On a previous thread, I had polled some advice on the best way to
install Debian on an old laptop that lacked a CD drive. A number of
suggestions were made and I eventually went with the idea of changing
the pre-existing /boot/lilo.conf and adding a newly downloaded vmlinuz
and init.gz Then I
Tim Tebbit wrote:
AG wrote:
Then I copied a netinst *.iso image onto a USB stick and
booted.
Thanks for any ideas.
Does this mean you can boot from USB? If that's the case a simple
debootstrap install from knoppix would be fairly quick and easy.
http://www.debia
Jesús M. Navarro wrote:
Hi, AG:
On Saturday 31 October 2009 18:49:14 AG wrote:
Tim Tebbit wrote:
[...]
(3) The laptop's BIOS is too old to allow booting from a USB (only
allows HD, CD or floppy). It requires something to boot first before it
can mount additional files s
Tim Tebbit wrote:
AG wrote:
Only the three options noted - CD, floppy and HD. The BIOS does not
(appear to) support PXE ... at least that is not given as an option anyway.
Sounds like you are left with physically removing the hdd. Of course you
could try to /wish/ the OS to appear
Kevin Ross wrote:
From: jamesb [mailto:jaggin...@videotron.ca]
Sent: Saturday, October 31, 2009 3:18 PM
i'm assuming you would be able to use at least iexplorer 3 or
something
with win 3.1.. it sure is a challenge but definitely possible ;)
(it's likely you might have to copy win32s and iexpl
Alex Samad wrote:
On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 09:40:12AM +, AG wrote:
Kevin Ross wrote:
[snip]
I took the back completely off this evening and although the CD
drive now spins when a CD is inserted (there's progress), it doesn't
if its an ide interface, why not pl
Stan Hoeppner wrote:
AG put forth on 10/31/2009 12:49 PM:
(3) The laptop's BIOS is too old to allow booting from a USB (only
allows HD, CD or floppy). It requires something to boot first before it
can mount additional files such a USB stick.
AG put forth on 10/31/2009 10:
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 11:16:55AM +, AG wrote:
[...]
I'm thinking that the way forward would be via the GRUB prompt I was
able to get off of an old floppy, but to do so would mean being able
to by-pass LILO and boot into the first partition on t
nyone make a recommendation please? I am running Testing.
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Le Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:27:35 +,
AG a écrit :
[...]
I want to have a reminder that can run in the background when I don't
need it and minimises to the notification area (system tray?) in
Gnome (the area near the clock on a default lay out), and when an
appoin
Lisi wrote:
On Saturday 21 November 2009 04:54:11 S. Fishpaste wrote:
On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:27:35 +, AG in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote:
I used to use korganizer, but for whatever reason it no longer minimises
to my notification area in Gnome, and when it does I cannot click it
John Jason Jordan wrote:
I have several years of experience with Ubuntu, but I have never looked
inside. I'm just a pointy-clicky desktop user. How things work has
never been of interest to me except when they don't work. Even then I
just learn enough to fix the problem and go back to living.
Celejar wrote:
On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:48:43 +
AG wrote:
...
reliably and as expected. If you want higher degrees of churn, which
will require you to spend a lot more time "under the hood", then try sid
or to be "uber cool" out-fox your buddies and give sidux
s and - more critically
- found a way around it?
Thanks for any assistance before I tear the remainder of my hair out!
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AG wrote:
Today I accepted the update in Squeeze for Iceape. However, this
appears to have erased my old/ previous bookmark and password files
that I used in Iceape before the upgrade. I have searched through all
of the relevant dot files and I can't see anything. Is this sta
Jochen Schulz wrote:
AG:
I have now located the bookmark.html file and cp'd that over to the
seamonkey directory.
And it works?
Apparently, yes.
Now I need to recover the passwords - does anyone know what those might
be called under Iceape?
Firefox/Iceweasel
do about:config as a Mozilla-based browser does, so I
cannot check directly (at least, not as far as I know).
