Re: Odd messages booting Cubox-i4 Pro "imx-gpc 20dc000.gpc: failed to get pu regulator: -517" and "ERROR: could not get clock /usdhc1_pwrseq:ext_clock(0)"

[John Holland]

> On 04.02.2016, at 14:04, Nigel Sollars  wrote:
> 
> There seems to be a good explanation here,
> 
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-arm/2013/12/msg00038.html
> 
>> On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 12:56 PM, Rick Thomas  wrote:
>> Does anyone know what the error messages
>> 
>> Does anybody know what is causing the subject error messages?
>> ...
>> > [0.098389] imx-gpc 20dc000.gpc: failed to get pu regulator: -517
Personally, I'm more worried about this,
>> >
>> > [1.485042] imx-sdma 20ec000.sdma: firmware: failed to load 
>> > imx/sdma/sdma-imx6q.bin (-2)
Then this.

Re: Duel Booting Debian on a Mac

[John Holland]

 In the end I uninstalled Debian because of the following problems:
 
 1. The brightness of the screen does not readjust after
 suspend/resume in Debian (I worked hard trying to solve this with
 some published hacks, but no full success).
 
 2. Often the Mac got hot with closed lid, eating the battery. This
 seems caused by the above firmware manipulation hack.
 
 3. Ugrades of OSX seem to damage the reFind configuration. Also there
 is a problem writing the hidden rescue partition during an upgrade of
 OSX.
 \


I'm writing this from wheezy on my macbook pro (2011). It took a while
to get it working well but now it has been for  1 year. Some of the
key things that have helped:

1. Refind boot manager - I have it on the OS X partition. so of course I
have to go into OS X to edit it. This works out OK though. OS X
upgrades disable it but the program that comes with it can be easily
run within OS X to re-enable it. The only inconvenience is that this
happens rarely so I don't remember what to doI use some parameters
to the kernel in the refind configuration file to disable intel graphics
etc, see below

2. open source AMD video driver. This macbook model has Intel low power
and AMD high power graphics cards. I have never been able to switch
between them successfully in Linux. I used to use the Intel and had the
problem above that when you suspend it doesn't come back in a working
state (black screen). By disabling the intel and using AMD open source
I'm getting good results. The AMD driver in recent kernels is good and
doesn't burn the battery badly, AND suspend/resume works fine. As in
totally reliably. AMD closed source would probably result in trouble
with dkms etc and might not resume, I decided not to even try that.
Also, you need AMD for HDMI. (I can use HDMI as external monitor ) I
know some models have nVidia not AMD-- maybe the same logic applies for
that.

 

3. nonfree firmware is needed for wifi. you can get atheros based
usb-connecting external Wifi adapters if you need to. I did that for a
bit, then I got the broadcom going and that's more convenient.

4. touchpad - there are many tutorials online about this, don't recall
exact steps. I have two finger scrolling working well, I just use lower
right corner for right click.

5. I don't try to boot straight to the GUI (or gdm3 etc), I boot to
text mode and run a script with the following commands (as root) to fix
some things with the graphics and power management:

#!/bin/bash
/etc/init.d/gdm3 stop
modprobe radeon
echo dynpm   /sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_method
echo low  /sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_dpm_force_performance_level
/etc/init.d/gdm3 start

I've been using this for so long I don't remember how it works or even
exactly what it does but it works. Incidentally suspend/resume works in
GRAPHICS mode as you would want it to. This script is only for a fresh
boot and as you can see takes me right to gdm3 to log in.



things I have never resolved: screen brightness keys, keyboard
brightness keys - I'm not sure if hibernate would work as I don't have
a swap partition to use for it. I did make shell scripts to do these
things and they can be mapped to key combinations in various ways if
those things are a priority.

Lately I decided to try and ditch pulseaudio (I don't like systemd etc,
just an experiment really) and found that alsa and jack are working OK
for me, including output to HDMI.

I went a long time without looking at OS X, recently I was in it to
play a game some, really overall wheezy/enlightenment/amarok etc is
better IMHO then the OS X equivalents. And it's FREE.







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Zfs on Linux + systemd on jessie

[John Holland]

I'm seeing some issues when testing the above combination. See my bug 767893. 
Anyone else tried it with the latest from jessie with apt - get update and 
upgrade ?

