Re: Bookworm boot stacks with black screen after NVIDIA driver installed.
On Wed, 16 Aug 2023 15:31:52 +0300, Махно wrote: > Hello. Just stick with open source video driver nouveau. This is what I'm doing right now. However it performes, as I already said, "good enough". Meaning there are some problems. It freezes the system from time to time. Well, for now I do not have any choice anyway.
Re: Moving dual boot Win10 & Debian 10 system from Legacy to UEFI
On Tue, 06 Jul 2021 22:17:22 +0300, Anssi Saari wrote: > "Juan R. de Silva" writes: > >> Do you guys think it is actually feasible? Anybody can suggest >> something easier, smarter? It's a lot of work to do... :-( > > Why do you think this would be a problem? I intend to do this on my > desktop system at some point. I thought I'd just get a new SSD and make > that my boot drive and clone the partitions over but after a little > googling it seems the conversion isn't that difficult. > > For example, these instructions cover the conversion of a Ubuntu + > Windows 10 dual boot system: > https://www.rojtberg.net/1032/converting-a-ubuntu-and-windows-dual-boot- installation-to-uefi/ > > My setup is a little more complicated since I have Debian and Arch in > addition to Windows 10 but I don't expect major issues. Definitely > taking an image of my boot SSD first though. There is a difference in suggested by your link approach and my requirements. I have reasons to avoid re-installation of my existing Windows 10. The suggested procedure based on fresh install of Windows 10 from from the media created by Microsoft Media Creation tool instead. Thus I would have to convert the existing Win10 install. This is the part in which I was not sure. Actually now I think that it is feasible and even shouldn't be exceedingly difficult. But it would be a time consuming, should be carefully planned. For the reasons I mentioned in my second post, I'm not sure any longer it is worth for me to get engaged in this (unless for the sake of experiment). As I said I can happily live with Windows 10 until the time comes to replace my laptop with a new one. BTW, my setup is in no way simpler than yours. My system is multi-boot: Win10, Debian 10 (my primary OS), Ubuntu, and KDE Neon. I just omitted not relevant details in my original post. :-)
Re: Moving dual boot Win10 & Debian 10 system from Legacy to UEFI
On Sun, 04 Jul 2021 17:23:33 -0700, David Christensen wrote: > On 7/4/21 4:22 PM, Juan R. de Silva wrote: >> Hi folks, >> >> I dual boot Debian 10 with Windows 10 from MBR in Legacy mode on my 6 >> years old Dell M4800 workstation. The BIOS supports both Legacy and >> UEFI modes. With upcoming Windows 11 I am compelled to switch to UEFI >> mode. > > > > Dell Precision M4800 laptops have 4th generation Intel Core processors > [1] and Windows 11 does not support them [2]. So, even if you succeed > in converting your Windows 10 / Debian 10 dual boot from BIOS/MBR to > UEFI/GPT, you will not be able to run Windows 11 on that computer. > You are right, my processor (i7-4810MQ) is currently in not supported processors list I finally found. I run this tool https://github.com/rcmaehl/WhyNotWin11 on my laptop and it missed to point it out. It reported all requirements were met providing I will enable TMP module and switch to UEFI. My bad, thank you for suggesting. Well, good for me... I no longer have this headache. :-) Considering MS will support Windows 10 up to Oct. 2025 I am doing just fine. I use Windows once a year to prepare my taxes anyway. By that time I'll have to replace my M4800 workstation with something more up to date in any case. With systemd advent it already started showing first signs of wanted to retire. I'm not even sure it will make it for 3-4 years more. Thanks again.
Moving dual boot Win10 & Debian 10 system from Legacy to UEFI
Hi folks, I dual boot Debian 10 with Windows 10 from MBR in Legacy mode on my 6 years old Dell M4800 workstation. The BIOS supports both Legacy and UEFI modes. With upcoming Windows 11 I am compelled to switch to UEFI mode. I know how to switch stand alone Windows 10 or stand alone Linux from Legacy to UEFI mode. However I have not found how to do such conversion in case of existing dual boot install. I am not even sure if it is possible at all. I would endure Debian reinstall but unfortunately reinstall of Windows 10 is not an option for me. For now I'm planning to try the following: - Wipe out Debian. - Move Windows to free enough space and create a new GPT partition. - Switch Windows to UEFI mode. - Create new partition of suitable size and restore existing Debian image. - Boot from any Linux Live-CD and install EFI GRUB module to restored Debian. (Another option would be installing EFI module in existing Debian system in advance and to make an image of it.) Reinstall GRUB. Do you guys think it is actually feasible? Anybody can suggest something easier, smarter? It's a lot of work to do... :-( Thanks.
Re: Weird WiFi problem
On Sun, 23 May 2021 21:53:45 -0700, David Christensen wrote: > On 5/23/21 4:55 PM, Juan R. de Silva wrote: >> Help needed from somebody with the better networking knowledge than >> mine. >> >> Debian Buster on Dell M4800 Mobile Workstation, Intel Corporation >> Wireless 7260 (rev bb) WiFi adapter. The ISP modem offers 2 WiFi bands: >> 2.4G & 5G. The system connects automatically to 5G. 2.4G is reserved >> for my printer use. Email client - Evolution 3.30.5-1.1. >> >> Starting of May 1, after system upgrade (dnsutils, bind9-host, and a >> bunch of related libs) I started having problems accessing GMail and >> Hotmail servers. Evolution ultimately connects and retrieves my mail >> but it take it from 20 up to 50 minutes. However, if I switch manually >> to 2.4G band or if I wire the laptop to the modem, Evolution connects >> on fly with no time. Reinstalling suspected upgrade did not help. >> >> My ISP replaced the modem with one with a newer firmware - no results >> >> I finally noticed that when on 5G band my IPv6 address cannot be >> detected by any of "what is my IP websites". Only IPv4 is visible to >> the outside world. But when I switch to 2.4 band (or wire the laptop to >> the modem) my IPv6 address is correctly detected along with the IPv4 >> one. >> >> CLI utilities confirm that my IPv6 is enabled and that WiFi interface >> is assigned an IPv6 address. One for 2.4G band & a different one for 5G >> band. I'm pushing my ISP to investigate their part of the network. But >> what bothers me is that I'm not sure in it. What if either Intel >> adapter or its Linux driver is in fault. And I have no means to test >> that... >> >> Any suggestions folks?.. > > > Where is your Internet connection -- e.g. what country? > > > Who is your ISP? Please provide a URL. > > > What Internet service plan do you have? Please provide a URL with the > plan details. > > > What is the make and model of your "modem"? Please provide a URL for > the support page. > > > Is the "modem" provided by your ISP acting as a bridge or a router? > Where is the DHCP server -- at your ISP or the "modem"? Where is the > DNS proxy -- at your ISP or the "modem"? Do your local devices have > public IP addresses or private LAN addresses? > > > David I finally narrowed the problem to one specific source by installing Windows 10 and KDE Neon in parallel to my Debian. After booting into either of them and using 5G WiFi band my IPv6 address is visible from the outside world as expected. Thus now I know that both my adapter and its Linux driver are fine, which clearly marks my Debian 10 being corrupted in some way. Right now I'm inclined to resolve this odd problem by reinstalling Debian. It looks to be an easier path comparing to finding a weird GNOME bug without even having a minimal clue of what part might be responsible for it. If this problem shows up once again this will make an end of GNOME for me. Using GNOME for many years I've been reluctant to change DE. May be it's the time now. :-( Sorry, I'm answering neither of your (in other circumstances rightful) questions, since IMHO my findings made them irrelevant to the case. Thanks
Weird WiFi problem
Help needed from somebody with the better networking knowledge than mine. Debian Buster on Dell M4800 Mobile Workstation, Intel Corporation Wireless 7260 (rev bb) WiFi adapter. The ISP modem offers 2 WiFi bands: 2.4G & 5G. The system connects automatically to 5G. 2.4G is reserved for my printer use. Email client - Evolution 3.30.5-1.1. Starting of May 1, after system upgrade (dnsutils, bind9-host, and a bunch of related libs) I started having problems accessing GMail and Hotmail servers. Evolution ultimately connects and retrieves my mail but it take it from 20 up to 50 minutes. However, if I switch manually to 2.4G band or if I wire the laptop to the modem, Evolution connects on fly with no time. Reinstalling suspected upgrade did not help. My ISP replaced the modem with one with a newer firmware - no results I finally noticed that when on 5G band my IPv6 address cannot be detected by any of "what is my IP websites". Only IPv4 is visible to the outside world. But when I switch to 2.4 band (or wire the laptop to the modem) my IPv6 address is correctly detected along with the IPv4 one. CLI utilities confirm that my IPv6 is enabled and that WiFi interface is assigned an IPv6 address. One for 2.4G band & a different one for 5G band. I'm pushing my ISP to investigate their part of the network. But what bothers me is that I'm not sure in it. What if either Intel adapter or its Linux driver is in fault. And I have no means to test that... Any suggestions folks?..
Executing 'systemctl poweroff' from script run by cron.
I am running Buster after fairly deafult installation. One of my scripts executes '/usr/bin/systemctl poweroff' command. And I am having trouble executing this script from cron. 1. If run from user's CLI, the script succeeds. 2. If run from root crontab the script succeeds. 3. If run from user's crontab it fails with the following errors: "Failed to set wall message, ignoring: Interactive authentication required. Failed to power off system via logind: Interactive authentication required. Failed to start poweroff.target: Interactive authentication required." 1. Why, when the script is run by the user cron job, the execution requires authentication, while run from the same user terminal, it does not. 2. Is there a way to get rid of this behaviour, since I prefer the script being executed by the user's cron job? 3. I am also surprised that 'systemctl poweroff' command can be executed either directly from the user's terminal or by running a script without any authentication request. There's certain inconsistency here, isn't it? IMHO, it does not feel like a safe approach. Thanks.
Re: How to manage audio volume unattended.
> Normalize the volume of the mp3 files beforehand rather than adjusting > the volume of the player in real time for each individual file (e.g. > with an app like python-rgain)? > > Or does this not speak to the reason for the volume changes? Unfortunately, it does not in this particular case. However, I might find suggested useful in other cases anyway. Thanks.
Re: How to manage audio volume unattended.
On Sun, 15 Nov 2020 14:46:01 +, Brian wrote: > On Sun 15 Nov 2020 at 02:35:39 -0000, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > >> I use cron job to run VLC several times a day at predefined times. Each >> time a different mp3 file is played and I need to set different audio >> volume for each file. I also need to make it working unattended. > > Set the volume level before running vlc: > > amixer sset 'Master' 10% Setting the volume before running vlc is not an option (see my OP) thus it would help using amixer instead of pactl. I'd hit the same wall. But thank you anyway.
