Suspend to disk.

2000-10-08 Thread Kieren Diment
I have an old Dell lattitude xpi P100 SD here with Slink installed. Apm is working fine. Apparently there is a suspend to disk facility, as when i press fn-d, i get a bios generated error message, somethiing like "suspend to disk failed". Does anybody know how to get this facility working? T

(Fwd) Re: Dell Latitude LX

2000-10-13 Thread Kieren Diment
Jay W. Anderson writes: > Jim - > > Check out www.dell.com > > You should be able to find all you need at their site. > There should be a service tag code and/or a express service code # > some where on the machine. On my Inspirion 7500. they are located on > the bottom of the bo

X Windows Geometry Question

2000-11-28 Thread Kieren Diment
I'm not sure if this is the correct place to ask, but I am having a minor problem with my laptops display under the standard Potato distribution with X and fvwm2 and blackbox using the SVGA and Neomagic X servers. Every time I start Xemacs 21.1 the default window geometry is such that either the

Re: potato, nfs, and pcmcia

2000-12-06 Thread Kieren Diment
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 09:46:20AM -0800, Andrew Perrin wrote: > Greetings. I am in the process of loading potato (2.2r0) from CD's onto a > laptop. The machine currently has no OS, but in the past did run > slink. There is no CD-ROM drive, but to load slink I used the rescue/root > floppies then

Suspend to disk.

2000-10-08 Thread Kieren Diment
I have an old Dell lattitude xpi P100 SD here with Slink installed. Apm is working fine. Apparently there is a suspend to disk facility, as when i press fn-d, i get a bios generated error message, somethiing like "suspend to disk failed". Does anybody know how to get this facility working?

(Fwd) Re: Dell Latitude LX

2000-10-13 Thread Kieren Diment
Jay W. Anderson writes: > Jim - > > Check out www.dell.com > > You should be able to find all you need at their site. > There should be a service tag code and/or a express service code # > some where on the machine. On my Inspirion 7500. they are located on > the bottom of the b

X Windows Geometry Question

2000-11-28 Thread Kieren Diment
I'm not sure if this is the correct place to ask, but I am having a minor problem with my laptops display under the standard Potato distribution with X and fvwm2 and blackbox using the SVGA and Neomagic X servers. Every time I start Xemacs 21.1 the default window geometry is such that either th

Re: potato, nfs, and pcmcia

2000-12-06 Thread Kieren Diment
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 09:46:20AM -0800, Andrew Perrin wrote: > Greetings. I am in the process of loading potato (2.2r0) from CD's onto a > laptop. The machine currently has no OS, but in the past did run > slink. There is no CD-ROM drive, but to load slink I used the rescue/root > floppies then