Re: Nvidia binary blob and libcairo2 1.10+

2012-07-15 Thread Dan Serban
On Sun, 15 Jul 2012 20:52:01 -0500 hvw59601 wrote: > Dan Serban wrote: > > The bug is reported here: > > > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=616308 > > > > Reading through that bug report, it seems that this has been an issue > > for some time, a patch is provided and I have

Re: Re (3): xmonad and LXDE.

2012-07-15 Thread Daniel Landau
On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 10:14 PM, wrote: > Incidentally, xmonad.man refers to the mod key but never mentions what > it is. + gave the dmenu. On a PC keyboard, mod appears to be Alt. > You can change the mod key. See: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmonad/Frequently_asked_questions#Rebindin

Re: What commands do I need to remove all vestiges of X + Bumblebee from my Squeeze installation?

2012-07-15 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 15 iul 12, 10:50:37, Gary Dale wrote: > You can try locating the Bumblebee files and removing them manually > (i.e. delete the files). This may require a couple of passes with > reboots in between. You may even want to boot into single-user > (rescue) mode or use a live CD to ensure that th

Re: Debian on a 32G USB flashdrive

2012-07-15 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 15 iul 12, 21:55:51, Loic J. Duros wrote: > Thanks so much for your answer! > > On 07/14/2012 08:00 PM, Brian wrote: > >>Use extlinux/syslinux by all means if you wish, but being able boot a > >>USB stick on any computer is certainly possible. > Great! I tried again! This time I specified /

Re: How can I install an amd64 to my new bought Laptop/

2012-07-15 Thread Benimaur Gao
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 1:13 AM, Claudius Hubig wrote: > Hello Benimaur, > > Benimaur Gao wrote: >> OK. >> 1. I dd the netinst iso to a flash disk & boot the machine with it. >> 2. I try to rsync the whole system to my new machine >> by "rsync -av /* --exclude={/home/user/*,/sys/*,/dev/*,/proc/*,

Re: what graphic card to buy?

2012-07-15 Thread Sthu Deus
Good time of the day, Gary. Thank You for Your time and answer. You worte: > I agree, although the Nouveau drivers are getting better. AMD/ATI has > the greater commitment to open source, which is another great reason > to use their cards. Wow! I did not know about the commitment - it is reall

Re: How can I install an amd64 to my new bought Laptop/

2012-07-15 Thread Benimaur Gao
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 12:05 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 15 Jul 2012 23:37:02 +0800, Benimaur Gao wrote: > >> On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 11:20 PM, Camaleón wrote: > >>> "Cannot use" means that you already installed a full system on your >>> machine? >> >> No... sorry for my crappy English, I mean

Re: audio capturing in debian?

2012-07-15 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2012/7/16 Karen Lewellen > Hi again, > > I am seeking to find one single program, as audio hijack pro is one single > program, that combines multiple recording functions...so I do not have to > hunt through many utilities. > I do know about audacity, nice to learn there is a copy in debian. > h

Re: Re(2): Backup system for use when Debian fails.

2012-07-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 05:38:33PM -0700, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > > * From: Camaleón > * Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 15:52:11 + (UTC) > > Well, that's what LiveCDs and USB sticks with a running system are aimed > > for, ... > > Starting from functional cold hardware with a LiveCD or

Re: audio capturing in debian?

2012-07-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 10:09:34PM -0400, Karen Lewellen wrote: > Hi again, > You wrote: > > > >>to cointheir expression, in three words, record any audio. > >>If I have miss typed the ink let me know.> > >Still not sure what you're looking for; there are plenty of utilities / > >programs in Debi

Re: Small xorg?

2012-07-15 Thread Patrick Bartek
- Original Message - > From: Joel Roth > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Cc: > Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2012 4:40 PM > Subject: Re: Small xorg? > > On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 06:29:55PM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: >> Any recommendations for a small, compact version of X (limited fe

Re: audio capturing in debian?

