Re: Skype

On 02/08/2017 06:03 AM, Daniel Bareiro wrote: I am currently testing Jitsi Meet [1] with Debian. Here [2] you can see a server with Jitsi Meet open to the community for test the system. Kind regards, Daniel [1] https://jitsi.org/Projects/JitsiMeet [2] https://meet.jit.si I'm giving this a

Re: Set resolution options without xrandr

On 02/04/2017 11:28 PM, John Hasler wrote: Tony writes: In the past, of course I'd have dug up /etc/X11/xorg.conf with vi, and edited it, but there is no such file on this system (Jessie). Create one. + ...and which video card do you have?? Ric -- My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to

Re: upgrade failed debian 8.7

On 02/04/2017 03:25 PM, Mike Nunn wrote: Please don't top post. Thanx, Ric -- My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad.

Re: How to fix I/O errors?

On 02/03/2017 04:47 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: On 02/02/2017 10:23 PM, David Christensen wrote: Have you downloaded and run the manufacturer diagnostic utilities for all your drives? What do they say? I have now downloaded and run Seagate's tools and it does show a does show a disk error.

Re: Memory Upgrade for Ancient Enspiron 2600

On 01/18/2017 12:32 AM, Doug wrote: On 01/17/2017 10:38 PM, Felix Miata wrote: Martin McCormick composed on 2017-01-17 21:00 (UTC-0600): I have an old Dell Enspiron 2600 which still works but it only Are you sure? I searched for "inspiron 2600 RAM" and found lots of hits on dell.com and

Re: CDROM device suddenly doesn't exist....

On 01/11/2017 03:02 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, Charlie wrote: mount: /dev/sr0 is write-protected, mounting read-only mount: special device /dev/sr0 does not exist Does command dmesg report something about "sr0" after this happened ? Have a nice day :) Do you have a bios selection for

Re: two graphics cards and two monitors

On 01/10/2017 11:19 AM, Teemu Likonen wrote: Dan Ritter [2017-01-10 10:56:21-05] wrote: If you are using open drivers, `xrandr` should be able to list the available outputs and modes and change between them. If you are using proprietary NVidia drivers, "nvidia-settings" should be able to work

Re: two graphics cards and two monitors

On 01/01/2017 04:03 PM, jurek wrote: How to use two graphics cards and two monitors on nouveau driver.I have Nvidia gtx 650 ti boost and Nvidia gt 240 card. I agree with the comment that you can use just one video card for two monitors. I run two IDENTICAL nvidia cards with 4 monitors, using

Re: Why I can not install software on debian easily?

On 12/20/2016 12:16 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 12/20/2016 10:46 AM, Joe wrote: On Tue, 20 Dec 2016 06:25:52 -0600 Richard Owlett wrote: On 12/19/2016 5:28 PM, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: [1] Actual case. Thinks she is using Windows because she has LibreOffice.

Re: (error) @ flashplugin-nonfree

On 12/17/2016 02:28 PM, Erwan David wrote: Le 12/17/2016 à 19:56, Richard Kuenz a écrit : please see attached report thanks rich opening a binary file in an unknown format is always a bad idea. So is sending any sort of file attachment to this forum. :) Ric -- My father, Victor Moore

Re: JACK Audio Connection Kit

On 11/21/2016 11:38 PM, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: apt-rdepends --state-show=Installed --state-follow=Installed PKGNAME It lists just a couple of base packages. So, why would it want to remove half of mmy installed desktop? It's the same with firefox. What gives?? Ric -- My father, Victor

Re: [OT] Last Avidemux appimage

On 11/19/2016 12:04 PM, maderios wrote: Hi Last Avidemux appimage is available for all Debian versions or any other Linux distro here. It works fine. https://www.fosshub.com/Avidemux.html/avidemux_2.6.15.appImage http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/news.html Greetings I feel much better about it

JACK Audio Connection Kit

Is there some reason removing the libjack-jackd2-0 package removes everything audio/video and the kitchen sink?? The following packages will be REMOVED: buzztrax cheese clementine cube2 espeak ffmpeg flare-engine flare-game fluidsynth giada gir1.2-cheese-3.0 gmidimonitor gnome-video-effects

Re: [SOLVED] Re: [jessie] recording line-in using ALSA?

