Re: free-software phone: neo900

On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 5:54 PM, green wrote: > Something that might be of interest to Debian users: the neo900, at > , is intended to be a successor of the Nokia N900, > with significantly improved specifications and features, as well as > full free software support (excluding

Re: Nvidia drivers problem Geforce 570

On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 6:20 PM, jeremy jozwik wrote: > sorry for not being so clear. i dont have the machine in front of me > at the moment to type out the exact error but i installed the driver > ones. the install was building the man triggers and i tossed up an > error for the n

Re: Nvidia drivers problem Geforce 570

On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 6:11 PM, Nathan D'elboux wrote: >> i have my gtx 580 working "ok" with the nvidia linux driver. sadly it >> throws an install error for every install since i ran the nvidia >> driver. i dont have the machine in front of me right now to list the >> specific error. >> >> but t

Re: Nvidia drivers problem Geforce 570

On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Nathan D'elboux wrote: > Hello everyone! > > I wanted to know has anyone had any issues getting nvidia drivers working > for a Geforce 5xx series card under Debian 6 squeeze? > > I'm running a Geforce 570 running a Dell 27" IPS screen that has a res of > 2560 x 1440

Re: kernel param : why acpi=off breaks screen resolution ?

On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 8:19 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 19/09/11 05:55, Bruno Costacurta wrote: >> Hello, >> >> on my laptop Acer (model 4750) I have to pass kernel parameter acpi=off >> to be able to setup screen brightness via the Fn key. >> However the screen resolution is then downgrade (t

Re: more woes with my debian install: booting edition

On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Lisi wrote: > The CRT monitor I got rid of because I couldn't even pick it up, had as many > adjustments as my present TFT ones. :-/ i had 2 of those... 22 inchers. regular brightness / contrast, input selection, color presets, sharpness and monitor menu settings.

Re: more woes with my debian install: booting edition

On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 10:15 AM, jeremy jozwik wrote: > thanks a lot for help on this very annoying issue. i do appreciate it. kids, always update your bios. all problems solved for the moment. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "uns

Re: more woes with my debian install: booting edition

On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 6:08 AM, Mark Neidorff wrote: > My current suspect list for your problems: > Bad CD > Incompatible version (64 bit) for your video card. > Bad CD drive. things get interesting now. while talking to a buddy about this issue he wanted me to humor him by trying a unbuntu insta

Re: more woes with my debian install: booting edition

On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 8:45 AM, Mark Neidorff wrote: > Hmmm.OK.  I didn't see your first posts, so lets do some basic stuff. thats ok, thanks for the help! > 1. Did you do a media check (sha1sum or whatever) on the install CD? nope. though during my troubleshooting of debian 6.0.2 i used my

Re: more woes with my debian install: booting edition

On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 4:20 AM, Mark Neidorff wrote: > The screen picture that you posted doesn't show an error message, but it also > doesn't show the entire video output.  Can you resize the video output on the > monitor to show everything?  (I'm looking for a "#" prompt at the bottom left > cor

more woes with my debian install: booting edition

for those who are not fallowing, i last posted to the list about not being able to see anything on my machine past the debian squeeze install menu. well that was solved a few days ago. and since then i had been able to boot my machine into debian several times [possibly 6 at most] todays issue is

Re: Dual Boot.

On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 2:23 AM, Heddle Weaver wrote: > Well, thanks, but it doesn't really tell me much does it? > I've already said I've been able to do it in the past, but it's not > happening this time. > Perhaps if you read a post before you replied to it? i did, you were only whining about w

Re: Dual Boot.

just got my duel boot machine running. works great with xp installed then debian with grub. works very great. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAN=ioV=

Re: black screen after install menu.

