Re: xfce 4.12 in Debian.
On Wed, 3/4/15, xavi lorajo...@paranoici.org wrote: Subject: xfce 4.12 in Debian. To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Wednesday, March 4, 2015, 12:17 AM Hi, Does somebody know when xfce4.12 will be arrive to Debian? And, where can I look this for xfce4.12 or other packages? Is there some kind of calendar for packages? Thanks and sorry for my english :^) Have a nice day! It's unlikely that xfce4.12 will be available in Debian Jessie - maybe in the backports. But it looks like it will be the default DE in Devuan Jessie . . . depotterized of course. ;) golinux -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1425485879.90841.yahoomailba...@web163403.mail.gq1.yahoo.com
Re: [OT?]Squeeze: update Flashplugin?
On Mon, 2/9/15, antispammbox-debian antispammbox-deb...@yahoo.it wrote: Subject: [OT?]Squeeze: update Flashplugin? To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Monday, February 9, 2015, 9:32 AM Hi all It's possible update FlashPlugin in Squeeze? Thanks Regards I would also like the answer to this question. I recently tried to update flash on my squeeze install according to instructions I had carefully saved from the last time I updated. Here's the command I used: $ fakeroot make-jpkg jre-7u10-linux-i586.tar.gz And it came back something like make-jpkg not found - have no idea where it went. Also tried running it as root in /usr/java/ and that was a no-go also. So no libjavaplugin_oji.so to link to. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1423497138.78248.yahoomailba...@web163402.mail.gq1.yahoo.com
Re: [OT?]Squeeze: update Flashplugin?
On Mon, 2/9/15, Hans hans.ullr...@loop.de wrote: Subject: Re: [OT?]Squeeze: update Flashplugin? To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Monday, February 9, 2015, 10:00 AM I would also like the answer to this question. I recently tried to update flash on my squeeze install according to instructions I had carefully saved from the last time I updated. Here's the command I used: $ fakeroot make-jpkg jre-7u10-linux-i586.tar.gz And it came back something like make-jpkg not found - have no idea where it went. Also tried running it as root in /usr/java/ and that was a no-go also. So no libjavaplugin_oji.so to link to. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks. Hi, I believe dpkg-reconfigure flashplugin-nonfree will download and install the latest flashplugin from adobe. When you want to update java, then download jave, and do as above mentioned. This will create a java package, which you then can install by using dpkg -i oracle-whatever*.deb. Good luck Hans Apologies for the brain fart mixing up flash and java. Hans, that command didn't work because make-jpkg was not found. How can I get make-jpkg back? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1423504588.54209.yahoomailba...@web163404.mail.gq1.yahoo.com
Re: gnome wont start
On Tue, 12/23/14, Jean-Marc jean-m...@6jf.be wrote: Subject: Re: gnome wont start To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Tuesday, December 23, 2014, 3:41 AM Mon, 22 Dec 2014 19:09:21 -0800 Joris Bolsens epicbl...@gmail.com écrivait : PS unfortunately, there are mentions of systemd in your mail; I think it will be difficult to find useful answers in the flood you will get. Unlikely. I think most everyone opposed to virusd has fled this list. I keep reading it because I am a bit bored . . . -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1419347827.83144.yahoomailba...@web163401.mail.gq1.yahoo.com
Re: gnome wont start
On Mon, 12/22/14, Joris Bolsens epicbl...@gmail.com wrote: Subject: gnome wont start To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Monday, December 22, 2014, 9:09 PM [snip] $ sudo systemctl status gdm.service ● gdm.service - GNOME Display Manager Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/gdm.service; enabled) Active: failed (Result: start-limit) since Mon 2014-12-22 19:06:18 PST; 1min 26s ago Dec 22 19:06:16 debian systemd[1]: Failed to start GNOME Display Manager. Dec 22 19:06:16 debian systemd[1]: Unit gdm.service entered failed state. Dec 22 19:06:18 debian systemd[1]: gdm.service holdoff time over, scheduling restart. Dec 22 19:06:18 debian systemd[1]: Stopping GNOME Display Manager... Dec 22 19:06:18 debian systemd[1]: Starting GNOME Display Manager... Dec 22 19:06:18 debian systemd[1]: gdm.service start request repeated too quickly, refusing to start. Dec 22 19:06:18 debian systemd[1]: Failed to start GNOME Display Manager. Dec 22 19:06:18 debian systemd[1]: Unit gdm.service entered failed state. --- Recent discussion (on the Devuan list) mentioned dbus requires a reboot to restart. Perhaps startx also needs a reboot? Welcome to the world of systemd - determined to complicate your computing life. Note that Gnome is terminally infected with the systemd plague. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1419316295.38957.yahoomailba...@web163405.mail.gq1.yahoo.com
Re: Kernel failure
No one? FWIW. Haven’t had a problem since I posted this several days ago. Any thoughts? On Sat, 12/13/14, golinux goli...@riseup.net wrote: Subject: Kernel failure To: Debian User debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Saturday, December 13, 2014, 1:40 AM On squeeze LTS. Upgraded the kernel 2 days ago. Everything was going OK. Then out of nowhere I get a kernel failure popup after coming out of suspend. Everything seems to be working OK so I've just gone on about my business. But don't want to get bit down the road. What should I do? This has never happened in the 10 years I've been using Linux so I'm a little lost. Here's the log: Kernel failure message 1: [ cut here ] WARNING: at /build/linux-2.6-bBJNRm/linux-2.6-2.6.32/debian/build/source_i386_none/kernel/rcutree.c:277 rcu_exit_nohz+0x43/0x5d() Hardware name: P35-DS3L Modules linked in: ata_piix :00:1f.5: PCI INT B - GSI 19 (level, low) - IRQ 19 xt_limit xt_tcpudp ipt_LOG ata_piix :00:1f.5: setting latency timer to 64 ipt_MASQUERADE xt_DSCP ipt_REJECT nf_conntrack_irc nf_conntrack_ftp xt_state sco bridge stp bnep rfcomm acpi_cpufreq l2cap bluetooth cpufreq_powersave rfkill cpufreq_conservative cpufreq_stats cpufreq_userspace ppdev lp binfmt_misc fuse iptable_nat nf_nat nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_conntrack nf_defrag_ipv4 iptable_mangle iptable_filter ip_tables x_tables ext4 jbd2 crc16 it87 hwmon_vid coretemp loop snd_hda_codec_realtek snd_hda_intel i2c_i801 nvidia(P) snd_hda_codec snd_hwdep parport_pc i2c_core processor snd_pcm snd_seq snd_timer snd_seq_device evdev parport snd soundcore snd_page_alloc pcspkr psmouse serio_raw ext3 jbd mbcache sg sr_mod cdrom sd_mod crc_t10dif ata_generic uhci_hcd r8169 mii pata_jmicron thermal ata_piix thermal_sys ehci_hcd libata button scsi_mod usbcore nls_base [last unloaded: scsi_wait_scan] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Tainted: PW 2.6.32-5-686 #1 Call Trace: [c10308fd] ? warn_slowpath_common+0x5e/0x8a [c1030933] ? warn_slowpath_null+0xa/0xc [c106f5b7] ? rcu_exit_nohz+0x43/0x5d [c104f6a5] ? tick_nohz_restart_sched_tick+0x6d/0x12d [c1002338] ? cpu_idle+0x9b/0xa3 ---[ end trace 150783a4a64aa323 ]--- Please cc to the above address. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1418693852.46886.yahoomailba...@web163403.mail.gq1.yahoo.com
Re: Moderated posts?
On Mon, 10/6/14, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: Subject: Moderated posts? To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Monday, October 6, 2014, 4:42 PM Hi all, Several of my posts to lists.debian.org have not made it to the list, as defined by both my inbox and the list archive. These posts all had something in common, and it was *not* swearwords or gratuitous personal insults. So if you've seen some of your posts not be posted, be aware that somebody might be moderating your posts. And when it's pointed out that your opinion is a minority, keep in mind that it might just appear to be a minority because many posts from like minded people might not have been moderated rather than posted. Personally, I think the right way to moderate a list is: A) Tell everyone it's a moderated list B) Send the poster a short reason why his post has been moderated. SteveT __ This is the first post I've seen from you all day. Not one systemd post either. Methinks something is afoot . . . -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1412632254.25688.yahoomailba...@web163401.mail.gq1.yahoo.com
Re: Problem with Debian 6 LTS and vlc
On Fri, 8/15/14, david...@ling.ohio-state.edu david...@ling.ohio-state.edu wrote: Subject: Re: Problem with Debian 6 LTS and vlc To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Friday, August 15, 2014, 3:54 PM On Thu, 14 Aug 2014, Go Linux wrote: On Wed, 8/13/14, Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] Is vlc no longer installable, on Debian 6? --- I have vlc running on squeeze LTS. Looks like it comes from Debian multimedia packages maintainers pkg-multimedia-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org so you'll likely have to add the http://www.deb-multimedia.org oldstable main repo to your sources list. FYI: There is 'Debian Multimedia Maintainers' and 'deb-multimedia.org'. So what's the difference? https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia/FAQ#There_is_.27Debian_Multimedia_Maintainers.27_and_.27deb-multimedia.org.27._So_what.27s_the_difference.3F deb-multimedia.org is unrelated to the debian multimedia packaging team. --- This description comes from the properties option in synaptic: Debian multimedia packages maintainers pkg-multimedia-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org But when I just checked from the source option it says it was installed from: oldstable/main (http.debian.net) It has the official Debian logo on the vlc entries so it must be still be in oldstable now. IIRC it was about this time that multimedia was no longer being maintained and supported by Debian and moved over to a third party repo. Section 2.5 on the page you posted above has a thorough explanation starting with this: 2.5. There is 'Debian Multimedia Maintainers' and 'deb-multimedia.org'. So what's the difference? 'Debian Multimedia Maintainers' is the team behind the packaging of multimedia related packages distributed with Debian. In other words, 'Debian Multimedia Maintainers' is us. 'deb-multimedia.org' (aka 'dmo' or 'd-m.o', formerly 'debian-multimedia.org') is a site that offers a repository of multimedia packages as well. That site is maintained by an individual that is not part of this team. If you continue reading down that page the transitions and differences are clearly described. As an alternative, you might try the version in the Mepis community repo for squeeze. The media packages that Steve Pusser builds have always been compatible with my system. He's a real wizard! golinux -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1408138552.6525.yahoomailba...@web163404.mail.gq1.yahoo.com
Re: Problem with Debian 6 LTS and vlc
On Wed, 8/13/14, Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: Subject: Problem with Debian 6 LTS and vlc To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Wednesday, August 13, 2014, 11:46 PM I have just tried to install vlc on this laptop. At first attempt, it kept prompting for the disc number..., so I checked the /etc/apt/sources.list file, and found that it was not set up for LTS. So, I updated the /etc/apt/sources.list file, as (I believe) shown on the relevant wiki web page, and ran apt-get update and then apt-get upgrade, and that apparently included removal of about 3.6MB of something (it did not say what would be removed). But, now I can not install vlc. I get, in the error box (the error classification/description, can not be copied and pasted) vlc: Depends: vlc-nox but it is not going to be installed Depends: libfribidi0 (=0.19.2) but it is not installable Depends: libsdl-image1.2 (=1.2.10) but it is not installable Depends: libxcb-keysyms1 (=0.3.6) but it is not installable Recommends: vlc-plugin-notify but it is not going to be installed Recommends: vlc-plugin-pulse but it is not going to be installed Is vlc no longer installable, on Debian 6? --- I have vlc running on squeeze LTS. Looks like it comes from Debian multimedia packages maintainers pkg-multimedia-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org so you'll likely have to add the http://www.deb-multimedia.org oldstable main repo to your sources list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1408029776.76194.yahoomailba...@web163404.mail.gq1.yahoo.com
Re: gedit ugly under xfce
On Tue, 7/15/14, B lazyvi...@gmx.com wrote: Subject: Re: gedit ugly under xfce To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Tuesday, July 15, 2014, 1:47 PM Too bad, I loved gedit; any suggestion about quite the same editor w/o uglyness? With my wheezy xfce, I use mate-text-editor (pluma) from the mate project which is a port of the old GTK2 gedit . Solves the ugliness problem and is oh so familiar . . . Copying to you Buzz, because my posts from yahoo do not always get through. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1405454051.7039.yahoomailba...@web163402.mail.gq1.yahoo.com
Re: Question: debian way to create debian live-dvd
On Sun, 6/22/14, Hans hans.ullr...@loop.de wrote: Subject: Question: debian way to create debian live-dvd To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Sunday, June 22, 2014, 9:57 AM Hello list, I want to create a debian live-cd from an installed debian system. What is the best debian way? live-build can not be used, as there are some manually copied files on my system, I want to preserve (i.e. my own wordlists) and some applications, which are not available as debian packages. At the moment I am using bootcdwrite. If there are better tools (I believe, there is also live-helper), please point them to me. What I imagine is: - the live-cd should be runable (just like knoppix or similar) - it should be installable, when the user needs it - the installation should be automatically (just overwrite the complete harddrive) - user friendly (one-click-solution) I am sure, this is possible, but still did not find the correct tools. Any help is welcome. Best regards Hans refractasnapshot and refractainstaller - http://www.ibiblio.org/refracta/ - will create a bootable cd, dvd or USB of your working system. I have found it to be rock solid. However, it's not exactly one click and may require some adjustments to various configuration files. IMO, it's the best option out there. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1403452822.53018.yahoomailba...@web163402.mail.gq1.yahoo.com
Re: Can Iceweasel and Firefox co-exist on Wheezy.
