Re: static IP config

2009-09-28 Thread Jack Malmostoso
On Sun, 27 Sep 2009 23:11:13 +, joe cipale wrote: > Has anyone else had this issue and resolved it so that the eth0 address > can be set to static? The newer versions of NetworkManager allow you to do this, or just add an entry in /etc/network/interfaces with your settings. $ man interfaces

AMD M780G with ATI Radeon HD 3200 graphics

2010-05-01 Thread Jack Malmostoso
Hello list, I am considering the purchase of a new netbook/laptop and I think I am quite interested in the Lenovo Thinkpad x100e: http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/web/LenovoPortal/en_US/ catalog.workflow:item.detail? vt=5&GroupID=37&Code=X100e_INTEL_BEST&hide_menu_area=true I hav

Re: AMD M780G with ATI Radeon HD 3200 graphics

2010-05-02 Thread Jack Malmostoso
On Sat, 01 May 2010 17:10:02 +0200, Matthew Dawson wrote: > I have a HP laptop with the Radeon HD3200 graphics card. 3d is > supported by the radeon driver, along with KMS (kernel modesetting). Hello Matthew, thank you very much for your quick reply. This is just the info I needed. The power ma

Re: AMD M780G with ATI Radeon HD 3200 graphics

2010-05-07 Thread Jack Malmostoso
On Mon, 03 May 2010 20:20:02 +0200, Clive McBarton wrote: > "Needless to say"? Run sid if you like, but why exactly is that the > obvious choice for a netbook? Haha sorry it made perfect sense to myself but hey, you don't know that I've been running Sid (or a mix with experimental) on all of my

Santa Rosa Laptops

2007-07-01 Thread Jack Malmostoso
Hello list, I just bought a new laptop to replace my aging iBook G4. I bought it from a swiss company that ships laptops configured personally, and more importantly, the laptop comes without Windows. It will sport the new Santa Rosa chipset, with Intel graphics and Intel wifi 4965 abgn. I hav

Re: Santa Rosa Laptops

2007-07-02 Thread Jack Malmostoso
On Tue, 03 Jul 2007 00:50:12 +0200, Evgeni Golov wrote: > But the Debian images did not want to boot, so I got grml-small, booted > and did the rest with debootstrap. Ok, thanks for the info. > S-ATA and stuff is working fine, the > new wifi does not (did not have the time to build the iwl mod

Re: Santa Rosa Laptops

2007-07-09 Thread Jack Malmostoso
On Thu, 05 Jul 2007 23:00:12 +0200, dam wrote: > ... I wouldn't say they are conflicting, or few, heres where I look for > thinkpad info, or any linux on laptop information. I happened upon this > link years ago and it has saved me weeks of time: > http://www.linux-laptop.net I know about this l

Re: Santa Rosa Laptops

2007-07-10 Thread Jack Malmostoso
On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 10:00:12 +0200, Serge FRANCOIS wrote: > Merci pour l'info, A quick update: the laptop is blazing fast and Etch installed without a hitch. After Etch installation I had a system working at the correct resolution with ethernet connection. Then I upgraded to Sid and now I have

Debian on Santa Rosa: wiki entry

2007-07-12 Thread Jack Malmostoso
Hi list, I think I completed the entry about installing Debian on a Santa Rosa laptop. You can find it here: http://wiki.debian.org/Installing_Debian_On/SantaRosa The information in it should be general enough to apply to any laptop based on this platform. Thanks to anyone who helped me! --

Re: Suspend and Hibernate in Etch not working on Asus L3400Tp laptop

2007-08-09 Thread Jack Malmostoso
On Thu, 09 Aug 2007 10:10:10 +0200, list-debian-laptop wrote: > :~# s2ram > Machine is unknown. > This machine can be identified by: > sys_vendor = "ASUSTeK Computer Inc." On my Asus Z37E I can suspend the laptop just by closing the lid. Check that you have the "asus_laptop" kernel module l

Re: iwlwifi

2007-08-12 Thread Jack Malmostoso
On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 02:00:14 +0200, Ben Bromley wrote: > Any advice on what to do? On my laptop it works beautifully. Assuming that the module is correctly loaded (lsmod | grep iwl4965), did you take the correct firmware? Does it work through NetworkManager? As soon as I inserted the module, N

Re: Laptop recommendation

2007-08-13 Thread Jack Malmostoso
On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 21:00:12 +0200, Robert Goley wrote: > Do any of you have > any recommendations in regard to this laptop? Looks like it is based on the Santa Rosa chipset. You might want to check out my report on the Debian Wiki: http://wiki.debian.org/Installing_Debian_On/SantaRosa What's

Re: Choosing Hardware

2007-08-14 Thread Jack Malmostoso
On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 07:00:16 +0200, Richard Hector wrote: > Ok - the HP I mentioned has the GMA965 chipset, including the X3100 > video chip. I assume this is ok? I use this chipset in my new laptop and it works beautifully, external screen and all. The only bug (which is known by the developers

Suspend to ram: is swap needed?