On 10/28/2016 05:39 PM, deloptes wrote: Ric Moore wrote: pavucontrol should have been a depend on pulseaudio since the beginning as you can't do squat without it. Try to remove firefox and you lose your entire desktop. Go figure. Ric Thank you Ric. I don't think pavucontrol depends

Re: [SOLVED] Re: [jessie] recording line-in using ALSA?

On 10/27/2016 03:58 PM, D. R. Evans wrote: deloptes wrote on 10/27/2016 12:14 PM: It looks reasonable. What you can do, since you have pulse installed, you could run pavucontrol and setup the input devices properly. Perhaps your problem is visible there - muted/default etc. I usually start

Re: veeger is infected ...startx again

On 10/17/2016 06:48 PM, Felix Miata wrote: Ric Moore composed on 2016-10-17 17:47 (UTC-0400): Felix Miata wrote: Did you consider trying with both NVidia and Nouveau purged? Apparently, development focus has been migrating into the server-integrated modesetting driver: http

Fwd: Re: veeger is infected ...startx again

On 10/17/2016 02:43 PM, Felix Miata wrote: Ric Moore composed on 2016-10-17 14:25 (UTC-0400): I finally went ape and re-installed from the latest stretch build. Initially, with the nouveau driver, XFCE$ synaptic (and others) drop down menus worked. I installed nvidia-driver and it installed

Re: veeger is infected ...startx again

On 10/10/2016 08:49 AM, Charlie Kravetz wrote: It sounds like GTK3 themes is taking over. I had a similar situation I finally went ape and re-installed from the latest stretch build. Initially, with the nouveau driver, XFCE$ synaptic (and others) drop down menus worked. I installed

Re: veeger is infected ...startx again

On 10/01/2016 09:40 PM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: On 10/01/2016 12:49 PM, Ric Moore wrote: ... humans are infecting Veeger. I figured I'd fix the display manager problem with a clean install. Here's the fun part that gives me the giggles: I downloaded the testing DVD to install clean from, whilst

Re: kernel 4.7.0 and nvidia

On 10/06/2016 02:55 AM, gianluca wrote: Are the opensource nouveau drivers so bad, so you need closed-source blob??? Yeah, unless you just play Hunt The Wumpus. Without accelerated graphics, you're missing out on a lot I already paid for. I refuse to cripple my hardware on purpose since I'm

Re: veeger is infected ...startx again

On 10/01/2016 08:02 PM, Bob Bernstein wrote: On Sat, 1 Oct 2016, Ric Moore wrote: Surprise, my sources list reflected Jessie, not Stretch or Sid. I FIXED that. Did you run an 'apt-get dist-upgrade' after making changes to sources.list? Hang in there. OK. I gave that a digital whirl

veeger is infected ...startx again

... humans are infecting Veeger. I figured I'd fix the display manager problem with a clean install. Here's the fun part that gives me the giggles: I downloaded the testing DVD to install clean from, whilst thinking it would be stretch or sid. Best laid plans of mice. I rebooted upon

veeger is infected ...startx again

-- My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. http://linuxcounter.net/user/44256.html

Re: WARNING! New Perl/Perl-base upgrade removes 141 Sid/Unstable packages

On 09/30/2016 09:32 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: You COULD even change to an rpm distro and have a completely different moan available to you. ;-) Who says Linux isn't sexy to use?? I think that the biggest beef is not the package manager, but the packages that depended on everything else

usb permission denied

libusb requires write access to USB device nodes. libusb couldn't open USB device /dev/bus/usb/001/006: Permission denied. If anyone can assist, I'd love to fix this. Ric -- My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin

Re: libre office fail

On 09/25/2016 04:01 AM, Floris wrote: Op Sun, 25 Sep 2016 03:22:23 +0200 schreef Ric Moore <wayward4...@gmail.com>: Desperate, I tried to use command line to open an odt file. I got this running sid: ric@iam:~/Documents/Dennis/pdf$ libreoffice National_Reentry_Resources.odt (soffice

Re: libre office fail

On 09/25/2016 01:23 AM, Mark Fletcher wrote: On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 09:22:23PM -0400, Ric Moore wrote: Desperate, I tried to use command line to open an odt file. I got this running sid: This is critical. :( Ric I'm sorry that this doesn't move you closer to an immediate solution, but do

Re: libre office fail

On 09/24/2016 10:39 PM, Carl Fink wrote: On 09/24/2016 09:22 PM, Ric Moore wrote: Desperate, I tried to use command line to open an odt file. I got this running sid: ric@iam:~/Documents/Dennis/pdf$ libreoffice National_Reentry_Resources.odt (soffice:14215): Gtk-CRITICAL

libre office fail

Desperate, I tried to use command line to open an odt file. I got this running sid: ric@iam:~/Documents/Dennis/pdf$ libreoffice National_Reentry_Resources.odt (soffice:14215): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_set_size_request: assertion 'width >= -1' failed ric@iam:~/Documents/Dennis/pdf$ This

Office borked

Has anyone else noticed that the drop down menus in Office writer no longer work??? This is making me REAL crazy. It's the same problem reported with synaptic. -- My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of

Re: cant get to desktop anymore

On 09/21/2016 04:52 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: On Wed, Sep 21, 2016, at 16:32, Stephen Powell wrote: I did notice one thing peculiar. startx output is written to the terminal of vt1, of course, even though it's running as a background task. And I got the error message modprobe: FATAL: Module

Re: cant get to desktop anymore

On 09/21/2016 04:52 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: On Wed, Sep 21, 2016, at 16:32, Stephen Powell wrote: I did notice one thing peculiar. startx output is written to the terminal of vt1, of course, even though it's running as a background task. And I got the error message modprobe: FATAL: Module

Re: Failed to execute child process (no such file or directory), but the script DOES exist in $HOME/bin, openbox users, especially take a look, please.

On 09/22/2016 09:59 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 02:50:30PM +0100, Brian wrote: To read the manual apt-get download lightdm works every time. Hmm, well. $ cd /tmp $ apt-get download lightdm $ ls, man dpkg, ... $ dpkg -x lightdm_1.10.3-3_amd64.deb ldm $ gzip -dc

Re: anyone having problems with python on debian testing

On 09/19/2016 03:08 PM, emetib wrote: i would like to know if others are having any problems with their systems. thanks If this weren't a Debian List I'd be cursing like a drunken sailor. :) Ric -- My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the

Re: cant get to desktop anymore

On 09/18/2016 09:42 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: On 18/09/16 07:57 PM, Ric Moore wrote: On 09/18/2016 06:00 PM, Kent West wrote: On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 3:28 PM, bell canada <bellcanada...@gmail.com <mailto:bellcanada...@gmail.com>> wrote: hello i installed debian 8 and i cant

Re: cant get to desktop anymore

On 09/18/2016 08:33 PM, Neal P. Murphy wrote: On Sun, 18 Sep 2016 19:57:58 -0400 Ric Moore <wayward4...@gmail.com> wrote: On 09/18/2016 06:00 PM, Kent West wrote: On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 3:28 PM, bell canada <bellcanada...@gmail.com <mailto:bellcanada...@gmail.com>> w

Re: Testing/Unstable Synaptic broken again.

