Re: signing up to fourms

On Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 11:54 PM Bruce H. wrote: > Why do you have to make it so hard to sign up to the user forums? > Auto gen passwords do not work, and the requirements are excessive! > Was previously unaware Debian had a web forum. Why bother when we have mailing lists that have none of

Re: linux headers and upgrading nvidia driver

On Thu, Sep 15, 2022, 09:46 Bret Busby wrote: > My understanding is that, to run Linux, or, any non-MS operating system, > with nvidia graphics, especially, if you have nvidia Optimus, you need > to run Ubuntu Linux. > Have you looked at the Debian wiki? Because the Nvidia pages do correctly

Re: Running Steam Proton Games with primusrun

On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 1:20 PM Jonathan Marquardt wrote: > On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 06:32:29PM -0500, Paul Johnson wrote: > > Thing that should not work but almost always works for me: Mark the > nvidia > > GL packages for reinstall and let aptitude do its thing, restart

Re: Running Steam Proton Games with primusrun

On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 5:41 PM Jonathan Marquardt wrote: > On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 01:24:50PM -0500, Paul Johnson wrote: > > I'd recommend using pvkrun instead of primusrun if available. > > Gives me the same error messages :( > > > This looks like you're somehow missi

Re: Running Steam Proton Games with primusrun

On Sun, Mar 27, 2022 at 6:11 AM Jonathan Marquardt wrote: > Hi! > > I have a Dell XPS 15 with a dedicated NVIDIA GPU and I have a working > bumblebee setup. It works with all kinds of games, except for steam ones. > I'm trying to run Proton games with primusrun but it somehow doesn't work. >

Re: Don't try this at home kids

On Mon, Nov 29, 2021 at 11:57 PM Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > David Wright writes: > > > On Mon 29 Nov 2021 at 17:47:24 (-0500), Jude DaShiell wrote: > >> sudo doesn't ask me for my password and I didn't even touch /etc/sudoers > >> to do it. A file placed in /etc/sudoers.d with permissions of 0440 >

Re: when will bullseye become stable?

On Fri, Jul 2, 2021 at 3:52 PM Long Wind wrote: > > i always use stable or old releases When it's ready. But we're coming up rapidly on full freeze in a couple weeks. https://release.debian.org/bullseye/freeze_policy.html#full

Re: IRC

On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 10:40 AM Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 06:24:20PM +0300, IL Ka wrote: > > On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 6:22 PM Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside < > > deb...@polynamaude.com> wrote: > > > > > Hi ! > > > Is there some IRC channel for Debian ? > > > > > > >

Re: ubuntu/snap future

On Sat, Apr 3, 2021 at 11:39 AM George Shuklin wrote: > It looks to me like they desperately want to jump away from debs into > 'vendor friendly packaging' > There's nothing user-unfriendly about .debs. They just don't want to maintain their software and are looking for a "fire and forget"

Re: Replying

On Sun, Dec 6, 2020 at 3:14 AM Teemu Likonen wrote: > I guess we all know by now that mail user agent software don't agree > with all the different semantics of replying. Widely supported features > are "reply to sender" (Reply-To, From) and "reply to all". Debian > mailing list policy (send

Re: 780 files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/

On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 9:18 PM John Hasler wrote: > Mike writes: > > Of the 780 files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/ America/Chicago and CST6CDT > > are the only two that might apply to me. Are the rest of any use to me > > at all? If so how? > > Do you ever need to convert the time and date in some

Re: Encrypt files on Linux, decrypt on Windows

On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 12:46 PM local10 wrote: > What would be a reasonably secure and simple way to encrypt files on Linux > and then send them to a non-technical Windows user so she would be able > decrypt and read them? > GnuPG. It's in Debian, there's Windows versions on its website, and

Re: Disable touchpad completely in KDE

On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 9:21 AM Dan Ritter wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > > I'm trying to work out where I can disable the touchpad completely in > KDE. > > I can seem to do it when certain devices are plugged in, but there > doesn't > > seem to be a way to ma

Disable touchpad completely in KDE

I'm trying to work out where I can disable the touchpad completely in KDE. I can seem to do it when certain devices are plugged in, but there doesn't seem to be a way to make it always off. I've got a trackpoint and the touchpad just exists to get in the way. Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux

Re: Thank you [was: Reminder about the Debian Code of Conduct]

