Re: Automatic removing of unneeded .deb files?

2005-11-23 Thread Marcus C. Gottwald
s.list_gone sources.list (Though I do have "APT::Clean-Installed off;" set in apt.conf, so I am actually only issuing an "apt-get autoclean" command.) Cheers, Marcus -- Marcus C. Gottwald · http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~gottwald/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: kernel 2.6.19 + Cisco 350 Wireless adapter needs manual config:SOLVED

2007-01-21 Thread Marcus C. Gottwald
files in /etc/hotplug. You stated in an earlier email that you had > The directory /etc/hotplug is present only with hotplug installed... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -S /etc/hotplug kcontrol, libgphoto2-2, alsa-base: /etc/hotplug Cheers, Marcus -- Marcus C. Gottwald · http://www.in

Re: How to bind special button to ifup/ifdown

2007-03-06 Thread Marcus C. Gottwald
robe.d/ipw3945d install ipw3945 modprobe --ignore-install ipw3945 && /etc/init.d/ipw3945d modprobe-start remove ipw3945 /etc/init.d/ipw3945d modprobe-stop && modprobe -r --ignore-remove ipw3945 $ dpkg -S /etc/modprobe.d/ipw3945d ipw3945d: /etc/modprobe.d/ipw3945d Cheers, Ma

No tap-and-drag with gpm and Synaptics touchpad

2007-03-06 Thread Marcus C. Gottwald
config --tapmode=2 Found Synaptics Touchpad. Firmware: 8.96 (multiple-byte mode). Corner taps disabled; no tap gestures. # tpconfig --tapmode=3 Found Synaptics Touchpad. Firmware: 8.96 (multiple-byte mode). Corner taps disabled; no tap gestures. Anybody got a hint

Re: Best notebook

2007-04-10 Thread Marcus C. Gottwald
dels with an Intel graphics card for a reasonable surcharge, if you just dig deep enough into the Lenovo website. Cheers, Marcus -- Marcus C. Gottwald · http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~gottwald/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 2.6.8 ibm function keys

2004-09-28 Thread Marcus C. Gottwald
Kfir Lavi wrote (Tue 2004-Sep-28 13:10:25 +0200): > i have just upgraded to the newest 2.6.8 kernel, from the last 2.6.8 kernel. > now the fn blue key on my ibm 570 tp don't work. > what should i check? Debian bugs #272177 and #273474. -- Marcus C. Gottwald · http://www.in

Re: Synaptics Touchpad (again!...) X ok / console ko

2004-10-06 Thread Marcus C. Gottwald
gain just like it did back in the good old days using a kernel <2.6.1. The cleanest way to permanently change this setting would probably be a change to some file below "/etc/modutils" -- can anyone help? Adding a line "psmouse proto=imps" to "/etc/modules" would

Re: K3B CD-burning Dell 700m laptop, Only burns while root

2004-12-20 Thread Marcus C. Gottwald
while $@ is equivalent to $1 $2 $3... See "man bash" for details, look for "Special Parameters". Cheers, Marcus P.S.: Lots of tofu around here lately... -- Marcus C. Gottwald · http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~gottwald/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Firewall and Laptop

2004-12-31 Thread Marcus C. Gottwald
sarge. However, the scripts from woody are kept during an upgrade and are fully functional. Out of curiosity: What features are expected from a config tool? On a laptop computer, you'd seldom need a lot more than to allow outgoing, related or established traffic plus incoming SSH, wouldn't

devfs (was: Re: sound structure on a Dell inspiron 8600)

2005-01-08 Thread Marcus C. Gottwald
and its follow-up: http://lists.debian.org/debian-laptop/2004/01/msg00082.html Cheers, Marcus -- Marcus C. Gottwald · http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~gottwald/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: switching between wlan and ethernet

2005-01-19 Thread Marcus C. Gottwald
lan0 || true", I didn't test it. Cheers, Marcus -- Marcus C. Gottwald · http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~gottwald/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ipw2200 on Dell M60

2005-01-21 Thread Marcus C. Gottwald
ot; and watch out for the "parm:" lines. One of them should read "ifname:network device name (default wlan%d)" or similar. So if you load the module without specifying anything different, you should get an interface name as described. Cheers, Marcus -- Marcus C. Gottwald ·

Re: Awakening from suspend-to-mem

2005-05-12 Thread Marcus C. Gottwald
ios" usually seems to be given in reply to somebody stating that his laptop computer doesn't fully resume but gets stuck somehow. Cheers, Marcus -- Marcus C. Gottwald · http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~gottwald/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Dells TrueMobile doesnt work

