Re: ifplugd (or guessnet) stalls booting at "Configuring network interfaces ..."

2005-10-15 Thread H. S.
On 10/15/05, Derek Broughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I can't help with guessnet, but I wonder why you think ifplugd could be I don't know for sure. But in the past, I had a similar problem (boot stall) and the problem was solved by putting HOTPLUG_INTERFACES="eth0" in /etc/default/ifplugd.  in

Re: ifplugd (or guessnet) stalls booting at "Configuring network interfaces ..."

2005-10-15 Thread H. S.
On 10/15/05, H. S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 10/15/05, Derek Broughton < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I can't help with guessnet, but I wonder why you think ifplugd could be I don't know for sure. But in the past, I had a similar problem (boot stall) and the problem

Testing on Inspiron 5150 (or 5160)

2004-09-27 Thread H. S.
Does anyone have experience with Debian on 5150? Any quirks or should Testing or Unstable work just after installation. Thanks, ->HS __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail --

Re: Testing on Inspiron 5150 (or 5160)

2004-09-27 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _H. S._, on 09/28/04 01:31,typed: Does anyone have experience with Debian on 5150? Any quirks or should Testing or Unstable work just after installation. Thanks, ->HS I learn that the BIOS that Dell is giving out, later than A08 if I am not wrong, causes some troubles with ACPM or some

Re: Testing on Inspiron 5150 (or 5160)

2004-10-01 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _Ivan Fernandez_, on 09/28/04 23:26,typed: I'm writing this on a 5150 running testing. No big problems. I haven't been able to get suspend/sleep to work, but I can't say I've tried too hard either. Getting DRI acceleration working was a bit convoluted, but with info from a few websit

Re: Testing on Inspiron 5150 (or 5160)

2004-10-01 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _Ivan Fernandez_, on 10/01/04 21:00,typed: I attach the .config, but my model has an ATI Radeon 9000, so the graphics card stuff will not work. As usual, I probably have a few peculiarities, so review those settings. Thanks a ton for the file. The display part won't be a problem. I do

Re: Synaptics Touchpad (again!...) X ok / console ko

2004-10-19 Thread H. S.
Piero Furiesi wrote: Hi all, I read all recent threads about Synaptics Touchpad (*), but I still have a little problem with it: cannot tap in text mode. Well, let me expose it... * The golden days: when my laptop (HPOmnibook XE3-GF) was running Debian stable, kernel 2.4.18, I succesfully used

Re: Synaptics Touchpad (again!...) X ok / console ko

2004-10-19 Thread H. S.
Piero Furiesi wrote: Hi all, I read all recent threads about Synaptics Touchpad (*), but I still have a little problem with it: cannot tap in text mode. Well, let me expose it... * The golden days: when my laptop (HPOmnibook XE3-GF) was running Debian stable, kernel 2.4.18, I succesfully used

Re: Audio CD Sound Problem

2004-10-19 Thread H. S.
Noel Kienzle wrote: Hi, I'm new to Linux and have a question. I have a problem listening audio cds on my Acer Aspire 1353 lc. Running Debian Sarge 2.6.8-1-k7 All sounds work well (Systemsounds, mp3s, wav, ogg...). I can rip audio cds (he's able to read the cd) But when I start the audio cd player h

Re: Sony Vaio battery indicator

2004-10-19 Thread H. S.
Loz wrote: Hi, I have a Sony Vaio FX-103 running Agnula DeMudi (which I am reliably informed is a snapshot of Sarge) and I'd like to be able to monitor the battery level of both the batteries in the laptop. On XP (yes, I have it dual booting, because I cannot tear myself away from windows just yet)

Re: Help, installing Nvidia driver

2004-10-19 Thread H. S.
Why don't you use "module-assistent" to do this stuff automatically? I did it recently on a Dell Inspiron 5160 and worked like a charm. Well, almost. I had to make a couple of changes in the XF86Config-4 to get full crisp resolution of 1400x1050. Let me know if you need more help. Instructions n

Re: Question about Nvidia on my Toshiba

2004-10-19 Thread H. S.
Rony wrote: Hi, Okay, can startx now and I have other question. From the Sarge package list, I can see a package called [nvidia-kernel-2.4.27-1-686] but I cannot find similar package for kernel 2.6. I'm using 2.6.7 kernel. Is the Nvidia driver supported internally by the 2.6 kernel? From Section "

Re: Various questions...