On 09/17/2016 06:37 PM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: On 09/15/2016 12:50 AM, Ric Moore wrote: On 09/14/2016 04:10 PM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: Thank you upstream developing and packaging team for replacing the effected packages. Yay! These packages have now been upgraded in Sid, 'gir1.2-gtk-3.0, libgtk

Re: WordPress on Debian

On 09/19/2016 12:11 PM, Kent West wrote: There's a lot of conflicting documentation out there for installing WordPress on Debian, so I thought I'd come to you folks, who generally have a lot of wisdom and knowledge in all things Debian. This will wind up being more a theoretical discussion than

Re: cant get to desktop anymore

On 09/18/2016 06:00 PM, Kent West wrote: On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 3:28 PM, bell canada > wrote: hello i installed debian 8 and i cant get into my desktop..why plz help roberto 438 881 9269 all i get

Re: Sound on jessie

On 09/17/2016 09:43 AM, Alan McConnell wrote: - Original Message - From: "Anthony Baldwin" To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2016 7:56:48 AM Subject: Re: Sound on jessie I was having a similar problem just last week after an

Re: update-alternatives, list alternatives?

On 09/16/2016 06:54 PM, Tony Baldwin wrote: On 09/16/2016 06:20 PM, Ric Moore wrote: On 09/16/2016 10:56 AM, Tony Baldwin wrote: But in my old age, I can't remember for the life of me how I did it. I don't believe it was with update-alternatives. I think I edited some config file somewhere

Re: update-alternatives, list alternatives?

On 09/16/2016 10:56 AM, Tony Baldwin wrote: But in my old age, I can't remember for the life of me how I did it. I don't believe it was with update-alternatives. I think I edited some config file somewhere, but for the life of me, I can't recall where. Crank up Settings Manager and edit your

Re: load module on boot?

On 09/16/2016 09:59 AM, Tony Baldwin wrote: Greetings, friends, so something went wrong with my old Debian installation and it won't boot (dumps to emergency mode every time). Consequently, I installed Jessie on the other hdd (that had win7), and I'm having a couple of minor troubles: First, I

Re: Odd issues with Stretch installation

On 09/15/2016 04:13 AM, Chris Angelico wrote: On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 5:54 PM, Ric Moore <wayward4...@gmail.com> wrote: On 09/14/2016 10:43 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: The first sign of failure was that, after installation, the GUI didn't load properly - just a black screen with a mouse

Re: Odd issues with Stretch installation

On 09/14/2016 10:43 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: The first sign of failure was that, after installation, the GUI didn't load properly - just a black screen with a mouse cursor. In trying to track down the failure, I found the disk to be full, so I didn't bother analyzing it any further. Same

Re: Testing/Unstable Synaptic broken again.

On 09/14/2016 04:10 PM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: On 09/01/2016 08:51 AM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: The latest upgrades have broken Synaptic, unable to use Menus or right click and Search is affected too. Thank you upstream developing and packaging team for replacing the effected packages. Yay! These

Re: Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one!

On 09/13/2016 02:36 PM, David Wright wrote: When I want to change resolution, which keys should I press to do that? Back in the day, when xorg.conf roamed free, you could have multiple screen resolutions noted within it and a ctrl-alt-+ would switch resolutions on the fly. That worked on

Re: Testing/Unstable Synaptic broken again.

On 09/06/2016 07:06 AM, Brad Rogers wrote: On Mon, 5 Sep 2016 21:23:25 -0400 Stephen Allen wrote: Hello Stephen, Do you fellas have 'apt-listbugs' installed? Don't know if it would have helped in this case, but running SID one should have that package I don't,

Re: Testing/Unstable Synaptic broken again.

On 09/02/2016 02:56 AM, Joe wrote: Everybody's installation is different... 4.6.0.1 boots OK, the new 4.7.0.1 didn't (4.7.2-1 I think), doing some kind of segfault. But I cleared the cache recently so I don't have the .deb of the previous 4.7.0.1. I'll try again in a couple of days. Running

Re: Compiling Canon LiDE 220 driver from source

On 08/14/2016 06:13 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: Although Canon LiDE 220 is supposed to be covered completely, and although I have had very good success with earlier models, I was having major problems with this one, echoed by many on the internet. I tried all the usual tests, culminating in:

Re: Quiet gaming capable gfx card for Debian Sid

On 08/13/2016 02:54 PM, Eduard Bloch wrote: I really don't want to troll but this makes me wonder... am I missing something? Or does AMD give a s...t about users unless they are running the latest Ubuntu LTS and nothing else? And I don't like this situation. NVidia drivers basically broken,

