Re: Issues with gnome3 after upgrade to testing

2013-12-28 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 11:35 PM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.netwrote: On Fri, 2013-12-27 at 23:10 +1100, Daniel Dalton wrote: Upon resume though the virtual consoles seem to work fine, but gnome just locks up and I can do nothing with the desktop. As I'm blind

Issues with gnome3 after upgrade to testing

2013-12-27 Thread Daniel Dalton
Hi, I'm experiencing two annoying issues with gnome3 after upgrading from wheezy to testing. 1. When I suspend my computer by clicking in the top pannel under my user name, suspend, the computer will suspend as expected. Upon resume though the virtual consoles seem to work fine, but gnome just

Re: Keyboard remapping

2013-03-01 Thread Daniel Dalton
For instance, in my case, I had written a file /etc/udev/keymaps/apple-aluminum containing: 0x70035 86 # Left to z: 102nd (providing backslash bar) 0x70064 grave # Left to 1: grave notsign 0x70068 insert # F13 for the remappings I needed. The first number is the scan code, the

Keyboard remapping

2013-02-28 Thread Daniel Dalton
Hi, I recently bought a new laptop. Annoyingly the laptop function key is where you'd expect the control key and the control key is one key in from the left. Is it possible to make the fn key act as a control key inside of linux? (I'd like to keep the functions of the fn key combinations if

Re: Keyboard remapping

2013-02-28 Thread Daniel Dalton
Hi, On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 10:19:38AM +, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: Annoyingly the laptop function key is where you'd expect the control key and the control key is one key in from the left. Is it possible to make the fn key act as a control key inside of linux? (I'd like to keep the

Re: Keyboard remapping

2013-02-28 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 07:36:24PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: /lib/udev/keymap is probably better, though it is buggy. Ok, so I haven't made any changes in there yet. I've ran showkeys and found that the fn key has a key code. However, when I do fn+j for example only the fn key code is

Re: Keyboard remapping

2013-02-28 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 11:56:29AM +0100, Paul Seyfert wrote: I only know of thinkpads having ctrl and fn swapped wrt. other vendors. As explained these are hard/impossible to swap in software which is why the bios of thinkpads offer the possibility to do this. Therefore I recommend, looking

Re: Keyboard remapping

2013-02-28 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 03:38:23AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2013-03-01 12:07:07 +1100, Daniel Dalton wrote: On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 07:36:24PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: /lib/udev/keymap is probably better, though it is buggy. Ok, so I haven't made any changes in there yet

Re: Keyboard remapping

2013-02-28 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 12:09:53PM +1100, Daniel Dalton wrote: On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 11:56:29AM +0100, Paul Seyfert wrote: I only know of thinkpads having ctrl and fn swapped wrt. other vendors. As explained these are hard/impossible to swap in software which is why the bios of thinkpads

Re: Some applications freezing up

2012-12-26 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 02:14:35PM +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Maybe those softwares are using their own database? Rhythmbox yes, gmpc, would use mpd though? well, not my problem, since I do not intend to use such kind of softwares. I can avoid rhythmbox, but it'd be nice to

Re: Laptop fan control

2012-12-25 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 11:33:04AM -0600, Jack Schneider wrote: Hey,Daniel Hey Jack, Try i8kutils, Dell laptops do their own thing!! Thanks! It seems to be for latitude and inspiron, but I have vostro. I will try it anyway. Thanks, Dan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Laptop fan control

2012-12-25 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 06:44:49PM +0100, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: just make sure, that the cooler free of dust. After some time, there is a lot of dust in the cooler, which is clogging the air exit. Hi Hans, Pretty sure the cooler is free of dust now. If this is ok, you might want to try

Re: Some applications freezing up

2012-12-25 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 02:43:26PM +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: It is a bug problem, but not related to Glib-GObject. yeah Sounds like you are using mpd to play music. I have noticed that sometimes it uses more CPU than it really needs (restart it usually fix the problem so...)

