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Hi! I'm using Debian Sid on a Sony VGN-CR11S laptop. In my daily use, I often need to work without power cord and always fear to see my laptop go down. Do you have any tips or resources that could help me to save some power and continue my work? Thanks! | Combining the utilities in acpid, laptop-mode and powersaved can help, and there are additional utilities for Gnome, KDE and other desktop environments (gnome-power-manager and... others, I'm sure). Refer to the docs for those utilities, and hopefully you'll find a good setup. |
i am having a problem and i don't know how to fix it I cant apt-get because it keeps giving me this error dpkg: status database area is locked by another process How can i fix this? | Are you running another package management application like Synaptic or aptitude? If so, close them. If you are absolutely sure you're not running any other instances of apt (you might want to reboot to be 100%sure) you can do, as root: Code: Select allrm /var/lib/dpkg/lock Tina |
Up until about a week ago, my Nikon D-50 camera was properly recognized and mounted when attached to my Debian/Lenny installation running on a Dell XPS410, E6600 2.3 GHz DuoCore, 2 GB RAM using the stock 2.6.21-2-686 kernel. Now, the system refuses to mount the camera. Here's what I find in /var/log/messages when the c... | It looks like the file system on the flash has been corrupted. I guess you could try reformat it. dosfsutils should be able to it, I think... |
Is there any software to deresolutionize pictures for linux? I have a bunch of pictures from my camera that I want to put online, but first I have to take the resolution down to 1024x768 or smaller. I have software to do this bulk on mac, but it is annoying having to keep switching to my mac. | Code: Select allapt-cache policy nautilus-image-converter nautilus-image-converter: Installed: (none) Candidate: 0.0.9-1 Version table: 0.0.9-1 0 500 http://ftp.us.debian.org testing/main Packages 500 http://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/main Packages Looks like there is no nautilus-image-converter in stable. |
I have PHP 4 with phpinfo: phpinfo(); wrote: Code: Select allPHP Version 4.4.4-9+lenny1 Whenever I go to phpmyadmin.php, cleverly disguised as a directory, I get the following error: phpMyAdmin.php directory wrote: Code: Select allphpMyAdmin - Error Cannot load mysql extension. Please check your PHP configuration. - Do... | I would really like some advice, this is my only problem so far. Apache says I use php5, but phpinfo(); contradicts with php4. Apache2 is installed and telnet, ssh and apache2 mysteriously autostarts after apt-get installing Apache2, Telnet, SSH and finally MySQL. A suggestion to this solution, whether it be right or w... |
I used to use Windows, and in that time I was using Apache. The httpd.conf was preconfigured with everything necessary. In Debian, I noticed the httpd.conf was blank, rather apache2.conf held the configuration. My httpd.conf was edited as follows: Code: Select all DirectoryIndex index.php index.html ServerRoot "/var/ww... | I think my ServerRoot isn't being configured properly. Where is ServerRoot located? I think I did get ServerRoot configured properly, but everything returns 403. ?? |
Recently I reinstalled Etch (I played a while with Lenny and got tired a bit). Everything works fine. However, I cannot suspend my laptop to ram (and disc). I know, that suspend works on my machine as can put it to sleep by coding echo "mem" > /sys/power/state Moreover, I managed to enable suspend after my first instal... | Nice! I found the solution of the problem. It was pretty simple. I just installed powersaved package and that's it. It works like charm now. Etch is great! |
I forgot what version (32bit or 64bit) I installed. Code: Select alluname -a doesn't help me much either? Any quick solution? Thanks | use uname -a look for the bit "2.6.##-#-!!!" the !'s are the processor architecture if its amd64 then your running a 64bit system. |
Like many other people we had a problem that on halting the system our sata drive wasn't spun down correctly so I started digging around in the system and ended up removing the -h flag from /etc/init.d/halt and now our drive is shutdown the way it should be with kernel 2.6.22-1-k7. I'm not sure if this will fix for for... | Just to make sure I understand correctly, you edited the file so that it now looks like this?Code: Select allhddown="" if grep etc. |
Only the root account will do lookups from the "etc/hosts" file. A sample of the problem: don@debian1:~$ ping debian1 ping: unknown host debian1 don@debian1:~$ su Password: debian1:/home/don# ping debian1 PING debian1.dsanderson.local (10.0.0.104) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from debian1.dsanderson.local (10.0.0.104... | what are the permissions on /etc/hosts ? |
A recent switcher from Ubuntu, and have managed to get everything working swimmingly so far - except for one irritating thing - I can't set IceWeasel as my default browser for opening saved html files. Selecting it in the preferred apps box does nothing. Instead, the default seems to be the last browser installed (was ... | Try looking in the Configuration Editor ( gconf ) and drill downto desktop/gnome/applications/browser. Change 'exec' to read mozilla. |
Hello, I just moved to Debian several days ago. On the distro I moved From, I used Thunderbird for email. I just installed Icedove. I have my TB email and address book backed up on my external drive. Does anyone know where or if I can copy my TB backup /stuff/ so Icedove will see it? I looked for a /home/mike/.icedove ... | The icecritters store preferences exactly like the officially branded products do. Icedove stores that(and email, etc) in the ~/.thunderbird folder. |
Hi! Is it possible to have UTF-8 or at least iso8859-2 encoding in aterm? I know, rxvt is another option, but I'd like to keep it as slim as possible... TNX in advance! | Sure it is. I have. Run dpkg-reconfigure locales and generate as many ones as you want. An X -terminal without options uses the default locale. There are also keys to toggle locales like LANG=ru_RU.KOI8-R aterm, but I am quite satisfied by UTF-8 and xterm. |
