Re: getting correct time on a laptop (IBM ThinkPad T23)

2006-06-21 Thread Paul Kimoto
On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 08:34:54AM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > 1) I had chrony claiming that system time had 0 seconds difference to NTP > time while there was a difference of 10 or more minutes. This is with a > standard chrony installation (after aptitude purge chrony). > > 2) Chrony a

Re: Best practice to setup a guest account?

2006-06-21 Thread Jon Dowland
At 1150458800 past the epoch, André Wendt wrote: > Anyway, I was rather looking for a way to setup that > account after adding the user. Is there anything else I > should think about? (Apart from GNOME's lockdown > manager...) It might help if you could clarify what you do not want your guest user

Re: getting correct time on a laptop (IBM ThinkPad T23)

2006-06-21 Thread teefour
hello martin, > I also tried openntpd, which didn't even start on my system as well as the > full blown ntp server which sort of worked, but then it does not > provide . Once I even was desperate enough to just start ntpdate every > hour with a cron job. openntpd works fine here. not just on m

Re: Xorg 7.0 and ATI working!

2006-06-21 Thread Norberto M. Lopes
On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 16:57:03 +0900 Charles Muller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bill Wohler wrote: > > > In case there are still folks out there that like me have > > xserver-xorg 6.8 on hold because of the reports that X would freeze > > up if you had an ATI card, I'd like to report that all is w

Re: Xorg 7.0 and ATI working!

2006-06-21 Thread Christian Schuerer
Hi, On Wednesday 21 June 2006 00:19, Bill Wohler wrote: > 4. dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg STILL doesn't give you a > configuration file. I determined some workarounds: > > sudo sh -c "readlink /etc/X11/X | md5sum > /var/lib/x11/X.md5sum" > sudo rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf > sudo vi /var/lib/dpkg/

Re: Xorg 7.0 and ATI working!

2006-06-21 Thread Charles Muller
Bill Wohler wrote: In case there are still folks out there that like me have xserver-xorg 6.8 on hold because of the reports that X would freeze up if you had an ATI card, I'd like to report that all is well. May I ask: Was this in Etch? Unstable? Chuck --- Charles Mu