Re: rdesktop

2014-02-13 Thread Reco
On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 10:26:07AM +0800, lina wrote: > > > That means that you've tried to connect to a non-resolvable hostname > > (i.e. no hostname → IP association). No more, no less. > > Quick-and-dirty solution for that is using IP address of the host > > instead. > > I tried ping and used

Re: NSA into Debian distribution!

2014-02-13 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Thu, 13 Feb 2014, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Seriously! There is no argument that makes this statistic serious! There is no differential diagnosis... Rather than just post a snotty remark and leave it at that, (as I appear to have done) here is something you ought to be able to sink your fangs i

Re: NSA into Debian distribution!

2014-02-13 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Thu, 13 Feb 2014, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Seriously! There is no argument that makes this statistic serious! There is no differential diagnosis Please do not throw around psychological/medical terms of art ("differential diagnosis") in that fashion. It's embarrassing, as one doesn't know how

Re: Upgrading Computer

2014-02-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2014-02-13 at 20:29 -0800, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > Even differing revisions of the same hardware can cause problems. That is true and something very annoying :(. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact list

Re: Upgrading Computer

2014-02-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2014-02-13 at 20:29 -0800, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > I've sent back an I started to do the same for anything I order (if needed), not only for computer gear. Brands are unimportant. I prefer ASUS, but anyway have also bad experiences with ASUS. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: Upgrading Computer

2014-02-13 Thread briand
On Thu, 13 Feb 2014 09:13:54 +0100 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Wed, 2014-02-12 at 22:57 -0800, David Guntner wrote: > > I build almost exclusively with ASUS motherboards, and every one has > > worked just fine with Windows or Linux. So I'm not exactly sure what > > you were going for here, Ralf

Re: rdesktop

2014-02-13 Thread lina
> That means that you've tried to connect to a non-resolvable hostname > (i.e. no hostname → IP association). No more, no less. > Quick-and-dirty solution for that is using IP address of the host > instead. I tried ping and used IP, it was the same issue > > >> I was advised by our admin that

Re: rdesktop

2014-02-13 Thread lina
> > Which versions? I'm using rdesktop 1.7.1-1 to reach Server2008 and Win7 > servers with no problem. I'm using tsclient, which is no longer > developed or in Debian, but the front end shouldn't affect things. > Remmina doesn't seem to depend on rdesktop and may be worth a try to > eliminate the

Re: rdesktop

2014-02-13 Thread lina
On Thursday 13,February,2014 11:03 PM, lina wrote: > ERROR: getaddrinfo: No address associated with hostname > > I was advised by our admin that "It is something to do with the RDP > version on Linux. It has some compatibility issues with the more recent > version of MS-RDP. " Right now I tested

Re: rdesktop

2014-02-13 Thread lina
On Thursday 13,February,2014 11:14 PM, Alberto Luaces wrote: > lina writes: > >> I was advised by our admin that "It is something to do with the RDP >> version on Linux. It has some compatibility issues with the more recent >> version of MS-RDP. " > > Try with xfreerdp. > You mean the freerdp p

Re: rdesktop

2014-02-13 Thread lina
On Thursday 13,February,2014 11:55 PM, Reco wrote: >> ERROR: getaddrinfo: No address associated with hostname > That means that you've tried to connect to a non-resolvable hostname > (i.e. no hostname → IP association). No more, no less. > Quick-and-dirty solution for that is using IP address of th

Re: Dist-upgrade on remote server fails;

2014-02-13 Thread Dan Ritter
On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 02:23:46PM -0600, John Foster wrote: > > > I have a question regarding upgrading a remotely hosted VPN server. was > > > running Debian 6; I did a few upgrades to clear the way for a > > > dist-upgrade. I normally do this by getting the libc6 stuff and the > > > kernel image

Re: Wheezy NVidia driver for card GT 750M

2014-02-13 Thread Go Linux
On Thu, 2/13/14, Onur Aslan wrote: Subject: Re: Wheezy NVidia driver for card GT 750M To: "Markos" Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Thursday, February 13, 2014, 1:15 PM Wiki page is a bit old. NVIDIA drivers requires binary kernel modul

Re: Upgrading Computer

2014-02-13 Thread Roger Leigh
On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 11:12:54PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: > Co-incidentally, I'm just > doing a whole-archive rebuild of Debian with 8 concurrent job slots; > taking about 24h to rebuild every arch-any package with sbuild. That's > 7527 builds, working out at just 90 seconds (mean) per package!

