Re: Recommended way to use Debian?

2013-07-15 Thread Shervin Emami
I'm using the NVIDIA driver from Debian Stable, but since I have Optimus (both an Intel & NVIDIA GPU), it would be using the Intel driver for normal display, and I made it use Mesa as the default GL library for this reason. So maybe my problems are related to Optimus, I wouldn't be surprised :-( I

Re: Recommended way to use Debian?

2013-07-15 Thread Facundo Aguilera
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 2:14 AM, Shervin Emami wrote: > I'm even using the Debian Stable packages for > NVIDIA GPU and CUDA toolkit and OpenGL. > > ... Are you using the nvidia driver or nouveau? I had similar problems with nouveau and desktop effects enabled. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debia

Re: Recommended way to use Debian?

2013-07-15 Thread Shervin Emami
Thanks Raúl! I'll do some further investigation next time KDE crashes. Cheers, Shervin Emami. http://www.shervinemami.info/openCV.html On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 2:00 AM, Raúl Sánchez wrote: > Hoi: > > I'd say the problem may well be somewhere in the graphics stack. Once > you have > a crash

Re: Recommended way to use Debian?

2013-07-15 Thread Shervin Emami
> First option is since you've already got VirtualBox setup, setup a VM for Skype and other tricky software. I already tried following numerous forums about getting microphone & webcam to work in VirtualBox, some people have been successful but I just couldn't get it to work for WinXP or Ubuntu gu

Re: Recommended way to use Debian?

2013-07-15 Thread Marco Valli
In data domenica 14 luglio 2013 22:14:41, Shervin Emami ha scritto: > Any recommendations on how to get more stability? Did you try to create a new account? regards -- Marco Valli -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: Recommended way to use Debian?

2013-07-15 Thread Raúl Sánchez Siles
Hoi: I'd say the problem may well be somewhere in the graphics stack. Once you have a crash it's quite convenient knowing exactly where it happenned and getting a backtrace of it. Check ~/.xsession-erros and also Xorg log (/var/log/Xorg.[01].log or /var/log/Xorg.[01].log.old if a new X ins

Re: Recommended way to use Debian?

2013-07-15 Thread Shervin Emami
Yes I do this to restart Plasma when it crashes every few days. I am using the NetworkManager applet, and that is well known to have many issues, so that might be partly to blame. But other times when my computer crashes, not even Ctrl+Alt+Del or Ctrl+Alt+BkSpace work, and sometimes Ctrl+Alt+1 work

Re: Recommended way to use Debian?

2013-07-15 Thread Rubin Abdi
Shervin Emami wrote, On 2013-07-15 00:25: > Unfortunately I need Skype, VirtualBox, Oracle JDK and NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit, > I need those many times each day for my work as a remote developer. I'd > love to get rid of Flash, so just now I switched YouTube to use WebM > instead (go to "http://www.youtu

Re: Recommended way to use Debian?

2013-07-15 Thread Kevin Krammer
On Monday, 2013-07-15, Shervin Emami wrote: > I experience crashes around once per day, either as a software like > Iceweasel or Kate or Dolphin crashing or as KDE/Plasma crashing & requiring > me to hit Alt+PrtSc+K to close X & log back in to KDE. I've also found If Plasma Desktop crashes it can

Re: Recommended way to use Debian?

2013-07-15 Thread Shervin Emami
Thanks Rubin & David for the replies. Unfortunately I need Skype, VirtualBox, Oracle JDK and NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit, I need those many times each day for my work as a remote developer. I'd love to get rid of Flash, so just now I switched YouTube to use WebM instead (go to "http://www.youtube.com/html