Re: Checking for kernel freshness

On 2012-04-12 17:59 +0200, Bernhard Schmidt wrote: > The hard part seems to be matching the running kernel against the > version installed. I cannot figure out a good way so far. Nothing in the > running kernel seems to show the Debian version (i.e. > 2.6.32-41squeeze2), thus I cannot compare it.

Re: iceweasel drawing problems

On 2012-04-06 10:47 +0200, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 06 Apr 2012, wolf python london wrote: >> On 6 April 2012 02:11, Dale Harris wrote: >> > Anyone else having problems with iceweasel (on SID)  pixelating text >> > within it's window?  Chromium is not doing the same thing, so why it >> > make

Re: apt-listbugs misses #665959 in Sid dist-upgrade

On 2012-03-29 21:38 +0200, hvw59601 wrote: > Just did an aptitude full-upgrade on Sid and it upgraded all sorts of > stuff, also ncurses-base. > > That is affected by bug #665959 which messes up all the dpkg dialogs > and also mc. Yes, sorry about that. > But it gives a fix: copy /lib/terminfo/l

Re: Reducing size of /lib following an 'apt-get upgrade'?

On 2012-03-27 02:08 +0200, GoOSSBears wrote: > Have Debian Wheezy installed and recently performed an 'apt-get upgrade' to > kernel 3.2.0 (3.2.0-2-686-pae in full). > The system is a single-boot/Debian-only x86 machine with an > intentionally-limited 400MB root partition (/), besides larger and

Re: Monitor remains in Standby after Suspend

On 2012-03-28 16:58 +0200, Leonard Le-Rey wrote: > I use Debian/Wheezy (Testing) and have a NVIDIA Geforce Graphic Card, > an Eizo EV2335W monitor. Which model is that card, and which driver do you use? > If I use the option "Suspend" in GNOME 3, > everything works and the computer shuts down. I

Re: rt kernel and nouveau

On 2012-03-22 12:59 +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 11:39:51PM -0700, daniel jimenez wrote: >> Hello everyone, >> >> I'm trying to get an rt kernel working in debian testing on an amd64 laptop >> with nvidia graphics. >> >> Ideally I'd have nouveau set up to start when I sele

Re: Failed to open VDPAU backend for mplayer2.

On 2012-03-19 09:55 +0100, Sthu Deus wrote: > Besides performance I try to remove CPU 100% while paused on > video file - problem . This should not happen regardless of the backend used. Do you have this problem in other video players as well? > Can You prompt me how I can find out the plans on

Re: kernel modesetting - set only at boot, or changeable?

On 2012-03-19 03:40 +0100, Dan B. wrote: > Currently I'm trying to solve the following problem (on a system not yet > set up enough to run X): > > If I boot with my KVM switch connecting my monitor to my Squeeze system, > I get a video resolution of 1920x1080 pixels (the resolution of my > monitor

Re: Failed to open VDPAU backend for mplayer2.

On 2012-03-18 19:31 +0100, Sthu Deus wrote: > Using mplayer2 for playing video files I get this error always: > > Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_r300.so: cannot open shared > object file: No such file or directory [vdpau] Error when calling > vdp_device_create_x11: 1 > > In order to solve i

Re: force-confmiss does not work

On 2012-03-11 17:31 +0100, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > I'm trying to reinstall smb.conf file as it came with samba-common. > > However, even when I reinstall samba-common (into which it seems to > appear) with the force-confmiss option, it won't get reinstlled: This happens because the file /

Re: Latest update borks

On 2012-03-05 14:46 +0100, Frank McCormick wrote: > The latest upgrade to Sid has apparently borked creation of initrd.img. > This is what was upgraded: > > sid:/home/frank# aptitude full-upgrade > The following packages will be upgraded: > gir1.2-javascriptcoregtk-3.0 gir1.2-webkit-3.0 > libjav

Re: How do I suppress dpms mode setting messages on text console?

On 2012-03-04 18:16 +0100, Stephen Powell wrote: > I am using Debian wheezy i386 with an Nvidia video card and the default > nouveau driver. Everytime I switch back and forth between the X console > (tty7) and a text console (such as tty1), tty1 gets spammed with messages > like this: > > [drm] n

Re: How do I debug kernel panic that occurs while running X?

