SB Live! 5.1 problems

2002-01-21 Thread David Wright
I just added a Creative SB Live! 5.1 card to my machine -- my first sound card -- and am having trouble with it. On the software side, everything seems to run just perfectly, but it produces no sound. Right off the top: I can use normal stero speakers even with a surround-sound card, right?

openldap .deb status

2002-01-21 Thread David Wright
Hello Wichert, I am writing to inquire about the status of the openldap packages. I note that the sid/unstable packages are at version 2.0.14, while openldap.org is calling 2.0.21 "stable". Most of the sid packages follow upstream releases very closely (e.g. the mozilla package usually updates

Re: SB Live! 5.1 problems

2002-01-21 Thread David Wright
> But anyways, you should make sure that the card is not muted. Thanks for the tip; I'll try it when I get home. But... what is "muted"? (I know what the word means, I just don't know why one would do such a thing to a soundcard.)

sound wierdness

2002-01-27 Thread David Wright
I have a wierd sound problem: sound works from some apps but not from others. I have all the basics: lsmod shows my sound modules are loaded (emu10k1 for SB Live! 5.1), I am a member of audio and cdrom, and cat endoftheworld > /dev/dsp plays the music. freeamp also plays ogg and mp3 files ni

Re: sound wierdness

2002-01-27 Thread David Wright
looks like you haven't plugged your CD-ROM into your soundcard, right? to listen from audio cd's over your speakers you need to connect the CD-ROM drive to the soundcard. that would explain, why the vumeter doesn't show anything. Thanks for your suggestion, Willi. I actually do have the conn

diskless X problems

2002-01-30 Thread David Wright
I am trying to set up a diskless workstation (to centralize maintainance) but am having problems getting X sessions to work. The system boots (from a floppy, then mounts root and /usr seperately over nfs), and I can login and work from a text console. The xdm login appears, but when I log in,

Re: [bmw2288@yahoo.com: installing xfree86]

2001-05-03 Thread David Wright
You've done that bit yourself already by putting your selected packages onto a floppy. -- Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only

Re: Example of "date" sytax to return a date in the past?

2001-05-04 Thread David Wright
I need the --date option, but what is the "STRING" > fomrat? $ date --date "30 mins ago" Fri May 4 16:49:39 BST 2001 $ date Fri May 4 17:19:45 BST 2001 $ Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Sna

Re: X question

2001-05-08 Thread David Wright
s possible, though > klugy. There are several applications for managing your X clipboard. > I've played with several, but not in any depth. Perhaps the Tkinter/tk/tcl ... source might give some clues as to how these things are done. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1

Re: Auto alias on reply in mutt?

2001-05-08 Thread David Wright
t runtime, ":" gives an error, > and in that context "a" is "attach". Looking in context help (?), there > isn't an entry for "alias" in this context. Correct: pressing a when replying to a message prompts for an attachment. You want to press a earlier

Re: Page-up/Page-down keys and shell history

2001-05-08 Thread David Wright
-- > > > This worked flawlessly in potato, but is messy in sid. No, I don't know > why, but I would like any hints on how to fix it. I'm not sure what hints to give, when I have no idea what you mean by "

Re: syntax error in backup script

2001-05-08 Thread David Wright
D] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.

Re: getting procmail to pipe to a gzipped file

2001-05-08 Thread David Wright
; > PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin gzip is not in that PATH. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not s

Re: Page-up/Page-down keys and shell history

2001-05-09 Thread David Wright
Quoting Joost van der Lugt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > * David Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [May 08. 2001 18:41]: > > I'm not sure what hints to give, when I have no idea what you > > mean by "messy". > > Well finally had some time, and as said it seems all

Re: X question

2001-05-09 Thread David Wright
653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.

Re: booting 2.4.4

2001-05-09 Thread David Wright
ter difference between the two kernels, but I'm not much help here as I don't use 2.4.x. (I can't even see where the Zip support parameters are for that matter.) Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science D

Re: configuring line printer

2001-05-09 Thread David Wright
plenty of examples. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.

Re: How many Linux is enough for lilo!?

2001-05-10 Thread David Wright
lo can see them all mounted (and listed in /etc/lilo.conf) when you run it. Hope that makes sense. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only

Re: (mutt) move old messages, but what to do when none are found?

2001-05-10 Thread David Wright
n the current item if there happen to be no items tagged". Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not s

Re: [OT] secure script without cron?

