Re: Laptop suggestions

2001-06-08 Thread Simon
odolsk/ I bought mine second hand a few months ago & I must say I am very happy with it. All the features work flawlessly under woody, and I take it everywhere with me. -- Simon Hooper GnuPG 1024D/F3D1353A 64AF 1419 4B67 CE13 E312 7C80 CFB0 9414 F3D1 353A

Re: Laptop suggestions

2001-06-08 Thread Simon
inux/stodolsk/ I bought mine second hand a few months ago & I must say I am very happy with it. All the features work flawlessly under woody, and I take it everywhere with me. -- Simon Hooper GnuPG 1024D/F3D1353A 64AF 1419 4B67 CE13 E312 7C80 CFB0 9414 F3D1 353A -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Battery monitor tools?

2010-04-19 Thread Simon Chen
I may be a light debian user. 'Cause i simply use GNOME power manager as battery tool, supposed to be the default power manager in GNOME. I think it is kind of dull. I've found battery using up much more quickly under debian than it under windows(yes, i'm using a dual-booting laptop). So, is this

Re: Terminal highlighting (ls for example) with dark background

2010-11-10 Thread Simon Ward
> satisfactory on the Dell laptop with it's terrible LCD screen. You don’t have to set every colour, but I do. I have some colour schemes for urxvt here, mostly ripped from other terminal emulators: http://bleah.co.uk/~simon/desktop/_Xresources.d/ Note: I include .Xresources.d/urxvt-colours in

Install problem - Toshiba atellite 335CDT

2006-03-04 Thread Joe Simon
e command line options to no avaial, and have done some google searches to try and determine what the problem might be. If anyone can provide some help I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks ! Joe SImon Newark Valley, NY Yahoo! Mail Bring photos to life! New PhotoMail makes sharing a breeze.

Re: Re: Cannot get debconf version

2006-05-10 Thread Simon Bridge
This is kinda late - but the thread still pops up close to the top of searches, and it looks like something I've just found out about. Possible solution: dpkg --clean-avail apt-get update and you're away :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

Re: hwclock

2007-04-22 Thread Simon Ward
r. > > Of course if you are unlucky enough to have to reboot into some > operating system which doesn't support the idea of the hardware clock > being set to a standard time then no UTC for you! :-) Configure Windows not to adjust the clock for daylight savings, and live with UTC. That’

REQ: Help! - touble installing 2.1 on Libretto 100ct

2000-06-26 Thread Simon Earthrowl
y. Does anyone have any ideas where a pcmcia enabled install disk image is located? Simon -- +--+----+ | Simon Earthrowl | Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | GNS Itochu | Telephone: +44 (0)207 628 2515 | |

apt-cache (was as86 ...)

2000-07-06 Thread Brendan Simon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > From: Brendan J Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: as86, thank for the replies. it works not! > Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2000 13:18:05 +1000 > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > >

Re: time

2000-06-08 Thread Brendan Simon
I think a combination of "hwclock" and "date" commands should do it for you.  Read the man pages.  You can set the time/date with "date" and then set the hardware clock to reflect this using "hwclock". Regards, Brendan Simon. Jack Morgan wrote:

REQ: Help! - touble installing 2.1 on Libretto 100ct

2000-06-26 Thread Simon Earthrowl
y. Does anyone have any ideas where a pcmcia enabled install disk image is located? Simon -- +--+----+ | Simon Earthrowl | Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | GNS Itochu | Telephone: +44 (0)207 628 2515 | |

apt-cache (was as86 ...)

2000-07-06 Thread Brendan Simon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > From: Brendan J Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: as86, thank for the replies. it works not! > Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2000 13:18:05 +1000 > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > >

RE: Laptop install woes

2000-09-07 Thread Simon Cousins
7000 running potato. I select PS/2 as the mouse. > >Is there a site, resource, etc. related to Debian on laptops? > The maintainer of this site uses debian on an Inspiron 7000: http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~steveh/inspiron/ Hope this helps, Simon Totalise - the Users ISP --

Re: Debian & PCMCIA & My Crappy Laptop (tm)

2001-01-29 Thread simon oregan
Title: Re: Debian & PCMCIA & My Crappy Laptop (tm) Hi, I had this problem on my laptop and it was because the start up sequence was trying to start networking before loading the pcmcia card. Once I changed the startup order (/etc/rc3.d symlinks) it worked for me. Hope this helps