On 2012-03-04 09:16 +0100, Jason Heeris wrote: > On 4 March 2012 01:28, Brendon Higgins wrote: >> Any more ideas? As I said, I tried getting kdump working but have been having >> trouble getting it to behave. > > One more thought, but it's a bit of a long shot as to whether you have > the equipme

Re: "octave" linked to "octave-3.6.1" but only "octave-3.6.1" will start octave

On 2012-03-01 16:24 +0100, Edward C. Jones wrote: > I have just compiled and installed octave from source and removed the Debian > octave packages. If I do > > cd /usr/local/bin > ls -il > > the output includes > > 1584647 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root staff 12 Feb 29 22:14 octave -> octave-3.6.1 > 1584644

Re: not in X. man command does not respect set bell-style visible

On 2012-02-29 18:29 +0100, Mitchell Laks wrote: > I like silence. > > While running a tty console > (no X running) > I include in .inputrc > the line > set bell-style visible > > this is clearly respected by say the > tab command on an empty line (no beep, just a flash) > however > when i do

Re: /etc/alternatives contains files

On 2012-02-29 17:26 +0100, Bob Brewer wrote: > Some packages failed to upgrade in my lenny to squeeze update because > updare-alternatives encountered a file rather than a symbolic link. An > example of this was fakeroot which produced the error: > > "update-alternatives: error: readlink(/etc/al

Re: Debian SID or Wheezy/SID?

On 2012-02-18 18:02 +0100, Csanyi Pal wrote: > Sven Joachim writes: > >> On 2012-02-18 17:37 +0100, Csanyi Pal wrote: >>> Can I mess up my system in this way? >> >> Possibly. What does "apt-cache policy" print? > [...] > 500 http://

Re: Debian SID or Wheezy/SID?

On 2012-02-18 17:37 +0100, Csanyi Pal wrote: > I'm running Debian GNU/Linux wheezy/sid system. > > /etc/apt/sources.list > > deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free > deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free > > deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ w

Re: "Invisible" files on /tmp from Flash or Iceweasel?

On 2012-02-11 15:33 +0100, Randy Kramer wrote: > The problem I have is that /tmp is still filling up with something, and > if /tmp gets 100% full (when I have a lot of videos opened (obviously not > playing--just sitting there and loading so that I can view them when I switch > to the appropria

Re: egrep oddity

On 2012-02-05 22:31 +0100, Tomas Volka wrote: > On Ne 05-02-12 | 16:03, Neal Murphy wrote: >> For quite some time now, I've been getting peeved with egrep not doing what >> it >> should. >> >> I have Squeese installed and up-to-date. In an xterm running bash or on a >> console running bash or

Re: A question about ssh-agent

On 2012-02-04 09:09 +0100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 04/02/12 19:05, Paul E Condon wrote: >> >> Where in the start-up code of a system that is running ssh client is >> the ssh-agent started? It has got to be early in the process, but >> where? And what exactly is done? Should I be able to see i

Re: xserver-xorg vs. xserver-xorg-video-nouveau

On 2012-02-01 05:41 +0100, Stayvoid wrote: >> What version of Debian do you have installed? > I'm using gNewSense (AFAIK it's based on Squeeze). That's certainly not optimal, you need something newer for your card. >> What Nvidia graphics? > NVIDIA GeForce 330M This seems to be an NVA5 chip for

Re: xserver-xorg vs. xserver-xorg-video-nouveau

On 2012-02-01 12:42 +0100, Stayvoid wrote: >> Serious, you're using a Mac [1], there's nothing I could imagine that's >> more un-libre. > I can't go back in time, but I can change the future. > >> I really wonder why you won't use the proprietary driver. > It's a matter of principle. I'd recommen

Re: xserver-xorg vs. xserver-xorg-video-nouveau

On 2012-01-31 20:29 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > xserver-xorg includes X and xserver-xorg-video-nouveau includes a borked > Nvidia driver for X. This "borked" driver works fine for me. YMMV, of course. Sven, maintainer of the "borked" package -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: xserver-xorg vs. xserver-xorg-video-nouveau

