On Mon, 25 Mar 2002, Derek Broughton wrote:
> Daniel Pittman wrote:
>> On Sat, 23 Mar 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>>On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 01:08:20AM -0500, Hubert Chan wrote:
[...]
>> It means exactly that -- the kernel-image package can automatically
On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, Alan Shutko wrote:
> Derek Broughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> Almost. Level 1 is easy and fully supported. If you're running the
>> latest ACPI patches with swsusp you can do suspend-to-disk, but over
>> on ACPI-devel they're still arguing about how much of the swsusp
On Sat, 30 Mar 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 09:47:48AM +1100, Daniel Pittman wrote:
>> On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, Alan Shutko wrote:
>> > Derek Broughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Perhaps a bit irellevant, but if you really want sus
On Sat, 30 Mar 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 06:24:31PM +1100, Daniel Pittman wrote:
>> On Sat, 30 Mar 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> > On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 09:47:48AM +1100, Daniel Pittman wrote:
>> >> On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, Al
On Sat, 30 Mar 2002, Derek Broughton wrote:
> Goran Ristic wrote:
> > On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Derek Broughton wrote:
[...]
> > I could need this for the i81k, too. ;) I'd like to know, what in
> > causal EJT is? - I can identifier LID, PWR DCK and BAY.
>
> Thinking about this, it occurs that the
On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, James Hirschorn wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 05:41:10PM -0400, Derek Broughton wrote:
>> Nobody, but nobody, needs 1GB for a swap :-) (somebody will now tell
>> me how they DO :-) )
>>
>
> What? I found that one 2GB swap partition was not enough. After
> letting a KDE ses
On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Pappu wrote:
> On Thursday, 11 April 2002 11:20:49 +1000, Daniel Pittman wrote:
> > I have trouble, in fact, imagining the set of desktop programs that
> > would manage to eat 2GB of space, even if they leaked awfully
>
> This need not be the case.
On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, James Hirschorn wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 10:56:47AM +0100, Chris Howells wrote:
>> On Thursday 11 April 2002 7:42 am, Brian Nelson wrote:
>> > You aren't running xplanet or something similar, are you?
>> >
>> > http://bugs.debian.org/140111
[...]
> Now I'm a bit conce
On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Chris Howells wrote:
> On Friday 12 April 2002 4:53 am, Daniel Pittman wrote:
>> On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, James Hirschorn wrote:
>> Something is leaking some sort of resource in the X server; it's
>> probably an image or something like that. I would
I am looking at replacing my current, somewhat aging, Gateway Solo 9300
with a new laptop. One of the major motivations is that Gateway don't
exist in .au any more, but that's another story.
Of all the hardware out there today the IBM A31p looks like the nicest
thing that I can find -- space for p
On Thu, 2 May 2002, Patricia Barrett wrote:
> I got your information from a website on Samsung products. I have in
> my possession the above-captioned laptop however the screen it broken
> and all connecting cords are missing. Can anything be done to restore
> it. The receipts can't be found by the
On Fri, 3 May 2002, Alessandro Speranza wrote:
> Hi folks. Yesterday I was hanging around the debian web site and I saw
> there's a new package on called acpi-something and I was wondering if
> anyone knows what it is about.
Do you mean the package 'acpi'?
> Is it related to the sourceforge.net
oth you and the list. Sorry.
> On Fri, 3 May 2002, Daniel Pittman wrote:
>>
>> Do you mean the package 'acpi'?
> That's right.
[...]
