Re: Re: Setting default network device in Buster

hanks again - David -- David Bruce For all your software needs, visit The Apt Store: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stable main

Re: Re: Setting default network device in Buster

tart on boot, which is what I think we have accomplished here, but the other issue is to get the wireless interface itself up (and configured via DHCP, etc). One practical thing I want to do is to have RStudio Server running on the Debian machine, and be able to connect to it on my MacBook and wor

Setting default network device in Buster

think the problem was that I didn't use plain text. So, sorry if this is a duplicate. -- David Bruce For all your software needs, visit The Apt Store: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stable main

Help - 13-year Debian veteran can't install Jessie

and then get the networking up. Debian is definitely the system I want, but that doesn't matter much if I can't get the darn thing working. I would still welcome any suggestions or insights as to why the 6.03 installer works with my home router, but 8.1 does not. Thanks for any help, or fo

Re: DHCP not working for attempted Jessie install

27;m still not certain this is the same problem I encounter during attempted install of Jessie as I never get out of the installer. Thanks for any suggestions. -- David Bruce For all your software needs, visit The Apt Store: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stable main

DHCP not working for attempted Jessie install

this post is somewhat lacking in detail, as I'm hoping that this scenario may ring a bell with someone, so to speak. I'm a surgeon rather than an engineer or anything like that, but I have been using Debian and similar systems for a long time. -- David Bruce For all your software needs

apt dying with "Failed to exec method /usr/lib/apt/methods/"

quot;sudo apt-get install --reinstall apt", with no effect. Thanks, -- David Bruce For all your software needs, visit The Apt Store: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stable main -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe&qu

Chromium in Sid not working

e that the maintainer isn't having the problem. Is anyone else using Chromium having this trouble, and is a fixed version likely to appear soon? The linux Chrome binary from Google appears to work fine on both machines. -- David Bruce For all your software needs, visit The Apt

Re: Networking trouble after recent upgrade in Sid

Hi Shawn, > what did your old interfaces file look like? might look at resolv.conf as > well. i'm not sure what trouble shooting you went through, so it might be > useful to post your iptables config. Here's my old interfaces file where I statically brought up eth0: # This file describes the net

Networking trouble after recent upgrade in Sid

o what's changed recently with networking? Am I being dragged into the IPv6 world? Thanks for any help, David Bruce -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: htt

Setting compiz and awn to start at KDE 3.5 login

omething along the lines of "export WM=compiz" or the like? Thanks David Bruce -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Getting Xorg to use nvidia driver now that "devices" section gone in Sid

d" (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input//kbd_drv.so (II) Module kbd: vendor="X.Org Foundation" compiled for 1.4.0.90, module version = 1.3.1 Module class: X.Org XInput Driver ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 2.0 (EE) No drivers available. Fatal server error: no screens found Thanks for any suggestions. David Bruce -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Restore menus after FS problem

e the menu entries? I think I could uninstall KDE and reinstall, but that seems too "brute force". -- David Bruce -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: CD/DVD drive quit working after dist-upgrade

Sorry - it is very likely a hardware problem. I booted into my other minimal Debian install on the same system that did not get dist-upgraded, and I get the same error, so it would appear to be a problem with the drive. -- David Bruce -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

CD/DVD drive quit working after dist-upgrade

48X DVD-ROM DVD-R-RAM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(66) Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 Thanks for any suggestions. -- David Bruce -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Re: Migrating system to RAID-1/LVM

ying (or rsyncing). At least I have everything in a separate, corruption-free install now, so I should be able to do much harm no matter what I do to hda and hdc. Thanks -- David Bruce -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Migrating system to RAID-1/LVM

/etc that I would like to keep - is there a simple way to bring /etc over without messing up the settings for raid and lvm? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated - thanks! -- David Bruce -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Re: Reiserfs corruption and KDM login problems

everything away from the troubled filesystem while I still can. Thanks. -- David Bruce -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Reiserfs corruption and KDM login problems

d manually move data from her home dir? Any suggestions would be appreciated. David Bruce -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Horrible mouse problems under Sid with 2.6.17, latest xorg

. - kernel config mouse support for PS/2 - ImPS/2 selected in xorg.conf; scroll enabled My wife is begging me to "get rid of that @#$% Debian thing" and go back to Windows. Any ideas? -- David Bruce -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &q

flat panel not accepting non-native res after dist-upgrade

and it does not have this problems. Any hints would be appreciated. Thanks, -- David Bruce -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

KDevelop crashing

Over the last few days, KDevelop has started crashing a few seconds after I try to open it. I have been using it for months to work on tuxmath. I am running Sid with everything apt-get dist-upgraded to current versions. KDevelop is at version 4:3.3.0-2. Until today, I could get KDevelop to

SOLVED - Re: Re: Re: KDE font size problem after nvidia driver upgrade

m seems to be solved. Option "UseEdidDpi""FALSE" Option "DPI" "76 x 72" Thanks -- David Bruce -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Re: KDE font size problem after nvidia driver upgrade

idDpi" X config option This sounds like it could be what I am after. I have never heard of the "UseEdidDpi" X config option, and I am sure I have never personally changed it, but I will investigate it and see if it affects my problem. Thanks -- David Bruce -- To UNSUBSCR

KDE font size problem after nvidia driver upgrade

seem to be affected. I have done some googling and there seems to be an issue with KDE determining dpi from the X configuration, but I haven't been able to understand it well enough to get the problem fixed. Any hints would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance. -- David Bruce -- To UNSUBS

Solved: Re: Building Tuxmath with KDevelop

lled in whatever I needed. After a simple aptitude install of these libs, the project builds without problems. Thanks -- David Bruce -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Building Tuxmath with KDevelop

here to find the SDL libs. Any help would be greatly appreciated. David Bruce cd '/home/dbruce/programming/tuxmath/tuxmath-0.0.20050316' && make -k BUILDING tuxmath.o mkdir obj cc -Wall -g -I/usr/include/SDL -D_REENTRANT -DDATA_PREFIX=\"/usr/share/tuxmath/\" -DDEBUG -DVE

Re: Re: Re: nvidia driver "disappeared" - SOLVED

n uninstalled without me realizing it. Also, it didn't dawn on me at first that you were the same person who wrote the howto (a case of "hmm, that name seems vaguely familiar..."). Anyway, you've saved me from another evening of my six-year-old daughter being upset ab

Re: Re: nvidia driver "disappeared"

natives offered when using dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86. There isn't any file in there named nvidia.o or anything similar, and I wonder if that is the problem. Thanks for the suggestions David Bruce -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

nvidia driver "disappeared"

g this behavior, how can I most easily go back to the old version? Alternatively, is there a symlink I could create to tell XFree86 where to find the nvidia driver? Thanks for any help David Bruce -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Can't launch Tuxracer since dist-upgrade a while back

h still comes up when X starts. My XFree is whatever is in Sid, 4.2.1 iirc -- David Bruce -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

A happy Debian user

" for anyone who is willing to do a little reading. I 've even convinced my four year old daughter that the "Penguin Computer" is a lot more fun than Windows (my wife remains a little more skeptical). Anyway, a big thanks to everyone involved. -- David Bruce -- To UNS