GDM and Thinkfinger

Somewhere amongst my regular dist-upgrades (testing/unstable) on my Lenovo R61e gdm stopped using the thinkfinger library. On the login screen there is still "or swipe finger" but swiping the finger does not work any longer. The problem is not with the thinkfinger library because it still works o

Disable touchpad on Dell E6410 (Squeeze)

Previously I had a Thinkpad and /etc/X11/xorg.conf with a synaptics configuration. I could disable the touchpad with this command: /usr/bin/synclient "TouchpadOff=`/usr/bin/synclient -l | sed -ne 's/\(TouchpadOff *= *\)\([01]\)/\2/p' | sed -e 'y/01/10/'`" Now I have a Dell E6410 with Squeeze (a

External screen

I have a Dell Latitute E6410 and have a mixture of Testing and Sid on it. Recently I got an external Dell flatscreen. It happened several times now that when I connect the screen to my computer while it is running, it freezes and I have to push the power button two switch if off. This does not no

Re: Dell Latitude E6410: Touchpad Scrolling

Hallo Ashton, On 12 December 2011 12:25, Ashton Fagg wrote: > > Has anyone managed to get this going? I'd greatly appreciate any > pointers which anyone may be able to give. Please let me know if > there's anything else you would like to see. > > I got my E6410 15 months ago and gave up on the tr

Re: Explanation

On 3 May 2015 at 20:55, Arghya Das wrote: > can someone plz explain to me the meaning of output of acpi -V command : > > Battery 0: Unknown, 94% > Battery 0: design capacity 547 mAh, last full capacity 547 mAh = 100% > Adapter 0: on-line > Thermal 0: ok, 51.5 degrees C > Thermal 0: trip point 0 s

eth0 renamed

I have a new Lenovo Thinkpad T550 and am using Debian Testing on it. $ uname SMP Debian 4.4.6-1 (2016-03-17) x86_64 $ lshw: *-network description: Ethernet interface product: Ethernet Connection (3) I218-LM vendor: Intel Corporation ph

Re: eth0 renamed

On 12 April 2016 at 16:36, Estelmann, Christian wrote: > Have you searched at Google? I normally use duckduckgo.com and I did not find an answer looking for searches like debian rename eth0 enps025 > Maybe this can help: > > http://askubuntu.com/questions/704361/why-is-my-network-interface-n

Re: pppd + alsa + debian = ?

which normal users have difficulty to use. An example of such a program is xcdroast. If you would start it with the command "sudo xcdroast" you should be able to run it without the need to su to root. Others on the list might have better suggestions but I hope this helps a little b

kernel-2.4.21, Thinkpad R31, apm/acpi

r 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.21/kernel' make[1]: *** [_dir_kernel] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.21' make: *** [stamp-build] Error 2 This error message was repeated many lines in exec_domain.c Any ideas? Johan

No carrier - IBM Thinkpad R31 AC'97 modem

Using slmdm-2.7.14 software I can get the modem on the R31 to phone. But I have had no successful ppp connections so far. The typical log looks like this: Jul 26 20:59:59 localhost pppd[1071]: pppd 2.4.1 started by js, uid 1000 Jul 26 20:59:59 localhost kernel: This driver is not compatible wit

Re: No carrier - IBM Thinkpad R31 AC'97 modem

Thanks Rene and Benoit slmdm-2.7.10 indeed worked :) -- Johann Spies Telefoon: 021-808 4036 Informasietegnologie, Universiteit van Stellenbosch "He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me; and he that loveth me shall be loved

Re: USB on dell 5100

he system is running already. Regards. Johann -- Johann Spies Telefoon: 021-808 4036 Informasietegnologie, Universiteit van Stellenbosch "Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed; for the LORD thy Go

Re: USB hard drive problem.

y machines (also with 2.4.18 kernel). On others with later kernels it works without a problem. Workaround: Do a /etc/init.d/hotplug force-reload and your usb-device should be mountable after that. Regards Johann -- Johann Spies Telefoon: 021-808 4036 Informasietegnologie, Universiteit

Re: USB hard drive problem.

://www.marlow.dk/tech/src/rescan-scsi-bus.sh.txt > > > > And run it. > > > > It rescan's all scsi-channels (also usb and firewire) and finds > > all scsi devices available. > > You can also look at the debian package sg3-utils with sg_scan and sg_map which

Re: mail synchronisation between laptop and desktop

hing. In my maildir's I have files with the name "hcache.db" How do you make unison handle those files? Regards Johann -- Johann Spies Telefoon: 021-808 4036 Informasietegnologie, Universiteit van Stellenbosch "And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you

Re: mail synchronisation between laptop and desktop

mat. Regards Johann -- Johann Spies Telefoon: 021-808 4036 Informasietegnologie, Universiteit van Stellenbosch "And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you."Luke 11:9

Re: best laptops for debian linux

ll servers and the Dell-server was the easiest to install Linux on. As a Linux system administrator, I tried both Redhat and Debian (using the bonzai-image) and did not have any installation problems. Regards Johann -- Johann Spies Telefoon: 021-808 4036 Informasietegnologie, Univer

kernel-2.4.21, Thinkpad R31, apm/acpi

r 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.21/kernel' make[1]: *** [_dir_kernel] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.21' make: *** [stamp-build] Error 2 This error message was repeated many lines in exec_domain.c Any ideas? Johan

No carrier - IBM Thinkpad R31 AC'97 modem

Using slmdm-2.7.14 software I can get the modem on the R31 to phone. But I have had no successful ppp connections so far. The typical log looks like this: Jul 26 20:59:59 localhost pppd[1071]: pppd 2.4.1 started by js, uid 1000 Jul 26 20:59:59 localhost kernel: This driver is not compatible wit

Re: No carrier - IBM Thinkpad R31 AC'97 modem

Thanks Rene and Benoit slmdm-2.7.10 indeed worked :) -- Johann Spies Telefoon: 021-808 4036 Informasietegnologie, Universiteit van Stellenbosch "He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me; and he that loveth me shall be loved

Re: USB on dell 5100

he system is running already. Regards. Johann -- Johann Spies Telefoon: 021-808 4036 Informasietegnologie, Universiteit van Stellenbosch "Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed; for the LORD thy Go

Re: USB hard drive problem.

y machines (also with 2.4.18 kernel). On others with later kernels it works without a problem. Workaround: Do a /etc/init.d/hotplug force-reload and your usb-device should be mountable after that. Regards Johann -- Johann Spies Telefoon: 021-808 4036 Informasietegnologie, Universiteit

Re: USB hard drive problem.

://www.marlow.dk/tech/src/rescan-scsi-bus.sh.txt > > > > And run it. > > > > It rescan's all scsi-channels (also usb and firewire) and finds > > all scsi devices available. > > You can also look at the debian package sg3-utils with sg_scan and sg_map which

Re: mail synchronisation between laptop and desktop

hing. In my maildir's I have files with the name "hcache.db" How do you make unison handle those files? Regards Johann -- Johann Spies Telefoon: 021-808 4036 Informasietegnologie, Universiteit van Stellenbosch "And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you

Re: mail synchronisation between laptop and desktop

mat. Regards Johann -- Johann Spies Telefoon: 021-808 4036 Informasietegnologie, Universiteit van Stellenbosch "And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you."Luke 11:9 -- T

Re: best laptops for debian linux

ll servers and the Dell-server was the easiest to install Linux on. As a Linux system administrator, I tried both Redhat and Debian (using the bonzai-image) and did not have any installation problems. Regards Johann -- Johann Spies Telefoon: 021-808 4036 Informasietegnologie, Univer