fglrx: Out of memory when allocating device heads

2009-06-21 Thread Michael
Hello i guess this is no new issue, but even after some extensive websearch i couldn't find a comprehensive answer as to what i've to do to get it running. After some over-due update, X stopped working on my laptop. * Thinkpad T60 with ATI FireGL X1300 * Debian testing/unstable * xorg-server 1.

Re: fglrx: Out of memory when allocating device heads

2009-06-21 Thread Michael
I purged all related packages (fglrx, sources, amd stuff), also remaining artefacts in /etc/ati, and reinstalled things to try it from the scratch. Now the status seems to be, it doesn't build with 2.6.26 anymore. It builds with 2.6.29, but then it doesn't load. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: fglrx: Out of memory when allocating device heads

2009-06-22 Thread Michael
Hello Martin ! Many thanks ! So it's radeonhd now and it even has 3d accel. I'll try it later, and tell how it works. Martin: > Try this one: http://mfluch.wordpress.com/linux-on-the-t60/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

Re: Safe install

2009-09-29 Thread Michael
First of all, i've never tested it with Vista myself so i need to carefully restrict my statements to XP. Both Windows and ThinkVantage have their own bootloader, and grub can boot that bootloader. All you need is the chainloader command in grub.cfg (this is for grub2, but it's very similar for

Re: Safe install

2009-09-29 Thread Michael
Robert: > I recommend using the "GRUB For DOS" Yes looks like another (and maybe easier) way. Still, if you're mostly working from Linux, the most simple way is just to install grub and setup chainloaders (which is done at system install anyway). All you loos is the ThinkVantage button, no gr

Re: How to Fit Exercise into Your Life

2009-10-01 Thread Michael
Uhm Linux is way enough of exercise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: fglrx: Out of memory when allocating device heads

2009-10-06 Thread Michael
It still does not really work. The 'radeonhd' driver appears to have no GL direct rendering. Google earth, for example, barfs that it will be using a slow emulation. When i used the 'radeon' driver it would not enable the maximal resolution (1400x1...@16) so i stick with 'radeonhd'. Interestin

Re: fglrx: Out of memory when allocating device heads

2009-10-06 Thread Michael
thx, Marvin and Matthew. Actually i'm not motivated to file a bug since there already are lots of 'Cannot allocate memory' bugs filed. I also don't think this would be a debian package bug, it should go anywhere else - it is not the Debian maintainers fault that fglrx is not updated against n

How to set up language and textconsole ?

2009-10-19 Thread Michael
Hi all, (Would you pls cc to me directly ?) I've some nagging questions around this since long :) my textconsole is somehow broken, it does lacks correct localization and does not display the german umlauts. The specific problem is that (1) the laptop has american keyboard layout. Still i'd n

Re: How to turn the screen off, while working in console

2010-02-05 Thread Michael
Krzysztof, I'd also start with BIOS and /etc/console-tools/config (BLANK_TIME and POWERDOWN_TIME). If you rather like to trigger it manually, then you're better off with sudo. There's a NOPASSWD option (man sudoers). micha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: what laptop to buy

2010-02-05 Thread Michael
Daniel, Be careful with non-recent ATI FireGL video cards, that was working bad for some time (dunno today though). Some older Thinkpads still ship with these. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists

Follow up: About W/L double-boot systems

2010-07-04 Thread Michael
Funny. I just cleared off the Adobe Reader stuff from my laptops' W$, a few days ago, replacing it by a free viewer, which as side effect released some hundred Mbytes of harddisk space. No notorious updates anymore, no amazing list of software patents on every startup. I preserved the OEM th

Re: Follow up: About W/L double-boot systems

2010-07-04 Thread Michael
Sorry i missed the reply-to the spammers. Please don't repeat my mistake ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100704101634.22ce8...@mirrors.kernel.or

Re: help diagnosing possible graphics issue with Thinkpad T61 Nvidia Quadro NVS140

2012-01-26 Thread Michael
Doesn't Lenovo grant 2 years warranty ? Claim it. I would tell them the issue anyway, because only then they might get attentive and fix the issue in new models. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@list

Re: help diagnosing possible graphics issue with Thinkpad T61 Nvidia Quadro NVS140

