Re: Upgrade from Jessie to Stretch: Bluetooth mouse is not working.

2018-06-01 Thread Piotr
On Thu, 31 May 2018 11:04:10 -0500 "Martin McCormick" wrote: > You might search web archives and internet discussion > groups to see if there is a replacement driver for the mouse > which is a real shame since it used to work but that particular > module doesn't work which is valuable info

Hibernation is not working after upgrading frmo Jessie to Stretch.

2018-06-01 Thread Piotr
Dear all, Recently I upgraded my Debian Jessie to Stretch and I noticed that hibernation does not work anymore. When I try to hibernate to disk the process of saving the current memory state seems to be doing the job correctly. However, when I start the laptop I see that restoring the state be

Re: USB "null modem" cables and related Linux driver questions

2018-06-01 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jun 01, 2018 at 08:27:13AM +0200, deloptes wrote: > Richard Owlett wrote: > > > I have two computers with USB ports. > > I wish them to communicate as simply as mid-20th-century computers did. > > Then we used RS232-C with a null modem &/or a

Re: Intermittent blank screen – Stretch

2018-06-01 Thread Darac Marjal
On Fri, Jun 01, 2018 at 11:27:46AM +1200, Mike wrote: I have just installed Stretch and and randomly getting a 2 second (or so) blank screen. I can go for quite some time without it happening, or it can happen several times over a few minutes. I can dual boot with Jessie and do not have the pro

Re: USB "null modem" cables and related Linux driver questions

2018-06-01 Thread Richard Owlett
On 05/31/2018 10:07 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote: I have two computers with USB ports. I wish them to communicate as simply as mid-20th-century computers did. What kind of "communicate" do you need there? Essentially any ;/ In fact one of the thought experiments I was pursuing was how to do file

Re: USB "null modem" cables and related Linux driver questions

2018-06-01 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/01/2018 01:27 AM, deloptes wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: I have two computers with USB ports. I wish them to communicate as simply as mid-20th-century computers did. Then we used RS232-C with a null modem &/or appropriate software software at both ends. J., why not take a crossover cab

Re: exim4 and TLS Once Again

2018-06-01 Thread Brian
On Wed 30 May 2018 at 20:58:12 -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 06:22:49PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > AIUI 587 is the standard email submission port and 465 is now > > deprecated but often still in use. I think they differ in the > > details of how they handle encrypting t

Re: USB "null modem" cables and related Linux driver questions

2018-06-01 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> In some cases one of the two computers's USB port is an "OTG" port, >> meaning that it can act either as "master" or not, in which case you can >> just use a regular USB cable (and usually you then configure the OTG >> side to pretend it's a network card, so it ends up looking to the >> software

Re: USB "null modem" cables and related Linux driver questions

2018-06-01 Thread Stefan Monnier
> The one choice you have is that one of both sides takes a step > back and plays "gadget" (the jargon term, somewhat unfortunate > as search engine fodder). There seems to be something out there > for that, e.g. [2]. The gadget API is the programming API offered by the kernel for the OTG ports: n

Re: USB "null modem" cables and related Linux driver questions

2018-06-01 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jun 01, 2018 at 08:23:42AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > The one choice you have is that one of both sides takes a step > > back and plays "gadget" [...] > The gadget API is the programming API offered by the kernel for the OTG > ports: no

Re: USB "null modem" cables and related Linux driver questions

2018-06-01 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Jun 01, 2018 at 04:56:32AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: On 05/31/2018 06:58 PM, David Wright wrote: (thanks for your link) gives an idea of the price, and in this case I can see some justification for it because they describe the electronics hidden inside the plugs (we hope). But consid

Re: USB "null modem" cables and related Linux driver questions

2018-06-01 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/01/2018 08:21 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jun 01, 2018 at 08:23:42AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: The one choice you have is that one of both sides takes a step back and plays "gadget" [...] The gadget API is the programming API off

Re: USB "null modem" cables and related Linux driver questions

2018-06-01 Thread David Wright
On Fri 01 Jun 2018 at 05:26:01 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > On 06/01/2018 01:27 AM, deloptes wrote: > >Richard Owlett wrote: > > > >>I have two computers with USB ports. > >>I wish them to communicate as simply as mid-20th-century computers did. > >>Then we used RS232-C with a null modem &/or

Thinkpad T420 resume from sleep via laptop lid doesn't work

2018-06-01 Thread Ryan Nowakowski
Hello All! I have a T420 that doesn't resume when the laptop lid is opened. I put it to sleep by closing the lid. When I open the lid, the disk indicator flashes and then stops. The power button led remains pulsing as if it's still asleep. If I press the power button at this point nothing happ

Re: Thinkpad T420 resume from sleep via laptop lid doesn't work

2018-06-01 Thread Hans
Am Freitag, 1. Juni 2018, 17:12:01 CEST schrieb Ryan Nowakowski: Similar problem hier on my EEEPC since over a year: Going to sleep (suspend-to-disk), then when it has to wake up, you can see, the memeory content is loaded into RAM, after that it shuts off and boots again from BIOS. No problem

