Re: Debian right for my use?

Ive invested quite some time looking for CAD software running natively on linux, there isnt much. There is one 3D CAD software running flawlessly on my Debian machine, its called Varicad. Correct me if Im wrong but Virtualbox will take away some of your graphics card power.. Besides that, Im also

Re: PDF forms and field issues

Is there a way for you to check if specific fonts are being assigned to the input fields? Im sure there are better suited tools for your purposes, have you tried scribus? On Sat, 2015-01-31 at 09:50 +1300, Bruce Ward wrote: I created (LibreOffice) a PDF document with user-entry fields. Sent it

Re: alternative to avidemux?

Im using avconv to do this, it is a part of libav-tools package, and its probably faster if you are doing this on a regular basis, use the -ss option along with the -t option. Im also pretty sure it can add a subtitle channel, although I havent done it, On Tue, 2015-03-03 at 23:39 +0100, Victor

why are libraries in jessi more up to date

Im a newbie and would like to know why libraries in Jessie are some much more up to date than in wheezy ? If the libraries have been tested and are stable then why arent they available in the wheezy repositories. I had a terrible time, trying to get a newer version of glibc to play some games in

ppas in debian

is it possible to use PPAs in debian? how do I go about doing this ? thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: test if fan is working

Ok, well, I have tested that the fan is working, because Ive heard it working now, and the temps appear to be in a good range, my BIOS did not show me anything in regards to fans though, thanks, On Sun, May 24, 2015, at 10:22 PM, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: On Sat, 23 May 2015 13:01:54 -0700 Anil

test if fan is working

hello, How can I test if my fan is working in Debian?, thanks, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: test if fan is working

, Anil Duggirala wrote: hello, How can I test if my fan is working in Debian?, thanks, I've installed the xsensors package. It continually reports the RPM of three fans. Would this do? Haines Brown -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: pop-up windows all the time in Firefox, Stretch

On Mon, Jul 10, 2017, at 09:19 AM, Fungi4All wrote: > >> From: mattcr...@mattcrews.com >> To: Fungi4All >> debian-user@lists.debian.org >> >> Back up your ~/.mozilla folder, delete it and reopen Firefox. This will >> create a fresh Firefox profile. Make sure that

pop-up windows all the time in Firefox, Stretch

hello, Ever since I moved to Stretch I have had pop-up windows popping up all the time (clicking on various items on various types of pages). I am posting here, since this is only happening in my Debian installation. Was anything changed in the default configuration of Firefox. It feels like

Re: pop-up windows all the time in Firefox, Stretch

On Mon, Jul 10, 2017, at 02:43 AM, Dejan Jocic wrote: > On 09-07-17, Anil Duggirala wrote: > > hello, > > Ever since I moved to Stretch I have had pop-up windows popping up all > > the time (clicking on various items on various types of pages). I am > > posting here, s

Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

thanks a lot Fungi, I want to reinstall the whole system, so I will download Strech RC 3 from here https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/and then after finishing installation will change 'testing' for 'jessie', can I do that?thanks a lot, P.S. sorry for spamming your email Fungi On

Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

Thanks a lot, thanks Micheal, On Mon, May 22, 2017, at 03:18 PM, Michael Milliman wrote: > > > On 05/22/2017 12:28 PM, Anil Duggirala wrote: > > thanks a lot Fungi, > > I want to reinstall the whole system, so I will download Strech RC 3 > > from here https://

Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

is working, but graphics work better in Windows, and that is morally inacceptable to me. thanks a lot, On Mon, May 22, 2017, at 09:11 PM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: > On 05/21/2017 05:24 PM, Anil Duggirala wrote: > > Thanks everyone for your responses. I did not expect such quick and full > &

Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

Im not sure, this is the output from lspci 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:22b1] (rev 21) as I posted before. On Tue, May 23, 2017, at 10:58 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Tuesday 23 May 2017 14:24:49 Anil Duggirala wrote: > > Hello, > >

Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

Thanks a lot for your replies. Yes I believe I dont have graphics acceleration. My interface is sluggish. I believe I am playing video with Totem, it has these mini freezes and then after some while starts to freeze badly making it unwatchabel. the output from inxi -c0 -G Graphics: Card: Intel

Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

Oh, and also, I did not find /var/log/Xorg.0.log, On Wed, May 24, 2017, at 07:52 AM, Anil Duggirala wrote: > Thanks a lot for your replies. Yes I believe I dont have graphics > acceleration. My interface is sluggish. I believe I am playing video > with Totem, it has these min

Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

, On Wed, May 24, 2017, at 08:32 AM, Brian wrote: > On Wed 24 May 2017 at 07:57:17 -0500, Anil Duggirala wrote: > > > Oh, and also, I did not find /var/log/Xorg.0.log, > > $HOME/.local/share/xorg > > -- > Brian. >

Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

On Wed, May 24, 2017, at 11:11 PM, Ric Moore wrote: > Please don't top post. You don't see anyone else doing that do you?? > Take a clue. Ric Sorry for top-posting, I have taken a clue now. I deactivated Animations in Gnome (Tweak Tool - Appearance), this appears to have helped, dragging

Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

As more examples of the symptoms, in Firefox, scrolling through my email's Inbox list, is a little sluggish, however, scrolling through a site that has images and other things (rt.com), I can scroll up and down more smoothly. In the Applications Dropdown from the top bar in Gnome Classic, it

Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

On Fri, May 26, 2017, at 06:18 PM, Michael Milliman wrote: > Now means that 4.9+79 is what is now installed on your system. 4.9+80 > is available from the testing distribution, so that would mean that you > have the testing distribution mentioned in your sources.list file in > /etc/apt. I had

Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

I had installed Windows 10 and Debian 8.8 (with LXDE) in dual boot (UEFI) and everything was working. I wanted to reinstall Debian, so I installed Debian again by deleting the debian partitions (I think correctly) using the Debian installer partitioner and choosing the Guided use largest

Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

Debian is for its stability, but using stable would require me to install various packages from backports maybe?? I did try installing that newer kernel, that didn't work. thanks a lot, On Sun, May 21, 2017, at 10:55 PM, Michael Milliman wrote: > > > On 05/21/2017 07:24 PM, Anil Duggir

Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

Thanks a lot Brian, so right after I install I can change all deb lines and replace 'testing' with 'stretch' ?? On Mon, May 22, 2017, at 09:05 AM, Brian wrote: > On Mon 22 May 2017 at 08:54:59 -0500, Anil Duggirala wrote: > > > Thanks a lot Felix and Micheal. > > I will

Re: Poor X performance with Intel 8086:22b1 (Braswell)

Hello, I am looking at 2 new threads in my Inbox, which one are we going to follow ??I pasted my new Xorg.log here https://paste.debian.net/945756 The situation has definitely improved, In my previous post (in the other thread) I used the word completely, because I was missing the cp command. I

Re: Poor X performance with Intel 8086:22b1 (Braswell) (was: Oh no something has gone wrong! after...)

> However, in https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2017/05/msg00767.html he > provided a pastebin (now expired) of Xorg.0.log that reported the > modeset(0) > driver in use. > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2017/05/msg00781.html explained how > he > could try configuring use of the Intel

Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

I am running the default Gnome player, Totem. I will install icewm when I am on a better connection, with dependencies, goes up to 48 MB. The following NEW packages will be installed: esound-common gconf-service gconf2 gconf2-common gnome-mime-data icewm icewm-common libaudiofile1 libbonobo2-0

Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

I dont know if people are being misled by the title in this thread and I should start a new thread. Gnome is working in my laptop since I installed Stretch, it is just not working well. please read only my previous message to this one, thanks, On Wed, May 24, 2017, at 04:00 PM, Henrique de Moraes

Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

Hello everyone, thanks for your responses. To recap, I installed a fresh Stretch with Gnome, that is all I have done so far. Felix: xorg-xserver-video-intel is installed and shows up in dpkg -l grep intel: ii libdrm-intel1:amd64 2.4.74-1 amd64