On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 6:13 AM wrote: > On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 12:29:43PM +0200, Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: > > [...] > > > > Perhaps OP can solve this mystery for us. > > nyah, nyah. > > > The fact that my email is not in reply to a specific message is > > intentional and is done to avoid

Re: technical terms overhaul

On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 12:14 PM deloptes wrote: > Miles Fidelman wrote: > > > It's only a good solution if people actually adopt and use them. > > They/them/their has caught on, but it's kind of hard to differentiate > > singular/plural when you use them to be gender neutral. > > No people will

Re: technical terms overhaul

On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 2:14 PM Eike Lantzsch wrote: > On the danger of starting a flame war ... > thinking about the article by Gunnar Wolf on Planet Debian > > instead of "whitelist" and "blacklist" I would like to propose the terms: > "allowlist" and "rejectlist" > instead of (for example on

Re: Zoom- best practice?

On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 8:17 AM Nicolas George wrote: > Michael Stone (12020-06-10): > > Properly configured mailing list software does no such thing, since it's > a > > misuse of the reply-to header. > > A misuse that works, compared to non-misuses that regularly bring back > "don't cc me"

Re: KDE run Dolphin as root?

On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 4:20 PM Default User wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 5, 2020, 16:55 Default User wrote: > >> Hi, all. >> >> As an experiment, I just installed Debian 10.4 Stable on a spare drive, >> and installed kde on it. >> >> I have not tried kde in many years, so am not really familiar with

Re: Zoom- best practice?

On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 10:49 AM wrote: > On Sat, Jun 06, 2020 at 01:06:02PM +0200, Alex Mestiashvili wrote: > > > [...] Btw BBB is also far away from a secure platform imho. > > Quite possible. Still, you can choose a server run by people you > trust. And the developers seem to be quite

Re: Zoom- best practice?

On Fri, Jun 5, 2020 at 11:45 AM Peter Ehlert wrote: > Family is using Zoom, International. > They will use Zoom, and I need to participate. > > I use Debian Mate Stable, and Firefox ESR > > I am concerned about security, duh! > Looking for ideas. > Look into Big Blue Button and see if you can

Re: GPU support for Linux 4.19

On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 8:42 AM Liam Powell wrote: > I only need Debian GNU/Linux to detect it and know which GPU is to > passthrough it to my Windows gaming VM, to play Windows-only games. > Might I suggest a better way? You don't generally need a fullblown VM for gaming and you'll take a

Re: Planning a Debian NAS

On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 7:34 PM Aidan Gauland wrote: > I want to set up a file server on my home LAN with just consumer-grade > hardware, and run Debian stable on it. For hardware, I am probably > going to get a refurbished mid-range tower with a four to six 3.5" SATA > drive capacity, and put

Re: Sudo

On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 11:40 AM Patrick Bartek wrote: > On Sat, 25 Jan 2020 09:39:28 -0700 > "Harold Hartley" wrote: > > > I did a net-install and installed with no problems. > > The only problem I’m having is when I want to check for updates or > install a file, it tells me that I’m not in

Solved: No mic from combo jack.

On Wed, Dec 26, 2018 at 8:06 AM Dan Ritter wrote: > This sounds like a hardware problem, actually. Try cleaning out > the jack -- you could have some dust trapped in there making > the connection fail. > Variation on the theme, but you were right, it was a hardware problem. I didn't have the L

No mic from combo jack.

Debian Testing with the stock PulseAudio install. Combo jack headphones/microphone. Can't hear microphone except briefly when mute switch clicks either direction, or earbuds that came with my phone except when mute button is held down. Lenovo N586. Played around with alsatools and pavucontrol

Re: Proton for Steam on Debian.

On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 8:11 PM Dominic Knight wrote: > Does anyone have any knowledge or experience of this to share. Or even > any thoughts on security which could be useful. > > https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/ > > Under the install for Linux section it says to set up a Debian machine

Re: XFCE: Set default extend-to-direction?

On Sun, Jun 3, 2018 at 12:15 PM, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > On 03/06/18 08:45 AM, Paul Johnson wrote: > > I have a laptop that I frequently use with an external monitor, but on >> the lefthand side. Now by default, XFCE assumes that I want the monitor >> to be on t

XFCE: Set default extend-to-direction?

