Are you guys kidding??!!! I've been using "testing" for years with
very little problems. I noticed that "Squeeze" was just officially
released. I also noticed that suddenly had about 200 upgradeable
packages. So fine, I do the upgrade. Reboot, and find I can't get on
the network.
After some h
I believe that this has been mentioned before, but I still haven't heard a
credible argument. If I monitor the processes on my when I first open a
browser, not much changes, expect maybe a few added processes for the
browser. If I do a search on Google.. nothing. But, as soon as I log into
Gmail
Oops. Wrong list originally
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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
be
I recently updated my kernel from 2.6.32-3 to 2.6.32-5, (Squeeze on an x86
platform). I noticed on reboot that shortly after the kernel booted the
screen switched to a frame buffer for the remaining loading messages. I
have a desktop system that runs GNOME and so gdm started as usual and I
logged
I'm running Squeeze in a x86 processor, and I noticed after a recent package
update that I now get an error when I try to run xvidtune. The error says:
"Unable to query monitor info." I'm using an Nvidia GeForce 4 MX 4000 card.
>On Wed,16.Sep.09, 18:14:27, Arthur Barlow wrote:
>> I believe that someone else wrote in about it this, but until I shutdown
=
>my
>> X server I didn't realize I had the problem. I logged out, and when gdm
>> tried to reset I get a message saying that it cannont f
I believe that someone else wrote in about it this, but until I shutdown my
X server I didn't realize I had the problem. I logged out, and when gdm
tried to reset I get a message saying that it cannont find the "nv" driver.
I have a "GeForce4 MX 4000" card. Thanks.
I understand that NetworkManager was designed as a tool for the woeful state
of wireless connections and linux, but I'm using a workstation with a
"hard-wired" connection and networkmanager cannot seem to manage it. It
shows "ifupdown(eth0)" as being unmanaged, which I suppose is no big deal,
but
g 2009 17:50:45 -0700
Arthur Barlow wrote:
...
> I'm been using Debian for over a decade now, and it's always been my
> practice to build new kernel with the "kernel-package" software that is
part
> of Debian's toolkit. I"m noticed over the last few months th
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 11:49:19 -0400
From: JoeHill
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Epiphany browser always starts up off-line
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Arthur Barlow wrote:
&g
I have a fairly recent clean install of Debian "testing" and everything
works well. Just one thing I find annoying. Whenever I start up the
Epiphany web browser, it by default begins in the "work offline" mode.
There's nothing under preferences that I have found to turn this off. Any
suggestions
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From: Arthur Barlow
Date: Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 12:56 PM
Subject: Boot problem with Kernel Package kernels
To: debian-u...@debian.org
I'm been using Debian for over a decade now, and it's always been my
practice to build new kernel with the "
I've been trying to install Iceweasel with Aptitude, but the same
thing happens each time. Even if I purge all the Iceweasel files and
directories, and then do a reinstall the result is that there is a
soft link in "/usr/bin/iceweasel" that points to "/lib/iceweasel/
iceweasel." But, when
On Sep 28, 2008, at 2:23 AM, debian-user-digest-
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From: "Mumia W.." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: September 28, 2008 12:28:43 AM PDT
To: Debian User List
Subject: Re: Problem compiling 2.6.26 kernel
On 09/27/2008 10:42 PM, Arthur Barlow wrote:
I have used
I have used Debian for many years and I have always used the kernel-
package program that is included with Debian to compile new kernels.
I have an older Athlon PC that has the Reiserfs 3.6 on it. After I
do the "make-kpkg --revision= ## kernel-image" and then use "dpkg -i"
to install the
Celejar wrote:
On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:28:01 -0700
Arthur Barlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I recently bought an MSI Wind U100 notebook with Windows XP and
partitioned the hard drive in half so I could also run GNU/Linux. The
notebook uses a Realtek RT8101E chipset for it's WLAN.
I recently bought an MSI Wind U100 notebook with Windows XP and
partitioned the hard drive in half so I could also run GNU/Linux. The
notebook uses a Realtek RT8101E chipset for it's WLAN. Does anyone know
if there is an open source driver for this chip?
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oxy wrote:
Without knowing your skill level, the respondent could only guess at how
much you know and how specific he needed to be, so he may have assumed
you were a newbie who wasn't actually asking what you meant to ask.
Ok, the fact is that i do not have the command `man` in my system
(
Jimmy Wu wrote:
I sort of have this working, there's a few more things I have to take care of.
First, how do I add an entry in gdm to run compiz instead of xfwm4?
I tried to use the method of putting a .desktop file in
/usr/share/xsessions, pointing to a script in which I run
nvidia-settings -l
Rick Pasotto wrote:
I pretty much keep current with 'testing' but seldom reboot. Today I
rebooted and system fonts are noticeably smaller than before the reboot.
My Seamonkey window now shows two more lines of text because the menubar
text is smaller.
Why would the display size of the fonts chan
John Salmon wrote:
I keep seeing "Aptitude Reference Manual" mentioned in the documentation
but can't find a location to access it. Can anyone help me?
