boot freeze when wifi is not in the same state than before hibernation

2012-09-06 Thread berenger . morel
When I change the state of wifi between a #pm-hibernate and a power on, my computer freeze. Is there is a way to avoid that freeze? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: boot freeze when wifi is not in the same state than before hibernation

2012-09-06 Thread berenger . morel
Le 06.09.2012 16:18, Camaleón a écrit : On Thu, 06 Sep 2012 12:13:55 +0200, berenger.morel wrote: When I change the state of wifi between a #pm-hibernate and a power on, my computer freeze. Is there is a way to avoid that freeze? If you have determined the problem happens when wireless

Re: [OT] How to redirect input/output to another console?

2012-09-08 Thread berenger . morel
Le 08.09.2012 15:58, Hans-J. Ullrich a écrit : Hi folks, I know, maybe this is not the right forum, as my question is not really debian based. But maybe you might want to help either. I have a friend far away from me, which is using debian/testing same as me. As I am helping this woman

Re: openmotif 3

2012-10-01 Thread berenger . morel
You will have 3 solutions I guess: _ find an old package with the libmotif3 _ find a more recent version of your software _ try to compile your software against the more recent version of motif, with the underlying probable work (but it can also be very straightforward, depending of if

Re: openmotif 3

2012-10-01 Thread berenger . morel
I have just made some researches, and... well... I have no clue why debian named it libmotif4 as version number is 2.3.3... Now I am thinking about this, finding an old package might give some problems too, because it will be linked with older versions of other libs, notably libc6, which is an

Re: openmotif 3

2012-10-02 Thread berenger . morel
If it does not work, it could if you just send files in /usr/local/... and write a script to start your application. Something like: [pseudocode] LD_LIBRARY=/usr/local/dumb/openStrangeThing:$LD_LIBRARY /usr/bin/mySoftware [/pseudocode] It might work... but it also might not, depending on

Re: version question 32bit vs 64bit

2012-11-11 Thread berenger . morel
32 bits. There are many versions of intel processors, and they are usually called x86 familly. When they are usual 32 bits, you will have things like i386, i486, i586 or i686 (i think the 'i' is for intel structure, the 86 for the family, and 3,4,5 or 6 the version). For 64 bits versions, I

Re: Grub and Wireless Keyboard

2012-11-12 Thread berenger . morel
Le 13.11.2012 00:32, Dr Beco a écrit : Dear us*x, Last week my keyboard broke, and I bought a wireless set keyboard+mouse that comes with a usb transmitter. Yesterday I realize I can not chose an item from the grub menu during boot. My other desktop has today a bluetooth keyboard, that

Re: The following packages will be REMOVED:

2012-11-13 Thread berenger . morel
Packages installed as automatic, and removed because no-one depends on them, maybe? Le 13.11.2012 21:00, Charles Kroeger a écrit : acroread acroread-debian-files acroread-escript acroread-plugins ia32-libs ia32-libs-gtk ia32-libs-xulrunner lib32v4l-0 mozilla-acroread nspluginwrapper

Re: Wheezy-beta3 kde install.

2012-11-14 Thread berenger . morel
There are 3 solutions, here. The first one is to install KDE, LXDE or XFCE at install time. To achieve this, you have to go to installation options, at boot time. I do not remember the exact name, maybe advanced... Here, you will find things like automated install, expert install, their GUI

Re: The following packages will be REMOVED:

2012-11-14 Thread berenger . morel
Le 14.11.2012 10:27, Ralf Mardorf a écrit : On Wed, 2012-11-14 at 10:11 +0100, Jochen Spieker wrote: Ralf Mardorf: On Wed, 2012-11-14 at 08:23 +, Jon Dowland wrote: I suspect what is happening is the transition from ia32-libs to multiarch, and the non-free 3rd party packages have not

Re: help with keyboard, lost at GDM-login?

2012-11-14 Thread berenger . morel
You can do #dpkg-reconfigure gdm, but I am not sure it will solve your problem. What do you mean by keyboard off? Can not you switch to a TTY (CTRL+ALT+Fxx with xx being 1-6) ? If yes, then, you are not able to boot in recovery and you can just kill gdm (#killall gdm or #/etc/init.d/gdm stop

Re: help with keyboard, lost at GDM-login?