On Fri, 6/13/14, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: Subject: Re: Can Iceweasel and Firefox co-exist on Wheezy. To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Friday, June 13, 2014, 9:01 AM https://beta.ovoenergy.com/login I can't login on this one. There are many sites on which I can't shop (can't put things in the basket). Here is an example of that: http://www.damart.co.uk/F-10068-thermal-tops/P-63701--pack-of-2-french-neck-vests Have you tried in safe-mode? Maybe an addon is the culprit. This is pretty standard diagnostic procedure. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1402683439.69881.yahoomailba...@web163405.mail.gq1.yahoo.com
Re: GRUB2
On Fri, 6/6/14, Man_Without_Clue love.cha...@gmail.com wrote: Subject: GRUB2 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Friday, June 6, 2014, 12:48 AM Hi all, Once again I need your help. I have debian wheezy installed on my primary HDD sda1, and I just installed Mint 17 on separate HDD sdb2. Now the GRUB of the MINT 17 took over the grub of Debian, but I don't like look of ths new grub installed by Mint. Is there anyway to revive the debian's GRUB or edit the menu of Mint's GRUB? Thanks for your help. Man without clue Boot into wheezy on sda1 and run update-grub. That has sorted things for me in the past. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1402034690.58192.yahoomailba...@web163403.mail.gq1.yahoo.com
Re: Debian 7.x and desktop environments
On Sat, 5/3/14, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: Subject: Re: Debian 7.x and desktop environments To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Saturday, May 3, 2014, 8:14 AM I LOVE, and sorely miss, Gnome2's use of nested drawers in panels. --- I have entries in the XFCE panel that pop open to multiple launchers just like Gnome 2's drawers. Maybe you're talking about something else? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1399128340.88550.yahoomailba...@web163405.mail.gq1.yahoo.com
Re: Debian 7.x and desktop environments
On Sat, 5/3/14, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: Subject: Re: Debian 7.x and desktop environments To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Saturday, May 3, 2014, 10:49 AM On Sat, 3 May 2014 07:45:40 -0700 (PDT) Go Linux goli...@yahoo.com wrote: On Sat, 5/3/14, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: Subject: Re: Debian 7.x and desktop environments To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Saturday, May 3, 2014, 8:14 AM I LOVE, and sorely miss, Gnome2's use of nested drawers in panels. --- I have entries in the XFCE panel that pop open to multiple launchers just like Gnome 2's drawers. Maybe you're talking about something else? But the key distinction between multiple program Xfce launchers and Gnome 2 drawers is that you can't include a launcher as one of the items in your launcher (can you???), I'm not in XFCE right now (on Squeeze/Gnome 2) but I'm pretty sure that I have custom launchers within a launcher. Give it a try! but you can put Gnome2 drawers inside of other Gnome2 drawers. Didn't know that. I always found the Gnome 2 panel launchers slow to open and kind of clunky. I imagine nested drawers would be even slower. XFCE opens the 'drawers' much faster. Will soon FINALLY move to wheezy on my production machine via refractasnapshot and refractainstaller. It's all pimped out and ready to go on another machine . . . -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1399133214.1766.yahoomailba...@web163405.mail.gq1.yahoo.com
Re: Debian 7.x and desktop environments
On Sat, 5/3/14, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: Subject: Re: Debian 7.x and desktop environments To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Saturday, May 3, 2014, 12:51 PM On Sat, 3 May 2014 09:06:54 -0700 (PDT) Go Linux goli...@yahoo.com wrote: I'm not in XFCE right now (on Squeeze/Gnome 2) but I'm pretty sure that I have custom launchers within a launcher. Give it a try! I'd love to, but don't know how. If I left-click on the top level launcher, click properties, I get a list of the apps launchable by this launcher. If I click Add, it gives me a list of things I can add: Another launcher isn't one of them. If I click the button to define a new app from scratch, I have no idea what to put in the executable field in order to implement a sub-launcher. Any ideas? -- OK. In XFCE now. Here's how to do it: Right click on the primary launcher. Under the blue (plus) add button, there is a document icon with a yellow star. Click on it. The tooltip says add new empty item ie a launcher. Presto! You can now add a custom launcher. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1399142320.79868.yahoomailba...@web163402.mail.gq1.yahoo.com
Re: Setting Up a Google+less GMail Account
On Sat, 4/26/14, Patrick Bartek nemomm...@gmail.com wrote: Subject: Setting Up a Google+less GMail Account To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Saturday, April 26, 2014, 11:27 PM As said a few days ago, if I was able to create a gmail account without signing up for Google+, too, I would post how I did it. Chrome is my default browser, and all below was done with it. SETTING UP A GOOGLE+LESS GMAIL ACCOUNT 1. Go to 'mail.google.com' 2. Click on Create an Account. 3. Fill out the form. You don't have to enter a phone number. Just enter the security code. 4. Once you've completed the sign up page, click Next. You'll be taken to the Profile page. 5. Don't enter anything. Just quit that page. (To be safe, I quit the whole browser as well.) 6. Go to 'mail.google.com' again. I was expecting to get the login page, but instead I was taken directly to my new gmail account. Don't know why. 7. Log out of 'Hangouts.' Left middle of page. This isn't necessary, but I have no use for this gmail feature. 8. Configure your new Google+less gmail account. 9. Log out. 10. Done. Unfortunately, when you log out Google sets the login page with your new email address, but without the password. I didn't want that. As I use Chrome, I went to Tools-Clear Browsing Data, unticked everything except Cookies ... and Autofill ... and cleared everything set for the Past Hour option. Google Mail login is now clear. FWIW, as long as you use a browser to access the account, you're going to be nagged or possibly tricked to activate Google+. Here's a link to quit Google+ without loosing your gmail account. It is the most recent set of instructions I could find. http://www.freelancerseoconsultant.com/2013/01/how-to-delete-google-plus-or-google.html Posted from my new gmail account. B FWIW, I still use the older HTML version of gmail which doesn't have all those 'features' that need to be deactivated or worked around. ;) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1398578358.77094.yahoomailba...@web163406.mail.gq1.yahoo.com
Re: split an html file
On Mon, 4/21/14, Mike McClain mike.j...@nethere.com wrote: Subject: split an html file To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Monday, April 21, 2014, 12:08 PM Hi, My brother Rick, a windrider, put together a webpage, http://www.photographers1.com/Sailing/NauticalTermsNomenclature.html about sailing and wind surfing that has grown too large and should be split into smaller sections to reduce load time. Can anyone point me to any tools that would automate the process of fixing all the links? Thanks, Mike That page is beyond resuscitation IMO. Should be totally reorganized from the ground up with multiple pages and a well thought out navigation. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1398102326.97641.yahoomailba...@web163405.mail.gq1.yahoo.com
Re: split an html file
On Mon, 4/21/14, Mike McClain mike.j...@nethere.com wrote: Subject: split an html file To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Monday, April 21, 2014, 12:08 PM Hi, My brother Rick, a windrider, put together a webpage, http://www.photographers1.com/Sailing/NauticalTermsNomenclature.html about sailing and wind surfing that has grown too large and should be split into smaller sections to reduce load time. Can anyone point me to any tools that would automate the process of fixing all the links? Thanks, Mike That page is beyond resuscitation IMO. Should be totally reorganized from the ground up with multiple pages and a well thought out navigation. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1398120156.43361.yahoomailba...@web163404.mail.gq1.yahoo.com
Re: Brainless Debian Stable installation and usage?
On Fri, 3/7/14, Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't Linux also use all available memory? I have never seen my machine use all available RAM (4 gigs) . . . not ever. Just checked and now using 25% RAM and no swap. Have two audacity/avidumux projects and several browser windows open. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1394209138.72233.yahoomailba...@web163404.mail.gq1.yahoo.com
Re: Bombono DVD
On Mon, 2/17/14, Darac Marjal mailingl...@darac.org.uk wrote: Subject: Re: Bombono DVD To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Monday, February 17, 2014, 6:46 AM On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 01:46:48PM -0600, y...@marupa.net wrote: On Sunday, February 16, 2014 06:24:10 PM LM--- wrote: Dear developers, I WANT BOMBONO DVD for the next Debian release ;-)) It's simply working great here! ludo What is a Bombono DVD? Bombono DVD appears to be a DVD authoring program. It was ITP'd back in 2012[1], but it appears that the DD never quite got around to packaging it. A note on dvd authoring . . . Since dvdstyler didn't make it into the wheezy repos, I tried bombono. bombono works but is not as feature-rich as dvdstyler. UGH! After a year of frustration and keeping on squeeze to solve the problem, Steve Pusser over at Mepis put together a dvdstyler package for wheezy. You can get it at the Mepis Community Repos. I can now move to wheezy for video production! Not even thinking about jessie yet. I've had enough frustration for a while . . . Ludo, if you're interested, why not drop the developer a line and see if they want any help packaging the software? [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=690032 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1392654403.75361.yahoomailba...@web163406.mail.gq1.yahoo.com
Re: video compression?
