Re: IA64 or AMD64?

2012-09-20 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 9/20/2012 8:43 PM, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > Why do you assume he's doing it for work? If he said something about > being an experienced sysadmin, I missed it. This could easily be a box > he bought as the n'th owner or from ebay or something. The noise level of a DL580 is 52 dBA. 99.999% of pe

Re: Display settings issue

2012-09-20 Thread Bilal mk
On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Bilal mk wrote: > > > On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Bilal mk wrote: > >> >> >> On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 7:15 PM, Chris Bannister < >> cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz> wrote: >> >>> [Please don't top post. Reformatted] >>> >>> On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 01:25:27PM +0530,

Re: IA64 or AMD64?

2012-09-20 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Stan Hoeppner writes: > On 9/20/2012 4:40 PM, Richard Hector wrote: >> On 21/09/12 09:04, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> >>> You are either: >>> >>> 1. Horribly lazy >>> 2. Incompetent >>> >> >> Or having a bad day, or been dropped in the deep end by the employer, or >> any one of a number of things

Re: Film scanner software / hardware.

2012-09-20 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 9/20/2012 6:16 PM, Gary Roach wrote: > After review a gazillion scanners I have concluded that the Plustek > OpticFilm 7400 is my best choice for my needs and my budget. > Unfortunately, they don't support Linux. Vuescan doesn't support this > Plustek scanner. Does anyone know of a software solu

Re: IA64 or AMD64?

2012-09-20 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 9/20/2012 4:40 PM, Richard Hector wrote: > On 21/09/12 09:04, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >> You are either: >> >> 1. Horribly lazy >> 2. Incompetent >> > > Or having a bad day, or been dropped in the deep end by the employer, or > any one of a number of things we don't know about. > > Suggestin

Re: Installation

2012-09-20 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 20 Sep 2012 06:41:04 +0200 lee wrote: > Celejar writes: > > > On Thu, 20 Sep 2012 02:29:18 +0200 > > lee wrote: > > > > Not familiar with gimp or x3; sorry. > > You never used gimp? X3 is a game --- could be really awesome if it > wasn't so buggy. Gimp: I think I fired it up once or

Re: Display hurtful on LCD screen with Wheezy

2012-09-20 Thread Ralf Mardorf
I don't remember, you still have Ubuntu installed too? If not, it might be possible that the LCD display gets broken in the meantime, so even degassing of broken semiconductor could be possible or emission of ozone and of course the picture could be less good too. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to de

Re: Display hurtful on LCD screen with Wheezy

2012-09-20 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2012-09-20 at 08:42 -0700, T Elcor wrote: > - Original Message from Lionel Trésaugues - > > > Lowering the brightness helps a little bit to make the pain more bearable, > > but it is still unpleasant and hurtful after a while. > > Another thing you may want to try is to connect yo

Re: Display hurtful on LCD screen with Wheezy

2012-09-20 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2012-09-20 at 11:30 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Inaudible or barely audible noise from either the computer or the > monitor, possibly created by specific clocks cycles of a particular > software load. (TV sets do this to me all the time.) > Try turning the monitor off and staying in fro

Film scanner software / hardware.

2012-09-20 Thread Gary Roach
After review a gazillion scanners I have concluded that the Plustek OpticFilm 7400 is my best choice for my needs and my budget. Unfortunately, they don't support Linux. Vuescan doesn't support this Plustek scanner. Does anyone know of a software solution to this problem or know of a scanner fo

Re: Display hurtful on LCD screen with Wheezy

2012-09-20 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2012-09-20 at 16:01 +0100, Lisi wrote: > On Tuesday 18 September 2012 22:31:21 Lionel Trésaugues wrote: > > I am experiencing a physical pain whenever I am in front of my > > computer running either Debian (Wheezy) or Debian-based distributions > > (such as Mint LMDE, XFCE or MATE edition).

SOLVED and thank you was: Re: Drivers for ethernet chip on the Gigabyte GA-Z77-DS3H motherboard.

2012-09-20 Thread Lisi
On Thursday 20 September 2012 22:42:10 Brian wrote: > On Thu 20 Sep 2012 at 20:58:51 +0100, Lisi wrote: > > 02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications Device > > [1969:1083] (rev c0) Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Device [1458:e000] > > Kernel driver in use: atl1c > > [1969

Re: IA64 or AMD64?

2012-09-20 Thread Richard Hector
On 21/09/12 09:04, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > You are either: > > 1. Horribly lazy > 2. Incompetent > Or having a bad day, or been dropped in the deep end by the employer, or any one of a number of things we don't know about. Suggesting google or debian.org or whatever is fine, but this is way o

Re: Drivers for ethernet chip on the Gigabyte GA-Z77-DS3H motherboard.

