Re: Wheezy to Stretch

2018-02-22 Thread deloptes
Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > Just keep in mind that we all have different experiences and different > reasons for thinking and believing the things that we think and believe. I can only support this (in fact all your writing, but removed most of it to make it easier to read). 12+ Years ago I had

Re: need help on cracking wireless password

2018-02-24 Thread deloptes
Michelle Konzack wrote: > Am 2018-02-24 hackte deloptes in die Tasten: >> But hey, with so many Russians in Estonia, you may be sure that at least >> Russia will not nuke you, so be positive about what you have ;-) (irony >> off). There are always two sides, you know. > &

Re: need help on cracking wireless password

2018-02-24 Thread deloptes
Michelle Konzack wrote: > I am in Estonia and we had such attacks from russians  spamers  and  war > drivers.  There are nice counter measures! > > Welcome to "The World of Estonian Cyber Defense"! I just read today that Estonia is in top 3 of murder in Europe. I don't think you need the

Re: need help on cracking wireless password

2018-02-24 Thread deloptes
to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > Not funny either. Folks, what's the matter with you? I did not mean how many people are murdered, but (if you are familiar with the developments in eastern Europe) those NATO slaves propagate a danger coming from Russia, while they are killing themselves. It is not

Re: need help on cracking wireless password

2018-02-24 Thread deloptes
Michelle Konzack wrote: > The problem is only, that more then 80% of prisoners ARE russians! well if you outlaw a certain group of people it will become involved in criminal activities and as far as I know Russians become second class in your "wonderful" country, while everybody in Europe is

Re: need help on cracking wireless password

2018-02-23 Thread deloptes
Long Wind wrote: > i've installed reaver > how to know bssid? it's required argumentfrom wicd-gtk, i click > "Properties" then "Information"i can see Access point address, it's > bssid?? after i enter reaver with -i, -b and -vv, nothing seems to happen > Thanks! I agree with Reco, but you can

Re: need help on cracking wireless password

2018-02-24 Thread deloptes
Michelle Konzack wrote: > Maybe, because you are one of the russian ST. Petersbug Troll Academy? > > I know very well, how this russian trolls are working arround the planet > since many many years. May be you have to change the type of coffee you drink, or take care of your high blood

Re: need help on cracking wireless password

2018-02-24 Thread deloptes
Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > Really?  They're paying for it and you want to use it for free?  This > strikes you as neighborly behavior? It's china man, there are 1+ billion neighbors - if few of them are upset, the rest won't care (irony off)

Re: hostname

2018-02-15 Thread deloptes
Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > Hey flightless-avian - > Dare you to come to Chicago and say that to my pierced, ugly old > non-bearded pre-hipster face :-) > Weirdos like me helped make your software universe Old Man > You should be on your knees to me d00d  :-D Haha, you made my day! With full

Re: hostname

2018-02-15 Thread deloptes
Greg Wooledge wrote: > And I bet you don't care.  And I bet you think I'm some kind of fossil. > > I despair for humanity. Haha, just had a talk with a friend - they decided to do homeschooling as the public school is getting worse and worse. and more and more people start homeschooling - why?

Re: Wheezy to Stretch

2018-02-21 Thread deloptes
Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > Note that upgrades skipping a release (e.g., wheezy -> stretch instead > of wheezy -> jessie -> stretch) are not supported. A fresh install > sounds like the better route in this case. Roberto, OP said he want to replace wheezy with fresh install. Just FYI. regards

Re: Wheezy to Stretch

2018-02-21 Thread deloptes
Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > Right. Then Jimmy made the rather unwise suggestion of upgrading > directly from wheezy to stretch and than also something about adding > backports source prior to upgrading. > > I was simply reinforcing the OP's original position that a fresh install > is the right

Re: Wheezy to Stretch

2018-02-21 Thread deloptes
Jimmy Johnson wrote: > For all the "Na" Sayers here, nothing lost except for sometime and > something to gan the system you want and if you can't make it work > format and do a new system, but remember there is no "sysvinit" in > Stretch. OK, I have a question: Why do you think you are smarter

