On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 08:53:46AM +0100, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote:
> Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
>>>> 03:01.1 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro
>>>> Host Adapter (rev 22)
>>>> 03:01.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C843 MMC Host
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 01:19:18PM +0100, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote:
> Sjoerd Hardeman wrote:
>> Andrew Sackville-West schreef:
>>> On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 10:22:11PM +0100, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> My laptop (a de
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 10:22:11PM +0100, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> My laptop (a dell XPS 1330) started about five days ago with suddenly
> crashing, mostly from idle state. The caps-lock and scroll-lock light
> start blinking and the system stops responding.
> I have checked my memory
On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 07:09:29PM +, David Jardine wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 06:47:38PM +0100, josep wrote:
> > How can I set Icedove to fetch the mails to root on a local computer
> > [/var/mail/user]?
> >
> > It's a normal Debian install, no "email server"
> >
> > I didn't find any
d back in, run
>
> newgrp [groupname]
>
>
Oooh, I learned something new and quite handy. Thanks!
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ideas? Thanks for your help.
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that when my campus switched to GMail, I
started getting inconsistent behavior with messages sent "to myself"
from a non-GMail-web client (Icedove/Thunderbird, Outlook, Eudora, etc).
I remember some discussion about the problem at the time, but I've
forgotten what the spec
Avi Rozen wrote:
> Kent West wrote:
>
>
>> I'm trying to use an early-semitic font (midway down page
>> http://www.ancient-hebrew.org/30_intro.html) on my Sid system.
>>
>>
> The "fc-cache" way is the right way to go, but that specifi
s about reordering the font lines in
/etc/X11/xorg.conf, none of which I had to do with my hand-writing font.
Can anyone outline or point me to a step-by-step for the proper way to
install a random truetype font in Lenny or Sid?
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ailable resolutions, which might give you a usable screen.
You can also press Ctrl-Alt-F1 to switch to the first virtual terminal
(VT1), where you can log in via a text-based mode, where you'll have
access to tweak the X system.
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On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 12:02:10PM -0500, Allan Wind wrote:
> On 2009-02-19T16:05:55, Richard Lyons wrote:
> > The rechargeeables, both NiCad and NiMH, are a good idea in principle, but
> > lose charge when not in use and become ineffective surprisingly quickly in
> > my experience.
>
> Try the lo
Jeff D wrote:
On Thu, 19 Feb 2009, Kent West wrote:
I'm ignorant when it comes to Apache/php, etc.
I had a working etch server with Apache2 and PHP5, but after the upgrade to
Lenny, whenever I point my web browser to a simple index.php file:
the web browser opens a dialog window a
negotiation.load
authz_groupfile.load dir.load setenvif.conf
authz_host.load env.load setenvif.load
(I'm thinking maybe there's supposed to be a php5.conf or something in
the above directory? If so, where do I get it?)
Thanks for any h
familiar. The
site with which I'm familiar allows a Windows user to install Debian
from within the browser without having to download installation media
(it installs a boot stub to the hard drive, which then begins the normal
net install). Very convenient.
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ack.
Any info appreciated.
TIA,
Dennis
goodbye-microsoft.net
Cybe R. Wizard
I thought it was .com, which is not working for me at the moment. The
.net version does not work either. I suspect they're off-line
temporarily during the transition to Lenny, but that's just an
uneduca
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 12:31:42PM +0100, abdelkader belahcene wrote:
> Hi,
> I install the debian on my PC, but the monitor is not detected or not
> adapted ( while it is for linux CD live, and windows XP). it gives the
> following errors :
>
> out of range
>
> H 86,2 KHZ
>
> V 85
>
>
> I wa
to
root to make some modifications.
Tom
From your normal user:
su -
or just log in as root.
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On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 04:40:04PM +, kj wrote:
> Mike McClain wrote:
>> I'm in the market for an inexpensive digital camera.
>> Just for snapshots and was wondering if anyone had recommendations
>> or knows where I could find which are going to work with Debian.
>> Just something simple with U
xing the meanings of the terms) than Windows. I think in
about ten years I've only been bitten once by a serious bug, and even
that worked itself out in about two days. (Just stagger the updates of
your various boxes, so you always have at least one box that doesn't get
horked.)
