On Sat, 13 Nov 2010 22:33:25 +
John O Laoi brianol...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,
I have a dual boot laptop running squeeze.
I update regularly.
I rarely use the Windows partition – I have not used it for several
months.
However, it now appears to be gone, according to grub.
At
On Sun, 17 Oct 2010 21:57:36 +0200
Steven redalert.comman...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi list,
Can anyone point me to a program that will let me know what files a
certain application touches? More importantly, writes to.
Something like filestouched vi filename which would then report
'filename' as
On Sun, 17 Oct 2010 21:57:36 +0200
Steven redalert.comman...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi list,
Can anyone point me to a program that will let me know what files a
certain application touches? More importantly, writes to.
Something like filestouched vi filename which would then report
'filename' as
Guys, this is really driving me nuts.
Running KDE4 on sid. When I log in, there are always an
xscreensaver and a ssh-agent instance running, even though I log in
into an empty session:
dav...@macco:~$ ps aux | grep xscr
davide1580 0.0 0.0 7272 820 pts/1R+ 20:59
Running Sid. I upgraded some 400 packages yesterday and
since then the AltGr key has stopped working in some
applications, notably Iceweasel and Claws Mail (i.e. the
applications I use 90% of the time, of course). Specifically,
when I press AltGr + any key, nothing happens. Note that
Running Sid. I upgraded some 400 packages yesterday and
since then the AltGr key has stopped working in some
applications, notably Iceweasel and Claws Mail (i.e. the
applications I use 90% of the time, of course). Specifically,
when I press AltGr + any key, nothing happens. Note
Running Sid. I upgraded some 400 packages yesterday and since
then the AltGr key has stopped working in some applications, notably
Iceweasel and Claws Mail (i.e. the applications I use 90% of the
time, of course). Specifically, when I press AltGr + any key, nothing
happens. Note that
In 2.6.26-amd64 there was a kernel module called qcmessenger,
but it's not there in 2.6.29. Does anyone know what happened to it?
Davide
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Hello list,
I have a rather funny and annoying problem with a third-party fortran
program. It is a non-free scientific program for some physical
calculations. I get different output values, if I compile and run the
same fortran code on amd64 or i386.
In fact, depending on the input file
I can open the keyboard configuration dialog directly by running:
kcmshell4 keyboard
What happens when you try this?
Nothing happens. The keyboard configuration module is
provided by /usr/lib/kde4/kcm_keyboard.so, from package
kdebase-workspace-bin. The file exists,
Florian,
Thanks for your time.
Strace suggests that the mouse and keyboard settings are saved in
~/.kde/share/config/kcminputrc on my system. Do you have anything
in this file? My keyboard section in there looks like this:
[snip]
The file exists, but there's no
But the keyboard repeat rate is not set by Xkb, as far
as I'm aware.
Right. As far as I can tell it's set in the WM/DE (for Xfce: Menu -
Settings - Keyboard: Behaviour tab).
...but KDE4.2 doesn't have it. Grrr.
Davide
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Right. As far as I can tell it's set in the WM/DE (for Xfce: Menu
- Settings - Keyboard: Behaviour tab).
...but KDE4.2 doesn't have it. Grrr.
Kickoff Menu Computer System Settings Keyboard Mouse
Keyboard
should have an Enable keyboard repeat checkbox and two sliders for
Did you already try to start KDE for a fresh user?
Yes, to no avail.
