Re: [jessie] how to use fonts from cm-super-x11 in X?

2015-07-15 Thread David Wright
Quoting D. R. Evans (doc.ev...@gmail.com): > Siard wrote on 07/15/2015 08:00 AM: > > D. R. Evans wrote: > >> The description of the package cm-super-x11 says: > >> "This package makes the cm-super fonts available to X11. This > >> package does not contain any fonts itself but allows one to reuse

Re: the State of Linux Audio

2015-07-15 Thread Joel Roth
Hi Martin, Martin G. McCormick wrote: > I'm the one who has been asking questions about getting an > old Dell Dimension mother board with an on-board CS4236 sound > card to work again after upgrading to wheezy. [] > This system also has no X-windows clients and thus is a > comma

Re: the State of Linux Audio

2015-07-15 Thread Martin G. McCormick
The audio FAQ on the debian wiki does say that sometimes support for certain sound cards is removed from new kernels due to licensing issues. It is always possible that this is what happened but since there is a module right there in the only 3.x kernal on this system, I think that it is mo

Re: Upgrade to Plasma desktop 5 - no window decorations

2015-07-15 Thread X
On Wed, Jul 15, 2015, at 09:23 PM, X wrote: > Hi, > > I just installed plasma desktop 5 (plasma-desktop) on my unstable Debian > GNU/Linux box after renaming .kde folder in my home and after I logged > in, I don't have the window decorations! Is it a separate package that I > need to install? I wa

Upgrade to Plasma desktop 5 - no window decorations

2015-07-15 Thread X
Hi, I just installed plasma desktop 5 (plasma-desktop) on my unstable Debian GNU/Linux box after renaming .kde folder in my home and after I logged in, I don't have the window decorations! Is it a separate package that I need to install? I was expecting it to be installed when getting plasma-deskt

Re: the State of Linux Audio

2015-07-15 Thread Martin G. McCormick
Nicolas George writes: > Le septidi 27 messidor, an CCXXIII, Lisi Reisz a e'crit : > > How are you getting these useful error meassages if sound isn't > working? Did > > oyu say atht you are sshing in from a working box? > > Usually, error messages are to be read on the screen. Martin wrote he r

Re: the State of Linux Audio

2015-07-15 Thread Dan Ritter
On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 11:56:45PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Wednesday 15 July 2015 22:19:36 Nicolas George wrote: > > Le septidi 27 messidor, an CCXXIII, Lisi Reisz a écrit : > > > But possibly the only ones he would be able to use. He is blind. If he > > > is not sshing in from a computer w

normalize-audio and video files

2015-07-15 Thread Emanuel Berg
Is there a program like normalize-audio only it works on mp4 (video) files as well? And .webm etc. But still what is to be normalized is the audio. -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "

Re: the State of Linux Audio

2015-07-15 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 15 July 2015 23:56:45 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Wednesday 15 July 2015 22:19:36 Nicolas George wrote: > > Le septidi 27 messidor, an CCXXIII, Lisi Reisz a écrit : > > > But possibly the only ones he would be able to use. He is blind. If > > > he is not sshing in from a computer with sou

Re: the State of Linux Audio

2015-07-15 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 15 July 2015 22:19:26 Martin Read wrote: > On 15/07/15 21:44, Nicolas George wrote: > > In my opinion, PulseAudio is only good for messing things up. The > > features it brings are of doubtful usefulness for most users and the > > brittleness and complexity it introduces are very real.

Re: the State of Linux Audio

2015-07-15 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 15 July 2015 22:19:36 Nicolas George wrote: > Le septidi 27 messidor, an CCXXIII, Lisi Reisz a écrit : > > But possibly the only ones he would be able to use. He is blind. If he > > is not sshing in from a computer with sound, he must have something like > > a braille display, and t

Re: Initrd and USB Keyboard

2015-07-15 Thread Stanislav Bocinec
Hello, i was also fighting with the same issue after upgrading to newer kernel. The wiki https://wiki.debian.org/Keyboard#How_to_enable_USB_keyboard_in_initramfs helped me to figure out the problem. In short: 1. identify all kernel modules your USB keyboard is using/depends on 2. add those modules

Re: the State of Linux Audio

2015-07-15 Thread Martin Read
On 15/07/15 21:44, Nicolas George wrote: In my opinion, PulseAudio is only good for messing things up. The features it brings are of doubtful usefulness for most users and the brittleness and complexity it introduces are very real. For a contrasting angle on this, I've found Debian with PA to b

Re: the State of Linux Audio

2015-07-15 Thread Nicolas George
Le septidi 27 messidor, an CCXXIII, Lisi Reisz a écrit : > But possibly the only ones he would be able to use. He is blind. If he is > not sshing in from a computer with sound, he must have something like a > braille display, and they are expensive and limiting. Hence my question. Once again

Re: Upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy Killed Sound on Dell Board.

