Re: New user having trouble with new install

2015-07-12 Thread David Wright
Quoting Brian (a...@cityscape.co.uk): I'd be inclined to do apt-get install xorg fwvm I assume that's fvwm. and use 'startx' to test the video in X. Logs are in /var/log. Cheers, David. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: New user having trouble with new install

2015-07-12 Thread Brian
the tasksel manual. '--new-install' is what you want. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/12072015082911.d8aac4642...@desktop.copernicus.demon.co.uk

Re: New user having trouble with new install

2015-07-11 Thread Jonathan Levine
On 7/11/15, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: On Fri 10 Jul 2015 at 21:29:23 -0600, Jonathan Levine wrote: I'm a hardware guy, and not a linux wonk, so I hope you'll all be gentle and use words without too many syllables. I've just completed the small cd internet install of the current

Re: New user having trouble with new install

2015-07-11 Thread Brian
On Sat 11 Jul 2015 at 09:14:33 -0600, Jonathan Levine wrote: On 7/11/15, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: On Fri 10 Jul 2015 at 21:29:23 -0600, Jonathan Levine wrote: I'm a hardware guy, and not a linux wonk, so I hope you'll all be gentle and use words without too many syllables.

Re: New user having trouble with new install

2015-07-11 Thread Brian
On Fri 10 Jul 2015 at 21:29:23 -0600, Jonathan Levine wrote: I'm a hardware guy, and not a linux wonk, so I hope you'll all be gentle and use words without too many syllables. I've just completed the small cd internet install of the current distribution on a small-footprint pc based on the

Re: New user having trouble with new install

2015-07-11 Thread Jonathan Levine
On 7/10/15, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday 11 July 2015 04:29:23 Jonathan Levine wrote: I've just completed the small cd internet install of the current distribution on a small-footprint pc based on the VIA EDEN ESP 6000. I went with all the defaults and it seemed to

Re: New user having trouble with new install

2015-07-11 Thread Richard Owlett
Jonathan Levine wrote: On 7/10/15, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday 11 July 2015 04:29:23 Jonathan Levine wrote: I've just completed the small cd internet install of the current distribution on a small-footprint pc based on the VIA EDEN ESP 6000. I went with all the

Re: New user having trouble with new install

2015-07-11 Thread Brian
On Sat 11 Jul 2015 at 15:18:21 -0600, Jonathan Levine wrote: On 7/11/15, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: A nice account. At the GRUB splash screen press 'E'. Find the line beginning 'linux' and add longhaul.enable=1 to the end of the line. Press F10. See how you go on.

Re: New user having trouble with new install

2015-07-11 Thread Selim T . Erdoğan
On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 04:15:09PM -0600, Jonathan Levine wrote: On 7/11/15, Gary Dale garyd...@torfree.net wrote: That almost sounds like a video driver problem. Are you running a gui? As I said, I went with the default install, so I don't know what it thinks it's trying to run. I

Re: New user having trouble with new install

2015-07-11 Thread Jonathan Levine
On 7/11/15, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: A nice account. At the GRUB splash screen press 'E'. Find the line beginning 'linux' and add longhaul.enable=1 to the end of the line. Press F10. See how you go on. Did that. Result was exactly the same, with the exception of not getting

Re: New user having trouble with new install

2015-07-11 Thread Jonathan Levine
On 7/11/15, Richard Owlett rowl...@cloud85.net wrote: You might want to try a live-cd {https://www.debian.org/CD/live/}. The netinst cd is a very minimal system. I can see it running when a full system might not. When I was looking for a distro I purchased live-cd's

Re: New user having trouble with new install

2015-07-11 Thread Jonathan Levine
On 7/11/15, Gary Dale garyd...@torfree.net wrote: That almost sounds like a video driver problem. Are you running a gui? As I said, I went with the default install, so I don't know what it thinks it's trying to run. I wasn't *expecting* one - I just need command-line on this thing. And it

Re: New user having trouble with new install

2015-07-11 Thread Jonathan Levine
On 7/11/15, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: Reinstall; one partition for everything. The base system is installed next. You have no control over this. When it comes to installing other software do not install anything. Also, deselect anything which is marked as selected. Complete

