Re: suspend resume debugging

2011-10-22 Thread Raf Czlonka
On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 10:28:07PM BST, Max Tsepkov wrote: > Laptop display is not powered on after resume. > All other systems is fine, I managed to blindly reboot the machine. > Kernel log doesn't show anything obvious. > I was wondering, how to debug such cases? Where to begin? 1. What's the gr

Re: Nvidia xstart problem.

2011-10-22 Thread L V Gandhi
Thanks for the response. But many times it starts. Only a few times it is not starting. With out required modules, I think it will not start at all. On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > Am Samstag, 22. Oktober 2011 schrieb L V Gandhi: > > I face problems in X getting started

bizarre look of libreoffice under KDE/compiz

2011-10-22 Thread Pavlos Parissis
Hello all, I am having a strange issue with Libreoffice under KDE with compiz enabled. Αs an old Chinese proverb says, here is picture http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1773878/libreoffice-issue.png which presents the issue very well. To recover this situation I need either to logout/login from KDE or reboo

Re: GRUB2 in edit mode

2011-10-22 Thread Walter Hurry
On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 20:31:46 +, Camaleón wrote: > I was talking about the kernel parameter "boot_delay" that you can pass > to the kernel line of GRUB2 to slowdown the messages presented on the > screen when your computer boots. > > Hope now is more clear. It was crystal clear in the first p

Re: GRUB2 in edit mode

2011-10-22 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 23 Oct 2011 03:07:12 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > Good time again, Camaleón, You wrote: > My maths are nowadays at a very rusty state but I thought that "1000 ms = 1 s" or did I miss something? ;-) >>> >>> AFAIK it is in seconds, not in ms. >> >>Mmmm, I've read it the from here: >>

Re: framebuffer resolution problem

2011-10-22 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 12:14:00 -0700, daniel jimenez wrote: >> Ah... you're using the nvidia closed driver. > > I'm sorry, forgot about the nvidia thing. With nvidia closed driver this can be tricky because it does not use KMS. >> > upon checking /etc/default/grub >> > >> > i was able to find >>

Re: Fn Backlight keys on Dell XPS

2011-10-22 Thread Sthu Deus
Good time, rudu: >> Mmm, you can consider: >> >> a) Asking at Ubuntu forums/mailing lists >> b) Open a bug report in Ubuntu for the non-functional function keys >> c) Try with a new kernel version (from a LiveCD to avoid messing up >> things) >> d) Using "xbacklight" application >> >> Greetings, >

Re: GRUB2 in edit mode

2011-10-22 Thread Sthu Deus
Good time again, Camaleón, You wrote: >>>My maths are nowadays at a very rusty state but I thought that "1000 >>>ms = 1 s" or did I miss something? ;-) >> >> AFAIK it is in seconds, not in ms. > >Mmmm, I've read it the from here: > >*** >http://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/kernel-parameters.t

Re: GRUB2 in edit mode

2011-10-22 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 23 Oct 2011 02:15:54 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > Good time, Camaleón: > >>My maths are nowadays at a very rusty state but I thought that "1000 ms >>= 1 s" or did I miss something? ;-) > > AFAIK it is in seconds, not in ms. Mmmm, I've read it the from here: *** http://www.kernel.org/doc/D

Re: GRUB2 in edit mode

2011-10-22 Thread Sthu Deus
Good time, Camaleón: >My maths are nowadays at a very rusty state but I thought that "1000 >ms = 1 s" or did I miss something? ;-) AFAIK it is in seconds, not in ms. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lis

Re: framebuffer resolution problem

2011-10-22 Thread daniel jimenez
> Ah... you're using the nvidia closed driver. I'm sorry, forgot about the nvidia thing. > > upon checking /etc/default/grub > > > > i was able to find > > GRUB_GFXMODE=1280x800 > > GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD=keep > > > > thanks for the help > > If that did it, fine then :-) Not really.. I found the GRUB_

Re: How do I remove a package and all of it's dependencies?

