Re: Screen resolution

2012-01-05 Thread Andrew Wood
Hi Kevin yes the xserver-xorg-video-intel package is installed. how do i check which driver is actually being used? one strange thing is that the kernel is printing out the following to the console, not sure what it means, could it be a fault with the controller board in the LCD? 353.94242

Re: Screen resolution

2012-01-06 Thread Andrew Wood
You can tell by looking in /var/log/Xorg.0.log. If after looking at the log file, the problem isn't readily apparent, post the contents here, and someone should be able to figure out what's wrong. -- Kevin The pertinent contents of the log seem to be as follows. Im not sure how it works.

Re: Screen resolution

2012-01-06 Thread Andrew Wood
:59:45 +, Andrew Wood wrote: Ive got an LCD screen whose native resolution is 1440x900 yet i can only get Wheezy to display 1024x768. No higher resolution is listed in System Settings. How do I enable a higher resolution please? What's the output of "xrandr"? You can try to m

Re: Screen resolution

2012-01-06 Thread Andrew Wood
On 06/01/12 18:21, Camaleón wrote: Yup, you have to add the unexistant mode before you can use it :-) Steps are detailed at "Adding undetected resolutions" section. Greetings, OK, in an ideal world though shouldnt the board 'announce' that it supports that mode when probed? -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: Lenny security support dropped

2012-02-10 Thread Andrew Wood
Well, I love Debian Lenny, the first release that I use regularly, it's very sad news It was the first version of Debian I used too but I wouldnt call it a sad day. On the contrary Im excited for the future of Debian - Wheezy and Gnome 3 look great. Using Wheezy as my main desktop OS now. Use

eGalax SAW touchscreen in Wheezy

2012-03-01 Thread Andrew Wood
Im trying to use an EETI/eGalax SAW touch controller which I think it model TITAN 6001 ( http://home.eeti.com.tw/web20/eg/TITAN6001.html) It works eratically with the 3.1 kernel in Wheezy (pointer jumps around constantly) and not at all with the new 3.2 kernel. Ive done some Googling and a

Re: Option to disable touchpad when mouse is connected or when keyboard is used has disappeared :-(

2012-03-12 Thread Andrew Wood
I suspect its something to do with the update from the 3.1 to 3.2 kernel. I've found under 3.2 my touchpad now simulates a click when tapped (which it used to under 2.6 but never did under 3.1 and to be honest I prefer it disabled). I've also found touch screens which worked under 3.1 no longe

Building Debian packages

2011-05-30 Thread Andrew Wood
Im trying to learn how to build debs. Ive been reading the Debian GNU/Linux Bible published by Wiley in 2005 which gives a good run through of building debs using dh_make and its relted tools but Im a little confused about the best way to layout the directory structure. dh_make insists on ha

Re: Am i playing with fire?

2011-09-25 Thread Andrew Wood
Ive had the same problems and unfortunatly Ive never found the ones I need in backports. For example there isnt even a newer version of Shotwell in backports so Im stuck on 0.6. Currently having problems with not being able to use a modern version of WebKitGTK because of the age of libsoup & g

Re: daft newbie questions

2011-10-01 Thread Andrew Wood
I thought Wheezey was still on Gnome 2.30, not even 2.32? Im hoping Gnome 3.4 or 3.6 will be polished enough to make it into Wheezey when it goes stable. Ive been trying 3.0 out on Fedora and think its great ( Gnome 3 that is not Fedora ;) A few rough edges on the new System Prefs app but noth

Strange problem with DNS resolving on Squeeze

2010-12-03 Thread Andrew Wood
Im experiencing strange DNS resolution problems with a Squeeze desktop system on our simple LAN which has an internal DNS server for local hosts, and which also proxies DNS requests for public IP addresses needed by internal clients. The other clients on our network can resolve names fine.

Bug on upgrade to bookworm with Apache/PHP?

2023-12-30 Thread Andrew Wood
Found the following issue when running an upgrade. Apache refuses to restart with error: apache2_reload: Your configuration is broken. Not restarting Apache 2 apache2_reload: apache2: Syntax error on line 146 of /etc/apache2/apache2.conf: Syntax error on line 3 of /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/php

"Bug" in Debian Installer?

2023-04-15 Thread Andrew Wood
Ive just used the Debian 11 installer ISO running from a USB stick to do an install (AMD64/UEFI) on another USB stick to use as a 'portable PC'. When it got to the Grub install stage I was expecting it to ask me which disk I wanted Grub installed on as it has in the past but instead it did not

Re: "Bug" in Debian Installer?

2023-04-15 Thread Andrew Wood
On 15/04/2023 14:12, Geert Stappers wrote: Way before "grub install" should have been asked On which disk to install I do read "two devices were effected", I think it is the same error of On which disk to install If you mean did it install Debian on the NVme ssd then no, the

Re: "Bug" in Debian Installer?

2023-04-15 Thread Andrew Wood
On 15/04/2023 18:20, Geert Stappers wrote: Time will tell if original poster shares information on whether or not if priority for debian-install was changed. Nothing was changed. I dont even know what that is. Ive installed Debian on many  systems over the past 12 years and have never alter

PTR record for mail server

2023-06-02 Thread Andrew Wood
Hi Can I clarify my understanding of an issue with a Debian Postfix server please. We have a mail server which is a VPS running Debian hosted by OVH. Its hostname is of the form vps-xyz.vps.ovh.net the PTR for the IP resolves to that. The the issue is our server sends mail for our own domain

Re: PTR record for mail server

2023-06-02 Thread Andrew Wood
On 02/06/2023 13:01, Dan Ritter wrote: Ask OVH to set the PTR to one of your domains, and make sure you have an MX in each of your domains that points back to that domain. i.e.: PTR mail.longterm.com MX for longterm: 50 mail.longterm.com MX for otherdomain: 30 mail.otherdomain.com 50

SSL/TLS debugging on MariaDB

2024-09-23 Thread Andrew Wood
Hi Is there a way to get  MariaDB on Bookworm to log verbosely everything to do with connection attempts in order to try and debug why a client keeps getting error  2026 SSL connection error: protocol version mismatch? There is currently nothing being logged on the server other than:  [Warni

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