Re: How do I stop XDM/GDM starting ?

2003-09-22 Thread François TOURDE
Le 12317ième jour après Epoch, [EMAIL PROTECTED] écrivait: > Hi all, > > Finally got Debian woody running on my DELL Inspirion 8500, sort of :-) > I installed kernel 2.4.8 and it now boots without an Aieee error. > X works using the NVidia driver but I can't get a BIG resolution running, > such as

Re: Second hand laptop

2003-10-17 Thread François TOURDE
Le 12342ième jour après Epoch, ralph bacolod écrivait: > Hi! Im planning to buy a second hand laptop .How do I > know if the monitor is a TFT monitor? What other > things should I look out for? Check the serial at http://tuxmobil.org/stolen_laptops.html :) -- This screen intentionally left blan

Re: no X on new install

2003-10-22 Thread François TOURDE
Le 12347ième jour après Epoch, Douglas Frank écrivait: > Is this the right list I should use to get help getting X running on > my laptop? Yes, it is... What's your model, lspci infos, etc. and we will try to answer. Look at tuxmobil.org to find install solutions. -- Life is divided into the h

Re: Dualhead on laptop

2003-10-24 Thread François TOURDE
Hi, Le 12349ième jour après Epoch, [EMAIL PROTECTED] écrivait: > Anyone get an exernal monitor working as a second screen (not twinview) with > geforce2go (or what ever card you have)? I tried as in the nVidia doc, but > without success. I tried it too, without great success. I've a Dell Lati

Re: changing root shell

2003-10-28 Thread François TOURDE
Le 12353ième jour après Epoch, Anish Muttreja écrivait: > Hi everybody > I did something very silly on mu laptop. I manged to set the root > shell to an incorrect value. > Now I can't login as root. I know idiots like me should never be root > and the world is probably a better place this way , b

Re: Inittab runlevel problem

2003-11-10 Thread François TOURDE
Le 12366ième jour après Epoch, [EMAIL PROTECTED] écrivait: > Hi, > > I have two problems. First, when X starts, I am taken to the GDM login > screen, but my keyboard or mouse arent recognized.I will come to this > later. > > But initially, when I boot up, Im not able to go the virtual terminal > l

Re: Debian Users...

2003-11-18 Thread François TOURDE
WM ... I probably use 1% of the WM power, which use less than 1% of my cpu power. Le 12374ième jour après Epoch, Yves Rutschle écrivait: > On a large screen, I > will typically want to have gkrellm or similar monitors, an I do, it's great ! > editor and a shell (to compile and run), I use my

Re: CPU fan, CPU speed control

2003-11-26 Thread François TOURDE
Le 12377ième jour après Epoch, Dan Davison écrivait: > Hi, I've just got a laptop with a Pentium 4 3.0 GHz CPU. The fan is very > noisy and seems to stay on all the time. It depends of your BIOS Laptop. My Dell Latitude was noising too until I install a new BIOS. If you are on Dell laptop, try +W

Re: gprs, irda, t68i

2003-11-27 Thread François TOURDE
Le 12382ième jour après Epoch, Debian User écrivait: > I can ping my t68i from my debian laptop over the irda > port > > I want to be able to try and get the laptop online via > the phone, but I'm a bit stuck. And googling isn't > helping me much. > > Any pointers? Either using the modem built i

Re: RFC: Create d-user-woody, d-user-sarge maillists, deactivate d-user

2003-12-01 Thread François TOURDE
Le 12387ième jour après Epoch, [EMAIL PROTECTED] écrivait: > Since many questions in the debian-laptop list are user oriented > questions, > I thought it would be helpful to the Debian community to ensure the > readers here are aware of the following message I just sent to the > debian-user list.

Integrated modem (AMR/HSF) on Dell Latitude C840

2003-12-10 Thread François TOURDE
Hi all, I have a problem trying to run my laptop modem. On 2.4.18 kernel or 2.4.20-1, this modem works quasi fine with pctel-0.9.6 driver, but now on 2.4.20 the modules loads fine (pctel & ptserial), but using the ttyS15 port makes a kernel Oops. Did someone experience this kind of problems? Can

Re: caps-lock => numbers aren't printed !!