Re: New user having trouble with new install

2015-07-11 Thread Gary Dale
On 11/07/15 11:14 AM, Jonathan Levine wrote: On 7/11/15, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: On Fri 10 Jul 2015 at 21:29:23 -0600, Jonathan Levine wrote: I'm a hardware guy, and not a linux wonk, so I hope you'll all be gentle and use words without too many syllables. I've just completed the

Re: New user having trouble with new install

2015-07-11 Thread Jonathan Levine
On 7/11/15, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: Not knowing how how you installed, do you fancy trying this: Sure, no reason not to. Reinstall; one partition for everything. That's how I did it first time around, as that was the default. I'm accustomed to more complex partition schemes in

New user having trouble with new install

2015-07-10 Thread Jonathan Levine
Greetings: I'm a hardware guy, and not a linux wonk, so I hope you'll all be gentle and use words without too many syllables. I've just completed the small cd internet install of the current distribution on a small-footprint pc based on the VIA EDEN ESP 6000. I went with all the defaults and it

Re: New user having trouble with new install

2015-07-10 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 11 July 2015 04:29:23 Jonathan Levine wrote: I've just completed the small cd internet install of the current distribution on a small-footprint pc based on the VIA EDEN ESP 6000.  I went with all the defaults and it seemed to complete uneventfully.  However, on boot it tanks with a

New install standard system utilties

2015-04-27 Thread Bob Proulx
of the others. You are correct. For Oldstable Wheezy 7: root@wheezy:~# tasksel -t --new-install --list-tasks u desktop Debian desktop environment u web-serverWeb server u print-server Print server u database-server SQL database u dns-serverDNS Server u file-server

Fwd: How to troubleshoot: No login GUI after logout or reboot (new install)

2015-03-08 Thread Kynn Jones
Op Tue, 03 Mar 2015 15:52:22 +0100 schreef Kynn Jones kyn...@gmail.com: My newly-installed Debian system (wheezy) is working fine for the most part, except that the login GUI shows up only after I fully shut down and re-start the system. Neither running reboot nor running logout will result

Re: How to troubleshoot: No login GUI after logout or reboot (new install)

2015-03-03 Thread Floris
Op Tue, 03 Mar 2015 15:52:22 +0100 schreef Kynn Jones kyn...@gmail.com: Hello! My newly-installed Debian system (wheezy) is working fine for the most part, except that the login GUI shows up only after I fully shut down and re-start the system. Neither running reboot nor running logout will

How to troubleshoot: No login GUI after logout or reboot (new install)

2015-03-03 Thread Kynn Jones
Hello! My newly-installed Debian system (wheezy) is working fine for the most part, except that the login GUI shows up only after I fully shut down and re-start the system. Neither running reboot nor running logout will result in a login GUI; instead, the display just goes dark, and the system

Re: Re:[Solved] New install: root account is locked, starting shell

2014-11-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 11:14:14PM -0400, tjr0...@gmail.com wrote: Sent from my iPhone Now I know why I use Android. :) -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing. --- Malcolm X --

Re: Re:[Solved] New install: root account is locked, starting shell

2014-10-28 Thread tjr0305
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Re: [Solved] New install: root account is locked, starting shell

2014-10-28 Thread Marty
On 10/28/2014 11:14 PM, tjr0...@gmail.com wrote: Sent from my iPhone Delete the root password x in /etc/passwd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: New install from DVD (via USB flashdrive)

2014-10-02 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 01 oct 14, 19:22:25, Patrick Bartek wrote: You need to be root for synaptic to work. When you start synaptic, it should ask you to enter the root -- not your user -- password. That depends on whether the OP configured a root password during installation. If not the password of the

Re: New install from DVD (via USB flashdrive)

2014-10-02 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Thu, 02 Oct 2014, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Mi, 01 oct 14, 19:22:25, Patrick Bartek wrote: You need to be root for synaptic to work. When you start synaptic, it should ask you to enter the root -- not your user -- password. That depends on whether the OP configured a root password

New install from DVD (via USB flashdrive)

2014-10-01 Thread Alan E. Davis
After many years, I have finally gotten a working Debian install. It looks ok, but there are a few issues. The installation media handling of wifi-connections was not transparent, but it worked fine. I had to NOT configure the wifi connection, after signing in to the router. I was unable to