2012-09-20 Thread Brian
On Thu 20 Sep 2012 at 20:58:51 +0100, Lisi wrote: > 02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications Device [1969:1083] > (rev c0) > Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Device [1458:e000] > Kernel driver in use: atl1c [1969:1083] is what we would expect as a device identifi

Re: Drivers for ethernet chip on the Gigabyte GA-Z77-DS3H motherboard.

2012-09-20 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 1:31 PM, Lisi wrote: > On Thursday 20 September 2012 21:10:24 Stephan Seitz wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 08:58:51PM +0100, Lisi wrote: >> >If the correct driver is in use, why does it not work in Squeeze? >> >> Does dmesg show anything about missing firmware files? The

Re: IA64 or AMD64?

2012-09-20 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 9/20/2012 2:44 AM, Mauro wrote: > Hello. > I have a HP proliant DL580 G5 server with 4 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E7330 > @ 2.40GHz processors. > What architecture port I've to install, IA64 or AMD64? > Thank you. This may be a bit harsh, but it's the glaring truth: your employer should fire you an

Re: Display hurtful on LCD screen with Wheezy

2012-09-20 Thread Mark Allums
On 9/20/2012 3:37 PM, Lisi wrote: On Thursday 20 September 2012 20:50:40 Mark Allums wrote: You were obsessed with the refresh rate. This is absurd. I mentioned it twice, amid a lot of other things. It is you who are obsessed. If you want to continue this absurd attack on me, may I suggest

pppd shutdown

2012-09-20 Thread Mike McClain
Howdy, I'm on dialup using pppd and loosing the connection often in the middle of fetching mail or loading some URL in the browser. I'm hoping for suggestions to help me debug the problem. root@/deb60:~> grep -v '^\s*$\|^#' /etc/ppp/options asyncmap 0 auth crtscts lock hide-password modem deb

Re: Display hurtful on LCD screen with Wheezy

2012-09-20 Thread Lisi
On Thursday 20 September 2012 20:50:40 Mark Allums wrote: > You were obsessed with the refresh rate. This is absurd. I mentioned it twice, amid a lot of other things. It is you who are obsessed. If you want to continue this absurd attack on me, may I suggest that you go off list. Lisi --

Re: Display hurtful on LCD screen with Wheezy

2012-09-20 Thread Neal Murphy
On Thursday, September 20, 2012 03:55:48 PM Lionel Trésaugues wrote: > > And the sub-pixel order is equal too? > > The sub-pixel order is set to rgb (like I do in Ubuntu). I can > definitely see a (worse) change if I use a different mode. > Disabling the sub-pixel smoothing didn't improve anything

Re: Drivers for ethernet chip on the Gigabyte GA-Z77-DS3H motherboard.

2012-09-20 Thread Lisi
On Thursday 20 September 2012 20:20:06 Brian wrote: > > Based on the info you provided in other messages it seems like the > > correct module is 'atl1c'. Try 'modprobe atl1c' and see if you get some > > interesting output, possibly only in the logs. > > How about > >    lsmod  | grep atl1c > > befo

Re: Drivers for ethernet chip on the Gigabyte GA-Z77-DS3H motherboard.

2012-09-20 Thread Lisi
On Thursday 20 September 2012 19:25:10 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Jo, 20 sep 12, 16:27:12, Lisi wrote: > > Any suggestions as to what else I could try? > > Anything interesting in the logs/dmesg? > > Based on the info you provided in other messages it seems like the > correct module is 'atl1c'. Try

Re: Drivers for ethernet chip on the Gigabyte GA-Z77-DS3H motherboard.

2012-09-20 Thread Lisi
On Thursday 20 September 2012 21:10:24 Stephan Seitz wrote: > On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 08:58:51PM +0100, Lisi wrote: > >If the correct driver is in use, why does it not work in Squeeze? > > Does dmesg show anything about missing firmware files? The driver is > loaded but it can’t maybe initialise th

Re: Drivers for ethernet chip on the Gigabyte GA-Z77-DS3H motherboard.

2012-09-20 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 08:58:51PM +0100, Lisi wrote: If the correct driver is in use, why does it not work in Squeeze? Does dmesg show anything about missing firmware files? The driver is loaded but it can’t maybe initialise the device without firmware which may not be installed because it i

Re: ntpd crashes.

