Re: Bookworm boot stacks with black screen after NVIDIA driver installed.

2023-08-20 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Wed, 16 Aug 2023 15:31:52 +0300, Махно wrote: > Hello. Just stick with open source video driver nouveau. This is what I'm doing right now. However it performes, as I already said, "good enough". Meaning there are some problems. It freezes the system from time to time. Well, for now I do not h

Re: Moving dual boot Win10 & Debian 10 system from Legacy to UEFI

2021-07-06 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Tue, 06 Jul 2021 22:17:22 +0300, Anssi Saari wrote: > "Juan R. de Silva" writes: > >> Do you guys think it is actually feasible? Anybody can suggest >> something easier, smarter? It's a lot of work to do... :-( > > Why do you think this would

Re: Moving dual boot Win10 & Debian 10 system from Legacy to UEFI

2021-07-04 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Sun, 04 Jul 2021 17:23:33 -0700, David Christensen wrote: > On 7/4/21 4:22 PM, Juan R. de Silva wrote: >> Hi folks, >> >> I dual boot Debian 10 with Windows 10 from MBR in Legacy mode on my 6 >> years old Dell M4800 workstation. The BIOS supports both Legacy and &

Moving dual boot Win10 & Debian 10 system from Legacy to UEFI

2021-07-04 Thread Juan R. de Silva
Hi folks, I dual boot Debian 10 with Windows 10 from MBR in Legacy mode on my 6 years old Dell M4800 workstation. The BIOS supports both Legacy and UEFI modes. With upcoming Windows 11 I am compelled to switch to UEFI mode. I know how to switch stand alone Windows 10 or stand alone Linux from

Re: Weird WiFi problem

2021-05-24 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Sun, 23 May 2021 21:53:45 -0700, David Christensen wrote: > On 5/23/21 4:55 PM, Juan R. de Silva wrote: >> Help needed from somebody with the better networking knowledge than >> mine. >> >> Debian Buster on Dell M4800 Mobile Workstation, Intel Corporation >

Weird WiFi problem

2021-05-23 Thread Juan R. de Silva
Help needed from somebody with the better networking knowledge than mine. Debian Buster on Dell M4800 Mobile Workstation, Intel Corporation Wireless 7260 (rev bb) WiFi adapter. The ISP modem offers 2 WiFi bands: 2.4G & 5G. The system connects automatically to 5G. 2.4G is reserved for my printer

Executing 'systemctl poweroff' from script run by cron.

2020-11-23 Thread Juan R. de Silva
I am running Buster after fairly deafult installation. One of my scripts executes '/usr/bin/systemctl poweroff' command. And I am having trouble executing this script from cron. 1. If run from user's CLI, the script succeeds. 2. If run from root crontab the script succeeds. 3. If run from user's

Re: How to manage audio volume unattended.

2020-11-15 Thread Juan R. de Silva
> Normalize the volume of the mp3 files beforehand rather than adjusting > the volume of the player in real time for each individual file (e.g. > with an app like python-rgain)? > > Or does this not speak to the reason for the volume changes? Unfortunately, it does not in this particular case.

Re: How to manage audio volume unattended.

2020-11-15 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Sun, 15 Nov 2020 14:46:01 +, Brian wrote: > On Sun 15 Nov 2020 at 02:35:39 -0000, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > >> I use cron job to run VLC several times a day at predefined times. Each >> time a different mp3 file is played and I need to set different audio >> volu

Re: How to manage audio volume unattended.

2020-11-15 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Sun, 15 Nov 2020 02:35:39 +, Juan R. de Silva wrote: Thanks to all replied and a lot of helpful suggestion. I'm working on it. :-)

How to manage audio volume unattended.

