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survey about lbzip2 as a bzip2 alternative in Debian
Dear Debian User, I apologize for spamming you with this. I kindly request you to take ten minutes to read my article under [1] on lbzip2, my parallel bzip2 utility, and to participate in this survey. Please choose exactly one of the four options below, and send me a mail with the corresponding mnemonic on ... 20 Nov 2009 17:58

Bluetooth on testing
Squeeze amd64 on Thinkpad T61, fresh installation five hours ago. Idiot user migrating from Jaunty x86_64. I have long used a bluetooth Razer Pro|Click Mobile mouse, which works fine on Jaunty. I cannot get it to work in Debian testing. If I click on the bluetooth icon in the Gnome panel, then Setup new device... 20 Nov 2009 21:18

Can't tweak anything about synaptics touchpad
After the full-upgrade of my testing system (with kernel 2.6.30) I can't do anything about my touchpad anymore, with the main problem being that I can't disable it. Neither synclient nor xinput have any effect on it, and if I try gsynaptics-init I get GSynaptics couldn't initialize. You have to set '... 21 Nov 2009 07:03

Trouble getting Linksys WUSB54GC v. 3 to work in Lenny
Hello, I have an older Sony Vaio laptop setup to dual-boot between WinXP and Debian Lenny 5.03 w/ LXDE. This laptop did not come with any wifi buit-in, so I purchased a Linksys WUSB54GC adapter, and thus far I've been having a devil of a time getting it to work in Linux. It works fine in XP, fwiw. I hav... 20 Nov 2009 02:22

udev script to disable touchpad on mouse connect
I have this little nice script in udev rules.d/ KERNEL=="mouse?", ACTION=="add", RUN="/usr/bin/xinput --set-int-prop 2 115 8 0" KERNEL=="mouse?", ACTION=="remove", RUN="/usr/bin/xinput --set-int-prop 2 115 8 1" it used to call `synclient TouchPadOff 1` but it doesn't seem to work anymore, since today's bi... 19 Nov 2009 13:59

ZTE MF 622 modem in lenny
Hello, I need to use the modem ZTE MF 622 (usb modem) with lenny. Apparently, it is necessary to have installed the program usb-modeswitch. It is not present in Lenny, but it is present in testing. I checked the dependencies, and all the necessary libraries are present in lenny. Can I install usb-modeswitch from... 18 Nov 2009 14:36

Flash/AVI/Skype sound issue in Squeeze
Hello list, I'm having trouble with my sound in a rather fresh Testing box on KDE. Before I lay down the situation, let me clarify that I have googled, rather extensively, in pursuit of a solution to my problem, yet I have not found a solution that solves my problem. So, instead of turning my system into a bundl... 18 Nov 2009 12:19

repo key expired?
How can I fix this? I tried running 'apt-get update' again but got the same error: W: GPG error: http://debian.mirrors.pair.com squeeze Release: The following signatures were invalid: KEYEXPIRED 1246455239 W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems Zach -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to d... 17 Nov 2009 19:43

Very interesting!!!
Nestled deep in the heart of the Alaskan tundra is found a berry whose incredible nutritive and antioxidizing power have earned it the name "the miracle berry". Harvested and processed at precisely the right time, the blueberry contains more antioxidizing, disease-fighting, and nutritional power than any other fruit ... 17 Nov 2009 05:03

Panasonic-KX-FLB802 Driver
Can anybody give me the driver information about the Panasonic-KX-FLB802-All-In-One-Laser-Printer? I googled it. But unable to find it :( Thanks in advanced. -- Wishing you the very best of everything, always!!! Kousik Maiti(কৌশিক মাইতি) Registered Linux User #474025 Registered Ubuntu U... 17 Nov 2009 00:40