On Wed, 05 Dec 2001, Bret Waldow wrote:
> Thanks for the tips. Maybe you can help with this newbie question...
Interestingly, just after I posted this I found that Daniel Phillips has
posted some tests done with ReiserFS, comparing it's indexing to his
ext[23] directory indexing.
This showed th
On Sun, 9 Dec 2001, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 09:02:36AM -0500, Tom Allison wrote:
>
>> does ext3 work with notebooks in that it will still allow for drive
>> parking and all that power saving goodness?
>
> It'll work just fine but it'll keep the disk spinning since it writes
On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Nagy Gabor wrote:
> On 01-Dec-10 10:40, Daniel Pittman wrote:
>> OTOH, there is a little cognitive dissonance in having a journaling
>> filesystem and keeping data in memory longer: one is to increase
>> reliability at the cost of performance
On 11 Dec 2001, Hubert Chan wrote:
> Sorry if this gets sent twice. My mail server is acting funny.
[...]
> Wow. You're right. I get that too. Toshiba Satellite, unstable,
> s3virge driver, Virge/MX chipset. The message that it writes is:
>
> (II) PM Event received: Power Status Change
>
On Fri, 21 Dec 2001, Hugo van der Merwe wrote:
> Odd thing I find on this laptop (a new one), is that the mouse cursor
> has this habit of getting a 30 pixel or so offset to the right every
> now and then. I.e. it paints 30 pixels further right than it actually
> is. Hmm, that's probably 32, eh.
On 15 Jan 2002, Simon Wong wrote:
> I have noticed on booting that I have a message saying that an IDE bus
> speed of 33MHz is being assumed.
That's 33MHz *PCI* bus speed. Even if it says IDE everywhere near it.
> As far as I know the i8000 has a 66MHz bus speed.
That's unlikely. It may support
On 15 Jan 2002, Simon Wong wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-01-15 at 10:42, Daniel Pittman wrote:
>> On 15 Jan 2002, Simon Wong wrote:
>> > I have noticed on booting that I have a message saying that an IDE
>> > bus speed of 33MHz is being assumed.
>>
>> That'
On 16 Jun 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
NB: It is much nicer to create a new thread rather than reply to an
existing message and change all the details - some hidden features, like
the `References' header, don't get changed that way, so your message
shows up in the middle of another running subje
On 16 Jun 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On 16 Jun 2004 at 11:13, Daniel Pittman wrote:
[...]
>> That depends. Is this a "bridge mode" device, or does it handle the
>> PPPoE layer internally?
>
> My Zyair B-2000 V2 (I wasn't very precise in my last email
On 18 Jun 2004, peter robinson wrote:
> this is my first attempt at a debian installation, so please forgive if this
> is a stupid question (and yes, I did search google/the archives :-) ).
>
> After an initial installation of the basic system on a hp pavilion ze4600
> (Debian 3.0 release 1a), I us
On 19 Jun 2004, peter robinson wrote:
[...]
> ===>>> Thanks. Unfortunately, it didnt quite work. I booted from DVD with the
> installation DVD and booted as
> rescue root=/dev/hda1
> The rescue system appeared to boot, but the same screen appears and
> freezes...
Try booting with:
rescue root
On 25 Jun 2004, John Taber wrote:
> I've just installed Knoppix 3.4 with kernel 2.4.26. Now the power off is not
> working right - upon reaching "halted" screen blanks but the machine does not
> shutdown and the screen reactives when return is pressed.
> Any ideas ? (It shut off fine with Knoppix
On 25 Jun 2004, John Taber wrote:
> As my Knoppix/Debian loads, it appears to load ACPI - maybe I need to adjust a
> ACPI config file ?
Hrm. I couldn't say, I fear -- I don't use ACPI on my laptop, only APM.
It is possible that the ACPI system doesn't support your hardware well
enough to power it
On 25 Jun 2004, Riccardo Vestrini wrote:
> sorry for the previous message, I mistyped -laptop for -italian
>
> why debian mailing lists do not send messages with a
> Reply-To: header which instructs mail client to reply a message to list
> instead of sender?
Because many people, including the list
On 29 Jun 2004, Joe wrote:
> I have a laptop that I have installed debian on. On one wireless
> network I can connect just fine. But on a second wireless network I
> have problems. Other clients connect fine on both networks, so I know
> the access points are both fine.
