Re: Inability to launch Cinnamon
2013-03-23 09:39, Sharon Kimble skrev: I've just installed cinnamon to try it out again on a new monitor. but when i try to access it i don't get any desktop just the gdm3 greeter background. i've just thought, this is a new computer, new this year and its not got a 'open-gl' capable graphics card, I have a cinnamon 2D option in my gdm session selection menu, which I assume is intended to work in cases where gl drivers are insufficient. Do you have that option? Does it behave differently from what you saw before? / johan -- 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/kijvqb$m61$1...@ger.gmane.org
Re: newer kernels from experimental?
2013-03-14 02:00, Brad Alexander skrev: [...] sid is still sporting the 3.2.x kernel. [...] I would like to play with some of the newer features from the later 3.x kernels from experimental, [...] I was wondering if anyone is running any of them, and if they are stable enough for day-to-day use. I use 3.7, installed from experimental, and it works well for me. I am not using any fancy filesystems or other fancy features, though. I considered installing 3.8 from experimental, but that one seems to move from the old initramfs tools to something called dracut, so I decided to stay with 3.7, as it works for me. / johan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/khrqef$dvq$1...@ger.gmane.org
Re: Debian 6.0.6
2013-03-13 01:59, Guru Prasad skrev: Can you please send me the link to download debian 6.0.6. I checked in the http://www.debian.org but couldn't find the link for 6.0.6 version. http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/archive/6.0.6/, perhaps? / johan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/khp4im$cnq$1...@ger.gmane.org
Re: Converting a running system to a VirtualBox VM
2013-03-03 08:56, Marc Shapiro skrev: So, does anyone know of a way to convert my current system to a Virtualbox VM? Or would it be better to just create a new machine and install from scratch? Getting Citrix Receiver running properly always seems to be a hassle, so I thought that converting my current system might be easier. Any suggestions? http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch08.html#idp0176 I _think_ you _might_ want to try booting to a live-cd, and run something like VBoxManage convertfromraw /dev/sda/ vboximage.vdi Then try to boot the vboximage.vdi disk in vbox. When I used it, I did roughly: dd if=/dev/sda of=diskimage.dd VBoxManage convertfromraw diskimage.dd vboximage.vdi I have only tried it once, but it worked much better than I had expected (yes, I was more pessimistic than I should have been). Regards Johan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/kgvll2$h0p$1...@ger.gmane.org
Re: Windows XP option not showing up after fresh install.
2013-03-04 03:08, Michael skrev: I installed and during installation it found both the Win XP and the Linux Mint installations. After booting, the Mint shows up but not the XP. How do get the XP option do show up upon boot? As root, run update-grub, then reboot and see if XP is there. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/kh1053$mjb$1...@ger.gmane.org
Re: How can I know which deb-multimedia packages I have installed?
2013-02-25 21:03, Slavko skrev: Dňa 25.02.2013 20:33:04 Tixyt...@yxit.co.uk napísal(a): On Sun, 2013-02-24 at 21:51 +0100, Slavko wrote: Dňa 24.02.2013 21:20:35 Csanyi Palcsanyi...@gmail.com napísal(a): So how can I know now which debian packages are installed from these deb-multimedia repositories abowe? aptitude search '~i ~OUnofficial Multimedia Packages' So I guess the search term finds installed packages that are available from the specified origin, You are right. aptitude search '~S ~i ~OUnofficial Multimedia Packages' / Johan -- 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/kghk0m$8d7$1...@ger.gmane.org
Re: [1/2OT] skype
2013-02-09 05:52, lina skrev: Is skype stable under the Debian? Works well enough and is stable enough for me. You can always uninstall it if you find problems. / johan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/kf4t9p$c03$1...@ger.gmane.org
Re: Debian Wheezy (v7)
2013-02-03 09:27, Tobias Eliasson skrev: Titta på gnome paket i popcon och jämför det med xfce så ser du även vad andra tycker. Att du inte påtalar nya problem med gnome tolkar Jag som att du inte längre har några faktiska problem med gnome i debian, vilket låter bra. Att du däremot personligen ogillar gnome-shell och föredrar xfce har jag förstått, och det har jag inga invändningar emot. En fördel med debian är att du kan byta skrivbordsmiljö som du vill. Jag är mycket väl medveten om att du inte är ensam med dina åsikter. Hälsningar Johan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-swedish-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/keleef$g3b$1...@ger.gmane.org
Re: Debian Wheezy (v7)
2013-02-03 19:00, mattias skrev: varför är själva listan inte inställd på att svar ska gå till listan? Se FAQ: https://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser#Why_doesn.27t_this_list_facilitate_easy_replies_to_the_list_.28a.k.a._reply-to-munging.29.3F / johan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-swedish-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/kemdgs$hem$1...@ger.gmane.org
Re: Questions about multi-arch and 3rd party packages in Wheezy
2013-02-04 01:10, Marc Shapiro skrev: Unfortunately, dpkg does not automatically handle dependancies, like agt-get and aptitude do, so I get a list of dependencies, all i386 libraries. Is there any way to install such a package and get the dependant libraries installed other than manually installing each one? The information about skype on the debian wiki seems to indicate that apt-get -f install is the solution. It worked for me for skype. From https://wiki.debian.org/skype: - First, you will have to enable Multi-Arch: # dpkg --add-architecture i386 # apt-get update Then, download the i386 package as above and install: # wget -O skype-install.deb http://www.skype.com/go/getskype-linux-deb # dpkg -i skype-install.deb If you then proceed with # apt-get -f install quite a few i386 packages will be installed. -- Regards Johan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/kenjjk$kop$1...@ger.gmane.org
Re: possible bug for powertop 2.0-0.2
2013-01-17 16:32, Laurent Debian skrev: On battery if I launch powertop I get a crash with terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::ios_base::failure' what(): basic_filebuf::underflow error reading the file Abandon And everything works well on AC. I see the same problem on my machine. I am also using the 3.2 kernel from testing and powertop from testing. I definitely think you should report the problem as a bug. Regards Johan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/kdc22f$i9m$1...@ger.gmane.org
Re: when new versions will be available at wheezy ?
2013-01-12 11:26, maderios skrev: On 01/11/2013 09:18 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Vi, 11 ian 13, 10:56:22, maderios wrote: Package: * Pin: release a=experimental Pin-Priority: 600 ^ I don't think this is a good idea. Maybe 100, but definitely nothing bigger. Why ? With priority up to 100, the packages from experimental will not be upgraded with a normal upgrade command, but the packages will need explicit upgrade requests. As packages from experimental are experimental and may break your system without warning, requiring you to explicitly request upgrades of such packages seems like a good idea to me. look at man apt_preferences or search for docs on apt pinning for information about what the number means. / johan -- 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/kcrg4m$621$1...@ger.gmane.org
Re: What happens when you upgrade a package with modified config files?
2013-01-08 16:42, David Guntner skrev: Regardless of an etc-update like tool, is that how it works in Debian? Does it avoid overwriting config files which have been changed by you since they were installed, and if so, does it put the new content with an easy-to-search-for .something at the end? The screenshot looks like: Configuration file `/etc/bash.bashrc' == Modified (by you or by a script) since installation. == Package distributor has shipped an updated version. What would you like to do about it ? Your options are: Y or I : install the package maintainer's version N or O : keep your currently-installed version D : show the differences between the versions Z : start a shell to examine the situation The default action is to keep your current version. *** bash.bashrc (Y/I/N/O/D/Z) [default=N] ? That was copied from http://raphaelhertzog.com/2010/09/21/debian-conffile-configuration-file-managed-by-dpkg/ which provides some more information. Regards Johan -- 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/kchpo5$98s$1...@ger.gmane.org
Re: No suitable module for running kernel found : virtualbox-ose
2013-01-01 08:39, Contact. Vardhan skrev: i am using debian 6.0.6. please look into the data provide me a possible solution : [1] installation of virtualbox-ose : # aptitude install virtualbox-ose [...] Setting up virtualbox-ose (3.2.10-dfsg-1) ... Stopping VirtualBox kernel modules. Starting VirtualBox kernel modulesNo suitable module for running kernel found ... failed! failed! invoke-rc.d: initscript virtualbox-ose, action restart failed. [...] Building initial module for 2.6.32-5-amd64 [...] DKMS: install Completed. Stopping VirtualBox kernel modules. Starting VirtualBox kernel modules. [3] boot log: http://pastebin.com/LS3ipPFc Dec 30 07:28:07 kernel: [ 157.143740] vboxdrv: Successfully loaded version 3.2.10_OSE (interface 0x00140001). I do not see a problem. What are the symptoms that make you believe that there is a problem? You seem to quote the error message from the installation process, but later in the same installation process it automatically rebuilds the kernel module without problems, and the boot-log seems to say that the module was loaded without error. / johan -- 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/50e2b447.8080...@gmail.com
Re: google-earth + multiarch
2012-12-18 04:49, Hugo Vanwoerkom skrev: As an exercise in multiarch I tried installing google-earth-stable_current_i386.deb in according to http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser#Multiarch. Has anybody actually accomplished that? What I ended up with is: dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of google-earth-stable: google-earth-stable depends on lsb-core (= 3.2). But that is the i386 version of course and I never managed to get out of that hole trying to install it. I also tried and failed installing lsb-core:i386. lsb-core depends on a bunch of packages providing binaries, like python and make, and, as far as I know, multiarch does not allow co-installation of binaries, but only libraries. My conclusion would be that you would need python and python:i386 at the same time, which multiarch does not support. / johan -- 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/kap2mo$usf$1...@ger.gmane.org
Re: Debian 7 wheezy should be released by now, don't u think?
