Re: Updrading or reinstalling?

been reported to the Debian maintainer), applies to unstable or Squeeze, "plasma-widget-yawp" will not connect/work, any version yawp, any version kde 4, it can be reproduced by upgrading Lenny to Squeeze or unstable, kde 3 to kde 4. -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Squeeze at sda9 Regist

Re: How to keep debian current??

start with a testing netinst www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ and install the base and then add the sid repos and do an aptitude full-upgrade to the base, after that you can start to build your testing/unstable system the way you want it. -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Testing at sda12 Regis

Re: How to keep debian current??

Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sat,15.May.10, 00:33:47, Jimmy Johnson wrote: Yes, start with a testing netinst www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ and install the base and then add the sid repos and do an aptitude full-upgrade to the base, after that you can start to build your testing/unstable

Re: Still can't read DVDs/CDs

I checked and today it's scd0, I checked both data and dvd movie and it's working, so maybe try a change in fstab and see if it will work of course you may need to reboot after the change: /dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0 -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Squeeze at sda9 Regi

Re: apect ration change on wide monitor

e for wide screen or you are not using .svgz wallpaper then it will not look right, only with "1360x768" will your applications, games and movies look right. -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Squeeze at sda9 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian

Re: GRUB Hard Disk Error

plug in the first one i tried] it say's: GRUB hard disk error What can I do? Different UUID? In the console as root type "blkid" to get UUID of your partitions then setup /etc/fstab accordingly, you also may need to change the kernel syntax too. -- Jimmy Johnson Sim

Re: driver for Lite-on iHAS324-98 DVD writer

enough to boot from the Debian DVD I inserted into the drive! Thanks in advance for any suggestions, -PT On the boot kernel line try cheat code "rootdelay=10" without the quotes, that will give the installer more time to load the cd, it also works swell for flash drive installs. -- J

Re: driver for Lite-on iHAS324-98 DVD writer

uzzy in my head right know, play with the installer, but what you are looking for is a place to add boot options. -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Squeeze at sda9 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: How long squeez supported

emigrant wrote: > How long is squeeze supported? thanks. The short answer is at least 3 years. Two years as stable and one year as old-stable, but we are talking about Debian, so those times and days can get stretched a bit. :-) -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Squeeze at sda9 Registered Li

Re: nvidia again looking for howto

t update && apt-get install unzip" then "cd /usr/local/bin && wget -Nc smxi.org/smxi.zip && unzip smxi.zip && smxi" It will install the nvidia video driver for you and do other neat things too, it's not the Debian way, it's an easy way and

Re: debian-multimedia.org gone?

stian Marillat is being restored ... A+ A + Gaëtan Gaetan" -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Squeeze at sda9 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: htt

Re: Trouble upgrading to evince 2.30.1-3

t click on the evince package that you downloaded, gdebi will install it plus any depends. -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Squeeze at sda9 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@l

Re: debian-multimedia.org gone?

Lisi wrote: On Thursday 10 June 2010 19:22:47 Jimmy Johnson wrote: Gerard Robin wrote: The drive has crashed. Christian Marillat is being restored ... see here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user-french/2010/06/msg00105.html Translated: "Hello, Le disque a crashé. The drive has cr

Re: installing debian 5 on dell inspiron 580s

support I can't do much. Any help will be appreciated. I'm thinking a kernel from Lenny backports will support your net card www.backports.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=instructions , the easy thing to do is to drop in an older pci network card that will be supported by your current

Re: lenny iso signed with key 64E6EA7D

never install a system unless I can verify the signature... Can anybody shed some light on this? Call me less paranoid, if the md5sum match, it's good for me. :-) -- Jimmy Johnson Ubuntu lucid KDE 3.5.11 - EXT4 at sda10 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: No sound from Flash, but other methods work well

the volume control in Kmix. -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Squeeze at sda9 Registered Linux User #380263 -- 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.org/4c421bd3.7010...@gmail.com

Re: No sound from Flash, but other methods work well

uot; selected in the volume control in Kmix. -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Squeeze at sda9 Registered Linux User #380263 -- 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.org/4c421c27.1080...@gmail.com

Re: No sound from Flash, but other methods work well

Ron Johnson wrote: On 07/17/2010 04:09 PM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: Ron I've had that problem a couple times before, what I found was one of my channels was "not" selected in the volume control in Kmix. That's kinda where my thoughts have been leaning, since USB Audio onl

kde 4 + kpowersave

Is there a replacement for kpowersave in Sid or Squeeze, I want to my monitor to blank 120 min, not ever 5 or 10 min. -- Jimmy Johnson Debian-Live - Sid - KDE 4.4 - installed at sda14 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: kde 4 + kpowersave