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 8:49 AM, Camaleón wrote: > (resending to the list) > Well, glad to know you finally could reach the installer despite gremlins > seem to have fun with your machine ;-D > Greetings, > Camaleón reply to all fail... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debi

black screen after install menu.

hello list. i have decided to make the plunge from installing linux on my secondary computers, machines that dont matter if they are down for weeks at a time, to installing on my main workstation. unfortunately it is not going well so far. with bootable cds inserted, i get to the debian installer

downgrade libflashplayer.so in squeeze

hello list, i need to downgrade the flashplayer in squeeze from 10.3 to a locally saved version that is 10.1. if i simply copy over the version saved in /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/ and set the permission to be the same as the installed version flash is shown as not installed in the browser. any

Re: google to pull support for firefox 3,5

> Wow... I'm still with 3.0.6. my pc is still in 2.5 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/BANLkTimnO3HHNb3KJoF3zFRu6o9C6=u...@mail.gmail.com

Re: So much for Skype.

On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 7:58 AM, Curt Howland wrote: > So Skype has been bought by Microsoft. > > I expect the Linux version of Skype to be abolished in short order. Oh > well, thus the fate of proprietary software. I'm sure St. Ignucious is > shaking his head with the inevitability of it all. > >

Re: cinelerra is a makin me crazy

On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 9:05 AM, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: > If you install it from debian-multimedia a better place to discuss about > it would be dmo-discuss...@debian-multimedia.org since debian-multimedia > isn't an official component of Debian. > > Anyhow, Cinelerra (un)stability is kno

cinelerra is a makin me crazy

hello folks, im tired of kicking my debian laptops butt everyday by non-stop rendering in cinelerra. im attempting to install on my debian lenny 32bit workstation and getting annoying errors with libquicktime and libmjpegtools0. using [1] as my guide i have most dependants in place. the only left

Re: Firefox

On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 4:35 PM, Mark wrote: > whenever I open up firefox it crashes. I can't figure out why launch via terminal. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lis

Re: scrollbar on left side

On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 9:01 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > Neither did I, when I read the man page... :) ok, so gnome-term has an profile option for it, and iceweasel has a config value for it. there are no global ui changes that can be made then for scroll bars on the left side? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: scrollbar on left side

On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 7:52 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=man+gnome-terminal yah yah yah, i still dont see where or how gnome terminal will change all application scroll bars to the left side. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: scrollbar on left side

On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 6:12 PM, jeremy jozwik wrote: > On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 5:58 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: >> man gnome-terminal? and i dont think anyone asked for only gnome-terminal scroll bar placement -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a s

Re: scrollbar on left side

On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 5:58 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > man gnome-terminal? at work without access to my debian machine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.or

Re: scrollbar on left side

On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 5:10 PM, Wayne Topa wrote: > Konsole lets you put the scrollbar on either side. > > WT how about gnome? im a lefty with a tablet pc and this would be a handy tweak for me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: Straw poll: What browser do you use?

On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 11:57 AM, Nate Bargmann wrote: Iceweasel 3.5.9 hoping for chromium for lenny. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktine05sdk

Re: Any package instillation breaks libraries.

On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 8:32 AM, jeremy jozwik wrote: this is still happening. ive narrowed it down to something within /etc /lib /lib32 or /lib64 so its not going bad from within the /usr directory. the only instillations made this run were the recommended updates from update manager. # gedit

Re: Any package instillation breaks libraries.

On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 6:28 AM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > Before? After? > Dowloading the packages? Installing them? after instillation. > Any specific error message? nothing that i can really see. in text. the only reason i know the network has stopped functioning is my panel weather space displ

Any package instillation breaks libraries.

I am having a very annoying issue at the moment. any time i install a package via apt / synaptic / aptitude my internet connection fails. this issue is beyond me. but so far i have narrowed it down to the shared libraries folders going bad. i have a stable backup of my system that i have been copy

iceweasel and its missing libraries.

iceweasel has been very slow for me loading mail sites such as mail.yahoo.com and gmail.com. running in the terminal i get a load of errors: /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/i386/linux/npviewer.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libdirectfb-1.2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file o

Re: Converting *.mp4 to *.mp3 or *.ogg

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Jordon Bedwell wrote: > Usually if the file ends in MP4 it's video, unless they forgot that most > people use M4A for video (like Apple.) would be better if the OP could > give us more information on that subject, is it a video or is it audio? > MP4 Video to MP3 !

