Re: 2.2.15 kernel boot freezes at "running ntpdate..."

On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, Mark Phillips wrote: > > > I was wrong. The problem was ntpdate. It was trying to poll the internet > > while not connected to it. > > The thing which is puzzling me is: why did the 2.0.36 boot fine and > successfully get past ntpdate? You see, that is why I initially > di

Re: Changing processor speeds

On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Benjamin Tyger Sunshine-Hill wrote: > > Hello all, > > I have a Toshiba Libretto 70CT that I use a fair amount for MP3s. I've > noticed over the last couple of months that after some suspend/resume > cycles, the processor will go slower, causing the player to skip. BogoMIPS >

Re: installation help

On Sat, 10 Jun 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > i need help installing debian onto my laptop everything loads up i > press enter to start the process it checks everything then it locks up > the last line reading "ramdisk: compressed image found at block 0" how > do i get aorund this problem

Re: Changing processor speeds

On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: > > Makes me think of my bios setup: there is an option where you select which > OS you're using ("mostly"), with the options Win95, Win98 or Other... any > idea what that might do? > due to microsofts infinite wisdom dos (and so windoze) has trouble

Re: Changing processor speeds

On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Greg Woods wrote: > > Alexander Clouter wrote: > > > due to microsofts infinite wisdom dos (and so windoze) has trouble > > handling more than 1024 cylinders (if I remember correctly). > > Much as I love a good M$-bashing occasionally, I don&#x

Re: Emacs questions

On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Jeffrey Knight wrote: > > Quick emacs questions: > does syntax hightlighting work in emacs > (*not* xemacs) -- font-lock doesn't seem > to give me any pretty colors outside of X, > and I can't for the life of me find anything > in the documentation. > pointless but "vim rules

Re: Emacs questions

On 14 Jun 2000, Gary Hennigan wrote: > > "Jeffrey Knight" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Thanks for the responses; i know this isn't an Emacs mailing list --- > > How can this be possible? The bloated Emacs with every feature known to > > humanity can't do the one thing that lil' ol' vim does wi

Re: HDPREPEZ

On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Stephen Turner wrote: > > Having partitioned my disk (Partition Magic 5.0) and turned my laptop > (Packard Bell EasyLite FX500) into a dual boot machine (Windows 98SE / > Debian Potato), I get the following error message on booting up: > > "Invalid HIBERNATION Partition.. r

Re: strange melting screen when X starts

On Thu, 27 Jul 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I installed the newest XFree86 4.0.1 on my Debian2.1 laptop recently, > and now it works. But there are still some problems. > > My laptop is Twinhead Slimnote VX3, Toshiba 12.1" TFT LCD, 800x600 SVGA, > 2560K VideoRAM, Trident Cyber 9525DVD chip.

Re: strange melting screen when X starts

On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, name wrote: > > I've done it. I found an option in my BIOS setup called 'resolution > expended', and it was enabled by default. I disabled it and the melting > screen never show again. But there is a trade off. I can only get 640x480 > small screen for text mode now. It's a b

Re: strange melting screen when X starts

On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, Chanop Silpa-Anan wrote: > > Use framebuffer, you will get full screen console mode at 800x600. > With both 2.2 & 2.4 kernel, I pass vga=0x315 as a kernel parameter via > either grub or lilo. Check lilo/grub/kernel document for more info. BTW, > it > seems that current kernel

Re: Help required: pcmcia-source/kernel-source-2.2.17 problem?

you don't say what type of laptop you have. Some laptops don't use 100% Cardbus compatible protocols, so this hangs the machine. Recompile your pcmcia drivers with 32bit cardbus turned off. Hopefully this will solve your problems. Alex -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Help required: pcmcia-source/kernel-source-2.2.17 problem?

