My laptop hard drive configuration:
sda1 - win7
sda2 - /boot
sda3 - LVM on top of LUKS partition - (separate LVs for /, /home, and SWAP)
sda5 - FAT32
for the most part everything seems to be working fine except the order of
modules/components when Debian boots up.
When I boot Debian, it first l
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 10:50:12AM CEST, yudi v said:
> My laptop hard drive configuration:
>
> sda1 - win7
> sda2 - /boot
> sda3 - LVM on top of LUKS partition - (separate LVs for /, /home, and SWAP)
> sda5 - FAT32
>
>
> for the most part everything seems to be working fine except the order of
Hey list
On stable, I am currently running Xfce4.6. I notice that in the sid
repos, Xfce4.8 is available. Is there a safe way of upgrading to 4.8 in
a manner that will not break my system, or is it really only a matter of
waiting for Xfce4.8 to make its way through the repos to stable?
Tha
--- On Thu, 8/18/11, Selim T. Erdogan wrote:
> Go to the configuration page by typing "about:config" in
> your address bar.
> This'll get you a huge list of things you can
> configure. Filter by "cursor".
> You should see "ui.use_activity_cursor". Make its
> value "true".
It worked, thanks.
> Did you try to use the early option in cryptsetup ? It make sthe luks part
> being done earlier at boot time (in the cryptdisks-early boot script).
>
> did not know that, thanks for pointing it out. I did not read anything
about it in the installation documentation.
I thought the installer will
On 8/17/2011 9:25 AM, Pete Orrall wrote:
>> BTW:
>> Didn't Hitachi used to be IBM?
>
> I believe IBM sold Hitachi their hard drive business.
Hitachi Data Systems (HDS), had already been producing all of IBM's disk
drives for about a decade. IBM simply sold HDS the brands "UltraStar"
and "DeskSt
Hi
I've used the Debian installer (Sarge) for installing a system onto an
SSD, using this layout:
/dev/sda1 /boot
/dev/sda5 luks, -> sda5_crypt with "/"
/dev/sda6 /usr
After the installation finished, I realized that I should have aligned
the partition boundaries. So I booted into GRML, ba
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 11:20:43PM -0400, Tom Roche wrote:
>
> summary: I'm a new debian user with some package breakage. I'd appreciate
>
> * assistance with my specific problem (i.e., give me a fish)
> * general heuristics for debug package breakage (i.e., teach me to fish)
>
[cut]
>
> So I'm
On Friday 19 August 2011 01:38:58 Scott Ferguson wrote:
> But most of the recommendations I get are from
> sighted people ie. Vinux is "supposed" to be good
You will have noticed that I didn't mention it! (The Adriane version of
Knoppix is, of course, good because Adriane Knopper helped to desi
On Friday 19 August 2011 01:38:58 Scott Ferguson wrote:
> For me the biggest problem is CD labels - my writing makes the reading
> even harder. Now if someone created a simple system that announced the
> title of any cd placed in the drive based on information burned to the
> CD
Can you read B
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 11:23:42AM CEST, yudi v said:
> > Did you try to use the early option in cryptsetup ? It make sthe luks part
> > being done earlier at boot time (in the cryptdisks-early boot script).
> >
> > did not know that, thanks for pointing it out. I did not read anything
> about it
On 19/08/11 19:33, Lisi wrote:
> On Friday 19 August 2011 01:38:58 Scott Ferguson wrote:
>> But most of the recommendations I get are from sighted people ie.
>> Vinux is "supposed" to be good
>
> You will have noticed that I didn't mention it!
I did, the significance escaped me. Now I know better
>
> Thinking about it there surely is something to do about the initrd.img,
>
I thought so too. looks like I need to build a new initrd.img.
--
Kind regards,
Yudi
On 19/08/11 19:34, Lisi wrote:
> On Friday 19 August 2011 01:38:58 Scott Ferguson wrote:
>> For me the biggest problem is CD labels - my writing makes the reading
>> even harder. Now if someone created a simple system that announced the
>> title of any cd placed in the drive based on information bu
I'm running Xfce under wheezy on a desktop system. I have two monitors
permanently attached to the computer; that is, I never need to do any
configuration on the fly.
