I too have the same problem. Although I already had it a couple days
before upgrading to 4.1.4.. upgrading didn't help either.
any thoughts?
Daniel
On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 4:54 AM, Steve Kleene wrote:
> I've been happily running a virtualbox Windows XP machine (VM) on a Wheezy
> host for eight m
On 11/9/2011 1:34 AM, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Miles Fidelman wrote:
>> try smartctl -A /dev/sda
>>
>> that will give you a much longer list of statistics collected by the drive
>>
>> the one I always look at first is the absolute value of "raw read
>> errors" - if that's higher than 0, the drive is sta
Walter Hurry wrote:
> Sian Mountbatten wrote:
> > I have been trying to get an email client which would access my web
> > mail. I've tried
> > kmail -- which simply does not retrieve the mail balsa -- which asks
> > for an SMTP address (I don't have SMTP)
> > and I am now using emacs23.
> >
>
Hello list,
I have recently upgraded a debian box from old lenny to squeeze. Hence the
apache has become
Server version: Apache/2.2.16 (Debian)
Server built: Sep 29 2011 20:59:05
But... the apache has become *deadly slow*. This box has 4GB RAM with xeon
processor.
And the main point apache w
Karl Vogel wrote:
>If you don't add or delete a lot of accounts or modify /etc/passwd
>frequently, could you change your password to the high-security one,
>copy /etc/shadow to /etc/shadow.hi, then change it back and copy
>/etc/shadow to /etc/shadow.lo? Then your password-changer c
Miles Fidelman wrote:
> try smartctl -A /dev/sda
>
> that will give you a much longer list of statistics collected by the drive
>
> the one I always look at first is the absolute value of "raw read
> errors" - if that's higher than 0, the drive is starting to fail,
> and its internal code is spen
David Purton wrote:
> But I think DMA is enabled on the disk. From dmesg:
> [1.808090] ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
I believe all SATA interfaces are go for DMA.
> Ha! I just found some disk related errors in syslog:
>
> Nov 2 12:10:58 swires kernel: [33736.415350]
On Vi, 04 nov 11, 18:04:43, Sian Mountbatten wrote:
> Problem now solved by installing wheezy.
Could you please elaborate on how wheeze solved you problem, since to my
knowledge the same limitations apply.
Regards,
Andrei
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On Vi, 28 oct 11, 12:03:00, Mark Panen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am having problems with *.jpg and *.pdf attachments in icedove.
> Some open some don't, i use okular for the pdf's but sometimes
> icedove asks me to save the file, which i don't want to do.
>
> The preferences are set up correctly.
The p
Good time of the day.
I try to accomplish auto running of a script on suspending/resuming
events. The goal is that the script will be lunched on suspend and
resume to start or stop it. For that I have created a file:
/etc/pm/sleep.d/50osus
w/ the following content:
# /etc/pm/sleep.d/50osus
#
#
On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 06:56:59PM +0200, Camaleón wrote:
> On Tue, 08 Nov 2011 16:21:42 +, T o n g wrote:
> >> There are another frontend programs which are better prepared to deal
> >> with this task, IMO.
> >
> > I'm all ears. What's your recommendation?
>
> That will depend on what are yo
Explore another career and hobby??
Sent from my HTC.
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From: "stefan long"
Date: Tue, Nov 8, 2011 11:43 pm
Subject: high galvanic skin response vs os's
To:
i have interfered with computers to a greater or lesser degree all my life.
i have been led to believe that Linu
i have interfered with computers to a greater or lesser degree all my life.
i have been led to believe that Linux OS may be less susceptible to me that
gates'.
is there anyone out there that can shed some light here? offer suggestions?
i have burned up watches, cell phones, and laptops; pre
On 11/09/2011 12:13 AM, David Purton wrote:
On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 10:12:17PM -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote:
David Purton wrote:
Since other suggested possible hard drive problems... What does
smartctl say about the health of your drive?
smartctl -H /dev/sda
try smartctl -A /dev/sda
that
On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 10:12:17PM -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote:
> David Purton wrote:
> >>Since other suggested possible hard drive problems... What does
> >>smartctl say about the health of your drive?
