Re: Graphical indicators for Caps Lock and similar keys

On 1/18/20 2:32 PM, Darac Marjal wrote: On 18/01/2020 02:54, Jape Person wrote: On 1/17/20 7:27 PM, Tom Browder wrote: I have a laptop, running Debian 10 (Buste) with the Mate desktop. Unfortunately the laptop doesn't have light indicators on the keyboard for keys such as: CapLock, NumLock

Re: Graphical indicators for Caps Lock and similar keys

On 1/18/20 1:19 PM, Tom Browder wrote: On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 8:55 PM Jape Person wrote: I don't know whether or not gkrellm-leds would work for you. Last time I tried it I found it to look at little out of place on my Xfce4 desktop, but it did perform some of the functions you're looking

Re: Graphical indicators for Caps Lock and similar keys

On 1/17/20 7:27 PM, Tom Browder wrote: I have a laptop, running Debian 10 (Buste) with the Mate desktop. Unfortunately the laptop doesn't have light indicators on the keyboard for keys such as: CapLock, NumLock, Insert, etc. Is there any way to get a graphical indicator on a docking bar to

Re: apparent change in hostnames on LAN without admin intervention

On 12/16/19 3:25 PM, David Wright wrote: On Mon 16 Dec 2019 at 13:36:27 (-0500), Jape Person wrote: On 12/16/19 11:39 AM, David Wright wrote: On Mon 16 Dec 2019 at 10:53:02 (-0500), Jape Person wrote: On 12/16/19 12:42 AM, David Wright wrote: On Sat 14 Dec 2019 at 13:49:25 (-0500), Jape

Re: Gnucash broken after Update

On 12/16/19 12:41 PM, Markus Grunwald wrote: Hi, a few days ago, I ran an apt update of my debian/desting machine and got a new gnucash version. Apt DID tell me that there was something to do to keep gnucash working. I had no time to do that, then, but I was used to getting the instructions per

Re: apparent change in hostnames on LAN without admin intervention

On 12/16/19 11:39 AM, David Wright wrote: On Mon 16 Dec 2019 at 10:53:02 (-0500), Jape Person wrote: On 12/16/19 12:42 AM, David Wright wrote: On Sat 14 Dec 2019 at 13:49:25 (-0500), Jape Person wrote: On 12/14/19 1:24 AM, john doe wrote: ... The file '/etc/resolv.conf' should let you know

Re: apparent change in hostnames on LAN without admin intervention

On 12/16/19 12:42 AM, David Wright wrote: On Sat 14 Dec 2019 at 13:49:25 (-0500), Jape Person wrote: On 12/14/19 1:24 AM, john doe wrote: ... The file '/etc/resolv.conf' should let you know what TLD is sent from the DHCP server. Debian shouldn't modify your configuration files '/etc' without

Re: apparent change in hostnames on LAN without admin intervention

On 12/15/19 1:19 AM, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: ... Hi, I am running a very similar setup, also on Sid/Testing (updated daily), and didn't notice any change. My local domain is not ".local" or ".home", it is custom. My resolv.conf looks like yours (modulo the domain name), I have an

Re: apparent change in hostnames on LAN without admin intervention

On 12/14/19 8:45 AM, Brian wrote: On Fri 13 Dec 2019 at 22:04:18 -0500, Jape Person wrote: On 12/13/19 8:55 PM, David Wright wrote: But is it possible you've started using avahi/bonjour when previously you didn't? Or has the router upgraded itself and now knows not to issue names like

Re: apparent change in hostnames on LAN without admin intervention

On 12/14/19 8:02 AM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday, December 13, 2019 10:04:18 PM Jape Person wrote: Could this change be due to recent upgrades in software? (I upgrade every day.) I've reviewed the recent upgrades listed in /var/log/apt/history.log. I would have thought any deliberate

Re: apparent change in hostnames on LAN without admin intervention

On 12/14/19 3:56 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Vi, 13 dec 19, 19:33:51, Jape Person wrote: Hi folks. Did I miss something? I've had 3 Sid/testing systems running on the same LAN behind the same router for just shy of 3 years. Their static IP addresses have always been issued by the DHCP server

Re: apparent change in hostnames on LAN without admin intervention

On 12/14/19 4:40 AM, Curt wrote: On 2019-12-14, Jape Person wrote: I could be quite wrong, but I thought that "local" was actually suggested as a domain name at one time by the installer. (And I could be remembering a different distro, though I've been using Debian for a

