> Are there any "generic" daemons out there using the new event facilities
> that serve as a reasonable replacement for 'laptop-mode-tools' and/or
> 'acpi-support', and which work without X running?
After grovelling around in a bunch of config files, I've partially
answered my question.
My apologies for the saga appearing below, but I'm starting to get
confused about where Debian is going vis a vis power management for laptops,
and hoped to beg some advice.
I currently have 'laptop-mode-tools', 'acpi-support', and
'hibernate' installed, which have served me well i
> I tried the stock Debian kernel 2.6.24 plus firmware-iwlwifi from Sid but
> although the wireless card does seem to be recognized it doesn't connect.
> I spent several days wrestling with it but gave up in the end and stayed
> with the older kernel.
iwl3945 works differently (read: not
I have a Sony Vaio VGN-S150 laptop that has been displaying odd
behavior in reporting available battery power. While left charging, the
system sometimes reports low or no energy remaining in the battery until
it's fully charged, then reports 100%.
Today I had occasion to run the b
An update to my previous post: Today I updated a ton of Xorg
components, and rendering performance for the i915 is now back to previous
levels. Everything seems to be running as fast as before, including GL.
I updated a *lot* of Xorg components, but my suspicion is that
'xserver-
On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 09:34:31AM -0400, Andrew Perrin wrote:
> Your xorg.conf looks much like mine, and I've been having generally
> similar problems. Are you actually getting direct rendering? On my machine
> (same Intel chip), I get:
>
> direct rendering: No
>
>
> from glxinfo.
>
Yesterday I finally made the long-delayed upgrade from xorg 6.9 to
7. It required a lot of changes, including a kernel update from 2.6.12 to
2.6.17. After some fiddling with xorg.conf and a lot of visits to the
Xorg69to7 Wiki, I now have a working xorg 7 desktop.
However, renderi
On Sun, Jul 31, 2005 at 08:59:58PM -0700, ewhac wrote:
> Everything seemed to work fine, and life went on. However, some
> time later, I noted that XMMS would no longer launch. The error message is:
>
>
> bash$ xmms
> Message: device: default
> Gdk-ERROR **: BadMatch (invalid paramete
I tried upgrading my Debian unstable system to X.org, as described
here:
http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/185
Everything seemed to work fine, and life went on. However, some
time later, I noted that XMMS would no longer launch. The error message is:
ba
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