Andrew Puschak wrote:
> I inherited some Debian servers running 7 wheezy and am upgrading to 8
> jessie. During apt-get upgrade (after setting /etc/apt/sources.list to
> jessie) I get a less command displaying changelogs as seen below with
> the first package being nagios-nrpe. I also get a list
On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 04:11:13PM +, Andrew Puschak wrote:
> Hi Everyone!
>
> I inherited some Debian servers running 7 wheezy and am upgrading to 8
> jessie. During apt-get upgrade (after setting /etc/apt/sources.list to
> jessie) I get a less command displaying changelogs as seen below with
On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 03:35:13PM -0500, David Wright wrote:
> Quoting Chris Bannister (cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz):
> > On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 04:03:37PM +, Curt wrote:
> > > On 2015-04-19, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote:
> > > >
> > > > With this many others of us not having any problems on multip
Celejar writes:
> I run my main browser instance with all JavaScript disabled…
I wrote:
> So do I. Lots of sites put up banners warning me that some "features"
> may not operate properly without JS but generally those are exactly the
> "features" that I specifically don't want. A few other sites
On Sat, 18 Apr 2015 20:51:58 -0500
John Hasler wrote:
> Celejar writes:
> > I run my main browser instance with all JavaScript disabled…
>
> So do I. Lots of sites put up banners warning me that some "features"
> may not operate properly without JS but generally those are exactly the
> "feature
Quoting Chris Bannister (cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz):
> On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 04:03:37PM +, Curt wrote:
> > On 2015-04-19, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote:
> > >
> > > With this many others of us not having any problems on multiple
> > > various browsers, I wonder what (other) secondary things might
On 2015-04-20, Chris Bannister wrote:
>
> Don't confuse primary and secondary with counting. Think 'primary =
I'm not confused, nor do I require any lessons from you, nor
will I bugger this gnat any further.
Let's leave it at that.
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On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 04:03:37PM +, Curt wrote:
> On 2015-04-19, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote:
> >
> > With this many others of us not having any problems on multiple
> > various browsers, I wonder what (other) secondary things might be
>
> 2 is 'many' in your book?
Don't confuse primary and sec
On 04/19/2015 11:46 AM, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote:
Saw the other responses so chiming in. https://www.capitalone.com/
works for me here, too.
Works for me, Firefox with java enabled.
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On Sun, 19 Apr 2015, Lisi Reisz wrote:
On Sunday 19 April 2015 13:06:44 Lisi Reisz wrote:
I want my nose to stay on my face.
This was rather excellent. Tres droll. Not in any need
of explication.
We should not support the current horror of inducing
discomfort in others. Learning how to
On 2015-04-19, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote:
>
> With this many others of us not having any problems on multiple
> various browsers, I wonder what (other) secondary things might be
2 is 'many' in your book?
At any rate, I got the site to load in chromium. In iceweasal, even in
safe mode (all extensio
On 4/19/15, David Wright wrote:
> Quoting John Hasler (jhas...@newsguy.com):
>>
>> So do I [run browser with javascript disabled].
>> Lots of sites put up banners warning me that some "features"
>> may not operate properly without JS but generally those are exactly the
>> "features" that I specifi
On 2015-04-19, Lisi Reisz wrote:
>> >
>> > Lisi.
>>
>> The page will not load for me with javascript enabled (I use NoScript).
>> Iceweasal endlessly spins its wheels 'waiting for login.capital.com...'
>
> Yes, I have javascript enabled.
Me too, but the page in question wouldn't load here.
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On Sunday 19 April 2015 13:06:44 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> I want my nose to stay on my face.
After what has been said about comprehensibility. I mean that i do not want
to cut off my nose to spite my face.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutting_off_the_nose_to_spite_the_face
Lisi
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On Sunday 19 April 2015 12:49:23 Curt wrote:
> On 2015-04-19, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > I can't answer the question, but I have just successfully loaded it in
> > Chrome, Iceweasel and Konqueror. In Iceweasel it insisted on cookies.
