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 8

2015-04-12 Thread Bret Busby
On 13/04/2015, Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: On 13/04/2015, David Wright deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk wrote: snip And lastly, just out of interest, I don't recall your saying whether you have tried installing and running D8 yet. Apart from not having GNOME Classic, I note that Debian

Re: debian 8

2015-04-12 Thread Bret Busby
On 13/04/2015, David Wright deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk wrote: Me again, sorry. My question about the hardware failure was more out of curiosity than anything else, because it's unusual for software problems to break hardware (though quite possible). On to software... Quoting Bret Busby (bret.bu

Re: debian 8

2015-04-12 Thread Bret Busby
to install Debian 8. -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .. So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means. - Deep Thought, Chapter 28 of Book 1 of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy In Four Parts, written by Douglas Adams

Re: debian 8

2015-04-13 Thread Bret Busby
in anticipation. -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .. So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means. - Deep Thought, Chapter 28 of Book 1 of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy In Four Parts, written by Douglas Adams, published by Pan

Re: Book questions

2015-04-13 Thread Bret Busby
aspects of operating systems, including the UNIX-based operating systems -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .. So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means. - Deep Thought, Chapter 28 of Book 1 of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy

Re: debian 8

2015-04-13 Thread Bret Busby
On 13/04/2015, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh h...@debian.org wrote: On Sun, Apr 12, 2015, at 23:52, Bret Busby wrote: What they told me, is that the problem was solved by removing the battery, for about 15 minutes, then reinstalling the battery, and that the cause is that sometimes, operating

Re: debian 8

2015-04-11 Thread Bret Busby
On 11/04/2015, Curt cu...@free.fr wrote: On 2015-04-10, Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: unwittingly and unwillingly, running the application, thus, as it stands, the application is a trojan horse. Is this hyperbole (hyper hyper), or do you really believe what you're saying? You

Re: Book questions

2015-04-12 Thread Bret Busby
programming languages, including C, and, is cross-platform portable, and is supposed to be very versatile. -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .. So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means. - Deep Thought, Chapter 28 of Book 1 of The Hitchhiker's

Re: debian 8

2015-04-15 Thread Bret Busby
On 13/04/2015, Petter Adsen pet...@synth.no wrote: On Mon, 13 Apr 2015 23:23:54 +0800 Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: 2. As indicated in earlier posts, the two computers to which I have referred; the Acer V3-772G and the Acer E5-521-238Q (I think that is the model number of the newer

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-14 Thread Bret Busby
On 14/04/2015, Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: 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

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-15 Thread Bret Busby
On 15/04/2015, Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: On 14/04/2015, Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: 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

Has the rescatux and supergrubdisk project been terminated

2015-04-14 Thread Bret Busby
to be functional. -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .. So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means. - Deep Thought, Chapter 28 of Book 1 of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy In Four Parts, written by Douglas Adams

Re: Has the rescatux and supergrubdisk project been terminated

2015-04-15 Thread Bret Busby
On 15/04/2015, Petter Adsen pet...@synth.no wrote: 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

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-18 Thread Bret Busby
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 GB of RAM, and, Lucky you. 2GB here. expecially with Debian 6 not having

Re: debian 8

2015-04-03 Thread Bret Busby
On 04/04/2015, Curt cu...@free.fr wrote: On 2015-04-03, Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: I guess the sharpness and brightness, have dulled for me, over the years (too many years). And Cloris Leachman never got on Lassie. Sheesh. I did not claim that she did. I merely cited

Re: Webcam device `not found'

2015-04-07 Thread Bret Busby
. Please help whoever can. I have Sid. Thanks, Rodolfo I have an Aspire One running wheezy and GNOME 3.4.2. The webcam just works. What Debian release are you using? -- Liam Last sentence of original post - I have Sid. -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .. So once

