Re: 2.4.10 and apm !

2001-09-26 Thread jc
On mercredi 26 septembre, 2001 à 11:48:08 +1000, Tim Connors wrote: what happened to apm support on 2.4.10 apm -S does not work anymore :( Works for me. You have compiled apm into the kernel, or as a module, haven't you? yes i have by the way it's apm -s ( susprend ) not standby --

install laptop

2001-09-26 Thread LAMIRAULT Nicolas
hello everybody, i will buy a laptop. Perhaps it will be the HP Pavillon N 5461. Does anybody have install debian linux on this laptop ? Could you send me some links to know on which laptops i can install linux easily. Could i have yours point of view about install of linux on others laptops ?

apm death

2001-09-26 Thread Tom Allison
bleah! I upgraded to kernel 2.4 and am running into a problem with apm suspend/sleep. For example: I hit the keyboard buttons to suspend the computer for the night (not Hibernate) and it goes to sleep just fine. I close the lid, OK. I plug in the power cord to recharge - computer beeps, comes

Re: X 4.0.1 problem with a Toshiba laptop

2001-09-26 Thread Teppo Hytönen
A little clarification is in order here, I think. Yes, I can log on through the netword. And there no longer are X processess, I've checked that the first time the crash happened, long before posting here. So X completely crashes down, and messes up the screen so can't get it sane again until I

Re: apm death

2001-09-26 Thread Tremaine Lea
What happens if you plug the AC in before putting it to sleep? On Wed, 2001-09-26 at 04:49, Tom Allison wrote: bleah! I upgraded to kernel 2.4 and am running into a problem with apm suspend/sleep. For example: I hit the keyboard buttons to suspend the computer for the night (not

Re: changing drivers

2001-09-26 Thread Sebastien 'TiT0' Cazajous
Sounds promising. How exactly do I associate the orinoco_cs to this card. Everytime it starts up it's identified as a wvlan_cs card and loads up from there. I'm unclear how I can set this association to over-ride the default wvlan_cs. Well uninstall the pcmcia_cs package by purging

Re: Asus L8400 with S3 savage: X-problem

2001-09-26 Thread Adam McDaniel
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 09:42:01PM +0200, Andreas Stabaginski wrote: No, still the same problem. I had dhclient installed (but not running), and also uninstalling does not help :-( well, it was worth a shot :) just wondering, but those files which you are playing, they have sound i assume.

Re: Asus L8400 performance problem [was: Re: Asus L8400 with S3 savage: X-problem]

2001-09-26 Thread Frank Trenkamp
Hi, I have the same Problem when I make much I/O on my System. So e.g. compiling a kernel results in shortly freezing X (two seconds freeze, a few seconds allright, freeze again and so on until compiling is finished). uhm .. since a few days it's exactly the same with my desktop and my

Re: Best network card for network install?

2001-09-26 Thread Glen Mehn
before configure device drivers do Alternate-- configure pcmcia I've had good luck with just about every pcmcia card I've tried-- several xircom's, netgearfa410x, several different 3com's... I think you just need to add pcmcia support before you configure the network (and I think that I do it

RE: KDE - initializing peripherals...

2001-09-26 Thread marc . miller
Actually, when I brought back X4, I found it was a problem with the xserver-xfree86 configuration. When I specified the correct, neomagic chipset, KDE started working just fine. Thanks to all for your help. I think I'm good to go. Marc J. Miller Open Source Relations Engineer [EMAIL

Re: Module for ES1888?

2001-09-26 Thread Hubert Chan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rodin == Rodin Fadul [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Rodin Hello. I own a Dell Latitude Xpi with a ESS ES1888 Plug Play Rodin AudioDrive. I've been told that I have to use modconf in order to Rodin include the module to support my sound card. The

Re: Best network card for network install?

