. Any thoughts out there from your experience? Thanks, Chris -- The plan was simple. Unfortunately, so was Bullwinkle.

Re: What's your favorite inexpensive Linux laptop?

2001-06-15 Thread Chris Ivanovich
>>>>> "Chris" == Chris Ivanovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Chris> Greetings fellow Debianers... I was hoping I could get some Chris> personal opinions here. I currently have Debian running on a Chris> server in my house, and a Macintosh notebook.

Re: Irda Problem

2001-08-01 Thread Chris Halls
d | grep ir' command when you've got the irda stuff running? For reference, it would be useful to send the output of the same command while running your SuSE installation. Also, can you send output from 'ls -l /dev/ir*'? That should give me a better idea of what is going on. Chris

Re: tpctl and kernel 2.4.7

2001-08-23 Thread Chris Halls
/dev/thinkpad thinkpad alias /dev/thinkpad/thinkpad thinkpad alias /dev/thinkpad/smapi smapi alias /dev/thinkpad/superio superio alias /dev/thinkpad/rtcmosram rtcmosram alias /dev/thinkpad/thinkpadpm thinkpadpm --- Chris Halls

Re: 3Com 3CCFEM556B and Testing

2001-09-06 Thread Chris Halls
at everything worked without much effort at all. Chris

Re: IrDA....

2001-09-10 Thread Chris Halls
modultils/irda - # Devfs autoload alias /dev/ircomm0 ircomm-tty alias /dev/ircomm1 ircomm-tty -- If you need more detail about the individual steps, let me know. Chris

Re: IrDA....

2001-09-10 Thread Chris Halls
On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 07:06:49AM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: > Chris Halls wrote: > > > > /etc/modultils/irda - > ># To use the NSC driver on a Thinkpad laptop: uncomment the following: > >options nsc-ircc dongle_id=0

Re: pcmcia-cs and configuring network...

2001-09-10 Thread Chris Halls
ies itself. Andrew did the sendmail support and I did the postfix support. I'm prepared to do exim support too if there is demand for it. Chris

Re: Kernal Image

2001-09-11 Thread Chris Halls
#x27;t you take advantage of the kernel building tool make-kpkg? The build and install process turns into: 1. cd kernel-source-2.4.4 2. make-kpkg --revision yourkernel.1.0 binary_image 3. dpkg -i ../kernel-image-2.4.4_yourkernel.1.0_i386.deb 4. Answer the questions whether to install the kernel using lilo and/or make a boot disk Much easier! Chris

Re: ALSA

2001-09-29 Thread Chris Boyle
t and it might check whether the current user has a .gnupg (or .pgp) directory, so if you're doing it as root and root doesn't... just my wild guess. =) - -- Chris Boyle - Winchester College - http://archives.wincoll.ac.uk/ ICQ: 24151961 - PGP: http://archives.wincoll.ac.uk/finger.php

Dell Latitude c800 integrated ethernet

2001-10-16 Thread Chris Flipse
[Please CC me, as I am not subscribed to debian-laptop] Has anybody managed to get the integrated ethernet on a Dell c800 to function? I've been using a PCMCIA card for it, but I'd love to not have to deal with the dongle anymore ... Related question: Does anybody know if the c800 supports susp

Re: irda package

2001-10-22 Thread Chris Halls
On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 07:02:07AM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: > I'll start looking toward 2.4.12 to see if that is better behaved. At > least I have an idea what to look for! 2.4.12 works great with IrDA in FIR mode on my T20. Chris

Re: /dev/irda

2001-10-22 Thread Chris Halls
1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:48899 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:8 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:1515809 (1.4 Mb) # lsmod | grep ir nsc-ircc 13592 1 irda 142784 1 [nsc-ircc] Chris

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