Mmmm...I'm thirsty. I'll skip my daily dose of coffee this morning and go on about some wine. What!? I need libc6? Fine, I'll get that if that's what it takes to get my glorious wine. Conflicts with tzdata?? What the hell? I need my time. Hehe, no really. I can't install my wine. If I try to install libwine: Error: dep... | What's your sources.list file look like? You might also want to use Wine's repo instead of the version from Debian. |
How can I configure sudo to run without root access? Thank you if can help me | I THINK this might be itCode: Select allALL NOPASSWD /etc/init.d/configWireless.shI'm not really sure about it, though. EDIT: Make sure to use visudo. It'll tell you if I got it wrong. |
Hey I was trying to play world of warcraft under Cedega 6.0 (I couldn't get it to work with wine and cedega has achieved better results, as it was made to run games). The game runs, but there are some annoying glitches, and my FPS go down to about 2, 3. I've googled this problem, and I found nothing that could help me.... | My graphics card is an nvidia geforce fx5200. |
Hi I have a dedicated server and a backup server. I can only connect to my backup server within servers-network. Sadly I have transfered a whole directory and not a compressed file.... Do I really have to delete every content from every (sub)-directory manually? What else can I do? Thanks for any help! | Do you have shell access? Can't you just ssh into it and do Code: Select allrm /some/dir -r |
I just upgraded to the 2.6.21 kernel, as it just arrived in Debian Testing, and I have no sound. Code: Select all lsmod |grep snd shows all of the modules are loaded. I ran alsaconf but amixer complains about no device Code: Select allLoading driver... Usage: /etc/init.d/alsa {unload|reload|force-unload|force-reload|su... | Ok, the easy solution is to just reinstall the earlier kernel, or if it is still there just boot back into it. It will still work. If you really want the newest kernel, you might need to recompile it yourself to get the sound sorted out. Edit - I should say that between versions of the kernel, options move around some ... |
This is a very strange problem. Ive just upgraded to the 2.6.21 kernel in Debian Testing. Due to some paravirtualtion problem, I used this script http://grizach.servebeer.com/nvpatch/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-100.14.03-pkg1-patched.run to install the Nvidia Driver for 7600 GS Video Card I found the link on the Nvidia forums, an... | When I switch to the Virtual terminal from X, the monitor goes into a sleep state. Does it "wake up"? What happens if you switch back to X? What happens if you switch to another text VT? |
hello, Thanks to all for helping to solve my space disk problem. I get the package APTITUDE and search for packages could be removed. Then It starts to remove all unnecessary packages and got lot of free space. Now, I read under this forum, for NVIDIA Card we need to install and update the driver. I have VGA compatible... | You shouldn't use the installer from the nvidia website. Follow this guide instead: http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers It also explains why you shouldn't use nvidia's installer. |
I'm running Etch, upgraded from Sarge, and now tty 1-6 think the screen is wider than it is -- text is getting run off the edge of the screen. The characters also look a bit wide. How can I fix this? | lecaro wrote:I'm running Etch, upgraded from Sarge, and now tty 1-6 think the screen is wider than it is -- text is getting run off the edge of the screen. The characters also look a bit wide. How can I fix this? I always boot w/ vga=791 (for 1024x768 framebuffer resolution). You can use whatever resolution you prefer.... |
I do not remember doing anything, just that man whatever worked and then once of a sudden it didn't. Now it justs says it's formating the man page and then nothing happens, meaning the man page is not displayed. Piping it through less or into a file also results in an empty view or file, respectivelly. Reinstalling or ... | Did you re-install using dselect, to ensure all dependencies are met? Cheers, Chris. |
Howto erase a string in about:config ? I can't erase a string in Iceweasel's about:config, why is that ? Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070310 Iceweasel/2.0.0.3 (Debian-2.0.0.3-1) Debian 4.0 (Etch) | Firefox is the same silly. Open the config file and delete the line. The config file name is user.js |
Hello all, We are running a testing repository debian server, with apache prefork 2.2.3, MySQL 5.0.38, and PHP 5. We've been troubled by spontaneous high loads, that cause the server to be very very slow, with a load rising above 100, sometimes not to be responsive at all. I've tried to disable some sites, but that doe... | I discovered a bit of delay with php: Code: Select all# time php -v PHP 5.2.0-10+lenny1 (cli) (built: May 26 2007 08:23:53) Copyright (c) 1997-2006 The PHP Group Zend Engine v2.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2006 Zend Technologies real 0m54.293s user 0m53.659s sys 0m0.336s |
Hi everyone, i'm using Etch, i'm planning on compiling Ratpoison 1.4.1 which at this time only exists in Sid. I got installed zip, unzip, and bzip2. I'm planning on installing: build-essential, checkinstall, libc6-dev, and build-dep ratpoison. Then download, cd to download file, and then ./configure, make, and checkins... | That should be enough. If you get any errors, post here and I'll give you a hand. |
