Re: Laptops, UEFI, Secure Boot and Debian

2015-05-26 Thread Petter Adsen
On Tue, 26 May 2015 11:18:00 +0200 Petter Adsen pet...@synth.no wrote: Second, virtual machines these days are incredibly easy to set up and use. Steve Litt posted a link to an introductory article on qemu/KVM here very recently, I suggest that as a starting point. There is a Sorry about

Re: mixer.app ; how do i use it after installing it with aptitude?

2015-05-25 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sun, 24 May 2015 14:46:34 -0600 Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net wrote: I found a .deb package, named 'mixer.app' by accident in aptitude interactive mode. My current sound mixer is the one installed by xfce, which uses much to much area on my display screen for my taste. (about

Re: Laptops, UEFI, Secure Boot and Debian

2015-05-25 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sun, 24 May 2015 17:39:08 -0700 Patrick Bartek nemomm...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 24 May 2015, Petter Adsen wrote: On Sat, 23 May 2015 12:46:10 -0700 Patrick Bartek nemomm...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, 23 May 2015, Petter Adsen wrote: On Sat, 23 May 2015 09:04:55 -0700

Re: Laptops, UEFI, Secure Boot and Debian

2015-05-25 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sun, 24 May 2015 20:31:40 -0700 Patrick Bartek nemomm...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 24 May 2015, Paul E Condon wrote: [BIG snip] Two comments: 1) I saw a few days ago, an NewEgg.com advert. for a specialized HD/SSD combo. from Western Digital. It is a drop-in replacement for a

Definitely straying: Was: Re: Danger of stray : in PATH, Re: Problem Running Application with Alias

2015-05-25 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sun, 24 May 2015 21:03:38 -0600 Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: David Wright wrote: Quoting Petter Adsen: PS: What _are_ the security implications of having a PATH set to /foo/bar:? ... $ cd /home/evilperson/malicious-programs/ $ emaca (oops, I mistyped emacs. Funny, why

Re: Laptops, UEFI, Secure Boot and Debian

2015-05-25 Thread Petter Adsen
On Tue, 26 May 2015 12:23:25 +0800 Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: On 26/05/2015, Stuart Longland stua...@longlandclan.yi.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 24/05/15 19:03, Petter Adsen wrote: If both Wheezy and Trusty are installed in legacy mode

Re: IP performance question

2015-05-24 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sun, 24 May 2015 13:20:04 +0300 Reco recovery...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. On Sun, 24 May 2015 11:28:36 +0200 Petter Adsen pet...@synth.no wrote: On Sun, 24 May 2015 10:36:39 +0200 Petter Adsen pet...@synth.no wrote: I've been trying to improve NFS performance at home

Re: IP performance question

2015-05-24 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sun, 24 May 2015 12:02:32 +0300 Reco recovery...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. On Sun, 24 May 2015 10:36:39 +0200 Petter Adsen pet...@synth.no wrote: I've been trying to improve NFS performance at home, and in that process i ran iperf to get an overview of general network performance. I

Re: No sound at boot

2015-05-24 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sun, 24 May 2015 04:12:03 -0500 Mark Allums m...@allums.top wrote: Try to run lsmod | grep snd, and add the modules that snd-hda-intel depend on before the line loading it in the relevant file in /etc/modules-load.d or in /etc/modules. root@persephone:~# lsmod | grep snd

Re: IP performance question

2015-05-24 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sun, 24 May 2015 13:26:52 +0200 Petter Adsen pet...@synth.no wrote: Thanks to you, I now get ~880Mbps, which is a lot better. It seems increasing the MTU was what had the most effect, so I won't bother with TCP window size. Now, this is a little odd: petter@monster:/etc$ iperf -i 1 -c

Re: No sound at boot

2015-05-24 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sun, 24 May 2015 07:07:29 -0500 Mark Allums m...@allums.top wrote: On 05/24/2015 04:50 AM, Petter Adsen wrote: On Sun, 24 May 2015 04:12:03 -0500 Mark Allums m...@allums.top wrote: Try to run lsmod | grep snd, and add the modules that snd-hda-intel depend on before the line loading

IP performance question

2015-05-24 Thread Petter Adsen
I've been trying to improve NFS performance at home, and in that process i ran iperf to get an overview of general network performance. I have two Jessie hosts connected to a dumb switch with Cat-5e. One host uses a Realtek RTL8169 PCI controller, and the other has an Intel 82583V on the

Re: Laptops, UEFI, Secure Boot and Debian

2015-05-24 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sun, 24 May 2015 16:12:50 +0800 Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: Oh, and one thing that I forgot to mention, is that, due to the immovable files, the Microshite Windows 8.x installation occupies about 250GB of unusable disk space. Now, it has occurred to me that it could be a good

