Installing XFCE 4.14 on Buster?
I'm running Buster, pretty much a stock install, with XFCE. I'd like to upgrade XFCE to 4.14 (which was released last month), which is in unstable, mainly to take advantage of what is said to be improved HiDPI support in this version--I'm about to get a pair of 4K monitors (yes, my video card can handle it). What is the safest, preferably automated, way to perform this? I don't want to switch my entire system to unstable.
Startup script not working
I'm running Xfce under wheezy on a desktop system. I have two monitors permanently attached to the computer; that is, I never need to do any configuration on the fly. To set up dual-head, I run the simple command xrandr --output HDMI2 --right-of HDMI1 I'd like to run this automatically at boot, and, following some instructions I found online, I put this line in a file called "45custom_xrandr" and put it in /etc/X11/Xsession.d/ However, this doesn't get executed at boot, so I have to run the xrandr command manually. Permissions are the same as the other files in that directory. What do I need to do to get this to work? I always screw things up when I make an xorg.conf file, so I'd prefer to do this using xrandr, which always works fine, rather than writing an xorg.conf. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110819103905.ga20...@panix.com
XFCE--can't mount USB devices
I'm running XFCE 4.8 on Debian Testing, with everything up to date; I'm using xdm as my display manager. Any attempt by a non-root user to mount a USB device in Thunar fails with the message "Mount Failed: Failed to mount "[device]" Not Authorized". I do have Thunar set to mount removable media automatically. This seems to have been a problem from the start of 4.8; there's quite a bit of discussion of this for Arch Linux and Slackware, but I can't find anything useful for Debian. It seems to be an issue with ConsoleKit, but the solutions for Arch don't really apply for Debian as the setup is different. There was a discussion of this in the Debian forum when 4.8 came out at http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=63088&start=60 but there was no clean answer. A related problem is that I am not able to restart or shut down using the graphical tools; here's a recent discussion of this on the XFCE forum from a Debian Testing user: http://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=6343 This also seems to depend on a ConsoleKit permissions issue. I don't particularly care about this myself, as it's easy enough to do this from the commandline; I'm mentioning it only as a parallel. I'd be grateful for any suggestions. This does seriously affect the usability of the system, and it's getting very frustrating; I'd think that the ability of a regular user to hotplug removable media should be an important thing to have working. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111012095310.ga27...@panix.com
Re: XFCE--can't mount USB devices
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 12:20:27PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Wed 12 Oct 2011 at 05:53:10 -0400, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: > > > I'm running XFCE 4.8 on Debian Testing, with everything up to date; I'm > > using xdm as my display manager. Any attempt by a non-root user to mount > > a USB device in Thunar fails with the message "Mount Failed: Failed to > > mount "[device]" Not Authorized". I do have Thunar set to mount > > removable media automatically. > > > > This seems to have been a problem from the start of 4.8; there's quite a > > bit of discussion of this for Arch Linux and Slackware, but I can't find > > anything useful for Debian. It seems to be an issue with ConsoleKit, but > > the solutions for Arch don't really apply for Debian as the setup is > > different. There was a discussion of this in the Debian forum when 4.8 > > came out at http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=63088&start=60 > > but there was no clean answer. > > The root cause is indeed consolekit. Have a try with this: > > In /etc/pam.d/common-session insert the line > >session optional pam_loginuid.co (I assume this was meant to be "pam_loginuid.so") > just before > >session optional pam_ck_connector.so nox11 > > Log out and log in again. Or reboot. This works on my machines (and > should solve your restart/shut down problem also) but there is a plan B > if needed. I'm afraid I need Plan B. Making this change and rebooting had no effect on USB-device mounting or on the restart/shutdown display. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111012121008.ga10...@panix.com
Re: XFCE--can't mount USB devices
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 01:51:15PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Wed 12 Oct 2011 at 08:10:09 -0400, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: > > > (I assume this was meant to be "pam_loginuid.so") > > Yes. > > > I'm afraid I need Plan B. Making this change and rebooting had no effect > > on USB-device mounting or on the restart/shutdown display. > > Create /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/consolekit.pkla with the > contents: > > [restart] > Identity=unix-user:* > Action=org.freedesktop.consolekit.system.restart > ResultAny=yes > > [stop] > Identity=unix-user:brian Took me a bit to figure out why "restart" worked by "shutdown" didn't, until I realized that I'm not "brian"... > Action=org.freedesktop.consolekit.system.stop > ResultAny=yes > > In the same directory have udisks.pkla containing: > > [udisks] > Identity=unix-user:* > Action=org.freedesktop.udisks* > ResultAny=yes OK, this works. Whew. Thank you _very_ much indeed. What is the overall view of this issue? Is this a bug? Is your solution the right one? Should it be fed back to the XFCE team? From my perspective, this should Just Work, and the user shouldn't be expected to figure out a solution like this Really, thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111013020953.ga4...@panix.com
