Re: wine
On Thu, 2018-09-06 at 08:38 +0200, mattias jonsson wrote: > kör debian via crostini på en chromebook > behöver wine X? Jag har ingen aning om vad det innebär? Du kan köra rena CLI-program med Wine som inte behöver X. Annars behöver du en X-server av något slag, tex. Xwayland om det nu är det Chromebook'en använder. Se för övrigt https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42284 -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: gimp resynthesizer
On Wed, 2016-07-13 at 11:49 -0700, pe...@easthope.ca wrote:
> Hi,
>
> According to https://packages.debian.org/sid/gimp-resynthesizer
> I've installed gimp-plugin-registry in the jessie system here.
> A usage page instructs to find the resynthesizer in the Scpript-Fu
> menu. The only entry in the principal Script-Fu here is "Color"
> and it has no functionality. There is a Filters > Script-Fu >
> {Console, Refresh Scripts, Start Server}. Usage of these eludes me.
>
> Any tips to make the gimp resynthesizer work?
At least on my system (sid) it's in Filters → Map → Resynthesize.
The documentation is probably outdated.
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Re: why is Inkscape so bad lately?
On Thu, 2016-07-07 at 16:41 -0400, Gary Dale wrote: > I have a very simple file with two text objects, two circles and an > image and that's exactly what happened when I tried to work with it. > The > circles (no stroke and no fill) were used to create a path for the > text > to follow. > > It took two circles because Inkscape's arcane (more likely buggy) > method > of putting a text on path works very badly. It takes hair-pulling > sequences of flips and rotations to get the text to where it should > be. > You can't do it with just one circle because the circle, once set > for > the first piece of text, can't be touched for the second - you need > a > second, identical, circle to be able to do the flips and rotations > to > get the second piece of text right. I have no problem doing this with one circle... > When I resized the document, after scaling the drawing, so that the > drawing would fit on a single page, I couldn't re-centre it by > selecting > the entire drawing and treating it as a group. I had to actually > group > the drawing. When I tried to ungroup it, the text moved around. > Since > the purpose of the ungroup was to replace the image with a different > one, repositioning the text was not an option since it would be > difficult to get it back to exactly the same position. > > This meant that I couldn't simply replace the image with another one. > I > had to cover it with a circle the same colour as the background > (white) > to "erase" it. > > Anyway, if you look at > http://www.lionsclub.ca/images/vest%20design%20-%20curved%20text%201. > png > you will see the drawing when the objects are grouped. > http://www.lionsclub.ca/images/vest%20design%20-%20curved%20text-%20b > ad%20.png > is the way the drawing looks after an ungroup. Note that both pieces > of > text are moved left and upwards and the "West Hill" text is rotated > about 15 degrees counter-clockwise. Yep, this I can reproduce, there are a couple of bug reports upstream that seems to match and it looks like it has been fixed for the upcoming 0.92. As a work around you can enter the group and do the edits there, instead of ungrouping and grouping again. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Debian menu for fvwm2
On Thu, 2016-07-07 at 20:16 +0200, Kamil Jońca wrote: > I have debian box with sid > > After one of last upgrade I realized that programs disappeared from > menu. > I have some googling and read that debian "abandon" menu method and > migrate to "*.desktop" files. (Yes?) That is correct. Looks like fvwm-menu-desktop is quite buggy and has already been rewritten: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=808292 -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: why is Inkscape so bad lately?
On Thu, 2016-07-07 at 14:23 -0400, Gary Dale wrote: > I admit that I only use Inkscape on an occasional basis but I don't > recall it being so atrociously bad in my past experiences with it. > However the current round of bugs I'm seeing suggest that the > developers > aren't really in control of their code. > > Grouping objects creates different results in transformations than > telling Inkscape to treat the selection as a group. Ungrouping > objects > causes them to shift position or rotation. And putting text on a > path > produces bizarre results. If the path isn't a circle, you may not be > able to produce the effect you want. > > As far as I can remember, these things all used to work. Does anyone > know what's going on with Inkscape development to make it so > unusable > right now? I work a lot in Inkscape and have not experienced anything you describe here. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Problem w. browser when running on SSD
On Wed, 2016-07-06 at 22:06 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Greetings everybody, > > This is a newly installed Sid system that has 2 Samsung HD502HJ disks > of > 500GB and a Samsung SSD830 of 128GB. > > It has 2 graphics cards, Model:"nVidia G98 [GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 2]". > > The reason it is a new install is because I have for years run the > NVidia closed source driver but they dropped support for these cards > to > Legacy-940.96, which has problems with the Sid level of the kernel > and > the gcc compiler. > So I tried to purge the NVidia driver and install nouveau, but was > unable to do so. So I did a new install which installed nouveau when > I > installed xorg. It looks and behaves just the way NVidia used to. > > I usually run on the HD502HJ disks but wanted to see how this new > install would run on the SSD830, so I ran a copy of the new system > on > that disk. > > I run google-chrome-beta as browser and never have any problems on > the > HD502HJ. But on the SSD830 I was getting lots of not responding > applications that had to be killed and not responding plugin. It > made > the system unusable. > > The only difference between the 2 systems is the disk on which they > run. > > I have tried to google for this error but was not too successful. > The > moment you enter 'nouveau' as a search term it thinks I am a French > speaker. > > Has anybody ever come across this strange behavior? What do you > suggest? > > Hugo. Your reasoning is a bit hard to follow. If the only difference is the SSD why do you suspect the graphics card at all? What exactly is the problem, is it something that is specific to Google Chrome? -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Bash command completion
On Wed, 2016-07-06 at 14:29 -0600, Charlie Kravetz wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Jul 2016 13:48:24 -0600
> Glenn English <g...@slsware.net> wrote:
>
> >
> > I put wheezy on a 386 computer last night ('aptitude dist-upgrade'
> > from squeeze -- it'd been in the junk box for a while), and when I
> > hit tab, bash just gives me a tab -- I have to type the whole
> > command manually. This happens only for the user; root works fine.
> >
> > I've copied the .* scripts (the ones that looked relevant to me,
> > anyway) from /root and from a user directory on one of the (wheezy)
> > servers, and accomplished nothing.
> >
> > I looked at the scripts in /etc, but saw nothing that looked
> > promising -- there was some talk about bash-completion, but I could
> > see nothing in those scripts about a difference between user and
> > root.
> >
> > A solution or a link to a solution would be much appreciated.
> >
> There should be a set of commands towards the bottom
> of /etc/bash.bashrc to enable completion. The commands are:
>
> # enable bash completion in interactive shells
> #if ! shopt -oq posix; then
> # if [ -f /usr/share/bash-completion/bash_completion ]; then
> #. /usr/share/bash-completion/bash_completion
> # elif [ -f /etc/bash_completion ]; then
> #. /etc/bash_completion
> # fi
> #fi
That's for the bash-completion package.
A normal bash shell should give completion for anything in PATH without
it, and it sounds like even this doesn't work for the OP?
Are you sure that your user uses bash for the login shell? There was a
transition from bash to dash some releases ago.
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Re: RFID-läsare dyker upp som tangentbord.
On Tue, 2016-07-05 at 15:34 +0200, j...@lillahusetiskogen.se wrote: > Det kom en RFID-läsare med posten idag. Fungerar fint. > > Problemet är att den dyker upp som ett USB-tangentbord och att alla > "taggarna" dyker upp i det fönster som har fokus. > > Hur gör man för att förhindra detta? Jag har sökt på nätet men inte > hittat något som gör det uppenbart för mig. Du får nog göra nåt i den här stilen: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/77756/can-i-stop-linux-from-listening-to-a-usb-input-device-as-a-keyboard-but-still-c -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: systemd I/O error :-(
On Thu, 2016-06-30 at 16:25 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On the laptop (i386, Dell Inspiron 9300, Intel Celeron) I am getting > the following message. I am at a loss as to where even to begin. :-( > All help welcome. > > I hoped a straight upgrade would leave me with init systemV, not > because I think it is better. I don't want a flame war. But because I > am more likely to be able to extricate myself from problems. > > Well, I can't extricate myself. :-( I'll plead old-age. :-( > > The message (and please excuse copying errors and typos) is: > > [24772.681833] systemd-logind[21814]: Failed to enable subscription: > Launch helper exited with unknown return code 1 > [24772.681890] systemd-logind[21814]: Failed to fully start up > daemon: > Input/output errror > > > I have Googled, and even found a related thread on this list, but > have > not succeeded in finding a solution. > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2015/10/msg00663.html Does systemctl --failed give any clues? -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Rocksmith?
On Tue, 2016-06-28 at 15:11 +0200, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Tue, 2016-06-28 at 01:14 +, Jesse Stephen wrote: > > > > Is there a way to make Rocksmith on Steam to work on diebian? > > Hi, > > This question is better suited for the debian-user list (CC:ed). I > will > reply there. (Dropping debian-desktop from reply) It looks like Rocksmith works in recent Wine versions (with a little bit of effort) see https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version=29333 Depending on the version of Debian you're running, you might need Wine from backports. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Rocksmith?