On Mon, 2/17/14, Thomas H. George li...@tomgeorge.info wrote: Subject: video compression? To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Monday, February 17, 2014, 7:23 AM Is there a best debian program to compress avi videos enough to send them by email? I have found ffmpeg and avidemux and am trying to learn to use them but have not had much success so far. Tom avidemux should be able to create mp4s that are pretty compressed. I use these settings (but I'm working from mpg not avi and not on the most recent version of avidemux). Give it a try! MPEG-4 AVC AAC (Faac) MP4 Zip them up before attaching to an email. But if they are very long, you'll probably have to put them online somewhere. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1392655206.36688.yahoomailba...@web163402.mail.gq1.yahoo.com
Re: Bombono DVD
On Mon, 2/17/14, Dom to...@rpdom.net wrote: Subject: Re: Bombono DVD To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Monday, February 17, 2014, 11:31 AM I know the repo is frowned upon by many, bombono-dvd is available for wheezy on the deb-multimedia site. I haven't tried dvdstyler. -- bombono brings in ffmpeg which broke several of my other media apps. I had to purge everything I had installed from the multimedia repo to get things working again. The only package I currently have on wheezy from the multimedia repo is avidemux (which does NOT depend on multimedia's ffmpeg). It took me a year to sort this out and get everything working . . . -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1392659052.49333.yahoomailba...@web163403.mail.gq1.yahoo.com
Re: Wheezy NVidia driver for card GT 750M
On Thu, 2/13/14, Onur Aslan onuras...@gmail.com wrote: Subject: Re: Wheezy NVidia driver for card GT 750M To: Markos mar...@c2o.pro.br Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Thursday, February 13, 2014, 1:15 PM Wiki page is a bit old. NVIDIA drivers requires binary kernel module. You have two options to install this module: 1. Upgrade your kernel to backported version and use precompiled NVIDIA binary kernel module: To do this first install new kernel with: apt-get install -t wheezy-backports linux-image-$(dpkg --print-architecture) Reboot your machine with new kernel and install nvidia-driver with: apt-get install -t wheezy-backports nvidia-driver nvidia-kernel-$(uname -r) 2. You can compile binary kernel module If you don't want to upgrade your kernel to backported version you need to compile nvidia-kernel driver for your current kernel. You need linux-headers for this: Install linux-headers with: apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r) And install nvidia drivers with: apt-get install -t wheezy-backports nvidia-driver nvidia-kernel-dkms - There is a third option. 3. Use the sgfxi script. You can get it here: http://smxi.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1392339177.73382.yahoomailba...@web163401.mail.gq1.yahoo.com
Re: need to reverse an apt-get upgrade
On Fri, 2/7/14, Frank McCormick debianl...@videotron.ca wrote: Subject: Re: need to reverse an apt-get upgrade To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Friday, February 7, 2014, 3:01 PM That would be easy...IF I hadn't cleared out the archives BEFORE I noticed what my stupidity had done. Are the previous packages available anywhere ?? Thanks Synaptic keeps a history of all downloaded packages. Look under File History. I'm sure there's probably a way to get that information via cli also (but I don't know how). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1391809946.70869.yahoomailba...@web163401.mail.gq1.yahoo.com
Re: todo list software
On Tue, 2/4/14, Chris ch2...@arcor.de wrote: Subject: Re: todo list software To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Tuesday, February 4, 2014, 11:15 PM On 02/04/2014 01:17 AM, Brad Alexander wrote: I did a search for todo list on Debian this morning, and a lot of what I came up with hasn't been developed since 2003 or 2006. I was just wondering what others here might use. I just discovered the gkrellm-reminder plugin and installed it. Will play with it over the coming days. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1391577542.32873.yahoomailba...@web163401.mail.gq1.yahoo.com
Re: todo list software
On Mon, 2/3/14, Brad Alexander stor...@gmail.com wrote: Subject: todo list software To: Debian-user List debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Monday, February 3, 2014, 6:17 PM At the risk of offending someone's tender sensibilities, can anyone recommend a good todo list software? I run KDE on sid, and kmail/kontact/etc seem to be in a bit of a mess. I did a search for todo list on Debian this morning, and a lot of what I came up with hasn't been developed since 2003 or 2006. I was just wondering what others here might use. --b --- I am currently trying to work out some kinks in 'taskfer', a script included in refracta (Debian respin). There are two threads discussing it: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=3t=58200 (older) http://refracta.freeforums.org/viewtopic.php?f=4t=373 (current) Most of it is over my head but I'm gonna try to sort it out. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1391474212.31877.yahoomailba...@web163401.mail.gq1.yahoo.com
Re: making my Wheezy beep. How?
On Thu, 1/30/14, Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net wrote: Subject: making my Wheezy beep. How? To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Thursday, January 30, 2014, 11:40 PM I want my Wheezy desktop (windowing with xfce) to issue a beep after a adjustable amount of time. I expected that I could do this with a tiny bash script using sleep and echo, but I cannot get echo to make the computer issue a beep as it should according to the man page. What special knowledge is needed? Why don't I get a beep with: echo -e \a Are you sure the PC speaker isn't muted? I always turn mine off. I think it's in the alsa settings nut it's been a long time so can't remember the details. Wouldn't huirt to check. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1391188341.67397.yahoomailba...@web163406.mail.gq1.yahoo.com
Re: Help with command - cp
On Sun, 1/26/14, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: Subject: Re: Help with command - cp To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Sunday, January 26, 2014, 10:05 AM As I said to Zenaan, it is obviously time for me to bite the bullet of rsync. It seems a significantly better tool for the purpose than cp. Lisi --- Maybe you'd find grsync gui less intimidating than cli? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1390766612.14687.yahoomailba...@web163404.mail.gq1.yahoo.com
Re: fastest linux distro
On Fri, 1/24/14, Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: Subject: Re: fastest linux distro To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Friday, January 24, 2014, 11:21 PM I wouldn't be so quick to recommend the deb-multimedia third party repository considering the problems it can cause to your system. -- Indeed! dmo broke my wheezy install. Had to nuke everything in dmo but the key and start over using other options (except for one package not available elsewhere). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1390627855.47669.yahoomailba...@web163403.mail.gq1.yahoo.com
Re: fastest linux distro
On Fri, 1/24/14, Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: Subject: Re: fastest linux distro To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Friday, January 24, 2014, 11:34 PM On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 09:30:55PM -0800, Go Linux wrote: On Fri, 1/24/14, Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: Subject: Re: fastest linux distro To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Friday, January 24, 2014, 11:21 PM I wouldn't be so quick to recommend the deb-multimedia third party repository considering the problems it can cause to your system. -- Indeed! dmo broke my wheezy install. Had to nuke everything in dmo but the key and start over using other options (except for one package not available elsewhere). That wouldn't be libdvdcss2, by any chance, would it? :) -- Nope. It was avidemux that I needed from dmo. At some point I might need libdvdcss2 but right now my media work-flow is working without it. It took over a year to get the same setup that worked perfectly on squeeze up and running on wheezy. But let's not get too OT. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1390631170.41725.yahoomailba...@web163403.mail.gq1.yahoo.com
Re: sad but true, Linux sucks, a bit
Please cease and desist this stupid off topic chatter. I gave up reading this thread days ago . -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1390073080.59110.yahoomailba...@web163405.mail.gq1.yahoo.com
Re: Installing Debian 7.3.0
On Sat, 12/21/13, Alireza Bahrami a_bahra...@yahoo.com wrote: Subject: Installing Debian 7.3.0 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Saturday, December 21, 2013, 12:29 AM Hi, I'm an Iranian electronic engineer focused on industrial automation projects. After some years of work experience I've come to the conclusion that I should learn linux for doing my projects in a more efficent way. Unfortunately I don't know any thing about it and I'm completely new. The first step of course is installing it. Here I don't have access to any Debian OS distributor to buy the CDs from, so I downloaded debian-7.3.0-i386-CD-1.iso sized 648MB and copied it on a CD. According to Debian website it's enough for installing Debian on a system. There is an old Dell Latitude laptop with specs as below which I chose to for this purpose: Mobile Pentium4: 1.8GHz CPU Speed: 1.8GHz Level 2 Cache: 512KB System Memory: 256MB Video Memory: 32MB Hard Drive: 40GB Its current OS is windows. Then I chose CD ROM drive as the first boot system on the laptop and inserted the CD and restarted the PC. It tried to run the CD, but Linux didn't come up and after few seconds windows booted up. First I thought it was due to a bios setup, so I tried the CD with a desktop pc. Again I had the same problem. Is there any one who could Kindly give me some directives to overcome this problem. - You cannot just copy the iso to CD as a data file. You need to burn the iso as an image for it to be bootable. I have no idea how to do that with Windows apps. With those specs you probably want a minimal desktop environment. I suggest avoiding Gnome and KDE as they are resource hogs. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1387608423.29171.yahoomailba...@web163406.mail.gq1.yahoo.com
Re: Hosting advice
On Sat, 11/2/13, Simon Bell si...@calmblue.net wrote: Subject: Re: Hosting advice To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Saturday, November 2, 2013, 4:37 AM On Saturday 02 Nov 2013 12:46:21 Igor Cicimov wrote: May I trouble you good people for suggestions that meet these needs? We would like to have at least one working email address by close of business tomorrow (Friday, 1 November), or Monday at the latest. Thanks, Craig I use Canvas Dreams - http://www.canvasdreams.com/ - and have been very happy with their service including tech support. And environmentally friendly too! Canvas Dreams was the first Web host in the Pacific Northwest to use 100% wind power in the operation of our business. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1383405501.3798.yahoomailba...@web163402.mail.gq1.yahoo.com
Re: Backup/Restore software?
- Original Message - From: David Guntner da...@guntner.com To: Linux Debian Mailing List debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2013 7:42 PM Subject: Backup/Restore software? I've been religiously backing up my Windows machine for years with a program called Acronis True Image. It works well, lets me backup my system to a second hard drive in the computer, and will do a weekly full backup and daily incremental backups, cleaning up older backup chains and so on. My Linux machine (Debian 6.0.7 at the moment, but planning on updating to Wheezy soon), on the other hand, has gone far too long without any real backup protection. I'd like to rectify that if I can. :-) Is there a Linux backup package that will do pretty much what I described above? I want to be able to set it and forget it so it just runs every night on its own and that way I have about a week or two's worth of backups to fall back on. I need it to be able to do a full restore in case of a disaster as well as being able to restore selected files/directories in case of a oh why did I rm *that*? moment. :-) Any suggestions? --Dave I use a combination of rsync for home and specific directories and refractasnapshot - http://distro.ibiblio.org/refracta/files/refractasnapshot/ - for complete system recovery (as well as portable live iso of my system). If you poke around the refracta directories, you might find other versions of snapshot. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1373596107.63963.yahoomail...@web163403.mail.gq1.yahoo.com
Re: 2013 -- KDE or GNOME?
--- On Sun, 6/9/13, Evuraan evur...@gmail.com wrote: From: Evuraan evur...@gmail.com Subject: 2013 -- KDE or GNOME? To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Sunday, June 9, 2013, 1:47 PM I've been on Gnome for years. (vdpau, GT430, 1080p - the typical nvidia setup) Looking at http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current-live/i386/bt-hybrid/, I gotta ask: These days, kde or gnome - which one? iirc, kde does retina display (high dpi), and gnome yet may not etc. thanks in advance! --- Neither. XFCE is my choice for wheezy. :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1370808760.38493.yahoomailclas...@web163405.mail.gq1.yahoo.com
Re: Installation failed - and failed again...
