On Mon, 7 Nov 2011 18:19:20 + (UTC)
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On Sun, 06 Nov 2011 12:17:10 -0500, Mark Grieveson wrote:
I read in the Writer 3.x user manual of merges done with email. It
provided the following picture as seen in the attachment I've
provided
Non-free firmware for wireless can be found here:
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/firmware/squeeze/current/
Take the firmware.tar.gz or firmware.zip package, and put it on
removable media such as a CD or usb-stick. Decompress it there, and
you'll find several non-free
I have no cd's no usb keys and im using the installer from google
goodbye microsoft. I can't install from network because it can't
detect my wireless card. I have the firmware on my win XP partition
but have no idea how to get it to the installer.
Sorry, when I responded, I overlooked that
On Thu, 8 Sep 2011 14:48:08 + (UTC)
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page of fstab,I set the user option,but still get error mount:
only root can do that when i try to mount it.
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# file system mount point type
On Thu, 8 Sep 2011 09:41:02 + (UTC)
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Try System Preferences Startup Applications and deselect 'Visual
Assistance' and 'AT SPI Registry' if they are there.
I already deselected 'Visual Assistance'. I checked for 'AT SPI
Registry' but
On Wed, 7 Sep 2011 12:04:50 + (UTC)
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Let's see if I remember since I just turned orca on yesterday since
without it, or something similar these computers are just
paperweights for me. On the menus, it's in system then admin then
Hello. I have a laptop that I installed Debian Squeeze on, with the
default gnome desktop. I was fooling around with it, and enabled
assistive technologies, which put a round blue logo with a man in the
centre on the top panel. After experimenting with some stuff like
increasing the font of
On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 21:34:15 + (UTC)
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I am a untity / gnome3 refugee, have installed KDE 4.4.5 on Debian 6
but am totally stumped looking for a package management GUI, something
equivalent to synaptic for QT ?
adept is similar to synaptic,
I submitted a bug report on this to the Debian developer for the kernel
image, who responded telling me that the hardware was likely loose and
simply needed to be reseated. So, I took the laptop apart, and put it
back together again, making sure everything fitted nice and snug. And,
good news,
I think I've figured out a possible solution to my issues. I noticed a
bunch of errors when running dmesg, and I centred on these errors with
the command dmesg | grep BAR. From this, I searched the internet, and
found a site where a whack of people were complaining of similar
issues. The site
On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 14:05:23 + (UTC)
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Have you tried to reload both modules? I.e.:
modprobe -r tg3 modprobe tg3
modprobe -r ipw2100 modprobe ipw2100
(do not do this if you are connected remotely via ssh and be careful,
this can lead
On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 18:20:00 + (UTC)
debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote:
Try by powering off the computer and leave it so for a while. Then
engage it and wait for a miracle... if no miracle comes to you I
would go for a bug report :-)
Greetings,
Yes, the
Hello. I have a Dell Latitude D600. I successfully installed Debian
and the firmware for the two network devices on the laptop, those being
a Broadcom NetXtreme ethernet card (using firmware tg3) and an Intel
PRO/Wireless Network Connection (using firmware ipw2100). This was
working fine. However,
Well, I solved this. I decided to leave the laptop alone for a
while. After doing this, I had another go at installing Debian,
and it found both network devices (the Broadcom and the wireless),
and the Debian Installer obtained the non-free driver for the
wireless that I provided on my
Do you have a good screenshot manipulation tool to recommend?
I meant a simple one, just to the point, not a big monster like gimp.
thanks
KolourPaint or ImageMagick might be good.
Mark
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Hello. I recently bought a Dell D600 laptop, and installed lxde on it
initially. I was unable to get wicd going, so I then reinstalled
debian on it with gnome, and this worked. During both installs the
debian-installer indicated that some non-free files (specifically
ipw2100-1.3.fw) were
IMHO it would be a good idea if software showed the status of this
button.
It would be a very nice feature, but I would be willing to bet money
it's an order of magnitude more complicated to implement than it
should be (it's hardware, after all), and the developer hours are
probably
Most more modern laptops have the disable wireless button. That's
always the first thing to check for. Some people accidentally knock it
to off and wonder why their wireless suddenly doesn't work.
