Re: Skype substitutes for current Debian?

2014-08-18 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 19 August 2014 07:17:25 Bret Busby wrote: > On 19/08/2014, Bret Busby wrote: > > On 19/08/2014, Paul van der Vlis wrote: > >> op 10-08-14 20:55, Tom Roche schreef: > >>> Having recently received the Skype email requiring reinstall with new > >>> version, I'd like to learn more about av

Re: Skype substitutes for current Debian?

2014-08-18 Thread Bret Busby
On 19/08/2014, Bret Busby wrote: > On 19/08/2014, Paul van der Vlis wrote: >> op 10-08-14 20:55, Tom Roche schreef: >>> >>> Having recently received the Skype email requiring reinstall with new >>> version, I'd like to learn more about available, working substitutes >>> for Skype for D7/wheezy, p

Re: Skype substitutes for current Debian?

2014-08-18 Thread Bret Busby
On 19/08/2014, Paul van der Vlis wrote: > op 10-08-14 20:55, Tom Roche schreef: >> >> Having recently received the Skype email requiring reinstall with new >> version, I'd like to learn more about available, working substitutes >> for Skype for D7/wheezy, possibly current testing/jessie, and maybe

Re: networking fails with temporary systemd (was auto starting of ppp has stopped working)

2014-08-18 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 05:38:13AM -0700, Rusi Mody wrote: > More specifically my concerns are: > 1. Which apt package 'owns' which file? Use 'dpkg -S' e.g.: root@tal:~# dpkg -S /bin/systemd systemd: /bin/systemd root@tal:~# dpkg -S /lib/systemd/systemd systemd: /lib/systemd/systemd -- "If you'

Re: Anyone got Dragon Naturally Speaking working under Debian Wheezy?

2014-08-18 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 02:03:17PM -0400, Ric Moore wrote: > I purged my system of Wine sometime back to lessen my tears. We REALLY need > a "Dragon Killer" app for Linux. Ric Check out: FreeSpeech, Julius, Palaver, Simon, and/or Speech-App -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you

Re: Problem with Debian 6 LTS and vlc

2014-08-18 Thread davidson
On Thu, 14 Aug 2014, Bret Busby wrote: Hello. hi bret. I am not sure whether support queries specific to Debian 6 LTS, should be posted to this list, i assume such queries are on-topic here. or to the LTS list - on the web page at https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/Contact#debian-lts is " Mail

Re: iso and disk space problem

2014-08-18 Thread Frank McCormick
On 08/18/2014 01:27 PM, Brian wrote: On Mon 18 Aug 2014 at 10:50:48 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: On 18/08/14 09:11 AM, Brian wrote: Which ISO are you using? ElementaryOS...seems like a Gnome-based distro from what I've been able to gather but it replaces a lot of Gnome stuff with its ow

Re: iso and disk space problem

2014-08-18 Thread Frank McCormick
On 08/18/2014 12:39 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: Frank McCormick wrote: On 18/08/14 09:11 AM, Brian wrote: On Mon 18 Aug 2014 at 01:01:17 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: On 17/08/14 10:22 PM, sp113438 wrote: grml-rescue does not work on other ISO's, only on grml I thought. Please correct when I

Re: Graphic-Card / Optimus_Prime

2014-08-18 Thread Paul van der Vlis
op 18-08-14 15:34, merkeda...@vmail.me schreef: > hi, > > > I am on dual-boot debian 7 & ubuntu 14 (updated) with two choices on my > laptop : > Nvidia or Intel. > Optimus technology manage it with the soft "prime" allowing switching > the graphic-card easily. > > On ubuntu, it is clear & neat ;

Re: Anyone got Dragon Naturally Speaking working under Debian Wheezy?

2014-08-18 Thread Ric Moore
On 08/18/2014 12:46 PM, Rusi Mody wrote: On Monday, August 18, 2014 10:00:02 PM UTC+5:30, brian wrote: Hi all, I posted this question to the XFCE users list a couple of days ago but no takers, so I'll try it here. I also got a timeout on the first attempt, so due apologies if this message is

Re: Anyone got Dragon Naturally Speaking working under Debian Wheezy?

