What makes a laptop supported by free software? Is it normaly webcam and
wireless features that do not work? What are the normal problems when it
comes to laptops? Is more or less always ethernet, intel graphics (3D
acceleration) and audio supported? Is their other known or unknown
The apt-offline package should come handy.
You're welcome. Actually even that's a small subset. Having all these
licenses is a huge problem.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/License_proliferation
Wait until somebody else codes such functionality or code it yourself.
https://trisquel.info/en/issues/9843
A good place for learning about licenses is
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html
And of course Wikipedia.
We can find the content here
http://listas.trisquel.info/pipermail/trisquel-users/2014-February/032696.html
wget supports recursive downloads which could be used for this, see the -r,
-l, -A and -R options. When I need something similar, I get URLs From a page
(using sed or Python with
I think that was a good read despite I had to do so reading the source code
since rt doesn't seem to work without JavaS***t.
I do agree rms and rt are bit like water and oil sometimes.
I'm using a hp Pavilion dv5 and the wifi works (mostly, sometimes it drops
the connection...) without non-free software. My wifi is Broadcom Corporation
BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02).
I think this machine is so old (something like 2005 or 2006) it does
You probably know this documentation
https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/
Just watch out for blobs!
Hi there! I don't think there's a way to do it in software. Just remove the
BIOS/CMOS battery for 5 minutes. Note that this wipes all BIOS settings as
well.
You can use e.g. imagemagick to do it:
mogrify -colorspace gray filename
I've been meaning to try a text based Personal Information Manager (PIM)
combined with conky to display TODO items on the desktop. That sounds to me
like it could be useful but I haven't yet tried it. Of course it could just
be a simple text file to be displayed but I'd also like some kind
Install the package caca-utils. It contains the command img2txt among others.
It has a manual page.
I'd use a libre client even if they are big, slow and ugly
The smallest, fastest and most beautiful clients are libre. You don't even
need a bloated GUI.
I don't quite understand what you're doing but you can write a one-liner loop
to do that renaming in the terminal or if that's not your
Sounds great to me. And reminds me of things like
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appropriate_technology
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Village_Construction_Set
GNU/linux would be quite a big thing, quite expensive
Yeah, almost as expensive in the short run as not changing and infinitely
cheaper in the long run.
Does ratpoison have an entry in /usr/share/xsessions/ ? If you want it as
default, you could apparently edit /etc/lxdm/lxdm.conf
Not really, unless they decided to buy German support. I'm sure one can find
British LibreOffice support if so inclined, much more so if you say here's
£100,000 for implementing this or that feature. That's one of the major
perks of free software.
It's free software but incompatible with GPL.
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#IBMPL
Try this https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/troubleshooting-suspendhibernate
There are some tips here
https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/optimizing-battery-time
Nope. lspci doesn't have a --p parameter at all, where do you get that from?
What kind of output do you get on a machine where you get nothing with VGA?
You can use grep -E 'a|b|c' to show lines with a,b or c. Note the possibility
of false positives.
I.e. lspci|grep -E 'a|b|c'
I'd call it free hardware to be consistent. Or you could call it libre
hardware, if the gratis angle bothers you.
I think we're living in very interesting times regarding hardware when
anybody can draw their own schematics. Of course, manufacture is still pretty
expensive but in the future
Pop open a terminal and input
alsamixer
Make sure the channels aren't muted, especially Master. Marking MM at the
bottom of a slider stands for channel muted, press m to toggle. Of course
also check the volume is not zero, arrow keys change volume and channels.
There is a mixer for
Hello and welcome!
1. Open a terminal and input lspci, paste output here. Usually one does not
need to install drivers on a GNU/Linux system because they come with the
kernel. This might suggest that there is no free driver for your card. You
might want to try the latest Linux-libre
There was a thread about this that is now locked and I don't know why...
The forum software does so automatically after a certain time when no new
replies have been made.
The command is gnome-system-monitor.
Metacity: Alt + right click will allow you to move and remove it.
Compiz: You need to add one more key... Was it Ctrl?
There might be a hint in ~/.xsession-errors
Well, I consider requiring JavaScript to display (what at least should be) a
static page a failure.
Thanks. Looks fairly free to me, if a bit futurey (could be a good thing, the
arm and mali support parts)
If you can reach the blocked sites by their IP, then you could just use
another DNS provider. However whatever technical measure you use,
circumventing some censorship measure might get you in hot water with the
management...
Check alsamixer.
Don't fear the terminal, it's probably somewhat scary at first if you've
never used such an interface before but it's not too complicated. It's pretty
unlikely you'd manage to break anything and if you do, then you probably
learned a lesson. :)
Once you pick some terminal skills, it's
OpenFWWF only works with just a few older Broadcom cards, namely AirForce
wlan chipsets:
* BCM4306
* BCM4311 revision 1
* BCM4318
* BCM4320
Rather modify the ones at /etc/pm/sleep.d
If both directories contain a similar named file, the one in /etc/pm/sleep.d
will get preference.
apm was the older thing before acpi, you probably don't need that.