2020-11-14 Thread Juan R. de Silva
I use cron job to run VLC several times a day at predefined times. Each time a different mp3 file is played and I need to set different audio volume for each file. I also need to make it working unattended. I can set the volume by executing 'pactl set-sink-input-volume X Y%' but to do it I need

Re: No updates in Debian 10 for last 5 days

2020-10-05 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Mon, 05 Oct 2020 13:59:11 -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > On 10/5/20 1:48 PM, Juan R. de Silva wrote: >> Hi folks, >> >> I'm not having any updates for my Debian Buster for last 5 days. Looks >> suspicious to me... Anybody has same experience? >> >> >

Re: No updates in Debian 10 for last 5 days

2020-10-05 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Mon, 05 Oct 2020 20:10:00 +0200, john doe wrote: > On 10/5/2020 7:48 PM, Juan R. de Silva wrote: >> Hi folks, >> >> I'm not having any updates for my Debian Buster for last 5 days. Looks >> suspicious to me... Anybody has same experience? >> >>

No updates in Debian 10 for last 5 days

2020-10-05 Thread Juan R. de Silva
Hi folks, I'm not having any updates for my Debian Buster for last 5 days. Looks suspicious to me... Anybody has same experience? Thanks

Cannot post with Pan

2020-08-17 Thread Juan R. de Silva
test

Re: Lost sound after update to 9:9.10

2019-09-08 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Sun, 08 Sep 2019 20:42:46 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2019-09-08 18:13 +0000, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > >> One of my computers lost sound (both speakers and headphones) after >> update to 9:9.10. User is in "audio" group. No sound neither for the >> user

Lost sound after update to 9:9.10

2019-09-08 Thread Juan R. de Silva
One of my computers lost sound (both speakers and headphones) after update to 9:9.10. User is in "audio" group. No sound neither for the user nor for root. Hardware tested with Live Ubuntu 16.04 is alive and functioning. Run bellow without any help: root@desktop:~#

Re: Looking for advise to replacy Pan newsreader

2019-02-17 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Sun, 17 Feb 2019 16:07:11 + Tixy wrote: > On Sun, 2019-02-17 at 15:56 +, Tixy wrote: > > On Sun, 2019-02-17 at 14:47 +0000, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > [...] > > > And may I ask you what do you use to follow this very maillist? > > > > Erm, he proba

Re: Looking for advise to replacy Pan newsreader

2019-02-17 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Sat, 16 Feb 2019 22:51:04 -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: > On Sun, 17 Feb 2019 04:05:47 - (UTC) > "Juan R. de Silva" wrote: > >> Pan newsreader,which I used happily for several years, lately get buggy >> as hell and cannot be used any longer at all. >>

Looking for advise to replacy Pan newsreader

2019-02-16 Thread Juan R. de Silva
Pan newsreader,which I used happily for several years, lately get buggy as hell and cannot be used any longer at all. I tried Thunderbird from Debian repo and found that the pure thing is not capable to keep a uniform font size through all posts. That is, the font size changes as soon as I try

Re: do you find old firefox is better than new one?

2018-12-16 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Sun, 16 Dec 2018 17:24:20 +0100, tomas wrote: > On Sun, Dec 16, 2018 at 03:58:23PM +0000, Juan R. de Silva wrote: >> On Sun, 16 Dec 2018 08:07:06 -0300, Eike Lantzsch wrote: >> >> > Dear Long Wind: >> > Usually I don't reply AOL but in this case I second

Re: do you find old firefox is better than new one?

2018-12-16 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Sun, 16 Dec 2018 08:07:06 -0300, Eike Lantzsch wrote: > Dear Long Wind: > Usually I don't reply AOL but in this case I second that. > I'm an unhappy Firefox-user on Debian and am looking for alternatives. > Yes, I do have many tabs open, 'cause I need them. I got plenty of > memory but Firefox

Re: GNOME Shell integration problem

2018-10-25 Thread Juan R. de Silva
> Looks like this bug: > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=840804 Thank you Curt.

Re: GNOME Shell integration problem

2018-10-24 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Wed, 24 Oct 2018 19:41:24 +, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > Hi folks, > > I'm running Debian Stretch with chrome-gnome-shell installed. GNOME Shell > integration add-on works just fine with Firefox but does not work with any of > Chrome based browsers (Vivaldi, Opera) and

GNOME Shell integration problem

2018-10-24 Thread Juan R. de Silva
Hi folks, I'm running Debian Stretch with chrome-gnome-shell installed. GNOME Shell integration add-on works just fine with Firefox but does not work with any of Chrome based browsers (Vivaldi, Opera) and Google Chrome itself. It throughs message "Although GNOME Shell integration extension is run

Re: What is Firefox on Debian Stretch nearest future?