2012-12-16 08:14, Suttiwit Sukpinit skrev: Hi, This is my first post on the mailing list. The question is: Debian 7 wheezy should be released by now because i've tried for several months since it released. it all seems stable. You can have a look at http://richardhartmann.de/blog/posts/2012/12/14-Debian_Release_Critical_Bug_report_for_Week_50/ to see the number of release critical bugs. The release should wait until that number is zero. There has been some hope for a release in February, but the number of release critical bugs is decreasing a bit slowly at the moment, it seems to me. Regards Johan -- 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/kak97j$8sc$1...@ger.gmane.org
Re: acroread episode
2012-12-13 05:25, lina skrev: Hi, 1. I kept the acroread related from updating for half a year, I guess. 2. Today, I tried full-upgrade, [...] 3. From http://www.deb-multimedia.org/ I try: To install new acroread packages : dpkg --add-architecture i386 apt-get update apt-get install acroread Now: apt-get install acroread Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed: [long list of i386 packages] Suggested packages: [list of i386 packages] Recommended packages: cups-bsd:i386 mime-support:i386 hicolor-icon-theme:i386 xml-core:i386 The following packages will be REMOVED: lpr The following NEW packages will be installed: [long list of i386 packages] 0 upgraded, 76 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 4. $ uname -a Linux debian 3.3.5 #1 SMP Thu May 10 16:24:07 SGT 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux I am confused about how to install the acroread, without installing other i386 packages. Short answer: You cant. You had the same things installed before, and they were just hidden inside of ia32-libs. Acroread is now a multiarch-package, as it says on the deb-multimedia website, and the amd64 package for acroread is gone. The point of multiarch is to allow installation of the 32-bit package belonging to the i386 arch and using that acroread on your amd64 system. The i386 package of acroread has dependencies on lots of other i386 libraries. Previously the 32-bit acroread was packaged in an amd64 package with dependency on ia32-libs. ia32-libs was a very large package containing all of the 32-bit libraries that acroread depended on. In the new world you can remove the large and unmaintanable ia32-libs and instead install well-maintained packages from i386. Hope that is clear enough. Regards Johan -- 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/kabsah$ush$1...@ger.gmane.org
Re: acroread episode
2012-12-13 07:30, lina skrev: On Thursday 13,December,2012 02:24 PM, Johan Grönqvist wrote: 2012-12-13 05:25, lina skrev: Acroread is now a multiarch-package, as it says on the deb-multimedia website, and the amd64 package for acroread is gone. The point of multiarch is to allow installation of the 32-bit package belonging to the i386 arch and using that acroread on your amd64 system. The i386 package of acroread has dependencies on lots of other i386 libraries. Previously the 32-bit acroread was packaged in an amd64 package with dependency on ia32-libs. ia32-libs was a very large package containing all of the 32-bit libraries that acroread depended on. I have purged all ia32-libs related package. Shall I install the 76 packages? (a little worry may mess up the system) Yes. I did the same thing with skype recently. / johan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/kabu6a$cn2$1...@ger.gmane.org
Re: gnome3 broken on wheezy
2012-11-27 17:20, ChadDavis skrev: After recent upgrades, my gnome3 no longer works. The system boots and I can log in to an X system, but it looks more like gnome2, than gnome3; the whole activities thing and the favorites menu is gone. Instead, I have the mutliple window changer thing in the bottom right corner. So, how do I start troubleshooting this? I looked in /var/log/gdm3 logs, but couldn't see anything that lept out. There were some errors from the nvidia driver levels, but those were in older logs and, as I say, the UI works, it's just not gnome3. As you do not seem to know what has happened: You are logged into the fallback mode, also known as gnome classic. I only know of two reasons, you either (by mistake) chose this as the session in gdm when you logged in, or gnome thinks your 3D graphics support is insufficient. I would look at the list of recently upgraded packages, anything relating to gnome or graphics drivers. Unfortunately, I do not know how to troubleshoot it. I assume it would be in some logfile, but as you did not see anything in gdm3, I do not know where you should look. / Johan -- 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/k92qei$9r8$1...@ger.gmane.org
Re: Error after booting default kernel version
2012-10-21 18:34, Gábor Hársfalvi skrev: 2012/10/20 Johan Grönqvistjohan.gronqv...@gmail.com: 2012-10-20 10:44, Gábor Hársfalvi skrev: Good! Now you know exactly what edits to what config files that you need to undo. Now you know exactly what edits to what config files that you need to undo. - Yes, I tried that but nothing helped yet. the boot config for the 686 kernel. - Where and how could I repair this? Did you ensure that the line starting with GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT in /etc/default/grub reads GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=quiet and put a # at the beginning of the GRUB_GFXMODE line then run update-grub2 again (as root or using sudo)? Did you remove the line uvesafb mode_option=1400x1050-24 mtrr=3 scroll=ywrap (or similar) from /etc/initramfs-tool/modules then run update-initramfs -u (as root or using sudo) again? (I had a typo in the first mail, and I may have one again, but the above should describe undoing the edits from the guide.) I would have expected that your installation would boot normally again after that. Regards Johan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/k61lue$cba$1...@ger.gmane.org
Re: Error after booting default kernel version
2012-10-20 10:44, Gábor Hársfalvi skrev: I've used this tutorial - http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=16t=60019 - yesterday, and after reboot the playmouth animation worked but before it arrived login screen it showed me a black blank screen with a flashing cursor - not mouse - and after more waiting it stayed there too. Good! Now you know exactly what edits to what config files that you need to undo. I reboot after it and start with a previous kernel version number - the number ends with 486, not 686 - with Rescue Mode. It started and after Ctrl+D - when it needs - it booted the gui succesfully and everything worked well. So it sounds to me like there is no problem with your system as a whole, just the boot config for the 686 kernel. I would like to start the computer with the newest available kernel version number, what ends with 686, and what were the default when I started the system before, but it doesn't work and give me the error screen what I mentioned before. Please give me help to repair this to boot the computer normally as before it was happenned. I would: Start the system the way you can, via rescue mode. Undo the edits you made before. It might be enough to replace GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=quiet splash nomodeset video=uvesafb:mode_option=1400x1050-24,mtrr=3,scroll=ywrap by CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=quiet Run the same update-initramfs and update-grub commands as you did when following the guide. Hope it helps Johan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/k5tshj$s28$1...@ger.gmane.org
Re: Debian Wheezy Hangs
2012-10-13 05:55, Tim D skrev: I just installed Debian Wheezy on my ThinkPad T430s (SSD, encrypted LVM). The problem is that the system freezes randomly, so much so that I cannot use it for more than twenty minutes without it freezing. If you have a recent CPU/GPU from intel, you might want to search for ivy bridge linux random freeze and see if that can describe your problem. Then you might try to install linux 3.5 from experimental. The 3.5 kernel works much better for me. Regards Johan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/k5auo7$qst$1...@ger.gmane.org
Re: Hash for netinst.iso file
2012-10-05 21:58, Wally Lepore skrev: I've downloaded debian-6.0.6-i386-netinst.iso and would like to verify the download. Can anyone please point the way to the hash code to verify? I do not find them there either, so I can not help you with that CD. When I looked at the links for the standard install CDs, though, I see listings of the hash sums in the same directory as the iso files. I am referring to any of the download links on: http://www.debian.org/CD/http-ftp/index.en.html#stable / johan -- 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/k4ngmk$3e7$1...@ger.gmane.org
Re: [1/2 OT] How to find the desktop near me?
2012-06-30 18:16, lina skrev: Hi, The desktop installed the Sid (seems not so relevant here.) Now the monitor/screen not work; other things are totally fine. I used to login desktop first and then ssh from laptop, Now since not be able to log in, how can I find its ip ? so I can connect from laptop. or shall I just find other monitor and connect? That seems to be the simplest solution, if you have a working monitor. So you have a working computer, but without monitor, and you want to know its IP-address? I assume your laptop is connected to the same router as the monitorless computer. I would have two suggestions. 1) Log into the router, and see what IP-addresses have been given out recently, and try connecting to them. 2) Install zenmap on the laptop, find the IP-address range the router uses (mine uses 10.0.1.*, most I have used use 192.168.0.* or 192.168.1.*). Run a quick scan with zenmap on that range of IP-addresses, and see which ones have an ssh-port open. Then try to connect to those. Regards Johan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jsn9e7$cr0$1...@dough.gmane.org
Re: netinst.iso - a learning experience- Part 1 grub
2012-05-06 14:26, Richard Owlett skrev: Version 6.0.4 Without double checking I believe that's Squeeze. That caused me to notice that there was no intuitively obvious way to determine what version is running. I had to look at the file name of the iso file. I would look at the file /etc/debian_version. In your case it probably says # cat /etc/debian_version 6.0.4 Knowing the mapping between version numbers and names is a different problem, as Camaleon wrote. / johan -- 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/jo64r6$3ph$1...@dough.gmane.org
Re: netinst.iso - a learning experience- Part 1 grub
2012-05-06 00:10, Richard Owlett skrev: Why a learning experience? 'Cause when I've finished recovering, I'll know more ;/ NOW, when system boots I have 2 choices - Debian and Debian in recovery mode. b. Can I do anything at this point to allow choice to boot Windows? I think I have seen similar behaviour after installation, and that it was fixed by running update-grub (as root) on the command line. After an update-grub run, I again had a windows option. / johan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jo50te$bpb$1...@dough.gmane.org
Re: Swap space not used
2012-05-02 13:12, Sian Mountbatten skrev: Your swap partition is, very likely, too large. As a rule, your swap partition should be the same size as your RAM. Do you have 40GB RAM? Linux can handle well above 40 GB of swap. I would be surprised if swap partition too large was the reason. My swap is larger than that. I am always a bot surprised by advice like the ones in this thread. I have heard and seen this many times. I am aware that for web-browsing, and other similar activities, using swap is almost always bad, as it slows the system down. I typically run programs and scripts without having a good estimate of their future memory usage, and my computer usage is frequently RAM-bound, so I try to guess how much I can do within the memory I have available. It is not uncommon for me to misjudge the need by a factor of 2 or 3, and in those cases, I have programs being killed left and right unless I have enough swap-space. I would say that being careful with swap-space is important when one has too small a hard drive, but I have plenty of drives space these days. Not having my jobs killed is more important to me than saving a few tens of GB of extra space. I have just above 40 GB on my current desktop, and when I had influence over a computer with 64GB RAM, it had quite a bit of swap space. Mem: 64558M total,24822M used,39735M free, 324M buffers Swap: 184323M total, 25M used, 184298M free,24238M cached Regards Johan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jns26c$n9e$1...@dough.gmane.org
