Debian

Only rear speaker port is working
Hi, I have a P5QD motherboard with an on board Intel 82801JI audio card. Strangely enough only the rear speaker port is working in Linux. When I plug my 2.1 speakers in the normal green audio port I get no sound (in Windows it works therefor there should be no hardware problem). Alsamixer shows only 2 channels... 8 Nov 2009 10:45

AVAHI cupsd warning
I was browsing my /var/log files this morning, and happened to tail messages. I found these: Nov 7 14:22:05 paulandcilla cupsd[23014]: *** WARNING *** The program 'cupsd' uses the Apple Bonjour compatibility layer of Avahi. Nov 7 14:22:05 paulandcilla cupsd[23014]: *** WARNING *** Please fix your application ... 9 Nov 2009 14:23

ksuspend_usbd : what does this daemon do ?
Greetings, What does the daemon ksuspend_usb do ? I'm making a list of the back ground processes and what they do then will post it here. Save others hunting around for what what little there is. Haven't found any lists on-line anywhere yet. Apparently there's an O'Reilly book that lists daemons and fu... 12 Nov 2009 20:45

vncserver garbled graphics (was: Re: vncserver and font problem)
The problem with the missing font was solved after installing xfonts-base (I really thought this was a prerequisite dependency for X-windows so I did not think to check that...) Now something more strange tortures me: KDE comes up with garbled graphics ( http://tinypic.com/r/dgjv43/4 ). ~/.xsession-errors ... 5 Nov 2009 13:22

slow backup using lvm snapshots and tar
On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 01:18:48AM -0500, Israel Garcia wrote: Hi list: I'm using this command to create s snapshot of every LV's server, mount the LV, make a TGZ to a shared folder (NFS), then umount LV image and remove snapshot LV. The problem is tar backup is extremely slow (it takes 3 hours to m... 5 Nov 2009 07:41

Iceweasel toolbars disappear
Dennis Wicks wrote: Greetings; Some web pages turn off all the toolbars so the only thing that can be done is close the window. Is there any setting that will disable the ability to do this? TIA, Dennis Try to disable java script and maybe flash in browser. -- Bye, Goran Do... 4 Nov 2009 10:49

evolution calendar doesn't show birthdays from ldap addressbook
Hello, as the subject already describes I cannot find out how to make Evolution display the birthdays stored in my ldap addressbook. The addressbook itself is read without problems (i use the evolution ldap scheme). does anyone have a hint where to search or is evolution generally incapable of reading the b... 5 Nov 2009 13:22

debian sur deux diques dur
bonjour, j'aurai voulu installer Debian sur mes deux disques dur. un partage entre les deux disques pour une seule OS. peut-on le faire ,je sais que sur fedora on peu le faire, mais je préfère Debian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub... 1 Nov 2009 16:35

PPP / ADSL / demand / GUI prompt question
stephen2eq(a)yahoo.com put forth on 10/30/2009 7:43 PM: It is just that I would prefer that non-technical guests staying at my house not have to learn to start an xfce-term and type 'pon' before they can use the Internet. If it comes to that I would make the machine boot up into Windows by default, but that would b... 31 Oct 2009 19:55

w3m-img — how to switch between graphic and non-graphic mode?
Hello. w3m-img adds the capability of viewing inline images with the framebuffer to w3m. Is there any key combo or command line option to switch between image and non-image mode? w3m with w3m-img is working, but i didn't find out yet how to switch back to text-only mode without uninstalling w3m-img. -- ... 28 Oct 2009 12:53