Re: Mount order after systemd update

[John Holland]

I have tried to get Zfsonlinux , sid, systemd, Luks encrypted storage devices 
and /var /home or /usr on zfs as part of /etc/fstab. It seems like pick any 
four out of the five is the best I can do. Tried Plymouth without it seeming 
to help. 

On November 2, 2014 1:33:55 PM EST, Martin Manns mma...@gmx.net wrote:
On Sun, 02 Nov 2014 18:10:03 +0100
Martin Steigerwald mar...@lichtvoll.de wrote:

  After switching to systemd, I would like to get back the following
  behavior:
  
  Mount multiple lvm-crypt volumes with password entry on startup.
  Mount several loopback devices from files within these volumes.
  
  With sysvinit, I had put the mount order into /etc/fstab and
  everything worked as expected.
 
 How so? In fstab in the column pass you can only specify the fsck
 order, not the mount order.

Just by stating the devices in the correct order.
With sysvinit, password entries have always followed this order
(verified on 3 systems).

  After switching to systemd, mount operations seem to be spawned in
  parallel. This has the following consequences:
 
 Asking to find out whether this is a regression or just a different
 behavior.
 
 Did you also check debian-user and debian-user-german threads, I
 think lvm- crypt + systemd has been discussed several times. Don´t
 know whether mutiple mounts have been a topic tough.

I have tried debian-user, but I have not found the time to go through
all of the systemd hits many of which are systemd vs sysvinit
discussions. Doing all this reading, I have not found anything that
solves my issue.

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Re: alternative file systems

[John Holland]

I've been running Zfsonlinux.org zfs on debian for maybe two years. I don't 
have root fs on zfs. I keep a working copy of the system dirs I have mounted on 
zfs on ext3. (Var and usr). ONE time, the dkms had problems and I was glad I 
had those extra copies (rsync from the zfs ones in a cron job)
I don't see zfs as super fast, lvm based raid would be faster.  But the 
snapshots and other features are awesome. I love cloning a vm instantly. 

On October 11, 2014 9:33:15 PM EDT, lee l...@yagibdah.de wrote:
Reco recovery...@gmail.com writes:

  Hi.

 On Sat, 11 Oct 2014 03:20:50 +0200
 lee l...@yagibdah.de wrote:

  The license of ZFS makes it impossible to be part of
  the kernel per se. The DKMS system is well known for supporting
kernel
  modules for video and wireless hardware among others.
 
 So there isn't really any way to tell whether it works or not?

 ZFS is out-of-tree kernel module. It *will* break sooner or later.
Every
 out-of-tree module does.

Hm.  I've seen it happening, and since then, I do not at all like the
idea of using hardware that isn't supported by something in the kernel.
When it happens, it might even be worse with file systems than it is
with hardware.

  Which
 kernel version is ZFS based on/for?

 [1] tells us that ZFS on Linux verion 0.6.3 supports kernels 2.6.26 -
 3.16.

Cool, apparently they even test it with Debian kernels :)

 Btrfs wouldn't let me do RAID-5 --- perhaps 3.2 kernels are too old
for
 that?

 A correct guess. A recommended minimum is kernel 3.14 - [2].

So this is a rather new feature.  How reliable and how well does it
work?

 But, ZFS won't allow you to make a conventional RAID5 either :)

I know --- and I don't require RAID-5.  What I require is what RAID-5
provides, i. e. redundancy without wasting as many disks as other RAID
levels.  I also like the better performance of hardware RAID compared
to
software RAID.  IIRC, ZFS would provide efficient redundancy and be
safer than a RAID controller because of it's checksumming.  I'd have to
try it out to see what kind of performance degradation or gain it would
bring about.

 They need to get these license issues fixed ...

 Back in the old days CDDL was chosen by Sun especially so that
 this license issue would *never* be fixed.
 Currently Oracle could re-license ZFS to anything they want,
including
 GPL-compatible license, but why would *they* do it?

Why don't they?


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Re: alternative file systems (was: Re: lvm: creating a snapshot)

[John Holland]

http://zfsonlinux.org/faq.html#WhatKernelVersionsAreSupported

On October 10, 2014 9:20:50 PM EDT, lee l...@yagibdah.de wrote:
John Holland jholl...@vin-dit.org writes:

 I'm having very good results using their repo and DKMS system to
build
 support into kernel modules. It's very easy to set up. I'm using it
 with Linux 3.2.0.