Re: upgrading to 'testing' failure

2001-03-03 Thread Brendan Simon
el where X does not try to fire up automatically. Then use startx to manually invoke X and see what the error messages are. They should also be logged to /var/log/XFree86.0.log Brendan Simon. tom wrote: > tom wrote: > > > > Well, I upgraded from stable to testing. > > &

Runing cardctl from a normal account

2001-03-08 Thread Simon Rowe
great. Thanks for you help Simon -- Simon Rowe email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.ewor.co.uk/

Re: Runing cardctl from a normal account

2001-03-08 Thread Simon Rowe
Thanks very much Steve. The quotes worked fine thankyou! I plan to add the commands as aliases to my .bash_profile now so I can turn on/off networking without removing the PC card. alias netdown='su - root -c "cardctl eject"' alias netup='su - root -c "cardctl

Re: pcmcia network.opts

2001-03-08 Thread Simon Rowe
n a device even if there are open connections. If NO_FUSER is set, then the script will not check for busy NFS mounts or kill processes using those mounts. Hope this is useful Simon -- Simon Rowe email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.ewor.co.uk/ On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, tom wrote: >

Re: X setup roadblock

2001-03-11 Thread Simon Rowe
Hello Paul I have a Sony Picture book also (PCG-C1F), and use the XF86Config from this web site: http://www.remote.org/jochen/projects/vaio/index.html It works fine with my laptop at 1024x480, so maybe worth ago for you, thats if it is any diffent to the one you are using now. Simon

Re: Suspend to disk partition on ThinkPad T20

2001-03-11 Thread Simon Rowe
don't, then only part of the screen gets utilised in console mode. You can choose the fonts etc by tweaking the config file /etc/TextConfig Simon > >( this one is slightly OT, I know, but T20 has very ugly looking fonts > >on regular console ) > >- how to compile in the v

Re: WEP

2001-05-11 Thread Simon Bonnick
on for your card. KEY="s:abc12" (for a 40-bit key). You may need to add extra module load options in /etc/pcmcia/config.opts. It all worked out of the box for me, but I have since changed to a "Managed" configuration. -- Simon Bonnick

Re: users can't use 'pon' to connect to internet

2001-06-13 Thread Simon Bonnick
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 06:30:42PM +0800, Alex Kwan wrote: > Hi! > > I am using a PCMCIA modem to connect > to internet, but only root can do it with 'pon' > command, How to make other users connect > to internet with 'pon'? > add the user to the group "dip". -- Simon Bonnick

Re: Nokia Cardphone and Linux

2001-10-10 Thread Simon Bonnick
C1VE (kernel 2.4.10 and pcmcia-cs 3.1.28). It appears as a regular serial interface at /dev/ttyS16 and I pass AT+cbst=16,0,1 as an init string to give HSCSD calls. -- Simon Bonnick

RE: Laptop install woes

2000-09-07 Thread Simon Cousins
7000 running potato. I select PS/2 as the mouse. > >Is there a site, resource, etc. related to Debian on laptops? > The maintainer of this site uses debian on an Inspiron 7000: http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~steveh/inspiron/ Hope this helps, Simon Totalise - the Users ISP --

Re: Debian & PCMCIA & My Crappy Laptop (tm)

2001-01-29 Thread simon oregan
Title: Re: Debian & PCMCIA & My Crappy Laptop (tm) Hi, I had this problem on my laptop and it was because the start up sequence was trying to start networking before loading the pcmcia card. Once I changed the startup order (/etc/rc3.d symlinks) it worked for me. Hope this helps

Re: upgrading to 'testing' failure

2001-03-03 Thread Brendan Simon
el where X does not try to fire up automatically. Then use startx to manually invoke X and see what the error messages are. They should also be logged to /var/log/XFree86.0.log Brendan Simon. tom wrote: > tom wrote: > > > > Well, I upgraded from stable to testing. > > &

Runing cardctl from a normal account

2001-03-08 Thread Simon Rowe
. Thanks for you help Simon -- Simon Rowe email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.ewor.co.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Runing cardctl from a normal account

2001-03-08 Thread Simon Rowe
Thanks very much Steve. The quotes worked fine thankyou! I plan to add the commands as aliases to my .bash_profile now so I can turn on/off networking without removing the PC card. alias netdown='su - root -c "cardctl eject"' alias netup='su - root -c "cardctl