> >>
> >> smartctl -H /dev/sda
>
> try smartctl -A /dev/sda
>
> that will give you a much l
On Tue, 08 Nov 2011 19:16:12 -0500 (EST), Rob Owens wrote:
>
> I know that winmodems probably won't work, so I may have to swap it out
> for something in my old parts bin.
>
That's not necessarily true anymore. I hate winmodems, but some of the
most popular winmodems do have Linux drivers these
David Purton wrote:
Since other suggested possible hard drive problems... What does
smartctl say about the health of your drive?
smartctl -H /dev/sda
try smartctl -A /dev/sda
that will give you a much longer list of statistics collected by the drive
the one I always look at first is the
From: David Purton
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Cc:
Bcc:
Subject: Re: Disk performance deteriated to unbearable levels
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Somehow the workspace manager and the index which appeared
at the lower right of the screen have disappeared.
If I right-click on a window tab in the task bar I can move
the window to another workspace, and the window selector
will show that the windows are in the workspace where they
were mo
--- On Tue, 11/8/11, Rob Owens wrote:
> From: Rob Owens
> Subject: dial-up modem usage
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Date: Tuesday, November 8, 2011, 6:16 PM
> I'm setting up a Debian system for a
> friend, and he uses a dial-up
> modem. It's been many years since I dealt with a
> modem,
>> On Mon, 7 Nov 2011 23:40:24 -0700,
>> Bob Proulx said:
B> I would create a script that edited the /etc/shadow file directly and
B> manipulated the encrypted passwords. Then the clear text would never
B> need to exist in any form. Only the encrypted form of the password is
B> needed. Use a
On Tue, 08 Nov 2011 18:43:39 -0600, John W. Foster wrote:
> I have Linux Mint & Ubuntu Installed
So why are you asking this question on a Debian list?
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I have Linux Mint & Ubuntu Installed, & at one time I tried KDE, & all
as I recall have a control panel for changing a lot of the hardware
configs as well as preferred apps & desktop layout.
Is there a similar app for Gnome in Debian Stable? A search of the words
control & panel have not turned up
On Tue, 08 Nov 2011 22:52:34 +, Sian Mountbatten wrote:
> I have been trying to get an email client which would access my web
> mail. I've tried
> kmail -- which simply does not retrieve the mail balsa -- which asks
> for an SMTP address (I don't have SMTP)
> and I am now using emacs23.
>
Dan B. wrote:
> I tried swapping the left Control key and Caps Lock key by modifying
> the XKBOPTIONS value in /etc/default/keyboard, per instructions that
> said it would take effect for both the virtual consoles and X.
>
> However, it works only for the virtual consoles, and not for X (neither
>
Miles Fidelman wrote:
> >>Up to now, hardware autodetect has worked just fine - finding both NICs,
> >>identifying them, and giving me a choice. Now it all just hangs. I
> >>expect that I could escape out of the installer, and plug in some magic
> >>incantations - but a little guidance is what I'
I'm setting up a Debian system for a friend, and he uses a dial-up
modem. It's been many years since I dealt with a modem, so I could use
a few tips.
I know that winmodems probably won't work, so I may have to swap it out
for something in my old parts bin. What is used to control dialup these
da
On Tue 08 Nov 2011 at 22:48:28 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> I can only say "Wow!"
But you said it so charmingly. :-)
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Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Du, 30 oct 11, 00:56:55, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
Btw. instead of Red Hat I tested Fedora on a virtual machine, set up on
Suse. Fedora might be a very good choice for beginners and experienced
users too. Is there still a Red Hat distro? Regarding to the German Wiki
Red Hat be
I have been trying to get an email client which would access my
web mail. I've tried
kmail -- which simply does not retrieve the mail
balsa -- which asks for an SMTP address (I don't have SMTP)
and I am now using emacs23.
Can anybody tell me how to configure RMAIL so that it accesses
my mail s
On Tue, 8 Nov 2011 17:54:17 + (UTC)
Camaleón wrote:
> On Tue, 08 Nov 2011 14:20:58 -0200, Pablo Sánchez wrote:
>
> > Hi there : help !
