Upgrade to Jessie - grub-legacy vs grub2; GPT partitions

2015-06-10 Thread Robert S
Hi. We recently had a hard drive crash on our machine which has been running debian for many years and has been incrementally upgraded. We use it for a small business. I have not yet upgraded to debian 8.0. We plan to transfer our backup to a low-spec machine (Gigabyte Brix with 120G SSD) then d

Re: HELP! Cannot use mouse or keyboard any more

2015-06-10 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Thursday 11 June 2015 08:05:37 Dominique Dumont wrote: > I wonder why is a hub found instead of a keyboard ... Duh ... because I plugged the wrong cable ... This morning, the HP keyboard is recognized as soon as plugged. I don't know what changed... All the best -- https://github.com/dod38

Re: HELP! Cannot use mouse or keyboard any more

2015-06-10 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Monday 08 June 2015 14:24:09 Ric Moore wrote: > On 06/08/2015 01:21 PM, Dominique Dumont wrote: > > But I cannot use the keyboard. On the other hand, an old ps2 keyboard > > works fine. > Have you checked your bios for anything quirky? Ric Yes. Support for legacy usb is on. When I plug the key

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-10 Thread Bret Busby
On 11/06/2015, Ric Moore wrote: > On 06/10/2015 03:45 PM, Bret Busby wrote: >> On 11/06/2015, Nick T. wrote: >>> Oops, forgot to cc in the mailing list. >>> >>> - Nick >>> >>> On 06/10/2015 09:19 PM, Nick T. wrote: Install build-essential it should contain all the packages necessary to

Re: SOLVED Re: adding network printer SOLVED

2015-06-10 Thread briand
On Wed, 10 Jun 2015 23:09:42 +0200 notoneofmyseeds wrote: > On 06/10/2015 01:41 PM, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > > Another illustration of this: > > > > "Another effective [debugging] technique is to explain your code to > > someone else. This will often cause you to explain the bug to yourself. > > S

Re: Change for systemd the UUID of the home partition, how to?

2015-06-10 Thread Ken Heard
On 2015-06-10 13:17, Don Armstrong wrote: On Tue, 09 Jun 2015, Ken Heard wrote: After some research I found file /etc/crypttab which contains a list of the UUIDs for encrypted partitions, /home in my case. I thought it would be a simple matter of changing the relevant UUID to the current one. It

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-10 Thread Ric Moore
On 06/10/2015 06:06 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Wednesday 10 June 2015 23:01:06 Ric Moore wrote: On 06/10/2015 05:44 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Wednesday 10 June 2015 22:39:36 Ric Moore wrote: On 06/10/2015 03:45 PM, Bret Busby wrote: On 11/06/2015, Nick T. wrote: Oops, forgot to cc in the maili

Re: unable to modify umask settings in wheezy 7.8

2015-06-10 Thread Bob Proulx
Fekete Tamás wrote: > I use wheezy 7.8 on x86_64 architecture and I'm simply unable to modify the > umask settings of the system. I have read many webpages for solution (even > helps specified for debian) but didn't find the answer what to do. > > Now, my umask is the default umask: 0022. I want

Re: [OT] Is Devuan a hoax?

2015-06-10 Thread pjw
On Wed, Jun 10, 2015, at 03:25 PM, Haines Brown wrote: > > > LMDE 2 is Jessie-based while retaining sysvinit. > > I get the impression that Linux Mint is only holding off on systemd > because it is shaky. When it settles down, it will head in that > direction. Does this mean abandoning upstart? >

Re: udev rule for my usb stick

2015-06-10 Thread Michael Soulier
On 2015-06-09 4:22 PM, deloptes wrote: ls -a /dev/disk/by-id/ or uuid is an option if you want predictable name, no? I suppose, but I'd like to know why working through udev isn't working. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-10 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 10 June 2015 23:01:06 Ric Moore wrote: > On 06/10/2015 05:44 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Wednesday 10 June 2015 22:39:36 Ric Moore wrote: > >> On 06/10/2015 03:45 PM, Bret Busby wrote: > >>> On 11/06/2015, Nick T. wrote: > Oops, forgot to cc in the mailing list. > > -

Re: combine key to output char with xmodmap

2015-06-10 Thread Emanuel Berg
Sven Arvidsson writes: >> How can I change this line >> >> xmodmap -e 'keycode 66=0xe2' # rebind key: CAPS (66) -> â (0xe2) >> >> so that doesn't happen on CAPS alone (66), but >> instead (and only) on M-CAPS (here, M == Alt_L)? >> >> xev tells me M/Alt_L has has keycode 64. > > I'm not su