Does it work with Debians 3.16 kernels?

 The license of ZFS makes it impossible to be part of
 the kernel per se. The DKMS system is well known for supporting
kernel
 modules for video and wireless hardware among others.

So there isn't really any way to tell whether it works or not?  Which
kernel version is ZFS based on/for?

Btrfs wouldn't let me do RAID-5 --- perhaps 3.2 kernels are too old for
that?

They need to get these license issues fixed ...


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Re: lvm: creating a snapshot

[John Holland]

I'm having very good results using their repo and DKMS system to build
support into kernel modules. It's very easy to set up. I'm using it
with Linux 3.2.0.  The license of ZFS makes it impossible to be part of
the kernel per se. The DKMS system is well known for supporting kernel
modules for video and wireless hardware among others.



On Sun, 05 Oct 2014 21:38:21 +0200
lee l...@yagibdah.de wrote:

 John Holland jholl...@vin-dit.org writes:
 
  Zfsonlinux.org has info on using ZFS with debian. I create vm images
  and snapshot them and clone the snapshots all the time. The clones
  are writable and only use as much space as corresponds to the
  difference from the source. The volumes have to be ZVOL s, not
  regular files. I have found this very reliable.
 
 It appears to be entirely unclear what the compatibility of ZFS with
 Debian is.  There seem to be some Debian packages available --- are
 they compatible with kernels from backports, like 3.16?
 
 I'd rather use a file system which comes along with the kernel by
 default.
 
 



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Re: lvm: creating a snapshot

[John Holland]

It's been a while since I dealt with lvm snapshots but they are
available as I guess block devices somehow, you might have to google to
find out how to get the exact path to the snapshot.

On Sun, 05 Oct 2014 21:47:05 +0200
lee l...@yagibdah.de wrote:

 John Holland jholl...@vin-dit.org writes:
 
  I think you can pipe output of dd on the source to netcat, going to
  a netcat  on the destination  machine which is piped to dd going to
  a device or file on that machine.
 
 Hm, assuming that the volume group resides on /dev/sda3, I would have
 something like 'dd if=/dev/sda3 ...'.  That would read the partition
 rather than the volume group, and I'm not sure whether that would be
 the same or not in this case:  How would I restore from such a backup?
 
 



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Re: lvm: creating a snapshot

[John Holland]

You can copy with dd from the snapshot to another block device or a
file. That file can be on the same computer or you can get it to
another computer by using netcat, NFS, rsync etc.

On Tue, 7 Oct 2014 19:10:54 -0400
John Holland jholl...@vin-dit.org wrote:

 It's been a while since I dealt with lvm snapshots but they are
 available as I guess block devices somehow, you might have to google
 to find out how to get the exact path to the snapshot.
 
 On Sun, 05 Oct 2014 21:47:05 +0200
 lee l...@yagibdah.de wrote:
 
  John Holland jholl...@vin-dit.org writes:
  
   I think you can pipe output of dd on the source to netcat, going
   to a netcat  on the destination  machine which is piped to dd
   going to a device or file on that machine.
  
  Hm, assuming that the volume group resides on /dev/sda3, I would
  have something like 'dd if=/dev/sda3 ...'.  That would read the
  partition rather than the volume group, and I'm not sure whether
  that would be the same or not in this case:  How would I restore
  from such a backup?
  
  
 
 
 



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Re: lvm: creating a snapshot

[John Holland]

Zfsonlinux.org has info on using ZFS  with debian. I create vm images and 
snapshot them and clone the snapshots all the time. The clones are writable and 
only use as much space as corresponds to the difference from the source. The 
volumes have to be ZVOL s, not regular files. I have found this very reliable.
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- Original Message -
From: lee l...@yagibdah.de
Sent: 10/04/2014 - 9:31 AM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: lvm: creating a snapshot

 Karl E. Jorgensen k...@jorgensen.org.uk writes:

 Hi

 On Fri, Oct 03, 2014 at 08:43:06PM +0200, lee wrote:
 Hi,

 how can I create a LVM snapshot of a VM?


 root@heimdall:~# lvcreate -L 4G -s /dev/mapper/vg_guests-lv_jarl -n 
 lv_snap_jarl /dev/mapper/vg_mydata
   Physical Volume /dev/mapper/vg_mydata not found in Volume Group 
 vg_guests
 root@heimdall:~#


 There is no free space in 'vg_guests'.  The only free space is in
 'vg_mydata'.

