Re: remote X, visual/aduio (tv-card output)

2001-10-24 Thread A. Demarteau (linux rules!)
On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Sjoerd Simons wrote: You could try ffmpet (http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net/), but i don't know how good/stable it as atm.. well there prety busy with it (over 90% activity). Thanx for the suggestion. Sjoerd -- Depart not from the path which fate has assigned you.

Speedstep / Wait State Problems ???

2001-10-24 Thread Andy Toenz
Hi, yes... my Opitiplex crashes too under 2.2.19 (not only on 2.4.12). But now i had a special experience with this problem... after it locked up, i turned my Laptop off and started again... with i BIOS Error ERROR: 280 Previous Boot Incomplete - Default Configuration Used... and then he

Re: The SpedStep crash problem ...

2001-10-24 Thread Andy Bastien
In the depths of that dark day Tue Oct 23, the words of Andy Bastien were the beacon: I did find one thread that indicates that ACPI support is a factor at http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0106.1/0721.html , I currently have ACPI support disabled since I haven't found it

Intro - Design, Engineering, Manufacturing, and more

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Re: Intro - Design, Engineering, Manufacturing, and more

2001-10-24 Thread Eric Borton
I would appreciate it if crap like this does not show up on the board as I find it very unrelated to the board and I get plenty of it elsewhere. - Original Message - From: Igoework.com Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 12:55 PM Subject: Intro

Re: PCMCIA -- Unstable -- Kernel 2.4.12

2001-10-24 Thread Derek Broughton
From: Derek Broughton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anyway, after recompiling the kernel last night everything _looks_ good, but I still can't get an ethernet connection through my pcmcia... Doh! /etc/pcmcia/network start eth0 worked perfectly :-) If only I could figure out why the boot from the 2.2

Re: dhcp and debian install

2001-10-24 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Wed, 2001-10-24 at 22:42, Timothy Ryder wrote: I am trying to install debian and am having a problem. My cable modem provider requires that I pass a computer name to them to use dhcp. With most other distros I would type /sbin/dhcpcd -h computername, but with debian I can't. How can i pass

Re: dhcp and debian install

2001-10-24 Thread Jeff
Michael Heldebrant, 2001-Oct-25 00:08 -0500: On Wed, 2001-10-24 at 22:42, Timothy Ryder wrote: I am trying to install debian and am having a problem. My cable modem provider requires that I pass a computer name to them to use dhcp. With most other distros I would type /sbin/dhcpcd -h

Re: dhcp and debian install

2001-10-24 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Thu, 2001-10-25 at 00:21, Jeff wrote: Michael Heldebrant, 2001-Oct-25 00:08 -0500: On Wed, 2001-10-24 at 22:42, Timothy Ryder wrote: I am trying to install debian and am having a problem. My cable modem provider requires that I pass a computer name to them to use dhcp. With most

Re: PCMCIA -- Unstable -- Kernel 2.4.12

2001-10-24 Thread Osamu Aoki
Good job but I think there is a typo. On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 10:49:55PM -0500, Stephen E. Hargrove wrote: # tar xfvz linux-whatever.tar.gz # rm -rf linux # ln -s linux-whatever linux # tar xfvz pcmcia-cs-whatever.tar.gz # ln -s pcmcia-cs-whatever pcmcia # cd linux # rm -rf pcmcia # rm

Re: PCMCIA -- Unstable -- Kernel 2.4.12

2001-10-24 Thread Osamu Aoki
Wow, Tom is right but kernel recompile is the more painful way. I have gone through this pain of upgrading for my i486DX2 gateway. Debian stock kernel comes with almost all concievable modules including PCMCIA. So all you have to do to get PCMCIA activated is to know exact module names to put

Re: I Think I Have What I Need! Going For It! STOP Make MenuconfigERROR

2001-10-24 Thread Stephen E. Hargrove
On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, eDoc wrote: # cd linux Uh Oh! (I think you meant cd pcmcia because I can see something called linux in /usr/src/ trying to cd there gets only an error.) no, i meant linux. in the linux tar, there is a pcmcia directory. that's what i have to remove in order to get a

Re: PCMCIA -- Unstable -- Kernel 2.4.12

2001-10-24 Thread Osamu Aoki
I should have checked it on real file :-) Here is my correction: On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 06:13:59PM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: Debian stock kernel comes with almost all concievable modules including PCMCIA. So all you have to do to get PCMCIA activated is to know exact module names to put

I Think I Have What I Need! Going For It! STOP Make Menuconfig ERROR

2001-10-24 Thread eDoc
I have the following and am about to reboot ... pray! :-) Progeny update/upgrade to Unstable: Steps: Uncommented only unstable in sources.list apt-get update dpkg --purge --force-depends libfreetype6 apt-get -f dist-upgrade (got an error on gdm) Ran apt-get -f dist-upgrade again.

Re: I Think I Have What I Need! Going For It! STOP Make Menuconfig ERROR

2001-10-24 Thread Wolfgang Fuschlberger
On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, eDoc wrote: [snip] # ln -s linux-whatever linux ^^ [snip] # cd linux Uh Oh! (I think you meant cd pcmcia because I can see something called linux in /usr/src/ trying to cd there gets only an error.) there should be something called

Re: CPU (Bios?) Lock with 2.4.12 on OB XE3

2001-10-24 Thread Andy Toenz
My laptop BIOS has a generic PhoenixBIOS 4.0. I can tell you how it works on mine, but your BIOS may be customized and so might be different: it looks customized :( At the system boot logo, press F2. *g* yes I'm not ugly :) When the CMOS settings screen apears, go to the Power page.