Re: troubleshooting Kmail

2018-02-19 Thread deloptes
m...@neidorff.com wrote: > On Sunday, February 18, 2018 4:02:04 PM EST Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Sunday 18 February 2018 04:11:48 David Baron wrote: >> > Kmail has been broken for weeks. No action, just excuses. Might simply >> > have to abandon it after all these years. >> >> Then look at TDE,

Re: troubleshooting Kmail

2018-02-19 Thread deloptes
Brad Rogers wrote: > So far, my experience with KDE/QT5 has been good;  Things that were, in > the past, broken, now work again.  I've not found anything wrong at all. > yes a friend installed it and showed it to me, so the difference was there. I also looked at Qt5 and the Sailfish OS project

Re: Mixing and Matching DHCP and static IPs

2017-12-26 Thread deloptes
Pascal Hambourg wrote: > And lose the protection provided by the firewall to wireless devices ? > Sounds like a great idea. > It is more dangerous having the WLAN behind your firewall. I hope you understand this. >> or you can turn off the firewall there completely > > And push your logic to

Re: Mixing and Matching DHCP and static IPs

2017-12-26 Thread deloptes
Mark Fletcher wrote: > split -- there are essentially two splits because there are two > firewalls -- one of which I want and one I can't turn off. The firewall > I set up sits at the outermost edge of the network (obviously) and has 2 > interfaces. The other is at the AirStation, which regards

Re: Experiences with BTRFS -- is it mature enough for enterprise use?

2017-12-28 Thread deloptes
Eero Volotinen wrote: > Are you really using it in production? many solaris machines in the past years - good

Re: No sound in Firefox

2017-12-28 Thread deloptes
Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > I tried again with the new ffx version (57.0.3) and I still have no > sound, even after running pavucontrol. > But I discovered that when running  firefox and pulseaudio > as root, the sound works perfectly. > Can anybody explain that? check what is set as default in

Re: lm-sensors doesn't see the cpu rpm.....

2017-12-28 Thread deloptes
Michael Fothergill wrote: > I am running stretch on an AMD FX8350 box which uses an Arctic Freezer 13 > cooler. I'm just wondering if you used the correct switch for the cpu fan - what is your mother board? also from the gentoo link $ grep CONFIG_SENSORS_FAM15H_POWER /boot/config-4.12.10

Re: GRUB and boot partition

2017-12-29 Thread deloptes
microsoft gaofei wrote: > I'm thinking about a question ,how my hard disk admits so much data ? If > /boot partition is encrypted , then how does my hard disk admit GRUB ? > > sudo fdisk /dev/sda , and press o to create a DOS partition table . This > software starts on sector 2048 by default .

Re: need info on video extraction with mencoder

2018-01-02 Thread deloptes
Long Wind wrote: > Thank deloptes!but where is avidemux?i can't find it in main of stretch I think it is in the debian multimedia repo http://www.deb-multimedia.org deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org stretch main non-free # apt-cache search avidemux avidemux - Free video editor avidemux

Re: need info on video extraction with mencoder

2018-01-02 Thread deloptes
Long Wind wrote: > they say you can't cut into a frameis there some solution to this problem? > Thanks! try avidemux - it works with frames or other video editing software regards

Re: Experiences with BTRFS -- is it mature enough for enterprise use?

2018-01-02 Thread deloptes
Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Best for what ? for booting of raid > Who still uses RAID arrays without persistent superblocks ? historic reasons - systems aged 10y+ > Who still uses RAID assembly by the kernel instead of mdadm ? same as above > All this has beed obsoleted by the superblock

Re: Android Debian - Lets start Debian for Android hw phones

2018-01-02 Thread deloptes
Anders Andersson wrote: > Sure! Probably a small job. I'll submit a patch tomorrow to port > debian to android. hahaha, great comment! don't forget to add "irony off" at the end in the spirit of this: I would love to test your patch (irony off) regards

