Re: SIP services and softphones: what do you guys use?

On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 9:17 AM, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > Interesting.  I can see KDE applications if they are based upon Qt4 or > were compiled using the commercial Qt3. I wasn't aware that Gnome apps > could run without Cygwin and thought that most simply silently bundled > it but may very

Re: SIP services and softphones: what do you guys use?

On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 11:02 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: > I'm trying to get rid of proprietary Skype and two of my most > important contacts are willing to give SIP a try. We all installed > Ekiga and signed up for ~@ekiga.net SIP addresses, but the sound > quality was very choppy and unusable. They

Re: which file is currently being written to disk?

On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 11:45 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > $ lsof | grep opera > > However, these files get written so quickly that I'd bet it won't be much > use except when downloading *big* file. > I'm interested in big files, indeed. I'll try this soon. Cheers Liviu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

which file is currently being written to disk?

Dear all Is there some utility (console or otherwise) that could indicate me NOT the output/input read/write and miscellanea, but simply which files are currently being written to the disk. Sometimes my browser (Opera) downloads some temporary files, and usually have a difficult time locating them.

Re: wicd refuses to start

On Sun, 15 Aug 2010 20:21:04 +0300 Andrei Popescu wrote: > Earlier you mentioned an update... > I was referring to a selective update using aptitude. > > available, enough to consider moving to Xubuntu. :) I think I'm > > losing interest in a rolling distro (having previously been on > > Gentoo

Re: wicd refuses to start

On Sun, 15 Aug 2010 12:32:52 +0300 Andrei Popescu wrote: > What Desktop Environment are you using? > Xfce, with its xfce4-notifyd. I just went through the bug report and disabling notification in wicd seems to do the trick. As a work-around, this is fine with me. > > I'm using wicd 1.7.0 on an

wicd refuses to start

Dear all After some recent updates, I assume, wicd strangely refuses to start. li...@debian-liv:~$ wicd-gtk Has notifications support True Loading... Connecting to daemon... Connected. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/wicd/gtk/wicd-client.py", line 1033, in main(sys.argv)

Re: Chromium Xperience

Hello On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 3:15 AM, KS wrote: > I feel it is more responsive and is "faster" than Iceweasel This could > If you have little against non-open-source programmes, you might also want to try Opera >10.50. It has not been released yet [1], but here I am playing with beta releases an

Re: backup apt tree?

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 12:18 AM, T o n g wrote: > On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 17:52:33 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> so anything catastrophic as to trash var/ will best be solved by a >> complete reinstall. > > 2nd to that. package downgrading would never be "quickly and painlessly". > Do a complete syste

Re: backup apt tree?

On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 9:27 PM, B. Alexander wrote: > If you are asking what I think you are asking, as in which files would you > need to restore your system in the event that you lose your apt and dpkg > databases, then I do the following: > > /var/backups > /var/cache/apt (less /var/cache/apt/

Re: backup apt tree?

On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 8:01 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > Restoring those files would not actually cause a downgrade to occur.  They > would just cause the state of the package manager to not accurately reflect > the state of the system. > Yes, this is what I would like to achieve. I would

backup apt tree?

Dear all What files contain the information on the current ("now") apt tree? I would like to perform backups of these files so that I could restore the tree if some package upgrade messed up my Debian testing. Thank you Liviu -- Do you know how to read? http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm h

Re: something dpkg-related hogs my resources

On 1/31/10, Sven Joachim wrote: > >From your description I conclude that this is probably a cronjob (or > several cronjobs) that checks the installed files/packages. You can use > the 'pstree' command from the psmisc package to find out which job is > the resource hog when it starts next time.

something dpkg-related hogs my resources

Dear all Something dpkg-related hogs my system's resources. It is disturbing since it starts by itself, takes many minutes (+/- 1h) and ends by itself. I could also not identify one obvious process responsible for it. WHen this happens, CPU indicator shows about 50% usage of the two cores, while I

Re: dealing with grub2?

