Re: nForce AC97 equalizer

2006-02-01 Thread Philippe Grenard
You should try to install the nforce modules (go to the nvidia web site to retrieve them), then you could launch "nvmixer" if this is what you seek ? > My soundcard (onboard nForce AC97) has a hardware equalizer. Is there any > way to control this from debian? Google doesn't seem very chatty o

Re: su/sudo cannot X

2006-01-19 Thread Philippe Grenard
Le Mercredi 18 Janvier 2006 16:53, Peter McAlpine a écrit : > On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 03:37:25PM +, Noah Dain wrote: > > On 1/18/06, Peter McAlpine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Security feature or not... when I'm troubleshooting I sometimes want > > > this disabled. If 'xhost +' no longer d

Re: Power down

2006-01-13 Thread Philippe Grenard
Le Vendredi 13 Janvier 2006 14:33, Felipe Ledesma a écrit : you should also check the content of /etc/default/halt > Hi > > My computer says "power down" when I shut it down. I just upgraded from > kernel 2.4 to 2.6 in Debian Sarge, and of course I want it to shutdown > automatically. What should

Re: nforce2 and temperature monitoring

2006-01-10 Thread Philippe Grenard
Le Mardi 10 Janvier 2006 11:04, Andras Lorincz a écrit : > Hi, > > I have an Asus A7N8X-XE mobo. Things work well: networking, audio, IDE > drivers are working with 2.6.14.4 kernel, the only thing is that I > cannot monitor the CPU and case temperature; is there some module that > I didn't compile,

Re: computer do not go power off automaticly

2006-01-08 Thread Philippe Grenard
Le Dimanche 08 Janvier 2006 18:01, CoolFox a écrit : > Juraj Fedel a magnifiquement tapoté sur son clavier avec ses gros doigts > > boudinés: > > Hello, > > I have installed debian Sarge recently from cd set and found out > > that now when I halt computer it go down and print 'Power off' > > on ter

Re: Getting a list of installed packages

2005-12-27 Thread Philippe Grenard
Le Mardi 27 Décembre 2005 21:53, J Merritt a écrit : > Is there a way to get a list of installed packages in Debian, preferably > from the command line and preferably in a text file? > > Thanks in advance for any suggestions. > > JM > > > - > Yahoo! Photos > Rin

Problem installing kde 3.5.0 on sid

2005-12-23 Thread Philippe Grenard
Hi all, I have some kind of problem : I've added alioth repositories to my sources.list but when I do an apt-get dist-upgrade, no package from kde are upgraded ... When I try with aptitude, it shows that every 3.5.0 package is from an "Untrusted source" Well, I could install this by hand, but

Re: question about /etc/fstab

2005-12-10 Thread Philippe Grenard
Le Samedi 10 Décembre 2005 11:49, maha jun a écrit : > respected sir, >i want to know a answer of these question.pls send me a answer to > these question. > > -1) Each entry in the /etc/fstab is made of the same fields. Explain each > of the fields. - 2)When is this file read? > -

Re: Debian Wireless Networks

2005-11-30 Thread Philippe Grenard
Le Mercredi 30 Novembre 2005 01:09, Leonid Grinberg a écrit : Hello, since you still have "the other operating system", I would suggest that you use it in order to gather information about the hardware with the thing called "control panel" if i remember right... > Hello, > > A few hours ago, I

Re: debian eye candy

2005-11-27 Thread Philippe Grenard
You can also check kde-look : there are some wallpapers dedicated to debian there > Please, > > I am trying to set up a web page (nothing to do with my other postings > here) and I would like to feature some debian-type eye candy. It > would be nice to have a background image based on Debian (sa

Re: xorg + nvidia not working

2005-11-26 Thread Philippe Grenard
Le Samedi 26 Novembre 2005 02:47, Jonathan Pearce a écrit : > I am running etch. A while ago, I dist-upgraded from xserver-xfree86 to > xserver-xorg, and from a customized kernel 2.6.8 to the stock etch > kernel 2.6.12. I had compiled the Nvidia drivers 7664 for my 2.6.8 and > it worked fine. > > A

Re: touchpad don't work at startup

2005-11-22 Thread Philippe Grenard
Le Mardi 22 Novembre 2005 05:16, David R. Litwin a écrit : > > Hi! > > > > I've added "psmouse.proto=imps" in my grub's "menu.lst" file for the > > kernel I > > boot, and everything works fine. > > edit /boot/grub/menu.lst and add "psmouse.proto=imps" on the line > > corresponding to your kernel >

Re: touchpad don't work at startup

2005-11-21 Thread Philippe Grenard
Le Samedi 19 Novembre 2005 22:29, Lorenzo Lopez a écrit : > Hi everybody, > > I have a laptop with a touchpad and it don't work at startup. If I want > the touchpad work, I have to open a terminal and, as root, type the > following commands: > > modprobe -r psmouse > modprobe psmouse proto=imps >

Re: Writing technical text - THANKS !