Thanks for any help.
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checked in Iceape is Edit/ Preferences/ Browser/ Tabbed
Browsing/ Links from other applications => "A new tab in the current
window", but this doesn't seem to influence the actual behaviour.
Is there something I am missing?
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Camaleón wrote:
On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 12:18:19 +, AG wrote:
I recently opted to give FreeNet a spin, downloaded the installer and
all seemed to go fine. However, when I fired up the web browser and
configured it to use FreeNet, it complained that I need to upgarde to
Java 5 or 6 and that
Camaleón wrote:
On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 14:53:07 +, AG wrote:
Camaleón wrote:
I ran a quick check using update-alternatives --config java it showed
that I was already running sun-java6 and that this option was already
checked. Can anyone help me to understand why this may be the
Camaleón wrote:
On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:33:35 +, AG wrote:
Camaleón wrote:
Can you run FreeNet from Iceape?
No - not from:
Iceape
Midori
Epiphany
Opera
Iceweasel
And you get the same message from all of them? :-?
Yes
The
Camaleón wrote:
On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 10:52:18 +, AG wrote:
Camaleón wrote:
1/ What about the "about:plugins" in Iceape? Can you see the Sun's java
JRE there?
I can see:
java.default_java_location_others;/usr/java
java.default_java_location_so
-plugin.
Thanks Nick - that did it. When I go to
http://www.javatester.org/version.html I can now see the pink rectangle
with the text inside.
Thanks.
AG
directly nor using
sudo.
Any thoughts on how I can fix this?
Thanks
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I have a large external USB hard drive on which I store back ups and
media files. When last I went to write something to this drive it
worked fine. Now the permissions have been changed so that I only
have access to the drive but am unable to write to it. Therefore, I
cannot do back ups no
Chris Jones wrote:
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 03:41:53AM EST, freeman wrote:
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 01:28:55PM +, AG wrote:
worked fine. Now the permissions have been changed so that I only
have access to the drive but am unable to write to it. Therefore, I
cannot do back ups nor
place to start if its something reasonably straight forward.
TIA
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On 28/03/12 13:25, Celejar wrote:
On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 21:43:19 +1100
Scott Ferguson wrote:
On 28/03/12 21:11, AG wrote:
Hi
I've noticed, using Debian stable, that DVD and *.flv
flv in unindexed, so can be a problem in itself.
playback tends to
be jerky. That is, the motion o
of Arno's ... and is this something that I should append manually
to the conf file or let debconf handle? If the latter, how would I
indicate my changes?
Thanks for any suggested ways forward.
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On 28/12/10 15:02, Camaleón wrote:
On Tue, 28 Dec 2010 11:59:45 +, AG wrote:
I have recently installed Arno's IP Tables on my Deb testing machine and
want to know how I can allow print privileges to a second computer,
because my machine runs the print server (CUPS).
(...)
o-lan)."
I'll try this again in a bit and come back to you.
Hint: "readme" file has a "quick setup" section with some useful tips for
each usage scenario.
Greetings,
Thanks as always
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esn't appear to
influence the way IceApe is doing things.
How can I fix this please? If you want more detail, am happy to provide
but not sure what would be helpful to you to help me.
Thanks for any assistance.
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would likely be the best way of enabling as many of its whizz-bang
features as possible?
Thanks for any thoughts/ musings on this question.
Cheers
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Yep, ditto here. I uninstalled the package. Much better now :-)
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nyone have experience of using PV to power/ recharge the
batteries, and if so any recommendations on equipment for that?
Thanks for your ideas, recommendations and stories.
