>> $ sudo smartctl -a /dev/sda | grep Load_Cycle_Count
>> 193 Load_Cycle_Count0x0032 001 001 000Old_age
>> Always - 663424
>>
>> Is this bad? I have not noticed any symptoms that I can say is
>> definitely hard -drive related, but every so often the computer gets
>> v
> My thinkpad x60 1706-BS8 overheats while compiling/rendering if
> /proc/acpi/ibm/fan is set to "auto".
This probably indicates that your fan (or some part of the air-flow
path) needs cleaning.
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> I have also decided to run only Lenny on my Laptop.
Congratulations, it's a very good choice.
> Is it a good idea to install everything on one partition i.e. whole Hard
> Disk ?
I would personally recommend a small (100-200MB) partition for /boot
(typically using ext3) and the rest should be a
> This is my first sata hard drive, so I do not know if sata drives need
> DMA or if maybe the sata controller does the copying instead of
> the CPU.
SATA always provides and enables DMA.
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My machine (MSI Wind) has a wlan-toggle key (Fn-F11) which
enables/disables the wifi's radio (this is done apparently directly by
the BIOS so Linux isn't really told about it), and it also sends some
key event (which by default causes some "setkeycodes" kernel messages).
So the key formally works
>> My machine (MSI Wind) has a wlan-toggle key (Fn-F11) which
>> enables/disables the wifi's radio (this is done apparently directly by
>> the BIOS so Linux isn't really told about it), and it also sends some
> Er, if you see it, the kernel must be telling you about it, yes?
> Linux generally igno
> I have a laptop Acer TravelMate 3043WTMi under Lenny AMD64 with 4GD RAM.
> But the system "see" only 3GB:
> dmesg |grep Memory
> [0.004000] Memory: 3081184k/3136000k available (2225k kernel code,
> 54428k reserved, 1080k data, 392k init)
> $ cat /proc/meminfo
> MemTotal: 3088108 kB
> H
> I don't have time to check your machine's specs, but many chipsets of
> a few years ago only recognized a maximum of 3GB (even though they
> correctly work with 4GB installed). My Thinkpad T60 is among them.
> In this case, there's nothing you can do about it, short of getting
> another machine.
> my Debian is debootstrap based, ie, only the packages that I hand picked
> are installed. I'd like to know the recommend package combinations
> that provide the function, and better not desktop specific, because I
> normally don't use any desktops but a simple window manager (fluxbox).
> Anyon
> On my Acer Aspire (AS5536), there is no way to simulate a middle-click by
> pressing both the right and left mouse key. But I badly need this middle-
> click to paste in the x-selections.
Assuming your Acer has a touchpad, you should be able to to configure
the `synaptics' X11 driver to accept
> I ran "ifdown eth0; ifup eth0". I got this error message in the output
> "wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801".
IIRC this is a harmless warning.
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> The solution is to use the "shutdown" method instead of the "platform":
> echo shutdown > /sys/power/disk
You can do such a thing in /etc/sysfs.conf (assuming you have
installed sysfsutils). If you have installed uswsusp, then this setting
will be ignored, and instead you need to
>> You can do such a thing in /etc/sysfs.conf (assuming you have
>> installed sysfsutils). If you have installed uswsusp, then this setting
>> will be ignored, and instead you need to change /etc/uswsusp to say
> I use pm-utils. The I finally found (I've been told) that the right
> (debian) way i
> have been using a T60p for over 4 years by now and still very happy with it.
> Essentially all hardware components are supported by Linux (except for
> the modem).
Also very happy with my T60 (no p).
> Mine is still IBM branded and i don't know how the quality changed since
> the Lenovo takeov
> if it were me, i would be narrowing that list a little, the only decent
> machine you mentioned would be toshiba. top 3 machines for customer
> satisfaction, reliability are asus, sony, toshiba. check out system76 as
> well, using a pangolin here, very impressed.
That list of manufacturers/bra
> As you surely know, that's a metaphysical question, like does God exist
> or not.
Indeed. By adding 1G of RAM you're actually increasing the total amount
of logical-memory available, so you'll likely use (and need) *less* swap
than before.
> *Unless* you plan to use hibernation (suspend to d
> So, it appears that, in Western Australia, neither laptop computers, nor
> desktop computers, are available, that are new, that are compatible with
> Linux, and that are reasonably priced (under 1100 AUD), and that can do what
> I want (including 1240x1024 graphics resolution).
