Re: [Trisquel-users] Nouveau graphics performance & free as in freedom.

2016-05-18 Thread callmeclean
I do hope so. It's a real shame i3/i5/i7s I feel are a no go as the Intel HD on my i7 worked perfectly and had some really good performance. The other thing I forgot to mention in my first post, is are there any additional freedom issues with using newer cards (except for the newest which I

[Trisquel-users] Nouveau graphics performance & free as in freedom.

2016-05-18 Thread callmeclean
I'm trying to use an older desktop system I have with a Intel Core 2 Duo CPU & Nvidia GT 8400GS to escape Intel's management engine - I hope. I'm yet to confirm this cpu model doesn't have it, but still better than my previous, an i7. I'm trying to play some old ioquake3 derived games (the mo

Re: [Trisquel-users] Let's make our forums safer

2016-05-17 Thread callmeclean
Isn't this a case of software as a service? I think you can get free browser plugins that do all the things that proxy does, and they are under your control rather than on some server. Some examples being HTTPS everywhere and noscript. Any others?

Re: [Trisquel-users] does it make the raspberry pi 3 a free software computer?

2016-05-16 Thread callmeclean
Thank you for posting this! I remember a while ago seeing something about broadcom releasing the source for a videocore chipset similar to that used in the Pi. The suggestion from the Pi devs being that it might be possible to get the Pi booting with only free software. Nice to see some progr

Re: [Trisquel-users] Browser Tells DuckDuckGo I'm using Trisquel?

2016-05-16 Thread callmeclean
@SuperTramp83 I don't have that extension. I have also tried this on a fresh install before I add any extensions to either browser, and the result is the same. @onpon4 I wouldn't even mind having it sent if it helped get some funding for Trisquel, I just wish these browsers told you & it wa

[Trisquel-users] Browser Tells DuckDuckGo I'm using Trisquel?

2016-05-15 Thread callmeclean
When I search using the default DuckDuckGo search in both Abrowser & GNU IceCat, an HTML GET query is sent. This is what is added to the URL: "&t=trisquel". Has anyone else noticed this? I know many search engines do things like this to gather statistics on OS usage, but I didn't think Duck

[Trisquel-users] 2 Issues after updating to linux-generic-lts-wily

2016-04-28 Thread callmeclean
Installing Trisquel 7.0 on my desktop, I was receiving regular freezes of the x display with the error "nouveau failed to idle channel". An issue I've had before with this graphics card on other distros. After updating my kernel with the package linux-generic-lts-utopic, and the problem still being

Re: [Trisquel-users] Proprietary BIOS backd00rs

2016-04-07 Thread callmeclean
Reminds me that many not so old encryption schemes, like WEP or old Cisco IOS password method, could be broken easily by reverse engineering the hash or encrypted password. Although these BIOS methods seem to be on purpose so the manufacturer can help law enforcement or customers who've lost their

Re: [Trisquel-users] Forum synchronisation with mailing list *still* not working

2016-04-06 Thread callmeclean
I can see my mailing list posts in forum (takes several minutes), but not forum posts via email.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Forum synchronisation with mailing list *still* not working

2016-04-05 Thread callmeclean
I've only just signed up recently, and I only get a small number of posts in email. I assume(d) I wasn't get any of posts made through forum.

Re: [Trisquel-users] HID device not working in Trisquel

2016-04-02 Thread callmeclean
The freezing came back. Turning off graphics acceleration in the BIOS (which essentially means disabling the discrete NVidia graphics card I think) fixed the issue.

Re: [Trisquel-users] HID device not working in Trisquel

2016-03-31 Thread callmeclean
I "downgraded" using the command: sudo apt-get install --install-recommends linux-generic xserver-xorg \ libgl1-mesa-glx libegl1-mesa-drivers All the issues seem to be gone, and my mouse still works. Very strange, hopefully it holds up. I suppose the xserver & gl driver packages were not even ne

Re: [Trisquel-users] HID device not working in Trisquel

2016-03-31 Thread callmeclean
I should warn that using the first command from https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/update-linux-libre-kernel has screwed a few things up for me such as graphics for a 3D game (Unvanquished), uninstalled some programs (eg Wine) & Trisquel now hangs/freezes on poweroff. The last issue also occurred for De

Re: [Trisquel-users] HID device not working in Trisquel

2016-03-31 Thread callmeclean
Thanks for the link! Upgrading the stack/kernel to 3.16 in the first half of that page, and then rebooting made the mouse work. It also added a GUI to enter my crypt passphrase on boot, which is nice.

[Trisquel-users] HID device not working in Trisquel

2016-03-31 Thread callmeclean
This is my first time using a mailing list, so please let me know if I'm doing anything wrong. I've got an 'Aimon XB Elite' which while primarily for xbox 360, functions as a HID mouse & keyboard. It doesn't work on Trisquel (doesn't even get to stage of showing in lsusb), here is the dmesg output