Re: mouse hangs under X on Savage/MX

2001-05-08 Thread Tom Breza
Hi I did the same, I spoke with folk who wrote HOWTO to my Toshiba Satelite Pro 4300 he is using Red Hat, and that was his sugestion siaraX > Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 21:02:52 -0500 > From: Roger Shaffer Jr . <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Todd Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Storm Linux User <[EMAIL

Re: pcmcia doesn't work any more under kernel-image-2.4.7

2001-08-06 Thread Tom Breza
Did u upgrade pcmcia ???

Re: Keyboard entry

2001-08-14 Thread Tom Breza
yslog when u back to console? and most basic (don't be angry) is the keyboard pluged proper?! I maen is it push in to slot ? or is it not change with mouse? ps/2 keyboard, mouse have sam plugs. Many ppl makes such basic errors :> Tom > I am working on installin glinux on an HP 5470 &

Re: possible to restore damaged Lilo in MBR

2001-08-14 Thread Tom Breza
yes, u can create boot disk under windows rawrite2.exe is on all CD with any dist siaraX > I have win2k and linux on my notebook using lilo as bootmanager. > > Recently I ran PartitionMagic to resize my primary win2k partition. This > operation damaged my MBR, made it unbootable, and forced me

Re: Please recommend a machine

2001-08-14 Thread Tom Breza
Try toshiba, my one is Satelite pro 4300 It have a touch point but is very very good :) I like it DVD, sound, working under linux hi res :) nice :P siaraX > > Hello list, > > Evidently my last posting didn't make it to the list. I appologize if I end > up double-posting. > > I am looking to

Re: ?L?????e?z?????P?M?H? q?T????

2001-08-22 Thread Tom Breza
small tips!! maybe in english? if u didn't notice this gropu is english not other ! can u? if not send an email with remove in subject, and be good boy siaraX

X hangs

2001-08-28 Thread Tom Allison
I have a problem with X and the suspend options. With an IBM A21, whenever X suspends (apmd), it never comes back. Now this worked under the 'testing' version of X v 4.xxx. But recently it seems to have died... Any pointers on where to begin?

Very Selective upgrade

2001-09-03 Thread Tom Allison
Can someone give me an example of how I would upgrade a specific package from 'testing' without affecting any of the apt-get libraries? If I change the sources.list to include 'testing' then I get all kinds of files selected for upgrade. I really don't want to move anything out of 'stable' righ

Re: Removing the CD

2001-09-04 Thread Tom Allison
I have a similar story with my IBM A21M, but I don't believe I ever got it working. But I was able to find something of a "hint". Change lilo.conf to include a line append="noprobe /dev/hdc cdrom=/dev/hdc" And see if that helps... Serge Rey wrote: On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 05:11:27PM +0100, P

Re: Very Selective upgrade

2001-09-04 Thread Tom Allison
Thanks to all that replied. I know that under dselect I can "hold" various packages. And if I edit the sources.list I can add a set of 'testing' entries. I suppose I can do the .deb download and installs myself but I was hoping for some manner in which I could use something like dpkg to specify

Re: Very Selective upgrade

2001-09-04 Thread Tom Allison
Rolf Heckemann wrote: On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 06:35:04AM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: Thanks to all that replied. I know that under dselect I can "hold" various packages. And if I edit the sources.list I can add a set of 'testing' entries. I suppose I can do the .deb d

Re: Very Selective upgrade

2001-09-05 Thread Tom Allison
Thanks, that seems to work. But after I remove the 'testing' entries and run apt-get update, don't the testing entries remain? Mark Purcell wrote: I've got 'stable' installed, but I want to include the 'testing' version of openSSH... Include the testing line in apt.sources and update the pa

dwl-650 encryption

2001-09-06 Thread Tom Allison
I got this wireless card working with no problems initially. But I'm trying to set up the encryption. I know it says to punch up some 112(?) bit encryption key and enter it somewhere... I might be able to figure out where, but how does one generate a realistic encryption key? Is it just a pile

eth0 sleeping on the job

2001-09-06 Thread Tom Allison
Whenever my notebook (IBM A21m) goes to sleep/suspend/hibernate, the eepro100 ethernet card doesn't come back on line. This is a royal pain to hassle with every 10 minutes if I'm working on something else. Also, my DWL-650 network card won't sleep even if I try to force a suspend/hibernate on