Re: SOLVED: Re: Logitech M545 button mappings

2015-05-24 Thread Petter Adsen
Ooops! A small correction for people looking through the archives and reading this: On Tue, 19 May 2015 11:50:12 +0200 Petter Adsen pet...@synth.no wrote: Create /etc/udev/hwdb.d/90-logitech-m-545.hwdb with following: # Logitech M545 keyboard:usb:v046DpC52B* KEYBOARD_KEY_70007=back

Re: Boot menu entries

2015-05-24 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sat, 23 May 2015 20:27:39 -0500 Emil Payne ehspa...@yahoo.com wrote: On 05/22/2015 04:56 PM, Brian wrote: On Fri 22 May 2015 at 16:24:29 -0500, Emil Payne wrote: On 05/22/2015 03:24 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: $ uname -r 3.9-1-amd64 Don't remove the running kernel nor the latest

Re: No sound at boot

2015-05-24 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sun, 24 May 2015 01:39:25 -0500 Mark Allums m...@allums.top wrote: 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

Re: Need SAS HBA for Debian Jessie

2015-05-24 Thread Petter Adsen
On Fri, 22 May 2015 18:37:05 -0700 (PDT) Leslie Rhorer lrho...@mygrande.net wrote: On Monday, May 18, 2015 at 5:40:05 AM UTC-5, Petter Adsen wrote: On Sat, 16 May 2015 05:38:30 -0700 (PDT) I am sorry if this is a dumb question, Not at all. but if this is a home system, why can

Re: HELP- very slow download speeds

2015-05-24 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sun, 24 May 2015 00:27:02 -0700 Gary Roach gary719_li...@verizon.net wrote: On 05/22/2015 01:19 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: Darac Marjal wrote: Gary Roach wrote: When I start a download, it starts at 50M for the first few seconds and then drops to 500K to 100K range. Finally, don't rule

Re: Laptops, UEFI, Secure Boot and Debian

2015-05-23 Thread Petter Adsen
On Fri, 22 May 2015 23:53:14 -0700 Patrick Bartek nemomm...@gmail.com wrote: Researching a laptop purchase (within the next 6 months or so) to replace my aging Desktop (1 to 8.5 years depending on which parts). Going to abandoned the Big Box forever. Need to be very portable in the next

Re: discuss debian 's attitude to ppa

2015-05-23 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sat, 23 May 2015 15:13:33 +0800 mudongliang mudonglianga...@hotmail.com wrote: On 05/23/2015 02:37 PM, Dalios wrote: That said you can try to install the .deb package with other ways (for example using gdebi) but the main drawback (apart from any inconsistencies already mentioned) is

Re: discuss debian 's attitude to ppa

2015-05-23 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sat, 23 May 2015 16:28:19 +0800 mudongliang mudonglianga...@hotmail.com wrote: On 05/23/2015 03:28 PM, Petter Adsen wrote: The major problem with using a ppa is that the software has not been vetted by the Debian project. It could contain malware or other security problems

Re: Problem Running Application with Alias

2015-05-23 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sat, 23 May 2015 09:36:31 -0400 Sephen P. Molnar s.mol...@sbcglobal.net wrote: VI am running Wheezy (v-7.8.0) in a VM and have encountered rather a strange problem .with an application, MOPAC (a well established quantum chemistry program). The application is installed in /opt/mopac

Re: KVM switch: DVI-D, DVI-I or vga?

2015-05-23 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sat, 23 May 2015 10:30:33 -0400 German gentger...@gmail.com wrote: Hi list, I am shopping locally here for a good KVM switch. For now, I am not even sure what type should I get. What are advantages to have DVI instead of VGA interface? Are there any justifications in price? VGA KVM is

udev hwdb question

2015-05-23 Thread Petter Adsen
In followup to the question I asked about a Logitech mouse a couple of days ago; I can add a file in /etc/udev/hwdb.d and remap a binding as such: KEYBOARD_KEY_70007=back But where can I find a list of what I can map them _to_ (ie, the back in this example)? Petter -- I'm ionized Are you

Re: KVM switch: DVI-D, DVI-I or vga?

