Re: Debian repository available on USB flash rather than CD/DVD sets?

2014-02-20 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 2/21/14, Richard Owlett wrote: > Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> That's why I have been recommending the BD image, because it is bootable >> and should contain 99% of what you really need (remember, packages are >> sorted on the images by popularity). >> >> The BD images are only available as jigdo (

Re: Runnings Windows 7 pro from inside Debian 7

2014-02-20 Thread Ralf Mardorf
+1 for Virtual Box, OTOH the original poster should read about wine too, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_(software) . JFTR a multi-boot on the real machine, could be done on a single drive, but it needs a reboot to use one or the other operating system, with one drive and with several drives.

Re: Problem with Sound Volume

2014-02-20 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 20:44 +, Klaus wrote: > What speakers do you use? How are they connected to the motherboard? > (Ralf asked that before...) JFTR even the jacks could cause issues. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

Re: Runnings Windows 7 pro from inside Debian 7

2014-02-20 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 21/02/14 11:17, John Foster wrote: > Seeking tips on how to set up a *multi boot* system that has Windows 7 > pro, Debian 7 & 2 other operating systems each with *its own disk* to run > from so that any of the OS can be run in a safe manner *from within* > Debian 7. Confusing as to what you act

Re: Old software in debian allowed?

2014-02-20 Thread Nate Bargmann
I've done just that, resurrected Xdx which had last been in Squeeze and was orphaned and dropped from Wheezy. The original author gave his blessing for me to take over maintanence in mid-January, I released a stable verion three weeks ago, and just this week it appeared in Sid as a "new" package.

Runnings Windows 7 pro from inside Debian 7

2014-02-20 Thread John Foster
Seeking tips on how to set up a multi boot system that has Windows 7 pro, Debian 7 & 2 other operating systems each with its own disk to run from so that any of the OS can be run in a safe manner from within Debian 7. I just do not want to have to reboot to watch Netflix or Amazon from Debian 7. I

howto import gpg key (was ... Re: debootstrap etch unknown key)

2014-02-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 10:38:47AM -0500, Dan Purgert wrote: > Tried "gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys B5D0C804ADB11277" and it pulled > down the "Etch Stable Release Key " key. > > $ gpg --fingerprint ADB11277 > pub 1024D/ADB11277 2006-09-17 > Key fingerprint = 7EA3 91D7 2477 203B

Re: Debian repository available on USB flash rather than CD/DVD sets?

2014-02-20 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 04:13:10PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Richard Owlett wrote: > >I've been purchasing the multiple DVD sets as I am limited to a > >dial-up connection. > > > >As 64GB flash drives are readily available I would find it > >convenient to have a complete distro on a single d

Re: Old software in debian allowed?

2014-02-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 20 feb 14, 20:01:04, Hans wrote: > Hi list, > > just a simple question: Does debian accept suggestions of new packages, > although they are old and orphaned by the original devolper? It depends a lot on the package. There are packages that haven't seen updates for a few releases and ar

Re: Problem with Sound Volume

2014-02-20 Thread Klaus
On 20/02/14 19:37, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: On 02/20/2014 02:02 PM, Klaus wrote: amixer -c0 cset numid=20 100 Thanks for the reply. Here's what I got: omputation@AbNormal:~$ amixer -c0 controls | grep -i volume numid=34,iface=MIXER,name='Master Playback Volume' numid=11,iface=MIXER,name='Head

Re: Debian repository available on USB flash rather than CD/DVD sets?

2014-02-20 Thread Richard Owlett
Richard Owlett wrote: John Hasler wrote: Richard Owlett writes: incomplete distributions of the relevant architecture are "out of spec". So you really need a multiplicity of huge packages for finite element analysis, bioinformatics, particle physics, medical practice management, etc? "Need

Re: Wheezy and parallel port

2014-02-20 Thread Brian
On Thu 20 Feb 2014 at 15:16:29 +0100, francesco scaglione wrote: > But how could I verify whether or not it is "in ECP mode"? How would I > configure that card? Shall I look for a "swith" on the motherboard? It is probably configured automatically when a device is connected to it. > Beside, the

Re: Need to make sure I have the nvidia proprietary driver running.

