Re: Sound problems (mpd, mpv mainly)

2017-04-01 Thread Dan Hitt
Hi Sharon, Glad you found a solution in pavucontrol. When i saw your first post i was interested, because i had a similar problem (mpv abruptly went silent) and no clue as to how to fix it, and it arose at just about the same time as yours. It affected mpv, but not firefox. Although i don't kno

Re: If Linux Is About Choice, Why Then ...

2017-04-01 Thread Catherine Gramze
Sent from my iPad > On Apr 1, 2017, at 7:30 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > Never came across those during my research before posting my initial > query here. And I read a lot of articles. Still have found nothing > stating exactly why Linux distros don't offer a choice of inits during > insta

Re: If Linux Is About Choice, Why Then ...

2017-04-01 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Sun, 2 Apr 2017 00:42:00 +1300 cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz 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 devel

Re: Matrox G550 mga driver hangs system

2017-04-01 Thread Felix Miata
I uninstalled tdm-trinity, kept iomem=relaxed on cmdline, blacklisted mga, and rebuilt initrd. That got Xorg to run TDE and IcwWM via startx. Then I reinstalled tdm-trinity, and its greeter now behaves as expected. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive

Re: [TEST RUNS] Re: installer defaults for desktops (was Re: Suggested edit)

2017-04-01 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 01 April 2017 21:23:21 Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > On 4/1/17, cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 03:33:08PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > >> In all this talk of Debian being the universal operating system, and > >> helping > >> newbies ... > > > > I'm not sure tho

Re: [TEST RUNS] Re: installer defaults for desktops (was Re: Suggested edit)

2017-04-01 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 4/1/17, cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: > On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 03:33:08PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: >> >> In all this talk of Debian being the universal operating system, and >> helping >> newbies ... > > I'm not sure those two concepts are related. My understanding of Debian > being the un

Re: Finding firmware (and SHA sums etc), was Re: Linux Mint, Ubuntu, Arch Linux recognize my Acer Aspire S wifi, debian does not

2017-04-01 Thread Brian
On Sun 02 Apr 2017 at 01:56:22 +1300, cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: > On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 07:13:26PM +, Brian wrote: > > Apropos nothing. Columbus knew exactly where he was going and why. He > > just didn't get there. The exact route he took didn't exist (or maybe > > philosohically it

Re: Suitable text editor [NOT word processor] or workaround?

2017-04-01 Thread Fred
On 04/01/2017 09:24 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 04/01/2017 10:55 AM, cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 06:38:52AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: The two files are nearly identical and need them displayed simultaneously for instant visual comparison. Opening one of the fil

Re: Linux Mint, Ubuntu, Arch Linux recognize my Acer Aspire S wifi, debian does not

2017-04-01 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 01 April 2017 19:55:22 Jimmy Johnson wrote: > On 04/01/2017 06:08 AM, cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 06:47:06AM -0700, Jimmy Johnson wrote: > >> On 03/14/2017 09:57 PM, Dean Valentine wrote: > >>> I have installed three operating systems on this computer:

Re: OT: speaking of days (weeks, months, years, etc.) (was: Re: Movie 'n Book recommendations by Curt)

2017-04-01 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2017-04-01, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Saturday 01 April 2017 18:11:12 Liam O'Toole wrote: >> On 2017-03-31, Lisi Reisz wrote: >> >> (...) >> >> > We are part of the same sovereign state, but 4 nations. >> >> When you consider some of the Irish, yes. Most Irish people live in a >> different sovere

Re: Linux Mint, Ubuntu, Arch Linux recognize my Acer Aspire S wifi, debian does not

2017-04-01 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 04/01/2017 06:08 AM, cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 06:47:06AM -0700, Jimmy Johnson wrote: On 03/14/2017 09:57 PM, Dean Valentine wrote: I have installed three operating systems on this computer: Linux Mint, Ubuntu, and Arch Linux. None of them had any problems det

Re: [TEST RUNS] Re: installer defaults for desktops (was Re: Suggested edit)

2017-04-01 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 01 April 2017 18:59:48 cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: > On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 03:33:08PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > In all this talk of Debian being the universal operating system, and > > helping newbies ... > > I'm not sure those two concepts are related. My understanding of De

Re: [TEST RUNS] Re: installer defaults for desktops (was Re: Suggested edit)

2017-04-01 Thread cbannister
On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 03:33:08PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > In all this talk of Debian being the universal operating system, and helping > newbies ... I'm not sure those two concepts are related. My understanding of Debian being the universal operating system is that it can run on as many ha

Re: OT: speaking of days (weeks, months, years, etc.) (was: Re: Movie 'n Book recommendations by Curt)

2017-04-01 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 01 April 2017 18:11:12 Liam O'Toole wrote: > On 2017-03-31, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > (...) > > > We are part of the same sovereign state, but 4 nations. > > When you consider some of the Irish, yes. Most Irish people live in a > different sovereign state. Agreed!!! But the United Kingdo

Re: OT: speaking of days (weeks, months, years, etc.) (was: Re: Movie 'n Book recommendations by Curt)

2017-04-01 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2017-03-31, Lisi Reisz wrote: (...) > We are part of the same sovereign state, but 4 nations. When you consider some of the Irish, yes. Most Irish people live in a different sovereign state. -- Liam

Re: installer defaults for desktops (was Re: Suggested edit)

2017-04-01 Thread cbannister
On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 09:10:16AM +, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 06:03:12PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > >On Tuesday 21 March 2017 17:15:32 Catherine Gramze wrote: > >>Sent from my iPad > > > >Note it is sent from an iPad! Open Source all the way! > > > >Incidentally, why

Re: Suitable text editor [NOT word processor] or workaround?