Re: Sony Memory Stick problem on Debian 9 stable

2017-12-21 Thread deloptes
Darac Marjal wrote: > 2 Terabytes in an old digital camera? Either you're planning on taking a > LOT of pictures our your Memory Stick is not actually recognised by the > system. > > First off, check that your card reader HARDWARE supports the MS. Have > you read the Wikipedia page on Memory

Re: aplay fails on amd64 laptop

2017-12-22 Thread deloptes
Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > thank you for your reply, but can you be a little more specific: > what do you mean exactly by "use hw:1.0" ? > where? in a config file, in the aplay command line ...? man aplay aplay -D hw:1,0 or -Dplughw:1,0 look also at alsa docs to understand how sound system in

Re: aplay fails on amd64 laptop

2017-12-22 Thread deloptes
Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > On Fri, 22 Dec 2017, Tom Furie wrote: > >> Are the 1:0 and 1,0 above typos in the mail? If not, they should be 1.0. > >no: look at : http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Asoundrc >I checked with aplay -D hw:1.0 brahms.wav. >this gives : > Invalid

Re: BIND DNS problem after upgrading from Wheezy to Squeeze

2017-12-26 Thread deloptes
Andrew W wrote: > > > Does anyone have any ideas please? > I had the same experience - I think (after trying this and that) the solution was ntp (time was behind on the server), but I am not really 100%. I was thinking first it has something to do with ipv6 or firewall, but after updating

Re: Experiences with BTRFS -- is it mature enough for enterprise use?

2017-12-27 Thread deloptes
Rick Thomas wrote: > Since it doesn't look like I'll be using BTRFS for my application, I too > would appreciate hearing about experiences with ZFS as an alternative. > Unfortunately, the application we're using is only available for CentOS-6, > so we'll have to pressure the developer to release

Re: Experiences with BTRFS -- is it mature enough for enterprise use?

2018-01-02 Thread deloptes
David Christensen wrote: > You can boot with your md device with the following kernel command > lines: > > for old raid arrays without persistent superblocks: > md=,,, level>,dev0,dev1,...,devn yes and best is you compile raid in, so that boot can be also raided regards

Re: Tool to examine/modify .avi and .mov files

2018-01-03 Thread deloptes
Steve Keller wrote: > I often use jhead to examine EXIF headers in JPG files from my digital > camera and I also use jhead to fix EXIF time stamps in those files. > > But what I'm looking for is an equivalent tool for AVI and MOV movie files > which I also get from my cameras. Most important

Re: Experiences with BTRFS -- is it mature enough for enterprise use?

2018-01-04 Thread deloptes
Pascal Hambourg wrote: > The kernel cannot use UUIDs to mount the root filesystem. Using UUIDs > requires an initramfs. I forgot to mention that UUID is not meant to be used (only) by the kernel or the initrd, but by GRUB - to find the boot md - no idea how it works but it works. Those machines

Re: need help on cracking wireless password

2018-02-25 Thread deloptes
Long Wind wrote: > but this is China, we have very low moral standard than you(your email > shows that you are from USA) the big ? in China is freedomgoogle, > facebook, twitter ... are all blocked by governmentif we demand justice, > these should receive more priority than stealing (sharing)

Re: need help on cracking wireless password

2018-02-26 Thread deloptes
Wilko Fokken wrote: > You should rethink the Baltic social situation: > If it hadn't been Stalin, who filled up the Baltic countries with his > Russian invaders in order to keep control over these countries, but if it > had been Hitler, who (after his victory) had occupied England and filled >

Re: luks, crypttab: why 3 partition only 2 passphrases entered

2018-08-03 Thread deloptes
Carles Pina i Estany wrote: > Any more ideas please let me know I stopped using systemd as init process - perhaps you try to boot with init as proc 1 and see if you are asked 2 or 3 times, my bet would be 3 times. regards

Re: Cross-Platform Assembly Language Compilers?