2012-07-15 Thread Karen Lewellen
Hi again, You wrote: to cointheir expression, in three words, record any audio. If I have miss typed the ink let me know.> Still not sure what you're looking for; there are plenty of utilities / programs in Debian that can record audio, from arecord to audacity. What, exactly, are you trying t

Re: Debian on a 32G USB flashdrive

2012-07-15 Thread Loic J. Duros
Thanks so much for your answer! On 07/14/2012 08:00 PM, Brian wrote: Use extlinux/syslinux by all means if you wish, but being able boot a USB stick on any computer is certainly possible. Great! I tried again! This time I specified /dev/sdb1/ to set grub, and now I can boot from the USB flashdr

Re: Nvidia binary blob and libcairo2 1.10+

2012-07-15 Thread hvw59601
Dan Serban wrote: For those unaware, running wheezy or squeeze + backports while using the Nvidia binary blob (and in some cases nouveau) drawing _anything_ in X is painful, it can take seconds to respond to a mouse click, or minimizing/maximizing a window. Scrolling speed is horrendous as well.

Re(2): Backup system for use when Debian fails.

2012-07-15 Thread peasthope
* From: Camaleón * Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 15:52:11 + (UTC) > Well, that's what LiveCDs and USB sticks with a running system are aimed for, > ... Starting from functional cold hardware with a LiveCD or USB stick, approximately how much time is needed to put a reference document

Re: audio capturing in debian?

2012-07-15 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 15 Jul 2012 19:02:32 -0400 (EDT) Karen Lewellen wrote: > Good evening, > You wrote:... > On Sun, 15 Jul 2012, Celejar wrote: > >> anything that equals audio hijack pro which is a mac program, in debian? > > I can't help you, but for best results, you need to explain what, > > exactly

Nvidia binary blob and libcairo2 1.10+

2012-07-15 Thread Dan Serban
For those unaware, running wheezy or squeeze + backports while using the Nvidia binary blob (and in some cases nouveau) drawing _anything_ in X is painful, it can take seconds to respond to a mouse click, or minimizing/maximizing a window. Scrolling speed is horrendous as well. For the months tha

Shutdown and suspend not working on laptop

2012-07-15 Thread DJ Amireh
I am having trouble with power management on my laptop. I cannot get suspend or shutdown to work, attempting either causes my laptop to have a black screen and not respond to any input and I am forced to manually shutdown by holding the power button. I am running Debian Squeeze with KDE. Shutting d

Re: audio capturing in debian?

2012-07-15 Thread Karen Lewellen
Good evening, You wrote:... On Sun, 15 Jul 2012, Celejar wrote: anything that equals audio hijack pro which is a mac program, in debian? I can't help you, but for best results, you need to explain what, exactly AHP is and does. There are probably many on the list who are familiar wit

Re (3): xmonad and LXDE.

2012-07-15 Thread peasthope
From: Bob Proulx Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 22:57:03 -0600 > When doing things like that with the window manager I usually start a > terminal first. I like xterm. OK, xmonad ran and mod-p gave a dmenu as a list of commands in a ribbon across the top of the screen. The left and right arrow ke

Re: Unresponsive SDHC card

2012-07-15 Thread Guido Martínez
It's the most recent debian cd on the site. No previous upgrades. $ uname -a Linux mk-ii 2.6.32-5-686 #1 SMP Sun May 6 04:01:19 UTC 2012 i686 GNU/Linux $ lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Debian Description:Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.5 (squeeze) Release:6.0.5 Coden

Re: How can I install an amd64 to my new bought Laptop/

2012-07-15 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Benimaur, Benimaur Gao wrote: > OK. > 1. I dd the netinst iso to a flash disk & boot the machine with it. > 2. I try to rsync the whole system to my new machine > by "rsync -av /* --exclude={/home/user/*,/sys/*,/dev/*,/proc/*,/mnt/*} If you simply want to copy your old system onto the new

Re: Fwd: How can I install an amd64 to my new bought Laptop/

2012-07-15 Thread Gary Dale
On 15/07/12 11:24 AM, Benimaur Gao wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: Benimaur Gao Date: Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 11:24 PM Subject: Re: How can I install an amd64 to my new bought Laptop/ To: g...@dalefamily.org On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 11:05 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 15/07/12 10:2

Re: what graphic card to buy?

