1 Reply by #1936

(17 replies, posted in Help & Support (Testing/Unstable))

ivanovnegro wrote:

Sorry, you mentioned it already.

But are you sure it pulls gnome-mplayer?
Anyway, if you need it install it, or do you have such limited disk space? smile

no worries...yep, even with --no-install-recommends it brings gnome-mplayer...
but yeah, you're right, i have no space problems so i might as well just go with it...
just one of those annoying things you know.

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2 Reply by #1936

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#1936 wrote:

even a apt-get install --no-install-recommends brings quite a lot of unnecessary junk so i am still to find something that suits my needs.

i did...thanks though

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3 Reply by #1936

(655 replies, posted in Artwork & Screenshots)

it's been a while...

http://ompldr.org/tZDBqaQ

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4 Reply by #1936

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Tunafish wrote:
#1936 wrote:

... i was trying to find proper substitutes and i thought about the gecko-mediaplayer but even a apt-get install --no-install-recommends brings quite a lot of unnecessary junk so i am still to find something that suits my needs.

What does it try to install? Shouldn't be 'quite a lot' I think:

$ aptitude show gecko-mediaplayer 
Unable to find an archive "statler" for the package "gecko-mediaplayer"
Package: gecko-mediaplayer
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 1.0.5-1
Priority: optional
Section: video
Maintainer: Debian Multimedia Maintainers <pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Uncompressed Size: 727 k
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), libcurl3-gnutls (>= 7.16.2), libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.0.2), libdbus-glib-1-2 (>= 0.78), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1), libglib2.0-0
         (>= 2.14), libgmlib0 (>= 1.0.5), libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.1), gconf2 (>= 2.28.1-2), gnome-mplayer (>= 1.0.4)

@kruijf....
I just tried (as I don't have sounds enabled in Icedove) to play a sound from Icedove. It works and indeed... gecko-mediaplayer is being used by Icedove as well. This will probably be the same with Thunderbird.


basically the dependencies that you showed...
i know, not that many but still annoys me as i have no use for gnome-mplayer...

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5 Reply by #1936

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Tunafish wrote:

I suggest using gecko-mediaplayer instead

sudo apt-get install gecko-mediaplayer

thanks for the answers and sorry but i had some connection issues...

anyway (and apart from the correct naming) i was trying to find proper substitutes and i thought about the gecko-mediaplayer but even a apt-get install --no-install-recommends brings quite a lot of unnecessary junk so i am still to find something that suits my needs.

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6 Topic by #1936

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i dist-upgraded a couple of days ago and apt told me it would uninstall mozilla-vlc-plugin. checking debian packages i could see it was gone from both testing and sid (i'm running testing).
i am currently unable to listen to online radios directly from the browser (iceweasel in my case)
the strange thing was that supposedly the package vlc-data would substitute mozilla-vlc-plugin...
anyone else facing the same problem? ideas?

thanks...

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7 Reply by #1936

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henkharmsen wrote:

1936, the problem is that i can't get to a working screen [hard disk] or some sort of start up [live disk], so i can't even start up in safe mode.

henk

ok i see. hadn't fully understood the problem.

luck then

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8 Reply by #1936

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please consider that i am using testing.

however, this is what i did.
/ started in safe mode
/ blacklisted nouveau

(at this point i was able to easily use my intel integrated card)

/ installed bumblebee (from http://suwako.nomanga.net/ as i'm on testing)

(all installed correctly up until it had to start the bumblebee daemon which failed and thus the installation did not conclude)

/ installed new kernel from liquorix
/ reinstalled bumblebee and bumblebee-nvidia which now installed correctly

also, check the BIOS as posted by xaos52 (my laptop did not have this option though)

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9 Reply by #1936

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works here...however i have the november 2011 release (amd64)

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10 Reply by #1936

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dumbboy wrote:
#1936 wrote:
dumbboy wrote:

non of these works for me, and idk why... i did everything like told...

that's strange. can you be more specific to which problems you ran into?
as i said, i am running testing but i had no problems with http://suwako.nomanga.net/...

first i can't download bumblebee, and second if i download from elsewhere v3.0 i can't launch it cos of config cos it somewhy can't run

are you running stable or testing?

if testing or unstable what is the output of: apt-get install bumblebee bumblebee-nvidia

if stable, did you try to follow the instructions here: https://wiki.debian.org/Bumblebee

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11 Reply by #1936

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dumbboy wrote:

non of these works for me, and idk why... i did everything like told...

that's strange. can you be more specific to which problems you ran into?
as i said, i am running testing but i had no problems with http://suwako.nomanga.net/...

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12 Reply by #1936

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also check: http://suwako.nomanga.net/
i was able to do it no problem; difference is i'm running testing

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13 Reply by #1936

(176 replies, posted in News & Announcements)

^ cool... downloading it as typing. will be seeding the 64-bit backport edition for a while

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14 Reply by #1936

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#1936 wrote:
el_koraco wrote:

Look at bumblebee and debumblebee. Optimus is a horrible thing.

particularly check: http://linux-hybrid-graphics.blogspot.c … lease.html

sorry, forgot to put in this link which at least for me was helpful: http://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Asus/U36SD

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15 Reply by #1936

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el_koraco wrote:

Look at bumblebee and debumblebee. Optimus is a horrible thing.

particularly check: http://linux-hybrid-graphics.blogspot.c … lease.html

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16 Reply by #1936

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corenominal wrote:
pvsage wrote:

Seriously, Philip - just ditch SLiM already.  Like, change one of the Statler packages so that, on dist-upgrade, SLiM is replaced with GDM or a functional equivalent.  Really.  I mean, it looks like over 90% of the issues people have been having with the point release are directly related to what SLiM doesn't do that GDM does.