On 1/22/10, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: > Hope it helps. > It does, thanks. I went back to grub-pc, and with os-prober installed it seemed to have recognised both Win and Ubuntu. At least grub.cfg seems to have the relevant entries. Fingers crossed on reboot. Best Liviu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

dealing with grub2?

Dear all Could you help to either completely get rid of grub2 or properly configuring it (to recognise the other two OSs, Windows and Ubuntu)? For the first part, I've uninstalled grub-pc and reinstalled grub-legacy, I've run update grub and checked /boo/grub/menu.lst (and it contains Windows and

no sound in gstreamer-based apps

Dear all I get no sound when playing media files with Totem, Parole or Whaawmp. It seems to have happened after some gstreamer upgrade on Debian testing. The mixer levels are also OK since while playing an .mp3 with Parole (and no sound) I started the same file with Potamus and mpg123 (with sound)

Re: alternate web browser etc...

On 1/1/10, Bernard wrote: > Why not 'Opera', even if it is not free (I doubt if it is very expensive) ? > I may miss the knowledge of something better that Opera... > Opera is 'free' as in 'free to use'. So, no need to register, pay, or view adds; you can also request features, report bugs, etc.;

Re: rolling-back, reverting system upgrades?

Hello On 12/21/09, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > As I understnad it, generally speaking you don't. You *can* if you use > dpkg directly and still have the .deb files from the previous version > of a package lying around (/var/cache/apt/archives/). > I did think of manual dpkg installation of o

rolling-back, reverting system upgrades?

Dear all How would I roll back system upgrades? I am using Debian testing and after I hit "Reload package info" in Synaptic, it will download the package versions that are current in the testing tree, and will completely forget the old tree (which after the update will be dubbed as "now"). If I per

Re: installing experimental supertux: libopenal0a missing

On 11/30/09, Liviu Andronic wrote: > Dear all > Today I tried installing supertux, both the experimental version [1] > and the supertux .deb [2]. Strangely, both depend on a mysterious and > missing libopenal0a package. On Ubuntu Jaunty, however, this > development supertux wor

usb keyboard support?

Dear all How smooth should Debian testing react to a USB keyboard? Should I expect it to work out of the box? Are there recommended models? (I managed to find only out-dated compatibility lists.) Please let me know your thoughts. Liviu -- Do you know how to read? http://www.alienetworks.com/srt

Re: setting a preferred debian repository?

On 12/3/09, Andrei Popescu wrote: > AFAICT from 'man sources.list' in your case it should be enough to list > the custom repository first in your sources.list. > Doesn't seem to make a difference here. The other method works for aptitude, but not for Synaptic. Thank you Liviu -- To UNSUBSCRIB

OT: access ftp when it is blocked

(wildly off-topic) Dear all I have a nasty Internet connection that blocks mostly everything but HTTP. Thus I cannot access FTP content such as this [1]. Would anyone have an idea on how to access FTP content solely by using HTTP? Thank you Liviu [1] ftp://ftpext.usgs.gov/pub/cr/co/fort.collins/

Re: setting a preferred debian repository?

Hello On 12/1/09, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > Yes, read (man 5 apt_preferences) and review the output of (apt-cache policy) > or (apt-cache policy $package). > > For a full practical example, see . > I looked at the pages and right now it *seems* to be doing

setting a preferred debian repository?

Dear all Is it possible to configure the order of preference of Debian repositories? I get a package with the same version, for the same architecture, for the same target (testing), but from two different repositories. And I always prefer the version packaged in the custom repository over the one i

installing experimental supertux: libopenal0a missing

Dear all Today I tried installing supertux, both the experimental version [1] and the supertux .deb [2]. Strangely, both depend on a mysterious and missing libopenal0a package. On Ubuntu Jaunty, however, this development supertux worked pretty fine. Any ideas on how to solve the dependency issues?

grahical md5 checksum?