2014-08-18 Thread Mike Kupfer
brian wrote: > My wife has developed a problem with her hands, and can't type more > than a few sentences without severe pain. Ouch. My wife has a similar problem. She's gotten better, but she still needs to use Dragon. > I've got Dragon (V10, which > was supposed to be the most compatible) i

Re: iso and disk space problem

2014-08-18 Thread Brian
On Mon 18 Aug 2014 at 10:50:48 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > On 18/08/14 09:11 AM, Brian wrote: > > > >Which ISO are you using? > > ElementaryOS...seems like a Gnome-based distro from what I've been > able to gather but it replaces a lot of Gnome stuff with its own > applications written in V

Re: Graphic-Card / Optimus_Prime

2014-08-18 Thread Richard Owlett
Lisi Reisz wrote: On Monday 18 August 2014 14:34:46 merkeda...@vmail.me wrote: Very simple with ubuntu, even the french doc is easily readable : No doubt it is very simple with Windows too. This is the Debian list. Why must we keep being told how simple Ubuntu is? Bully for Ubuntu. Lisi

Re: Anyone got Dragon Naturally Speaking working under Debian Wheezy?

2014-08-18 Thread Rusi Mody
On Monday, August 18, 2014 10:00:02 PM UTC+5:30, brian wrote: > Hi all, > I posted this question to the XFCE users list a couple of days ago but > no takers, so I'll try it here. I also got a timeout on the first > attempt, so due apologies if this message is a duplicate. > Has anyone out there m

Re: iso and disk space problem

2014-08-18 Thread Richard Owlett
Frank McCormick wrote: On 18/08/14 09:11 AM, Brian wrote: On Mon 18 Aug 2014 at 01:01:17 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: On 17/08/14 10:22 PM, sp113438 wrote: grml-rescue does not work on other ISO's, only on grml I thought. Please correct when I am wrong. Grml loads any iso placed in th

Re: Skype substitutes for current Debian?

2014-08-18 Thread Paul van der Vlis
op 10-08-14 20:55, Tom Roche schreef: > > Having recently received the Skype email requiring reinstall with new > version, I'd like to learn more about available, working substitutes > for Skype for D7/wheezy, possibly current testing/jessie, and maybe > even more robust bits of sid. (For brevity,

Re: Anyone got Dragon Naturally Speaking working under Debian Wheezy?

2014-08-18 Thread Gary Dale
On 18/08/14 12:19 PM, brian wrote: Hi all, I posted this question to the XFCE users list a couple of days ago but no takers, so I'll try it here. I also got a timeout on the first attempt, so due apologies if this message is a duplicate. Has anyone out there managed to set up Dragon Naturally S

Anyone got Dragon Naturally Speaking working under Debian Wheezy?

2014-08-18 Thread brian
Hi all, I posted this question to the XFCE users list a couple of days ago but no takers, so I'll try it here. I also got a timeout on the first attempt, so due apologies if this message is a duplicate. Has anyone out there managed to set up Dragon Naturally Speaking to run under WINE? I'm using

XML FOP

2014-08-18 Thread Klaus Jantzen
Hi, when generating a pdf-file from an xml-file with fop I get the warning [warning] /usr/bin/fop: Unable to locate servlet-api in /usr/share/java Even though the result seems to be OK, I still would like to know what the servlet is good for, whether I really need it, and where I would get it fr

Re: iso and disk space problem

2014-08-18 Thread Frank McCormick
On 18/08/14 09:11 AM, Brian wrote: On Mon 18 Aug 2014 at 01:01:17 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: On 17/08/14 10:22 PM, sp113438 wrote: grml-rescue does not work on other ISO's, only on grml I thought. Please correct when I am wrong. Grml loads any iso placed in the /boot/grml directory.