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Pavlos Parissis wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 07:39:11 -0600
> Kent West wrote:
>
>
>> Sven Joachim wrote:
>>
>>> On 2009-02-15 23:59 +0100, Pavlos Parissis wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> This morning I upg
:> sudo ls -lh /var/lib/exim4
total 24K
-rw-r--r-- 1 root Debian-exim 23K 2009-02-16 07:36 config.autogenerated
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Bob Cox wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 13:02:04 -0600, Kent West (we...@acu.edu) wrote:
>
>
>>> The package is there in stable, testing and unstable as far as I can
>>> see. Perhaps the mirror you are using has been slow to update.
>>>
>>> b.
Bob Cox wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 11:38:45 -0600, Kent West (we...@acu.edu) wrote:
>
>
>> On my etch box, this package was not installed. So I installed it (and
>> most all, if not all, of Gnome was removed as part of the process
>> (?!!)). Now I have thi
Florian Kulzer wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 08:47:06 -0600, Kent West wrote:
>
>>> 2009/2/15 Kent West:
>>>
>>> Should this be happening?
>>>
>
> [...]
>
>
>> wes...@]goshen]:/home/westk:> sudo apt-get update
>
ly, you can run "aptitude autoclean" to get rid of old .debs that
are not longer needed, which could free up a lot of space. Run "df -h"
before and after this command to see the difference in free space it made.
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Leniy Tsan wrote:
> 2009/2/15 Kent West mailto:we...@acu.edu>>
>
>
> Should this be happening?
>
> Sun Feb 15 07:05:59
> -
> wes...@]goshen]:/home/westk:> sudo aptitude update
> Get:1 http://ftp.debian.org lenny
s/main Packages
Hit http://security.debian.org etch/updates/contrib Packages
Fetched 3B in 1s (3B/s)
Reading package lists... Done
W: There is no public key available for the following key IDs:
4D270D06F42584E6
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
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an American".
>
18th century? I'm a Texan, and if I'm reminded in some way, then an
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On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 01:05:48AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 01/30/2009 11:58 PM, Daniel Burrows wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 02:51:35PM -0600, Dennis Wicks was
>> heard to say:
>>> Thanks for the insight! I'll remember to use TERM when I have to kill
>>> so errant process. It might sa
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:35:50AM -0500, H.S. wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am playing around with the idea of installing a calender server on a
> Debian machine at my home.
>
> The idea is that the family can maintain their calenders, appointments,
> schedules and to-do lists on the server and be able to
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:04:19PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 01/30/2009 09:54 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
>> On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 02:52:34AM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
>>> On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 12:54:34AM +, Dean Chester wrote:
Hi
I recently noticed that my CPU is at 100% w
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 04:45:40PM +0800, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote:
> Anyone ever configured this printer on debian 64 bit? Or any canon printer
> on lenny 64?
on lenny 32 we use packages from:
http://mambo.kuhp.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~takushi/
with decent results on a pixma iP1500. I really don't know if
Emanoil Kotsev wrote:
> Kent West wrote:
>
>
>> I'm currently using a wireless Dell keyboard that has a rotary
>> electro-mechanical volume control on the corner. It controls the volume
>> in Gnome, out of the box, but not in KDE.
>>
>> Any sugges
I'm currently using a wireless Dell keyboard that has a rotary
electro-mechanical volume control on the corner. It controls the volume
in Gnome, out of the box, but not in KDE.
Any suggestions for getting it to control KDE's volume?
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Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
On Wednesday 2009 January 14 11:18:31 Kent West wrote:
It used to be that the kernels were named something like
"kernel-image-2.6.24...".
In Sarge and before, IIRC.
Four questions:
1. Why the change from "kernel-image...&q
the 2.6.18 kernel (the 6th sub-variant
of the 2.6.18 kernel compiled for i686 machines?), but is the 2.6-686
the 1st version of the i686 kernel, or something else?
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I've got an Etch box running Samba and sharing out home directories. The
relevant section of smb.conf is this:
[global]
workgroup = ACU
invalid users = root
browseable = No
include = /etc/samba/dhcp.conf
[homes]
comment = Home Directories
invalid
Dotan Cohen wrote:
> 2009/1/6 Kent West :
>
>> (You also get spoiled to the two-finger scrolling on a track-pad fast
>> too. I love it on my Debian lappy and on my Macbook; I get so frustrated
>> when I sit down at a Windows laptop and don't have that feature.
ll wheel;
you get spoiled to a scroll wheel really fast.
(You also get spoiled to the two-finger scrolling on a track-pad fast
too. I love it on my Debian lappy and on my Macbook; I get so frustrated
when I sit down at a Windows laptop and don't have that feature.)