To set up dual-head, I run the simple command
xrandr --output HDMI2 --right-of HDMI1
I'd like to run this automatically at bo
Le 19/08/2011 11:24, Christian Jaeger a écrit :
> Hi
>
> I've used the Debian installer (Sarge) for installing a system onto an
> SSD, using this layout:
>
> /dev/sda1 /boot
> /dev/sda5 luks, -> sda5_crypt with "/"
> /dev/sda6 /usr
>
> After the installation finished, I realized that I sho
On Fri 19 Aug 2011 at 09:42:29 +0100, AG wrote:
> On stable, I am currently running Xfce4.6. I notice that in the sid
> repos, Xfce4.8 is available. Is there a safe way of upgrading to 4.8 in
> a manner that will not break my system, or is it really only a matter of
> waiting for Xfce4.8 t
On Fri 19 Aug 2011 at 06:39:05 -0400, Jesse Sheidlower wrote:
>
> I'm running Xfce under wheezy on a desktop system. I have two monitors
> permanently attached to the computer; that is, I never need to do any
> configuration on the fly.
>
> To set up dual-head, I run the simple command
>
> x
I'm currently a Windows user who's trying to escape.
I have an unusual batch of constraints:
1. It must reside *completely* on a USB stick and be able to
read/write an existing NTFS hard drive.
2. It must be able to connect thru a USB modem, USROBOTICS USR5637.
a. It will be used on a deskt
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 07:41:57AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> I'm currently a Windows user who's trying to escape.
>
> I have an unusual batch of constraints:
> 1. It must reside *completely* on a USB stick and be able to
>read/write an existing NTFS hard drive.
> 2. It must be able to con
On Fri 19 Aug 2011 at 02:18:47 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> Anyone knows where the following problem comes from?
>
> In the last hours, I've had a wifi disconnection twice, while I had
> never had such a problem before. Concerning the second connection and
> disconnection (at 01:48), the kerne
On 19/08/11 22:41, Richard Owlett wrote:
> I'm currently a Windows user who's trying to escape.
>
> I have an unusual batch of constraints: 1. It must reside
> *completely* on a USB stick and be able to read/write an existing
> NTFS hard drive. 2. It must be able to connect thru a USB modem,
> USR
On Friday 19 August 2011 11:34:01 Scott Ferguson wrote:
> > Vinux is virtually useless [snip] In fact, I
> > agree with you that it is unusable.
>
> I was over-dramatising - it has some uses:-
> ;drink coaster
> ;memory aid for recalling slavic words that end in hard consonants.
> ;decongestant (i
Hello,
I run Wheezy on a quite new sony vaio PCG laptop with GeForce GT 555M
(GF106) and a second intel 2D video card and nouveau FB.
After resume from suspend or hibernate, the backlight control gets lost. I
still can echo and cat to /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video[0,1]/ but it has
no effec
Rob Owens wrote:
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 07:41:57AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
I'm currently a Windows user who's trying to escape.
I have an unusual batch of constraints:
1. It must reside *completely* on a USB stick and be able to
read/write an existing NTFS hard drive.
2. It must be ab
2011/8/19 tv.deb...@googlemail.com :
> Hi, maybe you should have updated the initramfs too (update-initramfs).
I've done that, too, just forgot to mention it. So there's still some
other problem.
Well, found the problem now:
I've been using "file -s /dev/XXX" to get the UUID. But that truncates
PS. some random observations from my time spent with the above:
- busybox (which is used in initrd) *does* respect "set -x", but
(unlike bash) it does *not* pass it on to subshells. Could that be
fixed?
- because of this, you need to first add "set -x" just to ./init in
the initrd, then you see t
Scott Ferguson wrote:
On 19/08/11 22:41, Richard Owlett wrote:
I'm currently a Windows user who's trying to escape.
I have an unusual batch of constraints: 1. It must reside
*completely* on a USB stick and be able to read/write an existing
NTFS hard drive. 2. It must be able to connect thru a U
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 10:31:16AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> Rob Owens wrote:
> >On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 07:41:57AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> >>I'm currently a Windows user who's trying to escape.
> >>
[cut]
>
> My goal is to sit down at keyboard and not be able to tell whether
> Linux r
On Fri 19 Aug 2011 at 10:31:16 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> Rob Owens wrote:
>>
>> With Debian Live, you should be able to install a dialer (kppp is one
>> that comes to mind).
>
> Chuckle - it's the "chicken and egg" problem.
