Re: SDDM lost display monitor

2015-08-15 Thread Jimmy Johnson
with file-size-view, in other words plasma-desktop is not yet complete, but it is good to be able to login again and run synaptic and install what I can, my thanks to those who made that possible. If your still holding old packages, you should dist-upgrade..just my .02 cents worth.. -- Jimmy

I would love to see this error go away..

2015-08-12 Thread Jimmy Johnson
object file: No such file or directory) Thank you, -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Stretch - Plasma-Desktop 5.3.2 - EXT4 - AMD64 at sda13 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: SDDM lost display monitor

2015-08-08 Thread Jimmy Johnson
with no orphan packages. I wish the best to KDE-Development they have taken on an enormous project and I will assist anyway I can, just ask. -- Jimmy Johnson Debian - Sid - Xfce 4.12 - AMD64 - EXT4 at sda15 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: kde fully broken in debian/testing

2015-07-30 Thread Jimmy Johnson
plus many more, but plasma-desktop in testing is still dysfunctional, but fun to play with. :) -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Stretch - KDE 4.14.2 - AMD 64 - EXT4 at sda12 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: No more network manager icon since upgrade.

2015-07-23 Thread Jimmy Johnson
a complete plasma5 desktop you may want to install wicd-gtk, I hope that helps. -- Jimmy Johnson Debian - Wheezy - KDE 4.8.4 - AMD64 - EXT4 at sda22 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Lenovo 050 desktop crashing

2015-02-25 Thread Jimmy Johnson
-system' from the console, let it do what it wants to do even though what it will want to do may scare you, this software script has never let me down, never, and I run many systems from stable to sid. If more people ran upgrade-system I would see less problems in this group. -- Jimmy Johnson Debian

Re: Kernel failure

2014-12-17 Thread Jimmy Johnson
/kernel/rcutree.c:277 snip Please cc to the above address. There are two versions in the repos, I'm using the LTS version, seems to be no problem with it, but you may want to try the other version... -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Squeeze - KDE 4.4.5 - AMD64 - EXT4 at sda11 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: help on linex

2014-12-17 Thread Jimmy Johnson
) is not opens it requires setup.please help me to access my windows7linex. You should see both versions of windows in the windows boot loader, not in grub. -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Squeeze - KDE 4.4.5 - AMD64 - EXT4 at sda11 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: Debian fork: 'Devuan', Debian without Systemd

2014-12-04 Thread Jimmy Johnson
has to get upgraded to Wheezy without any systemd components and then upgrade Wheezy to Jessie without systemd. -- Jimmy Johnson Debian - Wheezy - KDE 4.8.4 - AMD64 - EXT4 at sda1 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Installing Linux on a Mac Mini without OSX

2014-12-04 Thread Jimmy Johnson
of these should I choose? Installing to the MBR should fix your booting problems. -- Jimmy Johnson Debian - Wheezy - KDE 4.8.4 - AMD64 - EXT4 at sda1 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Installing Linux on a Mac Mini without OSX

2014-12-04 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 12/04/2014 09:25 PM, Brian Sammon wrote: On Thu, 04 Dec 2014 20:34:22 -0800 Jimmy Johnson field.engin...@gmail.com wrote: Installing to the MBR should fix your booting problems. This brings to mind another question/issue: I need to educate myself on how MBRs work on EFI machines

Re: Random X crash

2014-12-04 Thread Jimmy Johnson
install firmware-linux* too, if not already installed. -- Jimmy Johnson Debian - Wheezy - KDE 4.8.4 - AMD64 - EXT4 at sda1 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: USB problem, hardware issue?

2014-11-20 Thread Jimmy Johnson
with this? thanks, Do you have a liveOS on a cd/usb you can run as a test? -- Jimmy Johnson Debian - Wheezy - KDE 4.8.4 - AMD64 - EXT4 at sda1 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Q: wheezy: how to increase X resolution?