> >
> > Lisi.
>
> The page will not load for me with javascript enab
On 2015-04-19, Lisi Reisz wrote:
>
> I can't answer the question, but I have just successfully loaded it in
> Chrome,
> Iceweasel and Konqueror. In Iceweasel it insisted on cookies.
>
> Lisi.
>
The page will not load for me with javascript enabled (I use NoScript).
Iceweasal endlessly spins it
On Sunday 19 April 2015 05:44:36 David Wright wrote:
> With JS enabled (as it has been for me) and Flash available (at the
> moment I have to "Allow Now" on each page) there are odd sites that
> still will not work, eg https://www.capitalone.com/ where, if I
> try to login, it just says
> "The conn
Quoting John Hasler (jhas...@newsguy.com):
> Celejar writes:
> > I run my main browser instance with all JavaScript disabled…
>
> So do I. Lots of sites put up banners warning me that some "features"
> may not operate properly without JS but generally those are exactly the
> "features" that I spe
Celejar writes:
> I run my main browser instance with all JavaScript disabled…
So do I. Lots of sites put up banners warning me that some "features"
may not operate properly without JS but generally those are exactly the
"features" that I specifically don't want. A few other sites really
won't w
On Fri, 17 Apr 2015 08:38:43 + (UTC)
Liam O'Toole wrote:
...
> So do you normally run browsers on squeeze with javascript /dis/abled? I'm
> surprised that any modern web sites work at all.
I run my main browser instance with all JavaScript disabled, and many /
most of the sites I use run pe
On Sat, 18 Apr 2015 15:01:55 +0800
Bret Busby wrote:
> On 18/04/2015, Liam O'Toole wrote:
> > On 2015-04-17, David Wright wrote:
> >> Quoting Bret Busby (bret.bu...@gmail.com):
> >>> The computers upon which I run Debian 6, have only 16 GB of RAM,
> >>> and,
> >>
> >> Lucky you. 2GB here.
> >>
On 18/04/2015, Liam O'Toole wrote:
> On 2015-04-17, David Wright wrote:
>> Quoting Bret Busby (bret.bu...@gmail.com):
>>> The computers upon which I run Debian 6, have only 16 GB of RAM, and,
>>
>> Lucky you. 2GB here.
>>
>>> expecially with Debian 6 not having adequate memory management (as
>>>
On 2015-04-17, David Wright wrote:
> Quoting Bret Busby (bret.bu...@gmail.com):
>> The computers upon which I run Debian 6, have only 16 GB of RAM, and,
>
> Lucky you. 2GB here.
>
>> expecially with Debian 6 not having adequate memory management (as
>> previously mentioned, memory swapping does no
Quoting Bret Busby (bret.bu...@gmail.com):
> The computers upon which I run Debian 6, have only 16 GB of RAM, and,
Lucky you. 2GB here.
> expecially with Debian 6 not having adequate memory management (as
> previously mentioned, memory swapping does not work effectively), so,
Eh? Squeeze ran qui
On Fri, 17 Apr 2015 22:43:08 +0800
Bret Busby wrote:
> On 17/04/2015, Petter Adsen wrote:
> > On
> > http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop?os=Ubuntu%20x86%2064
> >
> > you will find several packages. Among these are
> > fglrx-core_14.501-0ubuntu1_amd64_UB_14.01.deb
> >
> > that you mentio
Quoting Bret Busby (bret.bu...@gmail.com):
> Liam's point appeared to be that if anyone (me) is stupid enough to be
> still using "squeeze", then they (me) can't expect anything to work in
> it.