Re: remote X, visual/aduio (tv-card output)

2001-10-24 Thread A. Demarteau \(linux rules!\)
On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Sjoerd Simons wrote: You could try ffmpet (http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net/), but i don't know how good/stable it as atm.. well there prety busy with it (over 90% activity). Thanx for the suggestion. Sjoerd -- Depart not from the path which fate has assigned you.

Speedstep / Wait State Problems ???

2001-10-24 Thread Andy Toenz
Hi, yes... my Opitiplex crashes too under 2.2.19 (not only on 2.4.12). But now i had a special experience with this problem... after it locked up, i turned my Laptop off and started again... with i BIOS Error ERROR: 280 Previous Boot Incomplete - Default Configuration Used... and then he

Re: The SpedStep crash problem ...

2001-10-24 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Wed, 2001-10-24 at 09:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Clayton Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For what it's worth, I've a Dell Inspiron 7000 running 2.2.19 and SpeedStep seems to work fine. Well, in so far as when I plug the machine in /proc/whatever says 700MHz and when I unplug

Re: PCMCIA -- Unstable -- Kernel 2.4.12

2001-10-24 Thread Derek Broughton
From: Stephen E. Hargrove [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ - i keep mine in /usr/src. What are the steps I should follow, please? this is what i did. ymmv. # tar xfvz linux-whatever.tar.gz # rm -rf linux # ln -s linux-whatever linux I'm following this with some

Re: I Think I Have What I Need! Going For It! STOP Make Menuconfig ERROR

2001-10-24 Thread Stephen E. Hargrove
On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, eDoc wrote: # cd linux Uh Oh! (I think you meant cd pcmcia because I can see something called linux in /usr/src/ trying to cd there gets only an error.) no, i meant linux. in the linux tar, there is a pcmcia directory. that's what i have to remove in order to get a

Re: PCMCIA -- Unstable -- Kernel 2.4.12

2001-10-24 Thread Tom Breza
Hi 1. Why u afraid to reboot ya laptop? You shoud leave old kernel *always* if somthing goes wrong u can always boot in old configuration, at the moment I got 3-4 diff kernels on my system. 2. if u try install 3Com 3c589 is supported in kernel, u can install it like a module, (my one 2.4.12-ac5)

Re: The SpedStep crash problem ...

2001-10-24 Thread Andy Bastien
In the depths of that dark day Tue Oct 23, the words of Andy Bastien were the beacon: I did find one thread that indicates that ACPI support is a factor at http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0106.1/0721.html , I currently have ACPI support disabled since I haven't found it

Re: irda package

2001-10-24 Thread NOKUBI Takatsugu
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It looks to me as if the speed is 9600 while nothing is connected, then jumps to 115200 as you do something, then goes back to 9600 afterwards. Or am I missing something? You are right. However, Oct 23 05:45:14 thorin kernel:

Intro - Design, Engineering, Manufacturing, and more

2001-10-24 Thread Igoework.com Inc.
Please allow us to introduce ourselves, Igoework.com is represented by a group that includes: - Talented engineers(Mechanical and Electrical) - Software solutions(CAD, FEA) - Manufacturing vendors (Castings, Sheet Metal, Plastics, SLA, etc) - Technical placement (Direct placement of

Re: Intro - Design, Engineering, Manufacturing, and more

2001-10-24 Thread Eric Borton
I would appreciate it if crap like this does not show up on the board as I find it very unrelated to the board and I get plenty of it elsewhere. - Original Message - From: Igoework.com Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 12:55 PM

Re: PCMCIA -- Unstable -- Kernel 2.4.12

2001-10-24 Thread Derek Broughton
From: Derek Broughton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anyway, after recompiling the kernel last night everything _looks_ good, but I still can't get an ethernet connection through my pcmcia... Doh! /etc/pcmcia/network start eth0 worked perfectly :-) If only I could figure out why the boot from the 2.2

Re: Upgrading Progeny to Unstable

2001-10-24 Thread Tony Godshall
On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 10:29:24PM -0400, Doc - KD4E wrote: I am trying the comand (see below) sequence just to see if it works better than the Progeny-Woody version that repeatedly fails to support pcmcia on my laptop. ... # apt-get update # dpkg --purge --force-deps libfreetype6 # apt-get

Re: PCMCIA -- Unstable -- Kernel 2.4.12

2001-10-24 Thread Osamu Aoki
Wow, Tom is right but kernel recompile is the more painful way. I have gone through this pain of upgrading for my i486DX2 gateway. Debian stock kernel comes with almost all concievable modules including PCMCIA. So all you have to do to get PCMCIA activated is to know exact module names to put

Re: PCMCIA -- Unstable -- Kernel 2.4.12

2001-10-24 Thread Osamu Aoki
I should have checked it on real file :-) Here is my correction: On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 06:13:59PM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: Debian stock kernel comes with almost all concievable modules including PCMCIA. So all you have to do to get PCMCIA activated is to know exact module names to put into