2014-02-20 Thread Anubhav Yadav
I found something interesting grep nvidia /var/log/Xorg.8.log [ 4576.924] (++) Using config file: "/etc/bumblebee/xorg.conf.nvidia" [ 4576.925] (++) ModulePath set to "/usr/lib/nvidia,/usr/lib/xorg/modules" [ 4576.928] (II) Loading /usr/lib/nvidia/libglx.so [ 4577.050] (II) LoadModule: "nvidi

Re: resolv.conf misbehaving

2014-02-20 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2014-02-20 16:17 GMT+01:00 Danny : > Hi guys, > > The past weekend I upgraded from Debian v3.0 to the latest Debian stable > (7.0 or > something) ... (wish I never did) ... > > However, I have noticed that my resolv.conf gets overwritten by something > after > every reboot. The Debian server resol

Re: Problem with Sound Volume

2014-02-20 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
On 02/20/2014 02:02 PM, Klaus wrote: amixer -c0 cset numid=20 100 Thanks for the reply. Here's what I got: omputation@AbNormal:~$ amixer -c0 controls | grep -i volume numid=34,iface=MIXER,name='Master Playback Volume' numid=11,iface=MIXER,name='Headphone Playback Volume' numid=50,iface=MIXER,n

Re: Problem with Sound Volume

2014-02-20 Thread Klaus
On 19/02/14 13:14, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: I have just upgraded my Debian Jessie computer to a card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 0: ALC887-VD Analog [ALC887-VD Analog] Searching for "Linux alsa ALC887 low volume" shows you are not alone, if that makes it less painful. Some links suggest that t

Old software in debian allowed?

2014-02-20 Thread Hans
Hi list, just a simple question: Does debian accept suggestions of new packages, although they are old and orphaned by the original devolper? If yes, MUST there be new developments and changes in the package or will it be okay, when the package will be linked against latest libs instead of the

Re: resolv.conf misbehaving

2014-02-20 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 02/20/2014 11:28 AM, Patrick Ouellette wrote: > Welcome to the (un)helpful world of "let me do that for you because it is > easier" aka networkmanager and/or resolvconf. > > You will need to either update your /etc/network/interfaces entry for the > server or edit /etc/resolvconf/resolv.conf.d/

Re: Need to make sure I have the nvidia proprietary driver running.

2014-02-20 Thread Anubhav Yadav
> You should remove i915. You should have searched the Internet yourself. > > I used https://startpage.com/ with the search terms > > i915 wiki en > > and e.g. found https://wiki.debian.org/KernelModesetting > I also found this http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=110314 It means that I

Re: resolv.conf misbehaving

2014-02-20 Thread Alan Chandler
On 20/02/14 15:17, Danny wrote: Hi guys, The past weekend I upgraded from Debian v3.0 to the latest Debian stable (7.0 or something) ... (wish I never did) ... However, I have noticed that my resolv.conf gets overwritten by something after every reboot. The Debian server resolves all local (int

Re: Inactive windows key

2014-02-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 20 feb 14, 12:28:39, Sébastien Kalt wrote: [snip windows key not working] > XKBOPTIONS="lv3:ralt_switch,compose:rwin,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp" If I understand correctly you are using the right windows key as compose. Are you sure it's different to the left one? Kind regards, Andrei -- h

Re: Check Update, Update and Port Blocking

2014-02-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 20 feb 14, 07:09:27, PaulNM wrote: > On 02/20/2014 03:50 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Lu, 17 feb 14, 22:30:31, PaulNM wrote: > >> > >> I could be wrong, but my understanding is that apt uses standard http, > >> so port 80 outgoing. > > > > Just because port 80 is used for listening for

Re: resolv.conf misbehaving

2014-02-20 Thread Patrick Ouellette
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 05:17:22PM +0200, Danny wrote: > > Hi guys, > > The past weekend I upgraded from Debian v3.0 to the latest Debian stable (7.0 > or > something) ... (wish I never did) ... > > However, I have noticed that my resolv.conf gets overwritten by something > after > every reboo

Re: Need to make sure I have the nvidia proprietary driver running.

2014-02-20 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 21:28 +0530, Anubhav Yadav wrote: > I am not able to find out which driver I need to modprobe? I posted > the output of lsmod before. If you can help me there? On Mon, 2014-02-17 at 23:10 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 02:39:11PM +0530, Anubhav Yadav w

Re: Debian repository available on USB flash rather than CD/DVD sets?

2014-02-20 Thread Richard Owlett
John Hasler wrote: Richard Owlett writes: incomplete distributions of the relevant architecture are "out of spec". So you really need a multiplicity of huge packages for finite element analysis, bioinformatics, particle physics, medical practice management, etc? "Need"? If "NEED" governed I

Re: resolv.conf misbehaving

2014-02-20 Thread Dan Purgert
On 20/02/2014 10:17, Danny wrote: > Hi guys, > > The past weekend I upgraded from Debian v3.0 to the latest Debian stable (7.0 > or > something) ... (wish I never did) ... > > However, I have noticed that my resolv.conf gets overwritten by something > after > every reboot. The Debian server res

Re: Debian repository available on USB flash rather than CD/DVD sets?