2001-09-26 Thread Glen Mehn
AH-- I see. Slink is pretty darn old-- it's the ex-release version-- if you're doing a network install, why not try the latest boot disks-- from potato (2.2r3) I think that the pcmcia stuff was somewhat borked even when slink was out-- I seem to remember having to jump through hoops, and

ati (mach64) framebuffer

2001-09-26 Thread Richard Weil
Can anyone give me some pointers on getting the ATI framebuffer set-up? I have a Dell Inspiron 7000, approx. 2+ years old, with an ATI Rage LT Pro 2x AGP video card which, I believe, is Mach64 based. I'm trying to get the console framebuffer working. I compiled the 2.4.9 kernel with the

Re: xfree86 on sony vaio C1VP

2001-09-26 Thread ISHIKAWA Mutsumi
In [EMAIL PROTECTED] Guillaume Lebleu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: anybody with experience on which x server to use on the c1vp. I'm using debian which comes with xfree86 3.3.6 From other discussion forums, it seems that the chipset is a Mach64 but when I use the XF86_Mach64 server, it

EtherJet on ThinkPad doesn't work with Potato

2001-09-26 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Greetings, We're trying to install Potato (R0, I think) on a ThinkPad T22 with no onboard ethernet, so we got it with a network card which turned out to be an IBM EtherJet 10/100. Installation goes fine through configuring the network. For PCMCIA support, we chose the Intel-compatible

Re: changing drivers

2001-09-26 Thread Tom Allison
Sebastien 'TiT0' Cazajous wrote: Sounds promising. How exactly do I associate the orinoco_cs to this card. Everytime it starts up it's identified as a wvlan_cs card and loads up from there. I'm unclear how I can set this association to over-ride the default wvlan_cs. Well uninstall the

Re: apm death

2001-09-26 Thread Tom Allison
Tremaine Lea wrote: What happens if you plug the AC in before putting it to sleep? On Wed, 2001-09-26 at 04:49, Tom Allison wrote: bleah! I upgraded to kernel 2.4 and am running into a problem with apm suspend/sleep. For example: I hit the keyboard buttons to suspend the computer

boot images for Inspiron 2500

2001-09-26 Thread Erik Ryberg
Hello, The root.bin and rescue.bin images provided on my Debian 2.2 disks will not boot my Dell Inspiron 2500; I cannot install Debian with these disks. I have used dd to move the images onto a floppy with the same result. (I am running Debian 2.2 on my desktop machine.) The computer hangs

Re: Best network card for network install? a question about /dev/psaux

2001-09-26 Thread Brian Button
- Original Message - From: Tony Godshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Glen Mehn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Brian Button [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 2:26 PM Subject: Re: Best network card for network install? I'm glad to hear Glen had better experience

RE: KDE - initializing peripherals...

2001-09-26 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 26-Sep-2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: WindowMaker does work, but I need KDE so that I can run KOffice. NeoMagic, eh? Shoot; would have found that right away if I'd just used Google in the first place. I maintain the blackbox window manager (only way I run X) yet I still use KDE apps

Re: 2.4.10 and apm !

2001-09-26 Thread jc
On mercredi 26 septembre, 2001 à 11:48:08 +1000, Tim Connors wrote: what happened to apm support on 2.4.10 apm -S does not work anymore :( Works for me. You have compiled apm into the kernel, or as a module, haven't you? yes i have by the way it's apm -s ( susprend ) not standby

install laptop

2001-09-26 Thread LAMIRAULT Nicolas
hello everybody, i will buy a laptop. Perhaps it will be the HP Pavillon N 5461. Does anybody have install debian linux on this laptop ? Could you send me some links to know on which laptops i can install linux easily. Could i have yours point of view about install of linux on others laptops ?

apm death

2001-09-26 Thread Tom Allison
bleah! I upgraded to kernel 2.4 and am running into a problem with apm suspend/sleep. For example: I hit the keyboard buttons to suspend the computer for the night (not Hibernate) and it goes to sleep just fine. I close the lid, OK. I plug in the power cord to recharge - computer beeps,

Re: apm death

2001-09-26 Thread Vivek
On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, Tom Allison wrote: For example: I hit the keyboard buttons to suspend the computer for the night (not Hibernate) and it goes to sleep just fine. I close the lid, OK. I plug in the power cord to recharge - computer beeps, comes back to life, and the screen/keyboard hang.

