Re: ALT+F1-7: Switching consoles doesn't work

2004-06-03 Thread Christian Schuerer
Hello Jens, On Thursday 03 June 2004 01:28, Jens Nachtigall wrote: my setup: debian sid, Fujitsu Siemens Amilo M 7400 (centrino), kde my problem: I can switch *once* from X to another console using CTRL+ALT+F1-6. However, I can then neither switch back to X (ALT+F7) nor can I switch to any

[OT] RS232 to USB adapter

2004-06-08 Thread Christian Schuerer
Hello, unfortunately my laptop doesn't have any standard serial port (RS232), but I would need one for my studies. I googled if there are any linux-supported Serial-to-USB adapters, but didn't find anything. Does anyone know about a Serial-to-USB adapters which is known to work with linux? Is

Solved: Re: [OT] RS232 to USB adapter

2004-06-09 Thread Christian Schuerer
On Tuesday 08 June 2004 21:20, Christian Schuerer wrote: unfortunately my laptop doesn't have any standard serial port (RS232), but I would need one for my studies. I googled if there are any linux-supported Serial-to-USB adapters, but didn't find anything. Does anyone know about a Serial

Re: ALT+F1-7: Switching consoles doesn't work

2004-06-03 Thread Christian Schuerer
Hello Jens, On Thursday 03 June 2004 01:28, Jens Nachtigall wrote: my setup: debian sid, Fujitsu Siemens Amilo M 7400 (centrino), kde my problem: I can switch *once* from X to another console using CTRL+ALT+F1-6. However, I can then neither switch back to X (ALT+F7) nor can I switch to any

[OT] RS232 to USB adapter

2004-06-08 Thread Christian Schuerer
Hello, unfortunately my laptop doesn't have any standard serial port (RS232), but I would need one for my studies. I googled if there are any linux-supported Serial-to-USB adapters, but didn't find anything. Does anyone know about a Serial-to-USB adapters which is known to work with linux? Is

Solved: Re: [OT] RS232 to USB adapter

2004-06-09 Thread Christian Schuerer
On Tuesday 08 June 2004 21:20, Christian Schuerer wrote: unfortunately my laptop doesn't have any standard serial port (RS232), but I would need one for my studies. I googled if there are any linux-supported Serial-to-USB adapters, but didn't find anything. Does anyone know about a Serial

Re: double OS?

2005-09-26 Thread Christian Schuerer
On Monday 26 September 2005 16:57, Brandon Richards wrote: Just to let you know you have to install Windows first and then Linux. I am not exactly why this is but I am sure if you do a google search on The reason is simple: Microsoft just doesn't bother whether there are other OS installed.

Re: double OS?

2005-09-26 Thread Christian Schuerer
On Monday 26 September 2005 17:18, Christian Schuerer wrote: For the exact procedure please google a bit. Normally you just have to boot with a LiveCD, mount your boot-partition (where /boot is located) and invoke grub to reinstall itself. http://www.sorgonet.com/linux/grubrestore/ cu

Re: DSL connection

2005-10-09 Thread Christian Schuerer
Hello Martina, On Sunday 09 October 2005 21:44, martina ackermann wrote: At home I now have a DSL-connection. When I typ pump into the root-commandline it answers: e100 : eth0 NIC Link is up 100 Mps Full Duplex When I open the browser in x-windows and search for the google pages it will tell

Re: bootlogd

2005-11-23 Thread Christian Schuerer
Hello Colin, On Tuesday 22 November 2005 13:32, Colin Cotter wrote: I've noticed a number of strange things in my boot messages and I would like to take a closer look. The first stage in this is to get bootlogd working. I set Yes in my /etc/default/bootlogd and when I boot I get

Re: Xorg 7.0 and ATI working!

2006-06-21 Thread Christian Schuerer
Hi, On Wednesday 21 June 2006 00:19, Bill Wohler wrote: 4. dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg STILL doesn't give you a configuration file. I determined some workarounds: sudo sh -c readlink /etc/X11/X | md5sum /var/lib/x11/X.md5sum sudo rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf sudo vi

Proper way to configure input devices

2006-07-31 Thread Christian Schuerer
Hello, since I've purchased a new keyboard + mouse (wireless, from BenQ) I ask myself which is the right way to set up input devices for X.org 7 and KDE (3.5.4, Debian sid). I'm using a laptop computer with a synaptics touchpad. Sometimes I've just the built-in keyboard and touchpad, and

Problems with Intel Dual Core processor

2006-09-18 Thread Christian Schuerer
Hello, I've Debian testing/sid installed on a Sony notebook (VGN-SZ1M/B), which has a Intel T2300 dual core processor in it. I'm using the latest 2.6.17-kernel. Unfortunately, only one processor core is recognised. I had Kubuntu 6.06/Dapper installed before (2.6.15-kernel), which recognised

Re: Problems with Intel Dual Core processor

2006-09-18 Thread Christian Schuerer
Hello, On Monday 18 September 2006 16:08, Glenn English wrote: Christian Schuerer wrote: Do I need to load any special modules? Shouldn't the kernel be SMP-capable? How can I get the 2nd core to work? Are you using the smp kernel? (Sorry if this is obvious, but I've been

Re: Problems with Intel Dual Core processor

2006-09-18 Thread Christian Schuerer
Hello, On Monday 18 September 2006 17:10, David Navas wrote: Please, Sometimes you need to deactivate the APM to let the kernel recognize the dual core. You can do it in the BIOS, and check if the dual core is recognized after that. ACPI can works but not APM Okay, thank you very much for

Strange behaviour of keyboard and xorg

2006-10-02 Thread Christian Schuerer
Hello, I have a new Dell Latitude D620 notebook (Intel Core 2 Duo, nVidia Quadro) and installed Debian on it. With the normal x.org-driver for nvidia (nv), I can't get the resolution of 1440x900 working. So I installed the drivers from nvidia. Compiling it was no problem at all, but I