Re: single click?

2010-09-11 Thread Doug
On 9/11/2010 10:49 PM, Frank wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 11 Sep 2010 18:08:44 -0600 Morgan Gangwere<0.fracta...@gmail.com> wrote: On 9/11/2010 3:57 PM, Doug wrote: [stuff about single clicking] That's up to your file manager. I know that in Thunar (my fm of c

Re: SSH: remote login returns "invalid user"

2010-09-11 Thread Morgan Gangwere
on Sun, 12 Sep 2010 00:08:07 -0400, brownh <87hbhva9js@teufel.historicalmaterialism.info> attacked their terminal with +Morgan Gangwere <0.fracta...@gmail.com> writes: + +> on Sat, 11 Sep 2010 15:38:04 -0400, brownh +> <871v90ax5v@teufel.historicalmaterialism.info> attacked their +> termina

Re: SSH: remote login returns "invalid user"

2010-09-11 Thread brownh
Morgan Gangwere <0.fracta...@gmail.com> writes: > on Sat, 11 Sep 2010 15:38:04 -0400, brownh > <871v90ax5v@teufel.historicalmaterialism.info> attacked their > terminal with [snip] > > Random Blithering Curiosity... Is the gateway a NAPT? NAT loopback is not enabled on my router. Not sure this

Re: Occasional random cursor movement while typing

2010-09-11 Thread Elmer E. Dow
Doug wrote: On 9/10/2010 10:57 PM, Doug wrote: /snip/ In PcLOs, there's a setup where you can disable the touchpad when a mouse is plugged in to the USB port. It's based around a synaptiks package. I did not see the same thing in Debian Squeeze, altho there is a setup that (supposedly) disables

Re: SSH: remote login returns "invalid user"

2010-09-11 Thread brownh
David Jardine writes: > I'm afraid I've forgotten - or didn't read - earlier details. Have > you got a public IP address? My router does. It seems it has a dynamic address assigned to it by my ISP. I guess this is what you mean by a public IP address. > Can you ping the domain name from outsid

Re: single click?

2010-09-11 Thread Frank
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 11 Sep 2010 18:08:44 -0600 Morgan Gangwere <0.fracta...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 9/11/2010 3:57 PM, Doug wrote: > [stuff about single clicking] > > That's up to your file manager. I know that in Thunar (my fm of choice) > you can set that in th

Re: SSH: remote login returns "invalid user"

2010-09-11 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 9/11/2010 9:49 PM, brownh wrote: David Jardine writes: Connection closed by 216.239.138.216 Haines, I have the feeling you've got this all wrong. Your site is being hosted and any connection to it goes to the webhoster's site. All your local hosts are unconnected to this site. You are

Re: SSH: remote login returns "invalid user"

2010-09-11 Thread brownh
David Jardine writes: >> > Connection closed by 216.239.138.216 > > Haines, I have the feeling you've got this all wrong. Your site is > being hosted and any connection to it goes to the webhoster's site. > All your local hosts are unconnected to this site. You are trying > to log into your

Re: Calibrating cartridges in CUPS: how?

2010-09-11 Thread John Hasler
Scott Ferguson writes: > Can't seem to install foomatic-db-gutenprint without dragging hpijs > and hplip with it. Solutions welcomed. It is not clear what the problem is. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: finding the right .iso for USB install of Squeeze

2010-09-11 Thread Morgan Gangwere
On 9/11/2010 8:44 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote: [stuff] Take a look at GRUB4DOS, which has a way to boot ISOs. Or, use USBCreator. I think your /best/ bet though is going to be using GRUB4DOS. -- Morgan Gangwere >> Why? > Because it breaks the logical flow of conversation, plus makes messages unre

Re: single click?

2010-09-11 Thread Morgan Gangwere
On 9/11/2010 3:57 PM, Doug wrote: [stuff about single clicking] That's up to your file manager. I know that in Thunar (my fm of choice) you can set that in the settings panel (one of the last tabs), but I dont know for everything else. -- Morgan Gangwere >> Why? > Because it breaks the logical f

Re: Calibrating cartridges in CUPS: how?

