Re: need information of laptops that can run debian well

2012-01-28 Thread Joel Roth
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 11:09:26AM +0530, Harshad Joshi wrote: > is there any wiki or list of laptops that are supported by debian 6? > > i saw that many laptops are having highly proprietary drivers even for the > nic. For IBM/Lenovo Thinkpads, there is http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ThinkWiki M

Re: need information of laptops that can run debian well

2012-01-28 Thread richard
On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:22:14 -1000 Joel Roth wrote: > On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 11:09:26AM +0530, Harshad Joshi wrote: > > is there any wiki or list of laptops that are supported by debian 6? > > > > i saw that many laptops are having highly proprietary drivers even for the > > nic. > > For IBM/L

Re: System hangs due to NFS share

2012-01-28 Thread Sylvain
On 24. 01. 12 22:41, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 25/01/12 04:50, Sylvain wrote: On 24. 01. 12 09:28, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 24/01/12 18:50, Sylvain wrote: I tried to SIGKILL the [nfsiod] process but it didn't get killed. I also tried to kill the various rpcbind processes but it didn't change an

Dead keys doesn't work in gnome 3 apps since update

2012-01-28 Thread Oscar Vidakovic
Hi All, Since I updated my Wheeze and it installed gnome 3, spanish accents dead keys ("´", "`", etc) stoped working in gnome apps as dead keys. I mean to say that when I press the "`" key and the "a" key it wirtes "´a" instead of "á". I mainly work with KDE desktop and have no complete gnome inst

Re: Just what does _DEBIAN_ mean by "live"

2012-01-28 Thread Lisi
On Friday 27 January 2012 02:48:07 Scott Ferguson wrote: > ; ADRIANE > (a truly astonishing work). Yes, brilliant. :-) Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debi

Re: need information of laptops that can run debian well

2012-01-28 Thread Christian Dysthe
On 01/27/12 at 11:09am, Harshad Joshi wrote: > is there any wiki or list of laptops that are supported by debian 6? > > i saw that many laptops are having highly proprietary drivers even for the > nic. > > > please help.. I've had great expriences with Asus laptops. The last four I've had have

Accented Characters - How to type from standard keyboard?

2012-01-28 Thread Thomas H. George
Ripit created a directory name which starts with an accented character. I want to rename the directory. With xlsfonts, xfontsel and xfd I have found a font set which contains the character but have not figured out how to use it from a standard US keyboard. Is there an easy way to do this? Tom

Re: Plymouth only displays text bar (HowTo configure Plymouth for Proprietary NVidia)

2012-01-28 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Sat, 28 Jan 2012 10:55:22 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 27/01/12 23:08, Ramon Hofer wrote: >> Hi all >> >> I'm playing with plymouth. I had no problems configuring it on my >> laptop but I have a htpc where I wanted to set the xbmc-logo plymouth >> theme. Unfortunately it only shows the wh

Re: Squeeze Backports kernel with nVidia driver package

2012-01-28 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:14:43 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Vi, 27 ian 12, 23:00:49, Andrei Popescu wrote: >> >> I don't know, I can only tell you that 2.6.29 from squeeze-backports >> doesn't work with nvidia-glx from squeeze, you need both from >> backports, but in the meantime 2.6.29 got re

Re: Squeeze Backports kernel with nVidia driver package

2012-01-28 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:00:49 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Vi, 27 ian 12, 20:39:06, Ramon Hofer wrote: >> >> The linux-image-amd64 package from squeeze backports installs linux- >> image-3.1.0-0.bpo.1-amd64. >> Is 2.6.29 the better choice than 3.1? > > I don't know, I can only tell you that

Sudo

2012-01-28 Thread antispammbox-debian
Hi all I tried to use with Squeeze, small utility program, as Gmountiso, but with Squeeze, do not work, why authenticate using, sudo. Do you know a way to use a program using sudo, in Debian Squeeze? Thanks Regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Vrlo bitne informacije

2012-01-28 Thread Marko Randjelovic
Sumnjam da je u toku organizovana zavera protiv mene da bi mi oteli imovinu koju sam nasledio od oca kao i ono sto mi po ugovoru pripada od majke. Nemam mnogo dokaza, ali sam bio prinuđen da zovem policiju iz straha za svoj život. Majka je cesto ispoljavala jasnu neobuzdanu mrznju preme svom malo

Re: need information of laptops that can run debian well

2012-01-28 Thread Pablo Sánchez
Harshad, now running a Dell Latitude E5520, wheezy/amd64 running fine . Please note i ordered it with intel wireless 6200 series, an i5-2520M and a SAMSUNG SSD PM810 2.5" 7mm 128GB . So far, everything works (even wireless (g and n), bluetooth,Fn keys). I'm on gnome3, working nice except on dual