Jimmy Johnson wrote: Is there a replacement for kpowersave in Sid or Squeeze, I want to my monitor to blank 120 min, not ever 5 or 10 min. "kdebase-workspace-bin: /usr/share/kde4/services/powerdevilconfig.desktop" powerdevilconfig.desktop works like a charm, it seems to be t

Re: nv_videocard_driver

)to be the default driver? Thanks in advance You can remove the nouveau driver or black list it or both. -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Testing at sda12 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

NUMLOCKX Debian KDE4

the problem came with the kernel. -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Testing at sda12 Registered Linux User #380263 -- 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.org/4c58abfb.60...@gmail.com

Re: NUMLOCKX Debian KDE4

Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 03 Aug 2010 16:53:31 -0700, Jimmy Johnson wrote: Here's the problem, in unstable and testing numlock on, light not on, numlock off, light on ?!? I've tried it by removing numlockx and it's config files and numlock works as expected (OK), but numlock is

Re: NUMLOCKX Debian KDE4

Jimmy Johnson wrote: Here's the problem, in unstable and testing numlock on, light not on, numlock off, light on ?!? I've tried it by removing numlockx and it's config files and numlock works as expected (OK), but numlock is not on at boot and I won't it on at boot, chec

Re: How to use two displaies

led by the "function key" on the laptop or "fn" key + F key "that will have a monitor image on the F key". -- Jimmy Johnson Ubuntu Lucid and Trinity KDE 3.5.11 - EXT4 at sda10 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Trinity KDE 3.5.11 was Re: How to use two displaies

Lisi wrote: On Wednesday 04 August 2010 11:02:52 Jimmy Johnson wrote: Trinity KDE 3.5.11 [snip] User How are you getting on with it? Does it have full functionality in Ubuntu? I am watching with interest. I am hoping that, by the time that I have to abandom Lenny, Trinity will have a deb

Re: Trinity KDE 3.5.11 was Re: How to use two displaies

John A. Sullivan III wrote: On Wed, 2010-08-04 at 14:41 +0100, Lisi wrote: On Wednesday 04 August 2010 14:34:00 Lisi wrote: On Wednesday 04 August 2010 11:02:52 Jimmy Johnson wrote: Trinity KDE 3.5.11 [snip] User How are you getting on with it? Does it have full functionality in Ubuntu? I

Re: Trinity KDE 3.5.11 was Re: How to use two displaies

environment. Hope this helps and, again, Tim seems to be putting in countless hours and lots of personal funds to do this and can use all the good help he can get (I assume) - John Except for http://www.x2go.org I'm getting 404 on all the trinity links. :-( -- Jimmy Johnson Bakersfield, CA.

Re: Trinity KDE 3.5.11 was Re: How to use two displaies

John A. Sullivan III wrote: On Thu, 2010-08-05 at 12:43 -0700, Jimmy Johnson wrote: Except for http://www.x2go.org I'm getting 404 on all the trinity links. :-( Yes, that's because he has the systems down until he can rebuild the fried power conditioning system. Hopefully, th

Re: Trinity KDE 3.5.11 was Re: How to use two displaies

p' or 'trinity-desktop', john may be of more help. -- Jimmy Johnson Bakersfield, CA. U.S.A. Registered Linux User #380263 K.I.S.S. (Keep it simple stupid) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: What is the "real GRUB"?

fo --framebuffer' and get the vga codes for your video card and add it to the grub kernel line as 'vga=code', replace code with the right code for you system. -- Jimmy Johnson Debian-Live - Sid - KDE 4.4 - installed at sda14 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: What is the "real GRUB"?

Thomas H. George wrote: On Sun, Aug 08, 2010 at 12:22:09AM -0700, Jimmy Johnson wrote: Thomas H. George wrote: Quote from /etc/default/grub: "...you can only use modes which your graphic card supports via VBE you can see them in real GRUB with the command vbeinfo." Beside

Re: trinity

same thing going on, I'm going to let it set for a day or two and see if the upgrades slow down and/or we get a fix. -- Jimmy Johnson Ubuntu Lucid and Trinity KDE 3.5.11 - EXT4 at sda10 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: trinity

the mailing list archive, I emailed Tim Pearson but got no reply. !?! -- Jimmy Johnson Ubuntu Lucid and Trinity KDE 3.5.11 - EXT4 at sda10 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: trinity

John A. Sullivan III wrote: On Fri, 2010-08-13 at 11:17 -0700, Jimmy Johnson wrote: John A. Sullivan III wrote: You might want to post on the Trinity mailing list or support site to see what the Trinity team has to say. Good luck and let us know how you fare - John I tried to get on the

Re: Installing Debian from USB stick

find the file system, I install Debian and all kinds of other Distros, unetbootin works good, you need to use the cheat code. -- Jimmy Johnson Ubuntu Lucid and Trinity KDE 3.5.11 - EXT4 at sda10 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: Creating a bootable USB key

use the cheat code 'rootdelay=10' as an option to boot the iso kernel so it will have enough time to find the filesystem. -- Jimmy Johnson Ubuntu Lucid and Trinity KDE 3.5.11 - EXT4 at sda10 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Why do i get this when trying to list files on usbkey?