2018-08-30 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Thu, 30 Aug 2018 09:28:35 +0200, Stefan K wrote: > Hi, > > Debian will be upgrade to Firefox 60.2 esr.,it will be available at > 2018-09-05 > > more information about this: > https://www.debian.org/releases/stretch/amd64/release-notes/ch- information.html#browser-security > https://bugs.debi

What is Firefox on Debian Stretch nearest future?

2018-08-29 Thread Juan R. de Silva
Hi folks, As far as I understend Mozilla is going to stop supporting Firefox ESR 59 this August. Does it mean that Firefox Quantum is comming to Debian Stretch before long? Is any information available? Thanks

Re: Looking for ratings of all-in-one printers for Linux (Ubuntu in particular)

2018-07-09 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Mon, 09 Jul 2018 11:14:53 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> I used to own MFC 7460DN. I own currently HL-L2389DW wireless -e >> xcellent unit. Any of them work under Ubuntu, Debian (my current >> distro), Fedora, >> OpenSuse, etc. without a problem. Installation is a breeze. The >> drivers ava

Re: Looking for ratings of all-in-one printers for Linux (Ubuntu in particular)

2018-07-07 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Sat, 07 Jul 2018 13:50:56 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > I know there are probably multiple places where such ratings can be > found. Not knowing which are reliable, I'm sort of asking for ratings of > the ratings, I guess. Mostly, though, I want ratings of recent models, > from a Linux/Debian

Re: Were is gapcmon?

2018-02-22 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Wed, 21 Feb 2018 21:38:55 -0500, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 02:04:12AM +0000, Juan R. de Silva wrote: >> >> Ups, I've totaly missed that Marc said 'apcupsd'. In this case here are >> my deep appologies to Marc and everybody Being ov

Re: Were is gapcmon?

2018-02-21 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Wed, 21 Feb 2018 20:36:03 -0500, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 01:30:40AM +0000, Juan R. de Silva wrote: >> On Tue, 20 Feb 2018 14:03:01 -0500, Marc Auslander wrote: >> >> > "Juan R. de Silva" writes: >> > >> >>I

Re: Were is gapcmon?

2018-02-21 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Tue, 20 Feb 2018 14:03:01 -0500, Marc Auslander wrote: > "Juan R. de Silva" writes: > >>I've been using gapcmon GUI to control my APC UPS backup units for years. >>I cannot find it in Debian Stretch repos. Was the package removed? For >>what reason? W

Re: Were is gapcmon?

2018-02-21 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Tue, 20 Feb 2018 14:03:01 -0500, Marc Auslander wrote: > "Juan R. de Silva" writes: > >>I've been using gapcmon GUI to control my APC UPS backup units for >>years. >>I cannot find it in Debian Stretch repos. Was the package removed? For >>what rea

Re: Were is gapcmon?

2018-02-20 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Tue, 20 Feb 2018 13:04:20 -0500, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 05:26:41PM +0000, Juan R. de Silva wrote: >> I've been using gapcmon GUI to control my APC UPS backup units for >> years. >> I cannot find it in Debian Stretch repos. Was the pa

Were is gapcmon?

2018-02-20 Thread Juan R. de Silva
I've been using gapcmon GUI to control my APC UPS backup units for years. I cannot find it in Debian Stretch repos. Was the package removed? For what reason? What can I use in its stead? Thanks.

Re: unison compatibility in stretch

2017-12-10 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Sun, 10 Dec 2017 12:25:42 +, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > Hi, > > For years I've been using unison to keep common files amongst my various > systems. > > I now find that stretch provides version 2.48, whereas Jessie provided > 2.40, and they are not compatible. My server, which still runs J

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Cannot connect to WiFi

2017-11-16 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Thu, 16 Nov 2017 16:56:39 -0600, David Wright wrote: > On Thu 16 Nov 2017 at 20:11:18 (+), Juan R. de Silva wrote: >> >> On Wed, 15 Nov 2017 19:48:00 +0000, Juan R. de Silva wrote: >> >> > Hi folks, >> > >> > My ISP replaced

[SOLVED] Re: Cannot connect to WiFi

2017-11-16 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Wed, 15 Nov 2017 19:48:00 +, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > Hi folks, > > My ISP replaced my old modem with the new one. I changed my WiFi > Authentication key and the name of the WiFi network. Then I made Network > Manager to "forget" my old WiFi. Network Manage

Cannot connect to WiFi.