2012-07-15 Thread Gary Dale
On 15/07/12 12:04 PM, Sthu Deus wrote: Good time of the day, Slavko. You worte: i am using the nvidia cards only. Some years. When i got to setup the computers (notebooks) with ATI cards, i was always some (less or bigger) problems. My actual computer has integrated ATI, but i am using the ex

Re: Loadlin and Squeeze kernel 2.6.32

2012-07-15 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 14 Jul 2012 19:11:41 -0400, Tom H wrote: >> On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 4:14 PM, Camaleón wrote: >>> Reading from GRUB's legacy documentation¹, I see none listed. However, >>> GRUB2 manual² does not even mention the possibility of install

Re: How can I install an amd64 to my new bought Laptop/

2012-07-15 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 15 Jul 2012 23:37:02 +0800, Benimaur Gao wrote: > On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 11:20 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> "Cannot use" means that you already installed a full system on your >> machine? > > No... sorry for my crappy English, I mean I can't use it to install > system. Okay, then how do you

Re: what graphic card to buy?

2012-07-15 Thread Sthu Deus
Good time of the day, Slavko. You worte: > i am using the nvidia cards only. Some years. When i got to setup the > computers (notebooks) with ATI cards, i was always some (less or > bigger) problems. My actual computer has integrated ATI, but i am > using the external nvidia one. I can say abso

Re: Loadlin and Squeeze kernel 2.6.32

2012-07-15 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 14 Jul 2012 19:11:41 -0400 (EDT), Tom H wrote: > > Thanks for the info and the links. You've misunderstood me. I didn't > say that Linux could boot without a bootloader. I said that I didn't > understand the purpose of the "Generic Boot Code" since other > distributions don't use it when i

Re: How can I install an amd64 to my new bought Laptop/

2012-07-15 Thread Benimaur Gao
On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 11:20 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 15 Jul 2012 22:24:36 +0800, Benimaur Gao wrote: > >>I bought a new Laptop a few days ago, it's an X220i, and I planned >> to install a amd64 system on it >>I dump a netinst iso(amd64) image to a flash disk by dd, boot and >> try t

Fwd: How can I install an amd64 to my new bought Laptop/

2012-07-15 Thread Benimaur Gao
-- Forwarded message -- From: Benimaur Gao Date: Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 11:24 PM Subject: Re: How can I install an amd64 to my new bought Laptop/ To: g...@dalefamily.org On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 11:05 PM, Gary Dale wrote: > On 15/07/12 10:24 AM, Benimaur Gao wrote: >> >> Hi, >>

Re: How can I install an amd64 to my new bought Laptop/

2012-07-15 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 15 Jul 2012 22:24:36 +0800, Benimaur Gao wrote: >I bought a new Laptop a few days ago, it's an X220i, and I planned > to install a amd64 system on it >I dump a netinst iso(amd64) image to a flash disk by dd, boot and > try to work with it, but I found it just cannot use. :( "Canno

Re: What commands do I need to remove all vestiges of X + Bumblebee from my Squeeze installation?

2012-07-15 Thread Gary Dale
On 15/07/12 10:00 AM, aditya menon wrote: Thanks, I'll try the Purge option. However, there is a slight difficulty because I don't know what packages X has installed... there are many xserver-xorg-* packages I can't track down - will it be okay if I do a regex remove (something like `aptitude

Re: What commands do I need to remove all vestiges of X + Bumblebee from my Squeeze installation?

2012-07-15 Thread aditya menon
Hi, Kindly disregard my previous message - I've done a reinstall of the OS, and I'm about to start a new thread for recommendations. Thanks... On Sunday, July 15, 2012 7:30:01 AM UTC+5:30, aditya menon wrote: > Hello! > > I have had to install and remove X multiple times using aptitude trying t

Re: What commands do I need to remove all vestiges of X + Bumblebee from my Squeeze installation?

2012-07-15 Thread aditya menon
Thanks, I'll try the Purge option. However, there is a slight difficulty because I don't know what packages X has installed... there are many xserver-xorg-* packages I can't track down - will it be okay if I do a regex remove (something like `aptitude purge xserver-*`, for example)? Also, Bumb

Re: No sound in headphone through jack - Thinkpad T510

2012-07-15 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 14 Jul 2012 14:09:55 -0400, Patrik Dufresne wrote: > package: alsa-base > Version: 1.0.23+dfsg-4 > > After a suspend / resume, there is not more sound coming out of the > headphone jack. (...) Have you tried to reload alsa ("alsa reload")? > > Step to reproduce: > 1. Start the laptop >

How can I install an amd64 to my new bought Laptop/

2012-07-15 Thread Benimaur Gao
Hi, I bought a new Laptop a few days ago, it's an X220i, and I planned to install a amd64 system on it I dump a netinst iso(amd64) image to a flash disk by dd, boot and try to work with it, but I found it just cannot use. :( it's so easy to get crash after some trivial commands, such as 't