2011-10-22 Thread Jude DaShiell
aptitude autoclean after an aptitude remove --purge package-name is supposed to work but doesn't always. How well that works depends on how well the packages themselves were made in the first place. When it doesn't work you'll run something and see package removed but not purged. The package

iptables limitations

2011-10-22 Thread Jim Pazarena
I have been using debian as a border router, and using iptables to "drop" connections to various IPs which hit my honeypot. I am wondering, if there is a point where too many iptables rules impede the speed of the network? How many "drops" can I entertain, before I should look at some other meth

Re: VPN linux client

2011-10-22 Thread J. Bakshi
On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 18:12:31 +0100 Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 22 Oct 2011, J. Bakshi wrote: > > > > > > Dear list, > > > > network-manager already has the required plugin to support vpn connection. > > > > But what should people do without network-manager ? Any standalone (non > > gnome/kd

Re: VPN linux client

2011-10-22 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 22 Oct 2011, J. Bakshi wrote: > > > Dear list, > > network-manager already has the required plugin to support vpn connection. > > But what should people do without network-manager ? Any standalone (non > gnome/kde) > GUI for vpn connection as client in Linux ? > > Found ike-qtgui but it is

How do I remove a package and all of it's dependencies?

2011-10-22 Thread Aniruddha
When I install a package with apt-get it gets installed with all it's dependencies. However when I remove a packages some dependencies are left on the system. For example: to install: apt-get install lxde to remove: apt-get remove lxde apt-get autoremove deborphan Does not remove all packages.

Re: Bluetooth and cell phone

2011-10-22 Thread Richard
On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 11:35:40 +0200 Mark Panen wrote: > On 22/10/2011 11:03, Richard wrote: > > On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 11:14:39 +1100 > > Scott Ferguson wrote: > > > > > >> On 21/10/11 20:24, Mark Panen wrote: > >> > >>> On 21/10/2011 02:08, Scott Ferguson wrote: > >>> > The "

Re: Debian Locked Up

2011-10-22 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 09:26:47 -0500, chris dunn wrote: > For a while I've been suffering mysterious crashes where the screen goes > blank and the computer becomes completely unresponsive. Ctrl Alt F1 and > the like do not work and the mouse and keyboard become non-responsive. > Occasional beeps can

Debian Locked Up

2011-10-22 Thread chris dunn
For a while I've been suffering mysterious crashes where the screen goes blank and the computer becomes completely unresponsive. Ctrl Alt F1 and the like do not work and the mouse and keyboard become non-responsive. Occasional beeps can be heard but I'm not able to identify the cause of the beeps.

Re: Bluetooth and cell phone

2011-10-22 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 11:35:40 +0200 Mark Panen dijo: >> Although OT if you have an android phone, virtual cable is an >> alternative to bluetooth, it uses FTP via the cell switch, or a >> wireless router if you use one at home as I do. Also its fast, much >> faster than bluetooth. I was always und

blueman-applet input/output error

2011-10-22 Thread J. Bakshi
Dear list, blueman-applet has some problem in by debian box. I have blueman 1.21-4.1+b1 installed with debian wheezy. Obviously I have added the user at bluetooth group; dbus is also working. I can on/off as well as search new bluetooth devices through blueman-applet but when try to add or pair

VPN linux client

2011-10-22 Thread J. Bakshi
Dear list, network-manager already has the required plugin to support vpn connection. But what should people do without network-manager ? Any standalone (non gnome/kde) GUI for vpn connection as client in Linux ? Found ike-qtgui but it is based on IPsec... What about the other protocols like

qingy broken after logout

2011-10-22 Thread J. Bakshi
Hello, I am using quingy as a framebuffer login manager. It runs well. But when I logout from the console; the qingy comes back with a complete broken look.. where no input is possible. qingy has some resolution issue which I have fixed by editing /etc/directfbrc with the following

Re: GRUB2 in edit mode

2011-10-22 Thread Brian
On Sat 22 Oct 2011 at 13:38:09 +0100, Brian wrote: > Works here with the same kernel (and 3.0.0-2-686-pae) and 10 for > boot_delay. I hadn't the patience to wait over 15 minutes so didn't try > 1000. :) When I said 'works' I should have been clearer and said 'the kernel booted' (600 gives a waiti

