Re: Mysterious drive access and battery life

2002-12-17 Thread Michael Hope
On Tuesday, December 17, 2002, at 06:52 PM, Mark Williams wrote: Thanks for your response! I added noatime to the relevant fstab line: /dev/hda11 / ext2errors=remount-ro,noatime 0 1 but the drive still clicks to life every now and then. This is no good! Wil

Re: Mysterious drive access and battery life

2002-12-17 Thread Michael Hope
Hi Mark. I had a fiddle with my machine a month ago, and here's what I found: 1. Most accesses are due to updating the file access time. Turning this off gets rid of alot of redundant writes. To turn it off, add the 'noatime' flag to your fstab and either reboot or re-mount the partition.

Re: how to downgrade

2002-12-01 Thread Michael Hope
On Sat, 2002-11-30 at 22:00, Chris Tillman wrote: > On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 08:52:58PM -0800, Ashifi wrote: > > I just upgraded to the "unstable" branch, and although i've got Gnome 2 > > going, I can't get sawfish, nor any other window manager going. It > > tells me it had an error with the auth

Re: 2.4.19 -- no sound

2002-08-28 Thread Michael Hope
On 28 Aug 2002, A.J. Rossini wrote: > > "rogério" == Rogério Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > rogério> On Aug 28 2002, Paul Talacko wrote: > >> As I posted in a previous thread, I've upgraded to 2.4.19 which has > >> got my RTL8029 working, but now I have no sound. > > rog

Re: Noisy HD of an iBook

2002-02-22 Thread Michael Hope
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, [iso-8859-1] Rogério Brito wrote: > On Feb 22 2002, Woo-il Song wrote: > > My HDD seems to be *a little* noisy after I've changed filesystem > > from ext2 to ext3. Do you use ext3? > > Well, first of all, let me say that the

Unable to boot after lockup

2002-01-26 Thread Michael Hope
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sorry if this is the wrong list, but I've hit an interesting problem. My iBook Firewire locked up while I was working in Emacs, and now the machine won't boot any more. Specifically, I was in KDE with Emacs and a few shells open writing some code. O

Re: 2nd and 3rd mouse buttons in XF4.0.2

2001-03-14 Thread Michael Hope
On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Grant Miller wrote: > On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 02:15:15PM -0600, Michael Hope wrote: > > > I'm trying to get a 2nd and 3rd mouse button working in XFree 4.0.2. I'm > > > running kernel 2.4.2-pre3 from bitkeeper's sources. I have the fo

KDE 2.1 packages.

2001-03-11 Thread Michael Hope
Sorry if this is covered in a FAQ somewhere, but I've managed to build KDE 2.1 for Debian PowerPC and I was wondering if anyone else is interested in them, or even if they could be used to replace the old ones in the main archive? There was some weird bug involving make and one of the language pac

Re: 2nd and 3rd mouse buttons in XF4.0.2

2001-03-11 Thread Michael Hope
On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Paolo Redaelli wrote: > Michael Hope wrote: > > > > > I'm trying to get a 2nd and 3rd mouse button working in XFree 4.0.2. I'm > > > running kernel 2.4.2-pre3 from bitkeeper's sources. I have the following > > > relevant

Re: 2nd and 3rd mouse buttons in XF4.0.2

2001-03-11 Thread Michael Hope
> I'm trying to get a 2nd and 3rd mouse button working in XFree 4.0.2. I'm > running kernel 2.4.2-pre3 from bitkeeper's sources. I have the following > relevant options in my kerenl conifg: > > CONFIG_USB=y > CONFIG_USB_HID=y > CONFIG_INPUT_KEYBDEV=y > CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV=y > CONFIG_INPUT_EVD

Re: me too (X4.0.2 on iBook Firewire)

2001-01-25 Thread Michael Hope
On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Michel [iso-8859-1] Dänzer wrote: > Michael Hope wrote: > > > > On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Michel [iso-8859-1] Dänzer wrote: > > > > > Bastien Nocera wrote: > > > > > > > I also upgraded my iBook Firewire to sid, and I hav

Re: me too (X4.0.2 on iBook Firewire)

2001-01-25 Thread Michael Hope
On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Michel [iso-8859-1] Dänzer wrote: > Bastien Nocera wrote: > > > I also upgraded my iBook Firewire to sid, and I have the same pb as Michael > > Hope and Christian Pernegger. > > Pitch is also reported as 832. I tried disabling Acceleration, changing

Re: pmud on iBook questions

2001-01-23 Thread Michael Hope
> On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 07:03:45PM +0100, Christian Pernegger wrote: > > The 'fbset 0' command does nothing useful. > > That should be 'fblevel off', I think. Would make more sense. On my machine, fblevel changes the backlight level with 'fblevel 1' turning it right down a'la MacOS and fblevel

RE: X starts, but it displays strange things

2001-01-22 Thread Michael Hope
nge, sorry. Still claims a pitch of 832, and the screen is still screwed up. Note that the vsync 43-50 was a hack to force the driver to use the fb settings by invalidating the built in modes. The r128 doesnt seem to require a multiple of 64 line width, as it works OK against the fb, but it may pe

Re: X starts, but it displays strange things

2001-01-21 Thread Michael Hope
-only append="video=aty128fb:vmode:10:depth:8:" -- Michael On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Christian Pernegger wrote: > On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 07:19:01PM -0600, Michael Hope wrote: > > Evening all. I'm experiencing the same thing on my blue iBook/Firewire. > > I'm runni

RE: X starts, but it displays strange things: Success!

2001-01-20 Thread Michael Hope
r "Generic" HorizSync 28-38 VertSync43-50 EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Generic" Driver "r128" BusID "PCI:0:16:0" Option "UseFBDev" EndSection -- Michael On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, M

RE: X starts, but it displays strange things

2001-01-20 Thread Michael Hope
Evening all. I'm experiencing the same thing on my blue iBook/Firewire. I'm running 2.4.1-test7 and 4.0.2-1puetzk. I get exactly the same results with 2.4.0-test10 and the straight Debian 4.0.2-1 or any combination of. The screen looks like theres a couple of extra bytes per row inserted, suc