2001-05-10 Thread David Wright
t and exit if it exists. BTW isn't your exit in the wrong branch? If you restart the network, you need to loop back to ping again to see if it's now up. If ping succeeds (0), you exit. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: Davi

Re: init.d shell script can't stop daemon (python script)

2001-05-10 Thread David Wright
+44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.

RAID w/ Adaptec 2120S

2004-05-28 Thread David Wright
I have just set up a 1/2 TB external RAID array using 5 137 GB SCSI disks driven by an Adaptec 2120S hardware RAID controller card. A configuration utility on a bootable CD that came with the card recognized the hardware and allowed me to configure a RAID-5 logical volume. Now I want to use that

Re: Re: RAID w/ Adaptec 2120S

2004-05-28 Thread David Wright
Thanks for the answer. In addition to dtp_i2o, I notice there is also a driver called aacraid. From poking about on the web, it appears that both are from Adeptec. The discover package actually chooses the latter. Do you (or does anyone else) know the difference? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Sound troubles

2004-06-22 Thread David Wright
Sound was working fine with my system until recently, and now appears to be quite screwed up in a way I cannot diagnose. Any help is appreciated. I am running sid with the 2.6.6-2-k7 kernel. I have a soundblaster card that is recognized: aloysha:~# cat /proc/asound/cards 0 [CMI8738]: CMI8

Re: Re: Sound troubles

2004-06-23 Thread David Wright
Thanks so much for the detailed advice! I have taken it, but I am afraid it still doesn't entirely solve the problem. I blacklisted the OSS modules for both discover and hotplug, as described in the alsa-base docs. Loaded modules now have only snd- modules, including snd-pcm-oss: aloysha:~# lsmod

Re: Re: Sound troubles

2004-06-27 Thread David Wright
>> I blacklisted the OSS modules for both discover and hotplug, as >> described in the alsa-base docs. Loaded modules now have only snd- >> modules, including snd-pcm-oss: >> >> aloysha:~# lsmod >> Module Size Used by >> snd_pcm_oss53668 0 > > >Yes, that seems right

International Characters from a US Keyboard?

2004-08-25 Thread David Wright
I run the Gnome session manager on a Debian sid machine attached to a US keyboard. When I am writing in English, which is most of the time, that's fine. But I also often write in German and occasionally in French. Is there a way to produce the standard accented characters (at least in Gnome applica

Re: Re: International Characters from a US Keyboard?

2004-08-26 Thread David Wright
Thanks for the tip! It works. Looking at various web pages on xmodmap, it even looks possible, via a slightly more complex syntax, to define a compose key, so that all the Windows key combinations for all the Latin-1 accented characters could be reproduced. Is there some reason the Debian standard

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Plonk (wss: Meta: behavior on list)

2021-08-13 Thread David Wright
On Fri 13 Aug 2021 at 20:21:27 (-0400), Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > On 2021-08-13 6:55 p.m., songbird wrote: > > John Hasler wrote: > > ... > >> No. I was there when it came into use. It definitely represents the > >> sound of a small object dropping into a large tank with liquid at

Re: Issues with Bullseye

2021-08-15 Thread David Wright
On Sun 15 Aug 2021 at 15:36:05 (+0100), Brian wrote: > On Sun 15 Aug 2021 at 16:13:51 +0200, Hans wrote: > > > Yeah, not quite. I was already aware, that https won't improve security > > much. > > > > I just wondered, why the docu once is telling "use https" and once "http". > > If > > only us

Re: Intel nuc 11 i5 kit 安裝debian後,首次開機就失敗,黑化面左上角遊標一直閃

2021-08-15 Thread David Wright
On Sun 15 Aug 2021 at 00:41:30 (+0300), ellanios82 wrote: > On 8/15/21 12:31 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > Press Ctrl-Alt-F2 to attempt to reach a text console. If that's > > successful, then he can login there (as root) and attempt to install > > whatever's required to fix the problem > >  - th

Re: Bullseye installation failure because boot loader not installed

2021-08-15 Thread David Wright
On Sun 15 Aug 2021 at 10:48:58 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sun, Aug 15, 2021 at 08:19:35PM +0700, Ken Heard wrote: > > Having noted that the release of Bullseye is imminent I decided to > > use the RC2 iteration of Bullseye rather than Buster. > > I consequently downloaded file 'Debian-bulls

Re: deprecated options in openssh

2021-08-16 Thread David Wright
On Mon 16 Aug 2021 at 16:49:16 (+0100), Adam Weremczuk wrote: > Installation and configuration was straightforward: > > sudo apt install logwatch > > /etc/cron.daily/00logwatch > #execute > /usr/sbin/logwatch --detail low --mailto x...@domain.com > > The master config file /usr/share/logwatch/de