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On 19/02/11 23:39, Rob Owens wrote:
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 08:54:03PM +, AG wrote:
Dear all
My wife and I are looking to go volunteering for at least the next
six months and will be 95% off-grid. We want to remain connected
to the Net and continue to have access to a computer, and
On 20/02/11 09:51, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 02/20/2011 03:13 AM, AG wrote:
On 19/02/11 23:39, Rob Owens wrote:
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 08:54:03PM +, AG wrote:
Dear all
My wife and I are looking to go volunteering for at least the next
six months and will be 95% off-grid. We want to remain
On 20/02/11 11:27, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 02/20/2011 04:24 AM, AG wrote:
On 20/02/11 09:51, Ron Johnson wrote:
[snip]
I'd look for some list/forum/association where archaeologists,
field geologists, etc hang out and ask them what kind of kit they
use.
Ron
I was thinking the same
t is there anyway of tweaking it so that Amarok
plays nicely too?
TIA
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On 20/02/11 12:36, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 02/20/2011 06:02 AM, AG wrote:
On 20/02/11 11:27, Ron Johnson wrote:
[snip]
If it comes together, and we hope it does, we will be living in a
yurt for ~6 mos
Isn't "I need a computer" antithetical to the spirit of "living in a
y
sorry that I don't have a clear recipe for this, but am retracing my
own steps to resolve the issue and it did work - I now have the flash
drive mounted by the time I logon.
I hope that this helps you out.
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On 21/02/11 19:28, M. wrote:
Hello all,
I'm having some problems with my cdrom drive. I cannot mount it as a
normal user, as the permissions for it are
brw--- 1 root root 11, 0 Fev 10 08:03 /dev/sr0
and neither kde or gnome can mount it without the right udev file.
udev is not creating the
may be at fault, or it
could be a failure in the installation process.
Best to post the error messages so that the knowledgeable folk here can
help you more effectively.
Good luck.
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this just
seems a bit of a quandry that I have no idea about how to resolve.
Can anyone help me out with some suggestions please.
Thanks
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On 24/02/11 18:28, Wayne Topa wrote:
On 02/24/2011 10:35 AM, AG wrote:
Hi there
I am having troubles installing VLC on testing/ wheezy.
The error messages are:
vlc:
Depends: vlc-nox but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: vlc-plugin-notify but it is not going to be installed
On 25/02/11 11:10, teddi...@tmo.blackberry.net wrote:
AG said:
Actually it was deceptively simple: added a line for unstable in my
sources.list, updated, and then installed vlc. Hopefully this will not
come back to bite me, but all went very easily.
Just be sure to comment the unstable
udev/rules.d/
sudo cp usbhdfix /usr/bin
5. Initialise
sudo /sbin/mount.ntfs-3g /sbin/mount.ntfs mount
This gives you an automounted usb drive with an icon on your desktop and
that is always available to you.
I HTH
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Hi all
Has anyone else experienced problems with Iceweasel/ Swiftfox not
rendering web pages properly? Any page I go to will be rendered with
blue hypertext text only, no images, no lay out, etc., whilst other
browsers (Iceape, Opera, Chromium) do the job just fine.
Cheers
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On 03/06/11 12:40, Camaleón wrote:
On Fri, 03 Jun 2011 10:32:01 +0100, AG wrote:
Has anyone else experienced problems with Iceweasel/ Swiftfox not
rendering web pages properly? Any page I go to will be rendered with
blue hypertext text only, no images, no lay out, etc., whilst other
browsers
update-manager.
Can anyone please help - I really do need a usable desktop environment
to work in.
Thanks.
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On 09/06/11 19:00, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 06/09/2011 12:38 PM, AG wrote:
Hi all
Having just rebooted after an uptime of 7 days, I have logged into my
Gnome DE to find that all of my settings for the desktop have been
borked and the desktop is close to unfunctional.
These are some of the issues
On 09/06/11 19:19, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 18:38 +0100, AG wrote:
Hi all
Having just rebooted after an uptime of 7 days, I have logged into my
Gnome DE to find that all of my settings for the desktop have been
borked and the desktop is close to unfunctional.
These are some
On 09/06/11 20:03, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 06/09/2011 01:26 PM, AG wrote:
[snip]
This is a complete nonsense - why are config files being over-written by
a safe-update ? Sorry - don't mean to rant, but this is a complete waste
of time when I have work to do!