>
> My problem is that on my
On 8 Jul 2004, Bill Gladney wrote:
> I see all kinds of help files.in here on this site.but noticed
> there is not one piece of info on how to get this program off a
> computer...
That isn't usually such a problem, so people don't document it much. :)
> maybe 'cause it's impossible to do.
On 8 Jul 2004, Jeff Avveduti wrote:
> Daniel Pittman wrote:
>> On 8 Jul 2004, Bill Gladney wrote:
>>
>>> I see all kinds of help files.in here on this site.but noticed
>>> there is not one piece of info on how to get this program off a
>>> c
On 12 Jul 2004, Kim Hawtin wrote:
> Randall Smith wrote:
>> I have a wireless connection on pcmcia. When booting, the network
>> connections come up before pcmcia, so my wireless connection does not
>> come up. What is the best way to bring up the wireless connection on
>> boot.
>
> i am not sure
On 5 Aug 2004, Tim Taubert wrote:
> i have a problem with my wireless lan card in my acer travelmate.
> i'm using ndiswrapper and some windows driver to load my card.. iwlist also
> finds the ap..
>
> the only thing that isn't working is "iwconfig wlan0 mode monitor".. he says
> "invalid request" o
On 13 Aug 2004, John M. Flinchbaugh wrote:
> i must buy a new notebook to replace my declining inspiron 3800.
> as it is unplanned, i must be a bit budget-minded, but i still
> need some power features. i don't need a desktop replacement,
> but i also don't need ultra-portable.
>
> inspiron 5150's
On 13 Aug 2004, John M. Flinchbaugh wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 10:18:28AM +1000, Daniel Pittman wrote:
>> On 13 Aug 2004, John M. Flinchbaugh wrote:
>>> i must buy a new notebook to replace my declining inspiron 3800.
>> My recommendation would be for an IBM laptop
On 13 Aug 2004, John M. Flinchbaugh wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 01:48:20PM +1000, Daniel Pittman wrote:
>> *nod* Also, the Intel "Extreme" graphics chips have decent Linux
>> support, as I understand it, and that is the new budget chip in IBM
>> laptops.
>
On 16 Aug 2004, Gustavo Halperin wrote:
> I'm trying to install debian Linux on my portege R100. I haven't
> floppy or CDRom, but I have another laptop with CDRom, therefore I'm
> trying to made DHPC boot with PXElinux. The boot is OK, I use for it
> 'root.bin' and 'rescue.bin' on '/tftpboot/.' wit
On 16 Aug 2004, Martin Wegmann wrote:
> I is rather not a 100% laptop question but it is due to the small storage
> device on my laptop (30 GB on IBM T40).
Occasionally I feel very old when people say things like that - I
remember when a 30MB disk was almost unimaginably big. :)
> I partitioned
On 17 Aug 2004, Jeff Avveduti wrote:
> I have looked around and found a few guides but not much luck.
> anyone have a 2.6.x compile guide that worked for them?
Just to compile it, or to make it work afterwards?
To just compile it, install `kernel-package', download the source into
/usr/src/linux
On 3 Sep 2004, Ognjen Bezanov wrote:
> As we already seem to be on the subject of GUI's i would like to know how to
> set up Windowmaker.
>
> I have a (very slow) laptop which i use an an access point and storage
> server, and i was thinking of installing a GUI which will only be needed
> occasiona
On 4 Sep 2004, SML wrote:
>> in the Xlog there is this line which seems to indicate that X is aware
>> that 1024x768 is possible:
>> (II) I810(0): Display Info: LFP (local flat panel): attached: TRUE,
>> present: TRUE, size: (1024,768
>> (II) I810(0): Size of device LFP (local flat panel) is 1024 x
On 7 Sep 2004, Martin Weinberg wrote:
[...]