2012-09-20 Thread Mauro
On 20 September 2012 16:56, John Hasler wrote: > Someone who Stefan failed to identify wrote: >> ...ntpd crashes on my server. Time jumps forward one hour every time >> this has happened. > > I doubt ntpd is crashing. Most likely something else is jumping the > system clock and ntpd is behaving

Re: Configure Virtual IP interfaces

2012-09-20 Thread Pedro Eugênio Rocha
Pietro, Can you send us the output of "ifconfig" and "route -n"? Maybe this way it would be easier for us understanding what you're trying to do. Best, On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 12:40 PM, Pietro Paolini wrote: > Hi all, > > > > I am not really sure this is the correct newsletter for my question

Re: Display hurtful on LCD screen with Wheezy

2012-09-20 Thread Lionel Trésaugues
LCDs work by blocking the white light from the backlight. If the pannel is leaking UV, the leak should be worse on bright images (probably those with brighter red and blue channel values). But it really should not be leaking any relevant amount of UV in the first place. Very interesting. But it

Re: Display hurtful on LCD screen with Wheezy

2012-09-20 Thread Lionel Trésaugues
Another thing you may want to try is to connect your monitor through the VGA connector instead of DVI, if you have the right cable. Not sure if that would help, just curious if that would make any difference. My computer is connected to the Samsung SyncMaster through a VGA connector. Unfortunat

Re: Drivers for ethernet chip on the Gigabyte GA-Z77-DS3H motherboard.

2012-09-20 Thread Lisi
On Thursday 20 September 2012 18:12:50 Brian wrote: > But you are correct; -nn does give more useful information. -knn adds > driver detail which, in this case, is desirable. 02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications Device [1969:1083] (rev c0) Subsystem: Giga-byte Technol

Re: Display hurtful on LCD screen with Wheezy

2012-09-20 Thread Mark Allums
On 9/20/2012 2:36 PM, Lisi wrote: On Thursday 20 September 2012 18:20:49 Mark Allums wrote: On Thursday 20 September 2012 15:37:54 Mark Allums wrote: Never had that experience or heard of it or dreamt of it. You obviously feel that your experience is more valid than anyone else's when it come

Re: Display hurtful on LCD screen with Wheezy

2012-09-20 Thread Lisi
On Thursday 20 September 2012 18:20:49 Mark Allums wrote: > > On Thursday 20 September 2012 15:37:54 Mark Allums wrote: > >> Never had that experience or heard of it or dreamt of it. > > > > You obviously feel that your experience is more valid than anyone else's > > when it comes to monitors.  But

Re: Drivers for ethernet chip on the Gigabyte GA-Z77-DS3H motherboard.

2012-09-20 Thread Brian
On Thu 20 Sep 2012 at 21:25:10 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Jo, 20 sep 12, 16:27:12, Lisi wrote: > > > > Any suggestions as to what else I could try? > > Anything interesting in the logs/dmesg? > > Based on the info you provided in other messages it seems like the > correct module is 'atl

Re: Display hurtful on LCD screen with Wheezy

2012-09-20 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 20 Sep 2012, Lisi wrote: > On Tuesday 18 September 2012 22:31:21 Lionel Trésaugues wrote: > > I am experiencing a physical pain whenever I am in front of my > > computer running either Debian (Wheezy) or Debian-based distributions > > (such as Mint LMDE, XFCE or MATE edition). Switching fro

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-20 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 20 Sep 2012 03:11:59 +0200 lee wrote: ... > isn't something I would want to do, and I don't understand why websites > which are there to let people watch videos attempt to make watching them > so difficult for people that they can't watch the videos in the first > place. Perhaps because

Re: Drivers for ethernet chip on the Gigabyte GA-Z77-DS3H motherboard.

2012-09-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 20 sep 12, 16:27:12, Lisi wrote: > > Any suggestions as to what else I could try? Anything interesting in the logs/dmesg? Based on the info you provided in other messages it seems like the correct module is 'atl1c'. Try 'modprobe atl1c' and see if you get some interesting output, possib

Re: Display hurtful on LCD screen with Wheezy

2012-09-20 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 20 Sep 2012, Mark Allums wrote: > Very few LCD monitors have a refresh setting other than 60Hz. So > few, in fact, that I have never seen one of them. I am sure that it Usually the native resolution is at 60Hz, but not always. And if you are running at a lower resolution than native, ma

Re: Mplayer-gui error

2012-09-20 Thread Gábor Hársfalvi
$ dpkg -l | grep -i mplayer ii gnome-mplayer 0.9.9.2-1 A GTK+ interface for MPlayer ii mencoder 2:1.0~rc3++svn20100804-0.2squeeze1MPlayer's Movie Encoder ii mplayer 2:1.0~rc3++svn20100804-0.2squeeze1The Ultimate Movie Player For Linux ic