2015-05-23 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sat, 23 May 2015 11:17:18 -0400 German gentger...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, 23 May 2015 16:53:37 +0200 Petter Adsen pet...@synth.no wrote: On Sat, 23 May 2015 10:30:33 -0400 German gentger...@gmail.com wrote: Hi list, I am shopping locally here for a good KVM switch

Re: Laptops, UEFI, Secure Boot and Debian

2015-05-23 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sat, 23 May 2015 09:04:55 -0700 Patrick Bartek nemomm...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, 23 May 2015, Petter Adsen wrote: On Fri, 22 May 2015 23:53:14 -0700 Patrick Bartek nemomm...@gmail.com wrote: Researching a laptop purchase (within the next 6 months or so) to replace my aging

Re: Laptops, UEFI, Secure Boot and Debian

2015-05-23 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sat, 23 May 2015 12:46:10 -0700 Patrick Bartek nemomm...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, 23 May 2015, Petter Adsen wrote: On Sat, 23 May 2015 09:04:55 -0700 Patrick Bartek nemomm...@gmail.com wrote: I've read about that, but right now until W10 in its final form is release, nobody really

Re: Problem Running Application with Alias

2015-05-23 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sat, 23 May 2015 14:28:54 -0600 Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: Petter Adsen wrote: On Sat, 23 May 2015 09:36:31 -0400 LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/mopac/MOPAC2012.exe:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH This is an obvious thing that jumps out at me, this line should be: LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/mopac

Re: No sound at boot

2015-05-23 Thread Petter Adsen
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 working at boot. Of course, the first thing I

Logitech M545 button mappings

2015-05-19 Thread Petter Adsen
I bought one of these mice yesterday, it's comfortable, but exhibiting strange behaviour. It has two thumb buttons, like the mouse I had before, but they're not mapped to button presses, but to keyboard events. When I press them, I get this: KeyPress event, serial 28, synthetic NO, window

SOLVED: Re: Logitech M545 button mappings

2015-05-19 Thread Petter Adsen
On Tue, 19 May 2015 11:04:52 +0200 Sven Arvidsson s...@whiz.se wrote: On Tue, 2015-05-19 at 08:49 +0200, Petter Adsen wrote: I bought one of these mice yesterday, it's comfortable, but exhibiting strange behaviour. It has two thumb buttons, like the mouse I had before, but they're

Re: jesse partitioner

2015-05-19 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sat, 16 May 2015 17:16:20 +0200 Petter Adsen pet...@synth.no wrote: On Sat, 16 May 2015 10:24:52 -0400 Bob McKittrick mckitt1...@gmail.com wrote: after installing jesse and it boots, the bios kicks out the drive. I What do you mean by the bios kicks out the drive? What happens

Re: strange booting behavior

2015-05-18 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sun, 17 May 2015 16:56:20 + gofloss gofloss goflos...@gmail.com wrote: On 5/17/15, Petter Adsen pet...@synth.no wrote: On Sun, 17 May 2015 05:42:40 + gofloss gofloss goflos...@gmail.com wrote: the thumb drive is quick to describe. it's in the bios boot sequence, but even

Re: Need SAS HBA for Debian Jessie

2015-05-18 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sat, 16 May 2015 05:38:30 -0700 (PDT) Leslie Rhorer lrho...@mygrande.net wrote: On Sunday, May 3, 2015 at 10:30:03 PM UTC-5, Bob Bernstein wrote: On Sun, 3 May 2015, Leslie Rhorer wrote: Many specifically list SuSe and Red Hat, but very few list Debian [...] And you have your

Re: RAID question

2015-05-18 Thread Petter Adsen
On Mon, 18 May 2015 07:29:06 -0400 Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI ren...@olgiati-in-paraguay.org wrote: I want to run two pairs of HDs as software RAID 1 arrays, using mdadm. Is there any point in declaring the HDs as RAID in the BIOS too ? No. :) Petter -- I'm ionized Are you sure? I'm positive.

Re: strange booting behavior

2015-05-17 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sun, 17 May 2015 05:42:40 + gofloss gofloss goflos...@gmail.com wrote: snip the thumb drive is quick to describe. it's in the bios boot sequence, but even though i put grub on it, it doesn't boot. it just defaults to the next item on the sequence. so perhaps my computer is not

Re: jesse partitioner

2015-05-16 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sat, 16 May 2015 10:24:52 -0400 Bob McKittrick mckitt1...@gmail.com wrote: after installing jesse and it boots, the bios kicks out the drive. I What do you mean by the bios kicks out the drive? What happens, and what (if any) relevant log messages do you see? am using an asus H61M

Re: We are neophytes needing to install UBUNTU first (then after a while we'll try DEBIAN)

2015-05-13 Thread Petter Adsen
On Wed, 13 May 2015 12:08:49 +0200 Jazz Au Duc jazzodu...@gmail.com wrote: We would like to install UBUNTU , in order to work with good versions of GIMP SCRIBUS . Can you help us ? Thanks from Brittany. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation Petter -- I'm ionized Are you