Re: Sudo

2012-01-28 Thread doug
On 01/28/2012 01:15 PM, antispammbox-debian wrote: Hi all I tried to use with Squeeze, small utility program, as Gmountiso, but with Squeeze, do not work, why authenticate using, sudo. Do you know a way to use a program using sudo, in Debian Squeeze? Thanks Regards You must have sudo i

Re: Sudo

2012-01-28 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 07:15:14PM +0100, antispammbox-debian wrote: > > > Hi all > > > I tried to use with Squeeze, small utility program, as Gmountiso, but with > Squeeze, do not work, why authenticate using, sudo. > > Do you know a way to use a program using sudo, in Debian Squeeze? Try t

Re: Accented Characters - How to type from standard keyboard?

2012-01-28 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, Thus spoketh "Thomas H. George" unto us on Sat, 28 Jan 2012 11:19:09 -0500: > Ripit created a directory name which starts with an accented character. > I want to rename the directory. With xlsfonts, xfontsel and xfd I have > found a font set which contains the character but have not figure

Re: Accented Characters - How to type from standard keyboard?

2012-01-28 Thread Teemu Likonen
[ 2012-01-28 20:40:27 +0100 ] "Michael Lange" wrote: > You can even setup custom key combinations in case you can locate the > correct file for that; here I have a file ~/.XCompose, but changes to > this file are ignored by gtk apps , and xterm and friends seem to be > unable to handle certain cha

Re: how to get rid of pulseaudio gracefully

2012-01-28 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Harry Putnam [120127 00:50 -0500]: > > Running wheezy - kde plasma desktop > > I want to get rid of pulseaudio. I've found [0] very useful [0] http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1381284 Elimar -- On the keyboard of life you have always to keep a finger at the escape key;-) --

Re: Accented Characters - How to type from standard keyboard?

2012-01-28 Thread doug
On 01/28/2012 02:40 PM, Michael Lange wrote: Hi, Thus spoketh "Thomas H. George" unto us on Sat, 28 Jan 2012 11:19:09 -0500: /snip/ 3rd person singular preterite is "spake" You can set up a compose key; here I have added Option "XkbOptions" "compose:Super_R" to the Keyboard sec

Re: Squeeze Backports kernel with nVidia driver package

2012-01-28 Thread didier gaumet
Le Sat, 28 Jan 2012 10:20:58 + (UTC), Ramon Hofer a écrit : [...] > I have added "deb http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports > squeeze- backports main" to my /etc/apt/sources.list "deb http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports squeeze- backports main non-free" would be better [...]

Network issues with lan and wifi

2012-01-28 Thread Guido Martínez
Hi all, I recently purchased a 802.11n wifi pci card and placed it my pc. After that, I proceeded to install debian. I noted that I could not configure the wifi network from the installer (it's probably possible, but I don't know how) so I attached a network cable and the installation ran smoothly

Re: Accented Characters - How to type from standard keyboard?

2012-01-28 Thread Lisi
On Saturday 28 January 2012 20:40:51 doug wrote: > 3rd person singular preterite is "spake" +1 And what is wrong with "said"? Without the Thus? Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Network issues with lan and wifi

2012-01-28 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 29/01/12 09:42, � wrote: > Hi all, > > I recently purchased a 802.11n wifi pci card and placed it my pc. > After that, I proceeded to install debian. I noted that I could not > configure the wifi network from the installer (it's probably possible, > but I don't know how) so I attached a network

Re: Squeeze Backports kernel with nVidia driver package

2012-01-28 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sb, 28 ian 12, 10:20:58, Ramon Hofer wrote: > > If I get you right I should install linux-image-3.2.0-0.bpo.1-amd64? > But there are other packages too like linux-image-amd64 which installs > the extra package linux-image-3.1.0-0.bpo.1-amd64. Here are all the > possibilies I have: Hmm, you m

debian losing usb detection after guest OS sees a USB device in virtualbox

2012-01-28 Thread H.S.
I am running Virtualbox 4.1.8-75467~Debian~squeeze on my Debian Testing machine. I have Windows 7 (32 bit) installed as a guest OS. When I connect my Tomtom Via 1535 gps unit to a USB port while the guest OS is running, the unit gets listed as a USB device in virtualbox and I can click on it to se

Re: Network issues with lan and wifi

2012-01-28 Thread Brian
On Sat 28 Jan 2012 at 19:42:27 -0300, Guido Martínez wrote: [A little snip] > Now I'm booting into debian, with the cable still connected since I > have no network manager for wifi, Does this mean you have not touched or altered the networking setup from what you did during the installation? >

Re: Accented Characters - How to type from standard keyboard?

