Re: new install of amd64, 9-4 from iso #1

2018-06-13 Thread David Christensen
On 06/10/18 21:35, Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 11 June 2018 00:16:39 David Christensen wrote: On 06/10/18 13:44, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings all; I have the dvd written, and a new 2T drive currently occupying the /dev/sdc slot. What I want, since the drive has been partitioned to /boot,

Re: NitroShare doesn't seem to work with Buster

2018-06-13 Thread Felmon Davis
On Wed, 13 Jun 2018, Gary Dale wrote: Or on another subject, does anyone know if mtp will ever work? I don't know; there has been discussion of using: gmtp go-mtpfs jmtpfs I've used jmtpfs (requires) java; I've used one of the others but forget which, whichever, it worked alright. I use s

NitroShare doesn't seem to work with Buster

2018-06-13 Thread Gary Dale
I note that there aren't any Buster packages available for NitroShare. The Sid packages don't work with Buster - I get the message "QSystemTrayIcon::setVisible: No Icon set" when I try to launch it (from the command line - the Plasma menu launcher hides the error message). However nitroshare is

[Solved] Re: Hardware decoding of video not working in VLC

2018-06-13 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 13 Jun 2018 09:06:32 +0200 didier gaumet wrote: > Le 13/06/2018 à 06:00, Celejar a écrit : > [...] > > --avcodec-hw vaapi > [...] > > launching vlc with -vvv option may be handy sometimes Thanks! Using -vvv, I found this [hint for anyone else trying this: look for amber lines ;)]: avc

Re: Print Queues and KVM/virt-manager virtual Windows machines

2018-06-13 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Which strikes me as a bug, not a feature. I'm not familiar with the USB > specification but it seems to me that sharing USB ports, speakers, > microphones, network ports, etc. should all be possible. While one host, the > hypervisor, may control the actual port, others should be able to > communi

Re: GCC 7

2018-06-13 Thread Georgi Naplatanov
On 06/13/2018 11:04 AM, Irek Szcześniak wrote: > Hi, > > I need GCC 7 on my Debian Stretch.  Previously I upgraded my Stretch to > Testing (Buster), but I ran to some problems, and reinstalled the system > back to Stretch. > > Could someone offer an advice on how to get a working GCC 7 on Debian

Re: A newer kernel for my genesi smartbook

2018-06-13 Thread deloptes
Robert Pommrich wrote: > I don't know how to find out, if the hardware is really supported, nor > how to build a mainline kernel and integrate it with Uboot. I can't speak about your genesi smartbook, but I have few rear boards and what I usually do is go through all modules used - loaded/compile

Re: USB Host-Host cables

2018-06-13 Thread Ulf Volmer
On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 02:50:51PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 06/13/2018 09:57 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: > > The plusb driver should detect it as a network interface. > > I don't find "plusb" in man pages or list of Debian packages. > I did find it mentioned in [https://wiki.debian.org/DeviceD

Re: Not power off after shutdown in Jessie

2018-06-13 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 06/10/2018 06:33 PM, The Wanderer wrote: On 2018-05-31 at 02:01, Miroslav Skoric wrote: After upgrading from Wheezy LTS to Jessie, one of my machines having 512 MB RAM, does not power off when it reached target shutdown. It seems some old issue/bug with systemd or else. In fact, everything

Re: USB Host-Host cables

2018-06-13 Thread Richard Owlett
[I'm subscribed to list] On 06/13/2018 09:57 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 06:29:33AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: I have purchased a USB Host-Host cable based on the PL-25A1 chipset. Where would discussion about using it be *ON TOPIC* ? It is recognized by Debian Stretch. I hav

A newer kernel for my genesi smartbook

2018-06-13 Thread Robert Pommrich
Hi, I am a still proud owner of a genesi smartbook. It is still running wheezy with a kernel in version 2.6.31 with Uboot as boot loader. Someone told me, that the hardware should be supported by now by a mainline kernel. I don't know how to find out, if the hardware is really supported, nor ho

Re: installing 9.4 from the dvd's iso.

2018-06-13 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Mon, 11 Jun 2018 18:57:27 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 11 June 2018 16:50:39 Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > On Mon, 11 Jun 2018 11:07:46 -0400 > > > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > > Generally speaking, a big hey y'all to the developers. > > > > > > All of my squawks about the wheezy insta

Re: Mouse with extra buttons. How to configure them?

