Re: Subject: I can't get 1920x1080 resolution on my monitor: How find the name of the output for a "default" setup? (New Jessie install) Why does xrandr use the word "default" instead of something l

2016-08-15 Thread rhkramer
Update: Ok, problem solved--I found the page "AMD/ATI Open Source Drivers (radeon, r128, mach64)" (https://wiki.debian.org/AtiHowTo), followed the instructions there, rebooted, and voila. I guess the package that was missing was the "firmware-linux-nonfree". I'm still curious about some of the

Subject: I can't get 1920x1080 resolution on my monitor: How find the name of the output for a "default" setup? (New Jessie install) Why does xrandr use the word "default" instead of something like

2016-08-15 Thread rhkramer
Subject: I can't get 1920x1080 resolution on my monitor: How find the name of the output for a "default" setup? (New Jessie install) Why does xrandr use the word "default" instead of something like VGA-0? What is "xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default" telling me-- is it a

Re: Keeping firefox up to date

2016-08-15 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 14:44:58 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 15 August 2016 11:23:17 Curt wrote: > > > On 2016-08-15, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > >> No problem. I didn't realise that 'release' was not available on > > >> wheezy. That is slightly worrying as it suggests that a time will > >

Re: Keeping firefox up to date

2016-08-15 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 15:23:17 + (UTC) Curt wrote: > On 2016-08-15, Patrick Bartek wrote: > >> > >> No problem. I didn't realise that 'release' was not available on > >> wheezy. That is slightly worrying as it suggests that a time will > >> come when esr is no longer available either on wheez

Re: Quiet gaming capable gfx card for Debian Sid

2016-08-15 Thread Eduard Bloch
Hallo, * Floris [Sun, Aug 14 2016, 11:08:49AM]: > Op Sat, 13 Aug 2016 20:54:51 +0200 schreef Eduard Bloch : > > > Hallo, > > > > I would like to spend some hours on a normal game without having to > > reboot into Windows. I have a Steam account and some Linux games are > > available (at least som

Re: LibreOffice calc - slowdown

2016-08-15 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, On Sat, Aug 13, 2016 at 05:35:36PM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > Since v5.1.5 (I think, may have been 5.1.4) LibreOffice Calc has > exhibited a marked slowdown here. I can load a quite simple > spreadsheet LO takes an appreciable time (ten or more seconds) to load > and parse it before I can pe

Re: Quiet gaming capable gfx card for Debian Sid

2016-08-15 Thread Eduard Bloch
Hallo, * Stefan Monnier [Sat, Aug 13 2016, 03:26:27PM]: > > drivers basically broken, or you can buy some 3 year old hardware for > > insane prices, or what else can a normal gamer do? > > Hmmm... my experience with (2nd hand) 3 year old hardware is that it's > rather cheap, yet I don't think that

Re: Upgrade Your Mailbox Quota!!! (OT)

2016-08-15 Thread Siard
limpia: > Siard: > > Hundreds, if not thousands, of spam messages a day hit the Debian > > servers. Occasionally, a few slip through the filters. You'd better > > just ignore them. > > Yes I know, there is to many, and if it is obvious it is spam , > I do ignore them . > On this one it say my

Re: Spam 101 on Debian-User (was: Upgrade Your Mailbox Quota!!!)

2016-08-15 Thread Reco
On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 14:21:50 -0500 limpia wrote: > On 2016-08-15 12:31, Account-services wrote: > > Avoid [debian-user@lists.debian.org] suspension > > > Text cut, but I am sure every one has seen it, Of course not. Those of us who use real e-mail clients don't see spam usually. Even if it fall

Re: Problems with Lenovo ThinkPad e550, Please help!

2016-08-15 Thread Joe
On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 21:16:11 +0200 Nicolas George wrote: > Le nonidi 29 thermidor, an CCXXIV, Yousif AL-Torki a écrit : > > 1) caps lock key has no LED & no option to make indicator to be > > seen on screen to indicate caps lock key whether on or off. There > > is "Caps Lock Indicator" on Ubuntu

Re: Upgrade Your Mailbox Quota!!!