Re: Upgrading Computer

2014-02-13 Thread Roger Leigh
On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 05:31:56PM -0500, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > I am planning on upgrading my Debian Linux tower and am soliciting comments > on the following CPU/Motherboard: > > > > AMD FX 8320, 8-core 3.5 GHz, 16.0MB Cache CPU > > ASUS M5 A97 R2.0 Motherboard Last year I u

Re: dovecot-imapd and imaps protocol

2014-02-13 Thread Alan Chandler
On 13/02/14 22:41, Alan Chandler wrote: If you have any ideas on how I can produce a separate query to validate the user the master is pretending to be so that it bypasses the deny stage I would be interested to hear it. Alan Chandler To answer my own question, I found the variable %{logi

Re: dovecot-imapd and imaps protocol

2014-02-13 Thread Alan Chandler
On 13/02/14 21:01, Wolfgang Karall wrote: What makes you think that imaps isn't working, did you try connecting and got a connection refused? I did a "doveconf protocols listen" and it didn't list imaps I was still trying to work out how to configure things as I couldn't get dovecot to start

Re: Upgrading Computer

2014-02-13 Thread Scott roccVegas
I seem to have an issue as well and my cdn error Scottrocc roccVegas ent.Inc > On Feb 13, 2014, at 12:15 PM, "Lisi Reisz" wrote: > >> On Thursday 13 February 2014 19:33:26 Stephen P. Molnar wrote: >> Hay, come on... I thought that I had asked a legitimate >> question, I didn't want to star

Re: bluetooth headset stopped working in testing

2014-02-13 Thread Scott roccVegas
I seem to have an issue as well and my cdn error Scottrocc roccVegas ent.Inc > On Feb 13, 2014, at 1:22 PM, "Fabian Kürten" > wrote: > > Hi list, > > after an dist-upgrade to testing from stable my Plantronics 590 Headset > no longer works with pulseaudio. It is still detected in blueman an

Re: NSA into Debian distribution!

2014-02-13 Thread Scott roccVegas
I seem to have an issue as well and my cdn error Scottrocc roccVegas ent.Inc > On Feb 13, 2014, at 8:08 AM, "Dave Woyciesjes" > wrote: > >> On 02/12/2014 06:58 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: >>> On 13/02/14 10:24, lati...@vcn.bc.ca wrote: >>> Hello List >>> >>> I was very alert for almost 14 year

Re: USB wireless network adaptor

2014-02-13 Thread Scott roccVegas
I seem to have an issue as well and my cdn error Scottrocc roccVegas ent.Inc > On Feb 13, 2014, at 9:21 AM, "Manikandan M" wrote: > > Thanks Selim. I'll try it and let you know. > >> On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 5:11 PM, Selim T. Erdogan >> wrote: >> Manikandan M, 8.02.2014: >> > >> > I'm havi

Re: rdesktop

2014-02-13 Thread Scott roccVegas
I seem to have an issue as well and my cdn error Scottrocc roccVegas ent.Inc > On Feb 13, 2014, at 12:21 PM, "Karl E. Jorgensen" > wrote: > > Hi > >> On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 11:03:07PM +0800, lina wrote: >> Hi, >> >> When I tried to use rdesktop, it showed me >> >> ERROR: getaddrinfo: No a

Re: Dist-upgrade on remote server fails;