Re: eth0 sleeping on the job

2001-09-06 Thread Tom Allison
1 at 05:49:20AM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: Whenever my notebook (IBM A21m) goes to sleep/suspend/hibernate, the eepro100 ethernet card doesn't come back on line. This is a royal pain to hassle with every 10 minutes if I'm working on something else. Also, my DWL-650 network card won'

wooky->potato

2001-09-08 Thread Tom Allison
I'll start out kind of vague as I'm looking for a yes/no kind of reply right now. I have a notebook that I installed about a year ago. At the time I did a stable install and then upgraded to testing. After running 'apt-get dist-upgrade' a lot, everything came up cool and I have the XFree86 4.x

Re: wooky->potato

2001-09-08 Thread Tom Allison
get it working once and have had great succes with it ever since, but I have not clue how the upgrade will work from time point in time forward. Adam Kessel wrote: On Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 08:31:14AM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: significant problems other than the deb packages seem to have al

Re: Sony VAIO Z600TEK harddrive to hot under heavy CPU load?

2001-09-08 Thread Tom Allison
"fan -n" I have noticed that my IBM notebook runs HOT!! Is there a fan function available fo an A21m? John Jeffers wrote: Hi I've actually fried a hard drive in a Toshiba in nearly the same circumstance as you mention progressive mistakes when hot cold fsck's then death. Toshiba lapt

Re: wooky->potato

2001-09-08 Thread Tom Allison
at else I would have to upgrade to install the new version of Everybuddy, I let it do that much, and everything is fine. -Original Message- From: Tom Allison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Has anyone else been finding upgrades to woody getting better or harder? Here's what I d

Re: wooky->potato

2001-09-09 Thread Tom Allison
CaT wrote: On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 03:04:28PM +0100, Vivek wrote: Er. I just added the woody lines to my sources.list and did an apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade It churned on for a while - occasionally dist upgrade seemed to get a bit confused and claim it had finished when it neded to do

Re: wooky->potato

2001-09-09 Thread Tom Allison
Adam Jacob Muller wrote: apt-get help update - Retrieve new lists of packages dist-upgrade - Distribution upgrade, see apt-get(8) so after you add the new site in sources.list you would first update to retrieve any new packages then ince those new packagves with the new files were downloaded and

IrDA....

2001-09-09 Thread Tom Allison
OK, I probably did some "bad things" here. But this is what I've done... 1) dselect -> purge -> irda-common, irda-utils 2) rm /dev/ir* (removed all these various irda related device references) 3) dselect -> install -> irda-common, irda-utils (left the configuration file /etc/irda.conf alone, it

Re: IrDA....

2001-09-10 Thread Tom Allison
Johan Romin wrote: Hi there! First off, I've never tried the irda package that comes whith debian. I always get the source tarball, and it has always worked for me.. Have you tried to load the irda modules by hand? instead of hoping that irattach will do it for you? The error you see in the s

Re: IrDA....

2001-09-10 Thread Tom Allison
NOKUBI Takatsugu wrote: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you are only interested in sir, you might try the following procedure: insmod irda insmod irtty insmod ircomm insmod ircomm-tty irattach /dev/yourtty -s and then it should work... at least that one has never f

Re: IrDA....