Reading this http://docs.openmoko.org/trac/ticket/1802 suggests that the mmc
module has a removable parameter that might come handy. Note however that if
you should eject the card while suspending, bad things will happen. Try
sudo modinfo -p mmc
You can set the parameters in /etc/modprobe.d
Welcome! Linux is a kernel, the operating system is GNU/Linux.
To see what video card you have, run in a terminal
lspci|grep VGA
(GNU/Linux is case-sensitive, i.e. VGA is not vga)
Things worth trying to fix
* the brightness control, you could try adding a acpi_backlight=vendor
parameter to
You could file a bug, it is confusing. Just don't hold your breath waiting
for a patch though.
Another puzzle solved:
Glad to hear that.
synaptiks with k
That sounds like KDE shenanigans
All of them seem to deal with touchpad functionality and have very similar
names. Pretty confusing.
That's the par for the course... :)
I really hate it when people abuse JavaS***t, all I see is the disclaimer.
Mind posting the hardware specs here?
You could also write custom suspend scripts to unmount before suspending and
mount after. Dunno if the fact we're talking about /home makes any
difference.
The reason is simply Trisquel 6 is based on Ubuntu 12.04.
You can see if upstream versions are still free software and if the present
libraries are new enough to run them. (Note that if you manually install
something outside the package manager, it will not get automatic updates.)
For any command that needs to be run as root, you'll need to fiddle with the
scripts in /etc/rc2.d/
(as the default runlevel is 2)
It's quite complex but you can get a dirty hack going...
On the other hand adding fortune to ~/.bashrc is one of the best ideas I've
ever had. :)
Yes and you don't need to run it every time you pop up a terminal window.
Great news! Looks like Stallman's frequent visits to India are making a
difference.
ps. That video really could use English subtitles or an English audio track!
:)
3. You can run Debian. Just remember to not recommend it to the general
public.
https://gnu.org/distros/optionally-free-not-enough.html
The DMCA in the US in 1998 at least. Looks like its Wikipedia page says that
it's based on some WIPO treaty, most countries are WIPO members and thus
likely to have similar pieces of legislation...
Hi there and welcome. Few things to try is a newer Linux-libre kernel, you
can easily install one from http://jxself.org/linux-libre/
And then you can try updating the X server packages, you can use the Synaptic
package manager to do that. The newest xserver packages have a -lts-raring
Oh you're right, thanks for the heads up!
By default this will ask for password randomized at install time. You can see
it in /etc/grub.d/01_PASSWORD
I'm afraid there's no way but to do a clean install. Of course you can copy
your home folder in order to get your various settings but some of those
might give you trouble since most software isn't designed with forward
compatibility in mind.
I'm not sure if you can trust real hardware to
You can get a screenshot from
http://screenshots.debian.net/screenshot/PACKAGENAME
The only laptop which has earned the FSF's Respects Your Freedom endorsement
is from gluglug.
https://fsf.org/resources/hw/endorsement/respects-* -freedom
* http://shop.gluglug.org.uk/
I'm pretty sure any of the free distros can do virtual terminal switching
well.
Debian GNU/Linux, which is completely free, except...
Read http://jxself.org/debian-doubletalk.shtml
It's like saying You get a free gift when you buy...
It's gnome-app-install.
By doing this did I inadvertently set a password for the root user/account?
This is not wise, right?
Yes and yes. :)
To undo the damage, run
sudo passwd -l root
It certainly should be possible independent of the hardware, not that I've
ever done it. There is a root account but you can't login as root, the
password is disabled. That link talks about lightdm which ubuntu uses but
Trisquel uses gdm3, so the step 2 won't work.
I believe there is no
Probably yes at this point since nobody seems to know here.
Well, even an instant public domain dedication is challenging in many
countries and not well defined unlike copyright because of intense lobbying
by ugly monopolists and the public domain is neglected...
The way copyright works the only person who can sue you for infringement is
the
Thank you for writing free software!
Hello, dunno if this works. :-/
First check whether that new boost library is still free software. If yes,
proceed to install it (from source) to a custom location:
mkdir /home/YOURUSERNAME/newboost/
./configure --prefix=/home/YOURUSERNAME/newboost/
make
make install
(YOURUSERNAME is to be
What has this to do with file browser problems? Nothing.
It's not polite to hijack threads, instead you should start your own.
Glad to hear that!
Stay free!
You can use such a service without problems if you
1b. They still can see the metadata even if you encrypt.
3. Have redundancy, i.e. copies on multiple services, they can pull the plug
any time, see Megaupload.