Re: forum help

2015-06-10 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 10 June 2015 21:46:29 bcp wrote: > I didn't know quite where to send this. I was trying to get onto the > forum to get hardware help. The problem is I recall neither my password > nor my username, but the system still has my email registered so I can't > submit a new registration. H

Re: httpd virtual package

2015-06-10 Thread Bob Proulx
Anatoly A. Kazantsev wrote: > P.S: I'm not on the list, please keep me CCed Will do. > I'm trying to install owncloud with lighttpd on stable release Noting that Stable is Jessie 8 at this time. > Depends: apache2 | httpd, fonts-font-awesome, fonts-liberation, Either apache2 or httpd will be n

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-10 Thread Ric Moore
On 06/10/2015 05:44 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Wednesday 10 June 2015 22:39:36 Ric Moore wrote: On 06/10/2015 03:45 PM, Bret Busby wrote: On 11/06/2015, Nick T. wrote: Oops, forgot to cc in the mailing list. - Nick On 06/10/2015 09:19 PM, Nick T. wrote: Install build-essential it should cont

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-10 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 10 June 2015 22:39:36 Ric Moore wrote: > On 06/10/2015 03:45 PM, Bret Busby wrote: > > On 11/06/2015, Nick T. wrote: > >> Oops, forgot to cc in the mailing list. > >> > >> - Nick > >> > >> On 06/10/2015 09:19 PM, Nick T. wrote: > >>> Install build-essential it should contain all the p

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-10 Thread Ric Moore
On 06/10/2015 03:45 PM, Bret Busby wrote: On 11/06/2015, Nick T. wrote: Oops, forgot to cc in the mailing list. - Nick On 06/10/2015 09:19 PM, Nick T. wrote: Install build-essential it should contain all the packages necessary to install the driver. Also you might want to install dkms if you

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-10 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 10 June 2015 22:13:21 Bret Busby wrote: > On 11/06/2015, Nick T. wrote: > > nomodeset goes inside the quotes derp :P > > > > GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet nomodeset" > > > > - Nick > > > > On 06/10/2015 11:23 PM, Bret Busby wrote: > >> On 11/06/2015, Nick T. wrote: > >>> Edit /et

Re: [OT] Is Devuan a hoax?

2015-06-10 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 10 June 2015 22:25:48 Haines Brown wrote: > On Mon, Jun 08, 2015 at 05:07:18PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Monday 08 June 2015 17:00:31 pjw wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 8, 2015, at 08:41 AM, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > > > > > > LMDE 2 is Jessie-based while retaining sysvinit. > > I get

Re: [OT] Is Devuan a hoax?

2015-06-10 Thread Haines Brown
On Mon, Jun 08, 2015 at 05:07:18PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Monday 08 June 2015 17:00:31 pjw wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 8, 2015, at 08:41 AM, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > > LMDE 2 is Jessie-based while retaining sysvinit. I get the impression that Linux Mint is only holding off on systemd because i

Re: adding network printer

2015-06-10 Thread notoneofmyseeds
On 06/10/2015 03:35 PM, Brian wrote: Just to be clear on how you solved your problem: was it by installing the Debian cups-backend-bjnp package or by following the advice at the link given? I used the directions on the link provided earlier in this thread. This link: http://setdosa.blogspot.se

Re: adding network printer

2015-06-10 Thread notoneofmyseeds
On 06/10/2015 12:51 PM, Petter Adsen wrote: Lists the Pixma MX850 support as "Complete" with "All resolutions supported (up to 2400DPI). Flatbed, ADF simplex and Duplex supported." over both USB and Ethernet, with the pixma backend (see the "sane-pixma" manpage). So that should work out-of-the-b

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-10 Thread Bret Busby
On 11/06/2015, Nick T. wrote: > nomodeset goes inside the quotes derp :P > > GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet nomodeset" > > - Nick > > On 06/10/2015 11:23 PM, Bret Busby wrote: >> On 11/06/2015, Nick T. wrote: >>> Edit /etc/default/grub as root and append nomodeset to >>> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEF

forum help

2015-06-10 Thread bcp
I didn't know quite where to send this. I was trying to get onto the forum to get hardware help. The problem is I recall neither my password nor my username, but the system still has my email registered so I can't submit a new registration. Is there any way to retrieve both my username and passw