Re: SSD alignment for debian

2012-12-25 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 08:10:42AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: I have the same SSD. Surprise: doing a suspend to disk to that swap file you have on it makes no difference at all! Just as slow as to a regular HDD. Why? suspend takes about 2 second to go into suspend and 2 second to wake from

Laptop fan control

2012-12-22 Thread Daniel Dalton
Hello, I'm using a Dell vostro 3350 machine. At times I feel the intensity of the fan is unnecessarily high. This occurs when for example using firefox or watching flash. It seems most times when I restart the gui the fan returns to normal speed. This is a concern because it obviously

Some applications freezing up

2012-12-22 Thread Daniel Dalton
Hello, When I launch some applications from within gnome 3 mainly rhythmbox and gmpc the following occurs: * The fan goes to pull speed. * The desktop is locked up for about a minute * After about a minute the fan slows back down and the desktop is no longer frozen allowing me to use these

SSD alignment for debian

2012-12-22 Thread Daniel Dalton
Hello, I've installed debian with a separate /home partition on my samsung 830 series ssd drive. I would like to verify partition alignment is correct though. Could someone tell me how to verify this or let me know if it is correct? Here is output of fdisk -l on my ssd:

Re: Some applications freezing up

2012-12-22 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 12:27:40PM +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: You could try using a DE/software which is lighter e.g LXDE, XFCE or even just a WM and start you software from an Xterm when needed. In short: he can stop to use a bloated desktop environment? ;) To be honest, I

Re: SSD alignment for debian

2012-12-22 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 03:45:45AM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: So the short answer to your question is: It's not possible to incorrectly partition an SSD. Right ok, that's nice to hear. Thanks, Dan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Some applications freezing up

2012-12-22 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 12:59:53PM +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Hmm, I really hope it is not h/w problem: Intel core I5 2.4 Ghz 4 gb ram 128 gb ssd. Do you still think it's a h/w problem? I do not know, it depends on how many stuff you have loaded at the same time. But...

Re: Laptop battery life with 64 bit

2012-12-19 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 12:45:25PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: Daniel Dalton wrote: But should the knew kernel really improve battery life by apparently 5-6 hours (according to powertop) Five to six hours of improvement would be a very large amount. Probably more than is reasonable

Re: Laptop battery life with 64 bit

2012-12-18 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 07:39:17AM +0100, Jochen Spieker wrote: Daniel Dalton: My question: does 64 bit debian use more battery power than 32 bit? Short answer: no. The relevant difference is probably Debian vs. Ubuntu here. Good news. So now just to figure out how ubuntu is out

Re: Laptop battery life with 64 bit

2012-12-18 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 11:55:08PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: Jochen Spieker wrote: Daniel Dalton wrote: My question: does 64 bit debian use more battery power than 32 bit? Short answer: no. The relevant difference is probably Debian vs. Ubuntu here. Agreed. The difference

Laptop battery life with 64 bit

2012-12-17 Thread Daniel Dalton
Hi, Before I do too much investigating I was wondering if anyone might be able to give me a simple yes/no answer to this question. I just installed debian 64 bit amd on my Dell vostro 3350 laptop. I turn all of the wifi bluetooth and screen off (I'm blind) and observe power using powertop.

GDM3 very slow to load gnome

2012-11-18 Thread Daniel Dalton
Hi, I've installed gnome using tasksel and I'm running debian wheezy. I've used rcconf and ticked gdm3 to start on boot. However, it takes an incredibly long time to load gnome. From the point where gdm3 is invoked to the desktop coming up (I have auto log in), is over a minute. I am using a

Using a proxy with iceweasel

2012-09-02 Thread Daniel Dalton
Hi, I am connecting to a wifi network which uses a proxy server. If I export the http_proxy variable correctly in /etc/bash.bashrc the proxy server is working correctly for command line browsers such as lynx. However, if I set the iceweasel proxy setting to use system proxy server settings it

Re: Disabling wifi to save battery

2011-10-13 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 01:21:35PM +, Camaleón wrote: backlight, wifi, BT, hdd temperature sensors...) and maybe your dell needs something similar :-? module wl controls wifi... I had to install it manually. No, I did not mean that. wl is a generic module for broadcom based wifi

Re: Disabling wifi to save battery

2011-10-11 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Sun, Oct 09, 2011 at 06:14:05AM +0100, Raf Czlonka wrote: I was planning to disable wifi, when it wasn't required. On my old laptop I could use the rfkill package like so: rfkill block wifi What does rfkill list say? daniel@debian-laptop:/tmp$ cd daniel@debian-laptop:~$ sudo rfkill

Re: Disabling wifi to save battery

2011-10-11 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Sun, Oct 09, 2011 at 11:45:41AM +, Camaleón wrote: laptop I could use the rfkill package like so: rfkill block wifi Here are some tips: http://www.lesswatts.org/tips/wireless.php Will take a look Another option could be disabling wifi and bluetooth adapter from BIOS (if this

