On 12/23/2010 08:44 AM, Johann Spies wrote:
Apologies for the long post but it is along and sad story :)
I have been made sad by a Dell laptop or two. ;-)
...
Maybe all the problems are related to my inabillity to disable the touchpad.
On this
On 12/23/2010 09:46 AM, Johann Spies wrote:
Thanks Gilbert. That has disabled the touchpad. Now let us hope the other
keyboard-problems will come to an end. Immediately as I type this, it feels
if the keyboard reaction is faster and so far I did not miss a character.
I'll keep my fingers
On 12/19/2010 11:37 AM, Camaleón wrote:
Hello,
I am getting a floating point exception error message from Evince when
opening some PDF files (a sample is linked bellow). The file gets opened
but as soon as I'm reading pages (page 1, page 2, page 3...), at some
point Evince closes by itself.
On 12/13/2010 01:12 PM, Joel Roth wrote:
Does anyone know how to handle this _without_ root
permissions?
I see there is an 'lp' group and user.
Within the narrow context of this question I believe you can add any
regular user to the lpadmin group to give that user permissions to
configure
On 11/30/2010 09:07 PM, Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
On Tue, 30 Nov 2010 18:33:42 -0600
John Haslerjhas...@debian.org wrote:
Cybe R. Wizard writes:
Yes, it is obviously changing. These days it is preferred to use,
proved, as the past participle of prove instead of, proven. The
same goes for,
On 11/20/2010 05:44 PM, Gary Roach wrote:
I just installed Unison-gtk 2.32.52 (squeeze) sync tool on a KDE,
Squeeze system. How do you delete or edit a profile. There seems to be
no provisions for either.
Gary R.
Look in /home/user/.unison.
Each profile is represented by a plain text file
System is Debian testing Xfce. Software installations strictly limited
to those available from the standard repositories -- no contrib, no
non-free software.
While I was using the system this morning (Icedove, ssh -X session
connected to another similar system, a couple of text editors, Zim
I forgot to add a finding from Xorg.0.log.old:
(II) NOUVEAU(0): EDID vendor SEC, prod id 12629
(II) NOUVEAU(0): Printing DDC gathered Modelines:
(II) NOUVEAU(0): Modeline 1920x1200x0.0 161.84 1920 2020 2052 2184
1200 1202 1208 1235 -hsync -vsync (74.1 kHz)
Fatal server error:
On 11/02/2010 01:49 PM, Gilbert Sullivan wrote:
I forgot to add a finding from Xorg.0.log.old:
(II) NOUVEAU(0): EDID vendor SEC, prod id 12629
(II) NOUVEAU(0): Printing DDC gathered Modelines:
(II) NOUVEAU(0): Modeline 1920x1200x0.0 161.84 1920 2020 2052 2184
1200 1202 1208 1235 -hsync -vsync
On 10/27/2010 07:23 PM, Rob Owens wrote:
I'm inclined to call it a bug in firestarter, but to be sure, test it
out with Network Manager instead of wicd. See if you have the same
problem. I think you will, which will indicate the problem is with
firestarter (or possibly with the way you
On 10/23/2010 12:15 PM, Rob Owens wrote:
If your firewall script references an IP address (which you don't have
when the network is down), I think it needs the network to be up in
order to run.
If the script only references the interface (eth0, for
example) it might run even if the network is
On 10/23/2010 02:38 PM, Gilbert Sullivan wrote:
...
I'm guessing I should try to run firestarter in the Pre-connection
Script field first, and then fall back to using the Post-connection
Script field if Pre-connection fails.
Now I just have to decide which of the firestarter scripts it makes
On 10/24/2010 07:45 PM, Rob Owens wrote:
On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 12:20:59PM -0400, Gilbert Sullivan wrote:
This is a pretty sophisticated firewall front end, allowing for
connection sharing and allowing you to limit service connections to
specific IP addresses or IP address ranges, but it's
On 10/23/2010 04:57 AM, Greg Madden wrote:
Runlevel 2 is the default runlevel.
Look for a link: '/etc/rc2.d/Sxxfirestarter - ../init.d/firestarter'
Hi, Greg.
Thanks to you and Rob I'm getting a bit of an education.
I found /etc/rc2.d/S19firestarter. It does not contain any apparent (to
On 10/23/2010 08:16 AM, Rob Owens wrote:
What if the network isn't up when firestarter is asked to start? Would
it start anyway? Would it fail to start and log an error? Or would it
fail silently?
I'm not sure of the answers to the above. Maybe you could try shutting
down your network
On 10/23/2010 12:15 PM, Rob Owens wrote:
On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 11:53:33AM -0400, Gilbert Sullivan wrote:
Starting Network connection manager: wicd.
startpar: service(s) returned failure: firestarter ... failed!
Running scripts in rc2.d/ took xx seconds.