>> It would let you query the ACPI information on the command line, just
>> like the apm command does. Not much more t
On Fri, 3 May 2002, Alessandro Speranza wrote:
> On Sat, 4 May 2002, Daniel Pittman wrote:
>>
>> Sure. What it lets you do, today, is display the information on
>> remaining battery life, system temperature and AC power connection in
>> a convenient, standard way w
On Thu, 9 May 2002, Michael Hothorn wrote:
> I'm running woody with kernel 2.4.18 on an IBM i1200 Thinkpad. I am
> using ext2 filesystem for all partitions (but swap:-). It happend more
> than once, that I left the machine on battery and left the office for
> more than 3h
Ouch. :) I do kerne
On Fri, 10 May 2002, Kevin C. Smith wrote:
> On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 03:14:13PM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote:
>> On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 10:34:16PM -0500, Kevin C. Smith wrote:
>> > Still working on the new Dell Inspiron 8200. I have the cdrw
>> > 16x10x24, but have not been able to get it to write an
On Mon, 20 May 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 09:57:08AM -0700, Alex Bernson wrote:
>>
>> I have a Toshiba satellite 2800-s201 laptop with sid on it.
>> Everything works fine except for acceleration on X. I'm using
>> XFree86 4.1 with the savage driver, an
On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> anyone have luck setting this up. I get it to run at boot, but it will
> never change my network settings. I've tried it on 2 different
> machines and gotten the same results.
>
> any clues,
I don't know much about netenv as, having looked at it a w
On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am about to install Woody on a ThinkPad A30. I would appreciate all
> comments from experienced ThinkPad A30 users about problems they may
> have found during installation or any important matters they learnt
> from it.
I have an A31p, not an A30,
On 29 Jul 2002, Andrew McMillan wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-07-29 at 09:01, Ivan Uemlianin wrote:
>>
>> 1. I have the XFree86 4.2 source; I imagine it would be better to
>> install this as a .deb than from source directly. Is this correct? If
>> so, how go I go about it (or where would I find such info
On Sun, 28 Jul 2002, Ivan Uemlianin wrote:
> I'm installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 on an IBM Thinkpad A31p, all is
> going smoothly apart from a couple of areas. One is sound. Audio and
> dsp facilities are going to be important to me as I'll be working with
> speech recognition software. Looking at
On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Ivan Uemlianin wrote:
> Downloading the XFree86 4.2 from the Net is not feasible for me, as I
> have only a 56k modem. I had a go building the source code (which I
> have from a magazine coverCD): this went well until I tried 'startx'
> and was told, "/usr/X11/startx: no such fi
On Sat, 3 Aug 2002, Erich Schubert wrote:
>> read-edid doesn't always work on LCD screens, unfortunately, since
>> the mfr doesn't handle it on the LCD. My thinkpad doesn't, for
>> instance.
>
> You're right, it doesn't work on my notebook either.
> It worked fine on my old pc, though.
>
> It's a
On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote:
> I have been reading a lot of info about NFTS used on this laptop by
> Windoz-XP. The original thought was to simply re-size the HD to make
> room for Linux. Now, after reading all these warnings, I am wondering
> if re-sizing is even possible or san
On Sun, 8 Sep 2002, Matej Cepl wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 06:33:56PM -0700, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote:
>> All is okay, except for that one *critical* change of /etc/fstab!
>> In order:
>> umount (if you want, not required)
>> /sbin/tune2fs -j /dev/hdaWhatever#YourPartitionIs
>> remount (if yo
On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Designer wrote:
> kyi wrote:
>>
>>
>> I would suggest...
>>
>> XFree86 -configure
>>
>> it will produce a XF86Config.new file. edit it, for the mouse
>> sections since it usally get those wrong. then run 'XFree86
>> -xf86config XF86Config.new' to test it, if X comes up copy
On Sun, 22 Sep 2002, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote:
> I can mount my NTFS win-xp partition and read the contents okay, but I
> can not write to it (either as user nor superuser). I have tried
> several mount options but each time touch a file, it reports "
> Read-only file system." It is odd because I
On Mon, 23 Sep 2002, Yves Rutschle wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 08:24:54PM -0700, Petro wrote:
>
> [Swap]
>> Actually, as cheap as disk is these days, I'd leave it alone for
>> the following reasons:
>>
>> (1) It's cheap insurance against a runaway process.
