Re: exclude packages from updating: apt vs yum

At Sat, 13 Feb 2010 08:18:27 + (UTC), Huub wrote: > > Hi, > > On RedHat/Fedora, I can exclude packages from being updated like this: > "yum --exclude -y upgrade". > Can someone please tell me (or provide a link to it) if this is also > possible with apt-get. Reading the apt-get manpage, I didn

Re: Debian installation on laptop with damaged screen

At Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:47:26 +0100, Odd wrote: > > I get picture through the VGA port, but only after XP has > booted. I thought I'd install Debian, but of course the picture > defaults to the laptop's screen, and I cannot see enough > of the picture to progress with the installation. > > I tried t

Re: gaim and pidgin connection problem

At Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:16:42 +0800, Yuwen Dai wrote: > > [1 ] > > [2 ] > On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Kun Niu wrote: > > I don't have such a problem. Can you get some kind of hint from the > output of the pidgin debug output window? > > The error message is : Our protocol is not sup

Re: rsync, beagle, lsetxattr

At Sat, 12 Dec 2009 18:20:36 + (UTC), Camaleón wrote: > > On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:35:14 -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote: > > > I used to have beagle installed but have now purged it. When I run rsync > > there are many error messages of the following type: > > > > rsync: rsync_xal_set: > > lsetxatt

Re: What is the correct way to disable NCQ? Where to report upstream?

At Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:03:07 -0400, Allan Wind wrote: > > ... > > Subsequently, I disabled NCQ with: > > $ echo 1 > /sys/block/sda/device/queue_depth > $ echo 1 > /sys/block/sdb/device/queue_depth > > which rendered the system stable. Is there a better way of > implementing t