NetworkManager help, esp. after suspend
I'm a relatively new Debian user, running an up-to-date Etch on a ThinkPad T60. I'm having some trouble getting the NetworkManager app to work the way it seems it should. In particular, after a suspend it takes some time (a few minutes) to acknowledge that there are network interfaces present, and then it is unable to connect to any available network. I'm sitting fifteen feet away from a WAP, and it (and others) shows in the list of available networks, but when I try to join, it just spins for a while before giving up. I was able to get a wireless connection by running network-admin, which connected instantly, but this seems not to work with NetworkManager--my connection didn't show in the status bar on the panel. Interestingly, as I was typing this (having connected with network-admin), the NetworkManager thing started spinning, indicating that it was trying to join a network, and it did successfully join my network. This was perhaps five or six hours after my last suspend. Is there anything I should be doing differently? The docs on NetworkManager are pretty slim. If it works as advertised it would be really convenient, but I do need to be able to come out of a suspend a join a network immediately. Thanks. Jesse Sheidlower -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NetworkManager help, esp. after suspend
On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 12:49:46AM +0200, Wolodja Wentland wrote: > On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 18:19 -0400, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: > > > > I'm a relatively new Debian user, running an up-to-date Etch on > > a ThinkPad T60. > Welcome. I am running Debian on a T60 as well and am very pleased with > it so far. > > I guess you know http://thinkwiki.org ? It is a great source for > thinkpad related informations. Yes, I've found it very useful in general, esp. when I was installing, though it didn't have anything helpful for this. > > I'm having some trouble getting the NetworkManager app to work > [ ... nm not working properly ... ] > > Is there anything I should be doing differently? The docs on > > NetworkManager are pretty slim. If it works as advertised it > > would be really convenient, but I do need to be able to come > > out of a suspend a join a network immediately. > > Try editing /etc/hibernate/common.conf and uncomment > > ### networkmanager > EnableNMReconnect yes > ^ I didn't have this line in that file, and it's not documented in hibernate.conf. > that might do the trick. That said it is not always working and i have > to click "Enable Networking" twice after wake-up occasionally. > > You did configure nm as stated in: > > /usr/share/doc/network-manager/README.Debian Yes, though I didn't find it too relevant. At least if it is relevant, I'm not sure how. My /etc/network/interfaces is: --- # The loopback network interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback # The primary network interface allow-hotplug eth0 --- The NM README file would suggest that eth1 (my wireless interface) is managed by NM, since it's not explicitly listed here, and this is in general the case (i.e. that NM manages eth1), though my problem is the failure of NM to connect to a network after a resume, and that network-admin _does_ manage to do this (though not reflected in the NM panel app). If the NM README file is telling me to do something else, I'm afraid my reading comprehension skills are too poor to make sense of it :-( Thanks. Jesse Sheidlower -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Suspend problem on T60
I'm running Etch on a Lenovo T60. Up to now, I haven't had a problem suspending my computer by shutting the lid. This morning, I tried to do this and it didn't work; it locked the screensaver, but did not suspend. When I re-entered my password, there was a message from Gnome Power Manager saying that there was a suspend problem, and pointing to a link for more info. The link, to http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnome-power-manager/faq.html , was unhelpful; it suggested that either the hardware is unsupported (clearly not true, as it's been working up to now), or that I need to file a bug report, though the link to this didn't work. Any ideas what really might be causing this, and how to fix the problem? I'm not sure if errors are logged, and where they go, or any other way to evaluate what's happening. I don't _think_ I upgraded or installed anything that might be conflicting with this. Thanks. Jesse Sheidlower -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Suspend problem on T60 (moved)
On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 05:11:07PM -0400, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: > > I'm running Etch on a Lenovo T60. Up to now, I haven't had a > problem suspending my computer by shutting the lid. (I've now sent this message to the debian-laptop list, which I should have done originally. Apologies for the duplicate post.) Jesse Sheidlower -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Shutting off graphical ssh agent popup?