Re: Help on investigating partition-related changes

On 08/07/2016 03:25 PM, limpia wrote: It would depend on a lot things(details that you have not included), but agreed, I don't know of a command or direct way, unless you have a recent backup or copy of the partition tables, you could compare the current sizes to. Please don't top post. Ric

Re: X dies after upgrade

On 08/07/2016 01:12 PM, Gareth de Vaux wrote: Hi all, I can't find any similar issues on this list - I upgraded my system tracking debian testing yesterday but it's been awhile given by the Xorg changelog at http://lordcow.org/Xorg.changelog.txt and now X doesn't start. What did you upgrade

Re: Mythtv has lost all its on screen text

On 08/05/2016 10:20 AM, Alan Chandler wrote: On 05/08/16 15:14, Ric Moore wrote: On 08/04/2016 07:12 PM, Alan Chandler wrote: I have mythtv installed from debian multimedia. I am running testing Once you introduce Debian Multimedia to your mix, you get to keep all the broken pieces

Re: Mythtv has lost all its on screen text

On 08/04/2016 07:12 PM, Alan Chandler wrote: I have mythtv installed from debian multimedia. I am running testing Once you introduce Debian Multimedia to your mix, you get to keep all the broken pieces. "These packages are known to not integrate well with other software packages in Debian and

Re: Downloading and naming

On 07/31/2016 04:59 AM, Brian Wengel wrote: I guess I wasn't cleardon't see my post as a wish or argument for larger image sizes or the like. Actually the smaller the better, I agree. I'm talking about media. The debian developers should erase CD/DVD from their brian, and only focus on the

Re: LibreOffice toolbars & menus are rendering badly

On 07/27/2016 05:19 PM, Borden Rhodes wrote: Good afternoon, list, I'm running an up-to-date Stretch operating system on a ca. 2010 Intel laptop chipset. I noticed last night that the toolbars and menus aren't rendering correctly. I dumped a PNG here: I had a similar problem with an old

Re: Another appeal about Flaky browsers

On 07/28/2016 11:31 AM, Alan McConnell wrote: Have you started it in "safe-mode"? Mo problems with it running sid and chrome directly installed from google. Ric I have to call chromium from the command-line. I have just tried 'chromium -safe-mode &'. It runs fine for a

Fwd: Re: Networking nonfunctional on 8.0

Damn, I hit send without checking send to: Forwarded Message Subject: Re: Networking nonfunctional on 8.0 Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2016 14:46:19 -0400 From: Ric Moore <wayward4...@gmail.com> To: Steve Matzura <s...@noisynotes.com> On 07/28/2016 04:44 AM, Steve M

Re: LibreOffice toolbars & menus are rendering badly

On 07/27/2016 05:19 PM, Borden Rhodes wrote: Good afternoon, list, I'm running an up-to-date Stretch operating system on a ca. 2010 Intel laptop chipset. I noticed last night that the toolbars and menus aren't rendering correctly. Can you run glxgears?? Sounds more like a video driver issue

Re: Another appeal about Flaky browsers

On 07/27/2016 05:38 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: The rest of us aren't having the problem, so it must be something in Alan's personal set-up or config files. Having said which, I do find that Google Chrome is currently eating memory like there is no tomorrow, so is the problem shortage of memory?

Re: Another appeal about Flaky browsers

On 07/27/2016 04:07 PM, Alan McConnell wrote: Alan, whose animus against Debian is increasing hourly because of the wretched failures of the jessie installation Got a big harddrive?? Could you create another partition and install Jessie clean to it? You might have some cruft left over from

Re: New software suggestion - whom to ask?

