Re: Linux replacement for Sony PMB?

2014-06-29 Thread Erwan David
On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 10:28:20PM CEST, Miroslav Skoric said: > Is there a good replacement for Sony's PMB software? I mean, something that > can import both photos and videos from a camera, and store & play them in > the order of date/time of recording. > > M. > I do not know Sony PMB, but kp

Re: flakey wifi access

2014-06-29 Thread Matt Ventura
I've had something similar happen, but it turned out that the problem wasn't wicd but rather the driver for the card itself. Can you check if the problem occurs with something other than wicd? Also, what wifi card? On 6/29/2014 7:50 PM, tom arnall wrote: my wicd agent is unable to connect to w

Re: flakey wifi access

2014-06-29 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 29 Jun 2014 18:50:19 -0800 tom arnall wrote: > my wicd agent is unable to connect to wifi at mcDonald's, both in > mexico and the states. it's fine with my home wifi and the coffee shop > i go to. it also fails on the network at the campus where i teach in > mexico. > > Find common fac

flakey wifi access

2014-06-29 Thread tom arnall
my wicd agent is unable to connect to wifi at mcDonald's, both in mexico and the states. it's fine with my home wifi and the coffee shop i go to. it also fails on the network at the campus where i teach in mexico. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject o

Re: Media Server?

2014-06-29 Thread Emil Payne
On 06/28/2014 02:41 PM, Floris wrote: Op Sat, 28 Jun 2014 17:43:23 +0200 schreef Eduardo M KALINOWSKI : On 06/27/2014 10:11 PM, Emil Payne wrote: I'm running Debian Wheezy. Let me know what other info you need. I finally got the window box to read my Debian machine. Debian has been reading W

Re: Virtualized desktop

2014-06-29 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2014-06-29 13:01:21 +0100, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 12:23 AM, B wrote: > >> My IaaS provider has switched from LVM to ZFS, so I think this is > >> for some reason... > > > > Two in one compared to LVM+whatever, not to mention failure > > of LVM or whatever usually clo

Re: is this sensible?

2014-06-29 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2014-06-29 12:52:40 +0200, François Patte wrote: > Le 29/06/2014 12:35, Brian a écrit : > > If that is what you really want to do you are not going about it in > > the right way. > > > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2014/05/msg01042.html > > Not sure of what you mean here... Not sure

Re: is this sensible?

2014-06-29 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2014-06-29 10:35:50 +0200, François Patte wrote: > Looking back to my first mail, I can read: > > The following extra packages will be installed: > ^^^ > gcc-4.9-base gcc-4.9-base:i386 geoclue-2.0 gir1.2-pango-1.0 gthumb-data > libabw-0.0-0 libaud

Re: Synaptic messed up

2014-06-29 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 09:48:30PM +0100, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Sat, 28 Jun 2014 21:40:32 +0100 > Tom Furie wrote: > > > On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 03:57:36PM -0400, Maureen L Thomas wrote: > > > On 06/28/2014 11:19 AM, Tom Furie wrote: > > > > > >Are you sure the apt command is available in Whe

Re: Synaptic messed up

2014-06-29 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 04:19:08PM +0100, Tom Furie wrote: > On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 07:42:33AM -0400, Stephen Allen wrote: > > > Well then, you probably have gvim installed. Anyway editing the sources > > list is easy. On your command line simply enter 'apt edit-sources' and > > your default edit

Re: X appears to get the wrong resolution

2014-06-29 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 29 Jun 2014 22:35:23 +0200 B wrote: > On Sun, 29 Jun 2014 16:13:43 -0400 > Steve Litt wrote: > > > I just worked around the thing and went on to other things. Please > > note the preceding xrandr output was *after* applying my > > "solution". > > This isn't a solution but a bad hac