Re: Sources list with contrib repositories on DVD-1

2021-08-16 Thread David Wright
On Sun 15 Aug 2021 at 22:07:27 (+), Ramon Mulin wrote: > The DVD-1 image is coming with contrib enabled on the cd-rom, > security and update lines. This is normal? AIUI the selection of software on DVD-1 is designed to give as comprehensive a collection as possible, based partly on popularity,

Re: Upgrade testing to unstable but debian_version and os-release not changing to sid

2021-08-16 Thread David Wright
On Mon 16 Aug 2021 at 21:47:08 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 09:21:52AM +0800, Robbi Nespu wrote: > > $ cat /etc/debian_version > > 11.0 > > > > $ cat /etc/os-release > > PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)" > > NAME="Debian GNU/Linux" > >

Re: Upgrade testing to unstable but debian_version and os-release not changing to sid

2021-08-17 Thread David Wright
On Tue 17 Aug 2021 at 10:46:49 (+0100), Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: > On 17/08/2021 02:21, Robbi Nespu wrote: > > I have been using debian testing (bullseye) for 1 year (plus) and I want > > to use sid as my daily driver. > > > > I change source.list to sid > >     $ cat /etc/apt/sources.list > >  

Re: Still on stretch, getting ready for bullseye

2021-08-17 Thread David Wright
On Tue 17 Aug 2021 at 10:07:18 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > [Subject: Re: Still on stretch, getting ready for bullseye] You have a habit of running systems about one release behind the current stable, so can you just check that you really mean to upgrade your machine to bullseye (11), and not b

Re: Still on stretch, getting ready for bullseye

2021-08-17 Thread David Wright
On Wed 18 Aug 2021 at 01:53:16 (+0100), piorunz wrote: > On 17/08/2021 23:48, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > Gene, > > > > You have two upgrades to do. > > > > One from stretch -> buster. 9-10 That takes you from 2017 -> 2019. > > > > If you can reduce your /etc/apt/sources.list by commenting out

Re: Reading of release notes (was Re: Still on stretch, getting ready for bullseye)

2021-08-18 Thread David Wright
On Wed 18 Aug 2021 at 07:39:26 (-0400), The Wanderer wrote: > On 2021-08-17 at 13:36, Brian wrote: > > On Tue 17 Aug 2021 at 16:00:57 +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > >> Do the update to Buster - take it as slow as you need to. Bring it > >> bang up to date. > >> > >> For the Buster to Bullsey

Watching a directory, was Re: how would you do this?

2021-08-18 Thread David Wright
On Wed 18 Aug 2021 at 20:55:12 (-0400), songbird wrote: > let's suppose you have a directory where there are > various scripts, libraries, programs, data, etc. > > you want to know exactly which other scripts, libraries, > etc. use them and to log each caller to know the name so > it can be tr

Re: metaSendsEscape not working after power outage

2021-08-18 Thread David Wright
On Thu 19 Aug 2021 at 12:16:29 (+1000), Nicholas Croft wrote: > > After a power outage metaSendsEscape won't work for my main user. It is > defined in /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm and covers all users including root. > I added a new user and it works there. > > I've tried adding "xterm*metaS

Re: Moving from Testing to Stable + Backports

2021-08-18 Thread David Wright
On Tue 17 Aug 2021 at 16:19:48 (+0100), Brian wrote: > On Tue 17 Aug 2021 at 10:43:29 -0400, Michael Grant wrote: > > I included Experimental which probably was a mistake and I probably > > meant Unstable. (I can see Greg rolling his eyes...) > > > > Here's a blog post I was looking at: https://

Re: Buster to Bullseye upgrade problem

2021-08-18 Thread David Wright
On Thu 19 Aug 2021 at 04:00:04 (+0100), Gareth Evans wrote: > On Wed 18 Aug 2021, at 23:33, piorunz wrote: > > On 18/08/2021 16:14, Gareth Evans wrote: > > > Unpacking gir1.2-gst-plugins-bad-1.0:amd64 (1.18.4-3) ... > > > [1mdpkg:[0m error processing archive > > > /tmp/apt-dpkg-install-Un4rDW/28-

Re: Swiss Army Knife of Sound has me Baffled.