On 07/20/2016 11:12 AM, Nicolas George wrote: Le tridi 3 thermidor, an CCXXIV, Brian a écrit : It doesn't look DFSG free. http://mintakaconciencia.net/squares/umtskeeper/#license For the purpose of including UMTSkeeper or portions thereof in GNU GPL licensed projects, UMTSkeeper is

Re: No HDMI Sound in Gnome (Debian Stretch)

On 07/14/2016 02:23 PM, nice sw123 wrote: Hi, the Gnome-bases sound configuration no longer shows HDMI. (I ONLY see Build-in Audio Analog Stereo). But aplay -D plughw:0,3 /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav does play sound through HDMI. What can I do to get HDMI listed in the Gnome Sound

Re: systemd I/O error :-(

On 06/30/2016 11:25 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On the laptop (i386, Dell Inspiron 9300, Intel Celeron) I am getting the following message. I am at a loss as to where even to begin. :-( All help welcome. I hoped a straight upgrade would leave me with init systemV, not because I think it is better. I

Re: Mailing-list configuration

On 06/13/2016 04:09 PM, Erwan David wrote: Le 13/06/2016 à 23:08, Doug a écrit : On 06/13/2016 02:36 PM, Nicolas George wrote: Le sextidi 26 prairial, an CCXXIV, Bob Holtzman a écrit : /snip/ Just what planet are you writing from, Bob? I don't recognize the date at all. Bob is across

Re: Non-firefox browser?

On 06/11/2016 09:48 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: I can't test this, because I went over to Firefox as soon as Debian officially recommended doing so. Heh, I switched LONG before they did. I know, I'm a bad man. :) Ric -- My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the

Re: Improper visuals after update

On 05/29/2016 03:38 PM, Bhasker C V wrote: Hi, After an update I see that my dialog boxes are looking weird. I cannot describe it but it looks as-if the contrast is lost or the theme is not supported ? The boucing bars have gone missing but mouse over and clicks work. This is especially bad

Re: Zotero in the repository won't install

On 05/20/2016 05:08 PM, D Dimov wrote: Zotero Standalone is in the main repos - I open Synaptic, search, find, and select Zotero Standalone, check it for installation, apply it, it appears in the list of programs, but it won't run. Any ideas? Thanks in advance! Can you run it in a terminal to

Re: Sound with You Tube

On 04/28/2016 04:08 PM, andrew wrote: Hi Ive read widely but cannot get a clear idea of how to get youtube to produce sound. Playing music or videos is fine. Please assist with references or instructions My version is debian 8.1 Jessica Andrew Open your browser to a youtube video and start

Re: emacs locked file problem

On 04/25/2016 11:47 PM, Blair, Charles E III wrote: Perhaps a symptom is that, during an emacs session, the top of the window says "emacs@debian.c-blair@..." (my e-mail address) instead of "emacs@ceblair". I may have made a mistake during the installation in specifying my host name or

Re: 0triple monitor / dual video card set up

On 04/14/2016 08:31 AM, Seb wrote: Hello, I've recently moved onto a setup with: * 3 monitors Resolutions: - 1920 x 1080 (2) - 1680 x 1050 (1) * 2 videos cards - GeForce GT 720 - RV730 Pro (Radeon HD 4650) The two monitors with the same resolution are plugged into the GT

Re: Annoying pop-up window

On 04/10/2016 02:08 PM, Patrick Wiseman wrote: On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 1:29 PM, Renaud OLGIATI > wrote: On Sun, 10 Apr 2016 18:06:19 +0100 Brad Rogers > wrote: > Look

Re: Choppy video on Youtube

On 04/06/2016 12:45 PM, Harris Paltrowitz wrote: - Graphics: Intel Bay Trail x86/MMX/SSE2 I would love to receive help from this list... thanks much much in advance! Do you have your Intel video driver installed?? Video played back here just fine using HTML5. Ric -- My father, Victor

Re: Bootable USB won't working

On 04/03/2016 03:27 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: What firmware file to use with qemu-system-i386 in order to demonstrate EFI booting on i386 ? I gave to wonder if the bootable flag was set during format? If not, that would explain much. Ric -- My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There

