Re: running Linux without display
Le 03/04/2016 07:45, Stefan Monnier a écrit : screen reader does not start and I don't get to login prompt yet. I still have no idea what you're trying to do. IIUC you have a machine without a display, yet you want to run a screen reader. What have you done that would make you hope you'd get a screen reader and/or a login prompt? Stefan IMHO, the "without display" should read "without monitor connected". I was not clear for me neither at the beginning :-) a screen reader reads memory, not actual display, so it should work. Of course, debugging should be easier with a monitor connected and some people in front able to see it :-) jdd
Re: running Linux without display
Le 01/04/2016 17:14, Jude DaShiell a écrit : Have you tried installing using orca and when finished how far did you get when you booted into your newly installed system for the first time? I usually make a minimal install and then install only what is necessary, most often xfce. It's often very difficult to completely avoid any X, and X forwarding is convenient jdd
Re: running Linux without display
Le 01/04/2016 16:52, Jude DaShiell a écrit : Wrong. Kalilinux Fedora sonargnulinux vinux and ubuntu I can install most linux distros on my headless online server, so I'm sure no monitor is necessary, I can't have any jdd
Re: running Linux without display
Le 01/04/2016 16:09, Jude DaShiell a écrit : What g.u.i. app or apps prevent graphical user interface Linux from running if no display can be plugged into the computer? -- none? jdd
Re: Changing Boot Order
Le 26/03/2016 17:11, Alan McConnell a écrit : Press to run BIOS setup, or to run boot menu (finish) And there you have it. The last line of the excerpt is exacly the text that appears on my screen. But pressing the Delete key does not have any effect. My complaint in a nutshell. a system I used often with success is to slip my hand on the keyboard during boot, to trigger a keyboard error, this very often send you to the Firmware (BIOS or UEFI). Same on function keys, just in case the manual is wrong. at least it should beep. If not may be the keyboard is broken jdd
Re: Changing Boot Order
Le 25/03/2016 23:52, Michael Fothergill a écrit : Try this: http://www.easyuefi.com/index-us.html It says it can be installed on linux machines. don't think so. It's a windows app that can also manage linux uefi entries on nvram (not tested with wine?) jdd
Re: Does anyone know how to configure a Brother MFC-J5720DW with cups?
Le 18/03/2016 13:55, Jarle Aase a écrit : Actually, I need scanning more frequently than I need printing. The scanner works perfectly without any proprietary software on my PC. I have still not printed anything. scanner are for free nowaday (second hand), I even have an unused one :-) jdd
Re: Password protecting grub
Le 16/03/2016 13:16, Himanshu Shekhar a écrit : On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 5:39 PM, jdd mailto:j...@dodin.org>> wrote: Le 16/03/2016 12:37, Himanshu Shekhar a écrit : " set superusers="root" password root rootpassword if it's a bash command, it should be "passwd", not "password" jdd Tried! Didn't work. Regards well... it may be simply a variable for grub. I never used it. I guess you read this page or some similar: http://superuser.com/questions/488275/grub-2-password-protection-in-debian may be insert "echo message" lines to see where is the problem exactly? sorry to can't be of better help :-) jdd
Re: Troubleshooting Support Reg
Le 17/03/2016 05:55, Mohammed Aathif.C a écrit : Hi Support Team, Hello, this is not a support team (Debian being free software, there is nothing like an official support team :-( We are simple users that try to help others If it's not the right one please redirect me to the right path to get me the right solution. we can try (but there are many other groups that do the same) Actually my issue is, My Debian(V5) is not booting to desktop. Its rebooting when I choose Debian OS in Boot Manu. Please let know the troubleshooting steps without any loss of my data in my machine, I have so many most important data's. If you have debian in boot menu, it's that you have a boot menu, so two cases: * it's the debian menu - is there the debian logo somewhere? and then you only to have to choose the default boot, but I don't think it's the case because normally Debian make himself the default * you have to press a key to access the computer boot menu, and it's certainly a recent computer with UEFI. If so in the same menu (or an other got with some other key), you can have access tio the UEFI firmware. There you have a setup of the boot order. Every make have it's own UEFI display, so I can't help you more Some UEFI computers do not have the set boot order menu, but if you can start debian, you can do it from within debian, but it's not very easy (command line) from Windows 10 you can change this order with an utility you have to install, called "easyefi" (no need to take the paying version) jdd
Re: Password protecting grub
Le 16/03/2016 12:37, Himanshu Shekhar a écrit : " set superusers="root" password root rootpassword if it's a bash command, it should be "passwd", not "password" jdd
Re: Password protecting grub
Le 16/03/2016 17:21, Himanshu Shekhar a écrit : That's why I want to have GRUB password. Please tell some other way, you know or you have tried. such thing is only useful to prevent (young) child or random people to make inadvertent damage, because any real attacker can defeat such pass in a snap. BIOS pass have all backdoors one can find on the net. the only effective way to protect your computer is encrypting the partitions jdd
Re: blu ray burning with samsung se506cb in debian jessie
Le 15/03/2016 19:49, Dominique Dumont a écrit : On Tuesday 15 March 2016 08:39:21 Thomas Schmitt wrote: What are the negative symptoms if you do not use this option ? It's been a while and I don't remember the exact symptoms. I've often noted that the disk writing end with an error, but it was simply the fix that was not done, using cdrecord --fix solved the problem. but of course I only have *one* BD writer, a little short an experience :-( jdd
Re: Does anyone know how to configure a Brother MFC-J5720DW with cups?