2014-11-20 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Evans I'm an advocate for Easy-Linux and install my video driver using the smxi script, sometimes I need to run it twice to get the xorg.conf correct but it never fails me, I use nvidia driver, but it should work for you too. http://smxi.org/site/install.htm#install-with-zip -- Jimmy Johnson

Re: USB problem, hardware issue?

2014-11-20 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 11/20/2014 03:38 PM, Joel Roth wrote: On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 12:56:31PM -0800, Jimmy Johnson wrote: On 11/20/2014 12:24 PM, Joel Roth wrote: Dear List, I started noticing a delay between when I start moving the mouse on my T410 (running sid), and when the cursor actually starts to move. I

Re: Debian-Live 7.6.0 usb username password?

2014-11-07 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 11/07/2014 01:06 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Thursday 06 November 2014 23:39:06 Jimmy Johnson wrote: On 11/06/2014 03:13 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Thursday 06 November 2014 22:19:17 Jimmy Johnson wrote: On 11/06/2014 11:15 AM, m...@raseone.com wrote: and I am unable to log

Re: Debian-Live 7.6.0 usb username password?

2014-11-06 Thread Jimmy Johnson
. You can switch to root with sudo -i or set a password for root with sudo passwd. -- Jimmy Johnson Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https

Re: Debian-Live 7.6.0 usb username password?

2014-11-06 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 11/06/2014 02:56 PM, Joel Rees wrote: On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 7:19 AM, Jimmy Johnson 420.christian.sin...@gmail.com wrote: On 11/06/2014 11:15 AM, m...@raseone.com wrote: Someone likes confusing usernames. :-P Hello, I am attempting to run Debian-Live 7.6.0 from a usb drive (version

Re: Debian-Live 7.6.0 usb username password?

2014-11-06 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 11/06/2014 03:13 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Thursday 06 November 2014 22:19:17 Jimmy Johnson wrote: On 11/06/2014 11:15 AM, m...@raseone.com wrote: and I am unable to log in to the default user or root account. There is not any root password. You can switch to root with sudo -i

Re: Systemd and Unix

2014-11-05 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 11/05/2014 06:30 AM, Gary Dale wrote: On 05/11/14 12:54 AM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: On 11/04/2014 08:06 PM, Gary Dale wrote: I've got a problem with sysvinit on one machine running Wheezy.. Would you mind telling us what the problem is? I already did a couple of days ago on this list

Re: Systemd and Unix

2014-11-04 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 11/04/2014 08:06 PM, Gary Dale wrote: I've got a problem with sysvinit on one machine running Wheezy.. Would you mind telling us what the problem is? -- Jimmy Johnson Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-22 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Martin Steigerwald wrote: Am Montag, 20. Oktober 2014, 19:49:43 schrieb Jimmy Johnson: So, what would you all propose? For a server? Or for a user desktop? Or something that fulfills both scenarios? And why? Just wondering. See above and unless you are a tester or developer you may want

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-22 Thread Jimmy Johnson
that weren't even around (or dreamt of) at its inception. snip And it still works and is completely customizable. Wow! Just maybe I can get by using it for a couple more years. -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Squeeze - KDE 4.4.5 - AMD64 - EXT4 at sda11 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-22 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Martin Steigerwald wrote: Hi Jimmy, Am Mittwoch, 22. Oktober 2014, 09:17:16 schrieb Jimmy Johnson: Martin Steigerwald wrote: Am Montag, 20. Oktober 2014, 19:49:43 schrieb Jimmy Johnson: So, what would you all propose? For a server? Or for a user desktop? Or something that fulfills both

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-22 Thread Jimmy Johnson
fear of that come from? Martin, fear..I have no fear..but I'm not naive ether and taking this subject any further on list I will not do, but you are welcome to contact me off list. -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Squeeze - KDE 4.4.5 - AMD64 - EXT4 at sda11 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-22 Thread Jimmy Johnson
where posting off list. -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Squeeze - KDE 4.4.5 - AMD64 - EXT4 at sda11 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-21 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 10/21/2014 01:03 AM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Am Montag, 20. Oktober 2014, 19:49:43 schrieb Jimmy Johnson: So, what would you all propose? For a server? Or for a user desktop? Or something that fulfills both scenarios? And why? Just wondering. See above and unless you are a tester