>
> Here we go :-)
>
> > I updated wheezy(amd64) and i got gnome3, i didn't see it coming
>
> Oh, yes... what a sad day. My desktop is now blue and w
On Tue, 08 Nov 2011 22:37:38 +0100, Anon wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm not quite sure whom I should send this report to but recently I've
> noticed that I can remove files which owner is root and that have access
> mode set as 644 (see example below). I'm using Debian wheezy/sid with
> 3.0.0-2-amd64 #1
Anon wrote:
> I'm not quite sure whom I should send this report to but recently
> I've noticed that I can remove files which owner is root and that
> have access mode set as 644 (see example below).
The permissions on the file are not relevant. It is only permissions
on the directory that matter.
On Jo, 27 oct 11, 15:08:57, Harry Putnam wrote:
> I noticed this command posted for another recent thread:
>aptitude search ~ahold
>
> I was curious so ran it myself. I was shocked to see quite a bunch of
> held packages.. 140 to be exact. Are there any circumstances that
> would warrant suc
On Tue, 08 Nov 2011 15:56:02 -0500, Rick Thomas wrote:
> On Nov 8, 2011, at 2:07 AM, Sthu Deus wrote:
>
>> it seems to me to be weird having those "epoches"
>
> If all software developers were "well behaved" and they all co- operated
> in their versioning, it would be weird to have "epochs". Al
On Jo, 27 oct 11, 18:03:56, Brad Alexander wrote:
> Okay, I know it is bad form to respond to one's own posts, however, I came
> across some new information. I rolled back to 280.13.really.275.28-1, and
> although the performance is back to being substandard, I have my X back.
>
> I started thinki
Hello,
I'm not quite sure whom I should send this report to but recently I've
noticed that I can remove files which owner is root and that have access
mode set as 644 (see example below). I'm using Debian wheezy/sid with
3.0.0-2-amd64 #1 SMP kernel.
# touch rootfile
# ls -l rootfile
-rw-r--r
Adam Mercer wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> >> from this I was able to determine that NSCD wasn't running, restarting
> >> this allowed jobs to run successfully!
> >
> > Does this mean that you are running NIS/YP or LDAP from the network?
> > Are your servers "slow" such as on a remote network or othe
On Du, 30 oct 11, 00:56:55, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>
> Btw. instead of Red Hat I tested Fedora on a virtual machine, set up on
> Suse. Fedora might be a very good choice for beginners and experienced
> users too. Is there still a Red Hat distro? Regarding to the German Wiki
> Red Hat became Fedora.
On Nov 8, 2011, at 2:07 AM, Sthu Deus wrote:
it seems to me to be weird having those "epoches"
If all software developers were "well behaved" and they all co-
operated in their versioning, it would be weird to have "epochs". All
versions, from all sources, would be monotonically increasin
Andrei Popescu wrote:
> Tom H wrote:
> > > # grep hosts /etc/nsswitch.conf
> > > hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4
> > ...
> > "dns" isn't being queried because you've got avahi installed and so
> > when it's queried through "mdns4_minimal" and the host's ip isn't
> >
Hello,
I have a software RAID 5 consisting of 5 disks. One of the disks (sdc) failed
and could no longer be recognized by the BIOS. I replaced it with a new disk
and while the array was rebuilding, another disk (sdd) experienced a read
error, which caused the disk to be reset and the array t
On Tue, 8 Nov 2011 22:46:51 +0200
Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Ma, 08 nov 11, 17:12:37, Richard wrote:
> >
> > Hi Andrei
> > I have two mail accounts, Virgin ( gmail) and freeparking which is
> > POP3, I don't want to use the POP mail for this list due to the
> > volume of mail, so the only way ar
On Tue, 8 Nov 2011 22:46:51 +0200
Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Ma, 08 nov 11, 17:12:37, Richard wrote:
> >
> > Hi Andrei
> > I have two mail accounts, Virgin ( gmail) and freeparking which is
> > POP3, I don't want to use the POP mail for this list due to the
> > volume of mail, so the only way ar
On Ma, 08 nov 11, 19:13:03, Brian wrote:
>
> Instead of penalising many 1000s of legitimate users the network
> administrators could remove the connectivity of the offenders. Why don't
> they? My own ISP conducts regular sweeps for open relays and has an
> abuse department which takes rigorous act
On Ma, 08 nov 11, 17:12:37, Richard wrote:
>
> Hi Andrei
> I have two mail accounts, Virgin ( gmail) and freeparking which is POP3,
> I don't want to use the POP mail for this list due to the volume of mail, so
> the only way around it for
> this list is to BCC myself.