2010-09-11 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 12/09/10 06:18, Lisi wrote: > On Saturday 11 September 2010 11:07:27 Scott Ferguson wrote: >> I have two HP programs that default install under KDE 3.x which I'd love >> to remove as I don't use them... >> "hpijs" and "hplip" > So why don't you uninstall them? They install via aptitude, so wil

xvidtune and nouveau video driver

2010-09-11 Thread Arthur Barlow
Oops. Wrong list originally -- Forwarded message -- From: Arthur Barlow Date: Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 2:05 PM Subject: xvidtune and nouveau video driver To: freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Ever since Debian went to the "nouveau" video driver for Nvidia, I have not been able to adjus

Re: get rid of CTS protection mode enabled disabled messages

2010-09-11 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 20:15:48 -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > >> My dmesg is full of the following messages >> >> [155328.289189] wlan0: CTS protection enabled (BSSID=00:23:97:5c:5f:e0) >> [155337.336369] wlan0: CTS protection disabled (BSSID=00:23:97:5c:5f:e0) > > (...)

Re: SSH: remote login returns "invalid user"

2010-09-11 Thread David Jardine
> > Connection closed by 216.239.138.216 Haines, I have the feeling you've got this all wrong. Your site is being hosted and any connection to it goes to the webhoster's site. All your local hosts are unconnected to this site. You are trying to log into your site on the webhoster's server.

single click?

2010-09-11 Thread Doug
Hello, again. Thanx for the su assistance. I haven't used the command line much in recent years, and I'm pretty rusty. (Turns out that in the icon command, gksu works.) Is there any way to get rid of the need to doubl-click the mouse, ala Windows? Even Win lets you change to single click.

Re: SSH: remote login returns "invalid user"

2010-09-11 Thread Claudius Hubig
brownh wrote: >At present, I have three or four hosts on a LAN, and I can ssh from >each one to the others. The problem arises because of what I want to >do in the immediate future. One of the hosts on the LAN is a laptop, >and I'll be taking it into the field and would like to ssh from it via >In

[SOLVED] where did my ata drives go?

2010-09-11 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 11 Sep 2010 15:14:23 -0400 (EDT), Rick Pasotto wrote: > > Looks like I needed to run 'wipefs' *three* times to get rid of the signature. > Both partitions now mount with either LABEL or UUID. > Thanks for all your help. Yes, nice work, Florian! That was a weird problem. I've never seen

Updating files in /etc Remotely (and automated)

2010-09-11 Thread Hal Vaughan
I will be working with a server on the Internet that uses rsync and is running Debian. I will be setting up initial /etc/rsyncd.conf and /etc/rsyncd.secrets files on it. But along the way, whenever a new user is added, they'll need to be updated. I can use ssh on this system, but, of course,

Re: xine/xfmedia unable to play dvds

2010-09-11 Thread Adam Hardy
Camaleón on 11/09/10 11:18, wrote: On Sat, 11 Sep 2010 10:47:05 +0100, Adam Hardy wrote: I should think it's not actually xine itself causing the problem, but rather something deeper in the media set-up. Try to play protected DVD with another player that has its own implementation of libdvdcs

Re: su?

2010-09-11 Thread Chris Jackson
Doug wrote: Tried to run a program from command line needing admin capability. Input su /usr/sbin/synaptic Get message Unknown id: /usr/sbin/synaptic Logged in as root, put in password, ran /usr/sbin/synaptic and the file ran fine. Is there no su in Debian? If not what replaces it? /bin/

Re: su?

2010-09-11 Thread David Jardine
On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 04:36:48PM -0400, Doug wrote: > Tried to run a program from command line needing admin > capability. > > Input su /usr/sbin/synaptic > > Get message Unknown id: /usr/sbin/synaptic > > Logged in as root, put in password, ran > /usr/sbin/synaptic > > and the file ran fine.

Re: su?

