Re: OT: Grepping style (was Re: Re (2): Laptop with external display running X11.)

2011-12-01 Thread Bob Proulx
Andrew Reid wrote: > > deloptes wrote: > > > cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep EE > > > > What's the purpose of this superfluous "cat" (and the pipe)? > > > > grep EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log > > I noticed that too -- I actually do this all the time, and I'm > not 100% sure why. It's true that somet

OT: Grepping style (was Re: Re (2): Laptop with external display running X11.)

2011-12-01 Thread Andrew Reid
> On Fri, 02 Dec 2011 01:25:16 +0100, deloptes wrote: > > cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep EE > > What's the purpose of this superfluous "cat" (and the pipe)? > > grep EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log I noticed that too -- I actually do this all the time, and I'm not 100% sure why. It's true that someti

Re: Re (2): Laptop with external display running X11.

2011-12-01 Thread Walter Hurry
On Fri, 02 Dec 2011 01:25:16 +0100, deloptes wrote: > cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep EE What's the purpose of this superfluous "cat" (and the pipe)? grep EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: Re (2): Laptop with external display running X11.

2011-12-01 Thread deloptes
peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > > Two points. Given that the intention in Squeeze is for X to be > configured automatically and given that this video hardware > apparently needs firmware-linux-nonfree installation be automated? > If so, failure of automatic installation of firmware-linux-nonfree > is

Re (2): Laptop with external display running X11.

2011-12-01 Thread peasthope
First an update. I stumbled on the mention of the firmware-linux-nonfree package in this page. http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=60238 That appears to provide a required driver. I must have removed the package inadvertently about a week ago when X failed. So now I have the broken

Re: Re (2): Laptop with external display running X11.

2011-11-24 Thread Lisi
On Thursday 24 November 2011 18:19:21 peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > Encouraging information.  Yes, I'd say Lenny is a contemporary > Debian.  In this case a difficulty appears to be that automation > > introduced in

Re: Re (2): Laptop with external display running X11.

2011-11-24 Thread deloptes
peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: >> Does Lenny with backports count as contemporary Debian? > > Encouraging information. Yes, I'd say Lenny is a contemporary > Debian. In this case a difficulty appears to be that automation > introduced in X is not quite perfect; yet. Lenny is old stable with old vers

Re (2): Laptop with external display running X11.

2011-11-24 Thread peasthope
From: Joe Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 08:31:37 + > Not quite, but it Just Works on my netbook, Ubuntu Netbook Remix about > 10-ish. > > Try a Knoppix live CD: if it works with anything, that will do it, and > it's pretty likely that anything Knoppix uses is available to Debian. Will keep thos