HTH
Yes, I think that's been the major issue with me. In looking further I
see that there's a
Thanks for the replies. As I mentioned, I did switch the environment
on the laptop to gnome, and thus switched to networkmanger with the
gnome-networkmanager-applet. This did work for me, but then for some
reason it indicated wireless disabled with this being greyed out (IE,
something impossible
Hello. I recently obtained a used laptop, which I fixed up. It is
relatively good (IE, a Pentium IV) so I'm not too worried about it
being able to power the applications I'm hoping to run. Generally, I
prefer using a less cluttered machine with minimal software. So, I
loaded the laptop with
My fstab doesn't have any entries for usb disks. I use fluxbox and I
use pcmanfm (a file manager) to mount/unmount usb sticks.
-Rob
That's interesting. A while back, when I tossed out gnome and gdm in
favour of fluxbox and startx, I likely also removed automatic mounting
processes in my
I use 'blkid' from a term to help manage my file systems,' blkid' has
a man page .
No two devices have the same UUID, hence they all need separate fstab
entries.
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Greg
Thanks Greg. That worked.
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How do I make debian offer google-chrome to gnome? I have checked all
the places I know of. Where is sensible browser defined?
These are defined in the directory /etc/alternatives. For help, see
the man page update-alternatives(8).
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Hello. Back in the good old days when I used Lenny, I was able to
mount my usb stick, mount my digital camera, and sync my palm pilot,
at the same time. After upgrading to Squeeze, this now seems like an
impossible dream.
My fstab file used to look like this:
# /etc/fstab: static file system
Can LibreOffice save a PDF as ODT?
I don't know about LibreOffice. However, there's a couple of
command-line programs that may be worth looking into. One is unoconv,
and the other is wkhtmltopdf.
Mark
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Following my previous question, someone recommended I build Chromium
from source. Is that possible to do on Stable? I tried to do it from
apt-get, but there were still dependency issues. Am I doing it wrong?
Should I be doing it another way?
If I remember correctly, I tried...
sudo
On Fri, 27 May 2011 14:28:23 + (UTC)
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Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 06:07:00 -0400
From: Perry Thompson ryperven...@yahoo.fr
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Building Chromium from source on Debian 6.0.1 Stable
Message-ID:
The posting was fine. I use clamav in Squeeze, but I have not had
the same problems that you cited. It works fine for me; hence, I
did not respond since I had no feedback to give.
Thanks for the comment Mark.
You're welcome. One problem I did have with clamav was when it was run
to
On Thu, 26 May 2011 12:53:59 -0500, Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net
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safer (admittedly, if I were to deactivate the root account and set
up some sort of sudo thingy, as seems more common now, I might be
safer --
So, you log into your GUI as root?
No. I always log in as
So, it looks to me like Squeeze clamav package has a bug. It either
does not configure clamav upon installation properly or simply
missing some file/s in package.
Thanks Camaleón, you were the only one to reply. And this puzzles me
BTW. I doubt people do not use clamav in Debian. Is there
On Wed, 25 May 2011 22:11:52 -0500, Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net
wrote:
The main (only valid?) purpose of clamav is for mail server computers
in Windows offices.
I've found it useful for removing unwanted and/or broken applications
(--detect-pua --detect-broken) as well as viruses and
On Lu, 23 mai 11, 19:37:20, huubvanniek...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi, I've installed Debian 5 without X, and so far had no problem
installing extra packages from CDROM. However, now I need to install
from packages.debian.org/lenny and apt-get keeps requesting for the
cdrom. How can I change this?
/bin/mknod /dev/ttyUSB1 c 188 1
/bin/chmod 0666 /dev/ttyUSB?
And this is also not required anymore with udev which dinamically
creates the links to the devices and sets its perms.