On Tue, 2016-06-28 at 01:14 +, Jesse Stephen wrote: > Is there a way to make Rocksmith on Steam to work on diebian? Hi, This question is better suited for the debian-user list (CC:ed). I will reply there. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Stretch, Radeon 4850, and backlight
On Thu, 2016-06-23 at 15:49 -0600, James Lay wrote: > And after hooking up a second monitor it indeeds defaults to that > second monitor after running: > modprobe radeon modeset=1 > Now..I do I tell the driver which monitor to use? Thank you. Great! There's probably a bug somewhere, or that particular hardware should have some sort of quirk to enable the primary monitor, but I'm not sure what component the bug should be filed against. I haven't tried this myself, but it looks like you should be able to force the primary display on (and the secondary off) during modesetting: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/kernel_mode_setting#Forcing_modes_and_EDID You can also do something similar in the Xorg configuration. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Debian Testing Cannot be installed on Hyper-V 2012 R2
On Thu, 2016-06-23 at 13:45 +0800, Larry Sevilla wrote: > Package: debian-installer > Version: debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso dated 2016-06-20 07:33 > 391Mb > > I'm trying to install Debian Testing under Hyper-V Windows Server > 2012 R2. > > mem: Start-up 1024Mb Dynamic Min 512Mb Max 3584 > proc: 2 > vhdx: 10Gb > > Install it using non-GUI. > > Then It freezes during: > Partitions formatting at 33% > Creating ext4 file system for / in partition #1 of SCSI3 (0,0,0) > (sda)... > > Note: I have installed Debian 7/Wheezy 7.11 and 8/Jessie 8.5 on > Hyper-V; > so far no problem on installation with the two versions... It might be a temporary problem with the testing installer image. Have you filed a bug? You could just use the jessie installer and dist-upgrade to testing. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: boot failure only on first try when starting computer
On Thu, 2016-06-23 at 09:14 +0200, Peter Baranyi wrote: > hi, > > when I turn on my desktop computer (i5 Skylake) with Debian testing, > on the first try it always freezes right after the grub menu. Then > when I press reset, it always boots correctly. I have one SATA SSD > (/, > /home), one SATA HDD (only storage) and one M2 NVME SSD (not even > mounted, has Windows). Odd, any messages on the console before the freeze? Making sure that you have up to date firmware/BIOS and microcode updates is probably a good first step. Apparently Skylake have been plagued with various issues. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Stretch, Radeon 4850, and backlight
On Thu, 2016-06-23 at 10:42 -0600, James Lay wrote: > Hey all, > > soI have an oldish iMac 24 inch. It comes with a Radeon Mobility > HD 4850. After install of Stretch testing, this worked fine, save > for > one small issue of the backlight not going out. As I run this as > kind > of a server with no need to see the screen most of the time, I'd like > to get the backlight to go out. So I installed firmware-linux- > nonfree. > This actually causes me to get a blank screen...just the backlight > on. > I can ssh into the machine, but I get no screen at all (http://askub > un > tu.com/questions/688388/14-04-gets-black-screen-unless-radeon- > modeset-0 > ). I DO however see the backlight go out. Right now I'm using > radeon.modeset=0 to get an active screen again. My question is there > any way I can troubleshoot getting the backlight to go out? I've got > to: I found some old reports about video output being redirected to the external display, that might be something to investigate? You don't run X at all? If so I'm not quite sure of to check for which display is active or how to control backlight. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: roxterm
On Wed, 2016-06-22 at 16:34 +0200, gerard ROBIN wrote: > Hello, > xterm disappeared of "stretch". Is this final? roxterm has been removed, see https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=827768 xterm is still available. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Printer color balance
On Mon, 2016-06-20 at 19:07 -0700, Gary Roach wrote: > Hi all, > > System Specs: > Intel DP55KG with i5-750 quad processor > Debian Stretch > Kde Desktop > HP OfficeJet Pro 8600 Printer > Cups driver for the 6800 > Dell U2412M Monitor > > Ive had the HP printer for some time but have not paid much attention > to > photo printing. When I decided to print photos, I found that the > color > match between my two digital cameras and my monitor are near enough > to > exact to not be a problem. The results from the HP printer are way > off > on color balance. I can't seem to find any place to adjust the > computer > (CUPS) to printer color balance. Is there any way to adjust this > without > a ton of equipment and a 40 hr course in colorimetry. Things don't > have > to be exact just reasonably close. Debian certainly supports using a color profile for printers, but I'm not really sure how to create one manually. There are however services where you print out a reference image, send it in, and a color profile is generated for your printer (and ink and paper). There might be others who have created profiles for your setup that might be "good enough" but it doesn't look like HP themselves provide them. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: ThinkPad fan
On Sat, 2016-06-18 at 11:35 +0200, Luis Felipe Tabera Alonso wrote: > I have the very same model and also suffer from the high temperature > problem. > I should probably clean the fans, but another thing I usually do for > normal > usage is to limit the cpu speed. > > As root: > > #echo 60 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/max_perf_pct > > Or whatever number you feel good with. Unless I am doing heavy usage, > I do not > notice performance penalties and temperatures do not get that high. This sounds like a good suggestion. AFAIK modern CPUs use thermal throttling so even if you would run it hot you wouldn't get full performance out of it anyway. Disassembling the heatsink and applying a good thermal paste might shave of a few degrees, but that involves a bit more work. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: ThinkPad fan
On Fri, 2016-06-17 at 12:58 +0300, Francesco Montanari wrote: > Hi, > > I recently installed Jessie on a Lenovo ThinkPad T420. The fan usage > looks > reasonable. However, high temperatures (96 C) are reached when CPUs > are > running intensively for more than one minute or so. The fan speed at > those > temperatures is about 4500 rpm. > > Do you think it is ok, or do you suggest to force lower temperatures, > e.g., > with thinkfan [1]? It isn't unusual with a temperature like that during load, but it mostly seems to happen when playing demanding games on a laptop. I wouldn't worry about it if it just happens momentarily, but long running tasks that stress the system like that is probably not suitable on a laptop. Anyway, as others have pointed out, check for dust and make sure that you don't impede air flow yourself (by placing it on bed for example). -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: error trying to launch the first firefox window on Debian Jessie
On Fri, 2016-06-17 at 18:29 +0300, Dalios wrote: > Thanks for your effort and your feedback but I don't think that is a > good solution for me. Maybe I should try re-installing firefox... That is almost never a solution on a Debian system. Try running Firefox with a new profile. This is most likely an extension you installed is having problems. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: testing, rhythmbox err msg "Failed to open output device: Unable to prepare device"
On Wed, 2016-06-15 at 10:03 -0400, songbird wrote: > help! :) > > completely up to date on Debian testing. > > i'm not a sound guru, rhythmbox has not been working > for a while with the error message: > > Failed to open output device: Unable to prepare device > > vlc, firefox, games, all play things without errors. > > i do not have pulse audio installed, (running MATE > desktop) other than a few bits which seem to be > required... > > any ideas? i've tried other versions going back but > it seems to not make any difference now. Most likely a problem with Gstreamer, is gstreamer1.0-alsa installed? -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Adding Desktop files
On Sat, 2016-06-11 at 20:29 +, Tama McGlinn wrote: > Dear debian users, > > I've been trying to get a custom desktop file to work nicely with > Gnome's > system, so that I can press Super and type "blender", and/or dock it > to the > menu for easy access, instead of having to navigate to that desktop > file. > > I followed the instructions to compile blender from source > <https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Doc/Building_Blender>, and it > comes > with a .desktop file that wouldn't work because it assumes blender is > installed as a system default; I've edited the command to include the > absolute path to the compiled blender executable, and it works. (I've > attached the desktop file) > > However, even after moving that .desktop file into > ~/.local/applications/ > and rebooting, the Super dash can't find blender - not even when > clicking > "Show Applications > All". > > Anyone know how to do this? I tried the .desktop file on my system, just replaced the line that says "Exec=/home/carmen/code/blender-git/build_linux/bin/blender &" with an executable on my system, and it shows up fine. Might be a problem with your blender binary not being marked as executable? (Reboot should never be necessary, valid desktop files should be picked up by the shell during runtime.) HTH, -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Upgrading iceweasel on Wheezy LTS
On Fri, 2016-06-10 at 18:07 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > That's because gnome-core in Wheezy depends on iceweasel. Probably > the > dependencies of such metapackages won't be changed in Wheezy. If you > really want to avoid having to install firefox-esr, you could build > your > own iceweasel transitional package to depend on firefox[2], equivs is probably the easiest way to create a fake iceweasel package to override the deps, if you want to solve the problem that way. FWIW gnome-core in unstable depends on firefox-esr or firefox. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: någon som har nåt från msi?
