PCMCIA DVD-ROM not detected when self-powered

2001-06-19 Thread Michèl Alexandre Salim
Hello, I am setting up my notebook (Sony Vaio Picturebook C1VE) so that I can watch DVD under Linux, and one stumbling block is that (this is tested under Windows) the DVD drive has to be self-powered to get an acceptable performance - audio/video output is very slow when the drive is powered thr

Re: Clock drift on Transmeta Crusoe

2001-06-12 Thread Michèl Alexandre Salim
--- Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Let me guess: vesafb? I am running vesafb, yes... > If problem goes away when you stop using framebuffer > (i.e. go X), then > it is known. but the problem happens in X as well :) > You are lucky. My machine is able to loose 2 minutes > from every 3

Re: Clock drift on Transmeta Crusoe

2001-06-12 Thread Michèl Alexandre Salim
--- Jonathan Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> clock drift of a few minutes per day. > > That's about 0.1%. It may be relatively large > compared to tolerances of > hardware clocks, but it's realistically tiny. It > certainly compares > favourably with mkLinux on my PowerBook 5300, which >

Follow-up: Re: Clock drift on Transmeta Crusoe (Sony Vaio C1VE)

2001-06-11 Thread Michèl Alexandre Salim
Seems to be a rather common problem and probably that is why only Mark Hahn has replied so far, but searching through Google most other computers seem to get a clock drift of only 1 minute per day at worst, and I have consistently seen my system clock doing 4 minutes a day slower than its hardware

Clock drift with Transmeta Crusoe

2001-06-11 Thread Michèl Alexandre Salim
Hello, Searching through the mailing list I could not find a reference to this problem, hence this post. Having ran various kernel and distribution combinations (SGI's 2.4.2-xfs bundled with their Red Hat installer, 2.4-xfs-1.0 and 2.4 CVS trees, Linux Mandrake with default kernel 2.4.3, and las

No Subject

2001-06-11 Thread Michèl Alexandre Salim
Hello, Searching through the mailing list I could not find a reference to this problem, hence this post. Having ran various kernel and distribution combinations (SGI's 2.4.2-xfs bundled with their Red Hat installer, 2.4-xfs-1.0 and 2.4 CVS trees, Linux Mandrake with default kernel 2.4.3, and las

Clock drift on Transmeta Crusoe

2001-06-11 Thread Michèl Alexandre Salim
Hello, Searching through the mailing list I could not find a reference to this problem, hence this post. Having ran various kernel and distribution combinations (SGI's 2.4.2-xfs bundled with their Red Hat installer, 2.4-xfs-1.0 and 2.4 CVS trees, Linux Mandrake with default kernel 2.4.3, and las

Re: Why CONFIG_MPENTIUMIII by default?

2001-02-24 Thread Michèl Alexandre Salim
--- Frédéric L. W. Meunier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there any reason to use CONFIG_MPENTIUMIII by > default? I > think this should be changed to CONFIG_M386, which > should work > for most, and would avoid people reporting problems > because > they forgot to set the right processor type. >

Re: Linux-2.4.2 && Minix SP

2001-02-23 Thread Michèl Alexandre Salim
--- Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > are those MINIX_SUBPARITIONS in 2.4.2 actually > supposed to copile? > in fs/partitions/msdos.c it refers to some MINIX > defines which do not > seems to be included in that path. Did not work for me either. Michel __

2.42 broke PCMCIA IDE

2001-02-23 Thread Michèl Alexandre Salim
Hello, Just installed a custom Debian system using kernel 2.4.1 + ReiserFS (root running reiserfs) and it works just fine. Since kernel 2.4.2 has been released, when recompiling a new kernel (the 2.4.1 I used has been trimmed to fit my modified boot disks) I used that instead, after hearing about

Re: [lkml]2.2.19pre13: Are there network problem with a low-bandwidth link?

2001-02-21 Thread Michèl Alexandre Salim
> I also saw this when my 2.2.19pre12/13 workstation > connected to a > 2.2.19pre8 isdn-router. When downloading a large > file via ftp at max > speed, other connections don't 'get through'. > > Perhaps other people can agree/disagree on this? > > Jurriaan FWIW, that happens to me on the stock

PCI GART (?)

2001-02-13 Thread Michèl Alexandre Salim
Hello, This might not be the proper place to ask - my apologies - but since it pertains to the Sony Picturebook (C1VE - Crusoe) that people have been discussing on this list anyway, I hope people don't mind too much :) I have RTFM but on the matter of enabling DRI for the ATI Mobility video chip