--- On Sun, 3/3/13, Mark Filipak markfilipak.li...@gmail.com wrote: From: Mark Filipak markfilipak.li...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Installation failed - and failed again... To: Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Sunday, March 3, 2013, 11:29 AM On 2013/3/3 6:25 AM, Brian wrote: On Sat 02 Mar 2013 at 19:56:43 -0500, Mark Filipak wrote: The reason I switched the target from an 8-GB USB flash drive to a USB hard drive is that someone said I couldn't install to a USB flash drive because of the flash structures and that I should switch to a hard drive because the MBR will be easier to deal with. I thought that suggestion was bogus, but I went along with it because I had a spare USB hard drive and because I wanted to move past that roadblock, even if bogus. --cut-- when that didn't work, I switched the target to the USB hard drive as suggested by someone. --- I think that suggestion started here ;) . . . --- On Fri, 3/1/13, Mark Filipak markfilipak.li...@gmail.com wrote: From: Mark Filipak markfilipak.li...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Installation failed To: Go Linux goli...@yahoo.com Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Friday, March 1, 2013, 2:42 PM On 2013/3/1 3:29 PM, Go Linux wrote: --- On Fri, 3/1/13, Mark Filipak markfilipak.li...@gmail.com wrote: I'm afraid it's install Linux on a USB thumb drive or nothing. Duh . . . How about installing on an external hard drive? That would be nice, but that would be on USB also... The problem is not with USB. The problem is flash vs hard drive. AFAIK you CAN install grub2 to a hard drive and boot from it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1362338922.41883.yahoomailclas...@web163405.mail.gq1.yahoo.com
Re: Moving from a proprietary OS - unnecessarily inful experience -- was [Re: I wish to advocate linux]
--- On Fri, 3/1/13, Richard Owlett rowl...@cloud85.net wrote: From: Richard Owlett rowl...@cloud85.net Subject: Re: Moving from a proprietary OS - unnecessarily inful experience -- was [Re: I wish to advocate linux] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Friday, March 1, 2013, 12:43 PM Parents married day before Pearl Harbor A young'n! I was BORN before Pearl Harbor!! LOL!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1362163944.47105.yahoomailclas...@web163402.mail.gq1.yahoo.com
Re: Installation failed
--- On Fri, 3/1/13, Mark Filipak markfilipak.li...@gmail.com wrote: From: Mark Filipak markfilipak.li...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Installation failed To: Shane Johnson s...@rasmussenequipment.com Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Friday, March 1, 2013, 2:12 PM I'm afraid it's install Linux on a USB thumb drive or nothing. Duh . . . How about installing on an external hard drive? The Debian Live USB is acting like a CD. That's fine, I can boot from it. But I can't configure it (different wallpaper, for example) and I can't install anything (Icedove, for example). Do you know of any way to do that? You can install to USB with 'persistence' - an additional writable partition - which will allow some user changes to be retained. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1362169742.37125.yahoomailclas...@web163402.mail.gq1.yahoo.com
Re: Installation failed
--- On Fri, 3/1/13, Mark Filipak markfilipak.li...@gmail.com wrote: From: Mark Filipak markfilipak.li...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Installation failed To: Go Linux goli...@yahoo.com Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Friday, March 1, 2013, 2:42 PM On 2013/3/1 3:29 PM, Go Linux wrote: --- On Fri, 3/1/13, Mark Filipak markfilipak.li...@gmail.com wrote: I'm afraid it's install Linux on a USB thumb drive or nothing. Duh . . . How about installing on an external hard drive? That would be nice, but that would be on USB also... The problem is not with USB. The problem is flash vs hard drive. AFAIK you CAN install grub2 to a hard drive and boot from it. I've done quite a bit of reading but haven't tried it yet because I have no pressing need. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1362174094.48167.yahoomailclas...@web163404.mail.gq1.yahoo.com
Re: I wish to advocate linux
--- On Fri, 3/1/13, Joao Luis Meloni Assirati assir...@nonada.if.usp.br wrote: From: Joao Luis Meloni Assirati assir...@nonada.if.usp.br Subject: Re: I wish to advocate linux To: Martin McCormick mar...@x.it.okstate.edu Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Friday, March 1, 2013, 10:01 PM This guy managed to get everybody in this list working for him, even if he is unable to make a single meaningful objective question. Even if he is insulting individual people, the community and Debian (nothing works, why am I not surprised)! And at the end all the energy spent with him will be lost. People will get tired and he will leave crying that it is impossible to install Linux and Linux people are jerks. After following his soap opera for what seems like an eternity, I can only conclude that he suffers from acute if not terminal PEBKAC. Still amusing but in the end what a waste of energy. (I will likely now be added to the 'hit' list. I also have the honor of the OP in a private email telling me he hopes I get cancer!. Yup. He's a real charmer!!) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1362201362.66539.yahoomailclas...@web163402.mail.gq1.yahoo.com
Re: I wish to advocate linux
--- On Wed, 2/27/13, Mark Filipak markfilipak.li...@gmail.com wrote: I'm someone who started computing on IBM-360s in the 1970s, who progressed to HP3000-SPL and PDP11s and UNIX and Solaris and MS-DOS and MS-Windows. I played with Xenix, Minix and even BE-OS. I've never successfully installed any distribution of Linux. I don't know why, but when I tried to read the documentation I gave up. The documentation was simultaneously dumb and obtuse and way too wordy. So I concluded that Linux is a hobbiest OS without much real-world use. From your responses, it seems the situation has not changed. - Mark. Well, I am a liberal arts educated 70-something (and female to boot) without a technical computer background like yours to brag about. I am just a lowly user with a curiosity and willingness to learn. I have also been very stubborn in my quest to dump windoze FOREVER! I have absolutely no problem installing Linux, editing configuration files etc. If I run up against a problem, I LEARN rather than whine and find reasons why I can't do it. We are obviously two very different personalities. I posit that your problem with Linux is YOU! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1361997266.95289.yahoomailclas...@web163406.mail.gq1.yahoo.com
Re: I wish to advocate linux
--- On Wed, 2/27/13, Mark Filipak markfilipak.li...@gmail.com wrote: From: Mark Filipak markfilipak.li...@gmail.com Subject: Re: I wish to advocate linux To: Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Wednesday, February 27, 2013, 2:53 PM On 2013/2/27 3:42 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Wednesday 27 February 2013 20:34:26 Go Linux wrote: Well, I am a liberal arts educated 70-something (and female to boot) +1 ;-) without a technical computer background like yours to brag about. I am just a lowly user with a curiosity and willingness to learn. I have also been very stubborn in my quest to dump windoze FOREVER! I have absolutely no problem installing Linux, editing configuration files etc. If I run up against a problem, I LEARN rather than whine and find reasons why I can't do it. We are obviously two very different personalities. I posit that your problem with Linux is YOU! +1 doubled. :-) Lisi You know, Lisi, you're a real jerk. Off list: I think we hit a nerve. He is coming unglued! Too funny!!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1361999449.55269.yahoomailclas...@web163406.mail.gq1.yahoo.com
Re: Snapshot Program
--- On Tue, 2/26/13, Hélder Pinheiro pinheiro.helde...@gmail.com wrote: From: Hélder Pinheiro pinheiro.helde...@gmail.com Subject: Snapshot Program To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Tuesday, February 26, 2013, 10:21 AM Hi, Is there any program to do a kind of snapshots of my debian installation? Something that I can restore through CLI I am always playing around with my distro and sometimes things do not run well, and I feed the need to restore a yesterday's image. Is it possible? -- Yes! refractasnapshot and refractainstaller are the best apps (and Refracta the best repackaged Debian) out there IMO. This link - http://www.saynotogmos.org/ss/refracta/home_ds.html - goes to a work-in-progress redesign of their site. You'll find links to snapshot/installer under downloads. Note: it may or may not be compatible with your 'flavor' of Debian. A number of other distros also include it. Refractasnapshot is a bash script that uses rsync to copy a running system and then compress it into a bootable ISO image format which can burned to CD/DVD or copied to a USB stick. The default options will work in most cases. If adjustments need to be made, well-commented configuration options are located in etc/refractasnapshot.conf. Depending on the location and amount of data on your system, the rsync excludes in /usr/lib/refractasnapshot/snapshot_exclude.list might need to be changed. Keep in mind that the ISO size must be compatible with media limitations (around 4gb). refractasnapshot can be run in a terminal or from a graphical interface. Depending on your Desktop environment, GUI launchers should be automatically added to the main menu after installation. It only takes a few clicks to start the process which can take from 10-25 minutes depending on the amount of data being processed and the amount of disk compression used. The refractainstaller can quickly install your running custom snapshot from either a graphical interface or terminal. The current installer supports both grub-legacy and grub2. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1361899134.33116.yahoomailclas...@web163403.mail.gq1.yahoo.com
Re: Thinking about using Debian
--- On Mon, 2/25/13, Mark Filipak markfilipak.li...@gmail.com wrote: From: Mark Filipak markfilipak.li...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Thinking about using Debian To: Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Monday, February 25, 2013, 5:35 PM Do you know of any very-experienced Debian folks who speak truths and wouldn't mind holding my hand? (and who maybe won't be put off by a little bitching?) Your claim of 30 years experience does not necessarily equate to maturity. There are a lot of Debian folks who speak the truth but many (if not most) are unwilling to babysit and spoonfeed. To me, Linux is about self-reliance and infinite possibilities with the user orchestrating the adventure. As to your fear of the unknown . . . either roll up your sleeves and plunge in with some live disks or find a good therapist. :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1361840809.85307.yahoomailclas...@web163404.mail.gq1.yahoo.com
Re: make command understanding
--- On Thu, 1/31/13, Muhammad Yousuf Khan sir...@gmail.com wrote: From: Muhammad Yousuf Khan sir...@gmail.com Subject: make command understanding To: debian debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Thursday, January 31, 2013, 1:44 AM i normally install things from the repository of debian by apt-get install however just need to know if in case circumstances push me to compile things at some point.so the question that i am asking is just for learning purpose. i have seen on youtube people first un-tar the package (e.g. spamassassin) then they some time run make command only without any parameter at the end of it and then in next command they run make install so the question is whats does that first make command does, why we do not directly use make install Thanks, I recently compiled a .deb for the latest Oracle java from source using this tut. It appears in synaptic and/or can be handled by apt-get: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=16t=77140 And here's a how-to build from source that has several options: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=16t=38976 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1359641255.2005.yahoomailclas...@web163402.mail.gq1.yahoo.com
Java plugin on iceweasel
I am having problems getting the java plugin to work on a particular site with iceweasel esr on wheezy. Following Debian specific instructions, I created a .deb then sym linked to /usr/lib/jvm/j2re1.7-oracle/lib/i386/libnpjp2.so in both the /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins and /usr/lib/iceweasel/plugins folders. The Java site, iceweasel and the site in question all recognize java as working. But after the java animation plays, the page shows no image instead of loading the document. Then I was advised that libnpjp2.so was for 64-bit (even though it was in the 32-bit folder) and that I should link to /usr/lib/jvm/j2re1.7-oracle/lib/i386/libjavaplugin_oji.so for 32-bit. But iceweasel doesn't recognize that at all. Image loading permissions in about:config and preferences are OK. So just which file do I need to link to for the 32-bit java browser plugin to work on iceweasel? FWIW, chromium and chrome have no problems with libnpjp2.so and can display documents as expected but I would rather use iceweasel. Is there a remedy for this? Please help! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1357943860.81296.yahoomailclas...@web163404.mail.gq1.yahoo.com
Re: how to buy an ideal laptop RAM module?