2012-01-26 Thread Michael
Uh, sorry, last year you bought the monitor, not the laptop. Well then, like Preston said. If you are lucky the DVI is a separate part and exchangeable. Graphic card could be exchangeable too (but could be also on-board chip). If you find another T61, in the used parts market, which is defect i

Re: help diagnosing possible graphics issue with Thinkpad T61 Nvidia Quadro NVS140

2012-01-27 Thread Michael
> As a temporary stopgap, I've been able to get slow 2D graphics on my > external monitor via the fbdev X11 driver. fbdev does use the GPU memory but not the GPU itself, if i recall right. So maybe either the GPU chip is defect (or lose) or there was a change in driver or kernel (upgrade). Or

Re: can't get Iceweasel to work on my laptop

2012-03-21 Thread Michael
Tina, Since debugging wireless can be tedious especially under this circumstances (newbie and mailing list), i suggest go to the person who prepared the laptop, and ask her to configure it for you. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: can't get Iceweasel to work on my laptop

2012-03-21 Thread Michael
Tina, > I do not have the root or admin passwords and have not been able to get them. That's another problem. If the installed software really already is 2y old, then consider a totally new installation. It could possibly solve your problems 'on-the-fly' but there is no guarantee, and usually

Re: can't get Iceweasel to work on my laptop

2012-03-21 Thread Michael
And by the way, if someone else likes to answer by explaining how to break root: Please don't do on public lists, and consider if that really solves anything. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.d

Re: can't get Iceweasel to work on my laptop

2012-03-21 Thread Michael
Richard, > I'm not convinced I'd go for a daily build, or the testing distro, either, > but that's another issue. I used daily 'testing' installers more often and there never was a problem with the installer or base system. If there would be a minor bug with a desktop app, later. then you can

Re: can't get Iceweasel to work on my laptop

2012-03-21 Thread Michael
Ah, and it was Brandon, not Richard, yepp. Time to go to bed... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120322021951.0a684...@mirrors.kernel.org

Re: Go for Open Source Software

2012-05-09 Thread Michael
It is definitely a SPAM using the mailing list as gateway to automatically detect and process valid mail addresses (per bounces). The content actually is quite a joke considering the purpose. They have humor. Welcome in the world of Spammers. It's like a natural hazard. Anyone reacting emotion

Re: Problems with battery charging

2013-01-10 Thread Michael
Ivan, I don't have your laptop brand and never had your problem, but just a few quick shots: asus_wmi seems to be the keypad backlight kernel driver. Old piece from 2011: http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1102.3/00970.html I don't see how the wmi driver should be related to bat

shutdown from xfce desktop ?

2013-02-07 Thread Michael
The last few times i installed via Debian netinstall, choosing xfce Desktop, i ended up with a desktop that requires the user to type in the root password to shutdown the machine. It's essentially the same when trying to shutdown from the login-manager (lightdm or gdm3). I know the reason wh

Re: 64 bit download for Intel Pentium

2013-02-16 Thread Michael
Should be amd64 http://www.debian.org/ports/#portlist-released -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130217034458.3c54b...@mirrors.kernel.org

Re: acpi handler

2013-03-10 Thread Michael
Maybe the documentation (or maybe the source code) of package 'acpitool' can be helpful to you ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130310222317.03e1

Re: console mode

2013-03-29 Thread Michael
Bob, Many thanks for the interesting hint ! Another thing you could do is run console-log (and bootlogd) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/2013032917

Measures against overheating / Was: static or dynamic /dev

2013-04-05 Thread Michael
sting wing, although there isn't really anything left to add to Bobs reply (which is good work, as expected); but just for the fun of it, some related ideas. If you need to monitor harddrive temperature, then possibly you've already reason to fear overheating, and you finally would need to lo

Re: Measures against overheating

2013-04-05 Thread Michael
Vladan, It appears i have thrown out my last 2 WD disks just recently ... ;) The reason, of course, was they were worn out. I didn't know of the idle3 problem, then. Anyway, now i'm using only SG and even fresh new drives always show several 'pre failure' values in smartd. I'm lazy using gsma

Re: Measures against overheating

2013-04-05 Thread Michael
Vladan, maybe the hdparm -m and -M options would ba also interesting for you. It's amazing what you learn and discover just by dropping into some random mailing list question. For example, you made me just install cpufreqd on my PC where i never considered that a priority. But why should i wast

