Re: does grub support wireless keyboard?

2013-11-21 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 22/11/13 16:01, Long Wind wrote: > another question: how to find out if my PC support USB keyboard? > does grub support USB keyboard? > if it support USB KB, does that mean it support wireless keyboard? No. That happens in user space (after GRUB). GRUB uses BIOS for keyboard support and I suspe

Re: does grub support wireless keyboard?

2013-11-21 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Fri, 22 Nov 2013, Long Wind wrote: > another question: how to find out if my PC support USB keyboard? > does grub support USB keyboard? > if it support USB KB, does that mean it support wireless keyboard? > I am considering logitech wireless keyboard > I am running wheezy > Thanks! Can't speak

does grub support wireless keyboard?

2013-11-21 Thread Long Wind
another question: how to find out if my PC support USB keyboard? does grub support USB keyboard? if it support USB KB, does that mean it support wireless keyboard? I am considering logitech wireless keyboard I am running wheezy Thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian

2.5" hdd _versus_ a PATA-SDHC adapter.

2013-11-21 Thread Peter Easthope
Hi, There is a Sharp Mobius laptop here where I can install either a 2.5" hdd or a PATA-SDHC adapter with a SDHC card, such as this. http://www.ebay.ca/itm/360723057667 Then install Debian. I've used an OLPC XO-1.5 for about a year and am fairly convinced that SDHC can provide primary sto

Re: testing wants to install systemd

2013-11-21 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 08:32:47PM -0500, Rob Owens wrote: > On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 07:19:45PM -0500, Rob Owens wrote: > > I run a testing system that I depend on to get work done on a daily > > basis. I noticed today that a dist-upgrade wanted to install systemd. > > I've never used systemd -- i

CPU frequency and custom kernel

2013-11-21 Thread Sean Alexandre
I've built my own kernel, but the CPU runs faster (hotter, more fan noise, etc.) I can't figure out why it's faster. Everything I've checked is the same between the two kernels. If I boot to the Debian provided kernel the CPU runs at 800 MHz, but if I boot to my custom kernel it runs at 1.8 GHz. (

Re: Extending fluxbox menu with a script.

2013-11-21 Thread Sharon Kimble
On Thu, 21 Nov 2013 17:35:38 -0500 Neal Murphy wrote: > On Thursday, November 21, 2013 01:15:34 PM Sharon Kimble wrote: > > I am trying to write a bash script which has this line in it - > > > > mv ~/.fluxbox/menu ~/.fluxbox/menu-$(/bin/date +%Y%m%d-%R); mmaker > > fluxbox -f;; > > > > This lin

Re: Toshiba Satellite C50d/A00L laptop, can't install Debian - any version......

2013-11-21 Thread Jude DaShiell
hughesnet is so bad in my personal experience I can do things faster with a 57.6 modem. On Fri, 22 Nov 2013, Charlie wrote: > On Thu, 21 Nov 2013 15:34:05 +1100 "Charlie aries...@skymesh.com.au" > sent this: > > >On Wed, 20 Nov 2013 17:03:57 -0600 Selim T. Erdogan sent: > > > >> Further

Re: Extending fluxbox menu with a script.

2013-11-21 Thread Neal Murphy
On Thursday, November 21, 2013 01:15:34 PM Sharon Kimble wrote: > I am trying to write a bash script which has this line in it - > > mv ~/.fluxbox/menu ~/.fluxbox/menu-$(/bin/date +%Y%m%d-%R); mmaker > fluxbox -f;; > > This line is creating a fluxbox menu which ends with these lines - > '

Re: [SOLVED] k3b: no optical device found

2013-11-21 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, Running current Sid. k3b always worked but since the last upgrade cannot find any optical device. ... per http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=260&t=117063 you need to install udisks2. It used to be that k3b needed hal and udisks. Who knows

Re: Extending fluxbox menu with a script.