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: debian 8

2015-04-10 Thread Bret Busby
On 10/04/2015, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday 10 April 2015 10:25:14 Bret Busby wrote: So, I have found xfce, on Debian 7, to be too dangerous. I seem to remember that XFCE has lock and on as the default on screen saver. This is surely almost normal now? Anyhow

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

Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-09 Thread Bret Busby
with Debian 7 installed, the external monitor works with MS Win 8, and with Ubuntu 14.04, and not with Debian 7. That computer has an nVidia graphica adaptor, that has previously been mentioned on the list. Does Debian 7 work with external monitors? -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia

Re: Book questions

2015-04-09 Thread Bret Busby
the (then) available textbooks. -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .. So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means. - Deep Thought, Chapter 28 of Book 1 of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy In Four Parts, written by Douglas Adams

Query about possible impact of leap second on Debian Linux

2015-05-21 Thread Bret Busby
for computing to have a timescale that never needed changing. Without leap seconds there would be a slip of two to three minutes by 2100 and about half an hour by 2700. -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .. So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer

Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-08 Thread Bret Busby
On 27/05/2015, Stuart Longland stua...@longlandclan.yi.org wrote: On 27/05/15 18:33, Bret Busby wrote: On 27/05/2015, Petter Adsen pet...@synth.no wrote: On Wed, 27 May 2015 16:15:36 +0800 Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: Or, is a way available, without causing damage, that I can do

Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-08 Thread Bret Busby
that it is not enabled. How do I enable it? Thank you in anticipation. -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .. So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means. - Deep Thought, Chapter 28 of Book 1 of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy In Four

Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-08 Thread Bret Busby
On 08/06/2015, Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: On 08/06/2015, Petter Adsen pet...@synth.no wrote: On Mon, 8 Jun 2015 16:10:23 +0800 Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: On 27/05/2015, Patrick Bartek nemomm...@gmail.com wrote: snip If it's enabled, CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE will halt

Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-08 Thread Bret Busby
On 08/06/2015, Petter Adsen pet...@synth.no wrote: On Mon, 8 Jun 2015 16:10:23 +0800 Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: On 27/05/2015, Patrick Bartek nemomm...@gmail.com wrote: snip If it's enabled, CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE will halt X and all GUI stuff, and drop you to a terminal

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-22 Thread Bret Busby
On 21/06/2015, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday 20 June 2015 18:01:41 Bret Busby wrote: mate, apart from being in spanish, codswallop! Lisi At https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MATE_(software) is MATE (/mɑːteɪ/; Spanish pronunciation: [ˈmate]) is a desktop environment

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-22 Thread Bret Busby
in Debian, rather than the gratuitous flaming that you impose on victims. -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .. So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means. - Deep Thought, Chapter 28 of Book 1 of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-22 Thread Bret Busby
On 23/06/2015, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 22 June 2015 17:25:38 Bret Busby wrote: On 21/06/2015, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday 20 June 2015 18:01:41 Bret Busby wrote: mate, apart from being in spanish, codswallop! Lisi At https

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-20 Thread Bret Busby
On 19/06/2015, Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: On 19/06/2015, Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: On 19/06/2015, Petter Adsen pet...@synth.no wrote: Copies of Xorg.0.log (on both Wheezy and Ubuntu) would also be helpful, just to see what your system detects, and how they differ

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-20 Thread Bret Busby
On 20/06/2015, Reco recovery...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. On Sat, 20 Jun 2015 01:45:42 +0800 Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: On 20/06/2015, Reco recovery...@gmail.com wrote: And then again - if Ubuntu satisfies your needs, why suffer with Debian oldstable? As should be shown

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-20 Thread Bret Busby
On 19/06/2015, Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: On 19/06/2015, Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: On 19/06/2015, Petter Adsen pet...@synth.no wrote: On Fri, 19 Jun 2015 12:15:59 +0800 Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: I note also, that I used synaptic to remove all the nvidia

