I don’t know how it really happened – probably a VMWare crash that locked my file system, but after a reboot I got this message at startup : As a result, some of the partitions were not mounted and the system was pretty much broken. But, no need to panic, just erase all the lock [...]
openSUSE 11.1 is out and already on all my desktop PC. This distribution is, by far, the best Linux environment for a desktop PC : very stable, up to date, polished, professional… I also appreciate the huges improvements made on Yast and the package management system. Despite being an advanced user that like to use [...]
I have just upgraded WMWare from version 6.04 to 6.5, and I have to say that it has very nice new features. The first surprising thing was the file I downloaded. It is now not anymore a tar.gz archive but a .bundle file. After downloading, as root, just make it executable or start it with [...]
I confirm the black screen issue with Totem. Actually it changes the contrast for all the environment, and of course using Mplayer or the gstreamer test program just after also gave back a black screen. Therefore I had been convinced it was a driver issue (reporting a bug to Nvidia and posting on this forum), [...]
I just replaced ESD by the new sound server Pulseaudio. Pulseaudio brings up some great improvements and is already chipped by Fedora 8. Getting it to work on my Debian Testing was very easy : However there were two issues to face : no more sound with Flash and Skype. To solve the flash issue, [...]
Gnome sounds are based on the ESD mixing system (allowing to play different sounds at the same time with the same card), which is itself based on the OSS sound service. The problem is that it does not work by default with a Debian Testing system. And if you try to start Esd in a [...]
If you have a laptop, Network-Manager running and use ACPI to hibernate, look at this bug report and its nice tip : Editing /etc/default/acpi-support with this line : STOP_SERVICES=”networking” solved an old issue I used to have (and for which I wrote a dirty script with modprobe, dhclient, etc.
You may want to save your selection of packages, in order to reinstall all your softs later without having to look for and manually install them one after another. On Debian / Ubuntu, this is quite easy. A while ago the solution used to be : and then, an a freshed installed machine : But, [...]