2013-11-21 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 22/11/13 08:50, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 22/11/13 06:39, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > Try #2 :/ Try #3 (no sleep last night - trees and power lines down across the property in last nights storms) Sorry. This time I remembered to escape those brackets. Please test this - I can only check the s

Re: Extending fluxbox menu with a script.

2013-11-21 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 22/11/13 06:39, Scott Ferguson wrote: > Try:- > echo " > #!/bin/bash > # .fmenu > mv ~/.fluxbox/menu{,-$(/bin/date +%Y%m%d-%R)} > mmaker fluxbox -f > echo" > [submenu] (My Menu) > [include] (~/.fluxbox/usermenu) > [end] > [separator]" >> ~/.fluxbox/menu" > ~/.fmenu > chmod +x ~/.fmenu Try #2 :/

Re: Why Debian

2013-11-21 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 04:55:50PM -0500, Ric Moore wrote: > Mark kept threatening to shut down the email-based User list for > some time. At least that is what the moderators kept telling us. Do you mean listmasters here? Otherwise, the last bit doesn't make sense. IOW, if there are moderators th

Re: Toshiba Satellite C50d/A00L laptop, can't install Debian - any version......

2013-11-21 Thread Charlie
On Thu, 21 Nov 2013 15:34:05 +1100 "Charlie aries...@skymesh.com.au" sent this: >On Wed, 20 Nov 2013 17:03:57 -0600 Selim T. Erdogan sent: > >> Further googling might get you something better/easier. > >Thank you Selim, for taking the time to discover these links. It's much >appreciated

Re: Extending fluxbox menu with a script.

2013-11-21 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 22/11/13 05:15, Sharon Kimble wrote: > I am trying to write a bash script which has this line in it - > > mv ~/.fluxbox/menu ~/.fluxbox/menu-$(/bin/date +%Y%m%d-%R); mmaker > fluxbox -f;; > > This line is creating a fluxbox menu which ends with these lines - > ' [restart] (Restart

Re: Extending fluxbox menu with a script.

2013-11-21 Thread Linux-Fan
On 11/21/2013 07:15 PM, Sharon Kimble wrote: > I am trying to write a bash script which has this line in it - > > mv ~/.fluxbox/menu ~/.fluxbox/menu-$(/bin/date +%Y%m%d-%R); mmaker > fluxbox -f;; > > This line is creating a fluxbox menu which ends with these lines - > ' [restart] (Re

Re:[SOLVED] k3b: no optical device found

2013-11-21 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, Running current Sid. k3b always worked but since the last upgrade cannot find any optical device. Hal and udisks are installed. The device is /dev/sr0 and wodim runs and finds it just fine. User is part of cdrom group. /dev/sr0 lists cdrom as its group. listdevmapper

Re: CIFS mount hangs

2013-11-21 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 21/11/13 22:39, assm...@skygate.de wrote: > Hi, > > I tried your tricks, removing auto, adding _netdev but the problem > still exists. I seems to happen when I am not working on the share for > a certain amount of time. The share seems to be lost thenthis did > not happen under wheezy. So I

Re: mdadm gives segmentatin fault on wheezy. RAID array now incomplete.

2013-11-21 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, 10 Oct 2013 01:59:21 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Wed, 09 Oct 2013 10:59:48 -0600, Shane Johnson wrote: > >> On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 10:50 AM, Hendrik Boom >> wrote: >>> I ran >>> >>> mdadm /dev/md1 --add /dev/sdd2 >>> >>> and got a segmentation fault. >>> >>> >>> april:/farhome/hendri

Circular initscript dependency prevents use of aptitude on wheezy

2013-11-21 Thread Hendrik Boom
Somehow, I seem to have a circular initscript dependency. It seems to be complaining about the package mediatomb; furthemore, the problem first appeared shortly after I installed mediatomb. I tried uninstalling mediatomb, but it gets nowhere, because aptitude balks upon detecting the circular dep

Re: autostart for users

2013-11-21 Thread Brian
On Thu 21 Nov 2013 at 11:36:40 +, Darac Marjal wrote: > You could teach your users to add programs to their crontab. > > $ crontab -e > > will open an editor (specified by the $EDITOR variable) with the user's > crontab. Adding a line such as "@reboot /home/flindner/mydaemon.sh" will > caus

Extending fluxbox menu with a script.