On 2012-01-31 17:47 +0100, Stayvoid wrote: > What's the difference between these packages? See the package descriptions. The xserver-xorg-video-nouveau package contains a video driver for NVidia cards, while xserver-xorg is a metapackage that depends on all necessary parts of the X window system

Re: /dev/disk/by-uuid/2a687c3c-ffb4-4577-9781-beb6b88eb71b normal

On 2012-01-31 17:11 +0100, lina wrote: > ~$ df > Filesystem 1K-blocks > Used Available Use% Mounted on > rootfs681584 > 531940115468 83% / > udev

Re: Using wheezy or testing in sources.list for security updates

On 2012-01-29 11:51 +0100, Colin wrote: > After reading the security support on testing[1], I was thinking if I > would use wheezy at the moment on my sources.list instead of testing, > then I would all have the "updates" from testing plus the security > ones? No. Also, wheezy and testing are cu

Re: Blank screen at boot with kernel 3.1

On 2012-01-25 23:51 +0100, Tom H wrote: > On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: >> >> The metapackage has not yet migrated, it seems. But 3.1 really is not >> supported anymore, neither by Debian nor by upstream. > > This can't be. I installed

Re: Blank screen at boot with kernel 3.1

On 2012-01-25 20:38 +0100, Rémi Moyen wrote: > Le 25 janvier 2012 18:10, Sven Joachim a écrit : >> On 2012-01-25 18:04 +0100, Rémi Moyen wrote: > >>> Kernel 3.2 seems to be still in unstable, I'd rather not install >>> something from there if I can avoid it. &g

Re: Blank screen at boot with kernel 3.1

On 2012-01-25 18:04 +0100, Rémi Moyen wrote: > I am also guessing, based on this (why didn't I think about that > earlier?) that in the 3.1 kernel, my card is supposed to be supported > by nouveau, hence it tries to use it (and this causes all my problems) > whereas in 2.6.32 it doesn't even try t

Re: Blank screen at boot with kernel 3.1

On 2012-01-25 16:33 +0100, Rémi Moyen wrote: > Well, I'm guessing that at the early stage of the boot some very crude > driver is used and things fail when the kernel tries to load/use > something more complicated. Kernel 3.1 can display something but only > using the "big" characters at startup (

Re: Clipboard issues

On 2012-01-24 11:47 +0100, Sylvain wrote: > 2012/1/24 : >> Hi all, >> >>  I am seeing this issue on my debian wheezy/sid. The clipboard contents are >> disappearing when the window is closed. Can someone help me please if they >> have to faced this issue ? >> >>  Steps: >>    open any window appl

Re: How to pass variable to wget ?

On 2012-01-22 12:27 +0100, J. Bakshi wrote: > I have a script which submits a form with wget --post-data > > [] > > #!/bin/bash > > Uname=xyz > Pword=1234 > > wget -O - --save-cookies cookies.txt --post-data \ > 'username=$Uname&password=$Pword' --keep-session-cookies $URL/$AUTHURL 1&>2 > >

Re: Libre OfficeWriter search order

On 2012-01-21 19:53 +0100, richard wrote: > Just found another funny with Libreoffice compared to OOo, > in OOo type 1/2 and it would change the character to ½. > In LBO it's not there Works for me. > you have to use ATltGr 5. > > just a subtle thing. Maybe a problem with your settings? Check

Re: problem: initscripts wants to deinstall several packages

On 2012-01-19 19:53 +0100, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > I am wondering, why the package "initscripts" wants to delete klogd, > logcheck, > sysklogd and snort. See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=633038. > Of course, it is because of the dependencies. But I wonder, if this is a >

Re: how to download the packages in Debian testing non-free before installing?

On 2012-01-18 23:03 +0100, lee wrote: > Sven Joachim wrote: >> On 2012-01-18 20:58 +0100, lee wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> how do I download the packages in the non-free section and make them >>> useable by the Debian installer before starting the

Re: how to download the packages in Debian testing non-free before installing?

On 2012-01-18 20:58 +0100, lee wrote: > Hi, > > how do I download the packages in the non-free section and make them > useable by the Debian installer before starting the installation? Download any needed packages on another computer and put them on a USB stick that you plug in when you install D

Re: squeeze kernel upgrade fixes r8169 network driver?