Re: pcmcia network.opts

2001-03-08 Thread Simon Rowe
n a device even if there are open connections. If NO_FUSER is set, then the script will not check for busy NFS mounts or kill processes using those mounts. Hope this is useful Simon -- Simon Rowe email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.ewor.co.uk/ On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, tom wrote: >

Re: X setup roadblock

2001-03-11 Thread Simon Rowe
Hello Paul I have a Sony Picture book also (PCG-C1F), and use the XF86Config from this web site: http://www.remote.org/jochen/projects/vaio/index.html It works fine with my laptop at 1024x480, so maybe worth ago for you, thats if it is any diffent to the one you are using now. Simon

Re: Suspend to disk partition on ThinkPad T20

2001-03-11 Thread Simon Rowe
don't, then only part of the screen gets utilised in console mode. You can choose the fonts etc by tweaking the config file /etc/TextConfig Simon > >( this one is slightly OT, I know, but T20 has very ugly looking fonts > >on regular console ) > >- how to compile

Re: WEP

2001-05-11 Thread Simon Bonnick
on for your card. KEY="s:abc12" (for a 40-bit key). You may need to add extra module load options in /etc/pcmcia/config.opts. It all worked out of the box for me, but I have since changed to a "Managed" configuration. -- Simon Bonnick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: users can't use 'pon' to connect to internet

2001-06-13 Thread Simon Bonnick
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 06:30:42PM +0800, Alex Kwan wrote: > Hi! > > I am using a PCMCIA modem to connect > to internet, but only root can do it with 'pon' > command, How to make other users connect > to internet with 'pon'? > add the user to the

Re: Dell Inspiron 8100 text screen

2001-11-14 Thread Simon Wong
sistent but mine seems to be. P.S. When you upgraded did you go from Ximian Gnome to the standard Gnome packages? I'm thinking of upgrading soon and am wondering about that step. -- * * Simon Wong*

Re: Nokia Cardphone and Linux

2001-10-10 Thread Simon Bonnick
C1VE (kernel 2.4.10 and pcmcia-cs 3.1.28). It appears as a regular serial interface at /dev/ttyS16 and I pass AT+cbst=16,0,1 as an init string to give HSCSD calls. -- Simon Bonnick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

mirroring woody

2001-12-03 Thread Simon Alder
I'd like to locally mirror woody on my laptop. But I'm not quite sure whether I got enough diskspace left. Does anyone know, how much disk space a complete i386 architecture of woody needs? And by the way: Has anyone experience with Joey Hess 'debmirror' script. Does it work? Wich version? Tanks,

Re: XFS won't daemonize

2001-12-06 Thread Simon Wong
ure but do you have Unix socket support loaded/compiled in your kernel? -- ** * Simon Wong * ** -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ltmodem for 2.2r4

2001-12-08 Thread Simon Wong
b that you can install. -- ****** * Simon Wong * ** -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ltmodem for 2.2r4

2001-12-10 Thread Simon Wong
sting) as there are a lot more fun things to play with but you need to be somewhat prepared for the odd breakages that may require backtracking packages. Good Luck. -- ** * Simon Wong * ** -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Inspiron 8000 IR and Palm (not talking and unreliable IR connection)

2001-12-11 Thread Simon Wong
; S=6 s=3 (14) 05:44:25.606692 xid:rsp 71b55e9c < 567dc24c S=6 s=2 Simon J.P. Wong hint=8220 [ PDA/Palmtop IrOBEX ] (32) 05:44:25.696698 xid:cmd 71b55e9c > S=6 s=4 (14) 05:44:25.786699 xid:cmd 71b55e9c > S=6 s=5 (14) 05:44:25.876700 xid:cmd 71b55

Re: Inspiron 8000 IR and Palm (not talking and unreliable IRconnection)

2001-12-12 Thread Simon Wong
V=/dev/ttyS3 #DONGLE= # specify dongle type #DISCOVERY=-s # if you want use discovery mode, uncomment this #ENABLE=yes # if you don't need to start irattach, set "no" ~# My BIOS settings are COM4 and fast IR (slow hasn't seemed to ever work). A

Re: 802.11b Wireless Card Recommendations ?