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-20 Thread Jimmy Johnson
would you all propose? For a server? Or for a user desktop? Or something that fulfills both scenarios? And why? Just wondering. See above and unless you are a tester or developer you may want to roll-back to Squeeze. -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Squeeze - KDE 4.4.5 - AMD64 - EXT4 at sda11

Re: libjpeg mess in testing

2014-10-19 Thread Jimmy Johnson
the same with my two Jessie systems and got past it, the first was harder and the second was easy..Have you tried 'aptitude -f install'? -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Sid - KDE 4.14.1 - AMD64 - EXT4 at sda14 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: download files from iceweasel using kdialog

2014-10-19 Thread Jimmy Johnson
kdialog to choose the file location when I try to download something? Have you made your settings in 'Paths', KDE/'systemsetting'/'Account Details'? -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Sid - KDE 4.14.1 - AMD64 - EXT4 at sda14 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: download files from iceweasel using kdialog

2014-10-19 Thread Jimmy Johnson
kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 12:40 PM, Jimmy Johnson field.engin...@gmail.com mailto:field.engin...@gmail.com wrote: kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: When I download a file via chromium, it uses kdialog to figure out where the file is supposed

Re: GR proposed re: choice of init systems

2014-10-19 Thread Jimmy Johnson
for moving out of the way, maybe some pieces will be left and you will still be here to help put them pieces back together again, or something new and better will come along, have faith my friend. -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Sid - KDE 4.14.1 - AMD64 - EXT4 at sda14 Registered Linux User #380263

linux-image-3.16-3-amd64

2014-10-19 Thread Jimmy Johnson
No 'linux-headers-amd64' or 'linux-image-amd64' packages are available for the new kernel(linux-image-3.16-3-amd64). -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Sid - KDE 4.14.1 - AMD64 - EXT4 at sda14 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: linux-image-3.16-3-amd64

2014-10-19 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Sven Joachim wrote: On 2014-10-19 20:46 +0200, Jimmy Johnson wrote: No 'linux-headers-amd64' or 'linux-image-amd64' packages are available for the new kernel(linux-image-3.16-3-amd64). You had better report this on the debian-kernel mailinglist, or file a bug report (reportbug --source linux

Re: GR proposed re: choice of init systems

2014-10-18 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 10/17/2014 10:12 PM, Steve Litt wrote: On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 21:59:44 -0700 Jimmy Johnson field.engin...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/17/2014 08:44 PM, Ric Moore wrote: On 10/17/2014 10:22 PM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: What's the hurry, Squeeze is good until 2016, we have plenty of time to test

Re: GR proposed re: choice of init systems

2014-10-18 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 10/17/2014 10:06 PM, Steve Litt wrote: On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 18:52:32 -0700 Jimmy Johnson field.engin...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/17/2014 07:54 AM, Rusi Mody wrote: On Friday, October 17, 2014 8:00:02 PM UTC+5:30, Rob Owens wrote: - Original Message - Now let's see what happens

Re: GR proposed re: choice of init systems

2014-10-18 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 10/17/2014 10:26 PM, Doug wrote: On 10/18/2014 12:59 AM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: /snip/ I think that depends on what solution you propose, smart people listen. AMEN! I can say that I long ago upgraded to Jessie/systemd so that I could be the first to yell about it. I'm still looking

Re: GR proposed re: choice of init systems

2014-10-17 Thread Jimmy Johnson
and 'it' should not be in Jessie. -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Squeeze - KDE 4.4.5 - AMD64 - EXT4 at sda10 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https