Re: X appears to get the wrong resolution

2014-06-29 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 29 Jun 2014 22:16:48 +0200 B wrote: > On Sun, 29 Jun 2014 16:11:30 -0400 > Steve Litt wrote: > > > exec /home/slitt/dwm-6.0/dwm > > This is not a regular pkg. LOL, half my computer isn't a regular package. On my computer, /d/bats, which is on my executable path, is a bunch of pr

Re: X appears to get the wrong resolution

2014-06-29 Thread Bzzzz
On Sun, 29 Jun 2014 16:13:43 -0400 Steve Litt wrote: > I just worked around the thing and went on to other things. Please > note the preceding xrandr output was *after* applying my > "solution". This isn't a solution but a bad hack; you obviously have a bad resolution formerly registered with xr

Re: Is grub perfect? (was Re: Does LXDE really require lightdm?)

2014-06-29 Thread Brian
On Sun 29 Jun 2014 at 11:33:29 +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > On 6/28/14, Brian wrote: > > On Fri 27 Jun 2014 at 23:14:26 -0400, slitt wrote: > > >> that's simple: Boot the damn computer with a menu to choose predefined > >> kernel/initrd/disk combinations, and nothing else. And for gosh sakes,

Re: Resizing LVM issue

2014-06-29 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 06/22/2014 03:29 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Miroslav Skoric a écrit : 1. What would you do if you need more space in /tmp and you know you have some spare space in /home or else, but do not want to reinstall? If you are in such a situation, then you missed one of the goals of LVM. You sho

Linux replacement for Sony PMB?

2014-06-29 Thread Miroslav Skoric
Is there a good replacement for Sony's PMB software? I mean, something that can import both photos and videos from a camera, and store & play them in the order of date/time of recording. M. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Re: X appears to get the wrong resolution

2014-06-29 Thread Bzzzz
On Sun, 29 Jun 2014 16:11:30 -0400 Steve Litt wrote: > exec /home/slitt/dwm-6.0/dwm This is not a regular pkg. -- my US geograpy is lousy...lol so's mine and I live here signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: X appears to get the wrong resolution

2014-06-29 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 29 Jun 2014 21:44:17 +0200 B wrote: > On Sun, 29 Jun 2014 15:35:37 -0400 > Steve Litt wrote: > > What is the output of: xrandr? > root@mydesq2:~# xrandr xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default Screen 0: minimum 640 x 480, current 1920 x 1080, maximum 1920 x 1200 def

Re: X appears to get the wrong resolution

2014-06-29 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 29 Jun 2014 15:35:37 -0400 Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all, > > My old box with Xubuntu, running the dwm window manager via lightdm, > got the right resolution when X started. My new box, with Debian, > running dwm via startx, starts with a resolution of 1980x1200 instead > of 1920x1080, resu

Re: X appears to get the wrong resolution

2014-06-29 Thread Bzzzz
On Sun, 29 Jun 2014 15:35:37 -0400 Steve Litt wrote: What is the output of: xrandr? -- <@Lucos> too much people there! *** Lucos was kicked by kamu (Yep!) signature.asc Description: PGP signature

X appears to get the wrong resolution

2014-06-29 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, My old box with Xubuntu, running the dwm window manager via lightdm, got the right resolution when X started. My new box, with Debian, running dwm via startx, starts with a resolution of 1980x1200 instead of 1920x1080, resulting in either the top or the bottom of every window going offscre

Re: rsync of mtp://[usb:001,012]/ ?

2014-06-29 Thread James Cloos
> "SK" == Sharon Kimble writes: SK> 32-bit, which is why I chose the "go-mtpfs.x86" version. Sorry. I've seen a lot of misunderstandings recently between 32 bit and 64 bit. If the problem with their precompiled binary is dueto kernel differences between what you run and what they ran when

GTK crashing X?

2014-06-29 Thread Matt Ventura
I've got a pretty old machine (Celeron 2.8 GHz, ATI rage XL). It's been running Debian fine for years, but I reinstalled recently. Installed stable (chose XFCE as desktop environment), everything worked fine (lightdm worked, xfce worked). Did a dist-upgrade to testing (also tried unstable), and

Re: rsync of mtp://[usb:001,012]/ ?