> The one problem I am having is quite odd: I find that remote sessions
> through a ssh tunnel hang intermittently after a few kilobytes. My
> old laptop (a Sony Vaio) also running Sarge with the same setup and
> wirelessly attached to the same router
On 7 Sep 2004, Derek Broughton wrote:
> On September 7, 2004 09:21 am, Michael Olson wrote:
>> Tim Taubert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>> i'm sure i can select it at the installtion process, can't i? ... i
>>> crashed my whole system with this damn ati stuff.. dpkg is not working
>>> anymore.. ext
On 8 Sep 2004, astryx wrote:
> I have downloaded kernel-2.6.8 (debian-unstable package) via apt-get and
> have overwritten the speedstep-centrino file with the one published on
> http://tuxmobil.org/centrino.html.
...er, which file published there? I can see various patches to
introduce the Centr
On 15 Sep 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Anders Ellenshøj Andersen wrote:
>> On Wednesday 15 September 2004 06:06, tijani jojo wrote:
>>
>>> hello,
>>> i want to place an order of computer laptop pentium 4 i need about 5
>>> pcs i want u to calculate the total price of the laptops with the shippi
On 15 Sep 2004, Markus Uhlmann wrote:
> frequently the "s" key ceases to work under x (no hardware problem,
> works in text consoles) and can only be re-activated by ctrl-alt-f'ing
> to a different console and back to x.
>
> the problem might be triggered by pressing "ctrl-x ctrl-s" in emacs,
> wh
On 24 Sep 2004, Robert Goley wrote:
> I want to put together a private apt repository of basic in house
> configuration packages for our laptops and servers. I already have the
> debian packages created and lintian doesn't complain too much. I just
> do not know how to create a repository of custo
On 1 Oct 2004, Pere P. wrote:
> Anyone has experience on a IBM laptop model Thinkpad R51?
Others have recommended the Thinkpad hardware list which, frankly, is
great for this sort of thing.
I have an earlier IBM laptop, an A31p, and experience with a range of
newer models but, sadly, not that spe
On 2 Oct 2004, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
> I would like my desktop (an openbrick) to backup via the net
> my laptop once it is connected:
> what is the best way to do so ?
My recommendation would be the 'BackupPC' package, found in testing and
unstable. That will happily produce long term archival bac
On 6 Oct 2004, Kfir Lavi wrote:
> i have wireless Ateml card.
> When i insert it it start to send dhcp packets in order to get ip, but i need
> to tell it by hand 'iwconfig eth0 essid WLAN".
> Is there a way to automate this?
Install the `wireless-tools' package, then add bits like this to your
/e
On 2 Nov 2004, JoÃo LourenÃo wrote:
> Kill, by default, send SIGTERM (code 2) to the targeted process.
Signal 2 is 'INT'; Signal 15 is 'TERM', pretty much as a standard.
Regards,
Daniel
--
Beware of programmers who carry screw drivers.
-- Leonard Brandwein
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On 9 Nov 2004, Alexandru Cabuz wrote:
> Until recently I was using Debian testing on an HP Omnibook XE3. Now I am on a
> Dell D600. One annoying problem is that pppoe does not work anymore.
>
> I am using exactly the same /etc/network/interfaces
> and /etc/ppp/peers/dsl-provider files. I'll copy t
On 19 Nov 2004, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> Has anyone gog a Thinkpad R40e to show DVD?
> If so, any pointers to what needs doing on this machine?
Install the 'xine' package from Testing or Unstable. I don't believe it
is present in stable.
This should pull in the 'libdvdnav3' package, but if not
On 19 Nov 2004, LoÃc Minier wrote:
> Daniel Pittman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Fri, Nov 19, 2004:
>
>> Then, in /usr/share/doc/libdvdnav3/examples is a script that will
>> download and install the 'libdvdcss' package for you.
>
> Or you might prefer the Debian r
On 20 Nov 2004, LoÃc Minier wrote:
> Daniel Pittman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Fri, Nov 19, 2004:
>
>> On 19 Nov 2004, LoÃc Minier wrote:
>>> Daniel Pittman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Fri, Nov 19, 2004:
>>>
>>>> Then, in /usr/share/doc/libdvdnav3/exampl
On 20 Dec 2004, David Goodenough wrote:
> On Monday 20 December 2004 04:24, Ridge Chittenden wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> The DSDT on my Dell Inspiron 300m seems buggy--KDE tells me I "appear
>> to have a partial ACPI installantion," and I get a bunch of ACPI
>> errors on bootup.
[...]
