Re: No sound at boot

2015-05-24 Thread Mark Allums
On 05/24/2015 12:58 AM, Petter Adsen wrote: On Sat, 23 May 2015 23:29:27 -0500 Mark Allums m...@allums.top wrote: I have a decent setup with an ASUS ROG motherboard (overkill for Linux, I know). I was tooling along nicely, when, after an update (back when Jessie was Testing), sound quit

Re: No sound at boot

2015-05-24 Thread Mark Allums
Take a look in /etc/modules-load.d - you can add a file called, say, sound.conf there with the contents: snd-hda-intel That should load that module on boot. I haven't tested it, as I've never had the need to force a module to load in recent years, but it should work. Didn't work. Nor did

Re: No sound at boot

2015-05-24 Thread Mark Allums
On 05/24/2015 02:23 AM, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: On Sun, 24 May 2015, Mark Allums wrote: What does it mean sysfs path '/sys' is invalid? do you have in /etc/fstab the line sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 cheers, No such line in /etc/fstab

No sound at boot

2015-05-23 Thread Mark Allums
I have a decent setup with an ASUS ROG motherboard (overkill for Linux, I know). I was tooling along nicely, when, after an update (back when Jessie was Testing), sound quit working at boot. Of course, the first thing I tried was root@persephone:~# modprobe snd-hda-intel and that got me

Re: out of the box wifi adapter

2015-05-15 Thread Mark Allums
On 05/14/2015 08:25 PM, Raymond Jennings wrote: I need to install a wifi adapter to my newly built desktop machine. It needs to attach to either usb or the rj45 port, and I'd like to avoid models that require downloaded firmware or ndiswrapper or the like. Any options out there? I'm

Broken package can't be configured, can't be uninstalled

2015-05-07 Thread Mark Allums
Hello, I have some packages that did not install correctly. One in particular is giving me fits. It can't be upgraded. It can't be removed. It can't be reinstalled. It can't be reconfigured. The error message states that it is in an inconsistent state and needs to be reinstalled before it is

RE: http.debian.net hash sum mismatch

2014-02-03 Thread Mark Allums
Has anybody else experienced problems over the last couple of days? Or is there a local fix I can apply? I too have had this issue for a couple of days now. Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

RE: Installing Cinnamon 2.0

2013-10-12 Thread Mark Allums
Not really, you at least need to manually add a link, regarding to the different program names. I never did, and never had to. It works fine. Just because you're using software that doesn't use this software as a dependency. I don't know what you are talking about. Sure, if

RE: Installing Cinnamon 2.0

2013-10-12 Thread Mark Allums
https://github.com/mate-desktop/archlinux-packages From the linked page: mate-file-archiver: Removed any packages from the 'depends' that are pulled in via gtk2. 24 days ago Looks to me like they fixed the conflict in Arch. You have no leg to stand on with this one. Also, that's Arch.

RE: Installing Cinnamon 2.0

2013-10-12 Thread Mark Allums
https://github.com/mate-desktop/debian-packages -- https://github.com/mate-desktop/debian-packages/tree/master/mate-file- archiver These are irrelevant. mate-file-archiver does not exist anymore, and engrampa is optional. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

RE: Installing Cinnamon 2.0

2013-10-12 Thread Mark Allums
Mark, when you use your Outlook 15.0, please take care not to sent duplicated mails. Perhaps you should use a MUA for Mate, instead of using MS Windows. Don't bitch about Outlook. I will continue to use it, never mind why. Windows is not evil. The mistake was mine, Outlook is not to

RE: Installing Cinnamon 2.0

2013-10-12 Thread Mark Allums
On Sat, 2013-10-12 at 01:43 -0500, Mark Allums wrote: Not really, you at least need to manually add a link, regarding to the different program names. I never did, and never had to. It works fine. Just because you're using software that doesn't use this software

RE: Installing Cinnamon 2.0

2013-10-12 Thread Mark Allums
IOW you might not experience issues with your computer, with Mate and/or Windows, but you at least cause issues when using Windows. Those issues aren't very serious, but you can't speak about your experiences, that everything is ok, while it's not ok. I certainly can speak about it. I use

