Re: sound on a Thinkpad T40

2003-09-15 Thread David Z Maze
Martin Wegmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I tried to get my sound running on a T40. First time I tried to > listen to a web-radio via xmms the music was 10 times faster than > usual - pretty funny but not what I wanted, anyway xmms died after a > few secondes. What have you tried? It works fi

Re: 802.11a/b/g cards with RF Monitoring

2003-09-17 Thread David Z Maze
"Overkill of TASF" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does anyone have experience with tri-mode (Dual mode, I guess) 802.11 > wireless cards on Linux that can do RF Monitoring? Price/performance > would be nice... > > Right now I have a Netgear WAG511. It does A/B/G, but the Linux > drivers are in beta

Re: How do I stop XDM/GDM starting ?

2003-09-22 Thread David Z Maze
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Anyway, how do I stop X starting automatically when Debian starts ? > > GDm or XDM starts automagically when I start the laptop so it starts X. Same as stopping any other service from starting when Debian boots: uninstall the package, or remove the appropriate 'S' li

Re: No X on new install

2003-10-23 Thread David Z Maze
Douglas Frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Now that the machine's booted, I can find the various X11 directories, > and they're mostly populated, but one thing I have not found is the X > server itself. Where's the executable? What's its name? I wonder if > I missed a package...? Normally, yo

Re: Battery life w/o X

2003-11-15 Thread David Z Maze
Ralph Bacolod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi! Does a laptop battery last longer without X or is it insignificant? I'd guess that it's mostly insignificant. There's some cost to actually running the X server, but I don't think it's any easier on things like the graphics chip. I know there's al

Re: Different Network Environments

2003-11-17 Thread David Z Maze
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi > > What package do you recommend for managing different network > environments? I don't like waiting for ages trying to get a DHCP address > when I'm at home. I also have three NICs, two of which are WLAN cards. > Is there some application that can eaasily map a p

ACPI, IBM Thinkpad T40, and the dock

2003-12-09 Thread David Z Maze
My laptop is running Linux 2.4.23, built from pristine official sources. I've enabled ACPI and disabled APM in the kernel configuration (built into the kernel); if I boot the laptop normally, it behaves as expected, and I can poke around at things in /proc/acpi and check on things like the current

Re: wifi configuration

2003-12-17 Thread David Z Maze
Michael Bützer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm an end-user (not particularly techie) of a Debian (Woody) Inspirion > laptop, Kernel 2.4.18. I recently bought a Proxim wireless card a/b/g, > but can't get it to run. With iwconfig I get the following message: > > lono wireless extensions

Re: upgrade the kernel?

2003-12-22 Thread David Z Maze
"s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Incoming from Tim Harrison: >> 2.2.20-idepci (is that an appropriate kernel for a laptop?). Hacked my way > > Depends on what you're doing. 2.4.23 is currently most reccomended, > but (depending on what you're doing, and especially on a laptop) 2.2.x >

Re: upgrade the kernel?

2003-12-23 Thread David Z Maze
"Tim Harrison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> If I was going to pick a kernel for a stable machine, I'd probably pick >> a 2.4 kernel (2.4.23 if you're compiling your own > > Well, I've started going down that path. My first problem was installing my > own kernels. After running dpkg -i newkerne

Re: Network config gui

2004-01-08 Thread David Z Maze
"linux.eqed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello all.. I am a debian newbie.. So far I really enjoy it.. However, > on my old redhat/ximian installation I was able to switch networks very > easily using the network configuration gui to deactivate one network > card setting and activate the same c

Re: IBM Thinkpad T40 XWin problems

2004-01-26 Thread David Z Maze
Josh Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am installing Debian on an IBM Thinkpad T40 with a ATI Radeon 7500 > AGP(LW). I successfully installed, except for the fact that when I > try to boot up to XWin, it tells me that I have no devices installed > and no screens found. Any info/solutions? I

Very basic multiple-interface configuration

2004-01-27 Thread David Z Maze
My laptop has both on-board wired Ethernet and 802.11a/b wireless. Both of these work fine; I'm using them with ifplugd and it behaves mostly as I expect. But the thing is, I recently took the CVS version of the madwifi Atheros 802.11 driver, and so now ifplugd actually tries to start the wireless