2010-09-11 Thread Mihira Fernando
On 09/12/2010 02:06 AM, Doug wrote: Tried to run a program from command line needing admin capability. Input su /usr/sbin/synaptic Get message Unknown id: /usr/sbin/synaptic Logged in as root, put in password, ran /usr/sbin/synaptic and the file ran fine. Is there no su in Debian? If not w

Re: su?

2010-09-11 Thread Hilco Wijbenga
On 11 September 2010 13:36, Doug wrote: > Is there no su in Debian?  If not what replaces it? Yes there is. There's also 'man'. :-) Try 'man su' and you'll see you need -c if you want to run a command. Maybe you are confused with 'sudo'? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.deb

Re: SSH: remote login returns "invalid user"

2010-09-11 Thread brownh
Wow, I certainly managed to be obscure! I tried to help David out a bit, and here respond to your uncertainty. Claudius Hubig writes: > I’m sorry I have to ask again. You are trying to connect to a host > "historicalmaterialism.info" and login as user "haines"? Why and how > do you differentiate

su?

2010-09-11 Thread Doug
Tried to run a program from command line needing admin capability. Input su /usr/sbin/synaptic Get message Unknown id: /usr/sbin/synaptic Logged in as root, put in password, ran /usr/sbin/synaptic and the file ran fine. Is there no su in Debian? If not what replaces it? Now I need some kind

Re: SSH: remote login returns "invalid user"

2010-09-11 Thread Morgan Gangwere
on Sat, 11 Sep 2010 15:38:04 -0400, brownh <871v90ax5v@teufel.historicalmaterialism.info> attacked their terminal with [snip] Random Blithering Curiosity... Is the gateway a NAPT? I had this problem for a while where I would be fine on the inside, then as soon as I went to the outside, I'd ge

Re: xine/xfmedia unable to play dvds

2010-09-11 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 11 Sep 2010 21:19:51 +0100, Adam Hardy wrote: > Camaleón on 11/09/10 11:18, wrote: >> On Sat, 11 Sep 2010 10:47:05 +0100, Adam Hardy wrote: >>> Camaleón on 11/09/10 10:17, wrote: >> Have you tested it with another DVD media and (just in case) using another multimedia player? >>>

Re: SSH: remote login returns "invalid user"

2010-09-11 Thread David Jardine
On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 03:38:04PM -0400, brownh wrote: > Sorry that I didn't make myself clear. I've got two situations: a) my > present sitution in which I communicate between hosts on my local LAN, > b) a future situation (to which I'd like to arrive in a day or so) of > taking a laptop into the

Re: xine/xfmedia unable to play dvds

2010-09-11 Thread Adam Hardy
Camaleón on 11/09/10 11:18, wrote: On Sat, 11 Sep 2010 10:47:05 +0100, Adam Hardy wrote: Camaleón on 11/09/10 10:17, wrote: Have you tested it with another DVD media and (just in case) using another multimedia player? Yes. I have a DVD that is unprotected and that plays fine. Well, I was t

Re: Calibrating cartridges in CUPS: how?

2010-09-11 Thread Lisi
On Saturday 11 September 2010 11:07:27 Scott Ferguson wrote: > I have two HP programs that default install under KDE 3.x which I'd love > to remove as I don't use them... > "hpijs" and "hplip" So why don't you uninstall them? They install via aptitude, so will presumably uninstall the same way.

Re: xine/xfmedia unable to play dvds

2010-09-11 Thread Adam Hardy
hugo vanwoerkom on 11/09/10 15:52, wrote: Adam Hardy wrote: I don't know when it happened but I have done something to my system that stops it playing DVDs. xine pops up a message saying that "source seems encrypted and can't be read" When I got that message I installed libdvdcss2 and tha

Re: SSH: remote login returns "invalid user"

2010-09-11 Thread brownh
Sorry that I didn't make myself clear. I've got two situations: a) my present sitution in which I communicate between hosts on my local LAN, b) a future situation (to which I'd like to arrive in a day or so) of taking a laptop into the field and using ssh to access a home-base host on the LAN. In

Re: [SOLVED] detect ethernet card?

