Debian

rollback X, SIS671/771
Hi, http://snapshot.debian.net/ On Thu, 28 Jan 2010, Sebastian wrote: I have a SIS 671/771 graphics card in my laptop (Fujitsu Esprimo v5535) which has always given me grief. It was running smoothly with resolution up to 1024x800 however with a driver I downloaded from the net[1] on my debian squeeze/si... 2 Feb 2010 15:53

Scaling governor via sysctl?
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 08:42:13PM -0800, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: I get nothing. Why can I write to a value in sysfs that can't be accessed with sysctl? And more importantly, how am I supposed to do this at boot without sysctl.conf? Two quick answers, but a remaining question. The default governor can be s... 2 Feb 2010 15:52

My Sid box is lost Module p80211
Hi all, I have to manage WiFi on my up to date Sin [lenovo s10e (Broadcom-of course)] with http://wiki.debian.org/wl#Sid instructions. Everything was just fine until rebooting before two days ago. WiFi is stop working, actually he see other networks with 20% quality. In the same time IBM R51 (Squeeze) see much... 2 Feb 2010 15:50

apt-pinning: how to avoid installing of all-new packages?
Dear list How do I prevent apt in a mixed stable/testing environment from installing packages that first time appear in testing using apt-pinning? Right now gcc-4.4-base would get installed on a mixed system by apt-get upgrade, since it does arrange well with all required libraries found in stable. It depen... 7 Feb 2010 15:21

Please help me understand APT pinning...
Hi, I've struggled with this issue for hours and gotten no help from Manpages, nor IRC. So if someone could help me and CC me on their reply (as I am not subscribed), I would be very grateful. I am running a Debian Squeeze system. I want to install selected packages from debian-multimedia and grml on it. Fu... 2 Feb 2010 15:53

Problem with tty when debian testing(2.6.32-trunk kernel) starts up
Jeffrey Cao wrote: When I upgraded to 2.6.32-trunk kernel in debian testing, I got a problem with tty on startup. After power on, it jumpts to tty4 or tty5(one time to tty4, and another time to tty5) before printing the following message: "INIT: Entering runlevel 2" Why does it jumpt to tty4/tty5 rath... 27 Jan 2010 10:21

Problem with tty when debian testing(2.6.32-trunk kernel) starts up
When I upgraded to 2.6.32-trunk kernel in debian testing, I got a problem with tty on startup. After power on, it jumpts to tty4 or tty5(one time to tty4, and another time to tty5) before printing the following message: "INIT: Entering runlevel 2" Why does it jumpt to tty4/tty5 rather than just stay on tty1? Je... 27 Jan 2010 07:01

hangs with 2.6.32 on debian squeeze?
I'm experiencing strange system hangs after squeeze was upgraded from 2.6.30-2 to 2.6.32. That happens on two systems, where one is 686 and the other is amd64. Anybody else with overall strange behaviour with the new kernel? So, I reinstalled the 2.6.30-2 kernel which prematurely I admit, I purged. Now for a ... 28 Jan 2010 03:09

how to set permanent ulimit
How can I set ulimit? when I give: ulimit -n 10240 ok, ulimit -n gives 10240. But. after a few minutes, it 1024 again! How can I set the ulimit to be permanently 10240? It would be important! :S Thank you :\ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subjec... 27 Jan 2010 04:51

Wireless Mouse vs. Cell Phone ?? (Found source?)
On Sunday 20 December 2009 22:56:06 David Baron wrote: I have had problems with zillions of mouse message errors choking my /var partitions with multi-gigabyte syslog and daemon.logs. This cripples Xorg paralyzing KDE, KDM, and the only way to get on is from ssh outside, delete those files and reboot. I hav... 26 Jan 2010 13:12