Ah, you're using wicd. For each
Post Script to Previous Message:
The failure of the Scripts button to bring up anything led me to
deliberately try entering the wrong password, and that got me a modal
dialog:
--8---
Failed to run
I'm running Firestarter 1.0.3 on Debian testing (both systems involved
in this message).
A number of months ago I was in a situation where I wanted to establish
an SSH connection from my notebook to a desktop system. Because the
network on which this desktop system resides is less well
On 10/22/2010 01:56 PM, Rob Owens wrote:
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 01:50:11PM -0400, Gilbert Sullivan wrote:
list's moderator hasn't got back to me. It appears that the rules I want
in iptables are not in effect at all until I actually bring up the
Firestarter user interface during a given
On 10/22/2010 04:29 PM, Rob Owens wrote:
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 03:00:40PM -0400, Gilbert Sullivan wrote:
On 10/22/2010 01:56 PM, Rob Owens wrote:
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 01:50:11PM -0400, Gilbert Sullivan wrote:
list's moderator hasn't got back to me. It appears that the rules I want
On 10/22/2010 06:00 PM, Greg Madden wrote:
On Friday 22 October 2010 11:00:40 Gilbert Sullivan wrote:
Does this have something to do with Firestarter being started (or not
started) at different run levels during startup? I briefly see something
about it scrolling by, but I never get a chance
On 10/22/2010 08:18 PM, Rob Owens wrote:
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 06:48:34PM -0400, Gilbert Sullivan wrote:
There is an /etc/init.d/firestarter file and an
/etc/firestarter/configuration file (that later one being present in its
directory with a whole bunch of other files.).
After a fresh
On 10/22/2010 07:42 PM, Greg Madden wrote:
On Friday 22 October 2010 14:57:15 Gilbert Sullivan wrote:
On 10/22/2010 06:00 PM, Greg Madden wrote:
On Friday 22 October 2010 11:00:40 Gilbert Sullivan wrote:
Does this have something to do with Firestarter being started (or not
started
On 10/19/2010 07:59 AM, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
Rodolfo Medinarodolfo.med...@gmail.com writes:
However, I have now another problem: after cleaning the heads, the print
quality remains bad. They told me it may depend on the heads dried or maybe
broken. In any case, they told that the printer
On 10/19/2010 11:40 AM, Klistvud wrote:
The printer and cartridges business model has been a thorn in the side
of conscientious consumers for years.
You can say that again! Although I might characterize the position of
the pain as being more toward the posterior than the side.
;-)
--
To
On 10/14/2010 03:24 AM, Lisi wrote:
On Thursday 14 October 2010 00:15:10 Gilbert Sullivan wrote:
On 10/13/2010 06:16 PM, Lisi wrote:
On Wednesday 13 October 2010 19:51:21 Camaleón wrote:
On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 13:43:50 -0400, Gilbert Sullivan wrote:
(...)
Would anyone know how I can make
On 10/14/2010 04:01 AM, Camaleón wrote:
On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 19:15:10 -0400, Gilbert Sullivan wrote:
Why on earth would the Mozilla people set the mail client to behave this
way?
Mozilla applications handle those things based on their own stuff/code
(mime types, network protocols... are all
On 10/14/2010 09:35 AM, Preston Boyington wrote:
Mark wrote:
snipped
None of this matters if you use Clonezilla. So why even fiddle with it
when there's a great alternative?
I use Clonezilla a great deal, but most people don't think to make an
image of the machine before they start Windows
Debian testing, Xfce - with icedove, iceweasel, and chromium-browser
installed.
I decided to set chromium-browser as the default Web browser. In all
other applications if I click on a Web link, the page loads in
chromium-browser.
If I click on a Web link within icedove, iceweasel is
On 10/13/2010 06:16 PM, Lisi wrote:
On Wednesday 13 October 2010 19:51:21 Camaleón wrote:
On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 13:43:50 -0400, Gilbert Sullivan wrote:
(...)
Would anyone know how I can make icedove and iceweasel recognize my
choice of a default browser? Not exactly a serious problem
On 10/07/2010 02:11 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Du, 03 oct 10, 22:05:44, Sven Joachim wrote:
In any case, more feedback on nouveau would be welcome. We've got a few
positive answers when the package was uploaded in March, but since then
all we received are a dozen of more or less serious
On 09/09/2010 12:29 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Mi, 08 sep 10, 19:24:11, Gilbert Sullivan wrote:
On 09/08/2010 06:04 PM, Celejar wrote:
On Wed, 08 Sep 2010 17:25:44 -0400
Gilbert Sullivanwhirly...@comcast.net wrote:
...
youtube.com watching dumb stuff I don't need to be watching. I used
Kind of an odd thing showed up on three Debian testing systems this
morning. This all use Xfce for the DE, and they use the
/etc/apt/sources.list configured like so:
--8
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main
deb-src
On 09/08/2010 01:31 PM, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
Hi,
Gilbert Sullivanwhirly...@comcast.net writes:
I don't remember seeing chromium-browser on the removal lists. Did I
miss it, or is something else afoot?
