Re: [Trisquel-users] Youtube Ditches Flash, and it Hardly Matters: Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss

2015-02-08 Thread adel . afzal
Haha, yeah

Re: [Trisquel-users] installing libreboot on a x60 thinkpad

2015-02-08 Thread noordinaryspider
My X60 is still in transit, but it was only $20--no battery, no power cords, only a single gig of RAM but it does have an HD. I'm going to play around with it for awhile and see what Tom's experiences are before I make any irrevocable decisions about whether I want to fix it up and send it

Re: [Trisquel-users] installing libreboot on a x60 thinkpad

2015-02-08 Thread tomlukeywood
i have emailed i...@gluglug.org.uk and i am waiting for a reply i got myn for £30 on ebay and i have seen a few other for about that since so if you want to try its not too expensive to get one but if you dont want this risk of messing it up then get a gluglug one which you can get for £198

Re: [Trisquel-users] installing libreboot on a x60 thinkpad

2015-02-08 Thread maestro
tomlukey - go to #libreboot on freenode and ask there - I hope you'll succeed liberating your lappy - I would be thrilled if I had one of those cheers

Re: [Trisquel-users] Brother DCP-7055 printer

2015-02-08 Thread legimet . calc
Try running: sudo service cups restart

Re: [Trisquel-users] Brother DCP-7055 printer

2015-02-08 Thread tomlukeywood
i think Verlasse Verzeichnis means leave listing in english i think its done try running make or make install now

[Trisquel-users] Re : Webcam ricoh

2015-02-08 Thread lcerf
You could get a 720p webcam for less than US$ 30...

Re: [Trisquel-users] installing libreboot on a x60 thinkpad

2015-02-08 Thread tomlukeywood
i installed a HDD and it gave the same error dose anyone else have libreboot or know how to could boot to a os from the grub command line? also just to note i have not compleated the second stage of the installation yet theses instructions told me t reboot before completing them http://www.l

Re: [Trisquel-users] advice moving to free software

2015-02-08 Thread mail
It worked perfectly for me- I guess it depends on where you are, or some such thing. I hope Mozilla improves Hello so it works for everyone...

[Trisquel-users] Antwort: Brother DCP-7055 printer

2015-02-08 Thread amilopowers
I did it now as lembas said but I still wont get an installed printer. Libre Office knwos a "generic printer" but when I try that one nothing happens. amilopowers@amilopowers:~/Downloads/brlaser-3$ ./configure checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build e

Re: [Trisquel-users] Webcam ricoh

2015-02-08 Thread vfvs
So it's better to avoid that, any way to make the webcam work with freesoftware ?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Problems with synaptic and apt-get update

2015-02-08 Thread t8mf4nu6lizp
> I do not get how your first disk is less than 20G large. It's a tiny disk, notice how his home is just 13G, so the whole disk isn't 20G or barely just that.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Youtube Ditches Flash, and it Hardly Matters: Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss

2015-02-08 Thread t8mf4nu6lizp
This is the English Trisquel users forums. We use Trisquel and write in English, ergo it's all good. Unless the Big Cheese tells us differently.

Re: [Trisquel-users] I am looking to build my first computer.

2015-02-08 Thread tomlukeywood
the computers at thinkpenguin work perfectly with libre software but still have a non-free bios so there much much better than most pc but still not perfect if you want a computer with a completely libre bios look here: http://shop.gluglug.org.uk/ i have one of the netbooks and they are very li

Re: [Trisquel-users] Brother DCP-7055 printer

2015-02-08 Thread t8mf4nu6lizp
You're to make after ./configure and then sudo make install so ./configure make sudo make install (the first command allows you to select what you're about to build, type ./configure --help to see any options the second command will do the actual compile, from source code to binary the last

Re: [Trisquel-users] Update Manager Not Working

2015-02-08 Thread tempaccount325
I was using the default Trisquel 7,0 GNOME desktop and this also happened to me. In my case, the cursor was black and in the screenshot it was white or the other way around. For taking the screenshot I used gnome-screenshot. I can't really help you with the update manager as I have really never

[Trisquel-users] Re : Brother DCP-7055 printer

2015-02-08 Thread lcerf
I don't know what I am dooing wrong but it doesn't work. Doesn't it? I cannot read German. how do I quote in this forum?? For code, use the "code" HTML tag. There is a "cite" tag too.

