Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-21 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 18 Apr 2015 20:51:58 -0500 John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com wrote: Celejar writes: I run my main browser instance with all JavaScript disabled… So do I. Lots of sites put up banners warning me that some features may not operate properly without JS but generally those are exactly

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-20 Thread Curt
On 2015-04-20, Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: Don't confuse primary and secondary with counting. Think 'primary = I'm not confused, nor do I require any lessons from you, nor will I bugger this gnat any further. Let's leave it at that. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 04:03:37PM +, Curt wrote: On 2015-04-19, Cindy-Sue Causey butterflyby...@gmail.com wrote: With this many others of us not having any problems on multiple various browsers, I wonder what (other) secondary things might be 2 is 'many' in your book? Don't confuse

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-19 Thread Curt
On 2015-04-19, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: I can't answer the question, but I have just successfully loaded it in Chrome, Iceweasel and Konqueror. In Iceweasel it insisted on cookies. Lisi. The page will not load for me with javascript enabled (I use NoScript). Iceweasal

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-19 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 19 April 2015 13:06:44 Lisi Reisz wrote:  I want my nose to stay on my face. After what has been said about comprehensibility. I mean that i do not want to cut off my nose to spite my face. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutting_off_the_nose_to_spite_the_face Lisi -- To

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-19 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 19 April 2015 12:49:23 Curt wrote: On 2015-04-19, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: I can't answer the question, but I have just successfully loaded it in Chrome, Iceweasel and Konqueror. In Iceweasel it insisted on cookies. Lisi. The page will not load for me with

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-19 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 19 April 2015 05:44:36 David Wright wrote: With JS enabled (as it has been for me) and Flash available (at the moment I have to Allow Now on each page) there are odd sites that still will not work, eg https://www.capitalone.com/ where, if I try to login, it just says The connection

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-19 Thread Ric Moore
On 04/19/2015 11:46 AM, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: Saw the other responses so chiming in. https://www.capitalone.com/ works for me here, too. Works for me, Firefox with java enabled. -- My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance,

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-19 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Sun, 19 Apr 2015, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Sunday 19 April 2015 13:06:44 Lisi Reisz wrote:  I want my nose to stay on my face. This was rather excellent. Tres droll. Not in any need of explication. We should not support the current horror of inducing discomfort in others. Learning how

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-19 Thread Curt
On 2015-04-19, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: Lisi. The page will not load for me with javascript enabled (I use NoScript). Iceweasal endlessly spins its wheels 'waiting for login.capital.com...' Yes, I have javascript enabled. Me too, but the page in question wouldn't load here.

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-19 Thread Curt
On 2015-04-19, Cindy-Sue Causey butterflyby...@gmail.com wrote: With this many others of us not having any problems on multiple various browsers, I wonder what (other) secondary things might be 2 is 'many' in your book? At any rate, I got the site to load in chromium. In iceweasal, even in

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-19 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 4/19/15, David Wright deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk wrote: Quoting John Hasler (jhas...@newsguy.com): So do I [run browser with javascript disabled]. Lots of sites put up banners warning me that some features may not operate properly without JS but generally those are exactly the features that

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-18 Thread John Hasler
Celejar writes: I run my main browser instance with all JavaScript disabled… So do I. Lots of sites put up banners warning me that some features may not operate properly without JS but generally those are exactly the features that I specifically don't want. A few other sites really won't work

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-18 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 17 Apr 2015 08:38:43 + (UTC) Liam O'Toole liam.p.oto...@gmail.com wrote: ... So do you normally run browsers on squeeze with javascript /dis/abled? I'm surprised that any modern web sites work at all. I run my main browser instance with all JavaScript disabled, and many / most of

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-18 Thread David Wright
Quoting John Hasler (jhas...@newsguy.com): Celejar writes: I run my main browser instance with all JavaScript disabled… So do I. Lots of sites put up banners warning me that some features may not operate properly without JS but generally those are exactly the features that I specifically

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-18 Thread Petter Adsen
. But, this thread has now descended into flaming, and so I simply give up on it, and, on trying to get Debian 7 to work, via the mailing list. Well, before you give up, have you tried the advice you have been given? There should be plenty there to get you started, and several resources for reading