RE: Installing Cinnamon 2.0

2013-10-12 Thread Mark Allums
The point of mentioning MATE was in context with adding MATE to Debian. Our point was, there are only minor problems with that happening, and they should be solvable fairly easily within a short period of time (i.e., in the time between releases of Stable). This problem is not MATE

RE: Installing Cinnamon 2.0

2013-10-12 Thread Mark Allums
I don't nag about endless lines, It's not the end of the world, but unfavourable when you argument about not running into issues with your computer, while causing issues for the list, when you're using Windows, IOW you might not experience issues with your computer, with Mate and/or

RE: Installing Cinnamon 2.0

2013-10-12 Thread Mark Allums
On Saturday 12 October 2013 14:42:31 Mark Allums wrote: I loved KDE 3. Have you looked at Trinity? It is a fork of KDE3 as MATE is a fork of Gnome2. http://www.trinitydesktop.org/ Lisi Thanks. I will check it out. Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

RE: Installing Cinnamon 2.0

2013-10-11 Thread Mark Allums
MATE from upstream does conflict with other software. This isn't good, it's the most worse I can imagine and likely the reason that distros aren't interested to add it to official repositories. MATE is the only software I know available for Linux, that does conflict with common software. I

RE: Installing Cinnamon 2.0

2013-10-11 Thread Mark Allums
On Fri, 2013-10-11 at 10:24 -0500, Mark Allums wrote: As far as gvfs goes, it's harmless. Why be upset over it installation? External hard disc drives that fulfill the EU Regulation, that they have to sleep after a while, will be waked up by GVFS again and again. This will kill those

RE: Installing Cinnamon 2.0

2013-10-11 Thread Mark Allums
MATE from upstream does conflict with other software. This isn't good, it's the most worse I can imagine and likely the reason that distros aren't interested to add it to official repositories. MATE is the only software I know available for Linux, that does conflict with common

RE: Installing Cinnamon 2.0

2013-10-11 Thread Mark Allums
On Fri, 2013-10-11 at 11:34 -0500, Mark Allums wrote: The dialogs from Gnome 3 (zenity) serves, so mate-dialogs-gnome isn't needed if zenity is installed (and mate-dialogs-gnome can serve in place for zenity as well). Not really, you at least need to manually add a link, regarding

FW: Building computer - power supplies

2013-09-29 Thread Mark Allums
Yes, though they are for different voltages, typically 3.3V and 2.5V or 1.8V, see the voltage monitoring in the BIOS or MB monitor for the values for a particular board. You'll find two inductors, probably toroids, and a group of tall aluminium electrolytic capacitors in the area. These

RE: Driver installation [ANSWER] {SOLVED]

2013-09-19 Thread Mark Allums
On 09/17/2013 10:42 PM, Mark Allums wrote: My mistake. No, this is the same driver that won't install. I saw the 15th, and thought Sept., but it was August. Thanks, though. Any other suggestions welcome. Mark IIRC, you had issues with a compilation from source. The link

RE: swapper tainted

2013-09-18 Thread Mark Allums
Subject: Re: swapper tainted On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 08:10:26PM -0500, Mark Allums wrote: If you are using the proprietary Nvidia driver, that's it. I do I am using 304.88 from wheezy repository.. How could I fix it? I mean, that's the cause of the taint. It may not be your problem

Driver installation

2013-09-17 Thread Mark Allums
Does anyone but me have experience using Adaptec RAID cards? The Debian aacraid driver didn't support a 7805 card the last time I checked. I installed the driver from the Adaptec web site using alien and dkms. The driver was updated recently, and I tried to install the new version using the

RE: Driver installation

2013-09-17 Thread Mark Allums
From: Rares Aioanei [mailto:debian.dev.l...@gmail.com] On 09/17/2013 07:57 PM, Mark Allums wrote: Does anyone but me have experience using Adaptec RAID cards? The Debian aacraid driver didn't support a 7805 card the last time I checked. I installed the driver from the Adaptec web site

RE: Driver installation

2013-09-17 Thread Mark Allums
-Original Message- From: Mark Allums [mailto:m...@allums.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2013 2:28 PM To: 'Rares Aioanei' Subject: RE: Driver installation The Debian aacraid driver didn't support a 7805 card the last time I checked. I installed the driver from the Adaptec