Re: apparent change in hostnames on LAN without admin intervention

On 12/14/19 1:24 AM, john doe wrote: Assuming that you are using the router from your ISP, it is possible that the firmware has been upgraded without your nolage. One way to prevent this could be (1), that is, use your own router/server/gateway so you control everything on your LAN. I use an

Re: apparent change in hostnames on LAN without admin intervention

On 12/13/19 8:55 PM, David Wright wrote: On Fri 13 Dec 2019 at 19:33:51 (-0500), Jape Person wrote: Hi folks. Did I miss something? Perhaps a couple of references: https://features.icann.org/addressing-new-gtld-program-applications-corp-home-and-mail which points out that any of .home, .mail

apparent change in hostnames on LAN without admin intervention

Hi folks. Did I miss something? I've had 3 Sid/testing systems running on the same LAN behind the same router for just shy of 3 years. Their static IP addresses have always been issued by the DHCP server on the router. Everything has been copacetic among the systems, with local and outside

network-manager-openvpn GUI not keeping automatic VPN connection setting

I hope that subject line doesn't obfuscate the issue. I'm using Sid/testing with Xfce4 desktop environment, fully updated. openvpn 2.4.7-1 network-manager-openvpn 1.8.10-1 network-manager-openvpn-gnome 1.8.10-1 Using the GUI I set openvpn to connect automatically to a chosen VPN. I reboot. I

Re: Buster/lightdm - after locking screen, unlock prompt not visible

On 5/31/19 11:16 AM, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > Hi, > > In a fresh install of Buster with XFCE desktop, locking the screen > blanks the monitor and the monitor enters a power save state. After > that, neither moving the mouse nor typing on the keyboard would turn > the monitor back on. > >

Re: systemctl reboot fails (doesn't reboot)

On 3/1/19 5:53 PM, Gian Carlo wrote: > Il 01/03/19 22:40, riveravaldez ha scritto: >> Hi, I'm on debian-testing (updated), and found this issue: >> >> $ systemctl reboot >> Failed to set wall message, ignoring: The name >> org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1 was not provided by any .service files >> Failed

Re: solved Re: Insertion of USB devices not being recognised.

On 06/28/2018 07:39 AM, terryc wrote: On Thu, 28 Jun 2018 08:21:16 + (UTC) Curt wrote: On 2018-06-28, terryc wrote: On Wed, 27 Jun 2018 12:27:30 -0400 Jape Person wrote: My suggestion is late, and possibly not much of a contribution due to my not having read the entire thread. I

Re: solved Re: Insertion of USB devices not being recognised.

On 06/27/2018 09:38 AM, terryc wrote: On Tue, 26 Jun 2018 21:57:33 +0200 deloptes wrote: terryc wrote: Mostly it is USB sticks for stuff to play/display on the TV & "noise device" what do you see in dmesg when you plug in the device? Nothing. that was the problem. it is hard to mount it

Debian testing linux-image update leads to slow file transfers?

On 03/28 I updated 3 Debian testing systems on our LAN at home, the update including -- linux-image-4.15.0-2-amd64 Since that time two behavioral differences have been conspicuous on all three systems. The first is that these messages appear in dmesg during every boot process: [1.799465]

Re: update bios from debian

On 03/07/2018 10:37 PM, emetib wrote: > has anyone tried to update their bios from debian or linux in general? > > i've looked at these pages -> > https://wiki.debian.org/FlashBIOS > https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/downloads/DS038945 > > and have downloaded the packages that they say to get,

Re: Debian buster & gnucash

On 02/08/2018 12:25 PM, Donald F. Emery wrote: > I am new to debian and was hoping someone could tell me why > GNUCASH was not in debian testing. > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=790204 The bug report explains the current status of gnucash in testing. I installed gnucash

Re: cups config for Brother HL-L2340DW

On 11/22/2017 01:52 PM, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > hi, > For the first time in my life, I was unable to configure a printer for > Linux, Which GNU/Linux? Debian? If so, you should specify whether you're using a release or testing or unstable. It could make a difference, particularly with respect to

Re: Logitech "unifying" receiver buttons aren't?