2012-01-28 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 03:40:51PM -0500, doug wrote: > On 01/28/2012 02:40 PM, Michael Lange wrote: > >Hi, > > > >Thus spoketh "Thomas H. George" > >unto us on Sat, 28 Jan 2012 11:19:09 -0500: > > > /snip/ > >You can set up a compose key; here I have added > > > > Option "XkbOptions"

Re: Network issues with lan and wifi

2012-01-28 Thread Bob Proulx
Guido Martínez wrote: > I recently purchased a 802.11n wifi pci card and placed it my pc. > After that, I proceeded to install debian. I noted that I could not > configure the wifi network from the installer (it's probably possible, > but I don't know how) so I attached a network cable and the > in

Re: Network issues with lan and wifi

2012-01-28 Thread Scott Ferguson
Re-posting to the list. I'm presuming you accidentally posted this to me instead of the list. By rights I should seek your permission before doing this... Point 11:- http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct On 29/01/12 10:40, Guido Martínez wrote: > Stable v6.0.3, amd64, linux. > The c

Re: debian losing usb detection after guest OS sees a USB device in virtualbox

2012-01-28 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 29/01/12 11:21, H.S. wrote: > > I am running Virtualbox 4.1.8-75467~Debian~squeeze on my Debian Testing > machine. I have Windows 7 (32 bit) installed as a guest OS. When I > connect my Tomtom Via 1535 gps unit to a USB port while the guest OS is > running, the unit gets listed as a USB device

Re: debian losing usb detection after guest OS sees a USB device in virtualbox

2012-01-28 Thread H.S.
On 28/01/12 08:18 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: > grep -e usb /etc/fstab $ grep -e usb /etc/fstab # none /proc/bus/usb usbfs devgid=122,devmode=664 0 0 Also: $ groups hs adm cdrom floppy sudo audio dip video plugdev netdev bluetooth scanner powerdev pulse pulse-access vboxusers -- Please reply to

Re: Samsung notebook question

2012-01-28 Thread Bob
On 12/21/2011 02:55 AM, I Rattan wrote: Any one running Debian (or derivative) on Samsung NP-N145-JP02US netbook? -ishwar No but I am on an N220 netbook, I haven't got round to trying to configure the special function keys yet but most things work out of the box, the only things I miss are

screwed up my network starting

2012-01-28 Thread H.S.
Feeling a bit embarrassed here. Recently I seem to screwed up my network related stuff on my Debian Testing machine running KDE. Earlier, my network card was being monitored by network manager. Recently due to various changes, I had the need to give my network card a fixed address. To do so, I to

Re: debian losing usb detection after guest OS sees a USB device in virtualbox

2012-01-28 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 29/01/12 12:22, H.S. wrote: > On 28/01/12 08:18 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> grep -e usb /etc/fstab > > > $ grep -e usb /etc/fstab > # none /proc/bus/usb usbfs devgid=122,devmode=664 0 0 > > Also: > $ groups > hs adm cdrom floppy sudo audio dip video plugdev netdev bluetooth > scanner powerde

Re: screwed up my network starting

2012-01-28 Thread Bob Proulx
H.S. wrote: > Earlier, my network card was being monitored by network manager. > Recently due to various changes, I had the need to give my network card > a fixed address. To do so, I took out the following line from > /etc/network/interfaces: > # The primary network interface > #allow-hotplug eth0

Re: screwed up my network starting

2012-01-28 Thread Bob Proulx
Bob Proulx wrote: > H.S. wrote: > > How do I tell this "auto-configuration" to ignore the dhcp > > nameservers and to use the ones I specify instead? > > I haven't tried this but I would install 'resolvconf' and then specify > them with the dns-nameservers option listed above. I think that will >

Re: screwed up my network starting

2012-01-28 Thread H.S.
On 28/01/12 09:13 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > H.S. wrote: >> Earlier, my network card was being monitored by network manager. >> Recently due to various changes, I had the need to give my network card >> a fixed address. To do so, I took out the following line from >> /etc/network/interfaces: >> # The

Re: debian losing usb detection after guest OS sees a USB device in virtualbox

2012-01-28 Thread H.S.
On 28/01/12 08:53 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: > I haven't had any issues with USB on Windoof 7 - but I'm not running > TomTom. My fstab is a little different:- > > $ grep -e usb /etc/fstab > none /proc/bus/usb usbfs devgid=110,devmode=664,nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0 > > NOTE: that it's not commented o

Re: screwed up my network starting

2012-01-28 Thread H.S.
On 28/01/12 09:29 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > > Update: A little searching found this in 'man dhclient.conf'. > >The supersede statement > > supersede [ option declaration ] ; > >If for some option the client should always use a >locally-configured value or values r

Re: screwed up my network starting

2012-01-28 Thread Bob Proulx
H.S. wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > It is okay to have both specified, I usually do. > > When I dealt with this issue last (a few years ago), I was under the > impression that only one needs to be used. Either I was mistaken then, > or things have improved in the right direction. You are correct.

