Since my last update (mixed testing/unstable), my laptop fails to boot
with the error: "Checking root file system.../: Superblock last mount
time is in the future". This appears to be an error with the date
rather than the file system. During boot, the system seems to assume
that the hardware clo
Eildert Groeneveld wrote:
> Hello
>
> on a Dell laptop I want to install the stock Debian linux-image-2-6-15.
> Everything goes fine, the only problem is that the install procedure seems to
> think that I am using lilo, but actually I using grub. lilo is not installed
> as a package and also /
I'm considering purchasing a VAIO T150 laptop. However, I've been
unable to find any information on Linux compatibility for the series.
Is there anyone on this list who has one and has a moment to summarize
their experience installing Debian on it?
thanks,
- jason
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J. Volkmann wrote:
Hello,
I am trying to get a netgear MA 401 to work on a toshiba 3000-512.
I had it running once, but I killed the kernel modules so I have to do
it again. Unfortunately I do not recognize what I did back then.
To remove it, I deleted the /lib/modules and the /etc/pcmcia and
r
Carl Baldwin wrote:
Are there any XFree86 drivers that handle touchpads specifically. I
poked around the XFree86 site for a while and couldn't find anything.
Specifically, I would like to be able to scroll with the touch pad.
Also, I remember being able to do this with an older laptop, I would
mi wrote:
Hello,
while i was roaming on a textconsole, and the laptop only on battery, the
machine suddenly powered off. Leaving it badly with filesystem checks.
Now i wonder how to get a 'battery critical' warning yonder there ?
Here's some junk from my .bashrc to color the shell pr
Alex Malinovich wrote:
On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 08:01, Karsten Rothemund wrote:
Hello *
I have a big problem with a DELL Inspiron 8100. After nearly a year
working with this machine running Debian Woody, I suddenly had some
problems with the fans. After a suspend-to-RAM, and the wake-up 5
Minutes
;]; then
PS1="\[\e[\${APM_COLOR}m\]\h\$\[\e[0m\] "
else
PS1="\[\e[1m\](\$APM_AC\$APM_PERCENT%)\h\$\[\e[0m\] "
fi
fi
Fabio Sirna wrote:
I do some change on the bash script that I've posted few days ago. This
works better. It must be in the .bashrc.
.,-
Robert wrote:
I'm having trouble getting the touchpad on my laptop to work under
debian woody
My laptop is a Gateway Solo 1200, and it has a synaptic
when i used dpkg-reconfigure on xserver-xfree86 and set it up as a
default ps/2 mouse, the cursor only moved about in about a 640 x 480
section
mi wrote:
Does anybody know if grub can boot a kernel from an ext3 rootfilesystem,
( with a /boot directory) - or if it's necessary to have an ext2 /boot
partition then ?
Didn't found anything explicitly in the docs...
As an ext3 filesystem can be mounted as ext2, I would think grub wouldn't
Peter S. Hayes wrote:
OK... I give up trying this without a little help...
I'm trying to get Debian Linux (woody...2.4.18) onto my Dell Inspiron
8200 with the NVidia GE Force 440 Go video card (64 MB) of memory.
I have run through the installation a couple of times (each time the
installati
Chris Hoover wrote:
Hello,
I have a question, I have a Dell Inspiron 8200 that has a 10/100 nic
and a wireless nic. I use this system both at work and home. When I
am at work, I am hard wired, but wireless at home. Is there anyway to
set the bootup so that it only activates the 10/100 nic
Anders Malmberg wrote:
Hi!
I installed XFree86.4.3.0 last week because this version supported my
ATI Mobility Radeon 7500 screen. I have some problems after this.
(I am able to run startx and everything looks nice that far :)
1. The session manager is lost somewhere...
When I log on I only reci
Ben Southwood wrote:
All you Gurus: I can't work this out! (neither can Google!)
Well, I'm definitely not a guru, but I'm using a USB mouse on Debian, and
can try to point out what is different in my setup.
My USB mouse does not work. The lights are on but nobodies home...
but lsmod s
John Plummer wrote:
Just replaced Suse 7.3 on an HP 5425 Notebook with Debian 3.0r1.
The install went well except I guess I missed something. The Logitech USB
mouse does not work. I suspect the USB ports are not turned on.
Is there a straightforward way to init those ports now and get
John Plummer wrote:
Jason,
I appreciate the advice. The sparse setup on the HP notebook
bios has no USB options. When running modconf only the following
categories of modules are available:
block
net
fs
cdron
misc
Within the 'misc' modules, only
Jacob Tennant wrote:
I have given up on the modem on my laptop so I have a few other smaller
questions.
