Re: Mute mutes speaker, but Unmute does not unmute speaker channel (XFCE4)

2017-01-10 Thread Paul Dufresne
Just thinking that maybe I should look in: /etc/acpi/events Maybe add my script there on unmute event.

Re: Mute mutes speaker, but Unmute does not unmute speaker channel (XFCE4)

2017-01-10 Thread Paul Dufresne
I will have access to the laptop only later to test these new thing I found: https://wiki.manjaro.org/index.php?title=Volume_Stuck_on_Mute_%28XFCE_Desktop%29 From: https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1796713 I may add a key in XFCE bindings looking like: amixer -c 0 set Speaker playback 100%

Re: netinstall amd64 was unable to find a usable jessie mirror

2017-01-09 Thread Paul Dufresne
I just checked on the USB key, what disk it really is: Debian GNU/Linux 8.6.0 "Jessie" - Official Multi-architecture amd64/i386 NETINST #1 20160917-18:46

Mute mutes speaker, but Unmute does not unmute speaker channel (XFCE4)

2017-01-09 Thread Paul Dufresne
That's on a laptop I installed Jessie on today. In XFCE 4 (no reason to believe it is specific to that desktop interface), when I pressed mute key (F7), indeed the sound goes off. But afer that, pressing again F7 did not unmute, nor Volume up or down key. When I have gone in Mixer application, I s

netinstall amd64 was unable to find a usable jessie mirror

2017-01-09 Thread Paul Dufresne
I downloaded netinst AMD 64 bits and made an installation on a laptop today. I believe it was http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/8.6.0/amd64/iso-cd/debian-8.6.0-amd64-netinst.iso I choose 64 bit install (that's for a uefi laptop [with no more csm] and that's was about the sixth distro iso I tried

the ident protocol (was about risk linked to long list in /etc/services)

2008-08-30 Thread Paul Dufresne
It appears that I did not read correctly the report of rkhunter about the warning linked to inetd. It goes like this: [08:17:19] Info: Using inetd configuration file '/etc/inetd.conf' [08:17:19] Checking for enabled inetd services [ Warning ] [08:17:19] Warning: Found enabled inetd s

Re: not installer for live-cd

2008-08-30 Thread Paul Dufresne
2008/8/30 abdelkader belahcene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > I ve just tried Lenny-live-CD, it ran fine but I can't find an installer > procedure on HD ? I suppose we are speaking of the images at: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/lenny_live_beta1/i386/iso-cd/ Well, there is no installer in this be

Re: security risk of having a long list of services in inetd

2008-08-30 Thread Paul Dufresne
2008/8/30 Thomas Weinbrenner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Paul Dufresne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: >>> From: Paul Dufresne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>> Looking to /etc/services, I found that Debian seems to like to have a >>>> very big file with all

security risk of having a long list of services in inetd

2008-08-29 Thread Paul Dufresne
> From: Paul Dufresne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> For myself, rkhunter give warning about inetd. >> Looking to /etc/services, I found that Debian seems to like to have a >> very big file with all known services rather than just add the >> services needed. I don't

Re: hidden processes?

2008-08-29 Thread Paul Dufresne
2008/8/29 Zach Uram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I used the unhide package and found this result, should I be worried? > How can I stop these hidden processes? I guess if I was you I would install rkhunter and chkrootkit. Then launch chkrootkit, and 'rkhunter --check' to try to find if a rootkit is insta

Re: hidden processes?