RE: Driver installation

2013-09-17 Thread Mark Allums
On 09/17/2013 10:42 PM, Mark Allums wrote: My mistake. No, this is the same driver that won't install. I saw the 15th, and thought Sept., but it was August. Thanks, though. Any other suggestions welcome. Mark IIRC, you had issues with a compilation from source. The link I gave

RE: Driver installation

2013-09-17 Thread Mark Allums
My mistake. No, this is the same driver that won't install. I saw the 15th, and thought Sept., but it was August. Thanks, though. Any other suggestions welcome. Mark From: Mark Allums [mailto:m...@allums.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2013 2:31 PM To: 'Rares Aioanei' Cc: debian

RE: swapper tainted

2013-09-17 Thread Mark Allums
From: Jim Green [mailto:student.northwest...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2013 7:35 PM To: emmanuel segura Cc: Rares Aioanei; Debian Users Subject: Re: swapper tainted On 17 September 2013 18:58, emmanuel segura emi2f...@gmail.com wrote: Read this link

RE: RedHat and MariaDB

2013-06-16 Thread Mark Allums
From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [mailto:h...@debian.org] The Debian way is to provide mariadb packages, and keep providing Oracle mysql packages. We'll do away with Oracle mysql when the day comes that it is unfeasible or extremely undesireable to keep providing them, or nobody wants to

RE: RedHat and MariaDB

2013-06-16 Thread Mark Allums
From: Miles Fidelman [mailto:mfidel...@meetinghouse.net] This is essentially what the consensus of the discussions I have seen boils down to. Some distributions, such as Fedora, are switching. It's an either/or. Debian appears to prefer to let the marketplace decide (marketplace here

RedHat and MariaDB

2013-06-14 Thread Mark Allums
Slashdot and others have reported that RedHat, like Fedora and OpenSuSE, is switching from MySQL to MariaDB. I expect Debian will follow suit, since they have set precedents many times for preferring free software. (Example: OpenOffice.org == LibreOffice.) Has this been discussed? Does

RE: RedHat and MariaDB

2013-06-14 Thread Mark Allums
Kumar Appaiah: On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 08:01:27PM -0500, Mark Allums wrote: Slashdot and others have reported that RedHat, like Fedora and OpenSuSE, is switching from MySQL to MariaDB. I expect Debian will follow suit, since they have set precedents many times for preferring free software

RE: recommend a laser printer

2013-05-16 Thread Mark Allums
I'm trying to buy a black and white laser printer for a family member running Wheezy. Can anybody recommend one that you've purchased recently, which used native cups drivers available in Wheezy, which cost $100US or less? HP printers may or may not be high quality (that is subjective),

RE: Kernel 3.8 + nvidia?

2013-05-15 Thread Mark Allums
On a Dell Precision M4600 laptop, I installed a clean Wheezy release, installed nvidia drivers along with the dkms packages that go with. Because of network driver trouble, I took the kernel from sid. After that, everything works fine. I mean, video is fine. Networking still a problem. Here

RE: debian sid, kernel 3.8 and volume group not found.

2013-05-15 Thread Mark Allums
have you tried adding the rootdelay=6 to your kernel command line? It works with rootdelay. I need it in my desktop while in the laptop there's no need of rootdelay. I will try this forthwith. Thanks for the tip. Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

RE: UPDATE: goodbye-microsoft.com Test Install

2013-05-13 Thread Mark Allums
From: Richard Owlett Carl Fink wrote: On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 11:04:20PM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: All things considered, everything went quite smoothly. Cool. Now if only there was an equivalent goodbye-android.com for my tablet ... AGREED. I bought an Android Tablet

RE: Wheezy Sleezy Gnome

2013-05-12 Thread Mark Allums
My old laptop (the one I'm writing this on) has squeeze with gnome 2.30.2. Is there anyway to get an actual gnome *desktop* on wheezy sans all this metro-esque crap? MATE. Tell all your friends: http://mate-desktop.org http://wiki.mate-desktop.org/download -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

RE: Debian 7 Wheezy Stable Relelased

2013-05-09 Thread Mark Allums
DRM ebooks will not work that way (unless you strip them of course), and the publishing industry has not yet followed the music industry on DRM Anyone who runs Wine can install Adobe Digital Editions, which will allow download of compatible files without the Kobo software. Also, the Debian