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-18 Thread Bret Busby
]. No. It has been made quite clear, in previous posts - it is to do with the RAM being used up without memory swapping, occurring, when memory usage shows at 90-95%, with no memory swapping. But, this thread has now descended into flaming, and so I simply give up on it, and, on trying to get Debian

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-17 Thread David Wright
shite, it requires javascript (javashite). I installed a 12.x version of opera (from my Debian 6 desktop system), on this (Debian 7, running on the Acer E5-521-238Q) system, and left javascript enabled, and the web page works. In going to the Ubuntu 14.04 64 bit option, as such packages

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-17 Thread Petter Adsen
if nothing else. What it comes down to, has nothing to do with the version number of Debian. What it came down to, is, the web page bien aspx shite, it requires javascript (javashite). I installed a 12.x version of opera (from my Debian 6 desktop system), on this (Debian 7, running

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-17 Thread Bret Busby
Debian 6 desktop system), on this (Debian 7, running on the Acer E5-521-238Q) system, and left javascript enabled, and the web page works. In going to the Ubuntu 14.04 64 bit option, as such packages are usually .deb packages, and so, tend to work on Debian (which is how I got Seamonkey

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-17 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-04-17, 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): 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

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-17 Thread Liam O'Toole
nothing to do with the version number of Debian. What it came down to, is, the web page bien aspx shite, it requires javascript (javashite). I installed a 12.x version of opera (from my Debian 6 desktop system), on this (Debian 7, running on the Acer E5-521-238Q) system, and left javascript

Ubuntu is not Debian [was: Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors]

2015-04-17 Thread Alexis
Petter Adsen pet...@synth.no writes: But. These packages are for *Ubuntu*. Ubuntu is not Debian. Yes, they both use .deb packages, but that does not mean that the Ubuntu packages will work well (or at all) on Debian. Since joining this list, i have been quite startled by how many questions

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-17 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-04-17, Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: On 17/04/2015, Liam O'Toole liam.p.oto...@gmail.com wrote: snip Any browser you run in squeeze was EOL'ed years ago, from a security perspective if nothing else. So, are you claiming that the LTS of Debian 6 LTS, is imaginary, and

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-17 Thread Petter Adsen
it that's on your wheezy system. If wheezy is Debian 7 ( - this is on one of my Debian 7 installations - one has this AMD graphics thing, and the other has the nVidia thing, and, after about 16-18 months, I am still trying to get the other installation to work) By the other, you mean the AMD one

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-17 Thread Bret Busby
still be derived from, and, based on Debian. As I had said, the Seamonkey package for Ubuntu, installed and runs okay on Debian 7, and is the only source that I found, of a .deb package for Seamonkey, so as to allow Seamonkey to be installed using a Debian package manager, such as (I think

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-17 Thread Bret Busby
perspective if nothing else. What it comes down to, has nothing to do with the version number of Debian. What it came down to, is, the web page bien aspx shite, it requires javascript (javashite). I installed a 12.x version of opera (from my Debian 6 desktop system), on this (Debian 7

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-17 Thread David Wright
Quoting Bret Busby (bret.bu...@gmail.com): The computers upon which I run Debian 6, have only 16 GB of RAM, and, Lucky you. 2GB here. expecially with Debian 6 not having adequate memory management (as previously mentioned, memory swapping does not work effectively), so, Eh? Squeeze ran quite

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-17 Thread Petter Adsen
likely have an older X server, at the least. I wouldn't attempt it without first doing a little research. As I had said, the Seamonkey package for Ubuntu, installed and runs okay on Debian 7, and is the only source that I found, of a .deb package for Seamonkey, so as to allow Seamonkey

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-17 Thread David Wright
system. I did it last thing at night because I figured Petter, who knows much more about this than I do, was probably still slumbering, and you were probably up and about and raring to go. It is not nice new hardware. This partivular computer was bought to try to determine whether Debian 7 could run

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-17 Thread Liam O'Toole
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 GB of RAM, and, Lucky you. 2GB here. expecially with Debian 6 not having adequate memory management (as previously mentioned, memory

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-16 Thread Bret Busby
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 @ 2.20GHz x 8 Graphics: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 0x209) and, for System

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 Bret Busby
On 15/04/2015, Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: snip On the Acer E5-521-238Q, which does not have Ubuntu installed, I have, for Debian 7, root@debian-Acer-E5-521:/# grep -B2 'Module class: X.Org Video Driver' /var/log/Xorg.0.log [25.144] (II) Module ati: vendor=X.Org