Re: Can't install flashplugin.nonfree. ERROR: wget failed to download
2012-04-30 07:46, Han Soo Chang skrev: If you try fetching it with wget: wget http://people.debian.org/~bartm/flashplugin-nonfree/fp10.sha512.amd64.pgp.asc; does it produce an error message? This is the message I get. I am inside a corporate LAN with a proxy server whose address is ns14:8080. Cannot write to `fp10.sha512.amd64.pgp.asc' (Permission denied). As Curt wrote, it seems that you can not write the output file. To verify that it is not network related: wget http://people.debian.org/~bartm/flashplugin-nonfree/fp10.sha512.amd64.pgp.asc; tries tio fetch and write to file, which does not work, as you tried before. wget http://people.debian.org/~bartm/flashplugin-nonfree/fp10.sha512.amd64.pgp.asc -O - will try to fetch the file and print it to standard output, so that you see it on screen. I expect that to work without problems. Is this a special setup with special write permissions? My interpretation is that the installation scripts fails to write a file that it wants to save to disc for later use. Regards Johan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jnm7ou$bmr$1...@dough.gmane.org
Re: changing window managers in debian 6.0.4
2012-04-30 05:36, Dan Hitt skrev: This is a sort of subquery to the question of how to change window managers. So the question is: supposing you compile a window manager yourself, so that it does not come from the packaging system. What is the standard best way of setting this new window manager as yours? It certainly won't exist in any of the lists on the login page, since debian could not know about it. So, i googled around, and there's this page http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/doc/debian/ch-X.html which recommends just making an executable file /home/USER/.xsession and putting in a sequence of commands there---which could just be the path to your window manager. I tried this, and . . . . it works. But i feel a little uneasy about this, like this is not a best practice, or some newer release of debian may break it. My internet suggests to look in the /usr/share/xsessions folder, and create a new file there. The files there appear to be .desktop files, whose format should be defined be the internet somewhere (a freedesktop.org-related format, I believe). I have not tested this. Regards Johan -- 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/jnl75c$38a$1...@dough.gmane.org
Re: Can't install flashplugin.nonfree. ERROR: wget failed to download
2012-04-30 06:58, Han Soo Chang skrev: $ sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree ERROR: wget failed to download http://people.debian.org/~bartm/flashplugin-nonfree/fp10.sha512.amd64.pgp.asc More information might be available at: http://wiki.debian.org/FlashPlayer Works for me. If you run update-flashplugin-nonfree --install again, does it work now? Otherwise: If you paste the URL: http://people.debian.org/~bartm/flashplugin-nonfree/fp10.sha512.amd64.pgp.asc into a web-browser, do you see the (rahter short) file [0] containing a hash-key? If that worked: If you try fetching it with wget: wget http://people.debian.org/~bartm/flashplugin-nonfree/fp10.sha512.amd64.pgp.asc; does it produce an error message? You can add -v to the command lines for both undate-flasplugin-nofree and wget to get verbose output that you can paste here, if you want to. Regards Johan [0] the file is a text file, some 20 lines long, starting with -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- and ends with -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- -- 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/jnl801$7vh$1...@dough.gmane.org
Re: changing window managers in debian 6.0.4
2012-04-25 06:36, Dan Hitt skrev: I'm running debian 6.0.4 (squeeze). I'm attempting to change my window manager from the default metacity to wmaker (WindowMaker). I attempted the change by sudo update-alternatives --display x-window-manager and then choosing the wmaker alternative. I think gnome uses its own configuration system rather than debian's. I think it goes something like this: Open gconf-editor (install it if it is not already installed). Find the correct place to edit (I do not have a gnome2 installation here). It may be desktop/gnome/session/required_components/windowmanager, as suggested by the internet. You could search for required_components and I think you should find the right place. You should see that windowmanager is set to metacity. Change it to whatever you like (wmaker, I guess). At least that procedure worked for me when I switched form metacity to compiz. There is also the command line way. As I have never used it I will not propose it, but the internet hints at gconftool-2 -s /desktop/gnome/session/required_components/windowmanager xmonad --type string as the command line way of setting the windowmanager to xmonad. / johan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jn82au$da4$1...@dough.gmane.org
Finding upgradable packages by priority
Hi, I run testing and after 5 days without upgrading, I have around 100 upgradable packages. Normally, I upgrade when reaching the (arbitrarily chosen) number 100, but I would like to have a better way of deciding when I want to upgrade something. What I would like to have is a way of finding upgradable packages where the upgrade has a priority that is medium or high priority. The intention is to make it easier for me to find out what important upgrades are available, and decide based on that if when I want to upgrade. I assume this kind of search would require downloading the changelog for each upgradable package, and looking at all entries that are more recent than the installed version, then returning a match to the search if any of those versions are marked priority=meduim or above. Does anyone know of a way to accomplish what I want in an automated fashion? Regards Johan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jmbdsv$vmt$1...@dough.gmane.org
Re: Finding upgradable packages by priority
2012-04-14 10:52, Johan Grönqvist skrev: I assume this kind of search would require downloading the changelog for each upgradable package, and looking at all entries that are more recent than the installed version, then returning a match to the search if any of those versions are marked priority=meduim or above. I do of course mean urgency=medium or above, not priority. Sorry about the extra traffic. / johan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jmbe0u$vmt$2...@dough.gmane.org
Re: When will Debian 7.0 with Linux Kernel 3.x be Released?
2012-03-27 07:04, Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) skrev: I am actually looking forward to Debian 7.0 with Linux Kernel 3.x. As we all know, Debian 6.0.x is still using the old Linux Kernel 2.6. Why do I want Linux Kernel 3.x? Because I want to play around with Xen virtualization (dom0 required). Debian developers, please speed up! I would recommend debian testing, wheezy (to become debian 7), even before it is formally released. I use debian testing (currently wheezy) as my primary os, and in my experience it is more reliable than (non-LTS) releases of ubuntu. It might require more knowledge, but if your aim is defined as playing around, I do not think that should be a hindrance. Advice will vary a lot, and the above is only my personal opinion. Debian 7 is expected to be frozen this summer, and I think people expect a release sometime in late autumn or winter, perhaps early next year. Regards Johan -- 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/jkrna4$240$1...@dough.gmane.org
Re: Debian wheezy: unattended upgrades
2012-03-11 17:13, Aaron Marks skrev: Unfortunately new packages are not installed. That's what my unattended-upgrades.log looks like: 2012-03-11 07:03:24,239 INFO Initial blacklisted packages: 2012-03-11 07:04:15,883 INFO Starting unattended upgrades script 2012-03-11 07:04:21,575 INFO Allowed origins are: ['o=Debian,a=wheezy', 'o=Debian,a=wheezy/updates'] 2012-03-11 07:05:39,411 INFO No packages found that can be upgraded unattended What's wrong? My policy output (apt-cache policy) names an archive release o=Debian,a=testing,n=wheezy,l=Debian,c=main whereas your log says that you allow only a=wheezy. My first guess would be that it may match if you replace wheezy by testing, but I do not know where, as I do not use unattended-upgrades. / johan -- 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/jjim6n$15h$1...@dough.gmane.org
Re: wheezy without gui
2012-02-28 20:06, abdelkader belahcene skrev: hi, I tryed the testing cd (20 feb). The installation is done but no graphical interface no gnome, no gdm etc... When I look at http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/, I see only netinstall CDs, and if you used one of those, it would not contain a GUI on the CD. When installing with a network connection, it should have installed (offered to install with default answer yes) a (gnome) desktop. I think you can get the standard gui installation by running tasksel --new-install in your installed system. It should show you a selection of categories, and you can choose which to install software for. I hope that for the final release, we get the GUI (gnome) in the first cd. I definitely expect you will. Regards Johan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f4d3502.4040...@gmail.com
Re: is there no sane, minimal, graphical RSS feed reader in existance?
2012-02-27 05:56, Celejar skrev: On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 07:39:14 +0100 Johan Grönqvistjohan.gronqv...@gmail.com wrote: Have you been disappointed by the 1.8 version as well? Not sure - my current installation is Squeeze, and I have 1.6.4. My previous install was Sid, and I probably had 1.8 on it before I stopped using that machine. 1.8 is not yet in debian, sid still has 1.6.5. In any event, I'm currently pretty happy with Liferea (1.6.x), although it's kind of sluggish (perceptible lag when moving to new item / feed, very slow startup, serious application unresponsiveness while updating all feeds). My opinions exactly, but I am looking forward to 1.8, when it enters the debian archive. / johan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jif5sb$c3t$1...@dough.gmane.org
Re: is there no sane, minimal, graphical RSS feed reader in existance?
2012-02-26 02:14, Celejar skrev: On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 13:29:48 -0500 I, too, shared the OP's frustration with the dearth of good, fast GUI RSS readers; I use liferea, but its performance is disappointing. Have you been disappointed by the 1.8 version as well? I have not tried it, but from what I understand it was written with this problem in mind. From the liferea blog: When you upgrade to 1.8 you might be searching for new features and be a bit disappointed. The thing is that we put our development focus into performance improvements and removing bottlenecks From a comment in the corresponding debian bug (#651913): After testing the new version, I can confirm it is faster and more responsive than the previous one (1.6). The upgrade also seems to go smoothly. / johan -- 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/4f49d392.1000...@gmail.com
Re: Please assist.