2001-09-10 Thread Tom Allison
Chris Halls wrote: Are you tring to get fast infrared? If so, you will need to uncomment the lines in /etc/modutils/irda: /etc/modultils/irda - # To use the NSC driver on a Thinkpad laptop: uncomment the following: options nsc-ircc dongle_id=0x09 alias irda0 nsc-ircc --

IrDA

2001-09-10 Thread Tom Allison
this is what I've got so far... I did the apt-get install irda-common irda-tools I commented out all but the following lines in /etc/modutil/irda alias tty-ldisk-11 irtty alias char-major-60 ircomm-tty (i have 2.2.19 kernel) (I removed all the 'dongles') options nsc-ircc dongle_id=0x09 alias ird

Re: Toshiba CDT740

2001-09-11 Thread Tom Breza
here http://www.linux-laptop.net/toshiba.html if u think we can help somehow ask, I think many folks wants to help Tom Breza as siaraX > Hi, > > I just won a Toshiba 470CDT Pentium laptop on eBay. It has a 2G HD. > > Am thinking of shrinking the Win98 installation down to a minimum

/usr/src/modules

2001-09-22 Thread Tom Allison
\ (cd $module; > \ if ./debian/rules KVERS="2.4.9" > KSRC="/usr/src/linux" \ KMAINT="Tom Allison" > KEMAIL="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" \ KDREV="Custom.1.00" > kdist; then \ echo "Modu

Re: /usr/src/modules

2001-09-22 Thread Tom Allison
Hubert Chan wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 "Tom" == Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Tom> I made a mistake. I deleted /usr/src/modules Now it seems that I Tom> can't do anything to recreate the file necessary to be able to Tom> c

Re: PCMCIA Problems win IBM A20p

2001-09-22 Thread Tom Allison
Glen Mehn wrote: you know that, even with pcmcia kernel support (from the 2.4 kernels) you need the pcmcia packages installed -- that's where you get cardctl, /etc/pcmcia/*, etc... just a thought. glen I think that I'm having essentially the same king of problem here. I have recently

Re: PCMCIA Problems win IBM A20p

2001-09-23 Thread Tom Allison
Glen Mehn wrote: did you try the 2.4.9 in-kernel pcmcia stuff? It's been working like a charm for me (well, I think I had to change all the ide_cs to ide-cs -- or vice versa -- to properly mount my CF card in a pcmcia adapter. just that you need the tools in pcmcia-cs. I also couldn't get th

Re: PCMCIA Problems win IBM A20p

2001-09-24 Thread Tom Allison
#x27;t get the pcmcia-cs package to compile with make-kpkg modules -- but it's all working perfectly as described above. ThinkPad 600e, 2.4.9 kernel, woody. glen On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 12:03:43AM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: I could try it but I don't know that my card is support

changing drivers

2001-09-25 Thread Tom Allison
I have managed to the my D-Link DWL-650 working OK with the wvlan_cs driver. But I find reference to a samsung driver that is also available and support the WEP encryption (for what it's worth). I tried following some instruction on setting up the driver. I compiled it. put it in /lib/modules/2

Xy

2001-09-25 Thread Tom Breza
siaraX Type Bits/KeyID Date User ID pub 1024/0B22D0E1 2001/09/23 Tom Breza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK- Version: 2.6.3ia mQCNAzuuMNoAAAEEAOa8EvOztpYuHXxwb/NZVjDmXbutOK6wqF29SAnoXkiHB0ta fGrNgcPPJoryN+291o4nxMW

Re: changing drivers

2001-09-25 Thread Tom Allison
Sebastien 'TiT0' Cazajous wrote: [ Gustaf Erikson wrote : ] Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have managed to the my D-Link DWL-650 working OK with the > wvlan_cs driver. But I find reference to a samsung driver that is > also available and support the

Re: 2.4.10 and apm !

2001-09-25 Thread Tom Allison
jc wrote: what happened to apm support on 2.4.10 apm -S does not work anymore :( Did you compile it with apm support? that's my first guess.

apm death

2001-09-26 Thread Tom Allison
bleah! I upgraded to kernel 2.4 and am running into a problem with apm suspend/sleep. For example: I hit the keyboard buttons to suspend the computer for the night (not Hibernate) and it goes to "sleep" just fine. I close the lid, OK. I plug in the power cord to recharge - computer beeps, co