>> But there
On 30 Dec 2004, Zachary Uram wrote:
> I've been meaning to setup a firewall and wonder if anyone has setup
> an iptables script or can recommend a good program tailored for a
> laptop which is not connected 24x7 (dialup) and receives dynamic IP
> each session (determined by my ISP's gateway) runnin
On 1 Jan 2005, Bill Moseley wrote:
> Which of the firewall packages is closest to building iptables rules
> by hand?
>From my experience, firehol is the tool that gets in the way the least.
You can write raw iptables calls with it, in fact, if you really want to
abuse it. Then you only get the 't
On 17 Jan 2005, Rony wrote:
> I'm a linux newbie, need advice on how to access my usb thumb drive and
> external cd burner. Below are the informations from dmesg when i plug
> in those peripherals. Do i need to manually execute the mount command
> after the devices are inserted?
Basically, yes.
On 17 Jan 2005, Cabuz Alexandru wrote:
> I have noticed that my CD drive reads digital audio way slower than it should.
> I run cdparanoia and it seems like it's running at not more than 4x. It takes
> 15 minutes to rip a CD, even without encoding, just rip to wav.
[...]
> And on my home compute
On 26 Jan 2005, David Mandelberg wrote:
[...]
> Please use proper signature style and put a "\n--\n" between the message and
> signature (see mine for an example).
Ho-hum. If you want to harass people about putting a valid signature
separator in, do try to get it right.
For better or worse, t
On Sun, 2 Jan 2000, JC Helary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[... mac and Linux machine talking ...]
> It looks like I need some kind of tcp/ip networking going on here, so
> is there a way to implement this in a debianese way and/or without
> spending too much money?
Sure. A NULL-Modem cable, also
On 1 Mar 2005, peace bwitchu wrote:
> --- JoÃo LourenÃo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Be careful! "dd" only works if the two drives are of the same model
>> (or, at least, the same size).
>>
>> I would say "tar" is a better option. But remember to exclude the
>> virtual file systems "/proc" and "
On 10 Mar 2005, Benedek Frank wrote:
[... driver for SD cards ...]
> Yes, but this is for Windows, and this is a Debian forum, hence I was looking
> for a Linux driver.
>
> Thanks for the link though, I wish they had a Linux driver as well.
There has been some talk on the Linux kernel list of in
On 29 Mar 2005, Bill Moseley wrote:
> I have a laptop and the battery has been dying. It's been where I
> can only have it off power for a few minutes before it dies. The
> laptop has a LED that is green when the battery is fully charged and
> yellow when partially charged. Now, the LED is not l
On 17 Apr 2005, Ross Burton wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-04-16 at 23:53 -0500, Ryan Nowakowski wrote:
I am hoping to get some opinions on this. I will building Debian on a
Thinkpad T42 for my lovely bride this weekend. I'm currently undecided
whether to put Sarge or Sid on it. On my machine
On 20 Apr 2005, FranÃois TOURDE wrote:
> Le 12893iÃme jour aprÃs Epoch,
> Ryan Heise Ãcrivait:
>
>> In case someone finds it useful, I created a webpage describing how to
>> get Debian working on an LW60:
>>
>> http://www.progsoc.uts.edu.au/~rheise/LW60/
>
> This kind of doc is always useful :)
>
>
On 14 Nov 2002, Dominik Juszczyk wrote:
> I have question: I want to connect my laptop to TV to watch movies on
> larger screen. Is there any software to do it??? Under windows there
> was option in display section where you were to tell him which display
> is default.
>
> Is that possible under D
On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Francois Chenais wrote:
> How can I select 'svideo' output on my Radeon Mobility M6 ? This works
> under Win.
With difficulty, and without the niceness of the Windows driver
features, because ATI don't release details of the hardware.
1. Install the 'atitvout' package.
2. Plu
On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
> I'm a minimalist and rolled my own kernel. It was absolutely bare
> bones and that had a noticable effect on hard disk performance. So I
> tinkered around a bit with kernel options and tested performance with
> hdparm -tT. Now I'd like to know wha
On 19 Nov 2002, Simon Wong wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 22:58, Daniel Pittman wrote:
>> 5. Set the resolution to 800x600 or less.[2]
>
> Could you show me how to set that resolution?