Strace suggests that the mouse and keyboard settings are saved in
~/.kde/share/config/kcminputrc on my system. Do you have anything in
this file? My keyboard section in there looks like this:
[snip]
The
I have upgraded X to v1:7.4+1 and now I'm struggling with
hal to reproduce the same configuration I had before. I managed to
set up the keyboard layouts and the xkb options, but I can't find
how to change the keyboard repeat rate. For the moment, I have
created a policy file in
Hi .*,
I have upgraded X to v1:7.4+1 and now I'm struggling with hal
to reproduce the same configuration I had before. I managed to set up
the keyboard layouts and the xkb options, but I can't find how to change
the keyboard repeat rate. For the moment, I have created a policy file
in
I have upgraded X to v1:7.4+1 and now I'm struggling with hal
to reproduce the same configuration I had before. I managed to set
up the keyboard layouts and the xkb options, but I can't find how
to change the keyboard repeat rate. For the moment, I have created
a policy file in
On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 12:31:50 +0100
Emanoil Kotsev delop...@yahoo.com wrote:
Upto 2.6.26 I know there is a delay_use option for usb_storage.
It's set to 5sec by default. I didn't look for such an option in
2.6.28, but as delay_use is doing nothing I assume it was either
removed or replaced.
Hi .*,
I have an external USB hard disk that I use for automated
backups. I have written the following udev rules:
SUBSYSTEMS==usb, ATTRS{serial}==574341535530323537353839, KERNEL==sd?,
SYMLINK+=exthd, GROUP=plugdev
SUBSYSTEMS==usb, ATTRS{serial}==574341535530323537353839,
Jonathan Kaye jdkay...@gmail.com wrote:
I need to downgrade my fglrx driver to version 8-7-3 but I
can't find the package at snapshot.debian.org nor at
packages.debian.org. Could anyone please give me a clue?
Cheers,
Davide
Hi Davide,
You can find older versions of fglrx
I need to downgrade my fglrx driver to version 8-7-3 but I
can't find the package at snapshot.debian.org nor at
packages.debian.org. Could anyone please give me a clue?
Cheers,
Davide
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2009/1/16 Johannes Wiedersich johan...@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de:
Davide Mancusi wrote:
The hard disk of my 4-year-old laptop is starting to fail. I ran
fsck.ext3 -c on my root partition yesterday and a few blocks were
marked as damaged. The blocks contained some XFCE4 theme files, so I
On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:08:56 -0500
Michael Pobega pob...@gmail.com wrote:
I just got into my new dorm room, only to find out that they block all
IRC clients. I find this pretty disheartening since I often lurk on
#debian and #debian-eeepc
Is there any good way to tunnel or encrypt my data,
2009/1/16 Angus Frinc angus.fr...@free.fr:
Bonjour à toi, à vous,
Le 15/jan - 21:48, Davide Mancusi a écrit :
1. Connaissez-vous un magasin en France ou en Belgique qui vende des
ordinateurs portables compatibles avec Debian (je ne veux pas utiliser
de drivers propriétaires) et sans Windoze
Hello everyone,
The hard disk of my 4-year-old laptop is starting to fail. I ran
fsck.ext3 -c on my root partition yesterday and a few blocks were
marked as damaged. The blocks contained some XFCE4 theme files, so I
thought that reinstalling the relevant package should be enough. Now,
however,
Bonjour à tous,
Après quelques années de glorieuse carrière, mon ordi portable
commence à montrer des défaillances ; il donne souvent des erreurs en
lisant le disque dur et parfois il se plante sans des raisons
apparentes. Pour l'instant je survis grâce à badblocks, mais je
voudrais bientôt
i installed virtualbox following advices in previus treads. it's
working ok, but my problem is that modprobe don't seem to be
presistant i.e i need to run modprobe vboxdrv as root every time i
restart. is there any way to make it load the module automatically?
Modules listed in
On Sun, 30 Nov 2008 17:12:50 +1030
Is there a place on-line where I can download either Debian sources
or binaries compatible with a Pentium-II (-686 or -486) of Linux
kernel versions between 2.6.18.4 and 2.6.24 to find out where the
change occurred that caused the failure of the eata module
Hi Florian,
Are you dual-booting with Windows?
Nope.
Is your hardware clock set to UTC or local time? (If you do not
remember how you configured this when you installed the system, look
at the output of grep UTC /etc/default/rcS.)
