David Wright composed on 2017-03-13 23:43 (UTC-0500):
Another oddity is that dmesg always says (both then and now):
[drm] Loading R300 Microcode
radeon :01:00.0: firmware: failed to load radeon/R300_cp.bin (-2)
radeon :01:00.0: Direct firmware load failed with error -2
radeon :01:00.
David Wright composed on 2017-03-13 23:43 (UTC-0500):
When you say get rid of drivers, is that just things like
xserver-xorg-video-foo, or do you also mean things like
kernel modules?
1-In the context of only FOSS in use, I had only Xorg in mind.
2-In the context of proprietary drivers having
On Mon 13 Mar 2017 at 19:30:32 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote:
> Simplest way to use is purge all traces of Intel, proprietary and
> AMD/ATI drivers, install xserver-xorg-video-modesetting, then
> restart.
When you say get rid of drivers, is that just things like
xserver-xorg-video-foo, or do you als
Catherine Gramze composed on 2017-03-14 02:18 (UTC):
As I mentioned in my first post, it is a display issue. The BIOS boot screen
never displays, nor does any of the boot sequence, when using the Radeon R9
270X card. Forcing it into the BIOS setup won't make it display the screen
it can't displa
On Sun 12 Mar 2017 at 17:57:19 (+0900), Mark Fletcher wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 02:09:22AM +, Shahryar Afifi wrote:
> >
> > why o why...
> > why debian keeps getting fancier like other operating system.
> > debian is a linux machine, not some toy like apple.
> > we dont need gnome 3 tak
On 03/13/2017 07:12 AM, Dan Ritter wrote:
... we need image backups over the network to the server.
Clonezilla?
David
On 03/13/2017 05:38 AM, Dan Purgert wrote:
Currently, the system here is
- every PC has a cronjob backing up $HOME to a central "server" (read -
repurposed PC with decent WD drives), just an rsync script that runs
daily.
Don't forget security:
1. With a "push" arrangement (e.g. each w
On Mon 13 Mar 2017 at 11:35:31 (-0500), Charles E. Blair wrote:
>I have been using claws-mail for several years. After
> I changed the server used for sending mail, receiving has
> continued to work but not sending.
>
>When I closed claws-mail after a failure, my screen
> displayed
>
> >
On 03/13/2017 02:01 AM, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 10:00:45PM -0800, David Christensen wrote:
I'd always put a step 0) in there: is imaging what you want to do? Consider
a file-level backup with rsync (etc etc, as discussed elsewhere in this
thread)
I do imaging for system
On Mar 13, 2017, at 09:50 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
Catherine Gramze composed on 2017-03-13 20:56 (UTC-0400):
Probably not impossible, but difficult I cannot doubt. It ought to go into setup
automatically regardless of video connection if you do a BIOS reset via jumper
or battery removal. If th
Catherine Gramze composed on 2017-03-13 20:56 (UTC-0400):
Both are not usable simultaneously. My BIOS requires me to disable the
on-board graphics to use the Radeon card. Getting into BIOS is impossible
with the Radeon in use.
Probably not impossible, but difficult I cannot doubt. It ought to
On 14/03/17 12:36, Maureen L Thomas wrote:
Please disregard my last post. I realized my mistake and corrected it
and it worked. I now have flash. Thank you very much for your patience
and help.
Great! Thanks for letting us know. (I guess that you spotted that you
needed a capital letter "O"
On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 7:30 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
> Catherine Gramze composed on 2017-03-13 18:49 (UTC-0400):
>
> Is Plymouth installed?
No, it is not. I checked.
According to that URI it is a refresh of Radeon HD 7870 that apparently
> nobody ever updated Wikipedia to include. The Radeon
On 14/03/17 00:20, Miles Fidelman wrote:
Actually, there have been numerous bugs filed against both
debian-installer and debootstrap about failures of the --include and
--exclude statements --- that directly effect the ability to specify
sysvinit instead of systemd. I don't recall seeing close m
On 3/13/17 4:33 PM, Martin Read wrote:
On 13/03/17 19:30, Patrick Bartek wrote:
The Linux mantra has always been "choice," plethoras of choices. So why
at install time, is there no choice for the init system?