Le 15/03/2016 16:01, David Wright a écrit : You write "Is Airprint free?". Is this a real question or a pointed remark designed to create more discussion? I can't tell. Why don't you just look it up? You write "not from me, but from others, may be." Perhaps you might google the following phrase. That's what I think. I got the impression than you don't want to use the brother driver because it's not free. If it's not that, I'm sorry. if It's that, I think that a driver is just an extension of the hardware, so why use a non free hardware an don't use the same non free driver. this don't mean working on a free solution is not interesting, but replacing a non free solution by a non free other solution is not very funny. We all work constantly with non free solutions, including RMS, whatever he says... the more the better, but where to stop? jdd https://libreboot.org/ http://www.openfirmware.info/Welcome_to_OpenBIOS (and so on...)
Re: blu ray burning with samsung se506cb in debian jessie
Le 15/03/2016 10:43, Jan Gregor a écrit : Did you experienced same also on other OS or you can write reliably at higher speed outside linux ? the standard cdrecord I use (but not on debian) checks the speed and low it if necessary - I use usb blu-ray writer for 5 years now jdd
Re: blu ray burning with samsung se506cb in debian jessie
Le 15/03/2016 08:25, Dominique Dumont a écrit : This option is the only way for me to burn reliably with my old BR drive (~ 5 years) you may also try the original cdrecord by joerg (http://cdrtools.sourceforge.net/private/cdrecord.html) which is *much* faster on BD write, but I don't know how to install it on debian jdd
Re: Does anyone know how to configure a Brother MFC-J5720DW with cups?
Le 15/03/2016 03:30, David Wright a écrit : On Mon 14 Mar 2016 at 22:43:04 (+0100), jdd wrote: so we already use an apple thing, why not two? Writing "why not" implies disapproval. not from me, but from others, may be. Else why not use simply the Brother driver? Is Airprint free? and secure? freedom is very difficult to define when you get close to the hardware. After all, every BIOS/UEFI is closed source as far as I know, and the open source bios project is not very active... jdd
Re: Does anyone know how to configure a Brother MFC-J5720DW with cups?
Le 14/03/2016 21:14, Brian a écrit : On Mon 14 Mar 2016 at 21:00:01 +0100, jdd wrote: Le 14/03/2016 20:31, Brian a écrit : notice that cups is apple, AFAIK So what? so we already use an apple thing, why not two? jdd
Re: Does anyone know how to configure a Brother MFC-J5720DW with cups?
Le 14/03/2016 20:31, Brian a écrit : You print and an hour later the contract is signed. very clever I do not know what your point is. nowhere, I simply didn't know about airprint befor reading this thread notice that cups is apple, AFAIK jdd
Re: Does anyone know how to configure a Brother MFC-J5720DW with cups?
Le 14/03/2016 14:10, David Wright a écrit : "AirPrint is built into most popular printer models, like the ones listed in this article." which includes MFC-J5720DW in the list. Both from https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT201311 may be popular in mac world, I never touched a printer with this :-( jdd
Re: Does anyone know how to configure a Brother MFC-J5720DW with cups?
Le 14/03/2016 04:48, David Wright a écrit : Why bother? The AirPrint technology built into the MFC-J5720DW printer can do that. Why can't CUPS send PDF down the wire to the printer, thereby avoiding all the driver-crap? You've just said "The AirPrint facility handles a PDF" (requoted above). Why not let it do so? my guess is that airprint is a black box between the "air" (what ever it means) and the printer, like an ethernet card can be. If you send ethernet signal through usb, the printer wont understand it. If it's so, the printer only understand pdf if used with airprint. the other solution is having in the printer a linux box (invisible to user) having an airprint interface, an usb interface, etc, and then the usb may also understand pdf. jdd
Re: Does anyone know how to configure a Brother MFC-J5720DW with cups?
Le 13/03/2016 20:40, Brian a écrit : *Direct* PDF printing is usually indicated in the printer's literature. nothing is never sure. When it's so easy to try why don't? this airprint feature is surprising In what way? if it don't support pdf... but may be there is a pdf translator in the airprint device included in the printer jdd
Re: Does anyone know how to configure a Brother MFC-J5720DW with cups?
