Re: Adding user to dual boot laptop

On 10 October 2012 01:53, Gary Roach wrote: > I set up her account in passwd and group and I set up her home directory. This is something I don't quite get; how did you create the account? With commands in a terminal? Did you create her home directory manually as root with a command? Have you che

Re: Wacom Intuos dies after system suspend

On 28 September 2012 15:26, lee wrote: > Helgi Örn Helgason writes: > >> Can someone enlighten me on this? Surely there must be a way to get >> this going without rebooting? A command or something? > > Unplug it before suspend and plug it back in after waking up, or unpl

Wacom Intuos dies after system suspend

Hi! I have a Wacom Intuos 2 Graphic Tablet connected through USB. When I wake up the system after it's been in suspend-mode, the Wacom doesn't work. According to Gimp it's still connected and checking with with xinput gives me: $ xinput --list --short ⎡ Virtual core pointer

Re: installing Debian on an iMac

On 30 July 2012 22:19, David Harrison wrote: > Hi, > > I thought I'd like to install Debian on my mac. Any hints or clues on where > to start is appreciated. > Hi First of all: search the web for debian imac and you'll get a lot of material to study. Second: please be more specific, there are a

Re: WHEEZY

On 20 July 2012 16:36, Camaleón wrote: > > i have recently upgraded to wheezy and when i try to take a > screen shot by pressing (print screen/ctl+print screen), a flash > appears on the monitor.I tried installing gnome utils but i see that > they are already up to date.Do i need to install an

LXDE .xinitrc

Why does this not work in .xinitrc? setxkbmap -layout "se,is" -option "grp:switch,grp:shift_toggle" Wheezy, gdm, LXDE Cheers, /Helgi Örn -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: Shutdown and suspend not working on laptop

On 16 July 2012 01:34, DJ Amireh wrote: > I am having trouble with power management on my laptop. I cannot get suspend > or shutdown to work, attempting either causes my laptop to have a black > screen and not respond to any input and I am forced to manually shutdown by > holding the power button.

Re: Debian's grub doesn't detect Ubuntu

On 28 June 2012 12:51, Mika Suomalainen wrote: > > Thank you for your reply. > > I tried mounting all partitions now and running update-grub after > reading your email, but it didn't seem to work. I am still seeing only > Debian and Windows 7 in GRUB. > Hmm... Strange, I did this today on a comput

Re: Debian's grub doesn't detect Ubuntu

On 27 June 2012 07:37, Mika Suomalainen wrote: > Hi, > > I have three OSes on this computer. They are Debian Sid, Ubuntu Precise > and Windows 7. > > It seems that Debian's grub can only detect Debian and Windows 7, but > not Ubuntu. > > I have tried Googling and running update-grub some times, bu

Re: installation ppc mac

On 13 February 2012 11:23, Bud Francis wrote: > Hi there debian folks, > > I got my hands on a power mac g4 with a 32 bit ppc processor. After > trying to install many versions of Linux on it I have come to the > conclusion that it comes up fine in text mode but as soon as the xserver > starts i

Re: No audio from cd-rom

ons 2003-01-29 klockan 10.35 skrev Aryan Ameri: > On Tuesday 28 January 2003 15:16, Helgi Örn Helgason wrote: > > tis 2003-01-28 klockan 11.54 skrev [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > > > You mean the CD didn't play well in a normal CD-player either? In that > > > case,

Re: No audio from cd-rom

tis 2003-01-28 klockan 13.42 skrev [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Hi, > If the disc is spinning, and you're player is, ehm, playing, but you > don't hear the music, chances are you just don't have a cable connecting > your CD-player to your soundcard. MS Windows doesn't need such a cable, > but Linux does (a

Re: No audio from cd-rom

tis 2003-01-28 klockan 11.54 skrev [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Hello, > > > I was going to rip some music to my hd (for private use of course...:) > > with grip but it didn't find anything. *No Disc* it says. When I tried > > to play the cd with a cdplayer it didn't work either. Otherwise the > > cd-rom

No audio from cd-rom

Hi! I was going to rip some music to my hd (for private use of course...:) with grip but it didn't find anything. *No Disc* it says. When I tried to play the cd with a cdplayer it didn't work either. Otherwise the cd-rom works as it should. Can someone tell me why this happens? Thank's in advance

apt-get problem

Hello all! I have this problem since yesterday with apt-get on my laptop: -- Reading Package Lists... Error! E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room E: Error occured while processing kmtrace (NewVersion1) E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/download.uk.kde.org_pub_kde_stable_latest_Debian_woody_