Re: How to manage audio volume unattended.
On Sun, 15 Nov 2020 02:35:39 +, Juan R. de Silva wrote: Thanks to all replied and a lot of helpful suggestion. I'm working on it. :-)
How to manage audio volume unattended.
I use cron job to run VLC several times a day at predefined times. Each time a different mp3 file is played and I need to set different audio volume for each file. I also need to make it working unattended. I can set the volume by executing 'pactl set-sink-input-volume X Y%' but to do it I need to know in advance X number, which is Sink Input number used by VLC on every run. The problem is that VLC changes Sink Input on each consequitive run. The correct number can be obtained by executing 'pactl list sink-inputs' while VLC is run but this requieres my involvement. Is there any way either to get the VLC Input Sink # programmatically, or to make VLC using the same Input Sink it used at each previous run, or let say some default Input Sink? If somebody can suggest another way to achieve the desired, please suggest. For example, can anyone suggest a media player, which can accept a desired volume level as a command line argument? Any other ideas? Thanks.
Re: No updates in Debian 10 for last 5 days
On Mon, 05 Oct 2020 13:59:11 -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > On 10/5/20 1:48 PM, Juan R. de Silva wrote: >> Hi folks, >> >> I'm not having any updates for my Debian Buster for last 5 days. Looks >> suspicious to me... Anybody has same experience? >> >> > Why would it be suspicious? Just because I do not recall when it happened the last time not to have at least 1 package to be updated within 5/6 days. E.g. my dpkg.log for entire September shows updates ever 1-3 days. I am not alarmed, just surprised a little and being vigilant. :-) Or, perhaps, slightly over vigilant?.. :-)))
Re: No updates in Debian 10 for last 5 days
On Mon, 05 Oct 2020 20:10:00 +0200, john doe wrote: > On 10/5/2020 7:48 PM, Juan R. de Silva wrote: >> Hi folks, >> >> I'm not having any updates for my Debian Buster for last 5 days. Looks >> suspicious to me... Anybody has same experience? >> >> > What do you get if you do: > > $ apt-get update && apt-get -sV upgrade Nothing to update/upgrade.
No updates in Debian 10 for last 5 days
Hi folks, I'm not having any updates for my Debian Buster for last 5 days. Looks suspicious to me... Anybody has same experience? Thanks
Cannot post with Pan
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Re: Lost sound after update to 9:9.10
On Sun, 08 Sep 2019 20:42:46 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2019-09-08 18:13 +0000, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > >> One of my computers lost sound (both speakers and headphones) after >> update to 9:9.10. User is in "audio" group. No sound neither for the >> user nor for root. Hardware tested with Live Ubuntu 16.04 is alive and >> functioning. >> >> Any suggestions, please? > > Try booting with the previous kernel, linux-image-4.9.0-9-amd64. If > that brings the sound back, file a bug against src:linux (preferably > with reportbug). > > Cheers, >Sven Hi Sven, I've just get my sound back by installing Pavucontrol. It seems the problem was in GNOME All Settings Sound applet. For some reason in "Choose a device for sound output" it is listing only Digital Output (S/ PDIF) Built-in Audio device and showes only one profile "Digital Stereo (IEC958) Output" available, which left me without any sound. Pavucontrol showed all aptions available. I was able to select Show Hardware Output Devices and to select Analog Stereo Output (which BTW then appeared in the GNOME Sound applet as well). This get my sound back. However in the GNOME Sound applet I still have only Digital Output (S/ PDIF) Built-in Audio device listed. Thus if I by mistake click on that I loose Analog Stereo Output option again and have to launch Pavucontrol again to correct the problem. I would report the problem as a bug. The problem is that I not yet fully understand what actually happens. Should I report a bug against GNOME Sound applet or the problem is laying anywhere else? Seems that otherwise my card is detected and configured correctly. Thanks.
Lost sound after update to 9:9.10
One of my computers lost sound (both speakers and headphones) after update to 9:9.10. User is in "audio" group. No sound neither for the user nor for root. Hardware tested with Live Ubuntu 16.04 is alive and functioning. Run bellow without any help: root@desktop:~# alsactl init Found hardware: "HDA-Intel" "Realtek ALC892" "HDA:10ec0892,10438410,00100302" "0x1043" "0x8410" Hardware is initialized using a generic method lspci -v related output bellow: --- 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 05) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 46 Memory at fe70 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 Capabilities: [60] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+ Capabilities: [70] Express Root Complex Integrated Endpoint, MSI 00 Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel Capabilities: [130] Root Complex Link Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel 01:00.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Redwood HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 5000 Series] Subsystem: PC Partner Limited / Sapphire Technology Redwood HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 5000 Series] Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 47 Memory at fe64 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3 Capabilities: [58] Express Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00 Capabilities: [a0] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+ Capabilities: [100] Vendor Specific Information: ID=0001 Rev=1 Len=010 Capabilities: [150] Advanced Error Reporting Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel inxi -Fx related output bellow: --- System:Host: desktop Kernel: 4.9.0-11-amd64 x86_64 (64 bit gcc: 6.3.0) Desktop: Gnome 3.22.3 (Gtk 3.22.11-1) Distro: Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch) Machine: Device: desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: P8P67 v: Rev 1.xx BIOS: American Megatrends v: 1502 date: 03/02/2011 Audio: Card-1 Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Redwood HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 5000 Series] driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 01:00.1 Card-2 Intel 6 Series/C200 Series Family High Definition Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.9.0-11-amd64 Any suggestions, please? Thanks
Re: Looking for advise to replacy Pan newsreader
On Sun, 17 Feb 2019 16:07:11 + Tixy wrote: > On Sun, 2019-02-17 at 15:56 +, Tixy wrote: > > On Sun, 2019-02-17 at 14:47 +0000, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > [...] > > > And may I ask you what do you use to follow this very maillist? > > > > Erm, he probably uses a email client to follow this email list like > > I guess a lot (most?) people do, usenet newsgroups are a different > > thing to email. Though I understand from other posts here over the > > years that there are services that present mailing lists like these > > and newsgroups. > > That last line should have read... > there are services that present mailing lists like these as > newsgroups. > > And Juan, I see from the email headers for your posts that you are > using one of those services, namely Gmane. Yes, I am using Gmane. In fact practically all Linux related lists I follow using it. I'm still mostly using Pan, but this post I am making using Claws-Mail. Yes, it is not bad at all for my purposes. Much better then Thunderbird with its crazy font size "free dance" and it does not close group pane on its own volition as Pan does. Boy, that "feature" of Pan drove me nuts lately. And somehow it closes group pane or at best reduces it size, all at a sudden, almost exclusively when I am reading 'debian.users' list. Pan is a good reader but I get sick and tired spending about 1/3 of my time fishing out the group pane it closes.
Re: Looking for advise to replacy Pan newsreader
On Sat, 16 Feb 2019 22:51:04 -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: > On Sun, 17 Feb 2019 04:05:47 - (UTC) > "Juan R. de Silva" wrote: > >> Pan newsreader,which I used happily for several years, lately get buggy >> as hell and cannot be used any longer at all. >> >> I tried Thunderbird from Debian repo and found that the pure thing is >> not capable to keep a uniform font size through all posts. That is, the >> font size changes as soon as I try to advance either to a next post or >> to another group. >> >> Can your share with me what do you use for newsgroups reading. I do not >> care about binaries. All I want to follow several Linux usenet >> newsgroups. Plain text reading. > > Claws-mail besides being a text-based only email client can also access > NNTP news accounts, too. Although, I've never done so. Abandoned NNTP > and pan a year ago. > > B And may I ask you what do you use to follow this very maillist? Thank you
Looking for advise to replacy Pan newsreader
Pan newsreader,which I used happily for several years, lately get buggy as hell and cannot be used any longer at all. I tried Thunderbird from Debian repo and found that the pure thing is not capable to keep a uniform font size through all posts. That is, the font size changes as soon as I try to advance either to a next post or to another group. Can your share with me what do you use for newsgroups reading. I do not care about binaries. All I want to follow several Linux usenet newsgroups. Plain text reading. Thanks
Re: do you find old firefox is better than new one?
On Sun, 16 Dec 2018 17:24:20 +0100, tomas wrote: > On Sun, Dec 16, 2018 at 03:58:23PM +0000, Juan R. de Silva wrote: >> On Sun, 16 Dec 2018 08:07:06 -0300, Eike Lantzsch wrote: >> >> > Dear Long Wind: >> > Usually I don't reply AOL but in this case I second that. >> > I'm an unhappy Firefox-user on Debian and am looking for alternatives. >> > Yes, I do have many tabs open, 'cause I need them. I got plenty of >> > memory but Firefox does not seem to use it efficiently. >> >> After arival of FF Quantum I switched to Vivaldi. It's and exellent >> browser to my surpise and is manages tabs very well. Give it a try. > > Yet another Chromium. People, realize that it's Internet Game Over once > Google has both ends of it. And what makes you think that Google doesn't have them anyway? BTW, Isn't FF shiped with Google as the default search engine? Or does it really make much of difference changing it to anything else (I must confess I did, I use Startpage instead. It gives a kind of a sweet illusion.) I use uMatrix and it is a very revealing tool. About 90% of websites, if not more, are simply not usable unless you allow Google sniffing anyway. Well, it is a sad reality, I agree. But there is not much we can do about it.
Re: do you find old firefox is better than new one?
On Sun, 16 Dec 2018 08:07:06 -0300, Eike Lantzsch wrote: > Dear Long Wind: > Usually I don't reply AOL but in this case I second that. > I'm an unhappy Firefox-user on Debian and am looking for alternatives. > Yes, I do have many tabs open, 'cause I need them. I got plenty of > memory but Firefox does not seem to use it efficiently. After arival of FF Quantum I switched to Vivaldi. It's and exellent browser to my surpise and is manages tabs very well. Give it a try.
Re: GNOME Shell integration problem
> Looks like this bug: > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=840804 Thank you Curt.