2015-07-15 Thread Javier Barroso
On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 7:01 PM, Martin G. McCormick wrote: > Javier Barroso writes: >> There is a page on the wiki [1] where give you details about cs4236 >> devices on Debian (and why they were excluded from Distribution. I'm >> not sure if cs4236B is included. I hope it work too, > > I

Re: the State of Linux Audio

2015-07-15 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 15 July 2015 22:09:14 Nicolas George wrote: > Usually, error messages are to be read on the screen. Martin wrote he ran > commands and observed the output, we can deduce that the non-working sound > cards are definitely not the only output device available on this computer. But possib

Re: the State of Linux Audio

2015-07-15 Thread Nicolas George
Le septidi 27 messidor, an CCXXIII, Lisi Reisz a écrit : > How are you getting these useful error meassages if sound isn't working? Did > oyu say atht you are sshing in from a working box? Usually, error messages are to be read on the screen. Martin wrote he ran commands and observed the output,

Re: the State of Linux Audio

2015-07-15 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 15 July 2015 21:44:26 Nicolas George wrote: > If anything fails to work and does not print any useful error message, How are you getting these useful error meassages if sound isn't working? Did oyu say atht you are sshing in from a working box? Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to d

Re: the State of Linux Audio

2015-07-15 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 15 July 2015 20:44:14 Martin G. McCormick wrote: > one > of the neat things about Linux is that it isn't or at least > wasn't quite as picky about hardware. That was then. I used to laud that almost more than anything. Sadly no longer true. Though the kernel modules should still

Re: the State of Linux Audio

2015-07-15 Thread Nicolas George
Le septidi 27 messidor, an CCXXIII, Martin G. McCormick a écrit : > The only reason I put pulseaudio on here was way back > when I was running lenny and had no /dev/dsp. Someone suggested > installing pulseaudio. I did. /dev/dsp came back and life > marched on. This was a bad suggestion. /d

the State of Linux Audio

2015-07-15 Thread Martin G. McCormick
I'm the one who has been asking questions about getting an old Dell Dimension mother board with an on-board CS4236 sound card to work again after upgrading to wheezy. For years, I have had pulseaudio and alsa on this system and have also seen what I will describe as weirdness which

Re: Debian 8 best firewall-gui

2015-07-15 Thread Brian
On Wed 15 Jul 2015 at 18:29:45 +0200, Gábor Hársfalvi wrote: > I'd like to know which is the most workable firewall-gui with Debian 8 - > for using by users with basic knowledge. Basic knowledge of what? Filtering of ip packets? Or basic knowledge of Debian? The "basic knowledge" here appears to

Re: [jessie] how to use fonts from cm-super-x11 in X?

2015-07-15 Thread Siard
D. R. Evans wrote: > Siard wrote on 07/15/2015 08:00 AM: > > D. R. Evans wrote: > >> The description of the package cm-super-x11 says: > >> "This package makes the cm-super fonts available to X11. This > >> package does not contain any fonts itself but allows one to reuse > >> the cm-super fonts

Re: Debian 8 best firewall-gui

2015-07-15 Thread Jape Person
On 07/15/2015 12:29 PM, Gábor Hársfalvi wrote: Dear List! I'd like to know which is the most workable firewall-gui with Debian 8 - for using by users with basic knowledge. Thanks! I only know of two GUIs for firewall control in the main repositories for Jessie, gufw and fwbuilder. gufw is

Re: Upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy Killed Sound on Dell Board.

2015-07-15 Thread Martin G. McCormick
Javier Barroso writes: > There is a page on the wiki [1] where give you details about cs4236 > devices on Debian (and why they were excluded from Distribution. I'm > not sure if cs4236B is included. I hope it work too, I looked there and didn't see any documentation stating that the 423X s

Debian 8 best firewall-gui

2015-07-15 Thread Gábor Hársfalvi
Dear List! I'd like to know which is the most workable firewall-gui with Debian 8 - for using by users with basic knowledge. Thanks!

Re: anyone booting debian with secure boot enabled? And/or from GPT partitions?