I have a laptop that I frequently use with an external monitor, but on the lefthand side. Now by default, XFCE assumes that I want the monitor to be on the right, and the top of the laptop to be even with the top of the external monitor. I would love it if there's a way to get it to assume I

Re: Possible for full-disk encryption to encrypt /boot as well?

On Sun, May 27, 2018 at 12:43 AM, David Christensen < dpchr...@holgerdanske.com> wrote: > On 05/26/18 21:16, Paul Johnson wrote: > >> On Sat, May 26, 2018 at 7:21 PM, David Christensen >> >>> Have you considered a self-encrypting drive ... >>>

Re: Possible for full-disk encryption to encrypt /boot as well?

On Sat, May 26, 2018 at 7:21 PM, David Christensen < dpchr...@holgerdanske.com> wrote: > On 05/25/18 11:55, Robert Dodier wrote: > >> I'm working with Debian 9. I gather that there is a full-disk >> encryption option for the standard Debian installer, which, as I >> understand it, does not

Re: Mixing and Matching DHCP and static IPs

On Mon, Dec 25, 2017 at 10:49 AM, Marc Auslander wrote: > The safest way to fix an ip address in a dhcp served network is to tell > the dhcp server to associate that address with the mac of the unit. The > address should be outside the dhcp range you set up. I normall pin

Re: Decentralized reliable instant messaging?

On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 8:10 AM, Stefan Monnier wrote: > >>> In Korea, all most people are using KakaoTalk (android app). > >>> If i am wrong, sorry, and let it go to off-topic. > >> It's not decentralized. IOW you're dependent on one central > >> server/company and

Re: networking

On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 6:19 AM, Nicolas George wrote: > > (Also, I wonder why people always fiddle with the cumbersome 192.168 > instead > of going for simply 10.) > > While it shouldn't matter, I've seen some serious networking brain damage if your router or the border router

Re: Chromecast

On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 6:38 AM, Jesse Stephen wrote: > > is there away to put chromecast on my diebian pc? > The chromecast extension to chrome does work in Debian.

Re: How to properly install Radeon drivers for Sid

On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 6:05 AM, Mostafa Shahverdy <most...@mostafa.info> wrote: > On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 03:24:07AM -0500, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 8:23 AM, Mostafa Shahverdy <most...@mostafa.info > > > > wrote: > > > > Have

Re: How to properly install Radeon drivers for Sid

On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 8:23 AM, Mostafa Shahverdy wrote: > Hi everyone. > > I have an ultra wide monitor that supports 2560x1080. > While I have a Radeon 5450 graphic card, running Debian Sid, I only can > get 1920x1080. > I installed firmware-linux-nonfree to get it

Re: UPDATE NOTIFIER

On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 10:25 PM, Stanley Reznicek wrote: > > Why is there no update notifier in Debian 8.4.0? It's been replaced by gnome-packagekit. > A better selection of desktop wallpapers would be nice. A little silly to keep more than a basic selection in the

Re: New Weather Protocol?

On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 4:59 AM, David Baron wrote: > On Sunday 10 April 2016 19:06:46 Andrew McGlashan wrote: > > On 10/04/2016 5:51 PM, David Baron wrote: > > > Non of my weather widgets work any longer. OK, Yahoo changed their API, > > > but > > > the updated widget still

Re: Libre graphics could become the standard if we push right now

On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 2:11 PM, Alberto Salvia Novella < es204904...@gmail.com> wrote: > Nearly all compact Linux computers feasible for gaming are sold > exclusively using NVIDIA graphics, and that company is hostile to libre > software. > > So I think it is very important that we support AMD

Re: Another system management tool to disappear.

On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 3:57 AM, Andrew McGlashan < andrew.mcglas...@affinityvision.com.au> wrote: > On 1/09/2015 3:08 AM, pecon...@mesanetworks.net wrote: > > If you want to exit the shell normally, typically the 'exit' command > > will suffice (it depends on your shell, obviously). > > And if,

Jessie and fglrx-legacy

OK, I'm stumped. I've tried a couple ways now and I'm going around in circles and tearing my fur out over this... what's the best approach to getting 3D acceleration going on a ThinkPad T400?