2012-01-29 13:29, BETA BOOKSHOP STATIONERS BETA BOOKSHOP skrev: I have a problem with my printer(Gestetner Dsm 718) installation.I have tried severally without and success.I have gone to AdministrationPrintingLocahost and tried to add a new printer from USB serial but it has refused.I have felt defeat and want you to help in retaining my hope. (I guess from the above description that you are using gnome as your user interface on debian stable (version 6.something).) I have been refused adding a printer, and the reason was that I was not a member of the lpadmin group. Apart from that I have no advice, other than that if you describe what you mean by I was refused in more detail (What was the exact eror message?, is the question), someone may recognize it and help you. Also, I have (sometimes) had more luck using the webinterface, which you should find if you point your browser to localhost:631. / johan How can I Install this.Since I have even tried it using a Software Disk but still it refuses. *Kind Regards, Kagiri Daniel.* -- 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/jg3j7i$6gj$1...@dough.gmane.org
Re: Gnome Shell battery indicator missing
2012-01-12 09:40, Panayiotis Karabassis skrev: On 01/11/2012 10:41 PM, Johan Grönqvist wrote: 2012-01-11 20:26, Panayiotis Karabassis skrev: I am neither certain, nor do I have a solution, but if I had considered this a major problem, I would have updated gnome-shell to 3.2 from unstable (and some other gnome-related packages would also have to be upgraded). (Assuming you use linux) Linux as opposed to GNU Hurd, you mean? I mean linux as opposed to debian/kFreeBSD. It seems that freebsd is the reason it has not migrated to testing yet. See http://bugs.debian.org/652482. / johan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jenmtt$l4$1...@dough.gmane.org
Re: Gnome Shell battery indicator missing
2012-01-12 09:40, Panayiotis Karabassis skrev: On 01/11/2012 10:41 PM, Johan Grönqvist wrote: Thanks, I'll wait for 3.2. Meanwhile I read the battery status with the acpi command. Linux as opposed to GNU Hurd, you mean? I upgraded the packages gnome-shell and gnome-shell-common to the versions from unstable and I now see the battery icon again. / johan -- 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/jeoij7$2tj$1...@dough.gmane.org
Re: Gnome Shell battery indicator missing
2012-01-11 20:26, Panayiotis Karabassis skrev: The title is self-explanatory. This is a new installation of Wheezy. Has anyone else observed this? Yes, i see it too in a wheezy installation I installed this year. The only related message I can find in the logs, is a complaint about gnome-power-manager missing. Indeed the package with the same name contains only a gnome-power-statistics binary. I think that such functionality is being moved around (between libraries) in the transition to gnome 3.0 to gnome 3.2, and since wheezy currently contains a mixture of the two releases (gnome-shell is not yet updated to 3.2), I have just assumed that it would return when gnome-shell 3.2 transitions to wheezy. I am neither certain, nor do I have a solution, but if I had considered this a major problem, I would have updated gnome-shell to 3.2 from unstable (and some other gnome-related packages would also have to be upgraded). (Assuming you use linux) Regards Johan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jeks67$kh7$1...@dough.gmane.org
Re: Keyboard layout detection
2012-01-11 20:22, Panayiotis Karabassis skrev: Hi, I installed Debian on my new Asus Eee PC and even though it works almost flawlessly, I am having trouble finding the correct keyboard layout. The obvious ones (Generic and Asus laptop) have some characters wrong. I remember from some installation (either Debian or Ubuntu) being asked to type keys to have the installer detect my layout. I wonder, does anyone know the name of this program, and the package that provides it? Best regards, Panayiotis It seems from http://bugs.debian.org/420818, that it may be an ubuntu-memory. / johan -- 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/jelo45$1ar$1...@dough.gmane.org
Re: intel i5, system config question
2011-12-22 02:02, yudi v skrev: If you are unsure about the hardware support for the i5 chipset in Squeeze, try first with Debian's LiveCD and see how it goes, what it detects, what fails... Greetings, -- Camaleón how easy is it to update to kernel 3+ in squeeze? Upgrading to 2.6.39 is easy, as it is available in the backports archive (and 3+ may become available there at some point in the future). I expect upgrading to 3+ at the moment requires compiling your own kernel, and I will leave it to others to say that that is easy. (There are instructions for compiling the kernel into a nice debian package, and you probably just have to find them and follow them.) / johan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jcui8r$bbf$1...@dough.gmane.org
Re: Bug report
2011-10-03 18:39, lina skrev: Just curious, do I need to file a bug report cause the dependency of fglrx drive and xserver? No, see http://bugs.debian.org/639875. Last comment on that bug: is it because of this that fglrx just got removed from testing, Yes. How do people survive without fglrx driver. As already hinted at, I think there are two ways: 1) Use the free driver. 2) Be more careful with upgrades. As I remember, problems with fglrx happen quite often when there are new upgrades to other packages. Sometimes the new version is not supported by fglrx, at other times it is because debian does not wait to ensure that fglrx is never broken. Thanks for any suggestions. For now: I do not know. For the future: Do one of the aove. If the free driver does not work for your needs, note what every upgrade will do, before you allow it to do so. I use aptitude for upgrades, so I get a list of the changes, and get to interactively decide what to do when there is a conflict. Regards Johan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/j6e7fr$e12$1...@dough.gmane.org
Re: Sqeeze, Bluetooth profiles A2DP, AVRCP, HFP working with ALSA - Has anyone got it working?
2011-08-27 14:27, yudi v skrev: I am trying to get Bluetooth profiles A2DP, AVRCP, HFP, HSP working with ALSA. Not much documentation available for ALSA, there are few for Pulseaudio. If there is no possibility of these Bluetooth profiles working with ALSA, probably will go with Pulse. When I tried the same thing, I ended up using the command line and/or scripts that only worked with one device, and this problem is my main reason to prefer pulse, where there are graphical tools to switch, as you have probably seen with ubuntu. [...] This way I could manually switch to either HFP or A2DP - Couldn't figure out how to make both work at the same time. Under Windows, all the profiles work without much fuss and also switch dynamically between A2DP and HFP when I receive a VOIP call if I am listening to music. I have always manually switched under linux, and I miss that functionality when using my windows installation, as it sometimes gives me music over the headset profile, which sounds terrible. Just like when using a mobile phone. This is such a cool feature, I wish to get this working under Linux. Yes, I miss that functionality both in linux and windows. I would like to know if anyone has got this setup working. From my experience, I would recommend pulse. Pulse under debian should be comparable to your ubuntu experience. / johan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/j3b73m$o5u$1...@dough.gmane.org
Re: KMyMoney
2011-08-28 06:01, Sharon Kimble skrev: On 28 August 2011 03:22, Nate Bargmannn...@n0nb.us wrote: Version 4.5.3 shows to be in Unstable right now. - Nate Thanks for this Nate. Is unstable wheezy please? and if so do i just change squeeze to wheezy in my /etc/apt/sources.list? For version info: http://www.debian.org/releases/. Short version: unstable is sid. Wheezy is testing. For mixing stable and unstable: This can be hard, as basic libraries have to be upgraded to their sid versions, and I would not recommend it if you care about the system. One option is of course to witch to sid and run that instead. A common solution is to use a backport http://wiki.debian.org/Backports, and in this case the package you want does not seem to have a backport. In case you want to try it, attempting to create a backport package yourself, as described at http://wiki.debian.org/SimpleBackportCreation, is probably much less risky than trying to use sid. If you still want to use the package from sid (and need your system to be stable), I recommend some kind of container, so that you have a sid system installed without touching your squeeze, like in this (old) description: http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/566. Good luck, Johan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/j3cgbo$n0e$1...@dough.gmane.org
Re: how can I obtain the old fglrx_drv.so?
2011-08-20 07:43, lina skrev:
I found the fglrx_drv.so from version 11-6-3 and substitute the
present 11-7- one.
There is a script I downloaded which could help to get rid of the
watermark which showed AMD unsupported hardware.
The script is as followed, it's targeted on the old fglrx_drv.so,
#!/bin/sh
DRIVER=/usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so
for x in $(objdump -d $DRIVER|awk '/call//EnableLogo/{print
\\x$2\\x$3\\x$4\\x$5\\x$6}'); do
sed -i s/$x/\x90\x90\x90\x90\x90/g $DRIVER
done
while for the version after 11-7-* when I used it, it showed:
$ ./ATI_driver_fglrx.sh
sed: -e expression #1, char 45: Unmatched [ or [^
is it possible to compare the two fglrx_drv.so, and modify this script
to fit for the new one, so can remove the water mark.
Certainly. The script looks at the .so file as a text file, locates a
certain character pattern (using awk), and replaces every occurence of
that pattern (using sed) by a pattern spacified by
\x90\x90\x90\x90\x90. I do not know enough about awk nor about the
structure of .so files to say how to change it though.
Simplified working of the script:
The line for x in $(objdump -d $DRIVER|awk '/call//EnableLogo/{print
\\x$2\\x$3\\x$4\\x$5\\x$6}'); says for every item in the
result of running the awk command, name the item x and then go on.
The line sed -i s/$x/\x90\x90\x90\x90\x90/g $DRIVER says replace the
contents of x (refered to as $x) by \x90\x90\x90\x90\x90 everywhere in
the file $DRIVER (defined in the script to be the .so file).
I guess the error message says that sed has a problem finding $x in the
file $DRIVER.
You could either study the effect of the script in the case it works
and, try to manually make the same changes to the case where the script
fails, or read some basics of awk and sed, and understand what is done,
and then do it yourself.
/ johan
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Re: cannot find and install some dev packages
2011-08-20 16:06, H.S. skrev: On 20/08/11 01:42 AM, Johan Grönqvist wrote: 2011-08-20 06:08, H.S. skrev: Hello. I am trying to install the following dev packages but aptitude keeps telling me it can't find them: libopencv-highgui-dev libglew1.5-dev The package's developer information, however, lists them (I have Testing on an amd64). Could somebody tell me what I am missing here? Where do you find them listed? http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/libhighgui-dev http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/libglew1.5-dev Ah, yes, under that name I see it in testing. Then I have no idea why you do not see it, as it seems to have entered testing two weeks ago, and I see it here: root@johan-laptop:/home/johan# apt-cache policy libhighgui.dev libhighgui-dev: Installerad: (ingen) Kandidat:2.1.0-7 Versionstabell: 2.3.0-0exp4 0 50 http://ftp.se.debian.org/debian/ experimental/main amd64 Packages 2.1.0-7 0 700 http://ftp.se.debian.org/debian/ wheezy/main amd64 Packages 450 http://ftp.se.debian.org/debian/ sid/main amd64 Packages / johan -- 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/j2oij8$3fi$1...@dough.gmane.org
Re: how can I obtain the old fglrx_drv.so?
2011-08-19 21:03, Camaleón skrev: On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 13:24:11 +0800, lina wrote: can I use the old fglrx_drv.so installed before, such as the squeeze one, to substitute the new one, /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so, installed in wheezy? I agree that it might not work, and I would not try it, but there are several versions available at http://snapshot.debian.org/binary/fglrx-driver/. The .deb file is a compressed file, that can be opened by, e.g., the gnome archive manager, and there, under /usr/lib/fglrx/, there is a file named fglrx_drv.so. / johan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/j2mg8h$h8s$1...@dough.gmane.org
Re: cannot find and install some dev packages
2011-08-20 06:08, H.S. skrev: Hello. I am trying to install the following dev packages but aptitude keeps telling me it can't find them: libopencv-highgui-dev libglew1.5-dev The package's developer information, however, lists them (I have Testing on an amd64). Could somebody tell me what I am missing here? Where do you find them listed? I find it (the first one you mention) as being available in experimental, not in testing, and I also see that in my package manager. Do you have a line for experimental packages in your /etc/apt/sources.list ? (In case you did not know, you should be careful when upgrading parts of your system to experimental, unless you know what you are doing.) / johan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/j2nhgn$rcl$1...@dough.gmane.org
Re: Basic advice for setting up sound? Ubuntu convert
2011-08-16 12:20, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum skrev: Where can i go for docs on how to set this up to Just Work? As I do not know how to do what you want with alsa, I would suggest trying pulse in debian. I have not found one authoritative guide to pulse on debian, but the method I had most success with is essentially the one outlined in many places (e.g. http://blog.the-jedi.co.uk/2011/06/26/pulseaudio-on-debian-7/). It basically includes three steps: 1) Install the right packages. 2) Create an asound.conf file. 3) Test and adjust. Then there are the details. I had more success with the flashplugin from the debian repository than the one from the debian-multimedia repos and I also installed a libsdl-pulse package instead of the standard one. By the way: The gnome-settings-demon currently in experimental now recommends pulseaudio, and it that stays so, then using pulseauio on debian may become more well-documented, as it may get installed by default on future desktop installations. / johan -- 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/j2do3a$8dt$1...@dough.gmane.org
Re: aptitude recommends allowance at command line only.
