Q: HELP, it says when I boot Local APIC disabled, but I have the acpi patch installed.
A: It's ok, you are being dislexyical, the thinkpad doesnt support APIC, and APCI while having the same letters are totally different. Type acpi at a prompt to see if it is working.
Q: HELP, I cant seem to get both ACPI and Alan Cox in the same kernel (2.4.22), what should I do?
A: Well after staying up for 2 solid days trying that myself I determined that Alan Cox is an amazing programer and so are the ACPI guys, personally I have to trust the ACPI guys for patching up that part of the kernel better then Alan (but it makes me feel dirty).... unless of course you are using 2.4.22-ac4 in which case alan ported over the acpi code.
Q: HELP, I cant get the prempt patch in with ACPI on 2.4.22.
A: Well after staying up for 2 solid (different) days trying that too, I gave up. As much as I like C, this stuff is too hardcore
Q: You mention the ACPI patch... where is it?
A: The authors of the ACPI patch can be located at http://acpi.sourceforge.net/
Q: Wow, you sure do have a lot of kernel patches mentioned here, any others you want to recomend?
A: Yes, I do actually check out http://www.sonarnerd.net/projects/linux/ http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/laptopkernel/ http://swsusp.sourceforge.net/. I also STRONGLY recomend the gentoo sources patch, but the link for that is harder so you will just have to figure out where it is on your own (hint scroll down). They have managed to get preempt patches, ac patches, and acpi all into the same kernel with some extra fun stuff. That is the patchset I use. Do what you feel.
Q: Dude you know that sudo can compromise your system right?
A: Yes, but lets face it, a laptop moves around and is on and off a lot. It is doubtful that anyone will hack your system remotely if you arn't running any remote services on it (ssh, nfs, samba, ftp, http, etc) which I recomend for any mobile workstation. I recomend this because, if my laptop is on why should I ssh into it - I would be using its keyboard to do that. If I want to share filesystem space, I use a computer with a larger harddrive (I have got one with an 80 gig sitting here) and set it up as the nfs server. If I want to setup a samba share see previous sentence. I think you can see where this is going.... The way I view my laptop is that it is a mobile computer and I have a stationary computer with a static (illegal on the school network) IP for doing those things. So getting back to the topic at hand, yes sudo can get your box hacked, but first someone has to be on it and no one is on my laptop but the person touching the keyboard. If there is an authorized user at the keyboard do you really think the laptop hasn't been stolen yet? In conclusion I believe a laptop is supposed to be FUNCTIONAL and if that means sacrificing some security so be it. My policy is - if it can get stolen a good password system wont stop it from walking off so why make it harder for me to use.
Q: Debian doesn't seem to have support for the 2.6 kernel yet (two months after its release) in a lot of its stuff, any way to fix that cause I gots to have its 1337 features?
A: Ok, you almost had me up until the end... check this guys page out http://linuxdevices.com/articles/AT5793467888.html it is very good and has lots of advice. You will need to be pulling from unstable to get most of the updated tools you need (some are from testing) and a command that will help with the init section is grep ksyms /etc/init.d/*
Q: Man, you got a sources.list, preferences, or apt.conf you want to share?
A: Sure, but first promise me you will man sources.list, man preferences, and man apt.conf. Then go here all my configs are posted here
Q: What can you tell me about reconfiguring a package I already put on the system?
A: dpkg-reconfigure is the command you are looking for it will re-run the menuing interface. If you fiddle around with stuff beyond that you can change the recorded md5sum for your file so that Debian doesn't realize you have messed with it. To do this, go into /var/lib/dpkg/info/ and do a ls |grep md5sum and look for the correct package name. Then replace the existing md5sum with yours.
Q: I am using one of your kernels and it wont detect eth1 exists when I have got a pcmcia network card in the slot. I know the card works and that the module is there for it.
A: You should probably check /etc/network/interfaces and see if there is an entry for it there. If there isn't mine looks an a lot like this iface eth1 inet dhcp
Q: You know pump sucks right?
A: Such an amazing question which is filled with suppport and carful reasoning will be ignored because it is obviously far beyond my ability to understand and appreciate.
You got a question, cause I can fail at trying to answer it. jcpunk@uhacc.org