Blimey, this SLiM business is a puzzling one. I have had more than a few emails which have praised the replacement of GDM with SLiM, but no emails which have mentioned any problems with it. However this thread seems to indicate that there are some serious issues. I am finding it difficult to keep track.

Am I correct in understanding that the majority of issues are caused when trying to move from stable/Squeeze to testing or unstable?


yes, I believe you can say that most problems arose when users (such as myself) moved from stable to testing/unstable. for example, a quick stroll around archlinux or debian forums will present many examples of this strange interactions between SLiM and thunar...

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17 Reply by #1936

(2 replies, posted in Tips, Tricks & Scripts)

even though i normally do not like to wake up old posts...it seemed relevant as i was finally able to get bumblebee to work.

and all thanks to: http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=217167

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18 Topic by #1936

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hey all,

last week I finally got my new laptop, a nice Asus N55SF with the dreaded Optimus technology [a hybrid graphics card, Nvidia/Intel]. setting it up as a dual boot environment I ran into some problems. this does not try to be a How-to, only a helper to whoever might run into the same problem.

firstly I installed win7 [needed for work reasons]. when I tried the live session with statler's new point release it was a no-go. I was able to boot in failsafe mode.
I then proceeded to install it, no problems there. however afterwards I was not able to boot [system froze when trying to load the nouveau modules].

the workaround for me was quite easy. booted in failsafe mode.
blacklisted the nouveau modules in /etc/modprobe.d/
reconfigured X-org
I was then able to normally boot to statler.

I am still to play with bumblebee but at least i can use intel for the time being, more than enough for what I need.

hope it may help someone


[edit: grammar stuff]

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19 Reply by #1936

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aaro wrote:

That nvidia card uses Optimus technology, which means you won't be able to use the nvidia chip in Linux. There's no official Optimus driver for Linux yet. I have read there's some hacks developed to make it possible to switch manually from one gpu to the other but that's it. You will then fallback to the intel gpu built-in in your i7 processor, which is not bad, but you should know that you won't be able to use the nvidia chip in Linux without some hacks.

yep, exactly what i had read...i also believe some of these laptops could have the built-in gpu disabled via bios but i can't confirm it. can anyone confirm if the same applies to the HD 6770M? i believe so (different name, not optimus, but same s***).

regarding the nvidia, found it: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=n … ;px=OTQxNg

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20 Topic by #1936

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hi all,

time has come to get a new laptop...its use will be mainly work (CAD, render, office stuff, budget and structural calc software). i need good graphics as i want it to last some 5/6 years...after much research i'm thinking of this:

Asus N55SF-S1370V
/ Intel® Core™ i7-2670QM Quad Core (Sandy Bridge)
/ 6 Gb RAM DDR3-1333
/ 640 GB 7200rpm
/ LED FullHD 1920x1080 pixels
/ NVIDIA® GeForce™ GT555M, 2048Mb

a similar possibility would be an HP DV6, basically the same only the graphics are Radeon HD6770M with GGR5

It's not cheap but i do need it so...now, work wise i'm forced to use windows but i'll obviously have it dual booting with debian testing...now, i've heard that most of these mid/top range laptops (both Nvidia or ATI/AMD) come with dual graphics (Nvidia/ATI + Intel OnBoard) for energy saving (even though i don't see it on Asus website). and i also heard that many problems when using debian/linux come from this dual graphics...any suggestions or tips? as for the laptops, any ideas?

thanks in advance

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21 Reply by #1936

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hinto wrote:

I run Liquorix on all my Debian installs (#! and LMDE).  I haven't checked, but does it run on Mint Main (or Ubuntu)?
-H

even though i remember seeing someone who had it running on an ubuntu install (on the tech patterns forums i believe) it is not recommended or supported...

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22 Reply by #1936

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slapfish wrote:

I was reading the arch forum about thunar and I was able to fix the thumbnails problem by installing tumbler. I also understood that the trash problem is still unresolved if you run thunar outside xfce4.

correct as i'm running the openbox version.

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23 Reply by #1936

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slapfish wrote:

I'm running #! wheezy (actually testing in the repos) and a couple of days ago I got the updated thunar and my file-manager was finally (almost) complete. Network browse (if only it will prompt for user/pass) and all partitions are now listing on the side.

But I came up with two problems. Thumbnails and trash stopped working. I fixed the trash by deleting the ~/.local/share/Trash folder and the new that was created fixed the problem. I tried the same with the ~/.Thumbnails folder but I ended up loosing ALL the thumbnails. Now none of the pictures, pdf, video etc are getting a thumbnail view. Just the icon of its type.

Anyone using wheezy and having the same problem? any thoughts? Should I file a bug?


exactly the same problem here...also running testing
and, not sure if related, but ever since i cannot unmount any device such as a usb pen without thunar complaining!

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24 Topic by #1936

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very thoughtful review...take a look

http://landorsplace.wordpress.com/2011/ … runchbang/

(@ mods: feel free to move this post to where you consider suitable)

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25 Reply by #1936

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Statler Testing issue
yesterday night when upgrading, iceweasel 4 was removed (apparently some dependencies' problems)

Solution:
re-install it (yep, that obvious)

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