First, I am very new to linux so I need very descriptive replys, so you
might reply directly to me.
1. Which of the 3 windows manager (gdm,kdm,xdm) uses the least amount of
system resources?
Jeff wrote:
After fighting this for a few hours, I got a hunch...in my custom
kernel I did not include ISA Bus support nor ISA Plug-n-Play support.
I didn't think I needed that on what i thought was a purely PCI
system. Well, apparently there is a relationship between the PCMCIA
Cardbus and the
#x27;imps/2' for the protocol
and see if your trackpad/eraser/whatever works without an external mouse
connected.
That's all I can think of right now. Eagerly awaiting being able to
scroll through documents without moving my arms/wrist,
Dan
The easiest solution is to get a USB mouse. This whole mess stems from
the fact that you can only have one PS/2 pointer and the internal device
is a PS/2 pointer. You can have all the USB pointing devices you want.
--
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Nori Heikkinen wrote:
Hi all,
I'm trying to install debian on a Dell Inspiron 8000. It's being a
little less cooperative than the desktop systems I'm used to!
My main problem right now is that on the console (i haven't even
gotten X up yet), the screen is normal for the top quarter, and then
charles yoo wrote:
I just went through my woody install on Inspiron 8200. On the initial
installation, it gets its ip via dhcp. All good. I did an apt-get for
the 2.4-18 kernel, recompiled it with some changes, restart and no
more. On ifconfig I see lo and eth0, but I don’t get anything.
charles yoo wrote:
I should have written /etc/network/interfaces.
In reading a few things on the net, a lot of people suggested to have the
autho eth0 commented out. This is for a laptop. I'm coming from redhat,
and once dhcp is set, you can more or less leave it that way.
All that I'm trying
Rene Cunningham wrote:
On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 07:51:23PM +0300, gustavo wrote:
Ive got an R40 with a Radeon M6 7000. xfree86 natively supports this
card with the vesa driver. If you want 3d acceleration you need to
follow this good tutorial.
http://www.debianplanet.org/node.php?id=253
Tho
reter (the
shell) to determine which libraries the script depends on.
-- jason kraftcheck
Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn wrote:
On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Ben wrote:
These are the relevant modules (wrt. the usb mouse) lsmod shows on my
laptop (acer tm 634), kernel 2.4.19:
mousedev3736 0 (unused)
hid17892 0 (unused)
usbmouse1784 0 (unu
Shyamal Prasad wrote:
"Bob" == Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Bob> ben wrote:
>> if i enter modconf on my latest compile no usbmouse shows up,
>> however if i lsmod it appears. I am still not sure if this is
>> the problem as my kernel 2.4.18 (bf24) has this module lo
Shyamal Prasad wrote:
"Bob" == Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Bob> ben wrote:
>> if i enter modconf on my latest compile no usbmouse shows up,
>> however if i lsmod it appears. I am still not sure if this is
>> the problem as my kernel 2.4.18 (bf24) has this module lo
ben wrote:
things are getting messy here.
Thanks to everyone that has replied, I greatly appreciate your replies,
however the messages are getting confused.
I have reposted this to try and clear things up a little.
I do not have usb-ohci installed. I am running an Asus laptop with Intel
chipse
ork then? Does it
start working when you load usbmouse?
thanks much,
-- jason kraftcheck
ben wrote:
note 1 : the mouse works fine in kernel 2.4.18, but not in kernel 2.4.22
- on the same machine.
Have you tested without X or gpm running? When I upgraded to 2.4.22 I
noticed some issues when X tried to open /dev/input/mice before mousedev
was loaded.
note 2: lsmod while running
lier on a Dell Inspiron 4100 before I go messing with my
kernel again. Or at least maybe someone can confirm that the driver works
at all with an Inspiron 4100.
thanks much,
--
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ajTreece wrote:
I've just completed an install on my Fujitsu laptop and was just
wondering...
There will be times when I will use an external monitor with the laptop.
How do I change Gnome / X11 config to go from 800x600 to 1280x1024?
Assuming you have multiple resolutions specified in y
lier on a Dell Inspiron 4100 before I go messing with my
kernel again. Or at least maybe someone can confirm that the driver works
at all with an Inspiron 4100.
thanks much,
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ajTreece wrote:
I've just completed an install on my Fujitsu laptop and was just
wondering...
There will be times when I will use an external monitor with the laptop.
How do I change Gnome / X11 config to go from 800x600 to 1280x1024?
Assuming you have multiple resolutions specified in your
?