2012-11-14 Thread berenger . morel
Le 14.11.2012 11:19, lalberts a écrit : Hello, it worked once.. but after shutdown and reboot with normal kernel, the problem is back. no keyboard, no way to type a password or to switch to a shell. trackpoint is working. so i have to hard-shutoff the laptop and restart in recovery mode. doing

Re: Squeeze on a EEE PC 901, trackpad problems

2012-11-17 Thread berenger . morel
You will need the xserver-xorg-input-synaptics package, so you can use synclient. Just run $synclient will let it show you a list of parameters you can change, when you have found the parameter you want, you can adjust it, just read the man, it is small enough to be readable. Of course, this

Re: Can Debian's paranoia be tamed

2012-11-22 Thread berenger . morel
Remove gdm, and put in the file /root/.bash_profile following lines: === if [ -z $DISPLAY ] [ $(tty) == /dev/tty1 ];then startx fi === To have a auto-login, you can also modify /etc/inittab and replace a /sbin/getty by /bin/sh. The better with those solutions is the

Re: Outrageous sexism. Was: Re: Mail client, threads, etc...

2012-11-22 Thread berenger . morel
Le 22.11.2012 22:07, Beco a écrit : On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 7:28 PM, François TOURDE fra...@tourde.org wrote: Le 15665ième jour après Epoch, Lisi Reisz écrivait: On Wednesday 21 November 2012 16:55:22 Beco wrote: Use of smiley face should point this was just a joke. As we can see in this

Re: Can Debian's paranoia be tamed

2012-11-23 Thread berenger . morel
Le 23.11.2012 02:06, Richard Owlett a écrit : berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Remove gdm, and put in the file /root/.bash_profile following lines: === if [ -z $DISPLAY ] [ $(tty) == /dev/tty1 ];then startx fi === To have a auto-login, you can also modify /etc/inittab

Re: Can Debian's paranoia be tamed

2012-11-23 Thread berenger . morel
Display managers, and particularly window managers and desktop environments http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_environment are often confounded. A window manager is a component of a desktop environment. Decent desktop environments allow you to use the window manager of your choice. True, but

Re: Can Debian's paranoia be tamed

2012-11-23 Thread berenger . morel
Le 23.11.2012 22:19, Miles Fidelman a écrit : Richard Owlett wrote: Miles Fidelman wrote: you might try using expert mode when installing, and then answering yes when the installer asks about enabling root login, That did not work. That's rather odd. The installer always asks me to set

Re: Can Debian's paranoia be tamed

2012-11-26 Thread berenger . morel
Le 25.11.2012 00:14, Andrei POPESCU a écrit : On Jo, 22 nov 12, 22:30:54, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: And, seriously, windows users do that by default and their computers works not so bad. That's a joke, right? Kind regards, Andrei Yes and no :) This could become a troll

Re: Outrageous sexism. Was: Re: Mail client, threads, etc...

2012-11-26 Thread berenger . morel
Le 26.11.2012 01:56, Zenaan Harkness a écrit : On 11/26/12, Neal Murphy neal.p.mur...@alum.wpi.edu wrote: On Wednesday, November 21, 2012 12:54:33 PM Ralf Mardorf wrote: ... My humour is less good than Chaplin's ... OK. Pointed, direct humor back at you. What was the shortest book ever

Re: Outrageous Xenophobia. Was: Outrageous sexism. Was: Re: Mail client, threads, etc...

2012-11-26 Thread berenger . morel
Le 26.11.2012 14:34, Zenaan Harkness a écrit : On 11/27/12, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@rocketmail.com wrote: On Mon, 2012-11-26 at 12:27 +, Tony van der Hoff It is alleged, that a certain German Fuerer added a smiley to the order to exterminate the Jews, to indicate it was a joke. It was

Re: Outrageous Xenophobia. Was: Outrageous sexism. Was: Re: Mail client, threads, etc...