Re: Poor X performance with Intel 8086:22b1 (Braswell)

a window or in the Desktop Overview, are not smooth. I believe I still dont have the best graphics configuration and would like more help. I have pasted my Xorg.log here https://paste.debian.net/955691thanks a lot, On Sat, May 27, 2017, at 10:12 AM, Anil Duggirala wrote: > Hello, I am looking a

Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

Thanks everyone for your responses. I did not expect such quick and full response. I also really don't believe it has anything to do with partitioning (Debian deleted the partitions and created exactly corresponding partitions with guided partitioning). More info: When I installed initially with

Re: Poor X performance with Intel 8086:22b1 (Braswell)

On Wed, 2017-05-31 at 19:50 +, Curt wrote: > On 2017-05-31, Anil Duggirala <anilduggir...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > > > > Hello, > > I was just wondering if you could confirm that I am now using the > > intel > > driver, I dont know how to check thi

Re: software to do drawings of houses, gardens, etc.

On Fri, Nov 24, 2017, at 02:06 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 03:39:58AM +0100, Emanuel Berg wrote: > > Doug wrote: > > > > > I do not disparage the hard work some devs > > > have put into Linux CAD routines, but I

Re: software to do drawings of houses, gardens, etc.

On Tue, Nov 21, 2017, at 10:02 PM, Doug wrote: > > On 11/21/2017 05:04 PM, Emanuel Berg wrote: >> Kent West wrote: >> >>> I've recently discovered sweethome3d, and have enjoyed designing a >>> new house for myself. >>> >> sweethome3d is in my repos but it says it is an "interior" design >>

Re: software to do drawings of houses, gardens, etc.

> > For example, if I want to picture a building > > that is rectangular (from above) with one side > > 10m and the other 5m? > > > > I managed to make an approximate rectangle with > > the "rectangle" tool but how do I bring up > > properties so that I can assign the > > exact values? > > > > I

Re: is there any Windows virus that affect linux?

Ill ask another question here. Is having dual boot Windows 10 (or 7 or 8) and Linux a security risk? Will malicious Windows programs gain access to Linux files (files in the Linux partition?)? Does GPT help here? thanks, On Mon, Dec 11, 2017, at 09:31 PM, Dan Purgert wrote: > -BEGIN PGP

Re: is there any Windows virus that affect linux?

Think for yourself a bit: technically it is perfectly possible. The > Linux partition is accessible from windows and, given some sort of > library for "understanding" the file system (probably ext4), files > can be modified this way. Vice-versa, the windows partition will be > accessible from

Re: messed up release in apt

ote: > > > On Tue 01 May 2018 at 08:11:28 (-0500), Anil Duggirala wrote: > > > > If it were my machine (so that if I sank it I would be the only one > > > > to > > > > go down with the ship), I might run: > > > > > > > >  'apt-

Re: Software and Updates Restart notification Stretch

> No need to restart for an upgrade. But sometimes, the upgrade will only > take effect after a restart: it's obvious in the case of the kernel, > but also for some core libraries. > Why has this become a "default" behavior, at least with Gnome, in Debian Stretch then ? A notification appears

Software and Updates Restart notification Stretch

hello, I am getting a notification in Gnome saying there are packages to be updated and I get the option to click on a button saying Update and Restart. However, if I do a regular apt upgrade, I dont need to restart my system. Why am I getting this notification? since when do I need to restart my

.deb packages and security

hello, I know installing .deb packages downloaded from websites is not a good practice in terms of software management in Debian. I would like to know if I should have security concerns when installing a .deb package "manually" (using gdebi for example) ? Is it possible that by downloading the

Re: messed up release in apt

> I would first use old sources.list to purge wine and follow it up > with > autoremove. But after that new, this time intended and correct, > sources.list with apt-get should solve problem. > When you say "old" do you mean the sources.list without the jessie backports entry? Could you explain