RE: Debian 7 Wheezy Stable Relelased

2013-05-09 Thread Mark Allums
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 3:03 PM, Mark Allums m...@allums.com wrote: DRM ebooks will not work that way (unless you strip them of course), and the publishing industry has not yet followed the music industry on DRM Anyone who runs Wine can install Adobe Digital Editions, which will allow

RE: Debian 7 Wheezy Stable Relelased

2013-05-09 Thread Mark Allums
On Thu, May 09, 2013 at 05:03:42PM -0500, Mark Allums wrote: Anyone who runs Wine can install Adobe Digital Editions, which will allow download of compatible files without the Kobo software. Also, the Debian version of the Kobo software runs fine on 32-bit, I have it installed on my

RE: Kernel 3.8 + nvidia?

2013-05-09 Thread Mark Allums
I upgraded yesterday, and also installed 3.8. I was wondering, has anyone else run into issues with the nvidia drivers with this kernel? I realize I have a kind of franken-driver situation: ii glx-alternative-nvidia 0.3.0 amd64allows the

RE: Debian 7 Wheezy Stable Relelased

2013-05-08 Thread Mark Allums
and my Kobo Touch eReader absolutely refuses to interface with Linux or even Windows XP running in VirtualBox. Kind of hypocritcal of Kobo since the OS that drives the reader is Linux. B There is a .deb available unofficially for Kobo from Kobo. They will send you a dropbox link for it

RE: Strange things going on in Sid

2013-05-08 Thread Mark Allums
Re: Strange things going on in Sid On Wed, 08 May 2013 11:30:20 -0400 Frank McCormick debianl...@videotron.ca wrote: After fixing a networking problem this morning, I attempted to update my Sid system. I am dumbfounded at the number of packages apt wants to remove, including

RE: Strange things going on in Sid

2013-05-08 Thread Mark Allums
This is why people should wait six months before switching to jessie, and why sid is only for the experienced, the hard core, and those who don't mind serious breakage leading to reinstalls. I was bitten by the bad kernel, and as a side effect, it rendered X unusable as well. No matter

RE: Upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy fails

2013-05-06 Thread Mark Allums
-Gnome 3 will not run. Default Gnome is very limited in this machine. Make sure Gnome's Classic mode (AKA, fallback mode) is installed. There is a package for that. Consider installing MATE instead (Google for it.) They recently released a new version which runs very smoothly. MATE is a

RE: wheezy install missing contrib and non-free

2013-05-06 Thread Mark Allums
Hello. I did a fresh install of Debian 7.0.0 (Wheezy), using the debian-7.0.0-amd64-i386-netinst.iso. In the past , during the install process, it would ask if the user wanted to include the contrib and non-free repositiories. Not this time. The install went okay, but only included

RE: Debian in the sunshine?

2013-05-06 Thread Mark Allums
I'm a long-time user of Debian, and also have an e-paper ebook reader. It occurs to me that something like a Debian laptop with an e-ink screen would be extremely useful, for, say, sitting on a sunny back porch in the summer and programming -- a situation where the normal luminous screens

RE: wheezy install missing contrib and non-free

2013-05-06 Thread Mark Allums
What's missing? AFAIU, anything that is in main doesn't require anything from contrib or non-free -- if it did then it wouldn't be in main. Mainly, non-free firmware binaries. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

RE: RE: Upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy fails

2013-05-06 Thread Mark Allums
Gnome-session-fallback is installed. Classic Gnome is in the login menu. My comments relate to that. Not sure what you mean by 'default profile'. My guess is ~/.bashrc since I don't have a ~/.profile. I think the relevant section of ~/.bashrc is: # enable color support of ls and also

release of Wheezy, rise of Jessie?

2013-04-04 Thread Mark Allums
A release is imminent, is it not? In the next two-to-three weeks? Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/01ce3122$1bdcb020$53961060$@allums.com

RE: release of Wheezy, rise of Jessie?

2013-04-04 Thread Mark Allums
From: Darac Marjal [mailto:mailingl...@darac.org.uk] On Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 05:49:38AM -0500, Mark Allums wrote: A release is imminent, is it not? In the next two-to-three weeks? Imminent? Yes. In the next two-to-three weeks? Maybe. Wheezy will be release when the number at the top

RE: newer kernels from experimental?