Re: GRUB2 in edit mode

2011-10-22 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 13:38:09 +0100, Brian wrote: > On Sat 22 Oct 2011 at 11:45:23 +, Camaleón wrote: > >> I am trying to get a more paused bootup messages by appending >> "boot_delay=1000" to the kernel line in GRUB2 edit mode (I'm adding >> this at the "linux" line, after "ro quiet"), but wh

Re: GRUB2 in edit mode

2011-10-22 Thread Brian
On Sat 22 Oct 2011 at 11:45:23 +, Camaleón wrote: > I am trying to get a more paused bootup messages by appending > "boot_delay=1000" to the kernel line in GRUB2 edit mode (I'm adding this > at the "linux" line, after "ro quiet"), but when I press F10 to continue > with the boot sequence it

GRUB2 in edit mode

2011-10-22 Thread Camaleón
Hello, I am trying to get a more paused bootup messages by appending "boot_delay=1000" to the kernel line in GRUB2 edit mode (I'm adding this at the "linux" line, after "ro quiet"), but when I press F10 to continue with the boot sequence it hangs at: *** (black screen) Reading a command list

Re: framebuffer resolution problem

2011-10-22 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 21 Oct 2011 13:33:39 -0700, daniel jimenez wrote: > On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 7:01 AM, Camaleón wrote: >> What does "grep -i buffer /var/log/Xorg.0.log" return? >> >> You can try by editing "/etc/default/grub" file and search for >> "GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX" and/or "GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX" param

Re: posting

2011-10-22 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Ma, 18 oct 11, 06:12:19, Tixy wrote: > On Mon, 2011-10-17 at 21:49 +, Camaleón wrote: > > On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 18:18:44 +0200, Erwan David wrote: > > > > > And I would add evolution to the blacklist (top posting) > > > > How is that? Evolution is preventing you from moving the cursor to star

Re: how to get pkg names not upgraded

2011-10-22 Thread Arno Schuring
Harry Putnam (rea...@newsguy.com on 2011-10-21 19:19 -0500): > When I run `aptitude full upgrade' Sometimes I see something in the > output saying some number of packages will not be upgraded. > > Something like [...] 40 pkgs to upgrade 8 pkgs not upgraded. [...] > > (That is not verbatim... jus

Re: Nvidia xstart problem.

2011-10-22 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Samstag, 22. Oktober 2011 schrieb L V Gandhi: > I face problems in X getting started many times.I give below last relevent > portions of failed and normal Xorg.log > > Failed Xstart > Most problem is the missing kernel-module. Try to install nvidia-kernel-dkms and nvidia-glx. You must add "c

Re: Bluetooth and cell phone

2011-10-22 Thread Mark Panen
On 22/10/2011 11:03, Richard wrote: On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 11:14:39 +1100 Scott Ferguson wrote: On 21/10/11 20:24, Mark Panen wrote: On 21/10/2011 02:08, Scott Ferguson wrote: The "auto-refresh" doesn't work, but browsing *does*, as does transfer. not on my machine

Re: Bluetooth and cell phone

2011-10-22 Thread Richard
On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 11:14:39 +1100 Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 21/10/11 20:24, Mark Panen wrote: > > On 21/10/2011 02:08, Scott Ferguson wrote: > >> The "auto-refresh" doesn't work, but browsing *does*, as does transfer. > >> > > > > not on my machine. > > > > -- > > Cheers > > Mark > > Debi

Nvidia xstart problem.

2011-10-22 Thread L V Gandhi
I face problems in X getting started many times.I give below last relevent portions of failed and normal Xorg.log Failed Xstart (II) Oct 22 13:17:35 NVIDIA(0): Initialized GPU GART. (II) Oct 22 13:17:35 NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "nvidia-auto-select" (EE) Oct 22 13:17:35 NVIDIA(0): Failed to allocat