OT: latest NVidia driver not working

2006-01-04 Thread Tim Wood
Hello, I'm running a Toshiba TE2100 with the GeForce4 420Go GRU, under unstable with a 2.6.14 standard kernel. On the latest upgrade to 2.6.14-2-686 (2.6.14-2-7) I noticed a new Nvidia kernel. I used module assistant to compile it but on loading it would just hang. No response from the keyboard

Help: Hosed FS on HP nx8420?

2007-07-29 Thread Tim Wood
I have an HP nx 8420 Core2 Duo T7400, 2GB RAM, SATA 100GB 7400rpm HDD, ATI X1600 graphic card, bought mid February. I had great difficulty persuading it to repartition the drive. I installed the network edition of Edgy, bare system, then upgraded to Sid. The partitions: sda1 19.75GB NTFS, sd

Re: Video Card and Hard Drives

2007-08-26 Thread Tim Wood
Unk McThunderpants wrote: Hi, I'm running Etch with kernel 2.6.18-4-686 and KDE on a Toshiba TE2100 (tecra), and I'm having some issues with my video card. It's an nVidia GeForce4 420 GO, which is, as far as I know, supported by the Legacy nvidia drivers. I've tried the NV driver for XOrg,

Iwlwifi broken in Sid - Bug #1953?

2008-10-02 Thread Tim Wood
Hi, I'm running Sid on a Compaq NX8420 laptop, Core 2 Duo with the Intel 3945ABG wifi chip. The latest upgrade to version 6 of kernel 2.6.26-1-686 gives the same error as quoted in Bug #1953. Sep 30 09:38:27 HP-Debian kernel: [ 64.624510] iwl3945: Microcode SW error detected. Restartin

Re: Iwlwifi broken in Sid - Bug #1953?

2008-10-03 Thread Tim Wood
Franklin PIAT wrote: Hello, On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 13:58 +0800, Tim Wood wrote: Hi, I'm running Sid on a Compaq NX8420 laptop, Core 2 Duo with the Intel 3945ABG wifi chip. The latest upgrade to version 6 of kernel 2.6.26-1-686 gives the same error as quoted in Bug #1953. I assum

Re: USB 1.1 too slow to burn DVD's?

2008-10-23 Thread Tim Wood
Chris Jones wrote: On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 09:04:21PM EDT, Richard Hector wrote: On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 20:21 -0400, Chris Jones wrote: On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 03:14:07PM EDT, Paolo wrote: On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 01:18:30PM -0400, Chris Jones wrote: The old laptop only has USB 1.1 and I believ

Help: Dselect ran out of disk space

2000-07-29 Thread Tim Wood
Hi, I managed to do a floppy/ftp install of Potato on an old 4086DX-33 laptop (8MB RAM 120MB HDD) but ran out of disk space. I used a 16MB swap file. At one point I had in mind to use it as a gateway on my 10base2 LAN but my current laptop (sorry it's RH6.2 at the moment) and Windoze98SE desktop

Help: Dselect ran out of disk space

2000-07-29 Thread Tim Wood
Hi, I managed to do a floppy/ftp install of Potato on an old 4086DX-33 laptop (8MB RAM 120MB HDD) but ran out of disk space. I used a 16MB swap file. At one point I had in mind to use it as a gateway on my 10base2 LAN but my current laptop (sorry it's RH6.2 at the moment) and Windoze98SE desktop a

Help: Screwed up LILO MBR

2000-09-04 Thread Tim Wood
Hi everyone, sorry if this is a bit of a saga but please bear with me. I ahve a Solo 5150 laptop PII-233 64MB RAM 4.1GB HDD (IBM Ultra DMA). Originally Win98 was installed. I added RH6.1 as I wanted to learn about Linux and intalled Boot Magic. I upgraded to RH6.2 and installed LILO with DOS an

LILO probs fixed - MBR faulty

2000-09-05 Thread Tim Wood
Hi, thanks to Olaf Meeuwissen and others who responded to my request for help. I was encouraged to continue adjusting lilo.conf until it recognised my three OS (RH6.2, Debian 2.2 & Win98). It is now possible to boot into RH and Debian but Win98 seems to have a problem still. I had tried using "

Help: Major screw-up installing XF86 4.01

2000-10-20 Thread Tim Wood
Hi, I installed potato on a desktop when it was unstable and have updated/upgraded since I then did a cdrom install on my laptop about 5 weeks ago. Both have Communicator 4.75 and I loaded Gnome 1.2.2 from woody. As things had gone reasonably well I decided I would try XF86 4.01 on my lapto