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just wanted to make sure you understand that the scroll wheel doubles as
the third button. (Also, you probably want an optical mouse rather than
a roller-ball mouse; fewer moving parts, more reliable generally.)
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s geek and
>> yes, I know that would include me ;)
>>
>
> No just so drunk I had to take a break from that boring party..!!
>
>
>
What's all this talk of a party and "this time of year"? Is something
special going on?
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Florian Kulzer wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 14:21:26 -0600, Kent West wrote:
>
>> Hey folks!
>>
>> I'm trying to play the radio link here:
>>
>> http://www.97gold.com/ (then the "Click here" link just under the jukebox)
>>
>>
vg/max/mdev = 38.536/39.850/42.452/1.839 ms
we...@westek:~$
I googled for "debian avisynth", and some have claimed that the problem
is elsewhere, and that avisynth is not required.
Does anyone have any suggestions for what I should do next? Can you play
this radio station?
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>nohup='nohup '
>r='hist -s'
>redirect='command exec'
>source='command .'
>stop='kill -s STOP'
>suspend='kill -s STOP $$'
>times='{ { time;} 2>&1;}'
>type='whence -v'
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<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tuesday 09 December 2008, "Brendan West"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'How do I make my normal
> account (not root) have administrative (root) privileges?':
>>How do I make my normal account (not root)
How do I make my normal account (not root) have administrative (root)
privileges? I thought that it was set up like that already, but I am
unable to start some programs under my normal account. And for some
reason, I can't log onto the desktop gui as root. Any ideas?
NinjaNife
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on a terminal under eg. F2 (CTL+ALT+F2) as root. And reconfigure
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> $ dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg
> $ /etc/init.d/gdm restart
>
>
Or first try cycling through the various available resolutions with
Ctrl-Alt-NumpadPlus (or Ctrl-Alt-NumpadMinus).
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how to control it (change settings, allow ports, programs, ect.). How
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administrator wrote:
My system fails to start properly after a bad shutdown (not using
shutdown/power cut), the graphics are incorrect and full of lines at
login point. No way of reading the screen as no real images to see, the
initial boot text is fine but on entry into GUI it all goes wrong.
T
being echoed to the screen.
>
>
> So yeah, that's the problem
>
In what language? (I'm no programmer, so I probably won't be able to
help, but it's the first question that comes to my mind. I'd assume C
since you mentioned "login.cc", but since I&
raman narasimhan wrote:
i was installing new packages into my lenny system via synaptic.. when
it was applying the changes, i got the following error message:
*E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a'
to correct the problem.
E: _cache->open() failed, please report.
TW wrote:
Please post the output of 'ls -la'.
-rw--- 1 user user0 2008-11-30 11:32 >
[snip]
So it's a normal file, with a size of zero bytes, with an odd name.
(Assuming "ls" has not been compromised.)
Some miscreant app somewhere allowed the creation o
TW wrote:
Hi,
I was trying to install a copy of Windows XP that I downloaded in
'06 onto my friend's mom's laptop computer, but it wouldn't take. I bought her a
new hard drive (Seagate, 80GB) so that she could have more space. However, when I
try to install the OS, I get an error message.
ledge shared.
In this case, I'm not sure where to suggest you look for the next step.
Perhaps someone else on the list can help, so I'm re-routing it to the list.
Engi Zoltán wrote:
> Kent West wrote:
>> Engi Zoltán wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>
computer doesn't turn on although the bios
> is set.
> What is the problem?
Are you sure the BIOS clock is still set to the correct time? If as part
of your upgrade you told the system to start keeping UTC (or similar),
it may have reset the BIOS clock.
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lity, something I usually
> try to avoid?
>
> Cybe R. Wizard
>
Not all of us keep up with Ubuntu (I think that's the reference); so
what is the new release name?
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lee wrote:
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 04:48:59PM -0500, Napoleon wrote:
lee wrote:
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 02:43:28PM -0500, Napoleon wrote:
lee wrote:
Is it even possible to measure a mere potential?
Of course. That's what voltage is.
Hm, true, vol
Manuel Gomez wrote:
> I am thinking in "clean" Linux, i don't know how its done.
>
> Thank you very much for your help.
