postinstallation: drive_cmd: seek complete error

2008-01-07 Thread Martin Wegmann
Hello, I installed debian (netinstall) on a T61 Thinkpad which worked fine until I booted my system after the installation. The monitor turns blank after a few seconds and the system did not respond anymore. It tooks me a few reboots to read the last error message. ... setting Advanced Power

Re: postinstallation: drive_cmd: seek complete error

2008-01-07 Thread Martin Wegmann
hello Franklin, On Monday 07 January 2008 13:00:04 Franklin Piat wrote: > Hello Martin, > > On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 11:44:48 +0100, Martin Wegmann > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I installed debian (netinstall) on a T61 Thinkpad which worked

Re: postinstallation: drive_cmd: seek complete error

2008-01-07 Thread Martin Wegmann
On Monday 07 January 2008 14:11:24 Franklin Piat wrote: > Martin, > > On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 13:17:19 +0100, Martin Wegmann wrote: > > On Monday 07 January 2008 13:00:04 Franklin Piat wrote: > >> On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 11:44:48 +0100, Martin Wegmann wrote: > >> > I in

Re: postinstallation: drive_cmd: seek complete error

2008-01-07 Thread Martin Wegmann
On Monday 07 January 2008 19:23:14 Martin Wegmann wrote: > On Monday 07 January 2008 14:11:24 Franklin Piat wrote: > > Martin, > > > > On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 13:17:19 +0100, Martin Wegmann wrote: > > > On Monday 07 January 2008 13:00:04 Franklin Piat wrote: > >

external hard drive

2004-06-17 Thread Martin Wegmann
Hello, I tried to set up my new external hard drive (Samsung 160 GB, FDB 3.5" SP1604N) using debian testing/unstable, Kernel 2.4.22-xfs. I used fdisk to partition the hard drive into 3 approx. 50 GB partitions - worked fine. Then I added in /etc/fstab /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 ext2 noauto,users,e

external hard drive

2004-06-17 Thread Martin Wegmann
Hello, I tried to set up my new external hard drive (Samsung 160 GB, FDB 3.5" SP1604N) using Kernel 2.4.22-xfs. I used fdisk to partition the hard drive into 3 approx. 50 GB partitions - worked fine. Then I added in /etc/fstab /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 auto noauto,users,exec 0 0 /dev/sda2 /mnt/s

Re: external hard drive

2004-06-18 Thread Martin Wegmann
On Thursday 17 June 2004 23:32, Frans Pop wrote: [] > Looks to me like you missed a fairly basic and extremely vital step: > formating the filesystems with mkfs. ähm, well, next morning, new brain resources, I had the same idea and yeah, I forgot to do mke2fs /dev/sda1 . ;-) thanks for y

clean storage device

2004-08-16 Thread Martin Wegmann
Hello, I is rather not a 100% laptop question but it is due to the small storage device on my laptop (30 GB on IBM T40). I partitioned my harddrive and left 11GB for my / directory. My home directory holds more or less 3 GB, nevertheless do I get into trouble at the moment because the partiti

beamer with thinkpad

2003-08-22 Thread Martin Wegmann
stuff." http://www.math.rutgers.edu/~amurphy/linux/IBM-T40.html I haven't found any other pages about T40 and the use of a beamer, is there a way to enable the video out and use a beamer? thanks for your help, cheers Martin -- Martin Wegmann Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical

sound on a Thinkpad T40

2003-09-15 Thread Martin Wegmann
Hello, I tried to get my sound running on a T40. First time I tried to listen to a web-radio via xmms the music was 10 times faster than usual - pretty funny but not what I wanted, anyway xmms died after a few secondes. Then I did /etc/init.d/alsa-autoconfig as root but now I get no sound at

Re: sound on a Thinkpad T40

2003-09-15 Thread Martin Wegmann
> Martin Wegmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I tried to get my sound running on a T40. First time I tried to > > listen to a web-radio via xmms the music was 10 times faster than > > usual - pretty funny but not what I wanted, anyway xmms died after a > > few

