Re: Compiling kernel from Github - Howto?

Gary Dale writes: > On 17/01/15 10:19 AM, csanyi...@gmail.com wrote: >> I have a headless powerpc box and run on it Debian Wheezy with kernel >> Linux b2 3.2.62-1 #1 Mon Aug 25 04:22:40 UTC 2014 ppc GNU/Linux . >> >> But this kernel doesn't have support for the rtl8192cu kernel-module. >> >> One

DEBIAN on PANASONIC CF-19 laptop

Hi! I don't find information about DEBIAN on PANASONIC CF-19 laptop. I would like to know if it is possible to install DEBIAN (latest version) on PANASONIC CF-19 laptop. ( this laptop don't have a DVD). Video about this laptop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZM7Qb7SHtk Best regards.

Re: Re: Ric Moore

On 1/17/15, Clive Standbridge wrote: > >> Anybody else? FWIW, 7.8, all 3 dvd's in amd64 format, is being >> downloaded now. So I'll give it one more try. > > It's a bit late now, but you might have had much lighter download > using the network installation CD. Three DVDs is about 13GB; I doubt > t

Re: firefox compaining about missing library

Not sure you mentioned your video card , though it seems Nvidia may be involved from the 'nouveau' stuff. I am using Wheezy, Nvidia Quadro card, blacklisted nouveau , installed Nvidia, and run latest Firefox., I have Java and Flash working here. Nvidia is the only drivers that work in my setup.

Re: Can't get sound to work

On 1/16/15, Mike McGinn wrote: > > On Friday, January 16, 2015 14:23:21 Doug wrote: >> On 01/16/2015 01:24 PM, Robert Latest wrote: > > When I had a new install I found that the mixer levels were all at zero. > Found > it after an hour of troubleshooting. That was me. Raised the level up, and it

Re: firefox compaining about missing library

On Saturday 17 January 2015 19:32:16 Marc Auslander did opine And Gene did reply: > Gene Heskett writes: > > Greetings; > > > > Does anyone know where to find, for Wheezy, this library? > > VDPAU backend libvdpau_nouveau.so? > > ... > I am running firefox 35 under wheezy with no problem. And I d

Re: An experiment in backup

On Saturday 17 January 2015 13:38:10 Kevin O'Gorman did opine And Gene did reply: > On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 9:08 AM, Curt wrote: > > On 2015-01-17, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > >> startx > > >> > > >> > > >> I did > > > > > > sudo startx > > > > I haven't been following your thread, but it is hi

Re:Was: Ric Moore

On Saturday 17 January 2015 13:04:09 Clive Standbridge did opine And Gene did reply: > > I assume it has a name, is this 7.8=Jessie? > > Its name is wheezy. It's an update, not a new release. See: > https://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/ > https://lists.debian.org/debian-announce/2015/msg0.ht

Re: firefox compaining about missing library

Gene Heskett writes: > Greetings; > > Does anyone know where to find, for Wheezy, this library? > VDPAU backend libvdpau_nouveau.so? > ... I am running firefox 35 under wheezy with no problem. And I do not have the names library. I just untar that tarball into /usr/lib and go. -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: An experiment in backup

On 01/17/2015 09:29 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > Did you have to re-create any of the excluded directories before it would > boot properly? > > This looks a lot like what I do already, but is not working for me. I'll > check the details. > Kevin, you sent this directly to me, not the list. I ha

Re: An experiment in backup

On Saturday 17 January 2015 03:28:34 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 3:54 AM, Tom H wrote: > > Are you using a DM? Display Manager. The GUI login interface. Where you enter your user name and password to login. Also where you choose the WM or DE to use on taht occasion, but y

Re: An experiment in backup

"Kevin O'Gorman" writes: > On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 9:08 AM, Curt wrote: (snip) >> I haven't been following your thread, but it is highly unrecommended >> to be root when you startx. >> >> > > I'm trying to learn here, so it w

Re: An experiment in backup

On 01/17/2015 01:38 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 9:08 AM, Curt mailto:cu...@free.fr>> wrote: On 2015-01-17, Kevin O'Gorman mailto:kogor...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> startx >> >> >> I did > sudo startx I haven't been following your thread, but

Re: Can't get sound to work

On 01/17/2015 07:29 AM, Frédéric Marchal wrote: My problem is now solved. I unfortunately can't provide a full scientific analysis of what happened. I list every clue that might help anybody else facing the same problem. All you had to do was to mute the HDMI stuff to make it easier on alsa.

Re: Ric Moore

On 01/17/2015 01:04 PM, Clive Standbridge wrote: I assume it has a name, is this 7.8=Jessie? Its name is wheezy. It's an update, not a new release. See: https://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/ https://lists.debian.org/debian-announce/2015/msg0.html Jessie is 8.X It's ready for primetime t

Re: Ric Moore

On 01/16/2015 09:46 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: So now I am back on the old LUCID based install. Where hopefully I can send an email. With kmail. Lucid is more Jessie level than wheezy level. I use wheezy on the servers, for damn sure. But I run Jessie on my desktop for the Lucid level experie

Re: Compiling kernel from Github - Howto?

