Re: Google Chrome is installed but won't run

2012-07-07 Thread Paul Saunders
ill simply show you what's happening when the hang happens. Is it, perhaps hanging on a line like "select (7,"? If so, then chrome is waiting for filehandle 7 to return some data. You can read back in the strace output, looking for a line like "open () = 7". Basically, strace

Re: Installing squeeze in Virtual box

2012-06-17 Thread Paul Saunders
ox plenty of times. 1. Download and install VirtualBox 2. Download a Debian Installation CD 3. Create a new VM, and follow the wizard (defaults are generally fine). 4. At first boot, VirtualBox asks for path to the installation CD. 5. Follow Installer. -- Paul Saunders -- To UNSUB

Re: terminal prompts

2012-04-08 Thread Paul Saunders
ell that users get when they open a terminal. To see what shell you're currently using, try running "chsh" (as yourself). That will tell you what your current login shell is. To change it, enter the full path to the executable, or to keep it, just press enter. HTH -- Paul Sau

Re: Icedove Tab Bar - Ugly

2011-12-23 Thread Paul Saunders
en a new tab, the old tab reverts to the greyer colour? I don't know if you can turn off the highlighting of the current tab, but in Mozilla products you can usually turn the tab bar off if only one tab is open (thus sort of reverting back to a non-tabbed interface). -- Paul Saunders -

Re: Everything seems to cause a reboot

2011-12-20 Thread Paul Saunders
On Tue, 20 Dec 2011 05:59:46 -0600 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 12/20/2011 4:22 AM, Paul Saunders wrote: > > On Tue, 20 Dec 2011 19:55:50 +1100 > > gooss...@rsc.anu.edu.au wrote: > > > >> On 12/19/2011 6:01 PM, gooss...@rsc.anu.edu.au wrote: > >>> &

Re: what's the best media player ?

2011-12-20 Thread Paul Saunders
ike your X server is crashing, possibly when the media player accesses the XVIDEO extension. To rule out the player, try: $ mplayer -vo x11 filename.mp4 or $ mplayer -vo null filename.mp4 If the file plays correctly (the second command will give you sound, but no video), then you have

Re: Everything seems to cause a reboot

2011-12-20 Thread Paul Saunders
driver problem to me, but just to eliminate the problem of your keyboard, try appending "reboot=bios" to your kernel parameters. The default is to use the keyboard controller to reboot, Stan is suggesting that this may be a challenge for your keyboard. -- Paul Saunders