Re: No.cursor on the Gnome Terminal. in Wheezy

2013-06-13 Thread Larry Johnson
On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 2:32 PM, Rob Owens wrote: > > I see the same behavior on my system, but I'm using fluxbox. Normally I > just use xterm instead of gnome-terminal. But I just discovered that in > gnome-terminal I can get the colors back correctly like this: > > Edit, Profile Preferences,

Re: problem with gnome on installing Debian 7

2013-05-26 Thread Larry Johnson
;m going to pull together the diagnostic info suggested in the fedora bug report. I'm also going to keep an eye on just what percentage of reboots this happens. Larry On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 11:19 AM, Larry Johnson < larryfeltonjohn...@gmail.com> wrote: > Actually, Brian's

sound synchronization in flash

2013-05-25 Thread Larry Johnson
Here's a somewhat silly problem I'd like to chase down (but wouldn't be a disaster if it stays broken) I've been navigating around my new wheezy install checking that everything works (so far nearly everything does), but I stumbled on an odd little issue. I went to a flash pacman site (at http://

Re: problem with gnome on installing Debian 7

2013-05-25 Thread Larry Johnson
Actually, Brian's suggestion to reinstall was a good one, and for a reason I wouldn't have expected. I noticed when I started to reinstall that I was using the i386 version instead of the amd64 (consistent with my chip). I'm not sure what direct effect that would have on gnome-shell, but reinstal

Re: problem with gnome on installing Debian 7

2013-05-25 Thread Larry Johnson
On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 8:04 AM, Brian wrote: > > A reinstall would at least allow you to see whether the problem is > repeatable. > I'll do a reinstall then. I'd really like to track this down. > You'll be using the nouveau driver, then. The controller belongs to the > NV40 family. > >

Re: problem with gnome on installing Debian 7

2013-05-25 Thread Larry Johnson
On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 6:17 AM, Brian wrote: > > > Considering it is a new install (done by selecting a DE via d-i, we > assume) you have nothing to lose by reinstalling. Also, the video system > may be the culprit. 'lspci' will give you information on it which you > could post here. > > I'll tr

Re: problem with gnome on installing Debian 7

2013-05-25 Thread Larry Johnson
On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 4:21 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > And the number of your report is? > It's report #709684. I'm aware I didn't include nearly enough info in the report, but hoped that the maintainer would give me guidance in what would be relevant to the problem at hand. I wasn't even

problem with gnome on installing Debian 7

2013-05-24 Thread Larry Johnson
I mostly need advice on how to follow up with a bug report (and what additional info I might need to pull together). I'm new to debian, but not to GNU/Linux. I just installed Debian 7, and my install seems to be afflicted with a very old bug which was closed with no resolution. It was bug 636874