Looking at the BTS page for package 'debian-installer', nobody seems
to have filed
Please disregard my last post. I realized my mistake and corrected it
and it worked. I now have flash. Thank you very much for your patience
and help.
Maureen
On 03/13/2017 05:58 PM, Maureen L Thomas wrote:
On 03/13/2017 05:00 PM, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:
On 13/03/17 13:06, Maureen L Th
On 13/03/17 19:30, Patrick Bartek wrote:
The Linux mantra has always been "choice," plethoras of choices. So why
at install time, is there no choice for the init system?
Looking at the BTS page for package 'debian-installer', nobody seems to
have filed a wishlist bug requesting this feature.
Catherine Gramze composed on 2017-03-13 18:49 (UTC-0400):
...
appear? If Plymouth is installed, have you tried removing it?
Is Plymouth installed?
monitor. Of course, the obvious issues with my graphics card means I don't
Did you try the driver that supports both gfxchips? Devs are trying to
On 03/13/2017 07:00 PM, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:
On 14/03/17 10:58, Maureen L Thomas wrote:
I un-installed gnash and I no longer have any flash in Plugins and the
adobe page stated it needed a plugin to use it. I also re-installed
flash-nonfree but still no reading in Plugins.
What is the
Yes. Two of the above.
You are running Debian kernel 3.16.7-ckt25-2+deb8u3 which is compatible
with the kernel ABI used in Debian kernel *package* 3.16.0-4-686-pae.
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-5195 confirms
that you want 3.16.36-1+deb8u2.
Thank you for your quick r
On 14/03/17 10:58, Maureen L Thomas wrote:
I un-installed gnash and I no longer have any flash in Plugins and the
adobe page stated it needed a plugin to use it. I also re-installed
flash-nonfree but still no reading in Plugins.
What is the output of:
ls -al /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/
I a
Meanwhile, my MSI Z87-43G motherboard boot screen doesn't display unless I
>
>> use the built-in graphics card. When I use my Radeon R9 270X it just goes
>> blank, but still boots through to the default first grub menu item. 4K
>>
>
> Goes blank when exactly? Do kernel and initrd load first? Do you
On 03/13/2017 05:00 PM, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:
On 13/03/17 13:06, Maureen L Thomas wrote:
My version of firefox is 45.830esr-1-deb7u1. It shows in add-ons and is
activated with version 10.1r999. At the website it is 24.0.0221. I am
using a 64 bit machine with jessie on it. Hope this hel
Catherine Gramze composed on 2017-03-13 15:35 (UTC-0400):
Meanwhile, my MSI Z87-43G motherboard boot screen doesn't display unless I
use the built-in graphics card. When I use my Radeon R9 270X it just goes
blank, but still boots through to the default first grub menu item. 4K
Goes blank when
Hello,
On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 01:48:28PM -0700, Miles Fidelman wrote:
> That might be because all of those who run servers - the traditional
> realm of Debian - have given up and migrated elsewhere. We can't
> afford to run a poorly designed load of crap, that takes over one's
> machine, as an i
On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 10:18:03PM +0100, Georg Stillfried wrote:
> can someone please help me find out which kernel version (and
> sub-version) I have?
uname -a
> $ uname -v
> #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt25-2+deb8u3 (2016-07-02)
>
> $ uname -r
> 3.16.0-4-686-pae
Or that. It's the same as uname -
Hello,
can someone please help me find out which kernel version (and
sub-version) I have? Don't scould, I have done the search on Google and
in the Debian documentation on how to find one's kernel version, but I
am confused by the results:
$ uname -v
#1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt25-2+deb8u3 (2016
On 13/03/17 13:06, Maureen L Thomas wrote:
My version of firefox is 45.830esr-1-deb7u1. It shows in add-ons and is
activated with version 10.1r999. At the website it is 24.0.0221. I am
using a 64 bit machine with jessie on it. Hope this helps.