2004-01-09 Thread François TOURDE
Le 12426ième jour après Epoch, Alain D'EURVEILHER écrivait: > Nicolas ROMAN wrote: > >> le Fri, 09 Jan 2004 05:59:42 +0100 Alain D'EURVEILHER >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> écrivait : >>>Hi, >>> >>>I don't know if this is specific to the Satellite Pro 4300 >>>series, and if it can be solved : >>> >>>When

Re: Strange Zip Attatchment

2004-01-27 Thread François TOURDE
Le 12444ième jour après Epoch, Niko Efthymiou écrivait: > I have noticed 3 stange zip atachments on this mailing list, all > recieved yesterday. I would suspect that it is some kind of virus > (havent scanned it). > > Since there have been quite a few virus epidemies recently (and maling > lists a

Re: Strange Zip Attatchment

2004-01-28 Thread François TOURDE
Sorry for that, but: PLEASE CC: ME ONLY IF I REQUEST. I'M ON THE LIST ! Le 12445ième jour après Epoch, Russell Coker écrivait: > On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 01:26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Fran=E7ois TOURDE) wr= > ote: >> > Since there have been quite a few virus epidemies recently (and maling >> > lists are

Re: Strange Zip Attatchment

2004-01-29 Thread François TOURDE
Le 12446ième jour après Epoch, Michelle Konzack écrivait: > Am 2004-01-27 15:26:49, schrieb François TOURDE: >>Le 12444ième jour après Epoch, >>Niko Efthymiou écrivait: >> >>> I have noticed 3 stange zip atachments on this mailing list, all >>> recieved yes

Re: Upgrade Dell D600 BIOS from A05 to A09?

2004-02-05 Thread François TOURDE
Le 12453ième jour après Epoch, Pål Dahle écrivait: > Hi, > > I have a Dell D600 laptop with BIOS version A05. I have just downloaded > the A09 and wonder whether or not I should do the upgrade. > > I have never upgraded a BIOS before. May I screw something up? Yes, you can, but BIOS upgrade on DE

Re: Nvidia driver bug?

2004-02-10 Thread François TOURDE
Le 12458ième jour après Epoch, Sridhar Srinivasan écrivait: > Hi, Hi Sridhar. > I'm running unstable on a Dell Inspiron 4100 with the nvidia > GeForce2Go graphics card. I recently upgraded my nvidia driver from > version 5328 to 5336 and since then I've faced this weird problem. > > If I suspen

Re: which process is accessing my hard drive?

2004-03-01 Thread François TOURDE
Le 12478ième jour après Epoch, Matt Price écrivait: > On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 10:49:26AM -0700, Brett Johnson wrote: >> Another thought: Are you running a journaling file system (i.e. ext3, >> reiserfs, etc...)? If so, then kjournald will be running and will >> periodically write to the disk to

Re: how to get the volume keys working on a Dell Latitude

2004-03-28 Thread François TOURDE
Le 12505ième jour après Epoch, Jaap Haitsma écrivait: > Hi, > > I'm trying to attach the Fn-VolumeUp and Fn-VolumeDown of my Dell > laptop to the volume up and volume down action in acme. The problem is > that my Debian set up does not get an event when Fn combined with > another key is pressed. I

Re: how to get the volume keys working on a Dell Latitude

2004-03-28 Thread François TOURDE
Le 12506ième jour après Epoch, Derek Broughton écrivait: > François TOURDE wrote: > >> Jaap Haitsma écrivait: >>> >>>I'm trying to attach the Fn-VolumeUp and Fn-VolumeDown of my Dell >>>laptop to the volume up and volume down action in acme. The problem

Re: Video out of Dell laptop

2004-04-07 Thread François TOURDE
Le 12515ième jour après Epoch, Jaap Haitsma écrivait: > Hi, > > Is there anybody out there who has the video out of their Dell Laptop > working under Linux (my laptop is a Latitude C600)? What do you mean by video? I'm using my Dell C840 as a DVD player when my wife "repasse" (I don't know the en

Re: Occasional short flicker from time to time on my Toshiba S 5200-902?!

