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
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. If I
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
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 select (in grub)
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),
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
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 it I
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
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
On 2012-03-04 09:16 +0100, Jason Heeris wrote:
On 4 March 2012 01:28, Brendon Higgins blhigg...@gmail.com 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
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]
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
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:
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
man
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/ wheezy
On 2012-02-18 18:02 +0100, Csanyi Pal wrote:
Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de 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://ftp.debian.org/debian/ wheezy/main amd64 Packages
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 appropriate
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 dash, this
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 it in an
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 recommend to
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
On 2012-01-31 17:11 +0100, lina wrote:
~$ df
Filesystem 1K-blocks
Used Available Use% Mounted on
rootfs681584
531940115468 83% /
udev
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
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
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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
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
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 to
On 2012-01-25 20:38 +0100, Rémi Moyen wrote:
Le 25 janvier 2012 18:10, Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de 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.
No, 3.2 has been in testing
On 2012-01-25 23:51 +0100, Tom H wrote:
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de 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 a testing box and upgraded
On 2012-01-24 11:47 +0100, Sylvain wrote:
2012/1/24 bhas...@unixindia.com:
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
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=$Unamepassword=$Pword' --keep-session-cookies $URL/$AUTHURL 12
[]
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 under
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
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
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 installation?
Download any needed packages on another computer
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 think a
On 2012-01-16 18:46 +0100, Curt wrote:
On 2012-01-16, Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de 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/changelog, 2.6.32-36 was the last version
On 2012-01-16 19:20 +0100, Curt wrote:
On 2012-01-16, Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de 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 file on my system.
That's a bit unfortunate. Did you
On 2012-01-16 20:27 +0100, Curt wrote:
On 2012-01-16, Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de 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 logging in
/etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg ?
Nope. I do have /var
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 go about
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 that swapon is
complaining about permissions set to 1660
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 nouveau modeset=1
then.
Apending
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 to do anything with a blank screen.
I guess
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 21:41 +0100, Dean Allen Provins, P. Geoph. wrote:
That's why I suggested
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, Camaleón wrote:
On Sun, 01 Jan 2012 11:29:51 +0100, Sven
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 it!
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
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, I
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 system.
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 minimize
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 missing
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.
Is there a way to test this?
$ glxinfo
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 upgraded to a 290
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. When I took
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't see
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 the same
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:
http://i.imgur.com/UWIJ8.png; please note the localechooser at first
notices the preseeded
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
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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
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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 diff
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/Unstable
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 comparison typically always uses dist-upgrade
On 2011-10-24 22:45 +0200, Tom H wrote:
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de 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. Unfortunately, apt-get does not have
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. I
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 text!)?
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 any
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
already
On 2011-10-12 21:50 +0200, Harry Putnam wrote:
Raf Czlonka r...@linuxstuff.pl 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
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, but
On 2011-10-11 16:56 +0200, Harry Putnam wrote:
Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de 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 package in the latter case
On 2011-10-11 20:56 +0200, Harry Putnam wrote:
Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de writes:
an `aptitude search g11' finds nothing.
^
Hint: Use copy paste. Or choose a font that better distinguishes the
letter 'l' from the digit '1'.
Gack, yup what a looser I am
On 2011-10-09 13:47 +0200, Matt Harrison wrote:
On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 6:42 AM, Bill.M bi...@uniserve.com 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
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)
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
from
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
gdm3 out
On 2011-10-06 20:00 +0200, Harry Putnam wrote:
Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de 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 see discussion of a bug
On 2011-10-06 22:48 +0200, Harry Putnam wrote:
Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de 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 and will refuse to load if the nouveau.ko
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, and
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 executable.
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
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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 by
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 test that, it sounds very good :-)
(I guess
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
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 reportbug
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 appropriate
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 (consult
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. This may
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' will
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 want new
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 bit
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 different partitions.
I guess it is a common
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 there a way to
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
distribution
On 2011-08-12 15:51 +0200, Bonno Bloksma wrote:
So I wanted to remove the dummy package but
--quote-
linbobo:~# aptitude remove dhcp3-client
The following packages will be REMOVED:
dhcp3-client isc-dhcp-client{u}
0 packages upgraded, 0
On 2011-08-12 17:25 +0200, Ivan Shmakov wrote:
Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de writes:
aptitude unmarkauto isc-dhcp-client does the trick.
I guess that # apt-get install isc-dhcp-client may do the same
(provided that there's no newer version of the package
On 2011-07-27 09:24 +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
--- On Tue, 7/26/11, Jerome BENOITg62993...@rezozer.net 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
On 2011-07-25 15:08 +0200, lee wrote:
José Silva jsantossi...@hotmail.com writes:
Given that, I did Ctl+Alt+F1, logged in as user, sudo service gdm stop
to stop xserver. Then sudo gdb startx but the system says it's not an
executable. How do I run xserver in the debugger?
Unfortunately, I
On 2011-07-25 16:55 +0200, José Silva wrote:
But how do I replace driver xserver-video-intel by
xserver-video-intel-dbg or is this not necessary? I've already
installed it with synaptics package manager.
The -dbg packages do not replace their regular counterparts. They
contain detached
On 2011-07-25 16:55 +0200, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Hi,
linux-image-3.0.0-1-amd64 just made its appearance on Sid.
That's a milestone...
A milestone like any other Linux release. At least according to Linus
himself¹:
,
| As already mentioned several times, there are no special landmark
|
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.
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