Re: GNOME Shell integration problem
On Wed, 24 Oct 2018 19:41:24 +, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > Hi folks, > > I'm running Debian Stretch with chrome-gnome-shell installed. GNOME Shell > integration add-on works just fine with Firefox but does not work with any of > Chrome based browsers (Vivaldi, Opera) and Google Chrome itself. It > throughs message "Although GNOME Shell integration extension is running, > native host connector is not detected. Refer documentation for > instructions about installing connector." > > Googled for about 1 hour in vain. Actually found a couple opposite > complains on Although GNOME Shell integration not working with Firefox > while working with Google Chrome. > > Can anybody help with the trouble, please? > > Thanks I'm following up my own post. I've just installed FOSS Chromium and found that GNOME Shell Integration add-on which comes with it works just fine. So the problem showes up only on Google Chrome and browsers based on its core. The same behaviour is observed on 2 different machines with basically the same setup. Still no one to give a mimimal clue? Thanks
GNOME Shell integration problem
Hi folks, I'm running Debian Stretch with chrome-gnome-shell installed. GNOME Shell integration add-on works just fine with Firefox but does not work with any of Chrome based browsers (Vivaldi, Opera) and Google Chrome itself. It throughs message "Although GNOME Shell integration extension is running, native host connector is not detected. Refer documentation for instructions about installing connector." Googled for about 1 hour in vain. Actually found a couple opposite complains on Although GNOME Shell integration not working with Firefox while working with Google Chrome. Can anybody help with the trouble, please? Thanks
Re: What is Firefox on Debian Stretch nearest future?
On Thu, 30 Aug 2018 09:28:35 +0200, Stefan K wrote: > Hi, > > Debian will be upgrade to Firefox 60.2 esr.,it will be available at > 2018-09-05 > > more information about this: > https://www.debian.org/releases/stretch/amd64/release-notes/ch- information.html#browser-security > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=815006 (chapter > "About stable releases") Thanks Stefan
What is Firefox on Debian Stretch nearest future?
Hi folks, As far as I understend Mozilla is going to stop supporting Firefox ESR 59 this August. Does it mean that Firefox Quantum is comming to Debian Stretch before long? Is any information available? Thanks
Re: Looking for ratings of all-in-one printers for Linux (Ubuntu in particular)
On Mon, 09 Jul 2018 11:14:53 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> I used to own MFC 7460DN. I own currently HL-L2389DW wireless -e >> xcellent unit. Any of them work under Ubuntu, Debian (my current >> distro), Fedora, >> OpenSuse, etc. without a problem. Installation is a breeze. The >> drivers available on Brother website. > > Wait, does that mean the printer is not supported directly by Debian > (contrary to HP's for example)? Why not? Are the drivers proprietary? > How do you make sure the drivers are kept up-to-date with Debian's > infrastructure? > > > Stefan > > > PS: To me "works under Debian" should mean that I can make it work by > installing packages from Debian and nowhere else. If by "installing packages from Debian" you mean Debian printer drivers collection then one would have to always limit himself to rather narrow aray of old or very old moddels of printers and very often to accept the support provided as it is, which more then often is limited. If you meant hplip drivers, which are available from Debian repository, then I wonder what actually makes them so much "from Debian"? IMHO, their avalability from Debian repository does not really make them particulary "Debian". They are still developed by HP or their development is sponsored by HP, aren't they? And BTW HP allegedly native to Debian support was always crappy in my personal experience (as HP printers themselves). Especialy if compared with Brother propriatory drivers, which are flawless. While I appreciate your stand, to me as long as a manufacturer provides easily installable drivers and keeps them up to date is just fine. And this is the case with Brother. Escpecially considering that Brother cares to provide drivers for different major distros like Debian, Ubuntu, OpenSUSE in both .deb and .rmp format. Again, I personaly never regreted the switch. You see I am not a purist. :-) The interesting point is that Linux community is always and rightfully upset by the fact that manufacturers do not care to provide Linux support. IMHO we should then appreciate and support the manufacturer when it cares about Linux users, shouldn't we? Thanks
Re: Looking for ratings of all-in-one printers for Linux (Ubuntu in particular)
On Sat, 07 Jul 2018 13:50:56 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > I know there are probably multiple places where such ratings can be > found. Not knowing which are reliable, I'm sort of asking for ratings of > the ratings, I guess. Mostly, though, I want ratings of recent models, > from a Linux/Debian/Ubuntu perspective as opposed to the usual Windows > slant. I'm presuming the few machines that I dual-boot will be able to > work with whatever printer I have. > > So, where to look? > > ++ kevin I switched from HP to Brother several years ago and never regreted. The quality of Brother All-in-One is way higher then HP crap. The Linux support is excelent. I used to own MFC 7460DN. I own currently HL-L2389DW wireless -e xcellent unit. Any of them work under Ubuntu, Debian (my current distro), Fedora, OpenSuse, etc. without a problem. Installation is a breeze. The drivers available on Brother website. Just check for support of a particular model on Brother Linux site before buying here http://www.brother.com/html/product_support/index.htm
Re: Were is gapcmon?
On Wed, 21 Feb 2018 21:38:55 -0500, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 02:04:12AM +0000, Juan R. de Silva wrote: >> >> Ups, I've totaly missed that Marc said 'apcupsd'. In this case here are >> my deep appologies to Marc and everybody Being over busy last couple of >> days I was quite hasty in this case. Sorry. >> > No problem. I certainly was not offended. It was an honest mistake. > >> BTW. about apcupsd-cgi. I found that in order to use it I need to >> install appache2. I never needed to run a server on my home desktop >> before. Wouldn't it be a little overkill to install appache server only >> to use apcupsd web interface? >> > The dependency is 'apache2 | httpd', so you can use just about any web > server since they all support CGI. You might find lighttpd simpler than > apache2. > >> I'm realy not sure I want to spend a lot of time on securing and then >> maintaning the server. However I'm not realy familiar with the matter. >> Is it over complicated or I'd rather use CLI to control apcuspd daemon? >> > That is a choice you have to make. If you run a firewall on your machine > and you do not expose the ports (3551 for apcupsd and 80 for httpd), > then there is no real concern. That said, if you do not want to worry > about a webserver, you can probably script something that retrieves that > data from the apcupsd process on port 3551. It should not require very > much effort at all. Thanks, Roberto.
Re: Were is gapcmon?
On Wed, 21 Feb 2018 20:36:03 -0500, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 01:30:40AM +0000, Juan R. de Silva wrote: >> On Tue, 20 Feb 2018 14:03:01 -0500, Marc Auslander wrote: >> >> > "Juan R. de Silva" writes: >> > >> >>I've been using gapcmon GUI to control my APC UPS backup units for >> >>years. >> >>I cannot find it in Debian Stretch repos. Was the package removed? >> >>For what reason? What can I use in its stead? >> >> >> >>Thanks. >> > >> > I've always use apcupsd which still works in stretch. My use is >> > pretty > ^^^ >> > trivial - just reports - I don't do anything automatic on power fail >> > since I can't figure out how to do anything that will always wind up >> > with my machine running when the power comes back! >> >> So you shared with my your joy using it but spared the where you get >> it. >> Well, enjoy your little secret. :-) >> >> > Juan, > > He was saying that he uses apcupsd, not gapcmon. There is no secret. As > you know, gapcmon really is gone and apcupsd is available in all current > Debian releases. Ups, I've totaly missed that Marc said 'apcupsd'. In this case here are my deep appologies to Marc and everybody Being over busy last couple of days I was quite hasty in this case. Sorry. BTW. about apcupsd-cgi. I found that in order to use it I need to install appache2. I never needed to run a server on my home desktop before. Wouldn't it be a little overkill to install appache server only to use apcupsd web interface? I'm realy not sure I want to spend a lot of time on securing and then maintaning the server. However I'm not realy familiar with the matter. Is it over complicated or I'd rather use CLI to control apcuspd daemon? Thanks.
Re: Were is gapcmon?
On Tue, 20 Feb 2018 14:03:01 -0500, Marc Auslander wrote: > "Juan R. de Silva" writes: > >>I've been using gapcmon GUI to control my APC UPS backup units for years. >>I cannot find it in Debian Stretch repos. Was the package removed? For >>what reason? What can I use in its stead? >> >>Thanks. > > I've always use apcupsd which still works in stretch. My use is pretty > trivial - just reports - I don't do anything automatic on power fail > since I can't figure out how to do anything that will always wind up > with my machine running when the power comes back! So you shared with my your joy using it but spared the where you get it. Well, enjoy your little secret. :-)
Re: Were is gapcmon?
On Tue, 20 Feb 2018 14:03:01 -0500, Marc Auslander wrote: > "Juan R. de Silva" writes: > >>I've been using gapcmon GUI to control my APC UPS backup units for >>years. >>I cannot find it in Debian Stretch repos. Was the package removed? For >>what reason? What can I use in its stead? >> >>Thanks. > > I've always use apcupsd which still works in stretch. My use is pretty > trivial - just reports - I don't do anything automatic on power fail > since I can't figure out how to do anything that will always wind up > with my machine running when the power comes back! It's nice to here that it still works in Stretch but where did you get the package to install? As I said it is not in repos any longer. Do you think you can share it with me? :-)
Re: Were is gapcmon?
On Tue, 20 Feb 2018 13:04:20 -0500, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 05:26:41PM +0000, Juan R. de Silva wrote: >> I've been using gapcmon GUI to control my APC UPS backup units for >> years. >> I cannot find it in Debian Stretch repos. Was the package removed? For >> what reason? What can I use in its stead? >> > https://packages.qa.debian.org/g/gapcmon.html > > It was removed from Debian more than two years before the release of > wheezy and had not been updated for nearly two years prior to that. Interesting. I've been using it in Jessie and do believe I took it from Debian repos. > Here is the bug that requested its removal: > > https://bugs.debian.org/617593 I found no details about the bug. I personaly never experienced any problems with it. > I am not sure what your requirements are, but I use apcupsd (with its > web interface in the apcupsd-cgi package). That does the job for me. With gapcmon I did not need to start my web browser. It was just a click away. I'll try web interface. Is it easy to use? Oh, well, if I don't like it I still have an option to use terminal. :-) Thank you Roberto.
Were is gapcmon?
I've been using gapcmon GUI to control my APC UPS backup units for years. I cannot find it in Debian Stretch repos. Was the package removed? For what reason? What can I use in its stead? Thanks.
Re: unison compatibility in stretch
On Sun, 10 Dec 2017 12:25:42 +, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > Hi, > > For years I've been using unison to keep common files amongst my various > systems. > > I now find that stretch provides version 2.48, whereas Jessie provided > 2.40, and they are not compatible. My server, which still runs Jessie, > will therefore not accept connections from my desktop box. > > In the passt, I've always worked round this by installing the lower > version on my desktop and adjusted the links. This appears no lnger to > be possible. Why do you say:"It is no longer possible"? I'm currently running Jessie on my desktop and Stretch on laptop. I installed on both Unison 2.40 and synchronize them without any problem.