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-20 Thread Bret Busby
On 19/06/2015, Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: On 19/06/2015, Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: On 19/06/2015, Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: On 19/06/2015, Petter Adsen pet...@synth.no wrote: On Fri, 19 Jun 2015 16:23:03 +0800 Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-20 Thread Bret Busby
On 20/06/2015, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday 19 June 2015 18:49:38 Bret Busby wrote: On 20/06/2015, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday 19 June 2015 16:54:12 Bret Busby wrote: Unfortunately, it appears that once a version of Debian Linux is released

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-19 Thread Bret Busby
On 19/06/2015, Ric Moore wayward4...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/19/2015 12:15 AM, Bret Busby wrote: On 19/06/2015, Ric Moore wayward4...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/18/2015 03:25 AM, Petter Adsen wrote: There are, however, no hits on bumblebee for squeeze at all, so it won't help in this case. Maybe

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-19 Thread Bret Busby
On 19/06/2015, Petter Adsen pet...@synth.no wrote: On Fri, 19 Jun 2015 12:15:59 +0800 Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: I note also, that I used synaptic to remove all the nvidia stuff, from the Debian 7 installation, and I removed the bumblebee stuff from that installation

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-18 Thread Bret Busby
. I note also, that I used synaptic to remove all the nvidia stuff, from the Debian 7 installation, and I removed the bumblebee stuff from that installation, and reinstalled bumblebee on that installation, and the Debian 7 installation also still does not detect the external monitor. -- Bret Busby

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-19 Thread Bret Busby
On 19/06/2015, Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: On 19/06/2015, Petter Adsen pet...@synth.no wrote: On Fri, 19 Jun 2015 12:15:59 +0800 Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: I note also, that I used synaptic to remove all the nvidia stuff, from the Debian 7 installation, and I removed

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-19 Thread Bret Busby
On 19/06/2015, Petter Adsen pet...@synth.no wrote: On Fri, 19 Jun 2015 12:15:59 +0800 Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: I note also, that I used synaptic to remove all the nvidia stuff, from the Debian 7 installation, and I removed the bumblebee stuff from that installation

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-19 Thread Bret Busby
On 19/06/2015, Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: On 19/06/2015, Petter Adsen pet...@synth.no wrote: On Fri, 19 Jun 2015 16:23:03 +0800 Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: On 19/06/2015, Petter Adsen pet...@synth.no wrote: How do you determine that it doesn't detect the monitor? You

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-19 Thread Bret Busby
On 19/06/2015, Petter Adsen pet...@synth.no wrote: On Fri, 19 Jun 2015 12:15:59 +0800 Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: I note also, that I used synaptic to remove all the nvidia stuff, from the Debian 7 installation, and I removed the bumblebee stuff from that installation

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-19 Thread Bret Busby
of my previous post you would have seen the full path to that file. Sorry - I had read the whole of the post, and had tried to respond to it in modularised progressive steps, and when I got down to that part, I had forgotten the content of the first paragraph. See below for Ubuntu 12.04 -- Bret

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-19 Thread Bret Busby
On 19/06/2015, Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: On 19/06/2015, Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: On 19/06/2015, Petter Adsen pet...@synth.no wrote: On Fri, 19 Jun 2015 16:23:03 +0800 Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: On 19/06/2015, Petter Adsen pet...@synth.no wrote: How do

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-19 Thread Bret Busby
On 19/06/2015, Petter Adsen pet...@synth.no wrote: On Fri, 19 Jun 2015 16:23:03 +0800 Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: On 19/06/2015, Petter Adsen pet...@synth.no wrote: How do you determine that it doesn't detect the monitor? You can read through /var/log/Xorg.0.log, but it's easier

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-19 Thread Bret Busby
On 19/06/2015, Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: On 19/06/2015, Petter Adsen pet...@synth.no wrote: On Fri, 19 Jun 2015 12:15:59 +0800 Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: I note also, that I used synaptic to remove all the nvidia stuff, from the Debian 7 installation, and I removed

