Re: change sources.list to follow testing, not jessie

2015-04-16 Thread Petter Adsen
On Thu, 16 Apr 2015 22:00:58 +0100 Joe wrote: > On Thu, 16 Apr 2015 21:11:06 +0100 > Lisi Reisz wrote: > > But it will be awful the day that Jessie goes Stable because > > everything will immediately update willy-nilly and out of your > > control, all at once, to Stretch (which will be the new t

Re: wheezy drive recognition?

2015-04-16 Thread Petter Adsen
On Thu, 16 Apr 2015 20:50:13 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 16 April 2015 16:01:31 David Christensen wrote: > > Do you know if the laptop or the desktop machine can use a USB flash > > drive as the system drive? My 945 chipset and newer machines can do > > this. It is one of the best c

Re: Jessie: No VGA signal after gdm3 login

2015-04-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 06:10:11PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 04:22:24PM +0200, Petter Adsen wrote: > > On Tue, 14 Apr 2015 08:50:45 +0200 > > Petter Adsen wrote: > > > > > On Mon, 13 Apr 2015 15:42:03 -0400 > > > "Thomas H. George" wrote: > > > > > > > Just return

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-16 Thread David Wright
Quoting Bret Busby (bret.bu...@gmail.com): > On 17/04/2015, Liam O'Toole wrote: > > On 2015-04-16, Bret Busby wrote: > >> On 17/04/2015, Ric Moore wrote: > > > > > > > >>> Have you tried "catalyst" for the AMD setup?? Under AMD Mobility > >>> Product Family your 6000 series is listed. > >>> htt

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-16 Thread Petter Adsen
On Fri, 17 Apr 2015 13:07:54 +0800 Bret Busby wrote: > On 17/04/2015, Liam O'Toole wrote: > > On 2015-04-16, Bret Busby wrote: > >> On 17/04/2015, Ric Moore wrote: > > > > > > > >>> Have you tried "catalyst" for the AMD setup?? Under AMD Mobility > >>> Product Family your 6000 series is liste

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-16 Thread Bret Busby
On 17/04/2015, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On 2015-04-16, Bret Busby wrote: >> On 17/04/2015, Ric Moore wrote: > > > >>> Have you tried "catalyst" for the AMD setup?? Under AMD Mobility >>> Product Family your 6000 series is listed. >>> http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/AMDCatalyst14-9LI

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-16 Thread Bret Busby
On 17/04/2015, Liam O'Toole wrote: > Any browser you run in squeeze was EOL'ed years ago, from a security > perspective if nothing else. > So, are you claiming that the LTS of Debian 6 LTS, is imaginary, and does not exist? -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .. "So once you

Re: javaws

2015-04-16 Thread lina
Just notice /etc/alternatives/javaws -> /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/bin/javaws change to 7 works. Thanks, -- 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/CAG9cJm

Fwd: javaws

2015-04-16 Thread lina
Shall send to the list, sorry -- Forwarded message -- From: lina Date: Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 11:13 AM Subject: Re: javaws To: Liam O'Toole Yeah, Error: The application has requested a version of the JRE (version 1.7+) that currently is not locally installed. Java Web Start is u

Re: Encrypting an External HDD

2015-04-16 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 15 Apr 2015 08:30:04 -0700 David Christensen wrote: ... > /dev/random is for cryptographically secure random numbers, such as for > cryptographic keys. It requires a source of entropy to operate, and > will block until entropy is available. Thus, on most desktop computers, > it is o

Re: Is gnome-core *really* the gnome minimal install?

2015-04-16 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Wed, 15 Apr 2015, David Wright wrote: > Quoting Patrick Bartek (nemomm...@gmail.com): > > On Mon, 13 Apr 2015, David Wright wrote: > > > Quoting Patrick Bartek (nemomm...@gmail.com): > > > > On Sun, 12 Apr 2015, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > > > > > i'll second the use of openbox. i use it with

Re: wheezy drive recognition?

2015-04-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 16 April 2015 16:28:15 Ric Moore wrote: > On 04/16/2015 04:01 PM, David Christensen wrote: > > On 04/16/2015 11:19 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> ... I discovered the atom based box for <$300 which are > >> great for a one stop solution for the machinery controls. So this > >> phenom bo

Re: wheezy drive recognition?

