Re: [Debian 8.0 Installation] Firmware files on USB stick with debian iso

2015-04-29 Thread Avinash Sonawane
Present Situation: I have made another USB port working so now I am using 2 USB sticks. One as debian 8.0 installation media and another to hold firmware .deb packages. But when I try to load the drivers in one of the installation steps it says: "Detected removable media that is not a known drive

Re: issue with systemd-udev-settle

2015-04-29 Thread Matthias Bodenbinder
Am 29.04.2015 um 19:23 schrieb Christian Seiler: Just for the purpose of debugging, could you increase RateLimitBurst to 1 or so (i.e. 10x the default value) in /etc/systemd/journald.conf and reboot? (Set it back again after you're done deubgging, else your logs might get flooded.) The 1000

Re: [way OT, but desperate] GoBook speakers (solved)

2015-04-29 Thread Glenn English
On Apr 26, 2015, at 5:50 PM, Glenn English wrote: > Is anyone here familiar with GoBook XR-1 laptops? Thank all for the suggestions. The speakers are back on. I don't remember whose idea it was, but in one of the links suggested, I found a link to a site called Troubleshooting Linux Sound:

Re: No HDMI-Sound anymore with onboard sound chip "Intel CougarPoint HDMI" after upgrading from Wheezy to Jessie

2015-04-29 Thread Ric Moore
On 04/29/2015 06:23 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Wednesday 29 April 2015 21:19:33 mailing4362 wrote: OK Ladies, problem ist solved in the spirit of List: "You can always uninstall things if they don't work." Solution: # apt-get remove pulseaudio pavucontrol $ alsamixer unmute S/PDIF which wa

Re: Jessie in VirtualBox: Terminal dies

2015-04-29 Thread Ric Moore
On 04/29/2015 11:13 PM, dietmar.4...@web.de wrote: I searched for "*term*", and "terminal" seems to be the only installed terminal application. Does any other application open successfully? Examples? I tried other applications like file manager, iceweasel, libreoffice writer - they work f

Re: [Debian 8.0 Installation] Firmware files on USB stick with debian iso

2015-04-29 Thread Avinash Sonawane
On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 3:16 AM, Brian wrote: > Do we assume the firmware files on the FAT partition are .deb packages? > Do you have an existing linux installation? Yes. all firmware files are .deb packages and yes currently I am using Ubuntu. -- Avinash Sonawane (RootKea) PICT, Pune http://w

Re: Re: Jessie in VirtualBox: Terminal dies

2015-04-29 Thread dietmar . 4711
> What kind of terminal? gnome-terminal, xterm, something else ? Do all > terminal applications have a problem? I suppose it's gnome, since gdm3 and gnome-session is running. I have a screenshot here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/j9ofistsyw7pygp/terminal.png?dl=0 I searched for "*term*", and "t

Re: Help with TestDisk

2015-04-29 Thread Seeker
On 4/29/2015 5:41 AM, German wrote: On Tue, 28 Apr 2015 22:24:50 -0700 Seeker wrote: On 4/28/2015 8:03 PM, German wrote: On Tue, 28 Apr 2015 19:06:29 -0700 Seeker wrote: As you can see, there are two directories, but how to view contents of them I have no clue. Enter, P, Right does not

Re: initramfs broken on Jessie upgrade

2015-04-29 Thread David Wright
Forget the Call Trace, but I get a Kernel panic very like http://users.birkenwald.de/~berni/volatile/783620.png when I follow these instructions carefully: https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04s03.html.en#usb-copy-isohybrid 4.3.3. Manually copying files to the USB stick - the flexible w

Re: Jessie: XFCE4 Desktop background stopped working

2015-04-29 Thread Mike Kupfer
Johann Spies wrote: > Since Jessie became stable, there is a flat gray background on the XFCE4 > desktop and I cannot change it. My normal configuration is that XFCE4 > should use a list of pictures and change the background regularly > (something that I don't think the other systems can do). Th

Re: Jessie and screensaver on lid-close

2015-04-29 Thread Gary Roach
On 04/29/2015 10:30 AM, Frederic Marchal wrote: On Wednesday 29 April 2015 09:08:41 Gary Roach wrote: On 04/28/2015 05:27 AM, Francesco Ariis wrote: Hello, I recently upgraded my laptop from wheezy to jessie, and everything is going smoothly. I run a very simple system, with X but no DE

Re: [Debian 8.0 Installation] Firmware files on USB stick with debian iso

2015-04-29 Thread David Wright
Quoting Avinash Sonawane (root...@gmail.com): > On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 8:26 PM, David Wright > wrote: > > Quoting Avinash Sonawane (root...@gmail.com): > >> I am trying to install Debian 8.0 on my system. While installing it > >> reported some firmware being missing (more specifically > >> brcm/

Jessie and Chrome

2015-04-29 Thread Charles Chambers
Hi, All: I had a bug when I installed Jessie, and I'd like to finish confirming it. Specifically, the GPU process in Google Chrome takes up 50 percent plus of the CPU utilization - not memory, CPU utilization. Using the --disable-GPU command line parameter cures the problem somewhat. Anyone ha

Re: Jessie with ATI Radeon HD 4250 boots black screen after installing drivers...