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-19 Thread Bret Busby
On 19/06/2015, Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: On 19/06/2015, Petter Adsen pet...@synth.no wrote: Copies of Xorg.0.log (on both Wheezy and Ubuntu) would also be helpful, just to see what your system detects, and how they differ. -Ubuntu-12-04LTS:~$ cat Xorg.0.log cat: Xorg.0

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-19 Thread Bret Busby
On 19/06/2015, Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: On 19/06/2015, Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: On 19/06/2015, Petter Adsen pet...@synth.no wrote: On Fri, 19 Jun 2015 12:15:59 +0800 Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: I note also, that I used synaptic to remove all the nvidia

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-19 Thread Bret Busby
On 19/06/2015, Curt cu...@free.fr wrote: On 2015-06-19, Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry - I had read the whole of the post, and had tried to respond to it in modularised progressive steps, and when I got down to that part, I had forgotten the content of the first paragraph

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-19 Thread Bret Busby
On 19/06/2015, Petter Adsen pet...@synth.no wrote: On Fri, 19 Jun 2015 17:50:17 +0800 Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: I have attached a copy of the file from the Debian 6 installation. It's not loading neither the nouveau nor the nvidia driver, is one of them correctly installed

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-22 Thread Bret Busby
On 23/06/2015, Martin Read zen75...@zen.co.uk wrote: On 22/06/15 18:01, Bret Busby wrote: The names of the applications are also in spanish. Is it really too much to ask, for application names to be in english? Speaking as a native speaker of English: Yes. What's wrong with using languages

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-22 Thread Bret Busby
On 23/06/2015, Don Armstrong d...@debian.org wrote: On Tue, 23 Jun 2015, Bret Busby wrote: But all of this digression into discussing the mate desktop environment stll does not get either Debian 6 or 7 working with either the intel, or the nvidia, graphics device, in the Acer V3-772G

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-22 Thread Bret Busby
On 23/06/2015, Don Armstrong d...@debian.org wrote: On Tue, 23 Jun 2015, Bret Busby wrote: But all of this digression into discussing the mate desktop environment stll does not get either Debian 6 or 7 working with either the intel, or the nvidia, graphics device, in the Acer V3-772G

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-19 Thread Bret Busby
where necessary for attempts to get the Debian installations working. I would rather use Debian 6, as it has the superior interface, to the later Debian versions, and to Ubuntu, but, to use Debian 6, I have to use a lesser computer. -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .. So once you

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-19 Thread Bret Busby
On 20/06/2015, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday 19 June 2015 16:54:12 Bret Busby wrote: Unfortunately, it appears that once a version of Debian Linux is released and decreed stable, development of that version and its packages, ceases, and it goes into maintenance mode, so

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-19 Thread Bret Busby
On 20/06/2015, Curt cu...@free.fr wrote: On 2015-06-19, Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: Didn't we already go through this once with you in a long, protracted, confused and confusing thread, the exact same issue, not too long ago? As I have, I believe, previously mentioned, I have been

Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-10 Thread Bret Busby
On 08/06/2015, David Wright deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk wrote: Quoting Bret Busby (bret.bu...@gmail.com): The telinit s command, whilst taking the computer to single user mode, unfortunately did not turn off the GUI, so I still got the same error. It would appear that there's some sort

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-10 Thread Bret Busby
. -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .. So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means. - Deep Thought, Chapter 28 of Book 1 of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy In Four Parts, written by Douglas Adams, published by Pan Books, 1992

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-10 Thread Bret Busby
compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:0416] (rev 06) So, the driver appears to be installed, but not implemented. -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .. So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means. - Deep Thought

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-10 Thread Bret Busby
On 11/06/2015, Nick T. n...@ncktsp.com wrote: Edit /etc/default/grub as root and append nomodeset to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT save exit and run update-grub as root. - Nick On 06/10/2015 10:55 PM, Bret Busby wrote: On 11/06/2015, Nick T. n...@ncktsp.com wrote: Try adding nomodeset