> My starting point is I have to take my Windows laptop to local libr
2011/8/18 Scott Ferguson :
> On 19/08/11 04:01, Paul E Condon wrote:
>> I'm curious about the differences between noscript and notscript.
>> I ask here because this is the list on which I discovered the
>> existence of (and the need for) these add-ons to web browsers.
>
>
> NotScripts uses a uniqu
Hi every body
I got a driver for networking ( the c code) i want to add it to the kernel
before compiling the kernel.
How to do it.
Is it enough to put the code in the directory src/linux-2.6.39/drivers/net
and run the compilation procedure.
Or I have to declare somewhere the name, in order th
http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=linux+compile+driver
The first link I get answers your question directly. However, I highly doubt
you need to compile this...
On Aug 19, 2011 1:57 PM, "abdelkader belahcene"
wrote:
> Hi every body
> I got a driver for networking ( the c code) i want to add it to the kerne
Hey There,
I used to be able to "ssh" from my shellworld account into my Linux
box before I got the latest version of the squeeze disk. I am not
able to do so now. Exactly what needs to be set up or in place in
order for me to once again be able to access my Linux box via "ssh"
or "telnet" from
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 10:31:16AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> Rob Owens wrote:
> >Did you know that most live USB systems can use a mode called
> >"persistence" that allows you to install new software?
>
> I heard _of_ "persistence" when I first attempted to use Ubuntu.
> I'm not sure if that
On Wed, 17 Aug 2011 01:11:32 +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote:
> #include
> * Camaleón [Tue, Aug 16 2011, 05:30:07PM]:
>> On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 12:31:53 -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote:
>>
>> > I recently acquired a 2TB SATA HD that I have not yet installed. It
>> > will be used entirely to store media files.
On Wed, 17 Aug 2011 07:11:12 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> On 8/16/2011 12:30 PM, Camaleón wrote:
>
>> A single volume of 2 TiB is very big (and big file systems are more
>> prone to errors and hard to recover in the event of a corruption...
>> fsck can take... ages? :-P).
>
> I've never seen a
On Wed, 17 Aug 2011 05:28:44 -0400, Scott Reagan wrote:
> I tried to install the small verion of debian, the 32 bit version and it
> wouldn't read my dvd rom so I couldn't finish the install. please help.
> I really want this os system and have heard great things about it.
You can try to install
On Wed, 17 Aug 2011 18:03:20 -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote:
> I have a pdf document that I would like to add two lines of text to
> (different positions, different fonts). Under the 'Page' menu I see an
> icon for adding text but it is greyed out. I don't see that icon
> anywhere else on the screen.
Hello, the List.
I run Debian Wheezy (testing) on amd64 and with a few packages from
Sid (unstable), i.e. the kernel.
All GNUstep-based graphical apps fault with SIGSEGV ; if I try lets
say AClock, I get:
[ WITH libpixman-1-0 0.22.2-1 ]
testr@valentin-laptop:~$ AClock
Segmentation fault
testr@v
On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 13:24:11 +0800, lina wrote:
> can I use the old fglrx_drv.so installed before, such as the squeeze
> one, to substitute the new one,
> /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so, installed in wheezy?
Why you want the old version? I dunno if that will work...
> how can I obtai
RiverWind wrote:
> I used to be able to "ssh" from my shellworld account into my Linux
> box before I got the latest version of the squeeze disk. I am not
> able to do so now. Exactly what needs to be set up or in place in
> order for me to once again be able to access my Linux box via "ssh"
> or "
On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 07:46:55 +0200, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote:
> This is almost certainly a hardware problem, but I think readers of this
> list are knowledgeable enough to help me.
>
> My laptop shuts down at unexpected times. There are no messages in the
> logs at the time of shutdown, but th
Darac Marjal wrote:
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 10:31:16AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
Rob Owens wrote:
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 07:41:57AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
I'm currently a Windows user who's trying to escape.
[cut]
My goal is to sit down at keyboard and not be able to tell whether
On 08/19/2011 06:39 AM, Scott Ferguson wrote:
On 19/08/11 19:34, Lisi wrote:
On Friday 19 August 2011 01:38:58 Scott Ferguson wrote:
For me the biggest problem is CD labels - my writing makes the reading
even harder. Now if someone created a simple system that announced the
title of any cd plac
On Wed, 17 Aug 2011 22:20:21 +0200, Ralf Jung wrote:
(...)