When I installed the system I was
# date hwclock -r
dom nov 16 13:53:50 CET 2008
dom 16 nov 2008 12:50:07 CET -0.432112 seconds
It seems that hwclock still thinks that the clock is set to local
time; you can check this with tail -n1 /etc/adjtime. (hwclock does
not read the setting in /etc/default/rcS, it simply uses
Hello,
I use chrony to keep the clock of my Debian Sid in sync. When
we switched off DST, a few weeks ago, chrony sent me an e-mail telling
me that it was trying to apply an offset of about 3600 seconds, i.e.
one hour. Is this behaviour normal? I don't recall seeing anything
similar with
Magnus Therning ha scritto:
How do I make sure that all the java-related links in /etc/alternatives
are sane?
I installed icedtea, then purged it and installed sun-java5 and
sun-java6. Some links in /etc/alternatives are still pointing to the
(now non-existing) tools that came with icedtea.
You don't need setxkbmap to switch between different keyboard
layouts. I also use KDE, but I prefer to use kkbswitch and set up X as
follows:
Thanks Davide, are you on Debian sid too?
Yes. I switched to kkbswitch because I had problems with KDE's
management of multiple layouts,
Seb ha scritto:
Hi,
Has anybody found a work-around bug #462243
(http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=462243). It was
merged with an upstream bug in Xorg
(https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14162). It happens in my
Debian sid system, with a M$ Natural Ergonomic (4000
Seb ha scritto:
kkbswitch is nice. It doesn't crash X in my system. However, it
doesn't seem to allow cycling the layouts with a shortcut key (I'm
used to 'Ctrl-Win-Alt-spc' for that). Thanks for the tip.
That's something you have to configure in xorg.conf. In my
configuration (see
Dennis G. Wicks ha scritto:
When I restart Iceweasel it reopens all the windows and
tabs as designed with one not-so-small problem. It
opens *every* window or tab that was ever opened
before, nopt just the ones that were open when it
crashed or was shutdown. It doesn't seem to know or
care that
Dennis G. Wicks ha scritto:
When I restart Iceweasel it reopens all the windows and
tabs as designed with one not-so-small problem. It
opens *every* window or tab that was ever opened
before, nopt just the ones that were open when it
crashed or was shutdown. It doesn't seem to know or
care that
tom arnall ha scritto:
i'm trying to get libdvdcss and thus put:
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch main
into sources.list. but when i do apt-get update, i get:
W: GPG error: http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch Release: The following
signatures couldn't be verified
Hi all,
I own a Logitech Quickcam Messenger (a webcam) which works fine using
the qc-usb drivers at [1]. As far as I understand, however, there are
many forks of the qc-usb project, one of which being the version
included in the Debian archive [2]. Another fork can be found at [3].
Pantor ha scritto:
Login as root OK, login KDE as root and user OK.
Login as root --- very bad idea.
Davide
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Florian Kulzer ha scritto:
[...]
However, the Swedish (se) layout has been broken for a while now. If I
type qwerty, for example, I obtain @ł€rt←, which is a bit annoying.
Anyone with the same problem? Running Sid on amd64.
I also run Sid on amd64. I see the same broken behavior when I use
Hello everyone,
My X server is configured with a double keyboard layout, as this
excerpt from the config file shows:
Section InputDevice
Identifier Generic Keyboard
Driver kbd
Option CoreKeyboard
Option XkbRules xorg
Davide Mancusi ha scritto:
I have textex/texlive installed but I do not see
texexec.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-file list bin/texexec
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
I apologise. Wrong command...
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-file search bin/texexec
context: usr/bin/texexec
This one seems
ISHWAR RATTAN ha scritto:
I have textex/texlive installed but I do not see
texexec.
$ which texexec
$
What package is this utility part of?
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-file list bin/texexec
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
Looks like texexec is not in Debian. What did it do?
Davide
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John Salmon ha scritto:
I keep seeing Aptitude Reference Manual mentioned in the documentation
but can't find a location to access it. Can anyone help me?
