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by x111
2010-10-10 16:12
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: What does your desktop look like?
Replies: 5849
Views: 4231390

Re: What does your desktop look like?

Hi Coco, where can i have a theme like your screenshot? The color combination looks great. :)
by x111
2010-10-09 07:00
Forum: General Questions
Topic: [SOLVED] Debian tool for restoring boot sector?
Replies: 4
Views: 881

Re: Debian tool for restoring boot sector?

Oh thank goodness. I've just tried testdisk again and it has found the backup bootsector and restored it successfully.
Now the partition can be read and written as usual.
Thank you for having insisted on testdisk. It's for sure much more intelligent than Disk Probe, though not as flexible. :D
by x111
2010-10-08 13:43
Forum: General Questions
Topic: [SOLVED] Debian tool for restoring boot sector?
Replies: 4
Views: 881

Re: Debian tool for restoring boot sector?

' testdisk ' would be my first port of call. It's in the repo's Oh thank you dilberts. This testdisk tool is great. Now I'm running it and it turns out that the partitions in my hard disk are also heavily messed up. I'm thinking of deleting all of them and create a new and clean disk and install so...
by x111
2010-10-08 10:24
Forum: General Questions
Topic: [SOLVED] Debian tool for restoring boot sector?
Replies: 4
Views: 881

[SOLVED] Debian tool for restoring boot sector?

Hi all, I've carelessly installed grub on hda5 instead of hda, using: # grub-install /dev/hda5 And now my hda5 cannot be mounted with ntfs-3g. Here the error message 'mount' gives: Failed to mount '/dev/hda5': Invalid argument The device '/dev/hda5' doesn't seem to have a valid NTFS. As far as I kno...
by x111
2010-09-24 05:31
Forum: General Debian
Topic: An observation
Replies: 30
Views: 9858

Re: An observation

He's running Linux and his PC is weak is not equivalent to He's running Linux because his PC is weak.
Therefore it doesn't mean that "If his PC is more powerful, he'll be running Windows."
by x111
2010-09-03 06:40
Forum: General Debian
Topic: what's your boottime?
Replies: 51
Views: 23086

Re: what's your boottime?

It takes me 28 seconds from Grub to login prompt, on a Celeron 1.3Ghz
Maybe we should work out an equation between hardware, services and boottime :D
by x111
2010-09-01 10:01
Forum: Graphical Environments & Desktops
Topic: Capture animation with scrot
Replies: 1
Views: 533

Capture animation with scrot

Hello. I'm trying to produce some screenshots of the screen in which there's a window playing a video in avi format. The problem is whenever I take a shot, the video window appears 'solid blue' in the output image. Is there any way or program with which I can capture the current frame of the video. ...
by x111
2010-08-31 15:44
Forum: Programming
Topic: How to hide a terminal ?
Replies: 11
Views: 3185

Re: How to hide a terminal ?

I have a script which play a tune every hour. In my crontab it appears like this:
(myscript.sh &) &> /dev/null
Don't ask me how I came up with this, just tried and failed and found.
Hope this helps you too.
by x111
2010-08-29 12:16
Forum: Graphical Environments & Desktops
Topic: Audio devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG
Replies: 9
Views: 6744

Re: Audio devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG

I briefly saw error messages when I ran it as you said but I had no time to read them. They were before the amixer stuff. Do you know where alsaconf stores its output (if it does store it)? I'll try again, as you advised me to, maybe it'll work eventually. Thanks a lot for your advice. I don't know...
by x111
2010-08-28 06:41
Forum: Graphical Environments & Desktops
Topic: Audio devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG
Replies: 9
Views: 6744

Re: Audio devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG

Finally I got it working. :D The problem is in alsaconf. Sometimes it does a good job recognizing and configuring your card, and sometimes it just doesn't. Here the step I used: - Reboot your computer, into command line interface (just for making sure that no other app interfering alsa) - Run alsaco...
by x111
2010-08-28 05:10
Forum: Graphical Environments & Desktops
Topic: Audio devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG
Replies: 9
Views: 6744

Re: Audio devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG

Ah-ha. Mine is a recent laptop and the sound never functioned. Do you thing we should revert to a previous version of Debian? Which was the latest version you had which functioned? Well, the fact is that I had Debian Lenny 5.05, and the sound was OK. After some time, I messed up stable and unstable...
by x111
2010-08-28 03:36
Forum: Graphical Environments & Desktops
Topic: Audio devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG
Replies: 9
Views: 6744

Re: Audio devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG

I'm experiencing the same issue here. cat /dev/sndstat tells me that Sound Driver:3.8.1a-980706 (ALSA v1.0.16 emulation code) Kernel: Linux debian 2.6.26-2-686 #1 SMP Thu Aug 19 03:44:10 UTC 2010 i686 Config options: 0 Installed drivers: Type 10: ALSA emulation Card config: Intel 82801CA-ICH3 with A...
by x111
2010-08-26 13:41
Forum: Graphical Environments & Desktops
Topic: X/softwares messed up after upgrade
Replies: 2
Views: 556

Re: X/softwares messed up after upgrade

Oh yeah, thanks for your reply. Just re-installed it. I think I'll stick to the stable from now on. :(
by x111
2010-08-26 02:52
Forum: Graphical Environments & Desktops
Topic: X/softwares messed up after upgrade
Replies: 2
Views: 556

X/softwares messed up after upgrade

Hello everybody. Recenty I'm trying to install cups and samba on my Lenny box. Aptitude installs them smoothly but when it comes to configure and start the services, errors messages appeared saying that: "Starting Samba daemons: nmbd/usr/sbin/nmbd: Error while loading shared library: libgssapi_...
by x111
2010-08-09 13:30
Forum: Docs, HowTos, Tips & Tricks
Topic: Howto watch YouTube with only free software in Debian
Replies: 64
Views: 92573

Re: Howto watch YouTube with only free software in Debian

kedaha wrote:
(Please note, this only works on Debian Squeeze. To get it working on Lenny will require a different procedure).

Hope you find this useful.
So glad to see such a useful howto. But how about that 'different procedure' for users of Lenny like me ?
by x111
2010-08-09 05:21
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Dark userstyle for debian forums
Replies: 7
Views: 2050

Re: Dark userstyle for debian forums

Hey it works !!!
I like this style, dark/black is my favourite tone. However, can you make the default style not appear (though shortly) before the dark style get loaded ?
Again, good work !
by x111
2008-02-14 03:29
Forum: General Questions
Topic: Several Etch 4 R2 Problems - sound, nfs, mount.
Replies: 1
Views: 707

Several Etch 4 R2 Problems - sound, nfs, mount.

Hi, everybody, I'm a new to Debian, and I've get in to some troubles with my Etch 4 R2 system Please help me fix it otherwise I'll have to re-install the whole system (which I haven't know how to yet, either) :) After some commands (I don't remember exactly), in the following restart: 1. My system c...
by x111
2007-12-12 04:46
Forum: Installation
Topic: Which ISOes to download
Replies: 3
Views: 1140

Which ISOes to download

I'm considering fresh installing EtchR1, but i'm not sure whether I need to download the debian-update-4.0r1-i386 ISO file, or just the first 3 ISOes. Please help me. Thanks