>> Oh, I didn't know. The nvidia counterpart tool is very nice, maybe I
>> overestimate the ATI one :-)
> OTOH, the ATI driver supports xrandr 1.2 perfectly (as far as I can
> tell), so I can use the common open-source configuration tool
Hello,
yet another problem. Randomly, my wifi card drops its connection. It seems
to forget its setting but everything which can be found in the logs is
shown below. It needs ifdown wlan0; ifup wlan0 to recover.
This seems to be related to the link quality because this occurs more
often when
On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 07:18:37 +1000, Heddle Weaver wrote:
> On 16 August 2011 22:12, Camaleón wrote:
>> > weaver@Bandit:~$ su
>> > Password:
>> > Bandit:/home/weaver# wget 192.168.1.254 --2011-08-16 06:06:49--
>> > http://192.168.1.254/ Connecting to 192.168.1.254:80... failed:
>> > Connection ti
On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 13:54:13 +1000, Heddle Weaver wrote:
> On 16 August 2011 22:12, Camaleón wrote:
(...)
>> > --2011-08-16 06:08:23-- (try: 3) http://192.168.1.254/ Connecting
>> > to 192.168.1.254:80... failed: Connection timed out. Retrying.
>>
>> Hum... are you sure your router is still a
On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 16:02:17 +1000, Heddle Weaver wrote:
> I don't know what's happening any more. I think I'm being haunted.
Greemlins are anywhere and they like computers so much, keep your eyes
opened! X-)
> I've just reset the modem to see if I could access the modem url to set
> it up prop
kernel - 2.6.34-1-686 #1 SMP
westk[@]goshen]:/home/westk:> cat /etc/debian_version
5.0.8
westk[@]goshen]:/home/westk:> aptitude show samba
Package: samba
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 2:3.2.5-4lenny15
westk[@]goshen]:/home/westk:> sudo pdbedit -L
params.c:Parameter() - I
2011-08-19 21:03, Camaleón skrev:
On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 13:24:11 +0800, lina wrote:
can I use the old fglrx_drv.so installed before, such as the squeeze
one, to substitute the new one,
/usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so, installed in wheezy?
I agree that it might not work, and I would
Could you send the output of testparm -v ?
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On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 15:10:15 -0500, Kent West wrote:
(...)
> westk[@]goshen]:/home/westk:> sudo smbpasswd -a amyld New SMB password:
> Retype new SMB password:
> Unable to modify TDB passwd: NT_STATUS_UNSUCCESSFUL! Failed to add entry
> for user amyld.
> Failed to modify password entry for user a
Camaleón wrote:
On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 15:10:15 -0500, Kent West wrote:
(...)
westk[@]goshen]:/home/westk:> sudo smbpasswd -a amyld New SMB password:
Retype new SMB password:
Unable to modify TDB passwd: NT_STATUS_UNSUCCESSFUL! Failed to add entry
for user amyld.
Failed to modify password entr
On 19/08/11 12:54, Brian wrote:
On Fri 19 Aug 2011 at 09:42:29 +0100, AG wrote:
On stable, I am currently running Xfce4.6. I notice that in the sid
repos, Xfce4.8 is available. Is there a safe way of upgrading to 4.8 in
a manner that will not break my system, or is it really only a matter of
On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 16:49:49 +0200, Stefan Rutzinger wrote:
> I run Wheezy on a quite new sony vaio PCG laptop with GeForce GT 555M
> (GF106) and a second intel 2D video card and nouveau FB.
>
> After resume from suspend or hibernate, the backlight control gets lost.
> I still can echo and cat to
On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 15:21:46 -0500, Kent West wrote:
> Camaleón wrote:
>> On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 15:10:15 -0500, Kent West wrote:
>>
>> (...)
>>
>>
>>> westk[@]goshen]:/home/westk:> sudo smbpasswd -a amyld New SMB
>>> password: Retype new SMB password:
>>> Unable to modify TDB passwd: NT_STATUS_UNSUC
On 08/14/2011 02:30 PM, Dion Kant wrote:
> On 08/14/2011 01:23 PM, Dion Kant wrote:
>> Forget
>> about the previous results, they will be wrong because of libgcc stream
>> buffering and I did not check how these buffers are actually written to
>> kernel space.