2015-04-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 16 April 2015 16:01:31 David Christensen wrote: > On 04/16/2015 11:19 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > ... I discovered the atom based box for <$300 which are > > great for a one stop solution for the machinery controls. So this > > phenom box was my last real build, 8 years (nominally) ago

Re: Wicd - no wireless networks found

2015-04-16 Thread メット
On 2015年4月17日 06:33:45 JST, German wrote: >On Thu, 16 Apr 2015 23:05:26 +0200 >albcares wrote: > >> 2015-04-16 22:22 GMT+02:00 German : >> >> > On Thu, 16 Apr 2015 15:12:30 -0500 >> > David Wright wrote: >> > >> > > Quoting German (gentger...@gmail.com): >> > > > Ok, I installed realtek firmw

Re: Hibernate option in Gnome menu? (Jessie)

2015-04-16 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 17.04.2015 um 00:40 schrieb W. Martin Borgert: > Hi, > > I just upgraded my relatives notebook from wheezy to jessie, > but now her hibernate option is gone from the right side menu. > There is only shutdown, which changes to suspend with alt. > Both are not needed by my relative, she always wa

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-16 Thread Ric Moore
On 04/16/2015 06:07 PM, Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2015-04-16, Bret Busby wrote: On 17/04/2015, Ric Moore wrote: Have you tried "catalyst" for the AMD setup?? Under AMD Mobility Product Family your 6000 series is listed. http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/AMDCatalyst14-9LINRelease

Re: Hibernate option in Gnome menu? (Jessie)

2015-04-16 Thread Ric Moore
On 04/16/2015 06:40 PM, W. Martin Borgert wrote: Hi, I just upgraded my relatives notebook from wheezy to jessie, but now her hibernate option is gone from the right side menu. There is only shutdown, which changes to suspend with alt. Both are not needed by my relative, she always wants hiberna

Hibernate option in Gnome menu? (Jessie)

2015-04-16 Thread W. Martin Borgert
Hi, I just upgraded my relatives notebook from wheezy to jessie, but now her hibernate option is gone from the right side menu. There is only shutdown, which changes to suspend with alt. Both are not needed by my relative, she always wants hibernate. Any idea how to get this back? Please without

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-16 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-04-16, Bret Busby wrote: > On 17/04/2015, Ric Moore wrote: >> Have you tried "catalyst" for the AMD setup?? Under AMD Mobility >> Product Family your 6000 series is listed. >> http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/AMDCatalyst14-9LINReleaseNotes.aspx >> > > Hello. > > I assume

Re: change sources.list to follow testing, not jessie

2015-04-16 Thread Joe
On Thu, 16 Apr 2015 16:25:41 -0500 David Wright wrote: > Quoting Joe (j...@jretrading.com): > > > This upgrade of old Testing to new Testing is the first real-world > > preview of the *next* Stable upgrade, or at least some of it. I'm > > sure a lot of thought has gone into preparing for it. >

Re: change sources.list to follow testing, not jessie

2015-04-16 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 16 Apr 2015 21:11:06 +0100 Lisi Reisz wrote: Hello Lisi, >But it will be awful the day that Jessie goes Stable because everything >will immediately update willy-nilly and out of your control, all at >once, to I've been using 'testing' (as opposed to codenames) for years without problem

Re: change sources.list to follow testing, not jessie

2015-04-16 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 5:25 PM, David Wright wrote: > Quoting Joe (j...@jretrading.com): >> On Thu, 16 Apr 2015 21:11:06 +0100 >> Lisi Reisz wrote: >> > As opposed to problems in a fortnight? If you change all of them, >> > you will have a whirlwind as soon as Jessie becomes Stable. If I >> >

Re: Wicd - no wireless networks found

2015-04-16 Thread German
On Thu, 16 Apr 2015 23:05:26 +0200 albcares wrote: > 2015-04-16 22:22 GMT+02:00 German : > > > On Thu, 16 Apr 2015 15:12:30 -0500 > > David Wright wrote: > > > > > Quoting German (gentger...@gmail.com): > > > > Ok, I installed realtek firmware, running modrpobe rtl8723be > > > > returns > > no

Re: change sources.list to follow testing, not jessie

2015-04-16 Thread David Wright
Quoting Joe (j...@jretrading.com): > On Thu, 16 Apr 2015 21:11:06 +0100 > Lisi Reisz wrote: > > As opposed to problems in a fortnight? If you change all of them, > > you will have a whirlwind as soon as Jessie becomes Stable. If I > > were in your shoes, I would change the one reference to testi