I'm running Lenny with Gnome on my ThinkPad. Previously, and on all my other machines, when I launch an ssh command from the command line, I would get an ssh password request on the command line like Enter passphrase for key '/home/login_id/.ssh/id_rsa': (If I ran ssh-agent myself, I might go straight through; OK, but this should be my choice.) After a recent update, I'm now getting a window that pops up that reads "Enter password to unlock private key. An application wants access to the private key 'id_rsa', but it is locked". I first have to kill this window before getting back to the command line. How do I turn off this behavior? I couldn't find anything in the Gnome menus that seems to control this. I don't want Gnome deciding whether I should be running an ssh agent or not. Thanks. Jesse Sheidlower -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Shutting off graphical ssh agent popup?
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 08:59:03AM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 07:59:21PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > The ssh-agent is started by > > > > /etc/X11/Xsession.d/90x11-common_ssh-agent > > > > You can edit this file to make sure ssh-agent is not started > > automatically anymore with the X session. > > Or actually: remove "use-ssh-agent" from /etc/X11/Xsession.options . Following up after a long time, but neither of these solutions works. However, I asked on a Gnome list, and learned that this functionality is provided by the Gnome keyring. To shut it off, you can go to GConf and set /apps/gnome-keyring/daemon-components/ssh to false. Hope this helps someone else. Jesse Sheidlower -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Update manager replacement?
On my current Lenny machine, I have something that appears to be the Gnome update manager running; I regularly get an orange box that pops up on my panel that tells me what packages can be updated, and it handles the updating. On a new Lenny install, this is not present. I do have something under System > Administration > Software Sources that lets me choose how often it should check for updates, but these don't actually seem to be displayed anywhere. So I have to use the Synaptic Package Manager manually. Am I missing something, or is there a way to get the older functionality back? Jesse Sheidlower -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Update manager replacement?
On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 04:10:13PM +0100, michael wrote: > On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 11:04 -0400, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: > > On my current Lenny machine, I have something that appears to > > be the Gnome update manager running; I regularly get an orange > > box that pops up on my panel that tells me what packages can > > be updated, and it handles the updating. > > > > On a new Lenny install, this is not present. I do have > > something under System > Administration > Software Sources > > that lets me choose how often it should check for updates, but > > these don't actually seem to be displayed anywhere. So I have > > to use the Synaptic Package Manager manually. > > > > Am I missing something, or is there a way to get the older > > functionality back? > > The orange box only appears if there's stuff to update, so if you've > just installed the latest Lenny and the latest apps Yeah, but every day I have minor things to update on the other machine, but nothing on this one. And if I go to Synaptic, as I did a few minutes ago, I learn that I have 122M worth of updates to get through.... So clearly I think there's something I need to be told, but someone is not telling me :-) Jesse Sheidlower -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Setting up TAP interface at boot?
