Ananda wrote:
>You're not using the proprietary ATI driver by any chance are you?
I don't think so, I have the openchrome driver installed.
By the way, comparing Xorg.0.log (which gave the correct resolution) and
Xorg.0.log.old (before the restart, gave the wrong resolution) things
seem to st
When I start my computer I usually get a screen with the wrong
resolution and not centred on the monitor, like this:
http://lh3.ggpht.com/_aTSyvLB4YWc/SRFI4A9dk2I/ABM/40kB7pOjaz0/Start%20screen.jpeg
(without the moiré effect).
If I restart my computer I then get the correct screen.
An
CONFIG_SOFTWARE_SUSPEND is now CONFIG_HIBERNATION
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=470861
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When my computer first boots up I have been getting a
May 17 11:44:03 login[1669]: FAILED LOGIN (1) on 'tty1' FOR
`UNKNOWN', User not known to the underlying authentication module
error the last couple of days. If I reboot it starts up OK. I am using Lenny
and I have updated it most days r
I have a small home network with nfs set up so that the computers can share
files. Commonly only one of the computers is running, particularly at first. I
would like the running computer(s) to automount the nfs shares from the other
computers when they come on line.
I have been using a line
> >>> When I try to play a DVD using mplayer it runs slowly, something
> like 4
> >>> frames a second. The screen is split diagonally and it seems as if
> one
> >>> frame is pasted into the top left half of the screen and the next into
> >>> the bottom right.
> >>>
> >>> Any ideas about wha
>On 04/11/08 07:34, John Talbut wrote:
>> When I try to play a DVD using mplayer it runs slowly, something like 4
>> frames a second. The screen is split diagonally and it seems as if one
>> frame is pasted into the top left half of the screen and the next into
>>
When I try to play a DVD using mplayer it runs slowly, something like 4 frames a
second. The screen is split diagonally and it seems as if one frame is pasted
into the top left half of the screen and the next into the bottom right.
Any ideas about what is happening, how to diagnose it or how t
And then one gets started!
http://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn
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Why pay Microsoft when you can get excellent software free?
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Ron Johnson wrote:
>
> On 12/11/07 06:05, John Talbut wrote:
>
>> Does anyone know if there is a web site with a repository of users'
>> experiences of running Debian or GNU/Linux on PCs, similar to the
>> www.linux-laptop.netsite?
>
>> It would certainly
Does anyone know if there is a web site with a repository of users' experiences
of running Debian or GNU/Linux on PCs, similar to the www.linux-laptop.net site?
It would certainly have helped me to install Debian on some PCs if I could have
had a sight of .config, xorg.conf and driver informati
OK Hans, thanks for confirming that.
John
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I have just done another kernel recompile and when I ran update-grub it listed
the previous version of the kernel first (thereby making it the default kernel
to boot).
I give my kernels a version according to the date on which I compiled them,
i.e.:
vmlinuz-2.6.21-11sep7
vmlinuz-2.6.21-18jul7
On Sun, 2007-01-28 at 08:15 +, John Talbut wrote:
I do not understand what you mean by "the source for gnome-volume-manager". As
I wrote, from what I can find out about g-v-m it gets settings via pmount-hal etc.
>
>Sven Arvidsson wrote:
If I'm not mistaken, g-v-m wi
>On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 01:49:39PM +0000, John Talbut wrote:
>> As I understand it, Gnome Volume Manager, invokes pmount-hal which passes
>> back settings from hal and hal gets settings from udev. I have looked
>> through the various udev rules files and anything to do wit
Has anyone got any ideas about this? The full message as logged is:
localhost kernel: svc: bad direction 268435456, dropping request
and it is appearing frequently. From googling I found this:
"This 268435456 value is "0x1000" hexadecimal. The code expects the value
zero, and we have a
>>> Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Firefox/2.0
>> John Talbut wrote:
>>
>>Yes. And which line does that go on? And what goes on the other lines?
>
>Mathias Brodala wrote:
>
>Only one is necessary: general.useragent.extra.firefox.
OK, thanks, I know
I am having difficulty changing the permissions for my flash memory sticks.
As I understand it, Gnome Volume Manager, invokes pmount-hal which passes back
settings from hal and hal gets settings from udev. I have looked through the
various udev rules files and anything to do with hal and I can
John Talbut wrote:
My problem is not how to change the settings - the path I gave in the first
place works perfectly well for doing this. It is what to enter, without doing a
fair amount of guessing and experimenting.
For instance, the values for IE are:
appnameMicrosoft
My problem is not how to change the settings - the path I gave in the first
place works perfectly well for doing this. It is what to enter, without doing a
fair amount of guessing and experimenting.
For instance, the values for IE are:
appname Microsoft Internet Explorer
appversion 4.0 (
Could someone please give the information for inserting in Iceweasel Tools >
User Agent Switcher > Options > User Agents > Add so that it reports as Firefox ?
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Hi
I have managed to get and keep my conexant modem working with a Debian system.
Below are my notes about how.
John
Make sure we are talking about the same modem - this one:
http://www.themad-house.co.uk/Conexant/conexant-specification.html .