--- On Sat, 1/5/13, vishnu vardhan vishnuvardhan.li...@gmail.com wrote: From: vishnu vardhan vishnuvardhan.li...@gmail.com Subject: how to buy an ideal laptop RAM module? To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Saturday, January 5, 2013, 6:28 AM facts: i have recently purchased a laptop. it is shipped with 2gb ram. the maximum ram is 8gb. i want to replace 2gb ram with 2 4gb ram modules. I recently upgraded the RAM in my desktops - some from Amazon and some from here: http://www.memoryx.net/ You can find motherboard compatible RAM and they ship internationally. Service was very fast. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1357401159.76079.yahoomailclas...@web163403.mail.gq1.yahoo.com
RE: Wheezy Installer Auto-Partition Oddity
--- On Fri, 1/4/13, Bonno Bloksma b.blok...@tio.nl wrote: From: Bonno Bloksma b.blok...@tio.nl Subject: RE: Wheezy Installer Auto-Partition Oddity To: debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Friday, January 4, 2013, 3:40 AM Hi, Patrick, [snip] FWIW, the wheezy installer created the same partitioning scheme on a hard drive install the first time I gave wheezy a run. I found that rather odd and a good reason to manually partition the drive prior to installing wheezy in the future. I usually do that but was being a bit lazy this one time. ;) Thanks. Now, I know it's not just my install or a quirk in VirtualBox. It's the installer. Since my original post, I've been reading up on GPT. Based on that, plus what others have posted here, it seems the cause of the gaps is a combination of aligning partitions based 4096 byte sectors, regardless of whether they are that size, and LVM needing unpartitioned space between partitions for metadata whether you're using LVM or not. Mostly, the latter, I think. Like you, for the real install, I'll just manually partition. Gap, LVM and GPT problems solved. Just for the record . . . that install was to an old WD 80gb drive that was around long before the new sector changes. Mine, too. WD 160GB purchased late 2006. 512 byte sectors. I don't think the installer looks at the disk type. It will just use 1M boundaries for starting a new partition. Why it ends the previous partition just beyond that 1M boundary and then has to skip 2047 512b sectors I do not know, that might be a minor bug. And ah who the heck cares about 1M on a 100+ GB or nowadays on a 1+ TB disk? ;-) In the grand scheme of things it might be insignificant but it is very untidy (and annoying) to see those unallocated bits here and there. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1357314946.69740.yahoomailclas...@web163401.mail.gq1.yahoo.com
Re: Wheezy Installer Auto-Partition Oddity
--- On Thu, 1/3/13, Patrick Bartek bartek...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Patrick Bartek bartek...@yahoo.com Subject: Re: Wheezy Installer Auto-Partition Oddity To: debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Thursday, January 3, 2013, 12:15 PM - Original Message - From: Go Linux goli...@yahoo.com To: debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: Sent: Wednesday, January 2, 2013 5:42 PM Subject: Re: Wheezy Installer Auto-Partition Oddity --- On Wed, 1/2/13, Patrick Bartek bartek...@yahoo.com wrote: As I said in my original query, this partitioning was done automatically by the Wheezy installer. I would have never partitioned that way myself. Besides this is just a test install to root out any problems for when I do the real one on a real hard drive. FWIW, the wheezy installer created the same partitioning scheme on a hard drive install the first time I gave wheezy a run. I found that rather odd and a good reason to manually partition the drive prior to installing wheezy in the future. I usually do that but was being a bit lazy this one time. ;) Thanks. Now, I know it's not just my install or a quirk in VirtualBox. It's the installer. Since my original post, I've been reading up on GPT. Based on that, plus what others have posted here, it seems the cause of the gaps is a combination of aligning partitions based 4096 byte sectors, regardless of whether they are that size, and LVM needing unpartitioned space between partitions for metadata whether you're using LVM or not. Mostly, the latter, I think. Like you, for the real install, I'll just manually partition. Gap, LVM and GPT problems solved. B Just for the record . . . that install was to an old WD 80gb drive that was around long before the new sector changes. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1357250263.87100.yahoomailclas...@web163402.mail.gq1.yahoo.com
Re: php install
--- On Thu, 1/3/13, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: From: Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com Subject: Re: php install To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Thursday, January 3, 2013, 8:22 PM Samuel Morgan wrote: Please tell why php5 does not work under apache2 (with engine on) using this index file: ... ?php echo Hello; Missing the closing container marker. Put a ? in there and it should work. Try this file: ?php phpinfo(); ? Bob Is that in a .php file or embedded in .html? IIRC serving php in html requires toggling an option in the config file and my sites at least require an .htaccess handler to get it to work. I can post that when I get back on another computer if you like. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/135729.95599.yahoomailclas...@web163402.mail.gq1.yahoo.com
Re: Wheezy Installer Auto-Partition Oddity
--- On Wed, 1/2/13, Patrick Bartek bartek...@yahoo.com wrote: As I said in my original query, this partitioning was done automatically by the Wheezy installer. I would have never partitioned that way myself. Besides this is just a test install to root out any problems for when I do the real one on a real hard drive. FWIW, the wheezy installer created the same partitioning scheme on a hard drive install the first time I gave wheezy a run. I found that rather odd and a good reason to manually partition the drive prior to installing wheezy in the future. I usually do that but was being a bit lazy this one time. ;) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1357177332.37186.yahoomailclas...@web163406.mail.gq1.yahoo.com
Re: admin password?
--- On Sat, 12/29/12, Dionyssis Goulimis dionyssi...@gmail.com wrote: From: Dionyssis Goulimis dionyssi...@gmail.com Subject: admin password? To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Saturday, December 29, 2012, 10:50 PM Hi, I downloaded the last edition of Debian yesterday but I can't remember my Admin password, what is the best way to recover it? Best, Dionyssis Goulimis This has saved me more than once: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=16t=52993 No need to reinstall etc. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/cabx4qa-xhxksmetf+32suvdb7hjgztj5ijwm6p-j43mex+e...@mail.gmail.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1356849146.5522.yahoomailclas...@web163406.mail.gq1.yahoo.com
Re: [OT?] Free Software petition on WhiteHouse.gov
--- On Tue, 12/25/12, Max Hyre m...@hyre.net wrote: From: Max Hyre m...@hyre.net Subject: [OT?] Free Software petition on WhiteHouse.gov To: Debian User mailing list debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Tuesday, December 25, 2012, 12:10 AM Dear Debianists: The U.S. president's website has a petition to support the use of Free Software in schools. It might be a good idea for us USAians to sign it: http://wh.gov/Rz6C Too bad signing requires registration with personal info. That's one DB I'd rather not be in. Of course I could fake it but deception is not in my nature . . . -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1356469608.92656.yahoomailclas...@web163403.mail.gq1.yahoo.com
Re: but ubunt... (multimedia)
--- On Tue, 12/18/12, Lucio Crusca lu...@sulweb.org wrote: From: Lucio Crusca lu...@sulweb.org Subject: but ubunt... (multimedia) To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Tuesday, December 18, 2012, 6:39 AM Let alone why, I need a recent DVDStyler (2.x). For some reason, mostly philosophical, having DVDStyler 2.x work on Debian is a nightmare (if ever possible): http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=588104 I also use DVDStyler and ran up against this bug in my wheezy testing a few months ago. I posted to that bug report and on their forum but no response. My solutions? 1. I'm gonna keep my squeeze install functional for serious media work possibly even after EOL. 2. I gave bombono a spin on wheezy and it produces a set-top playable DVD though it doesn't have as many features as DVDStyler. Unfortunately AVLinux doesn't seem like a good fit for my specific multimedia needs . . . -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1355848386.86504.yahoomailclas...@web163401.mail.gq1.yahoo.com
Re: Wheezy, XFCE: system shutdown
--- On Mon, 11/19/12, Hartwig Atrops hartwig.atr...@arcor.de wrote: From: Hartwig Atrops hartwig.atr...@arcor.de Subject: Wheezy, XFCE: system shutdown To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Monday, November 19, 2012, 10:12 AM Hi. I have a configuration problem with Wheezy and XFCE and didn't find the appropriate docu: The Log-Out-Dialog (from the upper panel) offers Log Out, Restart and Shut Down icons. But only Log Out is usable, the other two are disabled. How can I enable the Shutdown button? Log out and login as root again only for shutdown - hmm, it works, but ... Did you check your group settings? Do you have pm-utils and xfce4-power-manager installed? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1353341872.37202.yahoomailclas...@web163401.mail.gq1.yahoo.com
Re: Wheezy, XFCE: system shutdown
--- On Mon, 11/19/12, Nate Bargmann n...@n0nb.us wrote: From: Nate Bargmann n...@n0nb.us Subject: Re: Wheezy, XFCE: system shutdown To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Monday, November 19, 2012, 12:51 PM * On 2012 19 Nov 12:46 -0600, Hartwig Atrops wrote: xfce4-power-mangager was missing, but installing it did not solve the problem. group settings: there is no group named *power* or similar. What would be the rigth group configuration? My user is in the powerdev group. I get even the Suspend and Hibernate buttons on this desktop machine even though I don't use them. $ cat /etc/group | grep power powerdev:x:115:username I'm on gnome squeeze right now, am NOT in the powerdev group and still have working hibernate suspend. Will check xfce wheezy groups in a bit. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1353351915.35853.yahoomailclas...@web163406.mail.gq1.yahoo.com
Re: Wheezy, XFCE: system shutdown
--- On Mon, 11/19/12, Hartwig Atrops hartwig.atr...@arcor.de wrote: From: Hartwig Atrops hartwig.atr...@arcor.de Subject: Re: Wheezy, XFCE: system shutdown To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Monday, November 19, 2012, 3:03 PM On Monday 19 November 2012 20:05:15 Go Linux wrote: --- On Mon, 11/19/12, Nate Bargmann n...@n0nb.us wrote: From: Nate Bargmann n...@n0nb.us Subject: Re: Wheezy, XFCE: system shutdown To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Monday, November 19, 2012, 12:51 PM * On 2012 19 Nov 12:46 -0600, Hartwig Atrops wrote: xfce4-power-mangager was missing, but installing it did not solve the problem. group settings: there is no group named *power* or similar. What would be the rigth group configuration? My user is in the powerdev group. I get even the Suspend and Hibernate buttons on this desktop machine even though I don't use them. $ cat /etc/group | grep power powerdev:x:115:username I'm on gnome squeeze right now, am NOT in the powerdev group and still have working hibernate suspend. Will check xfce wheezy groups in a bit. Hmm... I have a Squeeze / XFCE installation running on a Sun Blade 100 (Debian Sparc), the buttons are all there and are usable. Groups: root@PEKING:~# grep power /etc/group powerdev:x:110: i.e. group exists, but no users in it Shutdown works anyway. Regards, Hartwig OK. Now on refracta wheezy xfce. There isn't even a powerdev group listed and all five shutdown options are present and functioning. In addition to pm-utils and xfce4-power-manager, I have upower and libupower-glib1 installed. You might also look at acpi-support. Though it's not installed here, your hardware might need it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1353365533.46636.yahoomailclas...@web163406.mail.gq1.yahoo.com
Re: compiling a Debian package
--- On Sat, 11/3/12, lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de wrote: From: lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de Subject: Re: compiling a Debian package To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Saturday, November 3, 2012, 2:42 PM Go Linux goli...@yahoo.com writes: Just use either the drivers from their website or the Debian version of those. Won't that work? The Debian version of the driver wouldn't install. It advised me to use nouveau during the failed process. I had never used the sgfxi script before. sgfxi script? Yes. From here http://smxi.org/ SalineOS even has it available on a basic install. Unfortunately, the dkms 'debian way' wouldn't work this time. It identifies the correct driver and downloads it from the nvidia site. Not without a few bumps but thankfully worked in the end. Card is a 4000 series which is on the edge of no longer being supported. I always just downloaded the latest version from their website and installed it. When your card is that old, it's time for a new one. Yeah . . . I have an old 8400 laying around if nouveau still isn't working when jessie arrives. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1351978885.15142.yahoomailclas...@web163401.mail.gq1.yahoo.com
Re: compiling a Debian package
--- On Fri, 11/2/12, lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de wrote: From: lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de Subject: Re: compiling a Debian package To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Friday, November 2, 2012, 6:11 PM Go Linux goli...@yahoo.com writes: po'd. Thankfully, I did manage to get the driver for the old nvidia card installed with the sgfxi script but had to blacklist nouveau to get it to work. Just use either the drivers from their website or the Debian version of those. Won't that work? The Debian version of the driver wouldn't install. It advised me to use nouveau during the failed process. I had never used the sgfxi script before. It identifies the correct driver and downloads it from the nvidia site. Not without a few bumps but thankfully worked in the end. Card is a 4000 series which is on the edge of no longer being supported. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1351915256.48118.yahoomailclas...@web163403.mail.gq1.yahoo.com
Re: compiling a Debian package
--- On Thu, 11/1/12, lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de wrote: From: lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de Subject: Re: compiling a Debian package To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Thursday, November 1, 2012, 12:35 PM Don't worry, I like free software a lot. I don't like dead ends, though. I am finding problems getting some multimedia apps to work properly on wheezy. Certain features of avidemux 2.5.6 crash. 2.6 barely works at all. Their custom install script uses sudo (which isn't enabled by default on Debian). DVDStyler isn't even in the deb multimedia repos for wheezy but there are plenty of .debs available for 'buntu. It seems that media devs are putting time into getting things going on 'buntu but leaving Debian behind. H . . . I wonder why . . . I want to stick with Debian but may have to keep my media work indefinitely on squeeze if things don't straighten out on wheezy. Or find a more media friendly distro. Right now I'm feeling frustrated on the way to po'd. Thankfully, I did manage to get the driver for the old nvidia card installed with the sgfxi script but had to blacklist nouveau to get it to work. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1351813254.84015.yahoomailclas...@web163403.mail.gq1.yahoo.com
Re: Advice on system purchase
--- On Sat, 10/27/12, Marc Shapiro marcns...@gmail.com wrote: From: Marc Shapiro marcns...@gmail.com Subject: Advice on system purchase To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Saturday, October 27, 2012, 7:29 PM Several replies have recommended Antec cases and I'd like to second that. I've been very happy with the NSK4480 Black Mid Tower Case I got about 3 years ago. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1351519078.8205.yahoomailclas...@web163403.mail.gq1.yahoo.com
Re: Is Wheezy going to be more stable than Squeeze?