Disabling wifi to save battery

2011-10-08 Thread Daniel Dalton
Hi, I've recently purchased a Dell vostro 3350 laptop, and to save battery, I was planning to disable wifi, when it wasn't required. On my old laptop I could use the rfkill package like so: rfkill block wifi But it seems to have no effect on my Dell. The wifi hot key on the laptop does not

Problems connecting to WPA2 networks

2010-11-23 Thread Daniel Dalton
Hi, I'm having difficulty connecting to a WPA2 enterprise network. The system is fine connecting to standard WPA and open networks, but refuses to connect to my school's WPA2 network. We tried with another machine using different wireless chipset and that works fine. When connecting my syslog

Connecting to a wifi network requiring certificate authentication

2010-09-01 Thread Daniel Dalton
Hi, Using wpasupplicant could someone please try and give me a few hints what I should try in the wpasupplicant.conf file? I have the .der certificate file, and output of iwlist scan is below my name. Thank you very much, Daniel wlan0 Scan completed : Cell 01 - Address:

wireless from the command line

2010-02-26 Thread Daniel Dalton
Hi, I've had a good look around and still can't work this one out. Does anyone know how to configure wifi from the command line? I'm currently using wicd, so all my hardware is supported, however, as I rarely start X I would prefer to manage wifi connections through the cli. I believe I have to

Re: wireless from the command line

2010-02-26 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 05:43:52AM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: there are examples in /usr/share/doc/wpasupplicant/examples/ Ah yes, and the readme proved very useful. I've got it all working with wpa_supplicant now. It works well on my home net, so lets hope it connects to open wifi:) I'm very

stop automatic checkdisk on boot

2010-02-26 Thread Daniel Dalton
Every 20 odd boots my system does a checkdisk scan of sda5 (root file system) and sda7 /home. As it's a laptop and I need fast booting, how can I stop these checks all together? I tried setting the 6th field of fstab to 0 for both partitions. I thought it was working, but it seemed to do one check

Re: stop automatic checkdisk on boot

2010-02-26 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 11:01:18PM -0300, Xavier Petit de Meurville wrote: Hi, what is your filesystem on this partition ? I don't very well, but maybe you can see the tune2fs command, Ah great, thank you. I think it was still set to check after 27 mounts or something. I had a read of the

Re: changing file browser lxde

2010-02-21 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 08:26:19AM -0500, Rob Owens wrote: lxde from pcmanfm to nautilus? I'm wanting to do this as I'm blind and use orca, and it appears nautilus runs better than pcmanfm with orca. I've tried running nautilus from the shell and it works great, so a way to make this the

changing file browser lxde

2010-02-19 Thread Daniel Dalton
Hi, Could someone please inform me how to change the default file browser in lxde from pcmanfm to nautilus? I'm wanting to do this as I'm blind and use orca, and it appears nautilus runs better than pcmanfm with orca. I've tried running nautilus from the shell and it works great, so a way to make

Re: suspend on my asus eeepc

2010-02-06 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 03:44:00PM +0100, Florian Reitmeir wrote: Package: uswsusp Couldn't find this in squeeze, so used unstable's version. S2disk works ok and s2ram doesn't. I think when I close the lid it uses command pm-suspend (found this after some research.) Thanks, Dan -- To

firewall on laptop

2010-02-06 Thread Daniel Dalton
Hi, What is the best way to run a firewall script with lots of iptables lines in it when a connection is put up? Eg. when I connect to ethernet or wifi the script should run. If I'm offline then it shouldn't run. I'm using wicd to manage all my wifi connections. Is it possible to get this script

Re: suspend on my asus eeepc

2010-02-05 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 09:14:26AM +0100, Florian Reitmeir wrote: Hi, s2ram s2disk What package? I get command not found when running these as root. and put your script in.. /etc/pm/sleep.d this direcorty is generated by the package pm-utils in which you can also find the docs how to

suspend on my asus eeepc

2010-02-02 Thread Daniel Dalton
Hi, Can someone please advise me how to suspend from the command line? Also when my laptop lid is closed, the system suspends. I'm just on the command line, no gui is running. I see this in syslog, but am unsure what program is responsible...? Feb 3 18:16:58 debian-eeepc kernel: [

eeepc booting troubles

2010-01-28 Thread Daniel Dalton
Hello everyone, I've got myself into quite a bit of trouble. Problem: My system no longer can boot windows and if I try booting debian it gives errors regarding the root file system. Here is what I did: I booted windows for the first time with no problems, so then booted a livecd off my usb

