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debian-user-digest Digest Volume 2007 : Issue 1910

Today's Topics:

  Re: How to check if a DVD is damaged  [ L.V.Gandhi  ]
  Re: lenny comfortable yet?            [ Roberto =?iso-8859-1?Q?C=2E_S=E1nch ]
  Re: lenny comfortable yet?            [ Claudius Hubig  ]
  Re: DNS server [was: dhcpd.conf ques  [ Adam Hardy  ]
  Re: Installing a JRE plug-in          [ "Martin Marcher"  ]
  Re: tetex and texlive: changes in De  [ "David Fox"  ]
  Re: setting default screen resolutio  [ "Michael M."  ]
  Re: tetex and texlive: changes in De  [ "H.S."  ]

Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2007 06:48:24 -0700
From: L.V.Gandhi <lvgandhi@gmail.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: How to check if a DVD is damaged?

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On 7/7/07, Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> wrote:

> Many thanks to all that provided their help. Mostly I found easy to use
> Thomas' suggestion:
>
>
> "Thomas Hoppeer" <thoppeer@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > To verify data on your dvd you can also use star and readcd:
> > http://www.linuxconfig.org/Create_and_burn_ISO_images_with_mkisofs_%26_cdrecord#Verify_data
>
>
> . Now, `readcd' would produce I/O error messages with *all* DVDs, also the ones
> that I know for sure are all right. So, it was actually not useful at all.
> Instead, `star' seems to do the proper job: with Sarge I did:
>
> # apt-get install star
>
> , then mounted the disk, then cd into it and:
>
> $ star -cPM . >/dev/null
>
> . With the damaged disk, it produced an output like:
>
> star: Input/output error. Error reading 'rodolfo-30.giu.2007/mobile/opensync/libsyncml/tests/.svn/README.txt'.
>
>
> , then ended up with:
>
> star: 118167 blocks + 5120 bytes (total of 1210035200 bytes = 1181675.00k).
> star: The following problems occurred during archive processing:
> star: Cannot: stat 0, open 0, read/write 662. Size changed 0.
> star: Missing links 0, Name too long 0, File too big 0, Not dumped 0.
> star: Processed all possible files, despite earlier errors.
>
> . Instead, with the brand new DVD the output was:
>
> star: 119837 blocks + 9216 bytes (total of 1227140096 bytes = 1198379.00k).
>
> . So it seems that I can use this tool to verify disk integrity. I didn't try
> other people suggestions because this one was the simplest for me. Only one
> thing: the command `apt-get install star' does not work with Etch: it knows no
> package named `star'. Any suggestion about how to install star under Etch?
>
> Thanks indeed,
> Rodolfo

for me in etch
apt-get install star works.
lvgvaio:~# apt-get install star
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed: star
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 298kB of archives.
After unpacking 651kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://ftp.us.debian.org etch/main star 1.5a67-1 [298kB] Fetched 298kB in 0s (491kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package star. (Reading database ... 110520 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking star (from .../star_1.5a67-1_i386.deb) ... Setting up star (1.5a67-1) ...

-- 
L.V.Gandhi
http://lvgandhi.tripod.com/
linux user No.205042

Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2007 10:07:59 -0400 From: Roberto =?iso-8859-1?Q?C=2E_S=E1nchez?= <roberto@connexer.com> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: lenny comfortable yet? Message-ID: <20070707140759.GB17138@santiago.connexer.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="0ntfKIWw70PvrIHh" Content-Disposition: inline --0ntfKIWw70PvrIHh Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 09:24:49AM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> =20
> Yes and no. For 99% of what I do, my 486 is fine. Although, after
> doing a drive-shell game to get Etch on it (it only has 32 MB ram so
> the installer doesn't work), its really much slower than sarge and
> certainly slower than woody. Text-mode scrolling (no framebuffer) and
> cursor movement, as in arrow-down in mc or lynx, is jerky and slow.
> OTOH, Net- or Open-BSD run great on it. That 99% of what I do is
> text-based. Konquerer is too painful (the other 1%). OTOH, now that
> I've got an Athlon64 with 1 GB ram, and dual 80 GB drives (raid1 for the
> system), I've got lots of room. OTOH, Stuff just takes up more and more
> memory. OTOH, there are no other hands (from __Fiddler_on_the_Roof__)
> :)
>=20
Check your locale settings. I think that starting with Etch, the default locale is set to a UTF8 locale. That means that every application has to treat everything as unicode. AIUI, that makes things slower. This is espcially noticable on an older machine. Regards, -Roberto --=20 Roberto C. S=E1nchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com --0ntfKIWw70PvrIHh Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGj54/1snWssAFC08RAvPiAJ44NKSX5TJLOSj0plS7sab5JR3p1QCeNVyS AarogSRi0LEqDkPRvYYADZI= =UTyr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --0ntfKIWw70PvrIHh--