> This is the only list I h
Hello,
Chris Brennan a écrit :
>
> I was discussing a bind issue that I am experiencing w/ an acquaintance on
> IRC this afternoon and he informed me that bind was updated to cover a
> latent bug in the DNS message processing code that could allow certain
> UPDATE requests to crash named.
>
>
Yes I did do a clean install of "Squeeze". I don't know how to do it any other
way actually, haha. But I'm not interested, I hear it's better to do a clean
install.
Ashley
On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
Hello,
>
> Chris Brennan a écrit :
> >
> > I was discussing a bind issue that I am experiencing w/ an acquaintance
> on
> > IRC this afternoon and he informed me that bind was updated to cover a
> > latent bug in the DNS message processing co
On Ma, 25 oct 11, 00:54:08, Greg van Anders wrote:
>
> I can successfully host 192.168.1.254 to the above, as well
> as many others. Yet if I try to, for example, ssh to the same server I
> get "Name or service unknown". Adding -v, or -vv doesn't seem to tell
> me any more.
>
> I find this a bit
On Lu, 24 oct 11, 21:50:15, Tom H wrote:
>
> > # grep hosts /etc/nsswitch.conf
> > hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4
>
> I'm glad that you or someone else thought of asking for the above
> because it slipped my mind and I think that it identifies the problem.
> (Ever
Wojtek Zabolotny wrote:
Hi,
After today's upgrade of my Debian/testing system I was completely
amused with the new Gnome environment.
The first impression was not so good, but maybe I have to train a little.
Anyway I have noticed one serious problem: If I have two users logged
into different
On 11/08/2011 03:54 PM, Camaleón wrote:
On Tue, 08 Nov 2011 14:20:58 -0200, Pablo Sánchez wrote:
Hi there : help !
Here we go :-)
I updated wheezy(amd64) and i got gnome3, i didn't see it coming
Oh, yes... what a sad day. My desktop is now blue and with no live, text
is rendered blurry
On Mon 07 Nov 2011 at 19:47:41 -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote:
> So the question remains, why doesn't the Squeeze installer see either of
> them - or more to the point, why does it hang when it goes looking? The
> installer goes off into the "detecting network hardware" step and never
> return
On Tue, 08 Nov 2011 20:38:50 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Ma, 18 oct 11, 17:02:39, Walter Hurry wrote:
>>
>> I have an external 1T USB drive, which I use to storage of AV files,
>> plus daily (rsync) backups. It is formatted as a single partition. I
>> use ext2 to avoid the overhead of journ
On Tue 08 Nov 2011 at 10:57:27 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Good information. Thanks for sharing it.
>
> A possible downside to that setting is that your host will try to
> connect directly to the reportbug.debian.org host on smtp port 25. By
> itself that is fine. But many networks today block
On Sb, 22 oct 11, 19:11:01, Aniruddha wrote:
> When I install a package with apt-get it gets installed with all it's
> dependencies. However when I remove a packages some dependencies are
> left on the system. For example:
>
> to install:
> apt-get install lxde
>
> to remove:
> apt-get remove lx
Lenovo Thinkpad T520i.
Wireless controller: 03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation
Centrino Wireless-N 1000
I can see and get a wireless connection (usually via wicd-cli), but
dhclient fails to get an IP address:
# iwconfig wlan0
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:"RIGHTSCALE"
Mod
On Mi, 19 oct 11, 19:27:17, Iuri Guilherme dos Santos Martins wrote:
>
> I can assure you that making more than one primary partition is NOT
> a good idea. If you feel like making more than one partition, make
> sure you make them all logic partitions.