2017-11-15 Thread Juan R. de Silva
Hi folks, My ISP replaced my old modem with the new one. I changed my WiFi Authentication key and the name of the WiFi network. Then I made Network Manager to "forget" my old WiFi. Network Manager finds my new WiFi but I cannot connect to it. When "Authentication Key is required" dialog pops u

Re: Problem pulseaudio

2017-08-02 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Wed, 02 Aug 2017 08:34:52 +0200, MENGUAL Jean-Philippe wrote: > Hi, > > > I confirm, it works perfectly. Mqny thanks Juan Glad to it helped.

Re: Problem pulseaudio

2017-08-01 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Tue, 01 Aug 2017 08:30:57 +0200, MENGUAL Jean-Philippe wrote: > Hi, > > > My purpose is to run mplayer in a crontab. My line: > > 00 00 * * * mplayer file > > > If I run mplayer in CLI, everything is good. If cron does it, no sound. > And log is: Audio becomes stuck! > > > displayed perm

Re: Darn 'beep' stoped working after installing Stretch in place of Jessie

2017-08-01 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Tue, 01 Aug 2017 11:54:34 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Maybe modprobe pcspkr might be helpful too. Unfortunatelly it wasn't.

Re: Darn 'beep' stoped working after installing Stretch in place of Jessie

2017-08-01 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Tue, 01 Aug 2017 17:17:05 +0200, Dejan Jocic wrote: > On 01-08-17, RavenLX wrote: >> Having it work out-of-the-box would be nice. After a fresh install, I >> have a bash script I run that installs all the apps I use and >> configures them. Sometimes though, there are things that a user needs >>

Re: Darn 'beep' stoped working after installing Stretch in place of Jessie

2017-07-31 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Mon, 31 Jul 2017 22:02:00 +, Dan Purgert wrote: > apt-cache search beep It's most certenly installed. Thanks anyway, I appreciate it as a joke. :-)

Darn 'beep' stoped working after installing Stretch in place of Jessie

2017-07-31 Thread Juan R. de Silva
Hi folks, I installed (fresh install instead of an upgrade) Debian Stretch on my laptop. The installation is full success without any problem except a little one - 'beep' does not produce a sound neither from CLI nor from a bash scripts. I had Jessie installed on the same laptop before and it wo

Re: Potentialy OT: Firefox downloads over 6 GB of data streaming < 1 GB movie.

2016-07-11 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Mon, 11 Jul 2016 12:25:00 +0200, Andre Majorel wrote: > On 2016-07-11 02:53 +0000, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > >> Debian Jessie with Firefox 47.0.1 from Mozilla Debian Team. Firefox >> uses "automatic cache management", which is default. The problem showed >>

Potentialy OT: Firefox downloads over 6 GB of data streaming < 1 GB movie.

2016-07-10 Thread Juan R. de Silva
Debian Jessie with Firefox 47.0.1 from Mozilla Debian Team. Firefox uses "automatic cache management", which is default. The problem showed up just recently. Today for a test sake I streamed a movie https://archive.org/details/ SoylentGreen1973. The size of MPEG4 file is 919.8 MB. All apps, wh

Re: all at a sudden Firefox

2016-05-01 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Sun, 01 May 2016 17:42:33 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 5/1/2016 2:15 PM, Juan R. de Silva wrote: >> On Sun, 01 May 2016 07:44:22 -0500, John Hasler wrote: >> >>> File a bug with Mozilla. >> >> I would do it gladly if I only could reproduce it or at li

Re: all at a sudden Firefox

2016-05-01 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Sun, 01 May 2016 07:44:22 -0500, John Hasler wrote: > File a bug with Mozilla. I would do it gladly if I only could reproduce it or at list give a minimal lead of how and when it happened.