Re: Measures against overheating

2013-04-10 Thread Michael
Sting Wing, Since your disk is SSD (if i understood correctly), and those normally don't produce much heat, i wonder if it is some other component which (as side effect) heats up the disk drive. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: Measures against overheating

2013-04-11 Thread Michael
Thanks for the info ! Indeed, on my laptops it just worked fine since long. However, i was talking about a PC (always ON AC) and there, i needed to install the daemon to have the CPU actually scaled. Or at least i did not know hot to user-configure the kernel driver. The cpufreqd config is easy

Re: Measures against overheating

2013-04-15 Thread Michael
Babu, > Having been using Debian 64bit on AMD server as a gateway/fileserver with > samba for a while, the ondemand governor is working perfectly fine For this office pC, the kernel cpufreq driver just did not scale anything although the capability was reported. Go figure. Maybe the K8 mainboar

Re: Measures against overheating

2013-04-15 Thread Michael
Turning back to harddisk sleep vs. write access of OS subsystems: Here is my 'todays workout' for the smart OS. On most of my machines (no online servers) i did not need the last weeks of logs, for years. The only reason would be intrusion detection, but hey, i'm talking about laptops and offi

Re: Measures against overheating

2013-04-27 Thread Michael
Stefan, > Note that this risks will fill your ram&swap with logs, next time some > problem shows up causing infinitely repeated log entries. For this > reason I prefer to install busybox-syslogd: it's much smaller than > rsyslogd, keeps the logs in memory (like your tmpfs) but only keeps the > la

Re: it is avahi? Re: network

2013-06-24 Thread Michael
Does he even need avahi service at all. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130624203832.24f21...@mirrors.kernel.org

Re: it is avahi? Re: network

2013-06-24 Thread Michael
But ugh, that's a lot of stuff to study, when the problem may be rather trivial. How about try reinstalling all avahi packages. (Using a package manager, check anything with *avahi* in their names.) I recommend to move to Debian 'testing' anyway (i.e. upgrade) except your laptop is way old. I b

Re: it is avahi? Re: network

2013-06-25 Thread Michael
Hannu, just curious, how did you translate 'region' (in the error message) ? Is the original finnish (?) word a technical term and what does it refer to exactly. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists

Re: it is avahi? Re: network

2013-06-25 Thread Michael
Hannu, The only things a fresh avahi-daemon installation puts into the config (that is, not commented) are: [server] use-ipv4=yes use-ipv6=yes ratelimit-interval-usec=100 ratelimit-burst=1000 [wide-area] enable-wide-area=yes [publish] [reflector] [rlimits] rlimit-core=0 rlimit-data=41943

Re: it is avahi? Re: network

2013-06-27 Thread Michael
Cristian, > That looks like someone is attempting to eavesdrop on you. I would be interested in how that could work and how to defend against it. Would you mind to try to explain it, for short ... ? Here are my questions: (1) If i understand correctly, the 'dig' result shows that domain 'loca

Re: Installing debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso on a partition of a Macbook 5,2

2014-01-26 Thread Michael
Daniel, > as MBR has a four partition limit. the standard way was to make partition #4 of type 'logical' which is a container where you can add several more partitions, like separate linux /home (recommended) and linux swap. also, if necessary, grub could even boot a logical partition too. i

Re: Optimus_x64

2014-08-19 Thread Michael
... perhaps you should have explained first that Linux calls it "Bumblebee" ? https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee/wiki/FAQ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia_Optimus hth > hi, > > > I am on dual-boot debian 7 & ubuntu 14 (updated) with two choices on my > laptop : > Nvidia or In

Re: ALSA replacement

2014-10-05 Thread Michael
Hmm, why didn't you dub this 'pulse audio replacement', i wonder. For most desktop users, ALSA is already doing about anything they need. Most of the rest can be done by just the player (maybe using some pulse lib but would not require the server). Well apparently gnome-media depends on it. Man

Solid State Drive BIOS update and Memory Cell Clearing

2014-12-14 Thread Michael
Hello, Someone gots me a 4y old Lenovo Thinkpad X301 with a 64G Samsung SSD and i'd like to give it a try and follow this instruction https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/SSD_Memory_Cell_Clearing There is no usable OS yet on this laptop (albeit a Windows 7) and i consider booting a Live-CD.