2004-04-07 Thread François TOURDE
Le 12515ième jour après Epoch, [EMAIL PROTECTED] écrivait: >High, > >I read this message and kind of have the same problem. My laptop is a >new Satellite A25-208 RUNNING XP PRO.Can you help? Probably no. Consider installing Debian. http://www.debian.org/ -- "It's like deja vu all ov

Re: Video out of Dell laptop

2004-04-07 Thread François TOURDE
Le 12516ième jour après Epoch, Stephane Provost écrivait: > "repasser" is "to iron" > > :) > > comme en Francais, "passer le fer a repasser" :) Merci beaucoup :) Je sais pas si ma femme en sera fière, mais en tout cas, je suis heureux de pouvoir replacer ça ;) D'autant plus que je suis un lamer

Re: How to install ATI Radeon IGP 340M

2004-04-17 Thread François TOURDE
Le 12526ième jour après Epoch, s. keeling écrivait: > Incoming from Dayer: >> Hi, sorry for my English :( > > Why, what's wrong with it? :-) The first letter of english in upper-case ;-) -- Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function. -- Garrison

[OT] Re: How to install ATI Radeon IGP 340M

2004-04-17 Thread François TOURDE
Le 12526ième jour après Epoch, s. keeling écrivait: > Incoming from François TOURDE: >> Le 12526ième jour après Epoch, >> s. keeling écrivait: >> >> > Incoming from Dayer: >> >> Hi, sorry for my English :( >> > >> > Why, what's wro

Re: Dell & Debian ?

2004-04-20 Thread François TOURDE
Hi James, Le 12529ième jour après Epoch, [EMAIL PROTECTED] écrivait: > Hello, > > I'm looking to get a new portable, and my employer pushes Dell on us. > Any particular models that have a good track record with Debian? > Know video chipsets that work or do not work well? Weird screen sizes? > Bat

Dell TrueMobile Mini PCI cards for Latitude

2004-04-25 Thread François TOURDE
Hi all, I'm planning to buy a Wireless MiniPCI card for my Laptop (Dell Latitude C840), working under Debian Sarge (hum... with some Sid too). Looking at the web, I've found cheaper and faster cards than the Dell one. My question is: Can I use any MiniPCI card on my Dell, or no. Any experience,

Re: Bios upgrade

2004-04-25 Thread François TOURDE
Le 12533ième jour après Epoch, Johan Groth écrivait: > Hi, > Does anyone here know where I can find a BIOS upgrade to my Dell > Inspiron 8600? It now has version A04 but I think A07 has been > released. I've tried searching on Dell's site but with little > success. Google tell me that: http://su

Re: Bios upgrade

2004-04-25 Thread François TOURDE
Le 12533ième jour après Epoch, Johan Groth écrivait: > François TOURDE wrote: >> Google tell me that: >> http://support.ap.dell.com/ap/en/filelib/resultstype.asp?devid=5237&sid=INS_PNT_P4M_8600&lang=EN&lib=0&os=NA&searchtype=filter >> Is a good place

Re: Dell TrueMobile Mini PCI cards for Latitude

2004-04-25 Thread François TOURDE
Le 12533ième jour après Epoch, Martin List-Petersen écrivait: > On Sun, 2004-04-25 at 20:34, Benjamin Schulz wrote: >> Am So, den 25.04.2004 schrieb MB um 19:33: >> > You can use any linux supported mini-pci card in your laptop and things >> > should work just fine. I replaced the intel 2100 car

Re: using a beamer: resolution?

2004-05-12 Thread François TOURDE
Le 12550ième jour après Epoch, David Fokkema écrivait: > Hi group, > >>From time to time, I use a beamer on my external VGA port of my laptop. > My laptop TFT panel has a resolution of 1400x1050 pixels but the beamer > has a resolution of only 800x600. However, it can support 1024x768 using > soft

Dell Latitude C840 and stock kernel 2.6.5

2004-05-12 Thread François TOURDE
Hi all. I was using 2.4.20 on this machine, and all was quasi perfect, but I have now installed a MiniPCI Wifi card, running with prism54 driver. So I jump on 2.6 precompiled kernels, and I have some problems: - suspend2ram (using LID) hang sometimes on wakeup. No log, no trace, just black scr

Re: using a beamer: resolution?