Re: changing drivers

2001-09-26 Thread Tom Allison
Sebastien 'TiT0' Cazajous wrote: Sounds promising. How exactly do I associate the orinoco_cs to this card. Everytime it starts up it's identified as a wvlan_cs card and loads up from there. I'm unclear how I can set this association to over-ride the default wvlan_cs. Well uninstall the pcm

Re: apm death

2001-09-26 Thread Tom Allison
Tremaine Lea wrote: What happens if you plug the AC in before putting it to sleep? On Wed, 2001-09-26 at 04:49, Tom Allison wrote: bleah! I upgraded to kernel 2.4 and am running into a problem with apm suspend/sleep. For example: I hit the keyboard buttons to suspend the computer for

KDE

2001-09-28 Thread Tom Allison
I installed KDE and all the fixings. in my .xsession file I have, currently, --- #!/bin/bash gnome-session --- How do I edit this for using KDM?

Re: KDE

2001-09-28 Thread Tom Allison
Tom Allison wrote: I installed KDE and all the fixings. in my .xsession file I have, currently, --- #!/bin/bash gnome-session --- How do I edit this for using KDM? Sorry, I forgot something... How also would I edit this for starting KDM from the command line (startx)? I had to drop

Re: KDE

2001-09-28 Thread Tom Allison
== use-gnome === #!/bin/bash update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/x-session-manager x-session-manager /usr/bin/kde2 50 update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/x-session-manager x-session-manager /usr/bin/gnome-session 99 === use-kde ===

Re: apm death

2001-09-28 Thread Tom Allison
Adam C Powell IV wrote: Tom Allison wrote: bleah! I upgraded to kernel 2.4 and am running into a problem with apm suspend/sleep. Just one little check: With 2.2, APM is enabled in the kernel by putting "apm=on" in the boot arguments. With 2.4 (at least the pre-built ke

ALSA

2001-09-28 Thread Tom Allison
I was tring to get alsa configured for my IBM A21m. I keep getting an error when I try to make the packages. I'm not getting anywhere with this. I'm running with a home-brew of the 2.4.9 kernel and somewhere during that install I ran into problems building the modules for the pcmcia stuff. Now

Re: ALSA

2001-09-29 Thread Tom Allison
On Friday 28 September 2001 23:16, Hubert Chan spewed forth: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > >>>>> "Tom" == Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Tom> I was tring to get alsa configured for my IBM A21m. I keep get

Re: ALSA

2001-09-29 Thread Tom Allison
On Saturday 29 September 2001 18:35, Hubert Chan spewed forth: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > >>>>> "Tom" == Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Tom> 'make-kpkg modules' ends with: if [ -x /usr/bin/debs

Re: my $HOME went to /home/lost+found/ Why???

2001-09-30 Thread Tom Breza
see ya siarX Type Bits/KeyIDDate User ID pub 1024/0B22D0E1 2001/09/23 Tom Breza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK- Version: 2.6.3ia mQCNAzuuMNoAAAEEAOa8EvOztpYuHXxwb/NZVjDmXbutOK6wqF29SAnoXkiHB0ta fGrNgcPPJoryN+291o4nxMWE2fCYNuArS8+0m9zMA5829QV2lSkkb

Fwd: [ltp] alsa module compilation

2001-09-30 Thread Tom Allison
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: [ltp] alsa module compilation Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 14:46:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Rikki Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm trying to get sound working on my TP600. I've done: (install linux-2.4.9 kernel source + ac17 patches) ap

Re: ALSA

2001-10-01 Thread Tom Allison
On Saturday 29 September 2001 18:41, Tom Allison spewed forth: > > Hmm. Random question: which alsaconf package do you have installed? > > alsaconf or alsaconf-0.4? I think that you want the alsaconf package. > definitely alsaconf and not alsaconf-0.4 > I'm pretty sure it

Re: ALSA

2001-10-01 Thread Tom Allison
On Saturday 29 September 2001 18:41, Tom Allison spewed forth: > On Saturday 29 September 2001 18:35, Hubert Chan spewed forth: > > Hmm. Random question: which alsaconf package do you have installed? > > alsaconf or alsaconf-0.4? I think that you want the alsaconf package. > &g