2012-11-26 Thread berenger . morel
My point is clear now, I think jokes here is a bad idea because of the problems they can give, but I understand if others disagrees. One can always use a good laugh, and I am always searching for new jokes :-) (I just think they will give more grief than laughs here) - Titanus Even jokes on

Re: Write protect access on USB port

2012-11-26 Thread berenger . morel
You can enable read-only on partitions by using the ro flag in fstab. By example: # file system mount point type options dump pass proc/proc procdefaults0 0 #Entry for /dev/sda6 : UUID=85bb1632-546f-460f-8cc7-5b15fd2c046b / ext4

Re: Write protect access on USB port

2012-11-26 Thread berenger . morel
Le 26.11.2012 22:28, Amit a écrit : berenger.morel at neutralite.org writes: You can enable read-only on partitions by using the ro flag in fstab. By example: # file system mount point type options dump pass proc/proc procdefaults0 0 #Entry for

Re: Debian Installer 7.0 Beta4 release

2012-11-26 Thread berenger . morel
Lets do right, not right now. I'm in no way demanding a new release sooner. If the answer to my question of estimate is May, so be it. Its an estimate, isn't it? Would it hurt Debian if we postpone Wheezy to April or May? I don't think so. But to September 2014, I think we might have a problem

Re: Write protect access on USB port

2012-11-26 Thread berenger . morel
Yes the above would work in most cases but in the case I am dealing with, the filesystem is not mounted yet. For example, I plug in a USB drive. Before it is mounted, there is a /dev/sd[x] node. I can open this node and write anything I want, thereby corrupting the filesystem on that device.

Re: Debian Installer 7.0 Beta4 release

2012-11-26 Thread berenger . morel
PS. The link from the (now old) email looks broke. But the item is here: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Aluminium-Linux-Debian-Case-Badge-Sticker-/281029773571?pt=UK_Computing_Other_Computing_Networkinghash=item416eae0903 Thanks a lot. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: shells (was Re: About standards Was: Re: Debian Installer 7.0 Beta4 release)

2012-11-27 Thread berenger . morel
I tried google, but without more keywords, rc was too little to search. When I search for a package's description, I first use debian's informations. With apt-cache if I am running my debian, or with http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=foobar if I am not using it. The 2nd is really

Re: how many users is enough? (was Re: Debian Installer 7.0 Beta4 release)

2012-11-28 Thread berenger . morel
Le 28.11.2012 20:32, Miles Fidelman a écrit : Morel Bérenger wrote: (Personally, I'm suspicious of software and changes that are distribution-specific.) Are you suspicious about the Debian Linux kernel? It have distro specific patches. (But I think and hope that they are reported upstream.

Re: booting/installing debian

2012-11-28 Thread berenger . morel
Le 28.11.2012 20:35, Loic J. Duros a écrit : Thanks for your answer, On 11/28/2012 11:19 AM, Morel Bérenger wrote: _ an installer with a preseed which make the ssh install the default How do I get to make an installer that will install ssh by default without any key input required?

Re: Failing to install virt-manager on Sid

2012-11-30 Thread berenger . morel
Le 30.11.2012 18:43, Alan Chandler a écrit : I am trying to install virt-manager on sid, but I am getting a dependancy blockage which I don't understand virt-manager ultimately depends on libvirt0 - which seems to have version (0.9.12-5) in the sid repository libvirt0 depends on libnetcf1 -

OT : BSD vs Linux was Re : Boot loaders for Linux that can also boot FreeBSD

2012-11-30 Thread berenger . morel
Le 30.11.2012 22:21, Ralf Mardorf a écrit : On Thu, 2012-11-29 at 10:45 -0800, Weaver wrote: GAG Being able to boot only 9 kernels isn't enough. If I want to compare two kernel-rt and two full preempt kernels on two distros, I already need to be able to boot 8 kernels. Currently on my

Re: how many users is enough?

2012-12-01 Thread berenger . morel
Le 01.12.2012 07:50, Chris Bannister a écrit : On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 02:35:41PM +0100, Morel Bérenger wrote: If I am not wrong, .NET have documented specifications, and I ~think~ they are also doing some free softwares. $ apt-cache show mono-complete I was speaking about microsoft :)

Re: how many users is enough?

2012-12-03 Thread berenger . morel
Le 01.12.2012 21:59, Chris Bannister a écrit : On Sat, Dec 01, 2012 at 02:34:12PM +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 01.12.2012 07:50, Chris Bannister a écrit : On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 02:35:41PM +0100, Morel Bérenger wrote: If I am not wrong, .NET have documented specifications,

Re: FN Key to Enable/Disable Touchpad

2012-12-03 Thread berenger . morel
Le 03.12.2012 07:25, Doug a écrit : On 12/03/2012 12:12 AM, Beco wrote: On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 8:56 PM, Dr Beco r...@beco.cc wrote: Camaleón, Thanks for the tip. Yes, I can turn it on/off manually. with #synclient TouchpadOff=1 or =0. Is there a way to associate the Key with the Action?