Re: lxde/setting environment variables

2010-01-16 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 12:48:49AM +, Liam O'Toole wrote: I've just installed lxde and like the concept of it. I must set an environment variable so I can run orca under the desktop. What file should I place an export command in to export this variable to the lxde desktop, to save me

lxde/setting environment variables

2010-01-15 Thread Daniel Dalton
Hi, I've just installed lxde and like the concept of it. I must set an environment variable so I can run orca under the desktop. What file should I place an export command in to export this variable to the lxde desktop, to save me from having to export it every time before I launch a program eg.

debian support and laptops

2009-12-09 Thread Daniel Dalton
Hi, Following is a list of laptops. I've narrowed it down to 3 and am considering buying one and running debian on it. How good is debian support on these machines? What is good, what is worth avoiding? I will be doing: programming, typing, msn, irc, web, email, music, virtual machines etc. Here

Re: debian support and laptops

2009-12-09 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 03:13:38PM +0100, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, I have a HP/Compaq 6730s (Intel c2duo T5870 (2ghz), ATI mobility Radeon HD 3430, same reference can come with very different hardware). Thanks for sharing -- the closest to that I find is the hp 6730b is this a good

The purchase of a new laptop on debian

2009-12-02 Thread Daniel Dalton
Hi All, I'm looking to buy a knew laptop. I have been recommended by a few people to look at the Lenovo thinkpad X 200 and t 400/500. What are your thoughts on these systems? What is positive, what is negative? What other brands should I consider Del and HP don't seem to be as powerful as these

Re: The purchase of a new laptop on debian

2009-12-02 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 02:34:36PM -0600, John W Foster wrote: I dont often buy systems, I build my own, but laptops are not a DIY project. I have been shopping for a new laptop to use in my work what someone told me to do was: burn a Ubuntu live disk take it with me when shopping. Thats

Re: The purchase of a new laptop on debian

2009-12-02 Thread Daniel Dalton
I've been happily using Debian on Thinkpads for just over 11 years now. Excellent:) What other brands should I consider Dell and HP don't seem to be as powerful as these Lenovos, but maybe I'm wrong. What should I consider with good linux support (debian)? I'm looking at a 12.1 inch

Re: The purchase of a new laptop on debian

2009-12-02 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 03:24:31PM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: My Thinkpad X200 is approaching its first birthday and I really love it. If you can afford it, it is a really good choice and well worth the price. Yes, all the reviews sounded positive. The only drawback is that you probably

Re: clive doesn't extract youtube file

2009-11-24 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 11:35:09PM +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Hi to all Debian users. I installed clive in my Lenny partition with: `aptitude install clive', but it seems that it does not manage to download the video I installed it for: Hi, I wrote my own script to do this in python, just

Re: samba query

2009-11-14 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 10:50:10PM -0500, David Parker wrote: This works fine for me.  You might simply be missing a line in your config file or something. In your smb.conf: Thanks:) I'll give that a shot and see how it goes. On a home network with wpa encryption, and a firewall

Re: iptables

2009-11-13 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 01:48:49PM +0100, Johannes Graumann wrote: -s, --source address[/mask] Source specification. Address can be ... a network IP address (with /mask), ... The mask can be either a network mask or a plain number, Thanks, I think this should work, I have added

samba query

2009-11-13 Thread Daniel Dalton
Hi, How can I make samba only accept log ins, if the password supplied by the client, matches that username on the server? eg. blank or wrong passwords shouldn't be allowed access to the server, so how do I enable this? It seems samba by default accepts blank passwords, and lets the client mount

iptables

2009-11-12 Thread Daniel Dalton
Hi, Just one quick question regarding iptables: How do I specify an ip address to act on with -s that matches a certain pattern. For example, I want all addresses that begin with 192.168.1.1 to make my rule true. 192.168.1.1* doesn't seem to work? So how do I make any ip address starting with

