> The answer to this appears to be a large part of the problem.
> Vardhan, if you get the memory you are going to have to open the laptop up to
> install it. So, since you are going to have to do it anyway to install
> anything, why not pluck up courage and open it up now, and count how many
> me
> This indicates that the RAM capacity of your laptop is already utilized.
> What lets you think it can use 8 gb of RAM?
hi Jörg-Volker,
the toshiba website link clearly states 8 gb ram :
http://www.toshiba-india.com/laptop/satellite-c850-amd-viewmodel.html.
now i am confused a lot.
from the word
| Memory Device
| Speed: 1600 MHz (0.6 ns)
i have come across this page on toshiba website & it's quite strange :
http://www.toshiba-india.com/laptop/satellite-c850-amd-viewmodel.html
toshiba india website shows : Memory Slot : 2GB (1 x 2GB) DDR3 1333 MHz.
so, is the dmidecode info is correct ?
| Hi war_dhan
| What brand and type is your laptop?
Hi Ramon,
my laptop model : toshiba satellite c850d-m5010.
motherboard info [ from sysinfo ] :
MOTHERBOARD
Host bridge
Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 12h/14h Processor Function 7
Subsystem: Advance
facts:
i have recently purchased a laptop. it is shipped with 2gb ram. the
maximum ram is 8gb.
i want to replace 2gb ram with 2 4gb ram modules.
i did ask once in chat about the ram, and a person has given me an
idea about what type of ram i should purchase.
the laptop manufacturer did not provided
On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 8:48 AM, Jordan Metzmeier wrote:
> On 10/22/2010 01:19 AM, vishnu vardhan wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 10:44 AM, vishnu vardhan <
> > vishnuvardhan.li...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> i have read the readme. however, there is no .xs
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 10:44 AM, vishnu vardhan <
vishnuvardhan.li...@gmail.com> wrote:
> i have read the readme. however, there is no .xsession or .xinitrc file on
> my system. right now i am using debian 5.0.4 and fluxbox on an encrypted
> lvm. i could not figure out abou
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Jason Heeris wrote:
> On 11 October 2010 23:52, vishnu vardhan
> wrote:
> > to mount the usb flash drive :
> >
> > [a] start mc and search for jet under /dev/disk/by-id folder and note
> down
> > the name, for e.g. sdb1
>
&g
i have installed debian 5.0.5 on virtualbox. i am learning about how to live
without a desktop environment. i have installed fluxbox and trying to
familiarise with it. i use usb flash drive almost on daily basis, plugging
in and out atleast four times. i did not installed any GUI file manager. i
am
for long time, i want to encrypt partitions on my disk. recently i have
found an artic...@1] with screenshots and actually made some sense to my
stupid mind. i have successfully, created encrypted lvm using the [...@1].
however, i have some issues :
[1] i will set aside atleast a gb for future, sh
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 12:13 PM, Camaleón wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 10:31:46 +0530, vishnu vardhan wrote:
>
> > almost six months ago, i have installed debian lenny on my machine. at
> > the time of installation i have faced three issues :
> >
> > issue 1 : afte
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 7:15 PM, Jordan Metzmeier wrote:
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> On 09/29/2010 12:54 AM, vishnu vardhan wrote:
> > but, when i try to run # dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg, i am
> > receiving the following error :
>
almost six months ago, i have installed debian lenny on my machine. at the
time of installation i have faced three issues :
issue 1 : after configuration of dhcp server, it will ask for domain name.
is this normal ?
issue 2 : during clock setup, it tries to connect to network time server,
how can
os : lenny 5.0.4
i have run gsynaptics from command line :
$ gsynaptics
and it has shown the following error :
GSynaptics couldn't initialize.
You have to set 'SHMConfig' 'true' in xorg.conf or XF86Config to use
GSynaptics
i have edited the file of /etc/X11/xorg.conf and added support for
synap
no desktop directory for newly created user and some other issues.
OS : Debian Lenny 5.0.4
Desktop Environment : LXDE
I have the following issues and provide some suggestions for the below
numbered list :
issue 1 : no Desktop directory for newly created user :
I have this issue earlier also whi
I have purged mysql-server mysql-client using the following command :
*# aptitude purge --purge-unused mysql-server mysql-client *
and then i issued command :
*# updatedb*
I have again tried to install both of the packages, instead of downloading
packages, i has took me directly to provide pass
I have followed the steps given by Stephen Powell and tried to install
again. It is showing same error.
Out of curiousity I have run
*# dpkg -s mysql-server-5.0*
**and the output of the above command is :
*# dpkg -s mysql-server-5.0*
Package: mysql-server-5.0
Status: install ok half-configured
P
tall mysql-server with all the required dependencies.
>
> _Krishna
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 2:41 PM, vishnu vardhan <
> vishnuvardhan.li...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> This is what I have done :
>>
>> i have installed the mysql server and client.
>>
>>
This is what I have done :
i have installed the mysql server and client.
Then I have issued the following commands :
# aptitude remove --purge mysql-server mysql-client
# updatedb
# rm -r /etc/mysql/
After a couple of days, I have tried to install the packages again.
It has shown an error as i h
OS : Debian Lenny 5.0.4
mysql server and client versions : packages from stable.
I have previously installed mysql-server and mysql-client.
I have tried to delete the files left in the system except of /var/ folder.
I have deleted the /etc/mysql/ folder using the command rm -r /etc/mysql/.
After a
After installing Openoffice, I commented out lines of backports.
When I have installed transmission, I did not commented out lines of
backports.
Normally, I install the packages with the following command :
aptitude install "package".
Freeman | there is no apt.conf file at /etc/apt/.
However the f
OS : Lenny 5.0.3
I have installed openoffice from backports and transmission-gtk from
unstable.
I have read a couple of articles about installing packages from stable,
unstable, etc.. and pinning of packages.
My sources.list entries are as follows :
deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates
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