Re: For Help!

2012-12-08 Thread berenger . morel
This sounds like you does not have internet access correctly configured. Did you tried anything to know what is happening? Le 08.12.2012 17:38, Aijun Xuan a écrit : Hello, Debian: First of all, I would like appreciate what Debian had offered to us! I would thank GUN very much! I am a new

Re: [OT] Good quality hair dryer needed for Squeeze

2012-12-10 Thread berenger . morel
Le 10.12.2012 23:28, Mark Panen a écrit : Hi,   I am after a good quality hair dryer that works with 6.0.6 amd64.   Every time I shut down my machine due to a thunderstorm and try to power up again after a couple of hours the machine is dead and only he LED on the MOBO is on.   I wasted my

Re: Corrupted desktop

2012-12-11 Thread berenger . morel
I think this bug is more related to virtualbox or xorg. If you have time to check, you can try to configure a KDE desktop. If the same problem appear, it is not a gnome or gtk problem. If not, it might be gnome, or gtk. To have more clues in this situation, try xfce or lxde, and if the

Re: wheezy freeze

2012-12-17 Thread berenger . morel
Here are some solutions: _ Use unstable/experimental _ Try a rolling-release distro The freeze is needed to create a stable version. Le 17.12.2012 12:03, Hans Vogelsberger a écrit : By now, freeze is dull, boring, irksome and tediously deadening. Hans -- Dieser Account aktzeptiert nur Mails,

Re: wheezy freeze

2012-12-18 Thread berenger . morel
Ubuntu is not at all a rolling release, because, as far as I know, it does some stable versions, which last for 6 months before a new one spawn. You can have a definition of the term rolling release here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_release There are well known distributions in

Re: git pull fails with OpenSSL version mismatch error

2012-12-18 Thread berenger . morel
I am using happily github and bitbucket without any problem since some months now, with Debian testing. So if you are not using testing, maybe you could try to upgrade only git, ssh and their stuff related to network to testing version, one by one. (look for apt-pinning on your favorite debian

Re: Upgrading Wheezy Beta to Wheezy Stable?

2012-12-18 Thread berenger . morel
Read somewhere that updating/upgrading from Wheezy Beta eventually to Wheezy Stable using the wheezy named repos (not testing named ones) has potential problems, and the best option is a clean install of Wheezy Stable. True or false? I've read the Wheezy Beta install docs, and the upgrading

Re: wheezy freeze

2012-12-18 Thread berenger . morel
Le 18.12.2012 10:38, Rene Engelhard a écrit : On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 10:02:54AM +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: _ The freeze started less than 4 months ago (I do not have the exact date), and I do not think things will be frozen for more ages... FWIW without any opinion

Re: wheezy how-to

2012-12-18 Thread berenger . morel
The plain-old window managers are sufficiently different from Windows and Apple that I feel comfortable stating that the developers are not interested in keeping up with the current desktop trends. That gives me high confidence that there won't be many major changes in the way those window

Re: ssh fails (was: Re: git pull fails with OpenSSL version mismatch error)

2012-12-18 Thread berenger . morel
Le 18.12.2012 18:40, Joel Roth a écrit : On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 06:56:32PM -1000, Joel Roth wrote: Greetings $ git pull OpenSSL version mismatch. Built against 105f, you have 1000103f fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly This error also occurs when I use ssh directly, to any host.

Re: which version of debian to download

2012-12-18 Thread berenger . morel
As long as you have = 2 GB RAM you should download AMD64 (otherwise i386) The choice is not related to the amount of RAM, but on processor's architecture and instructions set. Nowadays, all processors I know for computers are built with 64 bits architectures, and corresponding instructions

Re: which version of debian to download

2012-12-18 Thread berenger . morel
Le 18.12.2012 22:16, Ralf Mardorf a écrit : On Tue, 2012-12-18 at 21:52 +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: I might be wrong on some points, because I am not an expert http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch02s05.html.en http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch03s04.html.en

Re: pm-hibernate as user

2012-12-18 Thread berenger . morel
Except using sudo, I know no solution... sadly. Maybe you can do something with policykit, too, I never tried to understand how it works, but I think giving rights to some softwares is its role. Le 19.12.2012 00:15, Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit : Hi, What should be done to be able to execute

Re: switching distributions, but keeping KDE... how do i migrate my email?

