Re: Editing org.gnome.desktop.background in /etc/gdm3/greeter.settings doesn't change login wallpaper

2012-10-22 Thread Lone Learner
I solved the problem using the instructions in http://fabhax.com/technology/change-wallpapers-in-gnome-3.4/ On 8 October 2012 19:48, Fernando Freire wrote: > On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Lone Learner wrote: >> I am trying to change my GNOME 3.4 login background using the instructions >> in ht

Re: Audio not working : Intel C210 HD

2012-10-22 Thread Steven Rosenberg
On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 4:28 PM, lee wrote: > Flavien writes: > >> I'm having issues with audio : >> # lsmod | grep snd >> snd_pcm_oss32591 0 >> snd_pcm60487 1 snd_pcm_oss >> snd_page_alloc 6249 1 snd_pcm >> snd_mixer_oss 12606 1 snd_pcm_oss >> sn

Re: please put not all into multiarch!

2012-10-22 Thread Mark Allums
On 10/22/2012 8:06 AM, lee wrote: Claudius Hubig writes: Hello lee, lee wrote: Claudius Hubig writes: the advantage that not one big package has to be updated each time one of the libraries it contains changes, but only one small(-ish) library package. And which packages do I need to h

Re: please put not all into multiarch!

2012-10-22 Thread Mark Allums
On 10/22/2012 4:40 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Du, 21 oct 12, 17:33:17, Mark Allums wrote: Yes, because you have to enable multiarch before upgrading ia32-libs. This is documented in the wheezy Release Notes: http://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/amd64/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html#ia32l

Resolution problem with AMD HD 3450 and Dell U3011

2012-10-22 Thread Johan Mazel
Hi I am trying to use a a Dell U3011 (30 inches IPS screen). The HD3450 is able to display the screen`s native resolution (2560x1600) according to http://www.amd.com/us/products/desktop/graphics/ati-radeon-hd-3000/hd-3400/Pages/ati-radeon-hd-3400-specifications.aspx provided that a dual-link DVI c

Re: Screenshots

2012-10-22 Thread Neal Murphy
On Monday, October 22, 2012 07:23:58 PM lee wrote: > Frank McCormick writes: > > ImageMagicks import commmand seems to work better to select a portion > > of the page...but it needs a new file name for each shot..which makes > > it a little awkward. > > > > Does anyone have suggestions...perhaps

Re: Screenshots

2012-10-22 Thread Frank McCormick
On 22/10/12 07:23 PM, lee wrote: Exec exec import -frame -quality 100 $HOME/fvwm/screenshots/screenshot-`date +%Y%m%d_%H%M`.png This is exactly what I was looking for...automatic naming. Thanks -- Cheers Frank -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a su

Re: Audio not working : Intel C210 HD

2012-10-22 Thread lee
Flavien writes: > I'm having issues with audio : > # lsmod | grep snd > snd_pcm_oss32591 0 > snd_pcm60487 1 snd_pcm_oss > snd_page_alloc 6249 1 snd_pcm > snd_mixer_oss 12606 1 snd_pcm_oss > snd_seq42881 0 > snd_timer

Re: Mail clients

2012-10-22 Thread lee
Andrei POPESCU writes: > Here's the snippet I use: > > > # Use everything that looks like a mailbox in ~/Maildir/ > # except the ones explicitely excluded > mailboxes ! + `\ > for file in ~/Maildir/.*; do \ > box=$(basename "$file"); \ > if [ ! "$box" = '.' -a ! "$box" = '..' \ >

Re: Screenshots

2012-10-22 Thread lee
Frank McCormick writes: > ImageMagicks import commmand seems to work better to select a portion > of the page...but it needs a new file name for each shot..which makes > it a little awkward. > > Does anyone have suggestions...perhaps a batch file to rename the > files after they've been taken ?

Re: Wheezy Driver for Intel RMS25CB080 RAID Controller

2012-10-22 Thread Chris Hiestand
On Oct 22, 2012, at 2:42 PM, r...@microway.com wrote: > Hi Chris, > > Have you tried updating the firmware on the card? I've found that LSI > based cards often ship with really old firmware. For the Intel module you > listed, you should be able to download the firmware here: > > http://downlo

Re: pcspkr

2012-10-22 Thread Dan B.
lee wrote: Hi, with the pcspkr module installed, shouldn't I hear the beep through the sound card that otherwise would be played by a little loudspeaker connected to the mainboard? pcspkr might be the wrong module. You might want snd-pcsp instead. Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debia

Thanks Re: Kernel documentation

2012-10-22 Thread Lisi
On Sunday 21 October 2012 09:14:17 Lisi wrote: > > We advise studying the README files in this root directory of the kernel > source, and Documentation/Changes or the documentation index of the kernel > in Documentation/00-INDEX. > > > Presumably I have to download a kernel source to get at the R

Re: Wheezy Driver for Intel RMS25CB080 RAID Controller

2012-10-22 Thread rick
Hi Chris, Have you tried updating the firmware on the card? I've found that LSI based cards often ship with really old firmware. For the Intel module you listed, you should be able to download the firmware here: http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&DwnldID=21632&lang=eng It's

Re: Audio not working : Intel C210 HD

2012-10-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 22 oct 12, 22:43:05, Flavien wrote: > Hello, > > > This is a new laptop (i5-3210M). I've installed Squeeze on it. > > I'm having issues with audio : Which are? (you only showed us some hardware informations, but you said nothing about what does or does not work. BTW, OSS is not used any

