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Debian is a community driven GNU/Linux distribution first announced 1993. It is well known for its package management system APT and large number of packages. Many other distributions are influenced or originate from it, like Ubuntu or Knoppix.
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Configure touchscreen on Debian?
I have got Samsung Q1 Ultra with Debian Squeeze on it. Everything works okay, except touchscreen.
The arrow almost does not respond to touching -- it only moves once in a while to a random place ...
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Enabling 1366x768 resolution in Debian Wheezy on Atom D525 Board
For some reason, when I try to update to a modern version of Linux from Debian 6.0.7 or Ubuntu 10.0.4, I lose most of the resolutions that were available, including the native resolution of the panel ...
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Disable screen blackout in KDE while watching iPlayer
How can I turn off the screen blackout in Linux when playing a film in BBC iPlayer? I usually use it in Chrome, but if there is a way to do it in Firefox (Iceweasel) than it is good enough as well.
I ...
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Debian Wheezy + Hostapd 1.0 + ath9k randomly failing
I got a problem with my soft AP.
I got an old PC running as router which has 3 NIC and 1 wifi PCI card TP-Link L-WN751ND. This box runs Debian Wheezy, hostapd, dhcpd etc. The problem is that AP ...
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Rsnapshot destination full - how to safely rerun?
I ran my Rsnapshot backup today but my external drive became full half-way through the incremental backup (I have about 20 incremental backups now).
"rsync: write failed on "": No space left on ...
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Administratively spread several Thunderbird per-recipient rules for some users?
I administer several computers that have Thunderbird/Icedove installed and I want to spread Thunderbird per-recipient rules for some users. The rules are stored in a file - pgprules.xml in the user ...
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How do I mount a Windows folder with cifs on Raspian
I'd like to access the music library from my desktop with my Raspberry Pi, and I'd like to do this via Samba/cifs.
I did the following:
Set the folder Q:\musik as a shared folder on my Windows ...
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NetworkManager: disabled network when sending system to sleep
When I suspend my notebook, NetworkManager disables the wireless network (in nm-manager.c:do_sleep_wake).
However, I'd love to still use the network for a very short time (to unmount cifs mounts, ...
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Window content freezes
I recently started using Kanotix, a Debian based distro that loads itself into RAM on boot, and i'm loving it. But this is the second time I have this problem, and I was wondering what caused it and ...
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PCI passthrough with Xen
I am trying to run Windows XP in a Xen DomU virtual machine with a PCIe device, for which there are no Linux drivers, being passed through from a Debian Squeeze Dom0. My hardware supports ...
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Realize a multiseat system with a polarized 3D-monitor
Besides playing 3D-material, modern 3D-TV-sets (using polarization technology) offer the possibility of dual-play.
While 3d-playback works with different polarization for the left and the right eye, ...
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Problems with printer page format in cups
I'm setting up print server for custom thermal printer on Raspberry Pi running Linux Debian and I have a strange problem. If I print a test page it prints OK, same with web page from Firefox, but when ...
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Mounting a multi-partition (GPT/HFS+) USB 2.0 harddrive on Debian
I have a 3TB USB 2.0 hard-drive which has two HFS+ (Mac) partitions using GUID partition table for the partition records. It was partitioned with Mac OS Disk Utility. How can I mount these partitions ...
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Udev triggers are not firing on insert of CF card into USB card reader (anymore)
I've got a udev rule that triggers a shell script that copies photos off my CF card when I insert the card into my USB card reader. This worked fine for a while. But after a recent upgrade it has ...
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Slow system after running a KDE GUI application from a Debian Squeeze chroot
I have a PC with Ubuntu 11.04 and a Debian Squeeze chroot installed in it.
As soon as I start any KDE application from within chroot (and installed there), e.g. Kompare for viewing git diff output, ...
