RE: Locked up Gnome

2010-09-05 Thread Gero Putzar
I had a similar experience with Lenny. It turned out that the USB hubs mouse and keyboard are connected to were shut down somehow. I didn't even have the caps or num lock leds working. For some power saving reasons I assume. I could still login from a remote host and restart the usb drivers by: #

RE: How to resume USB hubs

2010-09-03 Thread Gero Putzar
w to resume USB hubs > > What about looking or turn to defaults your bios? > > On 02/09/10 23:10, Gero Putzar wrote: > > Hi, > > > > when I tried to log in to my computer today, I realized that the usb > ports > > are not working anymore, therefore I've

RE: How to resume USB hubs

2010-09-03 Thread Gero Putzar
evel file under /sys/bus/usb/devices/... Thank you for pointing me in the right direction, Cheers, Gero. > -Original Message- > From: Camaleón [mailto:noela...@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, 3 September 2010 2:19 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: How to resume

How to resume USB hubs

2010-09-02 Thread Gero Putzar
Hi, when I tried to log in to my computer today, I realized that the usb ports are not working anymore, therefore I've got no keyboard and no mouse anymore. Logging in via ssh, I checked that besides that everything seems to be running fine. I googled around a bit and assume that the built in usb

RE: emacs in etch vs. unicode

2010-08-11 Thread Gero Putzar
> -Original Message- > From: jida...@jidanni.org [mailto:jida...@jidanni.org] > Sent: Thursday, 22 July 2010 7:37 AM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: emacs in etch vs. unicode > > Help, how can I see other than \233\233 bytecode when using emacs -nw > with this old version of

gnome desktop and text terminal stop

2010-03-31 Thread Gero Putzar
Hi, I am running Lenny on a computer that is used remotely as number cruncher and as a work station at the same time. Now for the second time the desktop login (gdm) has become very slow or virtually stopped accepting input. The mouse pointer is still moving but very very slow and there seems to b

RE: fvwm-crystal: without window decoration for screenlets

2009-09-30 Thread Gero Putzar
> Hello folks, > Since a few days, I'm using the nice fvwm-crystal after leaving gnome. > But gnome have screenlets that I want to keep. I can launch them but > the > problem is that they are now with window decoration. What I want is > screenlets without window decoration like it was with Gnome.

RE: apt-get error message seems contradictory

2009-09-05 Thread Gero Putzar
Thank you very much for your help! @ Brian: So "A: Breaks: B" is meant to read as "A would break B if it was going to be installed". I interpreted the "Breaks:" as "does not comply with the need for the following dependency". Well, I'm not a native speaker. So maybe I should not complain about

apt-get error message seems contradictory

2009-09-04 Thread Gero Putzar
Hi, I get the following error message from apt-get: ---snip--- The following packages have unmet dependencies: libc6-i386: Breaks: lib32asound2 (<= 1.0.20-2) but 1.0.16-2 is to be installed Breaks: lib32gcc1 (<= 1:4.4.0-6) but 1:4.3.2-1.1 is to be installed ---snap--- I don't und