Re: [SOLVED] Re: Cannot connect to WiFi
On Thu, 16 Nov 2017 16:56:39 -0600, David Wright wrote: > On Thu 16 Nov 2017 at 20:11:18 (+), Juan R. de Silva wrote: >> >> On Wed, 15 Nov 2017 19:48:00 +0000, Juan R. de Silva wrote: >> >> > Hi folks, >> > >> > My ISP replaced my old modem with the new one. I changed my WiFi >> > Authentication key and the name of the WiFi network. Then I made >> > Network Manager to "forget" my old WiFi. Network Manager finds my new >> > WiFi but I cannot connect to it. >> > >> > When "Authentication Key is required" dialog pops up and the key is >> > entered,j Connect button remains grayed out/disabled. Thus there is >> > no way to get through but pressing Cancel button. >> > >> > I'm running Debian Stretch. >> > >> > Could somebody help. It's quite urgent now. >> >> >> The problem is solved. It was Bob Weber post that led me to solution, >> though the problem was a kind of different. >> >> Here what I mean. Just by looking at my password, as entered into NM, I >> did not find any weird characters or trailing spaces in it. A typo was >> exclued since I copy-pasted it from my password manager storage. I was >> in loss and just for no reason, when in GNOME "Authentication required" >> dialog pressed Backspace once... All at a sudden I get through and >> connected!.. >> >> Then I copied the password I uncessfully tried to use in Network >> Manager and pasted it bellow a password copied from my modem/router (or >> as David rightfully called it "gateway" device). >> >> That was it. The original password was 64 characters and the one in my >> modem was only 63 characters. Aparantly the modem has a limitation on >> the password length, > > The protocol sets the limits, not the router. I agree. But I've meant quite a different thing. Whoever or whatever sets the limit, if the user makes a mistake and enters into appropriate router field oversized password, it is a responsibility of a good programmer to let the user know that the password is going to be truncated. A user has a right to make a mistake, not have enough knowledge, even to be dumb at the end. A good GUI programmer is expected to oversee such things. Silently truncating an entry IS a silly programming technic.
[SOLVED] Re: Cannot connect to WiFi
On Wed, 15 Nov 2017 19:48:00 +, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > Hi folks, > > My ISP replaced my old modem with the new one. I changed my WiFi > Authentication key and the name of the WiFi network. Then I made Network > Manager to "forget" my old WiFi. Network Manager finds my new WiFi but I > cannot connect to it. > > When "Authentication Key is required" dialog pops up and the key is > entered,j Connect button remains grayed out/disabled. Thus there is no > way to get through but pressing Cancel button. > > I'm running Debian Stretch. > > Could somebody help. It's quite urgent now. The problem is solved. It was Bob Weber post that led me to solution, though the problem was a kind of different. Here what I mean. Just by looking at my password, as entered into NM, I did not find any weird characters or trailing spaces in it. A typo was exclued since I copy-pasted it from my password manager storage. I was in loss and just for no reason, when in GNOME "Authentication required" dialog pressed Backspace once... All at a sudden I get through and connected!.. Then I copied the password I uncessfully tried to use in Network Manager and pasted it bellow a password copied from my modem/router (or as David rightfully called it "gateway" device). That was it. The original password was 64 characters and the one in my modem was only 63 characters. Aparantly the modem has a limitation on the password length, which it neither shows to a user. Instead it sighlently cuts off any excessive characters. Silly programmed device wasted 2 days of my time. Anyway I'm a happy bunny now, since it solved. :-) Thanks folks. And the bigest credit goes to Bob.
Cannot connect to WiFi.
Hi folks, My ISP replaced my old modem with the new one. I changed my WiFi Authentication key and the name of the WiFi network. Then I made Network Manager to "forget" my old WiFi. Network Manager finds my new WiFi but I cannot connect to it. When "Authentication Key is required" dialog pops up and the key is entered,j Connect button remains grayed out/disabled. Thus there is no way to get through but pressing Cancel button. I'm running Debian Stretch. Could somebody help. It's quite urgent now. Thanks.
Re: Problem pulseaudio
On Wed, 02 Aug 2017 08:34:52 +0200, MENGUAL Jean-Philippe wrote: > Hi, > > > I confirm, it works perfectly. Mqny thanks Juan Glad to it helped.
Re: Problem pulseaudio
On Tue, 01 Aug 2017 08:30:57 +0200, MENGUAL Jean-Philippe wrote: > Hi, > > > My purpose is to run mplayer in a crontab. My line: > > 00 00 * * * mplayer file > > > If I run mplayer in CLI, everything is good. If cron does it, no sound. > And log is: Audio becomes stuck! > > > displayed permanently in the MPlayer screen. > > > I use a fresh testing. > > > I have just changed to mpv. Here no such logs after crontab, but still > no sound. > > > How can I get more logs? Should I reportbug to mpv or pulseaudio? Where > could I check? Not a permission problem on Pulseaudio as cron user would > run mpv instead of my regular user? > I had a similar problem when wanted to run vlc in a crontab. The solution was to execute in crontab the following command: env DISPLAY=:0 /home/your_username/full_path_goes_here/play_something.sh play_something.sh contained actual bash command to run vlc with path to an mp3 file to play. This way vlc get the required environment variable set by desktop session.
Re: Darn 'beep' stoped working after installing Stretch in place of Jessie
On Tue, 01 Aug 2017 11:54:34 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Maybe modprobe pcspkr might be helpful too. Unfortunatelly it wasn't.
Re: Darn 'beep' stoped working after installing Stretch in place of Jessie
On Tue, 01 Aug 2017 17:17:05 +0200, Dejan Jocic wrote: > On 01-08-17, RavenLX wrote: >> Having it work out-of-the-box would be nice. After a fresh install, I >> have a bash script I run that installs all the apps I use and >> configures them. Sometimes though, there are things that a user needs >> to answer. Thus, if I want to have the script running and go do >> something else, I want to "beep" when it's going to need attention by >> the user. I noticed this does not work in Stretch so I ended up >> removing the part to install the "beep" package and use beep to alert >> the user. I have tried escape codes via echo -e as well, and no beep >> there either. >> >> > Does printf "\a" works for you? Though, echo -e "\a" works here too. printf "\a" and echo -e "\a" work, as well as all other versions of echo like: echo -e \\a echo -e '\a' echo -en '\x07' echo -en "\x07" However neither of them produces an expecting "beep sound" (do not confuse with 'beep' comand/utility). Exsecuting any of the above produces default system "Sounds Effects" sound instead.
Re: Darn 'beep' stoped working after installing Stretch in place of Jessie
On Mon, 31 Jul 2017 22:02:00 +, Dan Purgert wrote: > apt-cache search beep It's most certenly installed. Thanks anyway, I appreciate it as a joke. :-)
Darn 'beep' stoped working after installing Stretch in place of Jessie
Hi folks, I installed (fresh install instead of an upgrade) Debian Stretch on my laptop. The installation is full success without any problem except a little one - 'beep' does not produce a sound neither from CLI nor from a bash scripts. I had Jessie installed on the same laptop before and it worked just fine. I checked everything I possibly could: pcspkr module loaded, alsa does not have any muted channels, tried to use it as a user and as a root. No clue why it does not work any longer in Strech. Any suggestions? Thanks.
Re: Potentialy OT: Firefox downloads over 6 GB of data streaming < 1 GB movie.
On Mon, 11 Jul 2016 12:25:00 +0200, Andre Majorel wrote: > On 2016-07-11 02:53 +0000, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > >> Debian Jessie with Firefox 47.0.1 from Mozilla Debian Team. Firefox >> uses "automatic cache management", which is default. The problem showed >> up just recently. >> >> Today for a test sake I streamed a movie https://archive.org/details/ >> SoylentGreen1973. The size of MPEG4 file is 919.8 MB. >> >> All apps, which potentially could use Internet, were shutdown. I'm on >> wired connection to my router, Wi-Fi disabled on laptop physically - >> switch turned off. >> >> After movie completed I found the following in gkrellm, which monitors >> my network traffic: >> >> Received:6.302 GB (vs. 919.8 MB original movie size ?!!!) Transmitted: >> 138.43 MB Total: 6.440 GB >> >> Then I streamed the same movie in Google Chrome and after completed >> found this in gkrellm: >> >> Received:7.345-6.302 = 1.043 GB (~~ equal original movie size) >> Transmitted: 146.93-138.43 = 8.5 GB > > s/GB/MB/ > >> Total: 7.491-6.440 = 1.051 GB >> >> No wonder in last 10 days internet usage with my ISP rocketed up. >> >> Anybody knows what is going on? Why streaming HTML5 video (I've not >> tried flash yet from the same source) in Firefox downloads data over 6 >> times the size of original movie? I never experienced anything similar >> before neither with Firefox nor any other browser. > > Sorry for asking the obvious but, if gkrellm had logged 7.345 GB after > watching the film in Chrome and 6.302 GB after watching it in Firefox, > how much had it logged immediately before that ? It is obvious indeed. :-) The number were taken from Daily usage tab in gkrelm. Before making the test I had purposely not accessed Internet that day (except loading the page with the movie certainly). Thus gkrelm only showed a couple of dozens of MB due to some minor local network activity, which I ignored. I've already submitted a bug to Mozilla but was interesting to listen to community. If I've experienced some abnormal Firefox behaviour is not very likely that mine was totally unique experience. I'd hate to switch to Google Chrome from Firefox, since the last is my favourite.
Potentialy OT: Firefox downloads over 6 GB of data streaming < 1 GB movie.
Debian Jessie with Firefox 47.0.1 from Mozilla Debian Team. Firefox uses "automatic cache management", which is default. The problem showed up just recently. Today for a test sake I streamed a movie https://archive.org/details/ SoylentGreen1973. The size of MPEG4 file is 919.8 MB. All apps, which potentially could use Internet, were shutdown. I'm on wired connection to my router, Wi-Fi disabled on laptop physically - switch turned off. After movie completed I found the following in gkrellm, which monitors my network traffic: Received: 6.302 GB (vs. 919.8 MB original movie size ?!!!) Transmitted:138.43 MB Total: 6.440 GB Then I streamed the same movie in Google Chrome and after completed found this in gkrellm: Received: 7.345-6.302 = 1.043 GB (~~ equal original movie size) Transmitted:146.93-138.43 = 8.5 GB Total: 7.491-6.440 = 1.051 GB No wonder in last 10 days internet usage with my ISP rocketed up. Anybody knows what is going on? Why streaming HTML5 video (I've not tried flash yet from the same source) in Firefox downloads data over 6 times the size of original movie? I never experienced anything similar before neither with Firefox nor any other browser. Thanks.