Le 13/03/2016 20:12, David Wright a écrit : As I said, you're in a different price bracket. Guessing by what I've seen, it's partly because PDF printing tends to come with lasers and ethernet, ie for office documents, not home photographs. but did you really try to send a pdf to your printer? only need to remove most of the paper to prevent loss if it don't fit :-) this airprint feature is surprising jdd
Re: Does anyone know how to configure a Brother MFC-J5720DW with cups?
Le 13/03/2016 05:34, David Wright a écrit : Well, let's assume that most people buy their equipment rather than being given it for free. I also bought one for $25 (the two of them had already 200.000 copies done :-) - but it's an obsolete machine now of course it was trash bin machines, most companies do not keep machines for more than 5-7 years and you can have them second hand; but looks like french second hand is much cheaper than us ones. but it was only an example I can see a refurbished one on the web for $340 (if that's the right model) which is far more than a new AiO. much too expensive I found at first glance: http://www.inmac-wstore.com/produits/p2622357/HP-LaserJet-Pro-400-M401d---imprimante---monochrome---laser.htm I sure one can find some cheaper but I didn't said you have to change your Brother printer. I use daily Brother printers and I'm very glad about them here the list of ps linux compatibles brother printers http://www.openprinting.org/driver/Postscript-Brother/ jdd
Re: Does anyone know how to configure a Brother MFC-J5720DW with cups?
Le 12/03/2016 13:22, Brian a écrit : on the printer. AirPrint uses exactly the same printer as CUPS but the conversion done by brother_lpdwrapper_mfcj5720dw has to be on the printer in firmware. Then the RIP takes over. The RIP is not converting PDF to raster format. There is no PDF interpreter for AirPrint to use. I was understanding than one have to send pdf to airprint, but this article is all what I know of it jdd
Re: Does anyone know how to configure a Brother MFC-J5720DW with cups?
Le 12/03/2016 10:56, Brian a écrit : The PDL of choice for AirPrint capable devices is PDF. A PDF document The important word is "direct". The MFC-J5720DW doesn't have a PDF interpreter. Hence the silence. it have one for airprint, but may be this one is only available for aiprint, not for usb (ridiculous, I know, but we see such thing often) http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Features/AirPrint any printer (any hardware?) needs software to make something, be it on rom (eprom or flash memory) or driver (the infamous "windows printers"). What the more near to freedom?? no idea. jdd
Re: Does anyone know how to configure a Brother MFC-J5720DW with cups?
Le 12/03/2016 08:50, to...@tuxteam.de a écrit : So. Now I'll bite off my tongue and take my ball with me. I'm off this thread. I can't bear the overall animosity and poking of fun at those who try to put some effort into avoiding binary blobs. no, not for me. there are two parts: having a hardware that just works, and for this Brother is better than many other makes, and getting free of privative software, which is better but harder. By the way it's a bit of a dead way: even RMS do not ask for free BIOS... when he could (there is work on the subject). I remember the time where every printer was sold with a manual stating what codes was giving what. So working toward a free driver is a good idea, but this have to be done with knowledgeable people, probably (no offense!) not to be found here but in gutenprint mailing list http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ they list some brother mfc printers, so may be yours is not so far from support, if you help Brother MFC-6550MC brother-mfc-6550mc Brother-MFC-6550MC Brother MFC-8300brother-mfc-8300Brother-MFC-8300 Brother MFC-9500brother-mfc-9500Brother-MFC-9500 Brother MFC-9600brother-mfc-9600Brother-MFC-9600 (on the printer list, the names are not by alphabetic order) ask them (and report here, please :-) thanks jdd
Re: Does anyone know how to configure a Brother MFC-J5720DW with cups?
Le 11/03/2016 21:28, David Wright a écrit : You must live in a different price bracket from me. nope. I had at least two HP5M for free ten years ago... they died recently. There are ps compatible printer for cheap for years now. for pdf, I only have seen this on news papers, but the subject computer being airprint compatible must have some inside device, and it's not cheap. I spoke of gutenprint because I have a Canon photo thermal printer that prints jpeg from cards, but not from computer (!), so need a driver. It was not at this time available on linux, but gutenprint mailing list user asked me to make some tests and could with this give me a solution. the people there knows incredibly well the printers :-) and, by the way, if we use proprietary hardware, and proprietary BIOS/UEFI, why not proprietary drivers... jdd
Re: Does anyone know how to configure a Brother MFC-J5720DW with cups?
Le 11/03/2016 19:39, David Wright a écrit : It would seem odd to support PDF printing and be silent on the matter in the printer's literature, eg www.printerbase.co.uk/spec/pdf/brother-mfcj5720dw.pdf says Supporting: JPEG, BMP, PDF, TIFF, PNG I read "PDF". It seems than most printers now support natively pdf to be able to print from card (without any interface) when they where supporting ps before. but there are so many versions... anyway if one wants to have full support, better write on the gutenprint mailing list, where people do really know what a printer is (much better than me) jdd
Re: Does anyone know how to configure a Brother MFC-J5720DW with cups?