[Trisquel-users] Re : Webcam ricoh

2015-02-08 Thread lcerf
The instructions you found to "manually compile" say: You must also copy the microcode files (r5u870_*.fw) to /lib/firmware. Those files in r5u870-0.11.6.tar.gz (themselves inside http://download.tuxfamily.org/arakhne/pool/universe/r/ricoh-webcam-r5u870/ricoh-webcam-r5u870_0.11.6-0arakhne0.tar.

[Trisquel-users] Antwort: Brother DCP-7055 printer

2015-02-08 Thread amilopowers
I don't know what I am dooing wrong but it doesn't work. Here my terminal (how do I quote in this forum??): amilopowers@amilopowers:~/Downloads/brlaser-3$ ./configure checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for a thr

[Trisquel-users] Re : I am looking to build my first computer.

2015-02-08 Thread lcerf
ThinkPenguin checks everything we talked about. That is the easiest way to go.

[Trisquel-users] Webcam ricoh

2015-02-08 Thread vfvs
I would like to configure my webcam and according this url http://www.arakhne.org/ricoh/index.html r5u87x is under GPL but I'm not so sure about the firmware, if It is free software. I'm thinking to use this PPA https://launchpad.net/~r5u87x-loader/+archive/ubuntu/ppa .

Re: [Trisquel-users] I am looking to build my first computer.

2015-02-08 Thread chrisandmelissa31643
Thanks everybody for the advice. This was going to be my first build, and I already see that I am in way over my head, with back doors that enforce DRM, and everything. Luckily I haven't spent the money on anything. I have decided to keep saving my money and buy from Think Penquin, because

Re: [Trisquel-users] md5sum -c command

2015-02-08 Thread tomaszbarney
Thank you.

[Trisquel-users] Re : Problems with synaptic and apt-get update

2015-02-08 Thread lcerf
The root filesystem is full. Follow my advices: https://trisquel.info/forum/problems-synaptic-and-apt-get-update#comment-64463 That said, given the size of that partition (5.7G), you will face this problem over and over again. The default install chooses 14G for that partition. I do not get

[Trisquel-users] Re : md5sum -c command

2015-02-08 Thread lcerf
As 'info md5sum' tells: `-c' `--check' Read file names and checksum information (not data) from each FILE (or from stdin if no FILE was specified) and report whether the checksums match the contents of the named files. The input to this mode of `md5sum' is usually the output

Re: [Trisquel-users] Problems with synaptic and apt-get update

2015-02-08 Thread mdtycho
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda5 5,7G 5,7G 0 100% / none4,0K 0 4,0K 0% /sys/fs/cgroup udev109M 4,0K 109M 1% /dev tmpfs25M 1,2M 23M 5% /run none5,0M 0 5,0M 0% /run/lock none121M

[Trisquel-users] md5sum -c command

2015-02-08 Thread tomaszbarney
Hi there. I've been looking for a way to verify md5sum of a trisquel iso file without having to compare md5sums by "hand". So basically I wanted to avoid taking the result of "md5sum trisquel_7.0_amd64.iso" and comparing it with md5sum file by eye or by a text editor. I found that I cou

[Trisquel-users] Re : Update Manager Not Working

2015-02-08 Thread lcerf
You can select another download server from "Software & Updates" in the "System settings".

[Trisquel-users] Re : Brother DCP-7055 printer

2015-02-08 Thread lcerf
What tomlukeywood forgot to tell you is that the commands must be executed at the root of the archive. One way to get there is to right-click on the folder you got from the extraction and then choose "Open in terminal".