On 2012-01-16 20:27 +0100, Curt wrote: > On 2012-01-16, Sven Joachim wrote: > >>>> /var/log/dpkg.log would be the best place. >>> >>> I don't have that file on my system. >> >> That's a bit unfortunate. Did you deliberately turn off l

Re: squeeze kernel upgrade fixes r8169 network driver?

On 2012-01-16 19:20 +0100, Curt wrote: > On 2012-01-16, Sven Joachim wrote: > >>> I don't know where to look to find out what kernel version I was using >>> before. >> >> /var/log/dpkg.log would be the best place. > > I don't have that fi

Re: squeeze kernel upgrade fixes r8169 network driver?

On 2012-01-16 18:46 +0100, Curt wrote: > On 2012-01-16, Sven Joachim wrote: >>> >>> I think a (prior) point release upgrade fixed it, not this security upgrade, >>> but the security upgrade is built on top of the point release. >> >> According to debian

Re: squeeze kernel upgrade fixes r8169 network driver?

On 2012-01-16 17:14 +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 03:50:39PM +, Curt wrote: >> Did they fix the r8169, or was it all a bad dream? >> >> (I looked at the debian security advisory for the kernel upgrade, dated >> 15 January, but it says nothing about the matter). > > I thin

Re: swapon permissions

On 2012-01-12 19:57 +0100, Frank McCormick wrote: > On 12-01-12 12:21 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: >> On 2012-01-12 16:17 +0100, Tomas Volka wrote: >> >>> On Čt 12-01-12 | 09:21, Frank McCormick wrote: >>>> Noticed today in the middle of bootup messages t

Re: swapon permissions

On 2012-01-12 16:17 +0100, Tomas Volka wrote: > On Čt 12-01-12 | 09:21, Frank McCormick wrote: >> Noticed today in the middle of bootup messages that swapon is >> complaining about permissions set to 1660 and were insecure. It >> suggested (as I recall) 0660. I never saw this before. >> How do I g

Re: MSI N210 graphics card causes boot failure

On 2012-01-01 18:11 +0100, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 01 Jan 2012 17:57:09 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > >> On 2012-01-01 17:46 +0100, Camaleón wrote: >> >>> On Sun, 01 Jan 2012 17:20:25 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: >>> >>>> On 2012-01-01 15:33 +0100,

Re: MSI N210 graphics card causes boot failure

On 2012-01-01 17:46 +0100, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 01 Jan 2012 17:20:25 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > >> On 2012-01-01 15:33 +0100, Camaleón wrote: >> >>> On Sun, 01 Jan 2012 11:29:51 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: >>> >>>> On 2011-12-31

Re: MSI N210 graphics card causes boot failure

On 2012-01-01 15:33 +0100, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 01 Jan 2012 11:29:51 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > >> On 2011-12-31 21:41 +0100, Dean Allen Provins, P. Geoph. wrote: >> >> That's why I suggested to log in from a second computer via ssh. It's >> hard t

Re: MSI N210 graphics card causes boot failure

On 2011-12-31 21:41 +0100, Dean Allen Provins, P. Geoph. wrote: > On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 04:41:11PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: >> >> That should work around the problem. If possible, use a second machine >> to log in via ssh and run "rmmod nouveau; modprobe

Re: MSI N210 graphics card causes boot failure

On 2011-12-31 16:31 +0100, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 31 Dec 2011 07:30:30 -0700, Dean Allen Provins, P. Geoph. wrote: > >> My nVidia GeForce 6600 GT card started to act up, so I purchased an >> inexpensive MSI N210 card (which uses the 210 nVidia chipset). The >> salesman said I'd be happier with

Re: bad kfreebsd-amd64 mirror for http://mirror.mycre.ws/debian-backports/ squeeze-backports

On 2011-12-30 20:25 +0100, Scott Edwards wrote: > I'm not sure where this email is best directed to, but I had to > comment out this mirror as it's not functioning for backports I'm > interested in. aptitude is throwing 404 messages, and elinks was > showing http type 500 status messages from the