2018-07-26 Thread deloptes
Hi, cyaiplexys wrote: > Thanks to a very nostalgic thread, now I'm curious about something else. > Back in the day I used to do assembly language programming on a Tandy > Color Computer 3 with Disk-based EDASM+. > well, times have changed since. > I'm wondering what is the best

Re: xdg-open drives me crazy

2018-07-26 Thread deloptes
Markus Grunwald wrote: > But what does that damn thing open? Firefox... > > What can I do ...? Look at update-alternatives update-alternatives --install /etc/alternatives/firefox x-www-browser /opt/custom/firefox/firefox 300 update-alternatives --set x-www-browser /opt/custom/firefox/firefox

Re: how to prevent security update installation during stretch installation

2018-07-31 Thread deloptes
David Christensen wrote: > Why not? I guess because he's in China and internet costs relatively much there.

Re: max volume not max volume

2018-07-27 Thread deloptes
Anil Duggirala wrote: > Im running Stretch and Gnome with whatever sound setup corresponds to > that. I turn my volume completely up from my my DE (Gnome), however the > volume doesnt actually go to its max. Running alsamixer in the terminal, > initially also shows the master to be at the max,

Re: mailing list vs "the futur"

2018-08-10 Thread deloptes
Piotr wrote: > The best was NNTP, but sadly there are not many places where it is still > used. Web and e-mail approach is for more "handicaped" users, and as the > exampes shows, there are many of them. Otherwise the trend would be to > stick to NNTP and not to move to no powerfull solutions.

Re: which program/command can show wireless connection quality?

2018-08-10 Thread deloptes
Long Wind wrote: > it has nothing to do with police or other AP > > i have a PCI wireless card, it works fine, i needn't monitor its > performance with wavemon > > the USB adapter works in the same environment as the PCI card, i really > don't know cause of its problem > if you run them in

Re: Using Sid (was: New `no sound' problems)

2018-08-09 Thread deloptes
Joe wrote: > Having said that, I don't think I've had more sound problems with my > sid workstations than with my stable server. Sound is generally a pig > on Linux, as the software base seems to change every few years, and > until recently, multiple sound cards had the same problem as multiple >

Re: Using Sid

2018-08-09 Thread deloptes
Joe wrote: > It's a dim memory now, but I've certainly been there and done that. > > There's an indirection somewhere else that wasn't stable. It's probably > ancient history now. no it is not ancient history but it improved and still in some cases you need to put index value. I guess you did

Re: Using Sid (was: New `no sound' problems)

2018-08-09 Thread deloptes
Joe wrote: > On Thu, 09 Aug 2018 08:14:44 +0200 > deloptes wrote: > >> Joe wrote: >> >> > Having said that, I don't think I've had more sound problems with my >> > sid workstations than with my stable server. Sound is generally a >> > pig on L

Re: question about sound

2018-08-07 Thread deloptes
mick crane wrote: > I'm not very good at sound. > Sometimes if I watch an mp4 film the volume in parts is low but then > there will become some sound event that is very loud. > It is true that my hearing is not as it was but I don't think that is > it. > I'm not exactly sure what controls

Re: Kernel 4.9.0-7-686 Installed RAM vs. uabale RAM

2018-08-07 Thread deloptes
Pascal Hambourg wrote: > But you need a > 686-pae or amd64 kernel to use RAM beyond 4 GiB, as Michael pointed out. but he has 3GB and machine sees only 2 - is it because kernel is not pae? I was thinking that 686 system can see (and use) around 3GB and with some trick above, but in case of 4GB

Re: Please help with error message

2018-08-07 Thread deloptes
Rodolfo Medina wrote: > I'd always thought that `su' was Debian's and `sudo' was Ubuntu's...  :-) No - both are linux and sudo is for the use to be able to use specific commands. So in general I add sudo rule for my use for bash and it is done. Alternatively add user to sudo group and you can

Re: [solved?] Re: New `no sound' problems

2018-08-07 Thread deloptes
Rodolfo Medina wrote: > I `aptitude purge-d' pulseaudio and... (after maybe reboot) sound back > again... > usually it helps logout remove .pulse from use home reboot in .pulse and previously in .config/pulse (AFAIR) there are/were internal DB and it did not work well

