Locale configuration for GNOME menu

Hi, I'm running "testing" with a localized GNOME 2.10.2 (de-de) and am experiencing some locale problems here. A while ago, an "apt-get upgrade" changed the GNOME menu to English: The menu itself displays "Anwendungen" (the localized "Applications") but all contained folders are labelled in En

Re: Locale configuration for GNOME menu [solved]

> > Hi, > > I'm running "testing" with a localized GNOME 2.10.2 (de-de) and am > experiencing some locale problems here. A while ago, an "apt-get upgrade" > changed the GNOME menu to English: The menu itself displays "Anwendungen" > (the localized "Applications") but all contained folders are label

madwifi: modprobe complains about "Invalid module format"

Hi, I've been working with madwifi on a Thinkpad T41P for over half a year now and have had no problems. New kernel versions needed a re-compile of the module, which was painless and done quickly. With kernel 2.6.12 however, I've ran into the problem that # modprobe ath_pci results inWARNIN

Re: madwifi: modprobe complains about "Invalid module format"

you for which kernel headers and with which compiler the module was > compiled. This has to equal the values for the kernel. > > Am Dienstag, 11. Oktober 2005 16:51 schrieb André Wendt: > >>WARNING: Error inserting ath_hal >>(/lib/modules/2.6.12/net/ath_hal.ko): Invalid

Re: x.org und Probleme mit Eingabe von Accents

> Hallo zusammen, > > ich benutze x.org (Sid) mit KDE 3.4.2 und merke erst jetzt, dass ich > Probleme mit der Eingabe von Accents habe. Wenn ich Accent ague (geht > nach rechts oben) drücke komm bei mir folgendes Zeichen: '. > > Ich habe ein wenig an der /etc/X11/xorg.conf herumgedoktort, aber ohne

gnome puts .trash files on network shares

Hello, a fellow student just showed me that GNOME puts .trash-{username} files on network shares where I have deleted files. This might be useful for local parts of the filesystem, but it is NOT a smart thing to do on network shares. Does anybody know where I can prevent GNOME from doing this?

Madwifi + network LED on Thinkpad T41p

Hi there, after finally getting Madwifi to work with WPA at home (I had to recompile a more recent snapshot of the driver), I noticed the network LED on my T41p comes on only when wireless traffic occurs. It used to come on when bringing up the wireless interface and only went off when shutting i

Thinkpad + acpid: Shutting down when running low on battery

Hi again, whenever I am on batteries, my battstat-applet in GNOME warns me if there's only 5% of capacity left. However, that's still 10-15 minutes which I want to use to save battery life -- I'm afraid plugging the cable in too early is going to waste the battery (correct me if I'm wrong here). I

Seeking wireless PCI card

Hi, I know this isn't specifically laptop-related, but since it has to do with wifi and WPA, I thought I'd try it here. Can anyone of you recommend a wireless PCI card that is WPA-capable? I'm considering a Netgear WG311, but I've also heard of driver problems b/c of different types. Are there a

OSS Sound broken

Hi, for a couple of days my OSS sound on Debian/testing is broken, probably due to some upgrade. No packages have been purged. /var/log/aptitude says: [UPGRADE] libsdl1.2debian-oss 1.2.9-0.0 -> 1.2.9-0.1 I can't seem to find anything else remotely related to this. Anyone else have the same probl

OSS Sound broken

Hi, for a couple of days my OSS sound on Debian/testing is broken, probably due to some upgrade. No packages have been purged. /var/log/aptitude says: [UPGRADE] libsdl1.2debian-oss 1.2.9-0.0 -> 1.2.9-0.1 I can't seem to find anything else remotely related to this. Anyone else have the same probl

Re: OSS Sound broken

Thanks for the hint, Clive. I didn't know OSS was deprecated. I'll try to switch to ALSA once I get GNOME 2.12 to work... Still, this is no satisfying solution. Regards, André > On (10/02/06 15:48), André Wendt wrote: >> for a couple of days my OSS sound on Debian/testing