On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, Etienne M. Gagnon wrote: > > Alexander Clouter wrote: > > you don't say what type of laptop you have. > > I have a Compaq Presario 1060, with a Linksys EtherFast 10/100 (PCMCIA) > Ethernet card. > > > Some laptops don't use 100% Car

Re: strange melting screen when X starts

On Mon, 31 Jul 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > About the floppy LED problem, I think I'll have to contact my laptop's > manufacturer. Probably it's mad after too many times hard restart. > This seems the only thing you can do. The actual problem sounds like a broken LED or loose wire/contact.

Re: strange melting screen when X starts

On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, Chanop Silpa-Anan wrote: > > I installed xfree 4.0.1 deb (phase1 ~ alpha package). It seems to run > fine > except that I could not suspend/stand because when resume X would crash > the > machine completely. > many moons ago when I installed Xfree 4.0.0 it too would not suspen

Re: plip installation (Host name lookup failure)

On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, David Karlin wrote: > > I'm doing an installation from the potato floppy boot disk set > dated July 5, 2000. Kernel and modules are installed; plip is > configured and I can ping hosts on the Internet by name from VC2. > > Over on VC1, the installation scripts are running,

Re: eth0: autonegotiation not working

On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Guðmundur Erlingsson wrote: > > I'm trying to get a 3com card working (3c574), and the pcmcia-package finds > it ok and loads the appropriate driver, but then comes this: > > eth0: found link beat > eth0: link partner did not autonegotiate > eth0: lost link beat > eth0: autone

Re: esssolo1 and midi

On Sat, 12 Aug 2000, Shao Zhang wrote: > > Hi, > I am using the esssolo1 for my laptop's soundcard, but I cannot get > the midi working. I read the source code and it seems to me that > /dev/midi is supported. > > But playmidi keeps trying /dev/sequence. any ideas? > > [17:56

Re: PCMCIA 10/100 TP + BNC

On Sat, 12 Aug 2000, Stefan Fleiter wrote: > > is there any PCMCIA card following the Cardbus Standard which can be > used with with Twisted Pair and BNC and offers 10/100 Mbit at least for > TP. > I know 3Com do a card that does all the above, plus its got funky features that release CPU cycles.

Re: possible to view video CD with Debian?

On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, Benjamin F. Zhou wrote: > > it may sounds like a folish question. has anyone viewed VCD with debian? > Because VCD's don't use the normal CD standard (so more information can be crammed on) linux won't read the CD. However I think kernel 2.4 will. The only VCD software I ca

Re: Problem with my apmd daemon !

((__)) Alexander "Jim diGriz" Clouter \\ ((oo)) \\--\\// e-mail: alexander . clouter @ ic . ac . uk || ||(remove those spaces to e-mail me) |||||| ~~~~~~equip : 300Mhz Celeron Laptop running Cow during an Debian Linux Earthquake

Re: Potato on laptops

a CD by hand :( Can anyone involved in producing debian media assist us in this? I wouldn't imagine this being a difficult thing to arrange. Alex -- ** ((__)) Alexander "Jim diGriz" Clouter \\ ((oo)) \\--\\// e-mail: alexander . clouter @ ic . ac .

Re: Debian/X on Toshiba

everything or anything silly like that? Its because this feature is slow anyway, regardless of what spec your machine is. -- ** ((__)) Alexander "Jim diGriz" Clouter \\ ((oo)) \\--\\// e-mail: alexander . clouter @ ic . ac . uk || ||

Re: Debian Slink w/ some Potato Kernel 2.0.38 compile

ia start' and your machine should be fine. Any problems do mail me :) Alex -- ** ((__)) Alexander "Jim diGriz" Clouter \\ ((oo)) \\--\\// e-mail: alexander . clouter @ ic . ac . uk || ||(remove those spaces to e-mail me) |||||| ~~~~~~equip : 300Mhz Celeron Laptop running Cow during an Debian Linux Earthquake

Re: debian talks to mac :-)

nt, and I'm a poor university student :) The ethernet will be the simpliest thing to set up and also the fastest you could connect the machines together. Alex -- ** ((__)) Alexander "Jim diGriz" Clouter \\ ((oo)) \\--\\// e-mail: alexan

