When you ran /sbin/lilo after booting from your rescue disk, were you
'chroot'ed to the root file system and was /etc/lilo.conf on your hard
disk visible (mounted)?  Also, do you have more than one disk drive?

I've had similar problems with both GRUB and LILO if I'm not very
careful to be 'chroot'ed to the boot disk root filesystem.  Also, I
have one system I support that has a hard disk plus a JAZ drive that
is always on and mounted.  The wierd part is that when booting from a
rescue disk, the JAZ drive is sensed first as /dev/sda, and the hard
disk as /dev/sdb.  For some odd reason, LILO doesn't handle a boot
sector on /dev/sdb correctly.  I have to boot with the JAZ drive
offline, tell LILO to write the boot sector to /dev/sda, but load the
kernel and boot image from /dev/sdb1.

---
Reality is for people who lack imagination.

On Tue, 30 Jul 2002 10:01:25 -0300 (ADT), Jim Diamond <jdiamond@...> said:

> I wanted to add 256MB memory to my I8K, and the only thing I can find
> locally (at a reasonable price) is Azen.  Has anyone used this brand in an
> I8K?  Any success?

I can't answer your question, but for what it's worth, I had a good
experience with <http://www.crucial.com/>.  They make it very easy to
find the right kind of memory for your model of computer, I'm under
the impression that their memory comes from reputable vendors, the
price seems right (it's certainly cheaper than Dell's prices...), and
the memory arrived quickly.

David Carlton             | <http://math.stanford.edu/~carlton/>
carlton@... | I8200: <http://math.stanford.edu/~carlton/i8200/>

> That's pretty mysterious.  For what it's worth, when first
installing
> operating systems on my I8200, I had issues where Windows XP and
Linux
> disagreed about exactly what the partition table should look like;
are
> you running another operating system on yours, or just Linux?

Running XP on first partition and Linux boot is second, followed by
root, swap then a shared FAT32 drive

It appears the fat32 drive was the problem, Linux was trying to find
a boot image on that drive i share between liunux and windows and
that is why i got the LIL- message inplying that there are no boot
images on the FAT32 part.


Thanks For your help

Steve
>
> What's in /etc/lilo.conf, /etc/fstab, and /proc/partitions on your
> machine?
>
> David Carlton             | <http://math.stanford.edu/~carlton/>
> carlton@m... | I8200: <http://math.stanford.edu/~carlton/i8200/>

So, i have an i4100 with the 16MB Radeon Mobility, I am also running
RH7.2 with kernel 2.4.9-34.  I installed XFree86 4.2 and it works
beautifully with this card, the problem is the 3D stuff.  I got
agpgart to load and i got glxinfo to show direct access enabled, but
it shows that TCL is disabled as well as when i try to run glxgears my
system just freezes, the mouse will still move but i cant get any
access at the system, i can ssh in and i can even kill the offending
processes but the machine stays frozen, only a hard boot will help.

Is there anyone out there who has any clues as to how to get this
working?!?!  I just wanna play Castle Wolfenstein!!!!

Thank you for any help in advance.

Hi,




I've just installed RedHat 7.3 on my Latitude C400 (dual boot with
Win2k).
  Since I'm fairly new to Linux, I am curious as to how I can mount
the CD-ROM after booting using a floppy disk? There can be only one
peripheral disk device (floppy or CD-ROM), and unmounting the floppy
is one thing, but mounting the CD afterwards seems right
out: /dev/hdc (in my case) is not valid just like that.

Am I missing something very simple, or do I need to start learning
kernel building skills?


Thanks,


Egon Larson

I've got an I8k2.  The first exhaust fan in the back (towards the
center of the machine) occationally makes an odd sound.  It's like
something is hitting the fan blades and causing the fan to spin down a
bit.  It's happened twice, both times when I left the laptop running
on AC for a while, while sitting on my bed.  The exhaust fans were not
obstructed.  Both times, it went away after I put the laptop into its
case and left it off for a while.  Dell tech was (unsurprisingly) not
helpful, suggesting I need a new motherboard, and offering to take it
for a week.   At least thats what I think he said, I had one supporter
that didn't speak english, and another that mumbled like his face was
glued to an index card...