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-16 Thread Bret Busby
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 installation on the Acer V3-772G, for System - Settings - Details - Overview, it has

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: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-16 Thread Bret Busby
...@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 @ 2.20GHz x 8 Graphics: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 0x209) and, for System - Settings

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-16 Thread Bret Busby
installed (and presently updating) Ubuntu 14.04LTS, on the Acer E5-521-238Q, the same graphics drive shows as being used, as for Debian 7 on the Acer V3772G; from System Settings - Hardware - Overview, I have Processor: AMD E2-6110 APU with AMD Radeon R2 Graphics x4 Graphics: Gallium 0.4

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-16 Thread David Wright
Radeon R2 Graphics x4) Yes. but, however it is interpreted, my deduction that both Debian 7 and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, appear to be lacking a(n adequate) driver for the particular CPU (given that it involves and includes, as an integral part, the [AMD/ATI] Mullins [Radeon APU A4-6000 with R2 Graphics

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-16 Thread David Wright
Quoting Bret Busby (bret.bu...@gmail.com): bret@bret-Aspire-E5-521:~$ lspci | grep -i vga 00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Mullins [Radeon APU A4-6000 with R2 Graphics] I think you should concentrate on the string in brackets, which appears on

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-16 Thread Bret Busby
different sets of information, as shown in my preceding messages; I note that, having just installed (and presently updating) Ubuntu 14.04LTS, on the Acer E5-521-238Q, the same graphics drive shows as being used, as for Debian 7 on the Acer V3772G; from System Settings - Hardware - Overview, I

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-16 Thread Liam O'Toole
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 setup?? Under AMD Mobility Product Family your 6000 series is listed.

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-16 Thread Ric Moore
; I note that, having just installed (and presently updating) Ubuntu 14.04LTS, on the Acer E5-521-238Q, the same graphics drive shows as being used, as for Debian 7 on the Acer V3772G; from System Settings - Hardware - Overview, I have Processor: AMD E2-6110 APU with AMD Radeon R2 Graphics x4

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-16 Thread Bret Busby
it came down to, is, the web page bien aspx shite, it requires javascript (javashite). I installed a 12.x version of opera (from my Debian 6 desktop system), on this (Debian 7, running on the Acer E5-521-238Q) system, and left javascript enabled, and the web page works. In going to the Ubuntu 14.04 64

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-16 Thread Ric Moore
On 04/16/2015 06:07 PM, Liam O'Toole 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 setup?? Under AMD Mobility Product Family your 6000 series is listed.

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-16 Thread Bret Busby
On 17/04/2015, Liam O'Toole liam.p.oto...@gmail.com wrote: snip Any browser you run in squeeze was EOL'ed years ago, from a security perspective if nothing else. So, are you claiming that the LTS of Debian 6 LTS, is imaginary, and does not exist? -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia

Re: Algo raro con las memorias flash y Debian 7 LXDE

2015-04-15 Thread Ala de Dragón
El 23/3/15, Rodolfo Edgar sololistasdecor...@gmail.com escribió: El 21/3/15, c...@pinarte.cult.cu c...@pinarte.cult.cu escribió: Hola lista. En mi trabajo tengo instalado en las estaciones de trabajo Debian 7 LXDE. Todo muy bien, solo un detalle, por ejemplo, cuando un usuario inserta una

Re: Algo raro con las memorias flash y Debian 7 LXDE

2015-04-15 Thread alexlikerock-Gmail
El 21/03/15 a las 16:50, c...@pinarte.cult.cu escribió: Hola lista. En mi trabajo tengo instalado en las estaciones de trabajo Debian 7 LXDE. Todo muy bien, solo un detalle, por ejemplo, cuando un usuario inserta una memoria flash o pendrive por vez primera y luego la retira, al insertar otra

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-15 Thread Petter Adsen
graphics thing, be subordinate to / driven by the Intel Haswell graphics controller?), part of which, is missing from Debian 7 (as installed and configured)?. I am not exactly sure how you configure two GPUs from two different vendors, as I haven't done that myself, but I do know this: many machines

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-15 Thread Bret Busby
Atheros AR9462 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01) 0e:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM57780 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe (rev 01) On the Acer V3-772G, for Debian 7, I have root@bret-av3772g-deb:/home/bret# grep -B2 'Module class: X.Org Video Driver' /var/log/Xorg.0.log

