Re: cdrw/dvd, hdparm, and ide-scsi

2003-01-26 Thread Thorsten Hirsch
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 12:48:17PM -0500, cyn wrote: video=sisfb:mode:1024x768x16,mem:12288 This is a special parameter that can only be used if you have compiled your kernel with the sis framebuffer driver from www.winischhofer.net. It supports sis chipsets only and works for me very wel

Re: cdrw/dvd, hdparm, and ide-scsi

2003-01-26 Thread Thorsten Hirsch
cyn wrote: indeed I have compiled it in - kernel 2.4.20, but it doesn't show up any differently - are you sure your append matches that exactly? In my lilo.conf, under the section of my kernel, it says -- append="video=sisfb:mode:1024x768x16,mem:12288" -- I've got X with DFI and the

Re: cdrw/dvd, hdparm, and ide-scsi

2003-01-31 Thread Thorsten Hirsch
Soren A wrote: In the documentation for framebuffer (I think -- sorry it was a couple of days ago that I read it) it seems to say something like "if you set a video mode other than VGA-standard in your lilo.conf, you will not be able to switch to another video mode later (after login)". I couldn

Re: hibernation

2003-02-01 Thread Thorsten Hirsch
Hi Esther, first, would you please disable HTML-mails in your mail client? Now to your problem. The thing you're looking for is called APM or ACPI. As these are very large topics, best would be that you tell us exactly what you did before hibernation stopped working (perhaps you updated your

Re: cdrw/dvd, hdparm, and ide-scsi

2003-01-26 Thread Thorsten Hirsch
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 12:48:17PM -0500, cyn wrote: video=sisfb:mode:1024x768x16,mem:12288 This is a special parameter that can only be used if you have compiled your kernel with the sis framebuffer driver from www.winischhofer.net. It supports sis chipsets only and works for me very well

Re: cdrw/dvd, hdparm, and ide-scsi

2003-01-26 Thread Thorsten Hirsch
cyn wrote: indeed I have compiled it in - kernel 2.4.20, but it doesn't show up any differently - are you sure your append matches that exactly? In my lilo.conf, under the section of my kernel, it says -- append="video=sisfb:mode:1024x768x16,mem:12288" -- I've got X with DFI and the w

Re: cdrw/dvd, hdparm, and ide-scsi

2003-01-31 Thread Thorsten Hirsch
Soren A wrote: In the documentation for framebuffer (I think -- sorry it was a couple of days ago that I read it) it seems to say something like "if you set a video mode other than VGA-standard in your lilo.conf, you will not be able to switch to another video mode later (after login)". I couldn'

Re: hibernation

2003-02-01 Thread Thorsten Hirsch
Hi Esther, first, would you please disable HTML-mails in your mail client? Now to your problem. The thing you're looking for is called APM or ACPI. As these are very large topics, best would be that you tell us exactly what you did before hibernation stopped working (perhaps you updated your s