Le 11/03/2016 14:00, Brian a écrit : 2. You are very uneasy about having a proprietary driver for printing on your machine, so are seeking a way not to use it and have only standard Debian/Linux drivers. this printer seems to be recent and flexible. Chance is he may be a pdf printer. Did you try to send him a pdf without any filter? or try printing a pdf from a ssd card? sorry if it was already proposed, I couldn't read all the thread jdd
Re: Manipulating pdf pages
Le 10/03/2016 15:03, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI a écrit : I have the .pdf scan of an old book, with some pages leaning at an angle. Is there in Debian a program that would let me rectify the offending pages one by one, but, avoiding the hassle of turning the .pdf in individual .jpg, modifying the jpg and turning back into .pdf ? Cheers, Ron. imagemagic can probably do this jdd
Re: which files took the space
Le 04/03/2016 08:38, to...@tuxteam.de a écrit : If memory serves, long, long time ago, "mount" (the system call) refused to comply unless the directory was empty (kernel 2.6.mumble; so long ago. Expect bit flips and glitches in my wetware, yadda). if it existed, it's much older than that, never seen it since 1997... man mount: This tells the kernel to attach the filesystem found on device (which is of type type) at the directory dir. The previous contents (if any) and owner and mode of dir become invisible, and as long as this filesystem remains mounted, the pathname dir refers to the root of the filesystem on device." jdd
Re: which files took the space
Le 04/03/2016 08:11, Frédéric Marchal a écrit : It can happen with /boot or /home. Mistakenly copying files to an unmounted drive copies the files to the underlying file system, in the directory that usually serves as the mount point for the external file system. Once /boot or /home is mounted, you don't see the files but they are still taking space on the disk. I have recently seen such thing happening, due to faulty script expecting a usb mounted disk that was not always there. A rsync in such situation can fill a disk jdd
Re: which files took the space
Le 03/03/2016 17:03, Andrew McGlashan a écrit : On 3/03/2016 1:51 PM, lina wrote: I figured out, there are so many hidden files. It also may have been files in the file system, but where another file system mount hides them A. or file in use deleted but not released... like virtual machines or mounted isos... jdd
Re: XFS on root
Le 02/03/2016 03:10, Richard Hector a écrit : I think that's two different things. The "cannot install grub into an XFS partition" quote is about where grub lives - normally in the MBR, but possibly in a partition (but not if it's XFS). is this still important with UEFI? Binary grub.efi is now in his own partition, isn't it? jdd
Re: Using an SSD with strictatime mount option
Le 29/02/2016 11:52, Pascal Hambourg a écrit : Disclaimer : I do not use mutt nor any SSD yet. Is this setting going to wear out my SSD? Yes, faster that relatime because of the extra writes. yes, but how long do you plan to keep your ssd? price drop so fast I buy a new one at most each year :-) (480Gb for now) jdd
Re: how to encode in mp4
Le 27/02/2016 02:56, Li Wei a écrit : I have a TV card and can watch TV with xawtv it use bttv driver, the sound comes from linein of sound card My ? is how to encode TV programs in mp4 so it can be played on cell phones? Thanks!!! if you have any video file as source: http://dodin.info/wiki/pmwiki.php?n=Photo.VideoEditingWorkflow#toc15 jdd
Re: Warning Linux Mint Website Hacked and ISOs replaced with Backdoored Operating System
Le 23/02/2016 12:02, Thomas Schmitt a écrit : Most important seems a permanent supervision of the web site content from not publicly known client machines. if I followed right this, there was a redirect to an external site. How can this be possible? html links is the first thing spam uses jdd
Re: rotating screen in debian tablet
Le 21/02/2016 19:49, Sven Arvidsson a écrit : I also suggest that you document your efforts on getting Debian to run here: https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/ Both the stuff that works, and the stuff that doesn't. I will, after having investigated a bit more :-) I was worried to notice the bug is still there when booting as multi-user, that is with no X, and this was confirmed this morning, there are no X recent logs. so I looked at the kernel logs and noticed a crash: http://dodin.org/owncloud/index.php/s/PzRjuxtZHKbMwzK that seems to be a known issue, with some fixes, but I do not really understand what I have to do to apply the fixes :-( https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1492632 https://bugs.launchpad.net/mesa/+bug/1274315 any way to do this on the grub kernel command line? https://wiki.debian.org/KernelModesetting#Intel_GfxCards thanks jdd
Re: rotating screen in debian tablet
forgot to say I can connect to the tablet with ssh, so I can see the logs, but with no clue (for me) jdd
Re: rotating screen in debian tablet
Le 21/02/2016 18:37, Sven Arvidsson a écrit : Can you double check that you're really running the Xorg intel driver and isn't getting fbdev or something similar? don't know, because it do not start with the default grub config. I have to add nomodeset or i915.modeset=0 to have a display, including console with fbcon=rotate:1 in the grub linux line, I have finally a *terminal only* landscape oriented screen (with target multi-users in systemd). BUT the boot menu is still portrait if I run startxfce4, it comes with portrait orientation. jdd
rotating screen in debian tablet