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Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2007 15:37:31 +0200 From: Claudius Hubig <x2017_2007@nurfuerspam.de> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: lenny comfortable yet? Message-ID: <f6o50d$ckg$1@sea.gmane.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Douglas, Douglas Allan Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca> wrote:
>I know that, just like mutual funds, past performance does not guarantee
>future performance, but what has the experience been like for
>non-developers over the past couple of months? Do people think that
>Lenny is ready for a desktop run by a knowledgeable user?
I wouldn't call myself a "knowledgeable" user, but except this really annoying bug in Metacity (#427406), I have no problems running Claws-Mail, Opera, Flash, Pidgin, a whole Gnome Desktop Environment and everything else a usual user needs, in Testing/Unstable. Greetings, Claudius -- Mail: x2017_2007@nurfuerspam.de ICQ: 224491597 ,= ,-_-. =. Jabber: x2017@jabber.ccc.de SIP: x2017@ekiga.net ((_/)o o(\_)) MSN: claudiushubig@passport.com Nightfall.org:23 Claudius `-'(. .)`-' Yahoo: claudiushubig@yahoo.de Using: [Opera|Gaim|*]@Debian \_/ GNU

Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2007 16:31:37 +0200 From: Lorenzo Bettini <bettini@dsi.unifi.it> To: Debian User Mailing List <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Subject: Re: icedove 2 uses a lot of bandwidth Message-ID: <468FA3C9.9040404@dsi.unifi.it> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Matthew K Poer wrote:
> On Saturday 07 July 2007 4:12 am, Lorenzo Bettini wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I like the new features of icedove 2 (thunderbird), but when I'm using a
>> 56k modem, I noticed that it uses a lot of bandwidth (especially upon
>> the first get messages of the day); I'm using only IMAP.
>>
>> I think this is due to the fact that it builds a summary (the one shown
>> in the right bottom corner of the screen) of the new arrived emails by
>> inspecting all the IMAP folders.
>>
>> Is there a way to disable this feature? I couldn't find it in the
>> preferences...
>>
>> thanks in advance
>> Lorenzo
>>
> Look under preferances for a setting called "Fetch Message Headers Only." That
> should save you from having to download each message at once.
>
with IMAP I only fetch message headers only (and actually I didn't find that option in the preferences); I think the problem still persists also when downloading message headers only: thunderbird seems to inspect all the folders for new message headers to show the summary... I'd like to get rid of that summary... -- Lorenzo Bettini, PhD in Computer Science, DSI, Univ. di Firenze ICQ# lbetto, 16080134 (GNU/Linux User # 158233) HOME: http://www.lorenzobettini.it MUSIC: http://www.purplesucker.com BLOGS: http://tronprog.blogspot.com http://longlivemusic.blogspot.com http://www.gnu.org/software/src-highlite http://www.gnu.org/software/gengetopt http://www.gnu.org/software/gengen http://doublecpp.sourceforge.net

Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2007 16:32:43 +0200 From: Tom Rauchenwald <its.sec@gmx.net> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Installing a JRE plug-in Message-ID: <87r6nkz3lg.fsf@sec.modprobe.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii andy <geek_show@dsl.pipex.com> writes:
> Dear each
>
> Iceweasel is telling me that I have a missing plugin, the JRE, which I
> need for a course. I have downloaded jre-6u1-linux-i586.bin (which is
> the appropriate plug-in), but:
> (i) is this the best thing to be using on a Lenny/Sid system and
> (ii) if so, how do I go about installing a *.bin file on my system?
Enable non-free in your /etc/sources.list, like this e.g.: ,---- | deb http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free `---- Of course replace sid with what you are using. Then aptitude update and ,----[ aptitude search jre ] | p docbook-jrefentry - DocBook XML JRefEntry DTD | p libjrexx-java - automaton based regluar expression API for | p sun-java5-jre - Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (JRE) 5.0 | i sun-java6-jre - Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (JRE) 6 ( `---- Ah! Looks like you found what you needed! aptitude install sun-java5-jre (or 6) and you're done.
> Many thanks
>
> A
Tom

Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2007 14:11:59 +0000 (UTC) From: Adam Hardy <adam.ant@cyberspaceroad.com> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: DNS server [was: dhcpd.conf questions] Message-ID: <loom.20070707T160438-335@post.gmane.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Adam Hardy <adam.ant <at> cyberspaceroad.com> writes:
> I've moved on to the bells and whistles now that I've got my network up again.
> Now that I'm using DHCP I need some sort of DNS to locate the servers on my
LAN
> by name.
>
> I see I already have avahi-daemon, which is mDNS according to man, running on
my
> workstation. I'm not sure when or why that got installed, although it isn't
> configured for this situation because my DHCP-controlled IP address isn't able
> to use it to locate named servers on my LAN (or at least the new server I
just
> set up where the DHCPD runs).
>
> The dhcp.conf on my new server mentions DDNS which I haven't looked into, and
> the link mentioned above from debian-administration.org concerns bind9 dns.
>
> What is the most popular these days, or rather the most easily configured and
> managed?
to answer my own question and for anyone else's info, DDNS and DHCP are handled quickly and simply by dnsmasq, which I discovered just now but wish I'd discovered 3 months ago. There's good docs on it and a searchable mailing list at http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.dns.dnsmasq.general

Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2007 10:52:44 -0400 From: Mike Robinson <mike@robinsonhome.org> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Kernel 2.6.18-4 issues Message-ID: <468FA8BC.2090602@robinsonhome.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> So my suggestion would be to bring your system right up-to-date across
> the board and then see if you still have the problem.
I updated using "apt-get upgrade" and the problem still persisted. It may have to do with one of the modules I built and installed. So, to introduce two variables to the equation, I decided to start over and install the 686 kernel. Without adding any new modules, the problem was gone. Next I added the nVidia module...all still well. I still have to add IVTV and LIRC...which I'll get to later today. I'll let you know how it goes. Oh, as a side note, the 2.6.18-686 kernel does recognize all of my memory (unlike version 2.6.12). Thanks for the suggestions. -Mike

Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2007 07:52:30 -0700 From: "David Fox" <dfox94085@gmail.com> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: lenny comfortable yet? Message-ID: <359a3c580707070752v545755e9j2b3f3713f3a91f4c@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_149053_29471684.1183819950451" ------=_Part_149053_29471684.1183819950451 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline
> system), I've got lots of room. OTOH, Stuff just takes up more and more
> memory. OTOH, there are no other hands (from __Fiddler_on_the_Roof__)
That's been the case. I started on a 386sx with 4 megs of ram :).
> I already use TexLive. What happened to your / partition? How small
> was it. Is it only / or is it everything but swap and /home?
I have a 5 gig root partition, includes everything except swap, home, tmp and var.
> I can understand that anything like a dvi viewer may want Tex stuff but
> not KDE in general.
kdvi though, and ISTR that it was brought in with kde. Running aptitude show, it seems that kdvi is part of kdegraphics and it has dependencies on some portions of texlive. Doug. ------=_Part_149053_29471684.1183819950451 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline <div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">system), I've got lots of room.  OTOH, Stuff just takes up more and more <br>memory.  OTOH, there are no other hands (from __Fiddler_on_the_Roof__)</blockquote><div><br>That's been the case. I started on a 386sx with 4 megs of ram :).<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> I already use TexLive.  What happened to your / partition?  How small<br>was it.  Is it only / or is it everything but swap and /home?</blockquote><div><br>I have a 5 gig root partition, includes everything except swap, home, tmp and var. <br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>I can understand that anything like a dvi viewer may want Tex stuff but<br> not KDE in general.</blockquote><div><br>kdvi though, and  ISTR that it was brought in with  kde.<br><br>Running aptitude show, it seems that kdvi is part of kdegraphics and it has dependencies on<br>some portions of texlive. <br><br></div>Doug.<br></div><br> ------=_Part_149053_29471684.1183819950451--

Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2007 16:55:24 +0200 From: "Martin Marcher" <martin.marcher@gmail.com> To: debian-user <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Subject: Re: Installing a JRE plug-in Message-ID: <db90db6e0707070755ob23be57p28a512d4b435d3bb@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline
> Hi Martin
>
> Thanks for this info - I wasn't aware of a native Debian install.
>
> However, now that I have installed sun-java6-jre & bin the plug-in still
> doesn't appear to work. Has this been your experience, and if so do you
> have a suggestion on how to work this or ... ?
forgetting everytime that gmail doesn't handle mailing lists well. make a symlink from your JRE_HOME (in your case the same as java home) to you mozilla plugins directory e.g ln -s $JAVA_HOME/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so ~/.mozilla/<profile>/plugins paths may differ but in general that's the manual way how to do that. Also I suggest that you make a symlink something like ln -s ~/actual_java_version ~/java this way you will have a stable JAVA_HOME and just need to replace the symlink ~/java points to everything else will follow automagically then (which was the case when i was using linux as a desktop system on all the boxes i used, so it seems quite stable)
>
> Cheers for any assistance
>
> Andy
>
> --
>
> "If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." - Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow"
>
>

Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2007 10:54:21 -0400 From: Douglas Allan Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: lenny comfortable yet? Message-ID: <20070707145421.GA8603@titan> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 10:07:59AM -0400, Roberto C. S=E1nchez wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 09:24:49AM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> > =20
> > Yes and no. For 99% of what I do, my 486 is fine. Although, after
> > doing a drive-shell game to get Etch on it (it only has 32 MB ram so
> > the installer doesn't work), its really much slower than sarge and
> > certainly slower than woody. Text-mode scrolling (no framebuffer) an=
d
> > cursor movement, as in arrow-down in mc or lynx, is jerky and slow.
> > OTOH, Net- or Open-BSD run great on it. That 99% of what I do is
> > text-based. Konquerer is too painful (the other 1%). OTOH, now that
> > I've got an Athlon64 with 1 GB ram, and dual 80 GB drives (raid1 for =
the
> > system), I've got lots of room. OTOH, Stuff just takes up more and m=
ore
> > memory. OTOH, there are no other hands (from __Fiddler_on_the_Roof__=
)
> > :)
> >=20
> Check your locale settings. I think that starting with Etch, the
> default locale is set to a UTF8 locale. That means that every
> application has to treat everything as unicode. AIUI, that makes thing=
s
> slower. This is espcially noticable on an older machine.
>=20
Thanks. Its probably set to en_CA.UTF-8. I'm not convinced I need it on any of my systems. Having some UTF and others 'C' makes it a pain when ssh-ing back and forth, running things like mutt and mc, and runing X apps. Doug.

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Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2007 10:47:39 -0400 From: Roberto =?iso-8859-1?Q?C=2E_S=E1nchez?= <roberto@connexer.com> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: icedove 2 uses a lot of bandwidth Message-ID: <20070707144739.GA17581@santiago.connexer.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="uAKRQypu60I7Lcqm" Content-Disposition: inline --uAKRQypu60I7Lcqm Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 04:31:37PM +0200, Lorenzo Bettini wrote:
> Matthew K Poer wrote:
> >>
> >Look under preferances for a setting called "Fetch Message Headers Only.=
"=20
> >That should save you from having to download each message at once.
> >
>=20
> with IMAP I only fetch message headers only (and actually I didn't find=
=20
> that option in the preferences); I think the problem still persists also=
=20
> when downloading message headers only: thunderbird seems to inspect all=
=20
> the folders for new message headers to show the summary... I'd like to=20
> get rid of that summary...
>=20
By default, IMAP clients usually only retrieve message headers. Icedove/Thunderbird is no different in this respect. The setting which relates to looking into every folder when it connects is called "Check for new messages." The way to change it is to right click on the offending folder, select "Properties" and uncheck the "Check this folder for new messages" option. Unfortunately, I do not know of a way to do this once and have it apply to all folders, so you may have to do this quite a bit depending on how many folders you have. Anyhow, that will prevent Icedove from trying to inspect every single folder in your account to see if it received new messages. Regards, -Roberto --=20 Roberto C. S=E1nchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com --uAKRQypu60I7Lcqm Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGj6eL1snWssAFC08RAo/nAJ9EJ9jgR1RXOaHtBXn+ojDx5Rq0NwCfbK10 u9chhdPhb9U8L9TisqpEUA8= =65qs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --uAKRQypu60I7Lcqm--

Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2007 08:31:36 -0700 From: "Michael M." <mcubed@slashmail.org> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: lenny comfortable yet? Message-Id: <1183822296.8031.16.camel@amdrifter.domain.actdsltmp> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 22:19 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: <snip>
>
> My daily must-haves really are mild: base system, a brower (lynx or
> links2), an editor, mutt, exim, fetchmail, and I like mc, and aptitude
> (or apt-get or even dselect or plain dpkg in a pinch), along with
> ppp/chat. It wouldn't bother me if anything else stopped working for a
> while, but if I loose the ability to dial out, loose email, then I'm in
> difficulty.
>
> I know that, just like mutual funds, past performance does not guarantee
> future performance, but what has the experience been like for
> non-developers over the past couple of months? Do people think that
> Lenny is ready for a desktop run by a knowledgeable user?
I can't speak to whether Lenny amd64 will solve your flash-related issues, but Lenny itself is perfectly comfortable. If anything, personally I've been getting a bit frustrated again with the pace of change in Lenny. My purely unscientific, based-on-nothing-more-that-feeling opinion is that Lenny so far is lagging compared to the pace of change in Etch when Etch was the current testing. I've been debating switching to Sid, but I hesitate to take that road since it's difficult (if not impossible; at least, unsupported) to backtrack. Or maybe switching to Ubuntu or trying another distro or FreeBSD. There was a burst of activity over the past few weeks in Lenny upgrades, none of which caused me any problems whatsoever. But it still seems behind where I thought it would be by now. OTOH, if you're worried about instability in Lenny, so far x86 has been rock-solid. -- Michael M. ++ Portland, OR ++ USA "No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream." --S. Jackson

Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2007 08:08:06 -0700 From: "David Fox" <dfox94085@gmail.com> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: tetex and texlive: changes in Debian? Message-ID: <359a3c580707070808l6e178045l6dabb4365d9e429b@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_149197_9607682.1183820886309" ------=_Part_149197_9607682.1183820886309 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline On 06 Jul 2007 17:13:19 GMT, Tyler Smith <tyler.smith@mail.mcgill.ca> wrote:
>
>
> If you search the list you'll find several threads about people
> switching from tetex to texlive now, which is generally painless.
Kind of. But my last dist-upgrade involved grabbing a whole slew of texlive packages, and in particular way too many international files that I'll never need got installed (they seem to be gone now) and it affected me because I ran out of room on my / partition during the dist-upgrade. Most everything is better now (except for a few camera / photo packages that are still only partially installed). Tyler
>
>
>
------=_Part_149197_9607682.1183820886309 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline <br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 06 Jul 2007 17:13:19 GMT, <b class="gmail_sendername">Tyler Smith</b> <<a href="mailto:tyler.smith@mail.mcgill.ca">tyler.smith@mail.mcgill.ca</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <br>If you search the list you'll find several threads about people<br>switching from tetex to texlive now, which is generally painless.</blockquote><div><br>Kind of. But my last dist-upgrade involved grabbing a whole slew of texlive <br>packages, and in particular way too many international files that I'll never need got<br>installed (they seem to be gone now) and it affected me because I ran out of room<br>on my / partition during the dist-upgrade. Most everything is better now (except for a <br>few camera / photo packages that are still only partially installed). <br><br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Tyler<br><br><br></blockquote></div><br> ------=_Part_149197_9607682.1183820886309--

Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2007 08:37:49 -0700 From: "Michael M." <mcubed@slashmail.org> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: setting default screen resolution for Gnome desktop Message-Id: <1183822669.8031.18.camel@amdrifter.domain.actdsltmp> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 13:10 -0700, yong lee wrote:
> Hi, Is there a way to set the default screen
> resolution (to 1280x768. perhaps) for a debian Gnome
> desktop ? I have 4 machines, but I have only 1
> monitor. Currently, I am using a Belkin monitor
> switching device to switch from one machine to another
> whenever I need to see or work on a machine.
>
> The problem is if there is not a monitor/screen
> attaching to it when the machine is booting up, the
> screen resolution will be set to 640x480 by default.
> So when I switch to this machine, the screen and image
> look very bad. I wonder whether I can set the default
> so I would not have this problem.
>
Did you try menu item "Desktop" => "Preferences" => "Screen Resolution"? -- Michael M. ++ Portland, OR ++ USA "No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream." --S. Jackson

Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2007 11:45:04 -0400 From: "H.S." <hs.samix@gmail.com> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: tetex and texlive: changes in Debian? Message-ID: <f6ocet$17k$1@sea.gmane.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit David Fox wrote:
>
>
> On 06 Jul 2007 17:13:19 GMT, *Tyler Smith* <tyler.smith@mail.mcgill.ca
> <mailto:tyler.smith@mail.mcgill.ca>> wrote:
>
>
> If you search the list you'll find several threads about people
> switching from tetex to texlive now, which is generally painless.
>
>
> Kind of. But my last dist-upgrade involved grabbing a whole slew of texlive
> packages, and in particular way too many international files that I'll
> never need got
> installed (they seem to be gone now) and it affected me because I ran
> out of room
> on my / partition during the dist-upgrade. Most everything is better now
Same here. From all the texlive packages that are to be intall, there at least a few tetex package still, e.g. tetex-bin tetex-extra. These packages I would expect to be purged by aptitude automatically (by reporting they are no longer used) some time "soon". ->HS
> (except for a
> few camera / photo packages that are still only partially installed).
>
>
> Tyler
>
>
>
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