Re: any tool to produce a report of bad sectors of my harddisk?

2009-03-21 Thread Daniel Lannstrom
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 10:23:26PM -0700, Jeff D wrote: > On Fri, 20 Mar 2009, 明覺 wrote: > > > As my machine crashed 2 times in the last 10 days, both caused by file > > system issues, so I want to get a report of my harddisk to know > > whether my harddisk is really in a very bad situation.(thoug

Re: running X without desktop

2009-03-11 Thread Daniel Lannstrom
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 12:57:43PM +0100, Dirk Vervoort wrote: > Hi All, > > How far can I go on a remote pc with only 96 Mb, > > - Can I run X on a remote pc 192.168.1.2 without a desktop and export a > display like DISPLAY=192.168.1.5 to my client pc were I run xhost + > 192.168.1.2. > - Is

Re: How to turn sound on by default?

2009-03-03 Thread Daniel Lannstrom
On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 08:54:03PM +0100, Robert Latest wrote: > Hello there, > > when I want to use sound on my computer, I always have to start the > (GUI app) "gnome-alsamixer" and un-mute it. Even on the Gnome desktop > it's not enough to click off the little red mute symbol next to the > loud

Re: Turn off monitor after inactivity

2009-03-03 Thread Daniel Lannstrom
On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 08:24:44PM +0100, Daniel Aleksandersen wrote: > Hi list > > My notebook’s screen turns blank when left inactive for a couple of minutes. I > want it to turn off instead, and turn back on when I start typing. How do I > achieve this? > > I have installed a base system and

Re: Lowest ram system with X. Presario 5166.

2009-03-03 Thread Daniel Lannstrom
On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 06:51:16PM +, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > gnome-basic will do? Other suggestions? Other window managers? Don't use gnome. The current versions will grind the computer to a halt. Instead get fluxbox or some other lightweight window manager. Also, don't expect that firefox w

Re: bring back hdd from dd urandom

2009-03-02 Thread Daniel Lannstrom
On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 02:12:09PM +0100, josep wrote: > How can I bring a hdd back to life, if I did: > > dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sdb > > to it? > > When I try to format it to ext3, it tells: gparted: libparted - unrecognized > disk label > > Please help, the /dev/sdb is an USB HDD I'm not