2013-03-14 Thread Mark Allums
From: Johan Grönqvist [mailto:johan.gronqv...@gmail.com] 2013-03-14 02:00, Brad Alexander skrev: [...] sid is still sporting the 3.2.x kernel. [...] I would like to play with some of the newer features from the later 3.x kernels from experimental, [...] I was wondering if anyone is

RE: debian wheezy amd64 freeze

2013-02-25 Thread Mark Allums
No idea for your logs, but I bet the problem come from your GPU drivers or Xorg. It sounds like this computer uses a NVidia GPU, so I guess your driver is currently nouveau. Do you still have the crash if you use NVidia's drivers? (it is in non-free) My video card is a GeForce 650M with the

RE: Moving Chromebook from Ubuntu Precise to Debian Squeeze (and eventually Wheezy)

2013-02-24 Thread Mark Allums
-Original Message- From: Dom [mailto:to...@rpdom.net] Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2013 12:43 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Moving Chromebook from Ubuntu Precise to Debian Squeeze (and eventually Wheezy) On 23/02/13 23:25, Mark Allums wrote: Hi, all. I

RE: Gnome classic theme for 7?

2013-02-23 Thread Mark Allums
Is there a Gnome classic theme for Debian 7? Thanks, John -- John Conover, cono...@rahul.net, http://www.johncon.com/ Do you mean icon and desktop theme for Gnome 3, or a version of Gnome 2, or something else? The answer is complicated. Gnome 3 has a classic mode in 3.0

RE: [OT] possible USB virus?

2013-02-23 Thread Mark Allums
-Original Message- From: lina [mailto:lina.lastn...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2013 9:00 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: [OT] possible USB virus? On Saturday 23,February,2013 10:35 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 02:36:13PM

Moving Chromebook from Ubuntu Precise to Debian Squeeze (and eventually Wheezy)

2013-02-23 Thread Mark Allums
Hi, all. I possess an ARM Chromebook, and was not smart enough to get Debian onto it using instructions from the Web, but I found I could follow the Ubuntu-based instructions, and I successfully installed Ubuntu 12.04 for ARM on a 64GB SDXC card. Is there a decent way to leverage Ubuntu over

RE: [OT] possible USB virus?

2013-02-23 Thread Mark Allums
FYI, a few USB storage things were known to irrevocably become Windows devices once used on Windows. Are you kidding? I really experienced that a brand new USB stick once completely gets broken. The dealer sent me a new one, regarding to the warranty claim. I can't remember if I used the

RE: How to become a Windows device? (Was: possible USB virus?)

2013-02-23 Thread Mark Allums
Hello, On Sat, 23 Feb 2013 17:09:53 -0600 Mark Allums m...@allums.com wrote: FYI, a few USB storage things were known to irrevocably become Windows devices once used on Windows. This is rare now. However, if you reformatted and it seems to work now, forget about it. Please can

RE: Open new session with same user (in GDM)

2013-02-22 Thread Mark Allums
How about running two different DMs? Isn't that what that's for? Can't have competing DMs like KDM, GDM, and LightDM. But why shouldn't LXDE and e17 run at the same time? Or Xfce4 and Xfce4 and Gnome and Xfce4? (I assume you mean DEs, not DMs. Or we might as well want to run 2 inits!

RE: Open new session with same user (in GDM)

2013-02-22 Thread Mark Allums
From: Morel Bérenger [mailto:berenger.mo...@neutralite.org] It would generalize the principle, but it's a bit like multiple inheritance in C++ vs. single inheritance plus multiple interfaces in Java. Multiple is nice, but it really is a can of worms, which Java tries to sidestep.

RE: Debian 7

2013-02-22 Thread Mark Allums
-Original Message- From: Chris Bannister [mailto:cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz] Sent: Friday, February 22, 2013 9:56 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Debian 7 On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 08:51:17PM +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Some people will say that

RE: Open new session with same user (in GDM)

2013-02-20 Thread Mark Allums
-Original Message- From: Kent West [mailto:we...@acu.edu] Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 4:52 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Open new session with same user (in GDM) On 02/20/2013 04:07 PM, Alois Mahdal wrote: Hello to all! How do I create two

RE: Open new session with same user (in GDM)