Re: GR proposed re: choice of init systems

2014-10-17 Thread Jimmy Johnson
... The fun part will be to see who actually steps up to the plate to do all of the extra work. Especially amongst all of those pledged seconds. I hope someone is keeping a list. :) Ric What's the hurry, Squeeze is good until 2016, we have plenty of time to test other init-systems. -- Jimmy

Re: GR proposed re: choice of init systems

2014-10-17 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 10/17/2014 08:44 PM, Ric Moore wrote: On 10/17/2014 10:22 PM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: What's the hurry, Squeeze is good until 2016, we have plenty of time to test other init-systems. You use KDE. Where you there when KDE3 became KDE4 and broke our hearts? What a flame fest that was. Yet

Re: upgrade from 7 to testing no longer possible

2014-10-06 Thread Jimmy Johnson
luck. -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Sid - KDE 4.14.1 - AMD64 - EXT4 at sda14 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/5432b3bc.4000

Re: Upgrading to Jessie

2014-09-19 Thread Jimmy Johnson
'/'. Just another way to do an install keeping all on one partition. -- Jimmy Johnson Debian-Live - Wheezy - KDE 4.8.4 - AMD64 - EXT4 at sda1 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: embrace, extend, extinguish

2014-09-02 Thread Jimmy Johnson
-systemd/ -- Jimmy Johnson Debian-Live - Wheezy - KDE 4.8.4 - AMD64 - EXT4 at sda1 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/5405dcbd

Re: embrace, extend, extinguish

2014-09-02 Thread Jimmy Johnson
' and imposable to remove, somebody correct me if I'm wrong..please! -- Jimmy Johnson Debian-Live - Wheezy - KDE 4.8.4 - AMD64 - EXT4 at sda1 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: embrace, extend, extinguish

2014-09-01 Thread Jimmy Johnson
, two Jessie, one Sid and one Squeeze, I'm always running other distros too and I'm watching.. -- Jimmy Johnson Debian-Live - Wheezy - KDE 4.8.4 - AMD64 - EXT4 at sda1 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: How to install qt5 on Wheezy, and is that even a good idea?

2014-08-22 Thread Jimmy Johnson
that is going to use the package I installed is the app that requires that package. So it seems to me that installing gt5 is a safe move if it's needed by the app you want to use. -- Jimmy Johnson Debian-Live - Wheezy - KDE 4.8.4 - AMD64 - EXT4 at sda1 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: Debian Jessie Release

2014-08-11 Thread Jimmy Johnson
stable and Jessie is the current testing, so yes Jessie will be the new stable release. -- Jimmy Johnson Debian-Live - Wheezy - KDE 4.8.4 - AMD64 - EXT4 at sda1 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Sid running systemd.

2014-08-11 Thread Jimmy Johnson
I checked my Sid system and see it's already running systemd, and all required packages are installed, so I pulled the plug on sysvinit(completely removed) and it still boots. :) -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Sid - KDE 4.13.3 - AMD64 - EXT4 at sda14 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Debian Jessie Release

2014-08-10 Thread Jimmy Johnson
it's going to be handled? -- Jimmy Johnson Debian-Live - Wheezy - KDE 4.8.4 - AMD64 - EXT4 at sda1 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https

Re: cannot find public key for verifying SHASUM file for debian live iso

2014-08-10 Thread Jimmy Johnson
This was not the outcome I was hoping for, but I am not sure what to do next. I've always have good luck using the md5sum, open the console where the .iso is and type:$'md5sum debian-live-7.6.0-amd64-standard.iso' ,it's fast and easy. :) -- Jimmy Johnson Debian-Live - Wheezy - KDE 4.8.4 - AMD64 - EXT4 at sda1

Re: basic fstab .. pilot idiocy??

2014-08-06 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Jimmy Johnson wrote: Harry Putnam wrote: Trying to do a simple edit to fstab but keep failing. I want to mount a device in such a way that it ends up with uid and gid of my choice. But when I attempt to add those options (or any others it seems) the mount fails with this error: # mount

Re: Download onto CD failed to burn

2011-05-13 Thread Jimmy Johnson
and an easier way to get started using Debian. -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Sid - AMD64 - EXT4 - KDE 4.5.3 at sda14 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: How to join forever an alsa device id to a particular USB port?

