Re: Re: Recommended way to use Debian?

2013-07-31 Thread Shervin Emami
Thanks everyone for your help, it does indeed look like I'm having graphics issues thanks to Optimus. Plasma suddenly died on me just now (or atleast that's what I thought happened) and after looking into Xorg.0.log I saw that actually my Intel GPU had crashed! Hence why I couldn't see Plasma

Re: Re: Recommended way to use Debian?

2013-07-17 Thread Diederik de Haas
On Monday 15 July 2013 11:24:28 Shervin Emami wrote: 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

Re: Re: Recommended way to use Debian?

2013-07-17 Thread Shervin Emami
Thanks everyone for your help, it does indeed look like I'm having graphics issues thanks to Optimus. Plasma suddenly died on me just now (or atleast that's what I thought happened) and after looking into Xorg.0.log I saw that actually my Intel GPU had crashed! Hence why I couldn't see Plasma

Re: Recommended way to use Debian?

2013-07-16 Thread Alan Ezust
I use skype and pulseaudio in Debian Wheezy. I just recently started using pulseaudio and I like it, especially since I have 2 sound cards and I like to have System and Skype sounds go through my analog output while my music going through a digital output. What I have observed, however, is that

Re: Recommended way to use Debian?

2013-07-15 Thread David Smith
On 07/15/2013 01:14 PM, Shervin Emami wrote: Hi, Any recommendations on how to get more stability? Because I really want to stick with Debian KDE for long-term. As far as iceweasel crashing, I think that's really bizarre.. I use it everyday for years on lots of different hardware and it's

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

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 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

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

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

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 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

Re: Recommended way to use Debian?

2013-07-15 Thread Facundo Aguilera
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 2:14 AM, Shervin Emami shervin.em...@gmail.com 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

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?

2013-07-14 Thread Rubin Abdi
First off I would say simply try apt-get removing most of the odd 3rd party peices of software you listed in your email. Particularly Skype and Flash. See if you can go a few days without either of them. Next step would be simply to try a more recenter kernel (though honestly 3.2.0 is fairly