Re: New install from DVD (via USB flashdrive)

2014-10-01 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Wed, 01 Oct 2014, Alan E. Davis wrote: After many years, I have finally gotten a working Debian install. It looks ok, but there are a few issues. Years? Why did it take you years? The installation media handling of wifi-connections was not transparent, but it worked fine. I had to NOT

New Install Problem

2014-08-08 Thread Tom T
I am on windows at the moment however, after installing Ubuntu 14.04 the screen locks up after several operations and on different sites. The only way I can resolve is to use the Alt + Prt Scr Sysrq while typing REISUB. Thanks. Regards

Re: Problem rendering a man page in new install. Help!

2014-03-31 Thread Curt
On 2014-03-28, Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net wrote: Any quick fix? Or what further information can I provide? You tried changing the font I suppose (Edit/Profile Preferences)? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Problem rendering a man page in new install. Help!

2014-03-28 Thread Paul E Condon
I'm finishing up an install of Wheezy with the latest netinst CD (7.4). I noticed that I made a typo in one of the partition labels. I typed man tune2fs to check my memory, I got a badly garbled text with most of the hyphens and option letters missing, among other things. Surely not a usable man

Re: Brand new install, now how do I play a Youtube video?

2014-03-07 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 07 mar 14, 20:24:22, Chris Bannister wrote: On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 10:31:34AM -0500, Patrick Chkoreff wrote: I recently installed Debian on this laptop. Here's the detail: $ uname -a Linux laptop 3.2.0-4-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.2.54-2 i686 GNU/Linux I'm using the IceWeasel

Re: Brand new install, now how do I play a Youtube video?

2014-03-07 Thread Patrick Chkoreff
Patrick wrote: I'm using the IceWeasel browser, but I can't play a Youtube video. I don't want to install Flash because I just cannot stand Adobe. I searched around and found this: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=51504 I did what they said there, namely: $ sudo apt-get install

Brand new install, now how do I play a Youtube video?

2014-03-06 Thread Patrick Chkoreff
I recently installed Debian on this laptop. Here's the detail: $ uname -a Linux laptop 3.2.0-4-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.2.54-2 i686 GNU/Linux I'm using the IceWeasel browser, but I can't play a Youtube video. I don't want to install Flash because I just cannot stand Adobe. I searched around

Re: Brand new install, now how do I play a Youtube video?

2014-03-06 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 06 March 2014 15:31:34 Patrick Chkoreff wrote: Is this Gnash/GreaseMonkey stuff really a viable alternative to Adobe Flash?  Maybe resistance is futile here, and I just need to be assimilated by Adobe.  Say it isn't so. I have never really found Gnash a viable alternative to Flash.

Re: Brand new install, now how do I play a Youtube video?

2014-03-06 Thread The_Ace
On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 9:01 PM, Patrick Chkoreff p...@loom.cc wrote: I recently installed Debian on this laptop. Here's the detail: $ uname -a Linux laptop 3.2.0-4-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.2.54-2 i686 GNU/Linux I'm using the IceWeasel browser, but I can't play a Youtube video. I don't

Re: Brand new install, now how do I play a Youtube video?

2014-03-06 Thread Patrick Chkoreff
The_Ace wrote, On 03/06/2014 11:12 AM: Try the HTML5 feed youtube has. Doesnt need flash player at all. http://www.youtube.com/html5 W ... I *like* it. Way of the future. Thanks! -- Patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Brand new install, now how do I play a Youtube video?

2014-03-06 Thread Patrick Chkoreff
Lisi Reisz wrote, On 03/06/2014 11:05 AM: I have never really found Gnash a viable alternative to Flash. Good to know. For use with YouTube, Channel4/news etc., I held my nose and installed GoogleChrome. Even Chromium wouldn't run properly. Thanks for the advice. I'm avoiding Google

Re: Brand new install, now how do I play a Youtube video?

2014-03-06 Thread Patrick Chkoreff
Patrick Chkoreff wrote, On 03/06/2014 11:37 AM: Ah ok, so Flash for Linux is abandoned anyway. All the more reason not to resist installing it in the first place. I meant to say: All the more reason to RESIST installing it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Brand new install, now how do I play a Youtube video?