Re: Jessie and fglrx-legacy [ThinkPad T400]

On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 7:58 AM, Jörg-Volker Peetz jvpe...@web.de wrote: Maybe you'll find an answer here: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:T400 No dice. I'm not totally sold on using fglrx-legacy on this if one of the radeon drivers will do 3d acceleration.

Re: Antivirus for Debian

On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 5:50 AM, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday 21 August 2015 10:28:43 Diogene Laerce wrote: So should you (the OP) run an AV ? Well.. I guess. IMVHO ;) We are all almost all agreed that he should run one to protect his ahem Windows using friends from

Re: Antivirus for Debian

On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 1:50 PM, Renaud OLGIATI ren...@olgiati-in-paraguay.org wrote: On Thu, 20 Aug 2015 19:33:17 +0100 Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: On Thu 20 Aug 2015 at 20:24:16 +0200, Diogene Laerce wrote: Hello guys. I wanted to know if antivirus is required for Debian or

Re: metatrader 4

On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 9:51 PM, Ben Case dbnc...@gmail.com wrote: can you get metatrader 4 software in Debian or can you use mt4's from different brokers? You might have to contact your vendor on that one; I see a Linux version but know nothing of the specifics of what it takes.

Re: Antivirus for Debian

On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 3:45 PM, John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com wrote: While it would be possible (though very difficult) to write malware for Linux the main reason why we needn't worry about it on the desktop is that there are so few of us using it that it not worth the criminals' time to

Re: Expletives Deleted

On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 2:17 PM, David Baron d_ba...@012.net.il wrote: I come to this list for new, advice, discussion on Debian installation, software, packages, problems, advice. It has help and saved my skin (system) times in the past. Do not read every word of every post but those of

Re: Flightgear

Would be nice if all the available tiles of scenery were in the Debian archive, that way we could get the area we're interested without having to go through a huge PITA. On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 4:00 AM, David Baron d_ba...@012.net.il wrote: This has a huge amount of data, 1.5 gig. It is not

Re: Auto-emptying of trash.

On Jun 8, 2014 3:11 AM, Sharon Kimble boudic...@skimble.plus.com wrote: Revisiting a question that I asked in March last year about how to auto-empty a trash bin. This has worked very well until today, when on one of my drives it also deleted the trash bin as well, so my follow-on script to

Re: Unable to start nm-applet

On Apr 1, 2014 5:24 PM, Anubhav Yadav anubhav1...@gmail.com wrote: Any help. Sorry for the incomplete first message in the thread. If you don't need the VPN support that nm has, take a look at wicd. Wicd has the advantage of also having a cli and a curses interface.

OT: Toshiba laptop suitability

On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 3:03 PM, Mike McGinn mikemcg...@mcginnweb.netwrote: When the hinges went on my Toshiba I was able to attach a small piece of metal to the back to hold the screen up. Got another two years out of it. The hinges seem to be a consistent weak point on these machines. My

Re: Automatic partition creation, root partition too small

On Mar 19, 2014 7:28 AM, André an...@rodier.me wrote: When using the automatic partition scheme, Debian creates a root partition of about 320Mb. It maybe enough to start, but this is too small after a while, for many reasons: Which leaves me wondering how to rectify the situation later.

Re: compose:menu in xfce

On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Reco recovery...@gmail.com wrote: 1) Settings in /etc/default/keyboard. Applies at every boot and every X session start. Just add you preferences to XKBOPTIONS like this: XKBOPTIONS=compose:menu OOoh, this appeared to have scratched the itch, thanks!

compose:menu in xfce

I've used setxkbmap -option compose:menu multiple times in XFCE, but for some reason, something keeps kicking it back over to the same useless functionality that the menu key has in Windows. What's the real way to bind compose to the menu key and make it stick?

Re: SSD as Cache?

On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 8:12 AM, basti black.flederm...@arcor.de wrote: Can this cache moved to SSD? Months ago I read articles about SSD and Flash Memory like: - Disable logging on SSD - Disable cache on SSD - Don't swap on SSD ... And today? How long will the SSD work without data loss?

Re: Sound on Skype (sid)

On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 12:19 AM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD erosenb...@hygeiabiomedical.com wrote: The sound on Skype (sid) is impossible!! It is so chopped up that it is impossible to make a call. The sound recorder and audio streams [YouTube, video on Wall Street Journal] work perfectly. Use

Jessies hassles. libc6, software-properites-gtk, sessions.