2012-12-18 Thread berenger . morel
Your email data should be in your $HOME directory, so, if you keep the same versions of softwares, they should be able to reuse data without noticing the distro has changed. But for a safer way, I guess the best is so backup your $HOME dir. Le 19.12.2012 00:54, salamandir a écrit : i am

Re: pm-hibernate as user

2012-12-18 Thread berenger . morel
Le 19.12.2012 01:04, Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit : Michael Biebl wrote: On 19.12.2012 00:34, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Except using sudo, I know no solution... sadly. Maybe you can do something with policykit, too, I never tried to understand how it works, but I think giving rights to

Reasons for rights policies, political or technical ? Was : Re: pm-hibernate as user

2012-12-19 Thread berenger . morel
Le 19.12.2012 16:25, Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit : Michael Biebl wrote: On 19.12.2012 01:04, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Michael Biebl wrote: On 19.12.2012 00:34, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Except using sudo, I know no solution... sadly. Maybe you can do something with policykit, too, I

Re: Reasons for rights policies, political or technical ? Was : Re: pm-hibernate as user

2012-12-19 Thread berenger . morel
I will do what we call in French a tir groupé... I guess it might be translated as grouped shots, but it does not sounds good to my ears... See my recent post: Make sure your desktop environment is setting up a up proper consolekit session. Then stuff like that will work ootb. E.g. if you are

Re: hanging up during debian install??

2012-12-19 Thread berenger . morel
You are thinking too much in Kubuntu speak. i'm doing fairly well, considering that my pre-linux language was mac or windows, and i have been using linux /exclusively/ since 2000 or there abouts... You are older than me in linux world then. But time is in nothing related to knowledge, it

Re: Captchas?

2012-12-19 Thread berenger . morel
Le 20.12.2012 00:00, Brad Alexander a écrit : I'm having an issue with seeing captchas. On my home system (sid), I can't see them in iceweasel, but on my work laptop, I can't see them on either iceweasel or midori. I thought it might be adblock, but when I checked the page, the captcha site

Re: unexpected script output

2012-12-19 Thread berenger . morel
Le 20.12.2012 00:22, Bob Proulx a écrit : Nelson Green wrote: Nelson Green grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Change your shebang line to #!/bin/bash to make it work right and then set the executable bit on the script. Then you can just do ./output.sh to get the expected results (don't do sh

Re: unexpected script output

2012-12-21 Thread berenger . morel
Le 20.12.2012 01:32, Bob Proulx a écrit : berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Bob Proulx a écrit : Don't change the symlink. Change the #! line to #!/bin/bash. That is the correct way to use bash specific features. Then it will work on the next system that you run it on. If you change

Re: Iceweasel / chromium flash player on wheezy i386

2012-12-21 Thread berenger . morel
Le 21.12.2012 22:24, Ximo a écrit : Hello, I've a newly installed wheezy i386 with lxde but adobe flash player doesn't work with neither iceweasel nor chromium. Why do you think it does not work? I mean, what are symptoms, because maybe you just disabled it in your browsers... -- To

Re: Some applications freezing up

2012-12-22 Thread berenger . morel
You could try using a DE/software which is lighter e.g LXDE, XFCE or even just a WM and start you software from an Xterm when needed. In short: he can stop to use a bloated desktop environment? ;) To be honest, I can not say you're wrong, but I guess the OP does not really want to try a new

Re: cinnamon problem

2012-12-22 Thread berenger . morel
Le 22.12.2012 12:18, abdelkader belahcene a écrit : Hi, I used for a while mint13  with cinnamon desktop, i got big problem, it often freezes, and the screen stays like this until I reboot the machine!!! So I decided to instyall mate, et use it at it place,  then the problem disapeared??? I

Re: Some applications freezing up

2012-12-22 Thread berenger . morel
Hmm, I really hope it is not h/w problem: Intel core I5 2.4 Ghz 4 gb ram 128 gb ssd. Do you still think it's a h/w problem? I do not know, it depends on how many stuff you have loaded at the same time. But... well, to be honest, seeing your computer, I do not really think it could be that...

