Debian

stop automatic checkdisk on boot
Every 20 odd boots my system does a checkdisk scan of sda5 (root file system) and sda7 /home. As it's a laptop and I need fast booting, how can I stop these checks all together? I tried setting the 6th field of fstab to 0 for both partitions. I thought it was working, but it seemed to do one check just before, so I... 27 Feb 2010 06:38

wireless from the command line
Hi, I've had a good look around and still can't work this one out. Does anyone know how to configure wifi from the command line? I'm currently using wicd, so all my hardware is supported, however, as I rarely start X I would prefer to manage wifi connections through the cli. I believe I have to use wpasupplic... 28 Feb 2010 06:42

GNU .screenrc and scrolling problem
Hi! I'm using the xfce4-terminal and GNU screen. However since ... forever I have stuff in my .screenrc that made it recently stopped when I switched to Debian and xfce's term: defscrollback 5000 termcapinfo xterm|xterms|xs|rxvt ti@:te xfce4's terminal settings reflect an xterm. rxvt and other terminal emu... 27 Feb 2010 01:17

Debian compatibility with US Robotics USR5637 external USB modem
On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:09:19 -0800, Peter Tenenbaum wrote: I'm getting ready to assemble a computer, and intend to use Debian Linux as the OS. In addition to everything else I want to have a 56k modem for the computer -- partially as an emergency backup for the network, but mainly so that I can run a fax... 27 Feb 2010 12:07

Kernel panic - not syncing and some other strange things
Hi folks, a few days ago I helped a friend find drivers for XP box (detecting with lspci and connecting on net with Live CD). When I came home and put that USB memory in my up to date Squeeze box I could not delete the directory with the drivers. Even as root. Strangest of all, it was not driver.exe anymore, b... 11 Mar 2010 19:06

Playing video embedded in pdf
I have no success in using acroread 9.3 with plugin to play a flash video which form part of a pdf-presentation. According to what I have seen (I think it was on Wikipedia) an embedded flv-file should play. Acroread complains that the format is not supported. Any idea on how to get it working? I have trie... 24 Feb 2010 10:50

Playing video embedded in pdf (solved)
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 04:53:02PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: I have no success in using acroread 9.3 with plugin to play a flash video which form part of a pdf-presentation. According to what I have seen (I think it was on Wikipedia) an embedded flv-file should play. Acroread complains that the ... 24 Feb 2010 10:50

Kword
Is Kword supported in squeeze/sid yet? Can someone give me the link at Debian or alternative sources please? I do not seem to find/install it through 'aptitude install ...". Thanks. -- Regards, ... 24 Feb 2010 09:43

fglrx driver in debian squeeze in limbo?
I need to build the fglrx driver for debian squeeze (ati radeon hd 4550 card), but I just saw this bug saying packages removed from testing: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=564444 So the packages referred to here: http://wiki.debian.org/ATIProprietary such as "fglrx-control" and "fglrx-driver" a... 24 Feb 2010 08:36

XDMCP in GDM Not Working
I have GDM XDMCP enabled. However, when I select on the GDM screen to login to a remote system via XDMCP, the system scans the netowrk and then returns a claim of No Serving Hosts Were Found. I know this is wrong, because another box on my network is also XDMCP enabled, and its GDM chooser is only showing itself... 26 Feb 2010 06:20