Re: Software center has shuting down

On 03/31/2016 11:54 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 31 March 2016 11:34:50 Ric Moore wrote: On 03/30/2016 07:02 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Wednesday 30 March 2016 23:45:13 Ric Moore wrote: On 03/29/2016 02:38 PM, Rafał Mróz wrote: Software center in Stretch/Sid has shuting down i try

Re: Software center has shuting down

On 03/30/2016 07:20 PM, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: For the permanent record, it's things just like what you're going through here that landed me at APT where I have never looked back since going that route for updates, package inquiries, and new installs. I LOVE the feeling of control that it

Re: Software center has shuting down

On 03/30/2016 07:02 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Wednesday 30 March 2016 23:45:13 Ric Moore wrote: On 03/29/2016 02:38 PM, Rafał Mróz wrote: Software center in Stretch/Sid has shuting down i try report in Reportbug but i can't You made me look. There IS a gnome-software-common deb package

Re: Software center has shuting down

On 03/29/2016 02:38 PM, Rafał Mróz wrote: Software center in Stretch/Sid has shuting down i try report in Reportbug but i can't You made me look. There IS a gnome-software-common deb package, but no software-center ala Ubuntu. -- My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two

Re: clamav.securite.com no longer exists

On 03/25/2016 04:18 AM, Arnaud Jacques / SecuriteInfo.com wrote: Hello, The debian packages clamav-unofficial-sigs use an old script from sanesecurity. I suggest to use this new script for this package : https://github.com/extremeshok/clamav-unofficial-sigs It is recommanded by sanesecurity

Re: Multi-display - one monitor active but blank

On 03/22/2016 06:14 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Monday 21 March 2016 23:13:22 Oliver Elphick wrote: On Mon, 2016-03-21 at 23:07 +, Mark Fletcher wrote: It couldn't be a dodgy cable, could it? Mark I don't think so. If that were the case it would flash on and off as the cable moved. It is

Re: Synaptic filter serious bugs

On 03/17/2016 07:42 AM, Rastko wrote: Hi, When browsing through Synaptic custom filters, the right-hand side didn't reflect the selection on the left. (eg. same checkbox set for diffrent filter name selection) When i clicked OK, the filter actually changed to what was displayed, but that was

Re: Every opportunity taken (Was: Does anyone know how to configure a Brother MFC...)

On 03/17/2016 01:58 AM, Adam Wilson wrote: On Tue, 15 Mar 2016 20:38:04 +0100 deloptes wrote: Martin Read wrote: On 15/03/16 07:45, deloptes wrote: I see recently more python code written than real C/C++. So what? Most programs *shouldn't* be written in C or C++, and

Re: Sudo

On 03/19/2016 08:22 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Saturday 19 March 2016 21:13:14 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 04:15:01PM +, Frank Jones wrote: I have only been using Linux for a short time why cant I use SUDO on theterminal with

Re: flash? [OT]

On 03/17/2016 01:37 AM, Adam Wilson wrote: On Tue, 15 Mar 2016 17:06:12 -0400 Ric Moore <wayward4...@gmail.com> wrote: On 03/14/2016 10:47 PM, David Wright wrote: On Tue 15 Mar 2016 at 05:30:28 (+0300), Adam Wilson wrote: They will notice when lots of people no longer use Flash,

Re: Sound problems

On 03/16/2016 12:22 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: I have currently no sound. It is an ASROCK N3050B-ITX motherboard with onboard sound with the following specifications: Chipset Intel N3050 Sound Card Type Realtek ALC887 Number of Sound Card Channels 7.1 I have the following information:

Re: Installing newer kernels

On 03/18/2016 02:05 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote: I agree. The dist upgrade was problematic and I finally had to wipe the root partition for a clean install. Thankfully, from my Caldera days, I use /opt Hmm.. just to give a counter-point, almost all my current Debian installs are the result of a

Re: Sound problems

On 03/17/2016 12:06 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Thursday 17 March 2016 15:39:26 Felix Miata wrote: deloptes composed on 2016-03-17 09:50 (UTC+0100): Felix Miata wrote: deloptes composed on 2016-03-17 0:05 (UTC+0100): Why should it be related to TDE? I do not think your statement is rectified