2004-05-12 Thread François TOURDE
Le 12550ième jour après Epoch, David Fokkema écrivait: > On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 05:45:14PM +0200, François TOURDE wrote: >> Le 12550ième jour après Epoch, >> David Fokkema écrivait: >> >> > Hi group, >> > >> >>From time to time, I use a b

Re: using a beamer: resolution?

2004-05-12 Thread François TOURDE
Le 12550ième jour après Epoch, David Fokkema écrivait: > On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 07:45:28PM +0200, François TOURDE wrote: >> Some guidelines: >> >> - Multiple X servers: one for the TFT, and the other for VGA out. >> >> - Check if Twinview is available for

Re: Dell TrueMobile Mini PCI cards for Latitude

2004-04-25 Thread François TOURDE
Le 12533ième jour après Epoch, Martin List-Petersen écrivait: > On Sun, 2004-04-25 at 17:32, François TOURDE wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I'm planning to buy a Wireless MiniPCI card for my Laptop (Dell >> Latitude C840), working under Debian Sarge (hum... with some Sid

Re: detecting ethernet connection

2004-04-26 Thread François TOURDE
Le 12534ième jour après Epoch, Bill Moseley écrivait: > I'm looking for a utility to see if the internal interface is connected > -- the so-called "link-beat" detection. I have a toshiba laptop with > EtherExpress PRO/100+ MiniPCI. > > I know about the laptop-net package, but I don't want all the

Re: detecting ethernet connection

2004-04-27 Thread François TOURDE
Le 12535ième jour après Epoch, Andreas Stempfhuber écrivait: > Hi all, > > Am Montag, 26. April 2004 21:40 schrieb François TOURDE: >> Try "apt-get install ifplugd" ... A fantastic tool using run-parts >> to run on plug/unplug status. > > very nice tool, it w

Suspend to RAM or switch to TTY bug on Dell C840 w/ NVidia video

2004-05-19 Thread François TOURDE
Hi all, Using my laptop on AC power works fine, but when I try to play unplugged, it's a nightmare. - Closing the LID seems to lock the system - Switching to a text TTY (CTRL+ALT+F1) lock the video, but I'm still able to use CTRL+ALT+DEL to shutdown (Never tried CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE, but I wil

Re: Second hand laptop

2003-10-17 Thread François TOURDE
Le 12342ième jour après Epoch, ralph bacolod écrivait: > Hi! Im planning to buy a second hand laptop .How do I > know if the monitor is a TFT monitor? What other > things should I look out for? Check the serial at http://tuxmobil.org/stolen_laptops.html :) -- This screen intentionally left blan

Re: no X on new install

2003-10-22 Thread François TOURDE
Le 12347ième jour après Epoch, Douglas Frank écrivait: > Is this the right list I should use to get help getting X running on > my laptop? Yes, it is... What's your model, lspci infos, etc. and we will try to answer. Look at tuxmobil.org to find install solutions. -- Life is divided into the h

Re: Dualhead on laptop

2003-10-24 Thread François TOURDE
Hi, Le 12349ième jour après Epoch, [EMAIL PROTECTED] écrivait: > Anyone get an exernal monitor working as a second screen (not twinview) with > geforce2go (or what ever card you have)? I tried as in the nVidia doc, but > without success. I tried it too, without great success. I've a Dell Lati

Re: changing root shell

2003-10-28 Thread François TOURDE
Le 12353ième jour après Epoch, Anish Muttreja écrivait: > Hi everybody > I did something very silly on mu laptop. I manged to set the root > shell to an incorrect value. > Now I can't login as root. I know idiots like me should never be root > and the world is probably a better place this way , b

Re: Inittab runlevel problem

2003-11-10 Thread François TOURDE
Le 12366ième jour après Epoch, [EMAIL PROTECTED] écrivait: > Hi, > > I have two problems. First, when X starts, I am taken to the GDM login > screen, but my keyboard or mouse arent recognized.I will come to this > later. > > But initially, when I boot up, Im not able to go the virtual terminal > l

Re: Debian Users...