That's right. I put it more diplomatically. But you set yourself up
for it by saying you were using sq
On 17/04/2015, Liam O'Toole wrote:
> On 2015-04-17, Bret Busby wrote:
>> On 17/04/2015, Liam O'Toole wrote:
>>> On 2015-04-16, Bret Busby wrote:
On 17/04/2015, Ric Moore wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
> Have you tried "catalyst" for the AMD setup?? Under AMD Mobility
> Product Family your 60
On 17/04/2015, Petter Adsen wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Apr 2015 15:16:41 +0800
> Bret Busby wrote:
>
>> On 17/04/2015, David Wright wrote:
>> > Quoting Bret Busby (bret.bu...@gmail.com):
>> >> In going to the Ubuntu 14.04 64 bit option, as such packages are
>> >> usually .deb packages, and so, tend to
On 2015-04-17, Bret Busby wrote:
> On 17/04/2015, Liam O'Toole wrote:
>> On 2015-04-16, Bret Busby wrote:
>>> On 17/04/2015, Ric Moore wrote:
>>
>>
>>
Have you tried "catalyst" for the AMD setup?? Under AMD Mobility
Product Family your 6000 series is listed.
http://support.amd.c
Petter Adsen writes:
But. These packages are for *Ubuntu*. Ubuntu is not Debian. Yes,
they both use .deb packages, but that does not mean that the
Ubuntu packages will work well (or at all) on Debian.
Since joining this list, i have been quite startled by how many
questions get asked here
On 2015-04-17, Bret Busby wrote:
> On 17/04/2015, David Wright wrote:
>> Quoting Bret Busby (bret.bu...@gmail.com):
>>> On 17/04/2015, Liam O'Toole wrote:
>>> > On 2015-04-16, Bret Busby wrote:
>>> >> On 17/04/2015, Ric Moore wrote:
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >>> Have you tried "catalyst" for the
On 2015-04-17, Bret Busby wrote:
> On 17/04/2015, Liam O'Toole wrote:
>
>
>
>> Any browser you run in squeeze was EOL'ed years ago, from a security
>> perspective if nothing else.
>>
>
>
> So, are you claiming that the LTS of Debian 6 LTS, is imaginary, and
> does not exist?
I am not. I am telli
On Fri, 17 Apr 2015 15:16:41 +0800
Bret Busby wrote:
> On 17/04/2015, David Wright wrote:
> > Quoting Bret Busby (bret.bu...@gmail.com):
> >> In going to the Ubuntu 14.04 64 bit option, as such packages are
> >> usually .deb packages, and so, tend to work on Debian (which is
> >> how I got Seamo
On 17/04/2015, David Wright wrote:
> Quoting Bret Busby (bret.bu...@gmail.com):
>> On 17/04/2015, Liam O'Toole wrote:
>> > On 2015-04-16, Bret Busby wrote:
>> >> On 17/04/2015, Ric Moore wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >>> Have you tried "catalyst" for the AMD setup?? Under AMD Mobility
>> >>> Produc
Quoting Bret Busby (bret.bu...@gmail.com):
> On 17/04/2015, Liam O'Toole wrote:
> > On 2015-04-16, Bret Busby wrote:
> >> On 17/04/2015, Ric Moore wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >>> Have you tried "catalyst" for the AMD setup?? Under AMD Mobility
> >>> Product Family your 6000 series is listed.
> >>> htt
On Fri, 17 Apr 2015 13:07:54 +0800
Bret Busby wrote:
> On 17/04/2015, Liam O'Toole wrote:
> > On 2015-04-16, Bret Busby wrote:
> >> On 17/04/2015, Ric Moore wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >>> Have you tried "catalyst" for the AMD setup?? Under AMD Mobility
> >>> Product Family your 6000 series is liste
On 17/04/2015, Liam O'Toole wrote:
> On 2015-04-16, Bret Busby wrote:
>> On 17/04/2015, Ric Moore wrote:
>
>
>
>>> Have you tried "catalyst" for the AMD setup?? Under AMD Mobility
>>> Product Family your 6000 series is listed.
>>> http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/AMDCatalyst14-9LI
On 17/04/2015, Liam O'Toole wrote:
> Any browser you run in squeeze was EOL'ed years ago, from a security
> perspective if nothing else.
>
So, are you claiming that the LTS of Debian 6 LTS, is imaginary, and
does not exist?
--
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Armadale
West Australia
..