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-16 Thread Bret Busby
On 17/04/2015, Ric Moore wrote: > On 04/16/2015 11:40 AM, Bret Busby wrote: >> On 16/04/2015, David Wright wrote: >>> Quoting Bret Busby (bret.bu...@gmail.com): >>> bret@bret-Aspire-E5-521:~$ lspci | grep -i vga 00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/

Re: Supported hybrid PC/tablet computers

2015-04-16 Thread Nicolas George
Le septidi 27 germinal, an CCXXIII, Nicolas George a écrit : > [ Re-sending due to a mixup with my "from" address; hopefully will arrive > only once. ] Sorry for the dup, it was a matter of seconds after more than an hour :( Please disregard this mail and reply only on the other. Regards, --

Supported hybrid PC/tablet computers

2015-04-16 Thread Nicolas George
[ Re-sending due to a mixup with my "from" address; hopefully will arrive only once. ] Hi. I would like to know if some people here have accurate knowledge on the prospect of running Debian on low- and middle-end hybrid PC/tablet computers, like Asus Transformer or Acer Aspire Switch that sell fo

Supported hybrid PC/tablet computers

2015-04-16 Thread Nicolas George
Hi. I would like to know if some people here have accurate knowledge on the prospect of running Debian on low- and middle-end hybrid PC/tablet computers, like Asus Transformer or Acer Aspire Switch that sell for 250-500 EUR around here? Note that I do not expect a "there's an app for that" kind o

Re: Wicd - no wireless networks found

2015-04-16 Thread albcares
2015-04-16 22:22 GMT+02:00 German : > On Thu, 16 Apr 2015 15:12:30 -0500 > David Wright wrote: > > > Quoting German (gentger...@gmail.com): > > > Ok, I installed realtek firmware, running modrpobe rtl8723be returns > no output, so I think my card is operational. But Wicd doesn't show any > wirele

Re: Encrypting an External HDD

2015-04-16 Thread David Christensen
On 04/16/2015 12:31 PM, ken wrote: ... remembering that partitioning also detects and marks bad blocks, I was then wondering if this was done also by the writing of LUKS container alone. It is my understanding that the drive firmware is where "bad blocks" are detected and marked. I expect th

Re: change sources.list to follow testing, not jessie

2015-04-16 Thread Joe
On Thu, 16 Apr 2015 21:11:06 +0100 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Thursday 16 April 2015 17:05:54 Harry Putnam wrote: > > My current sources.list: > > > > > > In the first three, if I just change the word `jessie' to `testing' > > will that work seemlessly or lead to problems? > > > > I'm a little loath

Re: change sources.list to follow testing, not jessie

2015-04-16 Thread Ric Moore
On 04/16/2015 04:11 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: It's no test at all. At the moment testing and Jessie are the same thing. But it will be awful the day that Jessie goes Stable because everything will immediately update willy-nilly and out of your control, all at once, to Stretch (which will be the ne

Re: wheezy drive recognition?

2015-04-16 Thread Ric Moore
On 04/16/2015 04:01 PM, David Christensen wrote: On 04/16/2015 11:19 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: ... I discovered the atom based box for <$300 which are great for a one stop solution for the machinery controls. So this phenom box was my last real build, 8 years (nominally) ago. Please tell us abo

Re: Wicd - no wireless networks found

2015-04-16 Thread German
On Thu, 16 Apr 2015 15:12:30 -0500 David Wright wrote: > Quoting German (gentger...@gmail.com): > > Ok, I installed realtek firmware, running modrpobe rtl8723be returns no > > output, so I think my card is operational. But Wicd doesn't show any > > wireless networks. Where to go from here? Than

How to enable non-free in jessie [was Re: Realtek firmware]

2015-04-16 Thread Jean-Marc
Thu, 16 Apr 2015 12:27:43 -0400 German écrivait : > [...] > I don't think this is important what chip I have. I think that all realtek > firmware installs in one package. Right now I am wondering how to enable > non-free repo in Jessi. If you could tell me this, I'd appreciate it. Add non-free

Re: Wicd - no wireless networks found

2015-04-16 Thread David Wright
Quoting German (gentger...@gmail.com): > Ok, I installed realtek firmware, running modrpobe rtl8723be returns no > output, so I think my card is operational. But Wicd doesn't show any wireless > networks. Where to go from here? Thank you Does iwconfig show a wireless interface? $ /sbin/iwconfig

Re: change sources.list to follow testing, not jessie

2015-04-16 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 16 April 2015 17:05:54 Harry Putnam wrote: > My current sources.list: > > > , > > | deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free > | deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free > | > | deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates ma

Re: wheezy drive recognition?