Don't about Weste
> I would like your insights : the laptop is reported as i586, so which one to
> choose ? linux-image-2.6.26-2-686 2.6.26-21lenny4 ? linux-image-2.6.26-2-486
> 2.6.26-21lenny4 ? (I would be more inclined to 486, but I didn't find any
> concluant informations on the Net...)
486 will work. 686 may
> Let me add that I chose LVM when I was setting up partitions. Is this
> possible that the resume image is not seen because the swap partition might
> be unavailable?
Please add your voice to
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=544641
in the hope that someone will finally fix t
> Maybe I'm missing something, or maybe it's a bug...
> 1. Is hal depreciated in squeeze, in favour of udev?
> 2. I'm not familiar with a Debian-specific way of doing any of this;
> here is my resource for trackpoint configuration:
> http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_configure_the_TrackPoint
>
>> Please add your voice to
>> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=544641
>> in the hope that someone will finally fix this very-long-standing bug
>> (for which I even provide a patch there, so it's not like it's hard to
>> fix).
> It's kinda strange to me. I do not have uswsusp insta
> Thanks Stefan. Unfortunately, I'm not an expert and currently do not seem
> to be able to do something to get rid of this strangely long-lasting bug.
> I hope someone will do it soon.
It's easy to work around this problem: don't use UUIDs.
After all, if you're using LVM, then your partitions ha
>> It's easy to work around this problem: don't use UUIDs.
>> After all, if you're using LVM, then your partitions have meaningful
>> names, so use those rather than the incomprehensible and
>> meaningless UUIDs.
> You mean that I should edit /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume and set
> RESUME=/de
> I will also note that the hddtemp project mentioned in that article is
> pretty much dead. It came up for discussion elsewhere which is why I
> am familiar with it. I don't know if the tool still works or not. If
FWIW, I use it to monitor my drives's temperature in gkrellm.
It doesn't work wi
> hdparm -f -Y command into the right places.) However, that does not really
> work since there are too many processes doing continuous small disk writes,
> like logs and network activities.
laptop-tools can configure the system to make sure that writes don't
cause drives to spin up all the time.
> into some random mailing list question. For example, you made me just
> install cpufreqd on my PC where i never considered that a priority.
Nowadays installing cpufrequtils should be all you need to do.
> As another sidenote, i've a couple of rarely used storage disks (like
> Backups or Archiv
> few days ago I was playing with idle3-tools on WD that was clicking due to
> head parking every 2-3 mins.
If you have such a problem, remember that the problem is not so much in
the drive but in the way it is used: i.e. try and figure out why the
system needs to access the drive every 2-3 minute
> router. So, to stop the continuous harddisk access, i just de-installed
> rsyslog daemon.
> Then, i made /var/log a tmpfs and out of curiosity, just to see if ot works,
> reinstalled rsyslog again. As expceted, after each boot, the standard logs
> get created at syslog start (which is in desktop
> With only 2G of ram there is no significant advantage to you to be
> running a 64-bit system. Think about it again when you have 8G of ram.
FWIW, I'am also running a 32bit version of Debian on my 8GB machines.
But I did switch the kernel from "686" to "amd64" (tho it's not strictly
necessary ei
> I want to buy a laptop but I want a laptop in which it is easy to change
> the fan or change the thermal paste etc ... without the need to disassemble
> everything.
Traditionally, Thinkpads are considered reasonably well designed (and
well documented) for maintenance.
This said, the general rul
> Along the way I have used a couple of the small ThinkPad X-series
> machines. I didn't get along with the "scrunched" smaller keyboards
> in them.
This smaller keyboard was used until (and including) the X61. But when
they moved to the widescreen format, the keyboard also got extra width,
so s
>> Traditionally, Thinkpads are considered reasonably well designed (and
>> well documented) for maintenance.
> T series is business class I think, especially the older ones.
> The newer ones Lenovo has messed with the winning formula. I own an
> X220, and the touchpad with bumps all over it (unusa
> Hi, I plan to purchase a (space-saving, outage-surviving-battery-laden,
> terminal-controlled) netbook with gigabyte RAM and USB3.0 high-speed access
> to my external terabytes and plan to create a Zettabyte File System on it
> that is then served via wired fast and wireless Ethernet and not spen
> but, one reason i decided to go with a swap file, is to be able to
> easily change its size anytime later.