2016-08-15 Thread John Hasler
limpia writes: > On 2016-08-15 12:31, Account-services wrote: > Avoid [debian-user@lists.debian.org] suspension > > Text cut, but I am sure every one has seen it, No. Some of us have spam filters. What are the headers? > Please forgive me if this sounds stupid, but I am not > sure, Is this for

Re: Upgrade Your Mailbox Quota!!!

2016-08-15 Thread Charlie Kravetz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 14:21:50 -0500 limpia wrote: >On 2016-08-15 12:31, Account-services wrote: >> Avoid [debian-user@lists.debian.org] suspension >> >Text cut, but I am sure every one has seen it, > >Please forgive me if this sounds stupid, but

Re: Upgrade Your Mailbox Quota!!! (OT)

2016-08-15 Thread limpia
On 2016-08-15 14:31, Siard wrote: On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 14:21:50 -0500, limpia wrote: On 2016-08-15 12:31, Account-services wrote: > Avoid [debian-user@lists.debian.org] suspension > Text cut, but I am sure every one has seen it, Please forgive me if this sounds stupid, but I am not sure, Is this

Re: Upgrade Your Mailbox Quota!!!

2016-08-15 Thread Siard
On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 14:21:50 -0500, limpia wrote: > On 2016-08-15 12:31, Account-services wrote: > > Avoid [debian-user@lists.debian.org] suspension > > > Text cut, but I am sure every one has seen it, > > Please forgive me if this sounds stupid, but I am not sure, Is > this for real ? Do we need

Re: Upgrade Your Mailbox Quota!!!

2016-08-15 Thread limpia
On 2016-08-15 12:31, Account-services wrote: Avoid [debian-user@lists.debian.org] suspension Text cut, but I am sure every one has seen it, Please forgive me if this sounds stupid, but I am not sure, Is this for real ? Do we need to do this, ? Why is the link not for debian-user@lists.debian.o

Re: Problems with Lenovo ThinkPad e550, Please help!

2016-08-15 Thread Nicolas George
Le nonidi 29 thermidor, an CCXXIV, Yousif AL-Torki a écrit : > 1) caps lock key has no LED & no option to make indicator to be seen on > screen to indicate caps lock key whether on or off. There is "Caps Lock > Indicator" on Ubuntu but it is not available on Debian repositories. Only > Debian with

Problems with Lenovo ThinkPad e550, Please help!

2016-08-15 Thread Yousif AL-Torki
Hi. I'm new user for Linux. I bought new laptop to install Debian 8.5 XFCE on it as single OS. I try Debian X 64 XFCE as live USB OS. I have following problems: 1) caps lock key has no LED & no option to make indicator to be seen on screen to indicate caps lock key whether on or off. There is "Ca

Re: Keeping firefox up to date

2016-08-15 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 15 August 2016 11:23:17 Curt wrote: > On 2016-08-15, Patrick Bartek wrote: > >> No problem. I didn't realise that 'release' was not available on > >> wheezy. That is slightly worrying as it suggests that a time will > >> come when esr is no longer available either on wheezy. In the > >>

Re: Compiling Canon LiDE 220 driver from source

2016-08-15 Thread Brian
On Mon 15 Aug 2016 at 19:05:55 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Monday 15 August 2016 14:25:58 Brian wrote: > > A good guide to backporting is at > > > >   https://raphaelhertzog.com/2010/12/15/howto-to-rebuild-debian-packages/ > > > > A deb-src line in sources.list for unstable is needed to do > > >

Re: Compiling Canon LiDE 220 driver from source

2016-08-15 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 15 August 2016 14:25:58 Brian wrote: > A good guide to backporting is at > >   https://raphaelhertzog.com/2010/12/15/howto-to-rebuild-debian-packages/ > > A deb-src line in sources.list for unstable is needed to do > >   apt-get source libsane-common/unstable > > Then > >   apt-get build-