Has anyone else had something like this?  Are these fans prone to
dying?  Should I listen to Dell, now that the fan seems to be working
again?

The modeline you mentioned is in fact inside my XF86Config file.
After X started, I searched /var/log/XFree86.0.log & came up with the
following references to "1280"

(--) ATI(0) virtual size is 1280x1024 (pitch 1280)
(**) ATI(0) Mode "1280x1024": 107.9 MHz, 59.1 KHz, 54.8 Hz
(II) ATI(): Modeline "1280x1024" 107.97 1280 1312 1432 1704 1024 1026
1029 1054 (null)

Also, for what it is worth, I set the VertRefresh to 50.0-100 as
directed by http://support.jp.dell.com/docs/systems/psyd/overview.htm
but this didn't seem to change anything as things still do not look
correct.

Furthermore I should clarify what I mean by things do not look
right.  In 1400x1050, I see a solid gray background after I login &
start X/mwm.  In 1280x1024, there are light & dark gray vertical
strips, maybe 10 pixels wide.  On top of that, occasionally
individual words within an xterm seem to be fuzzy.  That is maybe the
top pixel of a words will be duplicated one pixel higher or vice
versa for the lower pixel.

Can some e-mail me an XF86Config file where they are successfully
running Linux 7.2 using XFree 4.1 where the screen is 1280x1024?

Thanks in advance

Steve


--- In linux-dell-laptops@y..., david carlton <carlton@m...> wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Jul 2002 21:52:07 -0000, "nomad_man" <nomad_man@y...>
said:
>
> > Right now I am running Linux 7.2 & using XFree 4.1.0 & an ATI Rage
> > Mobility graphics card.  Currently, my screen has a resolution of
> > 1400x1050, but I would like to reduce it to 1280x1024.
>
> Hmm.  Mine will run at 1280x1024 if I ask it to (I think - it's at
> home, I'm at work!) without requiring anything special, which
suggests
> that XFree 4.2 contains a mode line that runs at 1280x1024 on
> 1400x1050 laptop screens.  (Either that, or the "nvidia" driver is
> less picky than your driver, but that seems a little less likely.)
> I'm not sure where it's getting that mode line from, but what
happens
> if you put these lines:
>
> # 1280x1024 @ 61 Hz, 64.2 kHz hsync
> Modeline "1280x1024"  110    1280 1328 1512 1712  1024 1025 1028
1054
>
> in the Monitor section of your XF86Config-4?
>
> If that doesn't work, what messages are you getting in
> /var/log/XFree86.0.log?  Search through that for 1280 (or even for
> 1280x1024) and see if some of the messages mention reasons why
various
> possible modelines would be being rejected.
>
> For what it's worth, I'm not sure I would ever expect things to look
> perfect at 1280x1024.  Laptop monitors, unlike CRT's, have physical
> pixels, so running at resolutions that don't divide your screen
> resolution is going to involve some amount of compromising.  (And
the
> fact that you're trying to run at a 5x4 ratio while the screen is a
> 4x3 ratio means that your pixels will be less square than normal, so
> images may seem stretched horizontally.)  But it sounds like you're
> reporting something worse than that, especially given that you're
> taking out the VertRefresh line.  (Though I have no idea how good
> I7500's are at running at a non-native resolution; I'm only
recently a
> denizen of the laptop world, so I don't know how new that technology
> is.)
>
> David Carlton             | <http://math.stanford.edu/~carlton/>
> carlton@m... | I8200: <http://math.stanford.edu/~carlton/i8200/>

--- In linux-dell-laptops@y..., "boella73" <boella73@c...> wrote:
> I've just installed RedHat 7.3 on my Latitude C400 (dual boot with
> Win2k).
>  Since I'm fairly new to Linux, I am curious as to how I can mount
> the CD-ROM after booting using a floppy disk? There can be only one
> peripheral disk device (floppy or CD-ROM), and unmounting the
floppy
> is one thing, but mounting the CD afterwards seems right
> out: /dev/hdc (in my case) is not valid just like that.