Alsa configuration - missing modules

2001-10-01 Thread Tom Allison
I'm unable to find the alsaconf version 0.5, but I am using the 0.4.3b, which calls for a /etc/alsa/modutils/0.5 file. The problem that I've got right now in getting this to work is this: I have a ibm A21m notebook with a CS4614 soundcard/chip in it. According the the /etc/modutils/alsa file, I sh

IBM A21m - sound

2001-10-04 Thread Tom Allison
OK, I give up. How do I get sound to work, any method, on an IBM A21m notebook? I tried alsa version 0.99 -- no luck. Missing drivers I tried loading the cs46XX module -- couldn't load. I tried compiling the module as part of the kernel (no modules) That loads OK, but there's nothing to do wit

kde bugreporting

2001-10-05 Thread Tom Allison
I know Debian has a bug reporting tool. But does anyone know if KDE supplies a similar product, if it's in the Debian tree, and what it might be called?

Re: IBM A21m - sound

2001-10-05 Thread Tom Allison
On Friday 05 October 2001 11:03, Ignasi Palou-Rivera wrote: > On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 01:48:15PM +0200, Allan Sandfeld Jensen wrote: > > On Thursday 04 October 2001 23:43, Tom Allison wrote: > > > OK, I give up. > > > > > > How do I get sound to work,

Re: Strange system-clock behaviour on Twinhead Powerslim600

2001-10-06 Thread Tom Allison
On Wednesday 03 October 2001 11:54, Geoffrey Hausheer spewed forth: This is a PentiumII > laptop, and the kernel is compiled with no APM support. Please don't > recomend ntpd, I've tried it, and it doesn't work well for this problem. > Any ideas? > > my /etc/adjtime looks like: > 0.00 0 0.000

Re: IBM A21m - sound

2001-10-06 Thread Tom Allison
On Saturday 06 October 2001 20:17, Ignasi Palou-Rivera wrote: > I don't have anything about the cs46xx module in modutils. Basically I > just compiled a 2.4.7 kernel and load the cs46xx module for > sound. Looking at 'lsmod', I see that two other modules are needed in > order to load cs46xx: > > c

kde2 sound problem

2001-10-09 Thread Tom Allison
I found something useful on my sound problem on KDE. I opened an xterm and typed kde2 -h to see what my options are ... well kde started again. But it threw an interesting error: device /dev/dsp can't be opened (Permission denied). but the ls -l shows the permissions to be lrwxrwxrwx bleah!

sound - sometimes

2001-10-12 Thread Tom Allison
I am using a kernel sound module for my notebook (cs46xx). I can get the sound to work. But yesterday while playing around I started up KDE (as root) from the command line - I normally use 'kdm'. I was greeted with all kinds of sound effects - startup sounds, clicky sounds, windows open/close

kernel panic

2001-10-16 Thread Tom Allison
I think I fried my notebook. Of course I have not boot disk and am not even sure how exactly I would use one. "Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:06" (hda6 is correct...) I was using kernel 2.4.9. All I have is the 2.2.r3 CD-ROM and another PC. What do I do?

Re: kernel panic

2001-10-16 Thread Tom Allison
On Tuesday 16 October 2001 21:32, Tom Allison spewed forth: > I think I fried my notebook. > Of course I have not boot disk and am not even sure how exactly I would use > one. > "Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:06" > (hda6 is correct...) > > I was u

Re: kernel panic

2001-10-17 Thread Tom Allison
On Wednesday 17 October 2001 04:29, Bjorn Eriksson spewed forth: > On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Mariusz Zielinski wrote: > > On Wednesday 17 October 2001 03:40, Tom Allison wrote: > > [...] > > > > > That's when things started getting weird. > > > I think I al

Re: kernel panic

2001-10-17 Thread Tom Allison
On Wednesday 17 October 2001 04:29, Bjorn Eriksson spewed forth: > On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Mariusz Zielinski wrote: > > On Wednesday 17 October 2001 03:40, Tom Allison wrote: > > [...] > > > > > That's when things started getting weird. > > > I think I al