[Trisquel-users] Antwort: Update Manager Not Working

2015-02-08 Thread amilopowers
I don't know if it works for you but my udpate manager doesn't work properly. It often fails to connect to the servers.

[Trisquel-users] Re : I am looking to build my first computer.

2015-02-08 Thread lcerf
I don't know much about them, but, according, to the CPU manufactures web site; the spec's and other forums, I have read, they do enforce DRM policies with back doors. I'll advise you to research them thoroughly, before making a compulsory decision. The website to do that is http://ark.inte

[Trisquel-users] Antwort: Brother DCP-7055 printer

2015-02-08 Thread amilopowers
Thank you but after step 2 it says that it didn't found the command. I don't know which program to install...

Re: [Trisquel-users] I am looking to build my first computer.

2015-02-08 Thread davidvargas1
riddled Most of the time, all ASUS motherboards will allowed you install other OSI's without issues. I have 4 different MODEL Asus Boards, all 1155 socket boards that allowed you in the bios, to disable the OSI preference and are friendly to other type of gnu/Linux OSI'S. I use Trisquel and

Re: [Trisquel-users] Youtube Ditches Flash, and it Hardly Matters: Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss

2015-02-08 Thread tomlukeywood
i rely think the solution to this is to have a genrel discussion forum

Re: [Trisquel-users] An annoying thing that happens when upvoting a post here in the forums.

2015-02-08 Thread gary02121993
Holy shit! This actually works! Haha! I'll be using Ctrl + left click more often.

Re: [Trisquel-users] I am looking to build my first computer.

2015-02-08 Thread tomlukeywood
sorry i meant a pci gpu

Re: [Trisquel-users] Installation of floppy controller card runs into gtk-configure problem

2015-02-08 Thread amenex
Magic Banana inquired: > Why would a driver require a graphical toolkit? Funny you should ask. DeviceSide.com suggests both a command-line method of accessing the 5-1/4 inch floppy (presently held up by my difficulty in translating "usb-2" in dmesg results into a device in the /dev directory

Re: [Trisquel-users] Youtube Ditches Flash, and it Hardly Matters: Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss

2015-02-08 Thread davidvargas1
SuperTramp83 Those news are good information, but I STILL CAN'T COMPREHEND WHY YOU ARE POSTING THIS NEWS IN The main forum of trisquel? I'm thinking you like being a bull headed politician!

Re: [Trisquel-users] installing libreboot on a x60 thinkpad

2015-02-08 Thread shiretoko
Are you sure that libreboot actually supports booting from usb? I know that its features are limited My guess is that this is the problem.

[Trisquel-users] Re : Installation of floppy controller card runs into gtk-configure problem

2015-02-08 Thread lcerf
Why would a driver require a graphical toolkit? You should search for a solution that does not require installing a version of GTK+ that is 16 years old: installing GTK+-1.2 looks harder than your original problem!

[Trisquel-users] Re : I am looking to build my first computer.

2015-02-08 Thread lcerf
you dont rely need a gpu Intel HD and Iris Graphics are (integrated) GPUs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_graphics_processing_units And, yes, riddled wants one of them.

Re: [Trisquel-users] installing libreboot on a x60 thinkpad

2015-02-08 Thread tomlukeywood
i have installed libreboot and at first all seemed fine it shows the grub menu but when i tried to boot to a os it gave this error: disk ahci(0,1) not found i can edit the commands and i can go to a grub command line dose anyone know the command to boot a kernel in grub? or any way for me to m

Re: [Trisquel-users] An annoying thing that happens when upvoting a post here in the forums.