2021-08-18 Thread David Wright
On Wed 18 Aug 2021 at 21:41:06 (-0500), Martin McCormick wrote: > I have a little shell script called fullstereo which works fine. > It's short so I'll show it to you. It records sound from a > Creative Labs usb sound card which is probably much happier on a > Windows box but that's not where I ne

Re: Watching a directory, was Re: how would you do this?

2021-08-19 Thread David Wright
On Thu 19 Aug 2021 at 08:01:24 (-0400), songbird wrote: > David Wright wrote: > > On Wed 18 Aug 2021 at 20:55:12 (-0400), songbird wrote: > >> let's suppose you have a directory where there are > >> various scripts, libraries, programs, data, etc. > >&g

Re: Buster to Bullseye upgrade problem

2021-08-19 Thread David Wright
On Thu 19 Aug 2021 at 07:42:56 (+0100), Gareth Evans wrote: > On Thu 19 Aug 2021, at 05:50, David Wright wrote: > > On Thu 19 Aug 2021 at 04:00:04 (+0100), Gareth Evans wrote: > > > On Wed 18 Aug 2021, at 23:33, piorunz wrote: > > > > On 18/08/2021 16:14, Gareth Ev

Re: Watching a directory, was Re: how would you do this?

2021-08-21 Thread David Wright
On Sat 21 Aug 2021 at 19:17:31 (+0530), didar wrote: > On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 10:45:44PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > On Thu 19 Aug 2021 at 08:01:24 (-0400), songbird wrote: > > > David Wright wrote: > > > > On Wed 18 Aug 2021 at 20:55:12 (-0400), songbird wrote

Re: Buster to Bullseye upgrade problem

2021-08-21 Thread David Wright
On Fri 20 Aug 2021 at 14:13:55 (+0100), Gareth Evans wrote: > On Fri 20 Aug 2021, at 04:45, David Wright wrote: > > On Thu 19 Aug 2021 at 07:42:56 (+0100), Gareth Evans wrote: > $ apt policy pitivi > pitivi: > Installed: 0.999-1+b1 > Candidate: 0.999-1+b1 > Version

Re: Buster to Bullseye upgrade problem

2021-08-22 Thread David Wright
On Sun 22 Aug 2021 at 13:18:38 (+0100), Gareth Evans wrote: > On Sun 22 Aug 2021, at 05:36, David Wright wrote: > > On Fri 20 Aug 2021 at 14:13:55 (+0100), Gareth Evans wrote: > > > There is also no explanation in term.log, syslog or dpkg.log for the > &g

Re: LUKS encryption help

2021-08-25 Thread David Wright
On Thu 26 Aug 2021 at 03:37:54 (+0200), detr...@tuta.io wrote: > Around May I installed Debian 10 on my (external) hard drive in BIOS (not > UEFI) mode for backup purposes. In the end of June I took the drive out of > the drawer and tried to boot into it but to my surprise my LUKS encryption >

Re: Network down incorrect........

2021-08-28 Thread David Wright
On Sat 28 Aug 2021 at 23:38:44 (+1000), Charlie wrote: > Since Bullseye went stable, updated on my 12 month old HP > laptop. When attempting to bring up the wireless interface with > ifup. > > The message on the screen tells me the "network is down", which is > incorrect. Because

Re: Specifying dedicated partions during install - pros/cons?

2021-08-28 Thread David Wright
On Sat 28 Aug 2021 at 10:34:34 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > During the partitioning phase of the install process, the user is > given the option of creating dedicated partitions. I chose to do it > for /home and swap {depending on machine I may also have a dedicated > project partition}. > > T

Re: Debian 11 and Win10 dual boot

2021-08-28 Thread David Wright
On Fri 27 Aug 2021 at 21:35:38 (-0500), Intense Red wrote: >On a new HP Laptop pre-installed with Win10 Home edition installed on an > SSD. In the laptop's BIOS Secure Boot was turned off. > >A fresh copy of Debian 11 was installed into the machine's 1TB HD. After > reboot, GRUB comes up

Re: amdgpu broken on bookworm?