2015-07-15 Thread Darac Marjal
On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 09:45:25AM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: > Last I heard, debian was not participating in any of the initiatives > to get officially microsoft-signed signatures for kernels. I've been > out of the community for a few months, so I haven't kept up with this, > but quick searches don'

[Bug] Dhclient gets hostname correctly on 64-bit Debian 8.0, but not on 32-bit

2015-07-15 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Hi, I've had some weird problems with central hostname management. After a week of pulling out my hair, I can say definitely that I've found a bug. I'm fiddling with two different Debian sandbox PC's. They don't have any 'hardcoded' hostname definition, only 'localhost' in /etc/hostname and 'loca

Re: [jessie] how to use fonts from cm-super-x11 in X?

2015-07-15 Thread D. R. Evans
Siard wrote on 07/15/2015 08:00 AM: > D. R. Evans wrote: >> The description of the package cm-super-x11 says: >> "This package makes the cm-super fonts available to X11. This >> package does not contain any fonts itself but allows one to reuse the >> cm-super fonts as X11 screen fonts." >> >> Nic

Re: anyone booting debian with secure boot enabled? And/or from GPT partitions?

2015-07-15 Thread Bret Busby
On 15/07/2015, Bret Busby wrote: > On 15/07/2015, Joel Rees wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 7:54 PM, Bret Busby wrote: >>> On 15/07/2015, Joel Rees wrote: Last I heard, debian was not participating in any of the initiatives to get officially microsoft-signed signatures for kernels.

Re: anyone booting debian with secure boot enabled? And/or from GPT partitions?

2015-07-15 Thread Bret Busby
On 15/07/2015, Joel Rees wrote: > On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 7:54 PM, Bret Busby wrote: >> On 15/07/2015, Joel Rees wrote: >>> Last I heard, debian was not participating in any of the initiatives >>> to get officially microsoft-signed signatures for kernels. I've been >>> out of the community for a

In-Reply-To=<558e8105.5030...@iwakd.de>&Subject=Re:%20Re:%20auto-mount%20NFS%20shares%20on%20boot

2015-07-15 Thread n n
Hi there, trying to mount nfs-shares at boot I have exactly the problem mentioned by Christian: > - On some systems with static IP addresses (and > /etc/network/interfaces), I had the problem that even though the > interface was conisdered up and ready by the kernel, the switch it >

[SOLVED] Re: bug? laptop-mode-tools - mouse turns off after 3s of inactivity after last update

2015-07-15 Thread Hans
>Sounds like usb-autosuspend, at a glance. >I noticed that the commented line listing usb-autosuspend as a valid >option for one of the settings in /etc/laptop-mode/laptop-mode.conf >disappeared with the most recent update to that package, but I didn't >notice anything in the changelogs that would

Re: [jessie] how to use fonts from cm-super-x11 in X?

2015-07-15 Thread Siard
D. R. Evans wrote: > The description of the package cm-super-x11 says: > "This package makes the cm-super fonts available to X11. This > package does not contain any fonts itself but allows one to reuse the > cm-super fonts as X11 screen fonts." > > Nice, but how does one actually use these font

Re: anyone booting debian with secure boot enabled? And/or from GPT partitions?

2015-07-15 Thread Joel Rees
On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 7:54 PM, Bret Busby wrote: > On 15/07/2015, Joel Rees wrote: >> Last I heard, debian was not participating in any of the initiatives >> to get officially microsoft-signed signatures for kernels. I've been >> out of the community for a few months, so I haven't kept up with

Re: Flash update

2015-07-15 Thread Curt
On 2015-07-15, Pete Orrall wrote: > > I did find this here yesterday: > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/07/14/firefox_blocks_flash/ > > Maybe this helps? > https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsa15-04.html https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb15-18.htm

Re: Flash update

2015-07-15 Thread Pete Orrall
Mozilla has blocked Flash from its web browsers due to security threats. I am prompted to allow the use of Flash on each Flash-enabled website I visit. - this is on *all* my Debian and Windows 7 workstations at home and at work. I did find this here yesterday: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/0

Re: Flash update

2015-07-15 Thread steef
agreed. steef Op 15-07-15 07:04, Rob van der Putten schreef: Hi there Curt wrote: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/blocked/p948 A rather fuzzy statement. Regards, Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: anyone booting debian with secure boot enabled? And/or from GPT partitions?

2015-07-15 Thread Bret Busby
On 15/07/2015, Joel Rees wrote: > Last I heard, debian was not participating in any of the initiatives > to get officially microsoft-signed signatures for kernels. I've been > out of the community for a few months, so I haven't kept up with this, > but quick searches don't reveal a change in polic

Re: Flash update

2015-07-15 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there Curt wrote: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/blocked/p948 A rather fuzzy statement. Regards, Rob -- ISDS is evil. Abolish ISDS. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org