Re: LVM info - OTHER than HOWTO's

2015-11-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 09:46:34AM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: > LVM is much more flexible and less prone to do things to your data > than, say, the tools that re-size your partitions the hard way. You do > still have to exercise common sense, however. > > I've lost a re-sized partition permanently us

Re: Adobe Flash

2015-11-19 Thread moxalt
On Thu, 19 Nov 2015 19:01:49 -0500, Ric Moore wrote: > On 11/19/2015 11:55 AM, moxalt wrote: > > On Wed, 18 Nov 2015 19:34:38 +, Lisi Reisz > > wrote: > > >> That's a bit arrogant - saying that other people shouldn't watch the news > >> on their computers because you would choose not to d

Re: Adobe Flash

2015-11-19 Thread moxalt
On Fri, 20 Nov 2015 00:02:55 +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Thursday 19 November 2015 16:55:43 moxalt wrote: > > On Wed, 18 Nov 2015 19:34:38 +, Lisi Reisz > > wrote: > > > On Wednesday 18 November 2015 19:24:31 moxalt wrote: > > > > > The OP is currently watching the > > > > > news on Do

Re: LVM info - OTHER than HOWTO's

2015-11-19 Thread Joel Rees
On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 11:01 AM, Martin Str|mberg wrote: > In article Joel Rees > wrote: >> On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 2:42 PM, Martin Str|mberg wrote: >> > [...] >> > >> >> No information on dual boot. >> > >> > If with not Linux, it won't work. > >> That's news to me. > >> I've mulit-booted op

Re: LVM info - OTHER than HOWTO's

2015-11-19 Thread Martin Str|mberg
In article Joel Rees wrote: > On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 2:42 PM, Martin Str|mberg wrote: > > [...] > > > >> No information on dual boot. > > > > If with not Linux, it won't work. > That's news to me. > I've mulit-booted openBSD, Fedora in a non-VM LVM, debian, SUSE, and a > previous version of t

Re: LVM info - OTHER than HOWTO's

2015-11-19 Thread Joel Rees
On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 2:42 PM, Martin Str|mberg wrote: > [...] > >> No information on dual boot. > > If with not Linux, it won't work. That's news to me. I've mulit-booted openBSD, Fedora in a non-VM LVM, debian, SUSE, and a previous version of the OSS fork of Solaris. Not all at once, but thr

Re: no SMART support for western digital drive

2015-11-19 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Thu, 2015-11-19 at 21:29 +, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > Just to report, I've actually done this. I've uploaded a package of > the > new upstream version today; but I uploaded it to the 'DELAYED-7' > queue > to give the maintainer an opportunity to block the upload if they > aren't > happy with

Re: LVM info - OTHER than HOWTO's

2015-11-19 Thread Joel Rees
On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 10:02 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 11/18/2015 4:07 AM, Joel Rees wrote: >> >> 2015/11/18 9:09 "Richard Owlett": >>> >>> >>> In some of my reading I came across a page recommending LVM for ease >>> of adjusting space. >> >> >> Yeah. I'm not using it now, but it did come i

Re: Adobe Flash

2015-11-19 Thread Doug
On 11/19/2015 07:01 PM, Ric Moore wrote: On 11/19/2015 11:55 AM, moxalt wrote: On Wed, 18 Nov 2015 19:34:38 +, Lisi Reisz wrote: That's a bit arrogant - saying that other people shouldn't watch the news on their computers because you would choose not to do so. Lisi I don't think adv

Re: intel graphics media accelerator 500 driver

2015-11-19 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 19 November 2015 18:39:49 Mehmet Oktay wrote: > Selam, > Bilgisayarıma Debian 8 kurdum ve gerçekten bir işletim sistemi olduğunu > anladım. Bu kadar uzun ve emek gerektiren çalışmalarınız için sizlere önce > teşekkür ederim. > Herşey çok iyi ve güzel. Yalnız sisteme grafik kartımı bir t

Re: No sound - seeking ideas

2015-11-19 Thread David Parfitt
[This mail was also posted to linux.debian.user.] On Thu, 19 Nov 2015 22:10:02 +0100, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Thu, 19 Nov 2015 10:38:51 + David Parfitt > wrote: > >> Hi all: >> daud@debian:~$ aplay -l List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices >> card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: AL

Re: Adobe Flash

2015-11-19 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 19 November 2015 16:55:43 moxalt wrote: > On Wed, 18 Nov 2015 19:34:38 +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Wednesday 18 November 2015 19:24:31 moxalt wrote: > > > > The OP is currently watching the > > > > news on Doze.  Hardly more secure than flash > > > > > > And OP should do neither. >