2021-08-28 Thread David Wright
On Sat 28 Aug 2021 at 08:36:32 (-0400), songbird wrote: > Jeffrey Chimene wrote: > > just to note that using "bookworm" in your subject line can > give the implication that "bookworm" is actually released which > it hasn't. it is much better to use the keyword "testing" in > the subject line in

Re: TV hdmi overscan issues

2021-08-31 Thread David Wright
On Tue 31 Aug 2021 at 08:56:37 (-0400), Henning Follmann wrote: > On Mon, Aug 30, 2021 at 07:00:02PM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > > Henning Follmann composed on 2021-08-30 18:09 (UTC-0400):... > > > xrandr --output XWAYLAND3 --mode 1280x720 --transform > > > 1.05,0,-10,0,1,0,0,0,1 > > > to shift th

Re: Get Terminal to Echo line in buffer on backspace

2021-08-31 Thread David Wright
On Mon 30 Aug 2021 at 11:39:14 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Aug 30, 2021 at 05:05:49PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > > With Zsh, there is the "redisplay" zle command, it does exactly that: > > redraw the prompt and command without clearing the screen. > > > > I do not know if readline,

Re: ifupdown lost at upgrade time to bullseye

2021-08-31 Thread David Wright
On Mon 30 Aug 2021 at 21:37:50 (+0200), Harald Dunkel wrote: > how comes ifupdown is dropped at upgrade time to bullseye, leaving the > (headless) system without network connection while the upgrade is not > completed yet, and breaking network on the next reboot? I would presume that a headless

Re: Specifying dedicated partions during install - pros/cons?

2021-08-31 Thread David Wright
On Sun 29 Aug 2021 at 08:27:39 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > On 08/28/2021 02:33 PM, songbird wrote: > > David Wright wrote: > > > On Sat 28 Aug 2021 at 10:34:34 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > During the partitioning phase of the install process, the user

Re: How to avoid systemd/udev unpredictable NIC names

2021-08-31 Thread David Wright
On Tue 31 Aug 2021 at 01:11:33 (+0200), Steve Keller wrote: > Greg Wooledge writes: > > On Mon, Aug 30, 2021 at 04:41:55PM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > > > Steve Keller wrote: > > > > I plan to upgrade a server from Debian stretch to buster. Having read > > > > the release notes I wonder what's the

Re: Get Terminal to Echo line in buffer on backspace

2021-08-31 Thread David Wright
On Tue 31 Aug 2021 at 16:13:52 (+0200), Nicolas George wrote: > David Wright (12021-08-31): > > The only useful effect of that binding that I've seen is not when > > typing ahead, but at the normal command line > > Of course. When typing ahead, your shell's line

Re: amdgpu broken on bookworm?

2021-09-01 Thread David Wright
On Sat 28 Aug 2021 at 22:19:05 (-0400), songbird wrote: > David Wright wrote: > > On Sat 28 Aug 2021 at 08:36:32 (-0400), songbird wrote: > ... > >> just to note that using "bookworm" in your subject line can > >> give the implication that "bookwo

Re: Get Terminal to Echo line in buffer on backspace

2021-09-01 Thread David Wright
On Tue 31 Aug 2021 at 10:40:06 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 09:07:49AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > Bound or unbound, I couldn't make ESC 1 Ctrl-L do anything useful > > while output is in progress (like a clean display of the typeahead > >

Re: Monthly FAQ for Debian-user mailing list

2021-09-01 Thread David Wright
On Wed 01 Sep 2021 at 20:12:06 (+0300), Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 01 sep 21, 12:32:19, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > debian-user is a mailing list provided for support for Debian users, > > and to facilitate discussion on relevant topics. > > > > Some guidelines which may help explain how the

Re: Why ``color_prompt`` is only set for ``xterm``?

2021-09-02 Thread David Wright
On Fri 03 Sep 2021 at 03:15:13 (+0300), IL Ka wrote: > .bashrc on bullseye contains following lines > > ``` > # set a fancy prompt (non-color, unless we know we "want" color) > case "$TERM" in > xterm-color|*-256color) color_prompt=yes;; > esac > ``` > > So we only have colors in the termina

Re: Monthly FAQ for Debian-user mailing list

2021-09-02 Thread David Wright
On Thu 02 Sep 2021 at 09:46:33 (+), Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Wed, Sep 01, 2021 at 08:12:06PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Mi, 01 sep 21, 12:32:19, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > > debian-user is a mailing list provided for support for Debian users, > > > and to facilitate discussion o

Re: Install Debian 10 amd64 onto USB flash drive with and for Macintosh

2021-09-02 Thread David Wright
On Wed 01 Sep 2021 at 16:00:13 (-0700), David Christensen wrote: [three long posts] That was very useful. I've condensed it into a file (attached) for my own use. The footnotes are notes, guesses and queries. My main question is — there are three identical listings taken at different times; all

Re: Why ``color_prompt`` is only set for ``xterm``?