2005-11-16 Thread Philippe Grenard
Le Lundi 14 Novembre 2005 20:24, Joe Mc Cool a écrit : > Wow, > > thanks a lot guys for the push towards Latex. > > After struggling with groff etc for years, Latex is a charm. Already > I can do tables, footnotes, indexes, headers, footers, maths, item > lists wonderful, a joy to wor

Re: USB harddisk not recognized after upgrade

2005-11-15 Thread Philippe Grenard
Le Mardi 15 Novembre 2005 21:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : > Hello, > > I am running debian testing and I did a upgrade last week and after that my > usb harddisk is nog recognized anymore. Last time it did work was november > 10, so it has happend after that date. A older linux on a other partit

Re: how do I reinstall Mozilla?

2005-11-06 Thread Philippe Grenard
Le Dimanche 06 Novembre 2005 09:13, Mark Grieveson a écrit : > Hello. Mozilla is not working properly on my computer. How do I > completely remove it (including the configuration files) and then > reinstall it? When I've tried via synaptic, I'm told that all of gnome > will be removed with it.

Re: Do I need to reinstall the whole system?

2005-10-25 Thread Philippe Grenard
Le Lundi 24 Octobre 2005 23:39, anoop aryal a écrit : > On Monday 24 October 2005 03:28 pm, Philippe Grenard wrote: > > Hi all! > > > > well, last time I did a dist-upgrade , the system hanged, and even the > > "magic keys" didn't answered, so I had to re

Re: Do I need to reinstall the whole system?

2005-10-25 Thread Philippe Grenard
Le Mardi 25 Octobre 2005 02:43, Bill Marcum a écrit : > On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 10:28:12PM +0200, Philippe Grenard wrote: > > Hi all! > > > > well, last time I did a dist-upgrade , the system hanged, and even the > > "magic keys" didn't answered, so I ha

Do I need to reinstall the whole system?

2005-10-24 Thread Philippe Grenard
Hi all! well, last time I did a dist-upgrade , the system hanged, and even the "magic keys" didn't answered, so I had to reboot the system. After that, there was one package that i couldn't upgrade, nor install, nor uninstall. (xserver-xorg to be precise) So after somme googling, I tried to ed

[xserver-xorg] - can't install, reinstall, remove, upgrade nor purge package

2005-10-18 Thread Philippe Grenard
Hi all, I'm running unstable, and last time i did a dist-upgrade, the computer froze, and i couldn't do anything but hard-reboot. Following that, the upgrade of xserver-xorg seems to be problematic. How to "make the system believe" that the package was never installed?? i've already done some

Re: APT Sources

2005-09-08 Thread Philippe Grenard
Le Jeudi 08 Septembre 2005 19:18, Philip Radford a écrit : > Hi all, > > I have just done a fresh install of Debian Sarge from the r1.0a DVD. > > Can someone send me or advise me how to update my apt_sources file so that > I can use the testing branches from a UK Mirror. > > Many thanks. > > Phil.

Re: Can't recover sound

2005-09-07 Thread Philippe Grenard
Le Mercredi 07 Septembre 2005 05:37, Victor Munoz a écrit : > Hello. > > Sometimes I can't hear any sound (xmms, mplayer, play), getting things like > 'Device or resource busy'. This happened in woody, now in sarge, sometimes > in sid, and everytime it happens, I do a Google search to try to find a

Re: Debian Laptop problem and guide repository.

2005-09-02 Thread Philippe Grenard
> To add my useless two cents: > > I will (very soon now) be getting a Toshiba A70 laptop, on to which I will, > of course, put Debian. So, any help I can get for this installation will be > much Appreciated. In addition, I would be quite willing to assist in any > way I can, though I do say earnes

Re: Newbie: How do I defrag my drive?

2005-08-23 Thread Philippe Grenard
Le Mardi 23 Août 2005 17:24, Ian a écrit : > I realized, I've had Sarge installed for a few months, and I should > probably defragment my partitions. How can I do this? well, with linux, i believe you just don't have to defrag your partitions... so don't worry about that anymore ;-)

Re: Can't create .Xauthority for users [SOLUTION]

2005-08-20 Thread Philippe Grenard
> > well, i had some problems with this .Xauthority, but not the same way : > > when logged in, root couldn't open X-based applications... > > After upgrading to Debian Etch/Testing, I had exactly the same > problem. Solution: > > As user who is running X: > > xauth list # if

Re: Can't create .Xauthority for users

2005-08-18 Thread Philippe Grenard
Hi! well, i had some problems with this .Xauthority, but not the same way : when logged in, root couldn't open X-based applications... after a lot of googling, i found something in the FAQ of xfree86-common http://darbujan.fzu.cz/cgi-bin/dwww?type=text/plain&location=/usr/share/doc/xfree86-common/

Re: Starting USB in Debian with kernel 26

2005-08-18 Thread Philippe Grenard
Le Jeudi 18 Août 2005 12:25, Jesús Fernández a écrit : > > If you guys (or any of you) is using sarge, and the 2.6 kernel is the > > one shipped with sarge, in many cases you will have usb problems. That > > kernel had problems, there were things it can not handle. After some > > back and forth, th

Re: Translucency, Kompmgr and Xorg in KDE

2005-08-17 Thread Philippe Grenard
Le Mercredi 17 Août 2005 06:06, David R. Litwin a écrit : > I recently installed Xorg. There is a bit in KDE's Control Centre which > speaks of Translucency. It requires Xorg 6.8 or greater, which I have. But, > it still doesn't work. It claims it needs kompmgr, but this is not a > package in Debia