Re: messed up release in apt

> By old, I was referring to sources.list with jessie backports. I wold > do > that to make sure that apt will clean up all dependencies for Wine in > jessie backports. I thought that was what you meant, I did as you instructed. Just trying to get rid of this "key" error now. thanks a lot,

Re: messed up release in apt

> If it were my machine (so that if I sank it I would be the only one > to > go down with the ship), I might run: > >  'apt-key update' > When running that command I am getting : Warning: 'apt-key update' is deprecated and should not be used anymore! Note: In your distribution this command is a

Re: messed up release in apt

> > The Debian English-language backports wiki FAQ suggests (to find > all backported packages on a given machine): > > https://backports.debian.org/FAQ/ > I removed all backported packages. Then did apt-get autoremove. Then removed the jessie-backports line from sources.list. I appear to have

messed up release in apt

hello, I mistakenly added an etc/apt/sources.list line for "jessie"(backports) instead of "stretch", which is my current release. I proceded to update apt and installed Wine (along with many packages, some i386) from the jessie-backports source (i.e. apt install wine/jessie-backports). Please tell

getting the right and complete firmware

upon installing Debian stretch I got a notice about missing firmware (Atheros). I managed to find a package that, apperently, contained some of the missing firmware, since the list of missing firmware was diminished. I am still missing some firmware, I will find it eventually, but my question

Re: getting the right and complete firmware

> ~$ apt-file search firmware-5.bin > firmware-atheros: /lib/firmware/ath10k/QCA4019/hw1.0/firmware-5.bin For some reason I am not able to run that command, even as root. And that file is different to the one I am missing (th10k/QCA6174/hw3.0/firmware-5.bin) right? > > Then query the APT

Re: getting the right and complete firmware

> On an unmodified stretch (yours is unmodified, isn't it) > >  /sbin/modinfo ath10k_pci > > does not list any of these files in the firmware lines. So why should > the kernel want any of them? > I believe I have done a standard stretch install, yet /sbin/modinfo ath10k_pci : filename:   

Re: getting the right and complete firmware

On Sun, Jan 28, 2018, at 11:46 AM, Bernd Gruber wrote: > Hi Anil, > > did you take a look at this: > > https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch06s04.html.en > > Bernd > > Anil Duggirala wrote: > > > upon installing Debian stretch I got a notice abo

Re: getting the right and complete firmware

On Tue, Jan 30, 2018, at 5:01 AM, Anil Duggirala wrote: > On Sun, Jan 28, 2018, at 11:46 AM, Bernd Gruber wrote: > > Hi Anil, > > > > did you take a look at this: > > > > https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch06s04.html.en > > > > Bernd &

Re: getting the right and complete firmware

> > I believe I have done a standard stretch install, yet /sbin/modinfo > > ath10k_pci : > > > > filename:   /lib/modules/4.9.0-5- > > amd64/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/ath10k_pci.ko > > firmware:   ath10k/QCA9377/hw1.0/board.bin > > firmware:   

failed to set console font and keymap

All I did was change "us" for "gb" in my /etc/default/keyboard file. I am now getting a "failed to set console font and keymap" message at bootup. The default keymap appears to have been changed, and everything works well otherwise. please help.

Re: failed to set console font and keymap

> Is this a place where "dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration" might > come into play? I only know that one because of debootstrap. :) > > Cindy :) I tried "dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration", choosing UK Int w/dead keys. I am still getting the same error. I had also before, tried

Re: failed to set console font and keymap

> I tried "dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration", choosing UK Int > w/dead keys. I am still getting the same error. I had also before, > tried setting the layout with the Gnome tool. My layout is working > perfectly, but I keep getting the same error, "failed to set console > font and keymap"

max volume not max volume

Im running Stretch and Gnome with whatever sound setup corresponds to that. I turn my volume completely up from my my DE (Gnome), however the volume doesnt actually go to its max. Running alsamixer in the terminal, initially also shows the master to be at the max, pressing F6 and choosing a

Re: trusting .deb packages

Thanks Dan, your questions answer my question. In this case they do provide the source code, which am not competent enough to understand, but I do trust them. thanks a lot,