Re: delete message without email client

2015-05-12 Thread Petter Adsen
readmsg, that can extract selected messages from a mailbox - maybe that would be a good place to start. It also has movemail -- extract selected messages from a mailbox, maybe it can delete as well as move - read the man page. Oh, and please don't top post. Petter Le 2015-05-12 09:18, Petter Adsen

Re: Help with ddrescue

2015-05-12 Thread Petter Adsen
On Tue, 12 May 2015 12:25:47 +0100 Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday 12 May 2015 11:38:18 German wrote: Just rereading the thread, couldn't find any. What tools to use and how to use them? You could start with the first two messages in the thread, other than yours.

Re: delete message without email client

2015-05-12 Thread Petter Adsen
On Mon, 11 May 2015 16:58:09 + Alex PADOLY apado...@padoly.besaba.com wrote: Hi, How I can do to delete message without use email client, more I would like to do that with cronjob. That all depends on where the message in question is stored. It is quite impossible to tell you

Re: Help with ddrescue

2015-05-12 Thread Petter Adsen
On Tue, 12 May 2015 06:18:34 -0400 German gentger...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 12 May 2015 08:57:28 +0100 Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday 12 May 2015 01:15:20 German wrote: Well, Wanderer, I got the drive cloned, it took three days, with no positive results. What

Re: Lid suspend problem with a Dell Laptop - Jessie

2015-05-11 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sun, 10 May 2015 17:17:58 -0400 Charles Fabbri cfabbri...@gmail.com wrote: Good Afternoon, I have weird problem with the lid switch on an old Dell Latitude D505 laptop. I did a clean install of Jessie and everything is working fine, except the lid switch freezes the computer.

Re: Returning from hijack : README.mirrors.txt small bugs

2015-05-11 Thread Petter Adsen
On Mon, 11 May 2015 09:52:50 +0100 Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: snip This thread has been thoroughly hijacked. Please, can we get back to the OP's question, which was: - I have found a small spelling bug in

syslog/collectd misidentification

2015-05-11 Thread Petter Adsen
On my Jessie box, I'm getting messages like this: May 11 10:51:54 fenris lvm[20426]: libvirt plugin: Unable to connect: virConnectOpenReadOnly failed. The message is from a collectd plugin, so I'm kind of curious as to why it identifies itself as an lvm process. PID 20426 is actually collectd,

Re: ssh tunnels or openvpn/IPsec?

2015-05-10 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sat, 9 May 2015 18:49:27 -0600 Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: Petter Adsen wrote: Now the question becomes; AFAIK, I could do this with ssh tunnels and forward the ports on my router/firewall, or I could use something like openvpn or IPsec (strongswan). Yes. Exactly. Also

ssh tunnels or openvpn/IPsec?

2015-05-09 Thread Petter Adsen
I have a VPS running Jessie, and would like to set up rsyslog to forward log messages to another Jessie box at home. At the same time, I want to set up a munin node and collectd also on the VPS, and grab data from those. Now the question becomes; AFAIK, I could do this with ssh tunnels and

Re: Rediscovering a forgotten command

2015-05-09 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sat, 09 May 2015 10:34:36 -0500 Richard Owlett rowl...@cloud85.net wrote: A few months ago I came across a command which would save all keyboard input to the current console and all output displayed on that console. That information would be saved to a default file or to a user

Re: Help with ddrescue

2015-05-09 Thread Petter Adsen
On Fri, 8 May 2015 17:15:51 -0400 German gentger...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 8 May 2015 22:05:40 +0100 Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday 08 May 2015 21:58:12 German wrote: It's happened when I was installing Lubuntu. Post hoc doesn't necessarily imply propter hoc.

Re: nfs problems

2015-05-08 Thread Petter Adsen
On Fri, 8 May 2015 00:50:24 -0400 Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: On Friday 08 May 2015 00:36:51 bri...@aracnet.com wrote: On Fri, 8 May 2015 00:03:22 -0400 Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: Greetings all; Next is the box on my cnc lathe, #3. But now, not even

Re: nfs problems

2015-05-08 Thread Petter Adsen
On Fri, 8 May 2015 06:51:43 -0400 Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: On Friday 08 May 2015 02:55:53 Petter Adsen wrote: That _is_ what you want, isn't it? root does not need write perms, but I do. If it takes root to do something, that is what the ssh -Y session as me, using sudo

Re: Debian 8 no network...