2021-09-04 Thread David Wright
On Fri 03 Sep 2021 at 02:45:03 (+0100), piorunz wrote: > On 03/09/2021 01:34, David Wright wrote: > > (I use my own customisations for distinct colours on each host, > > and inverse colours for root's prompt.) > > Can you please share your root prompt invocation? Thank

Re: Trouble upgrading Debian

2021-09-04 Thread David Wright
On Sat 04 Sep 2021 at 23:04:49 (-0300), Dedeco Balaco wrote: > > today, i started to upgrade my computer from Debian 9 (Stretch) to > Debian 11 (Bullseye). I had some trouble finding what i wanted to do, a > completely internet based upgrade, if possible. In the Debian > documention, i did not fin

Re: Why ``color_prompt`` is only set for ``xterm``?

2021-09-07 Thread David Wright
On Sun 05 Sep 2021 at 09:06:31 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sat, Sep 04, 2021 at 11:23:48PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > $ cat /var/local/lib/myhosts/colours/axis > > 5 magenta bbarbutton=white,magenta,none:bbarhotkey=magenta,white,none > > $ > > > > 5

Re: (pure text) Re: Trouble upgrading Debian (reply to David Wright)

2021-09-07 Thread David Wright
On Tue 07 Sep 2021 at 00:20:26 (-0300), Dedeco Balaco wrote: > Em 06/09/2021 23:48, Kenneth Parker escreveu: > > On Mon, Sep 6, 2021 at 7:58 PM Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 06, 2021 at 04:46:21PM -0300, Dedeco Balaco wrote: > > > > If it is trivial to me setting my mail manager to use the

Re: Partially Solved: OT: Why have I not received any messages from Dedeco (was: Re: (HTML) Re: Trouble upgrading Debian (reply to David Wright))

2021-09-07 Thread David Wright
On Tue 07 Sep 2021 at 08:49:19 (-0400), rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > I occasionally seem to lose other messages (I get the message from the debian- > user lists about about some (small number of) messages beeing undeliverable > in the last day or so (can't remember the term used, and maybe there

Re: Dragon Player doesn't

2021-09-07 Thread David Wright
On Tue 07 Sep 2021 at 13:04:50 (-0400), Gary Dale wrote: > I don't use Dragon Player normally but I was looking at it just now. > When I right-click on a video file, select play with then choose > Dragon Player to play it, it launches Dragon Player but doesn't play > the file. When I select Play Fi

Re: Install Debian 10 amd64 onto USB flash drive with and for Macintosh

2021-09-08 Thread David Wright
On Thu 02 Sep 2021 at 22:29:34 (-0700), David Christensen wrote: > On 9/2/21 5:37 PM, David Wright wrote: > > On Wed 01 Sep 2021 at 16:00:13 (-0700), David Christensen wrote: > > > > [three long posts] > > > > That was very useful. I've condensed it into a f

Re: deprecated options in openssh

2021-09-10 Thread David Wright
On Fri 10 Sep 2021 at 08:11:02 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 10:33:47AM +0100, Adam Weremczuk wrote: > > Weeks later it happened again and I'm not any less puzzled: > > All right, now we're getting somewhere. > > Is it possible that these lines are being remotely syslog

Re: deprecated options in openssh

2021-09-10 Thread David Wright
On Fri 10 Sep 2021 at 16:05:26 (+0100), Adam Weremczuk wrote: > Would it be possible for another host to log to syslog without a prior > explicit manual configuration allowing that? If you make a telephone call on speaker, and you have a tape recorder in the room recording the conversation, the s

Re: deprecated options in openssh

2021-09-11 Thread David Wright
On Fri 10 Sep 2021 at 13:17:39 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 11:51:07AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > On Fri 10 Sep 2021 at 16:05:26 (+0100), Adam Weremczuk wrote: > > > > > Would it be possible for another host to log to syslog without a pri

Re: deprecated options in openssh

2021-09-11 Thread David Wright
On Fri 10 Sep 2021 at 17:55:59 (-0400), rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Friday, September 10, 2021 02:52:42 PM Dan Ritter wrote: > > David Wright wrote: > > > If you make a telephone call on speaker, and you have a tape recorder > > > in the room recording the conversatio

Re: deprecated options in openssh

2021-09-13 Thread David Wright
On Sat 11 Sep 2021 at 16:02:30 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sat, Sep 11, 2021 at 02:44:13PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > As I understood the OP's first reply (to yourself), there are > > remote logs available, not logged locally but sent by email: > > > >