> libgcc uses writev to write out an a
I'm running testing
$ cat /proc/version | fmt
Linux version 3.0.0-1-686-pae (Debian 3.0.0-1) (b...@decadent.org.uk)
(gcc version 4.5.3 (Debian 4.5.3-3) ) #1 SMP Sun Jul 24 14:27:32 UTC 2011
$
on a ibm thinkpad a22m that's got one of these
$ lspci | grep -i audio | fmt
00:05.0 Multim
On 8/19/2011 4:38 PM, Dion Kant wrote:
> I now think I understand the "strange" behaviour for block sizes not an
> integral multiple of 4096 bytes. (Of course you guys already knew the
> answer but just didn't want to make it easy for me to find the answer.)
>
> The newer disks today have a secto
On 2011-08-19 13:36:37 +0100, Brian wrote:
> On Fri 19 Aug 2011 at 02:18:47 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > Anyone knows where the following problem comes from?
> >
> > In the last hours, I've had a wifi disconnection twice, while I had
> > never had such a problem before. Concerning the second
Including the mailing list back in the discussion...
RiverWind wrote:
> I do not seem to have an ssh server installed on my system. How
> could I get one, and how extensive would the config process bee?
Easy!
# apt-get install openssh-server
That is all that you need to do. The server will b
On 2011-08-20 01:25:15 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> I use wicd, but its logs at this time are:
>
> 2011/08/19 01:48:46 :: attempting to set hostname with dhclient
> 2011/08/19 01:48:46 :: using dhcpcd or another supported client may work
> better
> 2011/08/19 01:48:47 :: attempting to set host
On 20/08/11 02:18, Richard Owlett wrote:
> Scott Ferguson wrote:
>> On 19/08/11 22:41, Richard Owlett wrote:
>> Of the distributions you've mentioned, with the exception of Multicore
>> which I've never heard of, all should support the US Robotics modem,
>> have dialers, can support NTFS, and wil
On 20/08/11 03:50, consul tores wrote:
> 2011/8/18 Scott Ferguson :
>> On 19/08/11 04:01, Paul E Condon wrote:
>>> I'm curious about the differences between noscript and notscript.
>>
>
> Some people think that both, could be a security risk, because they
> run under java, Is not it?
>
>
Wow!
Ok, so I do indeed have an "ssh" server, and I am able to ssh into my
ISP's shell account. However, I can not ssh over to my linux box. In other
words, I can get out but not in.
Riv
Feel free to visit my website and my blog and learn more about me
and what I stand for.
My Website @ http://riv
Hello.
I am trying to install the following dev packages but aptitude keeps
telling me it can't find them:
libopencv-highgui-dev
libglew1.5-dev
The package's developer information, however, lists them (I have Testing
on an amd64).
Could somebody tell me what I am missing here?
Thanks.
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Thank you very much, Camaleón!
On 08/19/2011 09:10 PM, Camaleón wrote:
> Also check the hardware monitor section of the BIOS, if possible, they
> will give you an accurate measure. You can also check the output of "acpi
> -V" to find out additional
2011-08-20 06:08, H.S. skrev:
Hello.
I am trying to install the following dev packages but aptitude keeps
telling me it can't find them:
libopencv-highgui-dev
libglew1.5-dev
The package's developer information, however, lists them (I have Testing
on an amd64).
Could somebody tell me what I am
Thanks for Camaleón and johan's advice.
2011/8/20 Johan Grönqvist :
> 2011-08-19 21:03, Camaleón skrev:
>>
>> On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 13:24:11 +0800, lina wrote:
>>
>>> can I use the old fglrx_drv.so installed before, such as the squeeze
>>> one, to substitute the new one,
>>> /usr/lib/xorg/modules/
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 6:26 AM, shawn wilson wrote:
> first, there's a #re channel on freenode that might be able to help
> you better. though, i'd first brush up on my assembly and gdb before
> looking there :)
#re channel on freenode?
>
> basically, you can link a program against a library (o
RiverWind wrote:
> Ok, so I do indeed have an "ssh" server, and I am able to ssh into
> my ISP's shell account. However, I can not ssh over to my linux box.
> In other words, I can get out but not in.
Out uses ssh client. In uses ssh server.
Start back at the list at step 4 or before and see whe
Dear All,
recently, I have upgraded kernel version from 2.6.32 to 2.6.39 through
synaptic on my laptop.
Now, not able to compile ALSa package as it says that no kernel module
found. after searching in google, i found out that this is because of *pae
kernel* which required for the system more than
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