Hello, I try to install debian jessie on a windows 10 It Works TW891 tablet (with attached keyboard) using the hybrid 32/64 bits dvd, I could install jessie with xfce. But... it's installed in portrait mode (the screen need to be seen with the longer size vertical), when the keyboard expect a lanscape mode, so it's really unfriendly :-). I could make the *initial terminal* (text mode), to display in the right position, adding to the grub2 kernel line: vga=791 fbcon=rotate:1 video=efifb nomodeset may be one of these options is not right, but I couldn't test all. not the question here, probably. but as soon as X takes over, the screen fallback to portrait. xfce panel do not have any option other than "normal" for orientation. video is intel vga (no other detail) xrandr --output default --rotate left fails with "cannot use rotation left" I could add a mode 1280x800 following http://dodin.info/wiki/pmwiki.php?n=Doc.AddXResolution but with "configure crtc 0 failed" any hint? thanks jdd
rtl8723BS
Hello, do you know what is the present status of this wireless chip for Jessie (not seen at install time) thanks jdd
Re: changing partition names
Why would you want to renumber the partition ? It provides absolutely no benefit and can break things such as the bootloader which may seek data on partitions identified by their numbers. it can get a situation where the partitions are not in the number orde, and some fdisks complain about that, what may make some people feel uncomfortable, but I now of no case where it matters really. here numbers are only name, no more jdd
Re: changing partition names
Le 15/02/2016 17:51, Frank McCormick a écrit : I already use UUIDS. be warned, if you use the partition table edit solution, uuid changes each time you touch a partition. The better way may be to use labels, but I don't know if they survive partition change, probably not. No neither can handle what I need...but apparently sfdisk can. pretty easy to do by hand, but booting may begin hard O wrote this mong time ago :-) http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Partition-Rescue/ look at it as it seems to make life more simple. may be usefull, but more simple certainly not, let only for the dev names :-) jdd
Re: recommendation for software to make mp4 from a few stils (+ audio track)
Le 15/02/2016 05:27, Dan Hitt a écrit : Could anybody please recommend a piece of free software that can take a few still images together with an audio track and make an mp4 with them? (So i guess it is conceptually something that could produce a timed slide show, but of course if it offered effects for transition from one image to the next that would be better.) Command line or gui would be fine, but i would like something whose sources were available so that if necessary i could tune it. Thanks in advance for any clues. dan there are tons of programs to do so, beginning with probably any video linear editor, for example kdenlive search for "slideshow" jdd
Re: Good keyboard
Le 13/02/2016 18:08, Glenn Holmer a écrit : On 02/13/2016 12:47 AM, Patrick Bartek wrote: When my last keyboard started failing, I replaced it with http://www.kinesis-ergo.com/shop/advantage-for-pc-mac/ Worth every penny. wow... needs some learning, so Dvorak probably better :-) jdd
Re: [computers] bad sectors on disk
Le 12/02/2016 05:12, David Wright a écrit : I can't see any point in running badblocks and not putting any bad blocks that it finds into the badblock inode. So running inode is related to filesystem, so any repartitioning needs to re-run badblocks and can be as long as one day. I often noticed than badblocks are not a number and grouped. It's then possible to isolate them in a special partition small and never used - I use these disks only for experiment jdd
Re: replacement for old /etc/mtab that lists only real filesystems like ext4 or fat
Le 11/02/2016 22:47, Martin Read a écrit : mount -t ext4,fat,btrfs (no spaces in the list, and no paths or anything) works nicely. but list all the btrfs subvolumes :-( jdd
Re: disk space disappeared
Le 11/02/2016 00:17, Gary Dale a écrit : I have a Jessie/64 server that seems to have lost a lot of disk space. It boots from a 55G SSD (mounted as /) what file system? ext4, BTRFS? with a RAID6 array for /home. on a differet disk, I guess df shows that the SSD is full but I can't find out where the space has gone. look at hidden files? core dump? how many ram? in /tmp? is /tmp cleared? jdd
Re: Using vlc to Transcode mpeg2 File to mp4
Le 10/02/2016 14:32, Martin McCormick a écrit : Unless something totally unexpected happens, handbreakcli will be the tool of choice. this script is the one I use, and it's able to produce html5/mp4 good quality video, readable approximately with every browser (not always with firefox) #!/bin/bash # echo usage: movtomp4-html5.sh *.MOV mkdir html5 for a ; do b=`echo "$a" | cut -d'.' -f1` ; #(on only one line:) HandBrakeCLI -i "$a" -t 1 --angle 1 -c 1 -o "html5/$b.mp4" -f mp4 -O -w 960 --crop 0:0:0:0 --loose-anamorphic --modulus 2 -e x264 -q 22 -r 30 --pfr -a 1 -E av_aac -6 dpl2 -R Auto -B 160 -D 0 --gain 0 --audio-fallback ac3 --encoder-level="3.1" --encoder-profile=high --verbose=1 done exit
Re: Using vlc to Transcode mpeg2 File to mp4
Le 09/02/2016 23:34, Martin McCormick a écrit : I have been pounding my head against this wall for a couple of days. I tried to answer from my android phone, but I don't see my message, forgive me if this is a duplicate (I'm now at home) the best mp4 converter is handbrake and it have GUI and CLI jdd
Re: bad sectors on disk
Le 09/02/2016 11:54, Ritesh Raj Sarraf a écrit : I am hoping the fsck results are reliable. I only tried the "-c" read- only option. The other was with "-cc" which would also perform a read/write test. try http://dodin.info/wiki/pmwiki.php?n=Doc.TesterUnDisqueDur it's in french, but the command lines are pretty clear jdd
Re: Debian Home Server
Le 31/01/2016 11:16, heqamilus a écrit : Could you suggest some package to build a simple and powerful media server? any linux can be set to share multimedia http://www.dlna.org/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_theater_PC most NAS do this natively jdd
Re: Failure of evince to open a PDF.
