[SOLVED] Re: Acer Aspire 5 A515-45 touchpad suddenly stopped working on debian 12.5

2024-07-06 Thread Steinar Bang
>>>>> Steinar Bang : > Sometime (a day or so maybe) before <2024-06-26 Wed 19:59> the touchpad > stopped working on my Acer Aspire 5 with a MATE desktop on debian 12.5. > At the time the laptop had gone 50 days since the last reboot so I > figured somethi

Re: Acer Aspire 5 A515-45 touchpad suddenly stopped working on debian 12.5

2024-07-02 Thread Steinar Bang
> CToID : > https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Touchpad_Synaptics#Touchpad_not_recognized_after_shutdown_from_Arch > Certain touchpads (Elantech in particular) will fail to be > recognized as a device of any sort after a standard shutdown from > Arch Linux. > This seems to fit your problem

Acer Aspire 5 A515-45 touchpad suddenly stopped working on debian 12.5

2024-07-02 Thread Steinar Bang
Sometime (a day or so maybe) before <2024-06-26 Wed 19:59> the touchpad stopped working on my Acer Aspire 5 with a MATE desktop on debian 12.5. At the time the laptop had gone 50 days since the last reboot so I figured something had gone wrong during the time and a reboot would fix it. So in

Re: unknown encoding error in Fontconfig config file

2004-08-26 Thread Steinar Bang
Steinar Bang [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Platform: Pentium M (Dell Latitude D600 laptop), debian sarge (testing/unstable), XFree86 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4, qt 3.3.2-0pre2, kde 3.2.2-1, fontconfig 2.2.3-1 When I came back from vacation, I did an apt-get dist-upgrade

Noisy arpwatch

2004-08-24 Thread Steinar Bang
Platform: Intel Pentium M, debian sarge (testing/unstable), arpwatch 2.1a11-6.3 After my last apt-get dist-upgrade, arpwatch has gotten very noisy. It keeps sending me emails about every matchine it sees on the LAN. At first it was kind of interesting. Right now, I would

unknown encoding error in Fontconfig config file

2004-08-21 Thread Steinar Bang
Platform: Pentium M (Dell Latitude D600 laptop), debian sarge (testing/unstable), XFree86 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4, qt 3.3.2-0pre2, kde 3.2.2-1, fontconfig 2.2.3-1 When I came back from vacation, I did an apt-get dist-upgrade which upgraded a lot of

Re: Pinning to testing

2004-01-01 Thread Steinar Bang
Kjetil Kjernsmo [EMAIL PROTECTED]: So, now my preferences look like: Package: * Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 99 Package: * Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 550 Mine look like this. It seems to be working. I've no idea why (pinning is a mystery to me): Package: * Pin:

Re: Unable to start kde session on display :1

2003-12-09 Thread Steinar Bang
Mauro Darida [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Try (look at spacing): startx -- :2 vt8 Does the same as the same command without the vt8, ie. starts an X display with no WM, three xterms and an xclock. It doesn't connect to the running DM using XDMCP, to get a login box. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Unable to start kde session on display :1

2003-12-09 Thread Steinar Bang
Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Does this mean that it actually starts 4 X servers? That doesn't seem to be the case, so I guess the reserve keyword makes the difference? What does reserve mean in this context? There wasn't anything about it in the comments of the file.

Re: Unable to start kde session on display :1

2003-12-07 Thread Steinar Bang
Steinar Bang [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Platform: Intel PII 233 [snip!] kdm 3.1.3-1 [snip!] As far as I can tell from the /etc/kde2/kdm/kdmrc, the /etc/kde2/kdm/kdm-config, the /etc/kde2/kdm/Xaccess, and the /etc/X11/fs/config files, kdm should be listening to XDMCP requests. There's also

Re: Unable to start kde session on display :1

2003-12-07 Thread Steinar Bang
Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Rather than use xinit, you might find it easier to just edit /etc/kde3/kdm/Xservers to start up the second kdm session. I've had two login sessions before (don't do it any more), and I believe this is how I did it, but I no longer remember for sure. My

Unable to start kde session on display :1

2003-12-06 Thread Steinar Bang
Platform: Intel PII 233 debian sarge (testing/unstable) xserver-xfree86 4.2.1-12.1 kdm 3.1.3-1 I have an X server using kdm to handle sessions on the Ctrl-Alt-F7 display, and I'm trying to start a second X server also handled by kdm on the Ctrl-Alt-F8'display, using

Re: woody 2.4 kernel netinstall and NIC autodetect?

2003-06-02 Thread Steinar Bang
Geordie Birch [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Check the comprehensive install manual at debian.org. [snip!] The manual doesn't give an answer to my question. No documentation? Nothing printed on the chips on the card, or no access to google? I used the name of the card and google. But that's beside

woody 2.4 kernel netinstall and NIC autodetect?

2003-05-31 Thread Steinar Bang
Previously, when I've done potato netinstalls, I've been using the compact floppy set. This kernel has always autodetected NICs. Last week I tried using a CD with the 2.4bf netinstall, to install on an Compaq^H^H^H^H^H^HHP with two builtin Broadcom 5700 NICs, and one extra e100-based NIC. The

Re: 2.4.20 kernel for woody

2003-05-28 Thread Steinar Bang
Kevin McKinley [EMAIL PROTECTED]: It's possible to make a kernel image deb on another Woody machine and install it on the target Woody machine. My problem is that I don't have any other woody machines available to do the build on. Only sarge testing/unstable machines. But in any case, as I

Re: 2.4.20 kernel for woody

2003-05-27 Thread Steinar Bang
Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 10:43:58AM +0200, Steinar Bang wrote: Does anyone know of a 2.4.20 kernel packaged for woody? You should be able to install the kernel-source package and compile it with the kernel-package (see /usr/share/doc/kernel-package/README.gz

Re: 2.4.20 kernel for woody

2003-05-27 Thread Steinar Bang
Steinar Bang [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Does anyone know of a 2.4.20 kernel packaged for woody? Here it is: http://lists.debian.org/debian-security/2003/debian-security-200305/msg00288.html Thanx to Herbert Xu for pointing me to it! (and of course also for maintaining the package