Re: fan toshiba l670 squeeze

2011-10-29 Thread Mark Willson
On a Toshiba Satellite Pro 4060XCDT, I had to turn off ACPI to prevent the fan running all the time, by adding "acpi=off" to the kernel boot line . Worth a shot. The downside is that the machine will not power down automatically on shutdown. -mark -- Mark Willson cdr

Re: Lenny annoyance

2009-09-06 Thread Mark Willson
David wrote: Ever since I upgraded from Etch to Lenny, I've been having problems. My PC is a Toshiba Satellite 1805-S274 with a Netgear PCMCIA wifi card (Atheros chipset). I'm using a stock kernel (2.6.26-2-686). My desktop is Xfce, although I've tried Gnome and KDE as well. On a regular ba

Re: Debian Lenny install failing on Dell Latitude CPi A366ST during hardware detect phase

2009-08-15 Thread Mark Willson
Kyle Barbour wrote: Amazingly, this worked. It hung for about two minutes after the hardware detect, and after I'd given up, continued going. Here's the boot options I used: boot: expert noapic nousb acpi=off I tried using fewer, but couldn't get it to work with just noapic or nousb, etc. Do I

Re: Debian Lenny install failing on Dell Latitude CPi A366ST during hardware detect phase

2009-08-14 Thread Mark Willson
Kyle Barbour wrote: I'm not really sure what to do here - it might just be that the laptop is a lost cause, since I have no idea whether anything's broken or not. I'll post if I discover anything, but my hopes aren't up. Kyle, That's a shame. My only other suggestion would be to try to turn

Re: Debian Lenny install failing on Dell Latitude CPi A366ST during hardware detect phase

2009-08-12 Thread Mark Willson
Kyle Barbour wrote: Hello everyone,/ I'm trying to install Debian Lenny on an old Dell Latitude CPi A366ST, currently running Win98. KNOPPIX boots on it fine, as does Win98. However, when I try to install Debian on it, the install hangs right after "Detecting PC card services". At first, I thoug

Re: fonts messed up

2006-08-23 Thread Mark Willson
> Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 20:22:36 +0200 > From: Lorenzo Bettini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Debian User Mailing List > Subject: Re: fonts messed up > > actually if I try to use vesa or nv I get the error: > > (EE) module ABI major version (0) doesn't match the server's version (1) > (EE) Failed to l

Re: fonts messed up

2006-08-23 Thread Mark Willson
> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Aug 23 17:50:30 2006 > Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 18:47:45 +0200 > From: Lorenzo Bettini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Mark Willson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: fonts messed up > > > actually I am

Re: fonts messed up

2006-08-23 Thread Mark Willson
> Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 15:41:41 +0200 > From: Lorenzo Bettini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Debian User Mailing List > Subject: fonts messed up > > Hi > > after a recent upgrade (unstable) all my fonts are almost complitely > messed up. > > I cannot use KDE since almost everything text is missing,

Re: Debian-Etch Update 08/19/2006 - AA/Font issues?

2006-08-20 Thread Mark Willson
> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Aug 20 12:03:15 2006 > Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 07:00:04 -0400 (EDT) > From: Justin Piszcz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Debian-Etch Update 08/19/2006 - AA/Font issues? > > > > On Sun, 20 Aug 2006, Justin Piszcz wrote: > >>