2001-12-12 Thread Simon Wong
; with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- ** * Simon Wong * ** -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Inspiron 8000 IR and Palm (not talking and unreliable IRconnection)

2001-12-12 Thread Simon Wong
On Wed, 2001-12-12 at 23:38, Robert Waldner wrote: > > On 12 Dec 2001 22:43:59 +1100, Simon Wong writes: > >Unfortunately, I seem to have slipped further backwards and now cannot > >even get discovery mode to find my palm :-( > <...> > >#DISCOVERY=-s

Re: irda on a Inspiron 8100... (fwd)

2001-12-12 Thread Simon Wong
slow. Debian testing, kernel 2.2.20. Does this start automagically when you try and use /dev/ircomm0 i.e. if I $pilot-xfer -l will it bring up the interface automatically? -- ** * Simon Wong * ** -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: irda on a Inspiron 8100... (fwd)

2001-12-13 Thread Simon Wong
t shows stuff coming from the palm but no response from pilot-xfer :-( My setup doesn't seem to be using the irda.conf file. What steps do you do for connecting to the phone? Thanks for your help. -- ** * Simon Wong * ** -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

Re: irda on a Inspiron 8100... (fwd)

2002-01-06 Thread Simon Wong
is NOT showing any response (as it previously had). It seems that the kernel/software thinks it's sending but the hardware isn't?? Should I try loading the maestro driver as a module and try loading them in different orders? (Works fine in Windoze so h/w still OK). --

Re: "gnome-session" wont work

2002-01-06 Thread Simon Wong
t but it certainly shouldn't stop the rest of Gnome loading. Do you have X installed and xdm/gdm? You need a login manager to login to gnome. -- ** * Simon Wong * ** -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Conflict IrDA and Actiontec mini-PCI combo card modem - Inspiron8000

2002-01-12 Thread Simon Wong
loaded it works fine but my IR is no longer functiining and I have to reboot to reset it. I tried unloading all IR related drivers and ltmodem drivers and restarting IR with irattach but to no avail. Has anyone got a way around this problem? TIA. -- ** * Simon Wong

Inspiron 8000 IDE bus speed

2002-01-14 Thread Simon Wong
difference to end performance - I'm assuming only for intensive disk use but that may speed up my "locate" updates? -- ****** * Simon Wong * ** -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Inspiron 8000 IDE bus speed

2002-01-14 Thread Simon Wong
On Tue, 2002-01-15 at 10:42, Daniel Pittman wrote: > On 15 Jan 2002, Simon Wong wrote: > > I have noticed on booting that I have a message saying that an IDE bus > > speed of 33MHz is being assumed. > > That's 33MHz *PCI* bus speed. Even if it says IDE everywhere n

Re: irDA and Palm IIIx

2002-01-14 Thread Simon Wong
utilities (you need irattach to connect your IR serial port). It is worthwhile looking at the linux-irda list's archives (Google will find it) for other's more specific IR experiences . Good luck. -- ** * Simon Wong * ** -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Re: Inspiron 8000 IDE bus speed

2002-01-14 Thread Simon Wong
ule) theoretical gain using DMA over PIO, but it's not > really measurable. > > Enabling 32-bit host transfers and unmasking of the IRQ with hdparm, > when it works[2], can make a difference, though -- especially the later > of those two. Maybe some time when I'm feeling advent

Re: Wireless Access on Thinkpad T23

2002-01-16 Thread Simon Wong
some of these built in cards seem to go you could get some interference between various bits of hardware as i have found with my IR stuff. Anyway, good luck. -- * * Simon Wong* * * * <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * * *

Re: rdist like thing for Windows / Linux

2004-08-03 Thread Simon McCartney
Thomas Amm wrote: Michael K O'Brien wrote: Hola~ I've got a Linux laptop (Debian unstable) I need to syncronize with a Windows XP box. I'm looking for something like rdist to intelligently sync the two. Other than cygwin's rdist, can anyone recommend something? Unison? You'd need samba going so

Re: rdist like thing for Windows / Linux

2004-08-03 Thread Simon McCartney
Debian Laptop List wrote: Unison? You'd need samba going somewhere...the Windows GTK port isn't bad. You don't need samba to run unison (afaik), but you need unison running on both systems. True, I forgot about that, you can even tell unison to use ssh to talk to another machine and start a copy