It doesn't. But you
On 09/06/11 20:10, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 19:26 +0100, AG wrote:
On 09/06/11 19:19, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 18:38 +0100, AG wrote:
Hi all
Having just rebooted after an uptime of 7 days, I have logged into my
Gnome DE to find that all of
to be dependent on it?
For reference, this is an installation from squeeze that was updated to
wheezy, but I have now read that this is an issue for those who have
done fresh wheezy installs as well.
Thanks for any help.
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On 12/06/11 19:34, AG wrote:
My keyboard works fine at the GRUB screen, enabling me to select the
kernel to boot. However, at gdm3 (and kdm as well now as the
default), neither mouse nor keyboard works.
Doing a hard reboot, I can boot into recovery mode and from there
startx and as root
On 12/06/11 20:37, AG wrote:
On 12/06/11 19:34, AG wrote:
My keyboard works fine at the GRUB screen, enabling me to select the
kernel to boot. However, at gdm3 (and kdm as well now as the
default), neither mouse nor keyboard works.
Doing a hard reboot, I can boot into recovery mode and from
On 12/06/11 19:34, AG wrote:
My keyboard works fine at the GRUB screen, enabling me to select the
kernel to boot. However, at gdm3 (and kdm as well now as the
default), neither mouse nor keyboard works.
Doing a hard reboot, I can boot into recovery mode and from there
startx and as root
On 13/06/11 11:41, Brian wrote:
On Mon 13 Jun 2011 at 11:10:51 +0100, AG wrote:
The problem is now resolved. However, the Update Manager wants to
upgrade these two files to 170-1. Is there anyway to stop this from
happening, or do I manually deselect these when it is time to update?
echo
On 14/06/11 01:02, Wolodja Wentland wrote:
On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 19:34 +0100, AG wrote:
My keyboard works fine at the GRUB screen, enabling me to select the
kernel to boot. However, at gdm3 (and kdm as well now as the
default), neither mouse nor keyboard works.
Hi Wolodja
Quite likely
ed into your KDM and are using the machine, or *before* - i.e.
preventing you from logging on in the first place. If the latter, then
please see my posts from earlier this week. If the former, then I think
the suggestions already made are more likely to be helpful.
Cheers
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On 15/06/11 14:35, Wayne Topa wrote:
On 06/15/2011 07:38 AM, AG wrote:
On Wheezy, I have lost the capability of connecting to the CUPS server
via the web-page using localhost:631. The error message is "cannot
connect: connection to the server refused".
I have double-checked /etc/host
On 15/06/11 13:03, Camaleón wrote:
On Wed, 15 Jun 2011 12:38:54 +0100, AG wrote:
On Wheezy, I have lost the capability of connecting to the CUPS server
via the web-page using localhost:631. The error message is "cannot
connect: connection to the server refused".
(...)
"http:
On 15/06/11 13:56, Brian wrote:
On Wed 15 Jun 2011 at 12:38:54 +0100, AG wrote:
I have restarted the CUPS server and can print okay ... just cannot
connect to the server.
CUPS needs a cupsd.conf to run. The file is installed when CUPS is
installed (it is not a binary file). I cannot see how
On 16/06/11 15:59, Brian wrote:
On Thu 16 Jun 2011 at 14:25:01 +0100, AG wrote:
On 15/06/11 13:03, Camaleón wrote:
Check if the port is listening:
netstat -ant | grep 631
No feedback from the command line.
You can print, so CUPS has be listening for a connection. Please do
/etc/init.d
On 16/06/11 16:12, Wayne Topa wrote:
On 06/16/2011 09:23 AM, AG wrote:
On 15/06/11 14:35, Wayne Topa wrote:
On 06/15/2011 07:38 AM, AG wrote:
On Wheezy, I have lost the capability of connecting to the CUPS server
via the web-page using localhost:631. The error message is "cannot
co
On 16/06/11 15:36, lee wrote:
AG writes:
On Wheezy, I have lost the capability of connecting to the CUPS server
via the web-page using localhost:631. The error message is "cannot
connect: connection to the server refused".