Have you installed aptitude-doc-en? Then you should find the
documentation in the standard location: /usr/share/doc/aptitude
Davide
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Vít Pelčák ha scritto:
Then I tried to switch to KDM. Same results either with enabled theme
or disabled (in /etc/default/kdm.d/ option to use theme set to
false).
Maybe this is obvious, but let me just rule it out first. In the kdm
configuration window, Users tab, there are several
Axel Schlicht ha scritto:
I installed the latest incarnation of Debian i386 (4.01R1) and X runs OK
(with no manual fiddling - first time ever, whow). But one problem remains:
My mouse (or rather mice, for I tried several), connected to a PS2 port
run smoothly under Win2K and Knoppix 4 and 5.
Mark Grieveson ha scritto:
Hello. I'm trying to get an Etch box to read, open, or sync with an
ipod. I searched aptitude for ipod stuff, and blindly installed a few
things (libraries, a program called gtkpod), but, using gtkpod, was
unable to connect to it.
Amarok works quite well for me,
Kenward Vaughan ha scritto:
Hi,
I'd like to be able to compile a package from source (ghemical, FWIW) so
that I can add so additional parameters not normally included which will
enhance the app for my purposes. The enhancements are part of the
upstream distribution (an interface with GAMESS).
webjay ha scritto:
# mount -t hfsplus -r /dev/sda /mnt/usbdisk
^^^
Shouldn't this be sda1? Just a thought, I do not use
HFS+.
Davide
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Sarunas Burdulis ha scritto:
Starting kdm isn't that necessary, if you're just testing the new
driver/configuration. You can run just 'Xorg' to test whether X Window
starts (kill it with Ctrl+Alt+Backspace).
Yeah, but if kdm is running and I kill X, it will restart it
automatically. You need
Chris Bannister ha scritto:
On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 10:51:33AM +0100, Jonathan Kaye wrote:
You will have to stop the x-server and then restart it. In fact I had to
reboot (aaarhhh) in order for the module to install correctly. Try
Instead of having to reboot, you might get away with just
Sarunas Burdulis ha scritto:
No, you need to reboot because you recompile the kernel module.
Shouldn't
# modprobe -r module
# modprobe module
suffice instead of reboot?
Errr, yes. I suppose it should. *hides in a corner*. So the right
sequence for me would be
# /etc/init.d/kdm stop
#
Jonathan Kaye ha scritto:
Hi Davide,
Here's how I did it:
1. Remove all fglrx packages currently installed.
2. as root or using sudo
a. go to /usr/src/modules and rm -r fglrx
b. if you an flgrx-kernel .deb file in /usr/src, delete it.
Now to build the new driver.
1. Go to the folder where
Davide Mancusi ha scritto:
[...] building the package does not work. It fails like this
(long log follows): [snipped]
For the benefit of those who are trying to walk the same path: I have
managed to create the packages by following the instructions on the ATI
wiki [1]. The drivers from
Jonathan Kaye ha scritto:
Following your message I checked out nexuiz and it runs fine with my card
and driver. I'm surprised that running the ATI-Installer gave you error
messages. I see 2 differences between our systems:
1. You are using a 64bit kernel and I'm using a 32bit one (although I
Jonathan Kaye ha scritto:
Hi Davide,
I've installed it and it's BRILLIANT Three cheers for ATI they've got it
right!
fgl_glxgears ran around 380fps under 8.39. Now, under 8.42 it's over 500! So
I'd say go for it.
Cheers,
Jonathan
Thank you all for the feedback. I have tried to install the
Hi all,
I wonder if anyone has recently upgraded the fglrx ATI driver from
version 8.40.4 to 8.42.3, like I have done. OpenGL stopped working after
the upgrade and I am not able to figure out why.
The first time I run an OpenGL application, it just sits there forever
waiting for
2007/11/1, Jonathan Kaye [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
1. What's your card - I'm running ATI Radeon 9550
It's a Radeon 9600 Pro.
