Re: Grub 2.00 in testing?

2013-07-21 Thread Carl Johnson
William Hopkins writes: > On 07/20/13 at 08:43pm, Carl Johnson wrote: >> Does anybody know what is going on with grub in testing? I have been >> waiting for 2.00, but it seems to be stuck at 1.99. Grub-common at >> http://packages.debian.org/jessie/grub-common shows that it is at >> 1.99-27+deb

Re: VLC commandline problems in Wheezy [solved]

2013-07-21 Thread Intense Red
> No, sorry. But I'd be glad to help you troubleshoot.. Thanks William. I think I've identified what the problem is. What I did under KDE was to create a second "file association" entry that ran VLC with my commandline parameters. Thus, there was 2 VLC file associations for, say, *.avi. I

Re: FW: Debian Testing VMWare-Tools Bad Variable Name

2013-07-21 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
On 07/21/2013 06:23 PM, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D.Life is a fuzzy set Foundation for Chemistry Stochastic and multivariate www.FoundationForChemistry.com (614)312-7528 (c) Skype: smolnar1 -Original

Toggle wlan0 on and off with Fn-F2?

2013-07-21 Thread Peter Stoddard
I purchased a laptop with wheezy pre-loaded, and it is working fine except for one thing. When I suspend and then unsuspend, if that is the right term, I find I have lost the wireless network. Pressing Fn-F2 starts it up again. In fact I can toggle wlan0 on and off by pressing Fn-F2 repeatedly.

60 secs freeze with jessie on i7-4770

2013-07-21 Thread Simon Rettberg
So today I decided to try debian jessie for a while, but immediately ran into problems. The system will hang for a minute after a couple of hours. Installation is pretty minimal, no desktop, just command line. Linux testbox 3.9-1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.9.8-1 x86_64 GNU/Linux CPU: Intel(R) Core

Re: Multiple audio applications with the same Alsa device

2013-07-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2013-07-22 at 07:44 +1000, Igor Cicimov wrote: > Read about alsa dmix plugin thats the way to go. > > On 21/07/2013 4:45 PM, "Gábor Hársfalvi" wrote: > > when I listening mp3 with Alsaplayer - or other player - I > can't hear any sounds on other applications - for example

Re: Multiple audio applications with the same Alsa device

2013-07-21 Thread Igor Cicimov
Read about alsa dmix plugin thats the way to go. On 21/07/2013 4:45 PM, "Gábor Hársfalvi" wrote: > Hello, > > I succesfully use 5.1 Surround with Alsa with this .asoundrc -> > > pcm.!default { > type plug > slave.pcm "surround51" > slave.channels 6 > route_policy duplicate > } > > but when I list

Re: Multiple audio applications with the same Alsa device

2013-07-21 Thread Doug
On 7/21/2013 2:44 AM, Gábor Hársfalvi wrote: Hello, I succesfully use 5.1 Surround with Alsa with this .asoundrc -> pcm.!default { type plug slave.pcm "surround51" slave.channels 6 route_policy duplicate } but when I listening mp3 with Alsaplayer - or other player - I can't hear any sounds on

Re: libGL.so.1 and nvidia drivers

2013-07-21 Thread William Hopkins
On 07/16/13 at 09:13pm, Brad Alexander wrote: > I'm using the nvidia drivers from the repos on a sid machine. They were > just upgraded to the long-term 319.32-1 from the repos. However, I have > cisco's anyconnect, and when I launch it, I get > > $ /opt/cisco/anyconnect/bin/vpnui > /opt/cisco/any

Re: VLC commandline problems in Wheezy

2013-07-21 Thread William Hopkins
On 07/20/13 at 02:46pm, Intense Red wrote: >I have a Wheezy (with the deb-multimedia.org repository) computer running > a > KDE desktop as a HTPC. I use VLC to watch videos. > >If I run KDE's default VLC invocation, "/usr/bin/vlc VideoFileName.ext", > VLC will run fine, popping up in a

Re: any way to get the mouse position on two places on the screen?

2013-07-21 Thread William Hopkins
On 07/20/13 at 09:55pm, Albretch Mueller wrote: > Anyway I was trying to be the possibly least verbose I could. Whoever told you this was a good idea was lying. Be more verbose. > Since I need to do some screen capture based on ffmpeg I need to know the > pixel coordinates of the a rectangle

Re: Monitor network download speed

2013-07-21 Thread William Hopkins
On 07/20/13 at 08:59am, Joe Riel wrote: > Any recommendations for a graphical tool to monitor, real-time, > the download network speed. My connection to work frequently > gets really slow, in which case I need to disconnect and reconnect. > I currently use the gnome network monitor tool, however,

Re: Grub 2.00 in testing?

2013-07-21 Thread William Hopkins
On 07/20/13 at 08:43pm, Carl Johnson wrote: > Does anybody know what is going on with grub in testing? I have been > waiting for 2.00, but it seems to be stuck at 1.99. Grub-common at > http://packages.debian.org/jessie/grub-common shows that it is at > 1.99-27+deb7u1, but the source files show 2

Re: Gnome doesn't save brightness setting

2013-07-21 Thread William Hopkins
On 07/21/13 at 11:02am, Amandeep Singh wrote: > Hi, > > I am using Debian wheezy on my lenovo t430 laptop. And each time I start my > laptop, it starts in full brightness mode, and each time I have to reduce > it. I am tired of doing this. Does anyone know any solution. Is this a > known bug, or a

Re: Debian Testing VMWare-Tools Bad Variable Name

2013-07-21 Thread William Hopkins
On 07/21/13 at 04:09pm, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > In the case of Debian 7.1.0 the vmware tools installed without any problems. > > Unfortunately, this was not the case with Debian Testing. the tools > installed without any problems, but when the installer ran > /usr/bin/ware/vmware.config.tools.