"So once you
On 04/16/2015 06:07 PM, Liam O'Toole wrote:
On 2015-04-16, Bret Busby wrote:
On 17/04/2015, Ric Moore wrote:
Have you tried "catalyst" for the AMD setup?? Under AMD Mobility
Product Family your 6000 series is listed.
http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/AMDCatalyst14-9LINRelease
On 2015-04-16, Bret Busby wrote:
> On 17/04/2015, Ric Moore wrote:
>> Have you tried "catalyst" for the AMD setup?? Under AMD Mobility
>> Product Family your 6000 series is listed.
>> http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/AMDCatalyst14-9LINReleaseNotes.aspx
>>
>
> Hello.
>
> I assume
On 17/04/2015, Ric Moore wrote:
> On 04/16/2015 11:40 AM, Bret Busby wrote:
>> On 16/04/2015, David Wright wrote:
>>> Quoting Bret Busby (bret.bu...@gmail.com):
>>>
bret@bret-Aspire-E5-521:~$ lspci | grep -i vga
00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
[AMD/
On 04/16/2015 11:40 AM, Bret Busby wrote:
On 16/04/2015, David Wright wrote:
Quoting Bret Busby (bret.bu...@gmail.com):
bret@bret-Aspire-E5-521:~$ lspci | grep -i vga
00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
[AMD/ATI] Mullins [Radeon APU A4-6000 with R2 Graphics]
I t
Quoting Bret Busby (bret.bu...@gmail.com):
> On 16/04/2015, David Wright wrote:
> > Quoting Bret Busby (bret.bu...@gmail.com):
> >
> >> bret@bret-Aspire-E5-521:~$ lspci | grep -i vga
> >> 00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
> >> [AMD/ATI] Mullins [Radeon APU A4-6000 wi
On 16/04/2015, David Wright wrote:
> Quoting Bret Busby (bret.bu...@gmail.com):
>
>> bret@bret-Aspire-E5-521:~$ lspci | grep -i vga
>> 00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
>> [AMD/ATI] Mullins [Radeon APU A4-6000 with R2 Graphics]
>
> I think you should concentrate on t
Quoting Bret Busby (bret.bu...@gmail.com):
> bret@bret-Aspire-E5-521:~$ lspci | grep -i vga
> 00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
> [AMD/ATI] Mullins [Radeon APU A4-6000 with R2 Graphics]
I think you should concentrate on the string in brackets,
which appears on
http
On 16/04/2015, Petter Adsen wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Apr 2015 15:21:46 +0800
> Bret Busby wrote:
>
>> On 16/04/2015, Petter Adsen wrote:
>> > On Thu, 16 Apr 2015 14:46:46 +0800
>> > Bret Busby wrote:
>> >
>> >> On 14/04/2015, Bret Busby wrote:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> >
>> >> > In the Debian
On Thu, 16 Apr 2015 15:21:46 +0800
Bret Busby wrote:
> On 16/04/2015, Petter Adsen wrote:
> > On Thu, 16 Apr 2015 14:46:46 +0800
> > Bret Busby wrote:
> >
> >> On 14/04/2015, Bret Busby wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> >
> >> > In the Debian 7 installation on the Acer V3-772G, for
> >> > Syste
On 16/04/2015, Petter Adsen wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Apr 2015 14:46:46 +0800
> Bret Busby wrote:
>
>> On 14/04/2015, Bret Busby wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> >
>> > In the Debian 7 installation on the Acer V3-772G, for
>> > System -> Settings -> Details -> Overview, it has
>> >
>> > "
>> > Processor: Intel
On Thu, 16 Apr 2015 15:11:03 +0800
Bret Busby wrote:
> and, on this computer, as mentioned in a previous message, neither
> Debian 7, nor Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, can get the external monitor going, as
> neother seem to have an appropriate driver for the
> AMD E2-6110 APU with AMD Radeon R2 Graphics × 4
On 15/04/2015, Bret Busby wrote:
>