Le 30/01/2016 22:26, pe...@easthope.ca a écrit : Updated a jessie system this morning. Then tried evince. evince afile.pdf A window entitled "Document Viewer" with this notice popped open. "Unable to open document "file:///home/peter/afile.pdf". File type HTML document (text/html) is not supported OK, but the command is not to open an HTML. It is "evince afile.pdf". Does anyone have an explanation or solution? Thanks, ... Peter E. may be an html document embeded in the pdf? or an html page with the wrong extension? jdd
Re: Alternatives to gftp in Jessie
Le 30/01/2016 13:53, Markos a écrit : Does anyone have any tip about an FTP client, with GUI, equivalent to gftp? in Kde, I simply use Dolphin jdd
Re: Debian
Le 29/01/2016 00:05, Brad Rogers a écrit : On Thu, 28 Jan 2016 23:32:58 +0100 jdd wrote: Hello jdd, Le 28/01/2016 19:55, Brad Rogers a écrit : Yes, there are (theoretical) security issues, it's not the problem, be each time one have to trick the bios, it makes Turning off secure boot doesn't count as a trick, surely? it does as there is no UEFI standard to find how and it's no even always possible. if I correctly understood, this is a one time only small fee for the brand (not for each install) Good point; I'd forgotten that. Even so, it does rather depend on what counts as a "small" fee. For example, what's small to Apple & Microsoft may well be a month's (or more) income to a person. one people that don't want to change, dual boot are extremely common. I'm sure they are, but it's not an issue I care about. I do as I very often do that on install parties jdd
Re: Debian
Le 28/01/2016 19:55, Brad Rogers a écrit : On Thu, 28 Jan 2016 19:20:19 +0100 jdd wrote: Hello jdd, too bad if real. Yes, there are (theoretical) security issues, it's not the problem, be each time one have to trick the bios, it makes things harder. I've seen there may be some free software foundation signed utility but IRL, it isn't going to affect non-Windows machines until/unless they get a larger market share. In any case, the way licensing is done would you want to pay to install a free OS? It's anathema to me. if I correctly understood, this is a one time only small fee for the brand (not for each install) if so verify after turning it off than windows still boot Don't know, don't care; I've never owned a Windows machine. I have no reason to start now. I install Linux on around one machine a week, machine I don't own for people that want linux. In a family it's very common to have at least one people that don't want to change, dual boot are extremely common. jdd
Re: Debian
Le 28/01/2016 19:15, Brad Rogers a écrit : On Thu, 28 Jan 2016 18:57:00 +0100 jdd wrote: Hello jdd, AFAIK, the debian dvd is uefi/gpt/secure boot capable. UEFI/GPT, yes. Secure boot has to be turned off, according to the web page David cited; https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch03s06.html.en#UEFI too bad if real. if so verify after turning it off than windows still boot thanks jdd
Re: Debian
Le 28/01/2016 18:44, David Christensen a écrit : On 01/28/2016 09:41 AM, David Christensen wrote: If and when you're ready to install Debian, Windows 8 64-bit implies that the computer has UEFI firmware and Secure Boot. So, you will have to figure out how to turn off Secure Boot and enable the BIOS Compatibility Support Module (CSM): If you want to install to the HDD (or an SSD). I fail to see what is the purpose of such secure boot fear. AFAIK, the debian dvd is uefi/gpt/secure boot capable. any install is pretty easy if and only if: * there is room on the disk. Either a free partition (some time d: on windows - empty it then delete it) of a partition you can shrink *with windows* as a first step - Just in case you want to keep windows as dual boot, if not do whatever you want. Debian will use this free space. 20Gb is enough, 50Gb plenty. * the install dvd boots your computer and accept to install. It's only if the dvd do not boot or refuse to install that one have to try other options. jdd
Re: Is anybody Running Debian on Acer Aspire E5-571G
Le 23/01/2016 11:13, Jonas Hedman a écrit : The DVDs contain free software only. I apologize in advance for my ignorance but is this really true regarding the Linux kernel? (blobs?) as far as I know, this is Debian specific (not only Debian, but other Debian alike may no have the same), and often seen as a drawback, when it's a great advantage; if one take all into account jdd
Re: Books Inquiry
Le 22/01/2016 10:24, Adam Wilson a écrit : multi-arch ISO- it just has the installer packages for both i386 and amd64 on one disc, so it is misleading to say it 'works on both'. Rather, it has packages for either. yes. Try the 64 bits, it will say if it can't install... and you can use the 32 bits. and this is the only dvd that boots anywhere, specially in some brand new netbook that have 64 bits processor but 32 bits bios/uefi (and 32 bits Windows). jdd
Re: Libre graphics could become the standard if we push right now