Re: copy directory tree, mapping to new owners

2021-09-14 Thread David Wright
On Tue 14 Sep 2021 at 08:50:34 (+0200), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 12:17:05PM +1200, Richard Hector wrote: > > On 13/09/21 7:04 pm, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > >On Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 11:45:02AM +1200, Richard Hector wrote: > > >>On 12/09/21 6:52 pm, john doe wrote: > > > >

Re: support for xfce in bullseye minimal netinst iso

2021-09-14 Thread David Wright
On Tue 14 Sep 2021 at 09:27:25 (+), Sriram wrote: > Sorry it was not a minimal buster iso with xfce but i got this file > debian-10.4.0-amd64-xfce-CD-1.iso which is around 640 MB > > I was able to install and get the system up and running last year , later i > updated to Bullseye but going f

Re: Mutt/Neomutt and mailcap

2021-09-15 Thread David Wright
On Wed 15 Sep 2021 at 16:21:12 (-0500), Nate Bargmann wrote: > * On 2021 15 Sep 14:20 -0500, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 15, 2021 at 02:01:23PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > On Wed, Sep 15, 2021 at 12:58:10PM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > > > * On 2021 15 Sep 10:44 -0500, Jonathan

Re: Colemak layout at boot time

2021-09-18 Thread David Wright
On Sat 18 Sep 2021 at 12:02:49 (+0100), piorunz wrote: > I use Colemak layout instead of Qwerty, because it's so much better and > efficient. > Today I repositioned keys on my laptop too, so I have two computers with > Colemak. > However, my laptop uses full disk encryption (Debian 11). > At boot

Re: Mutt/Neomutt and mailcap

2021-09-18 Thread David Wright
On Thu 16 Sep 2021 at 05:37:43 (-0500), Nate Bargmann wrote: > * On 2021 15 Sep 21:36 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > I think what your system is doing is as follows: > > > > You probably have in your (default) /etc/Muttrc: > > In my case, /etc/neomuttrc, and the fo

Re: Colemak layout at boot time

2021-09-18 Thread David Wright
On Sat 18 Sep 2021 at 21:56:34 (+0100), piorunz wrote: > On 18/09/2021 20:00, David Wright wrote: > > > A lot of hits from googling grub colemak including > > https://forums.debian.net//viewtopic.php?f=16&t=76833 > > which uses dvorak as an example. > > T

Re: Make wider selectable edge in Mate windows

2021-09-18 Thread David Wright
On Sun 19 Sep 2021 at 10:22:24 (+0800), Jeremy Ardley wrote: > On 19/9/21 9:55 am, Dedeco Balaco wrote: > > Em 18/09/2021 22:42, Jeremy Ardley escreveu: > > > I'm running Mate on Debian 10. > > > > > > The problem is that the width of the window edge that you pull to change > > > the size of a win

Re: Debian 11: evince and apparmor flood kernel log

2021-09-18 Thread David Wright
On Sat 18 Sep 2021 at 08:43:50 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sat, Sep 18, 2021 at 12:54:36PM +0200, Roger Price wrote: > > In site.local I found > > > > # The following is a space-separated list of where additional user home > > # directories are stored, each must have a trailing '/'. Direc

Re: A bug in Vim, in Mate Terminal or in Debian 11?

2021-09-19 Thread David Wright
On Sun 19 Sep 2021 at 21:27:49 (+0200), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sun, Sep 19, 2021 at 04:21:56PM -0300, Dedeco Balaco wrote: > > Em 19/09/2021 15:48, to...@tuxteam.de escreveu: > > > On Sun, Sep 19, 2021 at 03:06:28PM -0300, Dedeco Balaco wrote: > > [...] > > > Fine. I understand that you say

Re: Colemak layout at boot time

2021-09-19 Thread David Wright
On Sun 19 Sep 2021 at 09:38:26 (+0100), piorunz wrote: > On 19/09/2021 05:49, David Wright wrote: > > On Sat 18 Sep 2021 at 21:56:34 (+0100), piorunz wrote: > > > On 18/09/2021 20:00, David Wright wrote: > > > > > > > A lot of hits from googling

Re: Colemak layout at boot time

2021-09-19 Thread David Wright
On Sun 19 Sep 2021 at 19:50:22 (+0100), piorunz wrote: > On 19/09/2021 14:11, Curt wrote: > > > > Thanks, unfortunately, this is Arch only, vconsole.conf doesn't even > > > exist in Debian. > > > > Right, but I was alluding to the "solution" by rsolva further down (for > > the console), which mig

Re: A bug in Vim, in Mate Terminal or in Debian 11?

