Nice explination Mike! Another note, APM is the old way of doing power managment. ACPI is the new way and has alot more capabilities. This isn't just FYI since...
Andy, ... That fixed it. Many thanks. Des Des Dougan Director, Information and Computing Services Vancouver Community College 604-871-7525 ddougan@......
... It is a Philips SDVD6004 DVD+RW drive. I have been able to burn data DVDs (great for backing up the laptop!), but so far haven't had much luck burning...
Markus Gutschke
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... The problem with the Samsung SN-324B CDRW/DVD drive is that you can not turn it into an RPC-1 drive. Cheers Mike...
... I believe, my CDRW/DVD is the Matsushita model, and I never even bothered to set a region (wouldn't even know how to do that under Linux). AFAIK, none of...
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Aug 1, 2003 8:26 pm
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... Hmmmm... You might be right. I was under the impression that changing the Region code is actually a drive internal function. I'll have to give it a try. ...
... Changing the region is drive internal, but it needs to be initiated by external software. If you don't set the region, then the drive will return encrypted...
Markus Gutschke
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Aug 1, 2003 8:42 pm
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Firstly, I would like to acknowledge and thank everyone who has responded to my questions over the last couple of weeks. I have a couple of comments on my ACPI...
The i8k module refuses to load on mine, saying that my laptop doesn't seem to be an i8k. I have the A003 bios, if that makes any difference. Anybody else seen...
... The check in the module is to strict. I think, you can override it by passing the "force=1" option (or something very similar). Markus...
Markus Gutschke
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Aug 1, 2003 11:06 pm
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... the i8k module doesn't yet know about the D800, but it works fine: just load the module with force=1. -- ../salvador...
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I've sent the information to the i8k maintainer but haven't heard anything. Hopefully it'll get updated one of these days. Maybe we should just make a quick...
... Try this patch. It seems that the code for obtaining the Dell signature is different than what i8k.c says. The FanGUI source code makes it sound as if...
Markus Gutschke
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I see the same behaviour with i8kmon .. i8krellm seems much more sensible in it's fan control behaviour. By the way, here's a little patch to the latest...
... Unfortunately it is not quite as simple: Trying to play a RC1 DVD "A View To A Kill" Special Edition. . . . libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_09_1.VOB...
... i8kmon's behaviour can be set via a config file (~/.i8kmon), particularly temperature thresholds, see 'man i8kmon'. If i8kmon is not running the BIOS takes...
The MPlayer-0.90 documentation suggests that it falls back to a crypto crack for a wrong-region disk with an RPC-2 drive They use this same method if the dvd...
... If I get myself a newer DVD/RW drive for my D800 I want do be sure, that I can flash it to be RPC-1 For the Philips SDVD6004 mentioned here by Markus, I...
Sorry for the late reply... I was out of town over the weekend. 3) The acpcid stuff is X specific, not gnome. It relys on a working apci system and that xset...
Andrew, Hey - no problem. Yesterday was a public holiday here, and I was tied up so didn't get your message till this morning. The scripts all have 644...
Christian, Thanks. I've just set up the file in my directory and will give it a try. Des Des Dougan Director, Information and Computing Services Vancouver...
Ah! I thought Perl's interpreter didn't need them marked executable. I'll try them the right way.... Des Des Dougan Director, Information and Computing...
The acpid deamon just tries to execute them (probably via a system() call). If the system doens't think they are executable, it won't read the magic cookie (#!...
Andrew (or anyone!) .. What's the magic to make a particular "Device" associate with one of the external connectors on the D/Port? I saw you had "Option...
Hmm.... I tried it with the dport, but I can't remember off hand. Most of my work with it was stand alone using the analog video connector. I might remember...
Hi, Just got a D800 and read Mike's page (thanks, although it could use an update :) I needed to get the bcm ethernet working, but I did not feel I wanted the...
I had some problems with sound and wanted to install the ALSO drivers, as per Mike's suggestion. As stated in an earlier post, I did not want/have custom...
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