Re: debian losing usb detection after guest OS sees a USB device in virtualbox

2012-01-28 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 29/01/12 13:45, H.S. wrote: > On 28/01/12 08:53 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > > >> I get occasional warnings related to USB about lack of space when >> starting a VirtualBox machine, which is fixed with:- >> # dpkg-reconfigure virtualbox-4.1 > > Haven't tried that yet. Only needed if you

Re: Accented Characters - How to type from standard keyboard?

2012-01-28 Thread green
Thomas H. George wrote at 2012-01-28 10:19 -0600: > Ripit created a directory name which starts with an accented character. > I want to rename the directory. > found a font set which contains the character but have not figured out > how to use it from a standard US keyboard. Instead of bothering

Re: debian losing usb detection after guest OS sees a USB device in virtualbox

2012-01-28 Thread H.S.
On 28/01/12 10:00 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 29/01/12 13:45, H.S. wrote: >> On 28/01/12 08:53 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> > > >> >> >>> I get occasional warnings related to USB about lack of space when >>> starting a VirtualBox machine, which is fixed with:- >>> # dpkg-reconfigure virtualbox

Re: debian losing usb detection after guest OS sees a USB device in virtualbox

2012-01-28 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 29/01/12 14:29, H.S. wrote: > On 28/01/12 10:00 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> On 29/01/12 13:45, H.S. wrote: >>> On 28/01/12 08:53 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: >>> >> >> NOTE: TomTom with the latest updates requires the use of the EHCI driver >> in VirtualBox, which in turns requires IOMMU support

Re: debian losing usb detection after guest OS sees a USB device in virtualbox

2012-01-28 Thread H.S.
On 28/01/12 10:46 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 29/01/12 14:29, H.S. wrote: >> On 28/01/12 10:00 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: >>> On 29/01/12 13:45, H.S. wrote: On 28/01/12 08:53 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > >>> >>> NOTE: TomTom with the latest updates requires the use of the EHCI driver

Re: debian losing usb detection after guest OS sees a USB device in virtualbox

2012-01-28 Thread H.S.
On 28/01/12 10:52 PM, H.S. wrote: > On 28/01/12 10:46 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> >> Before starting that VB machine, go into Settings => USB, and add the >> filter for TomTom (not a generic filter). Then start the VB machine. > > > I am not getting anything in the USB devices list to add to th

Re: debian losing usb detection after guest OS sees a USB device in virtualbox

2012-01-28 Thread H.S.
On 28/01/12 11:03 PM, H.S. wrote: > On 28/01/12 10:52 PM, H.S. wrote: >> On 28/01/12 10:46 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: > >>> >>> Before starting that VB machine, go into Settings => USB, and add the >>> filter for TomTom (not a generic filter). Then start the VB machine. >> >> >> I am not getting an

Re: how to get rid of pulseaudio gracefully

2012-01-28 Thread Harry Putnam
Elimar Riesebieter writes: >> Running wheezy - kde plasma desktop >> >> I want to get rid of pulseaudio. > > I've found [0] very useful > > [0] http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1381284 Great thread, thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subj

Re: debian losing usb detection after guest OS sees a USB device in virtualbox

2012-01-28 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 29/01/12 15:33, H.S. wrote: > On 28/01/12 11:03 PM, H.S. wrote: >> On 28/01/12 10:52 PM, H.S. wrote: >>> On 28/01/12 10:46 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> Before starting that VB machine, go into Settings => USB, and add the filter for TomTom (not a generic filter). Then start the VB

Re: debian losing usb detection after guest OS sees a USB device in virtualbox

2012-01-28 Thread Bob Proulx
Scott Ferguson wrote: > H.S. wrote: > > So, looks like I need to somehow make network manager not mess with > > Tomtom when it is plugged in. > > I would be useful for others if you post your success at getting NM to > ignore a device here. Agreed! Previously: >>> Jan 28 22:21:59 red NetworkManag

Re: debian losing usb detection after guest OS sees a USB device in virtualbox

2012-01-28 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 29/01/12 17:14, Bob Proulx wrote: > Scott Ferguson wrote: >> I would be useful for others if you post your success at getting NM >> to ignore a device here. I meant to write:- *It* would be... (mouse maybe gnawing at keyboard) > > Agreed! > > Previously: Jan 28 22:21:59 red NetworkMana