2015-04-16 Thread David Christensen
On 04/16/2015 11:19 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: ... I discovered the atom based box for <$300 which are great for a one stop solution for the machinery controls. So this phenom box was my last real build, 8 years (nominally) ago. Please tell us about your Atom box(es). (I've been eyeballing the

Re: Encrypting an External HDD

2015-04-16 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, Apr 16, 2015, at 16:31, ken wrote: > After thinking about it, and remembering that partitioning also detects > and marks bad blocks, I was then wondering if this was done also by the > writing of LUKS container alone. Anyone know? The typical install will have the LUKS container (actua

Re: I need guidance about how to configure a newly installed Jessie

2015-04-16 Thread Ric Moore
On 04/16/2015 03:00 AM, Paul E Condon wrote: Why does the author of the WARNING presume that there is a different person, other than the person reading the message who is the actual 'your system administration'? Has someone in NSA or CIA been assigned to monitor me, and this message breaches glo

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-16 Thread Ric Moore
On 04/16/2015 11:40 AM, Bret Busby wrote: On 16/04/2015, David Wright wrote: Quoting Bret Busby (bret.bu...@gmail.com): bret@bret-Aspire-E5-521:~$ lspci | grep -i vga 00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Mullins [Radeon APU A4-6000 with R2 Graphics] I t

Wicd - no wireless networks found

2015-04-16 Thread German
Ok, I installed realtek firmware, running modrpobe rtl8723be returns no output, so I think my card is operational. But Wicd doesn't show any wireless networks. Where to go from here? Thank you -- German -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "uns

Re: Strong hashing/ciphers for LUKS; was "Encrypting an External HDD"

2015-04-16 Thread Stephen R Guglielmo
Hi all, After I sent the post below, I stumbled upon the cryptsetup FAQ page[1]. It answered a lot of my concerns, including the SHA1 and the cipher (plain, plain64, xts, essiv) issues. [1] https://gitlab.com/cryptsetup/cryptsetup/wikis/FrequentlyAskedQuestions Thanks! On Thu, 16 Apr 2015 15:07

Re: Encrypting an External HDD

2015-04-16 Thread ken
On 04/15/2015 12:33 PM, David Christensen wrote: On 04/15/2015 08:01 AM, ken wrote: What options or features does one get by putting the LUKS container in a partition rather than putting it on a raw drive? I am not aware of any technical advantages or disadvantages of LUKS on a raw drive vs. L

Strong hashing/ciphers for LUKS; was "Encrypting an External HDD"

2015-04-16 Thread Stephen R Guglielmo
Thanks for all the replies in the previous thread! I've been doing some reading and have another question. It seems the default for LUKS (as displayed by `cryptsetup --help`) is: aes-xts-plain64, Key: 256 bits LUKS header hashing: sha1 RNG: /dev/urandom I would like to have a high level of securi

Re: javaws

2015-04-16 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-04-16, lina wrote: > Hi all, > > The problem raised when I tried to "Launch Jalview Desktop" in the > following website: > > http://www.jalview.org/Help > > at the top, right corner, there is "Launch Jalview Desktop". > > It worked very well in the past. But today it is just not work as >

Re: change sources.list to follow testing, not jessie

2015-04-16 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 16 Apr 2015 12:57:37 -0500 David Wright wrote: Hello David, >In which case you don't understand it. Okay, fair enough. My mistake. -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)radnever immediately apparent" I hope I live to relive the days gone

Re: wheezy drive recognition?