RE: Multiple Network Configs

1999-08-24 Thread Simon Ghent
Or, if you have a friendly sys-admin, get him to assign you a static IP address you can take away with you. If you were on my system I'd let you! cheers ~~ simon -Original Message- From: Seth Golub [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 23 August 1999 23:44 To: Nathan Duehr Subjec

RE: Tochiba Satellite 2590CDT and Linux

1999-10-14 Thread Simon Ghent
t but expensive. personally I wouldn't buy either! cheers ~~ simon -Original Message- From: Brian Servis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 14, 1999 4:43 PM To: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org Subject: Tochiba Satellite 2590CDT and Linux First time poster to debian-laptop, b

RE: Toshiba Satellite 2590CDT and Linux

1999-10-14 Thread Simon Ghent
tellite 2590CDT and Linux On 14 Oct, Simon Ghent wrote: > Personally I'd recommend getting one that can display at least 1024x768 on > it's own screen - 800x600 is very limiting (unless you're doing text only). I very much agree on this - 1024x768 is very nice, but usually

Re: Kernel advice/help

2005-05-16 Thread Simon Gloßner
t the same > kernel version I already have, I get the "already have this version" > message. That's strange. If you have installed kernel source you _will_ find them in /usr/src! Are you sure you have choosen the right packet? Kernel-source and not Kernel-image? Greets Simon! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Multiple Network Configs

1999-08-24 Thread Simon Ghent
Or, if you have a friendly sys-admin, get him to assign you a static IP address you can take away with you. If you were on my system I'd let you! cheers ~~ simon -Original Message- From: Seth Golub [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 23 August 1999 23:44 To: Nathan Duehr Subjec

RE: Tochiba Satellite 2590CDT and Linux

1999-10-14 Thread Simon Ghent
t but expensive. personally I wouldn't buy either! cheers ~~ simon -Original Message- From: Brian Servis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 14, 1999 4:43 PM To: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org Subject: Tochiba Satellite 2590CDT and Linux First time poster to debian-laptop, b

RE: Toshiba Satellite 2590CDT and Linux

1999-10-14 Thread Simon Ghent
tellite 2590CDT and Linux On 14 Oct, Simon Ghent wrote: > Personally I'd recommend getting one that can display at least 1024x768 on > it's own screen - 800x600 is very limiting (unless you're doing text only). I very much agree on this - 1024x768 is very nice, but usually

Dell Inspiron 8000 Fn key not working

2002-10-28 Thread Simon Wong
work again??! TIA. -- ***** * Simon Wong* * * * <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * * * * signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

[Fwd: Dell Inspiron 8000 Fn key not working]

2002-10-28 Thread Simon Wong
really want to go back as the > temp/fan control seems to be better with this BIOS. > > Has anyone seen this problem and know a way to get it to work again??! > > TIA. -- ** * Simon Wong * **

Re: Dell Inspiron 8000 Fn key not working

2002-10-29 Thread Simon Wong
On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 16:50, Simon Wong wrote: > > After a recent BIOS update to A20 (I did all the ones in between as > > well) my blue Fn key no longer gets passed through to the BIOS. Well, I have just updated to A21 and it works again. It was working for a little while when

Re: Which laptop!!!

2002-11-13 Thread Simon Wong
so very compatible. -- ** * Simon Wong * **

Re: Which laptop!!!

2002-11-17 Thread Simon Wong
updates up and down between A17 and A21 (now at A18) my Fn buttons have stopped working which is a pain. -- ****** * Simon Wong * **

Re: Atir radeon mobility and svideo outpout

2002-11-18 Thread Simon Wong
0" EndSubSection EndSection When I use gvidm (thanks for that tip) I only get 1400x1050 offered and ctrl-alt-+/- don't do anything either. Thanks I'd love to get this to work :-) -- ** * Simon Wong * **

Re: Atir radeon mobility and svideo outpout

2002-11-18 Thread Simon Wong
just worried about busting my screen :-( -- ** * Simon Wong * **

Re: Atir radeon mobility and svideo outpout

2002-11-20 Thread Simon Wong
s specified below, but anyway: Still have the same problems, going to see if anyone at SLUG can help me. I'll report back here on any developments. Thanks for your help Daniel. -- ** * Simon Wong * **