Hi Egon,

I believe that once you've booted off a floppy and your system has
started up, you can unmount your floppy drive
(e.g. "umount /mnt/floppy") and then mount your CD-ROM. If you plan
on mounting your CD drive a lot, you should put an entry in
your /etc/fstab file for it. E.g.:
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
Once you have that entry in your fstab file, mounting the CD drive is
easy (e.g. "mount /mnt/cdrom").

I'd recommend that you setup your dual-boot such that you don't need
a boot floppy. Here's a link to a HOWTO for Win2k:
http://geocities.com/epark/linux/grub-w2k-HOWTO.html

Cheers,
Ed

On Sun, 2002-07-21 at 18:11, scottseagroves wrote:
>
> The original poster noted these pauses in other, non-DVD
> video-intensive activities.  I don't have any experience with that,
> but I have enabled DMA on my DVD drive.  Yet the DVD playback is still
> a little bit more choppy than in WinXP (ugh).  So what's the secret?
> Is there an acceleration option somewhere for the NVIDIA drivers
> that's crucial to getting this to work well?  Any ideas other than DMA?
>
> Of course some of it is in the software --- with identical setups I
> found xine to be less choppy than ogle, which is a shame because I
> like ogle's navigation through the DVD chapters to be much better.
>
> So what's the secret to perfect DVD viewing?  This remains the one
> thing I have a WinXP partition for ... :)
>

I have an i8200 that had these same symptoms.  I enabled dma, shutdown
all kinds of daemons, tried a ton of different things and couldn't get
the choppiness out.  I was using mplayer that I home compiled and I
didn't have any dropped frames.  I installed xine from debian unstable,
and finally the video is not choppy anymore.  Before, I tried xine from
woody, but it was choppy.  Here are the relevant packages:

libxine0 0.9.12-2
xine-ui  0.9.12-1
xine-dvdnav 0.9.10-2
libdvdnav0 0.1.1-1
libdvdread2 0.9.3-1

The above packages do not provide dvd decryption.

All of the above are not hand compiled, but instead from debian unstable
and they appear to work well.  Take this with a small grain of salt
however because I have been unable to test the same dvd's that were
choppy before-- but the one's I have tested since installing xine have
not been choppy.

I have a 1.6Ghz, i8200 with nvidia geforce2 go 32mb using xfree86 4.1.0
and nvidia drivers without agp and with the apm patches.

Hope this helps.

Jamie

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Hi Brad,

Thanks for your suggestion. I tried the fdisk -l /dev/hda, but it only
finds my FAT32 partition on /dev/hda1. My Linux partitions have
disappeared, which is also why the rescue disk cannot find them.

Well, that was a bad day, and I probably shouldn't have switched on a
computer anyway...

Adele


Adele--- In linux-dell-laptops@y..., Brad Langhorst <bwlang@y...>
wrote:
> don't worry this does not sound like a serious problem
>
> use your rescue disk to get a root prompt prompt
> you don't need to go through the rescue stuff just
> get a prompt (ctrl+alt+f2 from the installer from some
> distributions)
>
> type fdisk -l /dev/hda
> this will tell you about all the partitions on your
> disk.
>
> if you're sure that the root partition is /dev/hda5
>
> type mount -t yourfilesystemtypehere /dev/hda5 /mnt
>
> you can try xfs, reiserfs, ext3, and ext2 if you don't
> know what your filesystem is
>
> you should now be able to list files in /mnt
> if not stop here and send me mail.
> mount any other partitions you have (ie
> mount -t yourfilesystem /dev/hda6 /mnt/usr if you have
> /usr on /dev/hda6)
>
> type "chroot /mnt"
>
> now you'll have access to all your old stuff including
> lilo or grub.
>
> type lilo -v
> or grub-install /dev/hda depending on what bootloader
> you use
>
> assuming no error messages a reboot should put you
> back in order.
>
> best wishes
>
> brad
>
> __________________________________________________
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Hi:
   I was running Win2k and Rhat 7.3 in my laptopeverything was working
fine. untill recently, i added a partition on my primary (win2k) which
i think blew the ext3 boot partition of Linux. Now whenever i try to
start linux, it says unable to fine ext3, panic error and it fails to
load.

I dunno how to fix this. should i need to reinstall linux? or any fix
usin loader.