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-14 Thread Bret Busby
On 13/04/2015, Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: On 13/04/2015, Curt cu...@free.fr wrote: On 2015-04-09, Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: Hello. On a new installation of Debian 7 on an Acer laptop computer with an AMD Radeon R2 graphics adaptor, the external monitor does not work

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-14 Thread Bret Busby
On 14/04/2015, Curt cu...@free.fr wrote: On 2015-04-14, Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: so it apparently, is driving the inboard Intel graphics adaptor, and not the nVIDIA GT750m graphics adaptor. The best thing would be to look at the log file for X (on Squeeze LTS that is to be

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-14 Thread Bret Busby
) On the Acer V3-772G, for Debian 7, I have root@bret-av3772g-deb:/home/bret# grep -B2 'Module class: X.Org Video Driver' /var/log/Xorg.0.log [25.818] (II) Module intel: vendor=X.Org Foundation [25.818]compiled for 1.12.3.902, module version = 2.19.0 [25.818]Module class: X.Org

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-14 Thread Curt
On 2015-04-14, Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: so it apparently, is driving the inboard Intel graphics adaptor, and not the nVIDIA GT750m graphics adaptor. The best thing would be to look at the log file for X (on Squeeze LTS that is to be found at the following location:

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-13 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Mon, 13 Apr 2015, Bret Busby wrote: both were running Debian 7, as the last operating system, before the hardware crashes. Aha! There it is at last! The Smoking Gun! Grassy Knoll, anyone? nb. http://www.google.com/search?q=grassy%20knoll -- These are not the droids you are looking

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-13 Thread Curt
On 2015-04-09, Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: Hello. On a new installation of Debian 7 on an Acer laptop computer with an AMD Radeon R2 graphics adaptor, the external monitor does not work. The external monitor works with MS Win 7, with MS Win 8, with Debian 6, and with Ununtu 12.04

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-13 Thread Bret Busby
On 13/04/2015, Curt cu...@free.fr wrote: On 2015-04-09, Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: Hello. On a new installation of Debian 7 on an Acer laptop computer with an AMD Radeon R2 graphics adaptor, the external monitor does not work. The external monitor works with MS Win 7, with MS

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-12 Thread Bret Busby
On 10/04/2015, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday 09 April 2015 10:22:23 Bret Busby wrote: Does Debian 7 work with external monitors? Yes. Though I have found that the external monitor needs to be there, and on, before I boot up, in order for it to be seen. (Acer Aspire One

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-12 Thread Bret Busby
On 10/04/2015, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday 10 April 2015 05:38:27 Bret Busby wrote: On my Debian 6 desktop computer, from the menu's, is System - Preferences - Monitors which has the option Detect monitors. This is a matter of desktop environment choice, not distro

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-12 Thread Bret Busby
On 10/04/2015, Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: On 09/04/2015, Gian Uberto Lauri sa...@eng.it wrote: Bret Busby writes: 00.01.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices (AMD nee ATI Device 9852 Type xrandr. You should have one entry for each possible connector. #

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-09 Thread Bret Busby
On 09/04/2015, Paul van der Vlis p...@vandervlis.nl wrote: Op 09-04-15 om 11:22 schreef Bret Busby: Hello. On a new installation of Debian 7 on an Acer laptop computer with an AMD Radeon R2 graphics adaptor, the external monitor does not work. The external monitor works with MS Win 7

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-09 Thread Paul van der Vlis
Op 09-04-15 om 12:02 schreef Bret Busby: 00.01.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices (AMD nee ATI Device 9852 I don't know this device. When it's a relative new device, and does not work well, I would try a newer Linux kernel from backports. Something like this:

Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-09 Thread Bret Busby
Hello. On a new installation of Debian 7 on an Acer laptop computer with an AMD Radeon R2 graphics adaptor, the external monitor does not work. The external monitor works with MS Win 7, with MS Win 8, with Debian 6, and with Ununtu 12.04 and with Ubuntu 14.04. On another Acer laptop computer

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-09 Thread Gian Uberto Lauri
Bret Busby writes: 00.01.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices (AMD nee ATI Device 9852 Type xrandr. You should have one entry for each possible connector. I.E. saint@quigley:~ 12:22:39 [9] $xrandr Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 2390 x 768, maximum 8192 x 8192 LVDS1