2003-11-18 Thread François TOURDE
WM ... I probably use 1% of the WM power, which use less than 1% of my cpu power. Le 12374ième jour après Epoch, Yves Rutschle écrivait: > On a large screen, I > will typically want to have gkrellm or similar monitors, an I do, it's great ! > editor and a shell (to compile and run), I use my

Re: CPU fan, CPU speed control

2003-11-27 Thread François TOURDE
Le 12377ième jour après Epoch, Dan Davison écrivait: > Hi, I've just got a laptop with a Pentium 4 3.0 GHz CPU. The fan is very > noisy and seems to stay on all the time. It depends of your BIOS Laptop. My Dell Latitude was noising too until I install a new BIOS. If you are on Dell laptop, try +W

Re: gprs, irda, t68i

2003-11-27 Thread François TOURDE
Le 12382ième jour après Epoch, Debian User écrivait: > I can ping my t68i from my debian laptop over the irda > port > > I want to be able to try and get the laptop online via > the phone, but I'm a bit stuck. And googling isn't > helping me much. > > Any pointers? Either using the modem built i

Re: RFC: Create d-user-woody, d-user-sarge maillists, deactivate d-user

2003-12-01 Thread François TOURDE
Le 12387ième jour après Epoch, [EMAIL PROTECTED] écrivait: > Since many questions in the debian-laptop list are user oriented > questions, > I thought it would be helpful to the Debian community to ensure the > readers here are aware of the following message I just sent to the > debian-user list.

Integrated modem (AMR/HSF) on Dell Latitude C840

2003-12-10 Thread François TOURDE
Hi all, I have a problem trying to run my laptop modem. On 2.4.18 kernel or 2.4.20-1, this modem works quasi fine with pctel-0.9.6 driver, but now on 2.4.20 the modules loads fine (pctel & ptserial), but using the ttyS15 port makes a kernel Oops. Did someone experience this kind of problems? Can

Force USB Storage geometry

2004-10-05 Thread François TOURDE
Hi *, I'm trying to use a LT-100 MP3 USB player under kernel 2.6.5-1, on my C840, but with no success. On plugging it, the kernel report: kernel: usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using address 8 kernel: scsi8 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices kernel: Vendor: Generic Model: SND1

Re: caps-lock => numbers aren't printed !!

2004-01-09 Thread François TOURDE
Le 12426ième jour après Epoch, Alain D'EURVEILHER écrivait: > Nicolas ROMAN wrote: > >> le Fri, 09 Jan 2004 05:59:42 +0100 Alain D'EURVEILHER >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> écrivait : >>>Hi, >>> >>>I don't know if this is specific to the Satellite Pro 4300 >>>series, and if it can be solved : >>> >>>When

Re: Strange Zip Attatchment

2004-01-27 Thread François TOURDE
Le 12444ième jour après Epoch, Niko Efthymiou écrivait: > I have noticed 3 stange zip atachments on this mailing list, all > recieved yesterday. I would suspect that it is some kind of virus > (havent scanned it). > > Since there have been quite a few virus epidemies recently (and maling > lists a

Re: Strange Zip Attatchment

2004-01-28 Thread François TOURDE
Sorry for that, but: PLEASE CC: ME ONLY IF I REQUEST. I'M ON THE LIST ! Le 12445ième jour après Epoch, Russell Coker écrivait: > On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 01:26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Fran=E7ois TOURDE) wr= > ote: >> > Since there have been quite a few virus epidemies recently (and maling >> > lists are

Re: Strange Zip Attatchment

2004-01-29 Thread François TOURDE
Le 12446ième jour après Epoch, Michelle Konzack écrivait: > Am 2004-01-27 15:26:49, schrieb François TOURDE: >>Le 12444ième jour après Epoch, >>Niko Efthymiou écrivait: >> >>> I have noticed 3 stange zip atachments on this mailing list, all >>> recieved yes

Re: Upgrade Dell D600 BIOS from A05 to A09?

2004-02-05 Thread François TOURDE
Le 12453ième jour après Epoch, Pål Dahle écrivait: > Hi, > > I have a Dell D600 laptop with BIOS version A05. I have just downloaded > the A09 and wonder whether or not I should do the upgrade. > > I have never upgraded a BIOS before. May I screw something up? Yes, you can, but BIOS upgrade on DE

Re: Nvidia driver bug?