>
> How so? If your p
On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>> So what is happening in Windows is happening in X as well? That is
>> one thing I was wondering about. I hope to attempt to try dual
>> displays in Linux one day soon. I just haven't had the chance. But
>> what about the little random lock ups in
On Sun, 29 Sep 2002, Chris Evans wrote:
> I've had a look for a linux-PDA list but there doesn't seem to be one
> yet somewhat to my surprise nor does the sharp.co.uk site point me to
> anything so I'm assuming this is a sensible first place to ask if
> anyone...
> a) can point me to a good plac
On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Axel wrote:
> I was wondering if it's possible for me to install Debian linux on a
> firewire hard disk (external)?
Sure is, at least on x86, so I can't imagine that it's that different on
the PPC...
> I've got PowerBook G3 400 (pismo) and an ultra slim firewire disk. I
> was
On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, Axel wrote:
> Thanx for the information, I'm almost sure that OS X and OS 9 boots
> from this disk. I'll just try to install debian and see what happens.
> :-)
Good luck. Drop a note here and let us know how it goes, so that we can
be sure the next time.
Oh, and make sure you
On Wed, 02 Oct 2002, Ivan Uemlianin wrote:
> I'm running Debian Woody on an IBM Thinkpad A31p. Everything is
> working fine, except sound.
I have exactly this same hardware.
> I *think* the problem is incorrect parameters to the relevant kernel
> modules
Nope. With either 2.4.recent OSS or 2.5.*
On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, steve thompson wrote:
> Can anyone tell me how I can change the resolution?
> I have several resolution entries in XF86Config-4,
> but how do I toggle from one to another?
Control-Alt-Keypad Plus works, or install the gvidm package.
Daniel
--
Any governmen
On Thu, 03 Oct 2002, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
> currently I cannot use my laptop LCD monitor,
> so I envisage to use my TV as external monitor (at home).
Good luck; this can be very difficult -- and isn't that usable most of
the time. :)
> The question is:
> what must we install to use a TV as ad hoc
On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, David Reviejo wrote:
> * Daniel Pittman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [021003 11:49]:
>> On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, steve thompson wrote:
>> > Can anyone tell me how I can change the resolution?
>> > I have several resolution entries in XF86Config-4,
>> &g
On Sat, 05 Oct 2002, Raphael Yossif On wrote:
> Did you get sucsess with this approach
I have had success using CompactFlash devices, which act like an IDE
device, through the Linux PCMCIA system.
The only caveat was that the PCMCIA IDE support *must* be built as a
module -- it never detected the
On Sun, 20 Oct 2002, Luis Mendes wrote:
> I am about to purchase a combo dvd/cdrw drive and I would
> like to ask for some advice to make sure I get a linux compatible one.
>
> First of all here is what I have
>
> Toshiba 1800-314 with celeron 1.1
> graphics chip Trident CyberBlade XP
>
> I have
On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Luis Mendes wrote:
> Thanks for your reply
That's OK. I actually have a little more specific knowledge on one point
now, too. :)
>> > 2) which interface should I go for? they offer pcmcia 16 bit or 32
>> > bit paralell, usb and firewire.
>>
>> USB 1.1 devices (most laptops)
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).
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, i
On Mon, 25 Mar 2002, Derek Broughton wrote:
> Daniel Pittman wrote:
>> On Sat, 23 Mar 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>>On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 01:08:20AM -0500, Hubert Chan wrote:
[...]
>> It means exactly that -- the kernel-image package can automatically
On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, Alan Shutko wrote:
> Derek Broughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> Almost. Level 1 is easy and fully supported. If you're running the
>> latest ACPI patches with swsusp you can do suspend-to-disk, but over
>> on ACPI-devel they're still arguing about how much of the swsusp
On Sat, 30 Mar 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 09:47:48AM +1100, Daniel Pittman wrote:
>> On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, Alan Shutko wrote:
>> > Derek Broughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Perhaps a bit irellevant, but if you really want sus
On Sat, 30 Mar 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 06:24:31PM +1100, Daniel Pittman wrote:
>> On Sat, 30 Mar 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> > On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 09:47:48AM +1100, Daniel Pittman wrote:
>> >> On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, Al
On Sat, 30 Mar 2002, Derek Broughton wrote:
> Goran Ristic wrote:
> > On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Derek Broughton wrote:
[...]