2. Where did you get the package? Did you get it from ATI and build the debs
yourself or what?
I installed the binary debs and I compiled the kernel module with m-a.
I'm
Russell L. Harris ha scritto:
I tried to use Amarok for the Zen Jukebox, but I became so confused
that I returned to the Window$ machine and the manager which Creative
furnished, which, at least, is fairly intuitive.
The experience only reinforced my desire for a command-line interface
such as
Richard Lyons ha scritto:
When I plug my iPod using the USB cable I get the 'Do not
disconnect' screen on the ipod. It's great because I can see the ipod
is charging. But to listen to music I do not understand what I need to
do. I tried:
its not possible to listen and charge an ipod on any
Russell L. Harris ha scritto:
I have used gnupod (command-line interface) with a 4th-generation
iPod. It was an enjoyable experience. I would like to find a tool of
this sort to manage the Creative Zen.
Amarok has got a plugin to manage Creative Nomad Jukebox mp3 players.
Might be worth a
Tyler Smith ha scritto:
[snip]
However, my University uses WPA, TKIP, PEAP and EAP-MSCHAP v2. I was
advised to try network manager, but I couldn't get either
network-manager-gnome or kdenetwork-manager to work on my laptop
running fluxbox. network-manager-gnome reported that network manager
Pantor ha scritto:
The same story:
89-125-103-244:/home/andrius# Gtk-Message: Failed to load module atk-bridge:
libatk-bridge.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
GTK Accessibility Module initialized
I think the idea was that you should run openoffice as:
$
Sridhar M.A. ha scritto:
Checked the bug list for hugin and could not find a mention of this.
Incidentally, this ... double free or corruption (out) ... appears
to be affecting quite a few packages as revealed by google. Anybody has
any pointers to overcome this?
It was in the bug list...
John W. Foster ha scritto:
I did a cursory look around as I recall there was exactly such an applet
available (gnome I think) several years ago. Couldn't find it anywhere.
However from the FYI category; in the overkill subsection; there is Gourmet
a complete recipe management system that I have
Martin Marcher ha scritto:
When I click a hyper link in icedove, I'd like one browser, for example,
iceweasel, to open this link.
I didn't find any where within icedove to set this option. Could anyone
point it out?
That is not an option in iceweasel it is related to the alternatives
system in
Michael Yang ha scritto:
After applying the workaround quoted as follows, it works for me:
Quote[
yeah ... the cause is that location of global config files moved down
one folder. Previously we had a hack that allowed you to drop configs
in /etc/icedove/ ... now we have a clean solution that
Jeff ha scritto:
If you are not running any sound daemons then it might be necessary to
load the OSS legacy support modules so that the browser can use those
devices directly. (It seems that alsaconf does not automatically load
the OSS modules anymore with some soundcards. Chris Lale has
Serena Cantor ha scritto:
I have 2 PCs that are connected to wireless router, which is
connected to a cable modem.
The two PCs form a private network. I want to know the IP used by Internet user
to access one of PCs.
If you need to do it in a script, you might prefer something along the
Andrei Popescu ha scritto:
The pcspkr module needs this:
install pcspkr /bin/true
HTH,
Andrei
That didn't help. However, adding a blacklist=floppy option to kernel
boot did the trick. I think floppy is included in the initrd image and
is loaded by the kernel in the early phases of boot; I
Matthias Meyer ha scritto:
Hallo,
In einem Terminal in KDE kann ich zwar mit su root werden, aber ich kann
keine KDE-Programme starten. Beispiel:
PlayMobil:# kwrite
Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified
kwrite: cannot connect to X server :0
Es ist auch nicht
pinniped ha scritto:
That is (somewhat) correct; the scripts which create the initrd image
will normally (in the default install) put all framebuffer, acpi,
filesystem, and hard disk drivers into the image. Have a look in
/etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf to get some idea what goes on.
