[Trisquel-users] Brightness control

2013-11-17 Thread hbb2
I have an Acer ASPIRE M5 481T and can't adjust the screen brightness. It came with windows 8 pre-installed which I removed. I used xbacklight and got No outputs have backlight property Tried setpci -s 00:02.0 f4.b=XX without success. Also changed the bootloader parameters with

Re: [Trisquel-users] DSL modem

2013-11-17 Thread leny2010
LibrePlanet says the PCI card is not supported by LinuxLibre http://libreplanet.org/wiki/LinuxLibre:ATM_SOLOS Two proprietary firmware blobs are involved. One of them is a FPGA bitstream. According to the free hardware people they can only be synthesized with proprietary software so the

Re: [Trisquel-users] Brightness control

2013-11-17 Thread blackomegarey
On Sun, 17 Nov 2013 11:06:43 +0100 (CET) x@x wrote: I have an Acer ASPIRE M5 481T and can't adjust the screen brightness. It came with windows 8 pre-installed which I removed. I used xbacklight and got No outputs have backlight property Tried setpci -s 00:02.0 f4.b=XX without success.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Logitech Wireless Mouse/Keyboard FOSS-friendly

2013-11-17 Thread spectra670
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[Trisquel-users] Linux Voice

2013-11-17 Thread simonafreeman
The majority of Linux Format staff have walked out and are trying to start their own magazine through funding: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/linux-voice/

Re: [Trisquel-users] Linux Voice

2013-11-17 Thread jason
If only they renamed it to GNU/Linux Voice.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Brightness control

2013-11-17 Thread mattij . lammi
You can also try this which worked with my Asus Eee PC 1005PE: Modify your /etc/default/grub configuration file to include acpi_osi=Linux parameter on the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT line and reboot. So, if it looks like this: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=quiet splash Make it look like this:

Re: [Trisquel-users] Linux Voice

2013-11-17 Thread mattij . lammi
Other that the naming issue, it seems to be better that Linux Format. They say they will give 50% of their profits back to the community and that the community chooses where the money goes. So the community can direct at least some of the money to supporting free software. They also

Re: [Trisquel-users] DSL modem

2013-11-17 Thread lloyd
So... is there any way I can connect to ADSL using free {soft,firm}ware? If not, that's disappointing. In that case, could someone recommend the least bad solution? ADSL and 56k are the only two connection methods available to me, and realistically I can't get by with dialup speed, so it

Re: [Trisquel-users] Linux Voice

2013-11-17 Thread lloyd
Produced using non-free software (Adobe InDesign), articles about non-free games (Minecraft), likes Ubuntu, calls self Linux Voice not GNU Voice or GNU/Linux Voice. This has potential, but there are big weaknesses.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Linux Voice

2013-11-17 Thread onpon4
Any community centered around Linux is destined to go astray. Not because of using the name Linux instead of GNU/Linux, but because it only loosely ties the community to what actually matters: free software. Inevitably, not only systems like Ubuntu and Mint, but even systems like SteamOS

[Trisquel-users] Using Tor/GPG/whatever in a Android device is it worth?

2013-11-17 Thread gnuser
Hey everyone. Don't get me wrong, I have been a heavy user of Tor and OTR for some time now in my day to day life. But when it came to smartphone, I used to feel ok with using CM (replicant was unsupported) and F-Droid repositories. But when I think of HOW a smartphone works, it seems

Re: [Trisquel-users] Using Tor/GPG/whatever in a Android device is it worth?

2013-11-17 Thread onpon4
You should try to avoid other methods of spying, but if you can't avoid all of them, avoiding the ones you can is still worth it in my opinion. Giving up because it might not be working would be rather like not bothering to encrypt e-mails because recipients might be using proprietary

Re: [Trisquel-users] DSL modem

2013-11-17 Thread Andrew Lindley
So... is there any way I can connect to ADSL using free {soft,firm}ware? Short of getting a big research grant to test all the ADSL routers with GPL software in existence there is no way of answering that. SoC manfuacturers are crap, to give you an idea there's probably over a thousand

Re: [Trisquel-users] Network Manager

2013-11-17 Thread glyn
Thankyou but I have decided to use the standard version of Trisquel instead which does not give this issue with my modem.