Re: zoom client for bullseye

2021-08-30 Thread Steven Rosenberg
On Mon, 2021-08-30 at 08:15 +0800, Robbi Nespu wrote: > Last time (that time bullseye still on testing release) I tried with > they official deb, I getting dependencies issues too.. trying with > "apt-get -f install" solve the installation but somehow when I using > it, > it hang...and sometimes

Re: Jessie with ATI Radeon HD 4250 boots black screen after installing drivers...

2015-04-29 Thread Steven Rosenberg
d probably be, if one were available, but it does work; > the proprietary driver went away in testing some time last year, and I > haven't had any particular problems with the free alternative. I used to have this ATI graphics chip, and it worked well then with the open Radeon dri

Re: XFCE upgrade wheezy->jessie feedback

2014-04-08 Thread Steven Rosenberg
I'd say file some bugs against the packages in Jessie. -- Steven Rosenberg http://stevenrosenberg.net/blog http://blogs.dailynews.com/click stevenhrosenb...@gmail.com ste...@stevenrosenberg.net On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 10:03 AM, Martin Read wrote: > Today, I upgraded my system from w

Re: Suspend leads to black screen without sleep [Dell Latitude E6440]

2014-01-31 Thread Steven Rosenberg
pause during boot and add this "resume=" line, then boot and then can successfully suspend and resume, you can then figure out how to permanently modify GRUB 2 to make the "resume" line persist in your GRUB. -- Steven Rosenberg http://stevenrosenberg.net/blog http://blogs

Re: Font Rendering in Debian Wheezy XFCE

2013-12-18 Thread Steven Rosenberg
To get better font rendering in Xfce in Settings - Appearance - Fonts: -- Check the box to "enable anti-aliasing" -- make it "Hinting: Full" -- Steven Rosenberg http://stevenrosenberg.net/blog http://blogs.dailynews.com/click stevenhrosenb...@gmail.com ste...@stevenrosenberg.

Re: Shutting down lessens computer life............

2013-12-09 Thread Steven Rosenberg
I don't see well-used laptops lasting longer than 5 years. Something's bound to go wrong. -- Steven Rosenberg http://stevenrosenberg.net/blog http://blogs.dailynews.com/click -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe&quo

Re: Lenovo R61 Think Pad dead after fewer than five years

2013-11-08 Thread Steven Rosenberg
On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Ken Heard wrote: > Is it normal for any laptop to fail in fewer than five years, or is > such a failure rate unique to Lenovo's laptops? > My last laptop was a Lenovo, but not a Thinkpad. It died at just under three years of life. I was pretty hard on it, but I

Re: Planning for Disk Encryption

2013-05-02 Thread Steven Rosenberg
Tighten up on your backups. I've been running encrypted partitions (and full disk encryption) for years, and I haven't had a disk problem. Had plenty of other problems (just had a motherboard go bad), and I'm glad I had the backups. -- Steven Rosenberg http://stevenrosenber

Re: Wheezy Sleezy Gnome

2013-04-24 Thread Steven Rosenberg
me to time. It's nice to have the choice. -- Steven Rosenberg http://stevenrosenberg.net/blog http://blogs.dailynews.com/click stevenhrosenb...@gmail.com ste...@stevenrosenberg.net On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 8:03 AM, "Morel Bérenger" < berenger.mo...@neutralite.org> wrote: &g

Re: Installation failed

2013-03-05 Thread Steven Rosenberg
On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 6:40 PM, Steven Rosenberg wrote: > On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 12:12 PM, Mark Filipak > wrote: > >> I don't dare fiddle with my hard disk. It's a Dell laptop that has WinXP >> preinstalled without a maintenance partition and I don't have

Re: Installation failed

2013-03-05 Thread Steven Rosenberg
On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 12:12 PM, Mark Filipak wrote: > I don't dare fiddle with my hard disk. It's a Dell laptop that has WinXP > preinstalled without a maintenance partition and I don't have a backup CD. > If the current WinXP gets trashed, I'm hosed. If this is the case, I wouldn't go forward.