Minor problems under potato

we just use ftp but for my friends to have an actual filer window to play with does make it about twenty times easier and also impresses them :) Many thanks in advance, I guess the above problems are easy to fix but I have no clue what next to do. Alex -- ** ((__))

Re: External monitor

n activates the LCD. This is how my laptop works and my friends laptops, the ones I have used on a monitor. Alex -- ** ((__)) Alexander "Jim diGriz" Clouter \\ ((oo)) \\--\\// e-mail: alexander . clouter @ ic . ac . uk || ||

Re: PCMICA Network and Modem card

Drew Parsons wrote: > > And battery life seems fine enough with the card inside (about 2 hours). > I > seem to lose a lot of battery life if I run the CD-ROM drive, though. > Although fine for two hours, without it my laptop lasts 4-4.5 hours. My 28.8k modem doesn't drain much if any power, whil

sound/keyboard problems

two problems. I have a Crystal CS4236 sound card built into my "Clone E320S" laptop. The clone code is the design of the motherboard, found out after doing lots of research. The problem is although I can get sound with no problem, about 40% of the time when (initialised) it is used it causes th

Re: APM suspend

On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Peter Gruber wrote: > > everytime my Laptop wake up after a suspend, I get then following kernel > message > > kernel: bug: kernel timer added twice at c21c78b0. > > is this bad ? what should I do about it ? > I quite often get this but only after a hibinate. No clue why i

Re: can't boot on Toshiba Satellite 2180 CDT

On Sat, 1 Apr 2000, Thomas Garsiot wrote: > > I tried installing debian on a Toshiba Satellite 2180 CDT and I can't > boot. > I did the same but two weeks ago > I started the installation on a floppy and it failed to boot. > ditto > I set up win98, used loadlin for the setup : I could boot, en

Re: can't boot on Toshiba Satellite 2180 CDT

On Sun, 2 Apr 2000, Alexander Clouter wrote: > > > I set up win98, used loadlin for the setup : I could boot, enter the > > setup process, and then reboot failed. > > I only see : loading linux > > > I don't know why but you have to recompile a k

mp3 use - laptop purchase

On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Ben Messinger wrote: > > I need to purchase a laptop within the next two weeks. One of the most > critical factors is superb sound support. One of the primary functions > of my laptop will be to serve up mp3's through an ampliphied sound > system at dances. I also am looking for

Re: Laptop PPP/Ethernet

On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, Stephen A. Witt wrote: > > I've installed potato on a laptop and want it to be able to have a PCMCIA > Ethernet connection and be capable of a direct PPP connection (without a > modem). During the installation, I configured PCMCIA and then the > network parameters for the Ethe

Re: Problems leaving computer on overnight

On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Bryan K. Walton wrote: > > OK, now on to my present problem: > I have a Thinkpad 390E (266mhz and 128 meg of Ram) running Debian frozen > at my place of work. Historically, I have shutdown my laptop every night > and then rebooted every morning. But, as I understand tha

Re: Windows internet connection sharing

On Thu, 4 May 2000, Tim Brown wrote: > > Another quick question, say i want windows to be the host computer to share > a Internet connection, is this as simple as setting up Windows internet > connection sharing and pluging in the latop to the network? > I wouldn't use the windows 98 sharing cack

Re: hibernation

On Mon, 8 May 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > i had the nasty experience of having phdisk place a 132 mb hole in a 5 > gig partition last week -- i was not pleased. i wish there was a way > to specify where to create the hibernation partition...it looks like > phdisk will go ahead and try to cre

Re: how to revoke dselect messed up?