Re: SOLVED Re: adding network printer SOLVED

2015-06-10 Thread notoneofmyseeds
On 06/10/2015 01:41 PM, Sven Arvidsson wrote: Another illustration of this: "Another effective [debugging] technique is to explain your code to someone else. This will often cause you to explain the bug to yourself. Sometimes it takes no more than a few sentences, followed by an embarrassed "Nev

Re: Nvidia vs AMD open source drivers

2015-06-10 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 09:45:07PM +0100, Terence wrote: > Hi, Andrew, > > If what you say is correct about Nvidia only allowing signed code in future > (and I have no doubt that you are correct) I, for one will break the habit > of a long time, and c

Re: Nvidia vs AMD open source drivers

2015-06-10 Thread Terence
Hi, Andrew, If what you say is correct about Nvidia only allowing signed code in future (and I have no doubt that you are correct) I, for one will break the habit of a long time, and cease buying NVIDIA cards. I had looked at their Shield as a tablet, but now... Terence On 10 June 2015 at 21:23

Re: changing from BIOS to GPT [RESOLVED]

2015-06-10 Thread Gary Dale
On 08/06/15 11:51 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 08/06/15 02:24 PM, Arno Schuring wrote: > Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2015 11:24:20 +0200 > From: geo...@nsup.org > > More precisely: a conforming UEFI firmware MUST be able to read FAT32 > partitions. It CAN be able to read other types: apple's implementation ca

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-10 Thread Nick T.
nomodeset goes inside the quotes derp :P GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet nomodeset" - Nick On 06/10/2015 11:23 PM, Bret Busby wrote: On 11/06/2015, Nick T. wrote: Edit /etc/default/grub as root and append nomodeset to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT save exit and run update-grub as root. - Nic

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-10 Thread Bret Busby
On 11/06/2015, Nick T. wrote: > Edit /etc/default/grub as root and append nomodeset to > GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT save exit and run update-grub as root. > > - Nick > > On 06/10/2015 10:55 PM, Bret Busby wrote: >> On 11/06/2015, Nick T. wrote: >>> Try adding nomodeset to the boot command if its

Re: Nvidia vs AMD open source drivers

2015-06-10 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 11/06/2015 4:02 AM, Dan wrote: > Thanks a lot for your answers. I can not use intel because the > provider of our company only proposes AMD or NVIDIA for the > workstations. > > I do not need a very fancy graphic card, I need something that > w

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-10 Thread Nick T.
Edit /etc/default/grub as root and append nomodeset to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT save exit and run update-grub as root. - Nick On 06/10/2015 10:55 PM, Bret Busby wrote: On 11/06/2015, Nick T. wrote: Try adding nomodeset to the boot command if its not already there, I had to add that to make

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-10 Thread Bret Busby
On 11/06/2015, Nick T. wrote: > Try adding nomodeset to the boot command if its not already there, I had > to add that to make the driver work. > This will probably make me seem even more stupid than I probably already appear, but, how do I do that? Thank you in anticipation. -- Bret Busby Arm

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-10 Thread Nick T.
Try adding nomodeset to the boot command if its not already there, I had to add that to make the driver work. - Nick On 06/10/2015 10:45 PM, Bret Busby wrote: On 11/06/2015, Nick T. wrote: Oops, forgot to cc in the mailing list. - Nick On 06/10/2015 09:19 PM, Nick T. wrote: Install build-

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-10 Thread Bret Busby
On 11/06/2015, Nick T. wrote: > Oops, forgot to cc in the mailing list. > > - Nick > > On 06/10/2015 09:19 PM, Nick T. wrote: >> Install build-essential it should contain all the packages necessary >> to install the driver. >> Also you might want to install dkms if you don't want to reinstall the

Re: Anybody know what the heck I use to read a .wps file?

