Re: Full Disk Encryption

On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 13:00:24 +0530 "J. Bakshi" wrote: > On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 00:00:05 -0700 > Bob Proulx wrote: > > > J. Bakshi wrote: > > > I am always interested in Full disk encryption for my laptop ( i5 + > > > 3 GB ), but what makes me stop is the thinking of performance > > > lag. Recently

Re: Full Disk Encryption

On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 00:00:05 -0700 Bob Proulx wrote: > J. Bakshi wrote: > > I am always interested in Full disk encryption for my laptop ( i5 + > > 3 GB ), but what makes me stop is the thinking of performance > > lag. Recently I have seen an ububtu laptop ( i5 + 4 GB ) with full > > disk encrypt

Re: Nvidia graphics that don't work with nouveau - Was: Re: Nvidia driver fails to compile on kernel 3.X

On Fri, 2011-11-25 at 17:15 -0800, Go Linux wrote: > --- On Fri, 11/25/11, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > > > Model: "nVidia GeForce 8400 GS" > > I use 'nouveau.modeset=0' on the kernel cmdline and also > > blacklist nouveau. > > But note that the latest udev (175-2) removes > > blacklist.conf, I put

Re: Full Disk Encryption

J. Bakshi wrote: > I am always interested in Full disk encryption for my laptop ( i5 + > 3 GB ), but what makes me stop is the thinking of performance > lag. Recently I have seen an ububtu laptop ( i5 + 4 GB ) with full > disk encryption and it is performing normal, haven't found any > lag... I ha

Re: Chromium in Sid not working

David Bruce wrote: > I have two Sid systems (one amd64, one 32-bit intel) and Chromium is > currently unusable in both - all attempted pages display "Aw, Snap", > even content on same machine. There appears to be a bug on this: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=647992 > > but

Re: Re: Getty is spawning to early

Tim Heckman wrote: > John Hasler writes: > >Try killing getty in your script (init will respawn it). You may > >also need to delay logins so that the user can't log in too early. > > I'm not sure why but I hadn't thought of this. I was hoping to > implement a delay instead of having to kill getty

Re: Re: Getty is spawning to early

Tim Heckman wrote: > I've created a dhclient-exit-hook script to handle the processing. > This checks whether the hostname should be set and completes the > process. Only sets it if it really is needed. Ah, very good. In this case it is six of one and a half dozen of the other. Either way should

Re: Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze

Marc Shapiro wrote: > My question was, considering what I have done, is it likely that > things will 'just work' or is it more likely that I will have > issues? Yes. Should work just fine. Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: What to expect following major update

Wayne Topa wrote: > How does the system boot up if /boot is not mounted? You don't need /boot mounted in order to boot. It only needs to be mounted in order to be updated. Booting happens before the operating system is loaded and so those files are not needed at operating system time. By the ti

Re: No more GRUB legacy at install time since wheezy?

On Sat, 2011-11-26 at 06:13 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Pardon, I didn't notice that this thread was from old digest :(. > Evolution did show unread mails u n s o r t e d and I didn't take a > look at the date :(. > > My bad :(, sorry. I'm embarrassed. There's no need to discuss this old GRUB

OT: 'Most people' don't fit the 'most people' category. - Was: Re: [snip]

On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 22:36 +0100, Brian wrote: > 'Most people' don't fit the 'most people' category. +1 :D -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/13222837

Re: No more GRUB legacy at install time since wheezy?

Pardon, I didn't notice that this thread was from old digest :(. Evolution did show unread mails u n s o r t e d and I didn't take a look at the date :(. My bad :(, sorry. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listm

Full Disk Encryption

Hello, I am always interested in Full disk encryption for my laptop ( i5 + 3 GB ), but what makes me stop is the thinking of performance lag. Recently I have seen an ububtu laptop ( i5 + 4 GB ) with full disk encryption and it is performing normal, haven't found any lag... So I am interested to

Re: No more GRUB legacy at install time since wheezy?