Dependency problems with GNOME 2.12 in testing

Hi, I'm trying to get GNOME 2.12 into my Debian/testing. Some 49 packages are being held back, and upgrading results in unresolved dependencies. Example: # aptitude install gnome-media wants to automatically install (among others) avahi-daemon and dbus which will remove dbus-1. This will, howeve

Re: Dependency problems with GNOME 2.12 in testing

Hi, thanks for the info, Adam. I was afraid so. I have managed to get the update through without any more problems, but my laptop halts without reason since this morning, rendering it pretty much useless after an upgrade to X.Org 6.9 and some GNOME packages. At first I thought it's GNOME and its

Re: Dependency problems with GNOME 2.12 in testing

I'm running a self-compiled vanilla kernel 2.6.12. I just tried 2.6.15 with the same result -- freeze in GNOME after about 6 minutes. Funny thing is: I can't downgrade to GNOME 2.10: # aptitude install gnome-desktop-data=2.10.2-1 tells me "Cannot find version 2.10.2-1 of package gnome-desktop-da

xserver-xorg hangs with radeon / ati driver

Hi, seems like an xserver-xorg upgrade to 6.9.0 screwed up the radeon driver: Whenever I log in, I just have to wait between 5 and 20 minutes before X hangs. Keyboard and mouse input is ignored, nothing works except hard reboot. I can't seem to be able to use fglrx, since fglrx-driver from testing

Re: xserver-xorg hangs with radeon / ati driver

> On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 10:30:30PM +0100, André Wendt wrote: >> So, I wondered if anyone would be willing to share his/her .deb of >> xserver-xorg version 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 by hosting it and sending the link? >> (Or just telling me where to download it. I feel like I s

Re: xserver-xorg hangs with radeon / ati driver

Hi, > flgrx is delivered as only binary and Ati says that this binary driver will only work for 6.8, it is not a constraint from xorg. I don't think so. Since ATI drivers are proprietary, it is up to Debian to classify the dependencies. And there are a couple of people out there using the lates

GNOME splashscreen stays until clicked since 2.12

Hi, I know this is not quite laptop-related (and I apologize sincerely for asking anyway), but why does the GNOME splashscreen stay on top of the screen until I dismiss it with a mouse click? On my Debian/testing this problem appeared after switching to GNOME 2.12. Thanks for any hints. Regards,

USB mouse problem since upgrading to kernel 2.6.15

Hi, I'm using a custom kernel 2.6.15 and X.org 6.8 on a "testing" laptop. All of a sudden, I cannot get my USB mouse to work. I have not changed anything in the kernel config concerning USB devices. Symptom: When I plug in the mouse, kernel 2.6.12 reports in /var/log/syslog Mar 5 21:50:01 local

Re: Gnome sound system.

I'm facing this problem every time a video plug-in in firefox is loaded and I try to fire up mplayer. In my case, killing the firefox process helps. Regards, André > I don't know the solution, but i am also facing this problem. :( > > On 4/8/06, Surachai Locharoen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >

Qemu: network connection host => guest

Hi, the qemu (0.8.0-3) documentation implies that the option "-redir tcp:8080::80" permits a connection from host:8080 to guest:80. However, I already filed a bug [1] because it doesn't work (connection timeout) -- and I'm not the only one with this problem [2]. According to [3], it doesn't work a

Re: Qemu: network connection host => guest

Hi, I just found out that the -redir option does work in qemu when specifying the IP instead of "localhost" [1]. Best regards and happy connecting, André [1] http://www.h7.dion.ne.jp/~qemu-win/HowToNetwork-en.html#5 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Priority of network interfaces

Hi, I'm using ifplugd to connect to a network. Whenever there's wireless and wired networks available, I usually prefer the wired connection -- it's faster and works mostly without additional setup (think WPA or VPN). But when any wireless network is available, Debian wants to use it, no matter if

network-manager + madwifi + wpasupplicant

Hi, I'm trying to use network-manager (0.6.2-3) with madwifi (custom-built from from madwifi-source 0.svn20060207-6) and wpasupplicant (0.4.9-1) on a non-encrypted network. I cannot prevent network-manager to start wpasupplicant when bringing up the wireless interface. /var/log/daemon.log reports:

Best practice to setup a guest account?