--- On Sun, 10/28/12, Russell Gadd russ.mail.li...@gmail.com wrote: From: Russell Gadd russ.mail.li...@gmail.com Subject: Is Wheezy going to be more stable than Squeeze? To: Debian User debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Sunday, October 28, 2012, 1:43 PM Is Debian Wheezy going to be any better than Squeeze when it's released? I know this is a leading question since many of you may think Squeeze couldn't be faulted. You asked for it . . . ;) I have found squeeze to be the most stable OS I've ever used. I am testing wheezy on another box. There were problems related to it's age - older nvidia card - that you won't be having. The nouveau driver just plain sucked - mis-drawn and/or incomplete images etc - so I had no choice but to get the proprietary driver working. The only major disappointment is that DVDStyler is no longer in the multimedia repos - there is a major bug with a missing library - and the version of Avidemux that is available is pretty non-functional. I will be trying to compile an older version in the next days. If that fails, I will have to do a minimal install of squeeze to keep my media processing apps working for many years to come. Perhaps at some point, these apps will be functional on wheezy but right now it's a bust. On a more positive note . . .audacity 'seems' to work OK and bombono is less feature rich than DVDStyler but does produce a workable DVD iso. I dumped gnome for xfce and actually prefer it now. I tried LXDE but found too many features missing or difficult to configure. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1351468412.91415.yahoomailclas...@web163403.mail.gq1.yahoo.com
Re: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives
--- On Sun, 10/14/12, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: From: Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net Subject: Re: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives To: debian-user debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Sunday, October 14, 2012, 3:24 PM alternatively you can run one command su -c gedit How about gksu gedit ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1350247186.73637.yahoomailclas...@web163401.mail.gq1.yahoo.com
Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?
--- On Sat, 9/15/12, lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de wrote: From: lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de Subject: Re: What is playing videos in web browsers? To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Saturday, September 15, 2012, 11:08 PM Adobe says on their website: Flash Player 11.2 is the last supported Flash Player version for Linux. Adobe will continue to provide security updates.[1] What's that supposed to mean? Will we soon have to go without flash when that version becomes incompatible, unless we use chromium? [1]: http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/ I ran into a problem with flash just this afternoon. You Tube was working fine when I suspended the computer to go to the post office. Came back less than a hour later and nothing would play - only a blank screen. As observed in this thread, no problem with Chromium. So I downloaded the latest Flash version from Adobe and now it's working again. You Tube must have made adjustments to their site during the time that I stepped out. Google has too much power to screw things up. :( -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1348016002.16595.yahoomailclas...@web163406.mail.gq1.yahoo.com
Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?
--- On Tue, 9/18/12, Mark Allums m...@allums.com wrote: From: Mark Allums m...@allums.com Subject: Re: What is playing videos in web browsers? To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Tuesday, September 18, 2012, 8:15 PM Some computers don't resume all the hardware properly. If yours has buggy video drivers, they might disable any hardware acceleration going on. Resetting/restarting the driver sometimes helps. Video on this box has been rock solid for years through heaving video editing and more recently You Tube surfing. I've NEVER had a problem with the nVidia drivers EVER. Since I installed Squeeze, my habit has been to suspend and only reboot every couple of weeks. Last reboot was after 20 some days. Never a problem. Also, Yotube has been finicky lately for me as well, and I don't think Flash is the problem. I think it's more that the scripts running on the page aren't doing something that they should, because I get problems no matter whether it's Flash or HTML5 + Javascript. Fiddling around by semi-random clicking on stuff and reloading the page six or eight times sometimes works. In other words, patience is what's required. When everything worked in Chromium but not Iceweasel, I figured it had to be a Flash issue. And yes, You Tube has been a little unpredictable lately . . . -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1348020766.59319.yahoomailclas...@web163405.mail.gq1.yahoo.com
Re: Install Debian on a UEFI-motherboard ?
--- On Wed, 9/12/12, Tony van der Hoff t...@vanderhoff.org wrote: From: Tony van der Hoff t...@vanderhoff.org Subject: Re: Install Debian on a UEFI-motherboard ? To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Wednesday, September 12, 2012, 12:18 PM I've never had a problem with ASUS boards. YMMV, but let's see some justification for your rubbishing ASUS and Gigabyte. Just some personal experience . . . I once had an Asus board that needed an RMA during its lifetime. It's still working. I also had a Gigabyte board that was DOA but the replacement has worked flawlessly. No hardware is reliable 100% of the time. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1347475723.54041.yahoomailclas...@web163406.mail.gq1.yahoo.com
Re: copying data from a partition with badblocks
--- On Thu, 8/30/12, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi raju.mailingli...@gmail.com wrote: I guess iOmega drives are not very stable. I guess iOmega drives are not very stable. I have several external drives from iOmega that are a few years old. But the drives inside the enclosure are Western Digital. I've never had a problem with them. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1346363785.32803.yahoomailclas...@web163401.mail.gq1.yahoo.com
Re: Hacked .htaccess redirect to htttp://reltime2012.ru/frunleh?9
--- On Thu, 8/23/12, shthead li...@shthead.net wrote: From: shthead li...@shthead.net Subject: Re: Hacked .htaccess redirect to htttp://reltime2012.ru/frunleh?9 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Thursday, August 23, 2012, 1:27 AM On 23/08/2012 3:32 AM, Dr Beco wrote: One of my sites, that has joomla (and not wordpress) also got hacked (again). Is your Joomla along with all components/skins etc. up to date? Many of the hacked sites I look at are not up to date. You are not alone. Noy long ago my webhost posted an announcement about Joomla and Wordpress sites on their servers getting hacked. Make sure you're updated to the latest version. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1345726481.39670.yahoomailclas...@web163402.mail.gq1.yahoo.com
Re: Burning an audio CD fails, despite burning a DVD works!
--- On Mon, 8/6/12, Merciadri Luca luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be wrote: From: Merciadri Luca luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be Subject: Burning an audio CD fails, despite burning a DVD works! To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Monday, August 6, 2012, 10:23 AM What's the problem? Is it due to the HOME env. var.? Thanks! - -- Merciadri Luca I was never a Brassero fan so I don't know what your problem is but I do know the xfburn works really well. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1344281796.75152.yahoomailclas...@web163406.mail.gq1.yahoo.com
Re: Annoying Shutdown Beep
I know it's possible because all my system sounds are disabled but I can't for the life of me remember how I did it. Probably Googled till I found the solution. Here I think this is where to do it on Gnome. At least it's a start: /etc/gdm3/greeter.gconf-defaults # Play system beeps - especially the one when the greeter is ready /desktop/gnome/sound/event_sounds false --- On Tue, 7/17/12, green greenfreedo...@gmail.com wrote: From: green greenfreedo...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Annoying Shutdown Beep To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Tuesday, July 17, 2012, 2:31 PM Andrejs Igumenovs wrote at 2012-07-17 14:03 -0500: Please help anyone to disable the silly shutdown beep ! You could try creating file /etc/modprobe.d/local.conf with contents: blacklist pcspkr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1342558882.55031.yahoomailclas...@web163402.mail.gq1.yahoo.com
Re: OT: need a simple CMS / website builder
--- On Sat, 7/7/12, Rob Owens row...@ptd.net wrote: From: Rob Owens row...@ptd.net Subject: Re: OT: need a simple CMS / website builder To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Saturday, July 7, 2012, 2:24 PM On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 02:54:53PM -0700, Go Linux wrote: --- On Tue, 7/3/12, Rob Owens row...@ptd.net wrote: From: Rob Owens row...@ptd.net Subject: OT: need a simple CMS / website builder To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Tuesday, July 3, 2012, 4:05 PM I need some recommendations. Wordpress? Drupal? This will be on a Squeeze system. -Rob I use Flatpress which is basically a port of Wordpress but no SQL, just flat files. I usually use the SVN version: http://flatpress.org/home/ It installs in a minute and is very customizable. Wordpress plugins have been ported and I think that themes can be too (I customized mine from scratch). Drupal is quite complicated and Wordpress is pretty bloated too these days too. If you want to KISS, Wordpress is great! One site I use it on has several hundred entries each year and 14-18,000 uniques a month so I know it can take a beating. Only one possible drawback is that it a single user blog. Wordpress has some extensions that will force users to register (and be approved) before viewing the website. Private Only is one that I came across. I'll have to check and see if Flatpress has something similar available. -Rob I have not seen or used that extension. If that's one you want to use, go to their forum - http://flatpress.org/vanilla2/ - and someone will probably be able to port it for you. The only thing I registered for was for Akismet. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1341691891.24930.yahoomailclas...@web163406.mail.gq1.yahoo.com
Re: OT: need a simple CMS / website builder
--- On Tue, 7/3/12, Rob Owens row...@ptd.net wrote: From: Rob Owens row...@ptd.net Subject: OT: need a simple CMS / website builder To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Tuesday, July 3, 2012, 4:05 PM I need some recommendations. Wordpress? Drupal? This will be on a Squeeze system. -Rob I use Flatpress which is basically a port of Wordpress but no SQL, just flat files. I usually use the SVN version: http://flatpress.org/home/ It installs in a minute and is very customizable. Wordpress plugins have been ported and I think that themes can be too (I customized mine from scratch). Drupal is quite complicated and Wordpress is pretty bloated too these days too. If you want to KISS, Wordpress is great! One site I use it on has several hundred entries each year and 14-18,000 uniques a month so I know it can take a beating. Only one possible drawback is that it a single user blog. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1341352493.39446.yahoomailclas...@web163405.mail.gq1.yahoo.com
Re: Clarify your needs
--- On Mon, 6/11/12, Karen Lewellen klewel...@shellworld.net wrote: From: Karen Lewellen klewel...@shellworld.net Subject: Re: Clarify your needs To: Richard Owlett rowl...@cloud85.net Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Monday, June 11, 2012, 7:59 PM none of the above. I require the steps to switch install sources. i will post what I was told would work if that might help. If I were going to require anything it would be a human grounded in debian to come to my house, lol. I have no high speed, as I just stated in a different post. DO NOT USE THE NET INSTALL ON DIALUP! I was on dialup until recently so installed Squeeze last year from the 8 DVD set which I purchased from a Linux distributor. Even then, after installation, there were updates that took days to download on dialup. You should have no trouble installing a basic desktop from the first DVD. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1339468125.92438.yahoomailclas...@web162202.mail.bf1.yahoo.com
Re: Computer case
--- On Fri, 6/1/12, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: From: Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net Subject: Computer case To: debian-user debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Friday, June 1, 2012, 12:03 AM Hi :) any recommendation for a computer case that can be used with Debian stable ;)? Ok, it's slightly OT, I'm sorry for that. However, experiences with cases regarding to noise (and heat), accuracy of fit for cards are interesting for me, others might be interested in space (and vertical stability). I got an Antec NSK4480 Black ATX Mid Tower 4 years ago because it was quiet and sleek black. It has 4 drive bays which comes in very handy - I'm using three. Most likely discontinued now but you can check out their online store http://store.antec.com/Category/enclosure.aspx to see what's current. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1338556615.68865.yahoomailclas...@web162205.mail.bf1.yahoo.com
Re: Does anyone care about dialup?