2011-08-02 07:58, Sthu Deus skrev: Good time of the day. I wonder if it is possible (may I missed the option somehow, - as I read its --help but did not find a solution) to specify at command line of aptitude to install recommends From http://algebraicthunk.net/~dburrows/projects/aptitude/doc/en/rn01re01.html there seems to be an option: -r, --with-recommends Treat recommendations as dependencies when installing new packages (this overrides settings in /etc/apt/apt.conf and ~/.aptitude/config). This corresponds to the configuration option Aptitude::Recommends-Important / johan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/j184vl$b3g$1...@dough.gmane.org
Re: Debian6 netinstall CD cannot find Ethernet card on ThinkPad T420s.
2011-08-03 04:31, Sam Bell skrev: *Debian 6 amd64 netinstall CD cannot find ethernet card on my ThinkPad T420s, my ethernet card is Intel® 82579LM Gigabit Ethernet card. Yes, see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=626220 and http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=624794. You could consider using the backported debian installer from http://kmuto.jp/debian/d-i/ (I have never tried it, so I can not recommend it as such, only say that it could solve your problem), or installing testing (wheezy) or even unstable (sid) instead of stable. / johan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/j1ah6r$lt3$1...@dough.gmane.org
Re: is vlc package on really broken or is it just me
2011-07-12 05:52, bri...@aracnet.com skrev: On Tue, 12 Jul 2011 13:11:00 +1000 Scott Fergusonprettyfly.producti...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/07/11 11:15, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: apt-get install vlc yields the following: The following packages have unmet dependencies: vlc : Depends: vlc-nox (= 1.1.10-1) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libavcodec52 (= 4:0.6-1~) but 4:0.5.2-6 is to be installed or libavcodec-extra-52 (= 4:0.6-1~) but it is not installable Recommends: vlc-plugin-notify (= 1.1.10-1) but it is not going to be installed Recommends: vlc-plugin-pulse (= 1.1.10-1) but it is not going to be installed E: Broken packages It says that the package libavcodec52 from squeeze is going to be installed, whreas you need the package from wheezy. This puzzles me. What is the output of apt-cache policy libavcodec52 vlc-nox ? Umm, you haven't been using the debian-multimedia repository have you? Because the main Debian repositories only supply the versions apt is asking for in Wheezy and Sid... If you have installed vlc from multimedia - remove it, comment out the multimedia repository, update, then reinstall. I _was_ using multimedia but I took it out of sources BEFORE I upgraded to wheezy, and I took it out by deleting the line. On the multimedia repository: You might still have packages from debian-multimedia on your system. I have just started to enjoy the aptitude search facility, but I believe that aptitude search ~i ! ~S ~i ~ODebian might give you a list of packages that you have installed, but whose installed version is not coming from debian. This would include (possibly along with others) any package on your system that still originates from debian-multimedia. Perhaps aptitude search ~i ~S ~i ~OUnofficial will work even better (give fewer false positives), and only list packages whose origin contains Unofficial. I would try to identify any debian-multimedia packages, and replace them with official debian packages. When there are no packages from debian-multimedia -- 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/ivgmga$tjn$1...@dough.gmane.org
Re: Recent OpenGL Problems
2011-06-30 12:58, David Baron skrev: Apps that worked perfectly last week no longer work at all: Flightgear and Ysflight. Flightgear complains about not be able to produce image and segfaults out. Ysflight complains about double buffering. I am using Debian's NVidia driver (270) from Sid so the native glx's are diverted and nvidia-glx is used. This has not been upgraded recently. So where to file bug? Libgcc? Perhaps related to http://blog.mraw.org/2011/06/18/mesa_a_disturbance_in_the_Force/ ? Things aren’t exactly going as smoothly as expected. [...] First collateral damage: non-free fglrx and nvidia drivers. Otherwise I have no guess, and I do not use the non-free drivers. / johan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/iujusb$uvh$1...@dough.gmane.org
Re: skype-debian_2.2.0.35-1_amd64.deb
2011-06-12 11:10, Mathieu Malaterre skrev: skype depends on lib32stdc++6 (= 4.1.1-21) Why put amd64 in the name then... Because it is a package for the amd64 architecture of debian. You could try installing the i386-package and see for yourself that it is less simple, and it would probably involve forcing dpkg to pretend that it is working on an i386 architecture, and you would have to make sure that you have the corresponding 32-bit libraries. As Mathieu wrote, the fact that the actual binary is 32-bit is not a problem, as a 64-bit linux can run those. The problem with 32-bit packages is the availability of the supporting libraries, as the binary tries to load 32-bit versions of the libraries it needs. As the skype package is packaged for the amd64-architecture, its dependencies can be resolved by apt running on a 64-bit system. (I believe the solutions to such issues will come when the multiarch release-goal is fully implemented in debian.) Hope it helps. / johan -- 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/it27gk$89m$1...@dough.gmane.org
Re: java plugin for iceweasel
2011-05-29 18:09, Hendrik Boom skrev: What's the Debian way to get Java to work from iceweasel? Here is what I would do: Try installing a plugin package like http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=sun+java+pluginsearchon=namessuite=allsection=all, and lookout for http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=560056. ... and it has worked for me. / johan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/irtrtk$jo4$1...@dough.gmane.org
Re: Icedove can't start
2011-05-28 14:44, pch0317 skrev: Icedove can't start. When I start it from terminal I get: /usr/lib/icedove/icedove-bin: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/icedove/components/libmailcomps.so: undefined symbol: NS_CStringContainerInit2 There are bugs reported where icedove has problems with undefined symbols (bugs 626812 and 617759). None of them with the same symbol as you report. Both bug reports suggest starting icedove as LD_BIND_NOW=1 icedove from the command line, and see if that helps. None of the two bugs are marked as resolved. Hope it helps, / johan -- 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/irqv0p$4cu$1...@dough.gmane.org
Re: INSTALL DEBIAN 6.0 WITH KERNEL SMP
2011-04-19 15:29, alex.padoly skrev: I would like to know if I can choose a smp kernel when I going to install DEBIAN 6.0 I believe there is no choice. All kernels are smp-kernels. A related bug report was closed in 2007 with the comment: As recent Linux kernels in Debian all have SMP support built-in, I am closing this bug report, as there is no need to install a specific kernel version for system with more than one processor. / johan -- 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/iok3rd$8o8$1...@dough.gmane.org
Re: Reverting to an old version of libstdc++6
2011-04-19 17:29, Joe Riel skrev: This weekend I upgraded, and libstdc++6 went from 4.5.2-4 - 4.6.0-2. (1) how do I determine what version of libstdc++6 that the previous debian version of that package was using? That, is, the current package provides the file /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6.0.15 and a link /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 - libstdc++.so.6.0.15. I assume the previous debian version did the same, but with some other file, maybe libstdc++.so.6.0.14? How do I find out what that file was? I went to snapshot.debian.org, searched for the binary package libstd++6, and grabbed the .deb file for version 4.5.2-4 on amd64. I opened that deb-file (with the decompression program in gnome) and it contained /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 and /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6.0.14, as you expected. (2) How do I locate and install the previous version from a debian repository? Download the .deb from snapshots.debian.org and install. The normal warnings and disclaimers when downgrading library packages all apply. http://snapshot.debian.org/package/gcc-4.5/4.5.2-4/#libstdc:2b::2b:6_4.5.2-4 Hope it helps / johan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/iokffs$k3o$1...@dough.gmane.org
Re: iceowl-extension 1.0b2 not compatible with icedove 3.0.11
2011-04-13 13:48, Gilbert Sullivan skrev: This morning these upgrades (excerpted from the aptitude log) [UPGRADE] iceowl-extension 1.0~b1+dfsg2-2 - 1.0~b2-4 I can has my calendar back??? AIUI, iceowl 1.0b1 works with icedove 3.0 and iceowl 1.0b2 works with icedove 3.1. I solved the same problem today by upgrading icedove to the 3.1 version in unstable. I assume you could also solve it by downgrading iceowl to the 1.0b1 version from snapshot.debian.org. / johan -- 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/io48q1$6jn$1...@dough.gmane.org
Re: 2.6.38 kernel offered this morning, but not this afternoon?
2011-04-12 20:24, David Baron skrev: I have noticed that while sources and common of 2.6.38 up to -3 are upgraded normally in apt, the linux-image is not. The -2 and -3 packages are there but the linux-image is not upgraded. I would have to manually install -3 and optionally remove -1 (if it be safe to do so). No, because the -3 package is not an upgraded version of the -2 package, it is a different package. For sources and common, you probably have some package that has an upgraded version for the -3 kernel. If you have one of the linux-image-2.6-XXX (e.g., linux-image-2.6-amd64) packages installed, that package depends on the current 2.6.XX kernel, and an upgrade should therefore include installing the new package with the 2.6.38-3 kernel. Automatic removal of kernel images is turned off by a line in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/01autoremove. It was mentioned relatively recently on this mailing list. / johan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/io28j4$rei$1...@dough.gmane.org
Re: Upgrading from Squeeze testing to Squeeze stable
2011-04-11 16:30, Andrew Wood skrev: Ive got a PC (this one) running Squeeze which was installed when sqeeeze was still 'testing' For example [...] Shotwell is present on the 'new' system but not on this one. Any ideas why? Perhaps the desktop-task as defined by tasksel has changed between the two installations. Running tasksel --new-install might help install the packages that the installer would install when choosing a desktop installation. / johan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/invmnk$n3i$1...@dough.gmane.org
Re: Installing LaTeX (or any other software) without documentation
2011-04-07 09:42, bars0 bars0 skrev: I need to install LaTeX in my machine, but without documentation. How can I achieve this via aptitude or apt-get? I prefer the gui-like interface to aptitude (started with aptitude), where I can review and alter the proposed package selection. In your case you would get a list of packages that aptitude will want to install (all that are recommended by the packages you select) and you can manually select which ones you want. (The keybindings are unintuitive for me, so I recommend opening the help by typing a ?, and having some patience in the beginning. The workflow is to find the packages you want, mark them for installation with +, preview actions with g, alter the actions by unmarking packages with -, and then confirming with g again.) Hope it helps Johan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/injrat$u3d$1...@dough.gmane.org
Re: Please help
Hi, Welcome to debian. 2011-03-04 05:06, Ryan Collins skrev: I've installedDebian 6.0(squeeze) on my dell inspiron 6000. All I have to show for it is a shell. [...] I think I may have installed a server version [...] What can I do to get a desktop environment installed through my command line? I will add something I have not yet seen in this thread. The installer has several options, like webserver and desktop, and it seems that you would have wanted to install a desktop system, but somehow missed it. For this to work, I will assume that you have no problem downloading lots of data over the network. If you log in a root and run the command tasksel --new-install by typing it at the command line, the dialog you should have seen during installation should now appear, and you can choose (with arrow keys and the space bar) the packages you need. I guess you want to select desktop, standard and laptop (if the computer is a laptop). After you click ok, the package management system should install several hundred to a thousand packages, and then exit. If you then reboot by typing shutdown -r now at the command line, you should hopefully see the standard debian desktop installation start and you should get a graphical login screen. Also, as a note about debian and new users: If debian does what you need, then I would recommend debian. If it does not, it may well be that some other distro has a simpler or even fully automatic solution for that problem. (I have never tried Mint.) Hope it helps / johan -- 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/ikq3cs$9mv$1...@dough.gmane.org
Re: How up-to-date is Debian's stable release kept to fix published kernel security vulnerabilities?