Re: Adobe Flash

2015-11-19 Thread Ric Moore
On 11/19/2015 11:55 AM, moxalt wrote: On Wed, 18 Nov 2015 19:34:38 +, Lisi Reisz wrote: That's a bit arrogant - saying that other people shouldn't watch the news on their computers because you would choose not to do so. Lisi I don't think advocating that others should follow certain et

Re: No sound - seeking ideas

2015-11-19 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Thu, 2015-11-19 at 19:59 +, Joe wrote: > If I just want email and web surfing, I carry a netbook, and only > carry power adaptors if I'm not on foot. Horses, as always, for > courses. Right, but you need an external sound card for that notebook, remember? ;) -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http

Re: no SMART support for western digital drive

2015-11-19 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 11:45:31AM +, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > It would appear it is not receiving enough attention. However, it is > in the collab-maint repository, so in theory any DD could work on it. > Since I use and rely on smartmontools myself, I'm adding this to my > TODO list. Just t

Re: Hulu & HAL -- What's Really Needed to Make It Work?

2015-11-19 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Thu, 19 Nov 2015, Brian wrote: > On Thu 19 Nov 2015 at 11:02:26 -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > What HAL libraries specifically are needed for Flash DRM > > authentication with Hulu? > > > > I've done a lot of searching and can find nothing that specifically > > names what is required. Mo

Re: No sound - seeking ideas

2015-11-19 Thread Darac Marjal
On Thu, 19 Nov 2015 10:38:51 + David Parfitt wrote: > Hi all: > I've newly bought a laptop (details at end) & installed Jessie 8.2. > All's well except that I have no sound. I've done quite a lot of > online research but got nowhere. I'm looking for ANY other practical > ideas, please. > >

Re: Hulu & HAL -- What's Really Needed to Make It Work?

2015-11-19 Thread Brian
On Thu 19 Nov 2015 at 11:02:26 -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: > What HAL libraries specifically are needed for Flash DRM > authentication with Hulu? > > I've done a lot of searching and can find nothing that specifically > names what is required. Most all articles are Ubuntu specific, and > recomm

Re: No sound - seeking ideas

2015-11-19 Thread Joe
On Thu, 19 Nov 2015 19:50:35 +0100 Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Thu, 2015-11-19 at 12:32 -0600, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > > In my experience, a good work-around is to use an external, usb > > audio interface, such as the Lexcon Alpha, which costs about $50 and > > provides > > several significan

Re: No sound - seeking ideas

2015-11-19 Thread rlharris
On Thu, November 19, 2015 12:50 pm, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > Doesn't lugging that thing around defeat the purpose of having a > laptop? :) 6 inches by 6 inches by 1.5 inches, knobs and all. To me, the added package is a small price for features such as headphone jack plus RCA

Re: No sound - seeking ideas

2015-11-19 Thread Ric Moore
On 11/19/2015 01:32 PM, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: On Thu, November 19, 2015 4:38 am, David Parfitt wrote: I've newly bought a laptop (details at end) & installed Jessie 8.2. All's well except that I have no sound. I've done quite a lot of online research but got nowhere. I'm looking for ANY o

Hulu & HAL -- What's Really Needed to Make It Work?

2015-11-19 Thread Patrick Bartek
What HAL libraries specifically are needed for Flash DRM authentication with Hulu? I've done a lot of searching and can find nothing that specifically names what is required. Most all articles are Ubuntu specific, and recommend the hal-flash stub, which won't work on my Wheezy set up due to depen

intel graphics media accelerator 500 driver

2015-11-19 Thread Mehmet Oktay
Selam, Bilgisayarıma Debian 8 kurdum ve gerçekten bir işletim sistemi olduğunu anladım. Bu kadar uzun ve emek gerektiren çalışmalarınız için sizlere önce teşekkür ederim. Herşey çok iyi ve güzel. Yalnız sisteme grafik kartımı bir türlü tanıtamıyorum. Tabii ki ben linux konusunda çok acemi ve deneyi

Re: No sound - seeking ideas

2015-11-19 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Thu, 2015-11-19 at 12:32 -0600, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > In my experience, a good work-around is to use an external, usb audio > interface, such as the Lexcon Alpha, which costs about $50 and > provides > several significant benefits over on-board sound, whether for laptop > or > desktop. T