Chromium has been removed[1] from testing yesterday. See also the
discussion[2] on
On 09/08/2010 01:42 PM, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote:
Hi, this blog entry explains the problem Chromium is facing:
http://www.iuculano.it/en/linux/debian/chromium-browser-removed-from-testing/
It's still available in Sid in version 6.0.472.53~r57914-3
Cheers.
Yes, thanks for the link. I
On 09/08/2010 02:17 PM, hugo vanwoerkom wrote:
B. Alexander wrote:
I'm just wondering, since firefox/iceweasel seems to be getting
unusable. I have a 2.2GHz C2D box with an nvidia card at home, and a
3.0GHz C2D with a (lame) ATI card at work. I find that firefox (or
xulrunner-stub) have memory
On 09/08/2010 03:50 PM, Angus Hedger wrote:
On Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:06:05 -0400
Gilbert Sullivanwhirly...@comcast.net wrote:
I'll be looking at the the version 6 chromium-browser when it shows
up in testing. (The version 5 browser was removed today.) I'm
especially interested in seeing what
On 09/08/2010 04:55 PM, Sven Joachim wrote:
On 2010-09-08 21:06 +0200, Gilbert Sullivan wrote:
I'll be looking at the the version 6 chromium-browser when it shows up
in testing. (The version 5 browser was removed today.)
Could be a long time until this happens. Meanwhile, there is no real
On 09/08/2010 05:07 PM, Angus Hedger wrote:
On Wed, 08 Sep 2010 16:53:58 -0400
Gilbert Sullivanwhirly...@comcast.net wrote:
Ah! That makes more sense. I was kind of feeling dirty for a little
bit there, wondering just who the GNU/Linux developers might be
crawling into bed with!
Chromium is
On 09/08/2010 06:04 PM, Celejar wrote:
On Wed, 08 Sep 2010 17:25:44 -0400
Gilbert Sullivanwhirly...@comcast.net wrote:
...
youtube.com watching dumb stuff I don't need to be watching. I used to
just use youtube-dl, and that tended to make me more choosy about what I
would bother with.
+1
I have a Panasonic subnotebook (CF-R3) that has been functioning
superbly for months under Squeeze with Xfce/gdm. It has an integrated
Intel video system and a Japanese / English keyboard with which I have
used the standard kernel mapping (chosen during Expert install). This is
Squeeze with no
On 09/04/2010 11:05 AM, Alex Kuklin wrote:
1) show
a)`uname -a` output
b) `lspci` output
there are chances that the problem resides in new xorg drivers/code.
Next steps depend on you particular video card model.
Thanks, Alex.
~# uname -a
Linux argh 2.6.32-5-686 #1 SMP Wed Aug 25 14:28:12
On 09/04/2010 11:07 AM, Damon L. Chesser wrote:
Not an exact solution, but perhaps you should not run testing as a
desktop: http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-choosing.en.html
Not meant to be snarky, just trying to say testing is for testing.
I understand what you're saying, but I made the
On 09/04/2010 11:36 AM, Sven Joachim wrote:
On 2010-09-04 17:23 +0200, Gilbert Sullivan wrote:
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM
Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated
Graphics Device (rev 02)
My
On 09/04/2010 12:40 PM, Sven Joachim wrote:
You could also try wicd-curses if that's installed, or use X with the
vesa driver. Here's an /etc/X11/xorg.conf for that:
--8---cut here---start-8---
Section Device
Identifier n
Driver
On 09/04/2010 11:07 AM, Damon L. Chesser wrote:
Now, on to something more helpful: can you boot the machine into a live
distro of some sort, to verify that the machine it's self does not have
a failure?
Hi, Damon.
Just wanted to get back to you. The hardware is okay. Sven reminded me
that I
On 09/04/2010 11:05 AM, Alex Kuklin wrote:
1) show
a)`uname -a` output
b) `lspci` output
there are chances that the problem resides in new xorg drivers/code.
Next steps depend on you particular video card model.
Hi, Alex.
The information you had me get via the 'uname -a' and 'lspci' commands
On 09/04/2010 01:44 PM, Damon L. Chesser wrote:
Install apt-listbugs. That way before the packages installs, you will
get a list of reported bugs against that package and you can decide if
you want to continue or not.
Thank you for the heads-up on that. I actually have apt-listchanges
On 09/04/2010 02:00 PM, Sven Joachim wrote:
Well, if the disadvantages of vesa do not bother you. It's slow and may
not support your display's native resolution, but it works for basic 2D.