Re: sound on a Thinkpad T40 - new info

2003-09-15 Thread Martin Wegmann
On Monday 15 September 2003 16:23, Martin Wegmann wrote: > > Martin Wegmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I tried to get my sound running on a T40. First time I tried to > > > listen to a web-radio via xmms the music was 10 times faster than > > > usu

modem up and running but no ping

2003-10-07 Thread Martin Wegmann
Hello, last time I have been away from the uni-network I wanted to use my modem (ms-modem). The modem worked but I can't get into the web (KPPP worked fine and told me as well that I am conected but ping -c 2 www.yahoo.com prompts that it is unknown) do I have to change something elsewhere li

Re: modem up and running but no ping

2003-10-07 Thread Martin Wegmann
On Tuesday 07 October 2003 14:06, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Martin Wegmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.10.07.1114 +0200]: > > last time I have been away from the uni-network I wanted to use my modem > > (ms-modem). The modem worked but I can't get into the web

beamer with thinkpad

2003-08-22 Thread Martin Wegmann
stuff." http://www.math.rutgers.edu/~amurphy/linux/IBM-T40.html I haven't found any other pages about T40 and the use of a beamer, is there a way to enable the video out and use a beamer? thanks for your help, cheers Martin -- Martin Wegmann Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical

sound on a Thinkpad T40

2003-09-15 Thread Martin Wegmann
Hello, I tried to get my sound running on a T40. First time I tried to listen to a web-radio via xmms the music was 10 times faster than usual - pretty funny but not what I wanted, anyway xmms died after a few secondes. Then I did /etc/init.d/alsa-autoconfig as root but now I get no sound at

Re: sound on a Thinkpad T40

2003-09-15 Thread Martin Wegmann
> Martin Wegmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I tried to get my sound running on a T40. First time I tried to > > listen to a web-radio via xmms the music was 10 times faster than > > usual - pretty funny but not what I wanted, anyway xmms died after a > > few

Re: sound on a Thinkpad T40 - new info

2003-09-15 Thread Martin Wegmann
On Monday 15 September 2003 16:23, Martin Wegmann wrote: > > Martin Wegmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I tried to get my sound running on a T40. First time I tried to > > > listen to a web-radio via xmms the music was 10 times faster than > > > usu

modem up and running but no ping

2003-10-07 Thread Martin Wegmann
Hello, last time I have been away from the uni-network I wanted to use my modem (ms-modem). The modem worked but I can't get into the web (KPPP worked fine and told me as well that I am conected but ping -c 2 www.yahoo.com prompts that it is unknown) do I have to change something elsewhere li

Re: modem up and running but no ping

2003-10-07 Thread Martin Wegmann
On Tuesday 07 October 2003 14:06, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Martin Wegmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.10.07.1114 +0200]: > > last time I have been away from the uni-network I wanted to use my modem > > (ms-modem). The modem worked but I can't get into the web

screen size and projector

2003-10-16 Thread Martin Wegmann
Hello, when using a beamer/projector only a small part of my screen is displayed. It is due to my screen resolution or due to something else? How do I change the displayed (via projector) screen size? thanks in advance, cheers Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Re: screen size and projector - more infos

2003-10-17 Thread Martin Wegmann
sorry that I did not specify my model etc. well I am using a T40 IBM, 14" and various projectors (->uni) - I know the Fn-F7 function which starts displaying the screen via a projector. any more infos needed? On Thursday 16 October 2003 17:44, Martin Wegmann wrote: > when usi

Re: Pentium-M

2003-11-03 Thread Martin Wegmann
Hello, [snip] > I think something has to be wrong... 1 1/2h battery life using a Centrino > based laptop? 8-? > > Mine's an Acer TM290, and the battery lasts about 4h under linux (never > tryed that under windows). Of course it depends on your use of it but... > > Are you using cpufreq? Is your