2011-02-15 22:46, Kelly Dean skrev: http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2010-2943 was published Sept 30, 2010, and says that Linux 2.6.32.5 is vulnerable. Squeeze uses 2.6.32-5, built on Jan 12, 2011. Is Squeeze's kernel fixed, or does it have the vulnerability? To begin with: I do not know if the kernel in squeeze is vulnerable. On http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64, one can read that for the kernel in squeeze, the package _name_ contains linux-image-2.6.32-5, whereas the _version_ is 2.6.32-30. None of these appears to refer to the upstream version number 2.6.32.5, as can be seen from the changelog at http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/l/linux-2.6/linux-2.6_2.6.32-30/changelog, where I just quote parts of two entries: linux-2.6 (2.6.32-30) unstable; urgency=high [...] * Add stable 2.6.32.28: [...] -- Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk Tue, 11 Jan 2011 05:42:11 + linux-2.6 (2.6.32-29) unstable; urgency=high [...] * Add stable 2.6.32.27: [...] -- Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk Fri, 10 Dec 2010 05:45:11 + The updates to the 2.6.32 kernel thus seems to be incorporated into the version in squeeze. The page you refer to lists 2.6.32.20 as vulnerable, but no higher versions of 2.6.32, and as 2.6.32.28 appears to be incorporated in squeeze, it seems that squeeze might not be vulnerable. http://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/status/release/stable currently says that[...] I do not know how that page works, so I can not comment on it. Did Squeeze really get released with a high-urgency remote kernel vulnerability which was published four months earlier? I do not know. / johan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/ijg34a$u93$1...@dough.gmane.org
Re: How to install an older version (3.0) of OpenOffice?
2011-02-14 16:18, Jon Dowland skrev: On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 11:33:36AM +0100, Johan Grönqvist wrote: Personally, if I would need to get it to work quickly, and without risking the debian installation (by mixing library versions) I would probably install lenny in a virtualbox environment, and then add the relevant line to snapshot.debian.org in my apt sources. Then I would try to install impress 3.0 from there, but schroot or perhaps lxc would probably work just as well. Why lenny, and not squeeze (current stable)? Because lenny was released before impress 3.0 entered testing, whereas squeeze was release after that I have the following options: I could either upgrade from lenny to the snapshot with impress 3.0, or downgrade from squeeze to the same snapshot, and upgrading is often easier than downgrading if versioned library dependencies are involved, so lenny seems the safer option to me. / johan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/ijcafs$f68$1...@dough.gmane.org
Re: How to install an older version (3.0) of OpenOffice?
2011-02-12 08:32, Dietrich Bollmann skrev: Does somebody know from where and how to install Impress 3.0 ? I am using Debian sid. I have no idea if it will work with a current sid, but older debian packages are available via the snapshot service. See http://snapshot.debian.org/binary/openoffice.org-impress/ for different versions of impress. I assume you will need to install other packages from snapshot as well, but I do not know how that is best achieved without risking your sid installation, apt-pinning or schroot come to mind, but I have not tried those with snapshot myself, so I do not know if it will work. Personally, if I would need to get it to work quickly, and without risking the debian installation (by mixing library versions) I would probably install lenny in a virtualbox environment, and then add the relevant line to snapshot.debian.org in my apt sources. Then I would try to install impress 3.0 from there, but schroot or perhaps lxc would probably work just as well. As I said, I never tried anything using snapshots, so all of this is just guessing. / johan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/ij5nm7$flk$1...@dough.gmane.org
Re: Debian SID - Source Package: etoile (0+20080616+dfsg-2)
2011-02-01 21:40, Sven Joachim skrev: On 2011-02-01 22:26 +0100, Csanyi Pal wrote: and after I run 'sudo aptitude update' I still can't find etoile with 'aptitude search etoile'. Why? Because aptitude only deals with binary packages, and the etoile source package builds a binary package named dictionaryreader.app. On http://packages.qa.debian.org/e/etoile.html (note the qa in the url, there is a link to this page from the etoile package page you included in your original post), you can see the list of binary packages built form this source package. / johan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/iiavqp$t60$1...@dough.gmane.org
Re: debian - ubuntu
2011-01-26 12:45, artorius skrev: hi, it's my first post and i'm newbie on debian an ubuntu too. the prbolem is that i have tried to install ubuntu rigt after the setup of debian and the laptop (hp nc6000) gives me this message: (process:285) : Glib - warning xx : getpw id : failed due to unknown user (0) id. As the other poster, I do not understand if the error message appeared in debian or ubuntu, so please tell us more about your system to get more help. If you see this in debian, then I have no suggestion. [Brief note: User 0, as mentioned in the error message is the administrator (root-user) in debian. In ubuntu it is not used by default.] As you mention both debian and ubuntu, and their handling of user 0 is different, I will assume that you see this in ubuntu but not in debian. If the problem appears in ubuntu, then it has been known, but was (I believe) supposedly fixed for ubuntu 10.04 and 10.10. Pasting your error message into google gives as first hit something on bugs.launchpad.net (the bug-site of ubuntu), and there may be more information there. I found the 5th result on google useful, and it leads me to ubuntuforums.net. As this is a debian-list, and I guess that you saw this in ubuntu, I will also suggest the following. For questions about ubuntu that are not related to debian you will be suggested to ask them on ubuntu-lists as described on http://www.ubuntu.com/support/community. Hope it helps / johan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/ihpd3g$rmv$1...@dough.gmane.org
Re: help
2011-01-26 20:16, Hans-J. Ullrich skrev: Am Mittwoch, 26. Januar 2011 schrieb Padilla Juan Leon II: i just installed my debian 5.0.7 in my laptop. 1 google chrome Chrome and chromium-browser are in the repository and can be installed using aptitude or apt. If you do not know, how, read the documentation of apt. You can also use synaptic, but aptitude is recommended. That is correct, but they are not in the man debian repositories debian 5.0.7, so you have to add extra repositories for chromium-browser. See links at end of this message. The next version of debian, 6.0 (also known as squeeze), will be released in less than two weeks, and therein you will find chromium in the debian repositories. If you are just starting with debian, I would recommend installing that version. Either from the release candidate installer, or by waiting two weeks and then installing it. 3 adobe flash player There is no package for adobe flashplayer, but you can install the package flashplayer-unfree from the repository, which includes a script for installing adobes flashplayer. Works best with iceweasel. Both architectures are supported. That would be flashplugin-nonfree, and it is available in the contrib repository, which has to be activated. According to the wiki-page the flashplugin may not work with debian 5.0.7 (Lenny), but may need debian 6.0 (squeeze). i read some of the text in the web but i can't install any of those things above. Did you find the following? http://wiki.debian.org/skype http://wiki.debian.org/FlashPlayer http://wiki.debian.org/Chromium if you don't mind can you make the instruction very simple im not that very good in comp laguage. Have a look at the links to the debian wiki and ask again if you fail. (And do not be discouraged by initial problems, I had lots of them.) Have fun. / johan -- 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/ihpu4s$ne$1...@dough.gmane.org
Re: Disable sound of 1 application
2011-01-24 09:34, Sander Joris skrev: I'm looking for a way to disable the sound of one application without it interfering with any other applications. Is there a way to do this in Debian? I do not know if the solution is good in your case, as it is rather invasive, but per-application volume controls are available if you switch to pulseaudio for your system. Unfortunately, I do not know where to look for up-to-date debian documentation on setting it up. As a warning, I have never gotten pulseaudio to work for all my audio needs (games, media players, wine, flash, bluetooth and skype) at the same time, so if you are mostly happy with your current configuration, pulseaudio may not help.. I believe that by this time most desktop distributions are using pulseaudio as the default system for sound. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PulseAudio http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/pulseaudio http://pulseaudio.org/wiki/PerfectSetup / johan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/ihjgsf$kfe$1...@dough.gmane.org
Re: Directory and file permissions
2010-12-08 13:17, Lisi skrev: My google foo seems to have deserted me completely. Could someone take pity? :-( I will try my best guess: On our webserver-space it is quite common to leave directories without read access, to prevent visitors from obtaining directory listings. The files in those directories can be obtained by following links containing the pathname of the file. Test: -- jo...@johan-laptop:~$ mkdir test jo...@johan-laptop:~$ touch test/tt jo...@johan-laptop:~$ echo TT test/tt jo...@johan-laptop:~$ chmod u-r test jo...@johan-laptop:~$ ls test ls: kan inte öppna katalog test: Åtkomst nekas jo...@johan-laptop:~$ env LC_ALL=C ls test ls: cannot open directory test: Permission denied jo...@johan-laptop:~$ cat test/tt TT -- (LC_ALL included to get error message in english) Hope it helps / johan -- 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/idnubt$7d...@dough.gmane.org
Re: Print two pages per sheet, one side
2010-12-03 17:42, Rodolfo Medina skrev: 1) I want that the text side is not reduced, since I checked it is small enough to fit in the sheet the size it is; 2) I want to print it first into another pdf file before sending it to a printer. I needed this recently, and I believe the answer at http://superuser.com/questions/158780/tile-an-a6-pdf-so-that-it-fits-into-a4-perfectly was the hint I needed. Regards Johan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/idbbam$fb...@dough.gmane.org
Re: Official Debian admin groups (dialout, audio, etc)
Is there a definitive list somewhere of the out-of-the-box admin groups for Debian? As in, dialout for access to serial ports, ?? for access to external storage, etc? I interpret the debian policy (http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-opersys.html#s9.2.2) such that the groups you refer to should be defined by the package base-passwd and have ids in the range 0-99. The package base-passwd contains a list in the file /usr/share/doc/base-passwd/users-and-groups.html naming such users and groups. / johan -- 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/20101124094121.69f8d...@johan-laptop
Re: lenny thunderbird filters
2010-11-04 21:03, Paul Cartwright skrev: I'm running Lenny, updated, and Thunderbird 3.1.6 ( from my local user). SOMETIMES, you see a folder, click N for next message, the folder still has the (1) for new message, but when you hit N, it proceeds to the next folder. Eventually you hit N and come back to THE SAME MESSAGE. anyone seen this, or have any ideas? Yes, I have seen this, without filters, but for a newsgroup account (news.gmane.org), and it seems to happen when I fetch new messages several times before reading through the new messages, and even then I only see it sometimes. I have no solution to offer, and I do not remember the exact version combinations I have seen this in. / Johan -- 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/iavv24$2f...@dough.gmane.org
Re: Does Icedove have a system tray function?
