Re: [Trisquel-users] "Unable to get monitor information!"

2015-10-24 Thread t8mf4nu6lizp
Ah, my bad, the correct file is /etc/modprobe.d/radeon.conf. And yes that is what I meant. And indeed any text editor will do, as long as you have super user privileges.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Blocking traffic in port 53 prevents DNS leaks (or any kind of DNS traffic) ??

2015-10-24 Thread pinmaritim
Hi GNUsern When you have configurated your Network Manager to import a saved OpenVPN configuration(keys) CA.cert /User.key/ta.key and the file containing OpenVPN Client Configuration (Gateway,Protocol & DNS server) which sets your DNS (From your VPN provider) In no way should your DNS be your

[Trisquel-users] Help me making a small change in a C++ program

2015-10-24 Thread myself600
Read here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/33220415/modifying-virtualbox-gui-to-use-kchmviewer-if-available There are two mistakes in the provided link that I'm currently aware of: 1. I cannot use #define in my statement, however, I'm somewhat confused about which (int, const, float, QStri

Re: [Trisquel-users] Updater Won't Update?

2015-10-24 Thread covalski . cleiton
So... As recommended quantumgravity we not should report this as a bug?

[Trisquel-users] Re : Updater Won't Update?

2015-10-24 Thread lcerf
Therefore, the graphical "software updater" should be removed and it should be clearly stated that users have to use the following commands using the commandline: sudo apt-get update and then sudo apt-get dist-upgrade! The "graphical software updater" had better be fixed and/or configured d

[Trisquel-users] Re : "Unable to get monitor information!"

2015-10-24 Thread lcerf
You can use any text editor. It needs not be 'nano'. For instance to use GEdit (GNOME's text editor): $ gksu gedit /etc/modprobe.d/disable-radeon.conf

Re: [Trisquel-users] Updater Won't Update?

2015-10-24 Thread john_harvey
Yes. As an "end user" I relate to a graphical interface by habit, but if such a necessary tool simply doesn't work its going to cause some real frustration or worse turn the average user off Trisquel who might otherwise find a refuge in it.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Updater Won't Update?

2015-10-24 Thread schaldi
The Trisquel-team should make up their mind what they want to offer to the world. Trisquel is the easiest of the recommended GNU/Linux distributions listed on the Free Software Foundation's website. Keeping your system up-to-date is essential. All four Trisquel-7.0 versions I tested offer a

Re: [Trisquel-users] "Unable to get monitor information!"

2015-10-24 Thread john_harvey
Thank you, Lembas. When in nano I see no line to add a hash in front of. Just the inky blackness of space... Zem And when the time comes I assume by "enter twice to save file" you mean "hit the Enter/Return key"?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Time for Trisquel 7.1? Summary of various trisquel installations on different machines

2015-10-24 Thread schaldi
To go into the specifics of the four Trisquel 7.0 iso images available on the trisquel.info website, I tried to install and update them on a Lenovo X61 laptop: - trisquel-mini-7.0-amd64.iso and trisquel-mini-7.0-i686.iso are not even possible to be update via the graphical "software updater

Re: [Trisquel-users] ASUS Chromebook C201 now supported in libreboot - ARM CPU

2015-10-24 Thread albin
"how comes all these discussions usually center around laptops and servers?" The goal of the free software movement is to free all the computing, regardless of device type. The only reason that, for example, the libreboot project has freed a lot of laptops and now, more recently, a server boa

Re: [Trisquel-users] "Unable to get monitor information!"

2015-10-24 Thread t8mf4nu6lizp
Actually looks like you do. 02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RV710/M92 [Mobility Radeon HD 4330/4350/4550] The radeon module is blacklisted, let's try changing that. sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/disable-radeon.conf There add a hash (#) in front of the l

Re: [Trisquel-users] pc mainboard low priced which one do you suggest?

2015-10-24 Thread davesamcdxv
Not for it is Libreboot available, yeah (wellthat's some terrible grammar on my part). And I forgot to note that Coreboot still needs to be flashed onto the mobo after buying if you don't mind that. Instructions seem to be here on http://www.coreboot.org/Board:gigabyte/ga-b75m-d3h The

Re: [Trisquel-users] ASUS Chromebook C201 now supported in libreboot - ARM CPU

2015-10-24 Thread allanitomwesh
Thanks,glad to be ere.

Re: [Trisquel-users] "Unable to get monitor information!"

2015-10-24 Thread john_harvey
I don't believe so: (Thanks for command line) 0:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset 4 port SATA AHCI Controller (rev 06) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset SMBus Controller (rev 06) 02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micr

Re: [Trisquel-users] Icecat - The Force Awakens

2015-10-24 Thread allanitomwesh
Looks like a nice browser. I'll give it a go.

Re: [Trisquel-users] laptop

2015-10-24 Thread davesamcdxv
Yeah, an atom with 1 GB of RAM will do. My old P4 HT with 1 GB of RAM (and Nvidia 6200) easily did everything I needed it to do (unless I was running KDE anyway), just not everything I wanted.. ..for which people should just get a bl**dy desktop.

