Re: Do ATI HD cards have good working drivers for Linux (Debian Squeeze in particular)

2012-08-08 Thread Guy Gold
onf, and the rest is history. So, just check online that the card your aiming for has Linux drivers, and you should be fine. -- Guy Gold -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.

Re: iceweasle saving username and password

2012-08-09 Thread Guy Gold
6 months, and it works great. Isn't it also giving away your passwords to a third party ? -- Guy Gold -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.

Re: Noniteractive Installation

2012-08-09 Thread Guy Gold
On Thu,Aug 09 05:35:PM, r...@aarden.us wrote: > I am new to Linux. I would like to install Linux over and over again on > the same machine trying out different things. I would like to have a > record of what I did and what my findings were. Hi Ray, This can be a good place to start: http://www.d

Re: Debian desktop news

2012-08-10 Thread Guy Gold
On Fri,Aug 10 02:26:PM, Darac Marjal wrote: > However, I don't know whether you can really say "Debian+GNONE3". Debian > is nothing without the packages. Gnome 3 is part of Debian. When was GNOME3 the default desktop for Debain ? (luckily , it was not in squeeze, which came with GNOME2 , I'm unni

Re: cups printer problems with osx clients

2012-08-10 Thread Guy Gold
On Fri,Aug 10 02:35:PM, CamaleĆ³n wrote: > Anyway, being a MacOS client, you should be able to use IPP and thus > avoiding messing up with another client/server protocols that may require > setting up the correct credentials for accessing the printing resources > (e.g., samba). It is a good solu

Re: Debian desktop news

2012-08-10 Thread Guy Gold
On Fri,Aug 10 09:55:AM, Dan Ritter wrote: > GNOME 3 is quite different from the GNOME 2 series, and has made > some people correspondingly upset. XFCE is fairly similar to > GNOME 2, and may suit those people better. In particular, GNOME > 3 really wants 3D accelerated video. XFCE doesn't care much

Re: Debian desktop news

2012-08-10 Thread Guy Gold
rote: > > On Fri, 10 Aug 2012 10:35:52 -0400, Guy Gold wrote: > > > Does that mean that future releases of Debian will no longer support > > GNOME 2 ? > > Yes, I think so... since Wheezy and until Squeeze is supported. > > GNOME2 has been (or will be soon) deprecated/d

Debian 6.0 , not named as GNU/Linux ?

2012-08-12 Thread Guy Gold
This may be an OT, but, just in case : Source link : http://www.debian.org/releases/ I've noticed that, up to "squeeze", the Debian versions are called "Debian GNU/Linux" , but, "squeeze" is called simply "Debian" , can anyone shed some light on this matter ? Or, is it just a typo, and I'm makin

Touchpad (laptop) stopped working

2012-08-14 Thread Guy Gold
Greetings list , I have a week or so old Debian 6.0.5 installed. The mousepad (touchpad) is not working, both in case of moving the cursor, or using left/right click with the nearby buttons. and not matter what I try, it is not showing any good signs. I did try to rmmmod / modprobe psmouse ,no g

Re: Touchpad (laptop) stopped working

2012-08-14 Thread Guy Gold
On Tue,Aug 14 10:35:PM, Guy Gold wrote: > Greetings list , > I have a week or so old Debian 6.0.5 installed. > The mousepad (touchpad) is not working, both in case of moving > the cursor, or using left/right click with the nearby buttons. > and not matter what I try, it is not s