Dear all Does Debian have any graphical utility that can compute md5 checksums? I am looking for something non-KDE-based similar to wxChecksums [1]. Thank you Liviu [1] http://wxchecksums.sourceforge.net/mainpage_en.html -- Do you know how to read? http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm Do yo

Re: wicd fails to detect wifi networks

On 10/27/09, Tim Tebbit wrote: > Double check that you have identified what your wireless interface is in > wicd's Preferences. By default I believe it is left blank. Also in > there, you may have "always show wired interface" selected. > Of course! In trying to make wicd work, I removed it tog

wicd fails to detect wifi networks

Dear all More wicd blues. Some time ago I reported that wicd was failing to start the GUI [1]. After getting more and more dishearten with NetworkManager, I gave wicd another try. This time the wicd GUI starts all right, but it identifies a wired connection to which it tries to connect (even though

Re: Could you recommend CD/DVD writer program?

On 10/16/09, Nick Lidakis wrote: > Since I have been having so much fun using and learing mutt lately, > and since I've been trying to wean myself off of using GUI programs > (GTK and KDE(k3b))) that need a boatload of dependencies, I thought I would > give the debain package cdw a try. > You

Re: see ya

On 10/11/09, David Fox wrote: > I thought he was perfectly decent. He inquired about maybe your > touchpad being an issue, but never did I see a negative tone or > anything condescending. > The initial intervention was polite, indeed. But not so the subsequent vulgar, off-list message to which I

Re: see ya

On 10/11/09, deb...@waysoft.com wrote: > On Sun, 11 Oct 2009 15:59:52 -0400 > JoeHill wrote: > > I've been on here a year, and I've gotten *decent* help from exactly > > infantile name-calling flame fests I find in most Linux-related > Regarding the latter, I don't think you want to check the

Re: mplayer: jumping around

On 10/11/09, JoeHill wrote: > Okay, seriously, I'm done here. If you're too fucking retarded to listen, or > too fucking ignorant to follow people's very simple and polite requests, then > fuck off, no one wants you here. You cannot possibly be unaware that no one > wants your goddamned double

Re: mplayer: jumping around

On 10/11/09, JoeHill wrote: > Liviu Andronic wrote: > > > Recently I encountered this nasty, aggravating behaviour in mplayer: > > moving the computer (say, creating a little vibration by knocking on > > the table, or simply moving a muscle when on my laps) will caus

mplayer: jumping around

Dear all Recently I encountered this nasty, aggravating behaviour in mplayer: moving the computer (say, creating a little vibration by knocking on the table, or simply moving a muscle when on my laps) will cause mplayer to scroll forwards or backwards (any of the available 10 or 60 sec, or 5 min).

Re: Could you recommend CD/DVD writer program?

On 10/10/09, J.Hwan.Kim wrote: > Could you recommend CD/DVD writer program except gnomebaker ? > Seemingly not yet mentioned: Xfburn. Liviu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: testing system updates: how often?

On 10/7/09, thveillon.debian wrote: > It also makes the (careful) reading of "apt-listbugs" and > "apt-listchanges" output easier. > Nice packages, worth being suggested for aptitude or synaptic. Otherwise, thank you all for the input. I will probably settle for weekly system updates. Liviu -

testing system updates: how often?

Dear all How often do you update your testing? I noticed that leaving your system as is for couple of weeks and about 200 packages would be available for updates. I would like to know what would be the "optimal" updating frequency that would minimise breakages. In the Gentoo world, it was often sug

Re: XFce4 vs GNOME Desktop

Hello On 9/26/09, S. Fishpaste wrote: > But when I start up or switch to XFce4, I'm left without a "desktop", just > the application dock on a coloured background, which I can't seem to change. > First, which version of Xfce are you using? If it's recent (4.6), look for "Desktop settings" and f

Re: no sound in headphones

On 9/21/09, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > If you don't find this specific information for your card and chip I will > urge you to post to alsa people to include it there. > Done. [1] [1] http://mailman.alsa-project.org/pipermail/alsa-devel/2009-September/021407.html Liviu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: alsa does not (re-)store audio levels

On 9/20/09, Andrei Popescu wrote: > Do 'alsactl store' and 'alsactl restore' work for root? Do you have the > package alsa-utils installed? > This started to work OK after I supplied correct load-up options to solve a distinct issue (see [1]). Liviu [1] http://www.pubbs.net/debian/200909/110516/

Re: Why can't I install skype on debian?

