While trying to install a plugin, i’ve made some mess which resulted in Eclipse not starting, giving the following error in the log file: !SESSION Tue Nov 09 15:18:43 CET 2010 —————————————— !ENTRY org.eclipse.equinox.launcher 4 0 2010-11-09 15:18:43.233 !MESSAGE Exception launching the Eclipse Platform: !STACK java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:217) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:205) at…

I’ve been trying for days to make my brand new Wacom Bamboo (CTL-460) tablet work under Debian Squeeze. Finally, i wrote to the linuxwacom-discuss mailing list and Rebecca Breu pointed me to the solution. This tablet is supported by a driver powered by the linuxwacom project, which provides a kernel module (wacom.ko), a X.org driver…

Using Debian 5.0 i noticed a problem with Qt-based applications such as TexMaker, Skype, Qt-config itself and many more. All fonts were rendered bad, in a monochromatic flavour without any anti-aliasing. My solution to this was to regenerate the font cache. So, as normal user (no sudo!), try: fc-cache -f You may need to restart…

The following applies for those that, running a lspci, get: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G98 [GeForce 9200M GS] (rev a1) When trying to play a DVD or a divx movie at fullscreen, the image movement were not fluent, just like a 25fps movie played at 11fps. Similiarly, the 3D screen-savers were slow. Checking…

This post has been updated since something changed (yeah, the audio out jack now works great!) Making both the wireless connection and the audio board work on a HP Pavilion DV6-1060el with Debian Lenny (currently stable) and Squeeze (currently testing) needs a small effort. This is due to 2 reasons: first, the linux kernel up…

Tried WICD 1.5.9 as a network manager on Debian testing (Squeeze). After apt-get installing and running it, i got the following error: dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.wicd.daemon was not provided by any .service files This is a known bug that should be fixed in future relases. To solve it, i only had to restart dbus…

A cool feature has been added to the Squeeze (testing) debian: the nautilus folder sharing GUI (package nautilus-share). My problem was that, after upgrading from the old testing (Lenny) to the new one (Squeeze), it was definitely not working. Right clicking on the folder icons and choosing “Share Folder” gave me a: Could not authenticate.…