Re: [Trisquel-users] laptop

2015-10-24 Thread greatgnu
everythingtypically needed by people? I managed to do "everythingtypically needed" on a crappy atom with 1 gb of ram. Such is the power of GNU. My current installation takes 350 mb of ram on boot. Vista and all the other poor blobsforwin version can't compare. But then again if you include in

Re: [Trisquel-users] ASUS Chromebook C201 now supported in libreboot - ARM CPU

2015-10-24 Thread greatgnu
welcome to the triskello community allan!

Re: [Trisquel-users] laptop

2015-10-24 Thread svhaab
Why doesn't thinkpenguin sell pc mainboards?

Re: [Trisquel-users] pc mainboard low priced which one do you suggest?

2015-10-24 Thread svhaab
david, when you write 'short of libreboot', you mean because libreboot not available? To me it looks like a relevant mainboard. Which cpu if I want integrated graphic card and the lowest priced duo core?

Re: [Trisquel-users] ASUS Chromebook C201 now supported in libreboot - ARM CPU

2015-10-24 Thread allanitomwesh
I made an account just to post here,hi everyone. Why can't you all just get along Minifree?ThinkPenguin?I think the more free hardware that supports free software the better,arguing about how you got there/best way to achieve this isn't really the point. Anyway,how comes all these discussions

Re: [Trisquel-users] laptop

2015-10-24 Thread davesamcdxv
X60 and X200 are quite old, to be honest. I have this personal law that computers older than Vista will struggle to do modern things, but those that, say, came with Vista will run pretty much everything since system requirements hasn't really seen an increase after Vista.' When looking at

Re: [Trisquel-users] Don't want Dnsmasq services

2015-10-24 Thread moxalt
gNewSense community? Such a thing exists? ;)

Re: [Trisquel-users] laptop

2015-10-24 Thread moxalt
> With deference, I can comprehend your dissatisfaction yet the issue is with > the portable PCs industry. This is what you get when you try to be polite through Google Translate. > That is the reason we incorporate the video (with nice looking host) > disclosing how to source a decent tablet. '

Re: [Trisquel-users] Cannot Load XFCE Session from LightDM Login

2015-10-24 Thread superbyelich
It all started when I tried to install a newer version of Remmina from Ubuntu packages, it said it needed dependencies, so I installed the first dependency also from Ubuntu's packages. It was Libglib2.0... Apparently that's a big one to be playing with and it sent my whole system in a tizzy.

[Trisquel-users] Re : laptop

2015-10-24 Thread calinou
The dual-core CPU does not have HyperThreading or Turbo Mode. > and the only libre program so far i have come across that dose not run on it is the Dolphin emulator You probably won't be able to run this: https://github.com/kmkolasinski/AwesomeBump You may struggle with 3D programs like B

[Trisquel-users] Re : pc mainboard low priced which one do you suggest?

2015-10-24 Thread calinou
UEFI is a standard. In theory, you can implement a fully free UEFI. In practice, I don't know of anyone running a free UEFI on their system (due to hardware support probably).

Re: [Trisquel-users] Cognitive ease and free software

2015-10-24 Thread greatgnu
Well, just because it is you quantumG and because I want a part in your next Bollywood movie.. Themes go in /usr/share/themes Icon themes in /usr/share/icons gtk theme is Greybird -> https://github.com/shimmerproject/Greybird Make sure to install murrine-themes and qt4-qtconfig (this may or m

Re: [Trisquel-users] pc mainboard low priced which one do you suggest?

2015-10-24 Thread davesamcdxv
Short of Libreboot, but anyway http://www.coreboot.org/Board:gigabyte/ga-b75m-d3h https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTg1MTM (OK, that's short of already-available Libreboot options, but if you want a non-server Mobo, or an Intel iGPU, or a Mini-ITX case.would be a b

Re: [Trisquel-users] pc mainboard low priced which one do you suggest?

2015-10-24 Thread tomlukeywood
is uefi a non-free BIOS program or just a standard?? so could libreboot implement a uefi BIOS???

Re: [Trisquel-users] laptop

2015-10-24 Thread tomlukeywood
"X60 and X200 are quite old, to be honest." the x200 is decent laptop by modern standers it has a dual core CPU and up to 8GB of ram

Re: [Trisquel-users] The Governance Structure here is....

2015-10-24 Thread menomore
I am willing to help, with editing Wiki Pages, Graphic designing and Translation. (:

Re: [Trisquel-users] "Unable to get monitor information!"

2015-10-24 Thread t8mf4nu6lizp
Do you have an AMD (ATI) GPU?lspci

Re: [Trisquel-users] Cannot Load XFCE Session from LightDM Login

2015-10-24 Thread t8mf4nu6lizp
Do you run graphical apps with sudo? This is what happens when permissions go wonky. One should always use gksudo.

[Trisquel-users] Re : pc mainboard low priced which one do you suggest?

2015-10-24 Thread calinou
Installing in UEFI mode will bring you a few benefits: Potentially faster boot times Dual-booting might be easier Not relying on a legacy stack that might go away some day It's not that hard to install in UEFI mode on modern distributions, even Trisquel supports it, if I recall correct

Re: [Trisquel-users] Icecat - The Force Awakens

2015-10-24 Thread grandizo
Yes, a new version 38.3 is now available via Trisquel repo. One word about privacy settings version 38.x onwards. The privacy settings of the browser on the page about:preferences#privacy There are three items enabled by default under Location bar section. What do you think, whether these op