2014-02-13 Thread John Foster
On Thu, 2014-02-13 at 12:48 -0500, Dan Ritter wrote: > On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 03:42:25PM -0600, John Foster wrote: > > I have a question regarding upgrading a remotely hosted VPN server. was > > running Debian 6; I did a few upgrades to clear the way for a > > dist-upgrade. I normally do this by

bluetooth headset stopped working in testing

2014-02-13 Thread Fabian Kürten
Hi list, after an dist-upgrade to testing from stable my Plantronics 590 Headset no longer works with pulseaudio. It is still detected in blueman an (according to blueman) connected. However I can not see I in pavucontrol, neither on the input, output nor the configuration page. Downgrading the b

Re: dovecot-imapd and imaps protocol

2014-02-13 Thread Wolfgang Karall
Hello, On 14-02-13 20:32:45, Alan Chandler wrote: > I am trying to figure out if the dovecot-imapd is able to support > the imaps protocol It is. > all the guides say put the following at the head of > /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf > > protocols = imap imaps (and pop3 etc but I am not interested in

Re: dovecot-imapd and imaps protocol

2014-02-13 Thread Jochen Spieker
Alan Chandler: > > I am trying to figure out if the dovecot-imapd is able to support > the imaps protocol It does, of course. > all the guides say put the following at the head of > /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf > > protocols = imap imaps (and pop3 etc but I am not interested in that) Which Debian/

dovecot-imapd and imaps protocol

2014-02-13 Thread Alan Chandler
I am trying to figure out if the dovecot-imapd is able to support the imaps protocol all the guides say put the following at the head of /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf protocols = imap imaps (and pop3 etc but I am not interested in that) However the debian packaging puts instead !include_try /us

Re: Upgrading Computer

2014-02-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2014-02-13 at 20:13 +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Thursday 13 February 2014 19:33:26 Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > > Hay, come on... I thought that I had asked a legitimate > > question, I didn't want to start a war. > > You didn't start a war. As you say, you asked a reasonable, > legi

Re: rdesktop

2014-02-13 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Hi On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 11:03:07PM +0800, lina wrote: > Hi, > > When I tried to use rdesktop, it showed me > > ERROR: getaddrinfo: No address associated with hostname As others have already mentioned: This is a DNS Name -> IP address resolution problem. Not rdesktop. It could be as simple a

Re: Upgrading Computer

2014-02-13 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 13 February 2014 19:33:26 Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > Hay, come on... I thought that I had asked a legitimate > question, I didn't want to start a war. You didn't start a war. As you say, you asked a reasonable, legitimate, though possibly slightly OT, question. The "war" was st

Re: Operation not supported by backend.- SOLVED in a few weeks...

2014-02-13 Thread Tixy
On Thu, 2014-02-13 at 10:26 -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: [...] > The fix is in glib 2.28.1 which isn't in jessie yet. It should be available in > jessie in 2-4 weeks most likely. Thanks for posting that. I get the same error with my Nikon - which was a disappointment after waiting for the new gph

Re: [SOLVED] Re: systemd: some questions

2014-02-13 Thread Slavko
Hi, Dňa Thu, 13 Feb 2014 19:27:00 +0100 Ralf Mardorf napísal: > use a stopwatch, but I suspect it's something like 7 seconds vs 9 > seconds for my installs. Even if it would be 1 second vs 1 minute, > how often do we turn off and on our PCs? When I mention a "PC" I > exclude "tablet PCs". Good

Re: Upgrading Computer

2014-02-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2014-02-13 at 14:33 -0500, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > Life is a fuzzy set > Stochastic and multivariate ;) It's not a flame, just an idiot claims bullshit. No big company like ASUS ever cares about quality, they care about marketing. If needed, they build high quality mobos, if unneeded,

RE: Upgrading Computer

2014-02-13 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
Hay, come on... I thought that I had asked a legitimate question, I didn't want to start a war. And, yes, I am top posting. Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D.Life is a fuzzy set Foundation for Chemistry Stochastic and multivariate w