Re: Solid State Drive BIOS update and Memory Cell Clearing

2014-12-14 Thread Michael
As for the firmware, Samsung (and also Magician) seem to support only model 470 and newer. My drive has firmware PS105L16. Would anybody be able to tell if there was any newer version available ? I guess i'll just skip this step and continue with cell clearing. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to d

Re: Solid State Drive BIOS update and Memory Cell Clearing

2014-12-16 Thread Michael
Florian, thx for reply. I got no further yet through workload delays. > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/SSD_Memory_Cell_Clearing > i would just reinstall, and the use "fstrim" to clear the rest of the drive. Another friendly guy from this list already recommended this approach. So. i

Re: Solid State Drive BIOS update and Memory Cell Clearing

2014-12-16 Thread Michael
Leslie, Ah, but since fstrim works only on a mounted filesystem, there is already a difference to a reset by SSD BIOS. A filesystem allocates lots of blocks, for tables and journal and the redundancy backups. (I wonder if that's even anymore useful with a SSD, and if there are specific SSD mkfs

Re: Solid State Drive BIOS update and Memory Cell Clearing

2014-12-16 Thread Michael
Bjørn, thx for the infos. There is more of these old TPs (next is a T410) which i'm giving away, so i have to calculate a bit. But i'll consider your ideas. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.deb

Re: Solid State Drive BIOS update and Memory Cell Clearing

2014-12-16 Thread Michael
Bob, That was a lot of useful information. Thank you ! No i'm not affiliated :) i'm just occasionally (as a hobby) doing support for people who run into problems. I think i kind of know this OS a little bit, and i have to admit over the years (although i was indifferent at the beginning) i sta

Re: How to use Solid State Drives (SSD)

2014-12-16 Thread Michael
I think i meant GPT here. And from what i've read, following the link Bob Prolux posted, i conclude it doesn't really matter, as GPT is just a newer and more flexible system to cover disk sizes >2T, but for laptops the old MRB system should be good enough (as long as grub supports it). -- T

Re: Solid State Drive BIOS update and Memory Cell Clearing

2014-12-16 Thread Michael
Hello all, I booted the laptop into a grml boot-cd, then checked things with hpdarm -I. It appeared this old SSD does not do TRIM. Given that it's just an old disk with possibly low firmware performance, and a small and cheap one anyway, and without TRIM, i decided to just go with the memory c

Re: How to use Solid State Drives (SSD)

2014-12-16 Thread Michael
I'm going to setup just one partition for anything (except swap), since i could not find any arguments why to split /home or anything else, applying to me. I don't keep massive data on a travel laptop anyway, and If i'd need a reinstall i can backup /home easily to some external drive, with the

Re: No halt/poweroff on an EliteBook 840 G1 after upgrade

2014-12-17 Thread Michael
Edit /etc/default/halt and change the value as Eddy writes. Yes, systemd is probably the cause, it replaced pm acpi by its own terminology, disregarding the legacy convention. if nothing else helps, replace systemd with systemd-shim emulation (maybe also switching back to sysvinit). -- To UN

Re: No halt/poweroff on an EliteBook 840 G1 after upgrade

2014-12-18 Thread Michael
Bjørn, > Yes, systemd will happily break existing ACPI PM setups without any > warning. > > The systemd point of view is that any breakage is caused by other > packages failing to detect that systemd is installed. And besides, that's how they shot down the Debian OpenBSD port, just like that.

Re: No halt/poweroff on an EliteBook 840 G1 after upgrade

2014-12-18 Thread Michael
Florian, i did not mean it literally. I meant that systemd upstream rejected to care for any other kernel, than Linux, and that was the result. I can dig up the respective mails if you require me too, but it will be some work since i did not bookmark them (and i have no browser history). But,

Re: No halt/poweroff on an EliteBook 840 G1 after upgrade

2014-12-18 Thread Michael
Florian, Well, you can see it this way. I'd rather seen a bit more sensibility in doing that 'big step' when it means so much damage. > systemd is a big step for debian, but its not the cause for everything. Yes, true. Well, anyway, poweroff button stopped working for me too, on both my lapto

OT: Debian BSD port / systemd incompatibilities

2014-12-19 Thread Michael
Florian, > so the argument, that they "rejected to care for other kernels" is > simple invalid. if there are some developers who care, nobody will stop > them in getting the bsd port in shape for release. Please have mercy when i'm not really into the exact tech specs, and i'm not a developer ei