Install aptitude-doc-en.
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I'm running unstable on a x86 machine. About a month ago Aptitude
recommended uninstalling itself, which I overrode for awhile then one
day decided to let it do it, thinking I could reinstall it. Well, I
was wrong. There was a dependency problem for awhile and it's only
been recently tha
Greg Folkert wrote:
On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 11:23 -0700, Arthur Barlow wrote:
I thought I'd try this list as well.
email message attachment (Trying to figure out a USB wireless
stick.eml)
The fact you are running 2.6.17 tells me you are behind on kernel
versions or running Ubuntu
I thought I'd try this list as well.
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I'm using an older Dell Latitude which has always worked great with
Debian. I'm currently using the "lenny" or testing version. I'm trying
to set up a Linksys wireless card or stick. When I boot the computer
the BIOS sees the stick
For the past few days I keep getting a "public key" warning when I try
to update packages from two different mirrors. The warning says
"NO_PUBLIC 010908312D230C5F" It seems as if the packages are missing a
checksum key or some other problem. Could you please check thank
After updating the latest set of Gnome libraries for Debian unstable, I
noticed that the "Applications" menu and submenus have changed. However,
Iam not able to right click and delete an item. Enough when I log in as
root I don't have this functionality. Any suggestions?
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Try doing a "make mrproper" to delete the existing .config file. Then do
"make config" or "make menuconfig", etc., and build a new .config file.
With the exception of the processor type, don't make any changes to the
default .config file. Then try to compile it and see what happens. This
has w
I just build a new computer and I'm trying to set up Debian Sid on it.
The motherboard is an MSI KT400 for an Athlon-XP processor. I'm using an
MSI video card with the Nvidia FX5200 chipset and 128M of memory.
The system will not run X and when I look at "dmesg" I see an error when
the kernel is
On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 16:37:17 -0700, Mark Phillips wrote:
> My laptop is set up to dual boot Debian (sid) and Windows 2000. What is
> the best way to be able to share files between the two OSs?
>
> The Linux howtwo on this subject warns about directly mounting My
> Documents from Windows in Linux
On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 18:57:07 -0500, xucaen wrote:
> Hi all, I'm trying to install woody (3.0r1) from CD's on a PC with an
> AMD K6 II 500mhz and a brand new Seagate 80GB Barracuda Ultra ata/100 and a
> brand new SIIG ultra ata/133 pci controller. in addition to the new Seagate,
> the pc has an IO
I'm searching for guidance in the wilderness. I'm running a Dell Latitude
CPx laptop with Debian Sid. I originally installed the bf24 kernel and
never had a problem. Now I'm trying to use "kernel-package" to compile
the 2.4.23 kernel. I've downloaded the necessary source run "make
menuconfig" t
On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 17:00:38 +, Richard Pearce wrote:
> Hi I've been trying to recompile my kernel however the list of modules coming out is
> incomplete..
>
> What i've been doing..
>
> First off I got kernel-source.2.4.20 ..
> then i did make menuconfig and decided on the stuff i want in
On Sat, 06 Dec 2003 14:18:22 +0200, Mihai P. B. Stiucan wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am an RedHat user and now I saw that RedHat is no more available as a
> free distribution. So i want to switch to Debian. I found some help on
> the www.debian.org web site, but I still need some advices.
>
> I saw t
On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 10:18:30 +0100, . . wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a strange problem with apt-get. I installed a package manually
> with dpkg after apt-get ran into a conflict and since then apt-get does
> not upgrade anything. It gives:
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree...
Type "dmesg" at the command prompt. Then use Shift-Page Up to scroll
upward.
On Thu, 2003-11-27 at 10:08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello, I want to review the lines and lines of text
> that printout during startup, but they quickly scroll
> off the screen.
>
> Are they logged in a file or file
Put the following line in your /etc/mailcap file if it's not there
already:
text/html; /usr/bin/mozilla '%s'; description=HTML Text; test=test -n
"$DISPLAY"; nametemplate=%s.html
On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 13:04, Christoph Simon wrote:
> Is there any way to configure mozilla to open inline any file
>
IMHO, your best bet is to install "aptitude." Aptitude will manage all
the upgradeable packages in a single instance for you if you choose that
route. It's on the ISO disk. Do apt-get -u install aptitude.
On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 09:29, Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. wrote:
> I am a former RedHat user a
Speaking from my own experience, I sent an e-mail sortly after the
servers went down and it eventually found it's way to the list.
However, it was about 4 or 5 days late.
On Mon, 2003-11-24 at 16:34, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
> Will there be a sudden flood of the messages that weren't processed in
I have an AMD Athlon machine with a 3Com network card. I first install
Debian 2.4.18-bf24 for Sid and everything worked fine. Recently I tried
to use kernel-package to make a new 2.4.22 kernel. I ran menuconfig and
set what I believed to be all the appropriate settings. Under network
devices I
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