On Tue, 9 May 2000, Benjamin F. Zhou wrote: > > I installed potato on my notebook. the installation facility looks > really nice and easy to use. > But at first, I could not check the boxes I prefered and exited. I don't > know how to get back. So I entered Dselect and did a lot of +/-, which > me

hmmm tweaked too much

I'm forwarding this to all people I can think of who could help. I'm begging for help (any) to get rid of these problems, these are *all* the problems I seem to be having. Five problems may not seem much but the consequences are BIG. So I beg, please help. I decided to install XFree86 4.0 on my

Re: hmmm tweaked too much

On Wed, 10 May 2000, Heather wrote: > > MTRR support is a fairly new kernel option. You might have to recompile > a kernel to get it set. (anyone know if it was selected during the 2.2.15 > compile making kernel-image and pcmcia-modules?) > however it was working fine before the upgrade to X.

Re: hmmm tweaked too much

On 11 May 2000, Graeme Mathieson wrote: > > > I decided to install XFree86 4.0 on my laptop. X now runs *very* quickly > > and is very stable. However there several two irritating problems: > > Do you really need to run XFree86 4.0? Did it solve any particular > problems? The XFree86 Consortiu

Re: hmmm tweaked too much

On Thu, 11 May 2000, Heather wrote: > > That is why I questioned if anyone knew what options have been selected in the > "kit" kernel that you get if you install the precompiled binary via > kernel-image-2.2.15. It is an -option- in that kernel version, which had to > be selected at compile time.

Re: as86?

On 13 May 2000, Graeme Mathieson wrote: > > You're using framebuffer X? Why? There's no acceleration in the > kernel framebuffer devices. You will almost certainly be faster using > the correct Xserver. In fact, the console will be significantly faster > if you don't use the framebuffer device

Re: Ethernet Card

On Mon, 15 May 2000, karthikeyan gourisankaran wrote: > > hi. I just installed debian on my laptop toshiba > satellite 2595cdt. I have a pcmcis 3ComLan PC > card(3ccfe574bt lan pc card). I do not know how to > install it ie what drivers/modules to use(i am a > newbie;bear with me).Can someone s

Re: pcmcia installation problems

On Mon, 15 May 2000, Wallace B. Leigh wrote: > > I am trying to install my pcmcia drivers on an old Gateway Colorbook. > (I got it for free). When I run Config, > or try to recompile the module, I get the following messages: > > Starting PCMCIA services: > modules/lib/modules/2.0.34/pcmcia/pcmcia

Re: Low memory install on an IBM Thinkpad 700

On Thu, 18 May 2000, A.C. Almeida wrote: > > But newer (>2.x) debian bootdisks won't boot with 4MB. Try debian 1.3.1 > and the patched bootdisk at ftp://ftp.dgmicro.com > . > nonsense. I've booted up a old 486SL-33 with 4Mb laptop with the low memory boot disks. works f

Re: Low memory install on an IBM Thinkpad 700

On Fri, 19 May 2000, A.C. Almeida wrote: > > we are talking about a ThinkPad 700; normal lowmem-bootdisk won't boot, > because of Micro Channel and ESDI driver. TP 700 needs the special one > for Tecras and there is no "lowmem" image available... > DOH! ;) I would guess the only thing you could

Re: Cable modem problem connecting to Time Warner Road Runner KC

On Fri, 19 May 2000, Matthew Quigley wrote: > > I've been trying to get my Toshiba Satellite Pro to work with Road > Runner. I installed dhcpcd 70-5. I think maybe my resolv.conf is set > up wrong this is what I have > I have no real experience of this setup, yet (my friend and I will have to

Re: deb: XFree86 v4.0 on PowerBook/PowerMac.

On Mon, 22 May 2000, Brendan J Simon wrote: > > Has anyone got XFree86 version 4.0 working on the new PowerBook or on a > G4 system. If so, what kernels did you use and could you post an > XF86Config file. > I can get an X cursor on the G4, but the screen is bright green. I > can't get any xdm lo

Re: Help. pcmica doesn't work any longer.