Hi, lately, I came to realize that a guest account would be perfect for my laptop since friends use it at my place. Since Ubuntu's "Guest login specification" [1] is far from being implemented, I wondered what's the least painful way to set up a guest account under GNOME -- apart from the actual a

Re: Best practice to setup a guest account?

Andrew McMillan schrieb: > On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 12:43 +0200, André Wendt wrote: >> Hi, >> lately, I came to realize that a guest account would be perfect for my >> laptop since friends use it at my place. Since Ubuntu's "Guest login >> specification" [1]

gnome-power-manager cannot find dbus

Hi, I'm trying to get gnome-power-manager to work on my Debian/testing laptop. However, when I try to start gnome-power-manager, it display the error message "This program cannot start until you start the dbus session service. This is usually started automatically in X or gnome startup when you s

Suspend-to-ram and synaptics

Hi all, I've finally got suspend-to-ram to work using /usr/sbin/hibernate *without* Suspend2 patches in the kernel. The only problem I'm having is the synaptics driver in X.org -- /var/log/Xorg.0.log reports: Synaptics DeviceOff called (II) External Mouse: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded Synapt

Re: Suspend-to-ram and synaptics

Vincent Bernat schrieb: > OoO Lors de la soirée naissante du jeudi 13 juillet 2006, vers 18:37, > André Wendt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait: > >> I've finally got suspend-to-ram to work using /usr/sbin/hibernate >> *without* Suspend2 patches in the kernel. The o

Re: Suspend removes /sys files needed for touchpad

John O'Hagan schrieb: > On Thursday 03 August 2006 03:48, Mattia Dongili wrote: >> Hello, >> >> On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 12:40:49AM +1000, John O'Hagan wrote: >> [...] >> >>> After a resume from ram, these files and devices are missing, and >>> inserting psmouse does not create them. All other devic

Re: Internet in Europe for Travelers

David Johnson schrieb: > This is a follow up to a question I asked about Internet access in Europe. > Before I get any hate mail, I must say I absolutely love Europe and am > _very_ glad we have come, however the Internet is not nearly as accessible, > as fast, or as reliable as it is in the US for

Re: video calling

Colin Cotter schrieb: > Dear List, > > What is the news on using webcams with the voice-over-IP services > (like Skype) these days with Debian? Has anybody reported any success? > > all the best > > --Colin Hi Colin, just a quick note: according to the comments on http://share.skype.com/sit

ISO 8859 or Unicode? And how to convert?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, this is not strictly laptop-specific, but I guess it's legitimate to raise this issue here. Think mobility. Think globalization. I keep running into more and more problems with the encoding of my name. Whether it's e-mails, files I receive or

Re: Loss of hardware acceleration after fglrx upgrade to 8.28.8-0.1 in sid on a Thinkpad T43

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 LUK ShunTim schrieb: > Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: >> For diagnosis purpose try the following > > First of thanks very for the help. I tried it again; same result, ie, no > hardware acceleration. > >> LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose glxgears -info -printfps > >

Getting swsusp with stock kernel to work

Hi, after over a year with custom-compiled kernels that solved problems I never had before :-), I switched back to Debian's stock kernel today. After re-compiling all necessary modules, I thought I'd give hibernate with swsusp a try (once again). Swsusp is suspending the machine (to disk) alrigh

Re: Getting swsusp with stock kernel to work

amateur schrieb: > On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 03:36:58PM +0200, Andr� Wendt wrote: >> Hi, >> > >> Swsusp is suspending the machine (to disk) alright, but it does not >> resume -- it restarts, and later complains about something with the swap >> space: /var/log/syslog says >> >> "Unable to find swap-

Re: Getting swsusp with stock kernel to work [solved]