Re: unable to mount a vfat filesystem.

2013-07-21 Thread William Hopkins
On 07/18/13 at 01:14pm, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > On 18/07/13 11:48, atar wrote: > > > > Note: it's worth to note here that I'm using at the Live version of > > Debian from the Debian Live Project. > > > > No, you're not: > User-Agent: Opera Mail/12.15 (Win32) > > That was remarkably unfrien

Debian Testing VMWare-Tools Bad Variable Name

2013-07-21 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
I am using VMWare Reader v-5.0.2 and the associated VMWare Tools with both Debian v-7.1.0 and Debian Testing (different VMWare Reader directories, of course) installed on my 64 bit Windows 7 laptop as testbeds before making any changes to my Linux production machine. In the case of Debian 7.1.

Re: unable to mount a vfat filesystem.

2013-07-21 Thread Pascal Hambourg
atar a écrit : > > I've configured my boot loader (Syslinux in my case) to load the new > kernel image and the new initrd.img corresponding to the new kernel but > unfortunately, this didn't solve the problem. Did you check that the active kernel and initramfs are the intended one and not an

Re: Installing Mate - Sources List

2013-07-21 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 12 July 2013 08:44:44 Jochen Spieker wrote: > > root@meow:/etc/apt# cat sources.list > > This file is not relevant. The error message you posted previously > referred to (IIRC) /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mate.list. It is, in fact, because it has the same typo with deban: deb http://ftp.d

Re: unable to mount a vfat filesystem.

2013-07-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-07-18 at 14:31 +0200, Jochen Spieker wrote: > Tony van der Hoff: > > On 18/07/13 11:48, atar wrote: > >> > >> Note: it's worth to note here that I'm using at the Live version of > >> Debian from the Debian Live Project. > > > > No, you're not: > > User-Agent: Opera Mail/12.15 (Win32)

Re: Unable to boot UEFI installation

2013-07-21 Thread Pertti Kosunen
On 20.7.2013 22:16, Marcus Karlsson wrote: Does anyone know why this happens or what I can do about it, apart from renaming the installed boot loader directory? Here are my notes for switching from legacy BIOS mode to UEFI, manual grub binary and config install might help. # Booted in legac

Re: Multiple audio applications with the same Alsa device

2013-07-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Strange was send in reply to the list, but didn't came through. Forwarded Message Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2013 10:29:21 +0200 On Sun, 21 Jul 2013 10:08:19 +0200, darkestkhan wrote: > Is this really that surprising? For me (and some other I know) it is > normal mode of operating a

Re: Multiple audio applications with the same Alsa device

2013-07-21 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 7/21/13, darkestkhan wrote: >> On Jul 21, 2013 7:50 AM, "Ralf Mardorf" >> > On Sun, 21 Jul 2013 08:44:59 +0200, Gábor Hársfalvi >> >> when I listening mp3 with Alsaplayer - or other player - I can't hear >> >> any sounds on other applications - for example Chrome with Youtube. >> >> How to so

Re: Multiple audio applications with the same Alsa device

2013-07-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 21 Jul 2013 10:08:19 +0200, darkestkhan wrote: Darkestkhan, (and everybody else doing this) don't send duplicates of mails send to the list as private mail too. Thank you, Ralf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

Re: Multiple audio applications with the same Alsa device

2013-07-21 Thread darkestkhan
> > On Jul 21, 2013 7:50 AM, "Ralf Mardorf" wrote: > > > > On Sun, 21 Jul 2013 08:44:59 +0200, Gábor Hársfalvi wrote: > >> > >> when I listening mp3 with Alsaplayer - or other player - I can't hear > >> any sounds on other applications - for example Chrome with Youtube. > >> > >> How to solve thi

Re: Multiple audio applications with the same Alsa device

2013-07-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 21 Jul 2013 08:44:59 +0200, Gábor Hársfalvi wrote: when I listening mp3 with Alsaplayer - or other player - I can't hear any sounds on other applications - for example Chrome with Youtube. How to solve this? Use a sane sound server and applications that are able to connect to this

Re: Multiple audio applications with the same Alsa device

2013-07-21 Thread darkestkhan
On Jul 21, 2013 6:45 AM, "Gábor Hársfalvi" wrote: > > Hello, > > I succesfully use 5.1 Surround with Alsa with this .asoundrc -> > > pcm.!default { > type plug > slave.pcm "surround51" > slave.channels 6 > route_policy duplicate > } > > but when I listening mp3 with Alsaplayer - or other player -

local sid repository - howto extend release date?

2013-07-21 Thread Zenaan Harkness
(Subject was: SOLVED - aka How to quickly override 'apt-get update' gpg repo check - was - local (old) sid repo - manually updating Release date ?) On 7/13/13, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > On 7/13/13, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > ... >> Anyone know what's changed, that is stopping me from temporarily >>