On Sun, 28 May 2000, Jens K. Olsen wrote: > > Please help. > I just updated my frozen on my laptop. > After updating, I am not able to use pcmcia any longer. The pcmcia-core > module is not being loaded automatically on startup any longer. When I > try to load it using modconf, I get the following

Re: epson actionnote 500c

On Sat, 27 May 2000, Rick Eicher II wrote: > > I am wanting to install debian on a actionnote 500c. It only has 4 megs ram > I can get 4 more. I do not know if i can get more that 4 more megs. At the > moment it hangs right after i put the root.bin floppy in and it finds the > ramdisk? Is this lack

Re: Debian startup and network scripts

On Mon, 29 May 2000, Charles Baker wrote: > > Can someone point me to a good tutorial or howto about Debian's methods > of booting and starting networking? > if you go to http://www.debian.org/doc/ddp this place is a good start for debian documentation. At the bottom I noticed documentation for Ne

Re: kernel and apm

On Sun, 4 Jun 2000, Charles Baker wrote: > > I have a Dell Latitude XPi 133 ST running potato w/ kernel 2.2.15, default > not recompiled. Before installing I recreated the suspend partion. The > keyboard includes a function to suspend, which seems to work. I haven't > tested it thoroughly, but w

Re: Suspend and X

On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Lee Bradshaw wrote: > > Does anyone know how to grab Fn-F1 (Setup Menu) or Fn-F3 (Battery > status) that switch back to text mode? They also crash if you hit > those keys from X, but are fine from a text console. > As far as I know there is no way for any OS to detect the Fn ke

Re: 2.2.15 kernel boot freezes at "running ntpdate..."

On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, Mark Phillips wrote: > > > I was wrong. The problem was ntpdate. It was trying to poll the internet > > while not connected to it. > > The thing which is puzzling me is: why did the 2.0.36 boot fine and > successfully get past ntpdate? You see, that is why I initially > did

Re: Changing processor speeds

On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Benjamin Tyger Sunshine-Hill wrote: > > Hello all, > > I have a Toshiba Libretto 70CT that I use a fair amount for MP3s. I've > noticed over the last couple of months that after some suspend/resume > cycles, the processor will go slower, causing the player to skip. BogoMIPS >

Re: installation help

On Sat, 10 Jun 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > i need help installing debian onto my laptop everything loads up i > press enter to start the process it checks everything then it locks up > the last line reading "ramdisk: compressed image found at block 0" how > do i get aorund this problem

Re: Changing processor speeds

On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: > > Makes me think of my bios setup: there is an option where you select which > OS you're using ("mostly"), with the options Win95, Win98 or Other... any > idea what that might do? > due to microsofts infinite wisdom dos (and so windoze) has trouble h

Re: Changing processor speeds

On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Greg Woods wrote: > > Alexander Clouter wrote: > > > due to microsofts infinite wisdom dos (and so windoze) has trouble > > handling more than 1024 cylinders (if I remember correctly). > > Much as I love a good M$-bashing occasionally, I don&#x

Re: Emacs questions

On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Jeffrey Knight wrote: > > Quick emacs questions: > does syntax hightlighting work in emacs > (*not* xemacs) -- font-lock doesn't seem > to give me any pretty colors outside of X, > and I can't for the life of me find anything > in the documentation. > pointless but "vim rules :

Re: Emacs questions

On 14 Jun 2000, Gary Hennigan wrote: > > "Jeffrey Knight" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Thanks for the responses; i know this isn't an Emacs mailing list --- > > How can this be possible? The bloated Emacs with every feature known to > > humanity can't do the one thing that lil' ol' vim does wit

Re: HDPREPEZ

On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Stephen Turner wrote: > > Having partitioned my disk (Partition Magic 5.0) and turned my laptop > (Packard Bell EasyLite FX500) into a dual boot machine (Windows 98SE / > Debian Potato), I get the following error message on booting up: > > "Invalid HIBERNATION Partition.. ru