Re: Pentium-M

2003-11-04 Thread Martin Wegmann
On Tuesday 04 November 2003 10:37, Ducrot Bruno wrote: > > > cat /proc/cpuinfo > > > processor : 0 > > > vendor_id : GenuineIntel > > > cpu family : 6 > > > model : 9 > > > model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1300MHz > > > stepping: 5 > > > cpu MHz

power book 190

2003-11-07 Thread Martin Wegmann
Hello, my problem is that my supervisor gave me a PowerBook 190 and told me to make it usable for ivorian counterparts - well I haven't been in touch with Apple yet and I shall get software for this OS version and it must be in french. My first idea was that I can install debian. Then it will

Re: Advice on new laptop

2003-11-07 Thread Martin Wegmann
Hello, I have the strong impression that it is a philosophy by it's own which notebook is the best (for Linux) but I can strongly recommend IBM notebooks, they are even "Linux certified" by Suse and IBM (if you can read german -> www.nofost.de which sells discounted notebooks to students only)

modem and no ping

2003-11-15 Thread Martin Wegmann
last mail in the archive:] >also sprach Martin Wegmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.10.07.1448 +0200]: > >[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/$ /sbin/route -n > >Kernel IP routing table > >Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface > >145.253.1.121

Re: modem and no ping

2003-11-18 Thread Martin Wegmann
On Sunday 16 November 2003 02:15, Bill Marcum wrote: > On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 12:16:27AM +0100, Martin Wegmann wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I apologize for my delayed reply, I posted a question approx. one month > > ago, but did not find time to proceed, here is my repl

Modem in T40 - stopped responding

2004-02-03 Thread Martin Wegmann
hello, I managed some month ago to get my modem in a IBM T40 running. With the slmdm 2.7.10 kernel modules for SmartLink Soft Modems support and the patch apllied it worked. But now KPPP responded that it is unable to open the modem. lspci -v showed up with 00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Cor

kernel-image 2.6.2 T 40 IBM

2004-02-22 Thread Martin Wegmann
Hello, I am really tempted to upgrade my kernel but in the same moment I am afraid of loosing my data ( the usual problem ;-) ). I searched the web for kernel upgrades to 2.6.2 on a already running debian (especially on an IBM T40). The majority of pages I found were description of problems

Re: kernel-image 2.6.2 T 40 IBM

2004-02-23 Thread Martin Wegmann
On Monday 23 February 2004 09:45, Lukas Ruf wrote: > > Miroslav Maiksnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-02-22 18:48]: > > > > Hi, AFAIK, there are no problems when upgrading kernel, even from > > 2.4 to 2.6. There may be possible problem with 2.6 kernel on your > > IBM, but there is always possibility t

Re: kernel-image 2.6.2 T 40 IBM

2004-02-23 Thread Martin Wegmann
On Monday 23 February 2004 15:08, Lukas Ruf wrote: [snip] > > > however, you need to take care of not upgrading X. I took me some > > > time to get back to 4.2 after 4.3 crashed the screen output > > > totally. > > > > when I mark kernel-image-2.6.2-1-686 for installation just hotplug > > has to b

Re: kernel-image 2.6.2 T 40 IBM

2004-02-23 Thread Martin Wegmann
>As a reminder, in order to configure LILO, you need >to add an 'initrd=/initrd.img' to the image=/vmlinuz >stanza of your /etc/lilo.conf > > I added this line to /etc/lilo.conf (marked with ->) > > image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22-xfs > label=Linux > initrd=/boot/initrd.gz >

Re: kernel-image 2.6.2 T 40 IBM

2004-02-24 Thread Martin Wegmann
On Monday 23 February 2004 22:50, Miroslav Maiksnar wrote: > Dne po 23. února 2004 15:57 Martin Wegmann napsal(a): [snip] > lba32 > boot=/dev/hda > root=/dev/hda5# Replace with your root partition > default=Linux > > image=/vmlinuz > label=Linux >