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-09 Thread Paul van der Vlis
Op 09-04-15 om 11:22 schreef Bret Busby: Hello. On a new installation of Debian 7 on an Acer laptop computer with an AMD Radeon R2 graphics adaptor, the external monitor does not work. The external monitor works with MS Win 7, with MS Win 8, with Debian 6, and with Ununtu 12.04

Re: Debian 7 and Debian 8 and bootloader

2015-04-04 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Bret Busby a écrit : It would be on a UEFI/GPT system, so the primary partitions are redundant. With Linux, I generally have a / partition, a /swap partition, a /home partition, and data partitions, with the swap partition being shared between the Linux installations; as they are not

Debian 7 and Debian 8 and bootloader

2015-04-03 Thread Bret Busby
Hello. Do Debian 7 and Debian 8 (when it is to be released), and a bootloader such as GRUB, allow yet, for more than one version of Debian, to be installed on a system, and, to be selectable options for the bootloader? -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .. So once you do know

Re: Debian 7 and Debian 8 and bootloader

2015-04-03 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Apr 04, 2015 at 01:51:15AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: Hello. Do Debian 7 and Debian 8 (when it is to be released), and a bootloader such as GRUB, allow yet, for more than one version of Debian, to be installed on a system, and, to be selectable options for the bootloader? -- Bret

Re: Debian 7 and Debian 8 and bootloader

2015-04-03 Thread David Wright
Quoting Andrew M.A. Cater (amaca...@galactic.demon.co.uk): On Sat, Apr 04, 2015 at 01:51:15AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: Do Debian 7 and Debian 8 (when it is to be released), and a bootloader such as GRUB, allow yet, for more than one version of Debian, to be installed on a system

Re: Debian 7 and Debian 8 and bootloader

2015-04-03 Thread Bret Busby
On 04/04/2015, David Wright deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk wrote: Quoting Andrew M.A. Cater (amaca...@galactic.demon.co.uk): On Sat, Apr 04, 2015 at 01:51:15AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: Do Debian 7 and Debian 8 (when it is to be released), and a bootloader such as GRUB, allow yet, for more than one

Re: Algo raro con las memorias flash y Debian 7 LXDE

2015-03-23 Thread Rodolfo Edgar
El 21/3/15, c...@pinarte.cult.cu c...@pinarte.cult.cu escribió: Hola lista. En mi trabajo tengo instalado en las estaciones de trabajo Debian 7 LXDE. Todo muy bien, solo un detalle, por ejemplo, cuando un usuario inserta una memoria flash o pendrive por vez primera y luego la retira, al

Re: Algo raro con las memorias flash y Debian 7 LXDE

2015-03-22 Thread Camaleón
El Sat, 21 Mar 2015 19:50:17 -0400, cpp escribió: Hola lista. En mi trabajo tengo instalado en las estaciones de trabajo Debian 7 LXDE. Todo muy bien, solo un detalle, por ejemplo, cuando un usuario inserta una memoria flash o pendrive por vez primera y luego la retira, al insertar otra

Re: Algo raro con las memorias flash y Debian 7 LXDE

2015-03-22 Thread Rivera Valdez
2015-03-22 13:15 GMT-03:00 Camaleón noela...@gmail.com: El Sat, 21 Mar 2015 19:50:17 -0400, cpp escribió: Hola lista. En mi trabajo tengo instalado en las estaciones de trabajo Debian 7 LXDE. Todo muy bien, solo un detalle, por ejemplo, cuando un usuario inserta una memoria flash o pendrive

Algo raro con las memorias flash y Debian 7 LXDE

2015-03-21 Thread cpp
Hola lista. En mi trabajo tengo instalado en las estaciones de trabajo Debian 7 LXDE. Todo muy bien, solo un detalle, por ejemplo, cuando un usuario inserta una memoria flash o pendrive por vez primera y luego la retira, al insertar otra memoria diferente, pues le sale la información de la primera

Re: Algo raro con las memorias flash y Debian 7 LXDE

2015-03-21 Thread Sergio Bessopeanetto
El 21/03/15 a las 20:50, c...@pinarte.cult.cu escibió: Hola lista. En mi trabajo tengo instalado en las estaciones de trabajo Debian 7 LXDE. Todo muy bien, solo un detalle, por ejemplo, cuando un usuario inserta una memoria flash o pendrive por vez primera y luego la retira, al insertar otra