2002-11-06 Thread Marcus C. Gottwald
ork) Goran, what your "lspci" shows might not be the WLAN card but e.g. a modem. See what "cardctl ident" shows. Cheers, Marcus -- Marcus C. Gottwald · http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~gottwald/

Re: Temperatur weirdnes

2002-11-26 Thread Marcus C. Gottwald
ore resume. And it happens more often if the machine is suspended for a longer time. Cheers, Marcus -- Marcus C. Gottwald · http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~gottwald/

Re: Temperatur weirdnes

2002-11-28 Thread Marcus C. Gottwald
that for half a year now. Thanks! I'm using a Latitude C400 with BIOS version A06 and need to press Fn+Y (German keyboard). Cheers, Marcus -- Marcus C. Gottwald · http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~gottwald/

Re: Dell cpu speed toggle (was: Temperatur weirdnes)

2002-12-01 Thread Marcus C. Gottwald
confusion: When looking at the speed of your CPU, remember to look at the A/C state. I get these values: A/C off A/C on high 662 858 low 150 194 Cheers, Marcus -- Marcus C. Gottwald · http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~gottwald/

Re: fritz!card pcmcia with woody

2002-12-27 Thread Marcus C. Gottwald
something is > missing, probably my kernel-configuratgion is wrong, or I need further > configuration for the pcmcia regognition. This article might contain a solution: http://lists.debian.org/debian-laptop/2002/debian-laptop-200209/msg00333.html Cheers, Marcus -- Marcus C.

Re: Dell Latitude C840 doesn't exit from suspend correctly

2003-01-18 Thread Marcus C. Gottwald
in low mode. Have a look at this post: http://lists.debian.org/debian-laptop/2002/debian-laptop-200212/msg00260.html Cheers, Marcus -- Marcus C. Gottwald · http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~gottwald/

Sendmail doing reverse lookups in various networks

2003-04-15 Thread Marcus C. Gottwald
a hint? TIA, Marcus -- http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,243562,00.html Marcus C. Gottwald · http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~gottwald/

Re: Sendmail doing reverse lookups in various networks

2003-04-15 Thread Marcus C. Gottwald
ers, Marcus -- http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,243562,00.html Marcus C. Gottwald · http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~gottwald/

Re: No fsck in battery mode

2003-09-07 Thread Marcus C. Gottwald
em parameter from "ext2" to "ext3". 4. You can immediately try "umount /dev/hdxx && mount /dev/hdxx". It will complain if the filesystem is in use; in that case rebooting is probably the easiest way to find out if it all worked. :-) Cheers, Marcus -- Marcus C. Gottwald · http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~gottwald/

Re: Apt-get problem

2003-09-22 Thread Marcus C. Gottwald
nf" or to a file in "/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/" such as "/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/local". Cheers, Marcus -- Marcus C. Gottwald · http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~gottwald/

Re: Boot Loader

2002-04-29 Thread Marcus C. Gottwald
o boot from. To deal with this, I have a "fdisk /mbr" created MBR and a lilo at the beginning of the partition which is usually marked as "bootable". More on <http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~gottwald/LatC400-linux.html>. Cheers, Marcus -- Marcus C. Gottwald · http://ww

i830m not detected by agpgart module

2002-08-22 Thread Marcus C. Gottwald
22 19:49:16 lilith kernel: Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann Aug 22 19:49:16 lilith kernel: agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 438M Aug 22 19:49:16 lilith kernel: agpgart: no supported devices found. Any idea what might be missing? TIA, Marcus -- Marcus C. Gottwald · http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~gottwald/

Re: i830m not detected by agpgart module

2002-08-24 Thread Marcus C. Gottwald
ot;make menuconfig"; don't know why. Anyway, a clean compilation did the job. Cheers, Marcus -- Marcus C. Gottwald · http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~gottwald/

Re: i830 chipset problems

2002-09-11 Thread Marcus C. Gottwald
d all I had to do was exchange the file /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/i810_drv.o for Jon Gans' patched version (available for download somewhere on http://www.jongans.com), include agpgart support in my 2.4.19 kernel and use the "i830-16bit.C" program by Jon Gans. Cheers, Marcus