2014-03-06 Thread Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com
On Thu, 06 Mar 2014 10:31:34 -0500 Patrick Chkoreff p...@loom.cc wrote: I recently installed Debian on this laptop. Here's the detail: $ uname -a Linux laptop 3.2.0-4-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.2.54-2 i686 GNU/Linux I'm using the IceWeasel browser, but I can't play a Youtube video. I

Re: Brand new install, now how do I play a Youtube video?

2014-03-06 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 10:31:34AM -0500, Patrick Chkoreff wrote: I recently installed Debian on this laptop. Here's the detail: $ uname -a Linux laptop 3.2.0-4-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.2.54-2 i686 GNU/Linux I'm using the IceWeasel browser, but I can't play a Youtube video. I don't want

Re: Brand new install, now how do I play a Youtube video?

2014-03-06 Thread Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com
On Thu, 6 Mar 2014 20:04:00 -0500 Rob Owens row...@ptd.net wrote: On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 10:31:34AM -0500, Patrick Chkoreff wrote: I recently installed Debian on this laptop. Here's the detail: $ uname -a Linux laptop 3.2.0-4-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.2.54-2 i686 GNU/Linux I'm

Re: Brand new install, now how do I play a Youtube video?

2014-03-06 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 10:31:34AM -0500, Patrick Chkoreff wrote: I recently installed Debian on this laptop. Here's the detail: $ uname -a Linux laptop 3.2.0-4-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.2.54-2 i686 GNU/Linux I'm using the IceWeasel browser, but I can't play a Youtube video. I don't want

Re: New install (intel) can't video mode-switch - SOLVED

2013-12-05 Thread Frank Miles
On Thu, 28 Nov 2013 05:30:02 +0100, Frank Miles wrote: On Thu, 28 Nov 2013 00:20:02 +0100, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: [snip] I have similar motherboard - ASUS H87-PRO, but a very kind man explained to me on this list that Haswell video won't work with Wheezy so I'm going to use my old

Re: New install (intel) can't video mode-switch

2013-11-27 Thread Frank Miles
On Wed, 27 Nov 2013 07:30:02 +0100, Bob Proulx wrote: Frank Miles wrote: This is insane. I have a new system with an Asus H87M-Pro MB, an intel i4770t. Fresh install of wheezy. Things seemed mostly functional... but if I switched out of X to a terminal (Alt-Ctrl-Fn) the system would crash.

Re: New install (intel) can't video mode-switch

2013-11-27 Thread Bob Proulx
Frank Miles wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: Frank Miles wrote: but if I switched out of X to a terminal (Alt-Ctrl-Fn) the system would crash. In addition, shutdown would only start, then it would crash What graphics card do you have there? There is no graphics card - the CPU does the

Re: New install (intel) can't video mode-switch

2013-11-27 Thread Frank Miles
On Wed, 27 Nov 2013 19:00:03 +0100, Bob Proulx wrote: Frank Miles wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: Frank Miles wrote: but if I switched out of X to a terminal (Alt-Ctrl-Fn) the system would crash. In addition, shutdown would only start, then it would crash What graphics card do you

Re: New install (intel) can't video mode-switch

2013-11-27 Thread Georgi Naplatanov
On 11/27/2013 09:22 PM, Frank Miles wrote: On Wed, 27 Nov 2013 19:00:03 +0100, Bob Proulx wrote: Frank Miles wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: Frank Miles wrote: but if I switched out of X to a terminal (Alt-Ctrl-Fn) the system would crash. In addition, shutdown would only start, then it would

Re: New install (intel) can't video mode-switch

2013-11-27 Thread Frank Miles
On Thu, 28 Nov 2013 00:20:02 +0100, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: [snip] I have similar motherboard - ASUS H87-PRO, but a very kind man explained to me on this list that Haswell video won't work with Wheezy so I'm going to use my old Radeon video until Jessie become stable. In my opinion your

New install (intel) can't video mode-switch

2013-11-26 Thread Frank Miles
This is insane. I have a new system with an Asus H87M-Pro MB, an intel i4770t. Fresh install of wheezy. Things seemed mostly functional... but if I switched out of X to a terminal (Alt-Ctrl-Fn) the system would crash. In addition, shutdown would only start, then it would crash (even if X was