2015-05-08 Thread Petter Adsen
On Fri, 8 May 2015 14:38:53 +0200 Gábor Hársfalvi hgab...@gmail.com wrote: So you have to check your system update manager's network settings. - Where to do it? And where to setup how often do it the update? Well, what _is_ this update manager? Is it some Gnome thing? I know that Ubuntu has

Re: Colorized Prompts Problem

2015-05-04 Thread Petter Adsen
On Mon, 4 May 2015 00:02:11 -0600 Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: Petter Adsen wrote: Brad Rogers wrote: PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h\ [\033[00m\]:\[\033[01;34m\]\w\[\033[00m\]\$ ' Excuse me if this is a dumb question, but what does

Re: Upgrade to Jessie : some network problems

2015-05-04 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sun, 3 May 2015 16:24:43 +0200 Nicolas FRANCOIS nicolas.franc...@free.fr wrote: Hi. After upgrading from Wheezy to Jessie, I have a few networking problems : - I had a clear HiID on aMule before, now I get a LowID. I don't know why, I only upgraded my desktop, my router/firewall is an

Re: Failed Array prevents transition to Runlevel 2 in Jessie

2015-05-04 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sun, 3 May 2015 19:01:15 -0700 (PDT) Leslie Rhorer lrho...@mygrande.net wrote: Ah! Excellent. 'Sounds like 'nofail' it is. So I change 'defaults' to 'defaults, nofail' for the RAID array entry and run No space, so defaults,nofail. Which is probably what you meant :) Petter -- I'm

Re: sudo not respecting /etc/sudoers

2015-05-03 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sun, 3 May 2015 16:24:15 +0530 Avinash Sonawane root...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 3:58 PM, Juha Heinanen j...@tutpro.com wrote: %sudo ALL=NOPASSWD: ALL What does this line do? NOPASSWD? It lets you run commands as another user (normally root) without entering your

Re: Supported hybrid PC/tablet computers

2015-05-02 Thread Petter Adsen
On Fri, 1 May 2015 20:14:19 +0200 Nicolas George geo...@nsup.org wrote: Hi. I wrote some time ago: I would like to know if some people here have accurate knowledge on the prospect of running Debian on low- and middle-end hybrid PC/tablet computers, like Asus Transformer or Acer Aspire

Re: Changing starting directory for video players

2015-05-02 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sat, 2 May 2015 11:17:46 + (UTC) Liam O'Toole liam.p.oto...@gmail.com wrote: On 2015-05-01, Edward C. Jones edcjo...@comcast.net wrote: I use Debian 8.0 (Jessie), amd64 port, and KDE. Dragon Player has starting directory: ~Videos. VLC has starting directory: ~ KPlayer starts at

Re: Colorized Prompts Problem

2015-05-02 Thread Petter Adsen
On Fri, 1 May 2015 16:31:16 +0100 Brad Rogers b...@fineby.me.uk wrote: On Fri, 1 May 2015 11:07:46 -0400 Thomas H. George li...@tomgeorge.info wrote: Hello Thomas, I entered the following in .bashrc PS1='\033[01;33m\h:\w\$ \033[00m' to colorize the prompt (very handy to

Re: mouse cursor disappeared after upgrading from wheezy to jessie (xfce 4)

2015-05-01 Thread Petter Adsen
On Fri, 1 May 2015 08:59:40 +0200 Petter Adsen pet...@synth.no wrote: On Fri, 1 May 2015 00:37:00 -0300 Rafael Dias da Silva rafael.dias.si...@gmail.com wrote: I tried a few more tips I found but nothing brings back the cursor. I have no idea what Jessie might have done to make

Re: mouse cursor disappeared after upgrading from wheezy to jessie (xfce 4)

2015-05-01 Thread Petter Adsen
On Fri, 1 May 2015 00:37:00 -0300 Rafael Dias da Silva rafael.dias.si...@gmail.com wrote: I tried a few more tips I found but nothing brings back the cursor. I have no idea what Jessie might have done to make it disappear (it was working just fine after upgrade and before dist-upgrade).

Re: install photivo on debian jessie

2015-04-27 Thread Petter Adsen
On Mon, 27 Apr 2015 14:12:03 +0200 Robert Spiteri robs...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Sir / Madam, I wish to install Photivo in Debian Jessie but I am not managing. I already tried to install it in Debian Wheezy but got broken packages and could not sort it out. I tried to follow instructiona

Re: Can't redirect stout and stderr

2015-04-25 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sat, 25 Apr 2015 07:53:23 + Rodolfo Medina rodolfo.med...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all. My old pc has corrupt filesystem problems, and, in order to ask the present list some help about that, I need to store to a file the output of `update-grub', both stdout and stderr, but don't manage to

Re: Recommendation on video card?

