Re: DVD-RW drive partially faulty

2009-08-06 Thread Kent Fredric
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Stephen Irons stephen.ir...@tait.co.nzwrote: The DVD-RW drive in my laptop is partially faulty: * It cannot read or write CDs -- it just sits there going clonk every two seconds -- pre-recorded music CDs, recorded data CD-R, blank CR-R, makes no

openoffice from the command line...

2009-08-06 Thread steve
Any gurus out there who can tell me what commands are used to export an html page to pdf with openoffice 3.0 ( it produces by far the best results... ) It works fine from the GUI, and I've got a solution for 2.4 that uses Cups-PDF as a printer, openoffice.org -norestore -nofirststartwizard

Re: openoffice from the command line...

2009-08-06 Thread Christopher Sawtell
2009/8/6 steve st...@greengecko.co.nz Any gurus out there who can tell me what commands are used to export an html page to pdf with openoffice 3.0 ( it produces by far the best results... ) You might care to investigate:- http://user.it.uu.se/~jan/html2ps.html -- Sincerely etc.

KDE 4.3

2009-08-06 Thread Robert Fisher
Any opinions about KDE 4.3? I am loving it? Rob

Re: KDE 4.3

2009-08-06 Thread Phill Coxon
On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 20:39 +1200, Robert Fisher wrote: Any opinions about KDE 4.3? I am loving it? I upgraded my laptop last night. So far it looks really nice - many of the things that were breaking under 4.2 are now working. It looks promising so far.

Re: KDE 4.3

2009-08-06 Thread Gold
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 6:18 AM, Phill Coxonphi...@xtra.co.nz wrote: On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 20:39 +1200, Robert Fisher wrote: Any opinions about KDE 4.3? I am loving it? I upgraded my laptop last night.  So far it looks really nice - many of the things that were breaking under 4.2 are now

Re: KDE 4.3

2009-08-06 Thread Robert Fisher
Any opinions about KDE 4.3? - many of the things that were breaking under 4.2 are now working. It looks promising so far. Actually I found 4.2.4 really stable for me but 4.3 has some improvements. Rob

Re: KDE 4.3

2009-08-06 Thread Phill Coxon
On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 09:37 +1200, Robert Fisher wrote: Actually I found 4.2.4 really stable for me but 4.3 has some improvements. 4.2.4 was horrible for me on my lenovo notebook - plasma crashing every few minutes, widgets not working, weird stuff happening. So far 4.3 is working great.

ubuntu 9.04 on notebook: display not quite right?

2009-08-06 Thread Bryce Stenberg
Hi, I'm trying to work out using Ubuntu on my notebook (an older Panasonic toughbook cf-r1). It mostly goes except the display sometimes has issues. Icons often become fuzzy scratches instead of nice pictures. Fonts, especially in firefox, start to become blobby and run into each and

Suspend is borked

2009-08-06 Thread Andrew Errington
Hi all, I just did an apt-get update/upgrade on my Acer Aspire One running Mepis 8.0 and the suspend function has ceased to work. Until now the system has worked flawlessly, and I can shut the lid of the laptop to suspend and open it and hit a button to wake it up. Now it's broken and I'm sad.

Re: Suspend is borked

2009-08-06 Thread Andrew Errington
On Fri, August 7, 2009 13:20, Andrew Errington wrote: Hi all, I just did an apt-get update/upgrade on my Acer Aspire One running Mepis 8.0 and the suspend function has ceased to work. It seems I can manually suspend using hibernate-ram or acpitool -s but the suspend-on-lid-close doesn't

Re: Suspend is borked

2009-08-06 Thread steve
On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 14:15 +0900, Andrew Errington wrote: On Fri, August 7, 2009 13:20, Andrew Errington wrote: Hi all, I just did an apt-get update/upgrade on my Acer Aspire One running Mepis 8.0 and the suspend function has ceased to work. It seems I can manually suspend using