Re: all at a sudden Firefox

2016-05-01 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Sun, 01 May 2016 09:13:30 +, Curt wrote: > I suppose you've tried the obvious (cough) like starting Firefox in safe > mode, > refreshing the sucker, renaming prefs.js, using a virgin profile and the > like (or have you already told us that upthread somewhere). Yes, I tried all these. > An

Re: all at a sudden Firefox

2016-04-30 Thread Juan R. de Silva
After trying all suggestions I am giving up. And here a new finding. If I ever load a new page at least once and correct the fonts by hitting Ctl-++, then, even if I delete all history, including cache, cookies, etc., and go to that website/page again it loads with the desired fonts. So, as it

Re: all at a sudden Firefox

2016-04-30 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Fri, 29 Apr 2016 07:22:00 -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Michael writes: >> Set your font sizes to something else other than is displayed in the >> dialog. Save the change, exit firefox, relaunch and reset the font size >> back to what ever you need. Quit and relaunch. Any better? > > Worth a try

Re: all at a sudden Firefox

2016-04-30 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Fri, 29 Apr 2016 07:05:39 +0100, Michael wrote: > On Fri, 2016-04-29 at 02:18 +0000, Juan R. de Silva wrote: >> On Thu, 28 Apr 2016 19:28:14 -0500, John Hasler wrote: >> >> >> Well, do you really think I would make a post without checking such an >> obviou

Re: all at a sudden Firefox

2016-04-30 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Thu, 28 Apr 2016 21:41:16 -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Juan R. de Silva writes: >> Well, do you really think I would make a post without checking such an >> obvious thing first? > > Well, not knowing you, yes. Why should I be the only one to ever > overlook the obv

Re: all at a sudden Firefox

2016-04-28 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Thu, 28 Apr 2016 19:28:14 -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Juan R. de Silva writes: >> All at a sudden Firefox started opening all websites with tiny fonts. I >> have to hit Ctl++ several times on each new page to be able to reed it. > > Go to Menu->Preferences->Cont

all at a sudden Firefox

2016-04-28 Thread Juan R. de Silva
All at a sudden Firefox started opening all websites with tiny fonts. I have to hit Ctl++ several times on each new page to be able to reed it. The only thing changed before the problem showed up - Google Chrome was updated to the latest version via apt-get. No other changes to the system were

Re: OT: what do you know about Linux?

2016-04-25 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Mon, 25 Apr 2016 21:46:22 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > Juan R. de Silva composed on 2016-04-26 01:26 (UTC): > >> On my desktop I still use and old keyboard with PS/2 connector. >> My mouse an USB one, so the mouse PS/2 port on motherboard remains >> free. > >&

OT: what do you know about Linux?

2016-04-25 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On my desktop I still use and old keyboard with PS/2 connector. My mouse an USB one, so the mouse PS/2 port on motherboard remains free. A couple of days ago I had to reconnect my keyboard to motherboard. I was doing it in hurry and in the dark, just to the touch. A day later while restarting t

Re: Current stability of Debian testing?

2016-03-02 Thread Juan R. de Silva
> People just doing a blind "apt dist-upgrade" every day without knowing > what happens, why it happens and how to fix the emerging problems will > have a very bad time using Testing, because there will be a day where an > innocent "apt dist-upgrade" removes half their packages. Well, just don't d

Re: Current stability of Debian testing?

2016-03-02 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Wed, 02 Mar 2016 14:18:02 +0100, Albin Otterhäll wrote: > On 03/02/2016 01:45 PM, Michael wrote: >> Ive been using it for the last few months, and have had no major issues >> that where not of my own causing.. :) > > Good! According to the Debian wiki it's recommended to do a "minimal" > insta

Option "MigrationHeuristic" is not documented by Nvidia

2016-02-21 Thread Juan R. de Silva
In stable Jessie I'm currently using 340.96-1 driver for my Nvidia K2100M. I'm having some issues with the card, mostly quite notable latency, while working with Gedit or LibreOffice Write. While looking for options to improve the performance I found that google is full with suggestions to in

Re: Problems with VLC in jessie

2016-02-15 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Wed, 10 Feb 2016 23:38:03 -0500, Charles Kroeger wrote: > On Mon, 08 Feb 2016 19:10:01 +0100 "Juan R. de Silva" > wrote: > >> > If that does not help, please share the output of vlc -vvv. >> >> Well, I did... > > You might as well try this:

Re: Problems with VLC in jessie

2016-02-08 Thread Juan R. de Silva
> If that does not help, please share the output of vlc -vvv. Well, I did...