Re: Mplayer-gui error

2012-09-20 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 20 Sep 2012 19:25:32 +0200, Gábor Hársfalvi wrote: > "(please, keep the replies "on list" ;-) )" -> Sorry for this No problem but also please send text-based formatted posts instead html. > > "So you remove them first the ones from Debian repos or how did you do?" > -> I didn't remove th

Re: Satellite P870 issues

2012-09-20 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 12. September 2012 schrieb lee: > You don't really need to switch cards when on the console, I guess :) > You can, and you don't get any output on the screen. > > Everything works fine with the intel card unless you want to play > games. Its performance for that is pathetic at best, t

Re: Mplayer-gui error

2012-09-20 Thread Gábor Hársfalvi
"(please, keep the replies "on list" ;-) )" -> Sorry for this "So you remove them first the ones from Debian repos or how did you do?" -> I didn't remove that before install the new ones. Should I prefer do that next time installations? So now I run this? "dpkg -l | grep -i mplayer" What will it

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-20 Thread shawn wilson
On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 5:04 PM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Am Sonntag, 16. September 2012 schrieb lee: > > Frank McCormick writes: > > > On 15/09/12 06:30 PM, lee wrote: > > >> Hi, > > >> > > >> trying out chromium, I have found that both seamonkey and chromium > > >> are able to play arbitrary

Re: Display hurtful on LCD screen with Wheezy

2012-09-20 Thread Mark Allums
On 9/20/2012 10:16 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Jo, 20 sep 12, 09:37:54, Mark Allums wrote: I have however seen LCD monitors behave significantly different depending on refresh rate. Entire areas were blury, but everything was fine when I switched to another refresh rate (60Hz -> 75Hz if I reme

Re: Display hurtful on LCD screen with Wheezy

2012-09-20 Thread Mark Allums
On 9/20/2012 9:51 AM, Lisi wrote: On Thursday 20 September 2012 15:37:54 Mark Allums wrote: Never had that experience or heard of it or dreamt of it. You obviously feel that your experience is more valid than anyone else's when it comes to monitors. But you appear to know nothing at all about

Re: Mplayer-gui error

2012-09-20 Thread Camaleón
El 2012-09-20 a las 18:46 +0200, Gábor Hársfalvi escribió: (please, keep the replies "on list" ;-) ) > 2012/9/20 Camaleón > > > On Thu, 20 Sep 2012 08:34:20 +0200, Gábor Hársfalvi wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > Hi, but please, avoind sending html posts. > > > > > I just updated mplayer with the o

Re: Drivers for ethernet chip on the Gigabyte GA-Z77-DS3H motherboard.

2012-09-20 Thread Brian
On Thu 20 Sep 2012 at 19:50:34 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Jo, 20 sep 12, 16:42:11, Brian wrote: > > > > I suppose we could look at the specs for your motherboard to get an idea > > of what the chipset is but you're going to tell us after doing 'lspci'. > > Just for the archives: the -nn o

Re: EXIM in Debian

2012-09-20 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Donnerstag, 20. September 2012 schrieb Jon Dowland: > Do you need split configuration? Are you wedded to it? My advice would > be to copy /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated to /etc/exim4.conf, at > which point the Debian exim configuration is overridden, and just edit > that one file instead.

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-20 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Sonntag, 16. September 2012 schrieb lee: > Frank McCormick writes: > > On 15/09/12 06:30 PM, lee wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> trying out chromium, I have found that both seamonkey and chromium > >> are able to play arbitrary videos found on youtube. I used to have > >> > > Chrome has built-in

Re: Wheezy managesieve segfault

2012-09-20 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Donnerstag, 20. September 2012 schrieb Denis Witt: > On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 17:30:08 +0200 > > Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > your bug report is not yet there. > > It's now filed, I also got an reply: > > tags 688197 + pending confirmed > thanks > > It's a known bug and it's already fixed in th

Re: Drivers for ethernet chip on the Gigabyte GA-Z77-DS3H motherboard.

