Re: turning off (LCD+) backlight without suspending

2001-07-20 Thread Tony Godshall
Oh, that's a shame. On my laptop there's an actual separate key called Fn, sitting in between Ctrl and Alt. Yeah, mine has one too, but it's to the left of ctrl. It's intended purely for switching on these Toshiba-specific keyboard functions (it's also used to switch on the numberpad

Re: DRI problem

2001-07-20 Thread Cajus Pollmeier
On Friday, 20. July 2001 01:07, Sunny Dubey wrote: Hi, Has anyone here been able to get DRI to work on the ATI Mobility M1 chipset? I've tried just about everything, with no luck either. To get the stuff running you've to: - install the libosmesa debs - recompile the kernel modules for your

Re: DRI problem

2001-07-20 Thread Dmitry Astapov
SD Hi, Has anyone here been able to get DRI to work on the ATI Mobility SD M1 chipset? I've tried just about everything, with no luck either. Take a look at /var/log/XFree86.0.log (maybe, substitute your screen number instead of 0) and find what X servers thinks of your card. Chances are

RE: RE: Sound on the IBM ThinkPad 600

2001-07-20 Thread Cheshire, Neil N SITI-ISES-56
On 19 July 2001 17:49 Bernard Reißberg wrote: I have only my Debian Potato on my Thinkpad. Windows was disposed by me on the same day I got my machine. ;-) The soundchip is a Crystal CS4237 (I think so). I will try one more time to get it working. Just visited a few sites of linux-laptop.org.

Re: turning off (LCD+) backlight without suspending

2001-07-20 Thread Mounie G
Hi, It's intended purely for switching on these Toshiba-specific keyboard functions (it's also used to switch on the numberpad overlay over the uio-jkl-etc keys). Alt-F1, Alt-F2 switches between consoles (the F1, F2... keys themselves are labelled as such). I think that was the intent

Thinkpad T20 Woody's XFree 4

2001-07-20 Thread Jean-Charles Bagneris
Hi there, I am on potato (2.2r3) with my T20, thus XFree 3.3.6. Runs OK with the S3 Savage IX8 graphic card of this machine. But this card is currently unsupported by some releases of XFree 4, see http://www.probo.com/timr/savage40.html for details. Last time I gave a try to woody, no luck with

Re: Thinkpad T20 Woody's XFree 4

2001-07-20 Thread Richard Black
I use it and it seem to work fine! There are several write ups on linux for laptops about the T20...you shouldn't have any problem (famous last words!) cheers Richard Jean-Charles Bagneris wrote: Hi there, I am on potato (2.2r3) with my T20, thus XFree 3.3.6. Runs OK with the

Re: turning off (LCD+) backlight without suspending

2001-07-20 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
Could you do what you want with xset? When I type `xset dpms force standby`, I get a blank screen, but nothing else seems to slow down. It also looks like you could disable 'suspend' and 'off' modes so it would stay in perpetual standby while you ride home. Brian -- /\ \ /

Wireless Networking

2001-07-20 Thread Craig T. Milling
I just bought two D-Link wireless PCMCIA ethernet cards (DWL-650 DWL-500 = 650+PCI-PCMCIA) and am trying to set up an ad hoc link between my firewall/router and laptop. my basic question is how do you setup and debug the link? my firewall (a Cyrix586 machine running OpenBSD 2.9) and laptop

Omnibook 800 feature fn-keys [Re: turning off (LCD+) backlight without suspending]

2001-07-20 Thread Tony Godshall
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 10:42:22AM +0200, Mounie G wrote: The good point with HP is the avaibility of the manuals in PDF on Web. OK, I went looking but couldn't even get to the HP Omnibook 800 page. The choose product drop box contains only HP HP HP all the way down and a search for Omnibook

Re: turning off (LCD+) backlight without suspending

2001-07-20 Thread Tony Godshall
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 09:37:55AM -0400, Brian P. Flaherty wrote: Could you do what you want with xset? When I type `xset dpms force standby`, I get a blank screen, but nothing else seems to slow down. It also looks like you could disable 'suspend' and 'off' modes so it would stay in

Re: turning off (LCD+) backlight without suspending

2001-07-20 Thread Craig T. Milling
are you sure the back light stays on when you close the laptop? my laptop (ARM TS759) has a switch which turns of the backlight as you close it. you can see it happen when the screen gets to by about 30 degrees from closing. Dr. Craig T. Milling [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept. of

sound and networking on IBM ThinkPad 600

2001-07-20 Thread Bernard=20Rei=DFberg
Hi folks! * It seems so, that the problem with the PCMCIA-network-card is fixed now. I edited the /etc/pcmcia/network.opts and entered the values that I entered before in my normal config.-files for networking. The automatic loading and unloading of the modules is working whenever i insert or

Re: sound and networking on IBM ThinkPad 600

2001-07-20 Thread Adam Bell
Bernard: I would be surprised indeed if you could compile it right into the kernel in such an old kernel version. Check your BIOS menu for settings for the sound card. If there aren't any, then it's plug and play only. If there ARE options on DMA, IRQ, and the like, then be advised