Could you please explain the reasons for th
On Ma, 18 oct 11, 17:02:39, Walter Hurry wrote:
>
> I have an external 1T USB drive, which I use to storage of AV files, plus
> daily (rsync) backups. It is formatted as a single partition. I use ext2
> to avoid the overhead of journalling, but do carry out an e2fsck from
> time to time.
And h
On Ma, 18 oct 11, 12:34:34, Ramon Hofer wrote:
>
> I was able to install xorg, xbmc (from the multimedia repos) and the
> nvidia driver, created the xorg.conf, the xbmc user and could start xbmc
> with
>
> # xinit xbmc-standalone
I just manually added xbmc-standalone as an alternative for
x-s
Hi,
I have a hard drive which does not work any more. It's a scsi hard drive over
usb. I don't remember the numbers of partitions it had, but at least one which
was crypted with cryptsetup.
Currently, the drive looks correctly recognized by the system, and it appears
correctly in /dev/sdb.
But it
On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 12:21, Bob Proulx wrote:
>> from this I was able to determine that NSCD wasn't running, restarting
>> this allowed jobs to run successfully!
>
> Does this mean that you are running NIS/YP or LDAP from the network?
> Are your servers "slow" such as on a remote network or oth
Greetings!
I was discussing a bind issue that I am experiencing w/ an acquaintance on
IRC this afternoon and he informed me that bind was updated to cover a
latent bug in the DNS message processing code that could allow certain
UPDATE requests to crash named.
I'm currently running Bind 9.7.3, whi
Adam Mercer wrote:
> Nov 8 10:48:01 bull /usr/sbin/cron[1123]: (laltest) ORPHAN (no passwd entry)
>
> from this I was able to determine that NSCD wasn't running, restarting
> this allowed jobs to run successfully!
Does this mean that you are running NIS/YP or LDAP from the network?
Are your serv
David Purton wrote:
> Everything takes forever to load (including booting), but then runs ok
> once loaded.
Could DMA be disabled now? Taking a long time to read initially but
running okay afterward would match that symptom. Because after the
initial read it should be in filesystem buffer cache.
On Sb, 15 oct 11, 17:16:59, Robert Holtzman wrote:
> Running Mutt 1.5.21-4~bpo60 from the Debian 6 backports repo.
>
> Can't find a way to save a message to a file on my $HOME directory;
> *not* a mailbox. Everything I see in the information page talks about
> saving to a "mailbox/file". Everythin
Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Lu, 10 oct 11, 18:38:33, Bob Proulx wrote:
> > 3. Reportbug sends the bug report bug using /usr/sbin/sendmail as the
> >MTA. If that doesn't work then reportbug (and other commands too)
> >will have problems. I have no workaround to /usr/sbin/sendmail not
> >
On Tue, 08 Nov 2011 14:20:58 -0200, Pablo Sánchez wrote:
> Hi there : help !
Here we go :-)
> I updated wheezy(amd64) and i got gnome3, i didn't see it coming
Oh, yes... what a sad day. My desktop is now blue and with no live, text
is rendered blurry and life has turned completely grey :-
On Tue, 08 Nov 2011 14:20:58 -0200
Pablo Sánchez wrote:
> Hi there : help !
>
>
> I updated wheezy(amd64) and i got gnome3, i didn't see it coming
>
> 1. It runs in fallback mode on a ati radeon mobility 1350
>
>*-display UNCLAIMED
> description: VGA compatible controller
>
Hi,
I'm still confused after the old good Gnome in my laptop got upgraded today...
When I click "Programs" on the desktop I can see a lot of icons corresponding
to different programs. Unfortunately names of some programms are too long to be fully
displayed.
In the previous version of Gnome int
On Jo, 13 oct 11, 22:51:37, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> exports. For mounts a directory under /mnt might be more approbiate.
...