Re: Converting *.mp4 to *.mp3 or *.ogg

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 12:17 PM, AG wrote: > What recommendations would you have for an app to convert *.mp4 to either > *.mp3 or *.ogg? oggconvert? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: van repair

On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 5:53 PM, Paul Scott wrote: > It's already repaired.  I just need the treasurer of the orchestra to pay > for it.  :) > Paul and to think, poor debbie has no way of knowing! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

Re: [Talk-us] umapper, linux, and YOU!

On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Nakor wrote: > On 06/26/2010 12:43 PM, Nakor wrote: >> >> On 06/26/2010 11:53 AM, Dave Hansen wrote: >> >>> Doesn't work for me, either. It loads, but I get a half-blue map that I >>> can't do anything with. well that was annoying, but i now have flash 10.1 and c

umapper, linux, and YOU!

last night i made a map on umapper from my windows box. was able to create and view it fine. this morning i went to view it from my lenny machine and i am unable to pan / view the map. the site is flash based, but i am able to look at other flash sites without issue. are there other versions of fl

Re: X login screen with onscreen keyboard

On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 11:21 PM, Camaleón wrote: > Okay then. Let's review all the steps once more :-) > > - You've got a "/etc/gdm/custom.conf" file with the following content: > > [daemon] > Greeter=/usr/lib/gdmlogin > GtkModulesList=gail:atk-bridge:/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/modules/libkeymouselistener:

Re: X login screen with onscreen keyboard

On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 9:00 AM, Camaleón wrote: > Remember that at login screen you have to press any mouse button to > activate the virtual keyboard. If you do not press any key, Florence does > not become active. yah, i know that part ;) > Mmm, I guess this line is used when the program is to

Re: X login screen with onscreen keyboard

On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 8:13 AM, Camaleón wrote: > As per the instructions, is not that file the one you have to edit but "/ > etc/gdm/custom.conf" :-) > If it's not there, just create it and see how it goes. grrr.. ok, sorry about that. i no longer get the conf file warning anymore. but nor do

Re: X login screen with onscreen keyboard

On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 1:08 AM, Camaleón wrote: > Check the systax of both files, as Tao suggested. very little here for me to mess up. so im a bit stumped. /etc/gdm/gdm.conf [daemon] Greeter=/usr/lib/gdmlogin GtkModulesList=gail:atk-bridge:/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/modules/libkeymouselistener:/usr/lib

Re: X login screen with onscreen keyboard

On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Camaleón wrote: > Check if that helps: > > *** > Using Florence with GDM > http://florence.sourceforge.net/english/tips.html#gdm > *** hmm... edited the two files as instructed but not only do i get no keyboard but a nice notifier telling me that my config is bad

X login screen with onscreen keyboard

hello folks, i have a lenovo x61 tablet pc running lenny. its been working out fairly well along with the florence onscreen keyboard. the only place i cannot keep my computer in tablet mode is the x login screen. my question is how can i display an onscreen keyboard [florence or other] during the

Re: debian multimedia is back

On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Mark Neidorff wrote: > The subject says it all.  There was a hard disk crash.  All (except mailing > lists) is restored.  Check it out. excellent, great to hear. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Re: Web browsers, Adobe Flash & Debian

On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 10:07 PM, ABSDoug wrote: I also read a bit why Ubuntu uses Firefox & Debian doesn't. None of what I read was a decision maker. debian uses iceweasel, something about legalese with the mozilla lads. whateveres, iceweasel works just as well. there are ways to install flash.