Re: openjdk version in testing is too old.

2013-02-26 Thread Steven Rosenberg
On 02/23/2013 02:06 AM, Roman V.Leon. wrote: Hi mates. Please advise, why openjdk-7 version is too old in testing? Debian testing repo: 7u3-2.1.3-1 0 Debian experimental repo: 7u15-2.3.7-1 0 Considering the fact that there were a few major vulnerabilities in JRE recently, I don't see other ways

Re: Gnome classic theme for 7?

2013-02-26 Thread Steven Rosenberg
On 02/23/2013 02:40 AM, Harvey Kelly wrote: I have similar situation at home, and my partner uses Gnome Classic on Wheezy here. It is very much like Gnome 2 (without all the customisation options). You just need to select 'Gnome Classic' from the GDM menu the first time she logs in. Yes, the 'Gn

Re: printer-driver-foo2zjs and udev

2013-01-13 Thread Steven Rosenberg
On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 6:29 PM, Steven Rosenberg wrote: > On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 2:03 PM, José Luis Segura Lucas > wrote: >> Hi all. >> >> On Debian Testing I'm unable to make working an HP Laserjet 1018 after a >> big upgrade, after a lot of time without

Re: printer-driver-foo2zjs and udev

2013-01-13 Thread Steven Rosenberg
On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 2:03 PM, José Luis Segura Lucas wrote: > Hi all. > > On Debian Testing I'm unable to make working an HP Laserjet 1018 after a > big upgrade, after a lot of time without accessing the system. > > After a lot of tries, I just figured that, if I turn off the udev > service whe

Re: icedove's auxiliary functions not working.

2013-01-12 Thread Steven Rosenberg
On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Gary Roach wrote: > Debian wheezy > Icedove 10.0.11 > > Recently Icedove quit following url's to the web browser and quit playing > embedded videos. I can't seem to find the source of the problem. I've > checked all of the settings on both iceweasel and icedove an

Re: Best recommendations for posting anonymously?? Looking for pointers

2013-01-12 Thread Steven Rosenberg
On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 2:27 PM, Engineering Safety Organization wrote: > > Hi, > > Does anyone have any great suggestions for how to best post > anonymously to web sites and how to create web sites and web servers > to allow participants a reasonable expectation of anonymity so th

Re: Audio not working : Intel C210 HD

2012-10-22 Thread Steven Rosenberg
On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 4:28 PM, lee wrote: > Flavien writes: > >> I'm having issues with audio : >> # lsmod | grep snd >> snd_pcm_oss32591 0 >> snd_pcm60487 1 snd_pcm_oss >> snd_page_alloc 6249 1 snd_pcm >> snd_mixer_oss 12606 1 snd_pcm_oss >> sn

Re: Reason to NOT install from online repositories

2012-10-16 Thread Steven Rosenberg
It's nice to have the DVD images. You can do a lot with the first Debian DVD. If it's at all possible for your machine to boot from USB, I recommend loading the DVD image onto a USB thumb drive and booting/installing from it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org wit

Re: fglrx driver

2012-10-12 Thread Steven Rosenberg
On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 1:16 PM, Gary Dale wrote: > The open source drivers work better (in terms of integration with the X > server) because the maintainers can adjust them to the latest changes in X > and other graphic software. Unfortunately due to the problems noted above, > they can't keep u

Re: fglrx driver

2012-10-12 Thread Steven Rosenberg
On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 5:57 AM, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 09:43:32PM +0400, Roman V.Leon. wrote: >> Gents and Ladies :-) please advise. >> >> I have an HP notebook with Ati Radeon 4200 GPU on board and >> sometimes i like to play old good windows games with help of "wine" >> w

Re: Wheezy and Sun-Java

2012-08-17 Thread Steven Rosenberg
On 08/14/2012 05:32 PM, Aidan Gauland wrote: Rob Owens writes: On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 08:29:41PM -0300, Dr Beco wrote: Unfortunately, my internet baking does not recognize openjdk. Only sun-java seems to work. When calling technical support, the attendant insist I should upgrade to the last s