On Thu, 2016-06-09 at 23:59 +0200, Kristoffer Gustafsson wrote: > Hej. > Tänkte höra här på listan om det är nån som har en bärbar > dator/moderkort från msi och har installerat linux på den. > Har nyss köpt en msi gt72 6qd, o vill gärna få all information som > jag > kan få av andras erfarenheter. Den datorn är så ny att du måste köra minst testing för att den ska fungera någorlunda bra. Efter att ha Googlat runt lite verkar det vara lite blandade resultat för hur väl den fungerar. Jag skulle rekommendera att testa med någon form av live-CD/USB eller liknande. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Touchpad, audio, and wifi not working
On Thu, 2016-06-09 at 08:40 -0500, Zachary Tretter wrote: > On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 8:24 AM, Sven Arvidsson <s...@whiz.se> wrote: > > > > Skylake have had some serious > > problems you might want to read up on. (To the point of the > > hardware > > being damaged or at least the lifespan shortened without running an > > OS > > with proper support) > Guess I'll back up everything and upgrade to testing, maybe even sid > later. > You're scaring me. I think I should just stick to windows for another > year. > > I'll read up on all that later today. Thanks for the heads up. It's probably no need to worry, and last I heard there where similar problems on Windows, though maybe not quite as bad. More info here: https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/41713.html -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Touchpad, audio, and wifi not working
On Thu, 2016-06-09 at 07:37 -0500, Zachary Tretter wrote: > I do have a separate testing sources.list. I'm a bit hesitant to > completely > upgrade to testing because I always seem to get boot errors whenever > I > install new firmware/kernel. > > Are there any specific packages related to firmware I should upgrade > or > should I just completely switch to testing and see what happens? Hi, Please reply directly to the list, you will get more, better and faster replies! :) I was thinking of the UEFI firmware, or BIOS, but other firmware and microcode should probably be updated too. Skylake have had some serious problems you might want to read up on. (To the point of the hardware being damaged or at least the lifespan shortened without running an OS with proper support) You will most likely need a complete upgrade to testing or newer to get most of the laptop. You didn't mention it in your post, but I doubt you would get proper OpenGL/OpenCL support and video hardware decoding without X/libdrm/Mesa from testing. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Touchpad, audio, and wifi not working
On Wed, 2016-06-08 at 19:30 -0500, Zachary Tretter wrote: > I'm using an ASUS X555U laptop with an Intel Core i7-6500U CPU > > I have no touchpad or audio support. I hear these can be fixed by > installing a linux-image v4.X or greater. Though if I use > linux-image-4.5.0-2-amd64 I get an infinite loop when booting, > setting > [...] That hardware is so new, you need to use at least testing. It's a Skylake system too, so extra important to use the latest kernel/microcode/firmware etc. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: wrong owner of /run/user/1000/dconf/user causes X to freeze
On Tue, 2016-06-07 at 16:26 +0200, posti...@andreaskrueger.de wrote: > I would like to file a bug into your bug tracking system, but I don't > know which package to assign it to. > Googling shows that several others are reporting the same problems, > but > the exact originator is seemingly not yet pinpointed. > > Is there an open category, for bugs which are not yet assigned to a > package? You can usually make a best guess for the package. In this case dconf, and ask the maintainer to reassign the bug if it's wrong. In this case it has already been reported (quite a few times): https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=769889 You can also file bugs against the "general" pseudo package, but it's generally discouraged. Better to ask for guidance on the list. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs
On Sun, 2016-06-05 at 18:10 +0100, Joe wrote: > > > libreCAD looks like a simple enough cad I could learn how to use > > > but it cannot find its help docs. > > Did you give the built-in help system a try? > > > Mine (2.0.9 on sid) says, and I quote verbatim: > > "Bugger, I couldn't find the helpfiles on the filesystem." > > The only Debian packages are librecad and librecad-data, both of > which > are installed. > > It's not a problem for me, as the 2.0.9 manual is on the Net, but the > manuals for earlier versions appear not to be. See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=646621 -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: enable telnetd?
On Thu, 2016-06-02 at 00:48 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > Google cannot provide an answer to configuring telnetd WRT Debian, > only WRT > every other distro on the planet. When I try to login after > installing > telnetd and seeing xinetd enabled, login name is always greeted with > "Login > incorrect". Telnet login works in openSUSE and Fedora via > /etc/pam.d/remote, > but that file is missing in Stretch, and copying one from openSUSE > doesn't > have any apparent effect. > > I have no interest in answers explaining ssh and security risk. These > are > understood. All I'm interested in is capturing dmesg and logs from a > test > installation while normal logins are busy with segfaulting or > otherwise > inaccessible. Does logging in through telnet not work at all, or just not as root? -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: How to properly install Radeon drivers for Sid
On Thu, 2016-06-02 at 18:49 +0200, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > I use the kernel parameter "radeon.dpm=1" for saving some energy with > my GPU. That shouldn't be necessary with an up to date kernel. Power management is automatic. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Pitivi can't run on xfce 4.12
On Wed, 2016-06-01 at 08:39 +, Eagle Young wrote: > When I run pitivi and click new button,It can't create new project > and > pitivi run over. > [...] > > I don't know how to fix it, Anyone can help me, I will thanks for > you. Looks like this bug: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=819291 There's mention of a patch there, so hopefully it will be fixed and a new package released soon. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Improper visuals after update
On Sun, 2016-05-29 at 21:38 +0200, Bhasker C V wrote: > Hi, > > After an update I see that my dialog boxes are looking weird. I > cannot > describe it but it looks as-if the contrast is lost or the theme is > not > supported ? The boucing bars have gone missing but mouse over and > clicks > work. This is especially bad with nm-applet. I use mate desktop > > If anyone knows please can they tell me how to get this fixed ? > > An example image is attached at https://unsee.cc/zisapuge/ I don't use Mate, so it's hard to say from the image what it is supposed to look like. Are the fields for username and password not rendered, no outlines around what I guess are buttons? Anyway, some Googling suggests that new Mate packages that hit unstable moved to GTK3, so that might result in some changes? Maybe the new themes haven't been updated yet? (If you are using unstable (that's a quite important detail to mention) you need to read the NEWS and/or changelogs, be patient, and check your logs to see what packages changed during the upgrade.) -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Gnome top bar clock
On Fri, 2016-05-27 at 15:16 +0200, Hársfalvi Gábor wrote: > Hi! > > Is there any way to move the clock on the bar top on the screen? For > example from center to left side. You need to use extensions for that https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/2/move-clock/ -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Want to get Radeon HD 8970M working with Debian 8.4 on MSI GX70 laptop
On Mon, 2016-05-23 at 12:09 -0400, Justin Belanger wrote: > Hi, > > I have a MSI GX70 laptop with Debian 8.4 on it. It has two graphics > chips, > a Radeon HD 8970M and a Radeon HD 8650G. The CPU is a AMD A10-5750M. > > I'd like to be able to use the Radeon HD 8970M, but right now, my > laptop is > using software rendering (Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe, according to the > 'glxinfo' > command). > > When I boot the computer, I see the message "*ERROR* radeon kernel > modesetting > for R600 or later requires firmware-linux-nonfree" twice (probably > because of > the two graphics chips). So, I tried installing that > firmware-linux-nonfree package. > > After installing firmware-linux-nonfree, I see an error like "ring > test > 0 failed" > when I turn the laptop on. The laptop waits for a few seconds, then > reboots > itself, and then the error occurs again. I've fixed that error by > booting in > recovery mode and removing the firmware-linux-nonfree package. But > now I'm > back where I started. > > Does anyone know why this "ring test 0 failed" error could be > happening? Or > should I try a different approach to getting my 8970M chip to work? > There are some suggestions here that it might be related to the fact that you have two graphics cards: http://askubuntu.com/questions/457391/radeon-ring-0-test-failed-on-boot-ubuntu-14-04 But if I'm not mistaken the GPU in you system is so new (GCN family?) that 8.4 won't have proper support for it. You probably need testing, and unless I'm mistaken again, kernel 4.5 or newer. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Some Flash news
On Mon, 2016-05-16 at 17:01 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > When will someone provide a Flash implementation in Javascript That's Shumway from Mozilla. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Re:Re: Can not dial mobile broadband with Network-manager
On Fri, 2016-05-13 at 01:13 +0800, Wang wrote: > Yes, I am sure. The dialog ask the password for mobile broadband's > password, not for user password Ok, the manual for network-manager says: "Some providers do not provide a user name, or accept any user name when connecting to the network." with a similar line about the password. So does that work? (Please reply directly to the list) -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Can not dial mobile broadband with Network-manager