2010-09-11 Thread Atu
On Friday 10 September 2010 11:54:57 pm Stephen Powell wrote: > On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 16:33:11 -0400 (EDT), atucelu...@googlemail.com wrote: > > On Friday 10 September 2010 10:10:22 am Geoff Simmons wrote: > >> Support for the 82567LM-3 (PCI ID 8086:10de) was added to the e1000e > >> driver in linux-

Re: where did my ata drives go?

2010-09-11 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 07:34:38PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 12:16:43 -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > > > ERROR: superblocks chain: ambivalent result detected (2 filesystems)! > > You seem to have vestigial signatures of other filesystems on the two > partitions. You can

Re: Straw poll: What browser do you use?

2010-09-11 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 08:49, Jens Stimpfle wrote: > On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 4:34 AM, Kelly Clowers > wrote: > >> With 4GB I am never really memory constrained, and everything works >> fine with 100+ >> tabs open continuously for days. It's hard to remember, but I don't >> think I really had >>

Re: SSH: remote login returns "invalid user"

2010-09-11 Thread David Jardine
On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 12:57:53PM -0400, brownh wrote: > David Jardine writes: > > > That ALL: LOCAL entry is there by default. I don't know much about > > this myself, but > > That would explain its presence on my lenny box, but my newly > installed sqeeze box has nothing uncommented in that

Re: where did my ata drives go?

2010-09-11 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 12:16:43 -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 05:21:44PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 13:13:50 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > > > On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 12:47:33 -0400 (EDT), Rick Pasotto wrote: > > > > On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 12:18:0

Re: SSH: remote login returns "invalid user"

2010-09-11 Thread Claudius Hubig
brownh wrote: >Claudius, thank you for troubling with my problem. > >The problem, again: I have no trouble logging a client host >(bro...@teufel) [you are not old enough to remember Fritz and Rainer] >with a server host (hai...@engels) over the LAN, but not over the >Internet, I’m sorry I have to

Re: SSH: remote login returns "invalid user"

2010-09-11 Thread brownh
David Jardine writes: > That ALL: LOCAL entry is there by default. I don't know much about > this myself, but That would explain its presence on my lenny box, but my newly installed sqeeze box has nothing uncommented in that file. So I guess squeeze changed the default. >From the manual, ALL:L

Re: where did my ata drives go?

2010-09-11 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 05:21:44PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 13:13:50 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > > On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 12:47:33 -0400 (EDT), Rick Pasotto wrote: > > > On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 12:18:07PM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > > >> What happens if, after the s

Re: where did my ata drives go?

2010-09-11 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 13:13:50 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 12:47:33 -0400 (EDT), Rick Pasotto wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 12:18:07PM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > >> What happens if, after the system has booted, > >> you issue a manual mount command as root, using t

Re: iomega 2TB external USB drive

2010-09-11 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 11/09/10 22:13, John Lindsay wrote: > John Lindsay wrote: >> I just picked up an Iomega 2TB external USB drive. It is formatted >> NTSF. When plugged into my Win7 pc it is seen however it does not >> show up on screen under Debian (lenny). Is this drive supported? How >> can I get it seen by de

Re: Aptitude cannot upgrade libperl5.10

2010-09-11 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 00:17:19 +, T o n g wrote: > On Sun, 29 Aug 2010 22:11:21 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > >> % aptitude show libperl5.10 | awk '/^Package/,/^Version/' Package: > >> libperl5.10 > >> State: not installed > >> Automatically installed: no > >> Version: 5.10.1-14 > >> > >

Re: xine/xfmedia unable to play dvds

2010-09-11 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Adam Hardy wrote: I don't know when it happened but I have done something to my system that stops it playing DVDs. xine pops up a message saying that "source seems encrypted and can't be read" When I got that message I installed libdvdcss2 and that solved the problem. Hugo -- To UNSUBSC

finding the right .iso for USB install of Squeeze

2010-09-11 Thread Miles Fidelman
Hi Folks, I've been trying to install squeeze (testing) onto a sandbox machine, using a USB key, and I keep running into (what I think) is a mismatch between the boot kernel and the .iso kernel. As far as I can tell, the latest version of the USB installer is dated 7/23, and the indicated we

Re: SSH: remote login returns "invalid user"

2010-09-11 Thread David Jardine
On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 10:00:12AM -0400, brownh wrote: > David Jardine writes: > > > Have you got /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny configured to allow > > access from outside your local network? > > David, good question. I had understood /etc/hosts.allow only as a way > to define a selecti

Re: Straw poll: What browser do you use?

