Re: A lot of problems with debian sid on a Notebook

2012-12-24 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 24 December 2012 01:27:57 Chris Bannister wrote: > My understanding is that the OP has two kernels installed and wants to > remove one of them. +1 Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists

Re: A lot of problems with debian sid on a Notebook

2012-12-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 02:33:54PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Mon, 2012-12-24 at 02:13 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > > Ummm, no. dpkg triggers still operate as per normal. > > There is no need to edit anything! > > So a default only add > > Foo Kernel_version > > and

Re: A lot of problems with debian sid on a Notebook

2012-12-23 Thread berenger . morel
Le 24.12.2012 00:41, Lisi Reisz a écrit : On Sunday 23 December 2012 23:31:37 berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: I do not know what kind of interface your are accustomed to, but you could try XFCE or LXDE. In fact, you could also install more than one, and try them from time to time, in the

Re: A lot of problems with debian sid on a Notebook

2012-12-23 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 23 December 2012 23:31:37 berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > I do not know what kind of interface your are accustomed to, but you > could try XFCE or LXDE. > In fact, you could also install more than one, and try them from time > to time, in the login manager, you can often choose the

Re: A lot of problems with debian sid on a Notebook

2012-12-23 Thread berenger . morel
Le 24.12.2012 00:08, Thore a écrit : Am 23.12.2012 22:19, schrieb berenger.mo...@neutralite.org: Le 23.12.2012 20:48, Thore a écrit : Am 23.12.2012 20:45, schrieb Thore: Am 23.12.2012 17:32, schrieb berenger.mo...@neutralite.org: Both entrys have a pae, my question is: can (and how can) I

Re: A lot of problems with debian sid on a Notebook

2012-12-23 Thread Thore
Am 23.12.2012 22:19, schrieb berenger.mo...@neutralite.org: Le 23.12.2012 20:48, Thore a écrit : Am 23.12.2012 20:45, schrieb Thore: Am 23.12.2012 17:32, schrieb berenger.mo...@neutralite.org: Both entrys have a pae, my question is: can (and how can) I remove the ...-2-686-pae entry? As ma

Re: A lot of problems with debian sid on a Notebook

2012-12-23 Thread berenger . morel
Le 23.12.2012 20:48, Thore a écrit : Am 23.12.2012 20:45, schrieb Thore: Am 23.12.2012 17:32, schrieb berenger.mo...@neutralite.org: Both entrys have a pae, my question is: can (and how can) I remove the ...-2-686-pae entry? As many other people said, your usual package manager is able to

Re: A lot of problems with debian sid on a Notebook

2012-12-23 Thread Thore
Am 23.12.2012 20:45, schrieb Thore: Am 23.12.2012 17:32, schrieb berenger.mo...@neutralite.org: Both entrys have a pae, my question is: can (and how can) I remove the ...-2-686-pae entry? As many other people said, your usual package manager is able to remove kernels. Aptitude will warn you i

Re: A lot of problems with debian sid on a Notebook

2012-12-23 Thread Thore
Am 23.12.2012 17:32, schrieb berenger.mo...@neutralite.org: Both entrys have a pae, my question is: can (and how can) I remove the ...-2-686-pae entry? As many other people said, your usual package manager is able to remove kernels. Aptitude will warn you if you are removing the last kernel o

Re: A lot of problems with debian sid on a Notebook

2012-12-23 Thread berenger . morel
Both entrys have a pae, my question is: can (and how can) I remove the ...-2-686-pae entry? As many other people said, your usual package manager is able to remove kernels. Aptitude will warn you if you are removing the last kernel of your system. And it will update grub accordingly. As others

Re: A lot of problems with debian sid on a Notebook

2012-12-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2012-12-24 at 02:13 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 12:57:09PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Sun, 2012-12-23 at 23:08 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > "dpkg --purge " works just fine. I think > > > it > > > even refuses if it is the one you booted from, but so

Re: A lot of problems with debian sid on a Notebook

2012-12-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 12:57:09PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sun, 2012-12-23 at 23:08 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > > "dpkg --purge " works just fine. I think > > it > > even refuses if it is the one you booted from, but sorry, I'm not > > willing to test that myself. :) > > This will not