Re: New `no sound' problems

2018-08-07 Thread deloptes
Curt wrote: > He means it's self-explanatory given you're using testing and when using > testing shit happens (things break) its not even testing it is sid - as far as I know it is after testing and there even more shit happens, so I don't understand why he/she should bother us or we should

Re: New `no sound' problems

2018-08-12 Thread deloptes
Dale Forsyth wrote: > It seems to be damned recursive, the problem...  After yesterday's > full-upgrade in Sid, my old Acer One without sound once again... > Everything seems all right: alsamixer, aumix, pulseaudio installed... > Last time this happened, it was solved installing pulseaudio and

Re: Kernel 4.9.0-7-686 Installed RAM vs. uabale RAM

2018-08-12 Thread deloptes
Dale Forsyth wrote: > Hello, I have a system with Kernel 4.9.0-7-686, installed RAM are 3x 1GB > but free -m only show 2GB. hyperactively posting is bad ting - the question was answered coupe of days ago. The answer was install PAE kernel. regards

Re: problem with modern desktops on Buster

2018-08-12 Thread deloptes
Dale Forsyth wrote: > I've been using Gnome Flashback (Metacity) for about 5 hours now, > including a couple periods when the screen saver / lock kicked in, and > it seems OK. I stayed ad KDE3 (now trinity desktop) it never fails as it is 15+y proven technology regards

Re: ISO file to sd card: Disk /dev/sdb doesn't contain a valid partition table

2018-08-14 Thread deloptes
local10 wrote: > The goal here is to create an sd card containg a bootable windows 7 image, > I need to test something quick in windows. The iso file  is a windows 7 > image. is it live windows7 - I have heard rumors that such thing exists? Is it recovery disk? but why you don't run it in VM or

Re: Please help with error message

2018-08-07 Thread deloptes
Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Yes, if becoming root with with `su -' the error about what is the present > thread disappears... I guess sudo is always better to use

Re: New `no sound' problems

2018-08-07 Thread deloptes
Rodolfo Medina wrote: > After yesterday's full-upgrade > in Sid well this is self explaining -> Sid

Re: Hrdware question

2018-08-12 Thread deloptes
Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > This answers my question. Today grub is using uuid to find out which drive it needs to boot from. On my hobby server I have 8 drives in raid1 and when the storage (LSI) comes up some times some drives are initialized before others, but using UUID instead sda, sdb etc

Re: Problems with kernel 4.17.0-1-amd64

2018-08-12 Thread deloptes
Nicolas George wrote: > I am running testing on a fairly normal i3-based PC. Since yesterday, it > is using the 4.17.0-1-amd64 kernel instead of 4.16.0-2-amd64, and I am > experiencing the following two issues: > > The device for the audio controller takes about 0.3 seconds to open. I > have

Re: Re: question about the kernel

2018-08-13 Thread deloptes
dekkz...@gmail.com wrote: > On 08/10, deloptes wrote: >>songbird wrote: >> >>> the debian processes are done via the kernel >>> team and so you can also follow that mailing list >>> (i read via gmane and usenet). >> >>And you can alwa

RE: mailing list vs "the futur"

2018-08-09 Thread deloptes
tech wrote: > as i dont want to troll the debian-list, and as i already received several > mails ( a first for me ) saying i am a dumbass, a stupid eager young > for the audience, i will stop the broadcast of bad words here. > > > i need to go to the post office to send a letter, so i will

Re: question about the kernel

2018-08-09 Thread deloptes
songbird wrote: > the debian processes are done via the kernel > team and so you can also follow that mailing list > (i read via gmane and usenet). And you can always do "make deb-pkg" on the source and produce a ready for use debian package regards

Re: What time is it, really?