2010-09-11 Thread Stephen Fishpaste
On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 09:16:26AM -0400, B. Alexander wrote: > I'm just wondering, since firefox/iceweasel seems to be getting unusable. I > have a 2.2GHz C2D box with an nvidia card at home, and a 3.0GHz C2D with a > (lame) ATI card at work. I find that firefox (or xulrunner-stub) have memory > l

Re: May I have a document about manually preparing a Debian system?

2010-09-11 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 11 Sep 2010 02:31:21 -0400 (EDT), "Magicloud Magiclouds" wrote: > On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 9:14 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: >> On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 05:38:14 -0400 (EDT), "Magicloud Magiclouds" wrote: >>> >>> May I have a document about manually preparing a Debian system? >> >> http://www.debia

Re: SSH: remote login returns "invalid user"

2010-09-11 Thread brownh
David Jardine writes: > Have you got /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny configured to allow > access from outside your local network? David, good question. I had understood /etc/hosts.allow only as a way to define a selection, and so left it empty for the server, for it should allow any host

Re: iomega 2TB external USB drive

2010-09-11 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 11/09/10 22:13, John Lindsay wrote: > John Lindsay wrote: >> I just picked up an Iomega 2TB external USB drive. It is formatted >> NTSF. When plugged into my Win7 pc it is seen however it does not >> show up on screen under Debian (lenny). Is this drive supported? How >> can I get it seen by de

Re: SSH: remote login returns "invalid user"

2010-09-11 Thread David Jardine
On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 07:15:53AM -0400, brownh wrote: > Claudius, thank you for troubling with my problem. > > The problem, again: I have no trouble logging a client host > (bro...@teufel) [you are not old enough to remember Fritz and Rainer] > with a server host (hai...@engels) over the LAN, bu

Re: Occasional random cursor movement while typing

2010-09-11 Thread green
Doug wrote at 2010-09-10 22:25 -0500: > Why can't I have good old Thunderbird Icedove? signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: iomega 2TB external USB drive

2010-09-11 Thread John Lindsay
John Lindsay wrote: I just picked up an Iomega 2TB external USB drive. It is formatted NTSF. When plugged into my Win7 pc it is seen however it does not show up on screen under Debian (lenny). Is this drive supported? How can I get it seen by debian? John Well, success of sorts. I transfere

Re: SSH: remote login returns "invalid user"

2010-09-11 Thread brownh
Claudius, thank you for troubling with my problem. The problem, again: I have no trouble logging a client host (bro...@teufel) [you are not old enough to remember Fritz and Rainer] with a server host (hai...@engels) over the LAN, but not over the Internet, the client user account (bro...@historica

Re: Calibrating cartridges in CUPS: how?

2010-09-11 Thread Merciadri Luca
Klistvud wrote: > Dne, 11. 09. 2010 12:20:10 je Camaleón napisal(a): > >> >> Which printer exactly? Your mileage may vary a lot form one to other. >> >> Greetings, >> >> -- >> Camaleón > > Exactly. I have a hp all-in-one connected via its ethernet interface, > and it has an elegant web interface (

Re: Calibrating cartridges in CUPS: how?

2010-09-11 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 11 Sep 2010 12:26:37 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Camaleón wrote: >> On Sat, 11 Sep 2010 11:21:36 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: >> >> >>> I remember that, many years ago, I had an HP utility under Windows >>> which allowed me to do several maintenance tasks on the printer: >>> calibration

Re: Calibrating cartridges in CUPS: how?