Coming from FreeBSD, to install an app and all of its dependencies from source all you have to do is cd to the port/app directory, configure the makefile to your liking, and run 'make install clean'. FreeBSD would fetch the source, build it based on the settings in your make.conf file, then install the resulting binari... | You can grab the source code to any given package via apt-get source packagename then cd packagename/src to get at the configure/makefiles, but I don't think there's any built-in way to automate what you want to do... Debian is about binaries anyways... if you want to waste time "optimizing" your machine, you're better... |
Let's say I have three partitions: / /home /partition-images What would the commands be (using dd and gzip) to make an exact replica of the / partition and store it on the /partition-images partition? What would the commands be to restore the image? Thanks much! BTW, I checked the man pages, but before I break somethin... | Say your partitions are as follows: /dev/hda1 - / /dev/hda2 - /home/ /dev/hda3 - /partitionimages/ You would do something like this: Code: Select alldd if=/dev/hda1 |gzip > /partitionimages/hda1.img.gzAnd repeat for /dev/hda2. |
ive wanted to try linux, and have gone over a few distros since the beginning of the year. i liked xubuntu, switched to debian etch(testing) + xfce and had a weird text problem, and recently installed debian etch(stable/xfce install) which doesnt auto-mount optical media when i use my cd/dvd drive it also doesnt auto-m... | I do not use XFCE, but Gnome automount features are linked with HAL package: http://packages.debian.org/stable/admin/hal Package: hal (0.5.8.1-9) Hardware Abstraction Layer HAL provides an abstract view on hardware. This abstraction layer is simply an interface that makes it possible to add support for new devices and ... |
I am new to Debian but I have used Gentoo for almost 3 years. I have grown tired of all of the compiles. I would like to install Flash 9. I have tried but I have not succeeded. Apt-get does not find any version of Flash. I have downloaded Flash 9 from Adobe but their installer will not install it because Flash only run... | You would either need to install it using the 'chroot' way or you may try installing gnash, the open source version of flash. There is no flash plugin or java plugin for 64 bit version. There are other topics here about the chroot way, try searching. Thnx. |
I upgraded to Etch 4.0r0 from Sarge 3.1r1 with a set of Etch DVDs. Something minor went wrong during the upgrade, and whenever I install a package, it gives me large warnings saying "the packages come from an untrusted source." The source is the Etch DVDs. How can I make it trust the DVDs? | Install "debian-archive-keyring". You might have to run "aptitude update" for the untrusted things to disappear. |
Where would I get the source code to the Debian-versions of various binaries such as ls, mv, etc. that are part of the base system? | Optional wrote:Where would I get the source code to the Debian-versions of various binaries such as ls, mv, etc. that are part of the base system? mv & ls are bash builtins. If you want Debian source packages you get them from a Debian repo of course! For example: Code: Select alldeb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian... |
I installed Debian 4.0 from the DVDs. System is running fine, but I can't mount any other partition! When I double-click a partition in Computer is says : libhal-storage.c 1401 : info: called libhal_free_dbus_error but dbuserror was not set. process 22442: applications must not close shared connections - see dbus_conne... | I'm also a noob, but I've mounted some partitions before... have you tried going to the terminal to mount these partitions? Open terminal and make a folder you want to use for the partition you want to mount. For example, you'll make a folder /home/username/misc which will become the root of your /dev/sda2 partition. I... |
This is what I get from the Debian site deb http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile etch/volatile main contrib non-free Also tried deb http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile etch/volatile main but when I put either in my source.list I get Code: Select allW: Couldn't stat source package list http://volatile.debia... | More questions, sorry. Looking at the mirrors list went in to the ftp site and looked at the readme file Welcome to volatile.debian.org Please just use sarge/volatile or etch/volatile with deb http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile sarge/volatile main contrib non-free or deb http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volati... |
When I try too install Beryl I get an authentication error. How to I get rid of that. I thought I installed the gpg key with wget -O - http://debian.beryl-project.org/root@lupine.me.uk.gpg. Thanks in advance | Code: Select allwget http://debian.beryl-project.org/root@lupine.me.uk.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add - |
After many hours of trying to add a folder to the System Media folder I am totally confused and frustrated. Should not be as hard as I may be making it. I go to the media:/ folder > Edit menu > Create new folder name the folder click Ok and I get a message Could not make folder media:/New Folder. or whatever I want to ... | from a terminal ( like gnome terminal or konsole or xterm......) type: Code: Select allsu ( hit enter) type roots password now we see root@yourcomputername# type: root@your computername# mkdir /media/your new folder name [quote][/quote] |
Here's my repos # # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Etch_ - Official Beta i386 NETINST Binary-1 20070317-20:46]/ etch contrib main deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Etch_ - Official Beta i386 NETINST Binary-1 20070317-20:46]/ etch contrib main deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main deb-src http://ftp... | This problem is pretty new/recent, so I doubt you will find it on Google just yet. There seems to be something wrong with the Debian "testing" key. That makes sense, since "testing" is switching from being "Etch" to being "Lenny". The consensus in posts here seems to be that it will work itself out soon enough. Also, y... |