2015-04-29 Thread Steven Rosenberg
On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 1:23 PM, The Wanderer wrote: > I have a laptop which also has a 4000-series Radeon GPU, and I run it > with the non-proprietary driver from the xserver-xorg-video-radeon > package instead. It's not as performant as the proprietary FGLRX > equivalent would probably be, if on

Re: Is anyone else having trouble sending mail from Jessie?

2015-04-29 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Thu, 30 Apr 2015, Lisi Reisz wrote: I was being ironic. Even sarcastic. Which is why you are so valuable to this group. -- These are not the droids you are looking for. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact l

Re: Is anyone else having trouble sending mail from Jessie?

2015-04-29 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 29 April 2015 21:41:32 Bob Holtzman wrote: > On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 08:31:06AM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Wednesday 29 April 2015 01:04:47 Bob Holtzman wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 09:09:03AM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > > On Tuesday 28 April 2015 01:23:41 John J. Boyer

Re: [Debian 8.0 Installation] Firmware files on USB stick with debian iso

2015-04-29 Thread David Wright
Quoting Avinash Sonawane (root...@gmail.com): > On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 9:50 PM, David Wright > wrote: > > > But my workaround (to reduce bandwidth as much as I could) would be to > > install with firmware-netinst as far as the first reboot and then use > > the DVD you've got from then on. > >

Re: [Debian 8.0 Installation] Firmware files on USB stick with debian iso

2015-04-29 Thread David Wright
Quoting Avinash Sonawane (root...@gmail.com): > A new development: > > Now I have managed to create a separate FAT partition using fdisk > which is holding the > firmware files. The reason why earlier I couldn't is because I used > default block values from fdisk. > > Start partition at block mo

Re: Jessie and screensaver on lid-close

2015-04-29 Thread David Wright
Quoting Sven Hartge (s...@svenhartge.de): > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Gary Roach wrote: > > >> I bow to your experience but, for the life of me, I can't see how > >> this could happen with the physics that is involved. I suppose that > >> the liquid crystal material could deteriorate with time but I

Re: Question: Why do you dist-upgrade?

2015-04-29 Thread Tim Kelley
> So a client comes to you as a professional admin. Let's say they have > an aging Squeeze LTS based web server. They want to move to Jessie > which you may have heard is recently released. Would you re-install > their system to Jessie and ask them to reinstall their web site from > scratch? Or

Re: Question: Why do you dist-upgrade?

2015-04-29 Thread Ron
Not to mention that unlike an install, a dist-upgrade does not require reinstalling all the special configs and tweaks you may have added to the system. Cheers, Ron. -- Sex without love is an empty experience, but, as empty experiences go, it's one of the best

Re: No HDMI-Sound anymore with onboard sound chip "Intel CougarPoint HDMI" after upgrading from Wheezy to Jessie

2015-04-29 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 29 April 2015 21:19:33 mailing4362 wrote: > OK Ladies, > > problem ist solved in the spirit of List: > > "You can always uninstall things if they don't work." > > Solution: > > # apt-get remove pulseaudio pavucontrol > > > > $ alsamixer > > unmute S/PDIF which was muted by pulseaudio.

Re: Question: Why do you dist-upgrade?

2015-04-29 Thread Sven Hartge
Bob Proulx wrote: > Tim Kelley wrote: >> I'm a server admin for a living, for the last 25 years, I mean data >> centers and lately, cloud. There a very few conditions that would >> make me dist-upgrade a server, that is absolutely primitive. Servers >> are created from scratch in minutes at will

Re: Jessie and screensaver on lid-close

2015-04-29 Thread Sven Hartge
Bob Proulx wrote: > Gary Roach wrote: >> I bow to your experience but, for the life of me, I can't see how >> this could happen with the physics that is involved. I suppose that >> the liquid crystal material could deteriorate with time but I thought >> that the stuff was pretty indestructible.