Please keep emails on-list.
The flash with ver
On 3/13/17 12:44 PM, Erwan David wrote:
Le 03/13/17 à 20:40, Greg Wooledge a écrit :
On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 12:30:11PM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote:
The Linux mantra has always been "choice," plethoras of choices. So why
at install time, is there no choice for the init system? You get what
th
On 3/13/17 12:40 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 12:30:11PM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote:
The Linux mantra has always been "choice," plethoras of choices. So why
at install time, is there no choice for the init system? You get what
the developers decide. Yes, you can install a
Sent from my iPad
> On Mar 13, 2017, at 3:23 PM, Rob van der Putten wrote:
>
> Hi there
>
>
>> On 13/03/17 15:54, GiaThnYgeia wrote:
>>
>> Out of my frustration and lack of understanding, or the belief that all
>> systems should run as trouble-free as clean-debian, and possibly due to
>> ju
On Monday, March 13, 2017 03:44:19 PM Erwan David wrote:
> So why don't you use windows, if you despise minorities ?
> Your email is both insulting and contemptful. If this is your only
> argument, that's bad for the point you pretend to denfend.
-1
Hi,
GiaThnYgeia wrote:
> Very good information but the word sudo comes up everywhere.
For the purpose of backing up and restoring a whole operating system
with multiple users and partly restrictive permissions: yes.
> If a user does not have sudo rights she/he can back-up files and restore
> th
On Mon 13 Mar 2017 at 16:27:30 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> Brian writes:
>
> > There are seven instructions in the advice given. You haven't provided a
> > response to any of them. If there is a problem with following what is
> > required, please ask.
>
> As the wiki suggests, I did:
>
>
On Mon 13 Mar 2017 at 16:27:30 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> Brian writes:
You do have your choice of distros and most distros provide wide
lattitude as to what software to install, what GUI (if any) to run, what
shell to use (my preferred poison is ksh, not bash), etc. I'm not all
that fond of systemd myself (though my relationship with it is
improving), but there are s
On 3/13/17, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2017-03-13 00:23:54 -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote:
>> Let me rephrase my question. If "dpkg -l" cannot do it, is there some
>> other command that will only show packages from the current
>> repositories?
>
> Perhaps apt-show-versions, which can check whet
Le 03/13/17 à 20:40, Greg Wooledge a écrit :
> On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 12:30:11PM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote:
>> The Linux mantra has always been "choice," plethoras of choices. So why
>> at install time, is there no choice for the init system? You get what
>> the developers decide. Yes, you can
On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 12:30:11PM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote:
> The Linux mantra has always been "choice," plethoras of choices. So why
> at install time, is there no choice for the init system? You get what
> the developers decide. Yes, you can install a new one -- I've done it
> and it works -
The Linux mantra has always been "choice," plethoras of choices. So why
at install time, is there no choice for the init system? You get what
the developers decide. Yes, you can install a new one -- I've done it
and it works -- but only after the install. It'd be a lot easier, if
there were a cho
Hello,
On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 10:49:50PM -0500, David Wright wrote:
> On Mon 13 Mar 2017 at 03:05:31 (+), Andy Smith wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 10:55:05AM +, Sharon Kimble wrote:
> > > In an effort to get gnus to read root emails I've chowned
> > > /var/mail/mail, added myself to
Hi there
On 13/03/17 15:54, GiaThnYgeia wrote:
Out of my frustration and lack of understanding, or the belief that all
systems should run as trouble-free as clean-debian, and possibly due to
just getting tired of fighting something too long, I bad-mouthed
siduction in public.
My source of fru
Hi there
On 13/03/17 17:27, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
Brian writes:
On Sat 11 Mar 2017 at 21:06:23 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
Brian writes:
On Tue 07 Mar 2017 at 15:41:54 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
Thanks, `cups' alone was enough. Now the printer seems to be configured.