Re: hello

On Wed, 31 May 2000, Tomas Clements wrote: > > my name is Tomas (as if you couldnt tell). Ive been using SuSE > Linux for about 6 months, and decided Id give debian a shot. Ive > basically got everything going on it, but I still have a couple of > problems. well one really. Im having trou

Re: strange melting screen when X starts

On Thu, 27 Jul 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I installed the newest XFree86 4.0.1 on my Debian2.1 laptop recently, > and now it works. But there are still some problems. > > My laptop is Twinhead Slimnote VX3, Toshiba 12.1" TFT LCD, 800x600 SVGA, > 2560K VideoRAM, Trident Cyber 9525DVD chip. >

Re: strange melting screen when X starts

On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, name wrote: > > I've done it. I found an option in my BIOS setup called 'resolution > expended', and it was enabled by default. I disabled it and the melting > screen never show again. But there is a trade off. I can only get 640x480 > small screen for text mode now. It's a bi

Re: strange melting screen when X starts

On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, Chanop Silpa-Anan wrote: > > Use framebuffer, you will get full screen console mode at 800x600. > With both 2.2 & 2.4 kernel, I pass vga=0x315 as a kernel parameter via > either grub or lilo. Check lilo/grub/kernel document for more info. BTW, > it > seems that current kernel s

Re: Help required: pcmcia-source/kernel-source-2.2.17 problem?

you don't say what type of laptop you have. Some laptops don't use 100% Cardbus compatible protocols, so this hangs the machine. Recompile your pcmcia drivers with 32bit cardbus turned off. Hopefully this will solve your problems. Alex

Re: Help required: pcmcia-source/kernel-source-2.2.17 problem?

On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, Etienne M. Gagnon wrote: > > Alexander Clouter wrote: > > you don't say what type of laptop you have. > > I have a Compaq Presario 1060, with a Linksys EtherFast 10/100 (PCMCIA) > Ethernet card. > > > Some laptops don't use 100% Car

Re: strange melting screen when X starts

On Mon, 31 Jul 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > About the floppy LED problem, I think I'll have to contact my laptop's > manufacturer. Probably it's mad after too many times hard restart. > This seems the only thing you can do. The actual problem sounds like a broken LED or loose wire/contact.

Re: strange melting screen when X starts

On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, Chanop Silpa-Anan wrote: > > I installed xfree 4.0.1 deb (phase1 ~ alpha package). It seems to run > fine > except that I could not suspend/stand because when resume X would crash > the > machine completely. > many moons ago when I installed Xfree 4.0.0 it too would not suspend

Re: plip installation (Host name lookup failure)

On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, David Karlin wrote: > > I'm doing an installation from the potato floppy boot disk set > dated July 5, 2000. Kernel and modules are installed; plip is > configured and I can ping hosts on the Internet by name from VC2. > > Over on VC1, the installation scripts are running, a

Re: eth0: autonegotiation not working

On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Guðmundur Erlingsson wrote: > > I'm trying to get a 3com card working (3c574), and the pcmcia-package finds > it ok and loads the appropriate driver, but then comes this: > > eth0: found link beat > eth0: link partner did not autonegotiate > eth0: lost link beat > eth0: autoneg

Re: esssolo1 and midi

On Sat, 12 Aug 2000, Shao Zhang wrote: > > Hi, > I am using the esssolo1 for my laptop's soundcard, but I cannot get > the midi working. I read the source code and it seems to me that > /dev/midi is supported. > > But playmidi keeps trying /dev/sequence. any ideas? > > [17:56|

Re: PCMCIA 10/100 TP + BNC

On Sat, 12 Aug 2000, Stefan Fleiter wrote: > > is there any PCMCIA card following the Cardbus Standard which can be > used with with Twisted Pair and BNC and offers 10/100 Mbit at least for > TP. > I know 3Com do a card that does all the above, plus its got funky features that release CPU cycles.