A few pixels are missing at the left and right of screen

2015-04-29 Thread Edward C. Jones
I have just installed Debian 8.0 (Jessie), amd64 port. I have a Samsung E2420 monitor. The video board uses the AMD (ATI cedar) Radeon HD 5450 chip set. I had to install firmware-linux-nonfree to get the full 1920 x 1280 resolution. In Jessie, a few pixels at the left and right of the scree

Re: [Debian 8.0 Installation] Firmware files on USB stick with debian iso

2015-04-29 Thread Brian
On Wed 29 Apr 2015 at 21:43:21 +0530, Avinash Sonawane wrote: > A new development: > > Now I have managed to create a separate FAT partition using fdisk > which is holding the > firmware files. The reason why earlier I couldn't is because I used > default block values from fdisk. > > Start part

Re: Setting up AP with hostapd

2015-04-29 Thread Bob Proulx
csanyi...@gmail.com wrote: > What could be the problem? I don't know but here is my working configuration. I am not running in bridge mode. I am running in router mode. Bob In /etc/network/interfaces: allow-hotplug wlan0 iface wlan0 inet static address 192.168.93.1 netmask 255.

Re: Question: Why do you dist-upgrade?

2015-04-29 Thread Miles Fidelman
Bob Proulx wrote: Tim Kelley wrote: I'm a server admin for a living, for the last 25 years, I mean data centers and lately, cloud. There a very few conditions that would make me dist-upgrade a server, that is absolutely primitive. Servers are created from scratch in minutes at will from an SCMS

Re: Jessie and screensaver on lid-close

2015-04-29 Thread Bob Proulx
Gary Roach wrote: > I bow to your experience but, for the life of me, I can't see how this > could happen with the physics that is involved. I suppose that the > liquid crystal material could deteriorate with time but I thought that > the stuff was pretty indestructible. It doesn't make sense to m

Re: Question: Why do you dist-upgrade?

2015-04-29 Thread Bob Proulx
Tim Kelley wrote: > I'm a server admin for a living, for the last 25 years, I mean data centers > and lately, cloud. There a very few conditions that would make me > dist-upgrade a server, that is absolutely primitive. Servers are created > from scratch in minutes at will from an SCMS or automated

Re: Power completely drained in hibernate mode?

2015-04-29 Thread Bob Proulx
Darac Marjal wrote: > Patrick Wiseman wrote: > > Any thoughts about how to diagnose what's going on? (It's also > > painfully slow to get back up to speed coming out of hibernation, but > > that's another story.) > > First off, see if you have any lights on on the machine while it's > hibernated.

Re: [Debian 8.0 Installation] Firmware files on USB stick with debian iso

2015-04-29 Thread Bob Proulx
Curt wrote: > Is it just me or is the option to install an alternative desktop > environment missing from the advanced options of both amd64 netinstall > isos ( official and firmware-unofficial)? The desktop option has been added to the tasksel stage. It is a better place for it. # tasksel -t

Re: Debian 8 Display corruption and previous desktop revelation during login (nouveau)

2015-04-29 Thread Nick
On 29/04/15 20:04, Nick Booker wrote: > Selected details from lspci, glxinfo and dmesg in the following paste: > > http://paste.debian.net/169967/ Sorry that one was set to expire too quickly. Here's a new one set to expire never: http://paste.debian.net/170024/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Jessie: Problem switching from graphical to text-based login

2015-04-29 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 29.04.2015 um 22:29 schrieb Michael Biebl: > Am 29.04.2015 um 21:31 schrieb Reiner Bühl: >> Hi, >> >> I have installed a new system with Debian Jessie and Xfce. When I try >> to disable lightdm via systemctl, X11 is stopped as expected, but >> after the next restart, the graphical login is back.

Re: Jessie in VirtualBox: Terminal dies

2015-04-29 Thread Selim T . Erdoğan
On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 05:58:10AM +0200, dietmar.4...@web.de wrote: > Hi, > > I just installed Jessie in a Virtualbox environment (running on Win7 64Bit) > without any problems. > The installed system starts up fine. > > But when I try to open a terminal in the window manager, the icon and a >

Re: Is anyone else having trouble sending mail from Jessie?

2015-04-29 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 08:31:06AM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Wednesday 29 April 2015 01:04:47 Bob Holtzman wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 09:09:03AM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > On Tuesday 28 April 2015 01:23:41 John J. Boyer wrote: > > > > I did not have this problem with Ubuntu. > > > >

Re: Question: Why do you dist-upgrade?