2018-06-13 Thread Siard
On Wed, 13 Jun 2018 11:58:31 +0200, Piotr wrote: > I got new mouse which has some extra buttons, but in standard Xfce4 > settings there is no way to configure some functions for them. Is > there a software to do this? Can it be done in some configuration > files? xbindkeys may be used to assign an

Re: Gtk-ERROR **: GTK+ 2.x symbols detected. Using GTK+ 2.x and GTK+ 3 in the same process is not supported

2018-06-13 Thread Ulf Volmer
On 13.06.2018 12:03, Piotr wrote: > When I try to open the "mate-users-admin" from the terminal on Stretch > I am getting such error and the app does not open: AFAIK mate-users-admin is not available in stretch. only in jessie (in package mate-system-tools). Are you sure that you have an uptod

Re: Re: combining stable and testing in sources.list

2018-06-13 Thread Paul Murtaugh
Many thanks for all the responses.  I plan to ease out of my personal Frankendebian by just reinstalling.  And I vow to be more careful about copy-and-pasting stuff from websites into my //system files! -Paul

Re: GCC 7

2018-06-13 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 13 Jun 2018, Irek Szcześniak wrote: > Thanks for pointing out pbuilder, I think I'll give it a try. I also might > want to try virtual containers, but it seems like an overkill. You might also try out schroot. Something like: apt-get install schroot ubuntu-dev-tools; mk-sbuild unstable;

[Solved, largely] Re: Latest version of X not starting in buster

2018-06-13 Thread Siard
Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > Which version of the systemd packages (udev, libsystemd0, etc.) is > installed? 238-5. > On my testing/unstable systems X can be started using "startx" with > xorg-server version 2:1.20.0-2 but systemd packages in version 237. > systemd 238 is not working. I took a try

Re: USB Host-Host cables

2018-06-13 Thread Dan Ritter
On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 06:29:33AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > I have purchased a USB Host-Host cable based on the PL-25A1 chipset. > Where would discussion about using it be *ON TOPIC* ? > It is recognized by Debian Stretch. > I have found relevant bits-n-pieces in manpages and package info. >

Re: Debian release not opening

2018-06-13 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Dave wrote: > i have downloaded debian-9.4.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso > when i double click on it, it says cannot open. the iso > debian-9.4.0-amd64-DVD-2 and iso debian-9.4.0-amd64-DVD-3 > i can open and read. the same thing happened with debian 9.0.0. > i am using mac pro 10.10.5  to download / open

Re: Debian release not opening

2018-06-13 Thread Dan Purgert
Dave wrote: > i have downloaded debian-9.4.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso > > when i double click on it, it says cannot open. the iso > debian-9.4.0-amd64-DVD-2 and iso debian-9.4.0-amd64-DVD-3 It's a disc image, you should just be burning it with whatever disc mastering software your mac has ... -- |_|O|

Debian release not opening

2018-06-13 Thread Dave
i have downloaded debian-9.4.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso when i double click on it, it says cannot open. the iso debian-9.4.0-amd64-DVD-2 and iso debian-9.4.0-amd64-DVD-3 i can open and read. the same thing happened with debian 9.0.0. i am using mac pro 10.10.5  to download / open / and hopefully burn.

Re: Latest version of X not starting in buster

2018-06-13 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Which version of the systemd packages (udev, libsystemd0, etc.) is installed? On my testing/unstable systems X can be started using "startx" with xorg-server version 2:1.20.0-2 but systemd packages in version 237. systemd 238 is not working. Regards, jvp.

Re: combining stable and testing in sources.list

2018-06-13 Thread Hans
Hi Greg, thanks for the response. That makes sense and it makes it clear. So my way is also ok. However, sometimes I added a package from unstable (mostly, because it was either broken in testing or only available in stable and unstable, but not testing), but (thumbs pressed) I had never pro

Re: combining stable and testing in sources.list

2018-06-13 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 02:01:42PM +0200, Hans wrote: > I am using debian/testing now for years, but my kind of doing so, was just to > use the entry for the stable repo plus the entry for testing repo > in /etc/apt/sources.list. What is the advantage of doing your way? If you are running testin

Re: combining stable and testing in sources.list

2018-06-13 Thread Hans
Hmm. this is a new information for me. Can you exlain for me. why this is recommended so? I am using debian/testing now for years, but my kind of doing so, was just to use the entry for the stable repo plus the entry for testing repo in /etc/apt/sources.list. What is the advantage of doing your

Re: combining stable and testing in sources.list

2018-06-13 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 10:14:39AM +0200, john doe wrote: > If you want to be able to install packages from the testing repositories > while being on stable you should use backports instead. https://backports.debian.org/Instructions/

USB Host-Host cables

2018-06-13 Thread Richard Owlett
I have purchased a USB Host-Host cable based on the PL-25A1 chipset. Where would discussion about using it be *ON TOPIC* ? It is recognized by Debian Stretch. I have found relevant bits-n-pieces in manpages and package info. I'm retired and my avocation is learning about Linux. I'm missing backgro