Original config:

Partition 1: FAT Win2k
Partition 2: Linux
Partition 3: Linux
Partition 4: Linux

New config:

Partition 1: FAT  Win2k
Partition 2: NTFS Win2k
Partition 3: Linux
Partition 4: Linux
Partition 5: Linux

but linux loader is looking @ old partition,.

any /all help appreciated.

Venki

venki,
	 boot a rescue system off the redhat CD, and mount your root filesystem and
then go change the lilo.conf or grub menu.lst to fix the partition
renumbering.

(remember to rerun lilo if you've modified lilo.conf)

cheers,
-steve

On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 08:58:14PM -0000, venki_sesh wrote:
> Hi:
>   I was running Win2k and Rhat 7.3 in my laptopeverything was working
> fine. untill recently, i added a partition on my primary (win2k) which
> i think blew the ext3 boot partition of Linux. Now whenever i try to
> start linux, it says unable to fine ext3, panic error and it fails to
> load.
>
> I dunno how to fix this. should i need to reinstall linux? or any fix
> usin loader.
>
> Original config:
>
> Partition 1: FAT Win2k
> Partition 2: Linux
> Partition 3: Linux
> Partition 4: Linux
>
> New config:
>
> Partition 1: FAT  Win2k
> Partition 2: NTFS Win2k
> Partition 3: Linux
> Partition 4: Linux
> Partition 5: Linux
>
> but linux loader is looking @ old partition,.
>
> any /all help appreciated.
>
> Venki
>
>

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Hi,

i am getting 1024x768 resolution, but the contents in the windows are
not displayed properly. A few lines of pixels get repeated vertically,
and overwrites the contents below these lines. I am attaching the
xconfig file. Can anyone please let me know what is wrong with it. I
have installed RH7.3 dual booted with windows xp.

Thanks


# XFree86 4.2.0 configuration generated by Xconfigurator 4.10.7

Section "ServerLayout"
	 Identifier "XFree86 Configured"
	 Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
	 InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
	 InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

# Red Hat Linux 6.0 and later use the xfs font server for improved
# interactive performance

Section "Files"
	 FontPath "unix/:7100"
EndSection

# Module loading section

Section "Module"
	 Load  "dbe"  # Double-buffering
	 Load  "GLcore"  # OpenGL support
	 Load  "dri"  # Direct rendering infrastructure
	 Load  "glx"  # OpenGL X protocol interface
	 Load  "extmod"  # Misc. required extensions
	 Load  "v4l"  # Video4Linux
	 # Load  "record" # X event recorder
	 # You only need the following two modules if you do not use xfs.
	 # Load  "freetype"  # TrueType font handler
	 # Load  "type1"  # Adobe Type 1 font handler
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	 Identifier  "Keyboard0"
	 Driver      "keyboard"
	 Option      "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	 Identifier  "Mouse0"
	 Driver      "mouse"
	 Option      "Device" "/dev/mouse"
	 Option      "Protocol" "PS/2"
	 Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "on"
	 Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	 Identifier "Dell 1024X Laptop Display Panel"
	 VendorName "Unknown"
	 ModelName  "Unknown"
	 HorizSync 31.5-48.5
	 VertRefresh 59.0-75.0
	 Option "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	 Identifier "Intel Corp.|82830 CGC [Chipset Graphics "
	 Driver "i810"
	 BoardName "Unknown"
	 VideoRam 32768
EndSection

Section "Device"
	 Identifier "Linux Frame Buffer"
	 Driver "fbdev"
	 BoardName "Unknown"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	 Identifier "Screen0"
	 Device "Intel Corp.|82830 CGC [Chipset Graphics "
	 Monitor "Dell 1024X Laptop Display Panel"
	 DefaultDepth 8
	 Subsection "Display"
		 Depth 8
		 Modes "1024x768"
	 EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
	 Mode 0666
EndSection

I'm running RH 7.3 on a Latitude cpt and am having problems with
power management.  I've compiled APM into the kernel as per the
battery powered linux mini-HOWTO @ www.tldp.org, but when I'm logged
into X and I close the laptop to suspend (my bios is set to suspend
when I close the screen), and then I open it again, X doesn't come
back.  All I get is a black screen.  When I log in on a tty,
everything works, but not X.  Any insight?