Re: Upgrading Computer

2014-02-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2014-02-13 at 11:03 -0800, David Guntner wrote: > You'll probably reply to "get the last word in," so go ahead and knock > yourself out. "use in advance" not very smart regarding to fair play or even smart manipulating rhetoric. You are god :D! Loser :D! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to deb

Re: systemd: some more questions

2014-02-13 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 3:12 AM, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: > > let's assume that I have to execute a script after S10checkfs/ > S11mountall and before S13networking. > > Do I find a clear, reliable set of instructions to achieve this goal? > > At this time my fear is that systemd turns out as a ver

Re: systemd: some more questions

2014-02-13 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 4:00 AM, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 13/02/14 19:12, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: >> let's assume that I have to execute a script after S10checkfs/ >> S11mountall and before S13networking. > > My experience with systemd is limited, but so far (Wheezy) everything > "just worked

Re: Wheezy NVidia driver for card GT 750M

2014-02-13 Thread Onur Aslan
Wiki page is a bit old. NVIDIA drivers requires binary kernel module. You have two options to install this module: 1. Upgrade your kernel to backported version and use precompiled NVIDIA binary kernel module: To do this first install new kernel with: apt-get install -t wheezy-backports linux-

Re: [SOLVED] Re: systemd: some questions

2014-02-13 Thread Hans
Am Donnerstag, 13. Februar 2014, 19:27:00 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: > On Thu, 2014-02-13 at 18:57 +0100, Hans wrote: > > Again, I was impressed, how fast it boots > > For machines that fit to my needs, the startup time between upstart, > systemd and SysVint doesn't variate that much. Yes, startup when

Re: Upgrading Computer

2014-02-13 Thread David Guntner
Ralf Mardorf grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > May I ask you how often you repair mobos or any other > electronically gear? [...] You are trolling because you seemingly > don't have experiences with repairing electronically gear during the > last 20 years, so you aren't aware that vendors have a tend

Re: Wheezy NVidia driver for card GT 750M

2014-02-13 Thread Markos
On 13-02-2014 11:54, Andreas Rönnquist wrote: On Thu, 13 Feb 2014 10:38:21 -0200, Markos wrote: Dear, I just installed Wheezy 7.4 on a notebook with Nvidia video card "GeForce GT 750M". I searched the site: https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers And from what I've seen, the list

Re: [SOLVED] Re: systemd: some questions

2014-02-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2014-02-13 at 18:57 +0100, Hans wrote: > Again, I was impressed, how fast it boots For machines that fit to my needs, the startup time between upstart, systemd and SysVint doesn't variate that much. Yes, startup when using upstart and systemd is faster, than when using SysVinit. I need to

[SOLVED] Re: systemd: some questions

2014-02-13 Thread Hans
Am Donnerstag, 13. Februar 2014, 16:05:47 schrieb Jonathan Dowland: > On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 03:16:12PM +0100, Hans wrote: > > Maybe I missed something? Or is systemd still not working with > > encrypted partitions? There was nothing in the doc about it (as far as > > I read) > > I use systemd wi

Re: Upgrading Computer

2014-02-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2014-02-13 at 19:05 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Thu, 2014-02-13 at 09:38 -0800, David Guntner wrote: > > Ralf Mardorf grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > > On Wed, 2014-02-12 at 22:57 -0800, David Guntner wrote: > > >> I build almost exclusively with ASUS motherboards, and every one has >

Re: Dist-upgrade on remote server fails;

2014-02-13 Thread Dan Ritter
On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 03:42:25PM -0600, John Foster wrote: > I have a question regarding upgrading a remotely hosted VPN server. was > running Debian 6; I did a few upgrades to clear the way for a > dist-upgrade. I normally do this by getting the libc6 stuff and the > kernel image done first then

Re: Upgrading Computer

2014-02-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2014-02-13 at 09:38 -0800, David Guntner wrote: > Ralf Mardorf grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > On Wed, 2014-02-12 at 22:57 -0800, David Guntner wrote: > >> I build almost exclusively with ASUS motherboards, and every one has > >> worked just fine with Windows or Linux. So I'm not exactly