So, I have had Debian Etch on this box since December (after trying Ubuntu), and now that testing is Lenny, I have this question: if I switch my sources list so that every appearance of "Etch" becomes "Testing", do I need to do a "dist-upgrade" after that? Part of me thinks yes, since I am going from Etch to Lenny (in ... | nemonullus wrote:...I have this question: if I switch my sources list so that every appearance of "Etch" becomes "Testing", do I need to do a "dist-upgrade" after that? Part of me thinks yes, since I am going from Etch to Lenny (in theory). But part of me thinks no, since I have been on "Testing" all along. If you use ... |
Installed Etch, but can not access it. My partition table with fdisk -l shows Disk /dev/hda: 81.9 GB, 81964302336 bytes 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 158816 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 1 12840 6471328+ b W95 FAT32 Partition 1 does not end on cy... | What did you partition your disk with in the first place? Seems that it was not done properly. If this were my box I'd probably repartition the drive correctly (with fdisk or cfdisk) and reinstall. |
I inadvertently damaged my /boot/initrd.img-2.6.18.xxxxx file. The kernel will no longer load it at boot up: Kernel panic - nor syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown block(0,0) The stupid manner that I messed up the initrd of course did not leave a backup of the original. Is there any way I can get the syste... | You've marked this as solved, so tell us how you fixed it! I was going to say you could try using a live cd, then chroot into the /boot folder on the hard drive install Then rebuild the initrd. I think it's something like this: # mkinitrd -o /boot/initrd.img-2.6.18.xxxxx 2.6.18.xxxxx |
I made an account for a different user and there is no sound there. Volume Control says: "No volume control GSstreamer plugins and/or devices found". I guess, this is the issue of permissions. But how to fix? | Is the user an audio member? |
I need to install java, and I am told I have to set up multiverse in synaptic, question is How do I do that Thanks | Open /etc/apt/sources.list with your favorite editor and add "multiverse" to each line, after main, separated only by a space. Edit: "multiverse" is for *buntu. You're probably looking for "contrib" or "non-free" in Debian. So deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ etch main would become deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ et... |
Hello! So I just plugged my Vista partition to this PC, reboot and try to mount it, but then I get an error like this in dmesg | tail: Code: Select allNTFS driver 2.1.27 [Flags: R/W MODULE]. Probing IDE interface ide0... Probing IDE interface ide1... Probing IDE interface ide3... sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 t... | Question 1: why is it saying there is a SCSI disk being plugged in? Question 2: did you try "mount -t ntfs /dev/mountpoint /mountpoint -o error=recover" this is possibly DANGEROUS since it may trash the vista partition horribly. and from your code paste, it also looks like you are trying to mount a DISK you need to mou... |
As everyone knows, when SpamAssassin checks emails, it labels them, if they are possible spam. Like this:X-Spam-Level: ********** X-Spam-Status: Yes, score=10.1 I have the hole bunch of such emails in my "Inbox" folder. Is there a way to scan emails, and, if they are marked by SpamAssassin as possible spam to send them... | I use postfix to do that. in main.cf Code: Select allheader_checks = regexp:/etc/postfix/header_checks in header_checks Code: Select all/^X-Spam-Flag: YES$/i REDIRECT spam@YOURDOMAIN.COM |
When I try to open Azureus from the terminal I get: :~$ cd /usr/bin :/usr/bin$ ./azureus ./azureus: line 3: /usr/share/java-config/libswt-3.2-java: No such file or directory When I try to find 'libswt-3.2-java' after running 'apt-get update' I get: No file is found to install. How can I get Azureus to open??? | I installed azureus and sun-java6-bin [which automatically installs sun-java6-jre] with Synaptic. Some java information from the terminal: :~# java -version -su: java: command not found :~# update-alternatives --config java There are 4 alternatives which provide `java'. Selection Alternative ---------------------------... |
I've looked everywhere and can't find how to mount an ext2 volume as non-root. Basically, I want to mount a drive as a normal user so I'll have r/w permissions on the drive. The obvious workaround is to either chmod 777 the entire drive after mounting it or chown it to the user. There has to be an option I can put in f... | Did you try to change /dev/sdb1 /media/audio ext2 defaults,user,noexec 0 0 into /dev/sdb1 /media/audio ext2 rw,noatime,uid=1000,gid=1000,user 0 0 or similar? Why do you need ext2? Ext3 works fine. |
I'm running rxvt-unicode-lite on etch. After a brief sojurn into ion3 my terminal window leaves behind screen artifacts when text scrolls. To be clear. It worked before I switched into ion3. It worked in ion3. Now that I have switched back to openbox I have screen artifacts. I tried a dpkg-reconfigure and when that did... | i was setting up a friend's laptop, he wanted openbox too, and for some reason i could never get rvxt-unicode-lite to cooperate, it worked initially, but as soon as you left the mouse from the terminal (another window got focus) the previously focused terminal got its background colours up in the way of the transparent... |
I dist-upgraded my Etch install and now the fonts in Firefox is really looking bad. In every other app, including other browsers, it's just fine so it's a FF spesific problem. Any ideas? By the way... didn't there use to be an anti-aliasing checkbox in the fonts setup? Tina Edit: Typos | Thanks bluesdog, but that didn't fix it. Just for fun I upgraded firefox to the unstable version (1.5.0.6) but that didn't help either. This is strange... bluesdog wrote:The anti-aliasing checkbox is still there in Kcontrol > Appearance & Themes > Fonts Yes, I know. I meant in the Firefox preferences Tina |