> > I could need this for the i81k, too. ;) I'd like to know, what in
> > causal EJT is? - I can identifier LID, PWR DCK and BAY.
>
> Thinking about this, it occurs that th
On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, James Hirschorn wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 05:41:10PM -0400, Derek Broughton wrote:
>> Nobody, but nobody, needs 1GB for a swap :-) (somebody will now tell
>> me how they DO :-) )
>>
>
> What? I found that one 2GB swap partition was not enough. After
> letting a KDE se
On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Pappu wrote:
> On Thursday, 11 April 2002 11:20:49 +1000, Daniel Pittman wrote:
> > I have trouble, in fact, imagining the set of desktop programs that
> > would manage to eat 2GB of space, even if they leaked awfully
>
> This need not be the case.
On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, James Hirschorn wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 10:56:47AM +0100, Chris Howells wrote:
>> On Thursday 11 April 2002 7:42 am, Brian Nelson wrote:
>> > You aren't running xplanet or something similar, are you?
>> >
>> > http://bugs.debian.org/140111
[...]
> Now I'm a bit conc
On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Chris Howells wrote:
> On Friday 12 April 2002 4:53 am, Daniel Pittman wrote:
>> On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, James Hirschorn wrote:
>> Something is leaking some sort of resource in the X server; it's
>> probably an image or something like that. I would
On Thu, 2 May 2002, Patricia Barrett wrote:
> I got your information from a website on Samsung products. I have in
> my possession the above-captioned laptop however the screen it broken
> and all connecting cords are missing. Can anything be done to restore
> it. The receipts can't be found by th
On Fri, 3 May 2002, Alessandro Speranza wrote:
> Hi folks. Yesterday I was hanging around the debian web site and I saw
> there's a new package on called acpi-something and I was wondering if
> anyone knows what it is about.
Do you mean the package 'acpi'?
> Is it related to the sourceforge.net
oth you and the list. Sorry.
> On Fri, 3 May 2002, Daniel Pittman wrote:
>>
>> Do you mean the package 'acpi'?
> That's right.
[...]
>> It would let you query the ACPI information on the command line, just
>> like the apm command does. Not much more t
On Fri, 3 May 2002, Alessandro Speranza wrote:
> On Sat, 4 May 2002, Daniel Pittman wrote:
>>
>> Sure. What it lets you do, today, is display the information on
>> remaining battery life, system temperature and AC power connection in
>> a convenient, standard way w
On Thu, 9 May 2002, Michael Hothorn wrote:
> I'm running woody with kernel 2.4.18 on an IBM i1200 Thinkpad. I am
> using ext2 filesystem for all partitions (but swap:-). It happend more
> than once, that I left the machine on battery and left the office for
> more than 3h
Ouch. :) I do kern
On Fri, 10 May 2002, Kevin C. Smith wrote:
> On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 03:14:13PM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote:
>> On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 10:34:16PM -0500, Kevin C. Smith wrote:
>> > Still working on the new Dell Inspiron 8200. I have the cdrw
>> > 16x10x24, but have not been able to get it to write a
On Mon, 20 May 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 09:57:08AM -0700, Alex Bernson wrote:
>>
>> I have a Toshiba satellite 2800-s201 laptop with sid on it.
>> Everything works fine except for acceleration on X. I'm using
>> XFree86 4.1 with the savage driver, a
On Sun, 22 Sep 2002, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote:
> I can mount my NTFS win-xp partition and read the contents okay, but I
> can not write to it (either as user nor superuser). I have tried
> several mount options but each time touch a file, it reports "
> Read-only file system." It is odd because I
On Mon, 23 Sep 2002, Yves Rutschle wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 08:24:54PM -0700, Petro wrote:
>
> [Swap]
>> Actually, as cheap as disk is these days, I'd leave it alone for
>> the following reasons:
>>
>> (1) It's cheap insurance against a runaway process.
