Older Toshiba won't restart only halt
Greetings! I've had this issue for some time with this laptop through the various incarnations of Debian. This is a Toshiba Satellite 1800 circa 2004 with maxed out ram 512 Mb and it runs just fine with LXDE on it. Presently I'm running Squeeze, with proposed Sid updates. I've never been able to 'restart' the damn thing. halt -p works fine but I always have to shutdown and then manually start up again. A pain in the arse for kernel upgrades. 8D Any suggestions as to what I need to do to fix this? Don't have this problem with other laptops of the same era that I've installed Debian on either. Cheers thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101109145513.ga3...@laptop.nodomain.bell.ca
Re: Fwd: [Mw] Gmail accounts
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 01:09:46AM -0400, Doug wrote: This from the amateur (ham radio) microwave list, for your information. (Previous message) Folks It appears that the GMAIL server is not accepting microwave list mail when you are the originator of the message. I will have my ISP look into it. If you have a x...@gmail.com address, you might not be getting your own messages back through the list, and in some cases it might not even get to the list. Actually it doesn't throw those e-mails away they are in 'All Mail'. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100930005221.ga7...@laptop.nodomain.bell.ca
Re: Straw poll: What browser do you use?
On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 09:16:26AM -0400, B. Alexander wrote: I'm just wondering, since firefox/iceweasel seems to be getting unusable. I have a 2.2GHz C2D box with an nvidia card at home, and a 3.0GHz C2D with a (lame) ATI card at work. I find that firefox (or xulrunner-stub) have memory leaks, and after a couple of days, it eats up a significant amount (10-30%) of memory. The work box has 3GB and the home box has 4GB. It also eats up a significant amount of CPU. I use Chromium developer version from Ubuntu PPA source -- Debian is too far behind in Chromium builds, unfortunately. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100911141913.ga12...@laptop.nodomain.bell.ca
Re: Mailing list protocol
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 06:30:21PM -0600, Aaron Toponce wrote: [...] seem to be a soul who understands how to read email text, and how to properly reply to a technical list (probably because they're all using the crappy Gmail MUA): It's not that bad; I've actually grown fond of it and I'm a long time slrn/mutt user! I'm a member of that list as well. The principle is to use whatever convention the List uses; nothing is carved in stone these days. If you were using the webmail interface (Gmail's) for that list it would make sense as it collapses quoted contents; but one can still selectively quote with key shortcuts in Gmail web interface. The problem arises reading Google email/Google Groups with a conventional e-mail client. http://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/group/chromium-discuss/msg/df924dbb59ec4330?dmode=source Long story short: * Trim your reply. Only include the relevant text to support your reply. * Bottom-post or interweave. People don't read English text from the bottom to top. Your reply should always be beneath what you're replying to. Interleave or do what whatever e-mail list you're on follows in terms of rules. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100827031930.ga19...@laptop.nodomain.bell.ca
Re: Testing: Weekly Build - 7/26/2010
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 09:51:59PM -0500, Chris wrote: Greetings folks, I downloaded the above DVD (i386) and installed it to my HP / Compaq nx6325 laptop. [ ... snipped] This was an outstanding install without any issues. If this is shades of what 6.0 will be like, I can't wait. Then again, I m running Sid on my desktop (and that has presented no issues thus far). Sid has been unbelievably stable for me. I do anticipate moving from Squeeze (7/26/2010) to Sid this weekend on the above laptop. Just wanted to send gratitude and praises to all that are working on this. Thanks for the heads up. Looking forward to the new stable coming soon! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100730160407.ga2...@laptop.nodomain.bell.ca
Re: Clarification: Opinions why: What's the best DVD setup for Debian AMD64 system
Well that took care of the worst of the flash issues. I suppose I will just have to wait until Adobe gets their crap together realizes that Linux users are a rapidly growing percentage of the software using market. The results arw that using the 32bit libs plays the video streams; but there is a lot of flickering caused by the browser allowing bleed thru of some of the webpage content that is not part of the video stream. Seems it cant tell the movie from the ads that are flashed based on the web page tries to play the all as a single stream. Iceweasel that is. Thanks. John If you need an up-to-date Flash Player for a web browser you could use Google-Chrome Unstable. It has the latest Flash incorporated into the browser. I'd check it out and see if things improve with it. No guarantee of course. ;-D I'm running it now on Lenny; no complaints. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100711151703.ga2...@laptop.nodomain.bell.ca
Re: Torrents killing my connection
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 09:26:17AM +0800, Huang, Tao wrote: On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 5:30 AM, ABS Doug absd...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] I rent a room. The router is in a different part of the house. WiFi is included in the rent. I already asked about moving the router, but that isn't gunna happen. The router isn't even mine. I might end up trying to run a splitter at some point, but right now it's just not an option. I do appreciate all the advice. I'm gunna try a safe torrent right now. torrents over wireless can be very tricky. i guess a cable would solve your problem. Don't agree with this statement at all. Been using wireless and bitorrent for some time. Not any different than wired. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100622000210.ga15...@laptop.nodomain.bell.ca
