Re: WINE in Squeeze taking associations of everything

2010-09-03 Thread Alain Baeckeroot
Le 03/09/2010 à 05:28, GhostlyDeath a écrit : > > Hello, with the current WINE in Squeeze, all the file associations > change and this is very annoying and as such I cannot have WINE > installed, which means not testing my programs in a Windows-Like > environment. WINE ruins my desktop completely.

Re: Can't acquire dchp lease while Windows can

2010-08-31 Thread Alain Baeckeroot
Le 31/08/2010 à 10:58, Andrei Popescu a écrit : > On Ma, 31 aug 10, 04:48:36, T o n g wrote: > > Hi, > > > > What might be the problem that my laptop can't acquire dchp lease from > > Linux while Windows can? > > > > Same spot, same line. Tried two different distros that had no problem > > acq

Re: Can't acquire dchp lease while Windows can

2010-08-31 Thread Alain Baeckeroot
Le 31/08/2010 à 06:48, T o n g a écrit : > > Hi, > > What might be the problem that my laptop can't acquire dchp lease from > Linux while Windows can? > > Same spot, same line. Tried two different distros that had no problem > acquiring dchp lease at my home, neither works. Wired network, not

Re: Backing up email

2010-08-30 Thread Alain Baeckeroot
Le 30/08/2010 à 13:22, James Stuckey a écrit : > On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 12:28 PM, Lisi wrote: > > > On Sunday 29 August 2010 17:38:03 James Stuckey wrote: > > > I'm not subscribed to this list. Please reply directly to me. > > > > Read the archives? Temporarily subscribe? You have asked sever

Re: Get a list of obsoleted packages

2010-08-28 Thread Alain Baeckeroot
Le 28/08/2010 à 02:49, T o n g a écrit : > > On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 14:04:15 -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote: > > >> . . . Aptitude call a > >> package > >> "obsolete" when it is installed/configured but it is no (longer) > >> available from any of your configured sources. > >> -- > >> Boyd Stephen Smit

Re: Get a list of obsoleted packages

2010-08-27 Thread Alain Baeckeroot
Le 27/08/2010 à 17:04, T o n g a écrit : > > On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:48:58 +0200, Alain Baeckeroot wrote: > > >> I use to get the list of obsoleted packages using aptitude. . . > >> > > obsolete = not up to date = need to be upgraded > > who told you

Re: Get a list of obsoleted packages

2010-08-27 Thread Alain Baeckeroot
Le 27/08/2010 à 16:35, T o n g a écrit : > > Hi, > > I use to get the list of obsoleted packages using aptitude. Now that I'm > planning to remove aptitude, what are the alternatives? > obsolete = not up to date = need to be upgraded => apt-get update # update the package info

Re: What is Recommend CLI Package Manager Tool for Newb?

2010-08-27 Thread Alain Baeckeroot
Le 27/08/2010 à 14:23, Tom Browder a écrit : > > I have to say I'm getting confused. I'm in the middle of setting up > my first Debian server (which used to be Ubuntu). > > I will be administering it remotely and would like to use the best > tool for the job. > > Now I read conflicting opinion

Re: Now lost boot dir

2010-08-26 Thread Alain Baeckeroot
Le 26/08/2010 à 14:09, David Baron a écrit : > > Dead in the water. What to do keeping data in lvm partitions? Best reply off > list also. Thanks for any help! > > I just subscribe to the list and have only the abovz message, which is not enought for me to understand your problem :( Can you

Re: howto automatically install documentation

2010-08-25 Thread Alain Baeckeroot
Le 25/08/2010 à 21:42, green a écrit : > Some of the -doc packages are recommended by their parent packages, so > installing recommends works for those. But there are some -doc packages that > are not recommended. yes, but names of doc packages are mostly "pkgname-doc", except several where it

howto automatically install documentation

2010-08-25 Thread Alain Baeckeroot
Hi I would like to have all documentation installed each time i add one package. Is there some apt/aptitude/dpkg configuration to automate this ? by documentation i mean all man/info/html/... available with the said package. Alain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.o

Re: How to Retain an Existing Ext4 Partition with a Debian 5.0.5 DVD Installation?

2010-08-25 Thread Alain Baeckeroot
Le 25/08/2010 à 14:31, Tom Browder a écrit : > > On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 07:20, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > > On 8/25/10 8:14 AM, Tom Browder wrote: > >> On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 06:52, Rodney D. Myers > >> wrote: > >>> On 8/25/10 7:49 AM, Tom Browder wrote: > >> ... > Can anyone say for sure

Re: color temperature of screens // dual screen

2010-08-25 Thread Alain Baeckeroot
Le 25/08/2010 à 00:27, Jordon Bedwell a écrit : > > On 8/24/2010 4:40 PM, Alain Baeckeroot wrote: > > I have a laptop with warm colors (i guess near 5000 K) and an > > additional screen with 6300 K (or 9000 K) > > > > Is there a way to configure Xorg in order to

color temperature of screens // dual screen

2010-08-24 Thread Alain Baeckeroot
Hi I have a laptop with warm colors (i guess near 5000 K) and an additional screen with 6300 K (or 9000 K) Is there a way to configure Xorg in order to see the same thing on both screen ? Thanks Alain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsub

squeeze radeonhd and openGL

2010-08-10 Thread Alain Baeckeroot
Hi I tested squeeze amd64 with an ATI HD3400 (R600) graphic card. 1/ It works with non-free firmware and driver (fglrx). glxinfo ok glxgears thousands fps extremetuxracer more than 100 fps 2/ i tried with radeonhd driver and miserably failed: glxinfo -> segfault anything with GL -> segfault i t

Re: how to create a new partition for installing another os?

2010-08-10 Thread Alain Baeckeroot
Le 10/08/2010 à 08:12, hadi motamedi a écrit : > Dear All > My Debian server shows three primary partitions and one extended partition > but when I try to add a new partition via fdisk for installing another os it > is returning as 'no free sectors available' . It seems that I have a vast > amount