James Stuckey wrote: stuc...@debian:/mnt/usb$ ls ls: cannot access σ┼G╖╓┴½.cα▄: Input/output error Please reply to me and not the list, since I'm not subscribed. See to answer I gave you in your two previous post. -- Jimmy Johnson Ubuntu Lucid and Trinity KDE 3.5.11 - EX

Re: Why do i get this when trying to list files on usbkey?

James Stuckey wrote: stuc...@debian:/mnt/usb$ ls ls: cannot access Ï?â?¼Gâ??â??â?´Â½.cαâ??: Input/output error Please reply to me and not the list, since I'm not subscribed. See to answer I gave you in your two previous post. -- Jimmy Johnson Ubuntu Lucid and Trinity KDE 3.5.11 - EX

Re: Creating a bootable USB key

that so? Haines Brown I use gparted and it works for me, I do as I describe in the post you are replying to. -- Jimmy Johnson Ubuntu Lucid and Trinity KDE 3.5.11 - EXT4 at sda10 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subje

Re: Creating a bootable USB key

brownh wrote: Jimmy Johnson writes: brownh wrote: Jimmy, I inadvertangly sent this message to you personally, but here send it to the list. The directions for creating a bootable USB key don't mention running cfdisk on it to make it bootable. I simply copied syslinux to the key

Re: squeeze install: Gave up waiting for root devices

ard you can get the wrong UUID by running it as user. -- Jimmy Johnson Ubuntu Lucid and Trinity KDE 3.5.11 - EXT4 at sda10 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.

Re: Bootable Flag: toggle problem with squeeze

isk on the disk before the installation finishes and there's a reboot? Haines Brown You only put a boot flag on the first partition where the MBR/grub goes. -- Jimmy Johnson Ubuntu Lucid and Trinity KDE 3.5.11 - EXT4 at sda10 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to d

Re: trinity & konqueror

e it will be as good as the Ubuntu version. If you need something to use right now you should install the Ubuntu 10.04 version. I have more than 10 Operating Systems on this computer and only work on the Lenny-Trinity install when I want to. -- Jimmy Johnson Ubuntu Lucid and Trinity KDE 3.5.11

Re: squeeze install: Gave up waiting for root devices

lay=5, which didn't help. That should be at lest 10 seconds or more, some think it should not be less than 15 seconds, 5 seconds is definitely to short. -- Jimmy Johnson Ubuntu Lucid and Trinity KDE 3.5.11 - EXT4 at sda10 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: squeeze install: Gave up waiting for root devices

386 iso" or the same for AMD64. I hope this helps Haines Brown and maybe some others that are trying to get Debian onto their NetBook or other cd driveless computer. ;-) -- Jimmy Johnson Ubuntu Lucid and Trinity KDE 3.5.11 - EXT4 at sda10 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Installation of Debian

f the computer.I would like to have debian as my main OS. I have a HP pavilon elite m9250f core 2 quad 2.66ghz 4GB, 2.0 x 500.0 GB - Standard - Serial ATA-300 - 7200.0 rpm HDD. You should take a quick read of this page before you start the install: www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch03.html.en --

Re: Whats up with Squeeze??

first for me after many years of using Debian. Has anyone else reported or seen this issue. If you removed scrollkeeper and did not install rarian-compat, then that would explain why synaptic was removed. I have no idea why aptitude was removed. -- Jimmy Johnson Ubuntu Lucid and Trinity KDE 3.5.