On Fri, 2016-05-13 at 00:25 +0800, Wang wrote: > Hi, everyone. > > I try to use Network-manager in GNOME to dial a mobile broadband > connection. My provider is China Unicom, and no username and password > is need. But when I complete the setting and try to dial, a dialog is > showed to input a password. If no password is inputed, the button for > connecting is not enabled. > > How can I dial a mobile broadband without any password in the > Network-manager? Would you please tell me the method? Thank you very > much! What does the password dialog look like? Are you sure it's asking for a password for the connection, and not for your user password? -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: recurrent soft/hard lockup on CPU
On Sat, 2016-05-07 at 08:14 -0500, Seb wrote: > Thank you both for these excellent pointers. As I feared, it will be > a > long and tedious debug project. I definitely won't dismiss hardware > support and configuration issues as you suggest, as it is a fairly > new > processor (i7-6700 @ 3.4 GHz). The graphics card (GT-720) on nouveau > or > proprietary Nvidia drivers may also be suspect, as I've always had > issues with Nvidia cards in my older systems (I had no choice with > this > new system). > > Here's a more encompassing excerpt of the lockup in my first message, > in > case something catches attention: [...] This looks similar: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1030102-start-0.html?sid=59c8eddb43e0553296f93355ea10b42d If you have VT-D turned on in BIOS, try turning it off. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Debian On a Lenovo P70
On Sat, 2016-05-07 at 13:54 +0200, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: > Did someone successfully install Debian on a Lenovo P70 portable > workstation? > > Hid did (s)he manage to install GRUB? It looks like they sell those with Ubuntu as an option, so I guess you would install Debian the same way you do on any similar system? You probably need stretch or sid for full hardware support though. (That is if we are talking about the laptop and not the phone?) -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: recurrent soft/hard lockup on CPU
On Fri, 2016-05-06 at 21:02 -0500, Seb wrote: > For a few weeks, I'm experiencing complete system freezes that occur > nearly every day and seemingly at random or not linked to any easily > identifiable activity. This is a new system (Lenovo ThinkCentre > M800), Another thought: Is the intel-microcode package installed and up to date? -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: recurrent soft/hard lockup on CPU
On Fri, 2016-05-06 at 21:02 -0500, Seb wrote: > I suspect this will go up into the ether, but just in case someone > has > experience with this kind of bug, I'll try because even a tip on how > to > debug it and narrow down the problem would be helpful. > > For a few weeks, I'm experiencing complete system freezes that occur > nearly every day and seemingly at random or not linked to any easily > identifiable activity. This is a new system (Lenovo ThinkCentre > M800), > so I doubt hardware is the culprit. Checking the output of dmesg, > and > looking at /var/log/kern.log or /var/log/syslog shows soft or hard > lockups (excerpt of a hard lockup example): Yeah, hard crashes sucks. Are all the logs similar? The call trace in that log seems very short. Is this a new install or did you have a previous working setup? Trying newer and older kernels is probably a good first step. If a newer kernel works the problem has already been fixed. If an older kernel works it's a regression and you, or someone else, can bisect it. You might want to run through a full test of Memtest86+ a couple of times, just to rule out hardware problems even though it's unlikely. You might also want to removing as many variables as possible. Try with a minimum system. Eg. you have nouveau, so try without it and just the internal GPU, try without wifi, without network cable plugged in etc. Filing a bug is probably a good idea, preferably directly upstream: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/ -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: WebGL support suddely broken
On Fri, 2016-05-06 at 07:55 +0200, Paolo Cavallini wrote:
> BTW, uninstalling and reinstalling
>
> glx-alternative-fglrx{a} glx-alternative-mesa{a} glx-diversions{a}
> libfglrx{a} libfglrx-amdxvba1 libgl1-fglrx-glx{a}
> nvidia-installer-cleanup{a} update-glx{a}
>
[...]
> it seems correct:
>
> # update-glx --config glx
> Sono disponibili 2 scelte per l'alternativa glx (che fornisce
> /usr/lib/glx).
>
> SelezionePercorsoPriorità Stato
>
> * 0/usr/lib/fglrx 99modalità automatica
> 1/usr/lib/fglrx 99modalità manuale
> 2/usr/lib/mesa-diverted 5 modalità manuale
If you are using Intel, you need to reconfigure this to mesa-diverted.
If you don't use them, purging the fglrx/nvidia and glx-alternative-*
packages might also be a good idea.
> > Presumably you installed this package when you had another driver
> > installed?
> not voluntarily -maybe it's a dep of other packages?
Very strange, even an a system with an AMD GPU, fglrx is not installed
by default. It is only available in non-free and nothing in main
depends on non-free.
I suppose something else in non-free you have installed had
dependencies on fglrx, but that seems odd too. I also noticed that you
have nvidia-installer-cleanup, which shouldn't be necessary if you
didn't use nvidia hardware...
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Re: Installing pepperflashplugin on Chromium on Wheezy which has not previously had Google-Chrome installed.
On Fri, 2016-05-06 at 12:41 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > The site in question says that it wants Flashplayer 11 but will not > "speak" to > my Version: 11.2.202.577 on Firefox. If I go to that site without scripts, it claims to need at least version 13: "Either scripts and active content are not permitted to run or Adobe Flash Player version 13.0.0 or greater is not installed. " -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: WebGL support suddely broken
On Wed, 2016-05-04 at 20:33 +0200, Paolo Cavallini wrote: > > Have you double checked that the correct glx provider is > > configured? > no idea how to do that, sorry: how can I? The blurb in the package description says "update-glx --config glx" Presumably you installed this package when you had another driver installed? I don't have it on any on my systems so I don't think it's installed by default. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: WebGL support suddely broken
On Wed, 2016-05-04 at 19:22 +0200, Paolo Cavallini wrote: > Il 04/05/2016 18:41, Sven Arvidsson ha scritto: > > > > Make sure all the necessary mesa libs are installed. > $ aptitude search mesa | grep ^i > i A glx-alternative-mesa:i386 - allows the selection of MESA as > GLX provid I don't use aptitude, but I guess this means the glx-alternative-mesa package is installed? Have you double checked that the correct glx provider is configured? > > Backtrace from the glxinfo crash might be useful. > long time since my last bt, I'll have to find back the instructions. It's probably not necessary. I guess glxinfo just barfs without a GLX extension. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: WebGL support suddely broken
On Wed, 2016-05-04 at 07:31 +0200, Paolo Cavallini wrote: > Il 03/05/2016 20:16, Sven Arvidsson ha scritto: > > > > > If glxinfo segfaults, something is quite wrong. > sure > > > > > What is your setup? Do you use a proprietary graphics driver that > > broke > > during an upgrade? > nope, all free sw here. > > 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT > Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0b) > > i A xserver-xorg-video-intel- server X di X.Org -- driver per > display In > > As said, it used to work until recently. > Thanks for any hint. Make sure all the necessary mesa libs are installed. Xorg logs might be useful. should be in ~/.local/share/xorg or /var/log/ Backtrace from the glxinfo crash might be useful. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: WebGL support suddely broken
On Tue, 2016-05-03 at 18:00 +0200, Paolo Cavallini wrote: > glxinfo > name of display: :0 > Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0". > Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0". > segfault If glxinfo segfaults, something is quite wrong. What is your setup? Do you use a proprietary graphics driver that broke during an upgrade? -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: WebGL support suddely broken
On Tue, 2016-05-03 at 08:17 +0200, Paolo Cavallini wrote: > Hi all, > after an upgrade on sid, WebGL support is broken on my system, both > for > Firefox and for Chromium. The symptoms are the same as here: > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28466387/error-creating-webgl-cont > ext-in-chrome-but-not-in-android-browser > Any hint on how to fix this? I suspect some webkit component is > missing. Firefox doesn't use webkit. Do you get the same error message in both browsers? What else changed during the upgrade? Do you have working OpenGL in general? -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Sorry. :-( Re: Posting picture files
On Sun, 2016-05-01 at 09:59 -0700, Gary Roach wrote: > I need to re-read Gene Haskett's suggestion again and try to > impliment > it. Dial up or no dial up I really think Debian needs to loosen up a > bit > on the site restrictions. You could probably file a bug about reject notices. As for the limits, it's probably less about users on dial up, and more about the server needing to send out your image to all the users subscribed to the list. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Posting picture files
On Sun, 2016-05-01 at 10:39 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > I tried sending a screenshot 25 minutes ago. It has not so far > turned > > up. But another email I sent 5 minutes ago has turned up. Whilst > > Debian Users list certainly accepts attachments, it does look as > > though it doesn't like screenshots. Files over acceptable size?? > > > > Lisi > > That would be my guess Lisi. Someone mentioned a size limit in the > last > month or so, and I noted at the time that it seemed to be such a > small > limit as to be essentially worthless, but I don't recall the exact > figure. "Do not submit an attachment larger than 10 KiB. Consider using paste.debian.net and including a link in your post." From https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMailingLists#Posting_Rules.2C_Guidelines.2C_and_Tips -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Löpande presentation på intern-TV