All packages apart from those below are installed
The Lucida Unicode font only appears to be available as part of a Java or TeX
package. This, or one of the packages listed at
http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2003/fontsupport.htm seems to be
required. Yelp, for instance, uses the u+2003 character.
If Lucida Unicode available in
In etc/group I have the lines:
man:*:12:
sasl:*:45:
plugdev:!:46:hal,john
Can anyone explain the * and the ! ? All the other entries have x. I cannot
find any explanation for anything other than a password or x in this field.
John
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with a subj
Or do I need to recompile the kernel now?
The compilation and attempt to install did not seem to come up with any external
modules, so it seems as if in Debian pwc is only run in the kernel. If so, how
do I get my webcam to work? If not, what am I doing wrong?
John Talbut
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ek or so now) I will try to get the GUI running minimised as
you suggest. I am a bit (not much) concerned about the compromise in
security that is mentioned.
John Talbut
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includes
Firestarter in the boot sequence even though it is configured to start
on dialup.
Now, how to get the ifup script to start Firestarter automatically.
John Talbut
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inal=false
Categories=X-Debian-Apps-Net
Running /usr/sbin/firestarter as root does start Firestarter.
So it seems that the binary /usr/sbin/firestarter works but the scripts
starting at /etc/firestarter/firestarter.sh do not.
Any more ideas/suggestions?
John Talbut
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/ip-up.d that should start
Firestarter when the interface is up. However, this script only appears
to start Firestarter if it is already installed.
Any more suggestions as to how to get it starting up properly?
John Talbut
(Using Debian testing)
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configured to start the firewall on dial out, but this does not seem to
make any difference.
How can I get Firestarter to start automatically?
I am using Debian Etch.
John Talbut
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Thanks
I will await 10.037 migrating to testing.
Regards
John
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I am trying to recompile my Kernel using exactly the same steps as I
have used successfully previously.
When I do make-kpkg modules_clean it exits with:
test -d ./debian/stamps || mkdir debian/stamps
exec debian/rules DEBIAN_REVISION=rev.01 modules_clean
The UTS Release version in include/lin
I am using etch and it is up to date apart from the kernel. When I
wanted to recompile the kernel I found information that suggested that I
would need to upgrade to the 2.6.12 kernel. So I duly went looking for
the kernel-source-2.6.12 package, only to find it nowhere in testing.
Instead it s
I would really like to have OpenOffice 2.0 on my system. At present it
seems to be available in Etch or as a backport to Sarge. Currently I am
on Sarge with at least one package from Etch.
My options seem to be: use the backport to Sarge, use the Etch version
of OpenOffice, upgrade to Etch o
Tim Ruehsen wrote:
I have an external programme that is calling for the function killproc.
This is apparently not available in Debian Sarge.
What is the policy? What is the story? What should be used instead?
If you are using killproc for sending signals to processes by name (instead of
I have an external programme that is calling for the function killproc.
This is apparently not available in Debian Sarge.
What is the policy? What is the story? What should be used instead?
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directory?
John Talbut
Makefile:
ifeq ($(KDIR),)
KDIR :=/lib/modules/`uname -r`/source
endif
EXTRA_CFLAGS := -DNDIS_MINIPORT_DRIVER -DOS_LINUX -I${obj} -nostdinc
-Wno-multichar -DPIM_DEBUG -fno-builtin -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -O2
EXTRA_LDFLAGS := -r -g
all:
echo "MODLIB = ${M
Once upon a time I could view various types of file from Nautilus using
gview. Now it offers to open files using gview but comes up with an
error when I try. And gview does not seem to exist anywhere any more,
not on my system nor in Debian. What has happened to it and what has
replaced it?
(Repeat posting, to disconnect it from another thread)
It appears from http://people.debian.org/~mjr/mplayer.html that the
nearest there is to an "official" Debian version of mplayer is at
http://tonelli.sns.it/pub/mplayer/sarge . I am having difficulty
installing this. I do not seem to be e
It appears from http://people.debian.org/~mjr/mplayer.html that the
nearest there is to an "official" Debian version of mplayer is at
http://tonelli.sns.it/pub/mplayer/sarge . I am having difficulty
installing this. I do not seem to be ending up with, in particular, the
codec files referred t
The sort order in Thunderbird keeps changing - 1.0.2-2.sarge1.0.6 . I
usually use date - descending, but it frequently changes to ascending.
Any ideas why this might happen? Is there a way of setting the default
sort order for all folders?
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Hi again
Is there any chance I might get some answers to this? If not, any
suggestions as to how I might get some help?
John
Hi
I have managed to install Woody 3.0r3, and otherwise I am new to Linux.
I am trying to install a driver for my Conexant AccessRunner PCI ADSL modem.
The (18 page!) inst
Hi
I have managed to install Woody 3.0r3, and otherwise I am new to Linux.
I am trying to install a driver for my Conexant AccessRunner PCI ADSL modem.
The (18 page!) instructions for installing the Linux drivers that came
with the modem start by by stating:
"To use the Conexant ADSL drivers, you
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