Re: Upgrading Computer

2014-02-13 Thread David Guntner
Ralf Mardorf grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > On Wed, 2014-02-12 at 22:57 -0800, David Guntner wrote: >> I build almost exclusively with ASUS motherboards, and every one has >> worked just fine with Windows or Linux. So I'm not exactly sure what >> you were going for here, Ralf > > ASUS mobos

Re: USB wireless network adaptor

2014-02-13 Thread Manikandan M
Thanks Selim. I'll try it and let you know. On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 5:11 PM, Selim T. Erdogan < se...@alumni.cs.utexas.edu> wrote: > Manikandan M, 8.02.2014: > > > > I'm having a HP laptop running wheezy. The built-in wireless adaptor > wasn't > > working fine. So bought a Asus usb-n10 wireless

Re: NSA into Debian distribution!

2014-02-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2014-02-13 at 11:07 -0500, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: > On 02/12/2014 06:58 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > On 13/02/14 10:24, lati...@vcn.bc.ca wrote: > >> Hello List > >> > >> I was very alert for almost 14 years, > > > > > > Great, but I think you're posting to the wrong list. > > Try trollsr

Re: rdesktop

2014-02-13 Thread Matthias Fraidl
On 02/13/2014 04:55 PM, Reco wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 11:03:07PM +0800, lina wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > When I tried to use rdesktop, it showed me >> > >> > ERROR: getaddrinfo: No address associated with hostname > That means that you've tried to connect to a non-resolvable hostn

Re: systemd: some questions

2014-02-13 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 03:16:12PM +0100, Hans wrote: > Maybe I missed something? Or is systemd still not working with > encrypted partitions? There was nothing in the doc about it (as far as > I read) I use systemd with encrypted partitions without problems. Can you boot the machine, and at the

Re: rdesktop

2014-02-13 Thread Steven Post
Hi, On Thu, February 13, 2014 16:03, lina wrote: > Hi, > > When I tried to use rdesktop, it showed me > > ERROR: getaddrinfo: No address associated with hostname Looks like a DNS issue to me, getaddrinfo is the part where the hostname is resolved to an IP. Try to ping the remote host and see if i

Re: NSA into Debian distribution!

2014-02-13 Thread Dave Woyciesjes
On 02/12/2014 06:58 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 13/02/14 10:24, lati...@vcn.bc.ca wrote: Hello List I was very alert for almost 14 years, Great, but I think you're posting to the wrong list. Try trollsrus.org or witlingfools.org HTH Kind regards Makes me think of an article I saw y

Re: rdesktop

2014-02-13 Thread Reco
Hi, On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 11:03:07PM +0800, lina wrote: > Hi, > > When I tried to use rdesktop, it showed me > > ERROR: getaddrinfo: No address associated with hostname That means that you've tried to connect to a non-resolvable hostname (i.e. no hostname → IP association). No more, no less.

Re: systemd: some questions

2014-02-13 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Le 13/02/2014 15:16, Hans a écrit : Hi list, sorry, it is me again. ASfter I installed systemd and addded init=/bin/systemd into grub (like the README told), the boot hangs. The debian wiki says init=/lib/systemd/systemd, but that is afaik nearly the same. I suppose, it is because my partitzion

Re: rdesktop

2014-02-13 Thread Joe
On Thu, 13 Feb 2014 23:03:07 +0800 lina wrote: > Hi, > > When I tried to use rdesktop, it showed me > > ERROR: getaddrinfo: No address associated with hostname > > I was advised by our admin that "It is something to do with the RDP > version on Linux. It has some compatibility issues with the

Re: Operation not supported by backend.- SOLVED in a few weeks...

2014-02-13 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 02/13/2014 10:11 AM, Henning Follmann wrote: > Can you please be a bit more specific? > The cards are mounted as normal mass storage devices. When you plug in your > camera or plug in the card in your card reader is it mounted? > if so, how is it mounted? > Can you read (copy) files manually fro

Re: rdesktop

2014-02-13 Thread Alberto Luaces
lina writes: > I was advised by our admin that "It is something to do with the RDP > version on Linux. It has some compatibility issues with the more recent > version of MS-RDP. " Try with xfreerdp. -- Alberto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject o

Re: Operation not supported by backend.

