no blueman interface at all!

2012-01-10 Thread Khosrow Hassani
Hi everyone, I am using debian testing on my lenovo x60 laptop. the blueman package is supposed to be a "graphical interface", but after installing I have no such interface at all! there are a bunch of blueman-manager etc commands which none of them work and give me errors about missing d-bus se

unalbe to switch to external monitor on thinkpad x60

2011-11-22 Thread Khosrow Hassani
Hi everyone, I just installed Debian 6.0.3 (testing) on my old IBM (Lenovo) thinkpad x60 laptop. the problem I am having is that by pressing the Fn-F7 combination, I cannot switch to an external monitor. issuing echo video_switch (or other commands) > /proc/acpi/ibm/video does nothing. acpi_list

wierd sane behavior!

2011-11-19 Thread Khosrow Hassani
Hi, I just installed Debian 6.0.3 (testing) on my Thinkpad x60 laptop. I also have a Canon Lide 100 scanner which was not supported by sane backends in Debian before, and I had to install the newest libraries from source. this time, however, I realized that it is supported. sane-find-scanner fin

kvm

2011-07-03 Thread Khosrow Hassani
Hi, I am running kvm 0.12.5 from Squeeze. the problem I am having is that kvm -hda disk1.img -hdb disk2.img doesn't give me 2 drives in my Windows xp inside kvm, even when I run it as root. only the first disk where windows is installed shows up!  I created the other image using kvm-img with qco

multiple images and usb not working in kvm

2011-07-03 Thread Khosrow Hassani
Hi, I am running kvm from Squeeze. the problem I am having is that kvm -hda disk1.img -hdb disk2.img doesn't give me 2 drives in my Windows xp inside kvm, even when I run it as root. there is always only one dirve (C). I created the other image using kvm-img with qcow2 format. the -usb works onl

xsession customization

2009-04-05 Thread Khosrow Hassani
Hi, just got annoyed and decided to issue this warning about the X server structure and documentation getting more and more messy and mysterious. there are tons of man pages about the labyrinthic way various X configuration files in /etc/X11 work and communicate with each other. however, they don't