2010-11-02 19:22, AG skrev: Using the latest testing version of Icedove,[1] is anyone aware of an extension (because I can't see the option in Icedove itself) that will enable Icedove to be minimised to the system tray in GNOME still retain its functionality? I believe I used the firetray extension for a while, and that it provided the functionality you request. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/4868/ I do not remember any problem with it, but I also do not remember why I no longer use it. Hope it works for you. / johan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/iapn70$di...@dough.gmane.org
Re: `Open with ...' - Use command too
2010-07-23 12:11, Merciadri Luca skrev: Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 10:25:15 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: You can browse the full filesystem (from / to lower paths). I have no problem with that. Yes, but this is really really tedious as compared to an input box! Are you aware that pressing ctrl+l (for location, I assume) in that dialog box opens an address field (input box) with autocompletion such that you can (e.g.) type /usr/bin/ki and make a choice between all binaries that start with ki? (I still agree that your suggestion would be simpler.) Regards Johan -- 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/i2e1i0$9e...@dough.gmane.org
Re: aptitude: upgrading only necessary stable-to-testing.
2010-07-07 06:52, Sthu Deus skrev: I have mixed system: stable testing. On # aptitude full-upgrade I often have a situation when a stable status packages needs to be upgraded up to testing status because of dependency, but aptitude does not so - but rather offers diver mysterious solutions - anything but upgrading the package on dependency from its stable to testing status. I was annoyed by such things too (I mix testing, unstable and experimental), until I started using reject and accept in the dependency resolution dialog of aptitude. When using aptitude interactively, and investigating the suggested changes, I can reject a suggestion by pressing 'r', and by rejecting some key removal suggestions, I rather quickly get to a reasonable suggestion recommending the changes that I want. Hope it helps, although I know it was not what you asked for. / johan -- 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/i117m0$8l...@dough.gmane.org
Re: Resuming from hibernation issue with sid-kernel
2010-06-09 01:34, Peter Beck skrev: On Fri, 2010-06-04 at 11:17 +0200, Johan Grönqvist wrote: To thaw, I have to select kernel 2.6.32-4 in grub, and then all works well. If I select 2.6.32-5 in grub, I get the usual blank screen for a few seconds while the saved state is read form disk, but then the display stays blank after disk reading has stopped. I am using squeeze with 2.6.32-3 and having similar issues on my Thinkpad T42p. While hibernating there is a message failed to thaw - error -16. After resuming the screen stays black. I found out that compiz was (is)my issue. I can ping my machine and connect via ssh. If compiz is stopped while hibernating everything seems to be ok and resume is working just fine. Maybe this is useful for you too ? Thanks for the suggestion. I restarted gnome with metacity as my wm, and see the same symptoms. I believe the error happens earlier in the process for me, because when the computer stops working at thawing, I can press ctrl-alt-F1, and get to a screen showing me what a normal boot does before switching to framebuffer mode, I thus believe that the problem occurs before any graphics system has managed to start, just before or at the handover between the kernels. / johan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/hun7o7$g8...@dough.gmane.org
Re: Stable vs Unstable Testing
2010-06-09 01:55, ABSDoug skrev: This was the 1st time I had heard of stab le unstable, I only knew there was testing, which I wanted to avoid. Sounded very reasonable, with a name like stable finding out Debian is the SOURCE for other distros, I'm thinking stable is what you'd use if you don't want to be a Guinea pig. A few remarks: 1) Stable in debian means unchanging, and in case you want that kind of stable, you may as well use the more recent ubuntu 9.10, which seems to work for you, still has quite a while of support, and should be unchanging enough for your purposes. Debian stable is good for servers where one does not want new versions of software that may break the system. 2) For stable as in not breaking, the reason I use debian testing is that I find it less prone to breaking than following the 6-month upgrade cycle of ubuntu. 3) In the choice between debian testing or unstable for a netbook, you will find people recommending both choices, and I think it will be hard for you to form your own opinion this early in the learning process. now I'm wondering if I'm going to go with unstable Squeeze, what does that offer over Ubuntu 9.10 (Remix). 9.10 (unlike 10.04) works well on my Acer Aspire One. The usual reasonable comment I think more experienced people than me would often give is: What do you miss in ubuntu 9.10 (remix) that you want your new system to provide? If it works well for you, you may continue to use it and be happy with that. Debian testing would offer more recent applications in some areas, and a more recent kernel, which may provide better hardware support, but as you have experienced with ubuntu 10.04, that is not always the case. Ubuntu 9.10 has security support until 11.04 (I think). It is also more recent than debian stable, so it should offer more recent applications and (on average) be able to support more recent hardware. I would not expect debian stable from february 09 to improve on your (seemingly) good netbook-experience with an ubuntu from october 09 unless you have some specific problems with ubuntu 9.10, or have some specific reason to wish to use debian. In case there is something missing for you in ubuntu, you may very well ask if debian can provide that, but a question like what does debian stable/testing/unstable offer over ubuntu 9.10 for a netbook is very hard to answer without knowing what your needs and/or problems are. From what I have seen so far, I would recommend ubuntu 9.10 for your netbook, followed by debian testing or unstable. Regards Johan -- 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/hun9cn$ka...@dough.gmane.org
Re: A few minor issues in Squeeze with Gnome
2010-06-05 23:28, Peter Tenenbaum skrev: I just migrated my new workstation from Lenny to Squeeze (the workstation is all relatively new hardware, so Lenny was just a bit too old to have correct drivers for everything). Most things are working fine, but I have a couple of minor questions. 1. In Nautilus, I can't figure out how to make the navigation bar the default when looking at folders (ie, the window in which one can type a location). I can make any particular window give me a nav bar by hitting Ctrl-L, but I would like that to be the default. If you open the gnome configuration manager (gconf-editor), go to apps - nautilus - preferences, and check the box next to always_use_location_entry, it might work. In my 90-seconds of testing, it seemed to work. Hope it helps / johan -- 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/huf9ki$9n...@dough.gmane.org
Resuming from hibernation issue with sid-kernel
Hi, Short version: With the most recent sid-kernel, my laptop no longer resumes from hibernation (I believe thawing is the technical term). pm-suspend.log seems to indicate that no thawing hooks are run. I do not know where to look next for a solution. Hibernating and thawing with linux image 2.6.32-4 seems to works well. Longer version: My system is amd64 squeeze-based, with a few packages from sid (e.g. the kernel and the radeon driver). I use only one root partition (ext4) and one swap partition. My graphics card is ATI Mobility HD 2400 XT. I can boot with and hibernate from (using gnome-power-manager) any of the 2.6.32-4 and 2.6.32-5 kernels. To thaw, I have to select kernel 2.6.32-4 in grub, and then all works well. If I select 2.6.32-5 in grub, I get the usual blank screen for a few seconds while the saved state is read form disk, but then the display stays blank after disk reading has stopped. The behaviour I expect, and see when thawing with 2.6.32-4, is that, after disk reading stops, my screen flickers a bit, and then I am back into a running session with the kernel I hibernated from. The logfile pm-suspend.log seems not to log anything for thaw hooks on when I fail to thaw, but when I thaw with with 2.6.32-4, and the thaw succeeds, pm-suspend.log contains info about thaw hooks that were successfully run. I do not know where to look next, the syslog and debug files in /var/log/ seems not to contain any information form the pre-thaw stage where I expect the problem to occur. A few log files are available at http://malin.homedns.org/laptop-logs/ Regards Johan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/huagbm$ui...@dough.gmane.org
Re: Laptop can't resume from suspend mode
2010-05-10 18:12, Matteo Riva skrev: Using Xorg 7.5 with radeonhd FOSS driver. Anybody had this problem and/or knows about a solution? I have not had the problem (I use the radeon driver), and do not know of a solution, but wanted to point you to a recent changelog that might be of interest. (from http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/x/xorg/current/changelog) Debian Changelog xorg (1:7.5+6) xorg (1:7.5+6) unstable; urgency=medium * Drop radeonhd from xserver-xorg-video-all. We switched to kernel modesetting for radeon, and that clashes with this driver. [...] -- Julien Cristau jcris...@debian.org Fri, 07 May 2010 13:34:32 +0200 - Hope it helps you forward. / johan -- 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/hsavac$4v...@dough.gmane.org
Re: [TexLive] This math formula work a few month a go, but nowadays it didn't work anymore
2010-04-29 19:40, Norbert Zeh skrev: You are missing the font file fmex8.pfb. If I search for it using apt-file, apt-file claims that this file is part of texlive-base. I have this package installed, but the whole directory where this file is supposed to live does not exist. Something wrong with the texlive-base package? Perhaps it exists in lenny but not in squeeze? My apt-file search also says that it exists, but I do not even have the directory in which the file is supposed to reside. According to the debian site, however, the file is not available in squeeze: http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=contentskeywords=fmex8.pfbmode=exactfilenamesuite=stablearch=amd64 http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=contentskeywords=fmex8.pfbmode=exactfilenamesuite=testingarch=amd64 It seems to come from a cmex package. Can that package have changed and dropped the fmex* files? It now seems to contain cmex*-files instead, but I do not know if that is the correct interpretation. Regards Johan -- 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/hrchu0$5k...@dough.gmane.org
Re: [TexLive] This math formula work a few month a go, but nowadays it didn't work anymore
2010-04-30 00:04, Marcelo Laia skrev: According to the debian site, however, the file is not available in squeeze: It seems to come from a cmex package. Can that package have changed and dropped the fmex* files? It now seems to contain cmex*-files instead, but I do not know if that is the correct interpretation. Hummm! And now? What to do? If I do a search in i386 (I have both kernels), the results is the same! What you suggest me? Contact to maintainers? Who is he/she? As you do not explicitly request the font to be used, I expected latex to choose some other font instead. Does it work if you run the command update-updmap and try again? Otherwise, I have two suggestions: 1) Send and email to the debian-tex mailing list (http://lists.debian.org/debian-tex-maint/). That list is the official maintainer address for texlive-base, according to (http://packages.qa.debian.org/t/texlive-base.html). 2) Report the problem as a bug. (http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting). Before doing any of those two, you should rewrite the example document to be as small and simple as possible (still showing the problem) and perhaps also translate the text to English. Regards Johan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/hrdo3l$np...@dough.gmane.org
Re: Moving to Debian: updated software
2010-04-24 20:02, Dotan Cohen skrev: Thanks, Ron. I don't see the contradiction: I want released software, no betas or alphas. I am using the word stable as in not crashy (doesn't fall down), not in the sense of doesn't change. I wondered if Testing or Unstable would provide that. I use debian testing (with a few packages from unstable) because in my subjective experience, I have had fewer software problems with that solution than with the normal released versions of ubuntu. (I have used debian and/or ubuntu since at least 2002.) Regards Johan -- 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/hqvdrs$6c...@dough.gmane.org
Re: Gramps in Lenny
2010-04-20 17:42, Ravi Sista skrev: Does it work? In the Gramps website, I see mention of it working against Sid/Squeeze but nothing about Lenny. That text refers to the latest version of gramps, and lenny provides an older version. I added a sentence to the documentation at http://www.gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=Installation#Debian. Would this new version of the documentation have answered your question? / johan -- 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/hqmhga$7p...@dough.gmane.org
Re: Bug Report : Running Pymol for terminal produce ImportError: No module named copy
Sushil Mishra skrev: When i try to open pymol by terminal thsi is producing fallowing error-- sus...@sushilnb:~$ pymol 'import site' failed; use -v for traceback Traceback (most recent call last): File /var/lib/python-support/python2.5/pymol//__init__.py, line 32, in module from copy import deepcopy ImportError: No module named copy sus...@sushilnb:~$ I do not remember having had such a problem with pymol in debian. As I understand it, the command from copy import deepcopy is the first to run at all. Given that the module copy is in the python standard library, I find it surprising that it is not found. Do you have any problems with other python programs? Can you run the line python -c from copy import deepcopy without problems (errors)? / johan -- 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/hpne6b$ob...@dough.gmane.org
Re: shouldn't apt-get upgrade, you know, upgrade ?