Re: New install (intel) can't video mode-switch

2013-11-26 Thread Bob Proulx
Frank Miles wrote: This is insane. I have a new system with an Asus H87M-Pro MB, an intel i4770t. Fresh install of wheezy. Things seemed mostly functional... but if I switched out of X to a terminal (Alt-Ctrl-Fn) the system would crash. In addition, shutdown would only start, then it would

Re: can't find pae kernel after a new install

2013-11-07 Thread Virgo Pärna
On Wed, 6 Nov 2013 10:00:34 +0100 (CET), Pierre Frenkiel pierre.frenk...@gmail.com wrote: What remains unexplained is that I had the 3.10-3-686-pae kernel on my old install, and I never enabled multiarch (At that time, I even ignored this possibility).Is there an other explanation

Re: can't find pae kernel after a new install

2013-11-06 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Fri, 25 Oct 2013, Jochen Spieker wrote: You do not need PAE with an AMD64 installation and your 64 Bit system will not boot using a 32 Bit kernel. If you really, really want to have a 686-PAE kernel then you need to enable multiarch. hi Jochan, thanks for your comments. I wanted to

Re: can't find pae kernel after a new install

2013-11-06 Thread Jochen Spieker
Pierre Frenkiel: On Fri, 25 Oct 2013, Jochen Spieker wrote: What remains unexplained is that I had the 3.10-3-686-pae kernel on my old install, and I never enabled multiarch (At that time, I even ignored this possibility).Is there an other explanation than Alzheimer? None that I am aware

can't find pae kernel after a new install

2013-10-25 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
hi, I had on my laptop the kernel 3.10-3-686-pae. After re-installing wheezy, all pae kernels became invisible, i.e I only get, with aptitude search linux-image. p linux-image-2.6-amd64 p linux-image-3.10-0.bpo.2-amd64 p linux-image-3.10-0.bpo.2-amd64-dbg p

Re: can't find pae kernel after a new install

2013-10-25 Thread Bob Proulx
Pierre Frenkiel wrote: I had on my laptop the kernel 3.10-3-686-pae. After re-installing wheezy, all pae kernels became invisible, i.e I only get, with aptitude search linux-image. p linux-image-2.6-amd64 p linux-image-3.10-0.bpo.2-amd64 p ... You appear to have installed the amd64

Re: can't find pae kernel after a new install

2013-10-25 Thread Jochen Spieker
Pierre Frenkiel: I had on my laptop the kernel 3.10-3-686-pae. After re-installing wheezy, all pae kernels became invisible, i.e I only get, with aptitude search linux-image. p linux-image-2.6-amd64 p linux-image-3.10-0.bpo.2-amd64 p linux-image-3.10-0.bpo.2-amd64-dbg p

Re: new install - not booting solved - but questions remain

2013-08-06 Thread Bob Proulx
Miles Fidelman wrote: So problem is solved but 2 questions remain: - what's going on? - why didn't the installer put things in the right places? I read your posting but don't understand it. Basic setup: - PXEboot into installer You have set up a PXEboot on your network? That is

new install - not booting

2013-08-03 Thread Miles Fidelman
Hi Folks, Just did a new install of Wheezy on a server, but having problems trying to boot. Basic setup: - PXEboot into installer - a pretty standard install - had to fiddle a little at the end to get the MBR into the right places (RAIDed disks, USB stick mounts as /dev/sda) - now it boots

Re: new install - not booting, a little more info

2013-08-03 Thread Miles Fidelman
Miles Fidelman wrote: Just did a new install of Wheezy on a server, but having problems trying to boot. Basic setup: - PXEboot into installer - a pretty standard install - had to fiddle a little at the end to get the MBR into the right places (RAIDed disks, USB stick mounts as /dev/sda

Re: new install - not booting, a little more info, and yet more

2013-08-03 Thread Miles Fidelman
Miles Fidelman wrote: Miles Fidelman wrote: Just did a new install of Wheezy on a server, but having problems trying to boot. Basic setup: - PXEboot into installer - a pretty standard install - had to fiddle a little at the end to get the MBR into the right places (RAIDed disks, USB stick