Did you check the configuration of cups to see which port
On 16/06/11 18:30, Camaleón wrote:
On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 17:37:58 +0100, Brian wrote:
On Thu 16 Jun 2011 at 17:08:04 +0100, AG wrote:
As requested after restarting /etc/init.d/cups :
$ sudo netstat -ant | grep LISTEN
tcp0 0 127.0.0.1:8118 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
tcp0
On 16/06/11 19:04, Wayne Topa wrote:
Listen localhost:631
Thanks Wayne
Added that to the top line and it works!!
Much appreciated.
AG
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On 16/06/11 19:51, Camaleón wrote:
On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 19:27:03 +0100, AG wrote:
On 16/06/11 18:30, Camaleón wrote:
On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 17:37:58 +0100, Brian wrote:
On Thu 16 Jun 2011 at 17:08:04 +0100, AG wrote:
As requested after restarting /etc/init.d/cups :
$ sudo netstat -ant | grep
On 16/06/11 23:14, Brian wrote:
On Thu 16 Jun 2011 at 20:03:14 +0100, AG wrote:
Don't know why this wasn't done automagically, but there's more that I
don't know than that which I do ... so this adds to the list.
The First Law of System Configuration says: Nobody ever rem
On 17/06/11 00:03, Wayne Topa wrote:
On 06/16/2011 03:01 PM, AG wrote:
On 16/06/11 19:04, Wayne Topa wrote:
Listen localhost:631
Thanks Wayne
Added that to the top line and it works!!
Much appreciated.
Glad I could help.
Cheers
Wayne
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Any ideas?
Thanks - as always.
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) Negative sizes
(323,-1) are not possible
QSocketNotifier: Invalid socket 43 and type 'Read', disabling...
KCrash: Application 'amarok' crashing...
KCrash: Attempting to start /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/drkonqi from kdeinit
sock_file=/home/AG/.kde/socket-valhalla/kdeinit4__0
What on ea
On 19/06/11 17:41, lee wrote:
AG writes:
Hey list
Today a new issue reared its ugly head. I installed, using
safe-update from the Update Manager in GNOME, on a wheezy
installation, Amarok .
When I go to run Amarok, it crashes. This is the output:
[...]
this ... any ideas?
How about
On 19/06/11 20:05, Freeman wrote:
On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 07:01:07PM +0100, AG wrote:
On 19/06/11 17:41, lee wrote:
AG writes:
Hey list
Today a new issue reared its ugly head. I installed, using
safe-update from the Update Manager in GNOME, on a wheezy
installation, Amarok .
When I go
nt Akonadi
server configuration and was found on your system.
File content of '/home/ag/.config/akonadi/akonadiserverrc':
[%General]
Driver=QMYSQL
SizeThreshold=4096
ExternalPayload=false
[QMYSQL]
Name=akonadi
Host=
Options="UNIX_SOCKET=/home/ag/.local/share/akonadi/socket-valhalla
On 20/06/11 16:45, Camaleón wrote:
On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 16:12:14 +0100, AG wrote:
Taking prior advice on avoiding the apparently high degree of volatility
in the current testing, at least as far as my experience has been so
far,
The opposite applies for me. Testing has been very
On 20/06/11 16:45, Camaleón wrote:
On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 16:12:14 +0100, AG wrote:
Taking prior advice on avoiding the apparently high degree of volatility
in the current testing, at least as far as my experience has been so
far,
The opposite applies for me. Testing has been very
On 20/06/11 09:23, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
On Vi, 17 iun 11, 17:55:24, AG wrote:
Hey list
In GNOME, if the options selected under "preferred applications" for
browsers doesn't get applied, how can I set an application to be the
default?