> On the Acer E5-521-238Q, which does not have Ubuntu installed, I have,
> for Debian 7,
>
> "
> root@debian-Acer-E5-521:/# grep -B2 'Module class: X.Org Video Driver'
> /var/log/Xorg.0.log
> [25.144] (II) Module ati: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
> [25.14
On Thu, 16 Apr 2015 14:46:46 +0800
Bret Busby wrote:
> On 14/04/2015, Bret Busby wrote:
>
>
>
>
> >
> > In the Debian 7 installation on the Acer V3-772G, for
> > System -> Settings -> Details -> Overview, it has
> >
> > "
> > Processor: Intel Core i&-4702MQ CPU @ 2.20GHz x 8
> > Graphics: Ga
On 14/04/2015, Bret Busby wrote:
>
> In the Debian 7 installation on the Acer V3-772G, for
> System -> Settings -> Details -> Overview, it has
>
> "
> Processor: Intel Core i&-4702MQ CPU @ 2.20GHz x 8
> Graphics: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 0x209)
> "
>
> and, for
>
> System -> Settings -> D
On Wed, 15 Apr 2015 13:35:12 +0800
Bret Busby wrote:
> bret@bret-Aspire-V3-772:~$ grep -B2 'Module class: X.Org Video Driver'
> /var/log/Xorg.0.log
> [26.440] (II) Module intel: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
> [26.440] compiled for 1.15.1, module version = 2.99.910
> [26.440] Module clas
On 15/04/2015, Bret Busby wrote:
> On 14/04/2015, Bret Busby wrote:
>> On 14/04/2015, Curt wrote:
>>> On 2015-04-14, Bret Busby wrote:
so it apparently, is driving the inboard Intel graphics adaptor, and
not the nVIDIA GT750m graphics adaptor.
>>>
>>> The best thing would be to l
On 14/04/2015, Bret Busby wrote:
> On 14/04/2015, Curt wrote:
>> On 2015-04-14, Bret Busby wrote:
>>>
>>> so it apparently, is driving the inboard Intel graphics adaptor, and
>>> not the nVIDIA GT750m graphics adaptor.
>>
>> The best thing would be to look at the log file for X (on Squeeze LTS
>
On 14/04/2015, Curt wrote:
> On 2015-04-14, Bret Busby wrote:
>>
>> so it apparently, is driving the inboard Intel graphics adaptor, and
>> not the nVIDIA GT750m graphics adaptor.
>
> The best thing would be to look at the log file for X (on Squeeze LTS
> that is to be found at the following loca
On 2015-04-14, Bret Busby wrote:
>
> so it apparently, is driving the inboard Intel graphics adaptor, and
> not the nVIDIA GT750m graphics adaptor.
The best thing would be to look at the log file for X (on Squeeze LTS
that is to be found at the following location: '/var/log/Xorg.0.log') in
order
On 13/04/2015, Bret Busby wrote:
> On 13/04/2015, Curt wrote:
>> On 2015-04-09, Bret Busby wrote:
>>> Hello.
>>>
>>> On a new installation of Debian 7 on an Acer "laptop" computer with an
>>> AMD Radeon R2 graphics adaptor, the external monitor does not work.
>>>
>>> The external monitor works w
On Mon, 13 Apr 2015, Bret Busby wrote:
both were running Debian 7, as the last operating
system, before the hardware crashes.
Aha! There it is at last! The Smoking Gun!
Grassy Knoll, anyone?
nb. http://www.google.com/search?q=grassy%20knoll
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These are not the droids you are looking for.
On 13/04/2015, Curt wrote:
> On 2015-04-09, Bret Busby wrote:
>> Hello.
>>
>> On a new installation of Debian 7 on an Acer "laptop" computer with an
>> AMD Radeon R2 graphics adaptor, the external monitor does not work.
>>
>> The external monitor works with MS Win 7, with MS Win 8, with Debian
>>
On 2015-04-09, Bret Busby wrote:
> Hello.
>
> On a new installation of Debian 7 on an Acer "laptop" computer with an
> AMD Radeon R2 graphics adaptor, the external monitor does not work.
