GTK3 themes

A recent testing update upgraded some gnome packages to version 3.0.X gnome-terminal is one of these and it doesn't seem compatible with my current GTK theme: its interface (menu, etc) looks horribly similar to windows95. How can I install/manage themes for GTK3? I did a quick search with aptitud

Re: Help me understand these dependencies (xorg/video drivers)

On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Angus Hedger wrote: > Seems the last update broke some of the drivers, I would remove > xserver-xorg-video-nsc, xserver-xorg-video-nsc, xserver-xorg-video-all, > and reinstall xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd or xserver-xorg-video-ati > (the newer driver that has repl

Re: Help me understand these dependencies (xorg/video drivers)

On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Angus Hedger wrote: > On Tue, 21 Sep 2010 09:36:50 +0200 > Matteo Riva wrote: > > >> The following packages have unmet dependencies: >>   fglrx-driver: Conflicts: nvidia-glx but 195.36.24-4 is to be >> installed. xserver-xorg-core

Help me understand these dependencies (xorg/video drivers)

Debian testing installation. An aptitude dist-upgrade today results in: The following packages have unmet dependencies: fglrx-driver: Conflicts: nvidia-glx but 195.36.24-4 is to be installed. xserver-xorg-core: Breaks: xserver-xorg-video-2 which is a virtual package. Break

How to tune display position on external VGA display

I'm using a laptop which I connect to a plasma TV through a VGA connection. I can get the display on the plasma to work at the correct resolution (1360x768) but the image is shifted on the left so that part of it is hidden and I have a black bar on the right. My card is a Radeon Mobility 3430. Wi

Corrupted display with ATI 10.6 drivers

I installed ATI proprietary drivers version 10.6 and, while I can get the system to work, it becomes corrupted quickly. Example of corruption: while cycling through Iceweasel's open tabs, parts of them become all black, or white, elements disapper and reappear when mouseovered, etc. I'm using the

Re: Did any recent testing update break ATI fglrx drivers?

On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 7:26 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: >>> There is a new kernel in squeeze that includes shiny KMS framebuffer >>> drivers for both Radeon and Nvidia cards.  These are incompatible with >>> the proprietary blobs from ATI and Nvidia. >> >> Can you point me to more information on thi

Re: Video problems with VLC

On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 3:24 AM, Felipe Sateler wrote: > apt-cache policy libavcodec52 > > Note the version that is in the debian repositories, and then: > > aptitude install > libav{codec52,device52,filter0,format52,util49,postproc51}= you just found out> ffmpeg=version This was not really enou

Re: Video problems with VLC

On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 7:26 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 06/17/2010 11:30 AM, Matteo Riva wrote: >> >> I found this bug report[1] but I'm not sure on how to proceed in order >> to apply that solution.  I can remove vlc with no problems, but if I try >> removi

Re: Video problems with VLC

This is the error I get in console: swScaler: pal8 is not supported as output pixel format [0xa0d7c30] swscale scale error: could not init SwScaler and/or allocate memory -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact list

Re: Did any recent testing update break ATI fglrx drivers?

On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 6:49 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: > In the subject line you talk about ATI fglrx.  So what graphics card do > you have? I'm sorry, my card is a Mobility Radeon 3430. > There is a new kernel in squeeze that includes shiny KMS framebuffer > drivers for both Radeon and Nvidia ca

Did any recent testing update break ATI fglrx drivers?

I have looked for info on this but haven't found any. Since a couple of days I can't boot X anymore with my usual nvidia drivers setup. All I get is a blank screen with no way out, not even CTRL+ALT+Fn. My system is testing, updated daily. Is there any known issue causing this? Thanks. -- T

Re: Video problems with VLC

I found this bug report[1] but I'm not sure on how to proceed in order to apply that solution. I can remove vlc with no problems, but if I try removing libavutil50 I have a chain of dependencies complaining: Remove the following packages: 1) ffmpeg 2) gnome 3) gstreamer0.10-f

Re: Video problems with VLC

On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Angus Hedger wrote: > Hey, > > Do you use the debian multimedia repo? > > Because I had the same problem with VLC myself yesterday, the only > thing I could do to fix it was to disable the dm repo, purge vlc, and > reinstall from just debian main. I was indeed us

Video problems with VLC

I have a problem playing AVI divx files with VLC. Yesterday upon start VLC showed an error message complaining about divx codecs and refused to proceed. Today the player starts but the video is squished horizontally (it occupies roughly 1/4th of the VLC window which is for the other part black).

