On Wednesday 10 June 2009 09:06:18 am abdelkader belahcene wrote:
> HI,
> on my new laptop HP,
> I tryed debian 5.0, ubuntu 9.04 , linuxMint 7,
>...
Open up whatever mixer you're using and look for a setting for "axternal
amplifier". Toggle it.
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On Monday 01 June 2009 08:53:19 pm Jude DaShiell wrote:
> Script started on Mon Jun 1 20:50:14 2009
> localhost:~# aptitude install ed
> ...
> update-alternatives: error: alternative path /bin/ed doesn't exist.
> dpkg: error processing ed (--configure):
> subprocess installed post-installation
On Wednesday 07 November 2007 06:16:13 pm MRH wrote:
> I don't play games much, but sometimes it'd be nice to be able to.
> I have a problem with Diablo II Lord of Destruction (expansion pack)
> game. It works fine in DirectDraw 2D mode but is not so 'shiny', it
> looks much better in Direct3D. Whe
OK, this is a bit crazy. However, after rebooting the machine, ssh is working
properly.
Go figure.
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On Tuesday 17 July 2007 10:17:26 am Steve Kemp wrote:
> The only time I've seen similar issues is when the host had
> no ssh key in /etc/ssh - the server didn't have them and I had
> to regenerate them.
>
> Have you tried searching google for the error message(s) you see
> when connecting wi
On Monday 16 July 2007 08:02:44 pm Casey T. Deccio wrote:
>
> Does /etc/hosts contain a valid entry for your hostname?
>
> Casey
The hosts file for the trouble machine:
- begin hosts --
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.1.1 hostname
# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capabl
I'm having some ssh issues issues on a fresh Etch install. I'm unable to ssh
into the machine at all. On the client end, with just having removed the
user's .ssh directory, what I'm seeing is as follows:
- begin output -
$ ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The authenticity of host '192.168.1.25 (192
On Sunday 08 July 2007 02:29:33 pm Zach wrote:
> I am looking for a Debian package which will provide nice
> functionality equivalent to the MS Windows (file) Explorer (not
> Internet Explorer!) which lets you quickly view all directories and
> files on your filesystem in a tree structure and allow
On Tuesday 29 May 2007, arnuld wrote:
> i noticed this: http://www.phrozensmoke.com/projects/pyvoicechat/index.php
>
>
> it is GPL-ed: http://www.phrozensmoke.com/projects/pyvoicechat/license.php
>
> Debian repositories do not have any Yahoo Chat client. Can we have
> "Gyach Enhanced" in Debian ?
On Monday 22 January 2007 17:05, Luis Finotti wrote:
> ...
> OK, I will check that. Thanks!
>
> But, even if that fixes it, shouldn't it be considered a bug? I don't
> quite understand the "dpi" option there... What does it refer to?
> (dpi="dots per inch", right? For what? The fonts? I thoug
On Monday 22 January 2007 15:07, Luis Finotti wrote:
> ...
> GDM also makes the fonts larger, but XDM works... Does any one know what is
> going wrong? Is that a bug? I'd like to be able to turn off the computer
> from within KDE. It is not a big deal, but it seems that it is a bug, so I
> thoug
On Monday 15 January 2007 13:30, Leonid Grinberg wrote:
> Hello,
>
>...
> It also has a 3Com Etherlink III card rev. B, which means that it is
> supposed to use the 3c509B module...
>
You may need to use the 3com setup utility to tell the ROM on the card which
resources (irq, io, etc.) to use. It
On Tuesday 12 December 2006 06:54, andy wrote:
> Hey all
>
> I've stumbled across references to "deborphan" to help maintain my
> system. I've installed it and read the man so think that I have a
> reasonable basic knowledge for what it is meant to do, so have run
> deborphan -zs and have been give
On Wednesday 29 November 2006 11:43, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> Hello there,
>
> I have updated my debian testing and I am not using icedove. Since
> this upgrade I cannot any longer click on an URL from my mail client
> (icedove) so that it open the link in a new tab in firefox. I did
> check in
On Wednesday 15 November 2006 13:53, Matthew Krauss wrote:
>
> It seems too obvious, but have you looked at update-notifier?
