he NeoMagic 3.3.6 driver from Woody on my laptop, no
problem. The 4.1.0 driver is buggy.
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fault depth depend on your
> server.
>
Some people don't have enough video RAM for that, like me.. I have 896KB
vRAM. Solution: Created a custom modeline for a 800x570 mode. Works
perfectly... :-)
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ing LEDs. At least not to me.
(They don't blink when there is no battery/AC..)
Anyone else knows this weird behaviour? :-/
Wilmer van der Gaast.
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ad...
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Uh oh.. All I can say is that the problem suddenly disappeared two days ago.
I don't understand, but I don't want to either, the thing should just work.
Just bought it a month ago..
Thanks for the info, I feel safe now.. ;-)
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> drive. is there a version which could be installed from floppy? or can i
> split the whole bundle manually?
>
You can try installing a very old Slackware/Debian on it. Probably with a
2.0 kernel or older. I think there's not much else you can do with it..
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ow how dangerous it really is.
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Rest my case... ;-)
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cript should've worked.. Could you generate a diff of the
two scripts, or at least send the old script? Maybe it's some sort of evil
bug which has to be fixed.. ;-)
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, but still I can't
find it. :-/
Any idea? Or should I go on stracing?..
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s there for nothing..
I should also try the noatime thing, of course. One day I'll try to create a
nice program to trace the naughty disk wakers..
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doesn't run UUCP?
;-)
Only thing left now is those not-interesting DHCP messages.. But does a
laptop really need any syslogd? I think I should just remove it, or log to
/dev/tty10 only. Or a small ramdisk..
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gt; will be installing it via SLIP/PLIP...
>
Any release will do, I think. Just don't run things like X on this thing..
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retty and has very nifty features!
http://freshmeat.net/projects/pwm/
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s soon as
possible. ;-)
So you can spend some time on Python, but do switch to C (or Perl first)
ASAP.
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And suddenly Daniel Frencham had this magical idea:
> I noticed the packages are under 'stable', is there any way I can use
> apt-get to grab them without changing my sources.list?
>
Doesn't sound right to me.. Are you sure your package lists etc are
complete? I run the NeoMagic 3.3.6 driver fr
And suddenly Rolf Heckemann had this magical idea:
> X Window applications can install what is called a private color map
> if the number of colors available from the X server is insufficient.
> You probably have a color depth of 8 bits set up. To change this,
> open /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and
And suddenly Derek Broughton had this magical idea:
> > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> Yuck! I wish people wouldn't do that on mailing lists
>
I don't really 'need' it either, but it's a VERY common thing on
debian-devel, so I suggest you not to read that group. ;-)
I have more someth
And suddenly Karl E. Jorgensen had this magical idea:
> I never got a solution (apart from a brand-new laptop from my company),
> but I'm going to send it in to a local guy for attempted repairs.
>
> Be sure that you have backups - sounds like your hardware is going
> bad...
>
Uh oh.. All I
And suddenly derZiegelmann had this magical idea:
> i got a ibm ps/2 n51sx recently (by accident ;-)) with win 3.1 installed on
> it. now i'm wondering if it is possible to install debian on it. if it is
> possbile then i have another problem, because the laptop only has a floppy
> drive. is th
And suddenly Tuukka Toivonen had this magical idea:
> Is it possible to get low resolution but truecolor mode
> (over 256-colors) with X and Neomagic 2160A chipset?
>
You can try putting this in your Device Section in /etc/XF86Config:
Option "override_validate_mode"
I used it to force X to us
Rest my case... ;-)
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cript should've worked.. Could you generate a diff of the
two scripts, or at least send the old script? Maybe it's some sort of evil
bug which has to be fixed.. ;-)
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, but still I can't
find it. :-/
Any idea? Or should I go on stracing?..
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And suddenly Björn Eriksson had this magical idea:
> No neat ideas I'm afraid but if you decide to go through with it please
> post your experiences back to the list.
>
At the moment I think it's quite fixed by removing Postfix. I do need it
sometimes, but usually it's there for nothing..
I s
And suddenly Heather had this magical idea:
> Or run sendmail in queue-only, and only run the outbound command when you
> bloody well feel like it.
>
Sendmail.. Postfix should be able to do the same thing. (Just that I don't
know how..) I prefer to run one and the same MTA on all my machines.
And suddenly Masterson, Cian had this magical idea:
> I have just obtained an old clockwork-driven Toshiba T4400C laptop with a
> 486 and ~200MB hard drive. Can anyone recommend a release of Debian to run
> on this? There is no ethernet card, CDROM or PCMCIA slots so I figure I
> will be inst
And suddenly Frank Trenkamp had this magical idea:
> do you know icewm already? Fast, even on slow machines, low memory
> footprint,
> fully configurable (of course). Should be available as a .deb.
>
How low? PWM usually consumes less than a megabyte on my system, and still
it is pretty and h
Jürgen A. [EMAIL PROTECTED]@Mon, 24 Dec 2001 19:20:09 +0100:
> Correction: If you want to learn programming, Perl is the *wrong*
> language.
>
Nope, not at all. Perl is like C, C++, Java, etc. Python is like Basic. To
become a good programmer you should get used of ; and { and } as soon as
poss
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