Re: RAW photo images

On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 8:40 PM, H.S. wrote: > Nope, sorry. This is an older Canon camera that I have. cr2 apparently > is Canon's Raw version 2 format and is used in newer cameras. yep, those dont work in rawstudio. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subj

Re: RAW photo images

On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 7:48 PM, H.S. wrote: > I have used ufraw successfully with Canon's crw files. I have also used > dcraw to do the raw->jpeg conversion on the command line. The only > problem that I have encountered in the latter method is that the dcraw > appears to not understand camera's

Re: RAW photo images

On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 12:03 PM, Charles Kroeger wrote: > Does anyone running Debian, (not Umbuto) use 'raw-therapee' or know of a good > raw image processor that does well with 'our' distro? I have Gimp but can't > find anything regarding 'raw' in the help files. rawStudio seems to work well "e

Re: Chromium in Sid

on Fri, May 21, 2010 at 8:23 AM, Steve Fishpaste wrote: > Why is the Chromium-browser in Sid so old? Chromium has been on the > 6.x branch for a couple of weeks now and Debian is still using the 5.x > branch. question, on lenny is there a different repository for chromium? just did a apt search t

Re: Debian on a Super Lean Laptop Part I - Making it Work

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Scarletdown wrote: > Damn Small is fine for a live distro. However, I did not like having to > jump through so many hoops to get it configured the way I wanted (even > permanently changing the hostname was a big hassle). just wondering, best reason there is havin

Re: Debian on a Super Lean Laptop Part I - Making it Work

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 6:30 PM, Scarletdown wrote: > ...but now I would like to make it dual boot with Debian. However, the laptop > hangs when I try to boot into Linux. Specifically, the last thing shown on > the screen before nothing else happens is: im interested to know why your choosing de

Re: Dual channel memory question

On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 1:09 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Does that mean that placing 2 1GB modules, each into a different colored > slot, is faster than putting 1 2GB module into one slot and leaving the > other 3 slots empty? on my server board the machine will not even boot up if memory is no

Re: cannot type power of 1 or 2, 4-9 are typeable.

On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 8:08 AM, Celejar wrote: > He probably read your 'Control-R' as 'Control + R', which tells web > browsers to reload, rather than 'right Control key'. yep. ²³±!!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Co

Re: cannot type power of 1 or 2, 4-9 are typeable.

On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 7:59 AM, Camaleón wrote: > Maybe you mistyped the sequence? ;-) nah, works in gedit. just not iceweasel. so, its obvious that i have ² . so why is it not showing up in the character map? thanks for all your suggestions. and camaleón, sorry for the half-built email sent

Re: cannot type power of 1 or 2, 4-9 are typeable.

christ! lots of replies here! $ echo -e "\xc2\xb9\xc2\xb2\xc2\xb3\xe2\x81\xb4\xe2\x81\xb5" ¹²³⁴⁵ so, that is copy>pasteable. On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 12:05 AM, Camaleón wrote: > - Press Control-R and then press Shift-R (keep those pressed at the same > time) > - Now press "u" and release the th

cannot type power of 1 or 2, 4-9 are typeable.

im trying to type [copy from character map] power of 2. i can read power of 2 on webpages but if i were to cope > paste from that page, the power displays as a normal character 2. is this a dpkg-reconfigure locales issue? how can i gain the ability to type a power of 2? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Google Maps keeps "loading... still loading?"

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 8:05 AM, Camaleón wrote: > Nop, it seems to keep working as always used to. > It's just today the first time I was getting that "freeze" :-? does it freeze and never return or just lag for a while then start working? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.d

Re: Google Maps keeps "loading... still loading?"