Greetings, everybody. I wonder who else sees this at the moment on systems running Jessie. I know that running the testing version will require bug fixing sometimes, I don't mind that. I just need some help to understand what's wrong. I am running XCFE4, some of the problems I see may be specific

Re: Kernel 3.8 + nvidia?

On a Dell Precision M4600 laptop, I installed a clean Wheezy release, installed nvidia drivers along with the dkms packages that go with. Because of network driver trouble, I took the kernel from sid. After that, everything works fine. I mean, video is fine. Networking still a problem. Here is

Re: Will unix ever get out of dependency hell

On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 2:59 PM, Kevin Chadwick ma1l1i...@yahoo.co.ukwrote: Why on earth does so much of the default desktops depend on polkit when very little breaks when it is disabled! Because very little is not nothing at all.

Re: What's Up With Debian.org?

On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 5:53 AM, Brad Alexander stor...@gmail.com wrote: Bret apparently has never been online on April 1st before. A *lot* of tech sites pull April Fools jokes. Slashdot used to be notorious for it, especially when Rob Malda was at the helm... All of yesterday's articles

Re: Scratchy sound with debian wheezy on ASUS A73B series

On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 6:15 PM, Vincent Hobeïka vincent.hobe...@gmail.comwrote: $ aplay -l Liste des Périphériques Matériels PLAYBACK carte 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], périphérique 0: ALC269VB Analog [ALC269VB Analog] Sous-périphériques: 1/1 Sous-périphérique #0: subdevice #0 carte

Re: PulseAudio--is there a viable alternative?

On Monday, February 4, 2013, Kelly Clowers wrote: Esound is (mostly?) unmaintained for a long time AFAIK. Anyway, it was far buggier than PA ever was. Not that either are fun to deal with when all you want to do is be able to get Second Life's voice support to work. Pure ALSA works fine

Re: PulseAudio--is there a viable alternative?

On Monday, February 4, 2013, Darac Marjal wrote: Actually, that depends on the hardware. If your hardware can do hardware mixing (I know of at least one SoundBlaster that can, but I can't remember which model at the moment), then you can play simultaneous streams. But for most cards, you have

Wheezy Beta 4 Install: Cpufrequency Scaling troubles solutions

I've got a fresh install of Debian Wheezy Beta 4 on this Dell Precision M4600 laptop. This is the net install version. I'm working through a set of problems that others might want to know about. On the system, as originally installed, the cpu frequency scaling monitors show the CPU frequency is

Re: upgrade squeeze - wheezy (issues)

I'm top posting because nobody should be expected to go through all that stuff. I believe you have to decide now whether your system is going to be amd64 only or multiarch. Because you now have ia32-libs installed, that means you want to have both 32 and 64. The ia32-libs framework is the old

Re: Laptop left in unusable state

On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 8:04 AM, Agbefia agbe...@icloud.com wrote: To whom it may concern: I have a Dell laptop Studio that runs on Win7 operating system.i tried to install Debian but something went wrong and my laptop cannot boot and it seems all my data on the hard drive were erased and I

Re: OT: Seeking Advice on Purchasing a Laptop

On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 5:41 AM, Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.comwrote: Thinkpad. Avoid ATI graphics if possible. I think you spelled nVidia wrong. http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/06/torvalds-nvidia-linux/

Re: OT: Seeking Advice on Purchasing a Laptop

I run a Lenovo ThinkPad, but I repair Dells for a living. I just have to wonder what the heck Dell was thinking having Fn and Ctrl in opposite of correct order... On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 10:41 PM, Kushal Kumaran kushal.kumaran+deb...@gmail.com wrote: Lars Noodén lars.noo...@gmail.com writes:

Any Debian Experimental users available?

Any Experimental users who can tell me what the kernel numbers mean in the Experimental repository? I see flaws in the kernels 3.4, and 3.5, and wonder if other people see them too, or if they even care to report problems because those kernels are, well, Experimental. I'm running a system with

Re: Google Cloud Print

On Tuesday, October 2, 2012, Darac Marjal wrote: On Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 09:26:25AM -0500, Paul Johnson wrote: Has anybody successfully added Google Cloud Print to CUPS on Debian? �I've googled it, poked around a little bit, but couldn't find a good tutorial. Which way are you

Google Cloud Print

Has anybody successfully added Google Cloud Print to CUPS on Debian? I've googled it, poked around a little bit, but couldn't find a good tutorial.