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-10 Thread Bret Busby
On 11/06/2015, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday 10 June 2015 16:52:50 Bret Busby wrote: ERROR: Unable to find the development tool `cc` in your path; please make sure that you have the package 'gcc' installed. If gcc is installed on your system, then please check that `cc

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-10 Thread Bret Busby
On 11/06/2015, Nick T. n...@ncktsp.com wrote: nomodeset goes inside the quotes derp :P GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=quiet nomodeset - Nick On 06/10/2015 11:23 PM, Bret Busby wrote: On 11/06/2015, Nick T. n...@ncktsp.com wrote: Edit /etc/default/grub as root and append nomodeset

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-14 Thread Bret Busby
On 14/06/2015, Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: On 14/06/2015, Petter Adsen pet...@synth.no wrote: On Sun, 14 Jun 2015 14:37:47 +0800 Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: IIn running Synaptic, and searching on the string nvidia, to find what nvidia drivers are installed (as I do

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-14 Thread Bret Busby
On 14/06/2015, Petter Adsen pet...@synth.no wrote: On Sun, 14 Jun 2015 14:37:47 +0800 Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: IIn running Synaptic, and searching on the string nvidia, to find what nvidia drivers are installed (as I do not know how else to find that information, in Debian 6), I

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-14 Thread Bret Busby
On 13/06/2015, Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: On 13/06/2015, Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: On 13/06/2015, Petter Adsen pet...@synth.no wrote: On Sat, 13 Jun 2015 03:54:49 +0800 Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: On 13/06/2015, Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-14 Thread Bret Busby
a matter of grasping at straws. -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .. So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means. - Deep Thought, Chapter 28 of Book 1 of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy In Four Parts, written by Douglas

Re: Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-12 Thread Bret Busby
On 13/06/2015, Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/06/2015, Matthijs Wensveen matthijs.wensv...@gmail.com wrote: On 11-6-2015 7:13, Bret Busby wrote: On 11/06/2015, Ric Moore wayward4...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/10/2015 03:45 PM, Bret Busby wrote: On 11/06/2015, Nick T. n

Re: Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-12 Thread Bret Busby
On 12/06/2015, Matthijs Wensveen matthijs.wensv...@gmail.com wrote: On 11-6-2015 7:13, Bret Busby wrote: On 11/06/2015, Ric Moore wayward4...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/10/2015 03:45 PM, Bret Busby wrote: On 11/06/2015, Nick T. n...@ncktsp.com wrote: Oops, forgot to cc in the mailing list

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-18 Thread Bret Busby
process. -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .. So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means. - Deep Thought, Chapter 28 of Book 1 of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy In Four Parts, written by Douglas Adams, published

Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-17 Thread Bret Busby
On 16/06/2015, Ric Moore wayward4...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/15/2015 12:39 PM, Bret Busby wrote: Get:1 http://http.debian.net/debian/ squeeze/non-free nvidia-kernel-dkms amd64 195.36.31-6squeeze2 [7,138 kB] Fetched 7,138 kB in 12s (575 kB/s) Selecting previously deselected package nvidia

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-13 Thread Bret Busby
On 13/06/2015, Petter Adsen pet...@synth.no wrote: On Sat, 13 Jun 2015 03:54:49 +0800 Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: On 13/06/2015, Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/06/2015, Matthijs Wensveen matthijs.wensv...@gmail.com wrote: On 11-6-2015 7:13, Bret Busby wrote

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-10 Thread Bret Busby
On 11/06/2015, Ric Moore wayward4...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/10/2015 03:45 PM, Bret Busby wrote: On 11/06/2015, Nick T. n...@ncktsp.com wrote: Oops, forgot to cc in the mailing list. - Nick On 06/10/2015 09:19 PM, Nick T. wrote: Install build-essential it should contain all the packages

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-15 Thread Bret Busby
On 15/06/2015, Ric Moore wayward4...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/14/2015 03:29 AM, Bret Busby wrote: On 14/06/2015, Petter Adsen pet...@synth.no wrote: Check that they support your GPU at all first, sometimes it takes a little time for the open source drivers to implement support for the latest