Re: No sound - seeking ideas

2015-11-19 Thread rlharris
On Thu, November 19, 2015 4:38 am, David Parfitt wrote: > I've newly bought a laptop (details at end) & installed Jessie 8.2. > All's well except that I have no sound. I've done quite a lot of online > research but got nowhere. I'm looking for ANY other practical ideas, > please. In my experienc

Re: No sound - seeking ideas

2015-11-19 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Thu, 2015-11-19 at 17:01 +, David Parfitt wrote: > I was coming to that conclusion myself, but was hoping upon hope that > I > had just missed something. It also means, I suppose I have to read > up on > the vagaries of UEFI & installing/running second distros. Debian was > straightforwa

Re: Root account blocked

2015-11-19 Thread Linux-Fan
[Thu, 19 Nov 2015 09:20:03 -0500] Dan Ritter wrote: > On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 07:01:41PM +0530, Himanshu Shekhar wrote: > > This reminds of an outcome that makes your system vulnerable to > > data theft. Following the above steps, anyone having physical > > access to the device by any means (which

Re: No sound - seeking ideas

2015-11-19 Thread David Parfitt
[This mail was also posted to linux.debian.user.] On Thu, 19 Nov 2015 18:00:02 +0100, Ric Moore wrote: > > For what it is worth, I have both pulse and my user ric added to the > audio group in /etc/group. Trouble shooting with a shotgun again. > Sometimes I get lucky! Ric Thx Ric Yes I forgot

Re: No sound - seeking ideas

2015-11-19 Thread David Parfitt
[This mail was also posted to linux.debian.user.] On Thu, 19 Nov 2015 17:40:02 +0100, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Thu, 2015-11-19 at 10:38 +, David Parfitt wrote: >> Hi all: >> I've newly bought a laptop (details at end) & installed Jessie 8.2. >> All's well except that I have no sound. I've

Re: No sound - seeking ideas

2015-11-19 Thread Ric Moore
On 11/19/2015 10:33 AM, David Parfitt wrote: [This mail was also posted to linux.debian.user.] Thx for responding, Charlie. On Thu, 19 Nov 2015 13:30:03 +0100, Charlie wrote: On Thu, 19 Nov 2015 10:38:51 + David Parfitt sent: Hi all: I've newly bought a laptop (details at end) & install

Re: Adobe Flash

2015-11-19 Thread moxalt
On Wed, 18 Nov 2015 19:34:38 +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Wednesday 18 November 2015 19:24:31 moxalt wrote: > > > The OP is currently watching the > > > news on Doze.  Hardly more secure than flash > > > > And OP should do neither. > > That's a bit arrogant - saying that other people should

Re: Move an application window to a different desktop (Jessie, KDE 4.14.2)

2015-11-19 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On 19/11/2015 15:01, Keith Christian wrote: There are five Konsole windows on the initial desktop. I want to move two of them to the next desktop. The only control I can find is the selector button in the upper left corner whose tooltip is either "On all desktops" or when clicked, "Not on all

Re: No sound - seeking ideas

2015-11-19 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Thu, 2015-11-19 at 10:38 +, David Parfitt wrote: > Hi all: > I've newly bought a laptop (details at end) & installed Jessie 8.2. > All's well except that I have no sound. I've done quite a lot of > online > research but got nowhere. I'm looking for ANY other practical ideas, > please. [...

Re: No sound - seeking ideas

2015-11-19 Thread David Parfitt
[This mail was also posted to linux.debian.user.] Thx for responding, Charlie. On Thu, 19 Nov 2015 13:30:03 +0100, Charlie wrote: > On Thu, 19 Nov 2015 10:38:51 + David Parfitt sent: > >> Hi all: >> I've newly bought a laptop (details at end) & installed Jessie 8.2. >> All's well except tha

Re: Root account blocked

2015-11-19 Thread Eero Volotinen
How about encrypting disks with luks? Eero 19.11.2015 3.32 ip. "Himanshu Shekhar" kirjoitti: > This reminds of an outcome that makes your system vulnerable to data theft. > Following the above steps, anyone having physical access to the device by > any means (which is more likely in case of mobi

Re: Root account blocked

2015-11-19 Thread Dan Ritter
On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 07:01:41PM +0530, Himanshu Shekhar wrote: > This reminds of an outcome that makes your system vulnerable to data theft. > Following the above steps, anyone having physical access to the device by > any means (which is more likely in case of mobile devices), could gain root >

Re: Move an application window to a different desktop (Jessie, KDE 4.14.2)

2015-11-19 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > selector button in the upper left corner whose tooltip is either "On > all desktops" or when clicked, "Not on all desktops." > [...] > 1. How to move the two Konsole windows to the next desktop (it appears > there are only two at this point.) I've tried dragging them in > various directions