Thanks, you're right. Previously when I used jpilot, the setting
under preferences -- settings was one of
Hello. I use jpilot. I recently got a used Palm Pilot Zire 21. I had
previously been using a Palm IIIe, but it was a serial connection,
and did not use a usb to sync. I have used a Zire in the past, but I
can't seem to set this one set up correctly. I read the README files
from the pilot-link
On Tue, 8 Mar 2011 15:34:43 + (UTC)
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I recently upgraded to Debian Squeeze. kppp was working in Lenny,
but does not work now. It connects to the modem, and dials, but it
then gives an error 1 (pppd error that apparently means An
I recently upgraded to Debian Squeeze. kppp was working in Lenny, but
does not work now. It connects to the modem, and dials, but it then
gives an error 1 (pppd error that apparently means An immediately
fatal error of some kind occurred, such as an essential system call
failing, or running out of
Hello. I use Squeeze. I just recently upgraded from Lenny. My
sources.list is a combination of Debian DVDs and some http repos (for
multimedia, non-free, and security updates). I rely largely on DVDs
because I use dial-up.
When I tried to run apt-get dist-upgrade for the multimedia packages on
Hello. I recently upgraded to Squeeze, and I'm getting various cron
daemon errors mailed to me:
Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2011 17:09:01 -0500
From: Cron Daemon root@debian
To: root@debian
Subject: Cron root@debian [ -x /usr/lib/php5/maxlifetime ] [ -d
/var/lib/php5 ] find /var/lib/php5/
When I tried to run apt-get dist-upgrade for the multimedia packages
on my system, it told me to insert Debian DVD disc #1, and from that
attempted to install the following programs: librtmp0
libdirac-decoder0 libggiwmh0 libggiwmh0-target-x libvdpau1 twolame.
But, it then told me:
Err
Hello. I have dial-up. So, I ordered Squeeze DVDs, which arrived on
Friday. I added these to my sources.list (apt-cdrom add), and I
commented out every other source. I got rid of my preferences files. I
first did the minimal system upgrade (apt-get upgrade), followed by the
upgrade to the
On Sun, 6 Mar 2011 14:36:07 + (UTC)
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Hello. I have dial-up. So, I ordered Squeeze DVDs, which arrived on
Friday. I added these to my sources.list (apt-cdrom add), and I
commented out every other source. I got rid of my preferences
On Sun, 6 Mar 2011 21:34:58 + (UTC)
debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote:
unmount it. Or vice versa. I recommend that you shutdown and
reboot, DO NOT LOGIN TO GNOME, switch to a text console via
Ctrl+Alt+F1, login on the text console as root, and with luck,
that pesky
On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 01:07:45 -0400
Mark Grieveson dg...@torfree.net wrote:
Hello. I run Lenny, and I'm trying to create, and then install, a
debian package of iceweasel from sid sources.
[snipped]
Well, I did figure out the initial problem that I cited (I needed a
newer version of automake
Hello. I run Lenny, and I'm trying to create, and then install, a
debian package of iceweasel from sid sources. However, I've run into a
problem. It depends on xulrunner, and xulrunner depends on sqlite.
But, in trying to build the sqlite package, I get the following error:
cd . libtoolize -c
On Sun, 18 Oct 2009 15:37:41 + (UTC)
debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote:
Checking I found iceape-suite in Stable and Sid but no longer in
Squeeze.
[snipped]
Should I abandon the iceape suite in favor of these individual apps?
Perhaps you could enable the sid source
On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:22:54 -0400
Mark Grieveson dg...@torfree.net wrote:
The usb/flash drive probably has the FAT32 filesystem on it, which
does not
support permissions. Is it listed in /etc/fstab? The 'owner'
option there
might fix your problem.
I think there is some sort of issue
Well, it's nothing to do with issues with mounting. It simply is
broken, I've discovered. It gave warnings like FAT panic -- opening
FAT as read only. I tried to reformat it with qtparted, which at first
seemed to work, but then it truly broke. So, time to get a new one.
My mom, who uses an
On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:42:08 + (UTC)
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From: green greenfreedo...@gmail.com
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: usb-key files locked by unknown user
Mark Grieveson wrote at 2009-10-15 09:32 -0500:
Hello. Files on my usb-key
Hello. Files on my usb-key (or flash drive, or whatever the correct
terminology is for these things) are locked for editing by an unknown
user (they're read only). I'm not sure what's causing this, but it
seems to have happened after I used it to give a presentation at the
college I go to. I
I have an HP ScanJet 6200C usb scanner, which used to work. It
stopped working, for some reason.