--- On Wed, 5/9/12, Indulekha indule...@theunworthy.com wrote: What a hassle! I've also had very little luck finding a reasonable provider here in Tennessee. Check out VTISP.com. They offer a bare connection for Linux users. Service was reliable until ATT screwed up locally. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1336583129.72535.yahoomailclas...@web162205.mail.bf1.yahoo.com
Re: Does anyone care about dialup?
They have other options with higher usage levels. Look at the site more carefully or send them an email. --- On Wed, 5/9/12, Indulekha indule...@theunworthy.com wrote: From: Indulekha indule...@theunworthy.com Subject: Re: Does anyone care about dialup? To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Wednesday, May 9, 2012, 5:41 PM On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 10:05:29AM -0700, Go Linux wrote: --- On Wed, 5/9/12, Indulekha indule...@theunworthy.com wrote: What a hassle! I've also had very little luck finding a reasonable provider here in Tennessee. Check out VTISP.com. They offer a bare connection for Linux users. Service was reliable until ATT screwed up locally. Reading the TOS at that site reveals they have a 100 hour/month limit, which if exceeded will render the account inoperative until the next billing cycle. It's almost as if there's a conspiracy to keep people in locations like mine on the wrong side of the digital divide... Weird. Thanks for trying, though! :) -- ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ Indulekha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120509224145.GA6781@radhesyama -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1336607109.61827.yahoomailclas...@web162202.mail.bf1.yahoo.com
Re: Does anyone care about dialup?
--- On Tue, 5/8/12, Miles Bader mi...@gnu.org wrote: From: Miles Bader mi...@gnu.org Subject: Re: Does anyone care about dialup? To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Tuesday, May 8, 2012, 2:31 AM It may also be a problem with your service provider -- I had a problem (back when I still used PPP) where the connection was getting dropped mysteriously, and [after much frustration trying to figure out what was happening] it turned out my provider didn't support TCP header compression; turning off that feature in PPP made everything work. Apparently windows PPP clients didn't use header compression, so they didn't consider it an issue ... -miles I had two ISPs and both had the identical problem. After YEARS of having a solid connection suddenly, it was just dying to nothing. It wouldn't disconnect. Just no data coming in after a short time. MCI 'supervisor' said they only guaranteed a voice connection not data. They use ATT lines and even MCI couldn't get a satisfactory solution from them. This is the way corporations fragment 'support' to make it meaningless. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1336482843.30297.yahoomailclas...@web162204.mail.bf1.yahoo.com
Re: Does anyone care about dialup?
--- On Mon, 5/7/12, Indulekha indule...@theunworthy.com wrote: From: Indulekha indule...@theunworthy.com Subject: Re: Does anyone care about dialup? To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Monday, May 7, 2012, 7:50 PM I prefer to use pppconfig to create the connection, pon/poff to start/end it +1 I was on dialup until very recently (earlier this year) and preferred pppconfig though gnome-ppp worked too. Bought a USRobotics USB modem, and it works perfectly. +1 again. I have always used a USR 5610 internal and it just worked. Be aware though that some phone companies (like ATT locally) are intentionally throttling data connections to move used to higher paying services. That's why I ultimately had to get off dialup. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1336439130.39954.yahoomailclas...@web162204.mail.bf1.yahoo.com
Re: How do I remove a bad file??
--- On Tue, 5/1/12, Dennis Wicks w...@mgssub.com wrote: From: Dennis Wicks w...@mgssub.com Subject: How do I remove a bad file?? To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Tuesday, May 1, 2012, 6:20 PM Greetings; I have a file that looks like the following in an ls list; -? ? ? ? ? ? Inbox.msf I can't do anything with it. Can't mv, rm, cp, or anything else I have thought of to get rid of it or write over it. Any ideas how I can get this thing out of my life?? Have you tried to remove it via a live disk rather than from the booted system? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1335917753.16642.yahoomailclas...@web162202.mail.bf1.yahoo.com
Re: NEWBIE sanity check re gnome-ppp PLEASE
--- On Wed, 4/25/12, Indulekha indule...@theunworthy.com wrote: Then install pppconfig and create your connection with 'sudo pppconfig' run in the terminal, then start the connection with ppp-on-boot or manually using pon. That's the simple, easy, reliable way to do it, and it doesn't require any particular desktop (or even a desktop at all). Also, do make sure your user is a member of the dip group. I was going to suggest pppconfig. Until very recently I was on dialup with an internal USR serial modem. While I didn't have problems with gnome-ppp, I preferred using pppconfig. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1335394761.54225.yahoomailclas...@web162201.mail.bf1.yahoo.com
Re: how to burn iso image over 4.7GB
--- On Wed, 4/11/12, J.Hwan Kim frog1...@gmail.com wrote: From: J.Hwan Kim frog1...@gmail.com Subject: how to burn iso image over 4.7GB To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Wednesday, April 11, 2012, 11:12 PM Hi, everyone I'm trying burn ISO image of which size is exactly 4.7GB. When I tried to burn the image with K3b, it could not burn because the ISO is too big for my 4.7G DVD. Is there any method to burn it to my 4.7G DVD? Should I buy Double side DVD? Thanks in advance. Best Regards, J.Hwan Kim I've done that MANY times with DVDShrink - http://www.dvdshrink.org/. You'll need to run it in Wine though . . . -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1334239042.62513.yahoomailclas...@web162202.mail.bf1.yahoo.com
Re: how to burn iso image over 4.7GB
--- On Thu, 4/12/12, Jon Dowland j...@debian.org wrote: From: Jon Dowland j...@debian.org Subject: Re: how to burn iso image over 4.7GB To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Thursday, April 12, 2012, 9:21 AM On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 06:57:22AM -0700, Go Linux wrote: I've done that MANY times with DVDShrink - http://www.dvdshrink.org/. You'll need to run it in Wine though . . . That assumes that the source ISO is a DVD Video (it might not be), and it should be mentioned that dvd shrink throws information away (lossy transformation) to make the movie fit on a single-sided disc. OTOH you can rarely tell that information has been thrown away, sometimes it might matter, sometimes it might not. (DVD Shrink is one of a series of Windows programs that impress me with their do one thing well approach, and I've never found a Linux app to match it. Similarly, whereas grip has now left the Debian archive and sound-juicer continues to break in interesting ways, most recently with multi-disc rips, cdex on Windows *still* just works.) I have always shrunk ISOs mastered with DVDStyler never an actual DVD. They have always been just at the 4.7GB limit. I've not noticed a difference is quality but then I'm watching them on an old 20 CRT. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1334241311.3667.yahoomailclas...@web162202.mail.bf1.yahoo.com
Re: OT: deferring gmail's new look
--- On Sun, 12/25/11, Tony Baldwin tonybald...@gmx.com wrote: My understanding is that eventually (possibly already) they intend to make the older look no longer available. The HTML version is pretty much the same as it's always been. :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1324834300.12011.yahoomailclas...@web162201.mail.bf1.yahoo.com
Re: disable beep for wall command
--- On Thu, 12/8/11, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: The only thing I've found is that when you stop gdm3 (service gdm3 stop) and go to a tty, a shutdown -r now won't produce any sound so I'm starting to think this loud beep is coming from the GNOME side... Perhaps /etc/gdm3/greeter.gconf-defaults has the solution? # Play system beeps - especially the one when the greeter is ready /desktop/gnome/sound/event_sounds false I have it set to false and NEVER hear a system beep EVER. But then I'm on Suueeze not Gnome 3. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1323373110.48981.yahoomailclas...@web162216.mail.bf1.yahoo.com
Re: Nvidia graphics that don't work with nouveau - Was: Re: Nvidia driver fails to compile on kernel 3.X
--- On Fri, 11/25/11, Hugo Vanwoerkom hvw59...@care2.com wrote: Model: nVidia GeForce 8400 GS I use 'nouveau.modeset=0' on the kernel cmdline and also blacklist nouveau. But note that the latest udev (175-2) removes blacklist.conf, I put it back again. What I find if I don't blacklist nouveau is that the nvidia driver gives an error when starting X. Hugo When I first installed Squeeze, my nVidia GeForce 8400 GS worked perfectly with nouveau. I later switched to nVidia drivers to get the cube going and no problem there either. What am I missing? Maybe the problems are in testing? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1322270129.65890.yahoomailclas...@web162210.mail.bf1.yahoo.com
Re: disable Gnome 3 screen lockout
Forget to take your meds today, Curt? --- On Sun, 11/20/11, Curt cu...@free.fr wrote: From: Curt cu...@free.fr Subject: Re: disable Gnome 3 screen lockout To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Sunday, November 20, 2011, 12:11 PM On 2011-11-20, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah, that's what I meant for trolling. Grow up. The truth is someone came up with a suggestion superior to your own, and because of your outsized vanity you couldn't handle it and had to invent this idiocy about locales that isn't fooling anybody but yourself. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/slrnjcigko.3fl.cu...@einstein.electron.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1321816939.62474.yahoomailclas...@web162205.mail.bf1.yahoo.com
Gnome meltdown observed from the sidelines
Since I am on Squeeze, I have not yet had the (dis)pleasure of encountering Gnome 3. But I am watching the ruckus closely. If I weren't on dialup, I might even install Wheezy and give it a spin. But then that might be a little too much excitement for me!! :) (I think all you you alpha testers are bit masochistic!!) It will be interesting to see how it all shakes out. I won't have to make a decision for a few years but I would like to know the answer to a few questions that would be dealbreakers for me. FYI, I don't have a mobile phone or tablet - strictly desktop - so the new paradigm is very foreign and appears to me as a step backward ie. the dumbing down of a computing environment. Do you think it will be possible to eliminate the 3d effects in Gnome by the time it gets to Wheezy stable? My hardware could handle it but my aesthetic could not. I like flat and simple. Will I be able to get the panel back on the bottom and have desktop icons? I'm pretty sure I could transition to XFCE if necessary. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1321304505.39406.yahoomailclas...@web162217.mail.bf1.yahoo.com
Re: dial-up modem usage