Re: Installing newer kernels

On 03/18/2016 01:22 PM, David Christensen wrote: On 03/18/2016 01:21 AM, Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Thu, 2016-03-17 at 19:27 -0700, David Christensen wrote: Debian 6 is obsolete. You're going to want to do a backup-wipe-install-restore cycle on both machines and move to Debian 7 (or 8). Why

Re: flash? [OT]

On 03/15/2016 06:56 PM, Brian wrote: On Tue 15 Mar 2016 at 16:59:03 -0400, Ric Moore wrote: On 03/14/2016 04:24 PM, Brian wrote: On Mon 14 Mar 2016 at 16:14:11 -0400, Ric Moore wrote: On 03/14/2016 02:06 PM, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: IMHO its worth to try the web without flash. HTML5 can do

Re: Every opportunity taken (Was: Does anyone know how to configure a Brother MFC...)

On 03/15/2016 05:28 PM, Joe wrote: I first came to Pascal after a couple of years of BBC Basic, and I couldn't see what the fuss was about. Pascal didn't seem to be any great advance, though I suppose it was much more useful than the Applesoft I learned on. I had an original garage build ][.

Re: flash? [OT]

On 03/14/2016 10:47 PM, David Wright wrote: On Tue 15 Mar 2016 at 05:30:28 (+0300), Adam Wilson wrote: They will notice when lots of people no longer use Flash, and we will force them to react accordingly. Please stop trolling on this list. I don't see it as trolling when he spake the

Re: flash? [OT]

On 03/14/2016 04:24 PM, Brian wrote: On Mon 14 Mar 2016 at 16:14:11 -0400, Ric Moore wrote: On 03/14/2016 02:06 PM, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: IMHO its worth to try the web without flash. HTML5 can do a lot nowadays. And visiting sites without using flash helps to get rid of it. To the OP

Re: flash? [OT]

On 03/14/2016 02:06 PM, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: IMHO its worth to try the web without flash. HTML5 can do a lot nowadays. And visiting sites without using flash helps to get rid of it. To the OP, Gene, I just got rid of flash plugin totally. So far no pain. :) Ric -- My father, Victor

Re: Inferior sound quality

On 02/23/2016 01:42 PM, Pete Orrall wrote: On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 12:45 PM, Himanshu Shekhar wrote: My sound card is Intel Broadwell HD audio for Dell Inspirion 15 3543. The sound quality on Debian Jessie seemed to be okay to me (I use Rhythmbox as music player, and

Re: FW: Debian package on Windows

On 02/22/2016 12:04 PM, Richard Zimmerman wrote: How is Debian better off from Microsoft porting apt to Windows ? Because they didn't select YUM. :) Ric What is so wrong with YUM? I actually like it better over apt-get or aptitude... I wuz just being snarky. I used to work at Redhat and

Re: Debian package on Windows

On 02/22/2016 11:40 AM, Jean-Baptiste Thomas wrote: De: "Ric Moore" <wayward4...@gmail.com> and the GPL notice is included. I saw no mention to avoid the GPL in his request for information. Ergo, as long as the GPL is honored, this plan is actually a plus for Debian. How is D

Re: Debian package on Windows

On 02/20/2016 09:21 PM, Thiago wrote: Hello, Why did you send this message on Debian Apache and not in the main mailing list? I'm sorry, but you're not able to own GNU GPL to suck in your Application Manager. Either you will be educated mentioning it and respecting his copyright. First,

Re: I need help

On 02/17/2016 03:07 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 2/17/2016 7:37 AM, Adam Wilson wrote: On Wed, 17 Feb 2016 15:51:58 +0800 Gener Badenas wrote: On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 8:01 AM, Ghaith Etaiwi wrote: Hello, I'm starting in linux I used

Re: I need help

On 02/17/2016 12:56 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 06:29:06PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: ​If you want to do that I think you need to have some examples of sensible posts and silly ones for new subscribers to scan through before they become debian debutantes

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