2015-06-10 Thread Francisco M Neto
Also, http://filext.com/ On 06/10/2015 12:23 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 10 June 2015 10:50:53 Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 10 June 2015 10:49:11 Kent West wrote: On 06/10/2015 09:43 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: Anybody know what the heck I use to read a .wps file? I think .wps w

Re: Trying to install Adobe AIR

2015-06-10 Thread Siard
David Guyot: > Joel R. Frank: > > Has anyone successfully installed AdobeAIR? if so could I have some > > help please? New to Debian. > > Support of AIR under Linux has been stopped in 2011 by Adobe: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_AIR#Availability I successfully tried Wine to install the l

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-10 Thread Ric Moore
On 06/10/2015 02:48 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Wednesday 10 June 2015 19:36:18 Ric Moore wrote: Add "contrib" and "non-free" components to /etc/apt/sources.list, for example: # Debian 8 "Jessie" deb http://http.debian.net/debian/ jessie main contrib non-free When last heard Bret was using Squee

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-10 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 10 June 2015 19:36:18 Ric Moore wrote: > Add "contrib" and "non-free" components to /etc/apt/sources.list, for > example: > > # Debian 8 "Jessie" > deb http://http.debian.net/debian/ jessie main contrib non-free When last heard Bret was using Squeeze. I think he looked at Wheezy, but

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-10 Thread Ric Moore
On 06/10/2015 02:00 PM, Bret Busby wrote: I do not know why the hardware manufacturers make getting their hardware operational, so difficult. Are you using the nvidia run-file install or the non-free Debian nvidia installer? In the case of the run-file, it must have it's tools. Yes, you can

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-10 Thread Nick T.
Oops, forgot to cc in the mailing list. - Nick On 06/10/2015 09:19 PM, Nick T. wrote: Install build-essential it should contain all the packages necessary to install the driver. Also you might want to install dkms if you don't want to reinstall the driver after every kernel update. - Nick O

Re: Nvidia vs AMD open source drivers

2015-06-10 Thread Dan
On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 12:09 PM, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Wed, 2015-06-10 at 04:45 -0400, Ric Moore wrote: >> OK, for some cases ~it works~, but not ~all~ cases. So, enough with the >> warm fuzzies, here's actual benchmark comparison. >> >> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=nvi

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-10 Thread Bret Busby
On 11/06/2015, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Wednesday 10 June 2015 16:52:50 Bret Busby wrote: >> ERROR: Unable to find the development tool `cc` in your path; please >> make sure that you have the package 'gcc' installed. If gcc is >> installed on your system, then please check that `cc` is in your PAT

install on ASUS H61M MB with 0304 BIOS. It will let me install 8.0.0 or 8.1` but they leave the home folder empty and when booting, after the fsck I get 4.xxxx drive dis? (removed) by BIOS and the boo

2015-06-10 Thread Bob McKittrick

Re: Re: Cinnamon crashing on Stretch

2015-06-10 Thread Paul Anzel
No error messages in the Xorg log, but it does look like there's some ongoing bugs happening with Cinnamon. Hopefully they'll be resolved soon, in the meantime I'll try some of the other desktop environments. Thanks Sven, Darac, and Christoph for your advice! -- Paul Anzel Graduate Student in Ap

Re: Change for systemd the UUID of the home partition, how to?

2015-06-10 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 09 Jun 2015, Ken Heard wrote: > After some research I found file /etc/crypttab which contains a list > of the UUIDs for encrypted partitions, /home in my case. I thought it > would be a simple matter of changing the relevant UUID to the current > one. It is apparently not. Did you rebuild

Re: changing from BIOS to GPT

2015-06-10 Thread Nicolas George
Le decadi 20 prairial, an CCXXIII, Arno Schuring a écrit : > Ah, I did not know that the EFI spec didn't mandate FAT32 for the ESP. You did not read my mail correctly. > Well, default options are default options. Debian tools expect the ESP > to be mounted at /boot/efi. That's enough of a "should

Re: System hangs on Debian 7.6 and 7.8 when enabling Cluster on die (COD) with Intel Haswell and Broadwell processors

2015-06-10 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Tue, 2015-06-09 at 11:06 +, vincent...@mic.com.tw wrote: > Hi Debian-user, > > I got an issue – “System hangs on Debian 7.6 and 7.8 when enabling > Cluster on die (COD) with Intel Haswell and Broadwell processors”. > Does Debian 7.6 support Cluster on Die (COD) feature with Intel > processo

Re: Trying to install Adobe AIR

2015-06-10 Thread Jape Person
On 06/10/2015 10:43 AM, David Guyot wrote: Hello. Has anyone successfully installed AdobeAIR? if so could I have some help please? New to Debian. Support of AIR under Linux has been stopped in 2011 by Adobe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_AIR#Availability Regards. Yes, although Adobe

Re: Cinnamon crashing on Stretch

2015-06-10 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Could be https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=787345 . Cheers. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-10 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 10 June 2015 16:52:50 Bret Busby wrote: > ERROR: Unable to find the development tool `cc` in your path; please > make sure that you have the package 'gcc' installed.  If gcc is > installed on your system, then please check that `cc` is in your PATH. Have you done this? Start with: #