2013-02-20 Thread Mark Allums
Le 21/02/2013 00:32, Mark Allums a écrit : From: Kent West [mailto:we...@acu.edu] On 02/20/2013 04:07 PM, Alois Mahdal wrote: Hello to all! How do I create two same-user sessions from GDM? Say I'm logged in in Xfce (which I normally use, therefore have many windows / apps open

RE: whether to install Squeeze or Wheezy

2013-02-06 Thread Mark Allums
Hello list, I am planning to install Debian on somewhat dated hardware: Intel T2300 1.66Ghz, 1 gb RAM. I have used Ubuntu in the past and would like to move up to something more stable and snappy. I will be using my laptop to mostly output (digital) music to my amp, web browsing, office and

RE: Anybody have a chromebook? Can it run Debian?

2013-02-02 Thread Mark Allums
From: Chris Bannister [mailto:cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz] On Sat, Feb 02, 2013 at 09:06:55PM -0600, zxcvbob wrote: I have a different model Chromebook with an Atom processor and a SSD. It should run Debian just fine; I have Debian on an older netbook, but good luck installing it! (My info

RE: Steam on Debian

2013-01-31 Thread Mark Allums
will be expanding their distro support any time soon. Looks to me like they engaged Ubuntu some time ago to get the compiled in support they wanted. Regards Tom On 31 January 2013 00:53, Mark Allums m...@allums.com wrote: Is there any (un)official Debian Steam client? Has anyone (but me

RE: Steam on Debian

2013-01-31 Thread Mark Allums
From: David Guntner [mailto:dav...@akamail.net] Mark Allums grabbed a keyboard and wrote: I tried and failed, but I didn't spend more than a couple of hours on it. I never managed to completely fix the dependency chain for getting the Ubuntu package to install cleanly. Do you have any

RE: Steam on Debian

2013-01-31 Thread Mark Allums
From: Frank Lanitz [mailto:fr...@frank.uvena.de] Am 30.01.2013 23:53, schrieb Mark Allums: Is there any word on the eventual ship date of such a thing as installing Steam, or any news at all concerning it and Debian? From my point fo view you might want to check with folks behind Steam

RE: Steam on Debian [mostly SOLVED]

2013-01-31 Thread Mark Allums
From: Renaud Casenave-Péré [mailto:ren...@casenave-pere.fr] Hi, You can follow this tutorial from Sam Hocevar (former DPL) : http://steamcommunity.com/app/221410/discussions/1/846939071205530634/ Following this method, I got Steam partially running. The games that were previously loaded

RE: Steam on Debian

2013-01-31 Thread Mark Allums
From: David Guntner [mailto:dav...@akamail.net] Mark Allums grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Thanks for your reply. I am a bit skeptical that many distributions will be officially supported. Certainly Ubuntu and direct derivatives, possibly Debian and direct derivatives, probably Fedora

Steam on Debian

2013-01-30 Thread Mark Allums
Is there any (un)official Debian Steam client? Has anyone (but me) gotten the native Steam client running well in Debian? I had it running briefly through a great deal of manual labor, but I changed my configurations several times, and now I am prohibited from installing the Ubuntu .deb because

RE: moving from Kubuntu 10.4 to squeeze

2013-01-27 Thread Mark Allums
-Original Message- From: Martin Steigerwald [mailto:mar...@lichtvoll.de] So I suggest Wheezy to you as well. Spares you an upgrade (which is nothing to be scared about in Debian, really, in case you need a help with an upgrade or have an issue, just ask here, I never saw a Debian

32-bit to 64-bit

2013-01-24 Thread Mark Allums
Can one do this? Not: Is this easy, but merely: Is this something that is feasible? I have a 32-bit system that I would like to migrate into 64-bitness within the same basic framework, within the same install. That is, can I go from 32-bit kernel-arch + 32-bit userland = 64-bit kernel-arch +

RE: 32-bit to 64-bit

2013-01-24 Thread Mark Allums
From: Gary Dale [mailto:garyd...@rogers.com] I have a 32-bit system that I would like to migrate into 64-bitness within the same basic framework, within the same install. That is, can I go from 32-bit kernel-arch + 32-bit userland = 64-bit kernel-arch + 32-bit userland = 64-bit

RE: 32-bit to 64-bit

2013-01-24 Thread Mark Allums
From: Sven Joachim [mailto:svenj...@gmx.de] On 2013-01-24 14:51 +0100, Mark Allums wrote: Can one do this? Not: Is this easy, but merely: Is this something that is feasible? I have a 32-bit system that I would like to migrate into 64-bitness within the same basic framework, within

RE: moving from Kubuntu 10.4 to squeeze

2013-01-24 Thread Mark Allums
From: Mike McGinn [mailto:mikemcg...@mcginnweb.net] I have a Dell Inspiron 1545 laptop with 4G of RAM and have been a 'buntu user since release 7.04. With each release of the new OS from Kubuntu I have been less and less happy with the so called quality and I am planning a move to Debian.

