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Fw: Re: Re: switching to console and zapping
---------- Original Message ---------- From: cjns1989(a)gmail.com Date: Jun. 27 2010 02:26PM Subject: Re: Re: switching to console and zapping buggy video driver? try Driver "vesa" in device section of xorg.conf. ---------- Original Message ---------- From: "lee" lee(a)yun.yagibdah.de Date: Jun. 27 2010 08... 28 Jun 2010 12:49

grub2 and USB
Hi, Anybody knows if grub2 allows me to boot partitions from USB? If so, that'd be useful to boot from boxes that don't have booting off USB disks ability. Thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/ -- To UNSUBSCRIB... 27 Jun 2010 21:36

gpart can retire now
Hi, [sorry about the cross-posting first] The gpart package that find lost partitions, has anyone try to test if it still works? "Luckily" my whole partition table is wiped clean by a running away Windows app, and I get the chance to test it. The result? -- After 1 hour and 25+ minutes of scanning, gpart w... 29 Jun 2010 19:37

Plasma lock/logout buttons lack icons
Anyone? On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 8:11 AM, B. Alexander <storm16(a)gmail.com> wrote: I just built a brand new laptop, a Lenovo T400 specifically, with KDE 4.4.4. One of the things I enabled on the panel is the lock/logout plasmoid. However, instead of a blue lock and red logout icon, both (all three, since ... 27 Jun 2010 17:11

[SOLVED] dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.26-2-686 (--configure)
On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 10:51:49 -0400 (EDT), Mizanur Khondoker wrote: Stephen Powell wrote: OK, I see what's wrong.  You've got your symlinks messed up. I'm not sure how things got into that state, but they're all messed up.  You could fix your symlinks, but since grub doesn't need them, here's wh... 27 Jun 2010 13:54

repositories for AMD 64 apps
Hello John W Foster, Am 2010-06-27 11:19:23, hacktest Du folgendes herunter: TO ALL: anyone that knows of ANY applications, drivers, that are designed to run in native 64bit AMD architecture especially those with GPLed source code available...Please send me the site of the apps, if they are your creation... 1 Jul 2010 14:27

bunzip?
Hi, I've got some files I compressed years back with bzip. Now bunzip2 can't decompress them, and there doesn't seem to be something like bunzip in Debian. And idea how to uncompress these files? -- 27/06/2010 04:03:46 The X server says there are 10 mouse buttons. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debia... 27 Jun 2010 11:43

dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.26-2-686 (--configure)
> On Sat, 26 Jun 2010 16:23:17 -0400 (EDT), Mizanur Khondoker wrote: I am having the following error while upgrading lenny. Any help would be greatly appreciated. debian:/home/mizanur# aptitude safe-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information.... 27 Jun 2010 11:43

sudo a user without password
Hi On a Desktop machine, running Debian Lenny [GNOME], i just want to put a .desktop icon on the desktop, so that i can easy launch apps with other users [e.g. not so trusted programs..maybe this way i could get a little more secure.. :) ]. ######################################### $ cat Dude.desktop [Deskto... 27 Jun 2010 11:43

portmap error during upgrade from etch to lenny
Charles Blair put forth on 6/26/2010 8:35 AM: I tried to upgrade to lenny using an ethernet connection. The process stopped when the monitor displayed "trying to update portmap 5-26" After a few minutes, I pressed control-C and the upgrade seemed to continue. The resulting system seems to work, ... 26 Jun 2010 23:54