2014-02-13 Thread Henning Follmann
On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 09:48:10AM -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: > I have a couple of cameras & devices to plug in to my computer. The > phone , galaxy S3 works, as does my Samsung STF-150 camera. I just > plugged in my Nikon via USB, pulled up the pcitures and tried to copy > them. I got: > Operat

rdesktop

2014-02-13 Thread lina
Hi, When I tried to use rdesktop, it showed me ERROR: getaddrinfo: No address associated with hostname I was advised by our admin that "It is something to do with the RDP version on Linux. It has some compatibility issues with the more recent version of MS-RDP. " Further, I was told to try use

Re: systemd: some questions

2014-02-13 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Thu, 2014-02-13 at 15:16 +0100, Hans wrote: > Is there something known about using encrypted partitions? I have the root- > partition ( = "/ ") and the partition, where the kernel resides ( = /boot) > unencryptetd. They work well. But when the boot will get access to the > encrypted partitions

Operation not supported by backend.

2014-02-13 Thread Paul Cartwright
I have a couple of cameras & devices to plug in to my computer. The phone , galaxy S3 works, as does my Samsung STF-150 camera. I just plugged in my Nikon via USB, pulled up the pcitures and tried to copy them. I got: Operation not supported by backend. ouch. I see there is a bug that was filed &

Re: systemd: some questions

2014-02-13 Thread Hans
Hi list, sorry, it is me again. ASfter I installed systemd and addded init=/bin/systemd into grub (like the README told), the boot hangs. The debian wiki says init=/lib/systemd/systemd, but that is afaik nearly the same. I suppose, it is because my partitzions are encrypted and are mounted as

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] Debian se queda con systemd, bueno o malo??

2014-02-13 Thread Joel Rees
2014-02-13 7:09 GMT+09:00 Javier Barroso : > 2014-02-12 15:56 GMT+01:00 Camaleón : >> >> El Wed, 12 Feb 2014 14:22:11 +0100, Maykel Franco escribió: >> >> > http://www.muylinux.com/2014/02/12/debian-systemd >> >> La nota "oficial": >> >> [CTTE #727708] Default init system for Debian >> https://list

Re: Wheezy NVidia driver for card GT 750M

2014-02-13 Thread Robin
On 13 February 2014 12:38, Markos wrote: > Dear, > > I just installed Wheezy 7.4 on a notebook with Nvidia video card "GeForce GT > 750M". > > I searched the site: > > https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers > > And from what I've seen, the list of devices supported by the version > 304.88:

Re: Wheezy NVidia driver for card GT 750M

2014-02-13 Thread Andreas Rönnquist
On Thu, 13 Feb 2014 10:38:21 -0200, Markos wrote: >Dear, > >I just installed Wheezy 7.4 on a notebook with Nvidia video card >"GeForce GT 750M". > >I searched the site: > >https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers > >And from what I've seen, the list of devices supported by the version >304.

Wheezy NVidia driver for card GT 750M

2014-02-13 Thread Markos
Dear, I just installed Wheezy 7.4 on a notebook with Nvidia video card "GeForce GT 750M". I searched the site: https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers And from what I've seen, the list of devices supported by the version 304.88: http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/304.88

Re: systemd: some more questions

2014-02-13 Thread Gian Uberto Lauri
Ralf Mardorf writes: > On Thu, 2014-02-13 at 12:44 +0100, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: > > I differentiate between "those in charge" and "Gods". > > We atheists don't differ ;). You're likely an agnostics or believer. Am > I right? It is not a religious subject, my apologies if I hurted somebody