Re: Going to 64bit

On 2011-12-19 17:13 +0100, David Baron wrote: > Using instructions on http://www.v13.gr/blog/?p=11, I have available a > debootstraped amd64 squeeze using a dselect-upgrade based on my existing > installation (which is Sid). Since his instructions are older than multiarch > and based on lenny,

Re: Another sysv-rc problem on Lenny to Squeeze upgrade

On 2011-12-15 18:58 +0100, Ken Heard wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > >> It is a good time to tidy up the system. Look through your list of >> removed packages that have not been purged. Those are ones that have >> been removed 'r' but still have configuration files for them 'c' left >> on the syste

Re: Going to 64bit

On 2011-12-14 15:04 +0100, David Baron wrote: > I have a 64-bit Intel CPU but have been gleefully running my 32-bit Sid on it. > > Can one install the 64-bit kernel and upgrade other packages piecemeal or > must > one do it all in one go? You have to install from scratch. If you want to minimi

Re: installing nouveau_vieux_dri.so

On 2011-12-12 15:54 +0100, Carlos Davila wrote: > Am trying to install Debian squeeze on an old Compaq TC 1000 tablet. > According to my Xorg.0.log file, I get: > > "(EE) AIGLX error: dlopen of /usr/lib/dri/nouveau_vieux_dri.so failed > No such file or directory)" > > and the driver is indeed

Re: Wheezy X broken ?

On 2011-12-06 10:50 +0100, Shaun wrote: > On 05/12/2011 22:25, Sven Joachim wrote: >> For gnome-shell you need a 3D OpenGL driver, and in wheezy the nouveau >> 3D drivers are not installed by default yet. This has been changed¹ in >> unstable already, however. > >

Re: Wheezy X broken ?

On 2011-12-05 22:31 +0100, rudu wrote: > Le 05/12/2011 20:25, Andrei Popescu a écrit : >> On Lu, 05 dec 11, 19:31:47, rudu wrote: >>> Hello, >>> After my last upgrade& reboot, my wheezy refused to fire up gdm3/kdm. >>> All I have is a black console offering a login. >>> I saw that nvidia was upgr

Re: NCID with no rcS.d

On 2011-11-24 17:51 +0100, lrhorer wrote: > Arno Schuring wrote: > >> lrhorer (lrho...@satx.rr.com on 2011-11-24 03:38 -0600): >>> OK, so here's the deal. I compiled and installed ncid on one of my >>> Debian servers Everything seems to be working just fine. There's >>> one small item, though.

Re: Howto upgrade perl without removing everything

On 2011-11-14 16:03 +0100, Richard wrote: > Playing dangerously with Sid, and I've reached the limit of what it will > upgrade to > without some help. > Nearly everything has a dependency on perl, the perl version has change, so > how do just upgrade the > perl base. Just don't do it. > I can

Re: aptitude vs. apt-get/dpkg purge

On 2011-11-10 09:35 +0100, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 09 nov 11, 21:54:26, Bernhard Schmidt wrote: >> >> I have not seen an explicit bug for it, but the 816 open bugs on >> aptitude are somewhat hard to browse. Is this a known issue or >> works-as-designed? I have the feeling it might have t

Re: Preseeded installation with non-standard locale

On 2011-11-04 22:18 +0100, Bob Proulx wrote: > Philipp Tölke wrote: >> I have tried an installation with just the two lines provided by you: >> Please see the log-output during installation in a vm here: >> ; please note the localechooser at first >> notices the prese

Re: [Semi-OT] Automatic subscription to self-opened bug reports

On 2011-10-29 17:54 +0200, Camaleón wrote: > I would like to know if there is a way to get automatically subscribed¹ > to Debian bugs I report. There isn't, currently. Bug #351856¹ has some information on that topic. Sven ¹ http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=351856 -- To UNS

Re: [Semi-OT] Automatic subscription to self-opened bug reports

On 2011-10-29 19:00 +0200, Stephen Powell wrote: > I could be wrong, but I believe that you are automatically "subscribed" > to bugs that you report yourself. You are indeed wrong. How did you get that idea? Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subjec

Re: Why diffutils.deb is essential and priority required?