Thanks!

I used the hint below on Xnest to get kde desktop on cygwin running
on windows xp.

$Xnest -geometry 1250x950 :2 & ; this causes a new window to open up
with a separate X server/client, but without a window manager.
(executing kdestart main cygwin console caused fvwm to be used. Some
icons were missing on kde panel and windows)

launched a xterm in the Xnest window

$xterm -display :2 &

in this xterm, connected to remote linux computer using ssh with X
option


After getting secure connection, I executed kdestart on the remote
computer. This caused kde associated window manager to be launched.
kde desktop is displayed properly on client computer.

Ali

--- In linux-dell-laptops@y..., Dan Christensen <jdc@u...> wrote:
> "geoffe02" <geoffe02@y...> writes:
>
> > But, I would really like to have like a whole remote desktop
where a
> > whole separate "X session" is running on his computer but where
I
> > see it on my computer.  How is this possible?
>
> Maybe xnest is what you want.
>
> Dan
>
> --
> Dan Christensen
> jdc+news@u...

I have i8200, and will be dual booting Windows XP and Mandrake 8.2.
Windows XP doesn't use a s2d partition, and apparently attempts to get
s2d working in Linux on an i8200 have so far been unsuccessful.
Therefore, the most compelling reason for NOT installing LILO or GRUB on
the MBR doesn't seem to apply. I think I will format my disk so that
/boot is hda1, and WinXP's NTFS partition is hda2, with everything else
going in an extended partition. What are the pros and cons of installing
LILO or GRUB in the MBR given that setup - are there still reasons for
preferring installing it on /boot and making hda1 the active partition?

What is the likely future of s2d on the i8200? I've heard it mentioned
on this list that kernel 2.6 will support s2d in the way WinXP does -
i.e. by writing to a file. So I'm thinking that I will probably never
need to reserve a partition for s2d - am I right in that assumption?

TIA, Darren

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All I can say si that I have XP and slackware on an
i8k2 with LILO in MBR and it works just fine. I don't
know about GRUB, but using LILO in MBR didn't bring up
any problems in my case.

cheers,
e.


--- "D. D. Brierton" <darren@...> wrote:
> I have i8200, and will be dual booting Windows XP
> and Mandrake 8.2.
> Windows XP doesn't use a s2d partition, and
> apparently attempts to get
> s2d working in Linux on an i8200 have so far been
> unsuccessful.
> Therefore, the most compelling reason for NOT
> installing LILO or GRUB on
> the MBR doesn't seem to apply. I think I will format
> my disk so that
> /boot is hda1, and WinXP's NTFS partition is hda2,
> with everything else
> going in an extended partition. What are the pros
> and cons of installing
> LILO or GRUB in the MBR given that setup - are there
> still reasons for
> preferring installing it on /boot and making hda1
> the active partition?
>
> What is the likely future of s2d on the i8200? I've
> heard it mentioned
> on this list that kernel 2.6 will support s2d in the
> way WinXP does -
> i.e. by writing to a file. So I'm thinking that I
> will probably never
> need to reserve a partition for s2d - am I right in
> that assumption?
>
> TIA, Darren
>
> --
>
======================================================================
> D. D. Brierton            darren@...
>   www.dzr-web.com
>         Trying is the first step before failure
> (Homer Simpson)
>
======================================================================
>


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teach him how to scratch, and he will dance for ever!
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On Wed, 2002-07-31 at 13:04, emil kirschner wrote:
> All I can say si that I have XP and slackware on an
> i8k2 with LILO in MBR and it works just fine. I don't
> know about GRUB, but using LILO in MBR didn't bring up
> any problems in my case.

Thanks Emil!

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         Trying is the first step before failure (Homer Simpson)
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I know this sounds bizarre, but after I suspend my I8200 (have done
all the nvidia hacks and kernel compiles etc), everything works for the
following problem.

- After resuming, I cannot resize any windows, highlight any text
etc, basically anything that involves holding down the left mouse button
and dragging fails.  WEIRD!  Any ideas anyone?

--- In linux-dell-laptops@y..., "D. D. Brierton" <darren@d...> wrote:
> What are the pros and cons of installing
> LILO or GRUB in the MBR given that setup - are there still reasons
> for
> preferring installing it on /boot and making hda1 the active
> partition?