I also have a Samsung printer, which uses the Samsung Unified Linux
driver. Both these devices had been coexisting peacefully. However, I
did read, via an internet search, that sometimes the
On Tue, 2 Jun 2009 08:53:03 + (UTC)
debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote:
I have an HP ScanJet 6200C usb scanner, which used to work. It
stopped working, for some reason.
Never mind. I did get it working. It seems I had forgotten to try the
ever important step of first
On Sat, 18 Apr 2009 05:29:54 + (UTC)
debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote:
In some python applications, such as exfalso, or gdebi-gtk, I get an
error regarding there being no module named cairo. For example,
Never mind. I fixed this by dpkg-reconfiguring the packages
On Sun, 19 Apr 2009 03:21:15 + (UTC)
debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote:
Mark
You might try installing the python-cairo package
Description: Python bindings for the Cairo vector graphics
library This package contains modules that allow you to use
On Sun, 19 Apr 2009 03:21:15 + (UTC)
debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote:
Good day.
I looked at the backports mirrors list and found there not lenny -
only URLs for sarge. Is there an URL for Lenny?
Yes. I recently obtained OpenOffice.org 3.01 from there. Find the
On Sat, 18 Apr 2009 10:30:32 + (UTC)
debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote:
Is sensible-browser using iceweasel now?
No. In spite of repairing the x-www-browser link to iceweasel, when I
command OOo3 to look for dictionaries on the internet, it still relies
upon the www-browser
On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 08:46:27 + (UTC)
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What does sensible-browser give?
The update-alternatives --list sensible-browser just stated No
alternatives for sensible-browser.
Running sensible-browser on its own was not possible -- it required a
On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 08:46:27 + (UTC)
debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote:
What does sensible-browser give?
The update-alternatives --list sensible-browser just stated No
alternatives for sensible-browser.
Running sensible-browser on its own was not possible -- it required a
On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:15:58 + (UTC)
debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote:
Can you please show the output of these commands (as user, not root):
echo $DISPLAY
which x-www-browser
m...@debian:~$ echo $DISPLAY
:0.0
m...@debian:~$ which x-www-browser
m...@debian:~$
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After running the update-alternatives commands, reportbug now uses
dillo as I wanted it to.
Anthony
Congratulations. Still no luck here, but I feel I'm getting closer. I
checked the links in the
In further looking at the issue of the dead links in /etc/alternatives
directory, leading to sensible-browser opening lynx rather than
iceweasel, I attempted to install a gui program entitled galternatives,
to see if that could assist me. This has brought up another issue,
which I've had with
On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:29:47 -0400
Mark Grieveson dg...@torfree.net wrote:
This has brought up another issue,
which I've had with some other gtk programs (IE, emelfm). In trying
to run galternatives, I received the following error:
Quick correction to an error I made. When I cited emelfm
On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:00:05 + (UTC)
debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote:
Here's your problem. For some reason you are missing the
x-www-browser=20 link. You could try:
# update-alternatives --auto x-www-browser
# aptitude reinstall iceweasel
# aptitude purge iceweasel
Back in the good old days of Etch, when I needed to edit a hidden file,
I sometimes would open it with gedit by using Ctrl-L, and then obtain
the file, and open it. I did this after upgrading to Lenny, and now
find that every single application, always, shows every file, be it
hidden or not. Or,
In some python applications, such as exfalso, or gdebi-gtk, I get an
error regarding there being no module named cairo. For example,
m...@debian:~$ exfalso
Traceback (most recent call last):
File /usr/bin/exfalso, line 69, in module
main(sys.argv)
File /usr/bin/exfalso, line 46, in main
On Sat, 18 Apr 2009 05:29:54 + (UTC)
debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote:
You can toggle hidden files with Ctrl-H. This works also in nautilus
BTW. Saludosss
Thanks. That solved it.
Mark
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Hello. I'm using Fluxbox. Whenever I download an extension, such as a
new dictionary, for OpenOffice.org, it opens up uxterm, and runs lynx.