Re: Cinnamon crashing on Stretch

2015-06-10 Thread Darac Marjal
On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 08:15:03AM -0700, Paul Anzel wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I'm currently running Debian Stretch* and ran the usual apt-get > update/upgrade yesterday. Subsequently, when I tried rebooting my > machine Cinnamon keeps on crashing, giving me a prompt to go into > Fallback mode

Re: Cinnamon crashing on Stretch

2015-06-10 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Wed, 2015-06-10 at 08:15 -0700, Paul Anzel wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I'm currently running Debian Stretch* and ran the usual apt-get > update/upgrade yesterday. Subsequently, when I tried rebooting my > machine Cinnamon keeps on crashing, giving me a prompt to go into > Fallback mode (and if

Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-10 Thread Bret Busby
On 08/06/2015, David Wright wrote: > Quoting Bret Busby (bret.bu...@gmail.com): >> The telinit s command, whilst taking the computer to single user mode, >> unfortunately did not turn off the GUI, so I still got the same error. > > It would appear that there's some sort of disagreement over > term

Cinnamon crashing on Stretch

2015-06-10 Thread Paul Anzel
Hello everyone, I'm currently running Debian Stretch* and ran the usual apt-get update/upgrade yesterday. Subsequently, when I tried rebooting my machine Cinnamon keeps on crashing, giving me a prompt to go into Fallback mode (and if I tell it to restart Cinnamon, it just keeps on giving me the pr

Re: Anybody know what the heck I use to read a .wps file?

2015-06-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 10 June 2015 10:50:53 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 10 June 2015 10:49:11 Kent West wrote: > > On 06/10/2015 09:43 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > Anybody know what the heck I use to read a .wps file? > > > > I think .wps was a Microsoft Works file, from 15, 20 years ago, but > >

Re: Anybody know what the heck I use to read a .wps file?

2015-06-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 10 June 2015 10:49:11 Kent West wrote: > On 06/10/2015 09:43 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Anybody know what the heck I use to read a .wps file? > > I think .wps was a Microsoft Works file, from 15, 20 years ago, but I > also think maybe a few other apps may have used that extension al

Re: Anybody know what the heck I use to read a .wps file?

2015-06-10 Thread Kent West
On 06/10/2015 09:43 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: Anybody know what the heck I use to read a .wps file? I think .wps was a Microsoft Works file, from 15, 20 years ago, but I also think maybe a few other apps may have used that extension also. If it's just one file, I'd probably google for an online

Re: Trying to install Adobe AIR

2015-06-10 Thread David Guyot
Hello. > Has anyone successfully installed AdobeAIR? if so could I have some help > please? New to Debian. Support of AIR under Linux has been stopped in 2011 by Adobe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_AIR#Availability Regards. -- David Guyot Administrateur système, réseau et télécom / Sysad

Anybody know what the heck I use to read a .wps file?

2015-06-10 Thread Gene Heskett
Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Trying to install Adobe AIR

2015-06-10 Thread Joel R. Frank
Greetings all, Has anyone successfully installed AdobeAIR? if so could I have some help please? New to Debian. 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.or

Re: Change for systemd the UUID of the home partition, how to?

2015-06-10 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Tue, 2015-06-09 at 13:37 -0400, Ken Heard wrote: > On 2015-06-09 11:18, Ken Heard wrote: > > For reasons which I won't go into now my encrypted home partition was > > obliterated. (Yes, all the data thereon had been backed up.) I created > > a new one, but of course it does not have the same UU

Re: adding network printer

2015-06-10 Thread Brian
On Wed 10 Jun 2015 at 12:27:12 +0200, notoneofmy wrote: > On 15-06-09 8:15 PM, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > > Have you used this printer with lpd before? > > > > Everything I find on Google says it only speaks a proprietary protocol > > called bjnp. > > > > Which should be covered by the cups-backend-b

Re: usbkey: mount option gid=100

2015-06-10 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Mon, 2015-06-08 at 13:53 -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > I hosed a USB key, probably by pulling it out while files still being > copied to it. I'd like to recover the files. Googling "ext3 recovery" provides quite a few tips, for example: http://serverfault.com/questions/493091/how-to-recover-data