RE: [Followup]: Basic USB Automounter?

2013-01-24 Thread Mark Allums
From: Patrick Bartek [mailto:bartek...@yahoo.com] Also, someone suggested usbmount, which I was aware of, but in my reading, it said that it would only mount thumb and external USB hard drives, and not flash cards using a reader.  I never tested to see if this were true. In my experience, SD

RE: 32-bit to 64-bit

2013-01-24 Thread Mark Allums
From: Sven Joachim [mailto:svenj...@gmx.de] On 2013-01-24 17:51 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2013-01-24 16:58 +0100, Kelly Clowers wrote: On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 6:51 AM, Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote: I have crossgraded some packages in i386 chroots that way, but in the

Gnome 3 Fallback Mode forked

2013-01-20 Thread Mark Allums
Slashdot reported that SolusOS has announced a fork of the Gnome 3 Fallback Mode. It is designed to bring back the mode that was cut from Gnome 3 with version 3.8. Like the original fallback mode, it uses gtk3 and does not require hardware acceleration. It also allows a lot of old GNOME 2

RE: Gnome 3 Fallback Mode forked

2013-01-20 Thread Mark Allums
From: Ralf Mardorf [mailto:ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net] Just my personal preference. I switched to Xfce, but I'm still using applications from bloated DEs I used in the past, IOW I still use KDE and GNOME apps. By doing this I run into serious issues on latest Xubuntu. I guess the apps are

RE: Gnome 3 Fallback Mode forked

2013-01-20 Thread Mark Allums
From: Yaro Kasear [mailto:y...@marupa.net] On 01/20/2013 06:35 AM, Mark Allums wrote: Slashdot reported that SolusOS has announced a fork of the Gnome 3 Fallback Mode. It is designed to bring back the mode that was cut from Gnome 3 with version 3.8. Like the original fallback mode

RE: debian 64 or 32 bit

2013-01-18 Thread Mark Allums
So, for processors able to support x84_64 archs, use it. Why would you use only a fragment of your computer's power? There is one disadvantage, i read about it, that by using the 64bit pointers, the binaries size and memory requirements are on amd64 higher, than on i386. But bigger HDD

RE: 32-bit Kernel on 64-bit CPU?

2013-01-18 Thread Mark Allums
This is a problem with qemu. I seem to have missed the line about except 64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts Reloading with the amd64 iso image has resolved the problems. I just allocated 3073 MB to a vm with no problem. Doing that is at least theoretically possible with hardware virtualization

RE: [1/2OT] how to delete ??? file

2013-01-18 Thread Mark Allums
On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 08:48:10PM +0800, lina wrote: It's well maintained, at least far better than other boxes I met before. Just it might be my fault, long long time ago, I might chmod blindly at that time. I thought of chmod, so why not just try chmod/chown back? You might still

RE: Wheezy Installer Auto-Partition Oddity

2013-01-06 Thread Mark Allums
From: Patrick Bartek [mailto:bartek...@yahoo.com] From: Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Patrick Bartek bartek...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Roger Leigh rle...@codelibre.net LVM does not use unpartitioned space for anything TTBOMK. It uses physical volumes (PVs) which

RE: ISO downloads are corrupted

2013-01-06 Thread Mark Allums
From: Sthu Deus [mailto:sthu.d...@gmail.com] Good time of the day, Markos. You wrote: I made several attempts to download the CD1 and CD2 debian-6.0.6-i386-CD-1.iso and debian-6.0.6-i386-CD-2.iso but in all 4 attempts the file presented problems in md5sum check. I used Ex: wget -nc

RE: Wheezy Installer Auto-Partition Oddity

2013-01-03 Thread Mark Allums
From: Bonno Bloksma [mailto:b.blok...@tio.nl] To: Patrick Bartek; debian-user@lists.debian.org Hi Patrick, In preparation of a clean install of Wheezy, I did a test install in VirtualBox 3.1.8 running under  Fedora 12 64-bit. To save time, I used the installer's default partitioning

RE: Is this OK in C++ and C?