2011-05-11 Thread Jimmy Johnson
run 'blkid' in the console as root and can get a UUID from the device then you can add it to fstab and it will always be mounted with the name/ID you give it. Do this with all USB device and all will have a static name. -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Sid - AMD64 - EXT4 - KDE 4.5.3 at sda14

Re: I am not receiving my discussion mail.

2011-05-11 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Narendra Sisodiya wrote: Please reply me, let me test, whether I am getting reply of email or not.. If you read debian-user from the GMAIL All-Mail folder you will see your post plus the replies. -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Sid - AMD64 - EXT4 - KDE 4.5.3 at sda14 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: How to join forever an alsa device id to a particular USB port?

2011-05-11 Thread Jimmy Johnson
owl...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Jimmy, are you sure an USB audio device has an UUID? No, but if I have your device I can find out in less time than it takes me to make this post. ;-) -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Sid - AMD64 - EXT4 - KDE 4.5.3 at sda14 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: Upgrade to Squeeze and KDE

2011-03-20 Thread Jimmy Johnson
: Code: chown root $(which ntfs-3g) chmod 4755 $(which ntfs-3g) note that setuid root has a security risk...It's the old convenience versus security struggle. -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Wheeze - KDE 4.5.3 at sda8 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Upgrade to Squeeze and KDE

2011-03-20 Thread Jimmy Johnson
4.6.1, just thought I'd let you know. -- Jimmy Johnson Kubuntu 10.10 - AMD64 - EXT4 - KDE 4.6.1 at sda9 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: AW: Virus

2011-03-19 Thread Jimmy Johnson
of what I'm seeing is coming from Ubuntu, personally I don't care for most of what I'm seeing, like the auto updater and the sources list helper application, but they can be removed. ;-) -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Wheezy - KDE 4.5.2 at sda8 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Upgrade to Squeeze and KDE

2011-03-19 Thread Jimmy Johnson
://apt.pearsoncomputing.net/cdimages/index_old.html -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Wheeze - KDE 4.5.2 at sda8 Registered Linux User #380263 -- 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

Re: X starts only after rebooting

2011-03-11 Thread Jimmy Johnson
when the problem happens and then when it does not. Have you installed nvidia-settings and run nvidia-xconfig and then run nvidia-settings and then run gksu nvidia-settings and save to xorg.conf? -- Jimmy Johnson SimplyMEPIS 8.5 - AMD 64 - EXT4 at sda5 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: Revert to lenny's grub

2011-03-03 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Tom H wrote: On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Jimmy Johnson field.engin...@gmail.com wrote: The way to do that is to first remove grub-pc and it will cleanup grub for you, remember not to reboot yet ;-), then make sure you have a /etc/boot/grub folder, now install grub-legacy, next run 'grub

Re: Revert to lenny's grub

2011-03-03 Thread Jimmy Johnson
George wrote: On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 7:10 AM, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Jimmy Johnson field.engin...@gmail.com wrote: The way to do that is to first remove grub-pc and it will cleanup grub for you, remember not to reboot yet ;-), then make sure you have

Re: Debian 6 uninstallable?

2011-03-02 Thread Jimmy Johnson
the cd. -- Jimmy Johnson Kubuntu 10.10 - KDE 4.6.0 at sda9 Registered Linux User #380263 -- 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/4d6e9ea3.30...@gmail.com

Re: Revert to lenny's grub

2011-03-02 Thread Jimmy Johnson
'grub-update /dev/sdax' (x being the partition number) and it will create a new menu.lst. But the error 15 is probably a wrong UUID, you can check that by running as root 'blkid' and check the UUID you get against fstab and the menu.lst. -- Jimmy Johnson Kubuntu 10.10 - KDE 4.6.0 at sda9