I have. It's still a bit of overhead on an fvwm based desktop, especially all
the dependencies, but it would seem to be about the only other solution.
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see here:
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On Tuesday 14 November 2006 10:32, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> An MTA is nothing. Really. ...
I appreciate the reply, but it's not a solution for me. In fact, it's one I
explicitly don't want. I do the occasional Linux install for fairly clueless
folks who own older hardware, and I'm not going to s
On Monday 13 November 2006 15:26, John Hasler wrote:
>
> You probably want nullmailer.
I wasn't aware of that package, I'll look into it.
> "Settings"? Reportbug does its own SMTP.
It can also store and use SMTP settings (i.e. ISP's SMTP server) if no MTA is
installed
> What's with this horr
I'm interested in the cron-apt package.
Is anyone aware if there's any way for it to send a message to an external
mail (i.e. to a gmail account, etc.) without having an MTA installed on the
machine? Perhaps some settings like the reportbug package does? I'm
interesting in using it to keep machi
On Wednesday 08 November 2006 11:13, Nicolas Pillot wrote:
> Open the box, unplug the speaker.
>
> Do it once and for all, even if you reinstall, and will work across
> all your OSes and apps.
Won't a simple unload of the 'pcspkr' module take care of the problem?
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On Friday 22 September 2006 21:44, Arthur Marsh wrote:
> Has anyone persisted with the pan newsreader. I'm about to ditch it after
> a few reportbug submissions /-: for problems including lockups.
>
> Arthur.
I've used pan for about 6 years or so now. This new version in unstable is
just _awful_.
On Friday 14 April 2006 11:50, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> ...
> Anyone found a workaround for this? My only idea is to use two separate
> accounts, one for posting and one for receiving, but I want to use this
> only as a last resort...
>
I see the same effect here, but I've worked around it, because
On 3/25/06, Tyson Varosyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Using Debian command mode 2.6 kernel.My NIC keeps jumping around between eth0 and eth1 every so often when Ireboot. It is real annoying! How do I get it to stick to be the same all thetime? It is conflicting with a firewire controller...
I had a
On Friday 02 December 2005 09:54 am, Alexandru Cabuz wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I recently upgraded to KDE 3.4 in testing and it seems like the mouse wheel
> behavior is different. Now, when I place the mouse over an application
> button on the KDE panel and I turn the wheel, it switches **berween**
> app
On Monday 14 November 2005 10:58 am, All Nicks Are Taken wrote:
> Hi.
> A few of days ago I decided I want to upgrade my Sarge to Sid (unstable)
> and so I did (changed the apt sources list, as I've read in some article.)
> Couple of days ago everything worked fine, absolutely no problems; a clean
On Monday 14 November 2005 10:58 am, All Nicks Are Taken wrote:
> Hi.
> A few of days ago I decided I want to upgrade my Sarge to Sid (unstable)
> and so I did (changed the apt sources list, as I've read in some article.)
> Couple of days ago everything worked fine, absolutely no problems; a clean
On Monday 03 October 2005 08:05 am, Andrew Brown wrote:
> Hi
> I hope somebody will help. I am trying to install debian 3.1 (x86) on an
> older machine that I have to use as server and internet gateway. It is a
> 400mhz machime with voodoo3 3dfx 3500 graphic card. The problem is that
> in config
On Sunday 04 September 2005 06:30 am, Mike wrote:
> Is there any PCI modems that will just work with a stock debian sarge
> kernel 2.6.8? Like does newegg sell any modems that will just work
> without a huge hassle of tracking down a driver or some add-on crappy
> binary from some company who doesn
On Sunday 04 September 2005 01:23 am, rs wrote:
>
> You mean the "Session Type"? Under the "session type" I have four (4)
> options: Default, Custom, KDE and Failsafe. I tried Default and KDE, the
> result is the same, i.e. the screen flickers a couple of times and kdm
> prompts for Id and passwor
On Sunday 17 July 2005 09:53 am, Benjamin Sher wrote:
>
> Dear Carl:
>
> I am only reporting what the author says. I installed K3b from apt-get.