On Tue, 2016-04-26 at 22:55 +0200, Staffan Melin (Oscillator) wrote: > Hej! > > Jag är lärare på en skola och tänkte ordna en "intern-tv". Tanken är > att använda en ledig gammal eeepc med Debian. > > Först var tanken att den ska titta i en mapp, och visa alla objekt > som > finns i denna, med ett visst tidsintervall. > > Exempel > fil 1, jpg, 10 sekunder > fil 2, video, kör > fil 3, pdf, 20 sekunder > osv > > Först tänkte jag fråga om det finns något sätt att bara visa sakerna > en efter en, men inser att det även behövs någon form av klocka: visa > denna fil i X sekunder. Så jag behöver nog någon form av > admin-gränssnitt. > > Datorn kommer att vara uppkopplad till internet, så ett > webbbgränssnitt kunde vara flott. > > Har någon en smartt lösning på detta? Något bra verktyg? (Jag kan > koda Info-beamer är nog det närmaste en färdig lösning du kommer: https://info-beamer.com/ Jag tror inte den stödjer PDF, men det borde inte vara svårt att konvertera till bildfiler. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Viber 6
On Tue, 2016-04-26 at 23:23 +0900, Man_Without_Clue wrote: > Hi all, > > Once again, problem with the Viber. > > Debian Jessie, 64 bit. LXDE desktop > > Viber version 6 downloaded from their site. > > http://www.viber.com/en/products/linux > > Just like version 4, I did install the package as shown in this site: > > http://tutorialforlinux.com/2015/06/09/how-to-install-viber-on-debian > -64bit-gnu-linux/ > > Version 4 was working perfectly. Recently I got notification to > update > to latest version for security reason. The installation went smooth, > created menu under internet, but the application won't start. Same > thing > if I do from the terminal. > > Has anyone tried this on Jessie without problem? Am I missing > something > or what? Hard to say without an error message. I can launch the application (on sid) but I don't have an account so all I get is the login screen. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Dealing with library dependencies
On Mon, 2016-04-25 at 09:04 +0200, Martin Hanson wrote: > Hi, > > I was thinking about getting the game Alien Isolation, but running a > "strace" at a friends installation showed that the game required > libssl.1.0.0, but I am running Debian Stretch which has libssl.1.0.2. > Also other similar libraries are off on version number. > > How does one handle such an issue? > > Downgrading to jessie is not an option as I have other stuff that > requires newer libraries, hence the original need for stretch. > > Should one simply create a symbolic link from libssl.1.0.2 to > libssl.1.0.0? Would that even work? > > I don't understand why library dependencies doesn't come with the > games themselves in some in-game directory so as to make it more > independent upon Linux distribution etc. > > Anyway, feedback, help, and suggestions would be greatly appreciated. This is a Steam game right? Steam does come with libraries so I doubt it will be a problem. I'm running Steam on sid and haven't had any problems. (Haven't tried that particular game though). I believe you can buy it and if it doesn't work, get a full refund? -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Stop Hard Drive fromn Thrashing
On Fri, 2016-04-22 at 11:25 -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > I have installed Debian v-8.4.0. > > My hard drive keeps running and I would like to know what is > happening. > Google does not seem to be too friendly. > > Any pointers in the right direction will be much appreciated. > > Thanks in advance. Hard to say without details. On a normal GNOME setup tracker starts indexing after a login, but it should stop if the system isn't idle and it would probably also show up in top too as it tends to use a bit of cpu. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Problems with vdpau
On Wed, 2016-04-20 at 14:07 +0530, Himanshu Shekhar wrote: > I have no NVIDIA hardware, still there are packages that install > packages > containing vdpau in their name. > Any such installation causes trouble as the CLI tty(s) (a.k.a. > virtual > consoles) are not available to use as long as any library related to > vdpau > are installed. > > Removal of any package having vdpau in its name resolves the problem. > Is this the issue with vdpau? VDPAU is also used for AMD GPUs, and can be used on Intel with libvdpau-va-gl1 (but I suppose it's less efficient than using VAAPI) so it's no surprise that is installed by default on most desktop installs. I would find it most peculiar if just installing the package could prevent you from switching ttys. I have no such problems on a pure intel system with vdpau packages installed. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: canberra-gtk-module not loaded?
On Fri, 2016-04-22 at 19:51 -0400, Alan McConnell wrote: > Suppose one doesn't like the squawks that are emitted when > e.g. > a typing mistake is made, or a file isn't found. Can one > dis-install, or disable canberra, without otherwise messing > up > the sound? > > Alan, who hopes to listen to Otello tomorrow on his computer! Yes, shouldn't be a problem. I'm not sure how to disable or configure the sounds outside of GNOME though. (Also, depending on if the application uses GTK2 or 3 you probably need different versions of the canberra library) -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: canberra-gtk-module not loaded?
On Fri, 2016-04-22 at 19:35 +, Blair, Charles E III wrote: > I have just installed the stable jessie using netinst on a > laptop. When I run certain programs, I am getting a message > "canberra-gtk-module not loaded." How do I fix this? How serious > is it? GTK+ uses canberra to play event sounds (on errors dialogs etc). It isn't serious at all and can be fixed by installing the canberra library. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Pressing ` on Macbook in Debian produces §
On Sun, 2016-04-17 at 12:32 -0400, Eric Andrew Lewis wrote: > On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 6:54 AM, Sven Arvidsson <s...@whiz.se> wrote: > > > > This isn't really a bug. It was a decision made by the kernel > > developers, and is a really old problem. > Interesting. What was the decision? > > Thanks for the alternate fix, I'll use that instead. I don't recall the circumstances, but you could probably google for the bug reports. You could also try to file a bug report with Debian and ask for the defaults to be changed (against the linux-image-* package) but I wouldn't expect much. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Pressing ` on Macbook in Debian produces §
On Sat, 2016-04-16 at 18:25 -0400, Eric Andrew Lewis wrote: > Hi, > > I notice that when I press the backtick key, the section symbol (§) > is > produced instead. > > This bug has been reported on Ubuntu (#1245081 > <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1245081>). > > I've found a workaround by placing this in ~/.Xmodmap > > keycode 94 = grave asciitilde grave asciitilde grave asciitilde > grave > asciitilde > > But I wonder, what package is this bug in? Can I help fix it? This is a problem not just on Macbooks, but for anyone who uses an Apple keyboard. This isn't really a bug. It was a decision made by the kernel developers, and is a really old problem. A better solution is to add a file in /etc/modprobe.d/ with this: options hid_apple iso_layout=0 -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Choppy video on Youtube
On Wed, 2016-04-06 at 12:45 -0400, Harris Paltrowitz wrote: > Here's my problem -- when I stream certain videos on Youtube, I > consistently get choppy playback performance, whereby the video > freezes > and restarts randomly, with the audio getting out of sync from that > point forward. The problem is NOT due to the video still being > downloaded -- I know this because the progress bar shows that the > download is way ahead of my viewing progress. [...] > - When the choppiness is happening, System Monitor tells me that one > of > my four CPUs is maxing out at 100% at least half the time Output of glxinfo (from mesa-utils) would be interesting. If you have software GL, it would explain this. If you do have hardware rendering: * What process uses the CPU? Firefox, Xorg or something else? * Does it happen with other browsers, like Chromium too? * Does it happen if you download the video (youtube-dl or similar) and play it with a normal video player? -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Three Problems Yet Remaining
On Wed, 2016-04-06 at 10:06 -0400, Alan McConnell wrote: > Three: where is the utility file ? I used this all the time in > previous > Debian installations. Do you mean /usr/bin/file? If so the package is also called file. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Creating launcher in Gnome 3
On Mon, 2016-04-04 at 13:27 +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: > I'm trying to create a launcher. Following the explanation in > https://specifications.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/inde > x. > html > > I created the following file in ~/.local/share/applications > > eiffel-estudio.desktop > > [Desktop Entry] > Encoding=UTF-8 > Type=Application > Exec=/opt/Eiffel_15.12/studio/spec/linux-x86-64/bin/estudio > Icon=/opt/Eiffel_15.12/studio/bitmaps/png/estudio.png > Name=Eiffel Builder > Categories=Programming > > However, this is ignored. It appears from the xdg reference that the > directory (and its subdirectories too?) should be read automatically, > but my entry still does not appear in the menu. > > So what is missing, please? Works fine here if I replace the Exec path to something like /bin/ls so it might be that the path is wrong or estudio is not executable? -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: System freezes after update to Jessie 8.4