Re: exim4 and TLS Once Again

2018-06-01 Thread Brian
On Tue 29 May 2018 at 12:00:20 -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Mon 28 May 2018 at 21:26:59 (-0500), Martin McCormick wrote: > > > > David Wright writes: > > > And exim's logs say …? > > > > 2018-05-28 14:56:38 1fNL0J-0003CQ-70 H=smtp.suddenlink.net [208.180.40.68]: > > Remote host closed conne

Re: Nvidia 340 driver bug

2018-06-01 Thread floris
Pétùr schreef op 2018-05-31 16:20: I have a recurrent bug with the nvidia 340 driver. Here is the trace. Any idea is welcomed. Pétùr [6.748358] [ cut here ] [6.748361] Bad or missing usercopy whitelist? Kernel memory exposure attempt detected from SLUB object 'n

Re: Thinkpad T420 resume from sleep via laptop lid doesn't work

2018-06-01 Thread Marcel
Have you tried laptop-mode-tools? Maybe this helps :) Cheers, Marcel On 06/01/2018 05:12 PM, Ryan Nowakowski wrote: Hello All! I have a T420 that doesn't resume when the laptop lid is opened. I put it to sleep by closing the lid. When I open the lid, the disk indicator flashes and then sto

Re: USB "null modem" cables and related Linux driver questions

2018-06-01 Thread Joe
On Fri, 1 Jun 2018 10:01:57 -0400 Michael Stone wrote: > On Fri, Jun 01, 2018 at 04:56:32AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > >On 05/31/2018 06:58 PM, David Wright wrote: > >>(thanks for your link) gives an idea of the price, and in this case > >>I can see some justification for it because they de

Re: USB "null modem" cables and related Linux driver questions

2018-06-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 01 June 2018 06:20:59 Richard Owlett wrote: > On 05/31/2018 10:07 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> I have two computers with USB ports. > >> I wish them to communicate as simply as mid-20th-century computers > >> did. > > > > What kind of "communicate" do you need there? > > Essentially an

Re: Thinkpad T420 resume from sleep via laptop lid doesn't work

2018-06-01 Thread Hans
Am Freitag, 1. Juni 2018, 19:30:28 CEST schrieb Marcel: Yes, I did, but as I said before: It worked a long time, but some say after some upgrade (without any configuration changes), it stopped suddenly working. So, one in the chain (kernel, laptop-mode-tools, dbus, whatever) is buggy. Best H

Re: USB "null modem" cables and related Linux driver questions

2018-06-01 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/01/2018 09:01 AM, Michael Stone wrote: On Fri, Jun 01, 2018 at 04:56:32AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: On 05/31/2018 06:58 PM, David Wright wrote: (thanks for your link) gives an idea of the price, and in this case I can see some justification for it because they describe the electronics

Re: Intermittent blank screen – Stretch

2018-06-01 Thread floris
Mike schreef op 2018-06-01 01:27: I have just installed Stretch and and randomly getting a 2 second (or so) blank screen. I can go for quite some time without it happening, or it can happen several times over a few minutes. I can dual boot with Jessie and do not have the problem with that – so I

Re: USB "null modem" cables and related Linux driver questions

2018-06-01 Thread Andy Smith
Richard, On Fri, Jun 01, 2018 at 02:16:47PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 06/01/2018 09:01 AM, Michael Stone wrote: > >I can't think of any applications where that's going to be better > >over a pair of USB-Serial dongles than a pair of USB-Ethernet > >dongles. > > Please read my stated goals

Re: Intermittent blank screen – Stretch

2018-06-01 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 05/31/2018 04:27 PM, Mike wrote: I have just installed Stretch and and randomly getting a 2 second (or so) blank screen. I can go for quite some time without it happening, or it can happen several times over a few minutes. I can dual boot with Jessie and do not have the problem with that – s

Re: USB "null modem" cables and related Linux driver questions

2018-06-01 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Jun 01, 2018 at 02:16:47PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: USB-Ethernet dongles would be a lot more useful in the long term than USB-Serial dongles. *WHO* said anything about a "USB-Serial dongle"? I want a USB-USB object. Subtle, but important, distinction. Well, you started out talking

Re: USB "null modem" cables and related Linux driver questions

2018-06-01 Thread David Wright
On Fri 01 Jun 2018 at 09:08:53 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > On 06/01/2018 08:21 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > >On Fri, Jun 01, 2018 at 08:23:42AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > >>>The one choice you have is that one of both sides takes a step > >>>back and plays "gadget" [...] > > > >>The gadge

Re: Intermittent blank screen – Stretch

2018-06-01 Thread Mike
Yes, it is a smart tv. On 02/06/18 10:56, Jimmy Johnson wrote: On 05/31/2018 04:27 PM, Mike wrote: I have just installed Stretch and and randomly getting a 2 second (or so) blank screen. I can go for quite some time without it happening, or it can happen several times over a few minutes. I ca