>
> El mar, 25-11-2008 a las 14:38 +, Sam Kuper escribió:
>
>> 2008/11/25 Manuel Gomez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Hi, i would like to know a tool or software to erase t
Celejar wrote:
On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 22:24:59 -0600
Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Kent wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo aptitude search modprobe
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
Celejar wrote:
> $ dpkg -S modprobe
I was pleased to find this trick, but now that I'm act
Kent West wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
On 11/22/08 18:06, Kent West wrote:
I went from 2.6.18-6-k7 today to 2.6.26-1-686, and now the audio
that was formerly working is very poor. When I have any audio playing,
As part of my diagnosing, I went back to my older kernel, and without
firing up X
Ron Johnson wrote:
On 11/22/08 18:06, Kent West wrote:
I went from 2.6.18-6-k7 today to 2.6.26-1-686, and now the audio that
was formerly working is very poor. When I have any audio playing,
What kind of sound "card"? Could it be an external USB adapter?
Integrated into the mobo
Kent wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo aptitude search modprobe
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
Celejar wrote:
> $ dpkg -S modprobe
I was pleased to find this trick, but now that I'm actually trying to
use it, I find it only works on packages already installed on your
system; it doesn't search your r
I went from 2.6.18-6-k7 today to 2.6.26-1-686, and now the audio that
was formerly working is very poor. When I have any audio playing,
there's a high-pitched whine, that seems to track my mouse movements.
Once the audio stops playing (and in some cases the parent app/window
closed), the audio
Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Thu,20.Nov.08, 19:35:30, Kent West wrote:
>
>
>> Try "sudo aptitude install x-window-system".
>>
>
> Am I missing something here? AFAIR sudo is *not* configured unless you
> choose so in the /expert/ install. Why recommen
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I have been having trouble with the install of Etch Linux. During the
install, the GUI Desktop Environment was not installed (install
failed). I am wondering if I can possibly download and install the
desktop environment manually onto the debian machine. I am not a
raman narasimhan wrote:
> i study in an engg. college student and recently our department
> (computer science and engineering) decided to switch from WINDOWS to
> LINUX.. A few of us formed linux awareness group and since i was
> already a linux user i volunteered to help... we chose DEBIAN as our
Donny Forbes wrote:
> I am trying to use this program, however it is all in Arabic. I don't
> know this language or speak it. My question to you is does this support
> English or other bible text? I did go to edit -> preferences -> modules
> -> main and saw a drop down for Biblical Text however the
Celejar wrote:
On Sun, 16 Nov 2008 14:58:57 -0600
Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo aptitude install b43-fwcutter
This didn't do any downloading and cutting like my earlier run of
bcm43xx-fwcutter; do I need to be concerned about that?
Do I need t
Celejar wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Nov 2008 20:23:07 -0600
> Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>> I'm running Debian Sid and have a Linksys WMP54GS.
>>
>> I've never really understood networking, and definitely not wireless
>> networking
I'm running Debian Sid and have a Linksys WMP54GS.
I've never really understood networking, and definitely not wireless
networking.
I've been trying half a week to get this card working, but the how-to's
I've been finding simply don't explain things sufficiently for me to
find my own way, an
email client is then prompting you
for your PGP passphrase, which you don't recall setting at some time in
the past.
If you have a PGP or GPG item in your email client's settings, that's
probably what's going on.
At least, that's the understand
er been a user, I can't give a
user's perspective. But as a non-user, I've already stated that such
seems gaudy to me.
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> these things. Regarding return codes, they're often implicit and not
> documented; often the term `exit status' and others might be used. Shell
> commands always return an exit status if 0 -- meaning true -- if
erted.
>
Thank you. I thought I had tried it without the brackets, but I must've
introduced some other little problem when I tried it 'cause it works now.
Steve Kemp suggested:
> if ( mkdir -p $targetDir )
Do the parenths add any value? (meaning? readability? it s
ASTATIONBACKUP/GOSHEN/2008/OCTOBER/2008-Oct-28.tgz
===
I've tried various permutations of the test case - put it in
double-quotes, in single-quotes, put a bang in front of the text, remove
the brackets, add a semi-colon at the end of the test line before the
comment, etc, but can't figure
e mail there. If not, you're
back to the situation where it has nothing to do with Debian; the
problem lies elsewhere.
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On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 11:13:39AM +0100, abdelkader belahcene wrote:
> Hi,
> I took a program ( using servlet ) from a book, so I suppose it runs
> correctly, I tried it on my PC using sun-java6. Does it have another name?
> Other programs, with (swing, applet ...), run correcly.
> I searched ser
to see if "comment" shows up in that file.
I'm suspecting this is specific to Gnome, in which case it may be just a
field number mis-match in Gnome's reading of the /etc/password file, or
something similar.