Hi all ! I've had to shoot down my Debian, (it was suffering to much), to reinstall it all. It's now healthy and works fine. Prevevioulsy, I've backed up /home/user_name, since I thought that firefox et icedove profiles were stored in, I mean, at least mails and bookmarks. I'd like now to get them back on the new insta... | You want the hidden directories /.mozilla and /.mozilla-thunderbird Afaik Icedove still uses the old Thunderbird directory names. When I restored my system after a crash I managed to salvage the above directories and copied them into my fresh install. Icedove worked flawlessly and all my mail, addresses etc was intact.... |
hi all...i have a problem in updating my MSN live space.. here it is the layout of the page where adding the new message: instead of the one displayed in IE, on my vmware!!!!! btw i tried to insert a new message without using the buttons tools, but the fact is that i cant publish the intervent, because of the link for ... | Dunno... but a wild guess would be that a Windows service require Windows..? |
I'm sorry if this seem like a terribly stupid question but I haven't been able to get it through man and google. I need to add a directory(/sbin) to my main users PATH. I tried adding, according to a howto, this in .bash_profile: Code: Select allPATH=$PATH:/sbin export PATH but to no good. I also tried, according to an... | mojoman wrote:...I also tried, according to another howto, to edit .bashrc, where one would simply add directories to the existing definition of the users path, seperating them with : but that didn't work either... You have to log out and back in for those changes to take effect. |
Hi folks, I just installed xbindkeys (along with xvkbd as per the instructions located here: http://knoppmythwiki.org/index.php?page ... dia+Remote I just can't get it to work. I need some help to get past my stumbling block. After a couple hours reading up on these two apps, I've figured out that xbindkeys isn't readi... | Ok, almost all the documentation I have found on this topic refers to editing your .xbindkeysrc file. I still have not managed to get this to work (and would love for someone to educate me on what I've done wrong) I did find a workaround though: I edited my .xbindkeysrc.scm file directly. The format is different, and x... |
The subject says all.. With the hostname command, I can set up the hostname temporarily, but I would like to change it permanently.. Thanks! | With the hostname command Is this any different from editing the /etc/hostname file? |
Yeah, stupid question, but I can´t write some special characters with my (Spanish) keyboard, like the famous " | ". On Winduh I can use the ASCII code with the numeric keyboard to write special caracters pressing Alt + (ASCII code), how do I do this on Debian? | This is the matter of setxkbmap In order to have the Spanish layout firstly you need to install Spanish fonts, if they are not installed yet. And then run in the terminal something like setxkbmap -layout es http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Debian_keyboards Optionally you can configure your /etc/X11/xorg.conf to switching layo... |
Hello! I did upgrades to my server PC last night and today morning, its PC speaker started to beep like a horse and everything lagged badly! I wasn't able to reach the internet, I couldn't use my harddrive and the X Server was lagging. dhclient and ifup/down didn't work; they just freezed, but they did work last night ... | You don't need to save the output of dmesg since it's already a file... /var/log/dmesg Tina Edit: Or see this post by Grifter |
Hello! I usually boot to a command line and then execute startx to get to KDE; I also have Gnome installed for testing purposes, but I don't know how can I start Gnome WITHOUT modifying .xinitrc. Also, I don't want a Display Manager like GDM or KDM; and startkde doesn't seem to work to get KDE up Is it possible? Someth... | startkde only starts KDE on an existing X server. I suppose you could clear .xinitrc, then create two scripts like: Code: Select all#!/bin/bash startx & DISPLAY=:0 startkde & and a similar one for GNOME. |
Hello, Please help! I am completely new to Linux and know no Unix at all, and I cannot get Debian to list my USB ports or the files in my keys. When i click Home -> devices, i see only 2 CD-Rom drives, a floppy, and a Hard disk. In Windows i just click "My Computer", that shows C:, D:, E:, H:, I:, J:. Then i can click ... | nemo wrote:Hello, Mine is a Kde and I did like this: #su #<passwd> #fdisk -l # no output at all, just a # returned right away. It is -l as in like, not 1. Very confused. Plug in your USB key and see if it is even recognized. Code: Select alllsusb If so, try passing the specific device name to fdisk like: Code: Select a... |
hello all! I have a problem,im new to linux mayby using linux for 3-4weeks i was using ubuntu for 3 weeks but everytime there was updates the system would crash and freeze.So from what i have read Debian is the most stable.So i installed Debian. Anyways all seems good but when i try to minus any app or game or even moz... | What desktop environment do you have? Gnome, KDE, XFCE? The problem could be in the desktop environment, not Debian.. |
Hello! Yeah, that "neat trick" doesn't work for me Here's my /etc/apt/apt.conf APT::Default-Release "etch"; APT::Authentication::TrustCDROM "true"; Acquire::http::Proxy "false"; And my /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://ftp.fi.debian.org/debian/ etch main non-free contrib deb http://ftp.fi.debian.org/debian/ sid main non... | I had the same strange problem on another box, but using "testing" instead of "etch" solved it... might be worth trying... Code: Select allAPT::Default-Release "testing"; Tina |
EDIT: The command I used to solve the mystery was: Code: Select allmkfs -t vfat -I /dev/sdb Hello! I bought today morning a 256Mb Maxell USB Drive.. I tested the drive and it worked fine on both Debian and Windows XP. But after I copied some files and wanted to copy them to my Windows XP computer, it did read the USB D... | Hmmm, what file format are the data files? What format is the usb drive? Did you copy the files using Debian the first time and which program to create the files? |