Where's the right place to set up a TAP interface at boot time? When my system's up, I usually run "tunctl -t tap0" as root, but I'd like this to be created automatically. I do have an entry in /etc/network/interfaces to configure this: auto tap0 iface tap0 inet static address 192.168.5.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 but this won't work if the interface doesn't exist, so I end up having to do everything by hand. Thanks. Jesse Sheidlower -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: puseaudio in Debian - is it ready?
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 12:00:20PM -0400, H.S. wrote: > Hello, > > Is anybody using pulseaudio in Debian? I am interested to know what is > its status in Debian Sid and Lenny. If somebody has been successful in > installing and running it, could you share your experience. I tried it some time ago and gave up in frustration, but recently gave it another try. I was specifically trying to solve the problem of USB audio: different apps seemed to have different ways of dealing with this, so I couldn't just plug in USB speakers and go, I had to do one thing for the system as a whole, then a different thing in one sound program, then another thing for blah blah blah. The PA installation and setup was a bit of a drag, though I followed detailed instructions online. And now that it's working, it's perfect; everything Just Works. There are a few minor problems I'm having but on the whole I'm glad I did it. Jesse Sheidlower -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: puseaudio in Debian - is it ready?
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 05:04:27PM -0400, H.S. wrote: > Jesse Sheidlower wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 12:00:20PM -0400, H.S. wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> Is anybody using pulseaudio in Debian? I am interested to know what is > >> its status in Debian Sid and Lenny. If somebody has been successful in > >> installing and running it, could you share your experience. > > > > I tried it some time ago and gave up in frustration, but > > recently gave it another try. I was specifically trying to > > solve the problem of USB audio: different apps seemed to have > > different ways of dealing with this, so I couldn't just plug > > in USB speakers and go, I had to do one thing for the system > > as a whole, then a different thing in one sound program, then > > another thing for blah blah blah. > > > > The PA installation and setup was a bit of a drag, though I > > followed detailed instructions online. And now that it's > > working, it's perfect; everything Just Works. There are a few > > minor problems I'm having but on the whole I'm glad I did it. > > > > Jesse Sheidlower > > Having read what people posted, it appears that pulseaudio is on the > right track. In this thread, only Paul has discouraged its use and > Preston is having trouble (appears to be a hardware problem), and two > others are having a ball of a time with pa. > > So if it works, it is wonderful. If it doesn't, it is a pain to get > working. Moreover, it has networked sound. So I can play a movie on my > media PC in my home lan over at my laptop -- if I understand pa correctly. > > Now if somebody can describe the steps which are fairly reliable to get > it to work on a Debian machine, I might give it another shot in the not > too distant future when I get some time. The two documents I found to be exceptionally helpful (used in combination) were an extensive Debian how-to at http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=12497 and PA's own docs at http://pulseaudio.org/wiki/PerfectSetup Jesse Sheidlower -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Virtual PC
On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 02:20:40PM +0100, pch wrote: > Hello, > Can anyone recommend a good virtual machine, equivalent MS Virtual PC. I like VirtualBox. I had been using VMWare, but kept running into problems every time there was a kernel update, when I had to search around for patches and what not. And the interface is now nightmarishly bad. If you're running a datacenter it might be a good choice, I don't know. But I switched to VirtualBox last week and got up and running in minutes, everything Just Works, the interface is great, etc. You can just add to /etc/apt/sources.list the appropriate line from here: http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads and you're good to go. For desktop stuff I think it can't be beat. Jesse Sheidlower -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mounting Samba and fstab problem
