HiNote Ultra 2000 - Debian 2.2 / PNP & Sound & Perf...

2000-12-29 Thread Jérôme Lacoste
Hei, [This post was crossposted to comp.os.linux.portable and the debian-laptop mailing list] I have several little problems I would like to understand, so this post contains several questions, some of them may be linked. I have a Digital HiNote Ultra 2000 loaded with Debian 2.2_0, Kernel 2.2.1

screen get blue/green at startup sometimes instead of displaying

2000-12-29 Thread Jérôme Lacoste
to console and switch back to X. I never had that on my desktop machines. Did anybody encounter anything like that? Do you think it can be dangerous for the screen? Happy hacking and happy new year. Jerome ++ Jérôme Lacoste - Software Engineer - Smart Card Systems. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+47

RE: screen get blue/green at startup sometimes instead of displaying

2000-12-29 Thread Jérôme Lacoste
> I can confirm that the exact same thing happens on my Toshiba > Tecra 720CDT with > about the same frequency. Hopefully someone will know how to correct it. I felt lonely, I am not anymore! As it is easily reproducible (appears every 10 reboots) I could set up a debug mode if I knew what to do

Stolen laptop - how to increase security?

2001-01-04 Thread Jérôme Lacoste
[pre-scriptum: if anybody thinks this has nothing to do with the debian-laptop, please redirect me] Hei, Some of you may have read one of my last mail in the list on the 29th. Don't bother to answer the questions as my nice little laptop disappeared from my office yesterday while I was at home du

RE: Stolen laptop - how to increase security?

2001-01-05 Thread Jérôme Lacoste
> -Original Message- > From: Hubert Chan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Hubert Chan > Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2001 6:47 PM > To: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Stolen laptop - how to increase security? > [...] > You missed the, IMHO, most effective/important/simp

RE: Stolen laptop - how to increase security?

2001-01-05 Thread Jérôme Lacoste
> I once ran across an old DOS utility that did something like > this. IIRC It > embedded itself into the bootsector and upon a certain keycombe it would > throw a serial number onto the screen and play an audio code through the > speaker (in case th monitor was no longer usable for whatever > re

HiNote Ultra 2000 - Debian 2.2 / PNP & Sound & Perf...

2000-12-29 Thread Jérôme Lacoste
Hei, [This post was crossposted to comp.os.linux.portable and the debian-laptop mailing list] I have several little problems I would like to understand, so this post contains several questions, some of them may be linked. I have a Digital HiNote Ultra 2000 loaded with Debian 2.2_0, Kernel 2.2.

screen get blue/green at startup sometimes instead of displaying

2000-12-29 Thread Jérôme Lacoste
switch to console and switch back to X. I never had that on my desktop machines. Did anybody encounter anything like that? Do you think it can be dangerous for the screen? Happy hacking and happy new year. Jerome ++ Jérôme Lacoste - Software Engineer - Smart Card Systems. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+47

RE: screen get blue/green at startup sometimes instead of displaying

2000-12-29 Thread Jérôme Lacoste
> I can confirm that the exact same thing happens on my Toshiba > Tecra 720CDT with > about the same frequency. Hopefully someone will know how to correct it. I felt lonely, I am not anymore! As it is easily reproducible (appears every 10 reboots) I could set up a debug mode if I knew what to d

Stolen laptop - how to increase security?

2001-01-04 Thread Jérôme Lacoste
[pre-scriptum: if anybody thinks this has nothing to do with the debian-laptop, please redirect me] Hei, Some of you may have read one of my last mail in the list on the 29th. Don't bother to answer the questions as my nice little laptop disappeared from my office yesterday while I was at home d

RE: Stolen laptop - how to increase security?

2001-01-05 Thread Jérôme Lacoste
> -Original Message- > From: Hubert Chan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > Hubert Chan > Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2001 6:47 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Stolen laptop - how to increase security? > [...] > You missed the, IMHO, most effective/important/simple method

RE: Stolen laptop - how to increase security?

2001-01-05 Thread Jérôme Lacoste
> I once ran across an old DOS utility that did something like > this. IIRC It > embedded itself into the bootsector and upon a certain keycombe it would > throw a serial number onto the screen and play an audio code through the > speaker (in case th monitor was no longer usable for whatever > r