On Mon, 2016-04-04 at 14:52 +, Joerg Desch wrote: > > You might want to file a bug if there isn't one open already. > For the kernel-image package? Is the "radeon" stuff part of that > package? Yes, the drivers consist of several different parts, and this looks like a problem in the kernel driver. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: System freezes after update to Jessie 8.4
On Mon, 2016-04-04 at 11:41 +, Joerg Desch wrote: > > Looks like it might be this: > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/3/6/257 > The 3D part seems to be the correct location, but the mentioned > kernel is > older. 3.16 was mentioned later in the thread: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/3/9/373 You might want to file a bug if there isn't one open already. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: System freezes after update to Jessie 8.4
On Mon, 2016-04-04 at 11:11 +, Joerg Desch wrote: > After the upgrade (and a restart), the system freezes from one second > to > the other. It seems to be independent from the used application. > > As a work-around, I'm running GNOME classic now. Without the EGL > features, the desktop is running now. Currently I avoid using > Firefox, > because I don't know if the renderer uses EGL. > > Can someone help? What kernel are you running? Looks like it might be this: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/3/6/257 If so, you could probably work around it by installing/booting an earlier kernel. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: X hangs due to 'render ring' issue after suspend/closed lid
On Tue, 2016-03-29 at 19:54 +0100, Alle Meije Wink wrote: > I am running Jessie on a toshiba laptop with these specs > > Hardware: i7 5500u > Graphics: Intel HD graphics 5500 > Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt20-1+deb8u4 (2016-02-29) > x86_64 GNU/Linux > > I had to turn of power saving options (the screen can still be > blanked > after a few minutes but hibernate etc is out of the question) because > after > waking up from s suspended session/hibernation, the keyboard and > mouse are > completely unresponsive. The screen is partly restored (some windows > are > semi-transparent for effect) and I cannot go to single-user mode via > key > presses either. The very short answer is that new hardware tends to require new software. Try upgrading to new kernel/Xorg driver/mesa. (You might want to try out using a live cd/usb first). You might also need new microcode updates, I'm not sure if they are pushed for the updates for jessie. The same thing goes for bug reports, if you can't reproduce the problem with the latest software they tend to not be very interested. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Keyboard frozen after changing screen brightness
On Wed, 2016-03-30 at 11:55 +0200, Jan Niggemann wrote: > Hi all, > > since upgrading Wheezy -> Jessie, I have areproducible issue. I'll > try > my best to describe my setup, should anything be missing please ask > for > clarification. > > Environment > Lenovo T400 > Jessie (i686) > GNOME 3.14.1 > > I boot normally and log in. When pressing Fn+Home to increase > brightness > or Fn+End to decrease brightness, I observe a very sluggish behaviour > of > the on screen brightness display (i.e. the "indicator icon" with the > bar > beneath, not the brightness itself which changes instantly): It takes > almost one second before the icon comes up and the change in > brightness > is reflected on the osd. GNOME 3 needs a working OpenGL driver, or you'll get software rendering. Could this be the case? > Secondly, when repeating keypresses to change to brightness, the > indicator kind of "locks up", flickers (not the whole monitor, only > the > brightness indicator) and then the following message comes up: > "Could not grab your keyboard. A malicious client may be evesdropping > on > your session or [...]". > > After this, my keyboard is "gone" in X, i.e. no single keypress has > any > effect in any X application. The mouse functions normally, as do > applications. Changing to a virtual console via Ctrl-Alt-F1 works, > and > the keyboard is functioning normally there. That message comes from gksu. Not sure what's going on there, something goes wrong when it does the grab and stops keyboard input? > > Nothing strange in Xorg.0.log or Xorg.0.log.old. > I think brightness is managed through standard ACPI control: > thinkpad_acpi: detected a 16-level brightness capable ThinkPad > thinkpad_acpi: This ThinkPad has standard ACPI backlight brightness > control, supported by the ACPI video driver > thinkpad_acpi: Disabling thinkpad-acpi brightness events by > default... > thinkpad_acpi: Standard ACPI backlight interface available, not > loading > native one > > Any ideas why the indicator may show this sluggish behaviour (which I > expect to be the reason for the keyboard malfunction)? Maybe, or two separate issues made worse by each other? -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: User's bin path not recognised in login script
On Mon, 2016-03-21 at 18:03 +, Russell Gadd wrote: > The bash login script I have added in to my startup programs does > not > recognise /home/user/bin as part of the path, whereas it used to when > I > was running Linux Mint (I'm a recent refugee). I've got > PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH" in ~/.bashrc and also in ~/.profile, together > with a ~/.bash_profile which sources ~/.profile. I've no idea > whether > all these are necessary - they do work to search my bin in a script > run > in the Mate terminal but not in the login script. It's not a big deal > as > I can prepend the absolute path in the login script, although I > assume > this means also doing it in sourced scripts within the login script, > so > I'd like to know if there's a clean way to set this up. If you are using gdm to launch X, /etc/gdm3/Xsession sources ~/.profile other display managers probably do something similar. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Upgrade Deb 7 to 8, GNOME Flashback, terminal windows not saved: any way to save?
On Mon, 2016-03-21 at 11:26 -0400, Tom Browder wrote: > I just upgraded and am disappointed that, even though browser > instances can be saved between login sessions, terminal windows > apparently can't. > > I have used the gconf editor and found setting: > > apps | gnome-session | options | auto_save_session > > which is checked, but the terminals still disappear after logging out > and logging back in. > > Is there any way to recover that most valuable feature of the old > GNOME desktop? AFAICT, Nope. See https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=704676 -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Sudo
On Sat, 2016-03-19 at 18:38 +, Joe wrote: > I've never seen sudo installed by default in any Debian, and I begin > with expert minimal netinstalls of stable, and I've never seen it > offered as an option there. My first two actions on reboot are to > install sudo and mc. By default you are asked to provide a password for the “root” (administrator) account and information necessary to create one regular user account. If you do not specify a password for the “root” user this account will be disabled but the sudo package will be installed later to enable administrative tasks to be carried out on the new system. From https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/apas03.html.en See also the note about the desktop task in https://wiki.debian.org/sudo -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Installing newer kernels
On Thu, 2016-03-17 at 19:27 -0700, David Christensen wrote: > Debian 6 is obsolete. You're going to want to do a > backup-wipe-install-restore cycle on both machines and move to Debian > 7 > (or 8). Why not do a dist-upgrade? -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: iceweasel now firefox-esr?
On Sun, 2016-03-13 at 19:53 +1000, Weaver wrote: > There's much more than a symlink involved. > The installation happened on two machines: on the laptop, it failed > to > find the main bookmark menu, and as that was the first update, that > went > west. I backed up the bookmarks file on the PC, but it found that. > > Regarding symlinks (multiple), there's nothing to link www-browser, > or > dochelp, and probably others. I'm still checking. But it definitely > doesn't like Liferea, either, even after reinstalling RSS links. > Cheers! There was a NEWS entry, so it should have been picked up by apt- listchanges, but maybe that entry should have been in the iceweasel package instead I'm not sure. Anyway, file bugs, or help writing the release notes so others doesn't get bitten by the same things. Changes like these are part of the joy of using unstable :) -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Bug ?
On Sat, 2016-03-12 at 18:49 +0100, Aymeric Do wrote: > Hello, > I have several warning in my terminal when I launch program as > reportbug, > keepassx etc. > > Warning : > Gtk-WARNING **: Impossible de trouver le moteur de thème dans > module_path : > « adwaita » > > I think that is a bug on I wouldn't exactly call it a bug. Adwaita is the default GTK+ theme in GNOME and it doesn't seem to be found on your system, You could try to install gnome-themes-standard and see if that changes it, or try another theme. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Radeon trouble Jessie 8.3. [drm:radeon_pci_probe] *ERROR* with firmware-linux-nonfree installed
On Sat, 2016-03-12 at 16:31 +, Trond Arild Ydersbond wrote: > I have got this working on the same machine with Wheezy 7.6 and > Knoppixes up to and including 7.6.1, but it seems that > radeon_pci_probe refuses to recognize the installed firmware. Have > tried different settings, but dmesg stille gives the same error. > *ERROR* radeon kernel modesetting for R600 or later requires > firmware-linux-nonfree > > What can I do about this? Just a hunch but maybe you booted the wrong kernel, or the initrd for some reason wasn't regenerated after the firmware was installed? -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: iceweasel now firefox-esr?
On Sat, 2016-03-12 at 10:11 +, Joe wrote: > After a routine upgrade (which did *not* raise a changelog notice), > any > menu entries which reference iceweasel are now broken, with the user > being left to fix them. I'd say that was a bug. There was a NEWS file, so should have been picked up by apt- listchanges. Anyway, looks like bugs have already been filed. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: iceweasel now firefox-esr?