On 10/12/2017 11:50 AM, David Wright wrote: > On Thu 12 Oct 2017 at 11:44:29 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: >> Greetings all; >> >> What does the word Unifying, as I see in dmesg for some, but not all, the >> the rx buttons for wireless keyboards/mice, actually mean? >> >> I took that to mean that

Re: RE

On 10/11/2017 08:48 PM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: > On 10/11/2017 10:14 AM, Jape Person wrote: >> On 10/11/2017 04:20 AM, debian-user@lists.debian.org wrote: >>> Check >>> Re: hplip and use of the "driver plugin" >>> >> >> I'm seeing something

Re: RE

On 10/11/2017 04:20 AM, debian-user@lists.debian.org wrote: > Check > Re: hplip and use of the "driver plugin" > I'm seeing something from debian-user@lists.debian.org that I've never seen before. The most recent three days I have received a single e-mail as quoted above. Is this a normal

Re: Wireless devices and cryptography in practice (Was: USB wireless keyboard in stretch)

On 08/22/2017 06:01 PM, Jape Person wrote: On 08/22/2017 05:12 PM, Mario Castelán Castro wrote: On 22/08/17 15:11, Jape Person wrote: You have been *very* helpful. You educated / reminded me on why even testing for exploits isn't necessarily useful when the firmware is not Open Source, and you

Re: Wireless devices and cryptography in practice (Was: USB wireless keyboard in stretch)

On 08/22/2017 05:12 PM, Mario Castelán Castro wrote: On 22/08/17 15:11, Jape Person wrote: You have been *very* helpful. You educated / reminded me on why even testing for exploits isn't necessarily useful when the firmware is not Open Source, and you told me about the existence of magnetic

Re: One-line password generator

On 08/22/2017 03:46 PM, Brian wrote: On Tue 22 Aug 2017 at 10:04:59 -0500, Mario Castelán Castro wrote: I have the following line in my Bash init file: “alias gen-password="head -c 16 /dev/urandom | base64 | head -c 22 && echo"” This generates a password with just above 128 bits of entropy.

Re: Wireless devices and cryptography in practice (Was: USB wireless keyboard in stretch)

On 08/22/2017 02:40 PM, Mario Castelán Castro wrote: On 22/08/17 13:01, Jape Person wrote: There's no fix for my wife and the presence of cables. In this case, the cables for keyboard and mouse run from the Intel NUC computer nestled in a table beside her recliner to the keyboard on her lap

Re: Wireless devices and cryptography in practice (Was: USB wireless keyboard in stretch)

On 08/22/2017 01:17 PM, Mario Castelán Castro wrote: On 22/08/17 10:22, Jape Person wrote: Hence, why I suspect that they are vulnerable. I bought these things because my wife trips over her cables 3 or 4 times a day, and wireless ones are just easier to deal with from a workstation logistics

Re: USB wireless keyboard in stretch

On 08/22/2017 09:33 AM, Mario Castelán Castro wrote: On 21/08/17 23:02, Jape Person wrote: The keyboard communications are encrypted, and both mouse and keyboard are rechargeable. But I at least have to check with Cherry support to learn whether or not my new toys are vulnerable. I suspect

Re: USB wireless keyboard in stretch

On 08/21/2017 10:46 PM, Mario Castelán Castro wrote: On 21/08/17 17:09, Alle Meije Wink wrote: Does anyone understand the cause of this problem *The USB wireless keyboard IS itself a problem*. You are unnecessarily contaminating the environment consuming Voltaic cells where none is needed

Re: Thunderbird almost unusable after upgrade

On 08/12/2017 07:32 AM, Javier Barroso wrote: On Sat, Aug 12, 2017 at 5:49 AM, Jape Person <jap...@comcast.net> wrote: On 08/11/2017 06:27 PM, Javier Barroso wrote: Hello, On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 9:43 PM, Sven Hartge <s...@svenhartge.de> wrote: Sven Joachim <svenj..