Re: acroread/battery

2004-02-13 Thread David Z Maze
Alessandro Speranza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've been googling in search of acroread 5 for debian testing. xpdf is an excellent DFSG-free PDF reader. The version in unstable (it'll probably trickle to testing soon enough) has support for PDF bookmarks, which is the major thing earlier vers

Re: lm-sensors

2004-02-20 Thread David Z Maze
Andrey Novoselov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there anybody, who has lm-sensors working on Compaq Evo N1020v? I've > read that it's dangerous at ThinkPads. But could soomebody tell me how > it works with Compaqs. Thanks. My understanding is that the problem with IBM Thinkpads really is specif

Re: No X on new install

2003-10-23 Thread David Z Maze
Douglas Frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Now that the machine's booted, I can find the various X11 directories, > and they're mostly populated, but one thing I have not found is the X > server itself. Where's the executable? What's its name? I wonder if > I missed a package...? Normally, yo

Re: Battery life w/o X

2003-11-15 Thread David Z Maze
Ralph Bacolod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi! Does a laptop battery last longer without X or is it insignificant? I'd guess that it's mostly insignificant. There's some cost to actually running the X server, but I don't think it's any easier on things like the graphics chip. I know there's al

Re: Different Network Environments

2003-11-17 Thread David Z Maze
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi > > What package do you recommend for managing different network > environments? I don't like waiting for ages trying to get a DHCP address > when I'm at home. I also have three NICs, two of which are WLAN cards. > Is there some application that can eaasily map a p

ACPI, IBM Thinkpad T40, and the dock

2003-12-09 Thread David Z Maze
My laptop is running Linux 2.4.23, built from pristine official sources. I've enabled ACPI and disabled APM in the kernel configuration (built into the kernel); if I boot the laptop normally, it behaves as expected, and I can poke around at things in /proc/acpi and check on things like the current

Re: wifi configuration

2003-12-17 Thread David Z Maze
Michael Bützer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm an end-user (not particularly techie) of a Debian (Woody) Inspirion > laptop, Kernel 2.4.18. I recently bought a Proxim wireless card a/b/g, > but can't get it to run. With iwconfig I get the following message: > > lono wireless extensions

Re: upgrade the kernel?

2003-12-22 Thread David Z Maze
"s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Incoming from Tim Harrison: >> 2.2.20-idepci (is that an appropriate kernel for a laptop?). Hacked my way > > Depends on what you're doing. 2.4.23 is currently most reccomended, > but (depending on what you're doing, and especially on a laptop) 2.2.x >

Re: upgrade the kernel?

2003-12-23 Thread David Z Maze
"Tim Harrison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> If I was going to pick a kernel for a stable machine, I'd probably pick >> a 2.4 kernel (2.4.23 if you're compiling your own > > Well, I've started going down that path. My first problem was installing my > own kernels. After running dpkg -i newkerne

Re: Network config gui

2004-01-08 Thread David Z Maze
"linux.eqed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello all.. I am a debian newbie.. So far I really enjoy it.. However, > on my old redhat/ximian installation I was able to switch networks very > easily using the network configuration gui to deactivate one network > card setting and activate the same c

Re: IBM Thinkpad T40 XWin problems

2004-01-26 Thread David Z Maze
Josh Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am installing Debian on an IBM Thinkpad T40 with a ATI Radeon 7500 > AGP(LW). I successfully installed, except for the fact that when I > try to boot up to XWin, it tells me that I have no devices installed > and no screens found. Any info/solutions? I

Very basic multiple-interface configuration

2004-01-27 Thread David Z Maze
My laptop has both on-board wired Ethernet and 802.11a/b wireless. Both of these work fine; I'm using them with ifplugd and it behaves mostly as I expect. But the thing is, I recently took the CVS version of the madwifi Atheros 802.11 driver, and so now ifplugd actually tries to start the wireless

Re: acroread/battery

2004-02-13 Thread David Z Maze
Alessandro Speranza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've been googling in search of acroread 5 for debian testing. xpdf is an excellent DFSG-free PDF reader. The version in unstable (it'll probably trickle to testing soon enough) has support for PDF bookmarks, which is the major thing earlier vers

Re: lm-sensors

2004-02-20 Thread David Z Maze
Andrey Novoselov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there anybody, who has lm-sensors working on Compaq Evo N1020v? I've > read that it's dangerous at ThinkPads. But could soomebody tell me how > it works with Compaqs. Thanks. My understanding is that the problem with IBM Thinkpads really is specif

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