I'm trying to set up a Samba share on a Lenny laptop that I can access as a regular user (i.e., me). I've tried going through the man pages and Googling, but I'm still hung up on something. I can mount it manually with: $ sudo mount -t smbfs -o username=jester //192.168.1.10/HD /mnt/RemoteDisk and then entering the Samba password. However, then I only have access as root. My goal is to have access without becoming root. I don't need it to mount on boot, as it's a laptop, and I can't access the disk when away from home. I tried following various instructions in the man pages, and after making a separate credential file, ended up with this in my /etc/fstab: //192.168.1.10/HD /mnt/RemoteDisk smbfs noauto,users,credentials=/home/jester/.smbpassword 0 0 However, when I then try to mount this, I get an error: $ mount //192.168.1.10/HD mount error: permission denied or not superuser and mount.cifs not installed SUID $ Where is my mistake here? I've tried various things with no luck. Thanks. Jesse Sheidlower -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mounting Samba and fstab problem
On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 08:16:06PM +0200, subscriptions wrote: > On Sat, 2008-12-06 at 17:52 +0100, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: > > > > I'm trying to set up a Samba share on a Lenny laptop that I > > can access as a regular user (i.e., me). I've tried going > > through the man pages and Googling, but I'm still hung up on > > something. > > > > I can mount it manually with: > > > > $ sudo mount -t smbfs -o username=jester //192.168.1.10/HD /mnt/RemoteDisk > > > > and then entering the Samba password. However, then I only > > have access as root. > > ... > > > Where is my mistake here? I've tried various things with no luck. > > > > Thanks. > > > > Jesse Sheidlower > > Use samba mount (as user, no fstab needed): > $ smbmount //192.168.1.10/HD mount-point > > Where mount-point has 'rwx' for you! Oh, god, thanks so much. The problem was just that /mnt/RemoteDisk was owned by root; once I changed this there's no problem with either an fstab-based mount or smbmount. Thanks! Jesse -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Pulseaudio problems--certain parts not playing
On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 05:24:27AM +0100, Mark McCorkell wrote: > > I've no handy solution, since after way too much messing around with > configuration files, I took the easy option and killed off PulseAudio. > IMHO, there are still too many applications that don't work nicely > enough with Pulse to make it worth the hassle*. How does plain ALSA do with USB audio? I installed Pulse a while ago because of problems getting USB audio to work, and though it breaks every five minutes and I can't figure out how to fix it, it _does_ play through USB speakers. If ALSA supports that well enough, I'll happily move back--I don't have any need for networked audio servers, or twelve different kinds of volume controls, it's just my desktop. Jesse Sheidlower -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Dual-head on Lenovo T60?
I'm trying to get a dual-head setup working on my Lenovo T60, without any success, despite having looked at number of pieces of documentation, in particular the comprehensive-seeming wiki entry at http://wiki.debian.org/XStrikeForce/HowToRandR12, so I'd be grateful if someone could give me a push in the right direction. I'm running Sid, with the 2.6.29-2 kernel, and version 1.6.2 RC 1 of the xorg server, with Gnome as my WM. My video card is the ATI Radeon X1300; my X log shows it as: (--) PCI:*(0...@1:0:0) ATI Technologies Inc M52 [Mobility Radeon X1300] rev 0, Mem @ 0xd800/134217728, 0xee10/65536, I/O @ 0x2000/256, BIOS @ 0x??? ?/131072 The built-in display is 1400 x 1050, and the monitor I'd like to use is 1280 x 1024. I want this monitor to display a separate window. I would like to take advantage of dynamic configuration using grandr, as I want to be able to plug a monitor in without restarting X. I normally don't have an xorg.conf file, since the auto-generated one works fine. However, this seems to be loading the "radeon" driver, and the wiki I mentioned above implies that only the "radeonhd" or "ati" drivers allow for dynamic configuration. I tried using "X -configure" to generate an xorg.conf, and then specified the ati or radeonhd drivers, but both of these caused hard lockups. Also, I note that if I boot the machine with a monitor attached, all of the output goes to that monitor, not the built-in screen. I don't mind having an actual conf file, but I need the flexibility of unplugging the monitor and moving around without compromising the built-in display. When I use the auto-generated xorg.conf and run grandr, I'm able to do some things, such as flip the image on the second monitor, but in the "Layout" tab, the "Clone" or "Extend" options are grayed out, and I can't drag the icons around. And when I run xrandr on the commandline, it tells me "Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1400 x 1050, maximum 1400 x 1400", so if the maximum really is 1400 x 1400, it seems like dual-head would never be possible. I'm at a loss about what to try next, or what details of my system would be helpful to provide. Any suggestions? Jesse Sheidlower -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
ThinkPad freezing after hw update?