It just works for me, using the built-in VESA modes. Try removing all
the modeline statements fr
On 19 Nov 2002, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
> Daniel Pittman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
>> > I'm a minimalist and rolled my own kernel. It was absolutely bare
>> > bones and that had a noticable effect on hard disk pe
On 19 Nov 2002, Simon Wong wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 10:41, Daniel Pittman wrote:
>> Have a look at the X log file if using the VESA modes fails and see
>> why X doesn't like the mode.
> I checked out the log and it's not accepting any of the 800x600 modes
>
On Sun, 24 Nov 2002, Nyk Tarr wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 11:22:48PM -0800, Heather Stern wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 11:32:55PM -0500, Michel Hardy-Vall?e wrote:
[...]
>> I haven't played with USB based CD/CDRW, but I have a tidbit to add;
>> I use a PCMCIA/ATAPI based one. At some po
On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Larry Colen wrote:
> I've been having a devil of a time trying to get
> /etc/network/interfaces working with mapping. The manpage
> theoretically shows how to set it up, but says that it needs a script
> in order to work. I can't find any documentation on what the script is
>
On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, arief mulya wrote:
> As the laptop arrives just now, I'm preparing to install a Sarge on
> it. I've already done repartition. [Why does IBM need to use that 3
> Gigs for recovery anyway...]
According to their support people it's either a deal with Microsoft to
"prevent piracy
On Sun, 02 Feb 2003, Eduard Nabbel wrote:
> Daniel Pittman wrote:
>
>> DRI has always caused lockups within two days for me, so I don't
>> enable it, and my system is stable. (A31p, but similar hardware.)
>
> Have you had problems switching several times betwe
On 04 Feb 2003, Alexandre Beelen wrote:
[...]
>> > - ACPI
>>
>> Yes, but YMMV.
>
> Could you expand this ?
The level of support for ACPI, especially in terms of system monitoring,
varies enormously. IIRC, last time I tried ACPI couldn't report the
battery state on my machine.
What is and isn'
On 07 Feb 2003, Claus Nagel wrote:
> I'm about to get a new laptop, hurray!. But one last thing makes me
> unsure what to choose. Do I make it for a
> nVIDIA GeForce4 420Go (Toshiba SP6100)
> or
> ATI Mobility FireGL 9000 (Compaq 800w).
> And how does the Radeon 7500 compare to the Fir
On Sat, 15 Feb 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> When I installed my debian laptop from network, I tried to install as
> much as possible from sid (I had to have the latest XFree to support
> my Radeon 7500 so I decided to get everything from there) I tought I
> was getting kde 3 aswell, but I ended
On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Michelle Konzack wrote:
> for a special utilisation I need to use CF-Disks with 512 MByte.
>
> Now there are IDE-Adapters which use CF-Cards like a normal HD.
I don't know of any IDE adapter that does that, but the CompactFlash
card itself works like a (brain-dead) IDE devi
On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Madn3SS wrote:
> i've git some serious problems with my matshita dvd/cdrw combo drive
> in my acer travelmate 225xc.
[...]
> watching .vob files from dvd works fine... but the menu doesn't work,
> that suxxx.
mplayer does not support DVD menus. xine and ogle, both in unstable
On Sat, 05 Apr 2003, Mitchell Gil Maltenfort wrote:
[...]
> The other thing I'm trying to sort out is how to do CD writing for
> backups. I've inserted ide-scsi in my /etc/modules, and installed
> mondo (testing it now) and multicd. If I run cdrecord dev=ATAPI
> -scanbus, it seems to recognize it
On Sun, 13 Apr 2003, Aryan Ameri wrote:
> A couple of months ago I bought a ThinkPad A 31, it's one of IBM's
> high end models, with a 1.8 Ghz Pentium4 M, and 256 MB of DDR RAM.
> However I am not quite happy with the performance that I am getting
> out of this system.