>
> How so? If your
On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>> So what is happening in Windows is happening in X as well? That is
>> one thing I was wondering about. I hope to attempt to try dual
>> displays in Linux one day soon. I just haven't had the chance. But
>> what about the little random lock ups i
On Sun, 29 Sep 2002, Chris Evans wrote:
> I've had a look for a linux-PDA list but there doesn't seem to be one
> yet somewhat to my surprise nor does the sharp.co.uk site point me to
> anything so I'm assuming this is a sensible first place to ask if
> anyone...
> a) can point me to a good pla
On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Axel wrote:
> I was wondering if it's possible for me to install Debian linux on a
> firewire hard disk (external)?
Sure is, at least on x86, so I can't imagine that it's that different on
the PPC...
> I've got PowerBook G3 400 (pismo) and an ultra slim firewire disk. I
> wa
On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, Axel wrote:
> Thanx for the information, I'm almost sure that OS X and OS 9 boots
> from this disk. I'll just try to install debian and see what happens.
> :-)
Good luck. Drop a note here and let us know how it goes, so that we can
be sure the next time.
Oh, and make sure yo
On Wed, 02 Oct 2002, Ivan Uemlianin wrote:
> I'm running Debian Woody on an IBM Thinkpad A31p. Everything is
> working fine, except sound.
I have exactly this same hardware.
> I *think* the problem is incorrect parameters to the relevant kernel
> modules
Nope. With either 2.4.recent OSS or 2.5.
On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, steve thompson wrote:
> Can anyone tell me how I can change the resolution?
> I have several resolution entries in XF86Config-4,
> but how do I toggle from one to another?
Control-Alt-Keypad Plus works, or install the gvidm package.
Daniel
--
Any governme
On Thu, 03 Oct 2002, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
> currently I cannot use my laptop LCD monitor,
> so I envisage to use my TV as external monitor (at home).
Good luck; this can be very difficult -- and isn't that usable most of
the time. :)
> The question is:
> what must we install to use a TV as ad ho
On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, David Reviejo wrote:
> * Daniel Pittman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [021003 11:49]:
>> On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, steve thompson wrote:
>> > Can anyone tell me how I can change the resolution?
>> > I have several resolution entries in XF86Config-4,
>
On Sat, 05 Oct 2002, Raphael Yossif On wrote:
> Did you get sucsess with this approach
I have had success using CompactFlash devices, which act like an IDE
device, through the Linux PCMCIA system.
The only caveat was that the PCMCIA IDE support *must* be built as a
module -- it never detected th
On Sun, 20 Oct 2002, Luis Mendes wrote:
> I am about to purchase a combo dvd/cdrw drive and I would
> like to ask for some advice to make sure I get a linux compatible one.
>
> First of all here is what I have
>
> Toshiba 1800-314 with celeron 1.1
> graphics chip Trident CyberBlade XP
>
> I have
On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Luis Mendes wrote:
> Thanks for your reply
That's OK. I actually have a little more specific knowledge on one point
now, too. :)
>> > 2) which interface should I go for? they offer pcmcia 16 bit or 32
>> > bit paralell, usb and firewire.
>>
>> USB 1.1 devices (most laptops)
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 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 Mon, 27 Oct 2003, als wrote:
> I needed to know whether I will be able to get Linux to run with my
> AMD Athlon processor for my laptop. If so, which architecture-port
> should I download, from the debian site.
i386
Daniel
--
20+ years as a vegetarian and the guy who steals my credit
On Thu, 25 Dec 2003, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
> Is there a simple (Debian) way to install a firewall on a laptop ?
The same sort as for any other Debian machine, yes. :)
I use and recommend the 'firehol' script, which is available in testing,
and is the only firewall "helper" package I have yet found
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