2014-06-29 Thread Sharon Kimble
James Cloos writes: >> "SK" == Sharon Kimble writes: > > R>> https://github.com/hanwen/go-mtpfs > > SK> Thanks, I was able to download a binary from there, "go-mtpfs.x86", > SK> and made it executable and then ran - > > Is your kernel 32 bit or 64 bit? If the latter, you should try > the .x

Alias address for a mailing list (mailman + exim)

2014-06-29 Thread Emilio J. Padron
Hi everyone! I want to rename a set of mailing lists (mailman 2.1.15 and exim4) and, as a kind of backward compatibility, keep the old names as aliases for the new names. Precisely the alias part is the one I have doubts about. I am using the recommended MTA-mailman glue for exim4, so /etc/alias

Re: OT: programming languages

2014-06-29 Thread Miles Fidelman
Joe wrote: On Sun, 29 Jun 2014 12:40:28 -0400 Miles Fidelman wrote: Joe wrote: On Sun, 29 Jun 2014 15:46:58 +0100 Tom Furie wrote: On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 11:41:57PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: Programming belongs on any Linux list, especially since a lot of times you need to code to get th

Re: OT: programming languages

2014-06-29 Thread Joe
On Sun, 29 Jun 2014 12:40:28 -0400 Miles Fidelman wrote: > Joe wrote: > > On Sun, 29 Jun 2014 15:46:58 +0100 > > Tom Furie wrote: > > > >> On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 11:41:57PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > >> > >>> Programming belongs on any Linux list, especially since a lot of > >>> times you need

Re: OT: programming languages

2014-06-29 Thread Miles Fidelman
Joe wrote: On Sun, 29 Jun 2014 15:46:58 +0100 Tom Furie wrote: On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 11:41:57PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: Programming belongs on any Linux list, especially since a lot of times you need to code to get things done. Dare you to configure dwm without coding. However, there is

Re: OT: programming languages

2014-06-29 Thread Miles Fidelman
Steve Litt wrote: On Sun, 29 Jun 2014 15:46:58 +0100 Tom Furie wrote: On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 11:41:57PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: Programming belongs on any Linux list, especially since a lot of times you need to code to get things done. Dare you to configure dwm without coding. However, th

Re: OT: programming languages

2014-06-29 Thread Joe
On Sun, 29 Jun 2014 15:46:58 +0100 Tom Furie wrote: > On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 11:41:57PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > > Programming belongs on any Linux list, especially since a lot of > > times you need to code to get things done. Dare you to configure > > dwm without coding. > > However, ther

Re: rsync of mtp://[usb:001,012]/ ?

2014-06-29 Thread James Cloos
> "SK" == Sharon Kimble writes: R>> https://github.com/hanwen/go-mtpfs SK> Thanks, I was able to download a binary from there, "go-mtpfs.x86", SK> and made it executable and then ran - Is your kernel 32 bit or 64 bit? If the latter, you should try the .x86_64 version instead of the .x86 ve

Re: How do package wallpapers for GNOME in Wheezy?

2014-06-29 Thread Joerg Desch
some new infos (but still no solution): I've installed the package on Linux MINT 15 (or 16) and here it works as expected. After the installation of the package the wallpapers are visible inside the settings dialog. Is there a difference to the GNOME 3.4 in Wheezy? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: OT: programming languages

2014-06-29 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 29 Jun 2014 15:46:58 +0100 Tom Furie wrote: > On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 11:41:57PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > > Programming belongs on any Linux list, especially since a lot of > > times you need to code to get things done. Dare you to configure > > dwm without coding. > > However, ther

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Re: OT: programming languages

2014-06-29 Thread Tom Furie
On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 11:41:57PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > Programming belongs on any Linux list, especially since a lot of times > you need to code to get things done. Dare you to configure dwm without > coding. However, there is a difference between discussing code in the context of a soluti

Re: Is grub perfect? (was Re: Does LXDE really require lightdm?)

