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On Thursday 01 February 2007 13:52, Rick Reynolds
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It's probably worth getting a
larger hard drive and keeping a Dell-supported OS on there as a
dual boot option just so you can
necessary to make Linux
nice on a laptop.
Oh, and you're not really getting a laptop "without paying for Windows"
when you order from EmperorLinux (unless things have changed). But on
the plus side I was able to make my paid-for Window$ license work for me
in a VMWare virtual ma
you can run it under Debian if you'd like.
Respond back to the list (or me personally) if you'd like the source code.
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with a
n with the udev renaming.
So what's going on here?
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thout issue, it's just the Linux machines that have this
goofy offset problem. I wish I could tell you I've found a solution...
:(
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As I indicated, my etch system is pretty current, and
'X -version' reports version 7.1.1. I'm also running kernel 2.6.17.
Anyone else seeing this? Anyone found the problem?
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Hmm... I've been using vmware workstation for over a year in testing
(was sarge, then etch -- I think, not sure of the release dates). The
standard installation scripts they provided have worked for me each time.
Never played with server, though...
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and more of my settings as
xorg moves up in version number. The amount of things that are
automatic now is much larger than when I was running XFree86.
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nds (or a script) that can
detect when you're AC plugged, you should be able to do something similar.
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Casey Tucker wrote:
Rick Reynolds wrote:
I'm doing nearly the same thing: WRT54GS router, but I'm running
the DD-WRT distro on it. It has the ability to do what you're
talking about, namely mount an NFS partition at boot time and then
read firewalling rules fro
this via mp3info -- use it to query the tags on the
original mp3, then assign them to the new one.
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That's your problem. aptitude sucks.
Interesting claim. I thought I was finally getting into "Debian Power
User" mode when I switched from apt-get to aptitude. What are the
weaknesses of aptitude that make you say the above?
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I had a dream th
ore still shots (using the
video camera as a snapshot camera). That's the way my camera works anyway.
And I can report decent success in getting the video off it via firewire
and being able to process it in kino. I'm using Debian Testing, but I
see you've verified that all the p
never
messed with their support either.
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irewalling rules from a file on the NFS partition.
I found a HOWTO on a blog out there showing me how to set this up, but
then I figured out a slightly better way to do it.
But it's certainly possible with DD-WRT without having to reinvent that
wheel...
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I do n
lots of
space for pics.
I'm still working out a few kinks (like getting the mouse pointer either
to disappear or move off the screen automatically), but my first set of
results look very promising.
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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowe
f hotplug? I'd like
to get this into the "right" spot so that a future upgrade doesn't toss
the file again.
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k at a high-tech company! Oh well...
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ackages).
What I guess I don't know is whether the Debian binary kernels have the
MPPE compiled in or not. But if you were going to compile your own
kernel anyway, I know that you don't need to apply any special patches
to get MPPE working if you're using the Debian Linux source
nappily on my
Intel PentiumM 1.8 GHz laptop.
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was doing two things wrongly:
1. didn't give the udev config the right HW address for my wireless card
(still not sure why that was the case)
2. attempted to rename eth* devices with poorly chosen names.
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I say to all you criminals out there: Knock off all that evil
wireless card seems to be the only one
acting this way.
Anyone understand this changing of addresses? Does it have to do with
this being a prism54 card -- one of the cards that requires a firmware
load upon activation? Maybe that changes the reported address?
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I say t
ing back and forth between eth2 and eth1_temp (on reboots, of
course -- it doesn't change while the system is up).
So I'm wondering if the udev rules aren't quite working (I'm running a
decently recent version of etch), or if I didn't get them quite right.
If I enable t
I've installed
that and want to keep it!")
Any advice, or perhaps pointers to better articles than what I've found?
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tings (use the package
maintainers copy of config files or mine, for instance).
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Chris Lale wrote:
Rick Reynolds wrote:
I run etch on my laptop system, and I usually do a dist-upgrade each
weekend to keep up to date.
This past weekend's update seems to have broken some things in either
gnome or gdm that are decently difficult to work around. Wondered if
anyone
up
with a solution. Can someone point me in the right direction?
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m) and one from before via gnome. Any way to clear out the gnome
definition without actually logging into gnome (since I can't do so
reliably at this point)? Or do I have to blow away all my gnome user
settings?