Re: Problems with VLC in jessie

2016-02-07 Thread Juan R. de Silva
> This may as well be a problem with the nvidia driver I thought it this way initially but then... If this is a driver problem, why SMPlaer plays everything just fine. And BTW, I forgotten to mention that even Totem also plays all my files and DVDs just fine. What is so peculiar about the nvi

Re: Problems with VLC in jessie

2016-02-07 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Sun, 07 Feb 2016 08:53:21 -0500, Ric Moore wrote: > On 02/06/2016 11:50 PM, Juan R. de Silva wrote: >> Sorry, forgotten to mention I use Nvidia 340.96-1 proprietary driver. > > Under tools/preferences/video pick "X11 video output (XCB)" then save > and exit and re

Re: Problems with VLC in jessie

2016-02-06 Thread Juan R. de Silva
Sorry, forgotten to mention I use Nvidia 340.96-1 proprietary driver.

Problems with VLC in jessie

2016-02-06 Thread Juan R. de Silva
It is Dell Precision M4800 64 bit with Nvidia Quadro K2100M graphic card. Since I've installed Jessie last year I have nothing but problems with VLC: 1. I can play DVDs but the screen is flickering awfully. Useless at worse, can play some after a lot of preferences tweaking at best. 2. I have

Re: Jessie 8.3 - still no update notifications

2016-01-30 Thread Juan R. de Silva
> For Jessie, we patched update-notification support back into > gnome-settings-daemon: > > https://packages.qa.debian.org/g/gnome-settings-daemon/ news/20141204T233404Z.html > > So, in Jessie, gnome-setting-daemon is responsible for the update > notifications. In stretch and sid, gnome-software

Re: Jessie 8.3 - still no update notifications

2016-01-29 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Fri, 29 Jan 2016 08:30:45 +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 29 January 2016 01:53:33 Juan R. de Silva wrote: >> > I use the Debian cron script 'apticron'. It talks directly with >> > Debian, so it knows about updates to all Debian software. I have cron >>

Re: Jessie 8.3 - still no update notifications

2016-01-28 Thread Juan R. de Silva
> I use the Debian cron script 'apticron'. It talks directly with Debian, > so it knows about updates to all Debian software. I have cron run it in > the middle of the night. It downloads the updates, and in the morning I > have email telling me what needs to be updated and why, and instructions >

Re: Jessie 8.3 - still no update notifications

2016-01-28 Thread Juan R. de Silva
> Do you have gnome-software and packagekit installed? With those, upgrade > notficiations should work. On my system both 'packagekit' and 'gnome-packagekit' are installed. Are sure about 'gnome-software' package name? I simply does not exist on my system.

Re: Jessie 8.3 - still no update notifications

2016-01-28 Thread Juan R. de Silva
These are all nice but only workarounds. For those who wondered what tool is supposed to provide such notifications... GNOME notification system includes between others an "update plugin", which supposed to do the job. As it does it (and quite nicely) in openSUSE GNOME 16. However it does not

Jessie 8.3 - still no update notifications

2016-01-27 Thread Juan R. de Silva
I have a fresh install of Jessie GNOME 64 bit since the release date. I've never had a single notification of any available system update. So, as a daily routine I run 'apt-get update' and 'apt-upgrade'. Google suggests that this bug was resolved in Jessie. However, even after updating to Jess

Re: /bin/sh: 1: lpr: not found on jessie amd64

2015-10-24 Thread Juan R. de Silva
> The packages cups-bsd, lpr, and lprng all have lpr. Try installing them > and removing them in turn, and see which works. Installation of cups-bsd did the trick. BTW, I tried installing lpr before and it did not help. This is weird, since I've looked into my i386 installation and neither cup

/bin/sh: 1: lpr: not found on jessie amd64

2015-10-24 Thread Juan R. de Silva
I have Jessie i386 and amd64 installed on 2 different laptops. Wine is installed on both, meaning that i386 architecture is enabled on amd64 install. Both installation have access to the same printer using the same (i386) driver from Brother. The printer works just fine with all apps on both i

Re: no icons in iceweasel menus - jessie gnome

2015-08-11 Thread Juan R. de Silva
Tuesday 11 August 2015 22:37:09 Juan R. de Silva wrote: >>> Everybody has those icons or nobody knows how to get them back? I >>> wonder... >> >> If/when someone answers, could he/she include a recipe for getting rid >> of these same icons? Wheezy, Icewe