I installed apache2. when I type localhost the apache go to the folder apache2-default but I want that the the localhost open the file /var/www/, not the folder apache2-default. How can I do this? | This is the defaults set in /etc/apache2/sites-available/default see apache2 documentation for further information on how to configure apache to your needs http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/ |
I installed phpmyadmin but when I try to do login (I use login=root password= root_password) the I get this: #1045 - Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES) How can I login in phpmyadmin? | Enter root as username and leave the password field empty. Then phpMyAdmin will complain about a security hole because of no password set for root and to get around this you need to execute this: Code: Select allmysqladmin -u root password <password> (Replace <password> with your password.) |
Can anyone tell me if its possible to install internet explorer on debian,or configure firefox because some pages are rendered badly or are inaccesible with the open-source browsers (for example the local movie theather site www.cinepolis.com.mx doesn't display the letters, and the russian embassy site doesnt display t... | Dear adrian_mx, if you need 100% IE compatibility try the following site, it working for me : http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Main_Page Best Regards, Mike Kranidis |
Hi all, just got started and I have apache installed and running, I then tried to write a php script and when I view it, it opens in a text editor window. I looked around and see that I need to enable php on apache. I found some info that says to open httpd.conf and add this AddType application/x-httpd-php .php LoadMod... | Well, first of; the php4apache.dll is a Windows library so assuming you're working in Linux I don't know why you would try to use that file. What Debian version are you running? Assumin Sarge you can install php4 via apt-get: Code: Select allapt-get install php4 Tina |
Hello! I am going to sell 4 of my computers (I have 5 now, so I will only have my main computer which is my server ). My current server has Etch installed with LAMP (which was a real pain to install btw..) And with the money, I am going to buy a newer, better computer for a new server. Here are the specs: Processor: Co... | Ubuntu is... *oops* pros: Setup is real easy, and everything will probably just work. cons: If past ubuntu systems are anything to go by, customization/updating will be a PITA Cannot comment on your custom kernels, but I wouldn't be surprised if some things just wouldn't work. Best to compile anew, imo Possible to inst... |
Hi Using Debian testing. I noticed that when I open my home folder (or any folder for that matter) and further click in that folder, new windows appear. I prefer when clicking on a folder or file within a folder, the window change and allow me to move back via a back button. Is there a way to get the behavior I'm looki... | If you are using Gnome as your Desktop Environment, you probably use Nautilus as your file manager. Then see the Gnome Desktop User Guide for instructions how to enable Browser Mode |
I got the kernel working! I used the guide found here: http://taliesin.wordpress.com/linux-ker ... ebian-way/ Now I have full pre-emption, as well low-latency, full realtime and 1000Hz timer frequency, and the nvidia module compiled along with the kernel works wonderfully =D Oh I love Debian more and more when I get so... | thamarok wrote:The mission is to take the latest kernel source and change the system resolution timer from 250Hz to 1000Hz. EDIT: Woops, forgot to actually post anything; Why? What does that do? What's the benefit to having it at 1k instead of 250? apt-get install kernel-package libncurses5-dev cd /usr/src/ get a kerne... |
Hello! I did a apt-get dist-upgrade a little time ago, but after a reboot, I wasn't able to get to the internet and ifup and ifdown freezed when I opened them. And everytime I tried to open zsnes (the SNES emulator) X shuts down and says: xinit - connection to the X server lost. EDIT: I got internet back by using dhcli... | I also experience a dodgy network after this mornings dist-upgrade. For some reason my networkd don't always come up after reboot... some times it do, sometimes it don't. I did have a problem with the new openbsd-inetd package not being configured during the upgrade but doing it manually seemed to fix it. When the netw... |
Anybody knows an equivalent or howto for making a local repository? I have seen this and tried it in rpms but was wondering if there was a way for debian to create a local repo so that I do not have to install using dpkg -i *.deb for a whole whack load of updates? | Someone (I think Harold) posted this nice little script (I've modified it slightly, directory names and all) a while ago: Code: Select allalias debcrunch='cd ~/pkgrepo/ && apt-ftparchive packages . | gzip > Packages.gz && sudo apt-get update' Put that in your .bashrc, put packages in ~/pkgrepo, add: Code: Select alldeb... |
Hey, I just installed Etch(beta 3, netinstall) on an extern HD, but it's maent for use on my laptop (IBM ThinkPad R52) only. During the installation you can choose for several pre-selected software-packages. The installer advised me the DE, Laptop and StandardSystem. I assume that if I did some research (google/here) I... | I don't really know what gets installed by selecting the laptop mode in tasksel, but as for identifying packages which you use and which you don't, it's really hard to know in the beginning, and there really is no substitute for experience, you just have to learn as you go; it might have been easier to select nothing a... |