How to boot without GUI

2015-05-27 Thread Bret Busby
? Or, is a way available, without causing damage, that I can do something like go to a console (CTRLALTF1) and turn off, from there, the xserver, so as to enable the installation? I have been unable to find the appropriate information on the nvidia web site. Thank you in anticipation. -- Bret Busby

Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-05-27 Thread Bret Busby
On 27/05/2015, Petter Adsen pet...@synth.no wrote: On Wed, 27 May 2015 16:15:36 +0800 Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: Or, is a way available, without causing damage, that I can do something like go to a console (CTRLALTF1) and turn off, from there, the xserver, so as to enable

Re: Inexpensive Laptop for Debian

2015-05-30 Thread Bret Busby
above, due to the lack of detail. In this, the proverb in my signature, is useful - clear statement of requirements, is needed. -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .. So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means. - Deep Thought, Chapter 28

Re: Problem installing nvidia-drivers

2015-05-30 Thread Bret Busby
with a system that I have, that involves an nVidia GEForce GT-750M, and, if your nVidia device happened to be the same, perhaps, when a solution to your problem is found, it may also solve my problem, in previous versions of Debian.. -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .. So once you do

Re: Light web browser for old PC

2015-07-02 Thread Bret Busby
people prevent speed dial from being disabled in the next version. So, for a web browser that is efficient, I suggest lynx. And, I recommend against installing opera. -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .. So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what

Re: How do I find what drivers are installed

2015-06-29 Thread Bret Busby
On 29/06/2015, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 29 June 2015 14:02:03 Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Mon, 2015-06-29 at 16:53 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: The reason that I wanted to know what graphical drivers are in use, and which of the graphical devices they are driving

Re: How do I find what drivers are installed

2015-06-29 Thread Bret Busby
that be shown in the Xorg.0.log file that I posted? Considering that Debian 6 came out in 2011 and the Haswell microarchitecture came out in 2013, I would say that the answer to the question is very likely no. Regards, -- Nicolas George -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia

Re: How do I find what drivers are installed

2015-06-29 Thread Bret Busby
, as with a lack of Intel drivers. -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .. So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means. - Deep Thought, Chapter 28 of Book 1 of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy In Four Parts, written by Douglas

Re: How do I find what drivers are installed

2015-06-29 Thread Bret Busby
On 29/06/2015, The Wanderer wande...@fastmail.fm wrote: On 06/29/2015 at 10:54 AM, Bret Busby wrote: if it is, as, I think, postulated by Sven, the Intel driver that drives the external monitor, then the question is does Debian 6 have a driver for the Intel Haswell integrated graphic

Re: How do I find what drivers are installed

2015-06-29 Thread Bret Busby
On 30/06/2015, The Wanderer wande...@fastmail.fm wrote: On 06/29/2015 at 11:59 AM, Bret Busby wrote: snip However, after having written that, I think that the web page at https://cateee.net/lkddb/web-lkddb/DRM_I915.html indicates that laptop computers with an Intel i7 CPU, should

Please explain system errors

2015-06-28 Thread Bret Busby
ff ff 41 ff ce 41 83 fe Message from syslogd@bret-apc01-debian6 at Jun 29 02:32:30 ... kernel:[ 5453.782107] CR2: 0098 Could someone please explain this for me? Thank you in anticipation. -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .. So once you do know what the question

How do I find what drivers are installed

2015-06-28 Thread Bret Busby
On 29/06/2015, Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: -- Stupid computers that do everything but what they are supposed to do (like sending messages when a user is trying to enter a message, and putting text everywher except where it is supposed to go)! What I had been trying to enter, to post

ow do I find what drivers are installed

2015-06-28 Thread Bret Busby
-- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .. So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means. - Deep Thought, Chapter 28 of Book 1 of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy In Four Parts, written by Douglas Adams, published by Pan Books

