Debian

Update manager replacement?
On my current Lenny machine, I have something that appears to be the Gnome update manager running; I regularly get an orange box that pops up on my panel that tells me what packages can be updated, and it handles the updating. On a new Lenny install, this is not present. I do have something under System > Admi... 2 Jul 2008 12:55

Diagnosing non-working trackpoint button
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 10:49 PM, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum <bg271828(a)yahoo.com> wrote: I shut off the trackpad in the BIOS (I only use the clitmouse and it's buttons) but i dont see any BIOS settings about this. I don't know whether it'll help, but with my T60 I've also found that shutting off the touchpad i... 1 Jul 2008 08:13

Install debian Etch with debootstrap on top of fedora (SOLVED by ensuring PATH set for sudo/root)
On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 06:50 -0300, Gabriel Parrondo wrote: El mar, 01-07-2008 a las 10:41 +0100, michael escribió: On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 10:17 +0100, michael wrote: On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 06:06 -0300, Gabriel Parrondo wrote: El mar, 01-07-2008 a las 09:46 +0100, michael escribió: I a... 1 Jul 2008 09:14

Linux-image-2.6.25 won't boot - target filesystem error -SOLVED
On 30 Jun 2008, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 03:28:10PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: Uh-oh, speaking of initrds: I forgot that in my previous message; you should probably rebuild it if you change your fstab to labels or UUIDs. How do you do that? I changed to UUID and ... 5 Jul 2008 05:23

Install debian Etch with debootstrap on top of fedora
El mar, 01-07-2008 a las 09:46 +0100, michael escribió: I am trying to install Debian Etch on a box that already has Fedora but when using debootstrap I get the message Installer error: Failure trying to run: chroot /target mount -t proc proc /proc There are more details below but could someb... 1 Jul 2008 06:10

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I am trying to install Debian Etch on a box that already has Fedora but when using debootstrap I get the message Installer error: Failure trying to run: chroot /target mount -t proc proc /proc There are more details below but could somebody enlighten me as to its meaning and what's going wrong? Ta, M ... 1 Jul 2008 05:09

quick emacs question
If I do some editing in emacs and make the line ending go past 80 characters, so a \ appears, how can I get emacs to go through the document and readjust the right margin, so each line only goes out to coll 80? I have a line in .emacs that controls this already, but with docs from other people, sometimes it needs ... 1 Jul 2008 06:10

how to change location of mplayer tmp files
The mplayer plugin for iceweasel keeps filling up /tmp. Is there some way I can get it to put the files elsewhere? The man page and the config files don't seem to offer an appropriate option. Thanks. Ross -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe".... 1 Jul 2008 16:27

Hauppauge Nova-T 500 Dual DVB-T, no frontend loaded
Hi, I'm trying to get Hauppauge Nova-T 500 Dual DVB-T (ID 2040:9950) to work on lenny. The driver and firmware loads but I get dvb-usb: no frontend was attached by 'Hauppauge Nova-T 500 Dual DVB-T' and /dev/dvb/adapter0 is missing frontend0 device which I found out is quite important:) Did anyone get this... 30 Jun 2008 23:01

terminal resize doesn't propagate to an application
hello, I've got a problem with resizing terminal windows. The information about terminal resizing doesn't always reach the application running inside the terminal. I thought it's the problem with blocked WINCH signal, but now I've found out that it works in about 80% of the cases. If it doesn't work additional r... 2 Jul 2008 17:03