greeting forum new to debian 3.1 sarge and looking to shut down the x-server so i can change the screen resolution [now locked @ 800 x], and install a nviidia card. i got this from the "guide" debian:/home/dave# /etc/init/d/gdm stop bash: /etc/init/d/gdm: No such file or directory debian:/home/dave# also have tried cnt... | It's 'init.d', not 'init/d'. |
I've been trying to mount my Win XP drive on my Debian Etch for some time now. I have done Code: Select allapt-get install samba and it installed. I have tried Code: Select allmount "//192.168.1.47/C - winxp" /mnt/ldb88 and Code: Select allmount -t smbfs "//192.168.1.47/C - winxp" /mnt/ldb88but both sayCode: Select all... | Try naming the shared folder something without spaces, I've always mounted windows shares with Code: Select all$ mount -t smbfs //192.168.1.1/C /media/share You could also run Code: Select all$ smbtree to see what shares are available to samba. Also, trying to mount a remote share as ntfs makes no sense. You could run ... |
Now, I installed to hd damn small linux on a (quite) slow computer, and I would like to get a decent system by installing what's missing with apt-get or dselect or if possible synaptic. But my only "real" debian cd is actually a dvd. And my cd-rom drive is kind of reclutant to read that ^^ So I copied my dvd into 2 iso... | I think I hear you saying that the DVD contains 4.4 gig of files, that your internal hard drive will not allow you to create a partition that large, that your external hard drive does support a 4.4-gig partition, that you want to copy the contents of the DVD onto the external hard drive, and that you want to external d... |
Hello I've got problems with my filesystem. During the boot, I've read the line that: Wrong amount of used blocks, switching to the --fix-fixable mode ##### reiserfsck --fix-fixable mode started ##### Checking inernal tree... after that it I can't get into Gnome. It says that it couldn't find "screens" or found them, b... | What filesystem do you have? My guess would be reiserfs of some sort. Mepis failed because it tried to access the filesystem as ext2, and the magic number didn't specify an ext2 filesystem, which is not surprising, if you have reiser. Anyway, probably the filesystem crashed and some of your data is lost. Among them is ... |
Hi, I am trying to mount my USB thumb drive (Trascend JetFlash 128MB) but still could not mount it successfully. Below are the steps I took: Insterted the USB stick into the port. Logged into root. After that, Code: Select alldebian:/mnt/thumb# lsusb Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0ea0:2168 Ours Technology, Inc. Transcend JetF... | Try plugging it in while the system is booting so it is seen as soon as udev loads. |
I am trying to extend my surce.list to get more packages, however synaptic doesn´t accept the new repositories (I am tunning debian etch) For exepmle I add deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ etch main and when I open synaptic I get the error message: W: Couldn't stat source package list ftp://ftp.nerim.net etch/m... | There's a reason: the debian-marillat repo has moved. Try this: deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ etch main |
Hi, I am a little bit newbie to linux. Since my upgrade to debian testing from debian sarge my computer doen´t shutdown correctly: The last message is acpi_power_off call and my keybord and mouse turn off whereas the rest stays "alive". Probably its due to acpi. I have read many threads about it but none described corr... | This did the trick on my two old Compaqs: Try to edit your /boot/grub/menu.lst, the kernel parameters, to: Code: Select allkernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15 root=/dev/hda1 ro acpi=off apm=on apm=power-off I'm no expert on neither acpi nor apm but the above works. But maybe there are a more correct way to do it..? Tina |
During the installation, it asked me how do I want to get the packages. I selected CDROM thinking it was asking the packages I want to install during the installation. So I thought, "Why was bandwidth when I can use the CDROM's packages." Well, the packages I was looking for was not listed in manual select. So I went o... | did you run this first... Code: Select allapt-get update If still no luck check your /etc/apt/sources.list and make sure your debian repos are enabled. BTW, fluxbox is great -- using it right now. |
I assume this is its official site?: http://search.debian.org/ Well, it has not been working for days. It has been giving me the Debian Search disabled The Debian search engine has been disabled for now. We're working on it. message. Where else can I use a search engine to look up the aviable packages (with details) av... | http://packages.debian.org is the one I use to search packages in different debian "branches" than the one I have installed. To search for packages in testing, I use aptitude search <package>. |
This might make more sense in the hardware section of the forums, but as I'm not asking how to install this and that and just want a general understanding of how things work... (well feel free to move this mods) Anyways, something that has confused me to a great extent when using Linux, is how dose it decide what to in... | mr wrote:Anyways, something that has confused me to a great extent when using Linux, is how dose it decide what to install in my pc to make it work. With windows, I have to get my audio, video and chipset drivers so that everything can work. With linux, after a basic instalation with a graaphical desktop, everything se... |
Hi. I'm new to Debian (I've used Kubuntu for a few months and Ubuntu and DSL a bit before that) and have done a net-install of Sarge on an old K6. I want to upgrade it to Etch. My sources.list currently contains: deb http://debian.savoirfairelinux.net/debian/ stable main deb http://security-debian.org/ stable/updates m... | The only think you have to do is to: 1) Change the stable word, with testing everywhere in your repositories and then: 2) Do an apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade [both of them in order, to be a testing debian happy user] Good luck buddy! |