2012-09-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 20 sep 12, 16:42:11, Brian wrote: > On Thu 20 Sep 2012 at 16:27:12 +0100, Lisi wrote: > > > Any suggestions as to what else I could try? > > I suppose we could look at the specs for your motherboard to get an idea > of what the chipset is but you're going to tell us after doing 'lspci'. J

Re: enter BIOS menu

2012-09-20 Thread lina
On Friday 21,September,2012 12:11 AM, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 9:02 AM, lina wrote: >> On Thursday 20,September,2012 11:55 PM, Kelly Clowers wrote: >>> On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 8:38 AM, lina wrote: > > I am not sure if I understand your problem. > > On (my) HP

Re: enter BIOS menu

2012-09-20 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 9:02 AM, lina wrote: > On Thursday 20,September,2012 11:55 PM, Kelly Clowers wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 8:38 AM, lina wrote: I am not sure if I understand your problem. On (my) HP PC F10 starts the HP Setup Utility, as you wrote. That _

Re: Drivers for ethernet chip on the Gigabyte GA-Z77-DS3H motherboard.

2012-09-20 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 8:59 AM, Lisi wrote: > On Thursday 20 September 2012 16:43:10 Kelly Clowers wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 8:27 AM, Lisi wrote: >> > My on-board ethernet chip is not working in Debian Squeeze. > [snip] >> The Gigabyte specs say it is an Atheros chip, but there are seve

Re: enter BIOS menu

2012-09-20 Thread lina
On Thursday 20,September,2012 11:55 PM, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 8:38 AM, lina wrote: >>> >>> I am not sure if I understand your problem. >>> >>> On (my) HP PC F10 starts the HP Setup Utility, as you wrote. >>> >>> That _is_ the BIOS menu. >>> >>> What do you expect? This BIO

Re: Drivers for ethernet chip on the Gigabyte GA-Z77-DS3H motherboard.

2012-09-20 Thread Lisi
On Thursday 20 September 2012 16:43:10 Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 8:27 AM, Lisi wrote: > > My on-board ethernet chip is not working in Debian Squeeze. [snip] > The Gigabyte specs say it is an Atheros chip, but there are several > different Atheros GbE chips out there, we ne

Re: enter BIOS menu

2012-09-20 Thread Hartwig Atrops
Hi. On Thursday 20 September 2012 17:38:50 lina wrote: > > I am not sure if I understand your problem. > > > > On (my) HP PC F10 starts the HP Setup Utility, as you wrote. > > > > That _is_ the BIOS menu. > > > > What do you expect? This BIOS menu looks a little bit different - when > > you are us

Re: enter BIOS menu

2012-09-20 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 8:38 AM, lina wrote: >> >> I am not sure if I understand your problem. >> >> On (my) HP PC F10 starts the HP Setup Utility, as you wrote. >> >> That _is_ the BIOS menu. >> >> What do you expect? This BIOS menu looks a little bit different - when you >> are >> used to Award

Re: Drivers for ethernet chip on the Gigabyte GA-Z77-DS3H motherboard.

2012-09-20 Thread Lisi
On Thursday 20 September 2012 16:42:11 Brian wrote: > On Thu 20 Sep 2012 at 16:27:12 +0100, Lisi wrote: > > Any suggestions as to what else I could try? > > I suppose we could look at the specs for your motherboard to get an idea > of what the chipset is but you're going to tell us after doing 'lsp

Re: enter BIOS menu

2012-09-20 Thread lina
On Thursday 20,September,2012 11:49 PM, Lisi wrote: > On Thursday 20 September 2012 16:38:50 lina wrote: >>> On (my) HP PC F10 starts the HP Setup Utility, as you wrote. >>> >>> That _is_ the BIOS menu. >>> >>> What do you expect? This BIOS menu looks a little bit different - when >>> you are used

Re: enter BIOS menu

2012-09-20 Thread Lisi
On Thursday 20 September 2012 16:38:50 lina wrote: > > On (my) HP PC F10 starts the HP Setup Utility, as you wrote. > > > > That _is_ the BIOS menu. > > > > What do you expect? This BIOS menu looks a little bit different - when > > you are used to Award BIOS or something like that. > > > > The key

Re: enter BIOS menu

2012-09-20 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 20 Sep 2012 23:10:15 +0800, lina wrote: > during boot I entered the F10 it came into the > > Hewlett-Packard Setup Utility (...) Congratulations, you are inside your BIOS menu ;-) Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subje

Re: Drivers for ethernet chip on the Gigabyte GA-Z77-DS3H motherboard.