Re: Some applications freezing up

2012-12-22 Thread berenger . morel
Le 22.12.2012 13:51, Daniel Dalton a écrit : On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 12:59:53PM +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Hmm, I really hope it is not h/w problem: Intel core I5 2.4 Ghz 4 gb ram 128 gb ssd. Do you still think it's a h/w problem? I do not know, it depends on how many stuff

suspend on SSD as fast as on mechanical HD Was : Re: SSD alignment for debian

2012-12-22 Thread berenger . morel
Le 22.12.2012 15:10, Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit : Daniel Dalton wrote: Hello, I've installed debian with a separate /home partition on my samsung 830 series ssd drive. I would like to verify partition alignment is correct though. Could someone tell me how to verify this or let me know if it is

Re: Some applications freezing up

2012-12-22 Thread berenger . morel
Le 22.12.2012 19:09, Andrei POPESCU a écrit : On Sb, 22 dec 12, 14:43:26, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Sounds like you are using mpd to play music. I have noticed that sometimes it uses more CPU than it really needs (restart it usually fix the problem so...) so it could be an mpd

Re: A lot of problems with debian sid on a Notebook

2012-12-22 Thread berenger . morel
Le 23.12.2012 00:51, Thore a écrit : Hello, on my Alienware m15x Notebook I installed debian wheezy (in the 32bit version with kde). Hum, knowing that it is an alienware say nothing about the processor model, so maybe the 32bit choice is not the best one. I do not know, for now I did not

Re: Some applications freezing up

2012-12-22 Thread berenger . morel
Everyone has been told they are a bad programmer unless they defeat the filesystem buffer cache by using fsync() everywhere. Huh? So, everyone think we should all go back to the ms-dos world, when each programmer had to know everything about the hardware? Hum... Maybe I should leave my hopes

Re: Some applications freezing up

2012-12-23 Thread berenger . morel
Le 23.12.2012 03:37, John Hasler a écrit : berenger.morel writes: I really would like to understand why people think it is a problem to do softwares able to run on lower hardware... if someone have any clue, I really want to know it! Because they aren't very good programmers. And that's a

Re: A lot of problems with debian sid on a Notebook

2012-12-23 Thread berenger . morel
Both entrys have a pae, my question is: can (and how can) I remove the ...-2-686-pae entry? As many other people said, your usual package manager is able to remove kernels. Aptitude will warn you if you are removing the last kernel of your system. And it will update grub accordingly. As

Re: A lot of problems with debian sid on a Notebook

2012-12-23 Thread berenger . morel
Le 23.12.2012 20:48, Thore a écrit : Am 23.12.2012 20:45, schrieb Thore: Am 23.12.2012 17:32, schrieb berenger.mo...@neutralite.org: Both entrys have a pae, my question is: can (and how can) I remove the ...-2-686-pae entry? As many other people said, your usual package manager is able to

Re: A lot of problems with debian sid on a Notebook

2012-12-23 Thread berenger . morel
Le 24.12.2012 00:08, Thore a écrit : Am 23.12.2012 22:19, schrieb berenger.mo...@neutralite.org: Le 23.12.2012 20:48, Thore a écrit : Am 23.12.2012 20:45, schrieb Thore: Am 23.12.2012 17:32, schrieb berenger.mo...@neutralite.org: Both entrys have a pae, my question is: can (and how can) I

Re: A lot of problems with debian sid on a Notebook

2012-12-23 Thread berenger . morel
Le 24.12.2012 00:41, Lisi Reisz a écrit : On Sunday 23 December 2012 23:31:37 berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: I do not know what kind of interface your are accustomed to, but you could try XFCE or LXDE. In fact, you could also install more than one, and try them from time to time, in the

Re: unexpected script output

2012-12-25 Thread berenger . morel
Wow. 1-4 times a day? Usually: 1: when I am moving from train to work 2: when I am leaving work to train 3: when I am moving from train to home 4: when I am leaving computer for bed :) Why is it necessary to reboot? I would like to understand this use case better. I am using

Re: obsidianmusic alternative? (music library with streaming or download from webserver)

2012-12-25 Thread berenger . morel
Le 25.12.2012 14:36, Steven Post a écrit : Hi, Could anyone recommend a viable alternative to obsidianmusic? It appears to be unmaintained and has some issues where not all music is accessible. What is obsidianmusic? It is a web interface to your amarok music library (when using mysql as

Re: [OT?] Free Software petition on WhiteHouse.gov

2012-12-25 Thread berenger . morel
The people running medical institutions I use are thinking of having me scanned to see if I might have three heads. Well... that's the problem with free software users, we are so smart that other people think we must have more than one head, and brains with them :D That's why we can feel