Re: no icons in iceweasel menus - jessie gnome

2015-08-11 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Tue, 11 Aug 2015 22:46:47 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Tuesday 11 August 2015 22:37:09 Juan R. de Silva wrote: >> Everybody has those icons or nobody knows how to get them back? I >> wonder... > > If/when someone answers, could he/she include a recipe for getting rid

Re: no icons in iceweasel menus - jessie gnome

2015-08-11 Thread Juan R. de Silva
Everybody has those icons or nobody knows how to get them back? I wonder... On Tue, 11 Aug 2015 01:40:48 +, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > Hi, > > I just installed Jessie with GNOME3 on my laptop. Everything is just > wonderful except Iceweasel does not have any icons in its

no icons in iceweasel menus - jessie gnome

2015-08-10 Thread Juan R. de Silva
Hi, I just installed Jessie with GNOME3 on my laptop. Everything is just wonderful except Iceweasel does not have any icons in its menus. Their missing, in particular in Bookmarks menu, makes working with bookmarks organized by folders visually very uncomfortable. The old option menu-have-icon

Re: Strange entry in my routing table.

2015-03-05 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Wed, 04 Mar 2015 23:18:08 +, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > Here is my routing table: > > 0.0.0.0 192.168.25.68 0.0.0.0 UG0 00 > eth0 192.168.24.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.252.0 U 1 0 > 0 eth0 > > The first entry IS my

Re: Strange entry in my routing table.

2015-03-04 Thread Juan R. de Silva
> That looks 10% legit to me. 10% ? Is it a typo or a joke? :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/md84pp$t22$1...@ger.gmane.org

Strange entry in my routing table.

2015-03-04 Thread Juan R. de Silva
Here is my routing table: 0.0.0.0 192.168.25.68 0.0.0.0 UG0 00 eth0 192.168.24.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.252.0 U 1 00 eth0 The first entry IS my default gateway as I expected. The second line, however, is something I cannot neither recognize

Re: WD Passport 2T hard drive formating question.

2014-11-11 Thread Juan R. de Silva
> You seem to have overlooked Darac Marjal's response. I have not. I've just took a pause to do some additional reading and to experiment a little. I've tried 'tune2fs -m 1.0 /dev/sdXY' (found in Arch docs for Ext4). The result was quite interesting. Both Nautilus and "df" showed the used spac

Re: WD Passport 2T hard drive formating question.

2014-11-10 Thread Juan R. de Silva
> $ man mkfs.ext4 > > Look for "-m" argument. "-m" option default value is 5% (!) = 50 GB space. No minimal reserved space is specified/recommended in man pages. GParted allocated to file system 1.616% = 29.42GB (quite generous against default 5%). For NTFS, on the other hand, only 0.0067% w

WD Passport 2T hard drive formating question.

2014-11-09 Thread Juan R. de Silva
Hi folks, I've purchased a new WD Passport 2T USB hard drive, which, no doubts,came formated NTFS. I've used GParted to quickly format the drive to Ext4 and results surprised me quite a bit (all results as reported by GParted): File system NTFS Total capacity - 1.82

Re: gedit ugly under xfce

2014-07-17 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Thu, 17 Jul 2014 11:26:38 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > On Wed, 16 Jul 2014 21:43:00 + (UTC) > "Juan R. de Silva" wrote: > > >> BTW, about "bupsky" script you shared with me... It's very nice while >> working with files in console, like u

Re: gedit ugly under xfce

2014-07-16 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Wed, 16 Jul 2014 17:15:36 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > On Wed, 16 Jul 2014 20:39:56 + (UTC) > "Juan R. de Silva" wrote: > >> On Tue, 15 Jul 2014 20:29:56 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: >> >> > Turns out it didn't eat it, it just made characters i

Re: gedit ugly under xfce

2014-07-16 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Tue, 15 Jul 2014 20:29:56 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > Turns out it didn't eat it, it just made characters invisible. Here's > the start of the thread: > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/xubuntu-users/2014-July/007303.html > I confirm this. Here's my post about it on that thread: https://l

No Evolution reminders show up in advance as desired.

