Re: Flashing screen in X with Chips 65540

2000-01-26 Thread Daniel Reuter
Hello there, > When running X in 15 bpp or more using the xfree86 server and the > specific model "chips 65540" on my Acernote 350 a lot of "trash" occurs > on the screen when moving the mouse pointer or when there is any > acticity on the screen. I encountered a similiar problem with a chips&tec

Re: Flashing screen in X with Chips 65540

2000-01-26 Thread Daniel Reuter
On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Christian Rishøj wrote: > I grabbed this from the Xfree86 website: > > "Textmode is not properly restored > This has been reported on some configurations. Many laptops use the > programmable clock of the 6554x chips at the console. It is not always > possible to find out the

Re: Only 8Mb/s with a 10/100 card

2000-09-15 Thread Daniel Reuter
Hello Carlos, On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Carlos Menezes wrote: > People, > I can not believe it. I'm not doubting about information sent by Jared, but > how is possible > this kind of misinformation by DLINK That's the way they make money! > If I buy 1 10/100 PCMCIA card, it's clear that I i

Re: Good window manager for laptop

2000-09-19 Thread Daniel Reuter
Hello there, I could also recommend the ones others have recommended: * blackbox: nice, lightweight * uwm (from ude): used it for some time, this one is really lightweight, smallest memory footprint of the windowmanagers I already used (blackbox, fvwm, windowmaker, sawfish, icewm, uwm), and still

SVGAlib/X Screen sync problems

2000-11-19 Thread Daniel Reuter
Hello Debianers, I have a problem with my ct65535 and the Sharp 640x480 LCD in my AT&T Globalyst 130 laptop. Description: I can't get the screen to sync. When I start X I get a scrumbled screen. It goes away, when I do a LCD/CRT/LCD switch. I already used the UseModeLine option and fiddled with th

svgalib screen sync once more...

2000-11-21 Thread Daniel Reuter
Hi folks, Some of you perhaps read the thread about my svgalib screen sync problems with the DSTN 640x480 screen of my laptop and ct65535 chipset. One of the problems I could solve: My console isn't scrumbled any more when I switch back from graphics to textmode, I achieved this by using TextCloc

Re: laptop installation

2000-12-15 Thread Daniel Reuter
Hello Jordan, On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Jordan Evatt wrote: > One final note... How would you guys recommend partitioning a 4gb hard > drive? :) I don't really want to use one big partition, which I've been > doing for a long time, so I decided to split it up this installation. I > tried an 800mb

[OT] reload files from disk

2001-03-01 Thread Daniel Reuter
Hello there, This is far off topic, but I'm at the moment not subscribed to debian-user, so I thought to put it here: How can one FORCE to have a program reloaded from disk and not from buffer cache, when it has already been run once? Regards, Daniel

Re: [OT] reload files from disk

2001-03-01 Thread Daniel Reuter
Hello, > > How can one FORCE to have a program reloaded from disk and not from > > buffer cache, when it has already been run once? > > Er, there really isn't a way to do that. However, you can flush it out [snip] > Are you sure that's the question you really meant to ask? What is the > actual pr

Re: hdd crashed?

2001-04-27 Thread Daniel Reuter
Hi Joachim, Had exactly the same problems on my AT&T Globalyst 130 (also Toshiba drive). I couldn't track down the problem exactly up to now, as I don't have a replacement drive and cable. However I would suspect some hardware related problem. Regards, Daniel On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Joachim Schiele

Framebuffer on Thinkpad 560

2001-06-11 Thread Daniel Reuter
Hello there, Has anybody got the VESA framebuffer to work on a Thinkpad 560? I compiled a new kernel, with VESA fb and all the other things stated in the framebuffer-HOWTO activated, put vga=ask in my lilo.conf, reran lilo and rebooted. I get to the menu, where I can choose the mode, there are on

svga console/X on IBM Thinkpad 560

2001-06-27 Thread Daniel Reuter
Hello there, Tried to get vesafb working on TP 560. However it did not work, tried every twist with kernel config, hex/decimal in lilo.conf and so on. Now I think I've found a possibility to at least get a nice 100x37 console: Due to kernel-source-2.2.19/Documentation/svga.txt, there's a #define