Re: Thunderbird almost unusable after upgrade

On 08/11/2017 06:27 PM, Javier Barroso wrote: Hello, On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 9:43 PM, Sven Hartge <s...@svenhartge.de> wrote: Sven Joachim <svenj...@gmx.de> wrote: On 2017-08-10 10:24 -0400, Jape Person wrote: After this upgrade thunderbird:amd64 (1:52.2.1-4, 1:52.2.1-4+b1)

Re: Thunderbird almost unusable after upgrade

On 08/10/2017 10:40 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2017-08-10 10:24 -0400, Jape Person wrote: After this upgrade thunderbird:amd64 (1:52.2.1-4, 1:52.2.1-4+b1) Thunderbird in Cinnamon DE is almost completely useless because portions of its windows / text / toolbars don't repaint until

Thunderbird almost unusable after upgrade

After this upgrade thunderbird:amd64 (1:52.2.1-4, 1:52.2.1-4+b1) Thunderbird in Cinnamon DE is almost completely useless because portions of its windows / text / toolbars don't repaint until the window is resized. Is anyone else seeing this? Using different desktop themes or logging in as a

Re: Background will not change.

On 08/09/2017 10:28 PM, Default User wrote: Thanks, Jape! That's a lot of information to digest, but I'll give it a try. I wish there was an automated tool that could go through the system, to find and report any missing or invalid or circular dependencies, etc., and fix it or at least

Re: Background will not change.

On 08/09/2017 02:31 PM, Default User wrote: ... Hi tomas. Cinnamon DE I think borrows it's background settings utility from Gnome 3. I had the background (wallpaper) set to show an image from the "Pictures" directory. Upon reboot, the background displayed instead was the "softwaves"

Re: Laser Printer recommendation...

On 08/09/2017 04:29 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Aug 08, 2017 at 01:01:30PM -0500, Doug wrote: [...] It always amazes me that people who get a driver made specifically for a device [...] Thanks, Brian and Jape. You've put it more

Re: Laser Printer recommendation...

On 08/08/2017 02:01 PM, Doug wrote: ... It always amazes me that people who get a driver made specifically for a device, a driver that has significantly more capability than one that came with their Linux os, would refuse to use it. It hasn't cost them anything, just as the Linux os hasn't cost

Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW

On 08/05/2017 07:38 PM, Richard Hector wrote: On 05/08/17 07:52, Jape Person wrote: It's funny (in much the same way that hitting your thumb with a hammer is funny) that the Brother support site does indeed list a later firmware update than the one I installed when I first got the printer

Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW

On 08/05/2017 03:12 PM, Brian wrote: On Sat 05 Aug 2017 at 14:44:46 -0400, Jape Person wrote: On 08/05/2017 02:28 PM, Brian wrote: On Sat 05 Aug 2017 at 13:12:40 -0400, Jape Person wrote: On 08/05/2017 12:44 PM, Curt wrote: [A bit of snipping for poetical reasons]. Frankly I would

Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW

On 08/05/2017 02:28 PM, Brian wrote: On Sat 05 Aug 2017 at 13:12:40 -0400, Jape Person wrote: On 08/05/2017 12:44 PM, Curt wrote: [A bit of snipping for poetical reasons]. Frankly I would be leery of going through the procedure without a lot of wine for fear of bricking my device. A lot

Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW

On 08/05/2017 12:44 PM, Curt wrote: On 2017-08-05, Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote: On Fri 04 Aug 2017 at 20:19:33 -0400, Jape Person wrote: On 08/04/2017 06:39 PM, Brian wrote: It's sad, isn't it? There must be enough Linux / Unix folks using brother printers to make it worth Bro

Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW

On 08/05/2017 08:52 AM, Brian wrote: On Fri 04 Aug 2017 at 20:19:33 -0400, Jape Person wrote: On 08/04/2017 06:39 PM, Brian wrote: It's sad, isn't it? There must be enough Linux / Unix folks using brother printers to make it worth Brother's trouble to provide a utility for this. I guess most

Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW

On 08/04/2017 07:09 PM, Brian wrote: On Fri 04 Aug 2017 at 14:14:42 -0400, Jape Person wrote: On 08/04/2017 08:25 AM, Curt wrote: On 2017-08-04, Jape Person <jap...@comcast.net> wrote: A few weeks ago a CUPS upgrade to our Debian testing systems started showing a new driver for our B

Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW

On 08/04/2017 07:02 PM, Brian wrote: On Fri 04 Aug 2017 at 16:10:13 -0400, Jape Person wrote: On 08/04/2017 08:58 AM, Brian wrote: On Fri 04 Aug 2017 at 12:25:51 +, Curt wrote: On 2017-08-04, Jape Person <jap...@comcast.net> wrote: A few weeks ago a CUPS upgrade to our Debian t

Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW

On 08/04/2017 06:39 PM, Brian wrote: On Fri 04 Aug 2017 at 14:09:25 -0400, Jape Person wrote: On 08/04/2017 06:37 AM, Brian wrote: On Thu 03 Aug 2017 at 21:39:43 -0400, Jape Person wrote: A few weeks ago a CUPS upgrade to our Debian testing systems started showing a new driver for our

Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW

On 08/04/2017 08:58 AM, Brian wrote: On Fri 04 Aug 2017 at 12:25:51 +, Curt wrote: On 2017-08-04, Jape Person <jap...@comcast.net> wrote: A few weeks ago a CUPS upgrade to our Debian testing systems started showing a new driver for our Brother MFC-9340CDW in print dialogs and in th

Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW

On 08/04/2017 08:25 AM, Curt wrote: On 2017-08-04, Jape Person <jap...@comcast.net> wrote: A few weeks ago a CUPS upgrade to our Debian testing systems started showing a new driver for our Brother MFC-9340CDW in print dialogs and in the CUPS printer list and in the system-config-printer u

Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW

On 08/04/2017 08:58 AM, Brian wrote: On Fri 04 Aug 2017 at 12:25:51 +, Curt wrote: On 2017-08-04, Jape Person <jap...@comcast.net> wrote: A few weeks ago a CUPS upgrade to our Debian testing systems started showing a new driver for our Brother MFC-9340CDW in print dialogs and in th

Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW

On 08/04/2017 08:25 AM, Curt wrote: On 2017-08-04, Jape Person <jap...@comcast.net> wrote: A few weeks ago a CUPS upgrade to our Debian testing systems started showing a new driver for our Brother MFC-9340CDW in print dialogs and in the CUPS printer list and in the system-config-printer u

Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW

On 08/04/2017 06:37 AM, Brian wrote: On Thu 03 Aug 2017 at 21:39:43 -0400, Jape Person wrote: A few weeks ago a CUPS upgrade to our Debian testing systems started showing a new driver for our Brother MFC-9340CDW in print dialogs and in the CUPS printer list and in the system-config-printer

pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW

A few weeks ago a CUPS upgrade to our Debian testing systems started showing a new driver for our Brother MFC-9340CDW in print dialogs and in the CUPS printer list and in the system-config-printer utility. You'd think that was good news, but we've been unable to find any way to make the queue

Re: (OT kinda) Your wish is their command

On 07/28/2017 07:30 AM, Curt wrote: On 2017-07-26, Jape Person <jap...@comcast.net> wrote: On 07/26/2017 12:01 PM, Curt wrote: https://www.wired.com/story/adobe-finally-kills-flash-dead/ I'd swear that Adobe said they were going to do this years ago. At that time I muttered un

Re: (OT kinda) Your wish is their command

On 07/26/2017 12:01 PM, Curt wrote: https://www.wired.com/story/adobe-finally-kills-flash-dead/ I'd swear that Adobe said they were going to do this years ago. At that time I muttered under my breath that I would probably be dead by the time they actually got around to it. 2020, huh?

Re: Debian Stretch Xfce: effective screeen bigger than the monitor screen

On 06/28/2017 12:26 PM, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello Forum, I have recently migrated from Jessie to Stretch. I have a couple of minor issues. One of them concern Xfce: some time my fingers seem to do a combination of keys that magnifies the screen: I got a floating desktop environment that is

Re: gstreamer1.0-libav - necessary for browsers to play videos?

On 06/19/2017 09:10 AM, Brian wrote: On Sun 18 Jun 2017 at 13:47:32 -0400, Jape Person wrote: So you don't even install recommends normally? I would have supposed (from reading various descriptions of recommends) that this would result in significant functional compromise in most packages

Re: gstreamer1.0-libav - necessary for browsers to play videos?

On 06/18/2017 07:54 AM, Brian wrote: On Sun 18 Jun 2017 at 00:27:29 -0400, Jape Person wrote: Apropos of nothing but wishing to supply an explanation to anyone else who might run into the same issue. It is my habit to perform apt update followed by apt full-upgrade every day on my testing

gstreamer1.0-libav - necessary for browsers to play videos?