Re: obsidianmusic alternative? (music library with streaming or download from webserver)

2012-12-25 Thread berenger . morel
Thanks for your suggestion, I'm not sure mpd does what I'm looking for but it seems great for use in another project (some jukebox thing I'm wanting to have a go at). I will look further into it. Yes, it's great for jukeboxes, but not only :) And you know what? I'll try to show you that I'm

Re: Some applications freezing up

2012-12-26 Thread berenger . morel
Yes... I always use mpc and it works with no problem. Also control mpd from within emacs through emms is just fine also. huhu... sometimes I think that emacs is a really a full OS :D If you encounter the same problem with all of them, it is not the client, so probably the server. If you

Re: Some applications freezing up

2012-12-26 Thread berenger . morel
Le 27.12.2012 03:05, Daniel Dalton a écrit : On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 02:14:35PM +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Maybe those softwares are using their own database? Rhythmbox yes, gmpc, would use mpd though? well, not my problem, since I do not intend to use such kind of

Re: obsidianmusic alternative? (music library with streaming or download from webserver)

2012-12-26 Thread berenger . morel
Le 26.12.2012 20:25, Steven Post a écrit : On Wed, 2012-12-26 at 03:44 +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Thanks for your suggestion, I'm not sure mpd does what I'm looking for but it seems great for use in another project (some jukebox thing I'm wanting to have a go at). I will

Re: bash script to convert, compress

2012-12-27 Thread berenger . morel
Le 27.12.2012 11:47, tsit...@linuxmail.org a écrit : Hi. i am running debian 6.0.6 and i am banging my head to create a simple script that will run periodically (through cron). i do have a whole lot of wav files in opt/wavfiles and i do need: -convert them to mp3 -delete the wav files that

Re: bash script to convert, compress

2012-12-27 Thread berenger . morel
because music, as photo (not drawings, some can be compressed) and films, can be only compressed with data losses. I don't agree. Music, photos and films can very well be compressed as long as they are not already compressed (lossy or not). Yes, most usual formats nowadays are already

Re: something about cups-pdf

2012-12-27 Thread berenger . morel
Le 27.12.2012 17:54, lina a écrit : :/var/spool# ls -lrt cups-pdf/ total 8 drwxrwxrwt 2 root lpadmin 4096 Dec 27 2011 ANONYMOUS drwxr-x--x 2 root lpadmin 4096 May 12 2012 SPOOL Is it normal? What does the ANONYMOUS for? drwxrwxrwt ? Thanks, Sounds like it's the file name for me. -- To

Re: obsidianmusic alternative? (music library with streaming or download from webserver)

2012-12-27 Thread berenger . morel
That would also mean different tcp ports for each instance, which is cumbersome with regards to the firewall and possibly proxy servers the client needs to pass Did not thought about that problem. I have some basic understanding of network stuff, but would have never thought about that issue

Tools to retrieve images from dead hard drive and/or deleted partitions

2012-12-27 Thread berenger . morel
Ok, first, sorry to ask two questions at a time: dead drives and deleted partitions are different things, I know that. Let me explain my (they are, in fact, friend's problems) two problems (from different peoples). === 0) the common part. By the past, I've did some researches about forensics

Re: obsidianmusic alternative? (music library with streaming or download from webserver)

2012-12-27 Thread berenger . morel
That would depend on the usage, consider this: - find an old jukebox - strip the old (defective?) hardware - insert cheap modern computer hardware - include touchscreen for song selection I'm seriously considering something like that. The web interface would be ideal for parties were people can

Re: Tools to retrieve images from dead hard drive and/or deleted partitions

2012-12-28 Thread berenger . morel
I have heard good things of PhotoRec: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhotoRec http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec But I have no personal experience of it. The advice is always to copy the drive that needs rescuing to another drive, and work on the copy, not the orginal. Again, I have not

Re: Tools to retrieve images from dead hard drive and/or deleted partitions

2012-12-28 Thread berenger . morel
This will be a problem, as you should first image the disk(s) and work from the images, not the physical disk. It is especially important for the disk throwing errors, every read attempt may worsen it's condition. Use tools like (g)ddrescue to make a copy despite read errors. I know, and am

