Re: Turning off backlight of TFT display

2000-08-07 Thread Keith Geffert
s 0 0 300 This promply turns the screen off after 5 minutes of inactivity. The man page will show the rest of the nifty options available. Keith Geffert Stefan Bellon wrote: > Hi all! > > I've a question concerning the backlight of the notebook's TFT display: > How

Re: New Sony VAIO support?

2000-04-12 Thread Keith Geffert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > wehe> hint, I would like to have such a machine and work on it ;-) > > if i had an extra, i'd send one to you ;-) > > wehe> Or more serious, what about a Linux VAIO Project? > > sounds interesting to me. > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subjec

Snd and X, pcg-505tr

2000-05-11 Thread Keith Geffert
n this thing works very well its not that great in a meeting environment. Using the mixer and turning everything up except the mic input (which I decrease all the way) doesn't work. I was wondering if anyone has tried this on a similar model. Keith Geffert

Re: PCMCIA modules recompilation: Undefined symbols

2000-06-07 Thread Keith Geffert
I've been running potato for a while and have upgraded kernels when they released new ones into the distribution points. So, I use kpkg to make my custom kernels and I've done it three or four times now and I've got my routine now. But since this last kernel image/pcmcia modules update I've gotte

Re: Turning off backlight of TFT display

2000-08-07 Thread Keith Geffert
s 0 0 300 This promply turns the screen off after 5 minutes of inactivity. The man page will show the rest of the nifty options available. Keith Geffert Stefan Bellon wrote: > Hi all! > > I've a question concerning the backlight of the notebook's TFT display: > How

Re: useful laptop specific apps?

2000-08-30 Thread Keith Geffert
Noah, Well I use some utilities of my own brew. You can download "sn" from http://www.penguingurus.com/projects/ This acts like su, or sg except for networks. You can "sn home" or, "sn work" and change networks on the fly without having to eject cards or anything like that. It will support as m

Re: useful laptop specific apps?

2000-08-31 Thread Keith Geffert
I'll check it out: Another reason why I opted for something like "sn" is because my apm stuff works so well, I never actually shutdown my system. I just use suspend to disk or suspend to dram... 9:08am up 6 days, 15:24, 2 users, load average: 0.18, 0.30, 0.45 Since this is also used for m

Re: Hibernating Vaio..how

2000-11-03 Thread Keith Geffert
Debian List wrote: > I set up a partition at the end of my drive which should be used for > hibernating. I have a sony pcg c1xs and am i supposed to just do apm > -s. Cause that doesnt suspend to disk. What im really asking is how do > you call the bios to take over and suspend everything to di

xfree86 4

2001-08-06 Thread Keith Geffert
Hello all, I finally convinced myself that I wanted to upgrade past potato. I had a desktop I did last week and I figured out all my little issues with Xfree 4 (course that was a mach64). Well I let dist-upgrade chew for a while and once I finally got it finished I added all the stuff for X v

Re: useful laptop specific apps?

2000-08-30 Thread Keith Geffert
Noah, Well I use some utilities of my own brew. You can download "sn" from http://www.penguingurus.com/projects/ This acts like su, or sg except for networks. You can "sn home" or, "sn work" and change networks on the fly without having to eject cards or anything like that. It will support as

Re: useful laptop specific apps?

2000-08-31 Thread Keith Geffert
I'll check it out: Another reason why I opted for something like "sn" is because my apm stuff works so well, I never actually shutdown my system. I just use suspend to disk or suspend to dram... 9:08am up 6 days, 15:24, 2 users, load average: 0.18, 0.30, 0.45 Since this is also used for

Re: Hibernating Vaio..how

2000-11-03 Thread Keith Geffert
Debian List wrote: > I set up a partition at the end of my drive which should be used for > hibernating. I have a sony pcg c1xs and am i supposed to just do apm > -s. Cause that doesnt suspend to disk. What im really asking is how do > you call the bios to take over and suspend everything to d

xfree86 4

2001-08-06 Thread Keith Geffert
Hello all, I finally convinced myself that I wanted to upgrade past potato. I had a desktop I did last week and I figured out all my little issues with Xfree 4 (course that was a mach64). Well I let dist-upgrade chew for a while and once I finally got it finished I added all the stuff for X

Re: Memory errors?