Re: Loadlin and Squeeze kernel 2.6.32

2012-07-15 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 14 Jul 2012 19:11:41 -0400, Tom H wrote: > On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 4:14 PM, Camaleón wrote: (...) >> Reading from GRUB's legacy documentation¹, I see none listed. However, >> GRUB2 manual² does not even mention the possibility of installing GRUB2 >> into the first boot sector of a parti

Re: Do ATI HD cards have good working drivers for Linux (Debian Squeeze in particular)

2012-07-15 Thread Gary Dale
On 15/07/12 09:17 AM, Ivo Ugrina wrote: On 07/12/2012 03:04 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 12/07/12 04:58 AM, Ivo Ugrina wrote: I've bought ATI 6750 a few months ago and I'm not satisfied with FLOSS driver. I can't suspend anymore. The card simply won't shut down. Did you file a bug report for it? N

Re: t128_drv.so

2012-07-15 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 15 Jul 2012 07:34:17 -0400, ljmoore wrote: > On my B&W G4 I've had to remove the rage driver from > /usr/lib/xorg/module/drivers > or the machine freezes (both squeeze and wheezy,) *but* the file from > wheezy works on squeeze and end-runs the freeze. Just a point of data. > Thanks. Thank

Re: java plugin, is does it have any security vulnerabilities ?

2012-07-15 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 14 Jul 2012 21:54:09 +0100, dave selby wrote: > i am running Debian stable (squeeze) and have java installed > 6.26-osqueeze1 as a package. > > Firefox uses this package but when I asked it to check if plugins are up > to date it says nope, need version 7... Yes, the latest Oracle's Java

Re: Do ATI HD cards have good working drivers for Linux (Debian Squeeze in particular)

2012-07-15 Thread Ivo Ugrina
On 07/12/2012 03:04 PM, Gary Dale wrote: > On 12/07/12 04:58 AM, Ivo Ugrina wrote: >> I've bought ATI 6750 a few months ago >> and I'm not satisfied with FLOSS driver. >> I can't suspend anymore. The card simply >> won't shut down. > Did you file a bug report for it? Nope :( I've solved it with d

Re: audio capturing in debian?

2012-07-15 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 14 Jul 2012 16:21:49 -0400 (EDT) Karen Lewellen wrote: > Hi all, > anything that equals audio hijack pro which is a mac program, in debian? > I recall some posts about flash being outdated, but that may have nothing > to do with my question. I can't help you, but for best results, you

t128_drv.so

2012-07-15 Thread ljmoore
On my B&W G4 I've had to remove the rage driver from /usr/lib/xorg/module/drivers or the machine freezes (both squeeze and wheezy,) *but* the file from wheezy works on squeeze and end-runs the freeze. Just a point of data. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Preventing APT from upgrading to wheezy/sid?

2012-07-15 Thread Claudius Hubig
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hello nyuszika7h, nice name, btw. nyuszika7h wrote: > This unfortunately does not work though. How could I prevent APT from > upgrading to wheezy/sid? Try something like APT::Default-Release "squeeze"; in /etc/apt/apt.conf. Best regards, Clau

Preventing APT from upgrading to wheezy/sid?

2012-07-15 Thread nyuszika7h
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm running a server with squeeze+backports, and yesterday I found out that I need Python 3.2 for an IRC bot. So I went ahead and added these lines to my /etc/apt/sources.list: > deb http://http.debian.net/debian testing main contrib non-free >

Re: Unresponsive SDHC card

2012-07-15 Thread computer.enthusiastic
Hi, 2012/7/15 Guido Martínez : > I have a 16gb Kingston SDHC. But now with > my new installation the card is completely unresponsive, I can't use > fdisk, nor dd, nor cat on it. Also system shutdown will halt until I > remove the card from the reader. Please, specify debian version and kernel ve

Re: java plugin, is does it have any security vulnerabilities ?

2012-07-15 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 06:23:58PM -0400, Andrew Reid wrote: Hi, > You can switch to OpenJDK, or remove your sun-java6 packages and install > the JRE from the Oracle-provided binaries. I would rephrase it a little bit to 'You _should_ switch to OpenJDK and the icedtea browser plugin'. If you c