Changing the terminal character set

2015-07-18 Thread Alex Naysmith
I'm writing python scripts with the curses GUI and I need the CP437 character set. How can I change the character encoding in the XFCE terminal [v0.4.8] from UTF-8 to CP437 or IBM437? Alternatively, I did attempt to change the system locale from en_GB.UTF-8 to one that contained CP437/IBM437.

Fwd: Changing the terminal character set

2015-07-18 Thread Alex Naysmith
-- Forwarded message -- From: Frederic Marchal frederic.marc...@wowtechnology.com Date: 18 July 2015 at 12:41 Subject: Re: Changing the terminal character set To: debian-user@lists.debian.org On Saturday 18 July 2015 10:52:33 Alex Naysmith wrote: I'm writing python scripts

[SOLVED] Re: Missing resolutions, xrandr and nvidia

2014-02-15 Thread Alex Naysmith
On 9 February 2014 23:16, Alex Naysmith yeoman.pyt...@gmail.com wrote: With Debian Wheezy installed, I have the Geforce 6800 GT graphics card. The screen flickers every few seconds with the default nouveau drivers. I therefore installed the version 304.88 nvidia drivers [1]. These drivers

Missing resolutions, xrandr and nvidia

2014-02-09 Thread Alex Naysmith
With Debian Wheezy installed, I have the Geforce 6800 GT graphics card. The screen flickers every few seconds with the default nouveau drivers. I therefore installed the version 304.88 nvidia drivers [1]. These drivers enable 3D acceleration as well as eliminate the screen flickering. However, I

Re: Why Debian

2013-11-19 Thread Alex Naysmith
I previously used Xubuntu and was very happy with it until Software Centre superseded Synaptic as the default graphical package manager. Software Centre is just horrible and slow and no good for old computers. Arch takes too long to set up and can cause head-aches when Pacman -Syu makes

Re: Procedure to uninstall nvidia drivers and restore nouveau

2013-11-17 Thread Alex Naysmith
, Alex Naysmith yeoman.pyt...@gmail.com wrote: After following the procedure at https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers to install the nvidia-glx-legacy-173xx package for my GeForce FX5550 card [Debian 7 Wheezy], I would like to know the best method to return to the nouveau driver

Re: Procedure to uninstall nvidia drivers and restore nouveau

2013-11-12 Thread Alex Naysmith
:56, Alex Naysmith yeoman.pyt...@gmail.com wrote: From the nvidia install procedure is the following command: # aptitude -r install linux-headers-$(uname -r|sed 's,[^-]*-[^-]*-,,') nvidia-kernel-legacy-173xx-dkms I can see the pipe | symbol and the regular expressions but I don't really

Re: Procedure to uninstall nvidia drivers and restore nouveau

2013-11-11 Thread Alex Naysmith
November 2013 21:44, Alex Naysmith yeoman.pyt...@gmail.com wrote: After following the procedure at https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers to install the nvidia-glx-legacy-173xx package for my GeForce FX5550 card [Debian 7 Wheezy], I would like to know the best method to return to the nouveau

Procedure to uninstall nvidia drivers and restore nouveau

2013-11-10 Thread Alex Naysmith
After following the procedure at https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers to install the nvidia-glx-legacy-173xx package for my GeForce FX5550 card [Debian 7 Wheezy], I would like to know the best method to return to the nouveau driver with the files from the glx-legacy-1733 package removed