> You could use:
>
> - /mnt/nfs for the nfs mount
> - a symlink /srv/smb to /mnt/nfs for the smb export
> - a symlink from /srv/http to /mnt/nfs for apache served files
On Tue, 8 Nov 2011 17:24:54 +0200
Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Vi, 07 oct 11, 19:34:12, Richard wrote:
> > Hi,
> > How long does it take for posted messages to be archived ?
> > I'm not seeing what I've posted, either on list or archive,
> > or is my posting being held for moderation ?.
> >
> > Or
On Tue, 08 Nov 2011 10:44:58 -0600, Adam Mercer wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 10:25, Camaleón wrote:
>
>> Do a "grep -i cron /var/log/syslog" and check for the output.
(...)
> and then the previous:
No trace, it seems not to be triggered at all.
>> I don't know why is failing, though the m
On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 9:48 AM, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> Did you aptitude install debian-multimedia-keyring too? If not, that may
> help.
Thanks for the help! debian-multimedia-keyring was installed. I solved
this problem with the following steps. Question remains why did the
key stop working?
cd
On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 10:44, Adam Mercer wrote:
>> You can append "2>&1 >> /var/log/nightly-git.log" to get the output
>> logged to a file.
>
> That's I'll see if that gives any more information.
I created another entry in the crontab with the logging enabled for a
few minutes in the future and
On Tue, 08 Nov 2011 16:21:42 +, T o n g wrote:
> On Tue, 08 Nov 2011 15:33:08 +, Camaleón wrote:
>
>> There are another frontend programs which are better prepared to deal
>> with this task, IMO.
>
> I'm all ears. What's your recommendation?
That will depend on what are your expectation
On Ma, 11 oct 11, 16:58:34, Victor Nitu wrote:
> I have some input method problems under wheezy.
> First of all, keyboard dies after login (it is alive during login),
> and needs to be unplugged/plugged in again. After that it works. I
> have a USB keyboard, but the same problem appears when pluggi
On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 10:25, Camaleón wrote:
> Do a "grep -i cron /var/log/syslog" and check for the output.
# grep -i cron /var/log/syslog
Nov 8 07:17:01 bull /USR/SBIN/CRON[6222]: (root) CMD ( cd / &&
run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
Nov 8 07:49:05 bull crontab[6280]: (laltest) LIST (
On Tue, 08 Nov 2011 15:56:41 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Ma, 04 oct 11, 11:13:49, Camaleón wrote:
>>
>> I would perform a bare install on a small partition (not VM), video
>> games need high doses of performance and they won't run as smoothly as
>> over a non-virtualized environment.
>
> D
On Jo, 13 oct 11, 06:43:40, Robert Blair Mason Jr. wrote:
>
> I suppose I'm just wondering if there will be a new package soon. IIRC
> the freeze is in January this time
No, the *proposed* date is June 2012:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2011/06/msg3.html
Regards,
Andrei
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On Tue, 08 Nov 2011 07:52:33 -0600, Adam Mercer wrote:
> On a squeeze box I'd like to run a script every night at 1:01am, as such
> I have the following entry in my crontab:
>
> $ crontab -l
> 1 1 * * * /home/laltest/test/nightly/nightly-git.sh
> $
>
> However the script never runs and I d
Hi there : help !
I updated wheezy(amd64) and i got gnome3, i didn't see it coming
1. It runs in fallback mode on a ati radeon mobility 1350
*-display UNCLAIMED
description: VGA compatible controller
product: RV516 [Mobility Radeon X1350]
vendor: ATI Technologies Inc
On Tue, 08 Nov 2011 15:33:08 +, Camaleón wrote:
> There are another frontend programs which are better prepared to deal
> with this task, IMO.
I'm all ears. What's your recommendation?
thanks
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On Sb, 08 oct 11, 17:21:54, Ad L. wrote:
>
> If you're too lazy to find a proper backup program etc., put down some
> more money and buy the new harddisk... twice!
RAID is better than nothing, but still not backup.
Regards,
Andrei
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On Tue, 08 Nov 2011 03:32:14 -0800, anx_dev wrote:
>> >>Is that happening regardless of the command you run with "kdesu" or
>> >>just when you launch Synaptic?