Re: all at a sudden Firefox
On Sun, 01 May 2016 17:42:33 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 5/1/2016 2:15 PM, Juan R. de Silva wrote: >> On Sun, 01 May 2016 07:44:22 -0500, John Hasler wrote: >> >>> File a bug with Mozilla. >> >> I would do it gladly if I only could reproduce it or at list give a >> minimal lead of how and when it happened. >> >> > I would suspect that a vague &/or malformed report is better than no > report. > Give as much detail of your environment as possible. > I've been in multiple environments where the mantra was "If nobody tells > us there is a problem, we can *NOT* solve it." > > Please note in the above 'quote' there is *absolutely NO* indication > that the reporter has claimed *WHAT* the problem is. Only that *A* > problem exists. > > P.S. I date from when 8085 was "latest & greatest";/ I'm in the process of investigating some idea here. You see, to describe the environment in such is quite difficult at times. There to many things that could be involved, at times things you do not think about at all. Here what I have in mind now. Firefox on both of my machines was upgraded from v. 45 to v. 46 on Apr. 27. The problem showed up on Apr. 28. My desktop has a 19" monitor with 1920:1080 resolution, while my laptop has a 4K LCD with 3840:2160 resolution. I sync my Firfox between 2 machines with Unison. I have been doing it for years. Until the day the problem showed up on my laptop everything was fine. Both of my Firefoxes worked without any problem. I start suspecting that with the update to Firefox 46 something that handles 4K screen fonts changed and thus the problem showed up. I'll try to figure it out by investigating my Unison .prf files. I'm not sure this is a right direction but at least some idea to play with. There is always a chance that some file was introduced by Mozilla, or an old one changed, which should be ignored, while syncing. Boy, this would a tedious task to find such a beast.
Re: all at a sudden Firefox
On Sun, 01 May 2016 07:44:22 -0500, John Hasler wrote: > File a bug with Mozilla. I would do it gladly if I only could reproduce it or at list give a minimal lead of how and when it happened.
Re: all at a sudden Firefox
On Sun, 01 May 2016 09:13:30 +, Curt wrote: > I suppose you've tried the obvious (cough) like starting Firefox in safe > mode, > refreshing the sucker, renaming prefs.js, using a virgin profile and the > like (or have you already told us that upthread somewhere). Yes, I tried all these. > And gals. Certainly. Gals actually go first without saying. Seriously. This one was quite an interesting remark. You see, these days, here on Canadian West Coast, most of people, especially young people, use "guys" for both guys and gals. And it always seemed to me that gals were promoting this change more actively than guys. I actually personally do not like the change much and it took me some time to get used to it. And now, when I'd used it just without much thinking any more... Bingo... You got me. :-) It looks like people at your place still use two distinct terms. :-) Where are you?
Re: all at a sudden Firefox
After trying all suggestions I am giving up. And here a new finding. If I ever load a new page at least once and correct the fonts by hitting Ctl-++, then, even if I delete all history, including cache, cookies, etc., and go to that website/page again it loads with the desired fonts. So, as it goes now the problem seems to cure itself. A bit boring way but it goes better. What bothers me is, as I said, it happened all at a sudden. I am absolutely positive I was not mixing with any Firefox settings before I started experiencing it. And as I said I use the same Firefox on my desktop also, were I have no problem what's ever. I guess I hit some weird Firefox or one of his addons bug and I don't even have a clue how to reproduce it. Thanks guys.
Re: all at a sudden Firefox
On Fri, 29 Apr 2016 07:22:00 -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Michael writes: >> Set your font sizes to something else other than is displayed in the >> dialog. Save the change, exit firefox, relaunch and reset the font size >> back to what ever you need. Quit and relaunch. Any better? > > Worth a try, though you normally don't need to restart Firefox for font > size changes. > > What version of Firefox is this? Firefox v. 46 on both desktop (no problems) and laptop, where problems shows up.
Re: all at a sudden Firefox
On Fri, 29 Apr 2016 07:05:39 +0100, Michael wrote: > On Fri, 2016-04-29 at 02:18 +0000, Juan R. de Silva wrote: >> On Thu, 28 Apr 2016 19:28:14 -0500, John Hasler wrote: >> >> >> Well, do you really think I would make a post without checking such an >> obvious thing first? >> >> The default font sizes (serif, 16) are there. Nevertheless, all new >> pages open with something looking like 8 or 10, no bigger. This is the >> problem. > > Set your font sizes to something else other than is displayed in the > dialog. Save the change, exit firefox, relaunch and reset the font size > back to what ever you need. Quit and relaunch. Any better? No. The problem is still there. Thanks.
Re: all at a sudden Firefox
On Thu, 28 Apr 2016 21:41:16 -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Juan R. de Silva writes: >> Well, do you really think I would make a post without checking such an >> obvious thing first? > > Well, not knowing you, yes. Why should I be the only one to ever > overlook the obvious? Yes, it is a good reason. My apology to you. >> The default font sizes (serif, 16) are there. Nevertheless, all new >> pages open with something looking like 8 or 10, no bigger. This is the >> problem. > > And the minimum font size at Menu->Preferences->Content->Advanced ? The minimum font size there was set to "none". Set it to 12 right now without any help. Still having the same problem. Funny thing is - I'm running Debian Jessie on my desktop and on my laptop. The problem appeared on laptop top only. Desktop is just fine. Both system up to date.
Re: all at a sudden Firefox
On Thu, 28 Apr 2016 19:28:14 -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Juan R. de Silva writes: >> All at a sudden Firefox started opening all websites with tiny fonts. I >> have to hit Ctl++ several times on each new page to be able to reed it. > > Go to Menu->Preferences->Content and set your font sizes. Well, do you really think I would make a post without checking such an obvious thing first? The default font sizes (serif, 16) are there. Nevertheless, all new pages open with something looking like 8 or 10, no bigger. This is the problem. As I said in the original post - no changes were introduced neither to the system nor to Firefox. It just happened exactly as I said "all at a sudden", without an apparent reason.
all at a sudden Firefox
All at a sudden Firefox started opening all websites with tiny fonts. I have to hit Ctl++ several times on each new page to be able to reed it. The only thing changed before the problem showed up - Google Chrome was updated to the latest version via apt-get. No other changes to the system were made. I've no idea what's happened and how to get rid of the problem. Cleaned cache, history, cookies - all in wain. It's dead boring to keep hitting Ctl++ on each page. Anybody? Suggestions? Thanks
Re: OT: what do you know about Linux?
On Mon, 25 Apr 2016 21:46:22 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > Juan R. de Silva composed on 2016-04-26 01:26 (UTC): > >> On my desktop I still use and old keyboard with PS/2 connector. >> My mouse an USB one, so the mouse PS/2 port on motherboard remains >> free. > >> A couple of days ago I had to reconnect my keyboard to motherboard. I >> was doing it in hurry and in the dark, just to the touch. > > Plugging a PS/2 keyboard connector into a motherboard port while the PC > is powered up is a bad idea. Sometimes doing so can permanently render > the motherboard port useless. > >> A day later while restarting the machine I was surprised by message >> from BIOS:"No keyboard detected." However, when started, Debian had no >> trouble with my keyboard. It was fully functional. > > The Linux driver doesn't care which port the keyboard is plugged into. > The motherboard BIOS does care, hence the warning at boot. Plugged into > the wrong port, you can't use the keyboard to get into BIOS setup or > anything else you might wish to key before the PC boots an OS. > >> Today I had a minute to pull out my desktop tower and found that I >> mistakenly plugged keyboard connector into the mouse PS/2 port. > > Dejavu. There was a long thread almost a month ago here "Changing Boot > Order" > about using the wrong port. > >> I wish to see Windows trying to swallow this. :-) Or I am outdated on >> Windows skills, am I? > > ??? All you comments are correct and my funny experience proofs it. I was certainly lucky not to blow up my motherboard. Praise to ASUS. I've meant to say that as far as I know Windows would not be able to run keyboard connected so wrongly at all. Even if, like in my case, motherboard survived such a bad treatment.
OT: what do you know about Linux?
On my desktop I still use and old keyboard with PS/2 connector. My mouse an USB one, so the mouse PS/2 port on motherboard remains free. A couple of days ago I had to reconnect my keyboard to motherboard. I was doing it in hurry and in the dark, just to the touch. A day later while restarting the machine I was surprised by message from BIOS:"No keyboard detected." However, when started, Debian had no trouble with my keyboard. It was fully functional. Today I had a minute to pull out my desktop tower and found that I mistakenly plugged keyboard connector into the mouse PS/2 port. I wish to see Windows trying to swallow this. :-) Or I am outdated on Windows skills, am I?
Re: Current stability of Debian testing?
> People just doing a blind "apt dist-upgrade" every day without knowing > what happens, why it happens and how to fix the emerging problems will > have a very bad time using Testing, because there will be a day where an > innocent "apt dist-upgrade" removes half their packages. Well, just don't do "a blind "apt dist-upgrade" every day without knowing what happens". Review the updates first and then decide what to do with it, you'll be safe this way. E.g. I need to keep unison v.2.40 to sync with my Wheezy desktop and testing wanted to upgrade to v.48. I noticed and just put the needed version on hold. The problems is solved. Isn't it that easy?
Re: Current stability of Debian testing?
On Wed, 02 Mar 2016 14:18:02 +0100, Albin Otterhäll wrote: > On 03/02/2016 01:45 PM, Michael wrote: >> Ive been using it for the last few months, and have had no major issues >> that where not of my own causing.. :) > > Good! According to the Debian wiki it's recommended to do a "minimal" > installation. I assume it's just debian with all the "extra" (Gnome and > print-server) in the debian-installer unchecked? If so, how would I go > about to install whose later after the "upgrade" from stable to testing > after editing /etc/apt/sources.list? I've recently installed on one of partitions stable WITH GNOME and after editing sources.list upgraded to testing/stretch without any problems. You would be able to install Skype for now, since one of the libs is not ported to testing yet. It actually possible but requires quite a bit of workarounds, which I am not willing to engage in. I'd rather wait. And another one - stardict. It is not in testing yet. For now I've installed goldendict, which I like much less. But again it's just a matter of waiting. I'm monitoring the behaviour for about 3 weeks now. So far, no problems and the system looks perfectly stable and very nice.
Option "MigrationHeuristic" is not documented by Nvidia
In stable Jessie I'm currently using 340.96-1 driver for my Nvidia K2100M. I'm having some issues with the card, mostly quite notable latency, while working with Gedit or LibreOffice Write. While looking for options to improve the performance I found that google is full with suggestions to include in xorg.conf among some others this line: Option "MigrationHeuristic" greedy Actually it is advised on the Debian Nvidia Wiki page as well. However, I see that such option is not listed in the X Config Options doc on Nvidia web side. It looks like it simply does not exist. When I included it in xorg.conf, my system log displayed "NVIDIA(0): Option "MigrationHeuristic" is not used." Could somebody explain, what this option means and how to enable it, if it exists? Or it is just another copy-paste ghost that lives on internet its own live without any connection to reality? Another thing - I'm considering to install Nvidia version 352.79 (via jessie-backports) instead of my current driver. - Anybody used it on stable? Is it stable? Any improvements vs. 340.96-1? - Should I first remove my current driver and then install the new one from backports? Or I can just shoot 'apt-get install -t jessie-backports nvidia-driver', and apt-get would take care of replacing the current driver with the new one? Thanks.