I'm not sure if/how you can get hibernation to a swap-file, but you can
get hibernation to swap that can easily be resized: use LVM and put your
swap in an LVM volume.
Stefan
> need stripped-down kernel. 64M is plenty as long as you don't run X
> with all the bells and whistles.
I have also run Debian on my ASUS WL-700gE, but I wouldn't say that 64MB
is "plenty" to run Debian. For my day-to-day use (mostly as
router+NAS+jukebox) it was indeed sufficient, but doing up
> The T60p was released more than 8 years ago. Moore's law predicts the
> performance of hardware doubles every two years. So on average the
> performance of laptops will increase 8-fold every eight years.
That used to be the case, yes. But this exponential improvement stopped
around the time the
> Is there anything comparable for a linux desktop, which does not require to
> enter a SSID manually oder chose which encryption and all the stuff that
> network manager applet (for xfce) seems to require ?
Network-Manager aims to be that tool.
Stefan
> How much swap space does 4GB ram ideally requires?
RAM doesn't require sap space. It's the lack of RAM which does.
There are typically 2 cases where you "lack" RAM:
- when you're using more memory than you have. This was historically
the justification for the "2x" rule, but nowadays it's fai
> I have been using Debian in my Lenovo Thinkpad T61 from 2007 onwards.
> I have the latest upgrade Stretch/sid on it.
> This laptop has Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7700 @ 2.40 GHz and was having
> 2GB RAM. But this week I have upgraded the RAM to 4GB and replaced the HDD
> with a new Intel SSD 120
> option, swap is where the memory image is put, and it should be at least
> as large as real memory.
Actually no: when hibernating, the requirement is that the currently
unused swap space (which should usually be pretty much the whole swap
space), be large enough to contain a *compressed* form of
> As for SSD specifics pls read https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/SSD
> it's a nice overview. As you can see, for SSD, any disk operation is 'bad'
> so you would try to put as much I/O as possible into RAM, for example avoid
> swapping and following Matus' aboce suggestions.
> ('bad' meaning tha
> I have learned that if an SSD fails, it is difficult to recover data
> from them.
That's true of all storage media.
> An SSD often does not give much warning before it fails.
Not sure if it applies to all storage media, but Google hasn't had much
success in predicting failure of its HDDs, so m
> Hi, I installed a base system of debian/testing on a lenovo x240
> last week and I'm astonished that task-laptop does not include
> some power management software.
Power management should permeate the whole system nowadays.
> Is tlp still the way to go?
To do what?
Stefan
> FSFE is the FSF (Free Software Foundation) Europe.
> This is an initiative about making sure that software developed with
> public money be made public, i.e. open sourced.
I think you mean "Open Source and Free Software". After all, the FSFE
doesn't care about Open Source, as opposed to Free So
> p61 series thinkpad need to bypass lost power-on password. Bought it at a
No, AFAIK the X11 driver doesn't need to bypass any password.
Stefan
> buster, my laptop has "become slow" by which I mean applications take
> longer to open, new windows take several seconds to complete drawing on
> the desktop and there's a noticeable lag when I use the mouse to select
> text (you can see the text becoming highlighted one char at a time).
Reminds
> Video acceleration:
> All I can find is ATI or Intel video chipsets... but I've heard say
> that ATI (3D acceleration) is a pain to get working. I've had some
> trouble myself for older cards (mine was Radeon 7200, not supported at
> all, although it did work at one point on FC5), but do some o
> Some network deamons like ntp are completely useless on my machine because
> they are started before the network interfaces are setup.
> I'm probably not the only one to see such problems.
> Has anybody already played with the idea of putting some appropriate
> scripts in /etc/network/if-*.d ?
>
My Acer TravelMate-3012 has special buttons to enable/disable bluetooth
and wifi. For bluetooth, when I hit the button it seems to cause
hotplugging the USB bluetooth device, so Linux handles it perfectly.
On the other hand, the wifi button doesn't seem to cause such
a hotplug event. It just dis
> Je viens d'installer la debian etch sur mon portable asus G1 et je rencontre
> certains problemes de fonctionnement avec l'acpi (le processeur dual core
> est bien reconnu comme deux processeurs, mais la frequence des deux proc
> reste a 100%).
What program are you using to control the CPU's fre
> I would like to run Debian off of a USB drive using my laptop. Currently I
> run a dual boot system: Debian with Windows on the internal hard disk.