2012-09-20 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 8:27 AM, Lisi wrote: > My on-board ethernet chip is not working in Debian Squeeze. I have installed > a PCI card that is working, but I would like to have the (better) on board > chip working. > > I have used it from the Linux Format remastered Ubuntu 12.04 live CD, so the

Re: Display hurtful on LCD screen with Wheezy

2012-09-20 Thread T Elcor
- Original Message from Lionel Trésaugues - > Lowering the brightness helps a little bit to make the pain more bearable, > but it is still unpleasant and hurtful after a while. Another thing you may want to try is to connect your monitor through the VGA connector instead of DVI, if you h

Re: Drivers for ethernet chip on the Gigabyte GA-Z77-DS3H motherboard.

2012-09-20 Thread Brian
On Thu 20 Sep 2012 at 16:27:12 +0100, Lisi wrote: > Any suggestions as to what else I could try? I suppose we could look at the specs for your motherboard to get an idea of what the chipset is but you're going to tell us after doing 'lspci'. Yes? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...

Re: enter BIOS menu

2012-09-20 Thread lina
> > I am not sure if I understand your problem. > > On (my) HP PC F10 starts the HP Setup Utility, as you wrote. > > That _is_ the BIOS menu. > > What do you expect? This BIOS menu looks a little bit different - when you > are > used to Award BIOS or something like that. > > The key used to

Re: FN Key to Enable/Disable Touchpad

2012-09-20 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 20:56:26 -0300, Dr Beco wrote: (...) > Camaleón, (please, no hmtl posts...) > Thanks for the tip. Yes, I can turn it on/off manually. Good, that means it could be a simple problem of key detection and/or association. > Is there a way to associate the Key with the Action?

Re: enter BIOS menu

2012-09-20 Thread Lisi
On Thursday 20 September 2012 16:10:15 lina wrote: > Hi, > > during boot I entered the F10 it came into the > > Hewlett-Packard Setup Utility > > with the > > System BIOS 786D7 v01.02 > > I felt a bit frustrated after trying the possible keys like F1, ESC, Del. > > Any suggestions? Please. What's

Re: Display hurtful on LCD screen with Wheezy

2012-09-20 Thread Joey Hess
Lionel Trésaugues wrote: > Debian and Ubuntu deal with fonts existed. But the unpleasant > feeling is present (even if not so intense), just by looking at the > background of an empty desktop. It seems that the light is too > intense, too violent (even when I reduce the brightness) and that my > ey

Re: enter BIOS menu

2012-09-20 Thread Hartwig Atrops
Hi. On Thursday 20 September 2012 17:10:15 lina wrote: > Hi, > > during boot I entered the F10 it came into the > > Hewlett-Packard Setup Utility > > with the > > System BIOS 786D7 v01.02 > > I felt a bit frustrated after trying the possible keys like F1, ESC, Del. > > Any suggestions? Please. > >

Drivers for ethernet chip on the Gigabyte GA-Z77-DS3H motherboard.

2012-09-20 Thread Lisi
My on-board ethernet chip is not working in Debian Squeeze. I have installed a PCI card that is working, but I would like to have the (better) on board chip working. I have used it from the Linux Format remastered Ubuntu 12.04 live CD, so there is obviously a Linux driver for it. I have Goog

Re: FN Key to Enable/Disable Touchpad

2012-09-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 20 sep 12, 11:51:59, Dr Beco wrote: > > Is there any tip on how to find such file and its syntax? Funny I googled > FN key debian and got here. > So, of course as always, our good answers and solutions is reference for > future users. > > I can find the file if no one knows better. I just

Re: IA64 or AMD64?

2012-09-20 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 20 Sep 2012 09:44:35 +0200, Mauro wrote: > I have a HP proliant DL580 G5 server with 4 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E7330 > @ 2.40GHz processors. > What architecture port I've to install, IA64 or AMD64? Thank you. The available architectures are detailed and explained here: http://www.debian.or

Re: force_igmp_status does not work

2012-09-20 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 20 Sep 2012 13:34:57 +, Pietro Paolini wrote: Pietro, you've hijacked a thread, I'm opening a new one. > I am tryng to use the command : > > echo 2 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/eth0/force_igmp_version under my Debian > 6.0 distribution but it does not work. > > I tried also : > > echo

Re: Display hurtful on LCD screen with Wheezy

2012-09-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 20 sep 12, 09:37:54, Mark Allums wrote: > > > >I have however seen LCD monitors behave significantly different > >depending on refresh rate. Entire areas were blury, but everything was > >fine when I switched to another refresh rate (60Hz -> 75Hz if I remember > >correctly). > > I have neve

enter BIOS menu

2012-09-20 Thread lina
Hi, during boot I entered the F10 it came into the Hewlett-Packard Setup Utility with the System BIOS 786D7 v01.02 I felt a bit frustrated after trying the possible keys like F1, ESC, Del. Any suggestions? Please. Thanks, Best regards, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@list