Re: Graphic-Card / Optimus_Prime

2014-08-18 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 18 August 2014 14:34:46 merkeda...@vmail.me wrote: > Very simple with ubuntu, even the french doc is easily readable : No doubt it is very simple with Windows too. This is the Debian list. Why must we keep being told how simple Ubuntu is? Bully for Ubuntu. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Graphic-Card / Optimus_Prime

2014-08-18 Thread merkedanke
hi, I am on dual-boot debian 7 & ubuntu 14 (updated) with two choices on my laptop : Nvidia or Intel. Optimus technology manage it with the soft "prime" allowing switching the graphic-card easily. On ubuntu, it is clear & neat ; i add nvidia settings - it chooses and download the driver -

Re: iso and disk space problem

2014-08-18 Thread Brian
On Mon 18 Aug 2014 at 01:01:17 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > On 17/08/14 10:22 PM, sp113438 wrote: > > > >grml-rescue does not work on other ISO's, only on grml I thought. > > > >Please correct when I am wrong. > > Grml loads any iso placed in the /boot/grml directory. > > It modifies the

printing

2014-08-18 Thread dick kampman
On Sun, 2014-08-17 at 09:54 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > On Sun, 17 Aug 2014 15:26:46 +0200 > dick kampman wrote: > > > My old HP-LaserJet-6MP is printing apropriate under Ubuntu and Fedora. > > Under Debian, helas, I just get white pages. I tried to > > edit /etc/cups/ppd/HP-LaserJet-6MP but witho

Re: networking fails with temporary systemd (was auto starting of ppp has stopped working)

2014-08-18 Thread Rusi Mody
On Thursday, August 14, 2014 10:10:02 PM UTC+5:30, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 14.08.2014 16:02, schrieb Rusi Mody: > > On Thursday, August 14, 2014 3:40:03 PM UTC+5:30, Michael Biebl wrote: > >> Am 14.08.2014 um 05:32 schrieb Rusi Mody: > >>> Aug 14 08:13:15 debian64 pppd[594]: Couldn't open the /de

Re: custom kernel - disabling devices - broadcom qlogic NetXtremeII

2014-08-18 Thread Zenaan Harkness
OK, found make localmodconfig. Looks like a much better starting point. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CAOsGNSSUjy-+qe+sZ5WnM+Ex6f2GzF=rgsapjo5jim+r

Re: custom kernel - disabling devices - broadcom qlogic NetXtremeII

2014-08-18 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 8/18/14, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 09:48:50PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: >> I am using "make xconfig" (the kernel qt configurator). >> >> How is it that I cannot disable: >> Network device support >> -> Ethernet driver support >> -> Broadcom devices >> -> Broadcom QLogic

Re: iso and disk space problem

2014-08-18 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 07:33:23AM -0400, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > On 8/17/14, Frank McCormick wrote: > > > > I downloaded an ISO of another Linux distro to check it out - burned is > > to a CD and booted from it. Runs fine, but a little slowly, > > so I thought about grml-rescue which allows gru

Re: custom kernel - disabling devices - broadcom qlogic NetXtremeII

2014-08-18 Thread Darac Marjal
On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 09:48:50PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > I am using "make xconfig" (the kernel qt configurator). > > How is it that I cannot disable: > Network device support > -> Ethernet driver support > -> Broadcom devices > -> Broadcom QLogic NetXtremeII driver? > > I can only selec

custom kernel - disabling devices - broadcom qlogic NetXtremeII

2014-08-18 Thread Zenaan Harkness
I am using "make xconfig" (the kernel qt configurator). How is it that I cannot disable: Network device support -> Ethernet driver support -> Broadcom devices -> Broadcom QLogic NetXtremeII driver? I can only select it as a module, or permanently built into the kernel. It says: Selected by: CNIC

Re: iso and disk space problem

2014-08-18 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 8/17/14, Frank McCormick wrote: > > I downloaded an ISO of another Linux distro to check it out - burned is > to a CD and booted from it. Runs fine, but a little slowly, > so I thought about grml-rescue which allows grub to boot an ISO from the > HD. Runs fine, but immediately ran into trouble

Re: Busybox: compile statically?

2014-08-18 Thread Darac Marjal
On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 06:25:29PM +0200, antispammbox-debian wrote: > > Hi all > > How to compile busybox in static mode, adding some utility different from > the usual, -dd, cat, other,... -, example, partimage, with all the > dependencies, compress it, and install on a usb stick? From just a