I'm thinking I'll stick with vesa for now. And it does support this
display's native resolution of
On 08/04/2010 04:06 PM, Carl Johnson wrote:
Gary Roachgary719_li...@verizon.net writes:
Hi;
I could use some suggestions. I seem to collect a lot of snippets of
information scribbled on pieces of paper, old napkins, etc. Examples
are notes on harware, sources for stuff, notes on possible
On 07/30/2010 08:08 PM, Christian Jaeger wrote:
2010/7/30 Markmamar...@gmail.com:
Or do you shutdown when the battery
reaches, say, 5%?
I just ordered a few laptop battery replacements
I guess you're talking about Lithium ion or Lithium polymer batteries
(as all modern devices are using
On 07/14/2010 11:08 AM, Brad Rogers wrote:
On Thu, 08 Jul 2010 13:22:08 -0400
Gilbert Sullivanwhirly...@comcast.net wrote:
Hello Gilbert,
Two clean installations of daily build of Debian Squeeze are unable to
run hp-setup.
Today's update of hplip (testing) rectified this for me.
Hi,
Before I start the e-mail, let me apologize for having first
accidentally posted this message from an e-mail alias. That one
(jpwallen_at_comcast.net) can be ignored. That address isn't subscribed
to the list and is used mostly for commercial communications for my company.
Now, to the point
Clean slate, sort of.
I've removed any xorg.conf and am not blacklisting any more.
System docked will not give me a display on the external screen, whether
booted from old kernel or new one.
System undocked works perfectly.
I'm attaching a new dmesg output with the system docked with the
On 06/14/2010 11:56 AM, Aioanei Rares wrote:
On 06/14/2010 06:49 PM, Nuno Magalhães wrote:
2010/6/14 Mark Goldshteinmark.goldsht...@gmail.com:
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 6:52 PM, Ron Johnsonron.l.john...@cox.net
wrote:
A section from today's issue of the Debian Project News:
Debian Community
On 06/12/2010 03:20 PM, Sven Joachim wrote:
On 2010-06-12 21:06 +0200, Gilbert Sullivan wrote:
I have both xserver-xorg-video-nouveau and xser-xorg-video-fbdev
installed (just confirmed it in aptitude), but it doesn't appear that
they are being used.
I see. The latest xserver-xorg-core
On 06/12/2010 03:20 PM, Sven Joachim wrote:
You may as well blacklist nouveau then, since it is completely useless
without KMS (the nouveau X driver requires KMS). Note, however, that
without an xorg.conf the most recent xserver-xorg-core will still load
the module.
I decided to take baby
On 06/11/2010 04:30 PM, Andreas Rönnquist wrote:
I've ran into this too, and got this solved by blacklisting the nouveau
module in
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
(adding a line containing just blacklist nouveau),
and adding modeset=0 to my kernel line in /boot/grub/menu.lst (I am
still on
On 06/12/2010 04:03 AM, Sven Joachim wrote:
This is to be expected, because it detects and uses the display's native
resolution. This is usually what you want, but you can override it with
the video=800x600 boot parameter (or whatever other resolution you like).
Looks like I have a bit of
On 06/12/2010 01:42 PM, Sven Joachim wrote:
On 2010-06-12 15:38 +0200, Gilbert Sullivan wrote:
On 06/12/2010 04:03 AM, Sven Joachim wrote:
Thanks. I don't see anything unusual in it, in particular nouveau
detects the 1680x1050 resolution of the external display:
[7.308183] [drm
On 06/12/2010 03:20 PM, Sven Joachim wrote:
On 2010-06-12 21:06 +0200, Gilbert Sullivan wrote:
I have both xserver-xorg-video-nouveau and xser-xorg-video-fbdev
installed (just confirmed it in aptitude), but it doesn't appear that
they are being used.
I see. The latest xserver-xorg-core
Running Squeeze with Xfce desktop environment (only) on Dell Latitude
D810. Nvidia video card running the VESA driver (though there's a bunch
of verbiage in dmesg about nouveau). System is normally connected to a
port replicator and DVI display (1680x1050).
Upgraded from 2.6.32-3 to 2.6.32-6
On 06/11/2010 03:08 PM, Sven Joachim wrote:
On 2010-06-11 19:06 +0200, Gilbert Sullivan wrote:
Running Squeeze with Xfce desktop environment (only) on Dell Latitude
D810. Nvidia video card running the VESA driver (though there's a
bunch of verbiage in dmesg about nouveau). System is normally
On 06/11/2010 04:30 PM, Andreas Rönnquist wrote:
On Fri, 11 Jun 2010 13:06:04 -0400
Gilbert Sullivanwhirly...@comcast.net wrote:
Running Squeeze with Xfce desktop environment (only) on Dell Latitude
D810. Nvidia video card running the VESA driver (though there's a bunch
of verbiage in dmesg
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