>
> The external monitor works with MS Win 7, with MS Win 8, with Debian
> 6, and with Ununtu 12.04 and with Ub
On 10/04/2015, Bret Busby wrote:
> On 09/04/2015, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote:
>> Bret Busby writes:
>> > 00.01.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices (AMD nee ATI
>> > Device 9852
>>
>> Type xrandr. You should have one entry for each possible connector.
>>
>
>
> "
> # xrandr
> xrandr:
On 10/04/2015, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Thursday 09 April 2015 10:22:23 Bret Busby wrote:
>> Does Debian 7 work with external monitors?
>
> Yes. Though I have found that the external monitor needs to be there, and
> on,
> before I boot up, in order for it to be seen. (Acer Aspire One)
>
> Lisi
>
On 10/04/2015, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Friday 10 April 2015 05:38:27 Bret Busby wrote:
>> On my Debian 6 desktop
>> computer, from the menu's, is
>> System -> Preferences -> Monitors
>> which has the option "Detect monitors".
>
> This is a matter of desktop environment choice, not distro version ch
Op 09-04-15 om 12:02 schreef Bret Busby:
> 00.01.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices (AMD nee ATI
> Device 9852
I don't know this device.
When it's a relative new device, and does not work well, I would try a
newer Linux kernel from backports. Something like this:
https://package
Bret Busby writes:
> 00.01.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices (AMD nee ATI
> Device 9852
Type xrandr. You should have one entry for each possible connector.
I.E.
saint@quigley:~
12:22:39 [9] $xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 2390 x 768, maximum 8192 x 8192
LVDS1 con
On 09/04/2015, Paul van der Vlis wrote:
> Op 09-04-15 om 11:22 schreef Bret Busby:
>> Hello.
>>
>> On a new installation of Debian 7 on an Acer "laptop" computer with an
>> AMD Radeon R2 graphics adaptor, the external monitor does not work.
>>
>> The external monitor works with MS Win 7, with MS W
Op 09-04-15 om 11:22 schreef Bret Busby:
> Hello.
>
> On a new installation of Debian 7 on an Acer "laptop" computer with an
> AMD Radeon R2 graphics adaptor, the external monitor does not work.
>
> The external monitor works with MS Win 7, with MS Win 8, with Debian
> 6, and with Ununtu 12.04 an
Bret Busby a écrit :
>
> It would be on a UEFI/GPT system, so the primary partitions are redundant.
>
> With Linux, I generally have a / partition, a /swap partition, a /home
> partition, and data partitions, with the swap partition being shared
> between the Linux installations; as they are not
On 04/04/2015, David Wright wrote:
> Quoting Andrew M.A. Cater (amaca...@galactic.demon.co.uk):
>> On Sat, Apr 04, 2015 at 01:51:15AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
>> > Do Debian 7 and Debian 8 (when it is to be released), and a bootloader
>> > such as GRUB, allow yet, for more than one version of Debi
Quoting Andrew M.A. Cater (amaca...@galactic.demon.co.uk):
> On Sat, Apr 04, 2015 at 01:51:15AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
> > Do Debian 7 and Debian 8 (when it is to be released), and a bootloader
> > such as GRUB, allow yet, for more than one version of Debian, to be
> > installed on a system, and,
On Sat, Apr 04, 2015 at 01:51:15AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
> Hello.
>
> Do Debian 7 and Debian 8 (when it is to be released), and a bootloader
> such as GRUB, allow yet, for more than one version of Debian, to be
> installed on a system, and, to be selectable options for the
> bootloader?
>
> --
On 2015-03-12 12:34:06 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > xscreensaver is not safe:
> >
> > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=403557
> >
> > (concerning the "when the system has no external input for a
> > defined period of time").
>
> I read through that bug
On 13/03/2015, David Wright wrote:
> Quoting Bret Busby (bret.bu...@gmail.com):
>> On 13/03/2015, David Wright wrote:
>> > Quoting Gajadur Dwijesh (dwije...@gmail.com):
>> >> Hi.