On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 18:40 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 28 Jun 2011 13:19:15 -0400, Tom H wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 6:52 AM, Camaleón wrote: > >> On Sun, 26 Jun 2011 16:27:18 -0400, Tom H wrote: > >>> On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Camaleón wrote: > > > > > > For grub2, t

Re: Re: Getty is spawning to early

John Hasler writes: Tim Heckman writes: I've created a dhclient-exit-hook script to handle the processing. This checks whether the hostname should be set and completes the process. Only sets it if it really is needed. Try killing getty in your script (init will respawn it). You may also need t

Re: Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze

On 11/25/11 03:16, Stephen Powell wrote: On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 01:58:13 -0500 (EST), Marc Shapiro wrote: I have yet to upgrade to Squeeze and I really think that it is about time. ... Is there any reason that I should not just do 'apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade' and expect things to 'just w

Re: Getty is spawning to early

Tim Heckman writes: > I've created a dhclient-exit-hook script to handle the processing. > This checks whether the hostname should be set and completes the > process. Only sets it if it really is needed. Try killing getty in your script (init will respawn it). You may also need to delay logins so

Re: What to expect following major update

Bob Proulx writes: >> But even with that, yes, it was sloppy not to catch it, but isn't that >> just the kind of place where a warning of some kind might be well >> placed. > > It is okay if you want to keep your /boot not mounted and only mount > it when needed. That's fine. But I think it is

Re: What to expect following major update

Wayne Topa writes: [...] > I have only been using Debian since 1993, 18 years, and do not recall > ever having boot 'not' mounted. This is on syatems where I had boot > on a separate partition and, currently, everything on one partition. I'll defer here. As I mentioned... I only tinkered with

Re: Re: Getty is spawning to early

Bob Proulx wrote: Am I correct in assuming that you have modified /sbin/dhclient-script to set the hostname from the dhcp'd hostname? (That is what I did when I was doing this.) I've created a dhclient-exit-hook script to handle the processing. This checks whether the hostname should be set

Chromium in Sid not working

Hi, I have two Sid systems (one amd64, one 32-bit intel) and Chromium is currently unusable in both - all attempted pages display "Aw, Snap", even content on same machine. There appears to be a bug on this: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=647992 but I get the sense that the mai

Re: Nvidia graphics that don't work with nouveau - Was: Re: Nvidia driver fails to compile on kernel 3.X

--- On Fri, 11/25/11, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > Model: "nVidia GeForce 8400 GS" > I use 'nouveau.modeset=0' on the kernel cmdline and also > blacklist nouveau. > But note that the latest udev (175-2) removes > blacklist.conf, I put it back again. > What I find if I don't blacklist nouveau is tha

Re: Getty is spawning to early

Tim Heckman wrote: > I have an interesting problem that should actually be seen as a compliment > to Debian. My system is booting so fast that the /sbin/getty is spawning > before DHCP sets the hostname. So I get a prompt like this: > > > Debian GNU/Linux 6.0 (none) hvc0 > > (none) login:

Re: Re: Getty is spawning to early

John, Thank you for replying back as well as the idea to set this option. I wish it had been this easy but it appears that this option does not affect how getty prints the login prompt. I believe this may only affect someone trying to log in and not how it prints. If you have any further i

Re: Re: Getty is spawning to early

John, Thank you for replying back as well as the idea to set this option. I wish it had been this easy but it appears that this option does not affect how getty prints the login prompt. I believe this may only affect someone trying to log in and not how it prints. If you have any further i

Re: Has iceweasel (or maybe flash) gone single threaded

Alan Chandler wrote: > Over the last few weeks iceweasel has started to operate strangely. > The whole application stops whilst trying to open a web page. you > can't switch tabs. Sometimes it gets SO BAD that the entire desktop > locks for a while. > > Am I the only person experiencing this. I

Re: Make WiFi work.

On 24/11/2011 10:00, Paul Isambert wrote: not to mention the book I could have bought instead... You mean the ethernet wire, isn't it? Bad joke. Nicolas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.

Re: What to expect following major update

Harry Putnam wrote: > I haven't kept boot mounted for yrs, and I hadn't noticed that grub > was to be updated... there was 187 pgks, further its not automatically > apparent that grub.cfg resides on boot... not all of grubs files do. > I'm very new to grub2. > > But even with that, yes, it was slo

Re: openoffice.org different icons in pc and laptop

On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 7:40 PM, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 18:10:07 +0530 > L V Gandhi wrote: > > Hello L, > > > I have different icons for openoffice.org in squeeze-kde version in my > > PC and in laptop. > > Tools menu, Options... Libreoffice/View. Then select the icon theme yo

Re: Password Management ?

Olivier BATARD wrote: > I'm just interested on how, after googling for a long time, on a > debian, can we manage users's passwords. I mean how can we manage a > password database on a web php site for example ? > > How do you manage your user's passwords database ? You have asked a very confusing

Re: No more desktop.