Modeline for 800x600 on Dell Inspiron 8000, Rage 128

2002-11-20 Thread Simon Wong
under X :-( TIA. -- ** * Simon Wong * **

Re: Modeline for 800x600 on Dell Inspiron 8000, Rage 128

2002-11-21 Thread Simon Wong
called videogen that seems more comprehensive. I would *really* appreciate it if you could let me know if you have used 800x600. It seems to be impossible to find details on the IBM screen in these things. Thanks again. -- ** * Simon Wong * **

Fn keys WAS Modeline for 800x600 on Dell Inspiron 8000, Rage 128

2002-11-21 Thread Simon Wong
t; stuffed The XFree86 log definately tells me that the alternate resolutions I'm putting in are out of range. On the other hand my Fn keys no longer work either! Do you think it could be Xmodmap affecting them? -- ** * Simon Wong * **

Fn keys WAS Re: Which laptop!!!

2002-11-21 Thread Simon Wong
ve an ATI Rage128? Thanks. -- ** * Simon Wong * **

Re: IBM X20 NIC problem

2002-11-22 Thread Simon Hooper
ybe you should try this? All of this is from memory and I don't think I have changed anything else. I've tried to include all the details of my setup so that you can hopefully find this answer buried somewhere in this lot. HTH Simon. -- Simon Hooper

Re: Fn keys WAS Re: Which laptop!!!

2002-11-24 Thread Simon Wong
uently used to fix up any fuzziness. -- ****** * Simon Wong * **

Re: Temperatur weirdnes

2002-11-26 Thread Simon Wong
d A19. Problem or me is that my Fn key keeps dropping in and out so I'm staying with this level BIOS as Fn-z is not working. -- ** * Simon Wong * **

Re: Temperatur weirdnes

2002-11-27 Thread Simon Wong
ed and then opens it. > Anyway, I allways plug/unplug when the computer is on. > Well it works for me... Yep, same for i8000 with the A20/A21 BIOS's. Problem is that you can't charge the damn thing up without turning it on first. -- ** * Simon Wong * **

Page up/down keys not working (Dell i8000)

2002-12-11 Thread Simon Wong
changed and are using "pc104", "us" keyboard. Does anyone have any clues as to what this may be? TIA for any tips. I have a Dell Inspiron 8000 (BIOS A18). -- ** * Simon Wong * **

Re: Page up/down keys not working (Dell i8000)

2002-12-11 Thread Simon Wong
On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 23:35, Jimmy Hedman wrote: > I have the same problem, but i think it's due to some linux 2.4.20 > modifications. What kernel are you running? 2.4.19 They were working...damn annoying. What do you think the kernel stuff may be in 2.4.20? -- ****** * Simon Wong * **

Re: Page up/down keys not working (Dell i8000)

2002-12-15 Thread Simon Wong
hey're back :-D > information from the i8k lists on the Dell Support site. I'm going to have a better look around that site to see what resources are available. Thanks again. -- ** * Simon Wong * **

Re: Problems with IrDA printing on Compaq Armada M700

2003-01-08 Thread Simon Wong
device. You need to add the printer to CUPS etc. -- ** * Simon Wong * **

Re: Choosing network settings at boot?

2003-02-10 Thread Simon McCartney
On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 09:53:05AM +0100, Chris Halls wrote: > On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 09:13:02PM +1300, Andrew McMillan wrote: > > Don't forget that you can tweak you DHCP settings to make it not wait so > > long. > > Ah, now that's a good idea. What about adding a note to the whereami > documen

USB-Mouse... did I tried everything?

2003-02-26 Thread Peter Simon
Hi list, I've a Clevo 2200/2700c laptop with a logitech USB-optical mouse. Seachring the web I found a few how-to's to get an USB-mouse working under linux... I tried everyone ;-) I've build a kernel (woody / 2.4.20 - vanilla source) with Input core support Mouse supoort USB

USB-Mouse... did I tried everything?

2003-02-26 Thread Peter Simon
Hi list, I've a Clevo 2200/2700c laptop with a logitech USB-optical mouse. Seachring the web I found a few how-to's to get an USB-mouse working under linux... I tried everyone ;-) I've build a kernel (woody / 2.4.20 - vanilla source) with Input core support Mouse supoort USB OHCI USBHID static

Re: USB-Mouse... did I tried everything?