Re: Debian 7 and UEFI/GPT

2015-03-13 Thread Bret Busby
with the inboard Intel graphics card, unfortunately, whilst apparently supported by Ubuntu 14.04, is not supported by Debian 7, as yet, thus, whilst MS Win8 and Ubuntu 14.04, allow the use of an external monitor, Debian 7 does not), and, I had the RAM expanded from the default installation of 16GB

Re: Debian 7 and screensavers

2015-03-13 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2015-03-12 12:34:06 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: Vincent Lefevre wrote: xscreensaver is not safe: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=403557 (concerning the when the system has no external input for a defined period of time). I read through that bug log and I don't

Re: Debian 7 and UEFI/GPT

2015-03-12 Thread Rusi Mody
On Thursday, March 12, 2015 at 12:40:06 PM UTC+5:30, Bret Busby wrote: Okay. In thinking about this further, I remembered that, due to the malicious nature of MS Win8, it is installed with the nasty UEFI-Secure Boot mode, which maliciously disables the installation of any additional

Re: Debian 7 and UEFI/GPT

2015-03-12 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
. As outlined off list, that is available from Micrososft. On re-install, I'd install Windows first on half the disk using UEFI only, then install Debian. It should work. The Thinkpad I have in front of me booted Debian 7 using UEFI and now boots Debian 8 using UEFI reliably (but with no Secure Boot

Re: Debian 7 and UEFI/GPT

2015-03-12 Thread Lisi Reisz
the installer is having its problems ironed out before its release. Debian *7*, David. Wheezy. It was released some time ago!! Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https

Re: Debian 7 and UEFI/GPT

2015-03-12 Thread Bret Busby
the installer is having its problems ironed out before its release. A problem with this, is that the Debian 7 installation on the UEFI?GPT system, was done some months ago, and it was not until the last day or so (today and the last immediately previous, couple of days), that I have come

Re: Dudas con Debian 7 y Windows 8

2015-03-12 Thread Altair Linux
cada vez que quieras ir de windows a linux o de linux a windows. El 11 de marzo de 2015, 19:46, c...@pinarte.cult.cu escribió: Hola lista. Tengo la gran duda de si, ¿Puedo instalar Windows 8 y después Debian 7, tal como se hace con el WindowsSeven/GNU-Linux. No me he arriesgado a hacerlo, pero

Re: Debian 7 and UEFI/GPT

2015-03-12 Thread Curt
On 2015-03-11, Pascal Hambourg pas...@plouf.fr.eu.org wrote: or, otherwise, interface with the UEFI/GPT system, so that the bootloader, GRUB 2, can find the MS Win8 installation within the UEFI system? Probably not. At least not the Windows boot manager, which expects to be loaded from

Debian 7 and screensavers

2015-03-12 Thread Bret Busby
Hello. On my Debian 7.8 system, both xscreensaver and gnome-screensaver, are shown as being installed, and, now, to try to get a screensaver to work, I have downloaded hundreds of MB of extra stuff, to try to find a screensaver that works on Debian 7, so I also, now, apparently, have

Re: Debian 7 and screensavers

2015-03-12 Thread Linux-Fan
is displayed, that refers to screensavers. Does Debian 7 allow screensavers, that lock a screen, and require logging in, either when the system has no external input for a defined period of time, or, when a person manually invokes the Lock screen functionality? Have you tried to configure

Re: Debian 7 and screensavers

2015-03-12 Thread Lisi Reisz
is displayed, that refers to screensavers. Does Debian 7 allow screensavers, that lock a screen, and require logging in, either when the system has no external input for a defined period of time, or, when a person manually invokes the Lock screen functionality? This whole thing is surely

Re: Dudas con Debian 7 y Windows 8

2015-03-12 Thread Camaleón
El Wed, 11 Mar 2015 14:46:12 -0400, cpp escribió: Hola lista. Tengo la gran duda de si, ¿Puedo instalar Windows 8 y después Debian 7, tal como se hace con el WindowsSeven/GNU-Linux. No me he arriesgado a hacerlo, pero según algunos colegas, no se puede. ¿Y les has preguntado por qué dicen que