André Wendt schrieb: > Hi, > > after over a year with custom-compiled kernels that solved problems I > never had before :-), I switched back to Debian's stock kernel today. > > After re-compiling all necessary modules, I thought I'd give hibernate > with swsusp a t

Fatal X Server in the middle of gdm session

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm experiencing problems with GDM after a suspend from disk, after a seemingly random amount of time. After several hours, gdm restarts. After ruling out several processes I had suspected to cause this behavior (namely, non-free software like Sky

Re: make beagle index only when AC plugged in?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Otavio Salvador schrieb: > David Purton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Does anyone know of an easy way to make beagle only index when the >> laptop is plugged into AC power? It eats battery a bit too fast. >> >> I figure I could write my own acpi ev

Re: ATI fglrx

Micha schrieb: I just not that fgl_glxgears FPS values depend on window size. So how can we compare ? Of course it depends on the window size. Just like any 3D game, it gets faster if you reduce the displayed resolution. If you drag another window on top of it, your FPS rate shoots up as well

Disabling the internal microphone

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, have any of you managed to disable the internal mic on a Thinkpad? If so, how? During the last couple of days, the volume on the speakers is lower than usual, and if I turn it up to the max, internal speakers and microphone don't like each other

Thinkpad: Volume buttons and GNOME's visual feedback

Hi there, I have a Thinkpad with a hardware mixer and three volume buttons. I configured TPB to get a visual feedback which is rather ugly. Is there a way I can configure GNOME to show the same visual feedback that I get when I configure a keyboard shortcut for volume control? (I know I could ju

Automount of USB hard drive and iPod broken

Hi, I'm using lenny/testing and the automount feature of udev/HAL is broken for over a week now. Any USB drive I plug in (HD, iPod) is recognized by udev (through udevmonitor) and HAL (lshal -m), but not auto-mounted anymore. Haven't tried optical devices or thumb drives. The device nodes are crea

External display setup with different screen resolutions

Hi, I know this has been asked over a thousand times before, but I can't get an external display to work properly. I'm running an IBM T41p with Sarge, kernel 2.6.10, XFree 4.3.0 and fglrx 8.14.13.1. Problem is: The LCD panel has a resolution of 1400x1050, the external TFT has only 1024x768. I hav

Re: External display setup with different screen resolutions

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Vincent Bernat schrieb: > OoO Vers la fin de l'après-midi du samedi 09 juillet 2005, vers 16:30, > André Wendt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait: > > >>The relevant stuff in XFreeConfig-4 looks as follows: > > >

GNOME applet to display uptime for testing dist?

pplet with similar functionality I can use? Thanks for any suggestions, André -- André Wendt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: shutdown problem

I'm running Debian 3.1 Sarge on a IBM Thinkpad R51. I use kernel 2.6.8-2-686. When i shutdown my notebook it goes down, the screen went black, and all LEDs are off. But the fan still runs and doesn't want to stop. I have got to press the powerbutton for 3 seconds to st

Blank boot screen with kernel 2.6.12

Hello, I am still running a custom 2.6.10 kernel on a Thinkpad T41p, but obviously udev-0.068-2 forces me to update to 2.6.12. As the stock kernel linux-image-2.6.12-1-386 does not support CPU freq scaling, I had to compile my own kernel again (with the old config). With the new kernel, however,

Re: Blank boot screen with kernel 2.6.12

Paul Puschmann schrieb: > André Wendt wrote: > >>Hello, >> >>I am still running a custom 2.6.10 kernel on a Thinkpad T41p, but >>obviously udev-0.068-2 forces me to update to 2.6.12. As the stock >>kernel linux-image-2.6.12-1-386 does not support CPU freq scali

Re: Debugging OSD

> I installed tpb (0.6.4) and osd (xosd-bin and libxosd2 2.2.14-1.2) on my > etch system with xorg 6.8.2 and KDE 3.3. > > Nothing shows up when I use the volume or other keys. > > The nvram module is loaded, nvram device is present: > crw-rw 1 root nvram 10, 144 2005-09-27 07:21 /dev/nvram > >