Welcome to the Pentium-4, S
On Mon, 14 Apr 2003, Aryan Ameri wrote:
> Does anyone know weather ATI Radeon 7500 Mobility, is supposed to have
> 3D support in XFree86 4.3.0 or not? In XFree86's page, there is no
> mention about the the mobility cards, and I guess these cards use a
> diffrent chipset, than the normal desktop ver
On Tue, 15 Apr 2003, Aryan Ameri wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 April 2003 03:09, Daniel Pittman wrote:
>> On Mon, 14 Apr 2003, Aryan Ameri wrote:
>> > Does anyone know weather ATI Radeon 7500 Mobility, is supposed to
>> > have 3D support in XFree86 4.3.0 or not? In XFree
On Sun, 4 May 2003, Thomas Marquart wrote:
[...]
> Second, more important, APM. The laptop comes back up after suspend,
> but although the screen turns on, it stays black and I have no idea
> how to get the picture back.
I have only used Linux on an A31p, but the issue you face is probably
the
On Sun, 11 May 2003, Kenneth D. Weinert wrote:
> I just bought an IBM ThinkPad (R32) and all has gone almost
> fine. Actually, the install went very well until I tried to build a
> new kernel so I'd have the driver available for my wifi card.
>
> It wouldn't reboot - couldn't find the root direct
On Wed, 21 May 2003, Pisut Tempatarachoke wrote:
> I am very very new to Linux, and hoping to buy a laptop that is most
> compatible with Debian. Could anyone please provide me with comments
> on Debian GNU/Linux and Toshiba laptops (or more specifically Tecra
> S1 1.4 GHz) compatability, and p
On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Lloyd Dizon wrote:
> Is there a specific way of upgrading XFree 4.2 to 4.3
> with Debian testing branch?
Well, there is a current development effort to get XFree86 4.3 packaged,
so you could install those binaries or rebuild them from the deb-src
packages.
Check the 'debian-x
On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Jeff wrote:
> My laptop, a Dell Latitude C610 running Sarge, has been losing time to
> the tune of about 15-20 minutes every 12 hours.
>
> I found a thread that suggested the Motherboard battery, and I may
> change that later.
>
> Also in that thread was a suggestion by Rob W
On 16 Jul 2003, R. Stepanyan wrote:
> I'd really appreciate any piece of advice concerning usage of usb CD
> burners on Linux.
Sure. Don't do it unless you have a USB 2.0 system and a 480mbps case.
IIRC, that is "high speed" USB, as opposed to "full speed" at 12mbps.
[...]
> Planning to buy suc
On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I intend to make the purchase of a new Laptop and I will want to know
> if processor INTEL Centrino is well supported by Kernel Linux
As I understand it, this is reasonably well supported in the 2.6 series,
which no one ships yet.
> as well as chip
On 29 Jul 2003, matt zagrabelny wrote:
> while using grip my laptop suspends itself uncontrollably. i have a
> thinkpad t20 using debian sid, kernel 2.4.21, and grip 3.0.7
>
> scenario:
>
> on some random track all of a sudden my laptop is suspended. i
> un-suspend it. roughly 5-25 seconds later
On Thu, 07 Aug 2003, Joe Emenaker wrote:
> At work, it's an open WiFi lan without encryption. At home, I have WEP
> with a certain key. At my girlfriend's, it's WEP with a different key.
>
> They all have different SSID's.
>
> What I would like, of course, is to be able to configure my Debian
> l
On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> I have an IBM A31 with a Mobility 7500 chip; currently running
>> testing. It works well with X4.2; but without 3D hardware
>> acceleration. From what I am told, if you use X4.3, hardware
>> acceleration should work.
>
> I am just setting up my new
On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, tvn wrote:
> Just wondering, how fast is everyone wireless speed on a 802.11b card
> when transfering data from a wired ethernet machine in a LAN ? I only
> get about 400KB/s ... Is that normal ?
Pretty much. After you take into account the overheads, the theoretical
limit i
On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Luke Davis wrote:
> What about non-802.11 wireless technologies?
Assuming that you want a LAN style environment, there isn't much that
isn't under the 802.11 banner. the 802.11g and other fast efforts
/might/ give you some joy, but all are pretty new.
Last time I looked, the
On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Luke Davis wrote:
> For the building in question, we're talking:
>
> 7 to 8 PCs (Win flavors).
> 1 server (Debian Linux)
Oh. That's really small. :)
For this, expect decent performance for anything but bulk file transfer
or editing Word documents over SMB to the file server.
On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen wrote:
> I cant stand the viruses/spam on this list.