2010-09-11 Thread Merciadri Luca
Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 11/09/10 19:21, Merciadri Luca wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I remember that, many years ago, I had an HP utility under Windows which >> allowed me to do several maintenance tasks on the printer: calibration,, >> etc. Evidently, this utility is not available under Debian, and

Re: Calibrating cartridges in CUPS: how?

2010-09-11 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 11. 09. 2010 12:20:10 je Camaleón napisal(a): Which printer exactly? Your mileage may vary a lot form one to other. Greetings, -- Camaleón Exactly. I have a hp all-in-one connected via its ethernet interface, and it has an elegant web interface (everything is configured through a w

Re: Calibrating cartridges in CUPS: how?

2010-09-11 Thread Merciadri Luca
Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 11 Sep 2010 11:21:36 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > > >> I remember that, many years ago, I had an HP utility under Windows which >> allowed me to do several maintenance tasks on the printer: calibration,, >> etc. Evidently, this utility is not available under Debian, a

Re: Calibrating cartridges in CUPS: how?

2010-09-11 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 11 Sep 2010 11:21:36 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > I remember that, many years ago, I had an HP utility under Windows which > allowed me to do several maintenance tasks on the printer: calibration,, > etc. Evidently, this utility is not available under Debian, and I was > looking for a CU

Re: xine/xfmedia unable to play dvds

2010-09-11 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 11 Sep 2010 10:47:05 +0100, Adam Hardy wrote: > Camaleón on 11/09/10 10:17, wrote: >> Have you tested it with another DVD media and (just in case) using >> another multimedia player? > > Yes. I have a DVD that is unprotected and that plays fine. Well, I was thinking in another DVD media

Re: Calibrating cartridges in CUPS: how?

2010-09-11 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 11/09/10 19:21, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Hi, > > I remember that, many years ago, I had an HP utility under Windows which > allowed me to do several maintenance tasks on the printer: calibration,, > etc. Evidently, this utility is not available under Debian, and I was > looking for a CUPS soluti

Re: xine/xfmedia unable to play dvds

2010-09-11 Thread Adam Hardy
Camaleón on 11/09/10 10:17, wrote: On Sat, 11 Sep 2010 01:32:43 +0100, Adam Hardy wrote: I don't know when it happened but I have done something to my system that stops it playing DVDs. xine pops up a message saying that "source seems encrypted and can't be read" I haven't done anything to th

Re: Occasional random cursor movement while typing

2010-09-11 Thread Claudius Hubig
"Elmer E. Dow" wrote: >I just ran Nano in a terminal (alt-F2) and it worked fine. A pity it doesn’t happen with nano in a terminal, otherwise you would have had the option to switch keyboards…Did you try choosing a different keyboard layout in X? You could also have a look at the output of “xev”

Calibrating cartridges in CUPS: how?

2010-09-11 Thread Merciadri Luca
Hi, I remember that, many years ago, I had an HP utility under Windows which allowed me to do several maintenance tasks on the printer: calibration,, etc. Evidently, this utility is not available under Debian, and I was looking for a CUPS solution to achieve these recurrent tasks. Is there a solut

Re: xine/xfmedia unable to play dvds

2010-09-11 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 11 Sep 2010 01:32:43 +0100, Adam Hardy wrote: > I don't know when it happened but I have done something to my system > that stops it playing DVDs. > > xine pops up a message saying that "source seems encrypted and can't be > read" > > I haven't done anything to the PC config recently exc

Re: Iceweasel blackout??

2010-09-11 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 10:58:08 -0500, John W Foster wrote: > After a recent update that seed doomed from the start in my slightly > mixed Squeeze/(Sid for video card) system I noticed that Iceweasel > starts OK then a second after the browser opens a page, it goes black. I > can get it to show but o

Re: get rid of CTS protection mode enabled disabled messages

2010-09-11 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 20:15:48 -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > My dmesg is full of the following messages > > [155328.289189] wlan0: CTS protection enabled (BSSID=00:23:97:5c:5f:e0) > [155337.336369] wlan0: CTS protection disabled (BSSID=00:23:97:5c:5f:e0) (...) Check out this: http://foru