Dear All, May I know how to add Realplayer Plugin into Firefox and Konqueror? Can you listen to the BBC radios/news (which uses Realplayer) from this site? http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/i/ This is the error message from Konqueror: "Your browser has not detected a RealPlayer plugin. It may be that you need to download Real... | Go here Also, you may need to install mplayer, and fiddle about with the Mozilla mplayer plugin. Code: Select allapt-get install mplayer mozilla-mplayer You'll also need the w32 codecs, if you haven't already got 'em... which means you'll have to add the marillat repository to your /etc/apt/sources.list http://www.debi... |
Dear All, May I know your choice of respositories or any default respositories to be put into the sources.list file for Etch? My respositories are : Code: Select all# Testing deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib deb ftp://ftp.nerim.... | deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ etch main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib non-free deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib # multimedia deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ etch main # amule # deb http://amule-debian.dyndns.org/ debian/ that's a... |
Hi, Could anyone who has done skype installation successfully and made it work, kindly share your knowledge here? I still could not make it work. Thanks in advance, N.O | The following comes from Skype forum topic: http://forum.skype.com/viewtopic.php?t=37742 - page 1 garetho wrote:Hi Here's an update on ALSA support. Development is in progress. We've had lots of requests for this and appreciate everyone's patience. It has been a highly desired feature internally for a long time. We hav... |
I'm running the current Debian stable on one of my workstations, and krdc is unable to connect to any of the servers I need to talk to, complaining that there is "no server running at the given address and port" which is bogus, as I can connect directly to the address and port with telnet. On other machines I have used... | Have you thought about using VNC? (e.g. rfb or vncserver or something like that?) |
First of all, hi everyone! I have Ubuntu Dapper installed in this PC, but want to give Etch a try. My problem is that when one of them upgrades the kernel, update-grub messes menu.lst. Both OSes seem to think that every kernel in the debian section is theirs, rendering the other system unusable until I manually fix the... | Easy - just install them on separate partitions. Debian is smarter with grub than you would think. |
I am not a command line guy.... I just got 3.1r0a installed and all I get is a command prompt... how do I get KDE or GNOME? Peter | Do this: Code: Select allapt-get install x-window-system-core kde If you prefer gnome, you may install it instead of kde, or you can install both. The install procedure will as you the details of your video card, keyboard and mouse. Some hints: - PS/2 mice are attached to /dev/psaux. - USB mice are usually attached to ... |
I have been using licq for a long time, I like it and wish to continue using it. I changed from Slackware to Debian/testing with the Desktop alternative. In Slack I used KDE, but now I am on Gnome, which is quite ok with me, because I rely on Evolution, but I need a few programs in KDE as well. Anyway, I got around to ... | It probably is not a licq-specific problem, but rather an indication that there are conflicts in the packages installed on your computer that the package management system either hasn't been given the opportunity to resolve or is unable to resolve because of some change that was forced onto the system. Begin by doing a... |
hello there i just re-entered the world of debian after ubuntu 5.10 (too "gloss" slow and unstable in comparisson with proper debian anyway) and since this is by far the best community ever just wanted to ask if there is a way of upgrading from sarge(3.1) to etch (testing), i reconfigured my /etc/apt/sources.list and d... | All you should need to do is change your /etc/apt/sources.list file to use the testing repositories instead of the stable, then run apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade. You may want to simulate the upgrade first to see what all is going to be changed before commiting to the installation. In which case, run apt-get -... |
I am running Deb 3.1 r1 stable and would like to know how to mount my USB port so I can download my pics from camera. One person said use 'mountpy' but my system returned that there was no 'mountpy' program. Can I look in a repository other than CD binary 1&2 (which is all I have downloaded). Perhaps online and using s... | pablodeb wrote:However, as far as the usb cam programs, I am sorry that I don't appear to have those. I only downloaded the first two binary CDs. Is there a general repository for debian where where I can go and download those programs using synaptic or apt-get? Again, thank you for you help. earnestly, pablo Hi pablo,... |
could someone please help me fix this problem in sarge. the folder is vissable but i cannot open it or get its properties. i am new to DEBIAN. i have tried a few things I read in the posts but so far no luck. thanks for the help I love Linux but I love the people more ken | waterwally wrote:could someone please help me fix this problem in sarge. the folder is vissable but i cannot open it or get its properties. i am new to DEBIAN. i have tried a few things I read in the posts but so far no luck. thanks for the help I love Linux but I love the people more ken Do you mean the entire Gnome a... |
If I try to switch between unprivileged users using Code: Select allsu -s /bin/bash userfoo nothing happens after entering the correct password for userfoo -- I remain the original user. The only way I can do this is by su'ing to root, and then to the user I actually want to be. Cumbersome, and gives me the creeps havi... | What happens when you try $ su userfoo? |
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