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 6:27 AM, Camaleón wrote: > I just have noted that Google Maps keeps freezing with "loading... still > loading?" text on top and nothing works (no zoom, no panning neither with > mouse nor using the icons to make the movement in the map). i get the same nonsense with google

Re: Umont ownership?

getting more interesting at every attempt... step 1. # mount /dev/sda1 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro) tmpfs on /lib/init/rw type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755) proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) procbususb on /proc/bus/usb type us

Re: Umont ownership?

pot...@mobildebian:~$ nano /etc/group plugdev:x:46:po,potest but! video:x:44:po since the device is mounted under "video" is this an issue? and how would i get my dev/sdb1 to display in /etc/fstab? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: Umont ownership?

On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 7:46 AM, Camaleón wrote: > First, check the device perms with "mount" command and put here the > results. > Mmmm, no error message in linux uses to mean the operation was performed > "ok". Only "errors" are displayed to the user. So after clicking "umount" > on device icon,

Re: silverlight

On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 7:47 AM, Robin Krahl wrote: > On 07.04.2010 16:26, steef wrote: >> somebody out there knows of an linux_equivalent for MS's siverlight?? > > Moonlight [1] is a Open Source version of Silverlight, working on Linux. dont bother trying to use netflix with it! -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: Umont ownership?

looking around some more... /dev/ ownerships. # ls -l [snip] brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 1 2010-04-07 07:06 sda1 brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 2 2010-04-07 07:06 sda2 brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 5 2010-04-07 07:06 sda5 brw-rw 1 root floppy8, 16 2010-04-07 07:40 sdb brw-rw

Re: Umont ownership?

On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 7:51 AM, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > For a regular user, you need to be in the plugdev group to mount and > unmount. # adduser po plugdev The user `po' is already a member of `plugdev'. On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 9:36 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: > Oh, wait, did you say that the gr

Re: Umont ownership?

On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Camaleón wrote: > We still don't know if "umount" works when logged with another user in a > GNOME session :-? will have to set that up when i return home tonight. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: Umont ownership?

On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 8:41 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: > A non-root user *may* be able > to mount *some* file systems and *some* mount points depending on what is > specified in /etc/fstab.  Here is an excerpt from the man page for mount: GNU nano 2.0.7 File: /etc/fstab # /etc/fstab:

Re: Umont ownership?

On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 7:51 AM, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > For a regular user, you need to be in the plugdev group to mount and > unmount. i am not familiar with those settings in linux. so i did some searching. http://wiki.debian.org/DebianDesktopHowTo which says: "This is a problem with the way

Re: Umont ownership?

On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 7:23 AM, Camaleón wrote: > Were you running that command as "root" (or sudo) user? does not work in regular user mode. which is what i think causes the issue in GNOME right click. > Uh? So it works fine for root user... yes > - Does this happen whith any kind of media yo

Re: Umont ownership?

On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Camaleón wrote: > - On standard hard drives this should not happen. Try to debug "umount - > v /mnt/device" using the console. Also, check "dmesg" for additional > information. $ umount -v /dev/sdb1 could not umount /media/video - trying /dev/sdb1 instead umount:

Re: Umont ownership?

On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Camaleón wrote: > Try to login with another user and see what happens. will try later today. > Some tips: > > - There are some USB devices out there (mainly iPod, mp4 players and > mobile phones) that indeed do not work with just the "umounting" action. > They nee

Re: Umont ownership?

On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 9:42 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: > I'm not exactly sure what you're talking about. I am familiar with the > mount and umount commands issued at a shell prompt, but this "right click" > business I don't understand. Are you talking about some icon on the desktop, > such as GNO

Umont ownership?

hello list, after a recent system drive migration ive noticed that the right click unmont in lenny 5.0.2 no longer cleanly unmounts. i get a dialog box saying cannot unmont blah blah... the drives are not being accessed at the time. since umount is not a package that i can reinstall [as far as i

Re: Theoretical drive swapidge.

On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 9:31 AM, green wrote: > Are you saying that you booted from a drive that was connected externally via > a > USB/PATA or USB/SATA adapter? no, but the option does exist. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

Re: Theoretical drive swapidge.