2013-01-02 Thread Mark Allums
Joe Pfeiffer : int main() { const unsigned int n = -5; cout The variable n is: n endl; return 0; } Results: $ g++ -Wall -W prog.cpp -o prog $ ./prog The variable n is: 4294967291 This is expected behavior, but not defined by the standard because the result is not portable. That

RE: Is this OK in C++ and C?

2013-01-02 Thread Mark Allums
From: Mark Allums [mailto:m...@allums.com] int main() { const unsigned int n = -5; cout The variable n is: n endl; return 0; } Results: $ g++ -Wall -W prog.cpp -o prog $ ./prog The variable n is: 4294967291 This is expected behavior, but not defined by the standard because

RE: Is this OK in C++ and C?

2013-01-01 Thread Mark Allums
Joe Pfeiffer Jari Fredriksson ja...@iki.fi writes: 31.12.2012 20:33, Zbigniew Komarnicki kirjoitti: Is this OK or is this a bug, when the wariable 'n' is initializing by negative value? There no any warning. Is this normal? I know that value -5 is converted to unsigned but probably

RE: Is this OK in C++ and C?

2013-01-01 Thread Mark Allums
Is this OK or is this a bug, when the wariable 'n' is initializing by negative value? There no any warning. Is this normal? I know that value -5 is converted to unsigned but probably this should by printed a warning, when this is a constant value. What do you think about this? //

RE: adobe reader + multiarch

2012-12-25 Thread Mark Allums
Claudius, Mark Allums m...@allums.com wrote: Of course replace the mirror example I gave with the exact mirror repository he needs to use. But the point is the [arch=arch,arch] bit. This is generally not necessary, unless you want to _restrict_ the architectures for which APT checks

RE: adobe reader + multiarch

2012-12-24 Thread Mark Allums
Hugo Vanwoerkom hvw59...@care2.com wrote: Claudius, unfortunately it did not: Has he actually run #dpkg --add-architecture i386 #apt-get update ? He can also add/edit /etc/apt/sources.list to contain the line: deb [arch=amd64, i386] http://ftp.somemirror.debian.org wheezy main contrib

RE: adobe reader + multiarch

2012-12-24 Thread Mark Allums
Hugo Vanwoerkom hvw59...@care2.com wrote: Claudius, unfortunately it did not: Has he actually run #dpkg --add-architecture i386 #apt-get update ? He can also add/edit /etc/apt/sources.list to contain the line: deb [arch=amd64, i386] http://ftp.somemirror.debian.org wheezy main

RE: restructuring the hard drive

2012-12-20 Thread Mark Allums
On Thu, 2012-12-20 at 19:52 +0100, Gergely 'Dinchamion' Fazekas wrote: Hey guys, I'm using Debian Testing, and my laptop is set up with a dual-boot system using WinXP and Debian. The hard drive is divided almost half-and-half, but since I no longer use Windows (it has been weeks since

RE: Is it possible to install nowadays on Debian SID the LibreOffice 3.6.4?

2012-12-19 Thread Mark Allums
Mark Allums m...@allums.com writes: On 2012-12-17 21:41 +0100, Csanyi Pal wrote: [ snipped ] Typically, the dependencies of experimental packages are not sorted out properly, so installing them can be a trial. I routinely install package from experimental, and from my experience, I

RE: Upgrading Wheezy Beta to Wheezy Stable?

2012-12-18 Thread Mark Allums
[1] at this moment wheezy *is* 'testing' and you can use either in sources.list. They will start to differ only when wheezy is released (becomes 'stable') at which point jenny will be 'testing'. 'Jessie'? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

RE: Yast for debian

2012-12-17 Thread Mark Allums
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 6:11 AM, Davide Mirtillo dav...@ser-tec.org wrote: Il 17/12/2012 12:57, Muhammad Yousuf Khan ha scritto: On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Jon Dowland j...@debian.org wrote: On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 04:17:56PM +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: is there any tool equivalent

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