Re: Unable to connect to network

Pete wrote: On Monday 21 May 2007 06:19:29 Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 12:32:50AM +0100, Pete wrote: [...] I have tried pinging known servers like Google on both the faulty Debian and the working Xubuntu and get identical results. /etc/resolv.conf gives identical resu

Re: Touchpad speed

Matthias Brennwald wrote: Dear all moving the cursor with the touchpad of my PowerBook G4 is very slow in Debian Etch. I played around with the settings in xorg.conf, and that helped a bit, but it's still rather slow. I mainly played with 'AccelFactor' (I used values 0.001, 0.01, 0.1, 1, and

Re: Ubuntu - change available screen resolutions

RobG wrote: Hi, I have installed Ubuntu using VMWare Fusion beta on Mac OS X. During installation, I accidentally didn't include the correct screen resolutions and so only have the default 1024x786 and smaller. I have a MacBook and also use an external monitor, so I need to include 1280x1024 (ext

Re: Get wirless working

Liam O'Toole wrote: On Thu, 17 May 2007 11:39:21 +0100 yag <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: That's what I thought, but as it seems some people is having problems with this I better ask before actually dropping Ubuntu and adopting Debian for good. Isn't it just a matter of in

Re: Get wirless working

Liam O'Toole wrote: Whats' more, those modules are included in the standard kernel image these days. The difference however is that Ubuntu packages the firmware, whereas Debian does not. That is likely to confound the uninitiated. That's what I thought, but as it seems some people is having

Re: [OT] Good, evil and religion [WAS] Re: A way to compile 3rd party modules into deb system?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10 May, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: I guess that depends on whether you consider the authorship of the Bible to rest with God, or with the men who transcribed His words. I MAINTAINER THE FORMER, you apparently the latter. I BELIEVE THAT THE BIBLE WAS INSPIRED B

Re: driver for ati mobility radeon

Wackojacko wrote: Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: Hello, I am running a fresh install of etch in an amd64 box. The system has an ATI Mobility Radeon 9200 video card. xserver-org choosed for it the ati driver with the radeon module during the installing. Since I am having problems regarding the gui,

Re: mounted drives on desktop

Cliff Smith wrote: Hi All, I have a couple of servers in our office that are running Etch, that recently began show 3 of their 4 hard drives on the desktop like removable media. It's annoying. Any ideas on how to stop them appearing, other than to unmount them? Cheers, Cliff. It may depe

pros/cons of installing from source

Hi I would like to know whether installing from source rather than from the repositories has any advantage in terms of performance or something else. I didn't notice any difference when comparing mplayer's behavior, although compiling it myself gave me the choice of fine tuning the available

hdparm SCSI

Hi, and sorry if this appeared twice, I believe my first post did not get through. After upgrading to the latest Ubuntu release, which ships a 2.6.20 kernel, all the drives are treated as SCSI ones. That's fine, there's probably a good reason for that. The only thing is that I'm now not able to u

Re: laptop harddrive noise

You may want to check this. http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Problem_with_hard_drive_clicking -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]