2015-04-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 16 April 2015 13:56:23 David Christensen wrote: > On 04/16/2015 07:23 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: [...]> > You have outlined a lot of complexity, and implied that it is all > going into one machine that you are trying to keep operational while > you work on it. That sounds difficult and ri

Re: change sources.list to follow testing, not jessie

2015-04-16 Thread Kushal Kumaran
Brad Rogers writes: > On Thu, 16 Apr 2015 17:40:47 +0100 > Darac Marjal wrote: > > Hello Darac, > >>At the moment, "stable" is a pointer to "wheezy", "testing" points to >>"jessie" and "unstable" points to sid. > > AIUI, that's the wrong way round. Wheezy is a link to stable, jessie > links to

Re: change sources.list to follow testing, not jessie

2015-04-16 Thread David Wright
Quoting Brad Rogers (b...@fineby.me.uk): > AIUI, that's the wrong way round. Wheezy is a link to stable, jessie > links to testing, etc. > > Consider; old-stable, stable, testing and unstable always exist. The > code names change meaning and fall out of use over time - with the > exception of

Re: wheezy drive recognition?

2015-04-16 Thread David Christensen
On 04/16/2015 07:23 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: With my history of mis-behaving install partitioners, you can bet the farm on that! ;-) I think the last things I do before starting the install, is to rsync the currant /home and /opt directories to the new drive I just partitioned and formatted as ext

Re: change sources.list to follow testing, not jessie

2015-04-16 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 16 Apr 2015 17:40:47 +0100 Darac Marjal wrote: Hello Darac, >At the moment, "stable" is a pointer to "wheezy", "testing" points to >"jessie" and "unstable" points to sid. AIUI, that's the wrong way round. Wheezy is a link to stable, jessie links to testing, etc. Consider; old-stable

Re: Realtek firmware

2015-04-16 Thread Ron
On Thu, 16 Apr 2015 12:27:43 -0400 German wrote: > I don't think this is important what chip I have. I think that all realtek > firmware installs in one package. Excrept that some Realtek-chipped NICs do not work under Linux. Cheers, Ron. -- All that is necessary for the force

Re: wheezy drive recognition?

2015-04-16 Thread David Wright
Quoting Gene Heskett (ghesk...@wdtv.com): > On Thursday 16 April 2015 12:02:23 David Wright wrote: > > Quoting Gene Heskett (ghesk...@wdtv.com): > > > And one other question: Can the installer deal with a drive that > > > has no partition table on it? I know for a fact that as it stands > > > for

boot-time messages, /init touch not found

2015-04-16 Thread Mike Kupfer
Hi, after updating a jessie VM, I noticed a message during boot, before lightdm started. The message was something like /init [stuff I didn't catch] touch: not found After logging in, I tried using journalctl to find the message, with no success. Is journalctl the right tool to find the messa

Re: Realtek firmware

2015-04-16 Thread David Wright
Quoting German (gentger...@gmail.com): > I don't think this is important what chip I have. I think that all realtek > firmware installs in one package. Right now I am wondering how to enable > non-free repo in Jessi. If you could tell me this, I'd appreciate it. Put main non-free where you h

Re: wheezy drive recognition?

2015-04-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 16 April 2015 12:02:23 David Wright wrote: > Quoting Gene Heskett (ghesk...@wdtv.com): > > Then edit fstab to mount the LABEL = /opt drive on top of the /opt > > directory is easy. But Jessie will have installed some things in > > /home and I am not convinced we have a mechanism/scri

Re: wheezy drive recognition?

2015-04-16 Thread Curt
On 2015-04-16, David Wright wrote: > > I don't know the expression "alaskan divorce". Could it be where you > walk from the divorce court straight back to the registry office to > get re-married? I'm not familiar with the expression either, but I think it refers to a sudden, brutal separation of

Re: change sources.list to follow testing, not jessie

2015-04-16 Thread David Wright
Quoting Harry Putnam (rea...@newsguy.com): > My current sources.list: > > > , > | deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free > | deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free > | > | deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates main contrib

Re: change sources.list to follow testing, not jessie

2015-04-16 Thread Darac Marjal
On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 12:05:54PM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: > My current sources.list: > > > , > | deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free > | deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free > | > | deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ jessie-u

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-16 Thread David Wright
Quoting Bret Busby (bret.bu...@gmail.com): > On 16/04/2015, David Wright wrote: > > Quoting Bret Busby (bret.bu...@gmail.com): > > > >> bret@bret-Aspire-E5-521:~$ lspci | grep -i vga > >> 00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. > >> [AMD/ATI] Mullins [Radeon APU A4-6000 wi