2004-02-10 Thread François TOURDE
Le 12458ième jour après Epoch, Sridhar Srinivasan écrivait: > Hi, Hi Sridhar. > I'm running unstable on a Dell Inspiron 4100 with the nvidia > GeForce2Go graphics card. I recently upgraded my nvidia driver from > version 5328 to 5336 and since then I've faced this weird problem. > > If I suspen

Re: which process is accessing my hard drive?

2004-03-01 Thread François TOURDE
Le 12478ième jour après Epoch, Matt Price écrivait: > On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 10:49:26AM -0700, Brett Johnson wrote: >> Another thought: Are you running a journaling file system (i.e. ext3, >> reiserfs, etc...)? If so, then kjournald will be running and will >> periodically write to the disk to

Re: how to get the volume keys working on a Dell Latitude

2004-03-28 Thread François TOURDE
Le 12505ième jour après Epoch, Jaap Haitsma écrivait: > Hi, > > I'm trying to attach the Fn-VolumeUp and Fn-VolumeDown of my Dell > laptop to the volume up and volume down action in acme. The problem is > that my Debian set up does not get an event when Fn combined with > another key is pressed. I

Re: how to get the volume keys working on a Dell Latitude

2004-03-28 Thread François TOURDE
Le 12506ième jour après Epoch, Derek Broughton écrivait: > François TOURDE wrote: > >> Jaap Haitsma écrivait: >>> >>>I'm trying to attach the Fn-VolumeUp and Fn-VolumeDown of my Dell >>>laptop to the volume up and volume down action in acme. The problem

Re: Video out of Dell laptop

2004-04-07 Thread François TOURDE
Le 12515ième jour après Epoch, Jaap Haitsma écrivait: > Hi, > > Is there anybody out there who has the video out of their Dell Laptop > working under Linux (my laptop is a Latitude C600)? What do you mean by video? I'm using my Dell C840 as a DVD player when my wife "repasse" (I don't know the en

Re: Occasional short flicker from time to time on my Toshiba S 5200-902?!

2004-04-07 Thread François TOURDE
Le 12515ième jour après Epoch, [EMAIL PROTECTED] écrivait: >High, > >I read this message and kind of have the same problem. My laptop is a >new Satellite A25-208 RUNNING XP PRO.Can you help? Probably no. Consider installing Debian. http://www.debian.org/ -- "It's like deja vu all ov

Re: Video out of Dell laptop

2004-04-07 Thread François TOURDE
Le 12516ième jour après Epoch, Stephane Provost écrivait: > "repasser" is "to iron" > > :) > > comme en Francais, "passer le fer a repasser" :) Merci beaucoup :) Je sais pas si ma femme en sera fière, mais en tout cas, je suis heureux de pouvoir replacer ça ;) D'autant plus que je suis un lamer

Re: How to install ATI Radeon IGP 340M

2004-04-17 Thread François TOURDE
Le 12526ième jour après Epoch, s. keeling écrivait: > Incoming from Dayer: >> Hi, sorry for my English :( > > Why, what's wrong with it? :-) The first letter of english in upper-case ;-) -- Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function. -- Garrison

[OT] Re: How to install ATI Radeon IGP 340M

2004-04-17 Thread François TOURDE
Le 12526ième jour après Epoch, s. keeling écrivait: > Incoming from François TOURDE: >> Le 12526ième jour après Epoch, >> s. keeling écrivait: >> >> > Incoming from Dayer: >> >> Hi, sorry for my English :( >> > >> > Why, what's wro

Re: Dell & Debian ?

2004-04-20 Thread François TOURDE
Hi James, Le 12529ième jour après Epoch, [EMAIL PROTECTED] écrivait: > Hello, > > I'm looking to get a new portable, and my employer pushes Dell on us. > Any particular models that have a good track record with Debian? > Know video chipsets that work or do not work well? Weird screen sizes? > Bat

Dell TrueMobile Mini PCI cards for Latitude

2004-04-25 Thread François TOURDE
Hi all, I'm planning to buy a Wireless MiniPCI card for my Laptop (Dell Latitude C840), working under Debian Sarge (hum... with some Sid too). Looking at the web, I've found cheaper and faster cards than the Dell one. My question is: Can I use any MiniPCI card on my Dell, or no. Any experience,

