Re: question re: removing all traces of Windows ME OS
Kent West wrote: Other advantages of multiple partitions: * If a partition fills up (say, a logging process starts spewing out log entries by the millions), it only fills up that partition, rather than "all" partitions, which provides less chance of file system corruption/damage/lockups/etc. * You can mount certain partitions read-only, such as / and /etc, which helps to prevent tinkering or accidental changes to system files. * During system maintenance, it's typically safer to mount only the partitions you need to maintain/work with. * It's easier to reconfigure a single partition or two than an entire filesystem. * There may be some slight enhancement of security from hackers to have multiple partitions. About the only disadvantages of multiple platforms: * If you size them wrong to begin with (too small, and they'll fill up; too large, and it's wasted disk space), it can be problematic to resize them. * It's a little more complex to set up (plan the sizes, names, make sure /etc/fstab is correct, etc). Since the new Debian installer (pre-rc2) supports boot setups using LVM, these are no longer a big problem. Many people do not use LVM on desktop systems, because they associate it with servers (and their huge storage requirements, with multi-disk setups and such), but LVM can offer some real benefits for desktop users, too. Of course, having the tools to correct mistakes done during the planning phase is nice, but you should always try to get it right the first time, because all maintenance in your file systems has the potential for data loss. Also, you cannot resize live filesystems (with some notable exceptions, including ReiserFS), so if your root filesystem blows up, you will have to boot using a rescue CD or similar tool to repair your system. Anyway, just my $0.02 to this discussion. Cheers Ulisses -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: broken cd-rw drive
David Fokkema wrote: Hi group, I broke my cd-rw drive. I really hope this has nothing to do with a possible bug in linux and/or cdrecord. Here's my story... [snip] There has been a single case of confirmed CD-RW hardware malfunctioning due to software bugs related to Linux, and it was due to questionable use of ATAPI codes by LG, and it only affected LG CD-ROM drives under Mandrake 9.2 (which shipped with a patched kernel image that queried the hardware through the use of the above-mentioned ATAPI codes). You can check on that: http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/lgerrata.php3 I don't want to sound like a zealot, but your situation does not sound at all like it was caused by software. I know you tried not to sound like you are blaming Debian/Linux for what happened, but please try to exhaust all possibilities before coming up with the usual "well, this was the only thing I changed, so it must be the cause of my problem" approach. Cheers, and good luck findind a replacement drive. Ulisses -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Why won't XMMS play .au files?
Adam Funk wrote: On Wednesday 22 September 2004 14:00, Johann Koenig wrote: On Wednesday September 22 at 07:36am Adam Funk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: But it will *not* play any of these files: Well, what happens when you try? Your description leaves a lot to the imagination. My imagination says 'user error.' Good point, sorry. When I try to run it from the command line $ xmms *.au & XMMS launches but shows an empty playlist and opens the dialogue box for adding files to the playlist. When I try to add these files using that dialogue it won't add them. This is the same behaviour that occurs with file types that XMMS can't play (e.g. trying to play non-audio files by mistake or audio files of an unsuitable WAVE type). You probably need http://www.mega-nerd.com/xmms_sndfile/. Don't know if there is a Debian package for it, or if Debian XMMS comes with it (I don't use XMMS). You will also need (obviously) libsndfile. Cheers Ulisses -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: KDE and alt/tab window switching icon size
Phil Bardanes wrote: Hi, I've decided to give KDE a try after using Gnome for some time now. I'm running Sarge with KDE 3.2.3. I'd like to make the window icons that appear in the alt-tab key sequence windows switching app larger. I've tried to do this through the Control Panel/Appearance & Themes/Icons/Advanced with several options, but none of the changes make the icons larger. Any ideas on how I might accomplish this? Well, no idea about how to change the icon size on KDE, but you could try Komposé (there is a Debian/unstable package for it) -- it works like the MacOS X Composé task switcher. Check it out on http://kompose.berlios.de/. Thanks, Phil Cheers Ulisses -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
kdm/ssh-agent
Hello This has been bothering me for a while, but it hadn't impacted me much until recently -- before my upgrade to KDE 3.3 (Debian Sid/Unstable), kdm used to start the ssh-agent as part of my login process. This has the side effect of sharing the agent environment variables through every application I run under that session. After my upgrade, ssh-agent no longer starts up, and of course, when I start it up manually, it only serves apps started under the same shell. This really makes it much bothersome to run CVS over SSH, SFTP in Konqueror and a lot of other applications/utilities. I done my googling on the subject, and found out that I needed to add "use-ssh-agent" to my "/etc/X11/Xsession.options" file. I checked the file and the option is there: # /etc/X11/Xsession.options # # configuration options for /etc/X11/Xsession # See Xsession.options(5) for an explanation of the available options. allow-failsafe allow-user-resources allow-user-xsession use-ssh-agent However, "/etc/kde3/kdm/" has no references whatsoever to "/etc/X11/Xsession.options". I checked the "kdm.options" manpage for a similar option, but to no avail. Has anyone else experienced this? What was your solution (preferably, done in the Debian Way[tm])? Thanks Ulisses -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Preinstalled System
robin wrote: "Sid" is the testing kernel and is more advanced than "Sarge" and will cause you problems; stay away from that one. I would disagree. For a production machine definitely but maybe not a desktop machine. I have run unstable without any problems for 18 months. Maybe I've been lucky but debian in all its forms is one of the most stable linux distribution I have run. This has already been discussed in the list, so I will not repeat what has already been stated -- sid/unstable is *not* about the stability of the system/packages, but about the fact that it is being constantly upgraded. Depending on what you wish to run on your machines, that can be a problem. Consider, for instance, closed-source software which has strict dependencies on library/kernel versions or such, and you may understand why some people would trade upgrades for "stability". However, my experience with Debian as a desktop system, using almost 100% Debian-packaged applications, couldn't be better. Most problems I have had come from binary-only kernel modules (which Debian discourage anyway), but having both an ATI video card and a ndiswrapper-only WLAN adaptor, I cannot blame the distribution. Cheers Ulisses -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Not optimal display
Jean-Francois Lefebvre wrote: Hi. I'm using Debian since 2 weeks, and so far I'm happy with it. But there's one problem. I have an ATI Radeon 9000 graphic card, and still when a GL screensaver (like Euphoria) appears, it's very slow. How do I ensure that my display is optimal for my graphic card. How can I install the latest ATI driver (which are rpm package). Do I need them? I don't know where the problem is... Can anyone help me? Check out the ATI Linux driver packages for Debian (http://xoomer.virgilio.it/flavio.stanchina/debian/fglrx-installer.html). It provides packages which automate the conversion, compilation and setup of the ATI binary-only drivers in your Debian box (including support for 2.6.x kernels in case you are running them). -- Jean-François Lefebvre École Polytechnique de Montréal Étudiant à la maîtrise génie énergétique []'s Ulisses Montenegro -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to change the font size for the mozilla firefox interface?
Nicos Gollan wrote: On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 23:40:25 +0800 Lian Liming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, I am using mozilla firefox under KDE, and find that the font size on toolbar and menu is too small to watch clearly. Firefox is based on GTK, so you need to set the font properties for that toolkit. The Gnome control center (package gnome-control-center) is one way to do this. You can also try the gtk-qt GTK theme, which makes GTK use the underlying QT (i.e., KDE) engine to render widgets. This also gives you KDE-like buttons, and you can configure gtk-qt to keep your font configuration in sync between KDE and GTK. In the particular case of the Mozilla Project applications, which use XUL for a lot of interface code, it may not affect the look & feel as much as you would like, however. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