Re: Sound very *very* quiet on Debian.

On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 4:01 AM, Darac Marjal mailingl...@darac.org.ukwrote: There are two possibilities I can think of. One is that you're using pulseaudio and not checking its volume level (to confirm this, start alsamixer and press F6 to select a different 'card'). Didn't think I was

Re: Sound very *very* quiet on Debian.

On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: The advice given at http://alien.slackbook.org/blog/adding-an-alsa-software-pre-amp-to-fix-low-sound-levels/ does work. There is an extra control in alsamixer and rebooting is not necessary to get it. See how you go on.

Re: Sound very *very* quiet on Debian.

On Sep 25, 2012 12:18 PM, Conrad Nelson y...@marupa.net wrote: Any ideas on why ALSA is suddenly outputting my sound so very quietly despite my volume levels being all the way up? Annoyingly, this has always been a problem for me with a Thinkpad T400. I'd be interested in a fix, too.

Re: The Oh, No... error when gdm is trying to start

On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 12:38 PM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 15 Aug 2012 12:13:53 -0500, Paul Johnson wrote: On a student's Debian system, I ran some updates and resulted in gdm refusing to start, with the error message that shows a picture of a sad computer and a message

The Oh, No... error when gdm is trying to start

On a student's Debian system, I ran some updates and resulted in gdm refusing to start, with the error message that shows a picture of a sad computer and a message says: Oh no! Something has gone wrong. A problem has occurred and the system can't recover. Please contact a system administrator.

Centrino wireless: good results with kernel 3.4 from experimental repo

Concerning Debian Squeeze/Wheezy wireless: I have Dell Precision M4600 and have had a lot of trouble connecting to wireless networks. I was constantly failing to join networks, as described https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=676382 and on other bug trackers. Here's my blog about it

Re: Debian 8 to be called Jessie

On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 7:31 AM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: It's become a tradition that the reward for reading all the way through our first post-freeze mail is to be one of the first few to know the name of the next release. Continuing in that vein, we are happy to announce that

Re: ot: slightly, is debian tied to a nonprofit?

On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Karen Lewellen klewel...@shellworld.netwrote: I ask because of the references to foundation? Software in the Public Interest, Inc.

Re: Email headers in the digest

On Jun 5, 2012 10:27 AM, Curt Howland howl...@priss.com wrote: Maybe I'm the only person getting the group though debian-user-digest, and maybe I'm the only one reading it in plain text, but has anyone else noticed the HUGE increase in the quantity of digests, which consist mostly of the

how are you kids compiling kernels these days?

I've not built LInux kernels since, well, 1999, when I ran RedHat linux (before EL existed). I've compiled separate modules for the touchpad many times lately, but never a whole kernel. And never on a Debian system. Now I've got a laptop with an Intel Centrino Ultimate 6300 wireless device and

Re: how are you kids compiling kernels these days?

On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 11:04 PM, a0z n...@a0z.eu wrote: On 31/05/12 04:43, Paul Johnson wrote: I've tried every variation I can think of. Have you tried apt-cache search? a0z@kit:~$ apt-cache search linux 3.2 amd64 linux-headers-3.2.0-2-all-amd64 - All header files for Linux 3.2 (meta

Re: A quick Q: download source

On May 29, 2012 7:53 AM, lina lina.lastn...@gmail.com wrote: I am under wheezy, when I use the apt-get source package I will get the wheezy version by default. What if I want to get the sid one, how can I do that without going to the debian webpage. If you have Sid sources in your apt

black screen after boot up on fresh net-install (Nvidia quadro, Debian 6.0.4); trying to get to terminal mode

On a Dell Precision workstation, there is an Nvidia Quadro card with a weird connector in which we have a dongle thing that provides plugs for four monitors. I've been running RedHat Linux 5.5 for a while and decided to try the Debian net installer The graphical install proceeds as usual (I've

Re: black screen after boot up on fresh net-install (Nvidia quadro, Debian 6.0.4); trying to get to terminal mode

On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 12:37 PM, Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote: On 2012-05-14 19:26 +0200, Paul Johnson wrote: On a Dell Precision workstation, there is an Nvidia Quadro card with a weird connector in which we have a dongle thing that provides plugs for four monitors. I've been running

