Acer aspire v5-571p-6815 debian install

2012-11-03 Thread L V Gandhi
I purchased the above laptop with win8 and touchscreen today. When I checked disk management I found that it already have 4 primary partitions; 1)500 mb recovery, 2) 500 mb for EFI 3) 687gb for running win8 and 4) 11.5gb for recovery partition. Though I can install debian in virtual machine, is

acpi support in HP

2012-11-03 Thread james gray
acpi support in HP looking at: #/usr/share/doc/acpi-support/examples/config/Hewlett-Packard.config i do not see the device i am working with. looking at: #usr/share/acpi-support/device-funcs i see that i can enter in individual entries and receive the device info #cat /sys/class/dmi/id/

Re: Apache (was Apace) Redirect Question

2012-11-03 Thread mouss
Le 03/11/2012 13:31, cr...@gtek.biz a écrit : > > [snip] > I know I've entered URL's into my browser's navigation bar and watched them > change to something else, such as entering http://example.com and being > redirected to http://www.example.com, with that URL then populating the > navigation ba

Re: upower history

2012-11-03 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Nov 04, 2012 at 12:52:35AM +0100, Meneth wrote: > Hi! > > On battery-powered devices such as laptops, upowerd stores power > charge and usage statistics in /var/lib/upower/. > > On my old machine, (Ubuntu 10.10, upower 0.9.5), those logs went all > the way back to the time of OS installat

upower history

2012-11-03 Thread Meneth
Hi! On battery-powered devices such as laptops, upowerd stores power charge and usage statistics in /var/lib/upower/. On my old machine, (Ubuntu 10.10, upower 0.9.5), those logs went all the way back to the time of OS installation, and that was good. On my new machine, however, (Xubuntu 12.

Re: Flashplayer on Squeeze (sorry. :-()

2012-11-03 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 03 November 2012 21:43:55 Greg Madden wrote: > On Saturday 03 November 2012 12:47:53 you wrote: > > If there were a plugins directory, where would it be? I need to put > > libflashplayer.so in it, and it currently doesn't exist. Obviously I > > can create it, but I need to know where

Re: Flashplayer on Squeeze (sorry. :-()

2012-11-03 Thread Greg Madden
On Saturday 03 November 2012 12:47:53 you wrote: > If there were a plugins directory, where would it be? I need to put > libflashplayer.so in it, and it currently doesn't exist. Obviously I > can create it, but I need to know where to put it. > > Iceweasel 10.0.10, LXDE and Squeeze. > > Thanks, >

Re: Flashplayer on Squeeze (sorry. :-()

2012-11-03 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 03 November 2012 22:25:18 b.g. white wrote: > Made the assumption of you using Firefox/Iceweasel, etc. > > On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 5:23 PM, b.g. white wrote: > > /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins Thank you! :-) Lisi > > On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 3:47 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > >> If there were a p

Re: Flashplayer on Squeeze (sorry. :-()

2012-11-03 Thread b.g. white
Made the assumption of you using Firefox/Iceweasel, etc. On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 5:23 PM, b.g. white wrote: > /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins > > > > On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 3:47 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > >> If there were a plugins directory, where would it be? I need to put >> libflashplayer.so in it,

Re: Flashplayer on Squeeze (sorry. :-()

2012-11-03 Thread b.g. white
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 3:47 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > If there were a plugins directory, where would it be? I need to put > libflashplayer.so in it, and it currently doesn't exist. Obviously I can > create it, but I need to know where to put it. > > Iceweasel 10.0.10, L

Re: compiling a Debian package

2012-11-03 Thread Go Linux
--- On Sat, 11/3/12, lee wrote: > From: lee > Subject: Re: compiling a Debian package > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Date: Saturday, November 3, 2012, 2:42 PM > Go Linux > writes: > > >> Just use either the drivers from their website or > the Debian > >> version of > >> those.  Won't tha

Re: Advice on system purchase

2012-11-03 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 11/3/2012 2:32 AM, Neal Murphy wrote: > On Saturday, November 03, 2012 01:47:40 AM Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> Motorola 680x0, DEC Alpha, SGI MIPS, HP PA-RISC, Motorola/IBM PowerPC, >> Sun SPARC, Cray Vector, Intel Itanium (irony here). > > You missed Moto's 88K I didn't include the 88K because it