Re: Display hurtful on LCD screen with Wheezy

2012-09-20 Thread Lisi
On Tuesday 18 September 2012 22:31:21 Lionel Trésaugues wrote: > I am experiencing a physical pain whenever I am in front of my > computer running either Debian (Wheezy) or Debian-based distributions > (such as Mint LMDE, XFCE or MATE edition). Switching from XFCE to MATE > doesn't lead to any impr

Re: Mplayer-gui error

2012-09-20 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 20 Sep 2012 08:34:20 +0200, Gábor Hársfalvi wrote: > Hi, Hi, but please, avoind sending html posts. > I just updated mplayer with the official ppa from > http://www.deb-multimedia.org Update or install? > , but the package mplayer-gui broke and it can't install now :( > > Please see m

Re: ntpd crashes.

2012-09-20 Thread John Hasler
Someone who Stefan failed to identify wrote: > ...ntpd crashes on my server. Time jumps forward one hour every time > this has happened. I doubt ntpd is crashing. Most likely something else is jumping the system clock and ntpd is behaving as designed and exiting when it sees a one hour error. S

Re: FN Key to Enable/Disable Touchpad

2012-09-20 Thread Dr Beco
> > > > On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 5:13 AM, Andrei POPESCU > wrote: > > KeyRelease event, serial 41, synthetic NO, window 0x541, > > root 0xaf, subw 0x0, time 5589764, (607,535), root:(609,558), > > state 0x0, keycode 199 (keysym 0x1008ffa9, XF86TouchpadToggle), > > same_screen YES, > >

Re: Display hurtful on LCD screen with Wheezy

2012-09-20 Thread Lisi
On Thursday 20 September 2012 15:37:54 Mark Allums wrote: > Never had that experience or heard of it or dreamt of it. You obviously feel that your experience is more valid than anyone else's when it comes to monitors. But you appear to know nothing at all about eye/eyesight/eyestrain problems a

Re: Display hurtful on LCD screen with Wheezy

2012-09-20 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 23:40:30 +0200, Lionel Trésaugues wrote: > First, thanks all of you to try to solve the issue I encounter with > Debian. > > I will come back now to some of the points you mentioned in the > discussion. (for the next time consider individual replies instead putting all the b

Re: Display hurtful on LCD screen with Wheezy

2012-09-20 Thread Mark Allums
On 9/20/2012 8:59 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Jo, 20 sep 12, 07:18:58, Mark Allums wrote: LCD do not refresh in the same sense as CRTs. They project a continuous picture. If a pixel doesn't change, it stays lit. No fading. OPs problem is not due to refresh, unless it is a CRT. His problem

Re: Installation

2012-09-20 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 23:25:34 +0200, lee wrote: > Camaleón writes: > >> Now seriously, I already mentioned that the OS installation process is >> not the problem for users to keep linux but the "afterwards", the >> day-to- day issues. And here is where the user's attitude becomes so >> important

Re: Installation

2012-09-20 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 18:15:31 +0200, lee wrote: > Camaleón writes: > >> On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 13:52:14 -0400, The Wanderer wrote: >> >>> And what about the users who *don't* want to learn, they just want to >>> have and use a working computer? >> >> (...) >> >> As I already mentioned, they should g

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-20 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 17:27:35 +0200, lee wrote: > Camaleón writes: >>> There is also the possibility that they come up with a new version for >>> other OSs. They could add features in the new version that make it >>> impossible to play videos which are compatible with the new version >>> with th

Re: force_igmp_status does not work

2012-09-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 20 sep 12, 13:34:57, Pietro Paolini wrote: > Hi all, > > > I am tryng to use the command : > > echo 2 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/eth0/force_igmp_version under my Debian 6.0 > distribution but it does not work. > > I tried also : > > echo 2 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/default/force_igmp_ve

Re: ntpd crashes.