On Sat, 2016-03-12 at 00:37 -0500, Dale Harris wrote: > Huh, why is iceweasel installing firefox-esr now and not even putting > in a sym. link from iceweasel to firefox? Iceweasel is no more, read the changelog. If you think it should install a symlink, file a bug. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Installing topmenu in stable
On Fri, 2016-03-11 at 15:53 +0300, Adam Wilson wrote: > Houston, we have a problem. Stable does not have a high enough > version > of lxpanel (>= 0.8), so the build has unmet dependencies. What now? > Get the source package for that from testing/sid too? I'm guessing that you could disable the lxpanel plugin and simply not build it. But I have no idea how hard it would be to make the necessary changes to the packaging scripts. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5
Re: Installing topmenu in stable
On Fri, 2016-03-11 at 14:49 +0300, Adam Wilson wrote: > I shall give it a go. Sid, not stretch? Pour quoi? Testing might be a closer match in general, but in this case the versions doesn't seem to differ much. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Installing topmenu in stable
On Fri, 2016-03-11 at 14:40 +0300, Adam Wilson wrote: > I'm thinking the most Debian-friendly options are either to compile > them myself from git, or to upgrade to stretch, which I don't really > want to do. I'd say the most Debian friendly way would be to grab the source package from sid and recompile it for stable (if at all possible). -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: GNOME 3, how do you ensure windows are grouped in the dash?
On Wed, 2016-03-09 at 10:32 +, Andy Smith wrote: > The annoying thing is, if I start one urxvt and then open multiple > others from within it by typing urxvt inside it then all of them are > grouped. But if I start multiple urxvt from different .desktop > files, they are each separate. So I'm not sure that it actually > anything wrong with urxvt. You could certainly file a bug about this. You could also try writing a wrapper for urxvt that uses xprop to set the necessary properties for new windows. (At least I think that's possible with xprop) -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: GNOME 3, how do you ensure windows are grouped in the dash?
On Wed, 2016-03-09 at 10:17 +, Andy Smith wrote: > It would be a real shame if this could not be achieved with > arbitrary applications, as I find urxvt a lot faster than > gnome-terminal. :( Interesting, g-t has been considered to be very fast: http://martin.ankerl.com/2007/09/01/comprehensive-linux-terminal-performance-comparison/ (But that benchmark is quite old) -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: GNOME 3, how do you ensure windows are grouped in the dash?
On Wed, 2016-03-09 at 09:18 +, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On 2016-03-09, Andy Smith <a...@strugglers.net> wrote: > > [...] > > > > > I am aware that I could change my workflow. I could use one > > terminal > > with screen or tmux or similar to have a different window on each > > host. I know I could use terminator to have multiple terminal > > windows inside one window. Or I could use a tabbed terminal > > emulator > > like gnome-terminal. > > > > The thing is, I really like urxvt! And I really like having one > > urxvt window for each host, using screen to have multiple sessions > > within each one. > That is exactly my workflow. I achieve it using gnome-terminal, > because > that terminal keeps only one application instance running and opens > new > windows as necessary. There is no need for tabs within the terminal, > and > only one icon appears in the dash. You are then free to run GNU > screen > remotely as you require. No surprise as gnome-terminal is well integrated with GNOME :) But xterm also have its windows grouped in the shell. Hmm... I examined the window hints set by xterm and urxvt (with xprop) and urxvt does not set WM_CLIENT_LEADER that the shell needs for grouping: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.lang.tcl/HQ479-XYwy8 -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Help -- Can't logon at GUI session (ctl-alt-F7)
On Wed, 2016-03-09 at 09:51 +0100, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > The display manager is most likely crashing. You need to examine logs > and figure out why. Sorry, X is probably crashing! If the display manager was crashing you wouldn't be able to log in :) -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Help -- Can't logon at GUI session (ctl-alt-F7)
On Tue, 2016-03-08 at 20:13 -0600, Dennis Wicks wrote: > I fill in user-id and password, click "Sign In" and the > screen goes blank, flashes a few times, then comes right > back to the sign in screen. Trying to log on with root does > the same thing, even though I am supposed to be able to do it. > > I can logon at terminal screens (ctl-alt-f1 etc) with either > my personal userid or as root with no problem. > > In case it makes a difference, Jessie AMD64 > > Many TIA!! > Dennis > The display manager is most likely crashing. You need to examine logs and figure out why. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Does anyone know how to configure a Brother MFC-J5720DW with cups?
On Tue, 2016-03-08 at 13:51 +, Brian wrote: > The printer does Bonjour broadcasting. The broadcasts are detected on > Debian by avahi-daemon. Applications using the GTK print dialog (for > example, Iceweasel) can use avahi-daemon directly to display the > printer > in the dialog. Non-GTK applications cannot consult avahi-daemon > directly > and need cups-browsed and cupsd to get the printer displayed. > > I do not have an AirPrint capable printer but have complete faith in > the > process working. :) > > > > > I find a lot of information about setting up Cups as an AirPrint > > server, but nothing about using it as a client. > This is really about using CUPS with an AirPrint device such as an > iPAD > and printing to a non-AirPrint capable printer. The Debian CUPS has > been > patched to do this; no setup is required on the server. Ah I should have known, I'm actually familiar with this part as it makes it very easy to set up shared Cups printers in Debian (at least with GNOME). I guess it's good to know that Apple users will find it easy to use my printer :) -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Does anyone know how to configure a Brother MFC-J5720DW with cups?
On Tue, 2016-03-08 at 12:02 +, Brian wrote: > The MFC-J5720DW supports AirPrint. Depending on which applications > you > print from you do not require cupsd on the PC, so you could dispense > with a PPD and driver. Do you know if/how this works on Debian? I find a lot of information about setting up Cups as an AirPrint server, but nothing about using it as a client. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Does anyone know how to configure a Brother MFC-J5720DW with cups?
On Tue, 2016-03-08 at 12:01 +0200, Jarle Aase wrote: > Yes, you are right. That might work. Thank you! > Actually, you will probably need the filter binaries too. You can install them manually too, but you will be running non-free software. Some Brother printers are covered by foomatic-db, but your particular model doesn't seem to be :( -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Does anyone know how to configure a Brother MFC-J5720DW with cups?
On Tue, 2016-03-08 at 11:39 +0200, Jarle Aase wrote: > I am very skeptical to installing 3rd party deb packages from > hardware I didn't suggest that. I suggested extracting the PPD and using that. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Fonts appearing with evince but not okular
On Mon, 2016-03-07 at 21:24 -0500, Dylan Thurston wrote: > Hello, > > On my Debian unstable system, I have a document which evince displays > correctly, but for which okular does not display much of the > text. This strikes me as odd, since (as I understand it) both > ultimately use the poppler back end, correct? They do, but Poppler itself have different backends. Evince uses the cairo backend, Qt (and Okular) uses splash, so there might be differences. > 'gv' also displays the document correctly. > > Unfortunately I can't share the document, as it is my credit card > bill. Below is the output from pdffonts and pdfinfo. Any guidance? > How > can I get sufficient info to file a bug? Chase Bank? https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/512738-Problem-with-Okular-displaying-all-text-in-a-PDF Probably worth filing a bug (preferably with upstream) even if you can't provide the PDF. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Does anyone know how to configure a Brother MFC-J5720DW with cups?
On Tue, 2016-03-08 at 00:14 +0200, Jarle Aase wrote: > Hi all, > > I read some good reviews about this network printer/scanner, and > noticed > that it can scan to email or FTP. So I made the flawed(?) assumption > that the printer would work independently without a software suite / > drivers from Brother. > > I tried to install it with the kde "Print Settings" front-end to > cups. > "Print Settings" finds the printer and lists several interfaces - > however, I am unable to print anything no matter what configuration > (combination of network protocol / printer driver) I use. > > I know that I can download a bash script from Brother.com and run it > as > root - and then the printer is supposed to work with Debian. > However, > I'm not comfortable doing that. Actually, I'll rather scrap the > printer > and get another one that support lpd/ps natively than risk > compromising > / messing up my system. > > So my question is really if anyone have experience with recent > Brother > network printers and know a cups configuration that works with one > of > the standard Debian/Linux drivers. > > I'm using both Debian Testing and Debian Stable on different > machines > right now. I think you can safely extract the mfcj5720dwcupswrapper-3.0.1- 1.i386.deb file and extract the PPD and install it manually. There's also a bash script in there (looks like it just installs the ppd and restart cups) and a binary, not sure what that does. You might have better luck installing and configuring the printer from the web GUI. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Automounting query
On Sat, 2016-03-05 at 11:28 +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > I ask because I have _never_ seen it. I have also never used GNOME > except on > live CDs and, very occasionally, other people's computers. But it > is > always /media/label when automounted. Not using udisks2, or maybe you have entries in /etc/fstab? -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Automounting query
On Fri, 2016-03-04 at 14:42 -0300, Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > Would a kind soul remind me the invocation needed to have removable > drives automount to /media/label instead of /media/user/label ? See https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/udisks#Mount_to_.2Fmedia_.28udisks2.29 Not sure why /media/user/label would be a problem though? -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: NVIDIA GeForce problem
On Wed, 2016-03-02 at 16:33 -0700, Levi S. Darrell wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to get my NVIDIA video hardware to work properly with X. > I am running Debian Testing, which I just installed a few days ago. I > installed nvidia-detect using apt. I then installed Bumblebee using > the instructions at > https://wiki.debian.org/Bumblebee#Installation. I added my login user > to the bumblebee grouop. However, attempting '$ optirun xorg -info' > gives the following error: > > [15211.548537] nouveau :01:00.0: priv: HUB0: 10ecc0 > (1d40822c) > [15211.140632] [ERROR]Cannot access secondary GPU - error: [XORG] > (EE) No devices detected. > [..] > Section "Device" > Identifier "DiscreteNvidia" > Driver "nvidia" > VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation" > BusID "PCI:01:00.0" What did you do, or what are you trying to do? You can't match nvidia with nouveau. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Bluetooth headphones mistaken for a keyboard!?!