Re: getting high speed access when too far from the CO

On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, Brent Harding wrote: > > How can I get wireless high speed access that works anywhere, that I > can hook a laptop up to and use like a modem, but faster? Is there > something the same for a regular machine, usable dedicated style like DSL? > I might happen to be too far from th

Re: possible to view video CD with Debian?

On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, Benjamin F. Zhou wrote: > > it may sounds like a folish question. has anyone viewed VCD with debian? > Because VCD's don't use the normal CD standard (so more information can be crammed on) linux won't read the CD. However I think kernel 2.4 will. The only VCD software I can

Re: possible to view video CD with Debian?

On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, cls-colo spgs wrote: > > is it debianized? (can't find it with apt-get..) > > if not what the url? > at the xmps homepage, in the download section is a .deb package with all you need. So it ye ol' dpkg to be used :) hell lets see if I can remember how to use it ;) page @

Re: useful laptop specific apps?

On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > P.S. no lagers > hmm another person who doesn't like 'fizzy cats piss' ;) Alex

Re: apm lost in 2.2.17? suspend/resume broken on Toshiba 490CDT

On Sat, 9 Sep 2000, Drew Parsons wrote: > > The problem is in the suspend/resume cycle. The computer now appears to > suspend successfully, but upon resume, it hangs. > set this and see what happens. Apparently some machine have iffy bios's and need the interupts played around with by linux to get

Re: Trident Cyber 9525DVD

On Sat, 9 Sep 2000, Marco Kuhlmann wrote: > > I have succeeded in supporting the Trident Cyber 9525DVD on my > Fujitsu-Siemens Lifebook C-6535 with the latest version of X. > There remains but one small nuisance: > > When the server is started, or precisely, as long as it shows > that standard pat

Re: Only 8Mb/s with a 10/100 card

On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Marcus Hagn wrote: > > I am a little bit confused. I never heard of these cardbus thing. Do > these > cards plug into the same slots? > usually yes. If your laptop is new enough then the pcmcia slots you are using are actually 32bit (aka pci) slots. If you plug a normal PC C

Re: Good window manager for laptop

On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Harry Henry Gebel wrote: > > I have a Pentium 90 laptop with 16MB of memory running Mandrake Linux and > XFCE. I am planning on putting Debian on this laptop, and since I don't > have any permanent data stored on it I will just completely erase the hard > drive and start from s

Re: Ok folks help really needed! New Debian install

On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, Mark Phillips wrote: > > I think what you probably need to do, is make sure the bios settings > on your laptop are set so that you can boot from the CD drive, and > then boot it using the debian CD. > thats one option. The other is to use windows to copy the disk images from

Re: cs4281 sound doesn't work after suspending

On 13 Dec 2000, Changwoo Ryu wrote: > > I bought thinkpad X20 two weeks ago. Every devices works except the > 3com winmodem. > > But when the machine goes into suspend mode and wakes up, the sound > (cs4281 driver) doesn't work anymore. Then I should restart the > cs4281 module. > > Here is my ke

Re: Hello all

On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, freaker <<< wrote: > > I would just like to introduce myself. I am new to this group and pretty > new to Linux also. I can definetly see myself going to Linux full time very > shortly, after everything I have is compatible. > when I got my laptop it took me a month to

Re: Mouse on fire

On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, Artur Guja wrote: > > For a couple of weeks now I've been trying to configure X on my laptop > with my A4 Tech WWW-11 mouse (PS/2). The XFree 3.6 was all right when > configred as IMPS/2. However, after switching to XFree 4.0, the mouse > behaves funny. It works all right for a

Re: Problems with sound (CS4281) and IRDA

On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, Rene Mayrhofer wrote: > > I am reading on this list for a while now (having bought a Gericom Phantom > notebook in October) and there are 2 problems that are bugging me for some > time > now: > 1. The sound chip (Crystal 4281) is unusable. Although I can load the kernel > modul

Re: General Questions

On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Matthew Grant wrote: > > I'm running Debian 2.2.r0 on a ibm ThinkPad 465XD > It's only a P120 w/24MB of Ram and My boot-up is > really slow.(Hey It was Donated). > > Could Someone Explain how to shut off Zope, Xdm, and > wwwoffled. I tried changing run levels but they(3 > thru

Re: cleaning the screen

On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > So, what is the correct (and safe) way to clean a laptop screen? If it > matters > mine is a TFT screen from a VAIO 505f. > quoting Beavis and Butthead "we have considered many forms of contraception a young woman today can use..and we s

Re: Back to Windows??

