Hi Nicholas, 2010/4/14 Nicholas Chase <[email protected]>: > Thanks for your answer, Gunther. I'm still new, could you (or anyone for > that matter) please make that a bit more user friendly? I understand that > I'll have to "hold some packages", but I don't know how to do that. I've > tried editing the /etc/apt/sources.list before and it failed probably > because I didn't hold those packages. I run > $ cat /etc/apt/preferences
I am holding packages that makes the monitor work better, not to make squeeze work. You should take a look at http://wiki.debian.org/Aptitude an try to understand how debian upgrading works. > and it says "no file found". How do I hold packages? Where can I find this > in the documentation? I guess issuing $ man preferences at a terminal could give you some indication too > Thanks for your patience. This computer is my > Grandma's old computer that I rescued from an early grave with Debian, and > I'm hoping to keep it as up-to-date as possible as long as possible. That's great! No problem at all. > I'm still hoping to find a way to adjust the monitor. It's really crooked > and doesn't use all the screen area. Any Ideas, anyone? For the screen area you could try $xvidtune but sometimes I have to boot into MacOS 9 to fix monitor geometry before booting into linux. I managed to install MacOS 9 in a 256MB pendrive justo to fix sound and monitor geometry by the way. > Nicholas Chase > > [...] -- "...agora, só nos sobrou o futuro...", visto em www.manuchao.net Gunther Furtado Curitiba - Paraná - Brasil [email protected] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