2017-04-01 Thread Curt
On 2017-04-01, cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: > On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 06:38:52AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: >> The two files are nearly identical and need them displayed simultaneously >> for instant visual comparison. Opening one of the files read only would be >> acceptable but not prefer

Re: Suitable text editor [NOT word processor] or workaround?

2017-04-01 Thread Richard Owlett
On 04/01/2017 10:55 AM, cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 06:38:52AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: The two files are nearly identical and need them displayed simultaneously for instant visual comparison. Opening one of the files read only would be acceptable but not prefer

Re: unattended upgrades does not do anything

2017-04-01 Thread Gregor Zattler
Hi Gregor, one more detail about the configuration of said system (see below/between): Any ideas how to proceed? Ciao; Gregor * Gregor Zattler [2017-03-31; 17:34]: > Dear fellow debian users, > > this is about a debian stable (=jessie) system and it does not > upgrade unattended and I have n

Re: OT: speaking of days (weeks, months, years, etc.)

2017-04-01 Thread GiaThnYgeia
Lisi Reisz: > On Friday 31 March 2017 22:53:00 kAt wrote: >> As there is a domination of the >> industrial North and elitism against the dominated South. > > Not here The non-industrial white collar south-east dominates the > industrial north economically. The Northern Powerhub is so far a

Re: Suitable text editor [NOT word processor] or workaround?

2017-04-01 Thread cbannister
On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 06:38:52AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > The two files are nearly identical and need them displayed simultaneously > for instant visual comparison. Opening one of the files read only would be > acceptable but not preferable. apt-cache show diffutils (perhaps there is no n

Re: MATE in /usr AND in /usr/local

2017-04-01 Thread Dominik George
>I'm interested in tinkering with components of MATE and testing them >while >leaving the APT-installed versions alone. I've built and installed the >components from the Github repos and installed them to /usr/local/. I >can't figure out how to load applets from /usr/local. In particular, >can

Log in as other user goes back to suspend

2017-04-01 Thread Tomas Nordin
Hello Debian-users Using debian as a desktop computer. Having four users who can log on to the system. I am using suspend to keep the computer at rest, I do not shut down. Here is what happens: User A is logged on, then put the computer to sleep (suspend). User B logs on. User B logs off, no susp

New chromium install (on Jessie and Wheezy) won't load any pages

2017-04-01 Thread rhkramer
I recently installed chromium on my Jessie and Wheezy machines (because I had a web page that wouldn't work properly in either Firefox (ESR) or Konqueror on either machine. I didn't do any digging so far--on both machines, I get basically a black chromium "window" that displays a message that s

Re: Finding firmware (and SHA sums etc), was Re: Linux Mint, Ubuntu, Arch Linux recognize my Acer Aspire S wifi, debian does not

2017-04-01 Thread David Wright
On Sun 02 Apr 2017 at 01:56:22 (+1300), cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: > On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 07:13:26PM +, Brian wrote: > > Apropos nothing. Columbus knew exactly where he was going and why. He > > just didn't get there. The exact route he took didn't exist (or maybe > > philosohically i

Re: Finding firmware (and SHA sums etc), was Re: Linux Mint, Ubuntu, Arch Linux recognize my Acer Aspire S wifi, debian does not

2017-04-01 Thread cbannister
On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 07:13:26PM +, Brian wrote: > Apropos nothing. Columbus knew exactly where he was going and why. He > just didn't get there. The exact route he took didn't exist (or maybe > philosohically it did but hadn't been travelled). But it was planned > using the Google documentat

Re: strange problem with chromium

2017-04-01 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2017-03-31, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: (...) > > Apt-show-versions says I have 55.0.2883.75-6 with it being upgradeable > to 57.0.2987.98-1. Apt-get has had the chromium package on hold for > quite a few weeks now in Stretch. That is something you should look into. Have you tried an 'apt-get di

Re: MATE in /usr AND in /usr/local

2017-04-01 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2017-04-01, David Griffith wrote: > > I'm interested in tinkering with components of MATE and testing them > while leaving the APT-installed versions alone. I've built and > installed the components from the Github repos and installed them to > /usr/local/. I can't figure out how to load applet

Re: If Linux Is About Choice, Why Then ...

2017-04-01 Thread cbannister
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 -

Re: Sound problems (mpd, mpv mainly)

2017-04-01 Thread Sharon Kimble
Sharon Kimble writes: > Since an upgrade on 2017-03-28 my debian Jessie system is continuously > dropping my soundcard such that mpd and mpv have no sound at all, but, > at this time qmmp and mplayer2 both have sound and work as they should. > > My sound card is an on-board chip here - > > cat /p

Re: should I firewall an open port which isn't used? (was ... Re: Guide(s?) to backup philosophies)

2017-04-01 Thread Nathan Dorfman
On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 02:07:54PM +0200, Dominik George wrote: > That's how w^Hsomeone rooted Dreamhost. Are you referring to the 2012 incident, or something more recent? I thought the former was an issue with lax filesystem permissions. -nd.