4. Read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_services#Issues
Note that the plugins might compromise tor.
https://www.torproject.org/download/download.html.en#Warning
The only server there is by default is the ssh server. If you don't use it,
remove it.
sudo apt-get install owncloud
You don't need a firewall or any other security programs. You might want to
remove the ssh server though if you don't use it.
For reading, check out https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/
I too always doubt open source programs but like free software.
Why do you think he needs one?
My reply about the malls was meant as a joke. You probably have a good point
there.
Only if you're lucky.
What is see the jack?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JACK_Audio_Connection_Kit
Looks like there's no easy solution. Here's a thread and a bug on the subject
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/boot-trisquel-computers-without-pae
https://trisquel.info/en/issues/9159
Strange all right. What kind of a wifi do you have? Open a terminal and
inputlspci(You can filter out anything but the wifi if you can figure out
which one it is.)
Since you say it's new, perhaps it would be worth while to try a new
Linux-libre kernel, e.g. from
One thing you could try is installing a newer Linux-libre kernel, e.g. from
http://jxself.org/linux-libre/
And should it still not work, Thinkpenguin sells you wifi dongles and cards
that are guaranteed to work. There's a banner on the right hand column. --
You didn't say what the trouble
This was my initial concern as well but if I'm reading the trisquel bug and
this changelog right, the upstream removed faac.
http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/universe/h/handbrake/handbrake_0.9.9+dfsg-2~2.gbpa4c3e9/changelog
Using an AMD/ATI video card?
lspci | grep VGA
Because that's what it looks like on my box. That's the way I prefer it so I
haven't tried to see if I could change it.
The splash parameter in grub should do it for you. You can use e.g. Synaptic
to see what files the plymouth package(s) have installed into the system,
those might help you debug it. And the project might've a web page.
teamviewer
Proprietary software gives you nothing but trouble.
Sure you can. It's the source of this whole mess. I don't know how to
uninstall it.
Looks like it's a kernel error message.
A web search suggested a person having this error fixed it by updating their
kernel and xserver.
You can try a newer kernel from e.g. http://jxself.org/linux-libre/
Updating xserver could be accomplished by getting the various
What kind of hardware is it? Please open a terminal and inputlspci
What seems to be the trouble with the devices?
The 30th Chaos Computing Congress was just held and most of the sessions are
available in video and audio.
I think they feature a lot of very interesting talks, including by Jacob
Applebaum on the NSA.
https://events.ccc.de/congress/2013/
(their security certificate is by CAcert which
Do you have a AMD/ATI video card? Here's my experience with it and and
another similar story. Perhaps you already saw these
https://trisquel.info/en/issues/7641
https://trisquel.info/en/issues/4350
One way would be to physically swap the HDD to another computer for the
install.
That's a new kernel and could be related. You could try the new Linux-libre
kernels from e.g. http://jxself.org/linux-libre/
uname -r will show you what kernel you're running now. Holding shift at boot
should show you the grub menu where you can select which kernel you want to
boot. I
You can find the comment in the mailing list archives, i.e.
http://listas.trisquel.info/pipermail/trisquel-users/2013-December/031451.html
Yes, wait. It's an anti-spam measure.
The symptoms have appeared only recently.
Check the updates you've lately installed, especially look for kernel
(linux-image) and xserver related.
You can find the logs in /var/log/dpkg.something
I'm going to buy an additional computer, which will keep my private data as
save as possible by running it always offline.
Select carefully or that might not be possible.
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/secret-3g-intel-chip-gives-snoops-backdoor-pc-access
Could you help me understand what netinstall is like?
Ctrl+Alt+F1, you get back with Ctrl+Alt+F7
The whole screen is that text interface?
Correct. You can try running alsamixer to see a text GUI. Escape exits it.
Some programs have such user interfaces (ncurses) but many don't.
Often one
What's love but a second hand emotion
--Tina Turner
I've also heard the anecdote about the babies and I do believe it. What I
don't understand is why do you think angels and devils are required to
explain it.
When you boot from the CD, isn't there an option to do integrity check of the
CD? Have you done that?
Besides that it could be hardware compatibility problem. I believe there are
some extra parameters available you could try. I don't have a live media
handy right here so I can't easily
It's the same thing as in Ubuntu.
For the ones here that don't use ubuntu, what does it do? Also, I could not
find a package by that name, can you easily figure it out?
I feel a joke coming on along the lines in ubuntu privacy is something you
install..!
What it is waiting for is DHCP info. It's handled by /etc/dhcp/dhclient.conf.
Since you say it's instant when plugged it, set a low timeout.
Hello there!
Glad to learn of your success, You might want to add that data to
http://h-node.org/
Welcome on board!
Hi! I don't know those model numbers but try asking Chris, the Thinkpenguin
CEO.
https://trisquel.info/en/users/chris/contact
or
https://www.thinkpenguin.com/contact
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