Re: SSL to TLS

2018-06-13 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 10:30:52AM -, Dan Purgert wrote: > Bringing this back to the list, in case anyone else has any > suggestions ... > > culser wrote: > > gee Dan > > > > thank you for such a fast response > > > > ok so i am downloading Debian 9.4.0 AMD DVD now. > > > > should i upgrade t

Re: SSL to TLS

2018-06-13 Thread Dan Purgert
Bringing this back to the list, in case anyone else has any suggestions ... culser wrote: > gee Dan > > thank you for such a fast response > > ok so i am downloading Debian 9.4.0 AMD DVD now. > > should i upgrade the existing server or build a new server with the > new 9.4 Personally, I'd go wit

Re: Your Epic Games Account Has Been Created

2018-06-13 Thread Hans Vogelsberger
Am Tue, 12 Jun 2018 14:56:42 + schrieb Epic Help : > Thank you for your email. This email address is not monitored. For > support, please visit http://help.epicgames.com. No.

Re: Your Epic Games Account Has Been Created

2018-06-13 Thread Hans Vogelsberger
Am Tue, 12 Jun 2018 19:44:26 +0200 schrieb Dominik George : > Do not reply to spam on Debian mailing lists, even less sending it to > the list. > > In case of doubt, the list masters are in charge of banning you if > you do. > > -nik Certain sorts of mails one has to respond to. Hans Vogelsber

Re: GCC 7

2018-06-13 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 12:06:21PM +0200, Irek Szcześniak wrote: > Thanks, Tomás, for your email. > > I should have written before that I don't want the GCC 7 to be a > system-wide compiler, along with libraries and some other > dependencies. I need G

Re: GCC 7

2018-06-13 Thread Irek Szcześniak
Thanks, Tomás, for your email. I should have written before that I don't want the GCC 7 to be a system-wide compiler, along with libraries and some other dependencies. I need GCC 7 to compile my own code (C++17) that I run. I don't need to distribute the binaries. Yes, GCC 7 is not in the b

Gtk-ERROR **: GTK+ 2.x symbols detected. Using GTK+ 2.x and GTK+ 3 in the same process is not supported

2018-06-13 Thread Piotr
Dear all, When I try to open the "mate-users-admin" from the terminal on Stretch I am getting such error and the app does not open: (mate-users-admin:2254): Gtk-ERROR **: GTK+ 2.x symbols detected. Using GTK+ 2.x and GTK+ 3 in the same process is not supported Trace/breakpoint trap How to fix

Mouse with extra buttons. How to configure them?

2018-06-13 Thread Piotr
Dear all, I got new mouse which has some extra buttons, but in standard Xfce4 settings there is no way to configure some functions for them. Is there a software to do this? Can it be done in some configuration files? The extra buttons are: back, forward, DPI. Also how to change what clicking th

Brightness at 100% after every reboot.

2018-06-13 Thread Piotr
Dear all, After upgrading to Stretch I have problem with the brightness of my LCD screen in laptop. After a reboot of the system I get 100% brightness, even if I set it up to like 50%. Where can I change this so the settings are preserved between the reboots? Regards, Piotr

Re: Hibernation does not work after upgrade to Stretch

2018-06-13 Thread Piotr
On Wed, 13 Jun 2018 04:04:54 + (UTC) davidson wrote: > at a search engine eventually led me to this 2007 document, which > looks interesting: > >https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/power/basic-pm-debugging.txt > > I have not yet read it in full, (and so, obviously) have never used

Re: GCC 7

2018-06-13 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 10:04:25AM +0200, Irek Szcześniak wrote: > Hi, > > I need GCC 7 on my Debian Stretch. Previously I upgraded my Stretch > to Testing (Buster), but I ran to some problems, and reinstalled the > system back to Stretch. > > Could

GCC 7

2018-06-13 Thread Irek Szcześniak
Hi, I need GCC 7 on my Debian Stretch. Previously I upgraded my Stretch to Testing (Buster), but I ran to some problems, and reinstalled the system back to Stretch. Could someone offer an advice on how to get a working GCC 7 on Debian Stretch, without upgrading to Testing? Thanks & best,

Re: combining stable and testing in sources.list

2018-06-13 Thread john doe
On 6/12/2018 9:15 PM, murta...@stat.orst.edu wrote: I mistakenly added two lines with 'testing' to my 'sources.list' file, which now looks like this:    deb http://debian.osuosl.org/debian/ stretch main non-free contrib    deb-src http://debian.osuosl.org/debian/ stretch main non-free contrib

Re: Hardware decoding of video not working in VLC

2018-06-13 Thread didier gaumet
Le 13/06/2018 à 06:00, Celejar a écrit : [...] > --avcodec-hw vaapi [...] launching vlc with -vvv option may be handy sometimes you may try with: --avcodec-hw vaapi_drm if you use OPENGL2 video output you may also try --glconv glconv_vaapi --glconv glconv_vaapi_drm you could also have to try d