Re: Problems with VLC in jessie
On Wed, 10 Feb 2016 23:38:03 -0500, Charles Kroeger wrote: > On Mon, 08 Feb 2016 19:10:01 +0100 "Juan R. de Silva" > wrote: > >> > If that does not help, please share the output of vlc -vvv. >> >> Well, I did... > > You might as well try this: > > $ vlc --reset-config Finally had time to get to this back again. Yes, this helped me. My .avi and .mp4 work now. It did not fix the flickering issue with DVDs. But this is all different story, since in my own believe it is a problem that VLC has with my video card. And since for this I have a solution - SMPlayer, I do not bother. One day it get fixed either with nvidia driver update or with VLC update. Thank you.
Re: Problems with VLC in jessie
> If that does not help, please share the output of vlc -vvv. Well, I did...
Re: Problems with VLC in jessie
> This may as well be a problem with the nvidia driver I thought it this way initially but then... If this is a driver problem, why SMPlaer plays everything just fine. And BTW, I forgotten to mention that even Totem also plays all my files and DVDs just fine. What is so peculiar about the nvidia driver when it comes to VLC then? > * do you have nvidia-vdpau-driver installed? Yes, it is installed. > * does it work better if you disable hardware decoding? No. > If that does not help, please share the output of vlc -vvv. Here it is... http://pastebin.com/AxEdc2Jt
Re: Problems with VLC in jessie
On Sun, 07 Feb 2016 08:53:21 -0500, Ric Moore wrote: > On 02/06/2016 11:50 PM, Juan R. de Silva wrote: >> Sorry, forgotten to mention I use Nvidia 340.96-1 proprietary driver. > > Under tools/preferences/video pick "X11 video output (XCB)" then save > and exit and re-start VLC again. I also use "GTK+" under the "interface" > tab / "Force Window style". Good luck! Ric Tried all of them before posting without any result. Thanks
Re: Problems with VLC in jessie
Sorry, forgotten to mention I use Nvidia 340.96-1 proprietary driver.
Problems with VLC in jessie
It is Dell Precision M4800 64 bit with Nvidia Quadro K2100M graphic card. Since I've installed Jessie last year I have nothing but problems with VLC: 1. I can play DVDs but the screen is flickering awfully. Useless at worse, can play some after a lot of preferences tweaking at best. 2. I have a number of movies/videos in MP4, some in AVI format. Some of MP4 play nicely but most of them and neither of AVI files do not play at all. Usually the sound track is there but no video at all. Attempting to play some of them actually hangs up the system and reboot is required. For now I found a solution by installing SMPlayer. It plays everything above without any problems. I however would still prefer using VLC, to which I simply get used in past years. Tried to follow this WIKI https://wiki.debian.org/ MultimediaCodecs#Available_Codecs_for_Debian after installation. I would prefer to avoid not recomended deb-multimedia.org. Any advise, please?
Re: Jessie 8.3 - still no update notifications
> For Jessie, we patched update-notification support back into > gnome-settings-daemon: > > https://packages.qa.debian.org/g/gnome-settings-daemon/ news/20141204T233404Z.html > > So, in Jessie, gnome-setting-daemon is responsible for the update > notifications. In stretch and sid, gnome-software is. According with the link provided the patched version of gnome-settings- daemon is 3.14.2-2 I have gnome-settings-daemon v. 14.2-3 installed and still no notifications. I see in repo gnome-settings-daemon-dev, which is not installed on my machine. The description of this package says that "package contains header files required to build applications that communicate with the GNOME settings daemon over D-Bus." What the last would mean? Am I expected to rebuild GNOME Package Updater to get notifications? Thanks.
Re: Jessie 8.3 - still no update notifications
On Fri, 29 Jan 2016 08:30:45 +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 29 January 2016 01:53:33 Juan R. de Silva wrote: >> > I use the Debian cron script 'apticron'. It talks directly with >> > Debian, so it knows about updates to all Debian software. I have cron >> > run it in the middle of the night. It downloads the updates, and in >> > the morning I have email telling me what needs to be updated and why, >> > and instructions on just what to do to install the updates. >> >> I prefer running 'apt-get' manually then using any of scripts running >> by cron. > > But you like a GUI updater :-/ > > Lisi Do I?.. I was not aware of it. How you figured it out? But I like GUI notifications. :-)
Re: Jessie 8.3 - still no update notifications
> I use the Debian cron script 'apticron'. It talks directly with Debian, > so it knows about updates to all Debian software. I have cron run it in > the middle of the night. It downloads the updates, and in the morning I > have email telling me what needs to be updated and why, and instructions > on just what to do to install the updates. I prefer running 'apt-get' manually then using any of scripts running by cron. Thanks.
Re: Jessie 8.3 - still no update notifications
> Do you have gnome-software and packagekit installed? With those, upgrade > notficiations should work. On my system both 'packagekit' and 'gnome-packagekit' are installed. Are sure about 'gnome-software' package name? I simply does not exist on my system.
Re: Jessie 8.3 - still no update notifications
These are all nice but only workarounds. For those who wondered what tool is supposed to provide such notifications... GNOME notification system includes between others an "update plugin", which supposed to do the job. As it does it (and quite nicely) in openSUSE GNOME 16. However it does not in Jessie GNOME 14 yet. It is not exactly a bug but rather a "not completely ready yet feature" at the release time. Here it was suggested that it should have been arrived to Jessie by now: http://blog.tenstral.net/2015/09/update-notifications-in-debian- jessie.html Looks it is not here yet. Well, as I can see, all of us have our own way to survive such a "calamity". :-) I feel much better knowing I'm not alone having the little problem. ;-) Thanks to all responded.
Jessie 8.3 - still no update notifications
I have a fresh install of Jessie GNOME 64 bit since the release date. I've never had a single notification of any available system update. So, as a daily routine I run 'apt-get update' and 'apt-upgrade'. Google suggests that this bug was resolved in Jessie. However, even after updating to Jessie 8.3 recently, I still do not have any notifications. When (just out of curiosity) I run GNOME Package Updater (or whatever it is called) it reports "All packages up to date" but running apt-get right after brings new updates, as it was today. I tried all suggestions found on Google, like using 'dconf-editor' to tweak the 'Shell update plugin' settings, etc., but without any results. I do not care about GNOME Package Updater and other GUI things, since I still prefer CLI. However, notifications would be nice to have as a reminder. Anyone to suggest something helpful? Thanks.
Re: /bin/sh: 1: lpr: not found on jessie amd64
> The packages cups-bsd, lpr, and lprng all have lpr. Try installing them > and removing them in turn, and see which works. Installation of cups-bsd did the trick. BTW, I tried installing lpr before and it did not help. This is weird, since I've looked into my i386 installation and neither cups-bsd, nor lprng, nor lpr are installed there. Why all at sudden cups- bsd was necessary on amd64? Oh, well, what is important - it works now. Thank you for helping me out.
/bin/sh: 1: lpr: not found on jessie amd64
I have Jessie i386 and amd64 installed on 2 different laptops. Wine is installed on both, meaning that i386 architecture is enabled on amd64 install. Both installation have access to the same printer using the same (i386) driver from Brother. The printer works just fine with all apps on both installs with one exception described below. When I run the same application in Wine on i386 install, I can print from the app just fine. However, when I try to print from it on amd64 install the error:"/bin/sh: 1: lpr: not found" is thrown on me. I've tested printing with 'lp' from CLI and it works equally well on both installations. Checked out and 'lpr' is not installed on neither of laptops. Any suggestions, please?
Re: no icons in iceweasel menus - jessie gnome
Sorry Lise,
I guess I'm not very careful reader. You are still on Wheezy. Then it is
even simpler. open gconf-editor and set menu-have-icons to 0 in
gnome.desktop.interface.
If it wasn't just mild sarcasm.
> On Tue, 11 Aug 2015 22:46:47 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote:
>
>> On Tuesday 11 August 2015 22:37:09 Juan R. de Silva wrote:
>>> Everybody has those icons or nobody knows how to get them back? I
>>> wonder...
>>
>> If/when someone answers, could he/she include a recipe for getting rid
>> of these same icons? Wheezy, Iceweasel 39.0, TDE 3.5.13.2. Thank you!
>
> I give it to you. :-)
>
> First these is how I finally get them in:
>
> % gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.xsettings overrides
> "{'Gtk/ButtonImages': <0>, 'Gtk/MenuImages': <1>}"
>
> Correspondingly if you set the value of Gtk/MenuImages to 0 you should
> get rid of them.
>
> I just wonder how come you get them in Jessie and did not?
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Re: no icons in iceweasel menus - jessie gnome
On Tue, 11 Aug 2015 22:46:47 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 August 2015 22:37:09 Juan R. de Silva wrote:
>> Everybody has those icons or nobody knows how to get them back? I
>> wonder...
>
> If/when someone answers, could he/she include a recipe for getting rid
> of these same icons? Wheezy, Iceweasel 39.0, TDE 3.5.13.2. Thank you!
I give it to you. :-)
First these is how I finally get them in:
% gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.xsettings overrides
"{'Gtk/ButtonImages': <0>, 'Gtk/MenuImages': <1>}"
Correspondingly if you set the value of Gtk/MenuImages to 0 you should
get rid of them.
I just wonder how come you get them in Jessie and did not?
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Re: no icons in iceweasel menus - jessie gnome
Everybody has those icons or nobody knows how to get them back? I wonder... On Tue, 11 Aug 2015 01:40:48 +, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > Hi, > > I just installed Jessie with GNOME3 on my laptop. Everything is just > wonderful except Iceweasel does not have any icons in its menus. Their > missing, in particular in Bookmarks menu, makes working with bookmarks > organized by folders visually very uncomfortable. > > The old option menu-have-icons is gone from dconf-editor. Google did not > reveal the secret either. > > Anyone knows how to get them back, please? > > Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/mqdpu5$b0n$1...@ger.gmane.org
no icons in iceweasel menus - jessie gnome
Hi, I just installed Jessie with GNOME3 on my laptop. Everything is just wonderful except Iceweasel does not have any icons in its menus. Their missing, in particular in Bookmarks menu, makes working with bookmarks organized by folders visually very uncomfortable. The old option menu-have-icons is gone from dconf-editor. Google did not reveal the secret either. Anyone knows how to get them back, please? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/mqbjr0$f3b$1...@ger.gmane.org
Re: Strange entry in my routing table.