On 2011-10-28 21:21 +0200, Regid Ichira wrote: > Why does diffutils.deb priority required? > Why is it an essential package? The answer to first question is easy: because it is an Essential package, and all Essential packages are of Priority: required. For the second question, dpkg calls dif

Re: how to handle the not upgraded package

On 2011-10-24 22:45 +0200, Tom H wrote: > On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: >> >> As an unstable user, I beg to disagree.  With aptitude there are few >> occasions where dist-upgrade is necessary, and it often does unwanted >> things. Unfortunate

Re: how to handle the not upgraded package

On 2011-10-24 22:33 +0200, Bob Proulx wrote: > Sven Joachim wrote: >> Bob Proulx wrote: >> > Stable typically only needs safe-upgrade. But sometimes for point >> > releases and for some security upgrades will need a dist-upgrade. >> > Testing/Unstable by c

Re: how to handle the not upgraded package

On 2011-10-24 22:05 +0200, Bob Proulx wrote: > lina wrote: >> I use aptitude safe-upgrade, > > On which release track? Stable? Testing/Unstable? > > Stable typically only needs safe-upgrade. But sometimes for point > releases and for some security upgrades will need a dist-upgrade. > Testing/Un

Re: Why is exim installed by default?

On 2011-10-17 15:54 +0200, Lisi wrote: > On Monday 17 October 2011 13:07:01 Andrew Wood wrote: >> I see. thanks for the replies. if I was to install postfix in the future >> as a 'proper' mail server would it conflict? > > I usually install nullmailer. Whilst installing itself, it removes exim.

Re: #Bug 641344 - should it be reopened?

On 2011-10-16 19:11 +0200, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: >> Dear maintainers, >> >> I still have significant slow reactions of X when I am using xserver-xorg- >> core-1.11-1-amd64 with nvidia-glx. This is pointing me to >> #Bug641344, which is already closed. Sadly I cannot see

Re: Cruft in /var/lib/dpkg/status

On 2011-10-16 13:50 +0200, Brian wrote: > On Sun 16 Oct 2011 at 11:50:44 +0200, David Baron wrote: > >> This is a repeat posting. > > This is probably a repeat response. :) > > [Snip complaints from dpkg] > >> How can I get rid of these entries (without attempting to hand-edit 100,000 >> lines of

Re: #Bug 641344 - should it be reopened?

On 2011-10-15 20:15 +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > Dear maintainers, This is the user list, read by not too many maintainers. > I still have significant slow reactions of X when I am using xserver-xorg- > core-1.11-1-amd64 with nvidia-glx. This is pointing me to #Bug641344, which > is > alre

Re: How to get version information in common notation

On 2011-10-12 21:50 +0200, Harry Putnam wrote: > Raf Czlonka writes: > >> You can remove most of the video drivers, leaving only the one(s) >> corresponding to your graphic card. The same goes with input drivers. >> > > I'm still managing to confuse myself. > > When I look at some of the driver

Re: nvidia driver performance drop?

On 2011-10-11 20:56 +0200, Harry Putnam wrote: > Sven Joachim writes: > >>> an `aptitude search g11' finds nothing. >>^ >> Hint: Use copy & paste. Or choose a font that better distinguishes the >> letter 'l' from the

Re: nvidia driver performance drop?

On 2011-10-11 16:56 +0200, Harry Putnam wrote: > Sven Joachim writes: > >> Get xserver 1.10 from snapshot.debian.org, try a patch against 1.11.1 >> from the nvidia forum², or use nouveau (you probably want to install the >> libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental pa

Re: nvidia driver performance drop?

On 2011-10-11 13:25 +0200, Brad Alexander wrote: > I was just wondering if anyone else has run into performance issues on the > nvidia driver? Not too many people, since the relevant bug¹ has so far "only" 13 duplicates. ;-) > Does anyone know of a fix? I tried rolling back the nvidia version, b

Re: How to unlock apt-get?