Re: kernel-image 2.6.2 T 40 IBM - solved

2004-02-25 Thread Martin Wegmann
On Wednesday 25 February 2004 00:06, Miroslav Maiksnar wrote: > Dne út 24. února 2004 14:32 Martin Wegmann napsal(a): > > [...] > > > > /sbin/lilo > > Fatal: open /vmlinuz: No such file or directory > > > > but /vmlinuz definitely exists as ls -l under

printer problem and kde 3.2

2004-03-25 Thread Martin Wegmann
Hello, I upgraded kde 3.1.5 to 3.2 all my printers (network printers) were already configured in kde 3.1.5. in kde 3.2 when I try to print, every applications crash. Even the Control Center crashed after I opened the Peripheral-Printer interface and tried to set up new printers. The previously

screen size and projector

2003-10-16 Thread Martin Wegmann
Hello, when using a beamer/projector only a small part of my screen is displayed. It is due to my screen resolution or due to something else? How do I change the displayed (via projector) screen size? thanks in advance, cheers Martin

Re: screen size and projector - more infos

2003-10-17 Thread Martin Wegmann
sorry that I did not specify my model etc. well I am using a T40 IBM, 14" and various projectors (->uni) - I know the Fn-F7 function which starts displaying the screen via a projector. any more infos needed? On Thursday 16 October 2003 17:44, Martin Wegmann wrote: > when usi

Re: Pentium-M

2003-11-03 Thread Martin Wegmann
Hello, [snip] > I think something has to be wrong... 1 1/2h battery life using a Centrino > based laptop? 8-? > > Mine's an Acer TM290, and the battery lasts about 4h under linux (never > tryed that under windows). Of course it depends on your use of it but... > > Are you using cpufreq? Is your

Re: Pentium-M

2003-11-04 Thread Martin Wegmann
On Tuesday 04 November 2003 10:37, Ducrot Bruno wrote: > > > cat /proc/cpuinfo > > > processor : 0 > > > vendor_id : GenuineIntel > > > cpu family : 6 > > > model : 9 > > > model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1300MHz > > > stepping: 5 > > > cpu MHz

power book 190

2003-11-07 Thread Martin Wegmann
Hello, my problem is that my supervisor gave me a PowerBook 190 and told me to make it usable for ivorian counterparts - well I haven't been in touch with Apple yet and I shall get software for this OS version and it must be in french. My first idea was that I can install debian. Then it will

Re: Advice on new laptop

2003-11-07 Thread Martin Wegmann
Hello, I have the strong impression that it is a philosophy by it's own which notebook is the best (for Linux) but I can strongly recommend IBM notebooks, they are even "Linux certified" by Suse and IBM (if you can read german -> www.nofost.de which sells discounted notebooks to students only)

modem and no ping

2003-11-15 Thread Martin Wegmann
last mail in the archive:] >also sprach Martin Wegmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.10.07.1448 +0200]: > >[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/$ /sbin/route -n > >Kernel IP routing table > >Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface > >145.253.1.121

Re: modem and no ping

2003-11-18 Thread Martin Wegmann
On Sunday 16 November 2003 02:15, Bill Marcum wrote: > On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 12:16:27AM +0100, Martin Wegmann wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I apologize for my delayed reply, I posted a question approx. one month > > ago, but did not find time to proceed, here is my repl

Modem in T40 - stopped responding

2004-02-03 Thread Martin Wegmann
hello, I managed some month ago to get my modem in a IBM T40 running. With the slmdm 2.7.10 kernel modules for SmartLink Soft Modems support and the patch apllied it worked. But now KPPP responded that it is unable to open the modem. lspci -v showed up with 00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Cor

kernel-image 2.6.2 T 40 IBM

2004-02-22 Thread Martin Wegmann
Hello, I am really tempted to upgrade my kernel but in the same moment I am afraid of loosing my data ( the usual problem ;-) ). I searched the web for kernel upgrades to 2.6.2 on a already running debian (especially on an IBM T40). The majority of pages I found were description of problems