Re: OT: Debian BSD port / systemd incompatibilities

2014-12-19 Thread Michael
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=74589#c9 Status: RESOLVED FIXED -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141219113227.52ccb...@mirror

Re: No halt/poweroff on an EliteBook 840 G1 after upgrade

2014-12-19 Thread Michael
Like https://bugzilla.kernel.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=systemd https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?repeatmerged=no&src=systemd https://wiki.debian.org/systemd#Known_Issues_and_Workarounds ? > Could you please point me (us?) to a good and reasonably short summary > about the known is

Re: OT: Debian BSD port / systemd incompatibilities

2014-12-19 Thread Michael
Florian, > you never even tested (debian/bsd), and you are not working on it. > > So you spread fear to problems you don't have, you don't understand, and > you don't work on them. But which of these apply to you :) i wonder. But, anyway, OT as is, let's not extend it any further. -- To UNS

how to make debian use my swapfile for hibernation

2015-03-18 Thread Michael
Hey all, On my old laptop, i used a swap partition for hibernate. It could be declared to the kernel (or rather, pm-utils?) by "resume=/dev/sdx" parameter. Now i'm going with a /swapfile, already created and mkswapped, but dunno how to tell the system about it. There is https://wiki.archlinux

Re: how to make debian use my swapfile for hibernation

2015-03-18 Thread Michael
Cindy, Your idea is pretty close to what really happens, but it's happening in another 'sphere'. You probably mean the 'export' shell builtin command. It is used in the context of the shell (the login environment), for example when compiling code from sources. A shelled login creates a conext

Re: how to make debian use my swapfile for hibernation

2015-03-20 Thread Michael
Florian, > too. There is no guarantee that the filesystem will not change the > offset. An FSCK Uh, i did not think of that...hmpf. Indeed, that's a problem. Well, as a workaround, i could figure the actual offset by boot script and ... uhm ... put it where ... ? (Building a new initrd in cas

Re: Intel Corporation Wireless 7260 (rev bb) and ilwifi on debian jessie

2015-03-20 Thread Michael
Maiky, > I'm running 3.16, but I can't use wifi. You did not tell the reason. IMHO in English, "can't" can mean it works, but you won't do it. > If I load Ubuntu Live using the "use only libre software" option at boot > everything work well. I do not understand this piece. If the nonfree iwl

Re: Debian Wheezy on Dell 7535

2015-03-30 Thread Michael
Gajadur, There is /etc/default/halt (or so, i'm no more using Debian), you can try to switch to the alternative. Maybe it works... If not, try to find out which command (as root or via sudo, from a terminal) does shut down the machine. For example, "shutdown -h now" should never do a reboot. I

Re: Debian Wheezy on Dell 7535

2015-03-31 Thread Michael
Dwijesh, What happens when you shut down from a boot DVD (life CD) Linux ? Like GRML oder some installer disk. www.grml.org If that works then try to install the same kernel. Anyway, does it work from Windows (does the laptop still have that ?), and can you do the Dell hardware check ? Shoul

Re: Debian on Acer Aspire E15

2015-04-05 Thread Michael
Dave, aptitude install firmware-atheros or apt-get install firmware-atheros will choose the most recent version available. If that is not what you need, then it's probably easier to use aptitude as a interactive application (start without any option) and do the downgrade manually - with aptit

Re: Debian on Acer Aspire E15

2015-04-05 Thread Michael
wow, that's solid advice. Dave, what i've written before was off the road. Please do Loredanas thing. And i beg your pardon, i should not answer in a hurry, wen i'm not even in the position to do. (Is it Horsefall, for real ?? another wow. take care.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-lapto

Re: Debian Wheezy on Dell 7535

2015-04-06 Thread Michael
Dwijesh, Glad it works for you now. Anyway, i never suggested a firmware / BIOS update, though it's a really good idea with very new laptops, so please honor your own right doecision :) Just for the records, how did you do the update ? From the a Dell 'rescue&repair' boot (the dell system par

Re: Laptop

2015-04-11 Thread Michael
Tobias, I installed Jessie on 4 year old Lenovo Thinkpad X301 (small) and 410 (larger), both with 128M SSD. As far as for my standard usage, anything works. I didn't try the WiMAX/ WWAN-GPS stuff or fingerprint sensor. You may lookout for Swiss keyboards. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-la