Re: Wheezy Driver for Intel RMS25CB080 RAID Controller

2012-10-22 Thread Chris Hiestand
On Oct 21, 2012, at 2:19 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Without further details from Chris I'm assuming megaraid_sas is loading > but not working. Is this the case Chris? If so I'm thinking the Intel > board simply isn't supported by the 3.2 megaraid_sas driver. Yes, this is precisely the case an

Audio not working : Intel C210 HD

2012-10-22 Thread Flavien
Hello, This is a new laptop (i5-3210M). I've installed Squeeze on it. I'm having issues with audio : # ossinfo No /dev/mixer device available in your system. Perhaps Open Sound System is not installed or running. # ossdetect -v USB support available in the system, adding USB driver Detected Gene

Screenshots

2012-10-22 Thread Frank McCormick
I am having trouble finding a screenshot program which will do what I want. I often take shots from websites featuring old homes -- the problem is the software I have been using (scrot) sometimes has trouble grabbing the keyboard so that I can select a portion of a webpage. It does however do

Re: Re: set-selections warnings

2012-10-22 Thread Eric Hough
Hi Wanderer, Did you ever find a solution to this? I'm experiencing the exact same problem when trying to clone a system into a fresh wheezy installation. I've Googled around and it seems like we're the only two people on the planet with this problem. Let me know if you've found anything interes

Re: Mail clients

2012-10-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 22 oct 12, 15:41:48, lee wrote: > > Have you looked at the documentation of mutt? It talks about mail > folders. It also talks about directories. It cannot rename folders or > directories and it cannot (re-)move them (the argument is that mutt > isn't a file manager), and it doesn't real

Re: Mail clients

2012-10-22 Thread John L. Cunningham
On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 11:10:09AM +0200, Erwan David wrote: > On 21/10/12 10:51, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > Could you please elaborate on that? As far as I can tell it's just a > > matter of configuring mutt correctly (the defaults are not really > > optimal). Mutt + Gmail, now that is a cha

Re: please put not all into multiarch!

2012-10-22 Thread lee
Claudius Hubig writes: > Hello lee, > > lee wrote: >> Claudius Hubig writes: >> >> > the advantage that not one big package has to be updated each time >> > one of the libraries it contains changes, but only one small(-ish) >> > library package. >> >> And which packages do I need to have inst

Re: Mail clients

2012-10-22 Thread lee
Chris Bannister writes: > On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 05:58:59PM +0200, lee wrote: >> Mutt isn't designed with the concept of folders in mind. It merely >> acknowledges the concept because the mails need to be stored >> /somewhere/. > > You mean it doesn't work out of the box and requires some confi

Re: Thinkpad W510 trackpoint

2012-10-22 Thread ol
Well, its either: Trackpoint - automatic/disabled Trackpad - automatic/disabled Tried with trackpad disabled and enabled with no difference. Guess the buttons could have just failed. Will double check with that other os and replace if the same issue occurs. Thanks for your help. -- ol On Mon, O

Re: Netinstall issue

2012-10-22 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 12:44 AM, kk s wrote: > > I am trying to install OS for a server with the below steps, > > Downloaded the vmlinuz, initrd.gz from hd-media folder from the mirror > Passed the preseed file at vmlinuz line like " /vmlinuz vga=normal > url=http://server.domain.com/debian-prese

Re: multiple DHCP servers and /etc/resolv.conf

2012-10-22 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2012-10-21 16:11:28 -0400, Tom H wrote: > On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 9:46 AM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > Thanks. This seems to do what I want, with a minor problem: when the > > DHCP client is killed, resolvconf doesn't remove the corresponding > > nameserver line from the generated "/etc/resolv.c

PlayOnLinux on Debian with ATI/AMD cards?

2012-10-22 Thread DragonDon
Has anyone had any luck installing this? I suppose my real question is, those who have installed it, do you have it documented somewhere for the problems that people run across? POL installed fine. Steam installed but it's a mostly blank set of windows (i.e. no fonts in the steam login, like thi

Re: Netinstall issue

2012-10-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 22 oct 12, 10:14:39, kk s wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to install OS for a server with the below steps, > > Downloaded the vmlinuz, initrd.gz from hd-media folder from the mirror > Passed the preseed file at vmlinuz line like " /vmlinuz vga=normal url= > http://server.domain.com/debian-pre

Re: vnc connection to install OS over network

2012-10-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 22 oct 12, 08:36:13, kk s wrote: > Hi, > > How can we open the vnc connection when install OS from netinstall using > preseed.cfg by passing the parameter in kernel command line? > > In centos we can use "vnc vncconnect=ip:port" on kernel command line and > declaring the static IP on kicks

Re: please put not all into multiarch!

2012-10-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 21 oct 12, 17:33:17, Mark Allums wrote: > > > >Yes, because you have to enable multiarch before upgrading ia32-libs. > >This is documented in the wheezy Release Notes: > > > >http://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/amd64/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html#ia32libs > > I did that. Multiarch i

Re: Thinkpad W510 trackpoint

2012-10-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 22 oct 12, 10:44:42, ol wrote: > Hi, thanks for your reply. > > /var /log/Xorg.0.log is attached. > Do not have a xorg.conf I didn't spot any problems there. Could you try some other BIOS settings? Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://li

Re: Thinkpad W510 trackpoint

2012-10-22 Thread ol
Hi, thanks for your reply. /var /log/Xorg.0.log is attached. Do not have a xorg.conf Thanks! -- ol On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 11:04 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Jo, 18 oct 12, 21:29:12, ol wrote: >> Hi. >> I've got some problems with the thinkpads trackpoint buttons. >> None of the 3 buttons are