Le 22/01/2016 17:34, Alberto Salvia Novella a écrit : libre hardware. that's far from new https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_hardware http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-hardware-designs.en.html I remember efforts done to have free cpu, but I don't think significant result have been achieved I guess the better step is http://www.excamera.com/files/j1.pdf but I couldn't find the license for this work jdd
Re: Books Inquiry
Le 21/01/2016 21:02, Brian a écrit : On Thu 21 Jan 2016 at 16:41:19 +0100, jdd wrote: Le 21/01/2016 03:53, Adam Wilson a écrit : OP is using an x86 32-bit computer- so i386 it would be, then. ordinary debian dvd is hybrid, 32 bits and 64 bits as well May we have a link for this "ordinary" DVD? I already posted it, because it's not as easy to find as it shoud the page http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/multi-arch/iso-dvd/ the iso: http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/multi-arch/iso-dvd/debian-8.2.0-i386-amd64-source-DVD-1.iso extremely useful jdd
Re: Books Inquiry
Le 21/01/2016 03:53, Adam Wilson a écrit : OP is using an x86 32-bit computer- so i386 it would be, then. ordinary debian dvd is hybrid, 32 bits and 64 bits as well jdd
Re: Fw: Books Inquiry
Le 20/01/2016 19:43, mohammad Harun a écrit : It's hard to know how to download Debian ? though I tried many links on your download page but still don't know what to download & how to download. the simple way is to use the forst dvd http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/8.2.0/amd64/iso-dvd/debian-8.2.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso that allows both 32 bits and 64 bits installs I am using Pentium 4 CPU 3.2GHz and 3 GB of Ram & 32 bit computer. I run both Window xp & Windows 7 on it & have 80 GB hard disk drive. 80 gb is not large, but you need not more than 10Gb for debian (at first). Better begin to make room on the disk with windows 7 (make any partition smaller with the disk manager, and let some free space on the disk (10Gb recommended), Debian installer will find it) just be cautious when debian ask you to partition the disk not to erase any windows partition you can also if you have a fast internet use the small image here: http://netboot.xyz/#bootloader-downloads you can even write them to a floppy and boot from there then choose debian be aware that isos have to be written specially to any disk, dvd or usb device (for usb, use "rufus" on widows) jdd
Re: Loss of lan after memory upgrade
Le 14/01/2016 17:23, Gary L. Roach a écrit : On reboot, my router connection light is lit until the bios is finished and the OS starts to load. At this point the light goes out. what kind of router? ethernet link to the computer - usb or plugged card in a slot? may be you moved the card when working on the memory. try reinserting all cards jdd
Re: Using bind mount
Le 12/01/2016 22:12, Daniel Bareiro a écrit : mount --bind /mnt/nas/doc /home/steve/doc That works for you? I use such syntax failry often jdd
Re: FDisk Help
Le 08/01/2016 14:54, Chris Bannister a écrit : On Thu, Jan 07, 2016 at 04:53:34PM +0100, jdd wrote: fdisk -l gives all the necessary info example: Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type /dev/sdc1 * 2048 62910463 6290841630G 83 Linux /dev/sdc262910464 937701375 874790912 417,1G f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/sdc562912512 125820927 6290841630G 83 Linux /dev/sdc6 125822976 142591999 16769024 8G 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sdc7 142594048 937701375 795107328 379,1G 83 Linux (but all I have at hand is an openSUSE, the debian version may be different) LOL, you do realise this is a list for Debian users, right? and? I also have Debian on some computers and there are several fdisk on the air jdd
Re: FDisk Help
Le 07/01/2016 16:43, David Christensen a écrit : 'lsblk' can tell you the relationship between kernel names (e.g. sda, sda1, etc.) and mount points: $ lsblk not always. I just tested: lsblk only flag as swap the active swap partition fdisk -l gives all the necessary info example: Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type /dev/sdc1 * 2048 62910463 6290841630G 83 Linux /dev/sdc262910464 937701375 874790912 417,1G f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/sdc562912512 125820927 6290841630G 83 Linux /dev/sdc6 125822976 142591999 16769024 8G 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sdc7 142594048 937701375 795107328 379,1G 83 Linux (but all I have at hand is an openSUSE, the debian version may be different) jdd
Re: FDisk Help
Le 07/01/2016 08:08, Steve Matzura a écrit : I actually tried answering my own questions by looking at an other running system to see how this is done, but the system is a different df is not the right tool to lokk at partitions, simply use "sudo fdisk -l" jdd
Re: Installing Debian os
Le 06/01/2016 20:36, Johnny Pierce a écrit : Hi My computer has Windows 10 OS on it. Can I install Debian OS on my computer too? Thank You, Johnny of course more or less complicated depending of the situation :-) jdd