Re: X 4.0.1 problem with a Toshiba laptop

2001-09-26 Thread Teppo Hytönen
A little clarification is in order here, I think. Yes, I can log on through the netword. And there no longer are X processess, I've checked that the first time the crash happened, long before posting here. So X completely crashes down, and messes up the screen so can't get it sane again until I

Best network card for network install?

2001-09-26 Thread Brian Button
Gee, this sure seems like an FAQ, and I apologize for asking it again. But I've been trying to install 2.2r3 via a network install for two days now, and I haven't made any progress at all. I can't seem to get any of my linksys cards recognized at the point of the install where you have to

Re: apm death

2001-09-26 Thread Tremaine Lea
What happens if you plug the AC in before putting it to sleep? On Wed, 2001-09-26 at 04:49, Tom Allison wrote: bleah! I upgraded to kernel 2.4 and am running into a problem with apm suspend/sleep. For example: I hit the keyboard buttons to suspend the computer for the night (not

Re: changing drivers

2001-09-26 Thread Sebastien 'TiT0' Cazajous
Sounds promising. How exactly do I associate the orinoco_cs to this card. Everytime it starts up it's identified as a wvlan_cs card and loads up from there. I'm unclear how I can set this association to over-ride the default wvlan_cs. Well uninstall the pcmcia_cs package by purging

Asus L8400 performance problem [was: Re: Asus L8400 with S3 savage: X-problem]

2001-09-26 Thread Andreas Stabaginski
Hi! I have the same Problem when I make much I/O on my System. So e.g. compiling a kernel results in shortly freezing X (two seconds freeze, a few seconds allright, freeze again and so on until compiling is finished). I can not even switch my consoles with ALT Fx (with or without X running)

Re: Asus L8400 with S3 savage: X-problem

2001-09-26 Thread Adam McDaniel
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 09:42:01PM +0200, Andreas Stabaginski wrote: No, still the same problem. I had dhclient installed (but not running), and also uninstalling does not help :-( well, it was worth a shot :) just wondering, but those files which you are playing, they have sound i assume. Does

Re: Asus L8400 performance problem [was: Re: Asus L8400 with S3 savage: X-problem]

2001-09-26 Thread Frank Trenkamp
Hi, I have the same Problem when I make much I/O on my System. So e.g. compiling a kernel results in shortly freezing X (two seconds freeze, a few seconds allright, freeze again and so on until compiling is finished). uhm .. since a few days it's exactly the same with my desktop and my laptop

Re: Best network card for network install?

2001-09-26 Thread Glen Mehn
before configure device drivers do Alternate-- configure pcmcia I've had good luck with just about every pcmcia card I've tried-- several xircom's, netgearfa410x, several different 3com's... I think you just need to add pcmcia support before you configure the network (and I think that I do it

RE: KDE - initializing peripherals...

2001-09-26 Thread marc . miller
Actually, when I brought back X4, I found it was a problem with the xserver-xfree86 configuration. When I specified the correct, neomagic chipset, KDE started working just fine. Thanks to all for your help. I think I'm good to go. Marc J. Miller Open Source Relations Engineer [EMAIL

Re: Module for ES1888?