>> >> I got the same problem..
>> >> I followed this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLlOd-a2wG0
>> >> and it wo
Quoting Bret Busby (bret.bu...@gmail.com):
> On 13/03/2015, David Wright wrote:
> > Quoting Gajadur Dwijesh (dwije...@gmail.com):
> >> Hi.
> >> I got the same problem..
> >> I followed this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLlOd-a2wG0
> >> and it worked..i could dual boot windows 8.1 with Deb
On 13/03/2015, David Wright wrote:
> Quoting Gajadur Dwijesh (dwije...@gmail.com):
>> Hi.
>> I got the same problem..
>> I followed this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLlOd-a2wG0
>> and it worked..i could dual boot windows 8.1 with Debian on UEFI mode
>
> Interesting. I played this through
Quoting Gajadur Dwijesh (dwije...@gmail.com):
> Hi.
> I got the same problem..
> I followed this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLlOd-a2wG0
> and it worked..i could dual boot windows 8.1 with Debian on UEFI mode
Interesting. I played this through and at 506 seconds, I saw my first
EFI scr
Quoting Bret Busby (bret.bu...@gmail.com):
> I note that, after visiting the web page at
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface
> to which I have been referred, in another message posted in this
> thread, I found
> "while Insyde Software offers InsydeH2O, its own impl
Curt a écrit :
> On 2015-03-11, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
>>> or, otherwise, interface with
>>> the UEFI/GPT system, so that the bootloader, GRUB 2, can find the MS
>>> Win8 installation within the UEFI system?
>> Probably not. At least not the Windows boot manager, which expects to be
>> loaded from
On Fri 13 Mar 2015 at 03:10:58 +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
> Does Debian Linux 7 support UEFI "Secure boot"?
The relevant threads are somewhat fragmented but a search with "Plan of
action for Secure Boot support" gives you all you want and more.
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On 12/03/2015, Bret Busby wrote:
> Okay.
>
> In thinking about this further, I remembered that, due to the
> malicious nature of MS Win8, it is installed with the nasty
> UEFI->Secure Boot mode, which maliciously disables the installation of
> any additional operating systems.
>
> And, I remember
On 13/03/2015, David Wright wrote:
> Quoting Bret Busby (bret.bu...@gmail.com):
>> The Setup Utility displays, in the Title Bar, "InsydeH20 Setup
>> Utility Rev. 3.7".
>>
>> The solution, at this stage, appears to be to use the Setup, to
>> change between UEFI and Legacy BIOS boot modes, thence
Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> xscreensaver is not safe:
>
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=403557
>
> (concerning the "when the system has no external input for a
> defined period of time").
I read through that bug log and I don't see why you say it is not safe
as a general state
Hi.
I got the same problem..
I followed this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLlOd-a2wG0
and it worked..i could dual boot windows 8.1 with Debian on UEFI mode
On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 9:21 PM, David Wright
wrote:
> Quoting Bret Busby (bret.bu...@gmail.com):
> > The Setup Utility displays,
Quoting Bret Busby (bret.bu...@gmail.com):
> The Setup Utility displays, in the Title Bar, "InsydeH20 Setup
> Utility Rev. 3.7".
>
> The solution, at this stage, appears to be to use the Setup, to
> change between UEFI and Legacy BIOS boot modes, thence to select which
> operating system, I want
On 2015-03-12, Bret Busby wrote:
>
> I can "dual boot", within the Legacy BIOS system; I can select either
> Debian Linux 7, or, Ubuntu Linux 14.04, into which, to boot, from the
> Legacy BIOS GRUB menu.
Well, I meant boot the Windows 8. I should've said triple boot.
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On Thursday 12 March 2015 14:04:30 Bret Busby wrote:
> On 12/03/2015, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > On Thursday 12 March 2015 09:33:28 Bret Busby wrote:
> >> On my Debian 7.8 system, both xscreensaver and gnome-screensaver, are
> >> shown as being installed, and, now, to try to get a screensaver to
> >> w
On 12/03/2015, Curt wrote:
> On 2015-03-11, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
>>
>>> or, otherwise, interface with
>>> the UEFI/GPT system, so that the bootloader, GRUB 2, can find the MS
>>> Win8 installation within the UEFI system?