On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 16:44:34 +0100 Paul Isambert wrote: > Le 25/11/2011 12:46, Paul Isambert a écrit : > > Hello there again, > > > > I must be cursed. As explained before, I succeeded in having my wifi > > work by switching to wheezy, following Nicolas's solution. > > > > Then I just wanted to

Re: gksu: Couldn't set environment variable...

Sthu Deus wrote: > I can not run two applications w/ gksu: > > chromium and > qbittorrent Why do you want to run those applications as root? You should not do this. Neither of those applications are designed for being run as root. Those should be run as a normal non-root user. In other words,

Re: best lenovo laptop for debian(i need opinion)

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > watches videos it is the vertical pixels that count the most. I would > > hate to purchase a "new" machine with fewer vertical pixels than the > > 1050 in my "old" machine. > > The best you can do is to get a T60/p with a proper BOE-Hydis

Re: Getty is spawning to early

set DELAYLOGIN=yes in /etc/default/rcS. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87obvzx1yu@thumper.dhh.gt.org

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2011 #2139

Woodchuck, 25.11.2011: > > I added the "obvious" line: > > deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ squeeze contrib non-free > > I then ran "apt-cache gencaches" with silent results. > > Then I ran apt-get: > > root@julius:~# apt-get install gcc-doc > Reading package lists... Done > Building depe

Re: comment diff files

On Fri, 2011-11-25 at 22:17 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Fri, 2011-11-25 at 18:14 +, Clive Standbridge wrote: > > Jerome BENOIT wrote: > > > Hello List: > > > > > > Is there any way to comment a diff file ? > > > > Interesting question. > > ;D > > Until now I'm only using, not writing pa

Re: comment diff files

On Fri, 2011-11-25 at 18:14 +, Clive Standbridge wrote: > Jerome BENOIT wrote: > > Hello List: > > > > Is there any way to comment a diff file ? > > Interesting question. ;D Until now I'm only using, not writing patches. What happens if we would write something at top of a diff or at the e

Re: What to expect following major update

On 11/24/2011 08:12 PM, Brian wrote: On Thu 24 Nov 2011 at 09:41:12 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: 2) Should it be considered a bug that grub files are written when boot is not mounted. A file can be written to any directory, mounted or not. No bug here. Seems like if t

Re: Re(2): posting

On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 10:43:39 -0800, peasthope wrote: > * From: Camaleón * Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 > 17:22:00 + (UTC) >> - Keep the uppercase for the first word in all of the points. Now some >> of the points start with uppercase and others with lowercase, this >> needs to be normaliz

Re: Disabling NFSv4 on Debian Squeeze

On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 15:15:57 -0500, Tom H wrote: > On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Camaleón wrote: >> On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 19:28:15 -0500, Tom H wrote: >>> >>> I've been meaning to look into you "RPCMOUNTDOPTS=--no-nfs-version 4" >>> suggestion but haven't had the time. >> >> It seems that this

reduce crypt partition

i need a little help reducing my crypt partition. when i first installed debian, i used a rather standard /boot on /dev/hda1 and crypt on /dev/hda2, using LVM for the rest of the partitions. i've been following this[1] resize guide and i am at step 5, having already resized my logical LVM root an

Getty is spawning to early

Hello, I have an interesting problem that should actually be seen as a compliment to Debian. My system is booting so fast that the /sbin/getty is spawning before DHCP sets the hostname. So I get a prompt like this: Debian GNU/Linux 6.0 (none) hvc0 (none) login: If I log in, the host

Re: comment diff files

Thanks ! On 25/11/11 19:14, Clive Standbridge wrote: Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List: Is there any way to comment a diff file ? Interesting question. I don't know, but perhaps this paragraph from the patch(1) may help: patch tries to skip any leading garbage, apply the diff, and then skip

[OT] On goats, rootkits and other "beasts" (was: Unknown HZ value! (92) Assume 100.)