But it does
Andy Smith writes:
> Hi Sharon,
>
> On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 10:55:05AM +, Sharon Kimble wrote:
>> In an effort to get gnus to read root emails I've chowned
>> /var/mail/mail, added myself to the 'mail' group, changed the
>> permissions of /var/mail/mail, and generally frigged around with it.
Very good information but the word sudo comes up everywhere.
If a user does not have sudo rights she/he can back-up files and restore
them as long as s/he has rights to what their backing-up/restoring. So
if you are in a network public environment you may not even have rights
to even your own disk
On Sunday, March 12, 2017 11:05:31 PM Andy Smith wrote:
> A better way to achieve the goal of being able to read emails to
> root would be to edit /etc/aliases so that it contains something
> like:
>
> root: sharon
>
> where "sharon" is your local user name.
>
> That would cause email for root t
Le 13/03/2017 à 18:25, Kent West a écrit :
> Maybe turn off UEFI (assuming your mobo has legacy BIOS support), just
> to see if that gives you any clues?
Yes, tinkering with the UEFI of the machine is a good idea, particularly
switch off secure boot, tpm and the like. Also HP is known for its
non
I tried to boot with variations of these options
"DEBIAN_FRONTEND=text|newt|gtk and vga=normal fb=false", but no luck.
I was also comparing "boot/grub/grub.cfg" from Debian and Ubuntu. I
found that Debian has there all that Ubuntu has and even more
settings.
Don't know what to do.
Any other though
On Mar 13, 2017 08:27, "didier gaumet" wrote:
Le 13/03/2017 à 13:21, Kostiantyn Ponomarenko a écrit :
[...]
> Any other thoughts?
> Thank you,
Maybe turn off UEFI (assuming your mobo has legacy BIOS support), just to
see if that gives you any clues?
--
Kent
I have been using claws-mail for several years. After
I changed the server used for sending mail, receiving has
continued to work but not sending.
When I closed claws-mail after a failure, my screen
displayed
> Warning SSL connection failed (A TLS packet with
> unexpected length was receiv
Hi,
the restore scenario for the xorriso backup would be like this:
- Prepare the storage device to which you want to restore.
This may be as simple as choosing some directory in a filesystem with
enough free space, or as complicated as setting up a new operating
system on a freshly purcha
Brian writes:
> On Sat 11 Mar 2017 at 21:06:23 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
>
>> Brian writes:
>>
>> > On Tue 07 Mar 2017 at 15:41:54 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
>> >
>> >>
>> >> Thanks, `cups' alone was enough. Now the printer seems to be configured.
>> >> But it does not print, and, when
[Duplicates a post to _debian/italian@..._]
Hi all!
I hope somebody can help me solve this dilemma:
I have two PCs with the same debian version and (to the best of my
knowledge) the same configuration, at least AFA _/etc/mime.types_ and
_/home/user/.mailcap_ is concerned.
However, when I try to
On 2017-03-13 00:23:54 -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 12:08 PM, Brian wrote:
> > On Sat 11 Mar 2017 at 10:21:13 -0500, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote:
> >> How to change this behaviour so
> >> it only shows packages that are available in
Out of my frustration and lack of understanding, or the belief that all
systems should run as trouble-free as clean-debian, and possibly due to
just getting tired of fighting something too long, I bad-mouthed
siduction in public.
My source of frustration came from fighting an installation in a tir
On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 09:10:54AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
> I have one partition that might be called a "production" environment, i.e.
> fairly stable and has the most valuable content.
> A second partition hosts my experiments - I've a project to create an
> optimal install. The third is the
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:
> On 11-03-2017 09:35, Johann Spies wrote:
>> Is there not a better way to mount spyker's home directory on my laptop?
>>
>
> If you can access it via ssh, you can try sshfs.
>
There's also NFS, which I find to be a little more tolerant of me :).
--
|_|O|_| Registered
Hi,
fresh mail from GiaThnYgeia:
> So I decided to run the whole script as sudo or sudo xorriso and it
> seems the problem is solved.
Good to know. You are now supposed to have a copy of the files and
directories of the USB stick.
