Most of the hardware on the Lenovo Thinkpad X61s works with the Debian standard kernel. The few things that require a bit of tweaking are described here.
Supported Hardware Components
CPU: Intel LV7500 Core2 Duo, 1.6 Ghz....
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After failing to get Ekiga or Kphone working with sipgate.de I have finally found a VOIP application for Linux that works with sipgate.de. Twinkle can be installed with apt-get in Debian/unstable and is straight forward to setup....
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Konqueror would not play wmv videos with the mime type application/x-mplayer2 on my Debian system so I manually added the mime type to konqueror’s file associations which fixed the problem.
Here is a screenshot of the...
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Felix pointed out to me that after doing a dist-upgrade Firefox wouldn't work with artsdsp so flash plugins couldn't produce any sound. The solution is to edit /etc/firefox/firefoxrc and set:
FIREFOX_DSP="auto"
For more details...
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While trying to import my CACert certificate on my laptop into Kleopatra I encountered a few misleading error messages. I have collected the messages like General error and noted how I work around them.
Generally speaking,...
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I wish I could read S/MIME encrypted mails received from Thunderbird users with KMail but unfortunately gpgsm which is used by KMail does not support RC2 encryption - the algorithm Thunderbird encrypts mails with. Looking at...
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Since I had some difficulties getting my CACert certificate integrated with KMail on Debian unstable, I wanted to share the steps I took in order to get email encryption and singing up and running. Basically you need to run...
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