Re: Apache (was Apace) Redirect Question

2012-11-03 Thread craig
Wolf, thank you very much for graciously providing the examples. I will study this to gain an understanding, and I will let you know how it goes. Craig > Here are the settings for one of my multisite servers. > I am using Apache2.2 on Debian Squeeze with the backports repo enabled > - thus it is

Flashplayer on Squeeze (sorry. :-()

2012-11-03 Thread Lisi Reisz
If there were a plugins directory, where would it be? I need to put libflashplayer.so in it, and it currently doesn't exist. Obviously I can create it, but I need to know where to put it. Iceweasel 10.0.10, LXDE and Squeeze. Thanks, Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@li

Re: Problem with system update or something

2012-11-03 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 03 November 2012 20:14:55 Bret Busby wrote: > On Sat, 3 Nov 2012, Bret Busby wrote: > > Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2012 13:41:53 > > From: Bret Busby > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Subject: Re: Problem with system update or something > > Resent-Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2012 05:44:11 + (UT

Re: Problem with system update or something

2012-11-03 Thread Bret Busby
On Sat, 3 Nov 2012, Bret Busby wrote: On Sat, 3 Nov 2012, Bret Busby wrote: Hello. I am running (or, now, kind of running) Debian 6.0.x AMD64 version. I have done a system update in the last day or so, and, possibly because of that, the system has become mostly unusable. Upon shutting d

Re: Problem with system update or something

2012-11-03 Thread Bret Busby
On Sat, 3 Nov 2012, Bret Busby wrote: Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2012 13:41:53 From: Bret Busby To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Problem with system update or something Resent-Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2012 05:44:11 + (UTC) Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org On Sat, 3 Nov 2012, Bret Busb

Re: Problem with system update or something

2012-11-03 Thread Bret Busby
On Sat, 3 Nov 2012, Bret Busby wrote: Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2012 13:41:53 From: Bret Busby To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Problem with system update or something Resent-Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2012 05:44:11 + (UTC) Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org On Sat, 3 Nov 2012, Bret Busb

Re: Advice on system purchase

2012-11-03 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 11/2/2012 9:56 PM, Charles Kroeger wrote: > On Wed, 31 Oct 2012 12:30:02 +0100 > Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >> Now if they'd just smarten up > > I've pondered this sort of thing my whole adult life. I don't understand > everything > you're saying here but it sounds pretty straight forward for so

Re: compiling a Debian package

2012-11-03 Thread lee
Go Linux writes: >> Just use either the drivers from their website or the Debian >> version of >> those.  Won't that work? >> >> > > The Debian version of the driver wouldn't install. It advised me to > use nouveau during the failed process. I had never used the sgfxi > script before. sgfxi s

Re: Advice on system purchase

2012-11-03 Thread Neal Murphy
On Saturday, November 03, 2012 02:50:00 PM Stan Hoeppner wrote: > I do support AMD, and I never said they're > on a collision course with bankruptcy. What I did say is competing head > to head with Intel in the x86 CPU market is a tough game, and they have > made many missteps along the way. > >

Re: Advice on system purchase

2012-11-03 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 11/2/2012 7:44 AM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Well with ARM getting more performant the differences might blur. Yes, which is the fact that started this discussion. > What is a tablet? What is a desktop? If there are already attempts to make > regular computer displays touchable for example

linpack benchmark

2012-11-03 Thread Dr Beco
Dear linuxers, How do I run a linpack benchmark in my computer? I was able to compile this old code (parts from 1978!) http://www.netlib.org/benchmark/linpackc and run, but I'm afraid it may be innacurate or do not have the capacity to measure multiple cores. So I tried to find a more recent co

Re: openssh - AllowUsers

2012-11-03 Thread Lars Noodén
On 11/3/12, lina wrote: > I use the iptables as follows: > > # Allow SSH connections > -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 22 -s 172.21.50.55 -j ACCEPT Also, to filter on the range of ip addresses you can use IP range match[1] -src-range -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 22 -m iprange --src-range 192.168.0.50-