On 2011-10-09 13:47 +0200, Matt Harrison wrote: > On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 6:42 AM, Bill.M wrote: >> Hi folks, >> >> I'm having a problem with apt-get. I seem to be locked out of >> /var/lib/dpkg/lock and /var/lib/dpkg when I try to do an apt=get update , >> How can I clear these locks? And if ther

Re: `Xorg -configure' failure

On 2011-10-07 19:53 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 11:56 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> Do you have any recommendation? On gentoo I was using the `nv' driver >> that I do not see available for debian. > > I'm using testing, there's no nv driver for testing, but I'm using X >

Re: emacs mystery

On 2011-10-07 04:50 +0200, Marc Auslander wrote: > After upgrade to squeeze, I have the following emacs curiosity. > > I bind C-xC-c to: > > (defun ctrlxctrlc () "Careful exit from emacs" > (interactive) > (if (y-or-n-p "Do you really want to exit emacs? ") >(save-buffers-kill-emacs) >

Re: `Xorg -configure' failure

On 2011-10-06 22:48 +0200, Harry Putnam wrote: > Sven Joachim writes: > >>> Also does the Nouveau driver prevent other drivers such as nv from >>> loading. >> >> Nouveau needs Kernel Modesetting, and both nv and vesa are not >> compatible with that

Re: `Xorg -configure' failure

On 2011-10-06 20:00 +0200, Harry Putnam wrote: > Sven Joachim writes: > >> It might have been easier to just restore the whole file. And >> http://wiki.debian.org/XStrikeForce/HowToRandR12 might have some >> additional useful information for you. > > I didn't

Re: `Xorg -configure' failure

On 2011-10-06 17:44 +0200, Harry Putnam wrote: > Setup: > > Single user machine running Debian (wheezy) 3.0.0-1-686-pae > Graphics card: Nvidia FX 5700 LE > > At present X is setup without any xorg.conf. Its pretty much the > defaults after install of new install medai, other than I've taken > gd

Re: wheezy after update significant slow

On 2011-10-01 18:16 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > It could be, that you are using the FLOSS nouveau driver, this driver > usually is a PITA. Could you please stop this FUD, or at least back it up with something useful (i.e. bug reports)? > There're packages for proprietary NVIDIA drivers. Yes, a

Re: Upgraded from Squeeze to unstable

On 2011-09-25 22:15 +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: > I have upgraded my Desktop system Debian Squeeze > to Debian unstable. > > Now when I try to upgrade or install some package > I get output and error messages: > > Reading changelogs... Done > dpkg: warning: 'ldconfig' not found in PATH or not executa

Re: Reducing kernel compilation time

On 2011-09-24 18:04 +0200, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 24 Sep 2011 17:18:08 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > >> Plug in any hardware that you intend to use with your netbook and then >> run "make localmodconfig". This works from Linux 2.6.32 onwards¹. > > I'll te

Re: Reducing kernel compilation time

On 2011-09-24 16:22 +0200, Camaleón wrote: > I had to compile the latest upstream kernel sources to make some > debugging with my wifi drivers (from staging) and discovered that > compilation took ~5 hours. > > That's much for testing purposes. > > Compilation takes place in a netbook governed b

Re: Out the box permissions for /home/*

On 2011-09-24 08:21 +0200, Mark Panen wrote: > What is the out the box permissions for /home/* on Squeeze? 0755, adjust the DIR_MODE variable in /etc/adduser.conf if you like to change that. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) firmware

On 2011-09-23 07:15 +0200, Weaver wrote: > That's one way, but new tech is getting to the stage where it won't > work off a standard BIOS. You need the UEFI base to handle such things > as the new 4 TB drives from Seagate and Hitachi now. No, you don't. You need GPT, which works fine with a trad

Re: apt-utility and repos.

On 2011-09-20 21:30 +0200, Bob Proulx wrote: > Dom wrote: >> It is slightly confusing that reportbug seems to take into account >> updates that haven't yet filtered through to the live systems. > > It is one of the things I find annoying. This is default Debian BTS > behavior and not really repor

Re: Control Display Driver on Bootup

On 2011-09-17 20:21 +0200, David Baron wrote: > Is there a way, using a bootup command or option, i.e. setting some env, that > can control whether I use nouveau or nvidia drivers. Some startup script > would > need to > > 1. Copy or remove nouveau blacklist on /etc/modprob.d > 2. Copy appropri

Re: Mistype into shell..........