2018-08-09 Thread deloptes
Greg Wooledge wrote: > Whoever suggested that is using outdated information.  Install ntp and > not ntpdate. I did not suggested this but I also use ntpdate. Especially on laptop that is not connected to the network all the time it does not make sense, as you get those nasty mails that ntp

Re: Sid: NFSv3 mounting problem

2018-08-18 Thread deloptes
Grzegorz Sójka wrote: > > Hi there > > I have stretch x86_64 home server running NFSv3 and Sid-x86-64 desktop. > When I try to mount any NFS share on the desktop I always get the > following: > > # mount -v /home/trash > mount.nfs: timeout set for Sat Aug 18 18:55:52 2018 > mount.nfs: trying

Re: Sid: NFSv3 mounting problem (again!)

2018-08-20 Thread deloptes
Michael Stone wrote: > What on earth does this mean? How did the system get into such a state > that these were missing? he wrote net-base was missing, but why was net-base missing? finally I think he solved the problem regards

Re: Sid: NFSv3 mounting problem

2018-08-19 Thread deloptes
Grzegorz Sójka wrote: > /home/trash 192.168.0.0/24(no_subtree_check,async,rw,all_squash) and you are 100% sure you are using nfs v3 and not nfs v4 on the not working client? you do not have firewalls enabled?

Re: Group ID conflicts between different distros: how to manage them with NIS?

2018-08-17 Thread deloptes
Joao Roscoe wrote: > But, what if I need to include a user who is defined in NIS in lp or ttyS0 > group? Would going into /etc/group in *every* machine be unavoidable? your print server will be the only one to consider for lp group for example or just do something with ansible or puppet or

Re: Sid: NFSv3 mounting problem

2018-08-20 Thread deloptes
Grzegorz Sójka wrote: > On 08/19/18 16:52, deloptes wrote: >> Grzegorz Sójka wrote: >> >>> /home/trash 192.168.0.0/24(no_subtree_check,async,rw,all_squash) >> >> and you are 100% sure you are using nfs v3 and not nfs v4 on the not >> working client? y

Re: Power Failure

2018-07-19 Thread deloptes
Felix Miata wrote: > 1: /boot is functionally readonly except during kernel installation and > removal > not really an argument - the system did not boot for this reason > 2: journals consume disk space not really an argument - the system did not boot for this reason and space in MBs is cheap

Re: No sound/audio

2018-07-19 Thread deloptes
Kaj Persson wrote: > No, certainly you are right. So far my knowledge did not reach. Well, I > followed your instruction and made a reboot. And now the timidity daemon > was not there, at least according to the command "ps -ef | grep > timidity". Before the reboot it was. But the only result of

Re: ifconfig/ ifupdown/ ip -

2018-07-14 Thread deloptes
john doe wrote: > I would use mapping stanza instead: > > http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man5/interfaces.5.html +1

apt-get update hangs forever

2018-07-15 Thread deloptes
Hi on one of my machines apt-get update hangs forever. Get:32 http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian stretch/non-free i386 Packages [69.7 kB] Get:33 http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian stretch/non-free Translation-en [80.6 kB] 0% [Working] What can I do to understand the reason and to solve it? thanks

Re: Linux equivalent of Apple's fontbook

2018-07-17 Thread deloptes
Johann Spies wrote: > On Debian, how do I see what all the characters in a LateX font like > Linux Libertine O look like? I was using LyX and it shows the fonts and shapes (how chars would look like) AFAIR. Otherwise you may look for a good command to print the font (in a ghostscript or pdf

Re: Boot fails after power outage

2018-07-17 Thread deloptes
Bill Horton wrote: > Any thoughts on how to fix > the problem so I can put /backup back in FSTAB fsck?

Re: No sound/audio

2018-07-17 Thread deloptes
70147pers...@telia.com wrote: > Nothing else, I love Firefox, and appreciate really the work all these > volunteers are doing, but if I cannot get sound from that programme the > way I prefer, I feel I am forced to look for another browser. > > Anyone who knows a way to bypass the announced

Re: A lot of DMARC e-mails

2018-07-16 Thread deloptes
Hubert Hauser wrote: > Should I worry about blacklisting my domain or IP? Is receiving these > e-mail during running DMARC normal? How can I disable receiving e-mails > from DMARC? first of all you seem to not have understood how dmarc works. invest some more time in reading and properly

[SOLVED] Re: apt-get update hangs forever

2018-07-15 Thread deloptes
Carl Fink wrote: > May we assume you tried switching repos? Because the only times I've > seen that, a particular repository was unreachable. no, I have not switched anything, but your answer helped me rewind the tape back and yes I have added one source (Signal) by myself and the stupid skype

Re: debian mobile and easy install.