2008-08-29 Thread Paul Dufresne
It won't make you feel better, but using Lenny unhide version 20080519-2 I get zero hidden process (tested proc, sys and brute). Nor any hidden tcp or udp connections with unhide-tcp. 2008/8/29 Zach Uram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I used the unhide package and found this result, should I be worried? >

Re: LiveCD's don't work

2008-08-29 Thread Paul Dufresne
That's probably https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.22/+bug/153702 (For Dell Inspiron 530, about SATA drive) Suggested *workaround* is to: 1. While turning on the computer press F2 at the splash screen to enter Setup (BIOS) 2. Select Integrated Peripherals 3. Go to 'SATA Mode

Re: LiveCD's don't work

2008-08-28 Thread Paul Dufresne
old blog at http://computerroriginaliascience.blogspot.com/2007/01/installing-linux-on-dell-optiplex-320.html suggest to boot with the pci=nomsi kernel parameter (F6 in Ubuntu I think to edit boot parameters). But according to this blog, expect others problems after that. This is suppose to fix: T

Re: console font corruption after exiting xorg

2008-08-28 Thread Paul Dufresne
More like a me too, but just a little bit for me. Once in a while, one of the letters have missing part. Like the 'f' have some part missing, or the 'n'. For me rebooting seems to fix it. I had almost the feeling a developper was making some kind of joke. I have a i945GZ chipset, so no proprietary

Re: ndiswrapper kernel module, precompiled version in testing?

2008-08-24 Thread Paul Dufresne
2008/8/24 Paul Dufresne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 2008/8/24 Shachar Or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> On Sunday 24 August 2008 19:50, Paul Dufresne wrote: > >> Hook the system up to a wired connection, then, or use the first CD (I think >> it has everything you need

Re: ndiswrapper kernel module, precompiled version in testing?

2008-08-24 Thread Paul Dufresne
2008/8/24 Shachar Or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sunday 24 August 2008 19:50, Paul Dufresne wrote: > Hook the system up to a wired connection, then, or use the first CD (I think > it has everything you need for that). I have CD #1 and #2 and that's not seems enough to get ndiswr

ndiswrapper kernel module, precompiled version in testing?

2008-08-24 Thread Paul Dufresne
I am quite new to ndiswrapper. For Etch, I had downloaded latest source, installed kernel headers, and then simply ./configure, make, make install. Now I am trying Testing, and since I supposed the official packages would be recent, I began to simply install ndiswrapper-common and ndiswrapper-uti

shutdown won't shutdown

2004-11-16 Thread Paul Dufresne
I'm using grub instead of lilo. Do I append="apc=on" in the menu.lst file? And where specifically in the file do i add this? Wow, a question on this list that I know the answer. Guess I should answer fast before somenone else do. :-) Here is a part of my /boot/grub/menu.lst file: title

Re: ppp dynamic dns need /etc/resolv.conf to work, a bug?

2004-11-05 Thread Paul Dufresne
Well, before filling a new bug, I searched bugs on Firestarter package and found that bug #277496 is already there (for 16 days long) describing the problem of using /etc/ppp/ip-up.local, and the maintainer of the package working on a patch for this. --Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: ppp dynamic dns need /etc/resolv.conf to work, a bug?

2004-11-05 Thread Paul Dufresne
Thanks for your help. First, I now understand that /etc/resolv.conf is dynamically created when using usepeerdns option of pppd. It took me some time, because I had others things to do. It turned out that Firestarter have created an ip-up.local file, that was stopping ip-up script. I guess I should

ppp dynamic dns need /etc/resolv.conf to work, a bug?

2004-11-04 Thread Paul Dufresne
I use a dialup modem to connect to Internet. I use pppconfig to configured my provider connection. In advanced setting, nameservers, I have chosen dynamic. But I need to use /etc/resolv.conf with a nameserver line to be able to use Internet. I had forgotten this for a long time, but a recent update

wget && unexpected EOF

1999-08-26 Thread Paul Dufresne
I am using SLINK and wget to retrieve netscape-4.6 standalone during the night. It takes 2 nights, and so I have to terminate wget at the end of the first night (14.4k modem). But when I tried to tar xvzf the archive, I got something like that after about 1 or 2 screens of stuff uncompressed: gzip:

Hard Disk Error Msg: Drive door open

1997-12-27 Thread Paul Dufresne
I am having a problem installing debian linux. when the installation program tries to write to the hard drive it produces nothing but error messages. It goes by too fast but I think it says that the drive door on my hard drive is open. I don't understand this because I know that my hard drive do