 That's a problem.  Snapshots must be in the same volume group - they
 are essentially copy-on-write (sort-of).

 Can I create a snapshot over the network on disks an another
 machine?

 No

 Hm, ok, LVM sucks then.

 Can I extend 'vg_guests', using the free space of 'vg_mydata'?

 Not directly. But you *can* merge the two volume groups - but that
 requires all of the logical volumes in the old volume group are
 inactive (i.e. unmounted and closed):

 E.g. to merge oldvg and newvg and end up with a new (larger) newvg:

lvchange -an oldvg
vgmerge newvg oldvg

 That would make the system disks and the data disks depend on each
 other.  I'd like to keep them independent.

 Or would I have to shrink 'vg_mydata' to have free space to be able
 to extend 'vg_guests' to be able to create a snapshot?

 This is probably possible - depends on whether you can completely free
 up a PV.

 Physical volumes are the logical volumes provided by the RAID
 controller.  I could delete the data because I have a backup.  If I do
 that, I might better run the disks as JBOD (if I can get that to work)
 and use btrfs instead.  It wouldn't bring me closer to making backups of
 the VMs, though.

 Note that a PV (physical volume) can only belong to *one* volume
 group.  So if you can shave off a PV from one volume group, then you
 can attach it to a different volume group instead.

 Well, it's like this:


|-- SATA 2TB --|
|-- SATA 2TB   |-- LV RAID5 -- LVM: vg_mydata (84GB avail)
|-- SATA 2TB --|
 ServeRaid 8k---|
|-- SAS 72GB --|
|  |-- LV RAID1 -- dom0, LVM: vg_guests (full)
|-- SAS 72GB --|


 'vg_guests' is on its own partition.  That's IMHO a very reasonable
 setup.  Only LVM is unreasonable in that it doesn't let me make
 snapshots, which is one of the two reasons why I used it.  (The other
 reason is that it makes it simple and efficient to provide volumes to
 the guests which then can be partitioned from within the guests.)

 I want to make snapshots of logical volumes in 'vg_guests' to create
 backups, and they must go into a LVM-LV in 'vg_mydata' because there are
 84GB available for this and no free space anywhere else.

 That shouldn't be a problem at all.

 Alternatively, I'd be fine with backing up the whole 'vg_guests' while
 the guests are shut down.  I just want a backup of them which I can
 restore from if I have to.

 So could I somehow copy a whole LVM volume group?  This could be done
 from dom0, and I could push the data over the network or put it into the
 free space of 'vg_mydata'.  It would be very awkward, yet still better
 than no backup at all.

 I could back up the partition 'vg_guests' is on with dd, but perhaps
 there is a better way?

 You can also resize PVs, but since this usually requires messing with
 partition tables and such things may require a reboot, this may not be
 suitable for your situation.

 A reboot would be possible, though I don't want to mess with partition
 tables.  The server can be shut down for up to 4 days before I'd have a
 problem.

 I want to back up the VM without shutting it down.  If it can't
 avoided, I could shut it down to take the backup.  In that case, how
 would I copy the volume to get a useful backup file?

 I think I wish I had used btrfs ...

 btrfs is good - if you are working with files.  When working with
 block devices, LVM rules.

 In which way would LVM be better than btrfs?  I can't even make a
 snapshot with LVM ...

 But... if you had set things up the analogous way with btrfs, you
 would still have the same problem, and you would be asking Can I
 snapshot from one BTRFS file system into another BTRFS file system?

 Perhaps I would since I cannot reasonably combine 2TB disks and 72GB
 disks in a RAID5 across all of them with btrfs, or can I?  Are you
 saying I wouldn't be able to make a snapshot or to create a backup with
 btrfs, either?

