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Re: Debian problem

2012-05-02 Thread Johan Mazel

Thanks for all your answers.
I sent another mail to this mailing list to expose my problem.
Regards.
Johan

2012/5/3 Camaleón :
> On Wed, 02 May 2012 19:08:52 +0900, Johan Mazel wrote:
>
>> I have a problem with Debian Testing on an Dell Optiplex 960. Can I ask
>> for some help on this list or should I use another way ?
>
> This list is okay but for the next time it would be better if you include
> a more descriptive subject for the problem ;-)
>
> Greetings,
>
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Re: [OT] Mails coming from "joe1assis...@gmail.com"

2012-05-02 Thread Indulekha

On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 03:54:21PM +, Camaleón wrote:
> On Wed, 02 May 2012 10:04:36 -0500, Indulekha wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 02:50:38PM +, Camaleón wrote:
> 
> >> > So, do you run leafnode and point it at nntp://news.gmane.org then?
> >> 
> >> I've never used Leafnode before. Is a NNTP server, right?
> >> 
> >> Let me take a look:
> >> 
> >> http://leafnode.sourceforge.net/overview.shtml
> 
> (...)
>  
> > Thanks, but I do already know how to run leafnode -- been doing that
> > with news.individual.net for a few years.
> 
> So then? I already say how I read/post to this list and don't remember 
> mentioning leafnode at all :-)
> 
> > Just wondered if that's what you were using for gmane, sorry if I wasn't
> > clear. 
> 
> Nope, I use Pan (a newsreader client) to read/post here using Gmane, like 
> if I were using a standard MUA.
>

Ah well, please excuse me and (as Emily Litella used to say) never mind 
then. I thought you'd mentioned something about running a newsserver, and 
so I wondered if it was leafnode. Perhaps I misunderstood. I know you 
use Pan, but leafnode is newsreader agnostic.

> > Anyway, I think sticking with the straight list is probably fine
> > for me at this point. It's always good to have alternative options if
> > needed, but gmane seems a bit of a kludge to me frankly, and now there's
> > that shadow of doubt cast by this whole "joelassistly" thing... (Though
> > it may have nothing to do with gmane, but IDK).
> 
> IMO, Gmane is one of the better/useful things there's now in the web, I 
> don't know why you speak about it in that way. Anyway, I'm afraid you 
> haven't understood what's going on with that "joe1..." posts :-/
> 

Frankly, it doesn't appear anyone fully understands it, that was my 
point. My poor mother (who of course is even more old and feeble than 
I) is always falling for questionable things she finds on the internet, 
and downloading glitzy, cutesy things to decorate her emails, and sending 
those "e-greeting cards". Her laptop has to be wiped and reinstalled almost 
every other month. Since I can't convince her to stop it, I have 
a collection of about 60 mail filters to cover all the crap I get because 
of her (not from her). This has made me wary...

So I meant no offense, but my motto in such matters is "caveat utilitor". 
("let the user beware") You can continue to be the guinea pig (so to 
speak); I'm the old lady in the white lab coat waiting to see what happens. 
:)
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Re: Macbook pro re-mapping single key

2012-05-02 Thread Indulekha

On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 09:00:12PM -0500, Mark Allums wrote:
> On 5/2/2012 5:05 PM, Riccardo Romoli wrote:
> >Hi to all,
> >
> >I'm a newbie of Debian but using the Debian-Wiky I was able to install
> >Debian 6 as single boot, on my MacBookPro (v.3.1). The only problem I
> >notice, till now, is about the Alt key. I bought the computer as
> >used from a German guy ignoring that the keyboard has the particularity
> >to has only the left Alt key instead of two. So the right Alt key is
> >replaced by a second ENTER and the left Alt key is used as Meta key
> >instead of Option key.
> >
> >I tried to configure the keyboard with the graphical interface but I
> >wasn't able solve my problem. If, for example I press Alt+Tab, I was
> >able to switch between the different windows, but the Alt key doesn't
> >work both in the various text editors (emacs, gedit...) and in the
> >terminal, to type the extra character such as tilde, square brackets...
> >
> >I think I should re-map my keyboard replacing the extra ENTER with the
> >Alt(Option) key but I have no idea how to do this.
> >
> >Do you have any suggestion?
> >

Install the package xev if you don't already have it, and read the 
man page. Xev will allow you to see which key generates what keycode.
Won't help in the console, but using an xwindows environment you can
remap your keys as you wish using xmodmap. (read "man xmodmap").
Sorry for the overgeneralization, but I haven't had the need to do this 
in a few years, so only vaguely recall what I did...

> 
> When away from home base, remapping would be preferable, but at
> home, you might get a full-sized PC keyboard that works the way you
> expect. You would have to re-configure the key layout every time you
> switched, but it's something to consider.
> 

No problem, you just use shell aliases (or little scripts) and have 
them point to (for example) .xmodmap0 and xmodmap1, as replacements 
for the standard xmodmap. Create keybindings to switch from one to the 
other in your window manager, and at the stroke of a key you can switch 
from one layout to the other.

I know this is all very general and probably sounds dreadfully opaque, 
but once you have the actual keycodes if you need more help just come back 
and post the details.

Here's the xev output for my "Return" key, just to show you what to look 
for. It's different on different keyboards, so this is only an example:

KeyRelease event, serial 35, synthetic NO, window 0x181,
root 0x128, subw 0x0, time 20931520, (-6,197), root:(15,331),
state 0x0, keycode 36 (keysym 0xff0d, Return), same_screen YES,
"   XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (0d) "
XFilterEvent returns: False

So when you see something similar for each key you want to redefine, 
you know you're on to something. :)

Good luck!

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Graphic problem on Debian testing installed on Dell Optiplex 960

2012-05-02 Thread Johan Mazel

Hi
I have a Debian testing 64 bits running on a Dell Optiplex 960.

I have three different kernels installed: 2.6.32-5, 3.2.0-1 and 3.2.0-2.

Until a recent upgrade (through apt-get update/apt-get upgrade), I
could not use the Gnome login screen with kernel versions 3.2.0-1 and
3.2.0-2: the top of the screen displayed a strange random pattern of
pixels of many colors and the bottom of the screen was black. However,
in this case, I was able to use GUI login, and, thus, Debian by using
2.6.32-5 kernel.

After a recent upgrade, the Gnome login screen is now not even
available with the 2.6.32-5 kernel. I only have a black screen with a
cursor on the top-right corner and a rectangle constituted of random
pixels in black and white located at the left of the screen and close
to the top of the screen.

I tried to remove the gdm3 package. This allow me reach the login
console with the 2.6.32-5 kernel. In this case, I also have a
rectangle constituted of random pixels in black and white located at
the same place: left of the screen and close to the top of the screen.
And, I still have the same bug as before with kernel versions 3.2.0-1
and 3.2.0-2: random pattern of pixels in many colors on top of the
screen and black on the bottom of the screen.
I tried to use the command startx when I am in the console but there
is a problem. I do not copy here the result but I can extract. I think
that this problem is causing the trouble with Gnome.

Lspci finds this graphic card:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee
ATI RV620 LE [Radeon HD 3450] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Dell Device 0342
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
Memory at d000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
Memory at fe9f (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
I/O ports at dc00 [size=256]
Expansion ROM at fea0 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities:
Kernel driver in use: radeon

I have no idea how to fix this problem.
I would be grateful is somebody could help me fix it.
Regards.
Johan

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