Re: dpkg fails - exact errors

2009-10-28 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 01:02:16PM +1100, Daniel Dalton wrote: I've tried to remove adobe-flashplugin, with the force option, but that didn't work, now if I take dpkg's advice and reinstall I also get errors. I've solved this issue, I simpley removed all the files /var/lib/dpkg/adobe

broken packages

2009-10-27 Thread Daniel Dalton
Hi, I tried to install a deb package from a website, it only parcially installed, and now won't remove. I've even tried using the --force option, it just says I should try reinstalling, but when I do that I get errors with installations. So how do I remove this package from my system? Because

dpkg fails - exact errors

2009-10-27 Thread Daniel Dalton
Hi, I've tried to remove adobe-flashplugin, with the force option, but that didn't work, now if I take dpkg's advice and reinstall I also get errors. Here is the errors I get with the removal: dpkg: warning: overriding problem because --force enabled: Package is in a very bad inconsistent

Re: pidgin not loading

2009-10-03 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 11:33:39PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: Something seems to be wrong with libpurple on your system. Please post the output of: nm -D /usr/lib/libpurple.so.0 | grep purple_theme_loader 0008d450 T purple_theme_loader_build 0008d470 T purple_theme_loader_get_type

Re: pidgin not loading

2009-10-03 Thread Daniel Dalton
Solved, used ldconfig and compiled myself. Thanks, Dan. On Sat, Oct 03, 2009 at 06:19:34PM +1000, Daniel Dalton wrote: On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 11:33:39PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: Something seems to be wrong with libpurple on your system. Please post the output of: nm -D /usr/lib

pidgin not loading

2009-10-02 Thread Daniel Dalton
Hi, When I run pidgin I get this error. pidgin: symbol lookup error: pidgin: undefined symbol: purple_theme_loader_get_type So how can I correct this problem? I see this error, but pidgin does not open so therefore isn't usable at the minute. So if someone can advice me on how to correct this

Re: file system errors

2009-09-05 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 05:26:52AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 2009-09-01 05:04, Daniel Dalton wrote: If I remount, I can't remove these effected files, the only way to fix things is to make use of fsck.vfat That seems to indicate that the error is on your mp3 player. Ok. So there isn't

Re: file system errors

2009-09-05 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 12:33:41PM +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: rsync has an -- exclude option. How should this be used? In this case? player's storage. I would wipe it and try a badblock scan. Maybe the flash is dying. How and what does a badblock scan do? The mp3 player is hdd based btw.

Re: file system errors

2009-09-05 Thread Daniel Dalton
there was no output for a while then my braille terminal was flooded with numbers. What do you think? Thanks, Dan. On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 10:09:42PM +1000, Daniel Dalton wrote: On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 12:33:41PM +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: rsync has an -- exclude option. How should this be used

Re: file system errors

2009-09-05 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 08:22:36PM +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: Daniel Dalton: The hard drive in the mp3 just spins up and back down when I plug the usb in. Now it's not even showing up under /dev. Do you guys think it's a bad hdd and it's time to get a new mp3? Yes and no. The hd

file system errors

2009-09-01 Thread Daniel Dalton
Hi, Ok, here is what I'm trying to do: Sync music files from my computer, to my 20 gb mp3 player. There is 8 gb of data to sync However, midway through the sync process, the fs is set to read only as there seem to be errors with certain files. If I remount, I can't remove these effected files,

openoffice.org won't open files on my usb drive

2009-08-31 Thread Daniel Dalton
Hi, When I try and open a word file on my usb drive with openoffice.org here on debian squeez, I get this error: Openoffice.org: The file has been locked by unknown user. Open read only Open a copy. So, how can i stop it from saying this so I can edit files again on my usb with oo? Thanks,

Re: openoffice.org won't open files on my usb drive

2009-08-31 Thread Daniel Dalton
| grep soffice Here you get the process id (pid) of open office Kill the process by the following command kill -9 pid of openoffice . On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Daniel Dalton [1]d.dal...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi, When I try and open a word file on my usb

Re: rhythmbox won't stop coming up

2009-08-11 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 11:30:06AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: sessions options under preferences about start up apps, but didn't see it listed there. So how do I stop it from automatically launching rhythmbox? Try stopping all instances of rhythmbox (check with ps or top to make sure)

rhythmbox won't stop coming up

2009-08-10 Thread Daniel Dalton
Hi, On this system of mine, which I recently reinstalled, for various reasons, this problem still persists. Everything was whiped except /home, and if I log in as a different user the problem does not occur. When gdm starts and logs in as daniel, rhythmbox is always launched, but minimized eg.