Re: Bios upgrade

2004-04-25 Thread François TOURDE
Le 12533ième jour après Epoch, Johan Groth écrivait: > Hi, > Does anyone here know where I can find a BIOS upgrade to my Dell > Inspiron 8600? It now has version A04 but I think A07 has been > released. I've tried searching on Dell's site but with little > success. Google tell me that: http://su

Re: Bios upgrade

2004-04-25 Thread François TOURDE
Le 12533ième jour après Epoch, Johan Groth écrivait: > François TOURDE wrote: >> Google tell me that: >> http://support.ap.dell.com/ap/en/filelib/resultstype.asp?devid=5237&sid=INS_PNT_P4M_8600&lang=EN&lib=0&os=NA&searchtype=filter >> Is a good place

Re: Dell TrueMobile Mini PCI cards for Latitude

2004-04-25 Thread François TOURDE
Le 12533ième jour après Epoch, Martin List-Petersen écrivait: > On Sun, 2004-04-25 at 20:34, Benjamin Schulz wrote: >> Am So, den 25.04.2004 schrieb MB um 19:33: >> > You can use any linux supported mini-pci card in your laptop and things >> > should work just fine. I replaced the intel 2100 car

Re: Dell TrueMobile Mini PCI cards for Latitude

2004-04-25 Thread François TOURDE
Le 12533ième jour après Epoch, Martin List-Petersen écrivait: > On Sun, 2004-04-25 at 17:32, François TOURDE wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I'm planning to buy a Wireless MiniPCI card for my Laptop (Dell >> Latitude C840), working under Debian Sarge (hum... with some Sid

Re: detecting ethernet connection

2004-04-26 Thread François TOURDE
Le 12534ième jour après Epoch, Bill Moseley écrivait: > I'm looking for a utility to see if the internal interface is connected > -- the so-called "link-beat" detection. I have a toshiba laptop with > EtherExpress PRO/100+ MiniPCI. > > I know about the laptop-net package, but I don't want all the

Re: detecting ethernet connection

2004-04-27 Thread François TOURDE
Le 12535ième jour après Epoch, Andreas Stempfhuber écrivait: > Hi all, > > Am Montag, 26. April 2004 21:40 schrieb François TOURDE: >> Try "apt-get install ifplugd" ... A fantastic tool using run-parts >> to run on plug/unplug status. > > very nice tool, it w

Re: using a beamer: resolution?

2004-05-12 Thread François TOURDE
Le 12550ième jour après Epoch, David Fokkema écrivait: > Hi group, > >>From time to time, I use a beamer on my external VGA port of my laptop. > My laptop TFT panel has a resolution of 1400x1050 pixels but the beamer > has a resolution of only 800x600. However, it can support 1024x768 using > soft

Dell Latitude C840 and stock kernel 2.6.5

2004-05-12 Thread François TOURDE
Hi all. I was using 2.4.20 on this machine, and all was quasi perfect, but I have now installed a MiniPCI Wifi card, running with prism54 driver. So I jump on 2.6 precompiled kernels, and I have some problems: - suspend2ram (using LID) hang sometimes on wakeup. No log, no trace, just black scr

Re: using a beamer: resolution?

2004-05-12 Thread François TOURDE
Le 12550ième jour après Epoch, David Fokkema écrivait: > On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 05:45:14PM +0200, François TOURDE wrote: >> Le 12550ième jour après Epoch, >> David Fokkema écrivait: >> >> > Hi group, >> > >> >>From time to time, I use a b

Re: using a beamer: resolution?

2004-05-12 Thread François TOURDE
Le 12550ième jour après Epoch, David Fokkema écrivait: > On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 07:45:28PM +0200, François TOURDE wrote: >> Some guidelines: >> >> - Multiple X servers: one for the TFT, and the other for VGA out. >> >> - Check if Twinview is available for

Suspend to RAM or switch to TTY bug on Dell C840 w/ NVidia video

2004-05-19 Thread François TOURDE
Hi all, Using my laptop on AC power works fine, but when I try to play unplugged, it's a nightmare. - Closing the LID seems to lock the system - Switching to a text TTY (CTRL+ALT+F1) lock the video, but I'm still able to use CTRL+ALT+DEL to shutdown (Never tried CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE, but I wil