--- On Tue, 11/8/11, Rob Owens row...@ptd.net wrote: From: Rob Owens row...@ptd.net Subject: dial-up modem usage To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Tuesday, November 8, 2011, 6:16 PM I'm setting up a Debian system for a friend, and he uses a dial-up modem. It's been many years since I dealt with a modem, so I could use a few tips. I know that winmodems probably won't work, so I may have to swap it out for something in my old parts bin. What is used to control dialup these days? Does NetworkManager do it? 5 years ago I was using kppp on Mandrake... This system will have occasional access to wireless high speed internet, so I need a solution that allows for that as well. Thanks for any tips. -Rob I have a USRobotics 5610* hardware modem that works perfectly. I have it set up via pppconfig and also Gnome PPP on /dev/ttyS*. Network Manager does not work for dialup AFAIK. Can't help with wireless . . . -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1320804264.59798.yahoomailclas...@web162218.mail.bf1.yahoo.com
Re: [OT] advice re Western Digital WD1002FAEX Caviar Black 1 TB 7200 RPM Internal Hard Disk Drive
--- On Mon, 9/26/11, Greg Madden gomadtr...@gci.net wrote: From: Greg Madden gomadtr...@gci.net Subject: Re: [OT] advice re Western Digital WD1002FAEX Caviar Black 1 TB 7200 RPM Internal Hard Disk Drive To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Monday, September 26, 2011, 6:22 PM On Monday 26 September 2011 06:32:24 am Andrew McGlashan wrote: Hi, Lisi wrote: Is the Western Digital WD1002FAEX Caviar Black 1 TB 7200 RPM Internal Hard Disk Drive worth the extra money over the Blue ranges? And would you recommend it? I don't want to cause myself complications with another dud drive. :-( Of all the options from WD, I would definitely go with the Black ones -- they have longer warranty and are a much safer bet. But as with all HDDs, they will fail one day you are much more likely to get longer service from a WD BLACK though. Here's a fair summary page: http://www.wdc.com/en/products/internal/desktop/ NB: The warranty is longer for a good reason and you're likely to have larger cache on the drive as well. +1, all drives fail, having a longer warranty period usually means a better quality drive, but in real life, it just means that the vendor provides new drives for a while longer, if needed. I go by warranty period and try to Divine, somehow, the vendors service record. I have 5 Caviar black drives though not the one mentioned here. One of them failed earlier this year. One partition wouldn't mount due to some some bad blocks according to fsck. Fortunately it wasn't a critical one. It cost me $5 to send off to WD (after carefully wiping the drive) and I had a replacement within a few days. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1317132699.92961.yahoomailclas...@web59513.mail.ac4.yahoo.com
Re: Trouble playing DVDs burnt with FFmpeg and dvdauthor on physical DVD players
--- On Sat, 9/10/11, Greg Farough gr...@riseup.net wrote: From: Greg Farough gr...@riseup.net Subject: Trouble playing DVDs burnt with FFmpeg and dvdauthor on physical DVD players To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Saturday, September 10, 2011, 8:19 PM Hey, all. I've lately been trying to make backups of files in various media formats to DVD, using FFmpeg and dvdauthor. The resulting DVD plays excellently on my laptop DVD player with MPlayer and VLC, but suffers from incessant skips on the two commercial DVD players (i.e. hooked to a television) that I've attempted to play them on. This happens with every file and disc that I've tried. My process for encoding/burning is this: ffmpeg -i test.avi -target ntsc-dvd test.mpg dvdauthor -t test.mpg -o dvd/ dvdauthor -T -o dvd/ growisofs -Z /dev/dvd -dvd-video -speed=4 dvd/ Normally I would imagine that I was simply burning the disc too quickly, but 4x seems reasonable, and this doesn't explain why the DVD plays well on my laptop. I use single-layer Memorex DVD-Rs, but have also tried Verbatim to no avail. Any suggestions would be appreciated. PS: MPlayer's output when playing the DVD rarely complains of sync errors, but doesn't hinder playback in any way. For many years I have been editing video in Avidemux and using their 'auto DVD' option to create compatible mpg. Then I build ISOs with a nice menu in DVDStyler. No problem with any DVD player connected to a TV or computer. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1315751826.70386.yahoomailclas...@web59502.mail.ac4.yahoo.com
Re: picture import from camera - gthumb
--- On Sat, 7/30/11, Tomas Kral thomas.k...@email.cz wrote: From: Tomas Kral thomas.k...@email.cz Subject: picture import from camera - gthumb To: debian-user debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Saturday, July 30, 2011, 1:35 PM Dear List, How do I import pictures from a digital camera on Squeeze? I have Shotwell Photo Manager installed on Squeeze and I like it as well as I did gthumb. Not quite sure how it got installed. I think it was part of Gnome desktop apps. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1312060211.11737.yahoomailclas...@web59509.mail.ac4.yahoo.com
Re: Mounting two usb drives
--- On Fri, 7/29/11, Go Linux goli...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Go Linux goli...@yahoo.com Subject: Re: Mounting two usb drives To: debian-user-lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Friday, July 29, 2011, 12:05 AM --- On Thu, 7/28/11, Ethan Rosenberg eth...@earthlink.net wrote: From: Ethan Rosenberg eth...@earthlink.net Subject: Mounting two usb drives To: debian-user-lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Thursday, July 28, 2011, 1:59 PM Dear list - How do I mount two usb drives at the same time. Both usb drives have only one partition. I have probably 10 usb drives all with multiple partitions. The partitions are labeled and I have fstab entries for all of them. As soon as they are plugged in all the partitions are mounted. I have had as many as three drives mounted at one time. No problem. Sorry about that. It's late. I'm tired. Of course not in fstab but in /mnt using the labels. I'll go stand in a corner now . . . -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1311921184.85045.yahoomailclas...@web59513.mail.ac4.yahoo.com
Re: Mounting two usb drives
--- On Fri, 7/29/11, Hugo Vanwoerkom hvw59...@care2.com wrote: From: Hugo Vanwoerkom hvw59...@care2.com Subject: Re: Mounting two usb drives To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Friday, July 29, 2011, 12:31 PM 10? Really? Hugo Yes, for video archiving. Drives fill up quickly. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1311962638.71990.yahoomailclas...@web59509.mail.ac4.yahoo.com
Re: Mounting two usb drives
--- On Thu, 7/28/11, Ethan Rosenberg eth...@earthlink.net wrote: From: Ethan Rosenberg eth...@earthlink.net Subject: Mounting two usb drives To: debian-user-lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Thursday, July 28, 2011, 1:59 PM Dear list - How do I mount two usb drives at the same time. Both usb drives have only one partition. I have probably 10 usb drives all with multiple partitions. The partitions are labeled and I have fstab entries for all of them. As soon as they are plugged in all the partitions are mounted. I have had as many as three drives mounted at one time. No problem. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1311915919.1168.yahoomailclas...@web59508.mail.ac4.yahoo.com
Re: IPv6 and DNS
--- On Tue, 7/12/11, Laurence Hurst l.a.hu...@lboro.ac.uk wrote: From: Laurence Hurst l.a.hu...@lboro.ac.uk Subject: IPv6 and DNS To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Tuesday, July 12, 2011, 5:54 AM Hi folks, I notice a couple of other IPv6 related questions on this list so I hope this isn't too far of topic... I currently have an IPv4-only network (192.168.0.0/24 behind a NAT firewall/router) at home which includes a variety of systems (Windows, Debian, OSX and some embedded devices). All of these devices support IPv4 DHCP so the least painful and most reliable method of configuring them with hostnames has been to run my own DHCP server and DNS with static mappings for most of the devices (I do not allow dynamic updating of the DNS) including reverse DNS. I am curious, if I wanted to translate my IPv4 configuration into an IPv6 world; * I know there's a lot of talk about IPv6's wonderful auto-configuration eliminating the need for DHCP but how does this work with a static DNS setup? * Would I need to use DHCP6 and DNS, or auto-configuration and allow dynamic DNS updating (assuming IPv6's router discovery allows the clients to discover and update the DNS themselves)? * Would I have to trust the clients to update their own DNS records (I don't at the moment)? * In the DHCP-less world, how would clients discover the local DNS suffix (e.g. (fictitous) internal.home.my.tld)? As I'm sure you can see I've got a whole load of questions and no compelling answers so I hope that some of the well informed folks on this list might be willing to point me in something approximating the right direction! Cheers, Laurence And I'd like to add an IPV6 question to which I have not found an answer . . . How is it going to work on DIALUP!!! At least I have a good internal hardware modem . . . -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1310478368.8750.yahoomailclas...@web59506.mail.ac4.yahoo.com
Re: OT - stitching together 2 pdf files
I think PDFedit might be able to do that. I've played with it a little but never put it to a real test. --- On Tue, 7/12/11, AG computing.acco...@googlemail.com wrote: From: AG computing.acco...@googlemail.com Subject: OT - stitching together 2 pdf files To: Debian User List debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Tuesday, July 12, 2011, 11:34 AM Hi all Sorry for the OT, but does anyone know of a way to stitch 2 separate pdf files together to make one large one? I'm pretty sure acroread won't, but I was wondering about Xpdf or possibly a command-line approach? Thanks for any help. Cheers AG -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e1c7778.5070...@gmail.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1310489824.77481.yahoomailclas...@web59513.mail.ac4.yahoo.com
Re: grub2 help needed
After I installed Squeeze on a brand new drive, it automagically found the old Hardy install on a second drive. It was absolutely painless. Grub2 on my Squeeze is 1.98+20100804-14. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1310432547.72111.yahoomailclas...@web59514.mail.ac4.yahoo.com
Re: OT: Camaleón
--- On Mon, 7/4/11, wolf python london lyh19901...@gmail.com wrote: That's ... UNBELIEVABLE! You are a woman? I thought you were a young MAN geek, full of energy and helpful ! You are so active in this list! Thank you your help ! What's unbelievable is that YOU think it's unbelievable -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1309791435.36840.yahoomailclas...@web59507.mail.ac4.yahoo.com
Re: Enough, enough
--- On Mon, 7/4/11, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: From: Camaleón noela...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Enough, enough To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Monday, July 4, 2011, 2:27 PM What still amazes me is that people is surprised to see women participating in these mailing lists (in particular) and in FLOSS (in general). Greetings, -- Camaleón Maybe we ought to start a Linux Chicks site to dispel some of the preconceptions (and chauvinism)!? I don't have the expertise you have, Camaleón, but am not exactly a n00bie either. Been Linuxing for about 6 years and will never go back. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1309813838.38807.yahoomailclas...@web59512.mail.ac4.yahoo.com