I
I am trying to solve two problems:
1. Load my sound-card module (snd_via_82xx) before snd_usb_audio (I
have a webcam with integrated mike); for some reason, sound won't work
if they are loaded in the opposite order;
2. Avoid to load the floppy module at each boot, since I do not have a
floppy
Andrei Popescu ha scritto:
See 'man modprobe.conf'.
So, that's where the man page for modprobe.d is...
There is an example for just what you need for
1. For 2. a simple 'blacklist' should be enough, but post back if it
doesn't work (some modules are a bit stubborn).
I have already a file
Florian Kulzer ha scritto:
Maybe the fglrx driver is to blame; did you already check if you still
see two Xorg processes with the basic vesa driver enabled instead?
I created a brand new xorg.conf file, using the vesa driver, and the
second Xorg process was gone. I changed the driver to fglrx
Davide Mancusi ha scritto:
I wouldn't bother if I were at least sure that the second Xorg process
is not allocating memory separately, but just sharing it with the first one.
Just as a side note, I have run pmap on both processes and I have
verified that they have the same memory map
Florian Kulzer ha scritto:
Did you at some point in the past use Switch User to start a new
session on tty8? It would be interesting to know what options are used
when the second Xorg process is started. Here is what I see:
$ pstree -a $(pgrep -P1 kdm)
kdm -config /var/run/kdm/kdmrc
├─Xorg
Florian Kulzer ha scritto:
I would log out and check if the second Xorg process is still there, to
see if the problem is tied to your account or not.
Still there.
Then I would temporarily switch to xdm or gdm and check if the anomaly
is still occurring. This will hopefully tell us if we have
Florian Kulzer ha scritto:
I have noticed that I have two Xorg processes running
Did you already try to log out and restart kdm?
Yes. It happens at every boot.
I wouldn't bother if I were at least sure that the second Xorg process
is not allocating memory separately, but just sharing it
I have noticed that I have two Xorg processes running, one of which is
always stuck at CPU=0.0% but nevertheless shows the same memory usage as
the other process.
From top:
3062 root 15 0 132m 59m 7984 S 0.7 5.9 10:34.47 Xorg
3140 root 20 0 132m 59m 7984 S 0.0 5.9
Olafur Jens Sigurdsson ha scritto:
Hey all
How do I get an old kernel header package that is no longer in the
repository?
I have kernel 2.6.17 and need the headers to compile some modules but
the headers for this kernel is not to be found in the official
repository any more but I seem to recal
I recently upgraded my system to amd64 and now I am trying to set up an
i386 jail for those programs that do not run natively on amd64. I want
to use my webcam, which works well outside the chroot; however, 32-bit
programs do not manage to access the device.
Examples of error messages:
$
Davide Mancusi ha scritto:
I recently upgraded my system to amd64 and now I am trying to set up an
i386 jail for those programs that do not run natively on amd64. I want
to use my webcam, which works well outside the chroot; however, 32-bit
programs do not manage to access the device
Gyorgy Abraham ha scritto:
Ctrl+Alt+F1 hang ups are very well known, but for example when I logout
from Gnome (back to GDM login), sometimes a very scary, interfered
screen appears, then Debian totally hangs.
I used to have the same problem with kdm and I solved it by forcing kdm
to kill X
Ivan Glushkov ha scritto:
Hi,
Does anybody know a shell command that switches to the next desktop in
KDE? I am developing a small C++ application which creates a few
windows, which would overlap in one desktop, so I was wondering of there
is a way to make them appear on two desktops.
You
Luis Finotti ha scritto:
Hi,
First, thanks for the reply!
My system (Debian 3.1, KDE 3.3.2) does not exhibit this behavior by
default. I can enable (and disable) it by going into the KDE Control
Center: K- Control Center- Regional Accessibility- Keyboard
Shortcuts- Command Shortcuts-
No matter what, /etc/resolv.conf will get overwritten
with
nameserver 127.0.0.1
Are you using laptop-net (or similar packages)? It overwrites
resolv.conf based on its internal configuration.
Davide
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