>>
>> Probably not. At least not the Windows boot manager, which expects t
On 12/03/2015, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Thursday 12 March 2015 09:33:28 Bret Busby wrote:
>> On my Debian 7.8 system, both xscreensaver and gnome-screensaver, are
>> shown as being installed, and, now, to try to get a screensaver to
>> work, I have downloaded hundreds of MB of extra stuff, to try to
On 2015-03-12 10:44:20 +0100, Linux-Fan wrote:
> On 03/12/2015 10:33 AM, Bret Busby wrote:
> > Does Debian 7 allow screensavers, that lock a screen, and require
> > logging in, either when the system has no external input for a defined
> > period of time, or, when a person manually invokes the "Loc
On Thursday 12 March 2015 09:33:28 Bret Busby wrote:
> On my Debian 7.8 system, both xscreensaver and gnome-screensaver, are
> shown as being installed, and, now, to try to get a screensaver to
> work, I have downloaded hundreds of MB of extra stuff, to try to find
> a screensaver that works on Deb
On Thu, 12 Mar 2015 10:44:20 +0100
Linux-Fan wrote:
> On 03/12/2015 10:33 AM, Bret Busby wrote:
> > Hello.
> >
> > On my Debian 7.8 system, both xscreensaver and gnome-screensaver,
> > are shown as being installed, and, now, to try to get a screensaver
> > to work, I have downloaded hundreds of
On 2015-03-11, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
>
>> or, otherwise, interface with
>> the UEFI/GPT system, so that the bootloader, GRUB 2, can find the MS
>> Win8 installation within the UEFI system?
>
> Probably not. At least not the Windows boot manager, which expects to be
> loaded from UEFI.
>
So he ca
On 03/12/2015 10:33 AM, Bret Busby wrote:
> Hello.
>
> On my Debian 7.8 system, both xscreensaver and gnome-screensaver, are
> shown as being installed, and, now, to try to get a screensaver to
> work, I have downloaded hundreds of MB of extra stuff, to try to find
> a screensaver that works on De
On 11/03/2015, David Wright wrote:
> Quoting Bret Busby (bret.bu...@gmail.com):
>
>> I have now found that, against my wishes, the Linux installations were
>> done as "legacy BIOS" installations, instead of UEFI/GPT
>> installations, so I now have a system that (after repairing the nasty
>> PC-BSD
On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 03:00:56PM +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
> Okay.
>
> In thinking about this further, I remembered that, due to the
> malicious nature of MS Win8, it is installed with the nasty
> UEFI->Secure Boot mode, which maliciously disables the installation of
> any additional operating sy
On Thursday, March 12, 2015 at 12:40:06 PM UTC+5:30, Bret Busby wrote:
> Okay.
>
> In thinking about this further, I remembered that, due to the
> malicious nature of MS Win8, it is installed with the nasty
> UEFI->Secure Boot mode, which maliciously disables the installation of
> any additional o
On Wednesday 11 March 2015 15:46:55 David Wright wrote:
> Quoting Bret Busby (bret.bu...@gmail.com):
> > I have now found that, against my wishes, the Linux installations were
> > done as "legacy BIOS" installations, instead of UEFI/GPT
> > installations, so I now have a system that (after repairin
Okay.
In thinking about this further, I remembered that, due to the
malicious nature of MS Win8, it is installed with the nasty
UEFI->Secure Boot mode, which maliciously disables the installation of
any additional operating systems.
And, I remember that the only way to amend that, to enable addit
On Wednesday 11 March 2015 23:53:37 David Wright wrote:
> A Debian version gets a codename long before it gets a number, even
> before it exists (like buster), and that name never changes. It only
> gets a number when it's released; in fact, it gets several: wheezy has
> nine so far.
Thanks, David
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