Re: PCMCIA_WirelessMessages

2002-09-19 Thread Marcus C. Gottwald
nterrupts which are pulled by the other hardware. To get rid of that, uncomment line 1141 in "orinoco.c". :-) It's fixed in 2.4.19 (the line is commented out there). > eth1: Tx error, status 4 (FID=012E) Don't know about that one. Cheers, Marcus -- Marcus C

Re: AVM A1

2002-09-19 Thread Marcus C. Gottwald
" in 'start') /etc/init.d/isdnutils start ;; 'check') ;; 'stop') ;; 'cksum') exit 1 ;; 'suspend'|'resume') ;; *) echo "What?" exit 1 ;; esac exit 0 === > .. this system lacks PPP Kernel Support ??? Don't worry, it's probably not true. Cheers, Marcus -- Marcus C. Gottwald · http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~gottwald/

Re: Boot Loader

2002-04-29 Thread Marcus C. Gottwald
o boot from. To deal with this, I have a "fdisk /mbr" created MBR and a lilo at the beginning of the partition which is usually marked as "bootable". More on <http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~gottwald/LatC400-linux.html>. Cheers, Marcus -- Marcus C. Gottwald · http://ww

Re: PCMCIA_WirelessMessages

2002-09-18 Thread Marcus C. Gottwald
s sharing interrupts which are pulled by the other hardware. To get rid of that, uncomment line 1141 in "orinoco.c". :-) It's fixed in 2.4.19 (the line is commented out there). > eth1: Tx error, status 4 (FID=012E) Don't know about that one. Cheers, Marcus -- Marcus C

Re: AVM A1

2002-09-19 Thread Marcus C. Gottwald
" in 'start') /etc/init.d/isdnutils start ;; 'check') ;; 'stop') ;; 'cksum') exit 1 ;; 'suspend'|'resume') ;; *) echo "What?" exit 1 ;; esac exit 0 === > .. t

Re: Dells TrueMobile doesnt work

2002-11-06 Thread Marcus C. Gottwald
ork) Goran, what your "lspci" shows might not be the WLAN card but e.g. a modem. See what "cardctl ident" shows. Cheers, Marcus -- Marcus C. Gottwald · http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~gottwald/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Temperatur weirdnes

2002-11-26 Thread Marcus C. Gottwald
ore resume. And it happens more often if the machine is suspended for a longer time. Cheers, Marcus -- Marcus C. Gottwald · http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~gottwald/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Temperatur weirdnes

2002-11-28 Thread Marcus C. Gottwald
that for half a year now. Thanks! I'm using a Latitude C400 with BIOS version A06 and need to press Fn+Y (German keyboard). Cheers, Marcus -- Marcus C. Gottwald · http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~gottwald/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

Re: Dell cpu speed toggle (was: Temperatur weirdnes)

2002-12-01 Thread Marcus C. Gottwald
confusion: When looking at the speed of your CPU, remember to look at the A/C state. I get these values: A/C off A/C on high 662 858 low 150 194 Cheers, Marcus -- Marcus C. Gottwald · http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~gottwald/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: fritz!card pcmcia with woody

2002-12-27 Thread Marcus C. Gottwald
something is missing, >probably my kernel-configuratgion is wrong, or I need further configuration for the >pcmcia regognition. This article might contain a solution: http://lists.debian.org/debian-laptop/2002/debian-laptop-200209/msg00333.html Cheers, Marcus -- Marcus C.

Re: Dell Latitude C840 doesn't exit from suspend correctly

2003-01-18 Thread Marcus C. Gottwald
in low mode. Have a look at this post: http://lists.debian.org/debian-laptop/2002/debian-laptop-200212/msg00260.html Cheers, Marcus -- Marcus C. Gottwald · http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~gottwald/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: No fsck in battery mode

2003-09-07 Thread Marcus C. Gottwald
em parameter from "ext2" to "ext3". 4. You can immediately try "umount /dev/hdxx && mount /dev/hdxx". It will complain if the filesystem is in use; in that case rebooting is probably the easiest way to find out if it all worked. :-) Cheers, Marcus --

Re: Apt-get problem

2003-09-21 Thread Marcus C. Gottwald
nf" or to a file in "/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/" such as "/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/local". Cheers, Marcus -- Marcus C. Gottwald · http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~gottwald/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Re: custom install

2003-10-13 Thread Marcus C. Gottwald
very clean way of copying a whole filesystem's contents. Cheers, Marcus -- Marcus C. Gottwald · http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~gottwald/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

devfs (was: Re: Vaio Can't reboot after kernel upgrade)