On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 7:57 PM, green wrote: > Sjoerd mentioned using chroot; are you? Hmm, maybe you need to bind mount > proc, sys, and dev also... i did try a chroot into the external drive per someone else instructions. > "Check your device.map" means look at /boot/grub/device.map. It sho

Re: Theoretical drive swapidge.

On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 9:51 AM, green wrote: > Yeah, I forgot to mention checking /etc/fstab. truthfully i dont know what i should be looking for here, but this is a nano of fstab # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # proc /proc proc

Re: Theoretical drive swapidge.

On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 8:30 AM, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > Finally, chroot to /media/newdrive, do a grub-install /dev/sda (or > whatever other device your new drive is mounted on), everything is copied over to the new drive. grub-install is kicking me however. # grub-install /dev/sdb1 grub-probe:

Re: Theoretical drive swapidge.

On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 8:30 AM, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > Probably the easiest way is to get yourself a usb 2.5'' sata case. Get > the old drive out of your laptop and put the new one in. Boot with a > live cd (knoppix, debian) and make the partitions to your liking on the > new drive. Then, mount

Re: Theoretical drive swapidge.

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 9:29 PM, ~Stack~ wrote: > Hope this helps! > ~Stack~ greatly. thank you. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/f8d5d4f31003182140w

Re: Theoretical drive swapidge.

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 6:39 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > Do you mean the "replace the existing drive with a larger capacity drive" > form of "beefing up"? yes. exactly that, i am considering installing a larger drive. > What exactly were your search terms? something along the lines of "debian migr

Theoretical drive swapidge.

hello list. i am contemplating beefing up my laptops hard drive. i did a little google search and most of the hits seem to be forum posts. and those that are not use different methods. this is a big move so i would like to know the most tried and true, least down time tutorial for this. can someo

Re: Air compressors vs. canned air

On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 6:30 PM, Chris Jones wrote: >...and might be able to > comment on the respective merits of air compressors vs. air cans..? > > CJ in a recent point and shoot camera surgery i regret using compressed air cans. after a certain * of rotation the can might expel high velocity

Re: avi to dvd

On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Bogdan wrote: > Hey, > > Can someone point me to a decent GUI  [i don't want to go through the > command line for this] avi to dvd converter? I've Googled a little and found > some references for DeVeDe and ManDVD, but i'm not able to make a documented > decision.

Re: looking for digital pen/tablet on Debian Squeeze

On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 9:49 PM, G. Jay Kerns wrote: > Dear Debian users, > - I do not need a Cadillac or BMW, but something like a Honda/Toyota > might be nice. something else to consider, the cadillac and bmw have driver support for sure. dont know about the hondas or toyotas. also, wacom has a

Re: Video conversion

On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Rob Owens wrote: > There's a handy GUI called soundconverter. I think it relies on > gstreamer for its codecs, so you'll want to make sure you have the > appropriate ones installed. I'm not sure if it handles indeo or not, > but here's what I suggest you install t

Re: dependences report as missing though installed

On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 1:16 PM, Jari Fredriksson wrote: > There packages > >   libnotify1-gtk2.10 >   libnotify-dev-gtk2.10 > > Those may help, I don't know. thanks, ive tired the developer but have not gotten any responses from him. when i try to install those i receive >Note, selecting libno

Re: dependences report as missing though installed

On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Brad Rogers wrote: > Since you're building from source, it's the -dev packages that are > missing, I suspect. yes sir. you are correct. not it configures but builds errors on make florence-settings.o: In function `settings_help': /home/po/packages/florence-0.4.

dependences report as missing though installed

i am trying to install florence vitkeyboard on my debian lenny. when running ./configure i get 3 missing dependencies. but when i run "apt-get install [missing dependency]" the list as already installed. the ./configure says i can install without 1 or 2 dependencies but with all 3 disabled the pac

Re: How much RAM can debian support?