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Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
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Now that I'm pasting this into an email, I see that I never enabled the
"CoreKeyboard" option. Is that what I'm missing to get past this goofy
gnome problem?
w different keys are malfunctioning.
This is decently painful. My guess is that some underlying library that
gnome and/or gdm uses has some kind of problem, as this last upgrade
only asked me about changing one configuration file and that was for xdm
which I don't use.
Any help wou
Stephen R Laniel wrote:
On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 09:30:35AM -0400, Rick Reynolds wrote:
But attacking this problem from another angle: I'm assuming it's not a
good idea to do an upgrade from within X. Is that accurate? If I ran
the upgrade within an xterm window, I'd pr
Stephen R Laniel wrote:
On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 09:20:29AM -0400, Rick Reynolds wrote:
When I do an 'apt-get upgrade' (running testing) the command typically
fills more than a screensworth while it downloads packages. Then I see
apt-listbugs running, but the crucial output -- th
aptop to the latest etch:
1. CTRL-ALT-F1 to drop to a virt console
2. '/etc/init.d/gdm stop' to exit X
3. 'apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade'
Maybe it's the fact that I'm running the upgrade from a virt console?
I'd appreciate a pointer or two.
Thanks
nd
add it again, perhaps?
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. The screensaver is one large animation across both screens.
I'm wondering where I can read about how dual screen setups interface
with the window management (I'm running gnome, BTW). Is there something
I can tweak to make the two screens behave how I'd like?
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to root out of my system.
Thanks for asking me good questions which inspired me to keep digging
until I found it.
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ine (after taking out the
other two alsa links) and that's the message I see -- it wasn't there
before:
Saved ALSA mixer settings detected; aumix will not touch mixer.
But it still doesn't come back with the volume settings restored.
I'll keep hunting...
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Liam O'Toole wrote:
On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 11:23:44 -0400
Rick Reynolds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Maybe I should remove the symlinks to /etc/init.d/alsa and see what
happens since alsa-util is already getting called earlier. Any
thoughts?
There are two links to alsa scripts
alsa and
alsasound. Plus the call to alsa-util from /etc/rcS.d makes three. I'm
really starting to wonder if all three of these are meant to be called
at startup.
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Kim Christensen wrote:
On 4/11/06, Rick Reynolds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
A few topics similar to this have been recently discussed, and I was
waiting for this particular question to be hit, but it never did (at
least that I saw).
My sound works great. My only problem is th
Lubos Vrbka wrote:
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Rick Reynolds napsal(a):
A few topics similar to this have been recently discussed, and I was
waiting for this particular question to be hit, but it never did (at
least that I saw).
My sound works great. My only
Liam O'Toole wrote:
On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 10:29:48 -0400
Rick Reynolds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
My sound works great. My only problem is that the settings I apply
to the Gnome volume control applet don't persist across reboots
(although they do across restarts of X).
boots (although
they do across restarts of X).
I'm guessing there is some alsa- that just needs to be
reconfigured. Anyone have a pointer for me?
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David Kirchner wrote:
On 4/10/06, Rick Reynolds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
More of a gnome question, but I've seen those posted to the list before...
Is there a way to control the workspace switcher from the command line?
Thanks to David Kirchner who pointed me tow
Ron Johnson wrote:
On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 20:33 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 18:01 -0400, Rick Reynolds wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 16:11 -0400, Rick Reynolds wrote:
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Yes. I'm
Ron Johnson wrote:
On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 16:11 -0400, Rick Reynolds wrote:
More of a gnome question, but I've seen those posted to the list before...
Is there a way to control the workspace switcher from the command line?
I'd like to have a tool that would essentially let me d
-switch-to-left-workspace
I'm aware of 3ddesk and use it in this fashion. I'd like to find a
gnome-only alternative tool.
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with
eth0
does not have an address, then eth1 is permitted to continue through the
rest of the pre-up lines.
BTW, I'm not 100% sure that I'm doing that in the most efficient way
possible (i.e. I'm not remembering at this moment why I put the '&&
true' on the end).
again
(except for a small speed increase).
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e install Linux on one for my job -- all the while
betting that I'd get frustrated attempting to do Java development in
their environment outside of Windows. Then was pleasantly surprised
when I had everything working within a week or so!
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I've got this printer exposed via CUPS and samba, and it is a bit
frustrating that my wife's windows laptop has no such issue when it prints.
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enabled... No big deal though. Switching to the kernel space NFS
server fixed me right up.
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