Re: Laptop can't resume from suspend mode

2010/5/11 Johan Grönqvist : > 2010-05-10 18:12, Matteo Riva skrev: >> >> Using Xorg 7.5 with radeonhd FOSS driver. >> >> Anybody had this problem and/or knows about a solution? >> > > I have not had the problem (I use the radeon driver), and do not know of a

Laptop can't resume from suspend mode

I've been using the suspend function a lot on my laptop (HP 6830s), but after a recent update of my Debian testing when I try to recover from suspend mode, all I get is a black screen, can't even get on a console with CTRL+ALT+Fx. Using Xorg 7.5 with radeonhd FOSS driver. Anybody had this problem

Substitutin fonts with ~/.fonts.conf

I'm trying using ~/.fonts.conf to replace Helvetica with Droid Sans, here's the content of the file: Helvetica Droid Sans but no matter what, nothing seems to happen. I tried running fc-cache, I have checked in /etc/fonts/conf.d and I found 50-user.conf which seems to explicitly call

Debian way to compile your own version of a package

I would like to recompile Vim with a specific patch, and I'd like to know what's the recommended way to do so in a Debian system. Should it be kept separate - like in /usr/local - or should I create a .deb package with a special version name and replace the official one? Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRI

Connect to Watchguard VPN

Hello, this is the first time I have to use a VPN so I need basic information on how to do it. I need to connect to a Watchguard VPN but the admin only sent me details for windows so I'm kinda clueless. What packages should I use? What specific details should I ask the admin? I already asked for s

Re: Downgrading xorg xserver from 1.7 to 1.6

On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 10:40 AM, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: > A good starting point would be to look at your /var/log/Xorg.0.log for > errors (EE) and warnings (WW). Nowadays X his supposed to handle dri or > compositing alone, but sometime it helps to show him the way. On the > contrary by

Re: Downgrading xorg xserver from 1.7 to 1.6

On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 11:29 PM, Wolodja Wentland wrote: > I use the radeonhd driver and am very happy with its performance. I ran > into the same behaviour you described some time ago and fixed it by using EXA > as acceleration method. The applicable part from my xorg.conf is: > > --- snip ---

Re: Downgrading xorg xserver from 1.7 to 1.6

2010/1/30 Johan Grönqvist : > Have you tried both the radeon and the radeonhd >  drivers? As I understand it, they should be similar in feature set, but I > had issues (slow scrolling, among others) with the radeon driver that I do > not experience with the radeonhd driver. Yes I have tried both

Fwd: Does lenny use grub2?

Thanks everybody for the replies, I'm still unsure on how to proceed. When I install lenny should I let the installer proceed with its own grub and put it in the master boot record? Will this overwrite the current grub2? Or should I install the lenny loader in its own partition and chainload it f

Re: Downgrading xorg xserver from 1.7 to 1.6

On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 10:00 AM, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: > Hi, > > before going the (hard) downgrade way, did you try using the free > "radeon" driver (or whichever is relevant for your card). I "fixed" a > computer crippled by the same problem yesterday, running an Ati > HD2600XT, and t

Does lenny use grub2?

I have a squeeze system installed and I wanted to install a debian lenny in another partition and I was wondering if there could be issues with the bootloader. Does lenny use grub2 now? If not, will there be conflicts with the two versions? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.d

Re: Downgrading xorg xserver from 1.7 to 1.6

On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 12:32 AM, Stefaan Himpe wrote: > I also needed to downgrade when the nvidia driver was broken a few weeks > ago. I managed to do so as root using dpkg with the -i option. > Note that apt-get from that moment on complained about some broken packages > on my system (until I d

Downgrading xorg xserver from 1.7 to 1.6

Squeeze upgrade broke fglrx driver with the new xserver. How can I downgrade the xserver from 1.7.4 back to 1.6.5 when fglrx driver was working fine? What packages do I need to downgrade, and where can I find those versions? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Can't get fglrx driver to work after recent xserver update (squeeze)

After yesterdays upgrade which contained new xserver packages, I can't run the fglrx non-free driver anymore. I installed the latest version with the sgfxi[1] script but when xserver dies immediately with no screens found and this error message dlopen: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so:

Can't manage my iPod

I used to be able to manage my iPod fine, but now it's almost impossible. The device mounts and is browseable, although I get this output from fdisk Disk /dev/sdb: 4095 MB, 4095737344 bytes 241 heads, 62 sectors/track, 535 cylinders Units = cylinders of 14942 * 512 = 7650304 bytes Disk ide

Re: Testing update: can't resolve dependencies with epiphany packages

Quoting Johan Grönqvist: > The description of the epiphany-gecko in squeeze > () says: > > "This package has been made obsolete by epiphany-browser 2.28.0, and > is safe to remove. " > > So just uninstalling epiphany-gecko and upgrading the rest

