Help: Battstat

2004-02-29 Thread Ben Hill
Apologies if it's a lame question: I am trying to get battstat showing the correct current battery charge, but it's not picking up any info. I have built ACPI and APM into my 2.6.3 kernel and I'm running Deb 3.0 testing/unstable. This is on a Toshiba Tecra M1 laptop. Cheers, Ben -- To

NVidia Riva TNT PCI with XFree86

2002-12-09 Thread Ben Hill
Hi, I am having some hassle setting up my NVidia Riva TNT PCI graphics card with XFree86 on Debian 3.0 rev0. I have set up the device manually in the XF86Config-4 as a nv type, but when I try to start X, it just tries to display, then retrys endlessly. Do I need to add NVidia drivers? I

Problems Starting X - Debian 3.0 rev0 Gnome 2.0

2002-11-12 Thread Ben Hill
Hi, I have set up Debian 3.0 rev0 and apt'd Gnome 2 onto it. It has set everything up, but when gdm tries to run it complains. I have tried a manual startx, but then I get an error message: snip xinit: snip no server X in path snip and instructs me to make sure /usr/X11R6/bin is on the path.

Problems Starting X - no server X in path /usr/X11R6/bin

2002-11-12 Thread Ben Hill
Hi, I have set up Debian 3.0 rev0 and apt'd Gnome 2 onto it. It has set everything up, but when gdm tries to run it complains. I have tried a manual startx, but then I get an error message: snip xinit: snip no server X in path snip and instructs me to make sure /usr/X11R6/bin is on the path.

J2SE On Debian

2001-12-18 Thread Ben Hill
Hi, I have set up the Java 2 Standard Edition SDK in the /usr directory, and set up the environment variables. If I execute the java command though I get the message: Error: failed /usr/j2sdk1.4.0/jre/lib/i386/client/libjvm.so, because libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2: cannot open shared object file:

Alcatel SpeedTouch USB Modem Setup...

2001-12-03 Thread Ben Hill
Hi, As a few of you will know ;), I have been trying to set up my Alcatel SpeedTouch USB modem for about 2 weeks now and I must be getting close! :) I have the usb hotplugging working, the speedmgmt stuff working etc. The problem is that I still can't connect to the internet. The process is that

Re: Alcatel SpeedTouch USB Modem Setup...

2001-12-03 Thread Ben Hill
perhaps it's not the modem. do you have the proper network configuration for your internet connection? I think so, although all I have done is to edit: /etc/ppp/options /etc/ppp/chap-secrets /etc/ppp/pap-secrets /etc/resolv.conf Adding the nameservers to resolv.conf Cheers, Ben --- b

Alcatel SpeedTouch USB Modem - Success!!

2001-12-03 Thread Ben Hill
Hi, I looked in the /var/log/syslog (Thanks to Nick Sanders) and noticed the message: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests So I guessed that the pppoatm module was not loaded (after reading http://www.linux-usb.org/SpeedTouch/howto.html) When I did a modprobe pppoatm, it all fired into life, I

Re: PPP in Kernel Module

2001-12-02 Thread Ben Hill
Hi, snip I just checked the Help screen within make menuconfig, and it said that the ppp module was ppp_generic.o; that might be relevant. I also understand that the error message you're getting isn't necessarily correct; sometimes you get that message for other reasons. What happens if

Please Help: PPP in Debian

2001-12-02 Thread Ben Hill
Hi, Can noone help me solve a=the problem with PPP in my new Debian 2.2 with Kernel 2.4.14 build? It seems that as soon as I have built the kernel and installed 2.4.0-3 PPP it has broken. Please can someone help, this _must_ be a straight-forward problem! I have been trying to get this working

PPP in Kernel Module

2001-12-01 Thread Ben Hill
Hi, I am building a 2.4.14 kernel to use PPP (pppd) and have selected the PPP options as modules. This is due to me installing the drivers and software for my Alcatel USB modem. I seem to have got the USB hotplugging and syncing of the modem working ok. I am now having problems with pppd as I

Re: pppd Doing Nothing!

2001-11-28 Thread Ben Hill
Hi, - Original Message - From: Oki DZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ben Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 5:16 AM Subject: Re: pppd Doing Nothing! On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Ben Hill wrote: I have managed to get ppp compiled and installed

pppd Doing Nothing!

2001-11-27 Thread Ben Hill
Hi, I have managed to get ppp compiled and installed with the kernel modules, however, when I run pppd nothing happens! I have got it installed (so I think) and there is nothing being written to /var/log/messages. Firstly I build and compiled the kernel with ppp support and booted it. I then

Re: Installing PPP 2.4.0

2001-11-26 Thread Ben Hill
Thanks! I am a relative newbie and learning lots! Thanks for taking the time to reply! Cheers, Ben At Monday, 26 November 2001, Russell Coker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 26 Nov 2001 00:45, Ben Hill wrote: but, when compiling the pppoatm.c file, it has complained about not finding

Installing PPP 2.4.0

2001-11-25 Thread Ben Hill
Hi, Sorry for the cross posting, but I am really stuck! I am currently setting up my Debian machine to connect to my ADSL modem for internet access. I have had everything working before, but I am having problems this time with the PPP daemon! I am trying to install the ppp-2.4.0 tarball, but

Help! Package Hell! :)

2001-11-19 Thread Ben Hill
Hi, I am trying to find my way through Debian at the moment, but am having a bit of a nightmare with an installation of Ximian Gnome. I am trying to install the packages required for the dependancies found by the installer but I have hit a blank. I am trying to install libdb3 but I cant remove