Help: Screwed up Partition + - Won't boot

2001-04-26 Thread Tim Wood
tor 4.76 for mail and news and, at a minimum, I would hope to rescue the mail. Naturally I'm hoping that you guys will be able to help me rescue this mess. I'll accept the flames but please offer some usefull advise. More in hope than expectation, Tim Wood

Help: Partition OK but packages all screwed up

2001-04-28 Thread Tim Wood
one know how to get apt/capt to recognise the existing packages it would be a great help. Well I guess I proved the old adage " a little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing" :) Any suggestions on how to procede would be very welcome. TIA, Tim Wood

Synaptics Touchpad won't work in Testing

2001-06-07 Thread Tim Wood
(Invalid argument). Anyone have any suggestions as to what is going on? TIA, Tim Wood

Testing: PS/2 Mouse OK - Touchpad No GO

2001-06-16 Thread Tim Wood
like the choice. If anyone has any suggestions I'd welcome them. The laptop is a Gateway 5150 - PII-233 64MB RAM, 4.2GB HDD, Neomagic 256AV (NM2200) 2.5MB video RAM. TIA, Tim Wood

LILO probs fixed - MBR faulty

2000-09-05 Thread Tim Wood
Hi, thanks to Olaf Meeuwissen and others who responded to my request for help. I was encouraged to continue adjusting lilo.conf until it recognised my three OS (RH6.2, Debian 2.2 & Win98). It is now possible to boot into RH and Debian but Win98 seems to have a problem still. I had tried using

Help: Screwed up LILO MBR

2000-09-04 Thread Tim Wood
Hi everyone, sorry if this is a bit of a saga but please bear with me. I ahve a Solo 5150 laptop PII-233 64MB RAM 4.1GB HDD (IBM Ultra DMA). Originally Win98 was installed. I added RH6.1 as I wanted to learn about Linux and intalled Boot Magic. I upgraded to RH6.2 and installed LILO with DOS a

Help: Major screw-up installing XF86 4.01

2000-10-19 Thread Tim Wood
Hi, I installed potato on a desktop when it was unstable and have updated/upgraded since I then did a cdrom install on my laptop about 5 weeks ago. Both have Communicator 4.75 and I loaded Gnome 1.2.2 from woody. As things had gone reasonably well I decided I would try XF86 4.01 on my lapt

Help: Screwed up Partition + - Won't boot

2001-04-26 Thread Tim Wood
tor 4.76 for mail and news and, at a minimum, I would hope to rescue the mail. Naturally I'm hoping that you guys will be able to help me rescue this mess. I'll accept the flames but please offer some usefull advise. More in hope than expectation, Tim Wood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Help: Partition OK but packages all screwed up

2001-04-27 Thread Tim Wood
one know how to get apt/capt to recognise the existing packages it would be a great help. Well I guess I proved the old adage " a little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing" :) Any suggestions on how to procede would be very welcome. TIA, Tim Wood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Synaptics Touchpad won't work in Testing

2001-06-07 Thread Tim Wood
(Invalid argument). Anyone have any suggestions as to what is going on? TIA, Tim Wood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Testing: PS/2 Mouse OK - Touchpad No GO

2001-06-16 Thread Tim Wood
would like the choice. If anyone has any suggestions I'd welcome them. The laptop is a Gateway 5150 - PII-233 64MB RAM, 4.2GB HDD, Neomagic 256AV (NM2200) 2.5MB video RAM. TIA, Tim Wood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Advice on kernel partitions requested.

2001-12-19 Thread Tim Wood
would like to avoid installing from scratch. TIA, Tim Wood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Advice on kernel partitions requested.

2001-12-20 Thread Tim Wood
Derek Broughton wrote: > > Heather wrote: > > > > > install the "localepurge" package, (someone check my spelling on the > > apt-localepurge > > > package name) it will clear out all those annoying foreign-language > > po's on the fly. You have to TELL it to keep your language tho! > > But i

OT: Anybody get AMR modem to work with 2.6 kernel

2004-07-03 Thread Tim Wood
Thought I'd try with laptop users first. I have a Toshiba TE2100 with an Intel 82801CA/CAM 8086:2486 ICH3 modem. Under a 2.4 kernel I can get it to work with the Smart Link slmdm-2.7.7 driver. That driver does not cover the 2.6 kernel. I've tried the latest slmodem-2.9.9 driver. It will install bu

SVGATextMode on Neomagic 256AV(NM2200) ?