Re: rhythmbox won't stop coming up

2009-08-10 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 01:09:27PM +0300, Aioanei Rares wrote: So how do I stop it from automatically launching rhythmbox? I'm using gnome with gdm to log in. Thanks, Daniel. Go to system - preferences - startup applications to check if Rhythmbox ain't there. I went to

Re: system taking ages to resolve dns

2009-07-06 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 02:49:49PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 22:03:39 +1000, Daniel Dalton wrote: Hi, I just reinstalled debian this week. It has not solved my issue of resolving dns taking a long time. Basically the issue is: If I want to access a dns

Re: system taking ages to resolve dns

2009-07-06 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 06:11:38AM -0400, Alan Greenberger wrote: system works fine, and no one else on the network seems to have issues Some routers don't know IPV6. Look at /etc/resolv.conf . It probably has the IP of your router. Remove it and put in your ISP's DNS numbers to bypass

system taking ages to resolve dns

2009-07-05 Thread Daniel Dalton
Hi, I just reinstalled debian this week. It has not solved my issue of resolving dns taking a long time. Basically the issue is: If I want to access a dns such as google, or debian.org, it takes for ever to resolve the dns. Whether I'm using firefox or lynx to browse the web or msmtp to send

Re: where to download sid?

2009-04-22 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 01:26:57PM -0700, Don Raikes wrote: Hi, I am very new to the debian world, but someone suggested I try out sid. Probably not the best idea if you are new to linux or debian... I would recommend stable: debian lenny... What do you need from sid? Also, have you

Re: problems installing lenny on dell laptop

2009-04-22 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 01:48:55AM -0700, Don Raikes wrote: Hi all, I am a blind user of lenny. I installed lenny using my braille display without a problem onto my gateway desktop system. So am I :) However, when I boot the lenny dvd or cd on my dell latitude d600 laptop, it is not

Re: key bindings

2009-04-17 Thread Daniel Dalton
Thanks very much, I'll give that a shot. Cheers, Daniel. On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 10:08:39AM +0100, David Jardine wrote: On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 12:00:19PM +1000, Daniel Dalton wrote: Hi, I'm looking at doing some remaps on my system with the keymap. After reading man dumpkeys, man

key bindings

2009-04-16 Thread Daniel Dalton
Hi, I'm looking at doing some remaps on my system with the keymap. After reading man dumpkeys, man keymaps and man loadkeys, briefely, I was just wondering if someone could tell me where the default keymap is stored so I can back it up! And then edit it? Thx Daniel. signature.asc Description:

Re: dist-upgrade to linux-image-2.6.26-2(Lenny5.0.0 to 5.0.1).Disk space question.

2009-04-16 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 07:18:44PM -0700, Luis Maceira wrote: apt-get tells me that to dist-upgrade to the new linux-image-2.6.26-2 (lenny5.0.1) an additional of more then 70MB disk space will be used.Why is that? Doesn't the previous linux image be replaced by the new one,maintaining

Re: dist-upgrade to linux-image-2.6.26-2(Lenny5.0.0 to 5.0.1).Disk space question.

2009-04-16 Thread Daniel Dalton
Still I wouldn't think it would take 70 mb, but maybe I'm wrong... :) It's not only about the kernel image. The whole modules for the new kernel will be installed into your /lib/modules/2.6.26-2 directory. That will take much space. Ah right, yes I know that, but still didn't think it was

Re: autolock console

2009-04-09 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 08:41:27PM -0700, gcr...@vcn.bc.ca wrote: On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 10:26:27AM +1000, Daniel Dalton wrote: Hi, On the standard console (alt+ctr+f1), no x session running, is it possible to run a command after a certain number of minutes where no keys have been

Re: etch to lenny upgrade - X apps no longer see keystrokes?

2009-04-09 Thread Daniel Dalton
All I can recommend is to boot single user mode, sudo aptitude update sudo aptitude safe-upgrade sudo dpkg --configure gdm perhaps even aptitude remove gdm and aptitude install gdm then reboot into multy user mode. On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 06:10:41PM +1000, Graham Williams wrote: Have just

Re: autolock console

2009-04-09 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 11:45:44PM -0800, Ken Irving wrote: Maybe look at screen. From screen(1): idle [timeout [cmd args]] Sets a command that is run after the specified number of seconds inac- tivity is reached. This command will normally be the blanker

bitlbee

2009-04-09 Thread Daniel Dalton
Hi! I've been playing with bitlbee! It seems good, but I just have a couple quick questions about it, which would make my experience that bit better: 1. Using the msn protocol how do I set a personal message? I read somewhere there is a pse command, but this doesn't seem to exist on my version...