Re: Only 8Mb/s with a 10/100 card

2000-09-15 Thread Daniel Reuter
Hello Carlos, On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Carlos Menezes wrote: > People, > I can not believe it. I'm not doubting about information sent by Jared, but how is >possible > this kind of misinformation by DLINK That's the way they make money! > If I buy 1 10/100 PCMCIA card, it's clear that I i

Re: Good window manager for laptop

2000-09-19 Thread Daniel Reuter
Hello there, I could also recommend the ones others have recommended: * blackbox: nice, lightweight * uwm (from ude): used it for some time, this one is really lightweight, smallest memory footprint of the windowmanagers I already used (blackbox, fvwm, windowmaker, sawfish, icewm, uwm), and stil

svgalib screen sync once more...

2000-11-21 Thread Daniel Reuter
Hi folks, Some of you perhaps read the thread about my svgalib screen sync problems with the DSTN 640x480 screen of my laptop and ct65535 chipset. One of the problems I could solve: My console isn't scrumbled any more when I switch back from graphics to textmode, I achieved this by using TextClo

SVGAlib/X Screen sync problems

2000-11-19 Thread Daniel Reuter
Hello Debianers, I have a problem with my ct65535 and the Sharp 640x480 LCD in my AT&T Globalyst 130 laptop. Description: I can't get the screen to sync. When I start X I get a scrumbled screen. It goes away, when I do a LCD/CRT/LCD switch. I already used the UseModeLine option and fiddled with t

Re: laptop installation

2000-12-15 Thread Daniel Reuter
Hello Jordan, On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Jordan Evatt wrote: > One final note... How would you guys recommend partitioning a 4gb hard > drive? :) I don't really want to use one big partition, which I've been > doing for a long time, so I decided to split it up this installation. I > tried an 800mb

[OT] reload files from disk

2001-03-01 Thread Daniel Reuter
Hello there, This is far off topic, but I'm at the moment not subscribed to debian-user, so I thought to put it here: How can one FORCE to have a program reloaded from disk and not from buffer cache, when it has already been run once? Regards, Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

Re: [OT] reload files from disk

2001-03-01 Thread Daniel Reuter
Hello, > > How can one FORCE to have a program reloaded from disk and not from > > buffer cache, when it has already been run once? > > Er, there really isn't a way to do that. However, you can flush it out [snip] > Are you sure that's the question you really meant to ask? What is the > actual p

Re: hdd crashed?

2001-04-26 Thread Daniel Reuter
Hi Joachim, Had exactly the same problems on my AT&T Globalyst 130 (also Toshiba drive). I couldn't track down the problem exactly up to now, as I don't have a replacement drive and cable. However I would suspect some hardware related problem. Regards, Daniel On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Joachim Schiel

Framebuffer on Thinkpad 560

2001-06-11 Thread Daniel Reuter
Hello there, Has anybody got the VESA framebuffer to work on a Thinkpad 560? I compiled a new kernel, with VESA fb and all the other things stated in the framebuffer-HOWTO activated, put vga=ask in my lilo.conf, reran lilo and rebooted. I get to the menu, where I can choose the mode, there are o

svga console/X on IBM Thinkpad 560

2001-06-27 Thread Daniel Reuter
Hello there, Tried to get vesafb working on TP 560. However it did not work, tried every twist with kernel config, hex/decimal in lilo.conf and so on. Now I think I've found a possibility to at least get a nice 100x37 console: Due to kernel-source-2.2.19/Documentation/svga.txt, there's a #define

[OT] Howto force gs to use BoundingBox

2001-07-06 Thread Daniel Reuter
Hello there, This is totally off topic, but does someone of you know, how to force gs to render eps files only as large as the BoundingBox defines. I mean, if I run gs on a eps file to render, say a jpeg or a png file, I get a image sized as large as the default papersize (e.g. a4 or letter). Unf