Good News from debian-multimedia

2011-03-01 Thread Jimmy Johnson
22/02/2011 : Finaly I'm trying to restore Oldstable/Lenny. Should be finished tonigth or tomorrow. Sorry -- Jimmy Johnson SimplyMEPIS 11.0 Beta-2 at sda12 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Good News from debian-multimedia

2011-03-01 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Lisi wrote: On Tuesday 01 March 2011 16:58:59 Jimmy Johnson wrote: 22/02/2011 : Finaly I'm trying to restore Oldstable/Lenny. Should be finished tonigth or tomorrow. Sorry Thanks for the work, Jimmy. I look forward to uncommenting my multimedia sources! Lisi if you want you can think me

Re: NTP-Server no longer available in Squeeze?

2011-03-01 Thread Jimmy Johnson
and set the time at each boot. It's in your Debian repos. -- Jimmy Johnson SimplyMEPIS 11.0 Beta-2 at sda12 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: NTP-Server no longer available in Squeeze?

2011-03-01 Thread Jimmy Johnson
John Hasler wrote: Jimmy Johnson writes: Instead of the 'ntp' server what you probably want is 'ntpdate' installed... Ntpdate is deprecated. ...it's the client... It is a client, and a very limited one. Ntpd is both client and server. Use it or Chrony. Hi John, I appreciate

Re: Debian 6 uninstallable?

2011-03-01 Thread Jimmy Johnson
, the netinstall will give an internet connection and the base install only. -- Jimmy Johnson SimplyMEPIS 11.0 Beta-2 at sda12 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Installing Debian on USB sticks.

2011-02-10 Thread Jimmy Johnson
. Regards, Andrei Running the command 'cat /proc/partitions' will show you a list of partitions and devices just look for the device with the size of your USB drive. -- Jimmy Johnson SimplyMEPIS Beta-2 - KDE 4.5.3 at sda9 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: sid: upgrade wants to remove xserver packages

2011-02-08 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, Doing a dist-upgrade in Sid this morning wants to remove all xserver packages. Wait a bit? Hugo Well, it don't take Guru to tell you that's not a good idea, their just separating the Men from the Boy's. ;-) -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Wheezy - AMD64 - EXT4

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-08 Thread Jimmy Johnson
hamed hosseini wrote: i want buy labtop,tell me best labtop for debian os? 900$-1300$ my choice is lenovo labtop Not kidding, is labtop a real word? -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Wheezy - AMD64 - EXT4 at sda13 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-08 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Ma, 08 feb 11, 10:51:12, Jimmy Johnson wrote: hamed hosseini wrote: i want buy labtop,tell me best labtop for debian os? 900$-1300$ my choice is lenovo labtop Not kidding, is labtop a real word? Does this count? http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term

Re: Wheezy is up and running.

2011-02-07 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Thierry Chatelet wrote: On Monday 07 February 2011 08:45:03 Jimmy Johnson wrote: You all know by know that Squeeze has been released, thank you Debian Developers, now starts the development of the next Debian release, Wheeze, just change the sources.list from squeeze to wheeze

Re: Anyone else having problems installing Squeeze Stable on AMD64?

2011-02-07 Thread Jimmy Johnson
ailo wrote: Apparently I had made a mistake partitioning. / was only 50MB, instead of 50GB. (aarrggh!!) The iso's are now working fantastically well. It can be frustrating at times, but the answer is always something simple, I'm glad you're up and running. -- Jimmy Johnson Custom OS

Re: Squeeze. After Trinity istall no boot background picture

2011-02-06 Thread Jimmy Johnson
to build Trinity for Debian and that is a big problem, now that Squeeze has gone gold maybe a Debian Developer will step-up and build KDE3 for Squeeze, in the meantime KDE 4.5.3 from http://qt-kde.debian.net is a fantastic desktop, in my opinion, much better than KDE 4.4. -- Jimmy Johnson Custom OS

Re: Unusable Squeeze: Can't switch off from X to consoles, neither between

2011-02-06 Thread Jimmy Johnson
, smxi will manage your x driver install, repos, updates and the kernel, while sgfxi is even simpler and will just manage x driver install only, ether way it's easy, it will pick the best driver for your system and install it for you and makes using Debian easy. -- Jimmy Johnson Custom OS - AMD64

Re: Anyone else having problems installing Squeeze Stable on AMD64?