2013-11-21 Thread Sharon Kimble
I am trying to write a bash script which has this line in it - mv ~/.fluxbox/menu ~/.fluxbox/menu-$(/bin/date +%Y%m%d-%R); mmaker fluxbox -f;; This line is creating a fluxbox menu which ends with these lines - ' [restart] (Restart) [separator] [exit]

Re: CIFS mount hangs

2013-11-21 Thread assmann
Hi, I tried your tricks, removing auto, adding _netdev but the problem still exists. I seems to happen when I am not working on the share for a certain amount of time. The share seems to be lost thenthis did not happen under wheezy. So I am thinking about, what kind of code to blame? mount.cif

Re: autostart for users

2013-11-21 Thread Florian Lindner
Am 21.11.2013 12:36, schrieb Darac Marjal: On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 12:15:57PM +0100, Florian Lindner wrote: Hello, I want to give users the possbility to autostart programms on boot. My first idea would be to put a line like that in /etc/rc.local [cut] So that a blocking script does not blo

Re: autostart for users

2013-11-21 Thread Darac Marjal
On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 12:15:57PM +0100, Florian Lindner wrote: > Hello, > > I want to give users the possbility to autostart programms on boot. > My first idea would be to put a line like that in /etc/rc.local > [cut] > > So that a blocking script does not block the rc.local file. Should I > a

autostart for users

2013-11-21 Thread Florian Lindner
Hello, I want to give users the possbility to autostart programms on boot. My first idea would be to put a line like that in /etc/rc.local [ -x /home/flindner/autostart ] && su flindner -c "/home/flindner/autostart" Probably something like that would be better: [ -x /home/cburchard/autosta

Re: Google & other web mail (was Re: top posting)

2013-11-21 Thread Chris Davies
David Guntner wrote: > GMail & Yahoo Mail both support encrypted POP3 & IMAP [...] I don't > have to look at their ads since I'm not using their web interface [...] How long do you think it's going to be before they start inserting ads into the message body then? (And/or offering a "premium" serv

Jessie, gdm3 recently fails without composite (as well gnome3 with lightdm after login)

2013-11-21 Thread Axel Kittenberger
Hi! I got a 3D-Setup here with an NVidea Quadro, and as NVidea says stereo and composite currently don't work together (thats bad by itself, but what can one do about it) and you have to disable Composite with Option "Composite" "Disable" in xorg.conf to get 3D stereo output. This wor

Re: top posting

2013-11-21 Thread Jonathan Dowland
Kelly, On a related note, something is wrong with your MUA and quoting. Here's a section of the quoting from your last message, with an additional layer of quoting applied, and trimmed to 20 characters (to avoid further wrapping issues): > > > I'm just curious > > so upset about top p > > > mind

Re: top posting

2013-11-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/d-community-offtopic/2013-November/000303.html -- 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/1385024914.686.78.camel@archli

Re: top posting

2013-11-21 Thread Joe
On Thu, 21 Nov 2013 11:08:41 +1100 David wrote: > On 21 November 2013 10:31, Brad Alexander wrote: > > > > I'm just curious why so many people get so upset about top posting. > > When you're curious about anything, use a search engine, like I used > to find this for you: > > https://en.wikip

Persistent remote X applications with xpra (was: Remote xboard without Desktop Environment)

2013-11-21 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello there, On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 01:33:21PM -0200, Beco wrote: > [...] > (3) Now, how can I keep xboard running on lizard, after I turn off fox. TTBOMK (being former Debian package maintainer of xboard) xboard will need a DISPLAY to run interactively. ssh -X was already mentioned, but if the