> When I tried to use it, I got this message. After being told that I should
> run K3b as user, I switched to user, but as soon as I tried to run it as
>
On Tuesday 12 July 2005 10:31 pm, Paul Scott wrote:
> I see that some xorg packages are now in sid. Are there enough packages
> to switch from xfree86? Are there any problems?
Installed it on a couple of laptops with no problems. Unfortunately for this
machine, xorg doesn't like my Voodoo5 for
On Friday 01 July 2005 07:41 pm, Wayne Sitton wrote:
> I have Debian Sid installed on my laptop. Everything works fine except
> the touchpad. when I tap it once it registers a double-click. In the
> XFree86 config I have the mouse set to /dev/psaux and the PS/2 protocol.
>
> Where would be the co
On Monday 20 June 2005 06:20 am, Greg wrote:
>
> Uncannily enough, that's EXACTLY what I did a couple of days ago!
> I suggest you use "grubconf", which works really well, I must say.
> It gives you all your bootables twice, once mutli-user, and once
> single-user for each linux kernel, on the boot
On Sunday 19 June 2005 12:21 pm, Hans Hofker wrote:
> Well, grub does have a 'cat' command (see 'info grub'), but apparently
> it is only valid on the command line and in menu entries, NOT in the
> global section of the menu. So, it is not what you are looking for :-(
>
No, unfortunately, it's no
On Sunday 19 June 2005 12:14 pm, Kent West wrote:
> He meant to do that once logged in at a console prompt, not at a grub
> prompt. He wants to make sure the file exists and actually has content.
>
I just tried it at the main console and at the grub console, both found the
file no problem. I jus
On Sunday 19 June 2005 10:17 am, Hans Hofker wrote:
>
> Have you tried "cat /path/to/message"
>
That had no effect, and I'm not sure that grub has a 'cat' command built into
it, as far as the menu.lst file goes. Thanks for the suggestion though.
I've also tried a 'gfxmenu' setting offered by ano
So it finally happened. The hard drive on my old Dell CP 233 laptop that's
been running Debian Sid for about 3 years now finally bit the dust.
Fortunately, I had a spare drive to put in it.
So, I've done a fresh install of Sid via the Sarge installer, and everything
is working pretty well. Ever
I've been running Sid with KDE 3.4 from the alioth.debian.org repository for
several weeks now. Can anyone tell me what will/should happen once KDE 3.4
makes its way into Sid? Will I have to uninstall and then reinstall the
proper KDE packages from the proper Debian repository or will it stay th
On Sunday 22 May 2005 03:33 pm, Bill Mair wrote:
> Steve Lamb wrote:
> > Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> >>Ok, I get your message, but for my gratification, insight and knowledge
> >>of Linux how do I get the programs to run without error and not distroy
> >>my harddisk?
> debian FS != DOS FS
This i
On Wednesday 05 January 2005 01:40 pm, Steve Lamb wrote:
>
> What device does it show up on? I'm trying to get my LiDE20 (or is it
> a 30?) working on my normal user. Works on root but the permissions are
> preventing it working on my normal user. I can't figure out which device
> it's on.
On Wednesday 05 January 2005 08:54 am, Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote:
> I need some advice. Is debian fit for a Pentium 100MHz PC with 16MB RAM
> and approx 4Gb harddisk? Are there anyone who has experience with such a
> slow machine running debian (or any other linux dist)?
I have an old Tandy 486-SX
On Friday 31 December 2004 02:23 pm, Kent West wrote:
>
> Nope, apparently it doesn't. At least, not that I can find.
You might look into the 'Tab Clicking Options' extension, it'll allow you to
close a tab with a double-click.
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On Saturday 25 December 2004 06:40 pm, Ed Sutherland wrote:
> Let me hasten to say this is not, as the subject line might seem to
> imply, a Linux-bashing question.
Nah, not taken as bashing in any way. It's an honest question if you don't
know anything about it.