Re: Keeping firefox up to date

2016-08-15 Thread Daniel Bareiro
On 14/08/16 19:00, Daniel Bareiro wrote: > It seems that "release" is the only version available for Wheezy and it > is available in the standard "security" repository for Wheezy, so it > wouldn't be necessary to add some other repository. Sorry, when I said "release" I wanted to say "Firefox 45

Re: Compiling Canon LiDE 220 driver from source

2016-08-15 Thread Brian
On Mon 15 Aug 2016 at 15:47:00 +0200, didier gaumet wrote: > Le 15/08/2016 à 15:25, Brian a écrit : > [...] > > I reckon the second approach will not work because the libraries need > > an adjustment too. > > I plead guilty: Lisi just confirmed your point of view, In computer > science, crime (of

Re: Keeping firefox up to date

2016-08-15 Thread Curt
On 2016-08-15, Patrick Bartek wrote: >> >> No problem. I didn't realise that 'release' was not available on >> wheezy. That is slightly worrying as it suggests that a time will >> come when esr is no longer available either on wheezy. In the >> meantime, Gene won't have to add new respositories t

Re: Keeping firefox up to date

2016-08-15 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 11:02:20 +0100 Liam O'Toole wrote: > On 2016-08-14, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Sunday 14 August 2016 21:19:55 Daniel Bareiro wrote: > >> On 14/08/16 16:40, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> > Greetings all; > >> > >> Hi, Gene. > >> > >> > It seems the mozilla.wheezy-backports link has b

Re: Decentralized reliable instant messaging?

2016-08-15 Thread Darac Marjal
On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 10:49:59PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: I'm looking for a decentralized instant message system (e.g. XMPP, SIP, ...) where I can be sure that I receive all messages, even if I'm not connected when the message is sent [ Obviously, I'll only receive them when I'm back online

Re: MySQL access denied for user

2016-08-15 Thread Florian Pelgrim
Hi, I assume that you installed mysql from repository and did not alter the configuration. Login with root into mysql and then: 1. create your drupal database # create database drupal; 2. create a user account for it # create user 'drupal_user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'some_random_stuff_here'

Re: MySQL access denied for user

2016-08-15 Thread limpia
On 2016-08-15 04:54, Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2016-08-15, Bill Wohler wrote: I'm getting the following: $ mysql -h localhost -u user Enter password: ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'user'@'localhost' (using password: YES) This user was created with a fresh installation

Re: Compiling Canon LiDE 220 driver from source

2016-08-15 Thread didier gaumet
Le 15/08/2016 à 15:25, Brian a écrit : [...] > I reckon the second approach will not work because the libraries need > an adjustment too. I plead guilty: Lisi just confirmed your point of view, In computer science, crime (of lazyness) does not (always) pay ;-) thanks for your input, Brian, I did

Re: Compiling Canon LiDE 220 driver from source

2016-08-15 Thread Brian
On Mon 15 Aug 2016 at 14:23:36 +0200, didier gaumet wrote: > Le 15/08/2016 à 12:42, Lisi Reisz a écrit : > > > Thanks, didier. That is nice to know. > > > > So it should be in the up-to-date tar ball, if I were to succeed in sorting > > that out. But are you suggesting that I would do better

Re: Compiling Canon LiDE 220 driver from source

2016-08-15 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 15 August 2016 13:23:36 didier gaumet wrote: > Le 15/08/2016 à 12:42, Lisi Reisz a écrit : > > Thanks, didier. That is nice to know. > > > > So it should be in the up-to-date tar ball, if I were to succeed in > > sorting that out. But are you suggesting that I would do better to > > bac

A menu problem - was " "

2016-08-15 Thread Richard Owlett
On 8/14/2016 5:03 PM, Seckin Cinar wrote: I am having a problem with the menu. it doesnt seems to be showing my applications on it. I didnt remember what I have done to do that. all my files and applications is installed but the menu seems like looking somewhere else. no files is shown in it Mi

Re: Decentralized reliable instant messaging?