I checked OpenOffice.org's options and customize choices, but there is
no option that I could find to set the browser that it uses. So, I'm
assuming it
On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 20:09:11 + (UTC)
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Hello. I'm using Fluxbox. Whenever I download an extension, such
as a new dictionary, for OpenOffice.org, it opens up uxterm, and
runs lynx.
How, then, can I
change this for OpenOffice (or
Anyone know how to get clamscan to detect rar files? I've tried
clamscan --unrar but this doesn't work (as proven by the test
files). I do have unrar installed.
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On Mon, 13 Apr 2009 21:03:14 + (UTC)
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Anyway, I took the advice given on the file, and reconfigured it via
dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg, which did change it.
Just to clarify, when I said change it, I'm referring to the file
On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 06:29:11 + (UTC)
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Check 'xdpyinfo | grep dime'. You should get the physical dimensions
of your screen. If they are wrong you can put the correct values
in xorg.conf. If they are correct, then you should adjust the
Hello. I just successfully upgraded Etch to Lenny. However, the font
size is now very small. I use Fluxbox, and the font size is small on
the desktop of Fluxbox (the bottom window panel), and within the
applications as well. Does anyone know how this can be fixed?
Mark
PS, While I'm happy
On Mon, 13 Apr 2009 08:11:21 + (UTC)
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| In case of problem, the DisplaySize option be used in the Monitor
| section of your /etc/X11/xorg.conf to force another DPI. If you
Thanks for the answer. I checked out this file, and it was the
Jpilot won't sync with my Palm IIIe, which is a serial connection
pda. Jpilot was working with a usb palm that I had, but this palm
broke.
I entered the command ln -s /dev/ttyS0 /dev/pilot, and then tried, via
jpilot, to sync. It did establish a sync connection, but gave me the
following
On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:20:32 +0100
François Cerbelle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mark Grieveson a écrit :
Jpilot won't sync with my Palm IIIe, which is a serial connection
pda. Jpilot was working with a usb palm that I had, but this palm
broke.
I entered the command ln -s /dev/ttyS0
Well, I solved it. Apparently this happens when the serial speed is
set too low. So, after setting it at 115200, from 9600, and after
restarting my computer, it now syncs. I discovered this tidbit at
Debian bug #396751. So, anyway, all is well now, and I can now get
organized.
Mark
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On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 00:35:50 + (UTC)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Would someone please help me. I own a large corporation and was
somehow joined to this list not by my own doing. I have ceaselessly
attempted to unsuscribe about 50 times and it is not working. I get
over 50 e-mails a day
On Fri, 7 Nov 2008 17:02:58 + (UTC)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
All,
I run Etch+backports at my home gateway/file server. Lately, I find
that many packages are too old in Etch for my needs. I am thinking of
switching to Lenny.
Don't do it! Resist the temptation. Stay with good ol'
Hello. Recently some of my sound applications have stopped working
properly. I use Etch. This occurred after a recent upgrade. The two
apps that no longer work properly are volume.app, and xmms. vlc does
still give sound when I play either music or video files, as does the
Internet (using
On Thu, 6 Nov 2008 22:02:36 + (UTC)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Check if you have /dev/dsp with the proper permissions:
$ ls -l /dev/dsp
crw-rw 1 root audio 14, 3 2008-11-06 19:41 /dev/dsp
If /dev/dsp is missing, try modprobe snd_pcm_oss as root. If that
improves the situation, add
On Fri, 12 Sep 2008 12:38:18 + (UTC)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Mark,
Interesting command :-)) Try something like this:
diction -s
Let us ask the question we wish to state.
(stdin):1: Let us [ask the question - ask] [we wish to state -
(cliche, avoid)].
hope this is what your
Hello. I was reading about the diction tool in the Linux Cookbook. It
stated that it combined two different commands into one (those being,
diction and suggest). According to the book, the command diction points
out potential errors by enclosing them in square brackets, and also
contains the
On Tue, 9 Sep 2008 16:20:43 + (UTC)
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Hello,
I hope I do not start a flame war here. I was wondering what choices
do we have to check English grammar in Linux.