Apropos of nothing but wishing to supply an explanation to anyone else who might run into the same issue. It is my habit to perform apt update followed by apt full-upgrade every day on my testing systems. I get the impression that this may not be a common practice, but I've been doing this

Re: FOSS-friendly Wireless Access Point (WAP) for SOHO network?

On 06/05/2017 10:14 PM, David Christensen wrote: debian-user: I am looking for a FOSS-friendly Wireless Access Point (WAP) for my SOHO network, to support Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, OS X, Android, iOS, etc., Wi-Fi devices. I'd like something with an external power adapter (wall wart), dual-band,

Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch

On 02/16/2017 06:11 PM, Benjamin Rochefort wrote: Le 2017-02-16 à 15:20, Paul van der Vlis a écrit : Op 16-02-17 om 13:31 schreef Benjamin Rochefort: I think I fixed the random Icedove crashes I was experiencing on Jessie by setting layers.offmainthreadcomposition.enabled to false in Icedove's

Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch

On 02/16/2017 03:40 PM, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: On 17/02/17 01:31, Benjamin Rochefort wrote: I think I fixed the random Icedove crashes I was experiencing on Jessie by setting layers.offmainthreadcomposition.enabled to false in Icedove's config editor. +1. I had terrible problems with

Re: brother printer/scanners

On 01/04/2017 01:57 PM, Brian wrote: On Wed 04 Jan 2017 at 13:19:43 -0500, Jape Person wrote: On 01/04/2017 11:27 AM, Brian wrote: Some manufacturers, HP and Epson, for example, integrate their scanner software and co-operate with SANE developers; Brother don't seem to, although they do have

Re: brother printer/scanners

On 01/04/2017 11:27 AM, Brian wrote: On Mon 02 Jan 2017 at 22:11:26 -0500, Jape Person wrote: On 01/02/2017 06:50 PM, Brian wrote: Could be. The license for printer and scanner drivers says you can modify, alter, translate, reproduce and distribute their software. Sounds good. Doesn't Debian

Re: brother printer/scanners

Hi, Joel. Just to clear up a point of confusion (mine) -- when you say you got those debs (brscan4, etc.) from the repos, do you mean Debian repositories? I don't see anything like that there. If you're referring to Ubuntu repos, then that's another matter. I can't (won't) use those with a

Re: brother printer/scanners

On 01/02/2017 07:16 PM, Brian wrote: On Mon 02 Jan 2017 at 09:38:24 +0900, Joel Rees wrote: I got a Brother printer to work by installing both the debian packages from the repos and the deb from Brother's website, but the scanner still isn't being found. Any progress on this? Which device is

Re: brother printer/scanners

On 01/02/2017 06:50 PM, Brian wrote: On Mon 02 Jan 2017 at 10:55:06 -0500, Jape Person wrote: In the end, voting with my dollars accomplished nothing for the FOSS community, because I simply couldn't find a functional equivalent that was free all the way. After a while I just got tired

Re: brother printer/scanners

On 01/02/2017 07:25 AM, Brian wrote: On Mon 02 Jan 2017 at 02:05:47 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 02 January 2017 00:51:11 Jape Person wrote: On 01/01/2017 09:29 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: For a far less secure way than I do it. For a far less secure way than you do what? Scanning

Re: brother printer/scanners

On 01/01/2017 09:29 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Sunday 01 January 2017 20:31:00 Jape Person wrote: On 01/01/2017 07:38 PM, Joel Rees wrote: I got a Brother printer to work by installing both the debian packages from the repos and the deb from Brother's website, but the scanner still isn't

Re: brother printer/scanners

On 01/01/2017 07:38 PM, Joel Rees wrote: I got a Brother printer to work by installing both the debian packages from the repos and the deb from Brother's website, but the scanner still isn't being found. Running Wheezy. Would anyone care to tell me what steps they took to get scan

Re: hplip and use of the "driver plugin"

On 12/07/2016 02:52 AM, Richard Hector wrote: On 07/12/16 14:42, Jape Person wrote: I'll never forget hearing someone trying to prop an early version of Netscape up by saying that it was a good browser *because* it failed on badly written pages. It shouldn't crash, of course, but I think

Re: hplip and use of the "driver plugin"

On 12/06/2016 06:50 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Tuesday 06 December 2016 02:51:33 Jape Person wrote: Yes, I know I can tell some browsers to give me light text on a dark background, but that never works as well as the control I have in my mail client. Out of interest, which do you use? I need