2001-09-26 Thread Hubert Chan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rodin == Rodin Fadul [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Rodin Hello. I own a Dell Latitude Xpi with a ESS ES1888 Plug Play Rodin AudioDrive. I've been told that I have to use modconf in order to Rodin include the module to support my sound card. The problem

xfree86 on sony vaio C1VP

2001-09-26 Thread Guillaume Lebleu
anybody with experience on which x server to use on the c1vp. I'm using debian which comes with xfree86 3.3.6 When I do SuperProbe I get: Chipset: ATI Rage Mobility (Port Probed) Memory: 8192 Kbytes RAMDAC: ATI Mach64 integrated 15/16/24/32-bit DAC w/clock (with 6-bit wide lookup tables (or in

Re: Best network card for network install?

2001-09-26 Thread Tony Godshall
I did a network install via Linksys pcmcia card but I had to drop to shell, edit (/target?)/etc/pcmcia/network.opts manually and then (/target?)/etc/init.d/pcmcia (re?)start . (Sorry my memory is fuzzy... didn't take notes :( .) At that point ifconfig told me eth0 was configured so I exited the

Re: Best network card for network install?

2001-09-26 Thread Tony Godshall
I'm glad to hear Glen had better experience than I did. Glen and Brian, could you note which release you're installing? As I noted, my experience was with slink. -- Tony On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 09:58:15AM -0700, Glen Mehn wrote: before configure device drivers do Alternate-- configure pcmcia

Re: Best network card for network install?

2001-09-26 Thread Glen Mehn
AH-- I see. Slink is pretty darn old-- it's the ex-release version-- if you're doing a network install, why not try the latest boot disks-- from potato (2.2r3) I think that the pcmcia stuff was somewhat borked even when slink was out-- I seem to remember having to jump through hoops, and

Re: xfree86 on sony vaio C1VP

2001-09-26 Thread ISHIKAWA Mutsumi
In [EMAIL PROTECTED] Guillaume Lebleu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: anybody with experience on which x server to use on the c1vp. I'm using debian which comes with xfree86 3.3.6 From other discussion forums, it seems that the chipset is a Mach64 but when I use the XF86_Mach64 server, it

Re: ati (mach64) framebuffer

2001-09-26 Thread Vivek
On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, Richard Weil wrote: Can anyone give me some pointers on getting the ATI framebuffer set-up? I think the ATI framebuffer stuff is still pretty experimental - still hoses the display on my laptop completely - I just use the vesa fb - it's not as if I spend of a lot of time

EtherJet on ThinkPad doesn't work with Potato

2001-09-26 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Greetings, We're trying to install Potato (R0, I think) on a ThinkPad T22 with no onboard ethernet, so we got it with a network card which turned out to be an IBM EtherJet 10/100. Installation goes fine through configuring the network. For PCMCIA support, we chose the Intel-compatible

Re: changing drivers

2001-09-26 Thread Tom Allison
Sebastien 'TiT0' Cazajous wrote: Sounds promising. How exactly do I associate the orinoco_cs to this card. Everytime it starts up it's identified as a wvlan_cs card and loads up from there. I'm unclear how I can set this association to over-ride the default wvlan_cs. Well uninstall the

Re: apm death

2001-09-26 Thread Tom Allison
Tremaine Lea wrote: What happens if you plug the AC in before putting it to sleep? On Wed, 2001-09-26 at 04:49, Tom Allison wrote: bleah! I upgraded to kernel 2.4 and am running into a problem with apm suspend/sleep. For example: I hit the keyboard buttons to suspend the computer for

boot images for Inspiron 2500

2001-09-26 Thread Erik Ryberg
Hello, The root.bin and rescue.bin images provided on my Debian 2.2 disks will not boot my Dell Inspiron 2500; I cannot install Debian with these disks. I have used dd to move the images onto a floppy with the same result. (I am running Debian 2.2 on my desktop machine.) The computer hangs

Re: Best network card for network install? a question about /dev/psaux

2001-09-26 Thread Brian Button
- Original Message - From: Tony Godshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Glen Mehn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Brian Button [EMAIL PROTECTED]; debian-laptop@lists.debian.org Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 2:26 PM Subject: Re: Best network card for network install? I'm glad to hear Glen had better