Hello all,
Is it, for someone fairly new to linux, feasable to install Debian on
a laptop? To give you an idea on how my linux skills are:
I have an Acer Aspire 1692, and in trying out different distro's came
upon the following things:
Starting PCMCIA hangs the system
Can't figure how to use 128
Hello,
the load average above 2 doesn't seem to agree with the machine been
idle. Do you have kernel panics (dmesg)? Have you tried to remove some
of the modules (wireless usb ...) to see if they print errors?
Just a guess ...
graziano
On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 23:57 -0500, Scott Bigham wrote:
>
Matej Cepl wrote:
> If I won't find something better, I will hack something
> together in Python.
OK, rather than explain what I mean, I wrote it myself (see attached). Can
anybody comment on this script and whether I could somehow sneak in sets (I
haven't found a way how to compare lists of lists
Barry, Christopher wrote:
> am I misunderstanding the option specified here, copied from apt-get
> manpage:
>
> autoclean
> Like clean, autoclean clears out the local repository of
> retrieved package files. The difference is that it only removes package
> files that can no longer b
On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 03:59:04PM -0800, Ian Greenhoe wrote:
> What does the top command show?
I've attached the output of top -bc -n 1 from shortly after resume; by
this point the CPU was hot enough for the first fan to have kicked in.
As you can see, it's running mostly idle, or at least it cla
> -Original Message-
> From: Matej Cepl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 6:25 PM
> To: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Automatic removing of unneeded .deb files?
>
> Eric Cooper wrote:
> > You don't need to keep any .debs after they're installed;
Eric Cooper wrote:
> You don't need to keep any .debs after they're installed; you can
> delete the entire cache (with "apt-get clean" for example). The
> important information about your installation is kept in
> /var/lib/dpkg/.
This is one big celebration of misunderstanding -- I know very well
On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 22:05 -0500, Scott Bigham wrote:
> Let's see, information you'll want...
What does the top command show?
-Ian
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Greetings
Michelle
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It always attempts to call "mozilla-xremote-client" to find a working
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MB wrote:
> Matej Cepl wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I am trying to keep some order in my /var/cache/apt/archives/ and while
>>doing that I have not found a way how *automatically* clean this directory
>>of all unneeded .deb files. I mean, I have tested many packages which I
>>have later found unnecessary.
On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 11:44:39AM -0500, Matej Cepl wrote:
> Did anybody create a script which would erase from /v/c/a/a/ all
> .deb files which are not currently installed?
You don't need to keep any .debs after they're installed; you can
delete the entire cache (with "apt-get clean" for example
Matej Cepl wrote:
Hi,
I am trying to keep some order in my /var/cache/apt/archives/ and while
doing that I have not found a way how *automatically* clean this directory
of all unneeded .deb files. I mean, I have tested many packages which I
have later found unnecessary. I know that these will e
Hi,
I am trying to keep some order in my /var/cache/apt/archives/ and while
doing that I have not found a way how *automatically* clean this directory
of all unneeded .deb files. I mean, I have tested many packages which I
have later found unnecessary. I know that these will eventually be
autoclea
Dear list,
I've noticed a number of strange things in my boot messages and I
would like to take a closer look. The first stage in this is to get
bootlogd working.
I set Yes in my /etc/default/bootlogd and when I boot I get
bootlogd: ioctl (/dev/ttyzf, TIOCCONS): Bad file descriptor
and the
Hello,
In my previous message I forgot to mention that I use suspend-to-disk
(swap partition).
Do you have any ideas what is wrong with uptime?
Best,
Chris
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Hello,
I am using Toshiba Satellite A50-106 laptop.
For few days I have been using hibernation (suspend2 2.2-rc9 & vanilla
Linux kernel 2.6.14). Uptime is computed incorrectly:
$ uptime
09:57:09 up -24855 days, -3:-14, 5 users, load average: 0.01, 0.03, 0.08
$ uptime -V
procps version 3.2.1
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