Re: new install - not booting solved - but questions remain

2013-08-03 Thread Miles Fidelman
Miles Fidelman wrote: Miles Fidelman wrote: Miles Fidelman wrote: Just did a new install of Wheezy on a server, but having problems trying to boot. Basic setup: - PXEboot into installer - a pretty standard install - had to fiddle a little at the end to get the MBR into the right places

Re: No sound with new install

2012-04-03 Thread Nick White
Hi Keith, On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 07:50:18PM +0100, Keith McKenzie wrote: Download the latest alsa-driver package from alsa-project.org. I did this, then installed linux-headers, and did ./configure make sudo make install After rebooting, whatdya know, it works! Horrah! Thanks a lot

Re: No sound with new install

2012-04-03 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 12:56:57PM +0100, Nick White wrote: On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 07:25:10AM -0400, Tom Ashley wrote: I spent the last 2 days trying to resolve this same issue on a new motherboard. The alternative method from http://wiki.debian.org/ALSA worked for me. Thanks for the

No sound with new install

2012-04-02 Thread Nick White
Hi debian folks, I installed Debian last week (for the first time), and things generally went very nicely. One thing which isn't yet working though is sound. I'm currently using the kernel from debian-backports (linux-image-3.2.0-0.bpo.2-amd64) in order to get my ethernet working, but the same

Re: No sound with new install

2012-04-02 Thread Mika Suomalainen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On 02.04.2012 12:49, Nick White wrote: Hi debian folks, I installed Debian last week (for the first time), and things generally went very nicely. One thing which isn't yet working though is sound. I'm currently using the kernel from

Re: No sound with new install

2012-04-02 Thread Nick White
On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 01:14:44PM +0300, Mika Suomalainen wrote: On 02.04.2012 12:49, Nick White wrote: One thing which isn't yet working though is sound. Try installing Pulseaudio. It has fixed same issue for me. Didn't help, unfortunately. Unsuprisingly, given that even alsamixer and

Re: No sound with new install

2012-04-02 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 02 apr 12, 13:14:44, Mika Suomalainen wrote: Try installing Pulseaudio. It has fixed same issue for me. At this point I'd rather not add another variable. Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers:

Re: No sound with new install

2012-04-02 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 02 apr 12, 10:49:05, Nick White wrote: 'alsactl init' returns the following: Unknown hardware: HDA-Intel Realtek ALC887-VD HDA:10ec0887,1458a002,00100302 0x1458 0xa002 Hardware is initialized using a guess method This is not very encouraging (given that you are already using a

Re: No sound with new install

2012-04-02 Thread Nick White
On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 01:48:21PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: This is not very encouraging (given that you are already using a fairly new kernel), am I correct to assume this is a (very) new board? Yes, likely. It's a new PC, so could well be. Please also add output of: 'aplay -l' output:

Re: No sound with new install

2012-04-02 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 02 apr 12, 11:57:57, Nick White wrote: On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 01:48:21PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: This is not very encouraging (given that you are already using a fairly new kernel), am I correct to assume this is a (very) new board? Yes, likely. It's a new PC, so could well

Re: No sound with new install

2012-04-02 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 02 apr 12, 10:49:05, Nick White wrote: 'alsamixer' fails with: cannot load mixer controls: Invalid argument What about 'amixer'? Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic

Re: No sound with new install

2012-04-02 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2012/4/2 Nick White nick.wh...@durham.ac.uk On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 01:48:21PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: This is not very encouraging (given that you are already using a fairly new kernel), am I correct to assume this is a (very) new board? Yes, likely. It's a new PC, so could well be.