2004-01-07 Thread Marcus C. Gottwald
atures, and it's going to be removed completely. If you do need it, you could think about mounting it at a different position (e.g. "/devfs"). This way, you don't have to change the config of any program already running fine. Cheers, Marcus -- Marcus C. Gottwald · http:/

Re: Synaptics in 2.6.X

2004-02-07 Thread Marcus C. Gottwald
it does for me. 2.6.1 and 2.6.2 don't have a "SYNAPTICS" option anymore. They detect and display lots of details about the touchpad at boot time. Problem is that tapping does not work anymore until the next cold(!) restart after a 2.6.1 or a 2.6.2 have been analyzing the hardware... Che

Re: Synaptics in 2.6.X

2004-02-07 Thread Marcus C. Gottwald
ing next: tapping still won't work. I need to turn it off and on again (and then use Linux <= 2.6.0). > ... And have you solved > the problem?? No. Cheers, Marcus -- Marcus C. Gottwald · http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~gottwald/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Synaptics in 2.6.X

2004-02-07 Thread Marcus C. Gottwald
> "mouse"... To avoid confusion: The problem has got nothing to do with X or X configuration. GPM listening on /dev/psaux doesn't see any tapping either. Cheers, Marcus -- Marcus C. Gottwald · http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~gottwald/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Re: Synaptics in 2.6.X

2004-02-09 Thread Marcus C. Gottwald
apping from the touchpad. Moving the cursor around works as always, using the buttons works, too. Using the eventX devices didn't really work at all. While I can "cat" them and see something going on, they don't seem to like gpm. :-) Cheers, Marcus -- Marcus C. Gottwald · htt

Re: Re: custom install

2003-10-13 Thread Marcus C. Gottwald
very clean way of copying a whole filesystem's contents. Cheers, Marcus -- Marcus C. Gottwald · http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~gottwald/

Re: Synaptics Touchpad (again!...) X ok / console ko

2004-10-06 Thread Marcus C. Gottwald
gain just like it did back in the good old days using a kernel <2.6.1. The cleanest way to permanently change this setting would probably be a change to some file below "/etc/modutils" -- can anyone help? Adding a line "psmouse proto=imps" to "/etc/modules" would be a simple way to start with. Cheers, Marcus -- Marcus C. Gottwald · http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~gottwald/

devfs (was: Re: Vaio Can't reboot after kernel upgrade)

2004-01-07 Thread Marcus C. Gottwald
atures, and it's going to be removed completely. If you do need it, you could think about mounting it at a different position (e.g. "/devfs"). This way, you don't have to change the config of any program already running fine. Cheers, Marcus -- Marcus C. Gottwald · http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~gottwald/

Re: Synaptics in 2.6.X

2004-02-07 Thread Marcus C. Gottwald
it does for me. 2.6.1 and 2.6.2 don't have a "SYNAPTICS" option anymore. They detect and display lots of details about the touchpad at boot time. Problem is that tapping does not work anymore until the next cold(!) restart after a 2.6.1 or a 2.6.2 have been analyzing the hardware... Che

Re: Synaptics in 2.6.X

2004-02-07 Thread Marcus C. Gottwald
ing next: tapping still won't work. I need to turn it off and on again (and then use Linux <= 2.6.0). > ... And have you solved > the problem?? No. Cheers, Marcus -- Marcus C. Gottwald · http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~gottwald/

Re: Synaptics in 2.6.X

2004-02-07 Thread Marcus C. Gottwald
> "mouse"... To avoid confusion: The problem has got nothing to do with X or X configuration. GPM listening on /dev/psaux doesn't see any tapping either. Cheers, Marcus -- Marcus C. Gottwald · http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~gottwald/

Re: Synaptics in 2.6.X

2004-02-09 Thread Marcus C. Gottwald
apping from the touchpad. Moving the cursor around works as always, using the buttons works, too. Using the eventX devices didn't really work at all. While I can "cat" them and see something going on, they don't seem to like gpm. :-) Cheers, Marcus -- Marcus C. Gottwald · http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~gottwald/

Re: 2.6.8 ibm function keys

2004-09-28 Thread Marcus C. Gottwald
Kfir Lavi wrote (Tue 2004-Sep-28 13:10:25 +0200): > i have just upgraded to the newest 2.6.8 kernel, from the last 2.6.8 kernel. > now the fn blue key on my ibm 570 tp don't work. > what should i check? Debian bugs #272177 and #273474. -- Marcus C. Gottwald · http://www.in