Re: Unidentified subject! [ ]

On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 12:08 PM, David Baron d_ba...@012.net.il wrote: These are really getting annoying. Is this a problem with the list server or what? Messages with unidentified subjects? Means someone sent the list mail without a subject line. Otherwise, you're going to need to be more

Re: PlayOnLinux + wine + amd64

On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 5:09 PM, Brad Alexander stor...@gmail.com wrote: ...And sure enough, I appear to. Is it as  simple as installing libgl1-nvidia-alternatives-ia32, libgl1-nvidia-glx-ia32, and nvidia-glx-ia32? Can I install these alongside the amd64 ones without negative impact? You

Re: [OT] Posting styles

On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 1:23 AM, Mika Suomalainen s.mik...@gmail.com wrote: GPG Inline signature is easier to verify if you copy-paste that email from mailing list archive. Not really, since you can just download the mbox version and verify it directly with MIME anyway. I cannot use S/MIME,

Re: OT:change of mail provider

On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 2:30 AM, richard rich...@g8jvm.com wrote: Mika as you have appointed yourself as a list policeman, please explain how I am to test on whether or not I am now able to see my first posting without send a post ? Post a relevant reply to an existing thread. Test

Re: OT:change of mail provider

On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 1:48 PM, richard rich...@g8jvm.com wrote: THIS LIST SEEMS TO HAVE A HIGH POPULATION OF SELF APPOINTED PREMADONNAS THAT ARE ONLY CAPABLE OF CRITICISM. Can we get this guy tossed out the door? Talk about a negative nancy. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: [OT] Posting styles (was: printer Kyocera FSC-5100DN)

On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 8:28 AM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 18:25:42 +0300, Mika Suomalainen wrote: Could someone explain me, what are top- and bottom posting styles? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style Though it's generally ideal to go with a

Re: [OT] Posting styles

On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Mika Suomalainen mika.henrik.mai...@hotmail.com wrote: With phones, it's easier to follow top posting in my opinion. I usually read/post from my phone. I'm going to have to strongly disagree with that. Top posting makes it that much harder to properly edit a

Use example.com/org when giving example hostnames, please!

On Mar 20, 2012 11:49 PM, 严海东 handlerofmas...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all: I have a problem with using wget and curl on debian amd64 when I type a command -- wget www.XXX.com, error messages will display as below: Just a heads up, EXAMPLE.COM and EXAMPLE.ORG are reserved as

Re: Timing a process

On Mar 7, 2012 3:47 PM, Sian Mountbatten poenik...@fastmail.co.uk wrote: AFAIK, there is a command which says how long a process takes to complete. Its invoked with the command to be timed as an argument. Does anybody know what it is? Oddly enough, it's time(1).

Re: OT: Newbie questions on security

On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 6:42 PM, Stayvoid stayv...@gmail.com wrote: What is more secure: dedicated server or VPS? I've been told that a hoster has an ability to look through the files on the VM. Why people use this solution for MTAs?  Do they care about privacy? Is it possible to hide your

Re: Windows screws up Linux's clock

On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 8:55 PM, Hendrik Boom hend...@topoi.pooq.comwrote: I run my machine on UCT, or something like it (timezone +0). Every time I boot to Windows XP (which I need to do once in a blue moon) Windows takes it on itself to set my clock as if the UCT time were actually local

Re: Windows screws up Linux's clock

Seems like this could be made easier by mailing the .reg file (or throwing it in a webspace someplace) with the correct key and value already set. On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Don deJuan donjuans...@gmail.com wrote: On 02/21/2012 03:58 PM, Doug wrote: On 2/21/2012 1:00 AM, Don deJuan

Re: Windows screws up Linux's clock

Sure, you can just tell people to RTFM. Or you can just post the patch. The patch is naturally easier and takes substantially less effort to create and post than being a dick about it on an internationally distributed mailing list. On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Don deJuan

Re: Dvorak Keyboards.

On Fri, 2012-01-06 at 21:57 -0800, T Elcor wrote: --- On Fri, 1/6/12, Weaver wea...@riseup.net wrote: You could use a blank keyboard with a dvorak layout pretty effectively pretty quickly if you used the speakup feature to put speech on your sound card for those typing sessions. I'd

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