2021-09-19 Thread David Wright
On Sun 19 Sep 2021 at 21:51:57 (+0200), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sun, Sep 19, 2021 at 02:36:14PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > On Sun 19 Sep 2021 at 21:27:49 (+0200), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > On Sun, Sep 19, 2021 at 04:21:56PM -0300, Dedeco Balaco wrote: > > >

Re: Colemak layout at boot time

2021-09-19 Thread David Wright
On Sun 19 Sep 2021 at 21:35:52 (+0100), piorunz wrote: > On 19/09/2021 20:32, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Du, 19 sep 21, 14:26:34, piorunz wrote: > > > > > > Thank you. > > > To you think, that virtual consoles ignoring my layout setting are a bug? > > > Basically, doing: > > > sudo dpkg-reconfig

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Colemak layout at boot time

2021-09-19 Thread David Wright
On Sun 19 Sep 2021 at 21:34:49 (+0100), piorunz wrote: > On 19/09/2021 20:36, David Wright wrote: > > > Then I would rebuild my initramfs with update-initramfs. > > sudo update-initramfs -u -k all > did the trick. I have now Colemak at dm-crypt! Also in virtual consoles. >

Re: Debian 11: Unable to detect wireless interface on an old laptop computer

2021-09-27 Thread David Wright
On Mon 27 Sep 2021 at 16:52:03 (+0200), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 04:43:44PM +0200, Stella Ashburne wrote: > > I have a dual-boot OS configuration on my HDD: Debian 11 and Microsoft > > Windows 10. > > > > My CPU belongs to Intel 4th generation (Haswell) and I even install

Re: Persistent names for audio devices.

2021-09-28 Thread David Wright
On Tue 28 Sep 2021 at 13:49:37 (-0700), pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > From: ghe2001 > Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2021 17:24:57 + > > Try alsamixer. You can select the audio device there. It works for my > > >From the alsamixer manual, > "DESCRIPTION >alsamixer is an ncurses mixer progr

Re: different internet speed in debian and smart phone

2021-09-29 Thread David Wright
On Wed 29 Sep 2021 at 20:49:28 (+0800), kaye n wrote: > On Sat, Jul 24, 2021 at 6:46 PM kaye n wrote: > >> Just to give an update in case anyone is interested. > >> One of the solutions provided in the link below seems to be effective for > >> me. > >> > >> https://itsfoss.com/speed-up-slow-wifi-

Re: silence audio on locked screen?

2021-09-29 Thread David Wright
On Wed 29 Sep 2021 at 16:48:11 (+1300), Richard Hector wrote: > As I say, I consider this to be a security flaw - people can hear > something of what my computer's doing when I'm not there and it's > supposedly locked. > > Do others agree with that? No (ie I concur with Dan). > Also, I don't kn

Re: Persistent names for audio devices.

2021-09-29 Thread David Wright
On Wed 29 Sep 2021 at 12:25:49 (-0700), pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > From: David Wright > Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2021 18:31:34 -0500 > > No, you'd use alsamixer where you were taking an active rôle during > > record/playback, or for discovering, inspecting and setting up

Re: Upgrading buster => bullseye. Canonicalization of /var/log/journal.

2021-09-29 Thread David Wright
On Wed 29 Sep 2021 at 16:46:14 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 07:05:37AM -0700, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > > From: Greg Wooledge > > Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2021 13:41:05 -0400 > > > What does it look like? > > > > > > ls -ld / /var /var/log /var/log/journal > > > > ro

Re: iwd: Using iwd to connect to a wireless network (Part 1 - Connection status show OK but unable to surf the net)

2021-09-29 Thread David Wright
On Wed 29 Sep 2021 at 15:18:44 (+0200), Stella Ashburne wrote: > > Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2021 at 4:45 AM > > From: "Dan Ritter" > > > > Try > > > > sudo dhclient wlan0 > > > > and see if that gives you an IP and a default route, at which > > point apt update should work. > > > > I tried

Re: iwd: Using iwd to connect to a wireless network (Part 1 - Connection status show OK but unable to surf the net)

2021-09-29 Thread David Wright
On Wed 29 Sep 2021 at 18:06:12 (-0400), Dan Ritter wrote: > [ … ] However, while I know a fair amount about > networking, I don't know anything about iwd. > > Very few people here have experience with iwd. It does not yet > seem to be working for you. > > Might I suggest wicd, which people here

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