Re: Debian backup

2012-07-19 Thread Steven Rosenberg
On 07/17/2012 03:39 AM, Mostafa Hashemi wrote: hi guys hope u all be OK :D i want to take a backup from my Debian, or it is better to say take a dump (like FreeBSD). what should i do ? i am new to Debian i checked out luckybackup , but it just copies files (backs them up) I use rsync

Re: ATI Propietary driver install in Debian Wheezy (Xorg downgrade to a working previous version)

2012-07-19 Thread Steven Rosenberg
On 07/11/2012 08:09 AM, Gary Dale wrote: On 11/07/12 10:51 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 10 Jul 2012 05:56:50 -0300, Ezequiel wrote: (please, keep html turned off, thanks :-) ) Hi all: Searching in the Internet I've found a way to make ATI propietary driver work under Wheezy. Of course, it impl

Re: Backports on Squeeze

2012-07-03 Thread Steven Rosenberg
On 07/01/2012 05:15 PM, Mark Panen wrote: Is it safe to have backports enabled on a stable Squeeze 6.05 system? I had Backports enabled on my Squeeze desktop system for quite some time. I'd say only use Backports if you need it. In my case, I had audio problems with the 2.6.32 kernel that we

Re: Filezilla a security risk

2012-06-27 Thread Steven Rosenberg
On 06/27/2012 04:58 PM, francis picabia wrote: On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Mi, 27 iun 12, 16:26:48, francis picabia wrote: I've just learned Filezilla is a security risk. It stores saved passwords and the last used password in a plain text file. As do many oth

Re: free software mini pc

2012-02-27 Thread Steven Rosenberg
On 02/17/2012 12:14 PM, green wrote: green wrote: The Fit-PC3 requires non-free fglrx for radeon hardware? Stefan Monnier wrote at 2012-02-17 10:10 -0600: No. The Free `radeon' driver should work just fine for those AMD Fusion GPUs. Hey, that is great news; thanks. I was not aware of the

Re: free software mini pc

2012-02-27 Thread Steven Rosenberg
On 02/15/2012 11:01 AM, green wrote: So to recap my original post, the basic requirements are: - fanless mini PC - it will run Debian - production environment (reliability is important) - good Linux support to facilitate fast deployment and low maintenance, - avoiding non-free software (non-free

Re: Bad news for Epson Perfection v330 - SOLVED

2012-02-24 Thread Steven Rosenberg
On 02/15/2012 02:29 PM, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 15 Feb 2012, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > Sorry to follow up to myself but I found a solution. The missing > dependency was libltdl3, which is no longer available. But after more > googling I found libltdl3_1.5.26-4+lenny1_i386.deb. This allows m

Re: Lenny (Debian 5.0) approaching end of life

2012-01-06 Thread Steven Rosenberg
On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 6:31 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 06 Jan 2012 15:10:19 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > >> On Vi, 06 ian 12, 12:11:36, Camaleón wrote: >>> >>> Sure (this was also discussed in this same list, time ago...). The >>> possibility of jumping from Lenny to Wheezy was oficially ment

Re: Full Disk Encryption

2011-12-08 Thread Steven Rosenberg
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 9:15 PM, J. Bakshi wrote: > Hello, > > I am always interested in Full disk encryption for my laptop ( i5 + 3 GB ), > but what makes me stop > is the thinking of performance lag. Recently I have seen an ububtu laptop ( > i5 + 4 GB ) with full > disk encryption and it is pe

Re: Into: Coming over to Debian from Ubuntu

2011-11-23 Thread Steven Rosenberg
On Fri, 11 Nov 2011 14:47:33 -0500, Douglas Saylor wrote: > *Meanwhile* iOS is *so* polished, so easy, so intuitive & yes*very* > pretty. It's not all that. Ubuntu 11.10 and even GNOME 3 in Fedora look just as good (haven't seen GNOME 3 in Debian since I run Stable). Whether you like how Unity a