 But then, since all disks are evenly

Re: MP3 player compatible with Debian

[John Holland]

Its More Like 200$, But The fiio X3 is very nice.plays audiophile formats like 
FLAC as well as mp3.  Fiio is a Chinese company.
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- Original Message -
From: Joe j...@jretrading.com
Sent: 10/04/2014 - 1:39 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: MP3 player compatible with Debian

 On Sat, 4 Oct 2014 15:19:26 +0100
 Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote:

 There was a thread about MP3 players a bit back, and one in
 particular found favour.  But my memory, Google-foo, archive-foo have
 all failed me.  Can any kind person remind me/recommend a suitable
 inexpensive MP3 player for me to take on holiday.

 For which value of 'inexpensive'?

 I want to be able to load it easily frorm/with a Debian computer, and
 I don't want to spend exorbitant amounts.  It must remember where it
 got to, and I want to be able to select my track/book/whatever.  The
 very cheap one I was given last year restarted at the beginning every
 time it had been turned off. Much as I liked the first track, I got
 very tired of it.


 I don't think you'll get a decent one for less than about £25. My wife
 needed to move on from 'cheap' last year, and we settled on one of the
 Sandisk Clip series, 4GB plus microSD slot.

 Two tips (that probably work for any player): if there is a choice of
 USB modes, you want MSC, not MTP. The latter is aimed at Windows Media
 Player users and uses auxiliary files. MSC is Mass Storage Class which
 treats the player as an external USB drive, which is what you want.

 Set the region to Rest Of The World, not Europe, or you won't be able
 to hear it. The EU has somewhat restrictive ideas about noise levels.

 OK, three tips: make sure the MP3 tags carry artist and album
 information, as the player uses these rather than file and directory
 names. If the MP3s have come from a non-standard source, they may not
 have tags, or not the ones you need.

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Re: lvm: creating a snapshot

[John Holland]

I think you can pipe output of dd on the source to netcat, going to a netcat  
on the destination  machine which is piped to dd going to a device or file on 
that machine.
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- Original Message -
From: Don Armstrong d...@debian.org
Sent: 10/04/2014 - 4:09 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: lvm: creating a snapshot

 On Fri, 03 Oct 2014, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote:
 On Fri, Oct 03, 2014 at 08:43:06PM +0200, lee wrote:
  Can I create a snapshot over the network on disks an another
  machine?

 No

 You can, but not trivially. Use nbd, iscsi or similar to share a block
 device over the network, and then use lvm on top of that.


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Re: Debian and Enlightenment packages

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It's a lot of work getting all the required libraries installed to build it. 
And then the various parts of E that depend on each other.

On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 07:49:08PM +0200, maderios wrote:
 On 09/30/2014 07:05 PM, John Holland wrote:
 I like Debian and Enlightenment and I have made packages of very recent E18, 
 for Wheezy. They are available at vin-dit.org. The web page there gives the 
 information for getting the GPG key and what to put in sources.list etc.
 
 You can also install the src debs if you want to examine before building. It 
 took a bit of work to get it working on Wheezy and this might save you some 
 of that effort.
 
 I just set out to do this and have no connection to the people doing it for 
 Debian.org. I am interested in getting more involved with Debian the right 
 way and I see now more of what that would require
 
 . However if you want E18 on Wheezy that is what I have. (I have only built 
 for amd64.)
 
 I run this myself on several machines.
 
 I compiled too E17, 18, 19 with Wheezy, Jessie and Sid.
 It works!
 
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Re: Debian and Enlightenment packages

[John Holland]

I like Debian and Enlightenment and I have made packages of very recent E18, 
for Wheezy. They are available at vin-dit.org. The web page there gives the 
information for getting the GPG key and what to put in sources.list etc.

You can also install the src debs if you want to examine before building. It 
took a bit of work to get it working on Wheezy and this might save you some of 
that effort.

I just set out to do this and have no connection to the people doing it for 
Debian.org. I am interested in getting more involved with Debian the right way 
and I see now more of what that would require

. However if you want E18 on Wheezy that is what I have. (I have only built for 
amd64.)

I run this myself on several machines.