2014-06-29 Thread Brian
On Sat 28 Jun 2014 at 19:12:14 -0700, Rusi Mody wrote: > On Sunday, June 29, 2014 4:00:01 AM UTC+5:30, Brian wrote: > > > Deficiencies in existing documentation don't match up with a claim of > > its being almost non-existent. The present documention would be of help > > to most users for most th

parallel perl (was Re: Problems installing Perl modules with CPAN on Wheezy)

2014-06-29 Thread Joel Rees
Joel Roth's post on /usr/local reminded me of something about using cpan and perl. I used to use perl on Mac OS X. About the first word of advice we used to give on the Mac OS X perl mail list was, do NOT overwrite the system perl. Install another perl interpreter separately, in parallel with the

Re: Virtualized desktop

2014-06-29 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 12:23 AM, B wrote: >> My IaaS provider has switched from LVM to ZFS, so I think this is >> for some reason... > > Two in one compared to LVM+whatever, not to mention failure > of LVM or whatever usually clobbers the whole thing (definitely), > integrated snapshots, insa

local dns caching on a webserver

2014-06-29 Thread Roland RoLaNd
Hello, I have a very busy webserver running apache2 checking /proc/net/ip_conntrack and filtering port 53 i noticed that i have around 50 000 dns query in under 200 second. destinations are by order:- memcache cluster- database- external web services I can't add these in my /etc/hosts file as the

Re: is this sensible?

2014-06-29 Thread François Patte
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 29/06/2014 12:35, Brian a écrit : > On Sun 29 Jun 2014 at 10:35:50 +0200, François Patte wrote: > >> BTW I tried to prevent to install systemd, putting >> >> #Package: systemd #Pin: release * #Pin-Priority: -1 >> >> in /etc/apt/preferences >> >>

Re: is this sensible?

2014-06-29 Thread Brian
On Sun 29 Jun 2014 at 10:35:50 +0200, François Patte wrote: > BTW I tried to prevent to install systemd, putting > > #Package: systemd > #Pin: release * > #Pin-Priority: -1 > > in /etc/apt/preferences > > and tried to install gthumb after that. The answer came immediately: > impossible because

Re: Getting snd_cs46xx working with wheezy

2014-06-29 Thread Mark Carroll
rob writes: > On 29/06/14 08:30, Mark Carroll wrote: >> lspci lists my 1013:6003 sound card as, >> >> 01:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: Cirrus Logic CS 4614/22/24/30 >> [CrystalClear SoundFusion Audio Accelerator] (rev 01) >> >> I tried following the instructions at https://wiki.debian.org/sn

Re: Getting snd_cs46xx working with wheezy

2014-06-29 Thread rob
On 29/06/14 08:30, Mark Carroll wrote: lspci lists my 1013:6003 sound card as, 01:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: Cirrus Logic CS 4614/22/24/30 [CrystalClear SoundFusion Audio Accelerator] (rev 01) I tried following the instructions at https://wiki.debian.org/snd-cs46xx but found that the li

Re: is this sensible?

2014-06-29 Thread François Patte
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 29/06/2014 00:15, Vincent Lefevre a écrit : > On 2014-06-27 11:38:50 +0100, Darac Marjal wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 12:07:40PM +0200, François Patte wrote: >>> This what is writen as dependencies in packages... OK but I am >>> wondering why

Getting snd_cs46xx working with wheezy

2014-06-29 Thread Mark Carroll
lspci lists my 1013:6003 sound card as, 01:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: Cirrus Logic CS 4614/22/24/30 [CrystalClear SoundFusion Audio Accelerator] (rev 01) I tried following the instructions at https://wiki.debian.org/snd-cs46xx but found that the link to cs46xx_image.h is broken. I instead