2016-08-15 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 10:49:59PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > I'm looking for a decentralized instant message system (e.g. XMPP, SIP, > ...) where I can be sure that I receive all messages, even if I'm not > connected when the message is sent [ Obviously, I'll only receive them > when I'm back

Re: Compiling Canon LiDE 220 driver from source

2016-08-15 Thread didier gaumet
Le 15/08/2016 à 12:42, Lisi Reisz a écrit : > Thanks, didier. That is nice to know. > > So it should be in the up-to-date tar ball, if I were to succeed in sorting > that out. But are you suggesting that I would do better to backport from > Stretch? I had decided that the tar ball would be s

Re: Compiling Canon LiDE 220 driver from source

2016-08-15 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 15 August 2016 08:52:15 didier gaumet wrote: > Le 15/08/2016 à 00:13, Lisi Reisz a écrit : > > Although Canon LiDE 220 > > [...] > > > lisi@Eros:~$ lsusb | grep Canon > > Bus 001 Device 003: ID 04a9:190f Canon, Inc. > > lisi@Eros:~$ grep 190f /etc/sane.d/genesys.conf > > > > Having little

Re: Keeping firefox up to date

2016-08-15 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-08-14, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Sunday 14 August 2016 21:19:55 Daniel Bareiro wrote: >> On 14/08/16 16:40, Gene Heskett wrote: >> > Greetings all; >> >> Hi, Gene. >> >> > It seems the mozilla.wheezy-backports link has been nuked. Can anyone >> > tell me where to get the latest FF for wheezy?

Re: Keeping firefox up to date

2016-08-15 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-08-15, Gene Heskett wrote: [...] > Some where about 6 weeks back I wound up with both, and I don't seem > to be able to make the -esr version work as default, it runs the > 47.0.1 version anyway. But wheezy is stuck on the older version. And > I don't care which is running, 5 minutes o

Re: MySQL access denied for user

2016-08-15 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-08-15, Bill Wohler wrote: > I'm getting the following: > > $ mysql -h localhost -u user > Enter password: > ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'user'@'localhost' (using > password: YES) > > This user was created with a fresh installation of mysql as (mysql) root > wit

Re: iso verification: results - successful but still bewildered

2016-08-15 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i wrote: > > Your file yielded two blanks on this shell command > > dd if="/dev/sdb" bs=2048 skip=16 count=1 | > > dd bs=1 count=6 | od -x | head -1 | \ > > awk '{print $2 " " $3 " " $4}' Andrew F Comly wrote: > Do you mean that you want me to try out these commands? Not necessarily. On the

Re: mail problem

2016-08-15 Thread Karol Augustin
On 2016-08-13 16:01, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > Ok, now I know it is not my box sending mail, as I diconnected it from > the network, and received about 50 of those mails with shown time > while it was not on the net. > I will not worry about them, and kill them. > Thank you It's nothing more you

Re: Compiling Canon LiDE 220 driver from source

2016-08-15 Thread didier gaumet
Le 15/08/2016 à 00:13, Lisi Reisz a écrit : > Although Canon LiDE 220 [...] > lisi@Eros:~$ lsusb | grep Canon > Bus 001 Device 003: ID 04a9:190f Canon, Inc. > lisi@Eros:~$ grep 190f /etc/sane.d/genesys.conf > > Having little faith, I cat-ed /etc/sane.d/genesys.conf, and the 220 driver > was > i

Re: MySQL access denied for user

2016-08-15 Thread Joe
On Sun, 14 Aug 2016 22:17:12 -0700 Bill Wohler wrote: > Bill Wohler wrote: > > > I'm getting the following: > > > > $ mysql -h localhost -u user > > Enter password: > > ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user > > 'user'@'localhost' (using password: YES) > > > > This user was c