> The laptop is a Toshiba Satellite A15-S129 and will not boot to USB. I can
> boot to CD.
> Is there a way I can use the CD-ROM to boot the co
> I'm running Woody 2.6.12.2 on an HP Pavilion notebook (dv4040us). One
> problem I'm trying to fix is the touchpad's sensitivity. This
> touchpad is crazy sensitive -- just breathe on it and the pointer
> moves! In some contexts, this doesn't bother me that much. But, when
> I'm using apps or
> Hello world,
> How to compile kernel with high memory supports?
> I am using debian sarge on Acer 3684WXCi with memory upgrade to 2GB.
Hmm... all the stock -686 Debian kernels I've used in the last year or
so supported 3GB (out of the 4GB in my machine).
If you need more than 3GB, you need to th
> Both Dell and Lenovo offer laptops with anti-reflective 4x3 display, IIRC.
They definitely seem to be on the way out.
The wonderful 14" 1400x1050 that used to be the "ideal T series config" has
apparently disappeared in T61 where you get stuck with a 14" 1440x900.
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>>> Both Dell and Lenovo offer laptops with anti-reflective 4x3 display, IIRC.
>>
>> They definitely seem to be on the way out. The wonderful 14" 1400x1050
>> that used to be the "ideal T series config" has apparently disappeared in
>> T61 where you get stuck with a 14" 1440x900.
> I'm not sure,
> currently I have a system-wide tmp directory, that has its own partition -
> let's name it K - on the disk.
> The K size is 1.5 GB. Unfortunately I found that it is too small for my
> purposes because it is used as a working directory of many
> programs -including the file roller.
Then you shou
>> i've got a asus aj8s (intel duo t7200) notebook with debian etch
>> (2.6.18-4). apparantly kernels from 17-19 dont work with cpufreq. is
>> their a fix or at least a other way of reducing the processor speed?
> The recommended approach to CPU frequency management for all modern
> Intel processo
> Yes, I used the gnome-power-manager applet.
> Thanks to Michael who also pointed me to the hibernate script, I'm able
> now to hibernate, but need to access it as root via a terminal. My
> preference though, is to access it through the applet.
This whole situation is a real big mess.
The rela
>> And of course gnome-power-manager is fundamentally flawed because the
>> issues it tries to deal with are at least as much system-wide as they are
>> specific to a given Gnome session: when I have several users logged in,
>> I don't want each one of their gnome-power-manager to react to
>> ACPI
>> > g-p-m is basically a tool for single-user systems, like laptops (usually
>> > are).
> [..]
>> > On multi-user systems you're better off not installing it if possile,
> I guess you don't wan't to remove the g-p-m feature, you just want to
> manage it. i.e. authorized user can still hibernate th
> I believe that has no influence on my main problematic case:
> 1- the user hits the power-button because (s)he wants to hibernate the
>machine.
> 2- each and every user logged in with Gnome gets to process the request via
>its own gnome-power-manager, isn't it wonderful?
Just to clarify:
> Interesting - that's a pre-Lenovo one?
No, the X60 is recent and definitely post-IBM.
> My understanding was that Lenovo had publicly declared that they weren't
> interested in supporting Linux, which was a bit of a turnoff for me.
It wouldn't surprise me that they've stated something like tha
> password, there was a message from Gnome Power Manager saying that there
> was a suspend problem, and pointing to a link for more info.
This message is indeed 100% useless and terribly frustrating: it gives the
impression that the link will contain actual info, but all it says is
equivalent to "
> It turned out that I had had a typo in my hibernate.conf file
> (I had added something to try to help with a network problem
> after suspending), so when gnome power manager called
> hibernate, it effectively died with a syntax error, without
> logging this anywhere that I can see. When I learned
> So, is there anybody happy with sound (e.g. with a semi-professional
> firewire soundcard) on his laptop?
I suspect that this will be independent from the laptop: as long as firewire
is properly supported (which it always has been for me), then the support
for your firewire soundcard will only d
> While I'm using 2.6.22 with HI-RES Timers, I hardly get around 5-10 minutes
> of power when running on battery. Where as Windows makes it run for 1.5 hrs
> approx.
Such an enormous difference cannot be the consequence of some sub-optimal
power management. It's clearly a sign of a bug somewhere
> could anyone point me somewhere that i can get info on this project?
I think you want to google for "multiseat".
Stefan
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