John 
On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 02:10:47PM +0200, maderios wrote:
 Hi
 Some questions/thought  criticism not very optimistic about Debian,
 Enlightenment and EFL
 I discovered that Debian maintainers highlight an outdated
 Enlightenment page with an outdated version, the 18-RC2 dated
 December 2013 and presented as A new upstream release
 https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/e17
 http://download.enlightenment.org/releases/enlightenment-0.18.0-rc2.tar.gz
 
 In fact, right Enlightenment download page is here , with more
 advanced or stabilized packages:
 http://download.enlightenment.org/rel/apps/enlightenment/
 http://download.enlightenment.org/rel/apps/enlightenment/enlightenment-0.18.8.tar.gz
 http://download.enlightenment.org/rel/apps/enlightenment/enlightenment-0.19.0.tar.gz
 
 I don't really understand the process of Debian maintainers about
 Enlightenment packaging. Or rather, I begin to think Enlightenment
 doesn't interest many people or/and there is a lack of maintainers
 ...
 In addition, a bug report 760038 subsequently canceled by its author
 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=760038#25
 Yesterday I did a year apt-get dist-upgrade for Jessie All which
 fixed the problem.
 [--- Funny, there was no upgrade E17 upgrade..! ]
 led the Debian maintainers remove E17: Marked for autoremoval on 12
 October: 760,038 without rectify later
 https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/e17
 
 I asked a question here enlightenment-us...@lists.sourceforge.net
 about the obsolescence of the page
 http://download.enlightenment.org/releases/
 I got answer from Carsten Haitzler, lead developer of the
 Enlightenment project :
 
 it's not a web page. it's just a director in the filesystem is
 download.enlightenment.org - we are not the removal removing dir so
 as to not break old
 build scripts That May Rely on old releases fetching Where They
 Were. we Moved
 new releases to the rel / dir is download.enlightenment.org 
 #Message end
 
 It is therefore not a download page to use but it is presented as
 such by Debian:
 A new upstream version is available: 0.18.0-rc2
 https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/e17
 
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Re: terminal doesn't come up in Jessie Beta-1?

[John Holland]

On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 10:31:14AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
 On Tue, 9 Sep 2014 13:24:51 +0200
 B lazyvi...@gmx.com wrote:
 
  On Tue, 9 Sep 2014 00:53:37 -0700
  Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com wrote:
  
   And, I guess, that then begs the further question: I love to RTFM,
   but what FM should I read for questions like these?  Is there a FM
   for configuring Gnome?
  
  Gnome is evil, baaad FGnome, change gnome (use XFCE, you won't
  regret it;)
 
 Don't forget LXDE and OpenBox, they're great too. 




And enlightenment! I have packages of a very recent enlightenment release for 
wheezy at http://vin-dit.org. 




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Re: Gnome for jessie

[John Holland]

Enlightenment is actually a very nice DE with reasonable hardware
requirements. It'd be nice to have it as an option in the installer.


On Sat, 16 Aug 2014 13:28:56 -0400 (EDT)
Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com wrote:

 On Sat, 16 Aug 2014 13:03:54 -0400 (EDT), Michael Biebl wrote:
  On Sat, 16 Aug 2014 11:00:10 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote:
  
  My main objection to GNOME as the default desktop environment is
  that it *requires* 3D graphics acceleration from the X driver,
  ...
  
  Not quite true. On graphics hardware which doesn't provide 3D
  acceleration, gnome-shell falls back to use llvmpipe, which provides
  software-rendering on most hardware.
 
 Apparently, this is a new development.  I used GNOME when it was the
 default at GNOME 2.  Then, when GNOME 3 first came out, it required
 3D acceleration, but had a fallback mode for hardware that didn't
 support it.  I continued to use GNOME 3 in fallback mode.  Then,
 at some point, they eliminated fallback mode; and my desktop became
 totally unusable.  At that point, I switched from GNOME to XFCE;
 and I haven't tried GNOME again since, even when using hardware
 that supports 3D acceleration.
 
 *Requiring* 3D for a DE, whether from the hardware or via software
 emulation, is a bad idea, IMO.
 



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Re: Netflix in chrome-unstable on Debian Sid

[John Holland]

Sorry, if you do a google search on google-chrome-unstable you can
find google's page where you can download that deb.

#dpkg -i google-chrome-unstable.deb

#apt-get -f install



(this is on Sid VM)


On Sat, 09 Aug 2014 21:51:41 -0500
Hugo Vanwoerkom hvw59...@care2.com wrote:

 John Holland wrote:
  working in Debian Sid VM by jtotheh @slashdot
  http://entertainment.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=5512583cid=47639701
  
  
  
 
 That does not say how Netflix support was installed. With
 pipelight-multi?
 