On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 18:19:56 +, Brian wrote: > On Fri 25 Nov 2011 at 16:59:40 +, Camaleón wrote: > >> If his majesty Laius would had the option of doing a Google search, he >> had found his own article (and so what the future reserved for him...) >> written at the "Olympuspedia" :-P > >

Re: Disabling NFSv4 on Debian Squeeze

On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 19:28:15 -0500, Tom H wrote: >> >> I've been meaning to look into you "RPCMOUNTDOPTS=--no-nfs-version 4" >> suggestion but haven't had the time. > > It seems that this parameter has finally solved the problem for the OP, > but

Re: Debian: A noob query

On Friday 25 November 2011 17:27:00 Brad Alexander wrote: > On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 3:19 PM, Lisi wrote: > > > A simple, accepting all defaults to make life easy, installation of > > > > Debian 6 > > > > > or higher will give you GNOME.  Anything else is more complex. > > > > That's right but plea

live-magic

Hola! I am on wheezy, amd-64 with Xfce4 desktop. I installed, with synaptic, the program live-magic to make live debian iso's. The program starts fine, and I walk past the menus. But the final menu, checking the button "Apply", nothing happens! Any ideas? Kjetil -- "If you want a picture of t

Re: Debian: A noob query

On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 17:47:08 +, Andrew Wood wrote: > Adobes version of Flash was (when I downloaded it a month or so ago) 32 > bit which will run on a 64 bit OS BUT only with a 32 bit web browser so > you need to make sure you have the 32 bit version of Firefox. I made > that mistake:) Wrong

Re(2): posting

* From: Camaleón * Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 17:22:00 + (UTC) > - Keep the uppercase for the first word in all of the points. Now some of > the points start with uppercase and others with lowercase, this needs to > be normalized :-) Worked over about 3/4 of the text where that appl

Re: Unknown HZ value! (92) Assume 100.

On Fri 25 Nov 2011 at 16:59:40 +, Camaleón wrote: > If his majesty Laius would had the option of doing a Google search, he > had found his own article (and so what the future reserved for him...) > written at the "Olympuspedia" :-P Olympuspedia would never capture the imagination. It's not

Re: comment diff files

Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello List: > > Is there any way to comment a diff file ? Interesting question. I don't know, but perhaps this paragraph from the patch(1) may help: patch tries to skip any leading garbage, apply the diff, and then skip any trailing garbage. Thus you could feed an articl

Re: comment diff files

From: Jerome BENOIT rezozer.net> Is there any way to comment a diff file ? I don't think so - you apply the diff using patch, then you put comments into the modified file, then you run a diff against the original version to get the difference with comments included. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Iceweasel's "Awesom bar" history is missing icons for some websites since upgrade from v7 to v8

Iceweasel's "Awesom bar" history is missing icons for some websites since upgrade from v7 to v8. For the explanation of this bug I use the terms of http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/central/ . For example the icon of http://www.dict.cc/ isn't shown by the "Awesom bar" history. But the "Fav"ico

Re: Debian: A noob query

On 24/11/11 18:45, Weaver wrote: It's good to go with, depending on what you're looking for. If you want to learn, there's no Linux distro better for the purpose, but an easier introduction could be by downloading and installing LMDE here: http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1818 which many are switchin

Re: Debian: A noob query

On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 05:09:08 -0500 Sam Vagni wrote: > > What in fact is 'midnight commander', is it distro specific or > application or software...? Didn't get this pointIs it a file > manager like Nautilus or Dolpin (I heard of them...)? > It's an application for any Linux distribution. It

Re: Has iceweasel (or maybe flash) gone single threaded

On Friday 25 November 2011 10:19:58 Javier Barroso wrote: > > I remember read about this kind of issue was going to be fixed using > ¿one thread by tab? There is a mozilla page talking about [1] > Last week Mozilla announced that their multi-processus project for Firefox (Electrolysis) is dela

Re: What to expect following major update

On Fri 25 Nov 2011 at 07:40:02 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > > Camaleón wrote: > >> > If the package is installed and the config file needs to be updated the > >> > upgrade routine uses to ask what to do (keep the old file, compare both, > >> > replace it with the nre one...). If the partition w

Re: iceweasel plugin-container, flashplugin, and gnome3 issue

i was forced to use gnome3 after updating wheezy. i can't use it. after that, i tryed kde 4.6.5, i really like it. it does everything i need without break my workflow. you should give it a try. Em 25-11-2011 14:31, Camaleón escreveu: On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 12:58:41 +0100, tadziu wrote: That's t

Re: Debian: A noob query

Adobes version of Flash was (when I downloaded it a month or so ago) 32 bit which will run on a 64 bit OS BUT only with a 32 bit web browser so you need to make sure you have the 32 bit version of Firefox. I made that mistake:) There was a time when several things (like Flash!!) would not wor