> Should I attempt to rebuild it to a test disk to see if it rel
Le 13/03/2017 à 13:21, Kostiantyn Ponomarenko a écrit :
[...]
> Any other thoughts?
> Thank you,
> Kostia
look at:
https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch05s03.html.en#installer-args
maybe you could for example try a combination of some parameters like
DEBIAN_FRONTEND=text|newt|gtk and vg
Hi,
GiaThnYgeia wrote:
> drwx-- 2 root root 16384 Mar 10 03:21 /media/user/sid/lost+found
If you were not superuser or ran xorriso under sudo, then the ownership
and permissions are a valid reason for being unable to read its content.
I do not generally advise to make backups as superuser. B
I changed the rights 0755 to this lost+ and it got stuck to an other
folder and contents that had only root/owner privileges
So I decided to run the whole script as sudo or sudo xorriso and it
seems the problem is solved.
Should I attempt to rebuild it to a test disk to see if it reliable?
Thoma
On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 12:15:00PM +, GiaThnYgeia wrote:
> What is that + at .. root-directory? Mounting point?
> C;/media/user/sid$ ls -alt /media/user/sid
> total 124
> drwxr-x---+ 5 root root 4096 Mar 13 13:52 ..
It indicates the presence of an ACL (file access control list), as
docume
David Christensen wrote:
> On 03/11/2017 07:10 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
>> I've vague ideas of what backup pattern(s) I might follow.
>> I'm looking for reading materials that might trigger "I hadn't thought
>> of that" moments.
>>
>> Suggestions?
>
> [1] is a decent overview:
>
> http://shop.orei
Jiangsu Kumquat writes:
>How do you disable / enable services from starting in systemd?
>I have gotten very used to the old way of how to start/stop services
>when booting using runlevels but I cannot figure out how to do any of
>this using systemd.
>So, I don't always use my
My PC has only one integrated video card from Intel Core-i7 CPU.
If I am not mistaken the driver for this GPU is integrated into linux kernel.
Anyways I tried using this netinstall image with integrated
proprietary firmware and that didn't succeed.
Whatever boot option I choose from "Debian UEFI In
I'll have to learn how to do this trick to (read the fine code of your
email that is that scraps the rest)
Thomas Schmitt:
> ls -ld /media/user/sid/lost+found
I ommitted some of the usual stuff with drwxr-xr-x (the C; is a
joke of course for user@machinename)
What is that + at .. root-dire
Doug wrote:
> [...]
> There has been a world of improvement since then. Altho I must agree
> that the Man pages that include examples are a blessing!
>
Or a curse. Some of them have all the examples, except the one that
will actually help in a situation :). Back to "try it an see what
happens in
Jiangsu Kumquat writes:
> How do you disable / enable services from starting in systemd?
>
man systemd
--
"We will need a longer wall when the revolution comes."
--- AJS, quoting an uncertain source.
On Sun, 12 Mar 2017 21:51:00 +
GiaThnYgeia wrote:
> The past few Fridays it has become my joy for the weekend to install in
> small drives some debian based distro ... I tried Q4os and siduction
> ... the experience has been a disastrous weekend over another ... I'm
> done playing with this
On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 10:00:45PM -0800, David Christensen wrote:
> >I'd always put a step 0) in there: is imaging what you want to do? Consider
> >a file-level backup with rsync (etc etc, as discussed elsewhere in this
> >thread)
>
> I do imaging for system disks. I do backups and archives for
On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 08:04:43AM +, Gideon Walker wrote:
> Can anyone recommend a software package that does a neural net?
Install Octave and write your own. It's only a few lines of Octave code
to implement forward calculation, back propagation, the cost function
and the derivative terms
Hi,
i quoted man bzip2:
> > As with compression, supplying no filenames causes decompression from
> > standard input to standard output."
GiaThnYgeia wrote:
> ...aka screen dump?
If the standard output of bzip2 is not connected to the standard input
of another process or redirected to a file
Can anyone recommend a software package that does a neural net?
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