> I'm considering moving from Wi
On Saturday 25 December 2004 12:45 pm, Bob Alexander wrote:
> It will warn of critical bugs pending on each of the files to be
> downloaded.
>
> Is that it ?
According to
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/admin/apt-listbugs
"apt-listbugs is a tool which retrieves bug reports from the Debian Bu
On Saturday 25 December 2004 10:48 am, Bob Alexander wrote:
> Is there an automatic way to check even only for the number of severe
> bugs for a package from any of the package manager frontends ?
Install the apt-listbugs package.
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On Wednesday 15 December 2004 07:10 pm, feanor7 wrote:
> But when the great day arrives, and sarge becomes stable, what will
> happens when "apt-get dist-upgrade" runs? I'm afraid that all systems
> will be forced to a massive software upgrade (kernel-image, mysql, exim
> ...) and some incompatibl
On Sunday 12 December 2004 01:32 pm, Al Lelopath wrote:
> So if i go to a mirror, e.g.
> http://ftp.ndlug.nd.edu/mirrors/debian-cd/i386/
>
> how do i tell if this is woody or sarge?
You cd to /pub/debian directory and read the file called README.html
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On Saturday 04 December 2004 04:42 pm, Felixk Karpfen wrote:
> - please point to documentation, full and sufficiently simple to be
> understood by amateurs.
>
Here's a newbie oriented, step-by-step, set of docs for just that purpose:
http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/tutorials/kernel-pkg/index-
On Friday 19 November 2004 02:06 pm, Christian Convey wrote:
> Thanks, that's a great tip.
>
> What happens if some of those packages aren't available at all under
> "testing"? Would the entire procedure fall on its face?
Just those packages would fail to install. The rest of the process would
c
On Friday 19 November 2004 02:14 pm, William Ballard wrote:
> Won't this be problematic? Sarge has different package names in it
> than Sid, and you may select something you really don't want to select
> or may miss something key. It seems like something you really need to
> eyeball.
I've had g
On Friday 19 November 2004 12:56 pm, Kirk Strauser wrote:
> > What's the most reasonable way to *downgrade* a system from sid to
> > testing? Do I need to suck it up and do a reinstall?
>
> That's pretty much it. :-/
If you do end up going that route, here's something you can do to at least
ma
On Friday 12 November 2004 03:11 am, ken keanon wrote:
> Hi,
>
> There are so many distros out there its confusing. Any reason(s) why Debian
> should be the preferred choice?
This is a great essay written precisely about that subject. Have a look:
http://people.debian.org/~srivasta/talks/why_debi
On Sunday 31 October 2004 07:31 am, Kuang He wrote:
> I think you have not understood what I said. What I hate is to run
> ``apt-get clean'' manually from time to time. :)
So, unless I'm mistaken, you're too lazy to type a whopping TWELVE CHARACTERS
on your own? Oh my god, you're pathetic.
Cripes
On Saturday 30 October 2004 09:11 pm, Kuang He wrote:
> It cannot meet my needs, for instance, I installed the package "screen"
> but after installation,
> /var/cache/apt/archives/screen_4.0.2-4_i386.deb still exists.
# ls /var/cache/apt/archives/
fontconfig_2.2.3-3_i386.deb
gftp-common_2.0.17+cv
On Saturday 25 September 2004 10:45 pm, Don Jackson wrote:
> I am seeking the advice of some of you who may have been down this path
> before. Situation: I am working on an older 166 MHz Pentium-S machine with
> 96 MB RAM, two 2.5GB hard drives, for a neighbor (rather poor) here in the
> Arkansas
On Wednesday 15 September 2004 09:15 am, Marcos Carneiro da Rocha wrote:
> i think that sarge needs at least 32 MB.
>
That sounds correct. According to:
http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-i386/rc1/doc/manual/en/ch02s05.html
"You must have at least 32MB of memory and 110M
On Sunday 12 September 2004 03:40 pm, Tom Wesley wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Sorry for a probably normal query, but I couldn't find an answer with
> Google: Is there a simple way to remove packages that were installed as
> dependencies for packages that have since been removed?
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