2007-08-19 Thread Jack Malmostoso
Hello list, I usually put my laptop (asus Z37E) to sleep (as in suspend to ram) by closing the lid and it works just fine. When I wake it up gnome-power-manager cares to inform me that "suspend failed", but he's just plain wrong :) Anyway, I have 2Gb of ram on my machine and 512MB of swap. Is the

Re: Suspend to ram: is swap needed?

2007-08-19 Thread Jack Malmostoso
On Sun, 19 Aug 2007 13:50:09 +0200, Evgeni Golov wrote: > swap is only used for swapping (heh) and for suspend to disk. You don't > need swap for suspend to ram Thank you. I already dreaded moving partitions around... -- Best Regards, Jack Linux User #264449 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux -- To

Re: iwlwifi howto for Intel 4965 and 3945 cards

2007-10-15 Thread Jack Malmostoso
On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 01:00:14 +0200, Stuart Prescott wrote: > It seems that in one or two more kernel development cycles, the iwlwifi > driver will be in the mainline kernel and these steps will be > unnecessary, but for the meantime, enjoy: Stuart, thanks for your howto. I wanted to add that iwl

Re: iwlwifi howto for Intel 4965 and 3945 cards

2007-10-17 Thread Jack Malmostoso
On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 19:20:08 +0200, Andreas Tscharner wrote: > I thought it was just merged afetr 2.6.23 has been finished and is now > due to 2.6.24?! > Or is this an additional feature of the Debian Kernel? I couldn't check the Debian changelog to see if it's some Debian specific patch, but as

Re: iwlwifi howto for Intel 4965 and 3945 cards

2007-10-18 Thread Jack Malmostoso
On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 08:20:07 +0200, Alexandre Rossi wrote: > It is a additional feature of the Debian kernel. Yay for Debian, then :) Now if only I could recompile it with the tickless option... -- Best Regards, Jack Linux User #264449 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux on AMD64 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Video file doesn't work in my notebook through projector

2007-10-18 Thread Jack Malmostoso
On Fri, 19 Oct 2007 06:30:12 +0200, Indraveni wrote: > Can some one please help me in finding why is this behaviuor ? The XV overlay can be displayed on one head only. You can switch on the fly the output for XV with the xvattr utility. -- Best Regards, Jack Linux User #264449 Powered by Debia

Re: NetworkManager not automatically connecting to network...

2007-11-05 Thread Jack Malmostoso
On Tue, 06 Nov 2007 02:10:05 +0100, Joe Emenaker wrote: > Anybody have any ideas? Maybe it's knetworkmanager behavior, since on Gnome with nm-applet things work just fine. I assume your user is in the netdev group. -- Best Regards, Jack Linux User #264449 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux on AMD64

Re: sound in Thinkpad X61s

2007-11-22 Thread Jack Malmostoso
On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 17:10:13 +0100, Ricardo Teixeira wrote: > Anyone with a X61s or a T61, which has the same card has a fix for this? Check out the thinkwiki wiki, it should have what you look for IIRC. http://www.thinkwiki.org/ -- Best Regards, Jack Linux User #264449 Powered by Debian GNU/L

Re: lenovo r61i etch

2008-03-25 Thread Jack Malmostoso
On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:10:15 +0100, Embrik Kaslegard wrote: > 1. > I am not able to change Display modes in KDE. I have to manually change > the settings in xorg.conf, log off, restart X. This is a bit daft when > my projector works best in 1024x768 and my internal screen in 1280x800 Which driver

Re: Wrong resolution in KDE with ASUS F3F laptop

2008-05-10 Thread Jack Malmostoso
On Sat, 10 May 2008 17:30:17 +0200, Anders E. Andersen wrote: > Any ideas, from you people? I'd try with the 815resolution package, or alternatively with the "intel" driver in lenny & sid. -- Best Regards, Jack Linux User #264449 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux on AMD64 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Intel Graphics X3100

2008-06-05 Thread Jack Malmostoso
On Thu, 05 Jun 2008 22:10:07 +0200, Diego Lucena wrote: > Does anyone know how can I solve this problem? If you want to stick with etch, install the 915resolution package and follow the debian.readme. If you can/want to switch to testing, use the xorg-video-intel driver. -- Best Regards, Jack

Re: Intel Graphics X3100

2008-06-05 Thread Jack Malmostoso
On Fri, 06 Jun 2008 04:20:10 +0200, Diego Lucena wrote: > Anyway, I've tried 915resolution, but it didn't work. Weird. Used to work for me. Any useful output? To reach 1280x800 on my laptop I used mode 5c. -- Best Regards, Jack Linux User #264449 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux on AMD64 -- To UN

Re: instalation problems cannot detect disk

2008-06-08 Thread Jack Malmostoso
On Sun, 08 Jun 2008 05:00:12 +0200, pablo saldivar wrote: > when i try to install debian it > can't detect any disks. You should enter the BIOS and see if you can set the SATA channels to some "compatibility mode", opposed to AHCI. Then try again. If it works, add the backports.org repository an

Re: Switching to external monitor.

2008-06-22 Thread Jack Malmostoso
On Sat, 21 Jun 2008 20:40:11 +0200, Franklin PIAT wrote: > I'm wondering how you handle this. Any great idea we could enable in > Lenny ? grandr is your friend. -- Best Regards, Jack Linux User #264449 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux on AMD64 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a