Re: kernel-image 2.6.2 T 40 IBM

2004-02-23 Thread Martin Wegmann
On Monday 23 February 2004 09:45, Lukas Ruf wrote: > > Miroslav Maiksnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-02-22 18:48]: > > > > Hi, AFAIK, there are no problems when upgrading kernel, even from > > 2.4 to 2.6. There may be possible problem with 2.6 kernel on your > > IBM, but there is always possibility t

Re: kernel-image 2.6.2 T 40 IBM

2004-02-23 Thread Martin Wegmann
On Monday 23 February 2004 15:08, Lukas Ruf wrote: [snip] > > > however, you need to take care of not upgrading X. I took me some > > > time to get back to 4.2 after 4.3 crashed the screen output > > > totally. > > > > when I mark kernel-image-2.6.2-1-686 for installation just hotplug > > has to b

Re: kernel-image 2.6.2 T 40 IBM

2004-02-23 Thread Martin Wegmann
>As a reminder, in order to configure LILO, you need >to add an 'initrd=/initrd.img' to the image=/vmlinuz >stanza of your /etc/lilo.conf > > I added this line to /etc/lilo.conf (marked with ->) > > image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22-xfs > label=Linux > initrd=/boot/initrd.gz >

Re: kernel-image 2.6.2 T 40 IBM

2004-02-24 Thread Martin Wegmann
On Monday 23 February 2004 22:50, Miroslav Maiksnar wrote: > Dne po 23. února 2004 15:57 Martin Wegmann napsal(a): [snip] > lba32 > boot=/dev/hda > root=/dev/hda5# Replace with your root partition > default=Linux > > image=/vmlinuz > label=Linux >

Re: kernel-image 2.6.2 T 40 IBM - solved

2004-02-25 Thread Martin Wegmann
On Wednesday 25 February 2004 00:06, Miroslav Maiksnar wrote: > Dne út 24. února 2004 14:32 Martin Wegmann napsal(a): > > [...] > > > > /sbin/lilo > > Fatal: open /vmlinuz: No such file or directory > > > > but /vmlinuz definitely exists as ls -l under

printer problem and kde 3.2

2004-03-25 Thread Martin Wegmann
Hello, I upgraded kde 3.1.5 to 3.2 all my printers (network printers) were already configured in kde 3.1.5. in kde 3.2 when I try to print, every applications crash. Even the Control Center crashed after I opened the Peripheral-Printer interface and tried to set up new printers. The previously

external hard drive

2004-06-17 Thread Martin Wegmann
Hello, I tried to set up my new external hard drive (Samsung 160 GB, FDB 3.5" SP1604N) using debian testing/unstable, Kernel 2.4.22-xfs. I used fdisk to partition the hard drive into 3 approx. 50 GB partitions - worked fine. Then I added in /etc/fstab /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 ext2 noauto,users,e

external hard drive

2004-06-17 Thread Martin Wegmann
Hello, I tried to set up my new external hard drive (Samsung 160 GB, FDB 3.5" SP1604N) using Kernel 2.4.22-xfs. I used fdisk to partition the hard drive into 3 approx. 50 GB partitions - worked fine. Then I added in /etc/fstab /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 auto noauto,users,exec 0 0 /dev/sda2 /mnt/s

Re: external hard drive

2004-06-18 Thread Martin Wegmann
On Thursday 17 June 2004 23:32, Frans Pop wrote: [] > Looks to me like you missed a fairly basic and extremely vital step: > formating the filesystems with mkfs. ähm, well, next morning, new brain resources, I had the same idea and yeah, I forgot to do mke2fs /dev/sda1 . ;-) thanks for y

clean storage device

2004-08-16 Thread Martin Wegmann
Hello, I is rather not a 100% laptop question but it is due to the small storage device on my laptop (30 GB on IBM T40). I partitioned my harddrive and left 11GB for my / directory. My home directory holds more or less 3 GB, nevertheless do I get into trouble at the moment because the partiti