On 9/18/09, Micha Feigin wrote: > I think that the current "ubuntu" skype version from skype website depends > on this, but turns out that you may also need to move /usr/lib32/libpulse* > out > of the way or it may crash (did for me) > Indeed. Thank you for the suggestion. Now skype-ubuntu-intr

Re: no sound in headphones

On 9/21/09, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > > Liviu Andronic wrote: > > front:CARD=SB,DEV=0 > I think this is the one you should try. May be we can exchange snapshots of > what alsamixer looks like. It seems you have similar audio controller to my > one. > I think I found it.

Re: No low-disk-space notification in Gnome?

On 9/21/09, Klistvud wrote: > I'm running dangerously low on disk space in my /home partition, but > Gnome has not once alerted me disk space was low. Is this a known Gnome > I don't know about Gnome, but Xfce has a xfce4-fsguard-plugin for the panel, which alerts you for any defined mount point

Re: Xfce GNU/Icecat and Gnome-programs

On 9/21/09, ura wrote: > I have this problem: using Xfce, browser GNU/Icecat, Evolution, and > other Gnome-programs can not open links to Internet. > How do you access internet? Cable, wifi? What is your connection manager (NetworkManager, Wicd)? Do you need to pass through a proxy server? Pleas

Re: no sound in headphones

On 9/21/09, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > > # from http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php/Dmix > did you read this? > the info there could help you. I don't know exactly how to help you. here > everything is working fine > Not entirely, but will take a closer look. In any case, thank you for all your sugg

Re: no sound in headphones

On 9/20/09, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > When starting multimedia application it picks up the default audio device > which is not your headset output. > Shouldn't the switch occur automatically when external speakers or headphones are plugged in? This is the behaviour that I always encountered on Wind

Re: no sound in headphones

On 9/20/09, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > You might need to update your alsa utils, libs or whatever or something, at > least I did though I think I saw you are using 1.2.20. > Yes, my testing is up-to-date. When all else fails, I will also try 1.0.21, the unstable version. Liviu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: no sound in headphones

On 9/20/09, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > Also you can play with .asounrd > > # from http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php/Dmix > pcm.headset { # playback only on frontpanel headset > type route > slave.pcm dmixer > slave.channels 8 > ttable.0.0 1 # headphones front L > ttable.1.1 1 # headphone

Re: no sound in headphones

On 9/20/09, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > nothing is wrong - you may have many input/outputs. you have to figure out > which controls are for the headphones. Unfortunately it depends on your > card. Mostprobably you have to assign the correct output to your > application. > > In alsamixer I see many

Re: alsa does not (re-)store audio levels

On 9/20/09, Andrei Popescu wrote: > Is the script /etc/init.d/alsa-utils run on reboot? As far as I can tell > you should see a "Setting up ALSA" message at boot. > I don't know why the messages are garbled, but this is what I get ALSA-related in /var/log/boot: Sun Sep 20 22:42:23 2009: ^[[74G[ o

Re: alsa does not (re-)store audio levels

On 9/20/09, Andrei Popescu wrote: > Do 'alsactl store' and 'alsactl restore' work for root? Do you have the > package alsa-utils installed? > Yes, both work as expected: storing and restoring the correct levels. Also, alsa-utils 1.0.20-3 is installed. Liviu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-u

alsa does not (re-)store audio levels

Dear all Even more sound trouble. On my system ALSA seems unable to (re-)store the audio levels for "Master". All other levels and switches are stored and restored as expected, but on start-up "Master" is always muted and at 0%. I tried to work around and set Xfce to run "aumix -v60" in terminal a

Re: no sound in headphones

On 9/17/09, Liviu Andronic wrote: > an issue that I also encountered in 2.6.26. Although I have sound in > hte computer speaker, I have none in the headphones. When I plug the > headphones (or external speakers), the computer speakers are not > muted, and there is no sound in

no sound in headphones

Hello More sound trouble. This time sound is working on 2.6.30, but I have an issue that I also encountered in 2.6.26. Although I have sound in hte computer speaker, I have none in the headphones. When I plug the headphones (or external speakers), the computer speakers are not muted, and there is n

Re: what if `alsactl init' doesn't configure sound?

