Re: Samsung C410 KVM USB pass-through

2014-07-09 Thread Floris
Op Wed, 09 Jul 2014 11:06:24 +0200 schreef Gary Dale garyd...@torfree.net: I'm running a Windows XP/Pro VM (KVM) on a Debian/Wheezy server and am trying to get a USB printer (Samsung C410) attached to the server to work. The manufacturer suggested trying the USB pass-through but the port

Re: UEFI

2014-07-09 Thread Thierry de Coulon
On Wednesday 09 July 2014 19.49:12 Bret Busby wrote: It is my understanding (and, once again, I am no expert), that two distinct advantages of a UEFI/GPT system ofer what it replaced, are that no differentiation exists, between primary and other partitions, and, a UEFI/GPT system, can have up

VLC limitations (was: Re: watching films full screen)

2014-07-09 Thread Joel Roth
B wrote: On Tue, 8 Jul 2014 10:22:53 -1000 Joel Roth jo...@pobox.com wrote: That's interesting to me to hear you say this. Dealing with a variety of video formats, I find mpv (based on mplayer) to be much more tolerant of video formats. Most recently, I observed the VLC won't

Re: UEFI

2014-07-09 Thread Joe
On Wed, 9 Jul 2014 16:49:51 +0200 Thierry de Coulon tcou...@decoulon.ch wrote: On Wednesday 09 July 2014 15.53:22 B wrote: BTW, sorry to hijack a bit this thread, but what could be the advantages to use UEFI (I just have Debian on my laptop and disabled it from ancient posts I read).

Re: Sid - grubpc-bin isc-dhcp-client bugs

2014-07-09 Thread Joe
On Wed, 9 Jul 2014 15:41:31 -0400 Stephen Allen marathon.duran...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 09, 2014 at 06:41:08PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2014-07-09 08:59 +0200, Tom H wrote: On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 9:07 PM, Stephen Allen marathon.duran...@gmail.com wrote: For some time

Why UEFI?: Was UEFI

2014-07-09 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 9 Jul 2014 15:53:22 +0200 B lazyvi...@gmx.com wrote: On Wed, 09 Jul 2014 16:26:16 +0300 Georgi Naplatanov go...@oles.biz wrote: You have to enable (U)EFI on your computer and Debian 7.x/8 should install just fine. Yup, the 7.5 (amd64) netinstall has the EFI partition.

Re: Samsung C410 KVM USB pass-through [not quite resolved]

2014-07-09 Thread Gary Dale
On 09/07/14 03:44 PM, Floris wrote: Op Wed, 09 Jul 2014 11:06:24 +0200 schreef Gary Dale garyd...@torfree.net: I'm running a Windows XP/Pro VM (KVM) on a Debian/Wheezy server and am trying to get a USB printer (Samsung C410) attached to the server to work. The manufacturer suggested trying

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-09 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 09 Jul 2014 11:41:37 +0100 Martin Read zen75...@zen.co.uk wrote: On 09/07/14 05:07, Steve Litt wrote: [regarding double fork] In other words, it's going to bust my program, right? Maybe. Do the programs you launch need to outlive your session? If so, your launcher program's design

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-09 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 09 Jul 2014 15:21:55 +0100 Martin Read zen75...@zen.co.uk wrote: On 09/07/14 14:40, Mark Carroll wrote: Hang on, that sounds scary. I'll still be able to launch something from the shell (maybe in an xterm) with a trailing to put it in the background, and then log out and it will

bonding

2014-07-09 Thread Pol Hallen
Hi all :-) using two switches without 802.3ad support I can configure bonding mode 4? ie: server linux with 2nics: put nic1 cable on switch1, nic2 cable on switch2 and put another cable from switch1 to pc1 and another cable from switch2 to pc1? Obviously with bonding active on both pc.

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-09 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 09 Jul 2014 16:22:55 +0200 berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 09.07.2014 15:40, Mark Carroll a écrit : Martin Read zen75...@zen.co.uk writes: On 09/07/14 05:07, Steve Litt wrote: [regarding double fork] In other words, it's going to bust my program, right? Maybe.

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-09 Thread Mark Carroll
berenger.mo...@neutralite.org writes: Le 09.07.2014 15:40, Mark Carroll a écrit : Martin Read zen75...@zen.co.uk writes: On 09/07/14 05:07, Steve Litt wrote: [regarding double fork] In other words, it's going to bust my program, right? Maybe. Do the programs you launch need to outlive

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-09 Thread Martin Read
On 09/07/14 22:00, Steve Litt wrote: On Wed, 09 Jul 2014 15:21:55 +0100 Martin Read zen75...@zen.co.uk wrote: Running a program in the background from a shell in an xterm (and even closing the xterm afterwards) works fine; indeed, that's how I launched the instance of Icedove I'm typing this

Re: UEFI

2014-07-09 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 9 Jul 2014 22:13:21 +0200 Thierry de Coulon tcou...@decoulon.ch wrote: So this for me sums up the question: if your computer is to run linux only (as was the OP's), there is no reason to use UEFI/GPT but for the need for partitions over 2 TB. And, for eighty bucks more you can get a

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-09 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 09 Jul 2014 22:46:32 +0100 Martin Read zen75...@zen.co.uk wrote: Well, my instances of icedove, kvirc, iceweasel, the steam client, sgt-loopy (launched from shells in now-closed lxterminal instances) are all running just fine (I habitually close terminals I've launched GUI

Re: SSD optimization on Debian (2014)

2014-07-09 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 09 Jul 2014, Jochen Spieker wrote: * The discard options is not needed if your SSD has enough overprovisioning (spare space) or you leave (unpartitioned) free space on the SSD. See http://www.spinics.net/lists/raid/msg40866.html AFAIU, this discussion only relates

Re: SSD optimization on Debian (2014)

2014-07-09 Thread Jochen Spieker
Jörg-Volker Peetz: The first call of fstrim after a reboot indeed normally seems to discard all free space of a filesystem. It should discard all blocks that were not previously discarded. From the manpage: | fstrim will report the same potential discard bytes each time, | but only sectors

Re: error on sid laptop: ALERT! /dev/disk/by-uuid/493.....085 does not exist.

2014-07-09 Thread Jochen Spieker
Nick Lidakis: I've recently been unable to boot into my thinkpad x200s because of this error: ALERT! /dev/disk/by-uuid/493085b does not exist. Dropping to a shell! Most of the Google results are of users changin out disks or partitions and the UUID get messed up. I haven't switched any

Re: Can't install Debian - USB keyboard doesn't turn on until Windows loads

2014-07-09 Thread Kitty Cat
I have two questions: 1. Would anyone be willing to give me a link to a simple USB keyboard that you think would work with this machine at boot time? Perhaps on Amazon.com or Newegg.com, etc.? 2. Do you know of a Debian CD of some type that will load a kernel without the need of a key press

Using xfce4-power-manager with dwm

2014-07-09 Thread Daniel LaFlamme
The laptop can suspend and resume without issue when I run a plain vanilla Xfce session (started with Xfce session from the lightdm login screen). However, I don't want to run an entire Xfce desktop environment; I want to use dwm but use xfce4-power-manager to manage suspend and resume. I am

Re: Can't install Debian - USB keyboard doesn't turn on until Windows loads

2014-07-09 Thread Joseph Loo
On 07/09/2014 06:50 PM, Kitty Cat wrote: I have two questions: 1. Would anyone be willing to give me a link to a simple USB keyboard that you think would work with this machine at boot time? Perhaps on Amazon.com or Newegg.com, etc.? 2. Do you know of a Debian CD of some type that will load

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