IBM A21m IRDA support

2001-10-17 Thread Tom Allison
According the HOWTO - I have to boot into Windows and make sure that the IRDA is turned on/ enabled before I can set it up in Linux. Does anyone know if this is still true and if there is another (non-Windows) solution to this? I am not sure I have Win98 on my computer any more and would hate

Re: kernel panic

2001-10-17 Thread Tom Allison
On Wednesday 17 October 2001 13:20, Glen S Mehn spewed forth: > did you compile ext2 support? Try putting it into the kernel instead of in > modules. It's not that big, and you probably want your ext2 (or reiser, or > xfs, or whatever) always available anyway... > > glen > > Yeah, after I made this

Re: kernel panic

2001-10-17 Thread Tom Allison
On Wednesday 17 October 2001 13:20, Glen S Mehn spewed forth: > Tom: > > did you use make-kpkg to install your kernel? > > you should be able to fix it, if you know your way around kernels (and > assuming you didn't overwrite your old kernel!) by booting with the rescue >

Re: kernel panic

2001-10-17 Thread Tom Allison
Glen Mehn wrote: did you try woody boot-floppies? I've had trouble installing with them, but they seem to boot OK... On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 07:10:50PM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: On Wednesday 17 October 2001 13:20, Glen S Mehn spewed forth: Tom: did you use make-kpkg to install

irda

2001-10-19 Thread Tom Allison
I'm trying to get my irda working (again) on my A21m Thinkpad. I had it working once. I booted into Win98 to make sure that the IR port is turned on. Here's the log (syslog) attached. Can someone help me figure out where I should look? I do have the kernel modules: irda and ircomm in the /lib/m

Re: irda

2001-10-21 Thread Tom Allison
Wolfgang Fuschlberger wrote: > On Sun, 21 Oct 2001, Tom Allison wrote: > > [snip] > > >> This is the module that I have used in the past. I believe that >> the problem is the base IO address referenced in dmesg doesn't >> match. >> > > why do y

irda package

2001-10-21 Thread Tom Allison
Does the irda create the device nodes irda0/irda1? I don't have any. I think I'm supposed to. what's the major/minor thingy to creat them?

/dev/irda

2001-10-21 Thread Tom Allison
Um... I've been working on this irda stuff for a while and figured out one thing that I did a while back... I think I deleted /dev/irda. I can't find the mknod major/minor setting to recreate it. Can anyone look on theirs or send me a link?

Re: irda

2001-10-21 Thread Tom Allison
NOKUBI Takatsugu wrote: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Then does the following make any sense: I used to configure this as a /dev/ttyS1 serial device ttyS1 is associated with io 2f8. nsc-... is associated with io 2e8 Windows/Bios show this as io 0x02f8, irq 3, dma 3

Re: irda package

2001-10-21 Thread Tom Allison
NOKUBI Takatsugu wrote: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does the irda create the device nodes irda0/irda1? irda[0-9] is like network devices (eth[0-9]), so you don't need to make it as device file. This is where I get confused, because some of the information I'

Re: irda package

2001-10-22 Thread Tom Allison
Wolfgang Fuschlberger wrote: On Sun, 21 Oct 2001, Tom Allison wrote: [snip] This is where I get confused, because some of the information I've found on the web have specific instructions for 'mknod /dev/irda0 c 160 0'... this device doesn't exist here I guess the

Re: irda package

2001-10-22 Thread Tom Allison
NOKUBI Takatsugu wrote: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: IIRC, IrDA stack in kernel 2.4.9 was buggy, AC patch had some IrDA bugfix code. Thank you very much! You have restored faith in myself and in Linux. I can live with bugs, if we know about them. I'll start lo

Re: Installing RedHat v7.1 on a Toshiba laptop

2001-10-22 Thread Tom Breza
Hi first this is *Debian* specyfic group not Red Hat second :) I know there is some issue about Toshiba booting from CD, I know I can't boot my one this way, someone explain why is that, (different casch or somthing in CD-rom structure) Tom -BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK- Ve