Hello Sweet, sound works. Thank you a lot for your suggestions. I managed to get it working with a custom version of the "sound" file you posted. If curious, read below. Now I can switch to addressing the other breakages from the upgrade. Best Liviu On 9/17/09, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > Have a loo

Re: what if `alsactl init' doesn't configure sound?

PnP or PCI cards were found. Liviu On 9/17/09, Liviu Andronic wrote: > There is one difference, though. The above is for 2.6.26. The below is > for 2.6.30: > > li...@debian-liv:~$ cat /proc/asound/devices > 0: [ 0] : control > 1:: sequencer > > 4: [ 0

Re: what if `alsactl init' doesn't configure sound?

On 9/17/09, Liviu Andronic wrote: > I get this output in both kernels. > li...@debian-liv:~$ cat /proc/asound/devices >   0: [ 0]   : control >   1:: sequencer > 16: [ 0- 0]: digital audio playback > 17: [ 0- 1]: digital audio playback > 24: [ 0- 0]: digital aud

Re: what if `alsactl init' doesn't configure sound?

Hello On 9/16/09, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > Check if modules are in place and check /proc/asound > > cat /proc/asound/devices > cat /proc/asound/cards > I get this output in both kernels. li...@debian-liv:~$ cat /proc/asound/devices 0: [ 0] : control 1:: sequencer 16: [ 0- 0]: digit

what if `alsactl init' doesn't configure sound?

Dear all I've just migrated from kernel 2.6.26 to 2.6.30, and I am unable to configure sound. The issue seems similar to the one I had initially in 2.6.26, but in the newest testing kernel `alasactl init' no longer solves the issue. The switches Master and PCM are not muted. What else could I try?

Re: upgrade dependencies of a package

On 9/11/09, Liviu Andronic wrote: > How do I tell aptitude that I prefer testing packages? From what I > see, it would currently bump everything to sid. > OK, I found. aptitude -t testing Liviu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of &qu

Re: upgrade dependencies of a package

Hello, On 9/11/09, Florian Kulzer wrote: > aptitude -s install '~i~R^$' > > If you like the list of actions that aptitude shows in response to that > command then you can run it again without "-s". > > I prefer to use the interactive interface of aptitude if I want to carry > out such fine-gr

Re: wicd fails to start (dbus related error)

Hello On 9/11/09, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > Try to restart the dbus, and check if you are in the proper group (netdev). > I am currently in netdev, and just couple of days ago wicd 95% of the times started fine (recently I did some upgrades, including the lenny kernel). debian-liv:/home/liviu# gr

wicd fails to start (dbus related error)

Dear all Recently Wicd started to always fail at start-up, with a dbus related error: "Could not connect to wicd's D-Bus interface. Check the wicd log for error messages." Strangely the icon will load, but when clicking to access the interface it will pop up the next error: "The wicd daemon has s

upgrade dependencies of a package

Dear all How do I get upgrade all the dependencies of a given package to their newest available version? I do not want in the process to upgrade the entire distribution. I am looking something similar to Gentoo's emerge -av -DNu Thank you Liviu -- Do you know how to read? http://www.alienetw

Re: Laptop getting so warm : (

On 9/7/09, Hashimoto wrote: > I believe the problem is not the java/flash, the firefox doesn't work very > well with many tabs. At least now it's in a good temperature. > Not aiming for a browser flame-war, here, but check Opera (and perhaps Midori) for a browser alternative, when Firefox starts

Re: Laptop getting so warm : (

Hello On 8/29/09, Hashimoto wrote: > > Hi guys, I'm back ; ) > > But with the same problem : ( > > My laptop is getting near to 70C easily running firefox or a virtual machine > in VirtualBox. > Did you play with cpufreq-info and cpufreq-set? I often put the --max to some intermidiary value w

Re: How to play iso dvd without kde?