The only one I know of is diction. It's available as a package in the
repositories. The site is at
On Wed, 3 Sep 2008 23:08:51 + (UTC)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:16:21 -0500
From: Mike McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Mark Grieveson [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Debian user list debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: partitions
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Content
On Wed, 3 Sep 2008 02:27:31 + (UTC)
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Can anyone recommend one of these for use under
Xfce4. I'm more concerned for efficient
functionality than for sophistication.
Brasero works well with xfce4. It works with well with thunar, in that
you can right-click on
On Wed, 3 Sep 2008 02:27:31 + (UTC)
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Can anyone recommend one of these for use under
Xfce4. I'm more concerned for efficient
functionality than for sophistication.
Brasero works well with xfce4. It works with well with thunar, in that
you can right-click on
On Wed, 3 Sep 2008 14:30:16 + (UTC)
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Can someone please copy/paste their debian-multimedia url line in
apt's sources.list file? I'm getting errors I think because of the
path for amd/64.
I've tried [many] variations of these but no joy:
deb
On Wed, 3 Sep 2008 06:48:11 + (UTC)
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I can't get my system to recognize my scanjet 6200c. It used to work,
with xsane, but now it doesn't. I'm using Etch, with Fluxbox.
Mark
Okay. I figured it out. I had to unplug the scanner, plug it back in,
then both root
Hello. When debian first installs, it gives the option of separating
the home directory (and some other directories) into a separate
partition. I did not choose this option, and instead went for the
recommended newbie option of everything in one partition. However, now
I think it would be a
I can't get my system to recognize my scanjet 6200c. It used to work,
with xsane, but now it doesn't. I'm using Etch, with Fluxbox.
Mark
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By searching for a laptop with a real modem, before even taking
Linux into account, you have eliminated 100% of all available
options: It doesn't exist.
The Thinkpad 770 has a modem. Sometimes, quite cheap, you can find
On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 03:54:21 + (UTC)
Gregg Jansen van Vuren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
basically what version of debian will suit my setup, foxconn
motherboard, and intel pentium 4 processor,
i386 would be suitable.
[i386 http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/4.0_r3/i386/iso-cd/]
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On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 03:28:09 + (UTC)
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On lenny amd64, I often get the prompt to install flash plugin, but
result in unknown plugin... x-shockwave-flash, how could i fix it?
Thanks!
Do you have the multimedia repository in your sources.list? If not,
add
deb
On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 20:34:19 + (UTC)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't know how/where, and the gnome built-in bug
reporting tool is buggy itself for me.
try using the command line program reportbug. It's much better than the
gnome bug-buddy.
Mark
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On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:32:37 + (UTC)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
not be selected and default is selected Open with Thunar. I removed
Thunar package but no result. This field is still present. How to
remove Thunar and make Nautilus open all Folders and Places?
On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:50:29 + (UTC)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
After all this smalltalk, my real question: I still have lots of
old e-mail in Microsoft format (with names like in-2005.dbx,
out-2006.dbx, etc; some filenames are in Japanese, and the
messages inside the .dbx files are mostly
Hello. I recently got a USB hub with four ports. While I can plug
a storage device, or a digital camera, into it, and read these
devices separately, it seems that I cannot mount and read them at
the same time (IE, view images from the digital camera, while
simultaneously viewing files
On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:21:19 + (UTC)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello. I am new to Linux, and I wish to use my Bamboo Tablet in Linux
and have WINE set up for quick access to Windows. However, I can't
really make heads or tails of the instructions. Any help would be
appreciated.
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On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:16:00 + (UTC)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anyhow, I've got my aptitude working again, and I'm profoundly
grateful for the help you and others gave me. The essential problem
was having stable instead of sarge in my sources.list. Sometime
or other, I will be upgrading
On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 02:03:26 + (UTC)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does anyone know how to change the Gnome editor -- in Xfce4 -- to
something other than mousepad?
It's been a while since I've used xfce-4, but I think there's a control
panel (or board, or window, or something) where you can
On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 11:33:25 + (UTC)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
When I mount a partition, I must use sudo, and when I create the
directory (the mount point) in /media I must also use sudo.
I chmod -R 777 the mount point directory before mounting, but... I
must use root to copy files
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