Testing update: can't resolve dependencies with epiphany packages

aptitude dist-upgrade gives me this: The following packages have unmet dependencies: epiphany-browser: Conflicts: epiphany-gecko but 2.26.3-2 is installed and it is kept back. epiphany-gecko: Depends: epiphany-browser-data (< 2.27) but 2.29.3-1 is to be installed. The following actions will

Applet to show arbitrary text in gnome panel

What I'd like is a container which runs a script on a timer and displays its output. Basically something like Conky, just for the gnome panel. Is there such a thing? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact list

Re: Lost window manager and gnome-panel

Quoting Chris Jones: > That sounds rather suspicious: Just clicking on Preferences causing a > crash is something that everybody would spot right away. It's not like > some hidden option in some obscure dialog that hardly anybody uses. Did > you google or search bug reports re: this crash? May hav

Re: Different font rendering in Iceweasel and Google Chrome

Quoting Chris Jones: > Actually my first reaction to your initial post was thi s: > > http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/webmatters/verdana.html > > But, it looks like I was barking the wrong tree since you later wrote > that this affected all .ttf's. I'm fine with verdana being that different, my

Gimp space bar move and key repeat

I noticed that when you use the space bar to move the image, the normal key repeat is not disabled and it messes up the action: it goes smooth for the split second it takes for the repeat to kick in, then the movement goes crazy. Can this be fixed? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ..

Re: Different font rendering in Iceweasel and Google Chrome

Quoting Camaleón: > - What are your fonts settings in Iceweasel? > > Here is what I have: > > *** > Occidental (iso-8859-1) > Proportional font: San serif > Serif: Times News Roman / point: 16 > Sans-serif: Arial > Monospace: Courier-new / point: 13 > Smallest font size: none > [x] Allow pages to

Re: Different font rendering in Iceweasel and Google Chrome

Quoting Chris Jones: > On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 12:58:50PM EST, Matteo Riva wrote: > > Fresh squeeze install, I have this very annoying change in font > > rendering in Iceweasel -- specifically what looks ugly is Verdana 10pt, > > it just got little bigger than my "old&quo

Re: Different font rendering in Iceweasel and Google Chrome

Quoting Camaleón: > That's an important point. > > Are all the fonts rendering bigger than they should or just happens with > Verdana? If only one font is rendering badly, it is also possible that > the file is corrupted in some way. Well, so far I found that the problem happens only with true

Re: Different font rendering in Iceweasel and Google Chrome

> I asked because if this behavior is reproducible "system-wide" (that is, > if almost any application renders Verdana 10pt a bit bigger than it > should) it could be related to your screen dpi size. > > At least under Lenny (in Gnome desktop) the default dpi was (wrongly) > setup at 86 dpi and

Different font rendering in Iceweasel and Google Chrome

Fresh squeeze install, I have this very annoying change in font rendering in Iceweasel -- specifically what looks ugly is Verdana 10pt, it just got little bigger than my "old" testing install (not updated for since september I think). Screenshot of the difference: http://fruple.com/kemper/font_siz

Synaptics touchpad spamming my kern.log

I'm getting this line Nov 21 21:03:07 blue kernel: [ 111.131915] input: ImPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /devices/platform/i8042/serio4/input/input204 twice a second in my kern.log, keeps going forever... how can I stop that? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.or

Iceweasel: fonts became bigger

After a recent update I found that fonts displayed in the page got a little bigger. It applies to fonts which have a style defined, the default size is ok. For example, in order to have the same visible size as before, a font with 10pt size has to be reduced to 9pt. It's not a single user proble

Re: Can't tweak anything about synaptics touchpad

I don't understand, yesterday I managed to switch it on and off by inserting and removing the `psmouse` module via modprobe, today it just doesn't get back on -- I haven't change anything else in my configuration. Also about the quoted changelog, I wasn't using `synclient` with the `-s` switch.