2015-04-29 Thread Tim Kelley
>*Grumble* x86 desktop users. So many things are taken for granted. >No offense meant. I'm a server admin for a living, for the last 25 years, I mean data centers and lately, cloud. There a very few conditions that would make me dist-upgrade a server, that is absolutely primitive. Servers are cre

Re: Re: No HDMI-Sound anymore with onboard sound chip "Intel CougarPoint HDMI" after upgrading from Wheezy to Jessie

2015-04-29 Thread mailing4362
OK Ladies, problem ist solved in the spirit of List: "You can always uninstall things if they don't work." Solution: # apt-get remove pulseaudio pavucontrol $ alsamixer unmute S/PDIF which was muted by pulseaudio. Now, I am at least able to play videos _with sound_ again on my HDMI connect

Re: Screen resolution in Jessie

2015-04-29 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 29.04.2015 um 21:22 schrieb Gary Roach: > [27.621] (II) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI2 capable > [27.638] (EE) AIGLX: reverting to software rendering > [29.297] (II) AIGLX: Loaded and initialized swrast > [29.297] (II) GLX: Initialized DRISWRAST GL provider for screen 0 I don't see

Re: Jessie: Problem switching from graphical to text-based login

2015-04-29 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 29.04.2015 um 21:31 schrieb Reiner Bühl: > Hi, > > I have installed a new system with Debian Jessie and Xfce. When I try > to disable lightdm via systemctl, X11 is stopped as expected, but > after the next restart, the graphical login is back. I do not want to > uninstall lightdm, but just disa

Re: Jessie and screensaver on lid-close

2015-04-29 Thread Sven Hartge
Gary Roach wrote: > On 04/29/2015 10:30 AM, Frederic Marchal wrote: >> Not quite right. I have seen LCD screens where the login screen was >> burned in the screen leaving a clearly visible and annoying shadow at >> all time. >> So, it isn't a good idea to leave the same display on the screen for

Re: Question: Why do you dist-upgrade?

2015-04-29 Thread Reco
Hi. On Wed, 29 Apr 2015 13:52:07 -0500 Tim Kelley wrote: > Tim Kelley > > > On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 12:13 PM, Reco wrote: > > > Hi. > > > > On Wed, 29 Apr 2015 11:11:52 -0500 > > Tim K wrote: > > > > > For me, and I think anyone with a sensibly laid out system, it's so much > > > less tro

Re: Jessie with ATI Radeon HD 4250 boots black screen after installing drivers...

2015-04-29 Thread The Wanderer
On 04/29/2015 at 04:11 PM, Gábor Hársfalvi wrote: > Hello, > > I have a big problem - I use the official tutorial - > https://wiki.debian.org/ATIProprietary#Debian_8_.22Jessie.22 - but > when I reboot it always give me a black screen. :( Those directions state that they are only for specific mod

Jessie with ATI Radeon HD 4250 boots black screen after installing drivers...

2015-04-29 Thread Gábor Hársfalvi
Hello, I have a big problem - I use the official tutorial - https://wiki.debian.org/ATIProprietary#Debian_8_.22Jessie.22 - but when I reboot it always give me a black screen. :( Why? And why gives me "aticonfig --initial" "No supported adapters detected"? Thanks

Re: ATA resets with Intel 8/C220 and HGST drive

2015-04-29 Thread Selim T . Erdoğan
On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 03:03:58PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > Summary: I had annoying resets of the SATA bus with a 8 Series/C220 Series > Chipset controller and a HGST Travelstar 7K1000 drive. I recently managed to > stop them and as far as I currently know I am satisfied; I write this mail >

Re: Jessie and screensaver on lid-close

2015-04-29 Thread Gary Roach
On 04/29/2015 10:30 AM, Frederic Marchal wrote: On Wednesday 29 April 2015 09:08:41 Gary Roach wrote: On 04/28/2015 05:27 AM, Francesco Ariis wrote: Hello, I recently upgraded my laptop from wheezy to jessie, and everything is going smoothly. I run a very simple system, with X but no DE

Jessie: Problem switching from graphical to text-based login

2015-04-29 Thread Reiner Bühl
Hi, I have installed a new system with Debian Jessie and Xfce. When I try to disable lightdm via systemctl, X11 is stopped as expected, but after the next restart, the graphical login is back. I do not want to uninstall lightdm, but just disable the automatic start of X11 and lightdm. What is the

Debian 8 Display corruption and previous desktop revelation during login (nouveau)

2015-04-29 Thread Nick Booker
Hi. I'm getting display corruption during login on the latest Debian 8 (Jessie), installed from scratch on an emptied hard disk. I have the MATE desktop environment, and am using the nouveau graphics driver. This didn't happen with my previous OSes (Debian Wheezy, Linux Mint 17.1 or Parabola GNU

Re: Screen resolution in Jessie

2015-04-29 Thread Gary Roach
On 04/29/2015 09:47 AM, Michael Biebl wrote: Am 29.04.2015 um 18:28 schrieb Gary Roach: I just upgraded to Jessie with no problems. I use a 24" 16x9 monitor. With wheezy, there was a 1920 x 1080? mode that gave the correct aspect ratio for the 16x9 screens. Jessie seems to only have the 4x3 1600

Re: Power completely drained in hibernate mode?

