image vs. source

2002-10-30 Thread Drew Cohan
-2.2.20 2.2.20-5 kernel-headers-2.2.20-idepci 2.2.20-5 kernel-image-2.2.20-idepci 2.2.20-5   Will someone please tell me what I need to download to change/add kernel features and recompile.   TIA   Drew Cohan [EMAIL PROTECTED]  

how do I compile a kernel image for 486, not pentium?

2002-11-01 Thread Drew Cohan
kernel-image package   8) reboot   My 486 complains that the image was compiled for Pentium+ and halts.  How do I tell it to compile for my 486 laptop?   Thanks,   Drew Cohan [EMAIL PROTECTED]  

displaying images without X

2002-11-01 Thread Drew Cohan
buffers supported’.  With ‘zgv’, I get a seg fault.  All I want to do is display a jpg/gif/png without having X installed.   Thanks,   Drew Cohan [EMAIL PROTECTED]  

trying to discover video chipset

2002-12-11 Thread Drew Cohan
of output), and choosing the VESA driver doesn’t seem to work when xdm starts up (it tries three times and goes back to console).   Thanks,   Drew Cohan [EMAIL PROTECTED]  

RE: trying to discover video chipset

2002-12-13 Thread drew cohan
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 11:45:31PM -0500, Drew Cohan wrote: > Can anyone offer any advice on how I can discover the video chipset of > an old dell latitude xp 475c (so I can choose the correct driver for X?) > I've tried using lspci (no pci on this machine, returns error), tried

RE: souris usb ne marche pas!

2003-04-10 Thread drew cohan
>Bonjour, >Je suis un fan adorateur de debian :-) >J'ai cependant qulques petits problèmes. Je me suis a debian il n'y a que >peu de temps! >Alors je vous expose mon problème : >J'ai une souris usb, je n'arrive pas à la faire marcher sous debian. Salut, Est-il possible d'utilizer une souris ps/2?

using an old laptop as a base station

2003-04-19 Thread drew cohan
Hi, Does anyone know where I can find information on how to build a wireless base station from an old laptop using debian? As of right now, I've been able to setup a 486 laptop with eth0 & eth1, eth0 being wired and eth1 being a wireless card under debian 3.0r1 with bf2.4 kernel (works well). Wh

RE: detecting cdrom on a toshiba tecra 510CDT

2003-04-24 Thread drew cohan
>-Original Message- >From: Joel Alexandre [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2003 8:10 PM >To: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org >Subject: detecting cdrom on a toshiba tecra 510CDT > >hi, >i'm trying to put debian in a toshiba tecra 510cdt (p133 64mb-ram). > >i'm installing w

RE: detecting cdrom on a toshiba tecra 510CDT

2003-04-24 Thread drew cohan
>-Original Message- >From: Joel Alexandre [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Friday, April 25, 2003 12:19 PM >To: drew cohan >Cc: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org >Subject: Re: detecting cdrom on a toshiba tecra 510CDT > >i tried but it didn't work. >tried secon

RFC on low resource machine and debian

2002-10-23 Thread Drew Cohan
Hi,   I'm asking for suggestions on the following situation:   I have an very old laptop, a Compaq Aero 33/c, with 12 MB of RAM and a ~230 MB hard drive. I like this machine because of its small form factor. All I want to do with this machine is to have it continuously display jpeg imag

RFC on low resource machine and debian

2002-10-23 Thread Drew Cohan
Hi,   I'm asking for suggestions on the following situation:   I have an very old laptop, a Compaq Aero 33/c, with 12 MB of RAM and a ~230 MB hard drive. I like this machine because of its small form factor. All I want to do with this machine is to have it continuously display jpeg imag

image vs. source

2002-10-30 Thread Drew Cohan
-2.2.20 2.2.20-5 kernel-headers-2.2.20-idepci 2.2.20-5 kernel-image-2.2.20-idepci 2.2.20-5   Will someone please tell me what I need to download to change/add kernel features and recompile.   TIA   Drew Cohan [EMAIL PROTECTED]  

how do I compile a kernel image for 486, not pentium?

2002-10-31 Thread Drew Cohan
kernel-image package   8) reboot   My 486 complains that the image was compiled for Pentium+ and halts.  How do I tell it to compile for my 486 laptop?   Thanks,   Drew Cohan [EMAIL PROTECTED]  

displaying images without X

2002-11-01 Thread Drew Cohan
buffers supported’.  With ‘zgv’, I get a seg fault.  All I want to do is display a jpg/gif/png without having X installed.   Thanks,   Drew Cohan [EMAIL PROTECTED]  

trying to discover video chipset

2002-12-11 Thread Drew Cohan
of output), and choosing the VESA driver doesn’t seem to work when xdm starts up (it tries three times and goes back to console).   Thanks,   Drew Cohan [EMAIL PROTECTED]  

RE: trying to discover video chipset

2002-12-13 Thread drew cohan
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 11:45:31PM -0500, Drew Cohan wrote: > Can anyone offer any advice on how I can discover the video chipset of > an old dell latitude xp 475c (so I can choose the correct driver for X?) > I've tried using lspci (no pci on this machine, returns error), tried