2015-04-25 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sat, 25 Apr 2015 12:19:59 +0200 Nicolas George geo...@nsup.org wrote: Le sextidi 6 floréal, an CCXXIII, Igor Cicimov a écrit : Anyway, this is how I pick a card ... I go to http://www.videocardbenchmark.net and choose a card(s) from the range I'm after and then look for the best price I

Re: Can't redirect stout and stderr

2015-04-25 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sat, 25 Apr 2015 12:27:30 + Rodolfo Medina rodolfo.med...@gmail.com wrote: Nicolas George geo...@nsup.org writes: Le sextidi 6 floréal, an CCXXIII, Rodolfo Medina a écrit : file is a bashism but should work. file 21 is a typo for file 21 Both commands write onto `file'

Re: Recommendation on video card?

2015-04-25 Thread Petter Adsen
On Fri, 24 Apr 2015 12:36:15 -0400 Ric Moore wayward4...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/24/2015 03:23 AM, Petter Adsen wrote: I have an AMD HD5450 card in my desktop, which has been mostly adequate for me, but now it is time to retire it. Can anyone recommend a more recent card that works well

Re: can't automatically launch lxde

2015-04-24 Thread Petter Adsen
On Thu, 23 Apr 2015 19:00:31 -0400 James bjloc...@lockie.ca wrote: On 04/22/2015 10:42 PM, James wrote: On 04/21/2015 11:46 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 21/04/15 08:21 PM, James wrote: I installed lxde as a gui desktop but I can't get it to run automatically. I need to login as me

Recommendation on video card?

2015-04-24 Thread Petter Adsen
I have an AMD HD5450 card in my desktop, which has been mostly adequate for me, but now it is time to retire it. Can anyone recommend a more recent card that works well with X? I'm using two screens, so I will need at least two outputs - preferably digital. I have been quite happy with AMD, so

LVM question

2015-04-20 Thread Petter Adsen
Is it possible to have two VGs on the same PV? If so, how can I make a VG with lots of free space smaller? I'm suspecting that the answer to my first question is no, since this doesn't seem possible from the man pages. Petter -- I'm ionized Are you sure? I'm positive. pgpkZgFpuk4rE.pgp

Re: LVM question

2015-04-20 Thread Petter Adsen
On Mon, 20 Apr 2015 10:33:13 +0100 Darac Marjal mailingl...@darac.org.uk wrote: On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 09:26:54AM +0200, Petter Adsen wrote: Is it possible to have two VGs on the same PV? I don't believe so. The VG is the mapping layer in the LVM stack. It maps the LVs to the PVs. If you

Re: I need guidance about how to configure a newly installed Jessie ... another related question

2015-04-20 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sun, 19 Apr 2015 10:18:58 -0600 Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net wrote: On 20150419_0852-0600, Paul E Condon wrote: On 20150419_0826-0600, Paul E Condon wrote: On 20150419_0830+0200, Petter Adsen wrote: On your router, depending on make and model, there is usually a page

Re: I need guidance about how to configure a newly installed Jessie

2015-04-19 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sat, 18 Apr 2015 20:18:17 -0600 Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net wrote: On 20150418_1905-0500, David Wright wrote: Quoting Paul E Condon (pecon...@mesanetworks.net): I was running as pec or as root. I forget. Since doing that, I realized that for many years I have been

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-18 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sat, 18 Apr 2015 15:01:55 +0800 Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: On 18/04/2015, Liam O'Toole liam.p.oto...@gmail.com wrote: On 2015-04-17, David Wright deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk wrote: Quoting Bret Busby (bret.bu...@gmail.com): The computers upon which I run Debian 6, have only 16

Re: wheezy drive recognition?

2015-04-17 Thread Petter Adsen
On Thu, 16 Apr 2015 20:50:13 -0400 Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: On Thursday 16 April 2015 16:01:31 David Christensen wrote: Do you know if the laptop or the desktop machine can use a USB flash drive as the system drive? My 945 chipset and newer machines can do this. It is one of

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-17 Thread Petter Adsen
On Fri, 17 Apr 2015 13:07:54 +0800 Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: On 17/04/2015, Liam O'Toole liam.p.oto...@gmail.com wrote: On 2015-04-16, Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: On 17/04/2015, Ric Moore wayward4...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP Have you tried catalyst for the AMD

Re: change sources.list to follow testing, not jessie

2015-04-17 Thread Petter Adsen
On Thu, 16 Apr 2015 22:00:58 +0100 Joe j...@jretrading.com wrote: On Thu, 16 Apr 2015 21:11:06 +0100 Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: But it will be awful the day that Jessie goes Stable because everything will immediately update willy-nilly and out of your control, all at once, to

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-17 Thread Petter Adsen
On Fri, 17 Apr 2015 15:16:41 +0800 Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: On 17/04/2015, David Wright deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk wrote: Quoting Bret Busby (bret.bu...@gmail.com): In going to the Ubuntu 14.04 64 bit option, as such packages are usually .deb packages, and so, tend to work on

Re: wheezy drive recognition?