Re: A lot of problems with debian sid on a Notebook

2012-12-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2012-12-23 at 13:11 +0100, Thore wrote: > What shall I do? If you install Ubuntu, than don't install Quantal. Use the LTS, Precise. I don't know the state of Wheezy, others on that list will report you, if it's better to install Squeeze or Wheezy, assumed you'll install Debian. If it's "e

Re: A lot of problems with debian sid on a Notebook

2012-12-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2012-12-23 at 23:08 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > "dpkg --purge " works just fine. I think > it > even refuses if it is the one you booted from, but sorry, I'm not > willing to test that myself. :) This will not remove "recovery" entries for installed kernels. You need to edit GRUB 2 con

Re: A lot of problems with debian sid on a Notebook

2012-12-23 Thread Thore
Am 23.12.2012 13:06, schrieb Dom: On 23/12/12 10:50, Thore wrote: Am 23.12.2012 01:57, schrieb berenger.mo...@neutralite.org: Le 23.12.2012 00:51, Thore a écrit : Hello, on my Alienware m15x Notebook I installed debian wheezy (in the 32bit version with kde). Hum, knowing that it is an alienw

Re: A lot of problems with debian sid on a Notebook

2012-12-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2012-12-23 at 01:57 +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > Le 23.12.2012 00:51, Thore a écrit : > > And how can I delete it? > > and if everything works correctly, remove the other one. You can remove other kernels, by removing them using the package management. I suspect you'r

Re: A lot of problems with debian sid on a Notebook

2012-12-23 Thread Dom
On 23/12/12 10:50, Thore wrote: Am 23.12.2012 01:57, schrieb berenger.mo...@neutralite.org: Le 23.12.2012 00:51, Thore a écrit : Hello, on my Alienware m15x Notebook I installed debian wheezy (in the 32bit version with kde). Hum, knowing that it is an alienware say nothing about the processor

Re: A lot of problems with debian sid on a Notebook

2012-12-23 Thread Thore
Am 23.12.2012 01:57, schrieb berenger.mo...@neutralite.org: Le 23.12.2012 00:51, Thore a écrit : Hello, on my Alienware m15x Notebook I installed debian wheezy (in the 32bit version with kde). Hum, knowing that it is an alienware say nothing about the processor model, so maybe the 32bit choic

Re: A lot of problems with debian sid on a Notebook

2012-12-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 10:10:00AM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Sunday 23 December 2012 10:01:46 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Du, 23 dec 12, 00:51:51, Thore wrote: > > > Hello, > > > on my Alienware m15x Notebook I installed debian wheezy (in the > > > 32bit version with kde). > > > Now I have a f

Re: A lot of problems with debian sid on a Notebook

2012-12-23 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 23 December 2012 10:01:46 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 23 dec 12, 00:51:51, Thore wrote: > > Hello, > > on my Alienware m15x Notebook I installed debian wheezy (in the > > 32bit version with kde). > > Now I have a few questions: > > 1: When I boot there will be 4 linux entrys with the k

Re: A lot of problems with debian sid on a Notebook

2012-12-23 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 23 dec 12, 00:51:51, Thore wrote: > Hello, > on my Alienware m15x Notebook I installed debian wheezy (in the > 32bit version with kde). > Now I have a few questions: > 1: When I boot there will be 4 linux entrys with the kernel name. > one ending ...-4-686-pae (or like this) ando one with a

Re: A lot of problems with debian sid on a Notebook

2012-12-23 Thread Kushal Kumaran
berenger.mo...@neutralite.org writes: > Le 23.12.2012 00:51, Thore a écrit : >> Hello, >> on my Alienware m15x Notebook I installed debian wheezy (in the 32bit >> version with kde). > > Hum, knowing that it is an alienware say nothing about the processor > model, so maybe the 32bit choice is not

Re: A lot of problems with debian sid on a Notebook

2012-12-22 Thread berenger . morel
Le 23.12.2012 00:51, Thore a écrit : Hello, on my Alienware m15x Notebook I installed debian wheezy (in the 32bit version with kde). Hum, knowing that it is an alienware say nothing about the processor model, so maybe the 32bit choice is not the best one. I do not know, for now I did not read

A lot of problems with debian sid on a Notebook

2012-12-22 Thread Thore
Hello, on my Alienware m15x Notebook I installed debian wheezy (in the 32bit version with kde). Now I have a few questions: 1: When I boot there will be 4 linux entrys with the kernel name. one ending ...-4-686-pae (or like this) ando one with a 2 as the 4. Can I delete the entry with the