Re: No sound with new install

2012-04-02 Thread Nick White
On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 02:06:40PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: What about 'amixer'? amixer: Mixer default load error: Invalid argument -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: No sound with new install

2012-04-02 Thread Tom Ashley
On Mon, 2 Apr 2012 11:57:57 +0100 Nick White nick.wh...@durham.ac.uk wrote: On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 01:48:21PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: This is not very encouraging (given that you are already using a fairly new kernel), am I correct to assume this is a (very) new board? Yes,

Re: No sound with new install

2012-04-02 Thread Nick White
On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 02:05:31PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: Ok, this all looks good. Please make sure that you turn off any program that may produce sounds[1] and try as root *and* as user: speaker-test -c2 You should hear hissing (pink) noise alternating from the left and right

Re: No sound with new install

2012-04-02 Thread Nick White
On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 07:25:10AM -0400, Tom Ashley wrote: I spent the last 2 days trying to resolve this same issue on a new motherboard. The alternative method from http://wiki.debian.org/ALSA worked for me. Thanks for the tip. However, I'd really like to get this working using a stock

Re: No sound with new install

2012-04-02 Thread Nick White
On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 01:16:12PM +0200, Raffaele Morelli wrote: Have a look at /usr/share/doc/alsa-base/driver/ there are lots of info about hd models (install alsa-base if you don't) look for your souncard model infod in the relevant files and the specify your model in

Re: No sound with new install

2012-04-02 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2012/4/2 Nick White nick.wh...@durham.ac.uk On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 01:16:12PM +0200, Raffaele Morelli wrote: Have a look at /usr/share/doc/alsa-base/driver/ there are lots of info about hd models (install alsa-base if you don't) look for your souncard model infod in the relevant files

Re: No sound with new install

2012-04-02 Thread Jens-Michael Hoffmann
Am Montag, 2. April 2012, 11:49:05 schrieb Nick White: Hi debian folks, I installed Debian last week (for the first time), and things generally went very nicely. One thing which isn't yet working though is sound. I'm currently using the kernel from debian-backports

Re: No sound with new install

2012-04-02 Thread Nick White
On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 02:29:56PM +0200, Raffaele Morelli wrote: well, as showed from aplay -l your model is : ALC887-VD `cd /usr/share/doc/alsa-base/driver` and `gunzip HD-Audio-Models.txt.gz` open HD-Audio-Models.txt with your favourite text editor/viewer, rows [128..153] they seems to

Re: No sound with new install

2012-04-02 Thread Nick White
On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 04:16:28PM +0200, Jens-Michael Hoffmann wrote: I've got the same issue on sid. At the moment I'm working around it by killing pulseaudio after booting. When it then autimatically restarts, sound is working for me. Hi Jens-Michael, That doesn't sound like the same

Re: No sound with new install

2012-04-02 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
On 02/04/12 11:49, Nick White wrote: Hi debian folks, I installed Debian last week (for the first time), and things generally went very nicely. One thing which isn't yet working though is sound. I'm currently using the kernel from debian-backports (linux-image-3.2.0-0.bpo.2-amd64) in order to

Re: No sound with new install

2012-04-02 Thread David Baron
Those Realtek/intel on-board soundards have a problem with 3.2 kernels. Some things work, some things do not. Two new controls were added: speaker and headphone (so I was informed in a similar thread a few weeks ago when the problem surfaced on my machine). The speaker control does not show up

Re: No sound with new install

2012-04-02 Thread Nick White
On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 04:53:58PM +0200, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: Ok.. I know these may sound really naive... but with the integrated audio thingies sometimes audio is really troublesome to set up even if everything is working correctly, so: - Are you 100% sure you have plugged your

Re: No sound with new install

2012-04-02 Thread Morten Bo Johansen
Nick White nick.wh...@durham.ac.uk wrote: I installed Debian last week (for the first time), and things generally went very nicely. One thing which isn't yet working though is sound. I did an installation of a Wheezy-system about a month ago and ran into the same problem: No sound. I did not

Re: No sound with new install

2012-04-02 Thread Keith McKenzie
On 02/04/12 15:44, Nick White wrote: Anybody have any other suggestions? When I installed Squeeze 6.0.3/4 onto my newish HP G62 laptop, I had no sound. I was given this advice by someone, (I'm afraid I can't remember who), from Linuxquestions - Debian forum:- Download the latest

Re: New install - Laptop, dual boot with Win7, config with LVM+LUKS fails if the encryption layer is on top of LVM layer

2011-07-19 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 21:39:24 +1000, yudi wrote in message caco--mvsqzwxx5f+aj4zh6brupl9u0jrqnhdf07cmjpjkd1...@mail.gmail.com: I am trying to install Debian Squeeze 32bit on a laptop with 750Gb Advanced Format WD drive. ..if it can run 64-bit Wintendo 7, you wanna install 64-bit Debian

