Making use of volume control keys

2010-05-29 Thread Michael Goetze
Hi list, I've just gotten a new laptop (Dell Latitude E4200), and it has some keys for adjusting the volume, which I'd like to configure to work with Debian. I'm using the awesome window manager. They keys already get usefully recognized, as evidenced by the following xev output: KeyPress

Re: Please help me understand APT pinning...

2010-01-31 Thread Michael Goetze
Hi Boyd, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: Any specific questions after that, you can contact me via PM and I also watch the list. I'm sorry to say your answer didn't help me. I thought the questions in my original message were already quite specific and demonstrated that I had understood the

Re: Please help me understand APT pinning...

2010-01-31 Thread Michael Goetze
Hi Javier, Does help Pin: release o=Unofficial* ? I don't sure, maybe this is a space character issue ? Did you test with quotes ? Unfortunately, the suggested line doesn't help. As I already wrote: I have also tried l= instead of o=, as well as copypasting the complete release line

Re: Please help me understand APT pinning...

2010-01-31 Thread Michael Goetze
Hi Boyd, I think in both these cases you are being bit by having APT::Default-Release testing in /etc/apt/apt.conf(.d). The relevant quote from man 5 apt_preferences is The target release can be set on the apt-get command line or in the APT configuration file /etc/apt/apt.conf. Note that

Re: Problem with Bind in Plesk

2010-01-27 Thread Michael Goetze
Dear Mr. Zahiri, Last week i had installed plesk control panel on my debian lenny server. I don't believe that any of the lists you chose to address are an appropriate venue for this question, please contact Parallels support for questions about their products. Regards, M. Goetze -- To

Please help me understand APT pinning...

2010-01-27 Thread Michael Goetze
Hi, I've struggled with this issue for hours and gotten no help from Manpages, nor IRC. So if someone could help me and CC me on their reply (as I am not subscribed), I would be very grateful. I am running a Debian Squeeze system. I want to install selected packages from debian-multimedia