On 17/01/15 10:19 AM, csanyi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have a headless powerpc box and run on it Debian Wheezy with kernel Linux b2 3.2.62-1 #1 Mon Aug 25 04:22:40 UTC 2014 ppc GNU/Linux . But this kernel doesn't have support for the rtl8192cu kernel-module. One can to get the kernel source fr

Re: An experiment in backup

On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 9:08 AM, Curt wrote: > On 2015-01-17, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > >> > >> startx > >> > >> > >> I did > > sudo startx > > I haven't been following your thread, but it is highly unrecommended > to be root when you startx. > >

Re: Re: Ric Moore

> I assume it has a name, is this 7.8=Jessie? Its name is wheezy. It's an update, not a new release. See: https://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/ https://lists.debian.org/debian-announce/2015/msg0.html > Anybody else? FWIW, 7.8, all 3 dvd's in amd64 format, is being > downloaded now. So I'll

Re: An experiment in backup

On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 8:35 AM, Rob Owens wrote: > On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 08:08:27AM -0800, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 2:06 AM, Curt wrote: > > > > > On 2015-01-17, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > > > > > > >> Can you launch X after logging in to the console? > > > >> > > > >

Re: An experiment in backup

On 2015-01-17, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >> >> startx >> >> >> I did > sudo startx I haven't been following your thread, but it is highly unrecommended to be root when you startx. -- “There’s no money in poetry, but then there’s no poetry in money, either.” —Robert Graves -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: An experiment in backup

On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 8:35 AM, Rob Owens wrote: > On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 08:08:27AM -0800, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 2:06 AM, Curt wrote: > > > > > On 2015-01-17, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > > > > > > >> Can you launch X after logging in to the console? > > > >> > > > >

Re: An experiment in backup

On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 2:06 AM, Curt wrote: > On 2015-01-17, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > > >> Can you launch X after logging in to the console? > >> > > > > I don't know how. > > > > startx > > > I did sudo startx Hmmm. This should be telling me something, but I don't know exactly what. It does

Compiling kernel from Github - Howto?

Hi, I have a headless powerpc box and run on it Debian Wheezy with kernel Linux b2 3.2.62-1 #1 Mon Aug 25 04:22:40 UTC 2014 ppc GNU/Linux . But this kernel doesn't have support for the rtl8192cu kernel-module. One can to get the kernel source from here: https://github.com/Excito/community-b3-ker

Re: Ric Moore

On Friday 16 January 2015 21:46:18 Gene Heskett did opine And Gene did reply: > Greetings, back on the old 10.04.4 LTS LUCID drive. > > Ric, installing that mesa library for firefox made firefox work better, > & no squawking about the missing file. > > But, it pulled in 19 other packages either

Re: An experiment in backup

On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 07:50:33PM -0800, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > I've not tried other solutions. I worry that the ones folks seem to like > most do more > than I need or want in terms of management. I want my stuff where I can > see it, so > to speak, and where I can use the ancient tools (tar,

Re: Find obsolete packages without using aptitude?

Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote on 01/14/2015 06:25: > > Fredrik Jonson wrote: > > > I'm trying to find obsolete packages on a system that's been > > > dist-upgraded. How would you [do that without using] aptitude? > > > > Try this: > > > > apt-show-versions | grep -v uptodate > >

Re: Can't get sound to work

On Friday 16 January 2015 21:49:37, Ric Moore wrote : > On 01/16/2015 05:53 AM, Frédéric Marchal wrote: > > On Friday 16 January 2015 10:33:23, Lisi Reisz wrote : > >> On Friday 16 January 2015 08:41:29 Frédéric Marchal wrote: > >>> BTW, I have pulseaudio installed in case it matters. > >> > >> So

Re: Sleep but no resume

On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 03:19:36PM -0500, edj...@gmail.com wrote: > Running stable 64bit with the 3.2.65-1+deb7u1 kernel. This macbook > will go to sleep but will not resume, requiring a hard reboot. When > s2ram is run, the acivity light blinks- a sign that the machine is > really asleep. Ho

Re: Find obsolete packages without using aptitude?

Hi, Bob Proulx wrote on 01/14/2015 06:25: > Fredrik Jonson wrote: >> Here's a small challenge. I'm trying to find obsolete or orphaned packages >> on a system that's been dist-upgraded. >> ... >> How would you accomplish that assuming you cannot use aptitude? > > Try this: > > apt-show-version

Re: An experiment in backup

On 2015-01-17, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > >> Can you launch X after logging in to the console? >> > > I don't know how. > startx ? -- “There’s no money in poetry, but then there’s no poetry in money, either.” —Robert Graves -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org wit