2002-10-30 Thread Tim Wood
de on this hardware at 130x50 with a reasonable charcter size? TIA, Tim Wood

Re: SVGATextMode on Neomagic 256AV(NM2200) ?

2002-10-30 Thread Tim Wood
Jens Muessig wrote: Hi, I had the same problem with my TP600 and NM chip. Now I don't use svgatextmode at all. Just add a line to /etc/lilo.conf, like vga 791 This is 1204x768, 16bpp. (see the table below) Video Modes 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 8 bpp (256 colors) 769 771 773 77

Re: SVGATextMode on Neomagic 256AV(NM2200) ?

2002-10-30 Thread Tim Wood
Nyk Tarr wrote: On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 05:23:51PM +0800, Tim Wood wrote: Jens Muessig wrote: Hi, I had the same problem with my TP600 and NM chip. Now I don't use svgatextmode at all. Just add a line to /etc/lilo.conf, like vga 791 This is 1204x768, 16bpp. (see the table

RE: Battery Life

2003-02-13 Thread Tim Wood
Hi everyone, just to stick my ten cents worth in. I have a 4 year old Gateway 5150. It runs on the mains most of the time. I leave the battery in all the time. Yesterday, as a check against what has been said on this list, I ran it for 50 min. It went from 100% down to 50%. I was using a PC car

Advice on kernel partitions requested.

2001-12-19 Thread Tim Wood
would like to avoid installing from scratch. TIA, Tim Wood

Re: Advice on kernel partitions requested.

2001-12-20 Thread Tim Wood
Derek Broughton wrote: > > Heather wrote: > > > > > install the "localepurge" package, (someone check my spelling on the > > apt-localepurge > > > package name) it will clear out all those annoying foreign-language > > po's on the fly. You have to TELL it to keep your language tho! > > But it

ES1879 on A Solo 5150 anyone?

2002-02-03 Thread Tim Wood
Hi, I recently gained a BIOS upgrade which would allow me to upgrade M$ NT4.0 to Win2k - Yes I know! - but I have to use it for some things. I also wanted to install a USB printer. I installed kernel 2.4.17-686 but, initially, forgot about checking the modules and lsot use of my Cardbus NIC - all

Can boot 2.2 but not 2.4 kernel

2002-06-19 Thread Tim Wood
orrupted some part of the boot sector or image? Any suggestions would be welcome. TIA, Tim Wood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

ES1879 on A Solo 5150 anyone?

2002-02-02 Thread Tim Wood
Hi, I recently gained a BIOS upgrade which would allow me to upgrade M$ NT4.0 to Win2k - Yes I know! - but I have to use it for some things. I also wanted to install a USB printer. I installed kernel 2.4.17-686 but, initially, forgot about checking the modules and lsot use of my Cardbus NIC - all

SVGATextMode on Neomagic 256AV(NM2200) ?

2002-10-29 Thread Tim Wood
de on this hardware at 130x50 with a reasonable charcter size? TIA, Tim Wood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SVGATextMode on Neomagic 256AV(NM2200) ?

2002-10-30 Thread Tim Wood
Jens Muessig wrote: Hi, I had the same problem with my TP600 and NM chip. Now I don't use svgatextmode at all. Just add a line to /etc/lilo.conf, like vga 791 This is 1204x768, 16bpp. (see the table below) Video Modes 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 8 bpp (256 colors) 769 771 773 775

Re: SVGATextMode on Neomagic 256AV(NM2200) ?

2002-10-30 Thread Tim Wood
Nyk Tarr wrote: On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 05:23:51PM +0800, Tim Wood wrote: Jens Muessig wrote: Hi, I had the same problem with my TP600 and NM chip. Now I don't use svgatextmode at all. Just add a line to /etc/lilo.conf, like vga 791 This is 1204x768, 16bpp. (see the table below)

RE: Battery Life

2003-02-13 Thread Tim Wood
Hi everyone, just to stick my ten cents worth in. I have a 4 year old Gateway 5150. It runs on the mains most of the time. I leave the battery in all the time. Yesterday, as a check against what has been said on this list, I ran it for 50 min. It went from 100% down to 50%. I was using a PC card

OT: Anybody get AMR modem to work with 2.6 kernel

2004-07-03 Thread Tim Wood
Thought I'd try with laptop users first. I have a Toshiba TE2100 with an Intel 82801CA/CAM 8086:2486 ICH3 modem. Under a 2.4 kernel I can get it to work with the Smart Link slmdm-2.7.7 driver. That driver does not cover the 2.6 kernel. I've tried the latest slmodem-2.9.9 driver. It will install