On Fri, 2016-03-04 at 08:12 +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote: > I took delivery of a very nice pair of Bang & Olufsen BeoPlay H8 > bluetooth headphones yesterday. I've verified they work properly by > connecting them to my iPhone. > > When I try to connect them to my PC, I am not having so much luck. PC > is > a 7-year-old self-built desktop box running Jessie with Gnome as the > DE, > with Intel Core i7-920 CPU and 24GB RAM. Bluetooth capability comes > from > a rather younger (bought about 6 months ago) bluetooth USB dongle > which > I routinely use to connect my iPhone and Android tablets to the > computer > to play audio from them through the computer's speakers. So I know it > works fine too. > > Turning on bluetooth from the gnome applet, and putting the > headphones > into pairing mode, the computer quickly finds the headphones. When I > ask > the computer to connect it quickly does so, apparently successfully, > and > I hear the tones in the headphones indicating they too know they are > connected. But, pulseaudio doesn't recognise a new audio sink has > been > installed -- and I don't blame it, because of the below. > > Looking in the Gnome Log Viewer in messages, at the moment of > connecting > the headphones, I see this: > > Mar 4 08:07:17 kazuki gdm-Xorg-:0[1040]: (II) config/udev: Adding > input > device 00:09:A7:09:BE:22 (/dev/input/event17) > Mar 4 08:07:17 kazuki gdm-Xorg-:0[1040]: (**) 00:09:A7:09:BE:22: > Applying InputClass "evdev keyboard catchall" > Mar 4 08:07:17 kazuki gdm-Xorg-:0[1040]: (II) Using input driver > 'evdev' for '00:09:A7:09:BE:22' > Mar 4 08:07:17 kazuki gdm-Xorg-:0[1040]: (**) 00:09:A7:09:BE:22: > always > reports core events > Mar 4 08:07:17 kazuki gdm-Xorg-:0[1040]: (**) evdev: > 00:09:A7:09:BE:22: > Device: "/dev/input/event17" > Mar 4 08:07:17 kazuki gdm-Xorg-:0[1040]: (--) evdev: > 00:09:A7:09:BE:22: > Vendor 0 Product 0 > Mar 4 08:07:17 kazuki gdm-Xorg-:0[1040]: (--) evdev: > 00:09:A7:09:BE:22: > Found keys > Mar 4 08:07:17 kazuki kernel: [382097.651490] input: > 00:09:A7:09:BE:22 > as /devices/virtual/input/input30 > Mar 4 08:07:17 kazuki gdm-Xorg-:0[1040]: (II) evdev: > 00:09:A7:09:BE:22: > Configuring as keyboard > Mar 4 08:07:17 kazuki gdm-Xorg-:0[1040]: (**) Option "config_info" > "udev:/sys/devices/virtual/input/input30/event17" > Mar 4 08:07:17 kazuki gdm-Xorg-:0[1040]: (II) XINPUT: Adding > extended > input device "00:09:A7:09:BE:22" (type: KEYBOARD, id 13) > Mar 4 08:07:17 kazuki gdm-Xorg-:0[1040]: (**) Option "xkb_rules" > "evdev" > Mar 4 08:07:17 kazuki gdm-Xorg-:0[1040]: (**) Option "xkb_model" > "pc105" > Mar 4 08:07:17 kazuki gdm-Xorg-:0[1040]: (**) Option "xkb_layout" > "jp,us" > Mar 4 08:07:17 kazuki gdm-Xorg-:0[1040]: (**) Option "xkb_variant" > "," > Mar 4 08:07:17 kazuki gdm-Xorg-:0[1040]: (**) Option "xkb_options" > "grp:alt_shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll" > > > That doesn't look healthy. First of all it is detecting an INPUT > device, > presumably the headphone controls for volume and so on, and no OUTPUT > device. Second, it seems to think that what it has found is a > keyboard. > Pulseaudio can, it seems to me, be excused for thinking a keyboard > has > been added and not being accustomed to playing sound through a > keyboard... :-) > > I'm thinking this could be a udev problem of some kind -- perhaps I > am > missing appropriate udev rules? I am not sure how to diagnose the > problem from here, far less fix it, so any advice would be > appreciated. > Google has, unusually, turned up zilch. > > Thanks in advance > > Mark > Wouldn't headphones be pretty much like setting up a Bluetooth speaker? The only thing I did to get it working was making sure that pulseaudio- module-bluetooth was installed, everything else went without a hitch. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Nvidia Optimus in Debian
On Fri, 2016-03-04 at 14:26 +0100, Stephan Seitz wrote: > Hi! > > I have an Optimus notebook Acer Aspire V3 773G and using Debian > testing. > > lspci: > 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 4th Gen Core > Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 06) > 01:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK106M [GeForce GTX 760M] > (rev a1) > > The system is working, for now X is using the Intel chip. > > While I have heard of Bumblebee I want to always use the Nvidia chip. > It > seems Ubuntu can do this (I think they are using something called > nvidia > prime) to switch between the chips. > > Has anyone done this in Debian? I think this is what you're looking for? https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PRIME#Reverse_PRIME Instructions are for Arch. but I'm guessing it's the same in Debian. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Invisible icon of Iceweasel
On Thu, 2016-03-03 at 21:33 +0300, Strelok wrote: > I'm don't know what package is a source of problem. Because this, ask > there. Debian Stretch (current testing) with Mint DE. Applications > menu->Internet->drag Iceweasel icon from menu to somewhere. > What I'm except: Iceweasel icon near mouse cursor, when I'm drag icon > somewhere. > What I'm got: little while corner near mouse cursor. Probably, part > of > Iceweasel icon. Other parts of icon become invisible. > If I'm drag any other icon, this bug don't appeared. > PS Yes, apt-get update;apt-get upgrade is done. See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=803165 it was fixed once, but the same bug has appeared again :( -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: ImageMagick (display) unable to load font
On Wed, 2016-03-02 at 13:09 +, Curt wrote: > I don't how to solve this problem. Why an open source program would > ask > for a proprietary font in order to work is beyond my comprehension. I doubt it needs it, it wouldn't be in Debian main if it did. I'm guessing this is some configuration you, or a program you ran, made. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: How to enable config in Kernel on boot?
On Wed, 2016-03-02 at 21:25 +0530, Himanshu Shekhar wrote: > I browsed for file /boot/config/$(uname -r) and found a line > CONFIG DELL_RBTN # config not set > > I want the feature to be available, and have used in some other > distribution. > The file also says, do not modify it. > How can I get it working? > > I am currently using Debian Stretch Linux 4.3 on Dell Inspiron 15 > 3543 amd64 That is a configuration file for compiling the kernel, nothing you change in there will have any effect unless you rebuild the kernel yourself. But it looks like it is set on later kernels: $ grep RBTN /boot/config-4.4.0-1-amd64 CONFIG_DELL_RBTN=m So you just need to wait for it to hit stretch, or grab it from unstable! -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Intel Wireless 8260 not working on Lenovo Ideapad
On Mon, 2016-02-29 at 13:11 -0700, Levi S. Darrell wrote: > Dear all at debian-user@lists.debian.org, > > In January of 2016, I purchased a Lenovo IdeaPad Y700 laptop, > which had Windows 10 pre-installed on it. Since that time I have been > unable to get my Intel Wireless 8260 hardware to work with my Debian > Jessie stable > distro. After several hours searching the internet for solutions, I > have seen that this is a common problem with Lenovo computers. Here > are the solutions that I have tried: As a general rule, with hardware that new, go for testing or unstable immediately. (Even with a backported kernel, you're not likely to get the GPU running without new Mesa, and possibly xorg driver) There seems to be quite a few reports of running Linux on the Y700. E.g. http://mashu.github.io/2015/12/19/Debian-Ideapad-Y700.html If you're fighting with wpa_supplicant doesn't that mean that the driver is working? Can you scan for access points? Can you connect to an unprotected network? -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