2012-09-20 Thread Stefan Monnier
>>> with ntpd crashes on my server. Time jumps forward one hour every time >>> this has happened. However I'm not convinced it's the hardware causing >> Sounds like something is causing the one-hour jump, and that in turns >> causes ntpd to go bonkers. >> As for what causes this jump, I don't kno

Re: force_igmp_status does not work

2012-09-20 Thread Markus Schönhaber
20.09.2012 15:34, Pietro Paolini: > I am tryng to use the command : > > echo 2 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/eth0/force_igmp_version under my Debian 6.0 > distribution but it does not work. > > I tried also : > > echo 2 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/default/force_igmp_version > echo 2 > /proc/sys/net/

Re: Display hurtful on LCD screen with Wheezy

2012-09-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 20 sep 12, 07:18:58, Mark Allums wrote: > > LCD do not refresh in the same sense as CRTs. They project a > continuous picture. If a pixel doesn't change, it stays lit. No > fading. OPs problem is not due to refresh, unless it is a CRT. > > His problem is probably due to environmental fa

force_igmp_status does not work

2012-09-20 Thread Pietro Paolini
Hi all, I am tryng to use the command : echo 2 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/eth0/force_igmp_version under my Debian 6.0 distribution but it does not work. I tried also : echo 2 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/default/force_igmp_version echo 2 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/force_igmp_version But witho

Re: Display hurtful on LCD screen with Wheezy

2012-09-20 Thread Lisi
On Thursday 20 September 2012 13:18:58 Mark Allums wrote: > On 9/19/ > > >> LCDs do not flicker. > > > > I *explicitly* did not say flicker. I do not mean flicker. Flicker is > > perceptible to the viewer. > > > > Minitors *do* refresh. They do not all refresh at the same rate. The OP > > is co

Re: EXIM in Debian

2012-09-20 Thread Jon Dowland
Do you need split configuration? Are you wedded to it? My advice would be to copy /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated to /etc/exim4.conf, at which point the Debian exim configuration is overridden, and just edit that one file instead. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.

Re: Bug#687804: installation-reports: users are not able to review external documentation while stuck in the installer

2012-09-20 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 07:58:36PM +0200, lee wrote: > Jon Dowland writes: > > > The installer (in expert mode) supports an ssh client on an alternative > > VT, afaik. One can connect to another machine with stuff already > > installed via this if necessary. Surely this is sufficient to address

Re: Display hurtful on LCD screen with Wheezy

2012-09-20 Thread Mark Allums
On 9/19/2012 6:49 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Thu, 2012-09-20 at 00:03 +0100, Lisi wrote: On Wednesday 19 September 2012 23:38:48 Mark Allums wrote: On 9/19/2012 5:33 PM, Lisi wrote: On Wednesday 19 September 2012 22:40:30 Lionel Trésaugues wrote: Yes. Me neither. The only parameter I couldn't

Re: Display hurtful on LCD screen with Wheezy

2012-09-20 Thread Mark Allums
On 9/19/ LCDs do not flicker. I *explicitly* did not say flicker. I do not mean flicker. Flicker is perceptible to the viewer. Minitors *do* refresh. They do not all refresh at the same rate. The OP is complaining of eye-strain and headaches. These are real, and quite reasonably he would

Re: Wheezy managesieve segfault

2012-09-20 Thread Denis Witt
On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 17:30:08 +0200 Martin Steigerwald wrote: > your bug report is not yet there. It's now filed, I also got an reply: tags 688197 + pending confirmed thanks It's a known bug and it's already fixed in the package git repository. The next upload will contain the fix. Regards, Ma

Re: Display hurtful on LCD screen with Wheezy

2012-09-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 18 sep 12, 23:31:21, Lionel Trésaugues wrote: > Hello, > > I am experiencing a physical pain whenever I am in front of my > computer running either Debian (Wheezy) or Debian-based distributions > (such as Mint LMDE, XFCE or MATE edition). Switching from XFCE to MATE > doesn't lead to any im

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 20 sep 12, 03:11:59, lee wrote: > > Thank you! It doesn't seem to reasonably lead to anywhere. Maintaining > a library of scripts that deal with particular websites which even > continue to change how they present the videos to break such scripts > isn't something I would want to do, and

Re: Installation

2012-09-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 20 sep 12, 06:31:52, lee wrote: > Celejar writes: > > > If you have an OEM license, it can't be transferred to a different PC: > > > > http://www.microsoft.com/oem/en/licensing/sblicensing/pages/licensing_for_hobbyists.aspx > > Why not? I haven't signed any agreement with them. You agre

Re: Installation

2012-09-20 Thread lee
Celejar writes: > If you have an OEM license, it can't be transferred to a different PC: > > http://www.microsoft.com/oem/en/licensing/sblicensing/pages/licensing_for_hobbyists.aspx Why not? I haven't signed any agreement with them. -- Debian testing amd64 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debi

Re: Installation

2012-09-20 Thread lee
Celejar writes: > On Thu, 20 Sep 2012 02:29:18 +0200 > lee wrote: > > Not familiar with gimp or x3; sorry. You never used gimp? X3 is a game --- could be really awesome if it wasn't so buggy. -- Debian testing amd64 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

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