Re: systemd: some more questions

2014-02-13 Thread Joel Rees
On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 6:36 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Thu, 2014-02-13 at 20:00 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> Make the script S12whatever and then install systemd(?) > > You need to make a _unit_ to start the S12whatever script, no need for > the "S12" you can call it "whatever", but you need

Re: systemd: some more questions

2014-02-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 12:12:11PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Thu, 2014-02-13 at 11:29 +0100, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: > > Another question. Systemd will continue to let me use the systemv > > scripts? > > Perhaps Debian makes this available during the transition. I use Debian > without syste

Re: Dist-upgrade on remote server fails;

2014-02-13 Thread Darac Marjal
On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 03:42:25PM -0600, John Foster wrote: > I have a question regarding upgrading a remotely hosted VPN server. was > running Debian 6; I did a few upgrades to clear the way for a > dist-upgrade. I normally do this by getting the libc6 stuff and the > kernel image done first then

Re: apt-get remove/purge with regex gives unexpected result

2014-02-13 Thread rpr nospam
On Wed, 12 Feb 2014 18:04:49 +0100 Sven Joachim wrote: > > My interpretation of that paragraph is that apt-get first tries to > interpret the pattern as a wildcard (see glob(7)) and only tries a > regular expression match if the glob produces no matches. Sven, it seems you are right. I tried the f

Re: FW: [CTTE #727708] Default init system for Debian

2014-02-13 Thread Chris Bannister
[Paul, please don't post in html] On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 06:42:38AM -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: >On 02/13/2014 05:37 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: > > I just did the "init=/lib/systemd/systemd" on the linux command line as > a oncer and noticed. You snipped what I noticed. > Now: > root@ta

Re: systemd: some more questions

2014-02-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2014-02-13 at 12:44 +0100, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: > I differentiate between "those in charge" and "Gods". We atheists don't differ ;). You're likely an agnostics or believer. Am I right? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: FW: [CTTE #727708] Default init system for Debian

2014-02-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2014-02-13 at 06:42 -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 190488 Dec 31 12:54 systemd-journald I at least would expect the f...ine journal. For Chris that much is missing that I suspect he runs some kind of transition-SysVinit-systemd-hybrid. This is something comparable

Re: systemd: some more questions

2014-02-13 Thread Gian Uberto Lauri
Scott Ferguson writes: > On 13/02/14 21:41, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: > > Scott Ferguson writes: > > > > > So far I'm impressed with > > > the increased configurability, and especially, the faster boot-times > > > (SLA goodness!). > > > > Interesting, even if booting is not what my "it

Re: systemd: some more questions

2014-02-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2014-02-13 at 22:13 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > only you can determine what best suits it. On Arch I used initscripts as long as possible, then I didn't use Arch for a while and then I made a new install of Arch with systemd. For Debian I still use the V-thingy and once Debian comes wi

Re: FW: [CTTE #727708] Default init system for Debian

2014-02-13 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 02/13/2014 05:37 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: I just did the "init=/lib/systemd/systemd" on the linux command line as a oncer and noticed. Now: root@tal:~# ls -al /lib/systemd/ total 260 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jan 20 23:12 . drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 12288

Re: systemd: some more questions

2014-02-13 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 13/02/14 21:41, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: > Scott Ferguson writes: > > > So far I'm impressed with > > the increased configurability, and especially, the faster boot-times > > (SLA goodness!). > > Interesting, even if booting is not what my "it should have been a > laptop" does most, last wa

Re: systemd: some more questions

2014-02-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2014-02-13 at 11:29 +0100, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: > Another question. Systemd will continue to let me use the systemv > scripts? Perhaps Debian makes this available during the transition. I use Debian without systemd. However, you could try to start those scripts by a systemd unit and se

Re: FW: [CTTE #727708] Default init system for Debian

2014-02-13 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 12 February 2014 12:13:23 Scott Ferguson wrote: > (emphasis and guessed spelling correction mine). Scott - the original strikes me as being correct, and oyur "correction" strikes me as being wrong. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subj

Re: systemd: some more questions

2014-02-13 Thread Gian Uberto Lauri
Ralf Mardorf writes: > [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ cat > /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/alice.service Thank you very much. -- /\ ___Ubuntu: ancient /___/\_|_|\_|__|___Gian Uberto Lauri_ African word //--\| | \| |

Re: systemd: some more questions

2014-02-13 Thread Gian Uberto Lauri
Scott Ferguson writes: > So far I'm impressed with > the increased configurability, and especially, the faster boot-times > (SLA goodness!). Interesting, even if booting is not what my "it should have been a laptop" does most, last was more than a week ago. > Make the script S12whatever and

Re: NSA into Debian distribution!