On Wed, 04 Mar 2015 23:18:08 +, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > Here is my routing table: > > 0.0.0.0 192.168.25.68 0.0.0.0 UG0 00 > eth0 192.168.24.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.252.0 U 1 0 > 0 eth0 > > The first entry IS my default gateway as I expected. > > The second line, however, is something I cannot neither recognize nor > explain. It obviously belongs to something on a different LAN segment, > which I do not have. I mean I do not have any subnets on my LAN. > > I tried to ping 192.168.24.0 with no response. > Trying 'ping -b 192.168.24.255' gives me only my own LAN IP address with > "Destination Host Unreachable". > > The wireless on my router is disabled from GUI interface. The router is > flashed with dd-wrt. Should I assume my router has been hacked and re- > flash it? > > Can somebody help me to understand this, please? Thanks for all replied. You were very helpful. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/mdanff$4pv$1...@ger.gmane.org
Re: Strange entry in my routing table.
> That looks 10% legit to me. 10% ? Is it a typo or a joke? :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/md84pp$t22$1...@ger.gmane.org
Strange entry in my routing table.
Here is my routing table: 0.0.0.0 192.168.25.68 0.0.0.0 UG0 00 eth0 192.168.24.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.252.0 U 1 00 eth0 The first entry IS my default gateway as I expected. The second line, however, is something I cannot neither recognize nor explain. It obviously belongs to something on a different LAN segment, which I do not have. I mean I do not have any subnets on my LAN. I tried to ping 192.168.24.0 with no response. Trying 'ping -b 192.168.24.255' gives me only my own LAN IP address with "Destination Host Unreachable". The wireless on my router is disabled from GUI interface. The router is flashed with dd-wrt. Should I assume my router has been hacked and re- flash it? Can somebody help me to understand this, please? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/md83rg$hrb$1...@ger.gmane.org
Re: WD Passport 2T hard drive formating question.
> You seem to have overlooked Darac Marjal's response. I have not. I've just took a pause to do some additional reading and to experiment a little. I've tried 'tune2fs -m 1.0 /dev/sdXY' (found in Arch docs for Ext4). The result was quite interesting. Both Nautilus and "df" showed the used space on the drive reduced up to 19 MB. Then I fired GParted and it still insisted that 29 GB were in use instead. I recreated the file system from scratch using this time mkfs.ext4 with the default options. The result - both Nautilus and "df" showed used space on drive only 60 MB. But GParted again insisted on 29 GB being in use. Finally I recreated the file system one more time again with GParted. After these all 3 parties, Nautilus, "df", and GParted agreed on 29 GB being used. Quite a mystery... :-) > 29GB is not the space reserved for the super user. It is made of blocks > set aside for inodes storage and super blocks replication (see option -T > in mkfs.ext4 man page). > I have been using xfs on external USB HDD because I never succeeded in > the right value between too many inodes and not enough. I'll use the drive for rsync snapshots type backup and will keep at least 5 snapshots recreated weekly. It happened to me already a couple of times that the space taken by snapshots changed almost exponentially do to the differences in snapshots (this is actually how I get 2T HDD idea). It's quite a difficult task to figure out the correct inodes number in this situation. I'll give a try to XFS. The file system after created takes about 950 MB, which is way better then 29.42 GB. And there is no need to predict the required number of inodes. Unless I decide to create Ext4 with mkfs2.ext4 and to rely on those low "used" numbers. But right now I'm not sure the numbers are really reliable. > And the space reserved for the super user is really a space that can > only be written by root. It is not a space required to operate the disk. > It is made of blocks reserved to prevent a user from filling up the disk > and prevent anybody (including root) from logging in. As far as I > understand, you don't need it on an external storage. You can set -m0 > when formatting the disk. man pages for mkfs2.ext4 say that the space reserved for root as also needed to avoid fragmentation. Unfortunately the documentation in this regard is extremely scanty and unclear. So far I've not found any recommendations on how little is enough in other for Ext4 being able to keep the drive not fragmented. Probably another +1 for XFS, which just come with its own utilities. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/m3uaf7$615$1...@ger.gmane.org
Re: WD Passport 2T hard drive formating question.
> $ man mkfs.ext4 > > Look for "-m" argument. "-m" option default value is 5% (!) = 50 GB space. No minimal reserved space is specified/recommended in man pages. GParted allocated to file system 1.616% = 29.42GB (quite generous against default 5%). For NTFS, on the other hand, only 0.0067% were allocated = 122.66 MB. I do understand that some space must be reserved for the super-user to allow avoiding fragmentation + journal, etc. However the amount of space reserved seems to me unreasonably high - 29 GB vs. 123 MB. Yes, I can tinker the situation to some extent with other mkfs.ext4 options. But I do not know if the gain is worth of efforts. Besides, since the drive will be used for backup, I do not want to sacrifice the stability of the file system in order to preserve space either. So, the question is, to which extent and with what result can I tinker with mkfs.ext4 options. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/m3r0c7$dco$1...@ger.gmane.org
WD Passport 2T hard drive formating question.
Hi folks, I've purchased a new WD Passport 2T USB hard drive, which, no doubts,came formated NTFS. I've used GParted to quickly format the drive to Ext4 and results surprised me quite a bit (all results as reported by GParted): File system NTFS Total capacity - 1.82 TiB Used by file system - 122.66 MiB (?) File system Ext4 Total capacity - 1.82 TiB Used by file system - 29.42 GiB (?) Thus NTFS reported using about 240 times less space then Ext4 file system. The loss of the drive space is just huge. It's about 29 GB. Is it normal? Or GParted is a wrong tool to use, while formatting 2T hard drive? I've never used such big HDD before, hence a confusion. Could somebody enlighten me on the subject, please? Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/m3pf3p$ce9$1...@ger.gmane.org
Re: gedit ugly under xfce
On Thu, 17 Jul 2014 11:26:38 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > On Wed, 16 Jul 2014 21:43:00 + (UTC) > "Juan R. de Silva" wrote: > > >> BTW, about "bupsky" script you shared with me... It's very nice while >> working with files in console, like using vim, or nano, or anything >> like this. I do most of my file editing work in GUI editors. So, in >> this case it's not very helpfull. Right? Or I'm missing something? > > Just keep a terminal, cd'd to the directory of your project, on a > workspace (usually numbered 1 to 8). Every time you hit a milestone, > deliverable, or every hour, just go to that workspace, type the word > bupsky, and you're done. Elapsed time, 20 seconds. Time saved if > something goes wrong: hours. > > By the way, most of my editing is done in gvim, so I'm the same as you. Yesterday I installed gvim too. It was quite a logical choice, I guess. 20 secs vs. hours definitely win. :-) Thanks again. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/lq98pt$e8h$1...@ger.gmane.org
Re: gedit ugly under xfce
On Wed, 16 Jul 2014 17:15:36 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > On Wed, 16 Jul 2014 20:39:56 + (UTC) > "Juan R. de Silva" wrote: > >> On Tue, 15 Jul 2014 20:29:56 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: >> >> > Turns out it didn't eat it, it just made characters invisible. Here's >> > the start of the thread: >> > >> > https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/xubuntu-users/2014-July/007303.html >> > >> > >> I confirm this. Here's my post about it on that thread: >> >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/xubuntu-users/2014-July/007320.html >> >> Though I spent quit a bit of time to figure it out. Well, plus a bit of >> frustration thinking the file was lost. But... At the end there was a >> "Happy End." :-) >> >> Nevertheless, I did not neither Mousepad nor Leafpad and with some help >> found a very good substitution for both - Pluma a default MATE text >> editor, a fork from venerable GNOME2 gedit. Looks excellent in XFCE. >> >> Another one I installed and I like it is Geany. But this one is for >> more serious work. > > :-) Juan, a happy ending *this time*. Can I safely assume that from now > on you'll be backing up your work, right? :-) > > SteveT > > Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ > Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance It's a "difficult" question?.. :-) Well, I mean I always do regular backups. Up to date I was making them daily, weekly, and biweekly. I use rsync based script to make snapshot-style backups. As it appears from my last experience "daily" is not enough. Should I make them hourly, half- hourly?.. May I leave the last sentence endlessly open? :-) All we can do is trying to minimize the loss. However some kind of loss is unavoidable if an app misbehaves so badly as it happened in my case. BTW, about "bupsky" script you shared with me... It's very nice while working with files in console, like using vim, or nano, or anything like this. I do most of my file editing work in GUI editors. So, in this case it's not very helpfull. Right? Or I'm missing something? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/lq6rl3$d38$1...@ger.gmane.org
Re: gedit ugly under xfce
On Tue, 15 Jul 2014 20:29:56 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > Turns out it didn't eat it, it just made characters invisible. Here's > the start of the thread: > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/xubuntu-users/2014-July/007303.html > I confirm this. Here's my post about it on that thread: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/xubuntu-users/2014-July/007320.html Though I spent quit a bit of time to figure it out. Well, plus a bit of frustration thinking the file was lost. But... At the end there was a "Happy End." :-) Nevertheless, I did not neither Mousepad nor Leafpad and with some help found a very good substitution for both - Pluma a default MATE text editor, a fork from venerable GNOME2 gedit. Looks excellent in XFCE. Another one I installed and I like it is Geany. But this one is for more serious work. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/lq6nur$ejb$2...@ger.gmane.org
No Evolution reminders show up in advance as desired.
After using Evolution for last 7 years for about last 3-4 months I started experiencing the described bellow problem. Appointment and reminder set up and desired behaviour: -- - Set up an appointment for a particular date. - Open Reminder, select Customize, then click Add - In Add Reminder set "Pop an alert" to 2 days (or 48 hours) "before start of appointment". - Check "Repeat the reminder" box and set the reminder to be repeated 6 "extra times" "every 8 "hours". - For 7 years with the above configuration I had a reminder popping up 2 days in advance and then accurately repeated every 8 hours until the actual date of the appointment. Current (faulty) behaviour: --- - The appointment and reminder setup as described above. - NO reminder pops up in advance. Instead all 6 reminders pop up together on the date of the appointment. I experience the same problem under Debian Squeeze (GNOME Classic), Ubuntu 14.04 (Unity), and Xubuntu 14.04. In all *buntu's the data is restored to Evolution from Debian Squeeze Evolution backup. In Evolution Preferenses->Calendar_and_Tasks->Reminders: "Display reminders in notification area only" is checked and "Show a reminder ... before every appointment" is NOT checked on all 3 systems. Anybody else experiences the same problem? Can somebody help to figure out what the problem is? Google was not my friend with this. Thank you. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/lo7o17$6jd$1...@ger.gmane.org
VFAT device mounted with wrong timestamps. WAS: Incorrect timestamps after files copied to Debian Squeeze.