Can't tweak anything about synaptics touchpad

After the full-upgrade of my testing system (with kernel 2.6.30) I can't do anything about my touchpad anymore, with the main problem being that I can't disable it. Neither synclient nor xinput have any effect on it, and if I try gsynaptics-init I get GSynaptics couldn't initialize. You ha

udev script to disable touchpad on mouse connect

I have this little nice script in udev rules.d/ KERNEL=="mouse?", ACTION=="add", RUN="/usr/bin/xinput --set-int-prop 2 115 8 0" KERNEL=="mouse?", ACTION=="remove", RUN="/usr/bin/xinput --set-int-prop 2 115 8 1" it used to call `synclient TouchPadOff 1` but it doesn't seem to work anymore, sin

Re: testing update: problems with gnome network pacakges dependencies

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Giancarlo Pegoraro wrote: >> I'm trying today an upgrade to my testing install after quite a while. >> What I get is: >> >>   gnome-network-admin: Depends: gnome-system-tools (= 2.22.1-5) but 2.28.1-1 >> is to be installed. >>                        Conflicts: ne

testing update: problems with gnome network pacakges dependencies

I'm trying today an upgrade to my testing install after quite a while. What I get is: gnome-network-admin: Depends: gnome-system-tools (= 2.22.1-5) but 2.28.1-1 is to be installed. Conflicts: network-manager-gnome but 0.7.1-1 is to be installed. gnome-system-tools: Confl

Re: Command arguments autocompletion

On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 7:03 PM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > The code for that is through programmable bash completion: > >  /etc/bash_completion      - the base "scriptlet" >  /etc/bash_completion.d/*  - extensions by various packages [snip] Thank you very much Tzarfir. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Command arguments autocompletion

I noticed that in a shell I can use tab-complete even on command arguments, as in: $ aptitude sa will expand to $ aptitude safe-upgrade How does this work? Where does bash look for possible completion candidates? Has it always been like this or is this a recently new feature (I could swea

Re: Squeeze update broke brasero

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Matteo Riva wrote: > Last update of testing broke the brasero package -- the package was > removed and can't now be installed: > >  The following packages are BROKEN: >    gnome-desktop-environment >  The following NEW packages will be

Squeeze update broke brasero

Last update of testing broke the brasero package -- the package was removed and can't now be installed: The following packages are BROKEN: gnome-desktop-environment The following NEW packages will be installed: brasero The following packages will be REMOVED: nautilus-cd-burner{a}

fstab entries remove devices from nautilus

Hello, I just noticed that if I configure some device in /etc/fstab then it does not appear in nautilus' "places" anymore. Is this the intended behavior? Can this be customized so that devices can appear both in /etc/fstab and in nautilus? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ.

Re: Testing update broke gnome/metacity and network-manager

Regarding network-manager, after some investigation I found out that network-manager-gnome was removed because it is now marked as conflicting with gnome-network-admin. However, I can't seem to remove gnome-network-admin as gnome core packages depend on it. I'm not sure how necessary the gnome fr

Testing update broke gnome/metacity and network-manager

I just did an automatic update for new packages and I came out of it with 2 problems: * network manager stopped working, it gave an error at the end of the install process then no more icon in the panel and automatic wireless detection/connection * gnome panel now does not make the desktop and

Re: Exim4 - mail not delivered and no apparent error

On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 10:26 PM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > Please reply to the list (and only the list). Yes, sorry for the mistake, I figured that too late. > That means the message was delivered and accepted by your relay host. > Exim's work is done. As to why it was not received, you'd

Re: Exim4 - mail not delivered and no apparent error

On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 10:02 PM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > You should start by looking at the log, generally at > /var/log/exim4/main.log . Yes, that's the first thing I did, and there is nothing relevant there, just the local message entering the queue, the message leaving it for the relay

Exim4 - mail not delivered and no apparent error

I have set up exim4 using dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config with a relayhost. When I try a simple "echo text | mail s...@address" I get a "completed" message in /var/log/exim4/mainlog, the mail queue is empty but no message is received on the destination address. I don't really know how to troublesho

Re: bug #350639

On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 9:58 PM, Javier Barroso wrote: > It seems resolved in unstable, > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=525183 I have rebuilt the package from source as suggested by a user in that bug report, but now the update manager flags gnome-volume-manager as needing an

CIFS VFS: server not responding during shutdown

When I do a shutdown while I have windows shares (manually) mounted, I get a timeout before the shutdown completes. The message I get on the console screen is: CIFS VFS: server not responding CIFS VFS: No response from cmd 50 mid 15 the shutdown process hangs for half a minute or

Re: Installing xfce 4.6 on Lenny

On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 4:26 AM, Osamu Aoki wrote: > If you are asking this question, I should say "DO NOT MIX" although it > probably work most of time for now until testing get more newer > libraries.  For reason, please read: Your "for now" made me think that mixing packages gets closer to di

Installing xfce 4.6 on Lenny

Hello everybody. I have been using Debian for a while, I had an old system which went through many dist upgrades and I always played with testing and unstable stuff, even before I actually knew what I was doing. Now since I'm running a fresh and "clean" Lenny install I'm here to ask what is the c