Should I?
thanks much,
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J. Volkmann wrote:
Hello,
I am trying to get a netgear MA 401 to work on a toshiba 3000-512.
I had it running once, but I killed the kernel modules so I have to do
it again. Unfortunately I do not recognize what I did back then.
To remove it, I deleted the /lib/modules and the /etc/pcmcia and
re
Carl Baldwin wrote:
Are there any XFree86 drivers that handle touchpads specifically. I
poked around the XFree86 site for a while and couldn't find anything.
Specifically, I would like to be able to scroll with the touch pad.
Also, I remember being able to do this with an older laptop, I would
l
mi wrote:
Hello,
while i was roaming on a textconsole, and the laptop only on battery, the
machine suddenly powered off. Leaving it badly with filesystem checks.
Now i wonder how to get a 'battery critical' warning yonder there ?
Here's some junk from my .bashrc to color the shell promp
Alex Malinovich wrote:
On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 08:01, Karsten Rothemund wrote:
Hello *
I have a big problem with a DELL Inspiron 8100. After nearly a year
working with this machine running Debian Woody, I suddenly had some
problems with the fans. After a suspend-to-RAM, and the wake-up 5
Minutes la
en
PS1="\[\e[\${APM_COLOR}m\]\h\$\[\e[0m\] "
else
PS1="\[\e[1m\](\$APM_AC\$APM_PERCENT%)\h\$\[\e[0m\] "
fi
fi
Fabio Sirna wrote:
I do some change on the bash script that I've posted few days ago. This
works better. It must be in the .bashrc.
.,-''-
Robert wrote:
I'm having trouble getting the touchpad on my laptop to work under
debian woody
My laptop is a Gateway Solo 1200, and it has a synaptic
when i used dpkg-reconfigure on xserver-xfree86 and set it up as a
default ps/2 mouse, the cursor only moved about in about a 640 x 480
section o
mi wrote:
Does anybody know if grub can boot a kernel from an ext3 rootfilesystem,
( with a /boot directory) - or if it's necessary to have an ext2 /boot
partition then ?
Didn't found anything explicitly in the docs...
As an ext3 filesystem can be mounted as ext2, I would think grub wouldn't
car
Peter S. Hayes wrote:
OK... I give up trying this without a little help...
I'm trying to get Debian Linux (woody...2.4.18) onto my Dell Inspiron
8200 with the NVidia GE Force 440 Go video card (64 MB) of memory.
I have run through the installation a couple of times (each time the
installation
Chris Hoover wrote:
Hello,
I have a question, I have a Dell Inspiron 8200 that has a 10/100 nic
and a wireless nic. I use this system both at work and home. When I
am at work, I am hard wired, but wireless at home. Is there anyway to
set the bootup so that it only activates the 10/100 nic wh
Anders Malmberg wrote:
Hi!
I installed XFree86.4.3.0 last week because this version supported my
ATI Mobility Radeon 7500 screen. I have some problems after this.
(I am able to run startx and everything looks nice that far :)
1. The session manager is lost somewhere...
When I log on I only recieve
Ben Southwood wrote:
All you Gurus: I can't work this out! (neither can Google!)
Well, I'm definitely not a guru, but I'm using a USB mouse on Debian, and
can try to point out what is different in my setup.
My USB mouse does not work. The lights are on but nobodies home...
but lsmod shows:
Mo
ol
and see if your trackpad/eraser/whatever works without an external mouse
connected.
That's all I can think of right now. Eagerly awaiting being able to
scroll through documents without moving my arms/wrist,
Dan
The easiest solution is to get a USB mouse. This whole mess stems from
the fact that you can only have one PS/2 pointer and the internal device
is a PS/2 pointer. You can have all the USB pointing devices you want.
--
jason kraftcheck
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Nori Heikkinen wrote:
Hi all,
I'm trying to install debian on a Dell Inspiron 8000. It's being a
little less cooperative than the desktop systems I'm used to!
My main problem right now is that on the console (i haven't even
gotten X up yet), the screen is normal for the top quarter, and then
re
charles yoo wrote:
I just went through my woody install on Inspiron 8200. On the initial
installation, it gets its ip via dhcp. All good. I did an apt-get for
the 2.4-18 kernel, recompiled it with some changes, restart and no
more. On ifconfig I see lo and eth0, but I don’t get anything.
charles yoo wrote:
I should have written /etc/network/interfaces.
In reading a few things on the net, a lot of people suggested to have the
autho eth0 commented out. This is for a laptop. I'm coming from redhat,
and once dhcp is set, you can more or less leave it that way.