Re: Debian: A noob query

On 24/11/11 14:57, Sam Vagni wrote: Yeah sure, but it could really be silly but I don't know which graphics card/chips I am using...? Can you please tell me about it...But my speakers give sound whenever I play any song in Windows XP, however, I remember it used Real tek audio drivers when I inst

Re: Network slow with "new" kernel (debianuser: to exclusive)

On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 08:57:59 +0100, debianuser.thegrue wrote: (...) >> I would try first to remove (not in the sense of "eliminating" but >> "bypass") the firewall to discard the problem is generating from there. > > Yes, this would be sane. But the company won't switch it off and I don't > thi

comment diff files

Hello List: Is there any way to comment a diff file ? Thanks in advance, Jerome -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4ecfd177.3000...@rezozer.net

Re: iceweasel plugin-container, flashplugin, and gnome3 issue

On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 12:58:41 +0100, tadziu wrote: >> That's the usual behaviour for flash player based sites and depending >> on your computer capabilities and the site you are viewing this can >> indeed lock or slowdown firefox a lot :-( >> >> You can review the docs to try to reduce the high CPU

Re: Debian: A noob query

On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 5:09 AM, Sam Vagni wrote: > On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Weaver wrote: > > > > Hello Sam, > > Hello. > > > It's good to go with, depending on what you're looking for. > > If you want to learn, there's no Linux distro better for the purpose, > > but an easier introduc

Re: nvidia module successfully installed

Richard wrote: Hi I had to purge everything I downloaded previously, blacklist nouveau, kill X & gdm3, the run NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-290.10.run, then reboot. No more shakey display and I can watch TV again without X crashing. Good news. IMO the reboot is not necessary, just run NVIDIA-Linux-x86

Re: Nvidia graphics that don't work with nouveau - Was: Re: Nvidia driver fails to compile on kernel 3.X

Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Fri, 2011-11-25 at 12:16 +, Richard wrote the FLOSS nouveau driver doesn't work with old Nvidia cards, even if it's claimed that it should work. I've come to the conclusion the nouveau driver doesn't work with new nvidia cards as well, as I had to black list it.

Re: Nautilus 3.2.1 and file associations

On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 06:50:18 +, Alan Chandler wrote: > On 24/11/11 16:09, Camaleón wrote: >> On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 10:19:26 +, Alan Chandler wrote: >> >>> I have some Freemind mindmap files ending with the .mm filename. Up >>> until recently clicking on the filename would automatically star

Re: Has iceweasel (or maybe flash) gone single threaded

Alan Chandler wrote: Over the last few weeks iceweasel has started to operate strangely. The whole application stops whilst trying to open a web page. you can't switch tabs. Sometimes it gets SO BAD that the entire desktop locks for a while. Am I the only person experiencing this. I suspe

Re: Unknown HZ value! (92) Assume 100.

On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 22:18:01 +, Brian wrote: > On Thu 24 Nov 2011 at 18:52:59 +, Camaleón wrote: > >> Ancient Greeks went to Oracle at Delphi to get answers. Now we have >> Google ;-) > > King Laius would have benefitted from a good dose of skeptism too. :) If his majesty Laius would ha

Re: missing user app gnome3

Richard wrote: On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 11:10:26 -0600 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Richard wrote: On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 10:20:37 -0600 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Richard wrote: On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:45:07 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:35:22 +, Richard wrote: In the gnome ap

Re: Debian: A noob query

On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 12:09 PM, Sam Vagni wrote: > On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 3:19 PM, Lisi wrote: > >> A simple, accepting all defaults to make life easy, installation of Debian 6 >> or higher will give you GNOME.  Anything else is more complex. > > That's right but please let me know 'Anything els

Re: missing user app gnome3~SOLVED

On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 21:29:37 +, Richard wrote: > On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 16:44:33 + (UTC) Camaleón > wrote: (...) >> > BTW I don't have users & groups in either fallback or normal gnome >> > shell. If I knew what that app was called maybe I could find it. >> >> It's the same that is was fo

Re: SATA disc spindown

On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 15:14:31 +, Ramon Hofer wrote: Maybe this is important: I use Squeeze, 2.6.32-5-amd64, hdparm v9.32, the drive sdc is a WDC WD20EARS-00MVWB0 and the mainboard an ASUS P7P55D. It's very good you mention this - the WD Green series is a pain in the ass for linux users

Re: No more desktop.