Re: install lenny on Dell

r everything I do they work great for data, music and burning ISO's, I don't know why but I can't get RW disk to work at all, from what I read I'm not along, seems RW don't work for anybody using Linux. -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Squeeze at sda9 Registered Linux User #380

Re: install lenny on Dell

francis southern wrote: On 31 August 2010 09:10, Jimmy Johnson wrote: Onetime I needed +R to make recovery disk for a laptop, I got a five disc pack and still have four left over, I always use -R for everything I do they work great for data, music and burning ISO's, I don't know

Re: install lenny on Dell

Klistvud wrote: Dne, 31. 08. 2010 16:10:40 je Jimmy Johnson napisal(a): I don't know why but I can't get RWdisk to work at all, from what I read I'm not along, > > > seems RW don't work for anybody using Linux. It probably depends on the hardware. After you burn

Re: install lenny on Dell

Robert Holtzman wrote: On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 07:10:40AM -0700, Jimmy Johnson wrote: Onetime I needed +R to make recovery disk for a laptop, I got a five disc pack and still have four left over, I always use -R for everything I do they work great for data, music and burning ISO's, I don&#

Re: NUMLOCKX Debian KDE4

� wrote: On Wed, 04 Aug 2010 01:57:45 -0700, Jimmy Johnson wrote: Camaleón wrote: (...) So maybe a KDE bug/problem? :-? I read those bugs and their problem seems to be with KDE and numlock, while my problem is with numlockx and the latest kernel, it may also have to do with kde, not sure

Re: NUMLOCKX Debian KDE4

� wrote: On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:40:50 -0700, Jimmy Johnson wrote: � wrote: "numlockx" should not be needed anymore in KDE as kdm has an option to handle that from "kdmrc" config file :-? If you know how to turn the numlock on for login without using numlockx 'plea

Re: Cannot print from Adobe Acrobat

works in gnome:) Okular is the default for KDE4, KPDF is the default for KDE3 an Evince is the default for Gnome, I like evince in both gnome and kde3. -- Jimmy Johnson Mint Gnome 2.8 - EXT4 at sda5 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debia

Re: Upgrade of squeeze hangs on apt (0.7.26~exp3)

s variable to a command other than less, check the documentation for that command. On Squeeze it now looks like apt-listchanges is a default install, I removed it and aptitude is trying to install it again, we'll probably be seeing a lot of WTF questions. -- Jimmy Johnson Ubuntu Lucid a

Re: Package Name Confusion

ting to do? My guess is you are wanting to build a kernel? -- Jimmy Johnson Ubuntu lucid KDE 3.5.11 - EXT4 at sda11 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.

Re: Package Name Confusion

g you, Prakhar See if this helps: Building Kernel Modules With Module-Assistant On Debian Lenny www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2010-01-27-033-35-OS-DB-KN -- Jimmy Johnson Ubuntu Lucid and Trinity KDE 3.5.11 - EXT4 at sda10 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-us

Re: Where has my Windows partition gone?

to it, making sure you still have a blank line at the bottom before you save it. title Microsoft Windows at sda2 rootnoverify (hd0,1) chainloader +1 -- Jimmy Johnson SimplyMEPIS Alpha-1 at sda9 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Debian 6.0 "Squeeze": Call for Upgrade and Installation tests

e world work together to create and maintain Debian software. Translated into over 30 languages, and supporting a huge range of computer types, Debian calls itself the "universal operating system". Contact Information --- For further information, please visit the Debian w

New default artwork for Debian "Squeeze"

The new Debian Squeeze art work can be found here: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianArt/Themes/SpaceFun More Debian News, including Squeeze release update: http://debian.org/News/project/2010/16/ -- Jimmy Johnson SimplyMEPIS 11.0 Alpha-2 - KDE 4.5.3 at sda11 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To

Lenny upgraded to Squeeze

working menu.lst before rebooting. Debian is saying at Squeeze release grub-legacy will no longer be supported, that's something for us all to think about. -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Lenny upgraded to Squeeze - KDE 4.4.5 at sda9 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debi

Re: TB for amd64?

you are like me and prefer the older 64bit version 2.0.0.24 you can get the deb from Ubuntu and install it using 'gdebi', works swell. -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Lenny upgraded to Squeeze - KDE 4.4.5 at sda9 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...

Re: Lenny upgraded to Squeeze

Bob Proulx wrote: Jimmy Johnson wrote: ... then changed my sources to Squeeze, so I did aptitude update and aptitude full-upgrade and basically I just let aptitude do it's thing, Note that the recommend package management tool for the upgrade is apt-get. http://www.debian.org/rel

Re: TB for amd64?

Javier Barroso wrote: Sorry again for private mail, turning on undo send email feature in gmail labs :-) .. On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 10:05 PM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: Also if you are like me and prefer the older 64bit version 2.0.0.24 you can get the deb from Ubuntu and install it using '

Re: TB for amd64?

Jimmy Johnson wrote: Javier Barroso wrote: Sorry again for private mail, turning on undo send email feature in gmail labs :-) .. On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 10:05 PM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: Also if you are like me and prefer the older 64bit version 2.0.0.24 you can get the deb from Ubuntu and

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