Re: Realtek firmware

2015-04-16 Thread German
On Thu, 16 Apr 2015 18:08:18 +0200 Jean-Marc wrote: > Thu, 16 Apr 2015 10:32:07 -0400 > German écrivait : > > > Hi all. What do I need to install Realtek firmware for my wireless card? > > Thanks > > Check what is your chip using lspci > > And send back the output of: > lspci -v -s xx:xx.x (

Re: Realtek firmware

2015-04-16 Thread Jean-Marc
Thu, 16 Apr 2015 10:32:07 -0400 German écrivait : > Hi all. What do I need to install Realtek firmware for my wireless card? > Thanks Check what is your chip using lspci And send back the output of: lspci -v -s xx:xx.x (xx:xx.x = the bus:slot.function of the wifi device) > > -- > German >

change sources.list to follow testing, not jessie

2015-04-16 Thread Harry Putnam
My current sources.list: , | deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free | deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free | | deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates main contrib non-free | deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ jessie-up

Re: wheezy drive recognition?

2015-04-16 Thread David Wright
Quoting Gene Heskett (ghesk...@wdtv.com): > Then edit fstab to mount the LABEL = /opt drive on top of the /opt > directory is easy. But Jessie will have installed some things in /home > and I am not convinced we have a mechanism/script I could apply to > update the image of wheezy's home on th

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-16 Thread Bret Busby
On 16/04/2015, David Wright wrote: > Quoting Bret Busby (bret.bu...@gmail.com): > >> bret@bret-Aspire-E5-521:~$ lspci | grep -i vga >> 00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. >> [AMD/ATI] Mullins [Radeon APU A4-6000 with R2 Graphics] > > I think you should concentrate on t

Re: Realtek firmware

2015-04-16 Thread David Wright
Quoting German (gentger...@gmail.com): > Hi all. What do I need to install Realtek firmware for my wireless card? > Thanks That depends on the chip within it. You might post the output of lspci -v though only the paragraph like this should be needed: 00:0d.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semicond

Re: reading an empty directory after reboot is very slow

2015-04-16 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2015-04-15 14:19:40 -0500, David Wright wrote: > Good to see people testing their tools. Actually it is not a test of a tool, but a test to find for various double-precision functions, the arguments that are the hardest to round, in order to solve the Table Maker's Dilemma. Such values can also

Re: Realtek firmware

2015-04-16 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
enable non-free repo and install firmware-realtek 2015-04-16 22:32 GMT+08:00 German : > Hi all. What do I need to install Realtek firmware for my wireless card? > Thanks > > -- > German > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Realtek firmware

2015-04-16 Thread German
Hi all. What do I need to install Realtek firmware for my wireless card? Thanks -- German -- 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/20150416103207.4fdf7cacc

Re: wheezy drive recognition?

2015-04-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 16 April 2015 02:02:44 David Christensen wrote: > On 04/15/2015 08:54 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > I finally found enough of a round tuit to burn the cd and try it. > > Seatools found and tested all 3 drives, no hits no runs no errors. > > ... 1. DON"T leave your cell phone plugged in ..

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-16 Thread David Wright
Quoting Bret Busby (bret.bu...@gmail.com): > bret@bret-Aspire-E5-521:~$ lspci | grep -i vga > 00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. > [AMD/ATI] Mullins [Radeon APU A4-6000 with R2 Graphics] I think you should concentrate on the string in brackets, which appears on http

Re: Encrypting an External HDD

2015-04-16 Thread Frédéric Marchal
On Wednesday 15 April 2015 18:33:56, David Christensen wrote : > On 04/15/2015 08:01 AM, ken wrote: > > What options or features does one get by putting the LUKS container in a > > partition rather than putting it on a raw drive? > > I am not aware of any technical advantages or disadvantages of L

Re: OpenVPN doesn't restart after sleep

2015-04-16 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 15/04/15 13:32, lukn555 wrote: > Hi Tony > > Sorry for the late reply, I suffered the same but I only just found out > how to fix this: > > > > Add the following script to /lib/systemd/system-sleep (in case you are > using systemd): > > $ cat /lib/systemd/system-sleep/openvpn.sh > #!/bin/ba