Re: turning off (LCD+) backlight without suspending

2001-07-20 Thread Heather
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 06:32:50PM -0700, Tony Godshall wrote: Anyone know if there's a tool to turn off the backlight . . . ... Have you checked whether your BIOS gives you options like [switching to external monitor]? Yeah. Doesn't :( Fn-F1 to Fn-F5 are supposed to do that various

Re: turning off (LCD+) backlight without suspending

2001-07-20 Thread Heather
Oh, that's a shame. On my laptop there's an actual separate key called Fn, sitting in between Ctrl and Alt. Yeah, mine has one too, but it's to the left of ctrl. It's intended purely for switching on these Toshiba-specific keyboard functions (it's also used to switch on the

mounting a multiple cd-rom archive over nfs

2001-07-20 Thread Matt
hi, i would like to install debian on a laptop that has no cd-rom drive. i am able to install the base system from my desktop over nfs(running debian), and i could install more packages if they were all on one cd. is there a way to mount a multiple cd-rom archive? thanks, matt -- To

Re: Omnibook 800 feature fn-keys [Re: turning off (LCD+) backlight withoutsuspending]

2001-07-20 Thread Heather
For HP800 (in the Windows for Workgroup :-) manual, page 13), you have all the magic keys. Changing video output is done by FN+PrintSc. Huh. First time I hit it, it blanks for a moment and comes back. Second time, my screen goes totally blank (I assume it's driving the signal out

Re: DRI problem

2001-07-20 Thread David L. Craig
Dmitry Astapov wrote: If you have lines there: (--) PCI:*(1:0:0) ATI Mach64 LM rev 100, Mem @ 0xfd00/24, 0xfecff000/12, I/O @ 0xe800/8 [snip] (--) ATI(0): ATI 3D Rage Mobility graphics controller detected. (--) ATI(0): Chip type 4C4D LM, version 4, foundry TSMC, class 0, revision

Re: mounting a multiple cd-rom archive over nfs

2001-07-20 Thread Jeff Coppock
Matt, 2001-Jul-20 18:33 +: hi, i would like to install debian on a laptop that has no cd-rom drive. i am able to install the base system from my desktop over nfs(running debian), and i could install more packages if they were all on one cd. is there a way to mount a multiple cd-rom

Re: Re: mounting a multiple cd-rom archive over nfs

2001-07-20 Thread Matt
Why don't you do a network installation? Get the 6 disk images from the debian site (rescue, root, drivers1-4) and this will configure your network interface. Assuming you have internet access, you can then install the base system and any packages of the internet.

Re: Omnibook 800 feature fn-keys [Re: turning off (LCD+) backlight without suspending]

2001-07-20 Thread Tony Godshall
FN+On/Off If turn-on password protection is active, suspends (turns off) the OmniBook so the password is required at turn-on. FN+F1 ... F12 Starts the assigned application, which you can change. Any ideas how to capture this in Linux/X? I tried setting up a shortcut with

Re: turning off (LCD+) backlight without suspending

2001-07-20 Thread Tony Godshall
... Second time, my screen goes totally blank (I assume it's driving the signal out the external connector.) So this should be using less power since it's not driving the LCD or the backlight, but driving external (even absent) devices can be a little bad for battery power too. ...

Re: turning off (LCD+) backlight without suspending

2001-07-20 Thread Tony Godshall
are you sure the back light stays on when you close the laptop? my laptop (ARM TS759) has a switch ... [--Craig the physicist] Sure does. Closed it to a tiny crack and its still on. Doesn't seem to be any such switch on the OB. (On many machines closing the lid autmatically suspends it, so

Re: turning off (LCD+) backlight without suspending

2001-07-20 Thread Tony Godshall
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Re: pcmcia nics

2001-07-20 Thread Walter Hofmann
Any recommendations on a pcmcia nic? I have a 3com EtherLink III 10-Base-T/Coax card which works really good. There were never any problems with it (I use it for four years now). Walter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

PCMCIA sound cards anyone?

2001-07-20 Thread Sunny Dubey
Anyone know of any PCMCIA sound cards? I've been looking on the internet, and I can only see one *real* source to get them, but they cost 700 bucks too (the vxworks one) I know that the chances of Linux working with one of these isn't the highest, but I'm willing to work on that, hehe Sunny

Re: PCMCIA sound cards anyone?

2001-07-20 Thread Ari Pollak
You probably have a better chance of finding a USB audio device, if your laptop supports USB. -- ___ ___ / _ | / _ \ Ari Pollak - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.aripollak.com / __ |/ ___/ /_/ |_/_/ Old poets never die, they just ride off into the sonnet. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: pcmcia nics

2001-07-20 Thread Tony Godshall
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 10:20:29PM +0200, Walter Hofmann wrote: Any recommendations on a pcmcia nic? I have a 3com EtherLink III 10-Base-T/Coax card which works really good. There were never any problems with it (I use it for four years now). Walter I have three el-cheapo linksys ebay