New install - Laptop, dual boot with Win7, config with LVM+LUKS fails if the encryption layer is on top of LVM layer

2011-07-18 Thread yudi v
I am trying to install Debian Squeeze 32bit on a laptop with 750Gb Advanced Format WD drive. the partition scheme I have in my mind is like this: sda1 100GB Win7 sda2 500GB LVM (also the PV and the VG) -LV 500MB /boot -LV 15GB /root (encrypted) -LV 50GB /home (encrypted) -LV 4GB swap

Re: new install and 1 MB between partitions

2010-06-16 Thread Camaleón
El 2010-06-15 a las 15:32 -0500, Arthur Machlas escribió: (forwarding to the list) I made a new installation of my Debian system two days ago and noticed that there is about 1 MB  unallocated between partitions. How is that? Are you on lenny, squeeze...? As root, type fdisk -l and

Re: new install and 1 MB between partitions

2010-06-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/15/2010 07:22 AM, Mélaine Aubin Guifo wrote: Hello, I made a new installation of my Debian system two days ago and noticed that there is about 1 MB unallocated between partitions. I would like to know the reason of this change. How big is that drive? -- Seek truth from facts. --

new install and 1 MB between partitions

2010-06-15 Thread Mélaine Aubin Guifo
Hello, I made a new installation of my Debian system two days ago and noticed that there is about 1 MB unallocated between partitions. I would like to know the reason of this change. Thanks in advance Mélaine Aubin Guifo

Re: new install and 1 MB between partitions

2010-06-15 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 14:22:24 +0200, Mélaine Aubin Guifo wrote: I made a new installation of my Debian system two days ago and noticed that there is about 1 MB unallocated between partitions. How is that? Are you on lenny, squeeze...? As root, type fdisk -l and put here the output. I

Re:[Solved] New install: root account is locked, starting shell

2009-05-22 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On 22 May 2009 05:14:00 gcr...@vcn.bc.ca wrote: On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 12:31:53PM +0200, Thierry Chatelet wrote: Hi list, Made a new unstable install from daily build, using business card image from 2 days ago. Everything went OK during the process, but the reboot was more trouble: No

New install: root account is locked, starting shell

2009-05-21 Thread Thierry Chatelet
Hi list, Made a new unstable install from daily build, using business card image from 2 days ago. Everything went OK during the process, but the reboot was more trouble: No way to enter the system as a user, login failed; no way to enter as root, login failed. So I tried to boot safe mode, and

Re: New install: root account is locked, starting shell

2009-05-21 Thread gcrimp
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 12:31:53PM +0200, Thierry Chatelet wrote: Hi list, Made a new unstable install from daily build, using business card image from 2 days ago. Everything went OK during the process, but the reboot was more trouble: No way to enter the system as a user, login failed;

Catalyst on new install

2008-10-05 Thread Pal Trendweaver
Hello, I'm trying to install Catalyst on my newly installed computer, however the aticonfig --initial doesn't update my xorg.conf properly. I'm new to ATI (I've used the Nvidia prop. driver for years and installed it dozens of times) and I need some help on this. I tried to find some help on the

Re: Catalyst on new install

2008-10-05 Thread Aniruddha
On Sun, 2008-10-05 at 15:18 +0200, Pal Trendweaver wrote: Hello, I'm trying to install Catalyst on my newly installed computer, however the aticonfig --initial doesn't update my xorg.conf properly. I'm new to ATI (I've used the Nvidia prop. driver for years and installed it dozens of times)

Re: Catalyst on new install

2008-10-05 Thread lachlan
On Sun, 2008-10-05 at 20:31 +0200, Aniruddha wrote: On Sun, 2008-10-05 at 15:18 +0200, Pal Trendweaver wrote: Hello, I'm trying to install Catalyst on my newly installed computer, however the aticonfig --initial doesn't update my xorg.conf properly. I'm new to ATI (I've used the Nvidia

Re: keeping package selection with new install

2008-05-02 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 19:29 -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: The list generated by aptitude that way is not ready for use in reinstallation (because of the status and description), but you can get only a list of names with $ aptitude search '~i!~M' | awk '{print $2}' (and other dozens of

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