2014-02-20 Thread Steve McIntyre
Richard Owlett wrote: >I've been purchasing the multiple DVD sets as I am limited to a >dial-up connection. > >As 64GB flash drives are readily available I would find it >convenient to have a complete distro on a single device. > >I've queried the company I've been buying the DVDs from with no >

Re: Problem with Sound Volume

2014-02-20 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Thu, 20 Feb 2014, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Wed, 2014-02-19 at 20:30 -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > Because of the new hardware, the original install for the old > > hardware is probably missing needed drivers, configurations, etc. > > This unlikely would cause a faint sound. It did in my ca

Loading themes in emacs

2014-02-20 Thread Sharon Kimble
I have the strange problem in that if I load a theme using 'M-x load-theme' and then put in a theme name when prompted like 'brin' it only shows the theme background colour in the fringe and the mode-line and nowhere else. Its the same whatever theme I load. The relevant section from my .emacs is

Re: resolv.conf misbehaving

2014-02-20 Thread Darac Marjal
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 05:17:22PM +0200, Danny wrote: > Hi guys, > > The past weekend I upgraded from Debian v3.0 to the latest Debian stable (7.0 > or > something) ... (wish I never did) ... The correct way to upgrade is, unfortunately, 3.0->4.0->5.0->6.0->7.0->7.4. If you went from 3.0 straig

Re: resolv.conf misbehaving

2014-02-20 Thread Sven Hartge
Danny wrote: > However, I have noticed that my resolv.conf gets overwritten by something > after > every reboot. apt-get purge resolvconf Grüße, S° -- Sigmentation fault. Core dumped. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

resolv.conf misbehaving

2014-02-20 Thread Danny
Hi guys, The past weekend I upgraded from Debian v3.0 to the latest Debian stable (7.0 or something) ... (wish I never did) ... However, I have noticed that my resolv.conf gets overwritten by something after every reboot. The Debian server resolves all local (internal) addresses and the ADSL rout

Re: Need to make sure I have the nvidia proprietary driver running.

2014-02-20 Thread Anubhav Yadav
> Stop X, modprobe -r the unwanted driver, modprobe nvidia, start X? I am not able to find out which driver I need to modprobe? I posted the output of lsmod before. If you can help me there?

Re: Wheezy and parallel port

2014-02-20 Thread francesco scaglione
On 20 Feb 2014 à 13:00, Brian wrote: > On Wed 19 Feb 2014 at 10:50:14 +0100, francesco scaglione wrote: > > > root@desk:~# lsmod | grep par > > parport_pc 22364 0 > > parport31858 3 lp,ppdev,parport_pc > > The needed modules are loaded. > > > [ 16.498771] ppdev:

Re: Debian speech recognition - end user information &/or forus

2014-02-20 Thread Richard Owlett
Scott Ferguson wrote: On 20/02/14 01:20, Richard Owlett wrote: I want essentially a note taking tool. Assuming you mean speech to text Explicitly. NO interest in voice activated control. A brief search indicated voice recognition is an active project under Debian accessibility. What

Re: Debian repository available on USB flash rather than CD/DVD sets?

2014-02-20 Thread John Hasler
Richard Owlett writes: > incomplete distributions of the relevant architecture are "out of spec". So you really need a multiplicity of huge packages for finite element analysis, bioinformatics, particle physics, medical practice management, etc? -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Debian repository available on USB flash rather than CD/DVD sets?

2014-02-20 Thread Richard Owlett
Andrei POPESCU wrote: [SNIP] That's why I have been recommending the BD image, because it is bootable and should contain 99% of what you really need (remember, packages are sorted on the images by popularity). The BD images are only available as jigdo (probably because of storage space), but si

Re: Wheezy and parallel port

2014-02-20 Thread Brian
On Wed 19 Feb 2014 at 10:50:14 +0100, francesco scaglione wrote: > root@desk:~# lsmod | grep par > parport_pc 22364 0 > parport31858 3 lp,ppdev,parport_pc The needed modules are loaded. > [ 16.498771] ppdev: user-space parallel port driver No sign of the parport

Re: Coloured CLI [was: Re: 7z command works fine on command line but not in script]

2014-02-20 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 20/02/14 20:24, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 12:15:56PM +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> On 19/02/14 23:32, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: >>> >>> >>> Le 19.02.2014 10:53, Scott Ferguson a écrit : Just read your last post before sending this, so this may no longer be >

Re: Check Update, Update and Port Blocking

2014-02-20 Thread PaulNM
On 02/20/2014 03:50 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 17 feb 14, 22:30:31, PaulNM wrote: >> >> I could be wrong, but my understanding is that apt uses standard http, >> so port 80 outgoing. > > Just because port 80 is used for listening for http requests doesn't > meant the client is using the s

Re: Valgrind not finding installed libc6-dbg (x86_64 or i386)

2014-02-20 Thread Robin
On 20 February 2014 12:02, Robin wrote: > Valgrind was working here up to late last year but now valgrind has > stopped working with the error message: > > A must-be-redirected function > whose name matches the pattern: strlen > in an object with soname matching: ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 > /sni

Valgrind not finding installed libc6-dbg (x86_64 or i386)

2014-02-20 Thread Robin
Valgrind was working here up to late last year but now valgrind has stopped working with the error message: A must-be-redirected function whose name matches the pattern: strlen in an object with soname matching: ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 /snip The package you need to install is called On Debian,

Re: Need to make sure I have the nvidia proprietary driver running.