On 8/24/09, Juan Lavieri wrote: > Please, do you have any idea of what to do? > gnome-mplayer (which is not necessarily gnome-dependent) Liviu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: "Unable to perform shutdown" from Xfce

On 8/21/09, go...@dobosevic.com wrote: > Don't know I don't have 64 just 32 :-( > Andrei, are you using 64 or 32 bits? Liviu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: "Unable to perform shutdown" from Xfce

On 8/20/09, go...@dobosevic.com wrote: > I just tried with opened Synaptic and it's worked. > Is there any chance that this issue be linked to the architecture? I'm running amd64. Liviu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: "Unable to perform shutdown" from Xfce

On 8/20/09, go...@dobosevic.com wrote: > I was just install Debian Squeeze on one laptop. After installation I was > remove Gnome and install XFCE. Shutdown and restart works normal without any > tweaking. > In Xfce, did you try to open a root terminal, or synaptic, and shutdown/reboot? Liviu -

Re: "Unable to perform shutdown" from Xfce

On 8/20/09, Liviu Andronic wrote: > Since at release time Ubuntu is patched Debian sid, I feel that the > issue affects both distributions in a very similar way. Understanding > what happens in Ubuntu may help understand what happens in Debian. > There is one Ubuntu bug report

Re: "Unable to perform shutdown" from Xfce

On 8/20/09, Andrei Popescu wrote: > Ok, but what about Xfce (especially xfce4-session), is it version 4.4 or > 4.6? > xfce4 (4.6.0) xfce4-session (4.6.0-1ubuntu2) The two packages included in the default Jackalope have not been updated. Liviu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@li

Re: "Unable to perform shutdown" from Xfce

On 8/20/09, Andrei Popescu wrote: > I don't run Ubuntu, so can't help here. I will have to do some > regression tests, by downgrading one (or as few packages as possible) at > a time. Unfortunately snapshots is down which makes it harder. > Since at release time Ubuntu is patched Debian sid, I f

Re: "Unable to perform shutdown" from Xfce

On 8/20/09, Andrei Popescu wrote: > Would be interesting to know which package (libpam-ck-connector, > consolekit or policykit) is responsible for this. The Xfce bug needs > reassigning. > Should this info be of any interest, a fresh install of Ubuntu Jackalope had no such issues. Bringing the s

Re: "Unable to perform shutdown" from Xfce

On 8/19/09, Andrei Popescu wrote: > Maybe you are seeing bug #526009. Try closing all 'su' or similar > sessions before trying to shutdown. > Thanks. From the potential solutions mentioned, at least this trick works. Liviu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: gnome-volume-manager problem

Hello, On 8/19/09, AG wrote: > Cheers Liviu - have you got that set up on your rig and do you use Gnome as > your DE? If so, how do you get it to be initialised (assuming it is a > daemon) at login? > It should suffice installing thunar-volman and enable it via $ Thunar, Edit > Preferences > Ad

Re: "Unable to perform shutdown" from Xfce

Hello, The /etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf that I have is an exact replica of the one that you attached. Unfortunately it is not enough to shutdown/reboot Xfce. I am looking for one similar to the one attached in this e-mail [1], but that is known to solve the issue. Liviu [1] http://www.mail-archiv

"Unable to perform shutdown" from Xfce

Dear all, More shutdown blues. Whenever I hit the Restart/Shut Down buttons in Xfce log-off-er, I get the following error, and the system falls back to gdm. "Unable to perform shutdown org.freedesktop.hal.power-management.shutdown-multiple-sessions auth_admin <-- (action, result)" I get the exact

Re: Magic SysRq reboot (was Re: switching to proprietary ati radeon driver)

On 8/17/09, Wolodja Wentland wrote: > I can't really help you with your problem, but a "hard" shutdown is > almost never necessary. You can send various low-level commands to your > kernel using the "SysRq" Key [1], which will allow you to reboot a > computer without corrupting the filesystem.