I have a two-year-old ThinkPad T60. It recently developed some screen problems--the display was losing colors, and finally started to die completely, going to black shortly after startup--so I sent it back for a warranty repair. I pulled the hard drive before I shipped it. It's back now, but the machine is now locking up hard at various points in the boot process. The first few times it froze at "Setting the system clock"; then at "Activing swapfile swap". Now it is booting all the way and letting me log into Gnome, but then locks up soon after. Needless to say, it was working fine (aside from the screen) before the repair. They included a note saying that they had also upgraded the BIOS and embedded controller--to 2.23 and 1.07 respectively. I'm running Debian unstable, kernel 2.6.29-2-686. I'd be very grateful for any suggestion about what might have caused this, and for how to evaluate and fix it. Thanks. Jesse Sheidlower -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: ThinkPad freezing after hw update?
On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 10:28:49AM -0700, Jimmy Johnson wrote: > Jesse Sheidlower wrote: >> I have a two-year-old ThinkPad T60. It recently developed some >> screen problems--the display was losing colors, and finally >> started to die completely, going to black shortly after >> startup--so I sent it back for a warranty repair. I pulled the >> hard drive before I shipped it. >> >> It's back now, but the machine is now locking up hard at >> various points in the boot process. The first few times it >> froze at "Setting the system clock"; then at "Activing >> swapfile swap". Now it is booting all the way and letting me >> log into Gnome, but then locks up soon after. Needless to say, >> it was working fine (aside from the screen) before the repair. >> >> They included a note saying that they had also upgraded the >> BIOS and embedded controller--to 2.23 and 1.07 respectively. >> >> I'm running Debian unstable, kernel 2.6.29-2-686. >> >> I'd be very grateful for any suggestion about what might have >> caused this, and for how to evaluate and fix it. >> >> Thanks. >> >> Jesse Sheidlower > > > Have you thought about testing it with a Live CD? > > I would recommend the SimplyMEPIS version 8.0.06 it's based on Lenny > http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=05447 and if it works ok, you can go to > the Kmenu, System, Mepis, Mepis System Assistant and check and repair > your partitions. It also has the tools needed for most computer > maintenance like Testdisk, GParted etc and good to have in your toolbox. I gave this a try. Unfortunately, a few seconds after hitting the MEPIS desktop screen, it, too, locks up hard, and I have to reboot. Next suggestion? :-( Jesse Sheidlower -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: ThinkPad freezing after hw update?