Le 25/11/2011 12:46, Paul Isambert a écrit : Hello there again, I must be cursed. As explained before, I succeeded in having my wifi work by switching to wheezy, following Nicolas's solution. Then I just wanted to install Vim (gVim actually). Synaptic told me there were tons of things to do,

Behavior of samba shares when accessed by win7

I keep two major directories available thru samba to win7 machines on my lan. A peculiar thing happens when ever I first access them after a reboot on windows. (I think a reboot of linux or even a restart of samba would cause the same thing). When, in wind7 gui, I click on the shares, I'm prompte

Re: SATA disc spindown

On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 14:58:33 +0100, Lou wrote: > On -10.01.-28163 20:59, Ramon Hofer wrote: > >> Btw: As you didn't write anything else hdparm should have no problem >> spinning down sata drives? >> >> Do you know if I can check the hdparm setting somewhere? Like hdparm -C >> to show me the spind

Re: SATA disc spindown

On -10.01.-28163 20:59, Ramon Hofer wrote: Btw: As you didn't write anything else hdparm should have no problem spinning down sata drives? Do you know if I can check the hdparm setting somewhere? Like hdparm -C to show me the spindown setting? It depends on the drive - there is hdparm -I /dev

Re: openoffice.org different icons in pc and laptop

On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 18:10:07 +0530 L V Gandhi wrote: Hello L, > I have different icons for openoffice.org in squeeze-kde version in my > PC and in laptop. Tools menu, Options... Libreoffice/View. Then select the icon theme you want, or set to automatic. -- Regards _ / )

[SOLVED] Re: gdm3

This mail is just to inform that the issue got resolved, in a way byitself. I purged gdm3 and reinstalled it. Now, it remembers the previous session as expected. Regards, -- Sridhar M.A. GPG KeyID : F6A35935 Fingerprint: D172 22C4 7CDC D9CD 62B5 55C1 2A69 D5D8

Re: What to expect following major update

Camaleón wrote: >> > If the package is installed and the config file needs to be updated the >> > upgrade routine uses to ask what to do (keep the old file, compare both, >> > replace it with the nre one...). If the partition where the file lies is >> > not mounted then it's up to the admin use

Re: SATA disc spindown

On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 13:19:28 +, Ramon Hofer wrote: > On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 13:26:13 +0100, Lou wrote: > >> Hallo Ramon, > > Thanks for your reply Lou! > > >> On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 11:49:42 +, Ramon Hofer wrote: >> >> >Therefore I uncommented the spindown_time line and set the value to >>

Re: Nvidia graphics that don't work with nouveau - Was: Re: Nvidia driver fails to compile on kernel 3.X

Forwarded Message From: Richard Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2011 13:01:45 + On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 13:58:00 +0100 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Fri, 2011-11-25 at 12:16 +, Richard wrote > > > the FLOSS nouveau driver doesn't work > > > with old Nvidia cards, even if it's claimed that it

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2011 #2139

Perhaps there are other obvious things I need to find out about. Thanks, Dave such as not responding to the digest without trimming, regardless of what Thunderbird promises. I apologize deeply. Dave -- In each of us, there burns a soul of a woodchuck. In every generation a

Nvidia cards that doesn't work with nouveau - Was: Re: Nvidia driver fails to compile on kernel 3.X

On Fri, 2011-11-25 at 12:16 +, Richard wrote > > the FLOSS nouveau driver doesn't work > > with old Nvidia cards, even if it's claimed that it should work. > I've come to the conclusion the nouveau driver doesn't work with new nvidia > cards as well, as I had to > black list it. Perhaps we c

Re: openoffice.org different icons in pc and laptop

On Fri, 2011-11-25 at 18:10 +0530, L V Gandhi wrote: > I have different icons for openoffice.org in squeeze-kde version in my > PC and in laptop. > Any reasons for making it same as in laptop. > Icon picture files are attached. I'm not using KDE, but I'm sure there's a tool in Apllications Menu >

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2011 #2139

debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: Content-Type: text/plain debian-user-digest Digest Volume 2011 : Issue 2139 Today's Topics: Re: Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze [ Step

Re: SATA disc spindown

On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 13:26:13 +0100, Lou wrote: > Hallo Ramon, Thanks for your reply Lou! > On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 11:49:42 +, Ramon Hofer wrote: > > >Therefore I uncommented the spindown_time line and set the value to > >241 which should spin down all the drives after 30 minutes. > > >To