2014-02-20 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 12:04 +0530, Anubhav Yadav wrote: > I am a little new in all these so can you please tell me how can I use > modprobe in this situation? Stop X, modprobe -r the unwanted driver, modprobe nvidia, start X? For startup perhaps update-modules, restart? I would have to do Interne

Re: Problem with Sound Volume

2014-02-20 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2014-02-19 at 20:30 -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: > Because of the new hardware, the original install for the old hardware > is probably missing needed drivers, configurations, etc. This unlikely would cause a faint sound. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Inactive windows key

2014-02-20 Thread Sébastien Kalt
Hi, I'm having a weird problem with my windows key : it seems to be inactive, that is I can't use it in a keyborad shortcut as before, like W+x to launch a terminal. Last september my hard drive crashed, so I installed an aptosid (http://aptosid.com/) instead of my previous Debian Sid. I installe

Re: Problem with Sound Volume

2014-02-20 Thread sp113438
On Wed, 19 Feb 2014 18:23:16 +0100 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > On Wed, 2014-02-19 at 08:29 -0500, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > > I am using the alsamixer, and have tried to adjust the volume with > > it running in a terminal and from the icon on the task bar. Same > > result > > - very faint sound

Re: apt-get remove/purge with regex gives unexpected result

2014-02-20 Thread Richard Hector
On 13/02/14 06:04, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2014-02-12 17:25 +0100, rpr nospam wrote: > >> In order to uninstall all libreoffice packages I ran the following >> apt-get command with a simple regular expression: >> >> $ sudo apt-get remove 'libreoffice.*' >> Reading package lists... Done >> Buildin

Re: additional info on pkgs of Debian 7 Install

2014-02-20 Thread Darac Marjal
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 04:54:37PM -0500, W. Anderson wrote: >I have just recently installed Debian 7.3 via Net Install.  > >There was "no" problem with the install, however I could find "pkg >install" info on the : >Standard Systems Utilities >Web server >File server Thes

Re: need help on using crontab

2014-02-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 20 feb 14, 07:56:38, Tom Furie wrote: > On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 03:22:08AM -0500, Long Wind wrote: > > > I find that shutdown can take a time argument > > so why do I bother with cron > > > > Thank Raffaele Morelli and Tom anyway! > > Cron would be useful if you want to regularly shutdow

Coloured CLI [was: Re: 7z command works fine on command line but not in script]

2014-02-20 Thread Darac Marjal
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 12:15:56PM +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 19/02/14 23:32, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > > > > > > Le 19.02.2014 10:53, Scott Ferguson a écrit : > >> Just read your last post before sending this, so this may no longer be > >> relevant... I don't know that you ne

Re: systemd: some more questions

2014-02-20 Thread Gian Uberto Lauri
Gian Uberto Lauri writes: > Scott Ferguson writes: > > On 20/02/14 07:52, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: > > > I suggest you to contact undeveloped maintainer and edit the systems > page on Wikipedia? > > > > Not sure if you meant the "systems" > > It was the tablet "ortographic mangler

Re: Debian repository available on USB flash rather than CD/DVD sets?

2014-02-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 18 feb 14, 22:33:00, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > >From memory, someone suggested that a command as simple as the > following will turn your usb stick into a bootable debian-installer > DVD style USB stick: > dd if=/my/debian-boot-dvd.iso of=/dev/sdBLAH bs=1M > > (With the bs=1M just meaning

Re: Check Update, Update and Port Blocking

2014-02-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 17 feb 14, 22:30:31, PaulNM wrote: > > I could be wrong, but my understanding is that apt uses standard http, > so port 80 outgoing. Just because port 80 is used for listening for http requests doesn't meant the client is using the same outgoing port ;) Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wi

Re: additional info on pkgs of Debian 7 Install

2014-02-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 17 feb 14, 16:54:37, W. Anderson wrote: > I have just recently installed Debian 7.3 via Net Install. > > There was /"no"/ problem with the install, however I could find "pkg > install" info on the : > /*Standard Systems Utilities*//* > *//*Web server *//* > *//*File server*/ > > Where exac

Re: systemd: some more questions

2014-02-20 Thread Gian Uberto Lauri
Scott Ferguson writes: > On 20/02/14 07:52, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: > > I suggest you to contact undeveloped maintainer and edit the systems page > > on Wikipedia? > > Not sure if you meant the "systems" It was the tablet "ortographic mangler" that knows nothing about systemd. I did