Fwd: Re: OpenVPN doesn't restart after sleep

2015-04-16 Thread Tony van der Hoff
Forward to list, having replied directly to Bob in error. Original Message Subject: Re: OpenVPN doesn't restart after sleep Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2015 15:10:29 +0200 From: Tony van der Hoff To: Bob Proulx Thanks for your reply, Bob. I have now risen from my sick-bed, and can once

javaws

2015-04-16 Thread lina
Hi all, The problem raised when I tried to "Launch Jalview Desktop" in the following website: http://www.jalview.org/Help at the top, right corner, there is "Launch Jalview Desktop". It worked very well in the past. But today it is just not work as expected. I tried the /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-ope

KDE wallet keys

2015-04-16 Thread Gary Dale
I just installed Jessie/AMD64 on a refurbished laptop I acquired. Now I have to configure KDE wallet following its advice to use key-based authentication. I'm wondering what's the best practice for this? Can anyone point me to a good how to on KDE wallet for laptops. Also, is there a method fo

Re: I need guidance about how to configure a newly installed Jessie

2015-04-16 Thread Gary Dale
On 16/04/15 03:00 AM, Paul E Condon wrote: I have installed various releases of debian many times. I have a local proxy using approx that makes it very fast. After posting about a lockup of my desktop Jessie computer, I realized that whatever advice I got would I got would surely be more complic

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-16 Thread Bret Busby
On 16/04/2015, Petter Adsen wrote: > On Thu, 16 Apr 2015 15:21:46 +0800 > Bret Busby wrote: > >> On 16/04/2015, Petter Adsen wrote: >> > On Thu, 16 Apr 2015 14:46:46 +0800 >> > Bret Busby wrote: >> > >> >> On 14/04/2015, Bret Busby wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > >> >> > In the Debian

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-16 Thread Petter Adsen
On Thu, 16 Apr 2015 15:21:46 +0800 Bret Busby wrote: > On 16/04/2015, Petter Adsen wrote: > > On Thu, 16 Apr 2015 14:46:46 +0800 > > Bret Busby wrote: > > > >> On 14/04/2015, Bret Busby wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > > >> > In the Debian 7 installation on the Acer V3-772G, for > >> > Syste

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-16 Thread Bret Busby
On 16/04/2015, Petter Adsen wrote: > On Thu, 16 Apr 2015 14:46:46 +0800 > Bret Busby wrote: > >> On 14/04/2015, Bret Busby wrote: >> >> >> >> >> > >> > In the Debian 7 installation on the Acer V3-772G, for >> > System -> Settings -> Details -> Overview, it has >> > >> > " >> > Processor: Intel

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-16 Thread Petter Adsen
On Thu, 16 Apr 2015 15:11:03 +0800 Bret Busby wrote: > and, on this computer, as mentioned in a previous message, neither > Debian 7, nor Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, can get the external monitor going, as > neother seem to have an appropriate driver for the > AMD E2-6110 APU with AMD Radeon R2 Graphics × 4

Re: samba issue

2015-04-16 Thread Pol Hallen
I had a similar problem with samba (on jessie), but under slightly different conditions. Under full load the interface went down and it took several minutes to retrieve connectivity. hello and thanks for your reply :-) I've same problem also if I set low bandwidth my server has 3 different eth

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-16 Thread Bret Busby
On 15/04/2015, Bret Busby wrote: > > On the Acer E5-521-238Q, which does not have Ubuntu installed, I have, > for Debian 7, > > " > root@debian-Acer-E5-521:/# grep -B2 'Module class: X.Org Video Driver' > /var/log/Xorg.0.log > [25.144] (II) Module ati: vendor="X.Org Foundation" > [25.14

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-16 Thread Petter Adsen
On Thu, 16 Apr 2015 14:46:46 +0800 Bret Busby wrote: > On 14/04/2015, Bret Busby wrote: > > > > > > > > In the Debian 7 installation on the Acer V3-772G, for > > System -> Settings -> Details -> Overview, it has > > > > " > > Processor: Intel Core i&-4702MQ CPU @ 2.20GHz x 8 > > Graphics: Ga

I need guidance about how to configure a newly installed Jessie

2015-04-16 Thread Paul E Condon
I have installed various releases of debian many times. I have a local proxy using approx that makes it very fast. After posting about a lockup of my desktop Jessie computer, I realized that whatever advice I got would I got would surely be more complicated than just reinstalling from a backup tha