Re: trusting .deb packages

> > Also consider using the open-source megatools package. 1.10.0 has just > > been released and is expected in Debian soon. > > megatools 1.10.0 has just been accepted into unstable and is in the > build queue. > I did make a search and found this package, an older version 1.9.98-1 which

trusting .deb packages

I am thinking about installing the Mega.nz app on my Debian Stretch installation. They provide a .deb package. Is there anything I can do to ensure this is a safe package? To know that this package will not create a security vulnerability on my system? What is the minimum security procedure to

ACPI Error at boot time

I am getting two errors almost always at boot time: ACPI Error: Cannot release Mutex [PATM], not acquired (20160831/exmutex-393) ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_SB.PCI0.LPCB.ECDV._Q66] (Node 8cf9129f5898), AE_AML_MUTEX_NOT_ACQUIRED (20160831/psparse-543) I am dual booting Win 10

Re: hwclock incorrectly set ?

On Sat, Mar 10, 2018, at 5:18 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: > Hi Charles, > > It would be helpful in diagnosing your problem if you could tell us a > little bit more about your configuration… > > Questions: > > 1) Do you have ntp installed? > > 2) Is this a dual-boot system? (Windows and Debian) >

ACPI Error on boot

hello, I am getting an error on boot in my dual boot Win 10-Debian 9 system, ACPI Error: Cannot release Mutex [PATM], not acquired (20160831/exmutex-393) ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_SB.PCI0.LPCB.ECDV._Q66] (Node 9346529f5960), AE_AML_MUTEX_NOT_ACQUIRED

Re: ACPI Error on boot

On Mon, Apr 9, 2018, at 11:55 AM, Anil Duggirala wrote: > hello, > I am getting an error on boot in my dual boot Win 10-Debian 9 system, > ACPI Error: Cannot release Mutex [PATM], not acquired (20160831/ > exmutex-393) > ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_SB.PCI0

Re: ACPI Error on boot

On Thu, Apr 12, 2018, at 8:31 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > Is there any negative effect on your boot you link to this > message? > I do not understand the wording of this question, could you please rephrase it? I did not link anything to my O post. The only negative effect I see is the error

Re: ACPI Error on boot

> Assuming the kernel is not broken, it means that the firmware writers > screwed it up, and are trying to release a lock (mutex) that was not > taken. > I am also getting missing firmware notices, namely, [9.269384] ath10k_pci :03:00.0: firmware: failed to load

Re: ACPI Error on boot

> have you updated BIOS to latest version from machine > vendor? > I have not, I will see if there is a newer version. I am running Debian Stretch on a Dell 3580 Latitude machine. I have not tried anything so far to fix this error, thanks a lot,

Re: ACPI Error on boot

> I think what he means could be said in other words for example like "Is > there any negative effect when the machine boots that you believe is > related to this error message?" > I am also getting notices of missing firmware, that is the only other thing I have noticed, thanks,

Re: low sound

> I assume you are using PulseAudio and Gnome. On my desktop I've seen > that sometimes some volumes get set to a low value that Gnome control > panel can't seem to restore. Thanks Tomaz, I did get the volume up to its usual level (I believe) by going to alsamixer. I had tried this before but

low sound

hello, Since a couple of days, the overall volume of my audio has decreased. However, it doesnt appear to be affecting my audio player (Rhythmbox). Youtube videos play with very low sound. I am using Gnome and am setting the volume and amplification to max just to try and hear something. Please

full screen display correction not possible with this profile (color)

hello, I am getting this note full screen display correction not possible with this profile" in the Color settings in Gnome, next to the my color profile. Does this mean my color profile is not being used to display stuff on my screen now? thanks,

gnome-software is using up my internet data

Hello, Ive got 2 questions: 1. The process gnome-software is downloading up of 10 MB every time (or many times) I connect to the internet, this is killing my internet data quota. Can someone tell me how to disable this, what exactly is gnome-software doing (it does not seem to be searching for