All that I'm trying to
Rene Cunningham wrote:
On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 07:51:23PM +0300, gustavo wrote:
Ive got an R40 with a Radeon M6 7000. xfree86 natively supports this
card with the vesa driver. If you want 3d acceleration you need to
follow this good tutorial.
http://www.debianplanet.org/node.php?id=253
Those in
(the
shell) to determine which libraries the script depends on.
-- jason kraftcheck
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Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn wrote:
On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Ben wrote:
These are the relevant modules (wrt. the usb mouse) lsmod shows on my
laptop (acer tm 634), kernel 2.4.19:
mousedev3736 0 (unused)
hid17892 0 (unused)
usbmouse1784 0 (unused)
Shyamal Prasad wrote:
"Bob" == Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Bob> ben wrote:
>> if i enter modconf on my latest compile no usbmouse shows up,
>> however if i lsmod it appears. I am still not sure if this is
>> the problem as my kernel 2.4.18 (bf24) has this module load
Shyamal Prasad wrote:
"Bob" == Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Bob> ben wrote:
>> if i enter modconf on my latest compile no usbmouse shows up,
>> however if i lsmod it appears. I am still not sure if this is
>> the problem as my kernel 2.4.18 (bf24) has this module load
ben wrote:
things are getting messy here.
Thanks to everyone that has replied, I greatly appreciate your replies,
however the messages are getting confused.
I have reposted this to try and clear things up a little.
I do not have usb-ohci installed. I am running an Asus laptop with Intel
chipset a
Does it
start working when you load usbmouse?
thanks much,
-- jason kraftcheck
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ben wrote:
note 1 : the mouse works fine in kernel 2.4.18, but not in kernel 2.4.22
- on the same machine.
Have you tested without X or gpm running? When I upgraded to 2.4.22 I
noticed some issues when X tried to open /dev/input/mice before mousedev
was loaded.
note 2: lsmod while running 2.4.
Nicolas wrote:
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. If I don't specify "screen 0" or "screen 1" in the Device
section, the second monitor don't receive signal. I
is appreciated.
I'm not familiar with the current installer (been a while since I
installed on a new box), but the following has worked for me in the past:
- do ctrl-alt-F2 to switch out of the installer to a console
- if necessary mount the partition where you have tulip.o
- insmod tulip.o
Philipp Bliedung wrote:
Hi,
How can I activate hardware acceleration for my GeForce2Go Grafikkarte
-- Dell Inspiron 8100 ??
When I try to start Americas Army (www.americasarmy.com) i get this
error message:
~/programs/armyops$ ./armyops
GL_EXT_bgra not supported - bailing out.
History:
Exitin
Pål Dahle wrote:
Hi all,
I have a Dell D600 running under kernel 2.4.23 and XFree86 4.3.0
The screen resolution is 1400x1050.
Great machine, but there is one thing irritating me alot:
To move the pointer across one of the screen diagonals using the
touchpad I have to slide a finger across the pa
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Hash: SHA1
Jesús Pérez wrote:
> Hi,
>
> how can install wireless keyboard and mouse usb in my laptop ?
>
> laptop: Aspire 1400LC
> debian sid
> kernel 2.4.25
Nothing special about wireless. To setup a USB mouse and keyboard:
If you are not set up yet to use US
Nicolas wrote:
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. If I don't specify "screen 0" or "screen 1" in the Device
section, the second monitor don't receive signal.
is appreciated.
I'm not familiar with the current installer (been a while since I
installed on a new box), but the following has worked for me in the past:
- do ctrl-alt-F2 to switch out of the installer to a console
- if necessary mount the partition where you have tulip.o
- insmo
Philipp Bliedung wrote:
Hi,
How can I activate hardware acceleration for my GeForce2Go Grafikkarte
-- Dell Inspiron 8100 ??
When I try to start Americas Army (www.americasarmy.com) i get this
error message:
~/programs/armyops$ ./armyops
GL_EXT_bgra not supported - bailing out.
History:
Ex
Pål Dahle wrote:
Hi all,
I have a Dell D600 running under kernel 2.4.23 and XFree86 4.3.0
The screen resolution is 1400x1050.
Great machine, but there is one thing irritating me alot:
To move the pointer across one of the screen diagonals using the
touchpad I have to slide a finger across the
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
Jesús Pérez wrote:
> Hi,
>
> how can install wireless keyboard and mouse usb in my laptop ?
>
> laptop: Aspire 1400LC
> debian sid
> kernel 2.4.25
Nothing special about wireless. To setup a USB mouse and keyboard:
If you are not set up yet to use US
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