>>
>> > The only program that I' aware that's runningkdesudis synaptic, so I
>> > dunno.
>>
>> You can invoke "kdesu" (or "kdesudo") to ru
On Sb, 08 oct 11, 03:42:22, Mark Panen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Will i have to download the point 3 DVD's or will aptitude
> automatically upgrade me to point 3?
One thing that was not mentioned is that there are special update CDs if
you really need them http://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#update-cd
Regards
I tried swapping the left Control key and Caps Lock key by modifying
the XKBOPTIONS value in /etc/default/keyboard, per instructions that
said it would take effect for both the virtual consoles and X.
However, it works only for the virtual consoles, and not for X (neither
when started by GDM nor
On Tue, 08 Nov 2011 02:17:17 +, T o n g wrote:
> Ever used the OO/LibreOffice Base?
Once upon a time I was able to setup OOo Base to connect with a MySQL
database to update tables, edit and remove records, importing data by
means of raw text dumps...
> Ever used it with any light-weighted
On Lu, 10 oct 11, 18:38:33, Bob Proulx wrote:
>
> 3. Reportbug sends the bug report bug using /usr/sbin/sendmail as the
>MTA. If that doesn't work then reportbug (and other commands too)
>will have problems. I have no workaround to /usr/sbin/sendmail not
>working. That simply must w
On Vi, 07 oct 11, 19:34:12, Richard wrote:
> Hi,
> How long does it take for posted messages to be archived ?
> I'm not seeing what I've posted, either on list or archive,
> or is my posting being held for moderation ?.
>
> Or have I got a problem again with Virginmedia, ISP.
I seem to recall rea
On Mon, 07 Nov 2011 10:26:42 -0800, peasthope wrote:
> From: Camaleon
> Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2011 17:32:22 + (UTC)
>> Shouldn't this firewire camera be detected under "/dev/raw1394" or
>> something like that? :-?
>
> Perhaps, although Coriander insists on /dev/video{0,1, ...}. It should
> know.
I'm not quite sure how, but I managed to get XFWM4 (current sid version
4.8) to not start with my session (or not to be saved). I don't recall
doing anything particular to the window manager settings or desktop session
settings. All I know is that I booted the system up and while it had saved
my se
W dniu 08.11.2011 15:12, Wojtek Zabolotny pisze:
Hi,
After today's upgrade of my Debian/testing system I was completely amused with
the new Gnome environment.
The first impression was not so good, but maybe I have to train a little.
Anyway I have noticed one serious problem: If I have two users
08/11/2011 14:56, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Ma, 04 oct 11, 11:13:49, Camaleón wrote:
>>
>> I would perform a bare install on a small partition (not VM), video games
>> need high doses of performance and they won't run as smoothly as over a
>> non-virtualized environment.
>
> Depends what your d
Hi,
After today's upgrade of my Debian/testing system I was completely amused with
the new Gnome environment.
The first impression was not so good, but maybe I have to train a little.
Anyway I have noticed one serious problem: If I have two users logged into different sessions - 1st in "Gnome" m
On Ma, 04 oct 11, 12:32:29, kei...@strucktower.com wrote:
>
> I would also like to know how I can configure a console laptop (one with
> no gui- CLI only) to access wireless in the same manner- automatic
> detection of available wireless networks and a way to enter a key when
> necessary. Can some
On Ma, 04 oct 11, 11:13:49, Camaleón wrote:
>
> I would perform a bare install on a small partition (not VM), video games
> need high doses of performance and they won't run as smoothly as over a
> non-virtualized environment.
Depends what your definition of "small" is
root@bixi:/media/xgame/h
Hi
On a squeeze box I'd like to run a script every night at 1:01am, as
such I have the following entry in my crontab:
$ crontab -l
1 1 * * * /home/laltest/test/nightly/nightly-git.sh
$
However the script never runs and I don't any email from cron
indicating script failure, when I run the sc
On Lu, 03 oct 11, 12:03:36, Bob Proulx wrote:
>
> I think this is a significant enough change that it warrants a
> NEWS.Debian item.
Most probably it will get a mention in the Release Notes.
Regards,
Andrei
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