Re: The future of "nv" driver (was: Linux compatible mainboards -another thought)

2010-04-24 Thread Jean-François Pirlet
> The VESA driver is not adequate > for many users. If I recall correctly, the VESA driver only makes > use of video graphics modes supported by the video BIOS. These video > modes often cannot exploit the maximum video resolution available on > many modern LCD displays. This was the main reason

Re: torrents for testing

2009-12-22 Thread Jean-François Pirlet
> I'm curious... are there any torrents out there for testing/squeeze? Hello. http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/ for weekly builds. http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/ for daily builds. Choose your arch. Iso-cd contains ISOs, bt-cd contains torrents,

Re: screenshots.debian.net contains image with ubuntu screenshot, is it fine ?

2009-11-25 Thread Jean-François Pirlet
> The problem is that not there are a checkbox-gtk package in debian, so > why a screenshot of this ? Because Debian is not the only one to use that repository, Ubuntu also uses it, hence that screenshot. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "uns

Re: Using ICH10R or ICH9R created volumes

2009-11-17 Thread Jean-François Pirlet
> Is using volumes created in chipset RAID utilities supported? > > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/SataRaid -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Intel D945GSEJT LAN and Debian not working

2009-11-12 Thread Jean-François Pirlet
> Strangely the system seems to be referring to "squeeze" instead of sid > (?). Well, if you have used the testing-netinst, that's pretty normal (unless you have configured your sources.list to Sid). Squeeze is the current Testing distro. Sid is the Unstable distro. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Intel D945GSEJT LAN and Debian not working

2009-11-11 Thread Jean-François Pirlet
> realtek has just joined ati as something I will never spend money on > again. Intel is about to join that list too. Huh, if you blacklist Realtek (Realtek chips are found almost everywhere...), Intel and Ati, given that Ati belongs to AMD, it's likely you won't spend much money on computers i

Re: No "Shut Down..." option in "System" menu

2009-11-02 Thread Jean-François Pirlet
> I receive ``the administrator is not allowed to log in from this > screen.'' I am thus unable to log graphically in as root. If you're trying to log in as root from gdm, this behaviour is normal. You should log in as root from another console (tty1, for example), kill GDM and then startx. For

Re: using lame

2009-10-28 Thread Jean-François Pirlet
> This is only partly correct. The real answer is you can convert from > any lossless format to lossy to acheive the desired results. WAV is > uncompressed lossless audio data, whereas FLAC, Wavpack, etc. are > lossless compression file formats that also have the ability to store > ID3 tag info

Re: debian-installer (squeeze-ia64) fails on new machine

2009-10-24 Thread Jean-François Pirlet
Le vendredi 23 octobre 2009 à 14:55 -0700, Frank Miles a écrit : > Has anyone tried installing 'squeeze' recently on a i7/860 machine? > Trying the small-CD method - the line "Loading Operating System ..." > comes up... and never goes away. No error messages, beeps, or any > other complaints. The

Re: How to make Debian/GNome manage network automatically

2009-10-19 Thread Jean-François Pirlet
Comment out the "auto eth1" and "iface eth1 inet dhcp" lines. Edit your /etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf to "managed=true". E.g. from : "[main] plugins=ifupdown,keyfile [ifupdown] managed=false" to: "[main] plugins=ifupdown,keyfile [ifupdown] managed=true" Reboot (or restart NM), an

Re: Fonts looking bad on qt apps

2009-10-13 Thread Jean-François Pirlet
> Any one else has noticed this problem and found a fix for that? I would > appreciate any pointers to fix this problem. Same problem here, Debian Squeeze/Testing amd64, Gnome, using e.g. LyX or Kile. There seems to be something wrong with the way qtconfig loads its settings when you're a normal