Re: 16 mb problem

2005-11-02 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Matej Cepl wrote: > Ogz wrote: > >>What do you suggest? Do i have to install x-window-system, is there any >>window-environment that doesnt require x-window package? > > > I am sorry but I am afraid that the answers are "get better computer", "yes, > definitively", "M$-Windows 98" (it has much l

Re: Touchpad functionality dissappeared for no apparent reason!

2004-09-27 Thread Sebastian Tennant
On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 19:46, Derek Broughton wrote: > But isn't that exactly what's supposed to happen? If you don't have your > floppy drive inserted, you hardly need to have a /dev/fd0. I suppose it is, I just wasn't expecting it! > > but re-booting without my USB mouse attached has not rev

Re: Touchpad functionality dissappeared for no apparent reason!

2004-09-27 Thread Sebastian Tennant
On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 20:05, Derek Broughton wrote: > On September 27, 2004 03:24 pm, Sebastian Tennant wrote: > > > Attached is a relatively short diff of my last touchpad-successful boot > > compared with the following unsuccessful one. As can be seen from the >

Re: Touchpad functionality dissappeared for no apparent reason!

2004-09-30 Thread Sebastian Tennant
On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 15:10:07 +0200, Derek Broughton wrote: > On September 27, 2004 05:06 pm, Sebastian Tennant wrote: >> You're starting to worry me! I am using 2.6.7 which was installed by >> sarge-i386-netinst-daily-build.iso (04/08/04). I wish it were >> otherwi

Re: Touchpad functionality dissappeared for no apparent reason!

2004-09-30 Thread Sebastian Tennant
>>> Dell ACPI is buggy - and you seem to have two errors in yours. Make >>> sure you have Dell's latest BIOS for your machine. >> You know what I'm going to ask now don't you, and I've got a horrible >> feeling that you're going to tell me that you can't upgrade your BIOS >> without booting into

Re: Touchpad functionality dissappeared for no apparent reason!

2004-10-01 Thread Sebastian Tennant
>> Ok, but what does the bogo bit stand for? (And don't look it up. Anyone >> can do that! :-) > bogo as in "does not mean anything really, has no real value". What > bogomips measures is, how much CPU time it takes to do a specified loop. > This value is then used in the kernel to time other t

Re: APM: will not sleep with AC plugged in?

2004-10-03 Thread Sebastian Tennant
On Sun, 03 Oct 2004 14:58:43 -0400, Brandon Kuczenski wrote: > Recent upgrade to Debian Sarge on a Thinkpad T23, with kernel 2.6.8, > home-brewed. I had initially intended to use ACPI, but I couldn't get > it working and since APM works flawlessly on this machine, I thought I > would stick with i

Re: Touchpad functionality dissappeared for no apparent reason!

2004-10-01 Thread Sebastian Tennant
>> Ok, but what does the bogo bit stand for? (And don't look it up. Anyone >> can do that! :-) > bogo as in "does not mean anything really, has no real value". What > bogomips measures is, how much CPU time it takes to do a specified loop. > This value is then used in the kernel to time other t

Re: APM: will not sleep with AC plugged in?

2004-10-03 Thread Sebastian Tennant
On Sun, 03 Oct 2004 14:58:43 -0400, Brandon Kuczenski wrote: > Recent upgrade to Debian Sarge on a Thinkpad T23, with kernel 2.6.8, > home-brewed. I had initially intended to use ACPI, but I couldn't get > it working and since APM works flawlessly on this machine, I thought I > would stick with i

Touchpad functionality dissappeared for no apparent reason!

2004-09-27 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Until recently, my Dell Latitude L400 touchpad was being happily detected by my Linux kernel (2.6.7) at bootup, and was working fine in X, but then mysteriously dissapeared? I suspect a blundering apt-get install of udev which appeared to erase /dev/fd0. However, I was able to recreate /dev/fd0 b

Re: Touchpad functionality dissappeared for no apparent reason!

2004-09-27 Thread Sebastian Tennant
On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 19:46, Derek Broughton wrote: > But isn't that exactly what's supposed to happen? If you don't have your > floppy drive inserted, you hardly need to have a /dev/fd0. I suppose it is, I just wasn't expecting it! > > but re-booting without my USB mouse attached has not rev

Re: Touchpad functionality dissappeared for no apparent reason!

2004-09-27 Thread Sebastian Tennant
On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 20:05, Derek Broughton wrote: > On September 27, 2004 03:24 pm, Sebastian Tennant wrote: > > > Attached is a relatively short diff of my last touchpad-successful boot > > compared with the following unsuccessful one. As can be seen from the >

Re: Touchpad functionality dissappeared for no apparent reason!

2004-09-30 Thread Sebastian Tennant
On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 15:10:07 +0200, Derek Broughton wrote: > On September 27, 2004 05:06 pm, Sebastian Tennant wrote: >> You're starting to worry me! I am using 2.6.7 which was installed by >> sarge-i386-netinst-daily-build.iso (04/08/04). I wish it were >> otherwi

Re: Touchpad functionality dissappeared for no apparent reason!

2004-09-30 Thread Sebastian Tennant
>>> Dell ACPI is buggy - and you seem to have two errors in yours. Make >>> sure you have Dell's latest BIOS for your machine. >> You know what I'm going to ask now don't you, and I've got a horrible >> feeling that you're going to tell me that you can't upgrade your BIOS >> without booting into