 And what is that google-chrome-unstable deb? Does that have a
 version number?
 
 Hugo
 
 



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Netflix in chrome-unstable on Debian Sid

[John Holland]

working in Debian Sid VM by jtotheh @slashdot
http://entertainment.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=5512583cid=47639701



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Wheezy enlightenment packages

[John Holland]

I have some new enlightenment (Window manager/desktop environment)
packages at http://vin-dit.org. See http://enlightenment.org for
information on enlightenment. See http://vin-dit.org for installation
instructions.





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BIND can't find root nameservers

[John Holland]

I have a recurring problem on a Debian machine that is running named.
The bind program becomes unable to get the address of the root
nameservers and fills up /var/log/daemonlog,/var/log/syslog with
messages to that effect.

sysquery: no addrs found for root NS (M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET)
 
 This causes the /var partition to completely fill up, which
 then causes various problems (no mail, no printing, and now I see
 also that it stops named from working).

 Can I configure the logging options somehow to limit the retained logs?

 Or better yet solve the named no addrs found problem?

 Any help would be appreciated.

 John Holland


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Re: Xfree86 4.3

[John Holland]

 [20031028] John Holland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Can anyone say how stable the experimental XFree86 4.3 packages are?
 Is there any reliable way to install this into debian? I'm running a
 mix of stable and unstable.

 I've been running Daniel Strone's ds4 for about 4 months now on a
 production environment  on my home boxes  laptop (all under sid)
 without any problems so far.

 Simply add :

 deb http://www.penguinppc.org/~daniels/sid/i386/ ./

 in your sources.list to use it.

Thanksto all who replied.
Actually I got a different deb source at people.debian.org from someone on
the swsusp list and installed it last night. X seems to take a long time
to start but it is working well and I can now hibernate from and to X
which is nice.
John



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Xfree86 4.3

[John Holland]

Can anyone say how stable the experimental XFree86 4.3 packages are? Is
there any reliable way to install this into debian? I'm running a mix of
stable and unstable.
Thanks,

John Holland



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Re: best laptops for debian linux

[John Holland]

I'm very happy with a Sony VAIO GRX-670, it runs Debian nicely (and did
well with Mandrake as well)

On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 10:06:22PM -0700, Josh Rehman wrote:
 Andy Firman wrote:
 
 On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 01:12:47AM -0700, Jon wrote:
  
 
 I'm looking to buy a laptop that can easily be set up to run debian
 linux.  I do not need a high end graphics card, nor is there a real
 need for a big screen.   Being light weight is not a primary factor,
 whereas rugged reliability would be.  Can anyone suggest particular
 brands and models that fit this description?  Top priority is that
 debian linux can be easily installed on the machine, while the other
 requirements are less important.

 
 
 I am on my 3rd IBM Thinkpad and ALL of them ran Debian perfectly.
 There is a huge range of Thinkpads so you will easily find one that
 fits your requirements.
 
 
 Thinkpads are very good. I will add that it has been very painful 
 getting Debian to run on a Dell Inspiron 5150. I would avoid getting 
 this laptop if you plan on running any sort of Linux. I'm not saying 
 it's impossible, just that it might be more of a chore than you're 
 willing to do.
 
 I've been thinking; wouldn't it be a cool business model to make laptop 
 specific ISOs of a Linux distribution (Debian, for example)? If anyone 
 want to start such a business with me, give me a holler.
 
 Josh
 
 
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gs-fonts ruin wmaker desktop

[John Holland]

I recently installed Debian (mixed stable/unstable) on a laptop. I wanted
the nice look of anti-aliased fonts. Everything looks great but I found
that if the gs-fonts were installed it wrecked my wmaker desktop and other
gui items. I have carefully avoided letting that package go in and thus
far that is OK. But is there a better solution?


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xmms, esound in mixed stable/unstable

[John Holland]

I just switched my laptop to Debian. I'm using a mix of stable and
unstable. Sound works with ogle, but with xmms or xine it is very
choppy.

Also I think some of the libraries that xmms wants to install esound etc
are the source of problems. At this point I've reinstalled the OS
a few times and have it working well, I don't want to hose it up.

Is there a way to install xmms without the esound stuff?

John Holland


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