Re: live-helper and custom live cd images

2009-04-08 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 11:16:40AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Tue,07.Apr.09, 19:43:14, Chris Bannister wrote: There is a debian live mailing list, although I'm not sure of the exact name. debian-live ;) http://lists.debian.org/debian-live Yes. Thanks, might subscribe and see

Re: autolock console

2009-04-08 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 08:37:42PM -0800, Ken Irving wrote: On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 10:26:27AM +1000, Daniel Dalton wrote: possible to run a command after a certain number of minutes where no keys have been pressed? Like the gnome screen saver, except for the console. I want to be able

debian testing

2009-04-07 Thread Daniel Dalton
Hi, How stable is debian testing (squeeze)? Is it worth updating to? Or should I wait a little bit until more development has been done? I used to run debian when it was testing, so wonder if squeez is this stable? Daniel. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

debian testing

2009-04-07 Thread Daniel Dalton
Hi, How stable is debian testing (squeeze)? Is it worth updating to? Or should I wait a little bit until more development has been done? I used to run debian when it was testing, so wonder if squeez is this stable? Daniel. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: problem with live-helper

2009-04-07 Thread Daniel Dalton
I'm also having problems. I'm trying to do a similar thing. Anyone know why my generated iso doesn't contain any of the packages from packages.list even though I did lh_config --packages-list ~/packages.list And file from ~/build/config/includes aren't on the livecd either. What's going on here?

Re: rss and general linux discussion

2009-04-07 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 07:43:48PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 05:17:18PM +1000, Daniel Dalton wrote: Hi, Does anyone know of a general linux discussion mailing list with many General? LUGs usually have mailing lists -- have a google. ok users as another

Re: debian testing

2009-04-07 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 04:29:42AM -0700, Thorny wrote: I suggest you wait until you can run a release version without having to ask questions for help. Until such time as you can understand what is happening when breakage occurs and describe the conditions exactly in a bug report, those are

debian testing

2009-04-07 Thread Daniel Dalton
Hi, How stable is debian testing (squeeze)? Is it worth updating to? Or should I wait a little bit until more development has been done? I used to run debian when it was testing, so wonder if squeez is this stable? Daniel. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: debian testing

2009-04-07 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 12:02:50PM +0200, Cassiel wrote: Another thing is if more people would submit bugs. Really help the maintainers. Help the project and community. That's a valid point. Thanks to everyone that replied I'll consider it, might wait a few months and do it, but sure

anacron

2009-04-07 Thread Daniel Dalton
Hi, Are the following lines in /etc/anacrontab ok? Anyway to verify they will work or do I just have to wait? Here are the lines: 1 20 rsnapshot_day /usr/bin/rsnapshot daily 7 35 rsnapshot_weekly /usr/bin/rsnapshot weekly @monthly50

autolock console

2009-04-07 Thread Daniel Dalton
Hi, On the standard console (alt+ctr+f1), no x session running, is it possible to run a command after a certain number of minutes where no keys have been pressed? Like the gnome screen saver, except for the console. I want to be able to run vlock after say 15 minutes with no one pressing anything

Re: mutt mailing list

2009-04-06 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 07:16:20AM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: Hi Daniel, Hi Michelle, To: majord...@mutt.org Body: subscribe mutt-users Ah yes! Thanks very much that worked! Cheers, Daniel. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

rss and general linux discussion

2009-04-06 Thread Daniel Dalton
Hi, Does anyone know of a general linux discussion mailing list with many users as another source of info? Also, I'm quite busy, and would be interested in a few rss feads to add to snownews, which would update with new howtos for debian and just linux in general, so if I find something cool, I

Re: unable to boot, how to install the package that cause problem?

2009-04-05 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 09:53:36PM -0500, zhang zhengquan wrote: Dear debian users, Good afternoon I have installed some boot splash related packages on my girlfriends laptop running sid, and it turned out that it is unable to boot after that, Ah damn! :) I have a system rescue cd that

mutt mailing list

2009-04-05 Thread Daniel Dalton
Has anyone had any luck subscribing to mutt-users? I can't seem to subscribe, I get my email returned with an error about Mailing to remote domains not supported. Tried with my iinet.net.au address, and gmail as well as hotmail. Anyone know how I can join this group? Thx Daniel.

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