Re: hplip and use of the "driver plugin"

On 12/05/2016 06:35 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: On 12/03/2016 12:36 PM, Jape Person wrote: On 12/03/2016 03:20 PM, Brian wrote: On Sat 03 Dec 2016 at 19:20:18 +, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Saturday 03 December 2016 18:09:50 Jape Person wrote: Hi, I'm replying to myself at the top of the thread

Re: hplip and use of the "driver plugin"

On 12/04/2016 01:50 PM, Brian wrote: On Sat 19 Nov 2016 at 16:14:45 -0500, Jape Person wrote: On 11/19/2016 02:47 PM, Brian wrote: You have this one definite requirement and will have to firm up what else you definitely want. I'll mention the HP OfficeJet Pro 8720 All-in-One Printer

Re: hplip and use of the "driver plugin"

On 12/04/2016 09:55 AM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday, December 04, 2016 06:50:17 AM Lisi Reisz wrote: On Saturday 03 December 2016 20:14:21 Jape Person wrote: I have a horrible time reading this stuff through a browser interface. Yes, sorry. :-( I have a horrible time with archives

Re: hplip and use of the "driver plugin"

On 12/03/2016 07:32 PM, Fred wrote: On 12/03/2016 01:20 PM, Brian wrote: On Sat 03 Dec 2016 at 19:20:18 +, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Saturday 03 December 2016 18:09:50 Jape Person wrote: Hi, I'm replying to myself at the top of the thread because I saw -- out of the corner of my eye

Re: hplip and use of the "driver plugin"

On 12/03/2016 03:20 PM, Brian wrote: On Sat 03 Dec 2016 at 19:20:18 +, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Saturday 03 December 2016 18:09:50 Jape Person wrote: Hi, I'm replying to myself at the top of the thread because I saw -- out of the corner of my eye -- that there were two recent additions

Re: hplip and use of the "driver plugin"

On 12/03/2016 02:20 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Saturday 03 December 2016 18:09:50 Jape Person wrote: Hi, I'm replying to myself at the top of the thread because I saw -- out of the corner of my eye -- that there were two recent additions to the thread. Unfortunately, a) I use POP3 and download

Re: hplip and use of the "driver plugin"

Hi, I'm replying to myself at the top of the thread because I saw -- out of the corner of my eye -- that there were two recent additions to the thread. Unfortunately, a) I use POP3 and download all my mail immediately from the server, b) my neighbor's Maine Coon cat, Mr. Potay-Toes, just

Re: hplip and use of the "driver plugin"

On 12/02/2016 06:25 PM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday, December 03, 2016 12:19:09 AM Doug wrote: On 11/30/2016 09:57 AM, do...@mail.com wrote: Beware of HP inkjets, HP recently had to change the code so that people could install ink cartridges that were not HP's and no, refilling the

Re: hplip and use of the "driver plugin"

On 11/30/2016 10:57 AM, do...@mail.com wrote: On Fri, 18 Nov 2016 20:34:03 -0500 Jape Person <jap...@comcast.net> wrote: Hi. I'm getting ready to replace all of our old equipment that has been used for well over a decade in our home network. I decided to try to do everything with FOSS -

Re: hplip and use of the "driver plugin"

My apologies. Accidentally replied using another e-mail address from our business. I'm resending from the proper account, jap...@comcast.net. On 11/20/2016 02:52 PM, Brian wrote: On Sat 19 Nov 2016 at 16:38:20 -0500, Jape Person wrote: On 11/19/2016 03:09 PM, Brian wrote: Sorry

Re: hplip and use of the "driver plugin"

On 11/19/2016 03:09 PM, Brian wrote: On Sat 19 Nov 2016 at 13:21:23 -0500, Jape Person wrote: On 11/19/2016 11:31 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Sat, 19 Nov 2016, Brian wrote: I'd like to know that, too. I need a new home color printer, my 10-year-old HP PhotoSmart (blobless) MFP

Re: hplip and use of the "driver plugin"

On 11/19/2016 02:47 PM, Brian wrote: On Sat 19 Nov 2016 at 13:16:57 -0500, Jape Person wrote: On 11/19/2016 10:55 AM, Brian wrote: Why is it important for the printer to be blobless? Look at it this way: A printer is choc-a-bloc full of firmware. None of this firmware is accessible