Re: unable to modify umask settings in wheezy 7.8

2015-06-10 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Mon, 2015-06-08 at 16:51 +0200, Fekete Tamás wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I use wheezy 7.8 on x86_64 architecture and I'm simply unable to modify the > umask settings of the system. I have read many webpages for solution (even > helps specified for debian) but didn't find the answer what to d

Re: combine key to output char with xmodmap

2015-06-10 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Wed, 2015-06-10 at 03:26 +0200, Emanuel Berg wrote: > How can I change this line > > xmodmap -e 'keycode 66=0xe2' # rebind key: CAPS (66) -> â (0xe2) > > so that doesn't happen on CAPS alone (66), but instead > (and only) on M-CAPS (here, M == Alt_L)? > > xev tells me M/Alt_L has has keyc

Re: SOLVED Re: adding network printer SOLVED

2015-06-10 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Wed, 2015-06-10 at 12:16 +0200, notoneofmy wrote: > And the hat's off to Sven Arvidsson for this really, truly, wonderful, > no hassle find. > > Awesome. I just printed the test page in less than 5 minutes. > > When you consider I spent, between two days, about 8 hours; this is > truly wonderf

Re: adding network printer

2015-06-10 Thread Petter Adsen
On Wed, 10 Jun 2015 12:27:12 +0200 notoneofmy wrote: > On 15-06-09 8:15 PM, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > > Have you used this printer with lpd before? > > > > Everything I find on Google says it only speaks a proprietary > > protocol called bjnp. > > > > Which should be covered by the cups-backend-bjn

Re: adding network printer

2015-06-10 Thread notoneofmy
On 15-06-09 8:15 PM, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > Have you used this printer with lpd before? > > Everything I find on Google says it only speaks a proprietary protocol > called bjnp. > > Which should be covered by the cups-backend-bjnp package. > > http://setdosa.blogspot.se/2009/02/setting-up-canon-pi

SOLVED Re: adding network printer SOLVED

2015-06-10 Thread notoneofmy
On 15-06-09 8:15 PM, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > Have you used this printer with lpd before? > > Everything I find on Google says it only speaks a proprietary protocol > called bjnp. > > Which should be covered by the cups-backend-bjnp package. > > http://setdosa.blogspot.se/2009/02/setting-up-canon-pi

Ive got new device can't get os on had work in perfect on previous device and lost tbt :(

2015-06-10 Thread Cyber Cypher
Hi sorry to bother u but lost need help and can't get for the life of me my new device to comply I had an leg of ultimate 2 I some how auto installed trusty alpha core if I said it right forsure alpha tho but snappy app won't leave my thinker alone in my explanation sry again but anyways I signed

Re: Nvidia vs AMD open source drivers

2015-06-10 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Wed, 2015-06-10 at 04:45 -0400, Ric Moore wrote: > OK, for some cases ~it works~, but not ~all~ cases. So, enough with the > warm fuzzies, here's actual benchmark comparison. > > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=nvidia_nouveau_utopic&num=1 > > As of October last year, the nv

Re: SO_REUSEPORT in wheezy backport kernel

2015-06-10 Thread basti
Thanks a lot, I have fixed it. I have try the packages from http://nginx.org/packages/mainline/debian/ wheezy nginx. After rebuild it from source with kernel 3.16 it works. Regards, Basti On 09.06.2015 15:35, Reco wrote: > On Tue, Jun 09, 2015 at 02:39:12PM +0200, basti wrote: >> Hello @all, >>

Re: Nvidia vs AMD open source drivers

2015-06-10 Thread Ric Moore
On 06/10/2015 03:01 AM, Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Tue, 2015-06-09 at 18:01 -0400, Ric Moore wrote: Which open source driver is better Nouveau or AMD open source driver? It ALL depends on your needs. If you want gaming, or multi-card/monitor support, with all the goodies turned on, you'll want th

Re: Nvidia vs AMD open source drivers

2015-06-10 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Tue, 2015-06-09 at 23:28 +0200, Dan wrote: > Hi, > I would live to buy a workstation and install Jessie. I would like to > use the open source drivers for the graphic card. What would you > recommend? My choices are Nvidia or AMD. > > I checked the Nvidia/Debian wiki and the Nouveau drivers see

Re: Nvidia vs AMD open source drivers

2015-06-10 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Tue, 2015-06-09 at 18:01 -0400, Ric Moore wrote: > > Which open source driver is better Nouveau or AMD open source driver? > It ALL depends on your needs. If you want gaming, or multi-card/monitor > support, with all the goodies turned on, you'll want the real drivers. > If you are just doing