Re: Debian 7 and screensavers

2015-03-12 Thread Lisi Reisz
a screensaver to work, I have downloaded hundreds of MB of extra stuff, to try to find a screensaver that works on Debian 7, so I also, now, apparently, have the kscreensaver (and thence, kde and kdm, and k*). But, in traversing through the menu's in the GNOME Classic interface, no screensaver

Re: Debian 7 and UEFI/GPT

2015-03-12 Thread Bret Busby
On 12/03/2015, Curt cu...@free.fr wrote: On 2015-03-11, Pascal Hambourg pas...@plouf.fr.eu.org wrote: or, otherwise, interface with the UEFI/GPT system, so that the bootloader, GRUB 2, can find the MS Win8 installation within the UEFI system? Probably not. At least not the Windows boot

Re: Debian 7 and screensavers

2015-03-12 Thread Bret Busby
stuff, to try to find a screensaver that works on Debian 7, so I also, now, apparently, have the kscreensaver (and thence, kde and kdm, and k*). But, in traversing through the menu's in the GNOME Classic interface, no screensaver is listed, that can be found, and, in going to the System Tools

Re: Dudas con Debian 7 y Windows 8

2015-03-12 Thread pepe sircrosio
El día 13 de marzo de 2015, 0:02, Haylem Candelario Bauzá hay...@inor.sld.cu escribió: El mié, 11-03-2015 a las 14:46 -0400, c...@pinarte.cult.cu escribió: co Puedes instalar cualquier windows y luego GNU/Linux pero no al revés el mismo grub detecta los sistemas existentes. GNU no es tacaño.

Re: Debian 7 and UEFI/GPT

2015-03-12 Thread David Wright
Quoting Bret Busby (bret.bu...@gmail.com): On 13/03/2015, David Wright deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk wrote: Quoting Gajadur Dwijesh (dwije...@gmail.com): Hi. I got the same problem.. I followed this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLlOd-a2wG0 and it worked..i could dual boot windows

Re: Debian 7 and UEFI/GPT

2015-03-12 Thread Curt
On 2015-03-12, Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: I can dual boot, within the Legacy BIOS system; I can select either Debian Linux 7, or, Ubuntu Linux 14.04, into which, to boot, from the Legacy BIOS GRUB menu. Well, I meant boot the Windows 8. I should've said triple boot. -- To

Re: Debian 7 and UEFI/GPT

2015-03-12 Thread Gajadur Dwijesh
Hi. I got the same problem.. I followed this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLlOd-a2wG0 and it worked..i could dual boot windows 8.1 with Debian on UEFI mode On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 9:21 PM, David Wright deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk wrote: Quoting Bret Busby (bret.bu...@gmail.com): The F2

Re: Debian 7 and UEFI/GPT

2015-03-12 Thread David Wright
Quoting Bret Busby (bret.bu...@gmail.com): The F2 Setup Utility displays, in the Title Bar, InsydeH20 Setup Utility Rev. 3.7. The solution, at this stage, appears to be to use the F2 Setup, to change between UEFI and Legacy BIOS boot modes, thence to select which operating system, I want to

Re: Debian 7 and screensavers

2015-03-12 Thread Bob Proulx
Vincent Lefevre wrote: xscreensaver is not safe: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=403557 (concerning the when the system has no external input for a defined period of time). I read through that bug log and I don't see why you say it is not safe as a general statement.

Re: Debian 7 and UEFI/GPT

2015-03-12 Thread Bret Busby
On 13/03/2015, David Wright deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk wrote: Quoting Gajadur Dwijesh (dwije...@gmail.com): Hi. I got the same problem.. I followed this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLlOd-a2wG0 and it worked..i could dual boot windows 8.1 with Debian on UEFI mode Interesting. I

Re: Debian 7 and UEFI/GPT

2015-03-12 Thread David Wright
Quoting Gajadur Dwijesh (dwije...@gmail.com): Hi. I got the same problem.. I followed this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLlOd-a2wG0  and it worked..i could dual boot windows 8.1 with Debian on UEFI mode  Interesting. I played this through and at 506 seconds, I saw my first EFI

Re: Debian 7 and UEFI/GPT

2015-03-12 Thread Brian
On Fri 13 Mar 2015 at 03:10:58 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: Does Debian Linux 7 support UEFI Secure boot? The relevant threads are somewhat fragmented but a search with Plan of action for Secure Boot support gives you all you want and more. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

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