2014-02-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 10:58:48AM +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 13/02/14 10:24, lati...@vcn.bc.ca wrote: > > Hello List > > > > I was very alert for almost 14 years, > > > Great, but I think you're posting to the wrong list. > Try trollsrus.org or witlingfools.org https://lists.debian.org/

Re: FW: [CTTE #727708] Default init system for Debian

2014-02-13 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 13/02/14 21:37, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 06:13:51PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: >> On 2014-02-12 06:12 +0100, Chris Bannister wrote: > > Does anyone knows who sells round tuits? Yes. (disclaimer, I get a commission from them) - but my advice it to buy the square ones a

Re: systemd: some more questions

2014-02-13 Thread Gian Uberto Lauri
Ralf Mardorf writes: > On Thu, 2014-02-13 at 09:12 +0100, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: [... omissis ...] > > Do I find a clear, reliable set of instructions to achieve this goal? [... omissis ...] > "Handling dependencies > With systemd, dependencies can be resolved by designing the unit files

Re: FW: [CTTE #727708] Default init system for Debian

2014-02-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 06:13:51PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2014-02-12 06:12 +0100, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > I tried systemd - booted really fast, but it didn't honor any console > > font settings I had. I groaned and reverted back realising, after seeing > > quite a bit of discussion,

Re: systemd: some more questions

2014-02-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2014-02-13 at 20:00 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > Make the script S12whatever and then install systemd(?) You need to make a _unit_ to start the S12whatever script, no need for the "S12" you can call it "whatever", but you need to edit a unit. FWIW all jokes about systemd units using Came

Re: NSA into Debian distribution!

2014-02-13 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 13/02/14 20:20, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 12 feb 14, 19:41:00, Erick Ocrospoma wrote: >> >> Don't really understand your email, nothing makes sense. This >> must be considered spam. > > You shouldn't reply to spam ;) Spam? NSA backdoors, chemical contrails, fluoride pharmacological consp

Re: NSA into Debian distribution!

2014-02-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 12 feb 14, 19:41:00, Erick Ocrospoma wrote: > > Don't really understand your email, nothing makes sense. This must be > considered spam. You shouldn't reply to spam ;) Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers

Re: systemd: some more questions

2014-02-13 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 13/02/14 19:12, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: > One more question about systemd: > > let's assume that I have to execute a script after S10checkfs/ > S11mountall and before S13networking. My experience with systemd is limited, but so far (Wheezy) everything "just worked". I haven't been using it l

Re: systemd: some more questions

2014-02-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2014-02-13 at 09:12 +0100, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: > One more question about systemd: > > let's assume that I have to execute a script after S10checkfs/ > S11mountall and before S13networking. > > Do I find a clear, reliable set of instructions to achieve this goal? > > At this time my

systemd: some more questions

2014-02-13 Thread Gian Uberto Lauri
One more question about systemd: let's assume that I have to execute a script after S10checkfs/ S11mountall and before S13networking. Do I find a clear, reliable set of instructions to achieve this goal? At this time my fear is that systemd turns out as a very nice tool for personal pc but a PI

Re: Upgrading Computer

2014-02-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2014-02-12 at 22:57 -0800, David Guntner wrote: > I build almost exclusively with ASUS motherboards, and every one has > worked just fine with Windows or Linux. So I'm not exactly sure what > you were going for here, Ralf ASUS mobos have different chip sets, as the mobos of other vend