Hi Darren,

I see 2 questions here:
1. which is better: LILO or GRUB? I've used both, and IMO GRUB is
better. GRUB supports LBA by default, and you don't have to reinstall
GRUB everytime you update the config file or recompile the kernel
like you do with LILO. The initial install process for either is
essentially the same if leave NTLDR in the MBR; i.e. you copy over
the first 512 bytes of the /boot partition to C: and edit C:\boot.ini

2. which lives in the MBR: a Linux boot loader (LILO or GRUB) or the
Windows boot loader (NTLDR)? I've seen posts to the effect that
antivirus software complains if the boot loader in the MBR is not a
Windows boot loader

HOWTO for GRUB and Win2K/NT/XP:
http://geocities.com/epark/linux/grub-w2k-HOWTO.html

Cheers,
Ed

On Wed, 2002-07-31 at 17:19, epark wrote:
> --- In linux-dell-laptops@y..., "D. D. Brierton" <darren@d...> wrote:
> > What are the pros and cons of installing
> > LILO or GRUB in the MBR given that setup - are there still reasons
> > for
> > preferring installing it on /boot and making hda1 the active
> > partition?
>
> I see 2 questions here:
> 1. which is better: LILO or GRUB? I've used both, and IMO GRUB is
> better. GRUB supports LBA by default, and you don't have to reinstall
> GRUB everytime you update the config file or recompile the kernel
> like you do with LILO. The initial install process for either is
> essentially the same if leave NTLDR in the MBR; i.e. you copy over
> the first 512 bytes of the /boot partition to C: and edit C:\boot.ini

Thanks for the help, Ed. I'm a bit confused, though.

Do I actually need to use the Win XP boot loader like this whether I use
GRUB or LILO? Emil replied earlier that he has dual boot working just
fine with LILO in the MBR. I thought that the Win XP boot loader was
only if you needed to use multiple version of Windows? If what you are
saying is that *if* I install either LILO or GRUB to /boot instead of
the MBR, *then* I also have to edit c:\boot.ini and copy the first 512
bytes of /boot partition to c:, then in that case it sounds like it
would be a lot easier to just stick LILO or GRUB in the MBR and be done
with it. (I'm presuming that having LILO or GRUB in the MBR means I
*don't* have to mess around with the Windows partition.) I'm new to
Windows NT/2000/XP so I think that what is confusing me is the role the
Windows boot loader has in all this.

> 2. which lives in the MBR: a Linux boot loader (LILO or GRUB) or the
> Windows boot loader (NTLDR)? I've seen posts to the effect that
> antivirus software complains if the boot loader in the MBR is not a
> Windows boot loader

I can live with complaints from Norton AntiVirus about what's in the
MBR. Presumably you can tell Norton that what's in the MBR is okay and
to stop bugging you about it.

> HOWTO for GRUB and Win2K/NT/XP:
> http://geocities.com/epark/linux/grub-w2k-HOWTO.html

Okay, that sounds useful. I'll go off and read it now. Thanks a lot for
the help.

Best, Darren

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I looked at the files area, and tried a couple with mixed results.
Looking for someone with a setup similiar to mine.

GF2GO
MiniPCI Wireless
Internal 3com NIC
built in Modem
Ext3 FS
810 Sound
USB Support
PCMCIA support
APM w/ hibernate support

I have recompiled several times, and have had nearly everything
running but always seem to miss a thing or two, and have gotten a bit
frustrated.

Been trying to get Freeswan up and running, and thats how I have
managed to mangle my kernel configs.

Any help is appreciated.

Hello,

I have just installed RH 7.3 and it was a gem to install, with one
exception - the modem.  I have the same combo as you and so far have
not found out how to get it running.

Paul Stern
paul@...

does anybody know how to enable trackpoint and disable touchpad on
Dell Latitude C610. I'd be very grateful if anyone can help.