2015-02-08 Thread tomlukeywood
i have no problem with javascript i just have a problem when a program is run without the users permission

Re: [Trisquel-users] Installation of floppy controller card runs into gtk-configure problem

2015-02-08 Thread amenex
It seems that apt-get runs into a regex interference: > george@george-DA237A-ABA-6430NX-NA910:/etc$ sudo apt-get install gtk-1.2 > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > Note, selecting 'libaiksaurusgtk-1.2-0' for regex 'gtk-1.2' > Note, sel

Re: [Trisquel-users] Youtube Ditches Flash, and it Hardly Matters: Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss

2015-02-08 Thread onpon4
Not just de facto. Flash was a de facto standard. EME is an official standard.

Re: [Trisquel-users] I am looking to build my first computer.

2015-02-08 Thread tomlukeywood
the motherboard like most motherboards would use a non-free bios if you want a free bios theirs a list of supported motherboards here: http://www.libreboot.org/docs/hcl/index.html#supported_list but they will be older and wont support a i7 at least yet if you don’t mind a non-free bios the mother

Re: [Trisquel-users] I am looking to build my first computer.

2015-02-08 Thread fredo
When I'll make my new pc I'll not only take hardware compatible with trisquel, but also a coreboot or libreboot compatible motherboard : http://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Motherboards

Re: [Trisquel-users] I am looking to build my first computer.

2015-02-08 Thread garsmith
I did write a long answer but the page here changed to a "Accessed denied" and everything got lost. Here is a shorter version. Product specifications. http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/SABERTOOTH_Z97_MARK_2/specifications/ I know that Asus Z97I Plus works except wifi and bluetooth. Displayport,

[Trisquel-users] Re : Using proprietary softwares through wine

2015-02-08 Thread dttdogers
If you only want to play music to kill time, you do not even need something as complete as ardour. You can use Qsynth. Qsynth is simple SoundFont player. For instance, by installing software like Musescore form the Trisquel repository, you will also automatically download a simple General MID

Re: [Trisquel-users] advice moving to free software

2015-02-08 Thread jabjabs
Unfortunately Free mobile operating systems are in the same stat that free Pc operating systems where in the early-mid 90's. They function but there is a lot to catch up on.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Youtube Ditches Flash, and it Hardly Matters: Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss

2015-02-08 Thread jabjabs
It is a really terrible situation, that said forks like Abrowser I'm sure will not support this feature. Lets just hope that eventually Mozilla comes to the same conclusion and abandons this technology and stick to the ideals they are founded on.

Re: [Trisquel-users] An annoying thing that happens when upvoting a post here in the forums.

2015-02-08 Thread cromozon
true, anchor is the name :)

Re: [Trisquel-users] How To Convert An Ubuntu Install Into A Trisquel Install

2015-02-08 Thread Andrew Roffey
tyuw567: > I currently use some VPSes for personal use and hosting some > websites that I own. I use Ubuntu on all of my VPSes. I think > Trisquel would be incredibly useful to use as a server. I can confirm that it works, but depending on the type of virtualisation that your provider is using,

Re: [Trisquel-users] How To Convert An Ubuntu Install Into A Trisquel Install

2015-02-08 Thread t8mf4nu6lizp
Well, there is this but it's not perfect by any measure https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/migrate-ubuntu-trisquel-without-reinstalling https://trisquel.info/en/issues/13584 Messing around with kernels isn't actually a big problem. Just install Linux-libre and boot into it. If you're afraid and eve

[Trisquel-users] How To Convert An Ubuntu Install Into A Trisquel Install

2015-02-08 Thread tyuw567
I would like to know how to convert an Ubuntu install into a Trisquel install step by step. If possible, I would appreciate as much detail as possible. At the very least, I would like to know how to remove the Ubuntu Linux kernel for Ubuntu 14.04 32 bit edition and instead use the Linux-libre

Re: [Trisquel-users] An annoying thing that happens when upvoting a post here in the forums.

2015-02-08 Thread t8mf4nu6lizp
This should make the right top corner of your touchpad act as middle mouse synclient RTCornerButton=2