Re: Laptop

2015-04-11 Thread Michael
The libreboot laptop mentioned by Francesco have Intel AMT removed. I didn't even know what this feature does, and looked it up. It's no surprise that corporate giants like Intel oder AMD evolve into that direction, but still, thinking about the kind of implicit power (for example, theoreticaly

Re: Laptop

2015-04-12 Thread Michael
In the past, installed GNU/Linux on Dell Inspiron as well. It's kind of sad that after so many years, recommendations still are Dell and Thinkpad (which is Lenovo of China now - go figure ...). I'm not up to date but maybe there are more options today. Intel based http://zareason.com/shop/Lapto

Re: Laptop

2015-04-12 Thread Michael
Hi Loredana > Most modern laptop are much less powerful than older ones (as a rough measure > compare processor speed) I'm not sure about it. For example, my T401 have Intel Quadcore, and i believe most modern laptops have a multi core CPU. You probably know how parallel processing beats singl

Re: Laptop

2015-04-12 Thread Michael
ah sorry i mistyped it all the time. It's a Thinkpad T410s not 401. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150412143921.13f52...@mirrors.kernel.org

Re: Installing Debian with only 64mb RAM

2015-04-18 Thread Michael
Have a look here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightweight_Linux_distribution Yes, with an old Laptop one really should chose a rather old kernel, but then, the latest 'stable' Debian possibly will not run on that thing (for example, systemd). So you would either chose an old Debian in the first

Re: Graphical display is black after upgrade from Debian 7 to 8

2015-05-06 Thread Michael
Ulff, I lost the thread already, sorry, but just in case you didn't know. Yuo probably have to debug this in 'single user mode' which you can get by grub, if the grub menu displays at all. (Try hitting escape, then chose 'advanced options' or maybe 'e' for edit to see the options). Lookup the

Re: Memory usage Debian Jessie (stable)

2015-05-10 Thread Michael
> short of memory just because browsers (and, > more generally, graphics) are blowing up without control. From the point of the browser developers, their browsers got burdened with all kind of tasks that were desktop applications in the past: Multimedia, dynamic content from multiple sources,

Re: Memory usage Debian Jessie (stable)

2015-05-10 Thread Michael
Sreedhav, Your links appear to not support the complaint. > http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/firefox-3-0-4-overheats-system-memory-and-cpu-use-inacceptable-687418/ and that one is way old (Jan 2008) > A great song by Simon & Art Garfunkel- I Am a Rock with lyrics -url:

Re: Cant Boot into system

2015-05-18 Thread Michael
Arghya, You don't need any sudo when the script is run by init, because it will be executed with system (root) authority. Just make it one line echo OFF > /sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitcheroo/switch and it should work. That is, if "OFF" is correct here, and "vgaswitcheroo" really sounds a little

Re: cant boot into system

2015-05-18 Thread Michael
Arghya, > i can get into root terminal through elementary OS recovery mode but i cant > remove the entry from system startup. If update.rc does not work for you (for whatever reasons) just delete the script in init.d - that alone should suffice to give you a normal boot again, and you can clean

USB audio device (webcam) for thinkpad 410

2015-06-12 Thread Michael
Hello, First of all: I can listen to music in all the players, by internal speakers or by headset headphones. I bought a Creative Live HD VF 0790 usb webcam, which is advertised to work with Linux, and plugged it into a Thinkpad 410s. According to dmesg, it is recognized by name and the kernel

Re: USB audio device (webcam) for thinkpad 410

2015-06-13 Thread Michael
Jan-Rens, > What's the output of: > > $lsusb -v | grep Device Buss 002 Device 003: ID 041e:4097Creative Technology, Ltd then some Root Hubs and the Mouse -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas..

Wireless manager

2015-09-06 Thread Michael
Hello, I'm having a hard time to find a wireless connection manager appropriate for some kids Laptops. In Android, you got the list of access points and you tap on one and enter the passphrase, and that's it. Is there anything comparable for a linux desktop, which does not require to enter a

Re: Wireless manager

2015-09-06 Thread Michael
Ionel, > Have a look at wicd. I use wicd-gtk -n because I do not run a desktop > manager. Many thanks. I'm testing this right now and the installer says 'add wicd to your systemd configuration', do you know how to do this ?