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I think I'd start by suspecting the mouse of getting flakey.
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On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 11:13:19AM +1000, hce wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am running opera 9.52, there is an error "ERROR: ld.so: object
> 'libawt.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored". I could not
> find there is any libawt.so in the /lib or /usr/lib. I searched libawt
> without any results. P
On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 11:14:04AM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
>> On 09/05/08 10:46, Mike McCarty wrote:
>>> Martin wrote:
When I open big text file (46M in this case) emacs take long time for
moving cursor and editing. It takes 3-4 seconds to process every key
pr
On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 02:31:26PM -0700, Scarletdown wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 09:58 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
>
> > you may improve the ultimate installed experience by rolling your own
> > kernel with just the bare minimum you need for these lappies.
>
>
On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 01:15:31PM -0400, Eric Gerlach wrote:
...
> I don't view non-free as some kind of refuse bin for the licences that
> don't make the cut. I view it as a place where I can choose packages
> from other licenses if I please.
well put and echoes my sentiments exactly. non
On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 09:52:48PM -0700, Scarletdown wrote:
> I have a pair of old P-I based Toshiba Laptops (Satellite Pro 425CDT and
> Portege 650CT), and I am trying to figure out how to get a working
> Debian installation on them. These laptops are very light on RAM. The
> Satellite has 40MB
Martin wrote:
On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 5:56 AM, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
case "$1" in
start)
echo -n "Starting $DESC: "
start-stop-daemon -c $USER --start --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE --exec
$DAEMON -- $OPT \
> /dev/null
I'm trying to run Maple12 from my Debian box. I've hacked a startup
script together that looks like this:
==
#! /bin/sh
# Maple 12
# I hacked this script from a copy of the "lisa" start-up script; no
guarantees that it works properly.
# Kent West, 14 June 200
Mike Fontenot wrote:
Kent West wrote:
I had great difficulty installing Debian on a Dell Optiplex 320; it
would NOT boot from a USB jumpdrive or a LiveCD; finally had to resort
to using an external USB hard drive.
How did you use the external USB hard drive?
http://faculty.acu.edu/~westk
ive you any
helpful information, but I include it just in case:
http://faculty.acu.edu/~westk/optiplex320-debian.txt
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. Any advice how can I restore the mouse copy / paste?
Did you maybe uninstall gpm as part of your clean-up?
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aming the coder :P
Then why didn't he just say that? "Segfault means you wrote buggy code."
I thought that's what he said, just in different words:
"the code being compiled is faulty" = "you wrote buggy code".
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On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 07:22:46AM +0100, John O Laoi wrote:
> Thanks for the help.
I've looked into this a bit more. You're running etch. etch's thunar
does not depend on, and probably can't use
thunar-volman. http://packages.debian.org/etch/thunar tells us that it
suggests hal and pmount. This i
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 07:27:11AM -0400, Curt Howland wrote:
> Hi. Up to date Sid.
>
> Back before the recent changes in X, I had put this in my xorg.conf:
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad"
> Driver "synaptics"
> Option "Se
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 09:43:30PM +0100, John O Laoi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to set up automounting on my etch system, which is using XFCE4.
>
> Basically, I want my CDs and flash devices to automount when I insert them.
>
>
> I have done some googeling, and it seems that I need to use Thunar
t; constraints, and possible special operations for both???
Hopefully someone else may be able to answer this question.
> I have seen this same question (in a variety of forms) asked on this
> forum as well as others but I haven't seen a complete answer.
I myself am a bit c
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 06:22:48PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 08:09:14 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 09:23:48PM -0400, Mark Phillips wrote:
> > > I think I solved the problem. The files were missing, but also found.
&g
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 09:25:39PM -0700, NewDeb wrote:
>
> Here is the output with apt-get install (albeit with --download-only. You get
> the same output if you were to go ahead with the real install) I am trying
> to understand the difference between the NEW packages and the Extra
> packages. W
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 09:23:48PM -0400, Mark Phillips wrote:
> I think I solved the problem. The files were missing, but also found.
>
> This is what I found:
>
> /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/_spe/plugins/kiki ->
> /usr/share/pycentral/spe/site-packages/_spe/plugins/kiki ->
> ../../../../ki
Kent West wrote:
I'm remoted into a sid box, from a sid box, and when I run gramps, it
pops up the following and then just hangs; I eventually have to KILL it.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gramps
Upgrading INI file
Hspell: can't open /usr/share/hspell/hebrew.wgz.sizes.
Hspell: can't
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