2003-02-27 Thread Peter Simon
Yes, CONFIG_USB_HIDINPUT was the reason. Now my USB-Mouse works fine :-) Thanks a lot to all! Peter

mouse problem -SOLVED

2003-03-29 Thread Petr Simon
Thanks everyone. I simply removed gpm and now it works. Thank you Petr Simon

winmodem and Adsl conflict?

2003-05-17 Thread Petr Simon
Hi, I have quite old Mitac with pctel789 modem, which doesn't work yet. I have been playing with it lately and the only result I got is, that neither modem nor ADSL works. I connect to my ADSL ISP very simply with pppoeconf. But after playing with modem, I run pppoeconf, everything goes fine,

Re: 2.4.20 and NVidia problem

2003-05-26 Thread Petr Simon
hi, this happend to me too. I set inapropriate framebuffer. I don't know if this happening to you. Though it's strange. As I understand you see all the messages while kernel boots, right? In this case have a look at /var/log/XFree86.log (or something like that). If I write something that doesn

Re: Dell Inspiron 8100 text screen

2001-11-14 Thread Simon Wong
ent but mine seems to be. P.S. When you upgraded did you go from Ximian Gnome to the standard Gnome packages? I'm thinking of upgrading soon and am wondering about that step. -- * * Simon Wong* * * * <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * * * *

mirroring woody

2001-12-03 Thread Simon Alder
I'd like to locally mirror woody on my laptop. But I'm not quite sure whether I got enough diskspace left. Does anyone know, how much disk space a complete i386 architecture of woody needs? And by the way: Has anyone experience with Joey Hess 'debmirror' script. Does it work? Wich version? Tanks,

Re: XFS won't daemonize

2001-12-06 Thread Simon Wong
ure but do you have Unix socket support loaded/compiled in your kernel? -- ** * Simon Wong * **

Re: ltmodem for 2.2r4

2001-12-08 Thread Simon Wong
b that you can install. -- ****** * Simon Wong * **

Re: ltmodem for 2.2r4

2001-12-10 Thread Simon Wong
sting) as there are a lot more fun things to play with but you need to be somewhat prepared for the odd breakages that may require backtracking packages. Good Luck. -- ** * Simon Wong * **

Inspiron 8000 IR and Palm (not talking and unreliable IR connection)

2001-12-12 Thread Simon Wong
f S=6 s=3 (14) 05:44:25.606692 xid:rsp 71b55e9c < 567dc24c S=6 s=2 Simon J.P. Wong hint=8220 [ PDA/Palmtop IrOBEX ] (32) 05:44:25.696698 xid:cmd 71b55e9c > S=6 s=4 (14) 05:44:25.786699 xid:cmd 71b55e9c > S=6 s=5 (14) 05:44:25.876700 xid:cmd 71b55

Re: Inspiron 8000 IR and Palm (not talking and unreliable IR connection)

2001-12-12 Thread Simon Wong
#DONGLE= # specify dongle type #DISCOVERY=-s # if you want use discovery mode, uncomment this #ENABLE=yes # if you don't need to start irattach, set "no" ~# My BIOS settings are COM4 and fast IR (slow hasn't seemed to ever work). Any other ideas? TIA. -- ** * Simon Wong * **

Re: 802.11b Wireless Card Recommendations ?

2001-12-12 Thread Simon Wong
; with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- ** * Simon Wong * **

Re: Inspiron 8000 IR and Palm (not talking and unreliable IR connection)

2001-12-13 Thread Simon Wong
On Wed, 2001-12-12 at 23:38, Robert Waldner wrote: > > On 12 Dec 2001 22:43:59 +1100, Simon Wong writes: > >Unfortunately, I seem to have slipped further backwards and now cannot > >even get discovery mode to find my palm :-( > <...> > >#DISCOVERY=-s

Re: irda on a Inspiron 8100... (fwd)

2001-12-13 Thread Simon Wong
t; slow. Debian testing, kernel 2.2.20. Does this start automagically when you try and use /dev/ircomm0 i.e. if I $pilot-xfer -l will it bring up the interface automatically? -- ** * Simon Wong * **

Re: irda on a Inspiron 8100... (fwd)

2001-12-13 Thread Simon Wong
t shows stuff coming from the palm but no response from pilot-xfer :-( My setup doesn't seem to be using the irda.conf file. What steps do you do for connecting to the phone? Thanks for your help. -- ** * Simon Wong * **

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