On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 10:22:58AM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Jesse Sheidlower wrote: > > Unfortunately, a few seconds after hitting the MEPIS desktop > > screen, it, too, locks up hard, and I have to reboot. > > > > Next suggestion? :-( > > Just guessing: hardware failure? > > On the face of it your machine worked before you sent it for repairs and > does not work after it was returned to you. I guess you should ask for > help at lenovo... True, but I'd like to make sure that it isn't the case of, say, a BIOS update to something that Linux can't handle, for example Jesse Sheidlower -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Segfaults on apt-get update
I'm running Sid. At some point in the last few days, I lost the ability to update my packages; Synaptic, which I normally use, crashes silently (even when run from the commandline), and "apt-get update" segfaults midway through downloading packages. I Googled around for similar problems, and I tried a few suggestions, including deleting /var/cache/apt/*.bin and increasing the cache size with apt-get -o APT::Cache-Limit="5000" update or the like. None of these has been successful. Any suggestions for what I should try next? Thanks. Jesse Sheidlower -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Segfaults on apt-get update
On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 11:01:10AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2009-09-04 10:33 +0200, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: > > > I'm running Sid. At some point in the last few days, I lost > > the ability to update my packages; Synaptic, which I normally > > use, crashes silently (even when run from the commandline), > > and "apt-get update" segfaults midway through downloading > > packages. > > Did you notice bug #544080ยน and friends? Not till now ;-) Thanks, that did the trick. Jesse Sheidlower -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
xorg problem--dual-head, Debian vs. Ubuntu
Hi. I'm running Debian unstable on a Lenovo T60. I'd like to run this dual-head with an external monitor, but have been having some problems that I tried to solve but eventually gave up on because I'm so lousy with X configuration. However, I recently discovered that things work fine out-of-the-box with Ubuntu 9.10, running on the same computer (via a live USB stick). So I'm wondering if there's some way to figure out why there's a difference, and whether I can get the Debian system working in the same way. The T60 has a Radeon X1300 card; the built-in monitor runs at 1400 x 1050. I'm trying to attach a 1280 x 1024 external monitor through the VGA port. I'm running Xorg 1.7.5, and I do not have an xorg.conf at all, I'm letting Xorg generate the configuration. When I plug in the external monitor, and run Display Preferences to try to set up the two displays, I get a popup message reading "The selected configuration for displays could not be applied[:] required virtual size does not fit available size: requested=(2680,1050), minimum=(320, 200), maximum=(1400, 1400)". I've Googled this and found a few bug reports that don't, however, clarify what's going on. But the notable thing for me is that running Ubuntu 9.10, which is running Xorg 1.6.4, this Just Works, with everything else identical--same hardware, same lack of xorg.conf file, etc. I'd be grateful for any suggestions. I'd vastly prefer _not_ to have to start messing around with the configuration file, because apart from this one issue, I don't seem to need one, and Ubuntu doesn't seem to need it either. Thanks. Jesse Sheidlower -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100315135348.ga...@panix.com
Re: xorg problem--dual-head, Debian vs. Ubuntu
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 04:50:01PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Jesse Sheidlower [2010.03.15.1453 +0100]: > > The T60 has a Radeon X1300 card; the built-in monitor runs at > > 1400 x 1050. I'm trying to attach a 1280 x 1024 external > > monitor through the VGA port. I'm running Xorg 1.7.5, and I do > > not have an xorg.conf at all, I'm letting Xorg generate the > > configuration. When I plug in the external monitor, and run > > Display Preferences to try to set up the two displays, I get a > > popup message reading "The selected configuration for displays > > could not be applied[:] required virtual size does not fit > > available size: requested=(2680,1050), minimum=(320, 200), > > maximum=(1400, 1400)". I'm sorry for the delay--I responded to this yesterday, also posting my xorg.conf file, but I realized that the message apparently never went through. I'll skip the conf file this time. > Does the following work? > > xrandr --output VGA --mode 1280x1024 --left-of LVDS No, that just gives me: $ xrandr --output VGA --mode 1280x1024 --left-of LVDS warning: output VGA not found; ignoring Which is odd, because when I ran "xrandr --query" it certainly did think it was there. In any event: I did play around with the conf file again, based on the suggestions elsewhere in this thread, and despite the fact that I had unsuccessfully tried similar things before, this time I got it to work, so I successfully have a conf-file based dual-head setup that's adjustable via the Display Preferences app. I do wonder why this is handled differently in Ubuntu vs. Debian--I had imagined that this sort of thing would be based just on the implementation of X, but if it's true that it's some deep tweaking that Ubuntu is doing, I guess I just have to acknowledge that they're different in this regard. I'd think that it would be useful to have Debian do this too (I don't think that everything should be done for me, but here I can't see any reason why it's a downside for the OS to handle it entirely). Jesse Sheidlower -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100316125651.ga22...@panix.com