Re: irda package

2001-10-22 Thread Tom Allison
Chris Halls wrote: On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 07:02:07AM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: I'll start looking toward 2.4.12 to see if that is better behaved. At least I have an idea what to look for! 2.4.12 works great with IrDA in FIR mode on my T20. Chris I'll be downloading Th

Re: irda package

2001-10-23 Thread Tom Allison
Tom Allison wrote: Chris Halls wrote: On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 07:02:07AM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: I'll start looking toward 2.4.12 to see if that is better behaved. At least I have an idea what to look for! 2.4.12 works great with IrDA in FIR mode on my T20. Chris I&

Re: /dev/irda

2001-10-23 Thread Tom Allison
Tom Allison wrote: Um... I've been working on this irda stuff for a while and figured out one thing that I did a while back... I think I deleted /dev/irda. I can't find the mknod major/minor setting to recreate it. Can anyone look on theirs or send me a link? UPDATE linux ke

USB - root only

2001-10-23 Thread Tom Allison
I've got a USB camera working, but only on root. I get the error Couldn't open device /dev/usb/dc2xx But root can... Setting on /dev/usb and /dev/usb/dc2xx are all '666'

Re: USB - root only

2001-10-23 Thread Tom Allison
Brendan J Simon wrote: Are you using devfs ??? I had to modify /etc/devfs/perms (or something like that) to get a user to access the serial ports via minicom. Cheers, Brendan Simon. Tom Allison wrote: I've got a USB camera working, but only on root. I get the error Couldn&#

Re: irda package

2001-10-23 Thread Tom Allison
Chris Halls wrote: On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 05:48:55AM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: I have attached a dump of the syslog from 'irda start' and it's working! I'm so happy! Well done! I have one question though -- my baud rate is reported at 9600. For a palm pilot Vx, can

Re: PCMCIA -- Unstable -- Kernel 2.4.12

2001-10-24 Thread Tom Breza
Hi 1. Why u afraid to reboot ya laptop? You shoud leave old kernel *always* if somthing goes wrong u can always boot in old configuration, at the moment I got 3-4 diff kernels on my system. 2. if u try install 3Com 3c589 is supported in kernel, u can install it like a module, (my one 2.4.12-ac5)

Re: PCMCIA -- Unstable -- Kernel 2.4.12

2001-10-25 Thread Tom Breza
Hi > Wow, Tom is right but kernel recompile is the more painful way. I have > gone through this pain of upgrading for my i486DX2 gateway. Why compiling kernel is painful I belive he have relatively new laptop with strong CPU a lot of ram, Hardware shoud not be a problem, any way if

Frozen pointer on a TP T20

2000-11-26 Thread Tom Emerson
does not respond: I cannot do anything with it, nor do the buttons work. I have things configured to use /dev/psaux, but I'm not sure what else to check. Thanks in advance for any help. -tree -- Tom Emerson Basis Technology Corp

Re: Frozen pointer on a TP T20

2000-11-26 Thread Tom Emerson
fig to refer to /dev/psaux instead of /dev/mouse. Thanks! -tree -- Tom Emerson Basis Technology Corp. Zenkaku Language Hackerhttp://www.basistech.com "Beware the lollipop of mediocrity: lick it once and you s

Re: screen get blue/green at startup sometimes instead of displaying

2000-12-29 Thread Tom Hoover
ade > expect a recompiled kernel. > When X starts, I sometimes get a screen (color between green and blue) > instead of the xdm login. > > It happened 5 to 10 times in the 82 boots I had since I installed Debian. > It disappears if I switch to console and switch back to X. -- Tom

Re: Regarding using a docking-station.