Re: Graphical wirless tools

2004-07-09 Thread François TOURDE
Le 12607ième jour après Epoch, Bill Moseley écrivait: > Any nice graphical tools for displaying wireless data (like signal > strength)? I use cards based on Prism (using hostap) and also and > Aironet 350. Hi, I use gkrellm plugin to do that. There is 4 infos: Level, Link, Noise and Speed. apt

Re: suspend to disk while in X

2004-08-03 Thread François TOURDE
Hi Matt, Le 12633ième jour après Epoch, Matt Perry écrivait: > Hi, > > I recently got a Dell 600m laptop. I installed linux on it, but I ran into a > few snags that are pretty much keeping me from leaving linux installed on it. > > It has an ATI Radeon mobility 9000 graphics card, which I succe

Re: BIOS

2004-09-08 Thread François TOURDE
Le 12669ième jour après Epoch, Negrila Gabriel écrivait: >How cann I enter in BIOS Try the doc. -- Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning handsprings, or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it.

Re: Dell Inspiron 8600

2004-09-18 Thread François TOURDE
Le 12679ième jour après Epoch, [EMAIL PROTECTED] écrivait: > Hi > i'm a newcomer to debian for Dell laptops, and would greatly > appreciate any help. Welcome on Debian/Dell > Has anyone successfully installed Debian on the Dell Inspiron 8600?? Look at http://tuxmobil.org/dell.html > 1. install

Re: Dell Inspiron 8600

2004-09-18 Thread François TOURDE
Le 12679ième jour après Epoch, Wendy Leigh Vandoolaeghe écrivait: > i've played around a bit with the mixer settings with no luck. if for > example i use recorder, it seems to record, but when i want to play > back it gives the following message: > > osscommon: unable to open /dev/dsp (in use?) T

Problem with T42p, ipw2200 and ACPI

2005-07-15 Thread François TOURDE
Hi all, I've small problems with an IBM T42p: First one: ACPI doesn't suspend correctly (echo 3>/proc/acpi/sleep) the machine, sometimes it works, somtime not. So, I use APM and all works fine, except cpu throttling :( Second one: The Wifi (ipw2200 module) card seems to not working as I expect.

Re: Problem with T42p, ipw2200 and ACPI

2005-07-17 Thread François TOURDE
Le 12981ième jour après Epoch, Wang Xu écrivait: >> Hi all, >> >> I've small problems with an IBM T42p: >> >> First one: ACPI doesn't suspend correctly (echo 3>/proc/acpi/sleep) >> the machine, sometimes it works, somtime not. > You might need kernel parameter "acpi_sleep=s3_bios" on some > mac

Re: Problem with T42p, ipw2200 and ACPI

2005-07-17 Thread François TOURDE
Le 12981ième jour après Epoch, Phuong Le-Hong écrivait: > The ipw2200 module on my T42 works well with kernel 2.6.8. What > version of kernel do you use ? I'm using 2.6.11-1-686 , and ipw2200 works good ... only if I specify all parameters about the link. I must setup AP, Key, ESSID, etc... to ha

Re: Problem with T42p, ipw2200 and ACPI

2005-07-18 Thread François TOURDE
Le 12982ième jour après Epoch, Wang Xu écrivait: >> The sleep process seems to be stopped by mysqld, or just doesn't work. >> >> > yes, I met problem with mysqld also, and I shutdown it before > suspending. > > Another parameter about sleep is ``acpi_sleep=s3_mode'', you can > refer the kernel

Re: Problem with T42p, ipw2200 and ACPI

2005-07-19 Thread François TOURDE
Le 12983ième jour après Epoch, Juraj Ziegler écrivait: > François TOURDE wrote: >> Thanks for the info, but I will stay with APM. All I need (except CPU >> temp.) is provided by APM, and works good. I'll install lm-sensor then >> all will be perfect. > > DON&#x

Re: Debugging OSD

2005-09-27 Thread François TOURDE
Le 13053ième jour après Epoch, Bob Alexander écrivait: > I installed tpb (0.6.4) and osd (xosd-bin and libxosd2 2.2.14-1.2) on > my etch system with xorg 6.8.2 and KDE 3.3. > > Nothing shows up when I use the volume or other keys. Did you run "tpb -d" from root ? > The nvram module is loaded, nv

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