> Something should be done about this. Policy on list should change or
> something.
Your best bet, given that the list is hardly the only source of
unsolicited email, is to install something like th
On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, Jeff Boutet wrote:
> I know this is more a sys admin thing. But it is somewhat relavent.
>
> My company is currently in the process of replacing all the Linux
> development desktops for laptops, as to increase our developers
> mobility. Thus the laptop will have to perform in
On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Alec wrote:
> I'm wondering what everyone's motivation is for using Linux on a
> laptop instead of Cygwin + Windows.
I am curious also: why are you asking? Are you wondering what the major
point you missed was, or just idly curious?
> The way I see it, a laptop is basically
On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Alec wrote:
> On Friday 30 November 2001 03:50 am, Daniel Pittman wrote:
>> On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Alec wrote:
>> > I'm wondering what everyone's motivation is for using Linux on a
>> > laptop instead of Cygwin + Windows.
>>
>&g
On Wed, 05 Dec 2001, Bret Waldow wrote:
> Alexander Clouter wrote:
>
>> As for the XFS.GOOD MAN :) None of that 'girly-man' reiserfs
>> crud :)
>> I'm running it too and everything is just peachy :)
>
> Ok, I'll bite. What's bad about reiser, or what's good about xfs?
>
> Seriously, if th
On Wed, 05 Dec 2001, Bret Waldow wrote:
> Thanks for the tips. Maybe you can help with this newbie question...
Interestingly, just after I posted this I found that Daniel Phillips has
posted some tests done with ReiserFS, comparing it's indexing to his
ext[23] directory indexing.
This showed tha
On Sun, 9 Dec 2001, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 09:02:36AM -0500, Tom Allison wrote:
>
>> does ext3 work with notebooks in that it will still allow for drive
>> parking and all that power saving goodness?
>
> It'll work just fine but it'll keep the disk spinning since it writes
>
On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Nagy Gabor wrote:
> On 01-Dec-10 10:40, Daniel Pittman wrote:
>> OTOH, there is a little cognitive dissonance in having a journaling
>> filesystem and keeping data in memory longer: one is to increase
>> reliability at the cost of performance
On 11 Dec 2001, Hubert Chan wrote:
> Sorry if this gets sent twice. My mail server is acting funny.
[...]
> Wow. You're right. I get that too. Toshiba Satellite, unstable,
> s3virge driver, Virge/MX chipset. The message that it writes is:
>
> (II) PM Event received: Power Status Change
>
>
On Fri, 21 Dec 2001, Hugo van der Merwe wrote:
> Odd thing I find on this laptop (a new one), is that the mouse cursor
> has this habit of getting a 30 pixel or so offset to the right every
> now and then. I.e. it paints 30 pixels further right than it actually
> is. Hmm, that's probably 32, eh.
P
On 15 Jan 2002, Simon Wong wrote:
> I have noticed on booting that I have a message saying that an IDE bus
> speed of 33MHz is being assumed.
That's 33MHz *PCI* bus speed. Even if it says IDE everywhere near it.
> As far as I know the i8000 has a 66MHz bus speed.
That's unlikely. It may support
On 15 Jan 2002, Simon Wong wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-01-15 at 10:42, Daniel Pittman wrote:
>> On 15 Jan 2002, Simon Wong wrote:
>> > I have noticed on booting that I have a message saying that an IDE
>> > bus speed of 33MHz is being assumed.
>>
>> That'
On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Brett Sealey wrote:
> There's been a bit of bitching about the lack of info from vendors but
> no-one has picked up on Mark's comment, and talked about ACPI.
>
> I've got an AMD notebook with PowerNow and ACPI support (in BIOS) and
> have exchanged email with someone who said
On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> [ N.B.: My problem is perhaps not specific to Debian. If it is the
> case, please, point me to the place I should look for help. ]
>
> I am having noise problems with my sound output in a ASUS S8600 laptop
> running Debian unstable (kernel 2.4.16). I
On Sat, 23 Mar 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 01:08:20AM -0500, Hubert Chan wrote:
>
>> do it the normal way, I'll forget something. Debian provides some
>> helpful scripts for compiling and installing kernels, automatically
>> applying patches (which you can specify, if
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