2011-02-06 Thread Jimmy Johnson
ailo wrote: Each time I try installing it will fail at retrieving packages, saying that lots of packages are corrupted. That generally just reloading again will fix that problem or try using another mirror for the repos. -- Jimmy Johnson SimplyMEPIS 11.0 Beta-1 at sda12 Registered Linux

Re: Anyone else having problems installing Squeeze Stable on AMD64?

2011-02-06 Thread Jimmy Johnson
. This makes me think you have chosen a broken mirror. Try chosing a different mirror site. Or that your network is causing bit errors for some reason. (Have seen that in the long past.) Bob -- Jimmy Johnson SimplyMEPIS 11.0 Beta-1 at sda12 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Anyone else having problems installing Squeeze Stable on AMD64?

2011-02-06 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Bob Proulx wrote: Jimmy Johnson wrote: Unetbootin works fine with Squeeze, you can find it in the Squeeze repos. How is it better than simply using 'cp'? Bob Well, I didn't say it was better, but it is more point-n-click not needing the command line, also 'dd if=nameoftheimage.iso

Wheezy is up and running.

2011-02-06 Thread Jimmy Johnson
You all know by know that Squeeze has been released, thank you Debian Developers, now starts the development of the next Debian release, Wheeze, just change the sources.list from squeeze to wheeze and dist-upgrade, 369 upgrades for me. -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Wheezy - AMD64 - EXT4 at sda13

Re: System Hangs on Activating Swap

2011-02-04 Thread Jimmy Johnson
and then verify that the UUID is correct in 'fstab and then run 'swapon /dev/sdax', what ever the name of the swap partition is. -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Sid - KDE 4.5.3 - EXT4 - 64 Bit at sda14 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: USB3.0 problem: xhci_hcd not found

2011-02-01 Thread Jimmy Johnson
software thinking that you may accidentally solve the problem, so could the problem be too much software has been installed? -- Jimmy Johnson Saline OS 1.0 AMD64 - KDE 4.5.3 - EXT4 at sda7 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: USB3.0 problem: xhci_hcd not found

2011-01-31 Thread Jimmy Johnson
packages. -- Jimmy Johnson Saline OS 1.0 AMD64 - KDE 4.5.3 - EXT4 at sda7 Registered Linux User #380263 -- 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/4d46d451.9010

Re: sequence of screenshots?

2011-01-23 Thread Jimmy Johnson
that nvidia doesn't seem to have aan fb device under /dev. Is there a way to do this?? Thoughts are welcome! How about RecordMyDesktop http://recordmydesktop.sourceforge.net/about.php it's in the Debian repos. -- Jimmy Johnson Saline OS 1.0 - KDE 4.5.3 - EXT4 at sda7 Registered Linux User

Re: lenny squeeze etc etc

2010-12-21 Thread Jimmy Johnson
insignificant. Good point. -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Squeeze Beta-2 - KDE 4.5.3 - EXT4 at sda7 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: External hdd changing device node mid-use

2010-12-21 Thread Jimmy Johnson
' as root (su) to get UUID. -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Squeeze Beta-2 - KDE 4.5.3 - EXT4 at sda7 Registered Linux User #380263 -- 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

Lenny upgraded to Squeeze

2010-11-30 Thread Jimmy Johnson
. Debian is saying at Squeeze release grub-legacy will no longer be supported, that's something for us all to think about. -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Lenny upgraded to Squeeze - KDE 4.4.5 at sda9 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: TB for amd64?

