Debian

"No volume control elements and/or devices found" after upgrade to etch
Hello, I am running Debian on a Dell Latitude 110L notebook. Recently I upgraded from sarge to etch. Now my sound system is dead. On each start of either KDE or Gnome I get a message box "No volume control elements and/or devices found". The same box comes also when I invoke the menu command Applications / Soun... 11 Feb 2006 06:42

Postfix failing to install in Etch
I ran "apt-get upgrade" yesterday. Postix upgraded, but fails to start with: Running newaliases Starting Postfix Mail Transport Agent: postfixpostfix/postfix-script: fatal: usage: postfix start (or stop, reload, abort, flush, check, set-permissions, upgrade-configuration) failed! invoke-rc.d: initscript post... 9 Feb 2006 23:34

ls defaults...
Anyone know the story behind the apparent change in default 'ls' output on Debian - at least compared to all of the other Linux (and Unix) systems I have used? The difference I am referring to is the date format used when the '-l' option is used. For example, "ls -ld ." on the following systems produces: SuSE... 23 Feb 2006 08:34

USB flash drive not automounting or mounting
I asked this earlier, and several asked for more information about what is going or not going on on my system. I am trying to figure out if something is missing, or if something needs manual configuration on my system. Here's the output from lsmod | grep usb: usb_storage 69056 0 usbserial ... 10 Feb 2006 13:10

Easy way of installing fonts & font hinting
How i can install new TrueType font? if i put ttf file in /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ only fontconfig sees them, but how about defoma. I have to write hint file manually. Instead there have to be some kind of script, that gets all necessary information from ttf file metadata? The second problem: Almost all f... 3 Feb 2006 08:46

not able to play songs on a telugu music website
Hi I am unable to play songs located at http://www.telugufm.com/modules/music/MovieDetail.aspx?MID=10083 . (The above link is just an example. I cannot play any songs in that website. ) When I click "select all" and then "play selected", a pop up comes and it gets stuck at "loading" stage. Nothing seems to ... 2 Feb 2006 15:37

CPU state in top
hi guys, ok, I'm a little confused about 'top' results... I get a lot of CPU wait %: eg: Cpu(s): 71.3% us, 6.7% sy, 0.0% ni, 10.0% id, 11.7% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.3% si can anyone explain simply why the CPU goes to wait state??? and not back to idle state? Lets examine the example above... The CPU is 71.3% used... 2 Feb 2006 05:04

Asus K8N MotherBoard Lan
Hello, We just got a Asus K8N MotherBoard and it says in the Manual that it uses a IC Plus IP101 chip set for the lan. This is a real chip set and can be found at: http://www.icplus.com.tw/pp-IP101.html But what I cannot find is what driver to use in the 2.6.8 Kennel to use this on board lan device. Any ... 5 Feb 2006 09:36

upgrade screwed up my network.
Earlier tonight, I ran an upgrade with aptitude, and my network configuration started acting weird. Previously, I had set eth0 up to use a static IP of 192.168.15.10 with the household router's IP of 192.168.15.1 as the gateway and nameserver. This had been working fine for months. After the upgrade today, ... 1 Feb 2006 00:24

Mozilla Suite and Seamonkey
Hello all, Seamonkey 1.0 has been recently released. And with mozilla.org stopping the suite's development, the current version of mozilla i.e. 1.7.x will be the last significant release (only security updates on this will be provided by mozilla.org). What are Debian's plans for seamonkey? Will it upgrade mozil... 31 Jan 2006 20:13