Nvidia graphics that don't work with nouveau - Was: Re: Nvidia driver fails to compile on kernel 3.X

On Fri, 2011-11-25 at 12:16 +, Richard wrote > > the FLOSS nouveau driver doesn't work > > with old Nvidia cards, even if it's claimed that it should work. > I've come to the conclusion the nouveau driver doesn't work with new nvidia > cards as well, as I had to > black list it. Perhaps we c

Re: openoffice.org different icons in pc and laptop

Hi Both have exactly the same icons, the différence is maybe the theme or the version that you use. Stef 2011/11/25 L V Gandhi > I have different icons for openoffice.org in squeeze-kde version in my PC > and in laptop. > Any reasons for making it same as in laptop. > Icon picture files are at

Re: quick daft question Java app

On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 12:43:38PM +, Richard wrote: > On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 12:15:17 + > Darac Marjal wrote: > > > On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 10:41:16AM +, Richard wrote: > > > Hi > > > Gnome3 menu editing is a real PITA. > > > I found this which I'd like to try > > > Gnome3_AppMenuEditor

Re: SATA disc spindown

Hallo Ramon, On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 11:49:42 +, Ramon Hofer wrote: >Therefore I uncommented the spindown_time line and set the value to >241 which should spin down all the drives after 30 minutes. >To speed up testing I have set spindown_tim = 1 but the drives still >stays active... >Can I ch

Re: quick daft question Java app

On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 12:15:17 + Darac Marjal wrote: > On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 10:41:16AM +, Richard wrote: > > Hi > > Gnome3 menu editing is a real PITA. > > I found this which I'd like to try > > Gnome3_AppMenuEditor.jar > > how do you run this, I've tried jar Gnome3., but jar is not

Re: Documentation -- gcc?

Woodchuck wrote: > Save an old man a few days of reading the GFDL flame wars from > seven years ago, and someone (one) just kindly say where this "non-free" > documentation is. Package "gcc-doc"? Or is that too obvious? http://ftp.uk.debian.org stable/non-free gcc-doc-base 4.4.4.nf1-1 [30.1kB

Re: Nvidia driver fails to compile on kernel 3.X

On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 11:46:16 +0100 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Thu, 2011-11-24 at 19:01 +, Richard wrote: > > [snip] It wont build from the /usr/src/nvidia direcory, as it wants > > the kernel config file. [snip] > > Please post the output of the log file. Are the linux-headers installed? > >

Re: quick daft question Java app

On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 10:41:16AM +, Richard wrote: > Hi > Gnome3 menu editing is a real PITA. > I found this which I'd like to try > Gnome3_AppMenuEditor.jar > how do you run this, I've tried jar Gnome3., but jar is not recognised, > JRE is loaded, but its been so long since I've played

Re: 32" monitor & fonts

On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 10:49:57AM +0200, Mark Panen wrote: > Hi, > > I have just set up a 32" monitor with a resolution of 1366x768 and > the fonts are terrible in KDE except iceweasel and icedove, the page > and body text bit is fine. kwrite is terrible, i can hardly read the > font. You might

Re: SATA disc spindown

On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 11:49:42 +, Ramon Hofer wrote: > Therefore I uncommented the spindown_time line and set the value to 241 > which should spin down all the drives after 30 minutes. To speed up testing I have set spindown_tim = 1 but the drives still stays active... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: iceweasel plugin-container, flashplugin, and gnome3 issue

hi > > Remember to turn off html format :-) sorry > > > That's the usual behaviour for flash player based sites and depending on > your computer capabilities and the site you are viewing this can indeed > lock or slowdown firefox a lot :-( > > You can review the docs to try to reduce the high CPU

Re: Latest iceweasel - package kept back

On 25/11/11 18:56, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 09:45:25 +1100 > Scott Ferguson wrote: > > Hello Scott, > >> Problem seems to be your mirror (perhaps an upgrade is in progress) - > > mozilla.debian.net has been in this state for almost a week. Certainly was working November 10, def

RE: Documentation -- gcc?

> OK, so gcc documentation is "unfree". I have no dog in that fight. > > Save an old man a few days of reading the GFDL flame wars from > seven years ago, and someone (one) just kindly say where this "non-free" > documentation is. http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/gcc-doc-base and http://package

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