2015-04-17 Thread Petter Adsen
On Fri, 17 Apr 2015 14:32:47 +0100 Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday 17 April 2015 12:46:04 Petter Adsen wrote: I think it's Chinese or Taiwanese, so it's probably the Communist Party that has the backdoor :) The poor Tawanese! |ny dead ones must be turning in their graves

Re: wheezy drive recognition?

2015-04-17 Thread Petter Adsen
On Fri, 17 Apr 2015 06:49:42 -0400 Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: On Friday 17 April 2015 06:19:31 Petter Adsen wrote: On Fri, 17 Apr 2015 05:54:08 -0400 Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: On Friday 17 April 2015 02:33:59 Petter Adsen wrote: [...] Is that long ago? Flash

Re: wheezy drive recognition?

2015-04-17 Thread Petter Adsen
On Fri, 17 Apr 2015 05:54:08 -0400 Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: On Friday 17 April 2015 02:33:59 Petter Adsen wrote: On Thu, 16 Apr 2015 20:50:13 -0400 Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: With limited life of the flash, linux filesystems are hell on flash. Not any longer

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-17 Thread Petter Adsen
On Fri, 17 Apr 2015 22:43:08 +0800 Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: On 17/04/2015, Petter Adsen pet...@synth.no wrote: On http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop?os=Ubuntu%20x86%2064 you will find several packages. Among these are fglrx-core_14.501-0ubuntu1_amd64_UB_14.01

Re: wheezy drive recognition?

2015-04-17 Thread Petter Adsen
On Fri, 17 Apr 2015 14:54:26 -0400 Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: On Friday 17 April 2015 12:31:02 David Christensen wrote: Okay, all the eggs in one basket. So, either a USB flash drive or the newer 1 TB drive as the system drive, migrate your data to a new 2 TB drive, migrate the

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-16 Thread Petter Adsen
On Thu, 16 Apr 2015 14:46:46 +0800 Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: On 14/04/2015, Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: snip In the Debian 7 installation on the Acer V3-772G, for System - Settings - Details - Overview, it has Processor: Intel Core i-4702MQ CPU @

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-16 Thread Petter Adsen
On Thu, 16 Apr 2015 15:11:03 +0800 Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: and, on this computer, as mentioned in a previous message, neither Debian 7, nor Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, can get the external monitor going, as neother seem to have an appropriate driver for the AMD E2-6110 APU with AMD Radeon

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-16 Thread Petter Adsen
On Thu, 16 Apr 2015 15:21:46 +0800 Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: On 16/04/2015, Petter Adsen pet...@synth.no wrote: On Thu, 16 Apr 2015 14:46:46 +0800 Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: On 14/04/2015, Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: snip In the Debian 7

Re: Encrypting an External HDD

2015-04-15 Thread Petter Adsen
On Wed, 15 Apr 2015 07:53:20 -0400 Stephen R Guglielmo srguglie...@gmail.com wrote: Hi list, I have a USB external HDD that I would like to encrypt with a passphrase. After looking into filesystems, I decided to go with Ext4. What's the recommended way of encrypting a drive? Do I partition

Re: Encrypting an External HDD

2015-04-15 Thread Petter Adsen
On Wed, 15 Apr 2015 07:50:50 -0700 David Christensen dpchr...@holgerdanske.com wrote: On 04/15/2015 05:04 AM, Petter Adsen wrote: http://www.cyberciti.biz/hardware/howto-linux-hard-disk-encryption-with-luks-cryptsetup-command/ That article shows how to create a LUKS container on the raw

Re: Sharing LVM storage

2015-04-15 Thread Petter Adsen
On Tue, 14 Apr 2015 18:14:31 +0300 Reco recovery...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 04:01:02PM +0200, Petter Adsen wrote: I'm using LVM as storage for virtual machines, and would like to share a PV between two machines with iSCSI to be able to migrate the VM's. I did

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-15 Thread Petter Adsen
On Wed, 15 Apr 2015 13:35:12 +0800 Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: bret@bret-Aspire-V3-772:~$ grep -B2 'Module class: X.Org Video Driver' /var/log/Xorg.0.log [26.440] (II) Module intel: vendor=X.Org Foundation [26.440] compiled for 1.15.1, module version = 2.99.910 [

Re: Is gnome-core *really* the gnome minimal install?