2018-07-21 Thread deloptes
furey2310 wrote: > All the talk regarding linux mobile o/s and one after the other... > discontinued. what do you want to know exactly? I use at the moment two linux based phones - the old Nokia N9 (based on deb) and the new Sailfish OS X (Sony Xperia X based on rpm) The big challenge is the

Re: Arduino and Python or gcc compiler?

2018-07-21 Thread deloptes
Hi, how old are you? The way you wrote is supposing you are New Gen kid. Anyway few answers inline cyaiplexys wrote: > I am getting the Elegoo Super Starter Kit (Arduino Uno R3) to tinker > with (it's on order as of when I'm writing this post). > > I looked in the Debian repos for stuff on

Re: Arduino and Python or gcc compiler?

2018-07-22 Thread deloptes
cyaiplexys wrote: > Well, since I use Debian I assumed this would be a place to ask what to > get from the Debian repo that would help in achieving my goal. But you > do make a good point. I'll have to find some Arduino forums to ask some > questions in because I'm quite sure I'll have a lot of

Re: Power Failure - was Re: Can one Mount a usb Drive read-only?

2018-07-19 Thread deloptes
Kenneth Parker wrote: > My worst, was kind of "mild", though scary:  I had to rebuild /boot (on > ext2), because the last action was placing a copy of the Linux Kernel on > /boot. why not use something more decent like ext3 or ext4? we are in 2018 ;-) regards

Re: [solved?] Re: New `no sound' problems

2018-09-04 Thread deloptes
Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Then I suppose it's not a matter of Sid vs. Stable... I think it is matter of Sid

Re: sound card problem

2018-09-05 Thread deloptes
Long Wind wrote: > Thank deloptes! > > i'm unable to find manual for motherboardand i browse thru BIOS menu, > unable to find related option you hear sound even when you turn off and unplug your computer? input/output might be shortened on the board - why would you look at BIOS? regards

Re: OpenVPN & Debian Stretch

2018-09-05 Thread deloptes
Wayne Sallee wrote: > I will also be installing OpenVPN on Debian Stretch (Debian 9). What > problems are you having? go for installation - there are no problems discussed here - only how one should generate the certificate for the client. The easy-rsa is a set of scripts that makes generation

Re: (solved) Re: sound card problem

2018-09-06 Thread deloptes
David Christensen wrote: > I would expect personal computer sound card line-in and microphone > inputs to use the same design analog-to-digital converter.  So, the > sampling rates and bit depths should be the same. > > > But, microphone inputs are usually monaural. So, if you use a stereo >

Re: Bug#908349: firefox-esr: no sound after upgrading from 52.9 to 60.2

2018-09-09 Thread deloptes
Rob van der Putten wrote: > Does anyone know why ALSA is no longer supported? You mean supported by Firefox? I guess they decided PA is more easy to implement as default interface ... whatever underlaying audio system you use. I still could not understand why, but this seems irreversible.

Re: Sound in Stretch

2018-09-10 Thread deloptes
Joe wrote: > alsamixer > > cannot open mixer: No such file or directory > > I always used to start sound troubleshooting by looking in /proc/asound > to find out what the system thought my sound cards were, but that > directory no longer exists. you sure you have the driver loaded? ls -al

Re: sound card problem

2018-09-05 Thread deloptes
Long Wind wrote: > i mute all in mixer before shutting down stretch, it doesn't help > is there any solution? Thanks! why do you think it is a software issue? After machine is switched off the software is dead. Look at the description of the mainboard

Re: Sound in Stretch

2018-09-11 Thread deloptes
Curt wrote: > curty@einstein:~$ /usr/sbin/alsa > alsabat-test  alsactl       alsa-info thanks - i didn't look in sbin regards

