Re: Very small fonts in KDE after installing Nvidia drivers

2015-02-27 Thread James Allsopp
Ok, that worked brilliantly! I just followed Mark's suggestion of putting that line in my 20-nvidia.conf. Thanks! On 26 February 2015 at 19:46, Mark Neyhart wrote: > On 02/26/2015 02:28 AM, James Allsopp wrote: > > Hello, > > I've just installed the nvidia drivers after following the instruction

Trying to install nvidia-settings

2015-02-27 Thread James Allsopp
Hi, I'm trying to install nvidia-settings but I'm not sure which option to use. I don't want to break anything or leave the system in a bit of a mess. Here's what happens, james@Hawaiian:~$ sudo aptitude install nvidia-settings The following NEW packages will be installed: libxnvctrl0{a} nvidia-s

Re: Trying to install nvidia-settings

2015-02-27 Thread Reco
Hi. On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 16:34:03 + James Allsopp wrote: > Hi, > I'm trying to install nvidia-settings but I'm not sure which option to use. > I don't want to break anything or leave the system in a bit of a mess. > Here's what happens, > james@Hawaiian:~$ sudo aptitude install nvidia-settin

Can't get past authenticity of host popup with ssh

2015-02-27 Thread Ross Boylan
I can ssh from machine A to B as user ross on both, using key-based login. ssh-agent is running under KDE on A. A is Debian wheezy, B is Debian squeeze. However, when I do the following sequence on A: sux # change to root with X credentials ssh -i /home/ross/.ssh/id_rsa ross@B A window pops up

Re: Can't get past authenticity of host popup with ssh

2015-02-27 Thread Ross Boylan
By using su instead of sux I eliminated the popup and got past the host verification. Now that root on A has B in the known_hosts file I can connect from the sux session as well. I still do not understand where the popup came from and why it didn't work. Here's some more info on what ssh was doi

Re: debian 8 Kmail IMAP funktioniert nach einiger Zeit nicht mehr, Rechner muss neu gestartet werden

2015-02-27 Thread Thomas
Am Donnerstag, 26. Februar 2015, 23:26:09 schrieb Linux-Fan: > On 02/26/2015 03:43 PM, Thomas wrote: > > Hallo, > > ich habe seit debian 8 Schwierigkeiten mit Kmail und IMAP Servern, ich > > Trying to paraphrase this in English: > > This is the international debian-user list. It would be recomme

Re: File transfer

2015-02-27 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 09:29:21 +0300 Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Thu, 26 Feb 2015 19:48:52 -0500 > Celejar wrote: > > > On Thu, 26 Feb 2015 19:44:19 +0300 > > Reco wrote: > > > > > Hi. > > > > > > On Thu, 26 Feb 2015 08:37:30 -0800 > > > Pete Ley wrote: > > > > > > > Wouldn't you need a cros

Re: File transfer

2015-02-27 Thread Reco
Hi. On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 15:55:04 -0500 Celejar wrote: > > > > Wouldn't you need a crossover cable to do that? > > > > > > > > Unless they installed really braindead 15-years old NICs at both > > > > laptops - no, one does not need crossover cable. > > > > Although, given the existence of some

how to install previous version of Icedove (24.8.1)

2015-02-27 Thread Martin Vegter
Hello, I am installing Debian Wheezy and I would like to install the same version of Icedove as I have on my other machine: Icedove 24.8.1. However, the current version in Wheezy is 31.4.0. (it has been upgraded few months ago). This new version has new misfeatures which I cannot live with. I need

Re: how to install previous version of Icedove (24.8.1)

2015-02-27 Thread Siard
Martin Vegter wrote: > I would like to install the same version of Icedove as I have on my > other machine: Icedove 24.8.1. However, the current version in Wheezy > is 31.4.0. Is there any way to install Icedove 24.8.1 on Debian Wheezy ? You get get a 24.8.1 .deb from here: http://snapshot.debian.

Re: how to install previous version of Icedove (24.8.1)

2015-02-27 Thread The Wanderer
On 02/27/2015 at 06:04 PM, Martin Vegter wrote: > Hello, > > I am installing Debian Wheezy and I would like to install the same > version of Icedove as I have on my other machine: Icedove 24.8.1. > However, the current version in Wheezy is 31.4.0. (it has been > upgraded few months ago). This new

Re: File transfer

2015-02-27 Thread David Christensen
On 02/26/2015 07:46 PM, Maureen L Thomas wrote: [Why] back up a new install? 1. To integrate the machine into your backup procedures and make sure it is being backed up correctly, so that you can trust it with your data moving forward. 2. To have a baseline to compare changes to. 3. To

Re: File transfer

2015-02-27 Thread Maureen L Thomas
If I understand you correctly then I only back up data, not the system. You have an excellent point and although I have never, so far at least, had a large problem losing my system or data I do see the advantage to doing just what you have said. I will be buying the book you suggested and hop

Re: File transfer

2015-02-27 Thread David Christensen
# mount /dev/sda1 /mnt 8. Copy the system drive raw device contents to a file on the image destination file system: # dd if=/dev/sdc of=/mnt/image/p43200/p43200-20150227-2200-debian-7-amd64-xfce-op.img count=28125184 9. Create a checksum file: # cd /mnt/image/p43200 # md5sum -