Re: gnome-volume-manager problem

On 8/18/09, AG wrote: > Has anyone else noticed that > /usr/lib/gnome-volume-manager/gnome-volume-manager is not > working after the recent apt-get update to testing? > You could try thunar-volman. Liviu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsub

Re: restarting X fails and generates kernel panic on halt (was Re: Magic SysRq reboot (was Re: switching to proprietary ati radeon driver))

Hello, On 8/18/09, thveillon.debian wrote: > I recently bought a HP 6730s with a ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3430 graphic > chip. I run Squeeze/Sid AMD64 just like you, and with 2.6.26* kernel and > the associated fglrx I ran into all kind of troubles: impossibility to > switch between virtual con

restarting X fails and generates kernel panic on halt (was Re: Magic SysRq reboot (was Re: switching to proprietary ati radeon driver))

(Sorry for the long re-naming, but I fell the thread should get its proper name as the issue evolves) On 8/17/09, Wolodja Wentland wrote: > and voilà the system reboots and your data is as safe as possible. > Thank you, I completely forgot about this one. Two issues though: 1. In an older discus

Re: switching to proprietary ati radeon driver (was Re: Laptop dv6650br is getting so warm)

On 8/17/09, Liviu Andronic wrote: > Logging out of Xfce will stop X, but then gdm will fail to re-load X. > It will complain of some "ddm" module already built-in. Worse is that > I still get this error. > then the kernel somewhat crashes, and will not react if I send a

Re: switching to proprietary ati radeon driver (was Re: Laptop dv6650br is getting so warm)

Hello, On 8/17/09, thveillon.debian wrote: > A piece of advice, if you are running a 2.6.30 kernel the testing fglrx > won't build, you have to upgrade xorg and fglrx stuff to Sid. That's > what I am running right now and it works fine. Read about "package > pinning", "/etc/apt/preferences" t

Re: switching to proprietary ati radeon driver (was Re: Laptop dv6650br is getting so warm)

On 8/17/09, Johan Grönqvist wrote: > I can not help you with that way of doing things, but I have had success > running "aticonfig --initial", which creates an xorg.conf to work for a > basic system. > Thank you, this helped (I already had the fglrx driver built). On system boot X (and gdm) will

Re: where's my xorg.conf?

On 8/16/09, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Section "InputDevice" > >Option "SHMConfig" "true" > > EndSection > > > > Can't hurt to try... > Nope, this didn't work. X refused to restart, unable to parse xorg.conf. Thanks all the rest for their suggestions; I will try them when

switching to proprietary ati radeon driver (was Re: Laptop dv6650br is getting so warm)

Hello, On 8/16/09, Klistvud wrote: > P.S. I've also noticed that the laptop runs hotter when the free > graphics driver is used, as opposed to the proprietary ATI one. > I also have an HP Dual core 2.1GHz, and it gets kinda to warm during "idle" work (hovers around 65-67 C); my Debian testing i

Re: where's my xorg.conf?

On 8/16/09, Ron Johnson wrote: > In the Section/EndSection wrapper. That's what I'd try. > Should such syntax avoid breaking anything? Inspired from here [1]. Section "InputDevice" Option "SHMConfig" "true" EndSection Thank you Liviu [1] http://ubuntuforums.org/sho

Re: where's my xorg.conf?

On 8/16/09, Ron Johnson wrote: > That appears to be normal in newer versions of x.org. > But then, how do I add the option ` SHMConfig' 'true' '? Do I pluck it to the empty file? Liviu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? C

where's my xorg.conf?

Dear all, I'm on a fresh Debian testing, and I do not seem to find the correct xorg.conf. The usual file is empty. debian-liv:/home/liviu# ls /etc/X11/xorg.conf -l -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2009-08-02 18:33 /etc/X11/xorg.conf Please advise. Thank you Liviu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user