2003-01-09 Thread Keith Geffert
or a > while. > - - Are there other possibilities? > - - Are there any Linux tools that I can use to test the integrity of > physical RAM? > > -END PGP SIGNATURE- > -- > Keith Geffert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: IRDA

2002-03-05 Thread Keith Geffert
On Tue, 2002-03-05 at 08:21, Richard Ibbotson wrote: > Starting IrDA manager: sh: /proc/sys/net/irda/devname: No such file > or directory.Looking at it there is nothing in /sys/net. No > config files or anything. > Ummm.. there should be directories in /proc/sys/net/ Otherwise your

Re: IRDA

2002-03-05 Thread Keith Geffert
there. I suggest running lsmod, and making sure the irda module is mentioned. If not insmod it. If your 100% sure you have irda all setup in the kernel and the module is loaded, try upgrading to a newer 2.4 series kernel. -- Keith Geffert http://www.penguingurus.com/ GnuPG Public Key: http://www.penguingurus.com/public_key.txt

Re: Dlink DWL650 half working, link-Down when heavy loaded

2002-05-19 Thread Keith Geffert
oint. I use the linux-wlan-ng drivers (currently I'm using 0.1.14pre2). I'm happy with the performance and only have issues when my signal strength is very very low. (won't come back after getting closer to the ap, I have to re-insert the card). -- Keith Geffert http://

Re: Dlink DWL650 half working, link-Down when heavy loaded

2002-05-21 Thread Keith Geffert
ould not replicate this at home, I have a sneaking suspicion its one of the cables/cards on the wired side of things. -- Keith Geffert http://www.penguingurus.com/ GnuPG Public Key: http://www.penguingurus.com/public_key.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &quo

Re: Dlink DWL650 half working, link-Down when heavy loaded

2002-05-21 Thread Keith Geffert
.3.5 May 21 18:55:16 vaio kernel: ident: sta f/w: id=0x1f 1.3.5 And via the web based admin tool for the AP my ap firmware is 3.2.31 I'm running 2.4.18 with the preemptible kernel patch. -- Keith Geffert http://www.penguingurus.com/ GnuPG Public Key: http://www.penguingurus.com/public_key.tx

Re: IRDA

2002-03-05 Thread Keith Geffert
On Tue, 2002-03-05 at 08:21, Richard Ibbotson wrote: > Starting IrDA manager: sh: /proc/sys/net/irda/devname: No such file > or directory.Looking at it there is nothing in /sys/net. No > config files or anything. > Ummm.. there should be directories in /proc/sys/net/ Otherwise your

Re: IRDA

2002-03-05 Thread Keith Geffert
there. I suggest running lsmod, and making sure the irda module is mentioned. If not insmod it. If your 100% sure you have irda all setup in the kernel and the module is loaded, try upgrading to a newer 2.4 series kernel. -- Keith Geffert http://www.penguingurus.com/ GnuPG Public Key: http://www.pe

Re: Dlink DWL650 half working, link-Down when heavy loaded

2002-05-19 Thread Keith Geffert
oint. I use the linux-wlan-ng drivers (currently I'm using 0.1.14pre2). I'm happy with the performance and only have issues when my signal strength is very very low. (won't come back after getting closer to the ap, I have to re-insert the card). -- Keith Geffert http://

Re: Dlink DWL650 half working, link-Down when heavy loaded

2002-05-21 Thread Keith Geffert
ould not replicate this at home, I have a sneaking suspicion its one of the cables/cards on the wired side of things. -- Keith Geffert http://www.penguingurus.com/ GnuPG Public Key: http://www.penguingurus.com/public_key.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &quo

Re: Dlink DWL650 half working, link-Down when heavy loaded

2002-05-21 Thread Keith Geffert
.3.5 May 21 18:55:16 vaio kernel: ident: sta f/w: id=0x1f 1.3.5 And via the web based admin tool for the AP my ap firmware is 3.2.31 I'm running 2.4.18 with the preemptible kernel patch. -- Keith Geffert http://www.penguingurus.com/ GnuPG Public Key: http://www.penguingurus.com/public

Re: Memory errors?

2003-01-09 Thread Keith Geffert
or a > while. > - - Are there other possibilities? > - - Are there any Linux tools that I can use to test the integrity of > physical RAM? > > -END PGP SIGNATURE- > -- > Keith Geffert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part