Move an application window to a different desktop (Jessie, KDE 4.14.2)

2015-11-19 Thread Keith Christian
There are five Konsole windows on the initial desktop. I want to move two of them to the next desktop. The only control I can find is the selector button in the upper left corner whose tooltip is either "On all desktops" or when clicked, "Not on all desktops." In previous KDE versions it seems t

Re: info

2015-11-19 Thread Darac Marjal
On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 03:46:52PM +0300, Thabit Omar bin madhi wrote: Dear Mr. No need to exclude people :) hope all the best for you and your team I am one of the users of the best OS debian , I am living in Saudi Arabia and I helped a lot of people my friends and every one near from m

Re: Root account blocked

2015-11-19 Thread Himanshu Shekhar
This reminds of an outcome that makes your system vulnerable to data theft. Following the above steps, anyone having physical access to the device by any means (which is more likely in case of mobile devices), could gain root access and do whatever one wants to do with the system as well as the dat

Re: Should I report this bug with reportbug?

2015-11-19 Thread Darac Marjal
On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 01:16:58PM +0100, David Cimadevilla wrote: I have installed solydk, a debian jessie based distro. In the latest update one of the installed packages messed up all my kde/qt apps. This package comes from debian jessie security updates repository. Installing the previous

info

2015-11-19 Thread Thabit Omar bin madhi
Dear Mr. hope all the best for you and your team I am one of the users of the best OS debian , I am living in Saudi Arabia and I helped a lot of people my friends and every one near from my work to install and try it as a second OS , because you know here in our market , Microsoft is every th

Re: Adobe Flash

2015-11-19 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 18 Nov 2015 16:33:55 +0100 Siard wrote: ... > BTW: the version of youtube-dl in jessie is not recent enough, so it > won't work. Instead of an 'apt-get install youtube-dl' in jessie you'd > better download and install it from https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/ > Later, run an occasional '

Should I report this bug with reportbug?

2015-11-19 Thread David Cimadevilla
I have installed solydk, a debian jessie based distro. In the latest update one of the installed packages messed up all my kde/qt apps. This package comes from debian jessie security updates repository. Installing the previous version of the package the issue goes away. Since extrictily I am

Re: LVM info - OTHER than HOWTO's

2015-11-19 Thread Richard Owlett
On 11/18/2015 9:58 AM, Darac Marjal wrote: On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 06:08:49PM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: In some of my reading I came across a page recommending LVM for ease of adjusting space. When searching for more information all I'm finding are essentially HOWTO's with only a couple of

bug reporting, repositories and distros

2015-11-19 Thread David Cimadevilla
I have installed solydk, a debian jessie based distro. In the latest update one of the installed packages messed up all my kde/qt apps. This package comes from debian jessie security updates repository. Installing the previous version of the package the issue goes away. Since extrictily I am

Re: apt WAS:var is full...

2015-11-19 Thread Whit Hansell
Thanks for the info J. I use autoclean instead of clean and it shows certain packages deleted list after the upgrade. My normal update/upgrade regimen goes thusly: apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade apt-get autoclean updatedb I don't know if that is the bestest and greatest way to do it but

Should I report this bug with reportbug?

2015-11-19 Thread David Cimadevilla
I have installed solydk, a debian jessie based distro. In the latest update one of the installed packages messed up all my kde/qt apps. This package comes from debian jessie security updates repository. Installing the previous version of the package the issue goes away. Since extrictily I am

Re: No sound - seeking ideas

2015-11-19 Thread Charlie
On Thu, 19 Nov 2015 10:38:51 + David Parfitt sent: > Hi all: > I've newly bought a laptop (details at end) & installed Jessie 8.2. > All's well except that I have no sound. I've done quite a lot of > online research but got nowhere. I'm looking for ANY other practical > ideas, please. Sound

No sound - seeking ideas

2015-11-19 Thread David Parfitt
Hi all: I've newly bought a laptop (details at end) & installed Jessie 8.2. All's well except that I have no sound. I've done quite a lot of online research but got nowhere. I'm looking for ANY other practical ideas, please. What I've done: 1. Checked alsamixer & pavucontrol - I can't find anyt

Re: [RESOLVED] Re: lost onboard network connection on stretch

2015-11-19 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Gary Dale a écrit : > > modprobe r8169 > ifup eth1 > > For some reason the kernel module isn't loading at startup. Didn't you install the r8168 driver from Realtek for the previous kernel and blacklist the r8169 module (check /etc/modprobe.d/) ?