Re: [OT] advice re Western Digital WD1002FAEX Caviar Black 1 TB 7200 RPM Internal Hard Disk Drive

2011-09-27 Thread Steven Rosenberg
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 7:11 AM, Go Linux wrote: > --- On Mon, 9/26/11, Greg Madden wrote: > > > From: Greg Madden > > Subject: Re: [OT] advice re Western Digital WD1002FAEX Caviar Black 1 TB > 7200 RPM Internal Hard Disk Drive > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Date: Monday, September 26

Re: iceweasel based on firefox 6.0 for squeeze

2011-09-27 Thread Steven Rosenberg
On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 6:02 PM, Rob Hurle wrote: > Dear Peter, > > On 25 September 2011 10:04, Peter Tenenbaum > wrote: > > I would like to migrate to firefox 6.0, but I'd like to do it using the > > debian iceweasel distribution. Can anyone tell me how to go about > setting > > that up? > > T

Re: OT - stitching together 2 pdf files

2011-07-12 Thread Steven Rosenberg
On 07/12/2011 09:59 AM, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Me again. Maybe "pdfshuffler" might work as well. It was the tool, I used that time for my own purposes. I installed and used pdfshuffler a few weeks ago. It gets the job done. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org w

Re: How do I start up services in Fvwm without killing Debian-created configuration

2011-07-08 Thread Steven Rosenberg
On 07/07/2011 06:28 PM, William Hopkins wrote: On 07/07/11 at 06:11pm, Steven Rosenberg wrote: On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 5:53 PM, William Hopkinswrote: On 07/07/11 at 05:35pm, Steven Rosenberg wrote: Here's my problem: I generally run GNOME but want to run Fvwm on occasion. In Debian

Re: (Solved) Re: Disabling GNOME loud beep at shutting down

2011-07-08 Thread Steven Rosenberg
On 07/08/2011 08:44 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 08 Jul 2011 15:09:36 +, Camaleón wrote: Since some days I'm hearing a very (I mean "very") loud beep when I shutdown (or was it when restarting?) GNOME in Wheezy. Is it possible to disable it? It's so loud that even hurts. I finally could s

Re: How do I start up services in Fvwm without killing Debian-created configuration

2011-07-07 Thread Steven Rosenberg
5pm, Steven Rosenberg wrote: > > Here's my problem: I generally run GNOME but want to run Fvwm on > occasion. > > > > In Debian, the Fvwm configuration is auto-generated. If I create my > > own config file for Fvwm, all the menus generated by Debian go away. > > >

How do I start up services in Fvwm without killing Debian-created configuration

2011-07-07 Thread Steven Rosenberg
Here's my problem: I generally run GNOME but want to run Fvwm on occasion. In Debian, the Fvwm configuration is auto-generated. If I create my own config file for Fvwm, all the menus generated by Debian go away. I want to start some services specifically in Fvwm, not in any (or every) other w

Re: Copying a bootable CD

2011-06-30 Thread Steven Rosenberg
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 4:13 AM, Martin McCormick wrote: > William Hopkins writes: > > $ dd if=/dev/cdrom of=filename.iso bs=2048 conv=notrunc > > > > then burn the ISO using your tool of choice (wodim, etc.) > >This worked perfectly. Thank you. > >Interestingly, I tried the dd com

Re: Keeping stable stable.