Re: Nvidia vs AMD open source drivers

2015-06-11 Thread Bret Busby
. Petter And meanwhile, after about a year and a half, I still can't get my nvidia thing (GEForce GT750M) working with Debian. After having installed the nvidia manufacturer's driver, it rendered xwindows inoperable. I am beginning to regard nvidia as plague-like. -- Bret Busby Armadale West

Re: Laptops, UEFI, Secure Boot and Debian

2015-05-25 Thread Bret Busby
responsible for UEFI and its implementations, get their act together, and acknowledge that operating systems other than Microshite Windows, exist, and are used. -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .. So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer

Re: Laptops, UEFI, Secure Boot and Debian

2015-05-25 Thread Bret Busby
On 25/05/2015, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 25 May 2015 08:35:40 Bret Busby wrote: On 25/05/2015, Patrick Bartek nemomm...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 24 May 2015, Paul E Condon wrote: snip With UEFI and the forced Security Boot that is part of UEFI, with toxic waste

Re: Laptops, UEFI, Secure Boot and Debian

2015-05-25 Thread Bret Busby
On 26/05/2015, Sven Arvidsson s...@whiz.se wrote: On Tue, 2015-05-26 at 00:59 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: But, in going to the company web site, I found the web site to be one of those malicious web sites, that crash web browsers (the web browser starts displaying the home page of the web site

Re: Laptops, UEFI, Secure Boot and Debian

2015-05-25 Thread Bret Busby
On 26/05/2015, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 25 May 2015 20:56:58 Bret Busby wrote: On 26/05/2015, Sven Arvidsson s...@whiz.se wrote: On Tue, 2015-05-26 at 00:59 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: But, in going to the company web site, I found the web site to be one of those

Re: Laptops, UEFI, Secure Boot and Debian

2015-05-25 Thread Bret Busby
interference from the installations of the other operating systems? It has taken me about 18 months, to get Debian 7 installed and running, in the state that it now can be run, and so I want to be able to get Debian 6 LTS, installed and running, with a minimum of fuss. -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia

Re: Laptops, UEFI, Secure Boot and Debian

2015-05-26 Thread Bret Busby
On 26/05/2015, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday 26 May 2015 05:15:10 Bret Busby wrote: On 26/05/2015, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 25 May 2015 20:56:58 Bret Busby wrote: On 26/05/2015, Sven Arvidsson s...@whiz.se wrote: On Tue, 2015-05-26 at 00:59

Re: Laptops, UEFI, Secure Boot and Debian

2015-05-26 Thread Bret Busby
On 26/05/2015, Petter Adsen pet...@synth.no wrote: 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

Re: Query about possible impact of leap second on Debian Linux

2015-05-22 Thread Bret Busby
On 23/05/2015, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: Bret Busby wrote: ... so, upon checking (using Synaptic) the tzdata package(s), and finding they needed updating, apparently without depending on the kernel update(s), I have now updated the tzdata packages. There are tzdata and tzdata-java

Re: Laptops, UEFI, Secure Boot and Debian

2015-05-24 Thread Bret Busby
not mind so much, booting into the Legacy mode, to use Debian Linux, thereby avoiding Microshite Windows 8.x, which I have found to be difficult to use, it kind of defeats the purpose of the UEFI technology, when the UEFI technology is unusable due to the Inshite Setup Utility. -- Bret Busby Armadale

Re: Laptops, UEFI, Secure Boot and Debian

2015-05-24 Thread Bret Busby
On 24/05/2015, Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: On 23/05/2015, Petter Adsen pet...@synth.no 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 Desktop (1 to 8.5 years

Re: Query about possible impact of leap second on Debian Linux

2015-05-21 Thread Bret Busby
On 22/05/2015, Iain M Conochie i...@thargoid.co.uk wrote: On 21/05/15 22:15, Bob Proulx wrote: Iain M Conochie wrote: Bret Busby wrote: I have today seen the news report below, and wonder whether it needs some kind of patch for Debian Linux, and, if so, whether it has already been done

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