Re: Wireless manager

2015-09-06 Thread Michael
Ah, i guess it's just 'systemctl enable wicd'. I'm still running sysvinit and are not too familiar with systemd.

Re: Wireless manager

2015-09-06 Thread Michael
Ionel, Testing the wicd-gtk thingy now and it looks great. Maybe a little complicated for kids on first look, but after all they still need only to click and insert the passphrase and that's what i was looking for. Thanks you very much.

Bluetooth manager for connecting to Android

2015-09-06 Thread Michael
Well, guess what i'm asking here :) Is there a bluetooth manager for exchange data with Android smartphones, which is approxmiately as easy to use as the Android side (meaning usable even for kids) ?

Re: Bluetooth manager for connecting to Android

2015-09-07 Thread Michael
Matus, It's about up- / downloading music and photos. It should be usable for kids, so an easy graphical frontend is required. Just as easy as it works with android <-> android. > On 06.09.15 15:16, Michael wrote: > >Is there a bluetooth manager for exchange data with

Re: Bluetooth manager for connecting to Android

2015-09-07 Thread Michael
Like, download photos from the phone to the computer, upload music files to the smartphone. One Linux bluetooth manager for all kind of files, talking to the android bluetooth manager. Is that possible ?

Re: Bluetooth manager for connecting to Android

2015-09-07 Thread Michael
Cindy, Many thanks ! Just for the records, i first tired 'blueberry' but it diint work ... esepcially when downloadig files from the smartphone, it disconnects immediately. So i tried your suggestion blueman (which also pulls in the 'bluez' backend stuff) and yes, it works. But somehow it's i

Re: Bluetooth manager for connecting to Android

2015-09-07 Thread Michael
Also, right now (transferring photos from android to laptop) i've got a transfer rate of 200 Bytes (yes) per second ... which is kind of amazing. It means downloading 100 photos will take forever. Is that normal ?? I remember transferring files from android <-> android much faster.

Re: Bluetooth manager for connecting to Android

2015-09-07 Thread Michael
Well, the situation is, these kids have easily 2 - 3 Gigabytes of media files (including many own video clips each usually between 50 - 100 Mbyte) on their smartphones which i would like them - for various reasons - backup to their laptops; but they wont use a cable connection, which, anyway, d

Re: Bluetooth manager for connecting to Android

2015-09-07 Thread Michael
Ranf, Thank you ! > Have look at the Android-App AirDroid. You access the phone over Wifi from a > browser on the desktop. Can't test this right now. Just let me ask beforehand, what kind of browser ? A specific AirDroid browser, or just something like Firefox ? Can i transfer multiple file

Re: Bluetooth manager for connecting to Android

2015-09-07 Thread Michael
Uhm, i am really not looking for a cloud storage / cloud desktop solution ... as fascinating as it is - but what i am looking for, need work w/o internet access.

Re: Bluetooth manager for connecting to Android

2015-09-13 Thread Michael
Eric, I'm on the road now and only occasionally online. > FYI, gphotofs and gthumb, tools that depend on gphoto2, work very well > for a cable connection with Android phones, at least for photos. But it definitely has to work for video and music files too, and i doubt gphoto will deal with them

Connecting Linux and iOS (iPad)

2015-09-22 Thread Michael
Hello, here is another tricky question ... Can i network-connect (WiFi) a linux laptop with an iPhone or iPad for copying files (in both directions) ? Something like NFS or Samba ?

Re: Connecting Linux and iOS (iPad)

2015-09-22 Thread Michael
Jerome, Sounds good. I'll need more time but i will try it out ! thx

Android again

2015-10-20 Thread Michael
Hi there, Does anybody know if i there is an Debian package for 'aafm' somewhere out in the net ? https://github.com/sole/aafm I could install aafm in archlinux (from the AUR repository) and it worked out of the box. greets mi

Re: Android again

2015-10-20 Thread Michael
Ricardo, Thanks for the link ! Let's see if i can screw it in ... !

Re: Android again

2015-10-24 Thread Michael
Seems to work without too much hassle. I had to first install android-tools-adb which is available from the Debian testing package servers. Then i could dpkg -i the downloaded Ubuntu aafm package. Next i had to insert some udev rules manually, following https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/A

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