2011-06-02 Thread Steven Rosenberg
On 06/01/2011 04:07 PM, R. Clayton wrote: I'm running squeeze on a system, and I'd like to keep the system on the stable release independent of what the release is called. I changed all non-commented appearances of "squeeze" with "stable" in sources.list; do I need to do anything else? Is this

Re: Until now Debian seems to be the right decision :), better performance than Ubuntu

2011-05-31 Thread Steven Rosenberg
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 10:14 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Hi all :) > > until now switching to Debian is worth the effort. The > GNOME2 performance of Debian stable is much better than of Ubuntu. > > Pulse Audio is not installed by default :). > > What repositories should I use to set up a stable DA

Re: Speakers Do Not Mute with Headphones

2011-05-10 Thread Steven Rosenberg
On 05/07/2011 12:14 PM, Noah Duffy wrote: I just finished loading Debian 6.0 on my brand new Lenovo SL410. I love this computer and so far everything seems to have worked out of the box, however I am having one little issue: When I plug headphone into the computer, the main speakers do not mute

Re: Ubuntu Crossgrade

2011-04-25 Thread Steven Rosenberg
On 04/21/2011 03:14 AM, David Sanders wrote: Hello List, I'm just returning to Debian after a long absence over in Ubuntu land. The upcoming train-crash that is the Unity UI, and some over-political decision making in the community has led me to jump back to a more sensible and technology-led di

Re: file systems

2011-04-25 Thread Steven Rosenberg
On 04/21/2011 12:14 PM, prad wrote: Stan Hoeppner writes: > prad put forth on 4/20/2011 11:43 PM: > >> we want to run our servers through virtual box off usb drives which is a >> total departure from what we've done over the years. so might as well >> throw in a new fs too. :D > > Why U

Re: New to Linux

2011-04-18 Thread Steven Rosenberg
out any Unix/Linux system goes better if you read the documentation first, and that is true of Debian. I've botched my share of upgrades when I didn't read the docs, and my last Lenny-to-Squeeze upgrade went very well only because I read the release notes and followed the instructions i

Re: New to Linux

2011-04-18 Thread Steven Rosenberg
in April 2007, and I had only been playing around with Knoppix, Puppy and Ubuntu for a couple of months before that. Debian isn't any harder for a noob than Ubuntu, and the more welcoming we are as current users of Debian to newer users, the better. -- Steven Rosenberg Life

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-18 Thread Steven Rosenberg
On 02/08/2011 10:47 PM, Bob wrote: I was liking the look of the G555 for my farther. Anyone tried one? on the plus side nice big screen, on the down its only 1366x768 I also like the full keyboard etc.. The integrated webcam is only VGA, but is there any real advantage to higher resolution webc

Re: help

2011-02-04 Thread Steven Rosenberg
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 3:33 AM, Chris Bannister < mockingb...@earthlight.co.nz> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 12:37:05AM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > In <20110131040038.GA3315@fischer>, Chris Bannister wrote: > > >On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 02:40:01PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > >

Re: Backlight off or dimmed in Squeeze after upgrade

2011-02-01 Thread Steven Rosenberg
On 02/01/2011 09:56 PM, Remco Rijnders wrote: On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 01:16:30PM -0800, Steven Rosenberg wrote: On 01/31/2011 11:30 PM, Remco Rijnders wrote: Hi, Yesterday I upgraded my Samsung netbook running Squeeze. I got all updates released for installed packages since last thursday

Re: Backlight off or dimmed in Squeeze after upgrade

2011-02-01 Thread Steven Rosenberg
On 01/31/2011 11:30 PM, Remco Rijnders wrote: Hi, Yesterday I upgraded my Samsung netbook running Squeeze. I got all updates released for installed packages since last thursday. After this upgrade, my desktop in X looks very dark as if the backlight is not on or strongly dimmed. I do not recall

Re: Remove nvidia driver and reinstall nouveau

2011-01-28 Thread Steven Rosenberg
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 10:12 PM, Joe Riel wrote: > Is there a nice way to remove the nvidia driver and replace > it with the nouveau driver (which was originally installed > with Debian squeeze)? > > I tried modifying xorg.conf and > removing /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-kernel-common.conf; that > par

Re: GMail backup on debian

2011-01-28 Thread Steven Rosenberg
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Mathieu Malaterre < mathieu.malate...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Just for reference I gave up on icedove/thunderbird, it would simply > sit, do nothing and fill up 38% of my 4Gb memory for downloading a > folder of ~4000 messages. > I gave up on firefox/iceweasel a coup