2004-10-19 Thread H. S.
Chris Kacoroski wrote: I cannot login to my Yahoo account using Kopete. Always password error. Anybody experience this? There is an issue with Kopete and Yahoo. I had to switch to Gaim. ski ayttm works too(Debian testing): $> dpkg -l ayttm gaim Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=

suspend, power save or saving, hibernate mode in Indpiron 5160

2004-10-20 Thread H. S.
I am trying to make some sense of these modes in Dell Inspiron 5160. I am using ACPI (with acpid) and it seems to regulate the fan(fan is really quit often) and tells me about the battery status. But I am not sure if the suspend/hibernate/power saving modes work. 1) how do I test for these? 2)

xscreensaver seems to hang xfee86 in Inspiron 5160 (using ACPI)

2004-10-21 Thread H. S.
In Inspiron 5160 running Debian Sid, kernel 2.6.7 (smp and ACPI and APM compiled), I get these errors (apm is disabled in grub options with "noapm"). I believe xfree86 hangs when xscreensaver suspends the system (because if no user is logged into gdm and the login screen is there, it just blank

Re: suspend, power save or saving, hibernate mode in Indpiron 5160

2004-10-22 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _Bob Proulx_, on 22/10/04 02:46,typed: 3) This website gives some different options http://softwaresuspend.berlios.de/Software-suspend-2.html#ss2.1 : CONFIG_SOFTWARE_SUSPEND2=y CONFIG_SOFTWARE_SUSPEND2_CORE=y CONFIG_SOFTWARE_SUSPEND2_WRITER=y CONFIG_SOFTWARE_SUSPEND_SWAPWRITER=y CONFIG

software suspend 2 (swsusp2), patching a Debian source package kernel vs Vanilla

2004-10-22 Thread H. S.
On the webpage (http://softwaresuspend.berlios.de/Software-suspend-2.html) in Section 2.4, they say regarding swsusp2 patches : "If your kernel is not the vanilla one from kernel.org, you will have to apply these patches manually and edit some of the rejected hunks." Is the source I get from De

wrong list, ignore this. Re: software suspend 2 (swsusp2), patching a Debian source package kernel vs Vanilla

2004-10-22 Thread H. S.
-- oh crap, wrong list. My apologies. I have already posted this request in this list. This was indented for debian-user. ->HS Apparently, _H. S._, on 22/10/04 13:17,typed: On the webpage (http://softwaresuspend.berlios.de/Software-suspend-2.html) in Section 2.4, they say regarding swsusp2 patc

ndiswrapper and wireless on Inspiron 5160 : installation and some questions

2004-10-23 Thread H. S.
Okay, so I have reached the stage on the Dell laptop Inspiron 5160 where I am trying to get this wireless card working. It is Dell 1350 802.11g/b wireless mini-PCI card. So I installed the ndiswrapper source package from: http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/ 1) Just added the source to the source

[SOLVED] Re: ndiswrapper and wireless on Inspiron 5160 : installation and some questions

2004-10-23 Thread H. S.
Okay, after installing ndiswrapper, the problem was I wasn't able to connect to the network. Theee sites help me: http://www.wordhord.co.uk/sony_vaio.html http://www.siliconvalleyccie.com/linux-hn/wmp11-linux.htm http://alumnus.caltech.edu/~rbell/Realtek8180.html#NoIwconfig http://tiefighter.et.tu

Re: Trying to achieve hi-res console (framebuffer)

2004-11-15 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _Curt Howland_, on 11/11/04 10:13,typed: Unfortunately, although I've been running 2.6 since 2.6.4, the statement "vga=791" in lilo.conf has worked perfectly, just like it did with 2.4. Sorry. On Thursday 11 November 2004 09:43, Kevin Collins was heard to say: Has anyone been able to

Re: Testing on Inspiron 5150 (or 5160)

2004-10-01 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _Ivan Fernandez_, on 09/28/04 23:26,typed: I'm writing this on a 5150 running testing. No big problems. I haven't been able to get suspend/sleep to work, but I can't say I've tried too hard either. Getting DRI acceleration working was a bit convoluted, but with info from a few webs

Re: Testing on Inspiron 5150 (or 5160)

2004-10-01 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _Ivan Fernandez_, on 10/01/04 21:00,typed: I attach the .config, but my model has an ATI Radeon 9000, so the graphics card stuff will not work. As usual, I probably have a few peculiarities, so review those settings. Thanks a ton for the file. The display part won't be a problem.

Testing on Inspiron 5150 (or 5160)

2004-09-28 Thread H. S.
Does anyone have experience with Debian on 5150? Any quirks or should Testing or Unstable work just after installation. Thanks, ->HS __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

Re: Testing on Inspiron 5150 (or 5160)

2004-09-28 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _H. S._, on 09/28/04 01:31,typed: Does anyone have experience with Debian on 5150? Any quirks or should Testing or Unstable work just after installation. Thanks, ->HS I learn that the BIOS that Dell is giving out, later than A08 if I am not wrong, causes some troubles with ACPM or