Re: hplip and use of the "driver plugin"

On 11/19/2016 11:31 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Sat, 19 Nov 2016, Brian wrote: I'd like to know that, too. I need a new home color printer, my 10-year-old HP PhotoSmart (blobless) MFP has finally broken down and good second-hand parts are not easy to find in Brazil :-( Why is

Re: hplip and use of the "driver plugin"

On 11/19/2016 10:55 AM, Brian wrote: It was sub-thread of another thread. Starts here: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2016/10/msg01016.html Thanks. I think I get the idea, but I'll read that to see if I can get myself educated a little better. Why is it important for the printer

Re: hplip and use of the "driver plugin"

On 11/19/2016 09:30 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Fri, 18 Nov 2016, Jape Person wrote: What about hplip? Doesn't inclusion of the hp-setup program in hplip sort of violate the spirit of having only FOSS in the main repository when executing No, it doesn't violate the spirit

Re: hplip and use of the "driver plugin"

On 11/19/2016 06:48 AM, Brian wrote: You've probably seen http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/supported_devices/combined.html so can match up your requirement with what is on the market from HP. It does appear to be limited but your choice could be widened by including inkjet printers in

hplip and use of the "driver plugin"

Hi. I'm getting ready to replace all of our old equipment that has been used for well over a decade in our home network. I decided to try to do everything with FOSS -- open source Luxul router, open-source-only drivers for everything on the libreboot PCs. But I've run into a snag with the

Re: Stretch System Stops Boot Process Immediately After Grub Screen (me too!)

On 11/03/2016 03:26 PM, Mike Conde wrote: Have you checked your boot partition - does it have enough free space? I don't have a separate boot partition, just one main partition that is 40GB in capacity and 40% full. Sorry to see that you're having this problem. I'm stymied as to why it

Re: Stretch System Stops Boot Process Immediately After Grub Screen

On 10/23/2016 05:26 PM, Frank wrote: Op 23-10-16 om 22:47 schreef Felix Miata: I don't remember having any Stretch installations with fewer than two installed kernels. The currently booted one, originally installed 51 weeks ago, has 6 installed. I've yet to discover any doc suggesting anything

Re: Stretch System Stops Boot Process Immediately After Grub Screen

On 10/23/2016 04:47 PM, Felix Miata wrote: Jape Person composed on 2016-10-23 14:33 (UTC-0400): Felix Miata wrote: Does the same thing happen booting the previous kernel (4.6?)? Nope. The problem occurred on the first reboot after the upgrade from 4.7.6-1 to 4.7.8-1. The upgrade process

Re: Stretch System Stops Boot Process Immediately After Grub Screen

On 10/23/2016 01:33 PM, Felix Miata wrote: James P. Wallen composed on 2016-10-23 12:14 (UTC-0400): On 10/22/2016 18:10 (UTC-0400), Jape Person wrote: It's confusing to see a response from a different person writing as if he was responding to himself. The confusion is caused by my idiotic

Re: Stretch System Stops Boot Process Immediately After Grub Screen

On 10/23/2016 01:21 PM, Børge Holen wrote: I have to use the nomodeset from time to time where the f*** gfx card has unresolved issues with itself. Atleast it lets me boot to a prompt. Now thinking of it, I have no blinking cursor, I just get a black screen... So different issue all together and

Re: Stretch System Stops Boot Process Immediately After Grub Screen

On 10/23/2016 01:03 PM, Michael Lange wrote: On Sun, 23 Oct 2016 12:14:39 -0400 "James P. Wallen" wrote: Double checked to see if I was right about the video subsystem. It is not ATI, it is Intel integrated. No docs on this thing. It was never officially sold in U.S.,

Stretch System Stops Boot Process Immediately After Grub Screen

I've got a little Panasonic CF-R3 mini-laptop which has been kept fully up-to-date in testing every day since Etch was released. (I think the original installation is that old.) I've been using the linux-image-686-pae kernel on the system. The updates today included an update to

Debian Testing, Icedove and Xombrero Startup Issues Following Updates of 08/09/2016

I have three virtually identical (software installation-wise) systems running testing. Two of the systems run the i386 image, the third system runs an amd64 image. This morning following a rather huge set of updates (List can be supplied, if actually needed.) I could no longer run Icedove

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