On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Dean Chester wrote: > Hi > I'm moving to a Macbook soon(staying with debian tho:p) and apple keep > advertising that snow leopard can support 16 exobytes of RAM. Im just > wondering how much can 64-bit debian support? > Thanks in advance > Dean > a lot http://linu

Re: How to install other language pack in deiban? please help me out.

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 8:29 PM, jeremy jozwik wrote: > On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Alexander Hwang wrote: >> Hi , I am a newbie of debian. I wanna to intalll another language pack in >> debian. I was searching in Google , but found no ways. > > they are

Re: How to install other language pack in deiban? please help me out.

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Alexander Hwang wrote: > Hi , I am a newbie of debian. I wanna to intalll another language pack in > debian. I was searching in Google , but found no ways. they are called locales http://people.debian.org/~schultmc/locales.html search locales for more tutorials.

Re: next orientation using xrandr.

On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 11:18 AM, jeremy jozwik wrote: > On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 11:34 AM, Cassiano Leal wrote: >> Why not wrap all commands in a shell script and then map the button to >> this shell script? Cassiano, im having some issues with getting a rotation script to activate

Re: next orientation using xrandr.

On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 11:34 AM, Cassiano Leal wrote: > Why not wrap all commands in a shell script and then map the button to > this shell script? reason 1. i dont know how. reason 2. i did not know you could do such things. thanks for the suggestion -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-re

next orientation using xrandr.

hello list, my laptop has a button that under normal configuration is supposed to rotate the screen by 90* increments. for instance on press one the screen would rotate from normal to left. on press two from left to right. on press three right to inverted. on press four inverted to normal. i know

Re: dvd playback application

On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 3:20 PM, JoeHill wrote: > You need to install them from Debian Multimedia, not from the default repos. the first time i ran the install for mplayer and ogle it was from add/remove. after you suggested i install them from debian multi i removed them from add/remove. seems th

Re: dvd playback application

On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 2:14 PM, JoeHill wrote: > Yeah, but sometimes people get tired of answering the same questions over and > over again every time someone tries Linux for the first time ;) ive been on the openmoko lists for just under a year now and have helped out plenty of newbies with there

Re: dvd playback application

On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 9:07 AM, Aioanei Rares wrote: > If you try some Google search for, say, "dvd playback Debian", I'm sure your > problem will be solved in minutes. Hint : debian-multimedia. i thought that is the point of a mailing list. ask other people how they have fixed things. -- To U

dvd playback application

hello list, im trying to playback a movie on my debian lenny laptop. i know nothing about the dvd apps here so i went into add/remove applications and randomly installed the dvd playback apps i could find. mplayer, ogle, and xine. mplayer: when i open a disk. [multiple disks already tried same res

Re: Silverlight/Moonlight/Tuva

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 2:00 AM, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > Has anyone succeeded in using the "moonlight" packages in order to > view the videos at Microsoft's Tuva project? If so, which packages > are needed exactly / which tricks? > > http://research.microsoft.com/apps/tools/tuva/ i am also int

Re: color management?

On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Mirko Parthey wrote: > Laptop screens are optimized for energy efficiency instead of image > quality; their color reproduction may not be as good as an external > monitor and depends strongly on the viewing angle. > Regards, > Mirko thanks for those links as well.

Re: color management?

On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 5:20 AM, S. Fishpaste wrote: > Is GIMP colour managed ? I don't think it is as that's usually reserved for > 'ink on > paper' design applications. yes gimp is and has an entire section dedicated to it in preferences. ill look into that site you recommend. -- To UNSUBSC

Re: [Linuxwacom-discuss] Wacom + Maya

On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 7:05 PM, Bezierk wrote: > nice... i guess if that's a part of the reason linux has better 3d apps > than vector apps (i'm looking at you both inkscape and scribus) but inkscape has predictive inking! which even the newest version of mudbox just added. thats pritty awesome

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