Re: Libre graphics could become the standard if we push right now

2016-01-23 Thread Stefan Monnier
> * OpenRISC [3] > 32 bit (these days 64 bit). LGPL. There are a few FPGA based > implementations and some specialist "real silicon" implementations, > AFAIK one on board of ISS. No idea whether one can buy "real > silicon" (at least as mere mortal). You definitely can. At least in a roun

Re: wodim "Cannot open SCSI driver!"

2016-01-23 Thread Emanuel Berg
"Thomas Schmitt" writes: > Bad news is that you will probably have to get > a new burner. I have suspected a hardware error as well. Is there any way to confirm this? Strange thing tho I recently burned an ISO DVD movie to a DVD with no problem. I'm used to things in the computer world either w

Re: How to build Debian-based wireless router

2016-01-23 Thread debian
Hi GC On 22.01.2016 06:19, GC wrote: > There's a lot of great tutorials on how to build your own router (wired) but > I can't seem to find anything that covers steps on how to build your own > wireless router? > Anyone have some advice on this topic or can share some articles, > step-by-step t

Re: How to build Debian-based wireless router

2016-01-23 Thread Stuart Longland
On 22/01/16 15:19, GC wrote: > There's a lot of great tutorials on how to build your own router (wired) but > I can't seem to find anything that covers steps on how to build your own > wireless router? > Anyone have some advice on this topic or can share some articles, > step-by-step tutorials,

Re: rpcbind-0.23 & Jessie

2016-01-23 Thread Saša Janiška
On Sub, 2016-01-23 at 12:17 +, Brian wrote: > Does she really need to have rpcbind? If not I'd purge it from the > system. Problem solved. :) There is something else in action, but didn't have time to investigate before returning netbook to the owner. Sincerely, Gour --  There is no possib

Re: rpcbind-0.23 & Jessie

2016-01-23 Thread Saša Janiška
On Sub, 2016-01-23 at 12:21 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > Does your wife use NFS on her netbook?  If not, you can probably just > uninstall rpcbind. That's good advice...however, it seems it's not enough. Anyway, the netbook is delivered and let me see if there are complaints in regard. :-) > It

Re: Is anybody Running Debian on Acer Aspire E5-571G

2016-01-23 Thread Karagkiaouris Diamantis
Hello, I can't understand the problem. Netinstall interrupts due to missing rt2800 package? Also in case you are not aware of it there are also builds that have already non free firmware drivers. But they are unofficial: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmw

Re: Aptitude message.

2016-01-23 Thread Weaver
On 2016-01-22 21:49, Brian wrote: On Fri 22 Jan 2016 at 20:55:05 +1000, Weaver wrote: Am receiving this on 'aptitude update'. ~~ root@Telaman:/home/weaver# aptitude update Hit http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian unstable InRelease [ ERR] Reading package lists E: Unable to parse pack

Re: Is anybody Running Debian on Acer Aspire E5-571G

2016-01-23 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 23 January 2016 10:36:50 jdd wrote: > Le 23/01/2016 11:13, Jonas Hedman a écrit : > >> The DVDs contain free software only. > > > > I apologize in advance for my ignorance but is this really true > > regarding the Linux kernel? (blobs?) > > as far as I know, this is Debian specific (not

Re: rpcbind-0.23 & Jessie

2016-01-23 Thread Brian
On Sat 23 Jan 2016 at 11:43:29 +0100, Saša Janiška wrote: > I put a fresh Jessie on the netbook of my wife's friend. She had some > ancient Linux Mint and now it is going to be her first experience with > Debian...everything is fine except the problem with rpcbind-0.21 which > is visible during th

Re: rpcbind-0.23 & Jessie

2016-01-23 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2016-01-23 11:43 +0100, Saša Janiška wrote: > I put a fresh Jessie on the netbook of my wife's friend. She had some > ancient Linux Mint and now it is going to be her first experience with > Debian...everything is fine except the problem with rpcbind-0.21 which > is visible during the boot (fir

rpcbind-0.23 & Jessie

2016-01-23 Thread Saša Janiška
Hello, I put a fresh Jessie on the netbook of my wife's friend. She had some ancient Linux Mint and now it is going to be her first experience with Debian...everything is fine except the problem with rpcbind-0.21 which is visible during the boot (first-time experience) and explained here: https:/

Re: Is anybody Running Debian on Acer Aspire E5-571G

2016-01-23 Thread jdd
Le 23/01/2016 11:13, Jonas Hedman a écrit : The DVDs contain free software only. I apologize in advance for my ignorance but is this really true regarding the Linux kernel? (blobs?) as far as I know, this is Debian specific (not only Debian, but other Debian alike may no have the same), and

Re: Is anybody Running Debian on Acer Aspire E5-571G

2016-01-23 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 23 January 2016 10:13:44 Jonas Hedman wrote: > On 16-01-15 14:27:54, Brian wrote: > > On Fri 15 Jan 2016 at 08:53:46 -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > > I ran a netinst installation so no didn't have the nonfree rt2800 > > > package earlier. Anyone know which debian dvd that package live

Re: Is anybody Running Debian on Acer Aspire E5-571G

2016-01-23 Thread Jonas Hedman
On 16-01-15 14:27:54, Brian wrote: > On Fri 15 Jan 2016 at 08:53:46 -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > > I ran a netinst installation so no didn't have the nonfree rt2800 package > > earlier. Anyone know which debian dvd that package lives on? I may be able > > to install debian with the first dvd

Re: Libre graphics could become the standard if we push right now

2016-01-23 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 11:15:19PM +0100, jdd wrote: > Le 22/01/2016 17:34, Alberto Salvia Novella a écrit : > >libre hardware. > that's far from new > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_hardware > > http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-hardwa

Re: wodim "Cannot open SCSI driver!"

2016-01-23 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Emanuel Berg wrote: > http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/wodim_log where i read > Executing 'test unit ready' command on Bus 1 Target 0, Lun 0 timeout 200s > CDB: 00 00 00 00 00 00 > Errno: 5 (Input/output error), test unit ready scsi sendcmd: no error > CDB: 00 00 00 00 00 00 > status: 0x2 (C

Re: Books Inquiry

2016-01-23 Thread jdd
Le 22/01/2016 10:24, Adam Wilson a écrit : multi-arch ISO- it just has the installer packages for both i386 and amd64 on one disc, so it is misleading to say it 'works on both'. Rather, it has packages for either. yes. Try the 64 bits, it will say if it can't install... and you can use the 32