Re: sexist content in the package openclipart2-png
Le 06/01/2016 16:44, Charlie Kravetz a écrit : Even if a doctor states 90% of obese people are that way due to an unhealthy lifestyle, how do you, as an observer, determine who is in that other 10%. There is no way to make that determination without their health records. That is the truth. and no reason to ask about that in the first place... jdd
Re: sexist content in the package openclipart2-png
Le 06/01/2016 13:00, Martin Read a écrit : To me, the OP doesn't seem to be asking for an "accommodation" at all, but rather for the images to be removed and similar material excluded from Debian in future. sexism - like describing women as men's toys should be prohibited (apart for historical work), and images may be such. I didn't find the time to scan the opencliparts collection, but I very easily see what can be a problem. Debian code of conduct (https://www.debian.org/code_of_conduct) do not speak of this aspect of the problem. Fosdem one (https://fosdem.org/2016/practical/conduct/) is a bit more comprehensive, but not much That said I see more and more in large meetings people asking against sexism that still shows in some diapos. I also remember of discussions asking why there are so few women around, when they are more present in IT world... it's mostly a matter of respect: do not blame somebody for his gender, religion or color (or anything else like fatness or dumbness...) jdd
Re: How to restore grub in UEFI mode
Le 05/01/2016 20:40, real bas a écrit : error: /boot/efi doesn't look like an EFI partition is it fat32? jdd
Re: Prevent shutdown with systemctl
Le 04/01/2016 20:03, jdd a écrit : (but not only, see shutdown man page) in kde control center, under login, there is a tab for shutdown jdd
Re: Prevent shutdown with systemctl
Is it possible that only root can shutdown/ reboot the computer if multiple users are logged in and when there is only one user that user is able to shutdown the computer? time ago, the question was asked at each install. There is certainly an option "who can shut down the computer", but do not forget to hide switches... here: https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/ch4.en.html see 4.8 Restricting system reboots through the console mostly: If you want to restrict this, you must check the /etc/inittab so that the line that includes ctrlaltdel calls shutdown with the -a switch. (but not only, see shutdown man page) jdd
Re: File Management, How to List All
system data so it may be used programmatically. I like doing this is a spreadsheet as I can sort and filter, drag and copy, drag and iterate, and programmatically build large scripts. I dont understand what does "drag and copy, d did you try LibreOffice? jdd
Re: Need help with disk config.
Le 31/12/2015 01:24, Dennis Wicks a écrit : Greetings; In the next couple of days I will have a much better computer. Not 64bit, but at least faster and with more disk. I had several 64 bits computers for free, stil using 32 bits if not very low end is surprising! It will have 4x1TB SATA drives, 4x250GB IDE/PATA drives and all the memory it can use and a fast AMD socket AM2 processor. drop IDE disks to a demo machine, mixing sata and ide on the same machine is problem prone the rest depends of the use. If you use disk for archiving purpose, use them as you said, with ext4 (btrfs is not yet really user ready). if permanent availability is important (use 24/24, 7/7), build a raid with your 4 disks jdd
Re: debian tablet
Le 30/12/2015 15:35, Andrew M.A. Cater a écrit : It's quite possible that if you find a cheap, Intel Atom based tablet that was running Windows that it will also run Debian but it would be hard to know before buying and trying. too bad :-) thanks jdd
Re: debian tablet
Le 30/12/2015 15:20, Nicolas George a écrit : Le decadi 10 nivôse, an CCXXIV, jdd a écrit : is it reasonable to think than is the tablet runs windows it can run linux? No. (...) Basically, for x86 tablets, we are back to the state of hardware support we had in the early 2000s, with a few differences. ok, thanks for the return jdd
debian tablet
Hello, Do you now of any tablet on the $200 range, around 10" that runs Debian? - or by the way any other Linux. I don't want virtualized linux, the tablets are slow enough from scratch, but a tablet that run linux natively. I've seen some on the net, but in very limited edition. https://jolla.com/tablet/ I would like personal experience if any of your do have one http://www.ubuntu.com/tablet don't seems to be released now is it reasonable to think than is the tablet runs windows it can run linux? (most are a bit expensive but can be found second hand) thanks jdd
Re: Recommendations for a GUI video editing program?
Le 30/12/2015 12:22, to...@tuxteam.de a écrit : What could people here recommend? I guess kdenlive should be avoided :-( then may be dvdcut if it works with your video format jdd