Case in point: I use Kmail& Icedo
g the testing version of Amarok. I was thinking
of simply changing my sources.list to "testing" and installing the
Amarok packages. But I am reluctant to do so without double checking if
this is actually the wisest way of going about this.
Any thoughts?
Cheers
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On 25/06/11 14:46, Brian wrote:
On Sat 25 Jun 2011 at 13:16:44 +0100, AG wrote:
Any thoughts?
http://backports-master.debian.org/Packages/
Brian
Thanks for your reply, although when I click on the link it takes me to
a package search facility. I'm not sure what you
make out
with that.
Pls elaborate.
I hope I have.
Many thanks.
AG
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On 25/06/11 14:46, Brian wrote:
On Sat 25 Jun 2011 at 13:16:44 +0100, AG wrote:
Any thoughts?
http://backports-master.debian.org/Packages/
Brian
I've now followed this suggestion, and although doing so pulled in a
load of other KDE packages, I am pleased to note that
On 28/06/11 10:35, Darac Marjal wrote:
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 09:17:15PM -0700, Mark wrote:
Hi - I have a work laptop with Windows and since it tracks basically
everything I do, I'd like to install Squeeze to a 2 GB usb stick I have
laying around so I can boot to that instead of the
Hi all
Sorry for the OT, but does anyone know of a way to stitch 2 separate pdf
files together to make one large one?
I'm pretty sure acroread won't, but I was wondering about Xpdf or
possibly a command-line approach?
Thanks for any help.
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Hi all
Sorry for the OT, but does anyone know of a way to stitch 2 separate
pdf files together to make one large one?
I'm pretty sure acroread won't, but I was wondering about Xpdf or
possibly a command-line approach?
Thanks for any help.
On 12/07/11 19:22, Wayne Topa wrote:
On 07/12/2011 12:34 PM, AG wrote:
Hi all
Sorry for the OT, but does anyone know of a way to stitch 2 separate pdf
files together to make one large one?
I'm pretty sure acroread won't, but I was wondering about Xpdf or
possibly a command-lin
working on the
system unless the system requires you to be root. In which case, try
safeguards such as using the shell command su or sudo to temporarily
grant root powers to the user.
Otherwise, welcome to the world of GNU/Linux Debian and good luck.
AG
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Can someone give me a few suggestions for things I could look at with
respect to this that may result in the lack of responsiveness, or even a
few tips on what to try next time Xfce4 locks up like that.
Many thanks for your thoughts.
AG
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admitted, this will not help you with the command line solution.
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like:
swapoff -a && swapon -a [1]
Thanks for your opinions.
AG
[1] found on the web, but not AFAIK Debian specific
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installed - the "anything else" is
what is required to unblack googleearth (you don't need mesa-utils).
Cheers
Does this apply to the nouveau driver as well, or will GE work fine with
this?
AG
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On 14/08/11 14:35, Ivan Shmakov wrote:
AG writes:
> Just a quick query about releasing swap space. On occasion according to
> Conky (system monitoring app), the swap space (set at 3Gb) sometimes
> gets used to up to 15% especially if using something like Pan for
> usen
On 14/08/11 15:27, Camaleón wrote:
On Sun, 14 Aug 2011 13:51:07 +0100, AG wrote:
Just a quick query about releasing swap space. On occasion according to
Conky (system monitoring app), the swap space (set at 3Gb) sometimes
gets used to up to 15% especially if using something like Pan for
?
Thanks.
AG
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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
sue
and in any event ... does someone have a suggestion on how to fix it,
because the official documentation available doesn't lend itself to
resolving this issue.
Cheers
AG
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On Sun 21 Aug 2011 at 15:01:03 +0100, AG wrote:
On Debian stable, the WM Xfce4 is not enabling an icon of an inserted
disk - CD/ DVD - to be drawn to the desktop. If it is an audio CD, then
the desired app will launch (ditto with a video DVD), but I can still
find no way to browse the actual
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