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Debian squeeze on Samsung N220: almost working very well but no control of brightness
Eric S Fraga wrote: Can anybody please suggest what I might be able to try to control the brightness levels? At best, it would be to gain control via the blue function keys but direct commands are fine as well. In my laptop function keys don't work, so I change brightness with command: su root echo 4... 22 Mar 2010 16:49

Wifi Can't Connect
I had wifi, now I don't. I just upgraded my kernel (using aptitude) from 2.6.26-686 to 2.6.32-3-686 and followed that with "aptitude full-upgrade", which removed a number of packages (that I wasn't using anyway) because I had previously always used apt-get (and I understand the consequences of this). I also installe... 23 Mar 2010 20:37

VMWare Player as debian package
Hello, Has anyone tried to package VMWare-Player as debian package ? I am not able to find anything up-to-date for things related to vmware. I am not very incline to run the shell (.bundle) script as root. Thank you, -- Mathieu Ps: no flame please, I was given a vmware image. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema... 25 Mar 2010 18:34

Any incompatibility with Ethernet adapters?
On 03/22/2010 07:42 PM, Jason Filippou wrote: Hi, My mobo's network card's crashed and I was wondering if I'd have to be weary on which would be the next one I'd have to purchase as far as Debian compatibility is concerned. Are there ethernet adapters out there that have incompatibility problems with ... 22 Mar 2010 14:13

Sun Java plugin doesn't work in Squeeze
I've tried to run the Sun Java plugin in both Iceweasel and Firefox on Squeeze without any success. The error I get from the Sun test page http://www.java.com/en/download/installed.jsp?detect=jre&try=1 in the Java console is as follows. Does anybody know how to fix this? or what is wrong? some incompatible library, may... 22 Mar 2010 14:13

Comparison of using Sidux as opposed to Squeeze
I keep a fairly vanilla Lenny box to do most of my personal/work stuff get frustrated when I want to play a newer game and/or upgrade some software that is requiring a newer library. Usually backports aren't available and/or too unwieldy. My question is how usable is Sidux? I've read a few accounts that Squeez... 22 Mar 2010 13:04

which kernel
Recently the 2.6.32-3-686 kernel was posted to testing. When it was added to the grub menu it was put *after* the 2.6.32-trunk-686 kernel. Which is the newer kernel? If 2.6.32-3 is newer why was it placed in second position? -- "All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegi... 21 Mar 2010 21:57

Transferring files over SSH in the console
I am managing a small embedded device that I SSH into over the LAN. To run commands, I use KDE Konsole, and to transfer files I use Konqueror and SFTP. I understand that SFTP also runs over SSH, so is there a way to send files in Konsole as well? I am familiar with the FTP commands such as cd, lcd, put, and get. Ar... 1 Apr 2010 10:08

Not able to change password with passwd
Hi, recently I set up a new server using Debian testing. When I tried adding a new user a few days later, I noticed that it was impossible to set a password for the user. The error-message ist "System error" together with the information that the password is unchanged. root(a)fp:/home/airflow# adduser lorenz ... 23 Apr 2010 17:41

Iceweasel (from backports) keeps busy cursor at startup
Hello, I have udpated -in one of my testing computers running Lenny/GNOME- Iceweasel package from backports (now featuring 3.5.8). So far so good :-) But I have noted that when launching the program from taskbar icon (associated command "iceweasel %u") Iceweasel opens fine but mouse cursor keeps the busy st... 22 Mar 2010 15:30