Re: Sound in Stretch

2018-09-11 Thread deloptes
Joe wrote: > On Mon, 10 Sep 2018 22:54:26 +0200 > > OK, aplay -l as root sees my USB device as card 1. why as root - are you in the audio group? $ grep audio /etc/group audio:x:29:abcdef,pulse,timidity > > I have various sound modules loaded, including snd, soundcore and > snd_usb_audio. I

Re: Sound in Stretch

2018-09-11 Thread deloptes
Brian wrote: > alsa-base in stretch there is no alsa-base $ dpkg -l | grep alsa ii alsa-utils 1.1.3-1 amd64Utilities for configuring and using ALSA ii gstreamer1.0-alsa:amd64 1.10.4-1

Re: Sound in Stretch

2018-09-11 Thread deloptes
Joe wrote: > Is there conceivably an issue in Stretch of having USB sound but no > on-board sound? Is that causing the boot process not to build the sound > infrastructure properly? There is a spare PCIe slot, but it's tiny, and > I'm not sure I can get a cheap card that will physically fit. I

Re: Sound in Stretch

2018-09-11 Thread deloptes
Joe wrote: > It occurs to me that there are no snd_xxx_codec modules loaded. Is that > significant? yes - seems like - what is your sound card - manufacturer?

Re: Sound in Stretch

2018-09-11 Thread deloptes
arne wrote: > does the command alsa-info give a clue? what is alsa-info? $ alsa alsabatalsa_inalsaloop alsamixer alsa_out alsatplg alsaucm regards

Re: Trouble booting lvm raid/luks system with latest kernel in Testing

2018-07-04 Thread deloptes
Alex Gould wrote: > I imagine I will need to fix some settings for initramfs, grub, crypttab, > fstab, or something, but I'm not sure how to proceed. I would compare content of new and old initrd lsinitramfs /boot/initrd- > initrd.1.content lsinitramfs /boot/initrd- > initrd.2.content

Re: Trouble booting lvm raid/luks system with latest kernel in Testing

2018-07-05 Thread deloptes
Alex Gould wrote: > On Wed, Jul 4, 2018, at 3:08 PM, deloptes wrote: >> Alex Gould wrote: >> >> > I imagine I will need to fix some settings for initramfs, grub, >> > crypttab, fstab, or something, but I'm not sure how to proceed. >> >>

Re: ext2 for /boot ???

2018-09-12 Thread deloptes
Felix Miata wrote: > How often does /boot get written to, as much as 5 minutes per year? All my > /boot partitions are EXT2, (in part) /because/ it has no journaling. I had the same for years, but recently I upgraded the boot partition to ext3 - it is more reliable in case for example when power

Re: Multiple monitors...

2018-03-07 Thread deloptes
Nimrod wrote: > I need to show some movies on different monitors using a video card > with 8 HDMI ports on a workstation, and I need to have all done perhaps reveal the make and model of this "misterious" card first. second you may need appropriate xorg configuration (either xorg.conf) or via

Re: WTF does Firefox 58?

2018-03-06 Thread deloptes
Michelle Konzack wrote: > My systems are since 11 years on UTF-8 well, there is characater mangling - called double conversion, which we've seen and then some HTML entities. Usually it happens when you have wrong iconv or whatever translation mechanism from one charset to another implemented in

Re: Origin of /var/run contents

2018-03-06 Thread deloptes
Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote: >> Wheezy used sysvinit and related pacakges, not systemd. Jessie does >> have the file-hierarchy(7) man page that Jonathan mentioned. >> > Debian 7 had systemd, and the sharp-eyed who read the URL will have > noticed that I pointed to the Debian 7 version of that

Re: Broken kernel?

2018-03-12 Thread deloptes
Gene Heskett wrote: > AMD64 would be like its built for an AMD phenom or newer. You want a > kernel built for an intel cpu. You are disappointing me, Gene. It is called amd64 because AMD first released 64 arch cpu to the public. All intel 64 run with this kernel (and packages).

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