2015-04-15 Thread Petter Adsen
On Tue, 14 Apr 2015 17:53:55 -0700 Patrick Bartek nemomm...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 14 Apr 2015, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Patrick Bartek nemomm...@gmail.com writes: Of course, if you really want TOTAL control of your GUI, a window manager is the way to go. That's what I did.

Re: Sharing LVM storage

2015-04-15 Thread Petter Adsen
On Wed, 15 Apr 2015 09:55:10 +0300 Reco recovery...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 08:41:07AM +0200, Petter Adsen wrote: I just want to try it out to see how it works, it's not something I need by any stretch of the imagination, so there's a limit to how far down

Re: Has the rescatux and supergrubdisk project been terminated

2015-04-15 Thread Petter Adsen
On Wed, 15 Apr 2015 16:16:49 +0800 Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: On 15/04/2015, Petter Adsen pet...@synth.no wrote: If you really need Rescatux, I have an image of v0.32b3. The timestamp on it says 2014-12-21. Let me know if you need it. What I actually want

Re: Has the rescatux and supergrubdisk project been terminated

2015-04-15 Thread Petter Adsen
On Wed, 15 Apr 2015 03:37:49 +0800 Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: On 07/02/2015, Diogene Laerce me_buss...@yahoo.fr wrote: snip You could give a try to Grub Rescue : http://www.supergrubdisk.org/ Good luck ! Hello. I have just tried to find the Rescatux web site,

Re: Jessie: No VGA signal after gdm3 login

2015-04-15 Thread Petter Adsen
On Tue, 14 Apr 2015 18:10:11 -0400 Thomas H. George li...@tomgeorge.info wrote: On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 04:22:24PM +0200, Petter Adsen wrote: On Tue, 14 Apr 2015 08:50:45 +0200 Petter Adsen pet...@synth.no wrote: On Mon, 13 Apr 2015 15:42:03 -0400 Thomas H. George li

Re: debian 8

2015-04-14 Thread Petter Adsen
On Mon, 13 Apr 2015 17:26:12 -0400 Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: On Monday 13 April 2015 16:56:05 Celejar wrote: On Mon, 13 Apr 2015 20:00:15 +0200 Petter Adsen pet...@synth.no wrote: On Mon, 13 Apr 2015 13:04:28 -0400 Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote

Re: Excluding a directory from tar

2015-04-14 Thread Petter Adsen
On Mon, 13 Apr 2015 15:36:33 -0500 David Wright deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk wrote: Quoting Petter Adsen (pet...@synth.no): On Mon, 13 Apr 2015 12:12:51 -0500 David Wright deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk wrote: Have fun reading man find, though! petter@monster:~$ man tar | wc -l 540 petter

Re: reading an empty directory after reboot is very slow

2015-04-14 Thread Petter Adsen
On Mon, 13 Apr 2015 15:41:03 +0200 Vincent Lefevre vinc...@vinc17.net wrote: On 2015-04-13 14:45:25 +0200, Loïc Grenié wrote: 2015-04-13 14:39 GMT+02:00 Vincent Lefevre vinc...@vinc17.net: The problem is that this operation is (always?) very slow: something like 100 seconds (1 minute and

Re: Jessie: No VGA signal after gdm3 login

2015-04-14 Thread Petter Adsen
On Mon, 13 Apr 2015 15:42:03 -0400 Thomas H. George li...@tomgeorge.info wrote: Just returned from vacation, booted up. After gdm3 login screen goes blank, then No VGA Signal Installed xdm. Same result Ran apt-get update, apt-get dist-upgrade Repeated xdm login. Same result Before

Re: Book questions

2015-04-14 Thread Petter Adsen
On Mon, 13 Apr 2015 16:36:44 -0500 David Wright deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk wrote: Quoting Petter Adsen (pet...@synth.no): On Mon, 13 Apr 2015 20:21:49 +0300 Reco recovery...@gmail.com wrote: Let's see as I didn't have OS design in mind. Something like: Exit codes and their value

Re: Book questions

2015-04-14 Thread Petter Adsen
On Tue, 14 Apr 2015 02:43:53 +0800 Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: On 14/04/2015, Petter Adsen pet...@synth.no wrote: snip My cat is walking on my keyboard now, demanding attention. Best not to ignore him any longer. :) Can he program? I'm not sure, but I take care to lock

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