Sluggers,
Remember that "incomplete" laptop from the Mona Vale install fest?
A Toshiba Satellite Pro 410 CDT. Well we've managed to subdue
it with Debian. However, it still has two outstanding issues:
1. The LCD screen will only flick into 800x600 mode once, the
first time you start X. If you log out then the screen goes to this
weird mixture of white and a sort of sepia colour that slowly fades
across to the middle of the screen. This also happens after you've
dropped to a tty using ctrl-alt-f1. When you try to go back to the
X display you get the antique sepia look and feel (which is kinda
appropriate for such an old machine but not very functional).
If you drop to the tty and kill X, then restart it, you get the
screen back again.
2. Vwdial refuses to dial the modem saying that there is no dialtone
when you can hear it loud as a bell coming out the speakers. The
card in question is a xircom pcmcia network and 28.8 modem. The
network part of the card is working fine and I think the modem is
too, but just can't get it to dial.
Many TIA's
Pete
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