Re: Re: Building computer

2013-09-25 Thread David L. Craig
On 13Sep25:0800+0530, Balamurugan wrote: > Recently one of my friend's brother bought a Lenova > laptop. My friend asked me to install Ubuntu in that > laptop but that machine was not detecting Ubuntu > and directly booting into Windows 8. Then after bit > of struggle, we went into the bios and ch

Re: Re: Building computer

2013-09-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
OT: On Wed, 2013-09-25 at 04:22 -0400, David L. Craig wrote: > warranty Depending to the seal there are different tricks to keep warranty. Sometimes, if a seal is above a screw keeping a seal, but tear up the screw by force does work. For some seals, that don't have visible breakings, it's possi

Re: Building computer

2013-09-25 Thread Richard Owlett
Catherine Gramze wrote: I intend to build a computer for the specific purpose of running Debian. I have had a bad experience with a store-bought computer, which seemed to be wholly unable to boot to anything but Windows 8 - there was no option in the BIOS to boot to the hard drive, or even to

Re: Building computer

2013-09-25 Thread Conrad Nelson
On 09/25/2013 07:28 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: Catherine Gramze wrote: I intend to build a computer for the specific purpose of running Debian. I have had a bad experience with a store-bought computer, which seemed to be wholly unable to boot to anything but Windows 8 - there was no option in t

Re: package help

2013-09-25 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Sat, 21 Sep 2013 07:10:01 +0200 paulmars wrote: > Im emailed a bug report. I got no response. I been trying to convince > myself to try again, but I have doubts. I dont want to loose my XP > install again. I need dual boot and i also need a recovery option if > Debian fails again, like last

Re: Building computer

2013-09-25 Thread Richard Owlett
Conrad Nelson wrote: On 09/25/2013 07:28 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: Catherine Gramze wrote: I intend to build a computer for the specific purpose of running Debian. I have had a bad experience with a store-bought computer, which seemed to be wholly unable to boot to anything but Windows 8 - ther

Re: package help

2013-09-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2013-09-25 at 11:44 -0400, Charles Kroeger wrote: > If XP has taken up the whole HD with the C drive, I would suggest > first boot up with a live CD that contains the very useful program > GParted. From that vantage point you can see and reduce the size of > the displayed NTFS file system a

Re: Building computer

2013-09-25 Thread Catherine Gramze
On Sep 25, 2013, at 12:52 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> > > There's a huge amount of what we call "channel" or "DIY" hardware out > there that works fine with Linux. The only real issues are > > 1. What's available in your local market and at what price point > 2. Choice of integrated GPU >

Re: Printer brand recommendations

2013-09-25 Thread Selim T. Erdogan
Beco, 11.09.2013: > > Please, anyone knows about Epson m105, and Samsung ml_2165w > ? I see that you've already bought an Epson printer, but just for the record... I have a Samsung ML-2165 black-and-white laser printer that seems to work okay with Debian wheezy. However, the necessary ppd fil

Re: Broken threads and missing quotations

2013-09-25 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 1:57 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > You missed to understand the irony :D. No, I'm kidding now. Indeed, Arch > Linux forked Evolution, called the fork Evolution too and messed up > quoting for Evolution. This is the policy of Arch Linux, to make broken > forks of current stabl

Re: any utility to change ip

2013-09-25 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 2:33 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Bob Proulx a écrit : >> >> OT Rant: It annoys me that recent Linux kernels reverse the order of >> the route lines. Previously it would have been scanned from top to >> bottom and the first line matching wins. But now it is upside down >> a

kernel tainted

2013-09-25 Thread Jim Green
Sep 25 23:13:30 antec kernel: [12074.506735] sr0: CDROM not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. Sep 25 23:45:04 antec kernel: [13967.112791] irq 16: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" option) Sep 25 23:45:04 antec kernel: [13967.112795] Pid: 8085, comm: Socket Thread Tainte

Re: Building computer

2013-09-25 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 9/25/2013 12:52 PM, Catherine Gramze wrote: > > On Sep 25, 2013, at 12:52 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >> There's a huge amount of what we call "channel" or "DIY" hardware out >> there that works fine with Linux. The only real issues are >> >> 1. What's available in your local market and at wh

Re: kernel tainted

2013-09-25 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 12:08:08AM -0400, Jim Green wrote: > I already have irqpoll in grub.cfg > which driver might be causing this problem? Looks to me like it's your nvidia video card. Since I don't have a machine with one of those cards, that's probably as far as I can help here. Greg -- w

Re: Broken threads and missing quotations

2013-09-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2013-09-25 at 21:47 -0400, Tom H wrote: > I thought that Arch's policy was to package the latest vanilla > upstream versions. Correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive

Re: Building computer

2013-09-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-09-26 at 00:05 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > What desktop applications are you using that require 8GB, let alone > 16GB, of RAM? I'd think 4 would be plenty. If you wish to over buy > DRAM, that's a personal choice. I agree, even for heavy audio production I never needed the 4 GiB o