On 2011-09-08 07:59 +0200, Charlie wrote: > Something that happens occasionally, how do I get out of it without > killing the shell? > > Sometimes I type something, slip and ahead of the command I type a > character accidentally like '. > > The shell responds with > It's called the PS2 prompt (co

Re: Ugly appearence after upgrade

On 2011-09-04 18:32 +0200, Chir0n wrote: > Hi all, > > after an "aptitude dist-upgrade" to testing (and to unstable too) some GTK2 > applications look ugly, like GTK1 appplications. > > Gnome-terminal and Epiphany are two of them. They are not, because they are not GTK2 applications anymore. Thi

Re: About the `-u' option of `cp' command

On 2011-09-03 09:58 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > In `cp' man it is said: > > -u, --update > copy only when the SOURCE file is newer than the destination > file or when the destination file is missing > > > Now, it happens sometimes to me that, even with `-u', `cp'

Re: Upgrading Squeeze to SID

On 2011-08-29 19:23 +0200, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Mon, Aug 29 2011, SZERVÁC Attila wrote: > >> R U a Debian Developer? > >> If not, DON'T upgrade to *UNSTABLE* ('sid') distribution. 'sid' is the >> *UNSTABLE*, *very buggy*, *INCONSISTENT* distribution for *Debian >> developers only* - if U w

Re: 2TB file system

On 2011-08-16 18:31 +0200, Rick Pasotto wrote: > I recently acquired a 2TB SATA HD that I have not yet installed. It will > be used entirely to store media files. Would there be any problems in > formating the entire disk (no partitions) as an EXT4 file system? That is certainly possible, but a b

Re: orphan link linux-kbuild-N.N.N in /usr/local/src

On 2011-08-12 23:54 +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: >> If you don't want to do that, use a bind mount rather than a symlink for >> /usr/src. Then the /usr/src/linux-kbuild-3.0.0 symlink will work (but >> /usr/local/src/linux-kbuild-3.0.0 will not). >> > > In other words, the issue remains. > > Is the

Re: orphan link linux-kbuild-N.N.N in /usr/local/src

On 2011-08-12 09:29 +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > On 12/08/11 08:08, Sven Joachim wrote: >> On 2011-08-11 21:10 +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: >> >>> On my Debian (Wheezy) boxes, the /usr/src is a link to /usr/local/src , >>> /usr and /usr/local being mounted on dif

Re: autoinstalled packages

On 2011-08-12 17:25 +0200, Ivan Shmakov wrote: >>>>>> Sven Joachim writes: > > > "aptitude unmarkauto isc-dhcp-client" does the trick. > > I guess that # apt-get install isc-dhcp-client may do the same > (provided that

Re: removing dummy package

On 2011-08-12 15:51 +0200, Bonno Bloksma wrote: > So I wanted to remove the dummy package but > > --- > linbobo:~# aptitude remove dhcp3-client > The following packages will be REMOVED: > dhcp3-client isc-dhcp-client{u} > 0 packages upgraded, 0 new

Re: orphan link linux-kbuild-N.N.N in /usr/local/src

On 2011-08-11 21:10 +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > On my Debian (Wheezy) boxes, the /usr/src is a link to /usr/local/src , > /usr and /usr/local being mounted on different partitions. > I guess it is a common practice. It might be common, but it is not a good practice since /usr/src is distributio

Re: Debian 7 'Wheezy' to introduce multiarch support

On 2011-07-27 09:24 +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: >> --- On Tue, 7/26/11, Jerome BENOIT wrote: >> >> >> In my case, the upgrade from squeeze to wheezy was rather straightforward >> and no more difficult than previous upgrades. > > I am not surprised. Nevertheless the question is: > has ``multiarch

Re: can't suspend in linux-image-3.0.0-1

On 2011-07-25 20:39 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2011-07-25 20:29 +0200, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > >> I can't issue 'acpitool -S' in linux-image-3.0.0-1: >> >> Function Do_Suspend : could not open file : /proc/acpi/sleep. >> You must have wri

Re: can't suspend in linux-image-3.0.0-1

On 2011-07-25 20:29 +0200, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > I can't issue 'acpitool -S' in linux-image-3.0.0-1: > > Function Do_Suspend : could not open file : /proc/acpi/sleep. > You must have write access to /proc/acpi/sleep to suspend your computer. > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bu

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