Fwd: Re: AMD 10.2 netinstall

2020-01-19 Thread Rick Thomas
The "unofficial" firmware installer iso has a bunch of non-free/proprietary drivers/firmware for various adapters and devices that do not have open-source drivers, but that your machine may need to run correctly. For example, a laptop may have a wi-fi built-in from a manufacturer who is

Jittery desktop mode.

2020-01-19 Thread Peter Easthope
In Debian 10, since an update a few weeks back, the display has included a weird spontaneous jittery mode. The browser can work for several minutes with no problem. Then with no warning components in the desktop begin flashing. A desktop chooser or indicator in the center of the screen rapidly

Re: No sound with Pulseaudio

2020-01-19 Thread deloptes
Yoann LE BARS wrote: > As a root: > > # fuser -v /dev/snd/* > UTIL.       PID ACCÈS  COMMANDE > /dev/snd/controlC0:  root        591 f alsactl > timidity    856 F timidity > /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p:   timidity    856 F...m timidity > /dev/snd/seq:        timidity    856 F timidity >

Re: DVD "backup" trouble

2020-01-19 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Reco wrote: > sr011:01 3.9G 0 rom > pktcdvd0 252:01 1.2G 0 disk The pktcdvd driver is of help only with operating a rw-filesystem on formatted CD-RW (miserably slow) or formatted DVD-RW (annoyingly slow). > Media summary: 1

Re: Poll about DVD drive behavior

2020-01-19 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Wednesday, 15 January 2020 23:03:23 CET Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > - HL-DT-ST_BD-RE_BH08LS20 > > The googled pictures resemble my GGW-H20L from 2008. Does it write BD-RE > with 2.3x speed ? > (At some time the LGs lost that extra speed of 10 MB/s versus 9 MB/s of the > competitors.)

Re: DVD "backup" trouble

2020-01-19 Thread Reco
On Sun, Jan 19, 2020 at 08:30:53PM +0300, Reco wrote: > And the actual culprit was udftools package that was installed for > years (lsblk output): > > sr011:01 3.9G 0 rom > pktcdvd0 252:01 1.2G 0 disk > > Somehow /dev/pktcdvd0

Re: Print several (small) pages on A4/Letter sheet

2020-01-19 Thread Brian
On Sun 19 Jan 2020 at 08:29:46 -0700, Charles Curley wrote: > On Sat, 18 Jan 2020 15:42:08 +0100 > Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > > I have a pdf file with a page size of 186x65 mm2. If I print that on > > A4, I get printouts which are mainly white, except the 186x65 mm2. > > > > Is there a good way

Re: DVD "backup" trouble

2020-01-19 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sun, Jan 19, 2020 at 06:03:55PM +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Reco wrote: > > xorriso somehow read the DVD contents in full. > > The question is - what did xorriso done differently? > > It does it by talking nearly directly to the drive. Linux contributes > its ability to

Re: No sound with Pulseaudio

2020-01-19 Thread Yoann LE BARS
Hello everybody out there! On 2020/01/19 6:19 pm, Yoann LE BARS wrote: > On the laptop: > > $ fuser -v /dev/snd/* As a root: # fuser -v /dev/snd/* UTIL. PID ACCÈS COMMANDE /dev/snd/controlC0: root591 f alsactl

Re: No sound with Pulseaudio

2020-01-19 Thread Yoann LE BARS
Hello everybody out there! Sorry, once again I have been busy on so many other things. On 2020/01/09 10:12 pm, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: > something is wrong on that computer. Indeed. > This is output of mine: > > > $ fuser -v /dev/snd/* > USER

Re: Re : Re: Re : Re: Choix du système Debian

2020-01-19 Thread maxime
Il faut mettre la question de l'utilisateur dans son contexte, une question globalement basique a besoin d'un début de réponse simple. Dans l'ordre des choses, si l'utilisateur avait un besoin en bureautique beaucoup plus précis, nécessitant la connaissance d'un langage de programmation,

Re: DVD "backup" trouble

2020-01-19 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Reco wrote: > xorriso somehow read the DVD contents in full. > The question is - what did xorriso done differently? It does it by talking nearly directly to the drive. Linux contributes its ability to transport SCSI commands and bring back drive replies. All other CD-ROM related brain of

DVD "backup" trouble

2020-01-19 Thread Reco
Dear list, Today I was given a box of DVDs with the movies, conventional DVD video (mpeg2/ac3) mostly. Back in the old days one could make an ISO9660/UDF image of a DVD with a simple "cat /dev/sr0 > file". To my biggest surprise, I does not work for me anymore. But I tried this approach

/usr/bin/software-properties-kde IGNORE SOLVED

2020-01-19 Thread zahid
The password  for  /usr/bin/software-properties-kde isn't being accepted  when I run in KDE I have added the current user  to root  and created  a group called wheel, added current the user to it. and I am getting the following error message from command line when I run as su

Re: Print several (small) pages on A4/Letter sheet

2020-01-19 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, 18 Jan 2020 15:42:08 +0100 Rainer Dorsch wrote: > I have a pdf file with a page size of 186x65 mm2. If I print that on > A4, I get printouts which are mainly white, except the 186x65 mm2. > > Is there a good way to get it printed in a compact way (e.g. 4 pages > on top of each other on

favorites disappear from application menu

2020-01-19 Thread Glenn Holmer
I continue to have this problem, and have submitted a bug report. If anyone else is experiencing this, please add any information that may be helpful. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=949298 -- Glenn Holmer (Linux registered user #16682) "After the vintage season came the

/usr/bin/software-properties-kde

2020-01-19 Thread Zahid Rahman
The password for /usr/bin/software-properties-kde isn't being accepted when I run in KDE I have added the current user to root and created a group called wheel, added current the user to it. and I am getting the following error message from command line when I run as su

Re: Print several (small) pages on A4/Letter sheet

2020-01-19 Thread Brian
On Sat 18 Jan 2020 at 20:50:05 +, Curt wrote: > On 2020-01-18, Brian wrote: > > On Sat 18 Jan 2020 at 15:42:08 +0100, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > > >> I have a pdf file with a page size of 186x65 mm2. If I print that on A4, I > >> get > >> printouts which are mainly white, except the 186x65

Re: No official way to make Debian Live USB "persistent"?

2020-01-19 Thread didier . gaumet
Le samedi 18 janvier 2020 15:00:04 UTC+1, kaye n a écrit : > Hello Friends! > > Correct me if I'm wrong but there doesn't seem to be an 'official' way of > creating a Live USB Debian that is 'persistent'. [...]

Re: couleurs de l'installeur

2020-01-19 Thread Basile Starynkevitch
On 1/19/20 8:08 AM, Bernard Schoenacker wrote: bonjour, je me rends compte que certaines couleurs ne sont plus adaptées actuellement aux écrans tft et je souhaiterai voir si une personne charitable pourrais suggérer de changer la couleur de fond (bleu) de l'installeur vers une couleur plus