Re: Disk boot failure

On Sat, 2002-11-09 at 21:52, Elizabeth Barham wrote: > Helgi =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=D6rn?= Helgason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Thank's for your reply, but the boot sequence is already A, C so this is > > not the problem. > > It may be a bad floppy or a bad floppy-disk drive. > I checked with ano

Re: Disk boot failure

On Sat, 2002-11-09 at 20:16, Pigeon wrote: > You haven't got a bootable partition on the hard drive, and it sounds > like your BIOS is set to boot from the hard drive and not the floppy. > > Go into BIOS Setup (press DEL when booting) and make sure that the > boot sequence (can't remember the exac

Re: ATI Rage 128 and XFree 4.1

On Fri, 2002-06-21 at 18:58, Michael Jinks wrote: [snip] > Driver "r128" > > ...but that fails under Debian unless I change it to: > > Driver "vesa" > [snip] > Hi Michael! I'm running this chip on a Gateway stationary box, it took a while to tweak it in Woody

Re: Kärlek

On Wed, 2002-06-19 at 11:30, Helgi Örn Helgason wrote: > Hej Tor! > ps! Sorry, wasn't supposed to go to the list...:o| HÖ -- <http://www.sacred-eagle.com/> ~~ Gnupg signature ID 83AC4814 ~ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Kärlek

Hej Tor! Är du ute och påtar i trädgården? Efter att ha suttit och konfigurerat i dagar, äntligen fått till allting, och kört nu ett par veckor eller tre då säger jag bara en sak: Debian! Det är kärlek. Puss, HÖ -- ~~ Gnupg signature ID 83AC4814

Re: OGG wont do

On Tue, 2002-06-18 at 11:45, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > I don't know of any "out-of-the-box" tools, but something along the > lines of (Disclaimer: Untested, No warranty, etc): > > mpg123 --stdout somefile.mp3 | \ > oggenc --raw -o somefile.ogg -a ArtistName -l Albumname -t Title ... >

Re: GDM config

On Fri, 2002-06-14 at 19:19, Matthias Ellinger wrote: > > create file in /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions/blackbox > > "exec blackbox" > > save and mark as executable. > > Restart gdm - that should do it. Thank's this worked very well...:-) Cheers, HÖ -- ~ This message is digitally signed - GPG key

Re: GDM config

On Fri, 2002-06-14 at 18:33, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > If your users want to use blackbox, all they need to do is run the > Control Center (gnomecc) and choose it in the window manager section. > (if it isn't already listed, add it) > The point is to be able to start Blackbox as desktop not a

Re: VmWare on Woody

On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 15:27, Robert Ian Smit wrote: > Rpm is installed in Woody only if you select it. It's available in > section admin, priority optional. > > In the package desciption you will find a strong suggestion to use > alien instead: > > "Using rpm directly will bypass the Debian packa

Re: Debian book for complete newbie?

On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 14:14, Q. Gong wrote: > On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Johann Spies wrote: > > The website is http://rute.sourceforge.net. It looks nice. > > Qian > > Gee, that seems to be a real piece of work. A link on my desktop...:-) Cheers, Helgi Örn -- ~ This message is digitally sig

Re: VmWare on Woody

On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 15:27, Robert Ian Smit wrote: > Rpm is installed in Woody only if you select it. It's available in > section admin, priority optional. > > In the package desciption you will find a strong suggestion to use > alien instead: > > "Using rpm directly will bypass the Debian packa

Re: VmWare on Woody

On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 15:26, Colin Watson wrote: > I believe it's there for extracting files manually from RPMs, building > RPMs, and that sort of thing. Using it to install packages on your live > system is dangerous because there's no protection against RPM packages > stomping all over things tha

Re: VmWare on Woody

On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 14:28, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 01:46:46PM +0200, Helgi ?rn wrote: > > I've never before installad a package with RPM in Debian, are there some > > weird oddities combined with that? > > Never do that. Use alien if you can't find a non-RPM version of the

Re: VmWare on Woody

On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 14:24, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > > Why are you trying to use the RPM? Why not use the TAR archive at > the link below (taken directly from VMWare's web-site): > > http://vmware-svca.www.conxion.com/software/VMware-workstation-3.1.1-1790.tar.gz > Because that's what I had h

Re: Kernel panic... :-(

On Mon, 2002-06-10 at 17:03, Helgi Örn wrote: [snip] At last I managed to get back into the system on the old kernel (2.2.20), so now I just have to study further the art of upgrading the kernel in Debian... :-) Cheers, Helgi Örn -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E