2010-11-30 Thread Jimmy Johnson
. On to icedove Also if you are like me and prefer the older 64bit version 2.0.0.24 you can get the deb from Ubuntu and install it using 'gdebi', works swell. -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Lenny upgraded to Squeeze - KDE 4.4.5 at sda9 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: Lenny upgraded to Squeeze

2010-11-30 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Bob Proulx wrote: Jimmy Johnson wrote: ... then changed my sources to Squeeze, so I did aptitude update and aptitude full-upgrade and basically I just let aptitude do it's thing, Note that the recommend package management tool for the upgrade is apt-get. http://www.debian.org/releases

Re: TB for amd64?

2010-11-30 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Javier Barroso wrote: Sorry again for private mail, turning on undo send email feature in gmail labs :-) .. On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 10:05 PM, Jimmy Johnson field.engin...@gmail.com wrote: Also if you are like me and prefer the older 64bit version 2.0.0.24 you can get the deb from Ubuntu

Re: TB for amd64?

2010-11-30 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Jimmy Johnson wrote: Javier Barroso wrote: Sorry again for private mail, turning on undo send email feature in gmail labs :-) .. On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 10:05 PM, Jimmy Johnson field.engin...@gmail.com wrote: Also if you are like me and prefer the older 64bit version 2.0.0.24 you can get

New default artwork for Debian Squeeze

2010-11-22 Thread Jimmy Johnson
The new Debian Squeeze art work can be found here: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianArt/Themes/SpaceFun More Debian News, including Squeeze release update: http://debian.org/News/project/2010/16/ -- Jimmy Johnson SimplyMEPIS 11.0 Alpha-2 - KDE 4.5.3 at sda11 Registered Linux User #380263

Debian 6.0 Squeeze: Call for Upgrade and Installation tests

2010-11-17 Thread Jimmy Johnson
into over 30 languages, and supporting a huge range of computer types, Debian calls itself the universal operating system. Contact Information --- For further information, please visit the Debian web pages at http://www.debian.org/ or send mail to pr...@debconf.org -- Jimmy

Re: Where has my Windows partition gone?

2010-11-13 Thread Jimmy Johnson
to it, making sure you still have a blank line at the bottom before you save it. title Microsoft Windows at sda2 rootnoverify (hd0,1) chainloader +1 -- Jimmy Johnson SimplyMEPIS Alpha-1 at sda9 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Package Name Confusion

2010-09-10 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Kernel Modules With Module-Assistant On Debian Lenny www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2010-01-27-033-35-OS-DB-KN -- Jimmy Johnson Ubuntu Lucid and Trinity KDE 3.5.11 - EXT4 at sda10 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Package Name Confusion

2010-09-09 Thread Jimmy Johnson
is you are wanting to build a kernel? -- Jimmy Johnson Ubuntu lucid KDE 3.5.11 - EXT4 at sda11 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: Upgrade of squeeze hangs on apt (0.7.26~exp3)

2010-09-06 Thread Jimmy Johnson
to a command other than less, check the documentation for that command. On Squeeze it now looks like apt-listchanges is a default install, I removed it and aptitude is trying to install it again, we'll probably be seeing a lot of WTF questions. -- Jimmy Johnson Ubuntu Lucid and Trinity KDE 3.5.11 - EXT4

Re: Cannot print from Adobe Acrobat

2010-09-05 Thread Jimmy Johnson
works in gnome:) Okular is the default for KDE4, KPDF is the default for KDE3 an Evince is the default for Gnome, I like evince in both gnome and kde3. -- Jimmy Johnson Mint Gnome 2.8 - EXT4 at sda5 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: NUMLOCKX Debian KDE4

2010-09-01 Thread Jimmy Johnson
� wrote: On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:40:50 -0700, Jimmy Johnson wrote: � wrote: numlockx should not be needed anymore in KDE as kdm has an option to handle that from kdmrc config file :-? If you know how to turn the numlock on for login without using numlockx 'please' tell? I already know I

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