Posts with Tag: linux
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Posted on 12/20/2018 07:03PM
I have a double boot Windows 10/Linux Debian and updating Windows to the october 2018 update (1809) made grub unable to start itself at the 3rd reboot (I think) of the update. It went straight to grub rescue with unknown filesystem type. To solve this problem, you have to manually direct grub...
Posted on 12/27/2017 10:33AM
It looks like in a recent update, lightdm (with the gtk interface, at least) lost some buttons for rebooting or shutting down the computer. Which is somewhat cumbersome, as one has to Ctrl-Alt-F1 his way to a console to actually do the shutdown manually. This is described e.g. in the following bug...
Posted on 04/10/2009 12:08PM
The setup:- Dell E228WFP display able to do 1680x1050 resolution- Nvidia Quadro NVS 400 card- Debian Testing, with the nvidia-glx-legacy-96xx driver version 96.43.11The problem:The nvidia graphics driver is not able to detect the display abilities and it ends up with selecting the "nvidia-auto-...