On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Christopher Wolf wrote: > > You're talking about single releases, which Debian does very well. But I'm > talking generally about the lifetime of a free product, not necessarily > > [snipped linux being bloated] > > of the product itself are getting harder to install and config

Re: Challenge: installing laptop from ?

On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, hanasaki wrote: > > Anyone up for it? > > I need to get debian - potato? - running on it. > > Toshiba Protege Series 7100 > CD-ROM Drive doesn't seem to read CDR/CDRW only commericial disks > Ethernet PCMICA card - 3CCEFE574BT > Toshiba ToPIC100 - I think > http://www.li

Re: Suspend to disk partition on ThinkPad T20

On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Jacek M. Wuwer wrote: > >- Has anyone managed to successfully persuade BIOS to use suspend to >disk partition instead of file on FATXX ( active ?? ) partition ? The >file size with decent amount of RAM on T20 drives the allocation unit on >FAT16 considerably. > If I'm right, you

Re: Suspend to disk partition on ThinkPad T20

On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Russell Coker wrote: > > I have not seen any facility in IBM laptops to do this. All the facilities > that I have used have been based on the "ps2.exe" program which uses space on > an existing partition. The space requirement is RAM + Video RAM + a small > amount. > On the o

Re: Suspend to disk partition on ThinkPad T20

On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Heather wrote: > > It also needs the correct preamble - that's what lphdisk (or in the case > of "people who couldn't understand the existance of anything but FAT > partitions" that initial floppy that they probably threw out) is for. > > [snip] > > (If you desperately need a p

Re: Compaq Laptops and their Hard Drives

On 19 Mar 2001, Roger Shaffer wrote: > > So, has anyone had success installing Linux on a Compaq laptop? If so, > how did you overcome the partition issue? > have you been playing with that *evil* option LBA in the BIOS again? If so then nasty stuff starts to happen. Leave it either off or on, b

Re: /etc/network/options

On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, tom wrote: > > I am not sure what the flag for ip_forwarding quite means. I know > the concept and the echo "1" >/proc > I don't remember quite where it echoes to, but that's Debians job, > right? > useful if you want to set your machine up as a router. Usually to use thi

Re: low memory debian

On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Rod Young wrote: > > Any way I can build a low memory install disk? > by typing (as root) dd if=/mnt/cdrom/path/to/low/mem/disk/on/cd of=/dev/fd0 bs=1k conv=sync; sync this will make you one low memory boot disk :) Alex

DGA Problems....(and other graphic stuff)

I have been trying on and off over the past couple of weeks to get DGA to work on my laptop with the latest X 4.0.2. My graphics card is a Trident Cyber 9397, however if I enable the loading of the DGA module (as you can see in my XF86Config) and then run /usr/X11R6/bin/dga as root I get the follo

interesting apm stuff

h I may as well squeeze all the "features" out of my laptop. however this is about it :) So I'm not doing too badly, everything else runs just dicky :) on a resume from either suspend or hibernation for some reason apmd runs through my /etc/apm/event.d twice! I don't know why, but it does.

Re: DGA Problems....(and other graphic stuff)

On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, Heather wrote: > > You need to edit the file /etc/vga/libvga.config. > > [snipped stuff] > > console (blind), suspending the box, and reawakening, because on mine that > seems to issue a video reset. > well its working however for some reason when one of the programs bombs out

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