I just installed RedHat 7.3 (very easy) and then got the hsflinmodem drivers
for the modem in my i4100. works great. I read in the achives for this list
that the i4100 I have has the same modem as other have reported in thier 8k
series

/sbin/lspci reports the modem as:
00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Modem (rev 01) (prog-if 00
[Generic])
         Subsystem: Conexant: Unknown device 5421
         Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
         I/O ports at d400 [size=256]
         I/O ports at dc00 [size=128]


I got the driver from:
http://www.mbsi.ca/cnxtlindrv/

	 Martin D. White

On Wednesday 31 July 2002 07:53 am, paul_h_stern wrote:
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Am Mittwoch, 31. Juli 2002 15:53 schrieb paul_h_stern:

Hi,


I'm not a fan of SuSE, but did install very properly on my
i82k. See Link below for any details.


		 Gruß

			 ce


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Installation von SuSE 8.0 auf einem Dell Inspiron 8200
http://home.t-online.de/home/mchristoph.eckert/inspiron8200/
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> - After resuming, I cannot resize any windows, highlight any text
> etc, basically anything that involves holding down the left mouse
button
> and dragging fails.  WEIRD!  Any ideas anyone?

I have this problem sometimes.  But not always.  Hard to reproduce.

Even stranger, it sometimes goes away after a few minutes on its own,
then the mouse works fine.  But not always.  And never for any obvious
reason.  Hard to reproduce.

One thing that seems to have worked the last couple times this
happened to me: switch to one of the consoles (say, Ctrl-Alt-F1) and
then back to X (Ctrl-Alt-F7) and see if that helps.

Scott

--- In linux-dell-laptops@y..., "scottseagroves" <scottseagroves@n...>
wrote:
>
> > - After resuming, I cannot resize any windows, highlight any text
> > etc, basically anything that involves holding down the left mouse
> button
> > and dragging fails.  WEIRD!  Any ideas anyone?
>
> I have this problem sometimes.  But not always.  Hard to reproduce.
>
> Even stranger, it sometimes goes away after a few minutes on its own,
> then the mouse works fine.  But not always.  And never for any obvious
> reason.  Hard to reproduce.
>
> One thing that seems to have worked the last couple times this
> happened to me: switch to one of the consoles (say, Ctrl-Alt-F1) and
> then back to X (Ctrl-Alt-F7) and see if that helps.
>
> Scott

Hi Scott,

Thanks for the suggestion, but it didn't help :(

The only thing I have found that works is shutting down and restarting X,
and this makes suspending pointless, as it takes just as long as starting
the machine from scratch.

--- In linux-dell-laptops@y..., "D. D. Brierton" <darren@d...> wrote:
> Do I actually need to use the Win XP boot loader like this whether
> I use GRUB or LILO? Emil replied earlier that he has dual boot
> working just fine with LILO in the MBR. I thought that the Win XP
> boot loader was only if you needed to use multiple version of
> Windows?
WinXP (and Win2K) are both built on the WinNT code base. WinNT uses a
boot loader called NTLDR. NTLDR is automatically installed on the MBR
during a WinNT/2K/XP installation. NTLDR supports booting multiple
Windows OSs based on the entries in the C:\boot.ini file.

Emil is correct, GRUB or LILO in the MBR works (i.e. you're replacing
NTLDR with GRUB or LILO). However, people have reported that
antivirus software may complain if the boot loader doesn't contain
the NTLDR. From the av software perspective, it looks like the MBR
got corrupted.

> If what you are saying is that *if* I install either LILO or GRUB ?
> to /boot instead of the MBR, *then* I also have to edit c:\boot.ini
> and copy the first 512 bytes of /boot partition to c:, then in that
> case it sounds like it would be a lot easier to just stick LILO
> or GRUB in the MBR and be done with it.
That is correct. If you're using GRUB, you only have to do that
C:\boot.ini edit and 512 byte copy once. It's not so bad.

LILO? GRUB? To put on the MBR or not on the MBR? All these options
are viable : )

Cheers,
Ed

Hey!

I'm trying to get a Thrustmaster Firestorm Dual Power gamepad(the
name long enough for you?) to work on my linux box and then my
lintop. I know that it(except for the rumble motors) works under the
standards for Human Interface Devices(HID), and while i'm not a
newbie
(messed with a lot of stuff and very comfortable with CLI) I've
never messed with any HIDs, so any help will be.... well helpfull;)

Thanks,
-Matt