2014-06-22 Thread Juan R. de Silva
After using Evolution for last 7 years for about last 3-4 months I started experiencing the described bellow problem. Appointment and reminder set up and desired behaviour: -- - Set up an appointment for a particular date. - Open Reminder, sele

VFAT device mounted with wrong timestamps. WAS: Incorrect timestamps after files copied to Debian Squeeze.

2013-02-06 Thread Juan R. de Silva
I've recently made a post about Nautilus copied files from my Olympus recorder with wrong file timestamps - UTC instead of local time. Later on I've found the problem was rather in my recorder FAT16 file system. That is, I was simply hit by "system with UTC=yes in /etc/ default/rcS mounts FAT U

Re: [solved] Incorrect time stamps after files copied to Debian Squeeze

2013-02-04 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 10:06:21 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 23:09:36 +0100, Juan R. de Silva > wrote: >> Thank a lot again. > > You're welcome! > > Btw. it's very good that you posted what solved the issue. Thank you! > Some people don&#

Re: Incorrect time stamps after files copied to Debian Squeeze

2013-01-21 Thread Juan R. de Silva
> Exif timestamp vs file timestamp. Perhaps there's something similar to > nautilus-rename-exif-date that does choose audio Exif timestamps > automatically, instead of taking the file timestamps. And if this is the case, what would be a solution to correct this highly undesired for me behaviour?

Re: Incorrect time stamps after files copied to Debian Squeeze

2013-01-21 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Mon, 21 Jan 2013 09:31:53 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Mon, 21 Jan 2013 03:51:00 +0100, Bob Proulx wrote: >> The times that you show are exactly eight hours apart. That smells >> like a timezone difference. > > If it smells like that, than it is a timezone difference. I don't > believe th

Incorrect time stamps after files copied to Debian Squeeze

2013-01-19 Thread Juan R. de Silva
I am copying files from my Olimpus Voice Recorder to PC which have corresponding time stamps on recorder. When I copy files to my Ubuntu 10.04 the time stamps preserved exactly as they are on Voice Recorder. However after files copied to Debian Sqeeze, the system changes the time stamps, e.g.

[SOLVED]Re: iceweasel cannot open gmail and some other sites

2011-12-25 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Sun, 25 Dec 2011 18:32:09 +, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > After upgrade to Iceweasel 9.0 from http://mozilla.debian.net/ all at a > sudden I cannot open gmail page, either by typing gmail.com in the > address bar or by clicking Gmail link/button on google page. The > reaction i

Re: want to try KDE 4.6 from sid on squeeze

2011-10-09 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Fri, 07 Oct 2011 02:37:51 +, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > I'd like to try to co-install KDE 4.6 from sid to my standard GNOME > squeeze install. > > Hence 2 questions: > > 1. Is it stable enough now or it's better to go with KDE 4.4 from > squeeze repo (thou

want to try KDE 4.6 from sid on squeeze

2011-10-06 Thread Juan R. de Silva
I'd like to try to co-install KDE 4.6 from sid to my standard GNOME squeeze install. Hence 2 questions: 1. Is it stable enough now or it's better to go with KDE 4.4 from squeeze repo (though to have 4.6 instead is quite tempting)? 2. I'd like it to co-exist with my current GNOME installation

Re: Mounting two usb drives

2011-07-28 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Thu, 28 Jul 2011 14:59:42 -0400, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: > Dear list - > > How do I mount two usb drives at the same time. Both usb drives have > only one partition. Your question is not quite clear. Do you actually mean it is important for you that both drives would be mounted simultaneousl

Re: help to choose right printer to buy

2011-07-27 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 18:17:41 +0200, Siard wrote: > You can see that the HL-2270DW, too, works 'perfectly' in Linux: > www.openprinting.org/printer/Brother/Brother-HL-2270DW Yes, I've seen this as I already said in one of my posts. It's not clear from that information what distro and what version

Re: help to choose right printer to buy

2011-07-26 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Tue, 26 Jul 2011 17:13:34 -0400, Michael Checca wrote: > Again, Brother support is horrible. I wouldn't expect them to be > engineers, but to at least have heard of Linux and know that is a kernel > not an OS :) After I made a post, I phoned Samsung support, just out of curiosity. As normal,

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