I've recently made a post about Nautilus copied files from my Olympus recorder with wrong file timestamps - UTC instead of local time. Later on I've found the problem was rather in my recorder FAT16 file system. That is, I was simply hit by "system with UTC=yes in /etc/ default/rcS mounts FAT USB disk with wrong file time" bug: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=577597 There is a work around suggested by someone in the only comment to the report Well, it works. But it is still quite a poor suggestion. After reading 'man hwclock' carefully I would forbear from following it, especially if often. >From what I've learn on Google it looks the problem is old and still unresolved Linux wide. Yes, Ubuntu and Fedora claimed to fix it. However, I'm not sure they actually fixed it but not worked around it instead. E.g.Ubuntu Launchpad claims the bug fixed in 'util-linux 2.16-1ubuntu4' package: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/util-linux/+bug/426886 But the Debian bug report was made against 'util-linux 2.16.2-0' and Debian Squeeze uses 'util-lunux 2.17.2-9'. Except if Ubuntu folks did not submit their fix (again, if such exists) upstream. Then, the way Ubuntu works is a little weird. Ubuntu 10.04, 12.04, 12.10 and Kubuntu 12.04 mount my recorder with the correct local time file timestamps. However Ubuntu 12.04 and 12.10 do not even have /etc/adjtime file existing. Kubuntu 12.04 have adjtime file with only on line in it: "0.0.0.0.0". Ubuntu 10.04 adjtime contains the following: -1133.264553 1290316524 0.00 1290316524 LOCAL At the same time its /etc/default/rcS file contains 'UTC=yes'. BTW, openSUSE 12.2 using 'util-linux-2.21.2-4.2.3' mounts my recorder with UTC time (wrong) file timestamps too. I do not know why, but this was openSUSE developers decision - they wipe out kernel's timezone value after System Clock is set upon boot. A couple of questions... 1. I'm quite confused with the Debian Bug Tracking System. E.g. the bug report above - I see the report itself but there is no information about the bug status. Was it fixed, is it going to be fixed, or anything similar. Where can I find this? 2. Is there any way to set kernel's timezone value to TZ environment variable without touching either Hardware Clock or System Clock for one login session only? I mean programmable way. If it's possible, could somebody help me with this, please? 3. And the last, if anybody understands how Ubuntu makes it, could you explain it to me, please? I would be very curious to learn. Thanks for reading. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/kevd39$mc9$1...@ger.gmane.org
Re: [solved] Incorrect time stamps after files copied to Debian Squeeze
On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 10:06:21 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 23:09:36 +0100, Juan R. de Silva > wrote: >> Thank a lot again. > > You're welcome! > > Btw. it's very good that you posted what solved the issue. Thank you! > Some people don't do it. My preference is additionally to add a [solved] > to the subject, that makes it easier for people running into the same > issue search the web. Well, it's quite embarrassing but my "solved" report appeared to be a false one. I do not know how it happened, maybe I was overtired that day, but apparently I compared the final results with the wrong set of files, which already had wrong timestamps. In short, unfortunately additional installations DID NOT RESOLVED the issue and I've noticed it only yesterday night. I've noticed however another detail I missed at the time of my first post, and the problem looks now quite different from the way I described it. I think I'll take some time to look a little bit more into it and I'll make another post with slightly different and more accurate (hopefully) subject line. Boy, it drives my crazy. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/kepe26$ro9$1...@ger.gmane.org
Re: Incorrect time stamps after files copied to Debian Squeeze
> Exif timestamp vs file timestamp. Perhaps there's something similar to > nautilus-rename-exif-date that does choose audio Exif timestamps > automatically, instead of taking the file timestamps. And if this is the case, what would be a solution to correct this highly undesired for me behaviour? Though I should admit your suggestion is slightly cryptic to my humble knowledge. What are 'exif' or 'nautilus-rename-exif-date'? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/kdl6f0$iuh$1...@ger.gmane.org
Re: Incorrect time stamps after files copied to Debian Squeeze
On Mon, 21 Jan 2013 09:31:53 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Mon, 21 Jan 2013 03:51:00 +0100, Bob Proulx wrote: >> The times that you show are exactly eight hours apart. That smells >> like a timezone difference. > > If it smells like that, than it is a timezone difference. I don't > believe that several files will get exactly the same difference for > complete hours only, if there should be something else fishy. Nevertheless it is exactly the case. The time stamps for 9 files copied all get exactly of 8 hours difference. And this is exactly the difference between UTC time for my location and my local time. And it happens every time I copy files from this particular device in Sqeeze. I does not happens in Ubuntu and it does not happens when I copy files from another Flush Drive. The device is busy now. I'll try tomorrow to copy files from CLI with 'cp'. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/kdkv1u$cqm$2...@ger.gmane.org
Incorrect time stamps after files copied to Debian Squeeze
I am copying files from my Olimpus Voice Recorder to PC which have corresponding time stamps on recorder. When I copy files to my Ubuntu 10.04 the time stamps preserved exactly as they are on Voice Recorder. However after files copied to Debian Sqeeze, the system changes the time stamps, e.g. the file recorded at 18:24:50 (or 06:24:50PM) on Squeeze have time stamp of 10:24:50 (or 10:24:50AM). The date is preserved. Both system are configured to use UTC, update time from Internet, and otherwise not messing times in any way. Could anybody help me with this, please? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/kdfp4h$th4$1...@ger.gmane.org
[SOLVED]Re: iceweasel cannot open gmail and some other sites
On Sun, 25 Dec 2011 18:32:09 +, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > After upgrade to Iceweasel 9.0 from http://mozilla.debian.net/ all at a > sudden I cannot open gmail page, either by typing gmail.com in the > address bar or by clicking Gmail link/button on google page. The > reaction in both cases the same - nothing happens/opens. > > It looks like some other sites are affected as well. So far detected the > same happens if attempting to open www.ixquick.com. > > Downloaded and tried Firefox 9.01 on the same machine, it works just > fine. Firefox 9.0 on my Ubuntu works fine as well. > > Does anybody experiencing the same behaviour? Any suggestion, please? Solved using Scott Ferguson suggestion in the previous post about https pages not loading. And after 10 minutes an upgrade to 9.01 arrived, which does not have this problem. :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jd84og$db1$1...@dough.gmane.org
Re: want to try KDE 4.6 from sid on squeeze
On Fri, 07 Oct 2011 02:37:51 +, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > I'd like to try to co-install KDE 4.6 from sid to my standard GNOME > squeeze install. > > Hence 2 questions: > > 1. Is it stable enough now or it's better to go with KDE 4.4 from > squeeze repo (though to have 4.6 instead is quite tempting)? > > 2. I'd like it to co-exist with my current GNOME installation and get a > chance to login to either of them as needed. What is the best way to do > it? You've helped me to abandon the idea. Too much of hassle. Thanks, folks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/j6sp07$lco$1...@dough.gmane.org
want to try KDE 4.6 from sid on squeeze
I'd like to try to co-install KDE 4.6 from sid to my standard GNOME squeeze install. Hence 2 questions: 1. Is it stable enough now or it's better to go with KDE 4.4 from squeeze repo (though to have 4.6 instead is quite tempting)? 2. I'd like it to co-exist with my current GNOME installation and get a chance to login to either of them as needed. What is the best way to do it? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/j6lolv$292$1...@dough.gmane.org
Re: Mounting two usb drives
On Thu, 28 Jul 2011 14:59:42 -0400, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: > Dear list - > > How do I mount two usb drives at the same time. Both usb drives have > only one partition. Your question is not quite clear. Do you actually mean it is important for you that both drives would be mounted simultaneously? What difference it would made if you just plug them in one at at a time? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/j0td7s$u5r$1...@dough.gmane.org
Re: help to choose right printer to buy
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 18:17:41 +0200, Siard wrote: > You can see that the HL-2270DW, too, works 'perfectly' in Linux: > www.openprinting.org/printer/Brother/Brother-HL-2270DW Yes, I've seen this as I already said in one of my posts. It's not clear from that information what distro and what version of it. Things change. The driver provided by Brother from the other hand is one year old. > AFAICS, its ppd is not (yet) contained in Debian by default, but you can > download it from the above page and install it equally easy using the > Cups interface ( http://localhost:631/ ). Well, I do not know if you tried to download it using that link. I've been trying for 2 days know with one result:"Server Error", and no download. And as you said ppd file for this specific printer is not in .deb package. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/j0pe8f$6go$1...@dough.gmane.org
Re: help to choose right printer to buy
On Tue, 26 Jul 2011 17:13:34 -0400, Michael Checca wrote: > Again, Brother support is horrible. I wouldn't expect them to be > engineers, but to at least have heard of Linux and know that is a kernel > not an OS :) After I made a post, I phoned Samsung support, just out of curiosity. As normal, I faced up a girl from the 1st line support. Yes, she was not an engineer. But she firmly new what Linux is, she was well aware of the existence of different distributions, their versions, and the difference between 32/64 bit environments. She even was able to locate for me another printer that officially states Debian 6.01 supported. Though it was in no use for me. The difference between Brother and Samsung customer support was impressive even on this level. I might be wrong, but after such experience I would expect to find the same difference on the upper as well. Shame on Brother. I guess this takes their puppy out of my list. Not that I really needed their support (except drivers) or counted on it. But I get suspicious about quality of the printer itself now. This is how it works. :-) > I've had an HP LaserJet p1102w for almost two years now. I've used it > with Lenny, then Squeeze, and now Wheezy with no problems. Even the > wireless printing works. No duplexing, unless you count manual :) IMHO, > HP has the best support for Linux when it comes to printers > (http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/index.html) I currently have All-in-One HP OfficeJet 6310. It is my first HP printer and probably the last one. I do not like neither the company nor their printers. They capitalize on their former reputation for quality. But the reality is, their printers today are flimsy, of low specs, and over priced, as well as over priced is their supply line. Lately HP seems to be mostly concerned of how to prevent their customers to use third party supplies. In this they did achieve real heights. I mostly agree that support for Linux is probably the best due to efforts of HPLIP project folks (or it is just one guy?). The driver is very good. I print, scan, and fax without any problem. And it has quite nice GUI interface too. Except one thing - manual duplex. The way it makes it is still incomprehensible for me. It's not enough that I have to turn manually the entire stack in a certain direction, but at the first print out it turns each even page in the direction opposite to each odd page. Thus I have first to go through the entire stack and turn evens and odds at one direction and only after this I turn the entire stack as suggested. Boy, I'm even having hard time to describe it now. I reported it as a bug and never since heard from them, as well as never since I tried to use manual duplex with my printer. Thanks for your suggestions. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/j0nmup$uck$1...@dough.gmane.org