bri...@aracnet.com skrev: I was having some problems with ooffice so I did apt-get update and then ran apt-get upgrade to see if ooffice was among the packages to be upgraded. It wasn't, but I tried apt-get install ooffice anyway, and presto it started upgrading ooffice. So I looked at the man-page: upgrade is used to install the newest versions of all packages currently installed on the system I did, in fact, have ooffice installed so I'm not clean on why upgrade alone did seem to want to upgrade the package. Any ideas ? My first guess: Perhaps you did not quote enough text from the man page? [From the text on upgrade] New versions of currently installed packages that cannot be upgraded without changing the install status of another package will be left at their current version. As ooffice is a rather complex package, it seems plausible to me that a new version would require other packages to be installed as well, and upgrade is not bold enough to do that. I think you may be interested in the dist-upgrade command instead. / johan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/hpeeit$r0...@dough.gmane.org
Re: Mailing list policy change?
Stephen Powell skrev: Does this mean that it is OK to CC people now, without a CC being requested? Or do many people read the list via the web interface to the mailing list archives without being subscribed and will still get annoyed if they are CCed? As a humble user, I do not know, but I want to mention two things: 1) The debian homepage at http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct asks not to CC unless explicitly requested to. 2) At least I read the debian lists via the nntp-interface at news.gmane.org, and find that to be a very convenient way, as I can access the list (using icedove) without getting lots of mails to my private email account(s). Thus I am not subscribed to any debian lists, but read more than a dozen of them. I have no idea how common that practice is, and gmane.org seems not to provide such statistics. Regards Johan -- 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/hnvvpv$af...@dough.gmane.org
Re: Why does installing gnome packages versioned 2.28+6 insist on installing gnash?
I'm surprised to hear that gnome-core requires gnash. It's certainly not the case on Lenny: I it was introduced into squeeze yesterday (source package meta-gnome2 2.28+6 transitioned to squeeze on 2010-03-16). The reason seems to be that swfdec was removed. The changelog[0] for meta-gnome2 says (among other things): * Drop swfdec-gnome. * Make gnome depend on mozilla-plugin-gnash so that there’s at least something for Flash websites. [0]: http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/m/meta-gnome2/current/changelog / johan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/hnqj98$g...@dough.gmane.org
Re: Why does installing gnome packages versioned 2.28+6 insist on installing gnash?
Liam O'Toole skrev: On 2010-03-17, Johan Grönqvist johan.gronqv...@gmail.com wrote: I'm surprised to hear that gnome-core requires gnash. It's certainly not the case on Lenny: I it was introduced into squeeze yesterday (source package meta-gnome2 2.28+6 transitioned to squeeze on 2010-03-16). The reason seems to be that swfdec was removed. The changelog[0] for meta-gnome2 says (among other things): * Drop swfdec-gnome. * Make gnome depend on mozilla-plugin-gnash so that there’s at least something for Flash websites. The changelog appears to refer to the gnome metapackage rather than gnome-core. The changelog refers to meta-gnome2, which is a source package from which the three binary packages gnome, gnome-core and gnome-desktop-environment (and some more packages) are built. Thus, the changelog holds for the source package, and I do not know how to see what change holds for which binary package. I do not even know if binary packages can have changelogs separate form their source packages. The changelog quote was intended to answer the question why things are different in squeeze than in lenny. Looking at the binary packages, I agree that the packages gnome-core and gnome-desktop environment do not depend on gnash, whereas gnome does (via the mozilla plugin). / johan -- 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/hnqnak$h0...@dough.gmane.org
Re: IOMMU option in bios
Charles Kroeger skrev: I was looking over a dmesg output and I noticed a message that said I would save 64MB of RAM if I enabled the IOMMU option in the bios. Can anyone eleborate on this message in dmesg? A post that tries to elaborate is at http://bogdan.org.ua/2009/09/30/iommu-this-costs-you-64-mb-of-ram.html. I had other symptoms as well, and used iommu=soft as boot option for a while, but if you do not see any other problems relating to iommu, I would ignore it. / johan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/hnos6c$sp...@dough.gmane.org
Re: xorg problem--dual-head, Debian vs. Ubuntu
Jesse Sheidlower skrev: 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). 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 have seen the same problem, and I know no solution that does not involve an xorg.conf file. However, I do not think it must be very hard. When using several monitors, they all form a larger virtual desktop together. If you have two monitors of size 1280x1024 next to each other, the virtual desktop must be at least 2560x1024 for the two to fit it. This is adjusted in the xorg.conf file, as follows: Login as root in text mode (either by booting into recovery mode, or switching with ctrl-alt-F1) and ensure your X is not running (run /etc/init.d/gdm stop if you are using a standard gnome desktop). Then run Xorg -configure. This should create a file xorg.conf.new with contents suited to your hardware. Now open that file in a text-editor and look for a Screen section to which you add a Display section, as shown in this example I found on the internet: Section Screen Identifier Default Screen Device Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller Monitor Generic Monitor DefaultDepth 24 SubSection Display Depth24 Modes1600x1200 1280x1024 1024x768 800x600 640x480 # ADD A VIRTUAL LINE TO PROVIDE FOR THE LARGEST SCREENS YOU WILL HOTPLUG Virtual 2048 2048 EndSubSection EndSection Some more information is available on the man page (man xorg.conf). From the error message you quoted, you may want to choose at least Virtual 26801050 in your configuration. Now save the file as /etc/X11/xorg.conf and restart X. Hopefully the error is now gone. If that did not work, you should be able to just delete the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf, and then (after restarting X) you should be back to the configuration you had before. Somehow ubuntu either uses larger defaults for the virtual screen size, or adjusts them automatically while the xserver is running, but I do not know enough to comment on what is a reasonable default behaviour in general. Good Luck. / johan -- 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/hnll0b$i7...@dough.gmane.org
Re: Gnucash segfaults
John A. Sullivan III skrev: Hello, all. We are in the process of switching from Ubuntu 8.0.4 to Debian Lenny plus selected backports (e.g., OpenOffice, IceWeasel). Since donig so, GnuCash (2.2.6-2) seg faults every time we try to open an account. This sounds similar to the description -- Package: gnucash Version: 2.2.6-2 Severity: important When I open GnuCash and try to open an account, GnuCash has a segmentation fault. This occurs irregardless of the account and whether I open it by double-clicking on it or by selecting it and pressing the Open button. - at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=520055 which I found by googling for gnucash error 6 in libgncmod-register-gnome.so. Perhaps there is some information there that can help. I do not use gnucash, so I can not help you more. / johan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/hnlt8h$kh...@dough.gmane.org
Re: aptitude package filtering
Yavuz Yetim skrev: I would like to list all packages installed from testing. How can I do that? First limiting to ~installed and then searching ~archive(testing) gives me packages that are installed and available in testing and that's not what I want. I was going to suggest the command aptitude search ?narrow(?archive(testing), ?installed) but then I realized that in some cases it does not work as I expected, so I will just suggest looking at narrow in the documentation [0], and then deciding for yourself if it does what you want. [0]: http://algebraicthunk.net/~dburrows/projects/aptitude/doc/en/ch02s03s05.html / johan -- 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/hnjljd$oq...@dough.gmane.org
Re: aptitude package filtering
Florian Kulzer skrev: On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 17:23:11 -0400, Yavuz Yetim wrote: If I understand you correctly then I think the narrowing search pattern/operator is what you want: aptitude search '~S ~i ~Atesting' I thought so too, but when I tested, aptitude lists acpi as installed from stable, although it is not the version form stable. Have I missed something? johan-laptop:/home/johan# aptitude search '~S ~i ~Astable' | grep acpi i acpi- displays information on ACPI devices i A acpid - Advanced Configuration and Power Interface johan-laptop:/home/johan# apt-cache policy acpi acpi: Installerad: 1.4-2 Kandidat: 1.4-2 Versionstabell: *** 1.4-2 0 850 http://ftp.se.debian.org squeeze/main Packages 650 http://ftp.se.debian.org sid/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 1.1-2 0 750 http://ftp.se.debian.org lenny/main Packages johan-laptop:/home/johan# / johan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/hnjms7$s1...@dough.gmane.org
Re: Open the same PDF in two different acroread processes
Merciadri Luca skrev: For TeX reasons, I would like to open the same PDF in two different acroread processes. How can I do this? From man acroread it seems to me that the following option should work: -openInNewInstance It launches a new instance of acroread process. The application starts normally without checking if it is already running. Have you tried that already? I have not tried it as my acroread installation seems to have problems at the moment. / johan -- 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/hng6pc$rk...@dough.gmane.org