2001-01-06 Thread Tom Hoover
ing station. I can dock/undock without powering down the laptop, but I need to work on some scripts for enabling/disabling the devices in the dock. Any additional details of your setup would be appreciated. Thanks! -- Tom Hoover N5NTM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.hisword.net/tom

kapm-idled

2001-01-08 Thread Tom Breza
Hi I just instoled kernel 2.4 on my Tosh Satelite pro 4320 and I found that proces kapm-idled is taking quite a lot of CPU time this is line from top PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT LIB %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND 3 root 19 0 00 0 SW 0 71.6 0.0 14:46 kapm-idle

Re: kapm-idled

2001-01-09 Thread Tom Breza
> Yes and you should have recognized that there are no negative side effects > of kapm-idled it does _not_ consume CPU Power which would be needed otherwise. > > Test it while encoding videos or something else which should consume all > CPU-power by itself. > > So you could say it is a cosmetica

Re: kapm-idled

2001-01-09 Thread Tom Breza
> > > and swith off all device wich can be off, if procesor is running allmost on > > full power then needs more power? is that right? > > When your CPU is idle it does not consume as much power as when it is > heavily working if it is that what you meant. > > > then means that for me if proc

Re: PCMCIA to SCSI cards

2001-01-11 Thread Tom Breza
Hi Jens where I can find list of supported USB CDRW? siaraX > > I'm also looking into a CD burner for my Laptop. I don't have to carry it with me > too > often and I already have a SCSI burner. I was also looking into USB burners but > the list of supported burners is not very big. > So my que

Re: Debian & PCMCIA & My Crappy Laptop (tm)

2001-01-27 Thread Tom Breza
Hi I install on old laptop Toshiba 110 Debian I use rescue disk then root disk, next I load I think 14 disk of base system, after that my PCMCIA start working fine and I can use PCMCIA network card, before in setup I try to install rest true network but I cant make it work. take instalation meth

Best "new" laptop

2001-01-31 Thread Tom Hoover
ht now, my question is this... If you had an unlimited budget on which to spend on your "dream" Linux laptop, what would you buy and why? -- Tom Hoover N5NTM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.hisword.net/tom - checkout HisWord(tm) Palmtop Bible at the above URL - --

thinkpad 560E serial port

2001-02-03 Thread Tom Vier
anyone else have trouble getting the serial port on a thinkpad 560e to work? the standard PC io port and irq values don't seem to work. -- Tom Vier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DSA Key id 0x27371A2C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe&qu

Re: thinkpad 560E serial port

2001-02-04 Thread Tom Vier
he windows > configuration toolor dare I say it via the "flappy duck method" (why a > flappy duck I don't know). Is the port actually enabled? nevermind, i finally got it working. it seems the ps2 DOS util has two serial options. one was enabled, but the other wasn'

Re: thinkpad 560E serial port

2001-02-04 Thread Tom Vier
page for info that may yeah, i finally figured out that ps2.exe has two serial options. now my problem is that when i insert my linksys ethernet pcmcia card, serial stops working. i get this: rs_close: bad serial port count; tty->count is 1, state->count is 2 anyone else have problems li

Re: thinkpad 560E serial port

2001-02-05 Thread Tom Vier
ost my e-mail > address on debian-laptop? I deliberately disguise my e-mail > address so that I don't get on spam lists, but it seems you're > too stupid^H^H^H^H^H^Hmentally challenged to figure that out. > You undisguised the address and posted away. -- Tom Vier <[E

Re: freeze after suspend on Inspiron 3500, potato/2.2.17

2001-02-08 Thread Tom Breza
Hi I have somthing simillar with my Toshiba, after some time my laptop hangs, When I upgrade kernel to 2.4 is just working fine. siaraX -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: HP Pavilion N5270 (info requested)

2001-02-12 Thread Tom Breza
> > HOWTOs at linux.org, and I've looked at the Linux laptop resource page > > (http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/), neither of them has > > anything on the model I have. After looking for the information on my own, > > I am going to ask the clueful of the list. > > > > Has any

X config help

2001-02-27 Thread Tom Allison
I just installed Debian 2.2r2 on my Thinkpad. I was previously running Slackware on this machine and decided to give Debian a try. Maybe this is a newbie Q but... How the heck to you configure gnome & sawmill to work together? I have ~/.xsession with the one line: gnome-session & exec sawmill A

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