Re: [OT] debian package maintain tutorial

2012-11-03 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 03 November 2012 16:44:12 lina wrote: > Hi, > > Does anyone have some tutorial to recommend about the experience of > picking up a package? > > For more than one year I wish to pick up some package to maintain but > has never proceed further. > > I have difficulties reading manuals. > >

Re: swap-partition

2012-11-03 Thread Klaus Jantzen
Klaus Jantzen wrote: Hello, on my machine I have two HDDs with Windows, Debian and another Linux system. Because of the two Linux systems I have two swap partitions. As I want to remove the other Linux I want to get rid of one of the swap partitions. How can I find out which swap partition i

Re: openssh - AllowUsers

2012-11-03 Thread lina
On Sunday 04,November,2012 01:01 AM, pch0317 wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to allow user access to server form range of addresses from > 192.168.0.50 to 192.168.0.70. > How to do that with openssh? I use the iptables as follows: # Allow SSH connections -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 22 -s 172.21.50.55

Re: openssh - AllowUsers

2012-11-03 Thread Lars Noodén
On 11/3/12, pch0317 wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to allow user access to server form range of addresses from > 192.168.0.50 to 192.168.0.70. > How to do that with openssh? > > Thanks You could try using the conditional block "Match Address" see the manual page for sshd_config for the details. B

openssh - AllowUsers

2012-11-03 Thread pch0317
Hi, I would like to allow user access to server form range of addresses from 192.168.0.50 to 192.168.0.70. How to do that with openssh? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Arch

[OT] debian package maintain tutorial

2012-11-03 Thread lina
Hi, Does anyone have some tutorial to recommend about the experience of picking up a package? For more than one year I wish to pick up some package to maintain but has never proceed further. I have difficulties reading manuals. I feel I can understand better if just gave something like, command

Re: nouveau driver bugs

2012-11-03 Thread Worrier Poet
On 11/02/2012 04:31 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2012-11-02 19:20 +0100, Worrier Poet wrote: > >> On 11/02/2012 10:42 AM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: >>> On 2012-10-30 12:53:24 -0400, Worrier Poet wrote: The guys developing free drivers for the Nvidia graphics cards seem to have a lot harder

Re: Apache (was Apace) Redirect Question

2012-11-03 Thread Wolf Halton
On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 8:31 AM, wrote: > > > On Friday, November 2, 2012 21:48, "Wolf Halton" said: > >> Make these changes in sites-available files. That is what those files in >> there are for. >> I don't have the specific directive but I can put up one of my servers' >> apache files for you.

Re: swap-partition

2012-11-03 Thread Pedro Eugênio Rocha
Hi guys, On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 11:18 AM, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > On Fri, Nov 02, 2012 at 01:07:28PM +, Klaus Jantzen wrote: > > Hello, > > > > on my machine I have two HDDs with Windows, Debian and another Linux > system. > > Because of the two Linux systems I have two swap partitions. >

Re: Apache (was Apace) Redirect Question

2012-11-03 Thread craig
On Friday, November 2, 2012 21:48, "Wolf Halton" said: > Make these changes in sites-available files. That is what those files in > there are for. > I don't have the specific directive but I can put up one of my servers' > apache files for you. > > Wolf Halton > http://sourcefreedom.com > Apac

Re: Bind wildcard and DNSsec

2012-11-03 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there Rob van der Putten wrote: Unstable may move to 9.8.2 at some point. It might be possible to backport 9.8.2 to stable when this happens. 9.9.2 is now in Experimental; http://packages.debian.org/experimental/bind9 Regards, Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.

Re: Wally Lepore

2012-11-03 Thread Slavko
Hi, Dňa Fri, 2 Nov 2012 17:48:06 -0400 Wally Lepore napísal: > My absent from the list and this specific thread was simply > a decision to take 'pause', identify and correct my email problem. > > The debian-user list is the first active mailing list I've > joined in some 30 years being in compu

Re: Advice on system purchase

2012-11-03 Thread Neal Murphy
On Saturday, November 03, 2012 01:47:40 AM Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Motorola 680x0, DEC Alpha, SGI MIPS, HP PA-RISC, Motorola/IBM PowerPC, > Sun SPARC, Cray Vector, Intel Itanium (irony here). You missed Moto's 88K which vastly outperformed the 68K. The Moto/Freescale embedded PPC (though clearly n