Re: Tools to retrieve images from dead hard drive and/or deleted partitions

2012-12-28 Thread berenger . morel
I only can repeat, that the OP by all means should mount the drive read only. Mounting with -ro sounds wiser to me, I think you are true. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: unexpected script output

2012-12-28 Thread berenger . morel
I have seen various wifi drivers not be happy across a suspend/hibernate resume. I have needed to unload them on the way down and reload them on the way up. Or unload and reload them after the resume. Generally speaking, my computer have some troubles to automatically change used networks,

Re: help

2012-12-28 Thread berenger . morel
Le 28.12.2012 21:02, Victor Padro a écrit : Is there something wrong? Maybe his keyboard have only 4 letters working? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: unexpected script output

2013-01-03 Thread berenger . morel
Except that I must be root to do that, it does not hurt me, so I did not investigate further. Give sudo a try. I will do. But I will also find how to only give me su rights for stuff like networkpower, not for everything, becoming su for system administration reminds me to take care when my

Re: [OT] I wish to have a mentor

2013-01-03 Thread berenger . morel
Le 03.01.2013 22:05, Jochen Spieker a écrit : Erm... I know this is perfectly out of thread but... I LOVE your signature :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

tool to show menu, DE agnostics

2013-01-06 Thread berenger . morel
Hello. I am used to dmenu and my tiling window manager (i3), but I would like to know if there is a tool which is able to use .desktop files commonly used by x11 softwares to appear in menus? dmenu is ok for tools you use often, but certain softwares are easy to forget (like small games :)

Re: Kwallet + Networkmanager

2013-01-10 Thread berenger . morel
Le 10.01.2013 05:13, Beco a écrit : What is the point of kwallet saving the wireless password from networkmanager if networkmanager copies the password to its own dialog box under manage connections/wireless/edit? Or am I missing something? I tried to set networkmanager to do not save/always

Re: Using wheezy or squeeze.

2013-01-11 Thread berenger . morel
Le 11.01.2013 00:14, Steven Ayre a écrit : If you're really paranoid, I suppose you have three servers: Live, Copy-of-Live and Development. :) I wouldn't call that paranoid at all, I'd call that good practice... And, sometimes, there is a 4th one: testing. _ Development : some databases

Re: Best recommendations for posting anonymously?? Looking for pointers

2013-01-12 Thread berenger . morel
Le 11.01.2013 23:27, Engineering Safety Organization a écrit : Hi, Does anyone have any great suggestions for how to best post anonymously to web sites and how to create web sites and web servers to allow participants a reasonable expectation of anonymity so that they can

Re: Operation System installation

2013-01-14 Thread berenger . morel
Le 14.01.2013 11:08, ignacio nanoartista a écrit : Hello..I´d downloaded the Debian operation System and I cant install it. I download the CD image for AMD64...and when im tryin to install from CD gives and error from reading CD Thank you. As others, I can not help without informations.

Re: Best recommendations for posting anonymously?? Looking for pointers

2013-01-15 Thread berenger . morel
Le 15.01.2013 06:16, Robert Holtzman a écrit : On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 06:59:10PM -0500, Celejar wrote: On Sat, 12 Jan 2013 14:36:15 -0700 Robert Holtzman hol...@cox.net wrote: On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 05:02:16PM +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote:

Re: Install from DVD set

2013-01-15 Thread berenger . morel
Le 15.01.2013 15:12, Ralf Mardorf a écrit : On Tue, 15 Jan 2013 14:37:37 +0100, Richard Owlett rowl...@cloud85.net wrote: Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 15 Jan 2013 13:51:41 +0100, Richard Owlett rowl...@cloud85.net wrote: 1. After an install completed, how do I scan the other 7 DVD's so

Re: Install from DVD set

2013-01-15 Thread berenger . morel
Le 15.01.2013 17:22, Ralf Mardorf a écrit : On Tue, 15 Jan 2013 16:10:45 +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 15.01.2013 15:12, Ralf Mardorf a écrit : If you now will install a package with dependencies, Synaptic will ask you to insert Disc x of y, IOW you now are a DJ ;). Maybe

Re: Installing flash player into user's home dir. for chromium.

2013-01-15 Thread berenger . morel
Le 15.01.2013 15:24, Sthu Deus a écrit : Good time of the day. I wonder how a user can install adobe flash player (library?) for chromium himself - in case the OS's one is outdated?! Currently Debian wiki tells that it can be achieved though update-non-free-something install - but what

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