2015-04-29 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 10:17 AM, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 09:50:18AM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: >> Hello: >> >> To hibernate, I use 'sudo pm-hibernate' (because the hibernate button >> on my Xfce power manager tells me 'Sleep verb not supported'). I >> thought hibernate mo

Re: Question: Why do you dist-upgrade?

2015-04-29 Thread The Wanderer
On 04/29/2015 at 12:11 PM, Tim K wrote: > For me, and I think anyone with a sensibly laid out system, it's so > much less trouble and time to reinstall. I can only really think of > one reason to dist-upgrade, and that's if the system is remote (and a > very good reason it is). I'm wondering why s

Re: Question: Why do you dist-upgrade?

2015-04-29 Thread Tim Kelley
Tim Kelley On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 12:13 PM, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Wed, 29 Apr 2015 11:11:52 -0500 > Tim K wrote: > > > For me, and I think anyone with a sensibly laid out system, it's so much > > less trouble and time to reinstall. > > While the amount of trouble is subjective, the instal

Re: testing or stable

2015-04-29 Thread The Wanderer
On 04/29/2015 at 11:38 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 02:37:43PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > >> The "experimental" repository has no codename, at least not that I >> know of. It is used entirely for packages that developers want to >> make > > My understanding is that it i

Re: Is anyone else having trouble sending mail from Jessie? Am I?

2015-04-29 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20150429_2219+1200, Richard Hector wrote: > On 29/04/15 19:31, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Wednesday 29 April 2015 01:04:47 Bob Holtzman wrote: > >> On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 09:09:03AM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > >>> On Tuesday 28 April 2015 01:23:41 John J. Boyer wrote: > I did not have this pr

Re: apt vs aptitude (was ... Re: non-stable packages infestation)

2015-04-29 Thread Selim T . Erdoğan
On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 09:21:53AM -0300, Francisco M Neto wrote: > I actually miss the good'ol days of dselect. Apart from that I've been using > a combination of apt for small tasks and synaptic for large numbers of > packages. For me, those good old days never ended. I still use dselect. :)

Re: Re: No HDMI-Sound anymore with onboard sound chip "Intel CougarPoint HDMI" after upgrading from Wheezy to Jessie

2015-04-29 Thread mailing4362
Thanks for the hint with pavucontrol. Unfortunateley, pavucontrol shows in the profile selection menue the HDMI Output always as "unplugged": "Digital Stereo (HDMI) Output (unplugged)" And also the corresponding output device: "HDMI / DisplayPort (unplugged)" Also the sink list shows the devic

Re: Jessie and screensaver on lid-close

2015-04-29 Thread Ron
On Wed, 29 Apr 2015 19:30:19 +0200 Frederic Marchal wrote: > Moreover, it makes sense to have a screen saver to turn the display and > backlight off. It saves a lot of energy on a laptop. Not to mention that some, who make grunting noises in the backwoods, are still using CRT monitors... Che

Synaptic package?

2015-04-29 Thread German
I just installed new Jessie on my new laptop. I assume it is Synaptic touchpad, but can be wrong. How at all to tell by whom touchpad was made? Anyway, I think it is possible to make my touchpad more responsive. Firmware? Drivers? Clue me in. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: issue with systemd-udev-settle

2015-04-29 Thread Christian Seiler
On 04/29/2015 06:53 PM, Matthias Bodenbinder wrote: > Am 29.04.2015 um 10:32 schrieb Christian Seiler: >> Just use journalctl (without -b) to see all messages (they are >> still in RAM in the journal - as per the log you posted, journald >> will use up to 80 MiB [2] which is more than enough to kee

Re: Jessie and screensaver on lid-close

2015-04-29 Thread Frederic Marchal
On Wednesday 29 April 2015 09:08:41 Gary Roach wrote: > On 04/28/2015 05:27 AM, Francesco Ariis wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I recently upgraded my laptop from wheezy to jessie, and everything > > > > is going smoothly. I run a very simple system, with X but no DE. > > > > I would like to lock

Re: Question: Why do you dist-upgrade?

2015-04-29 Thread Reco
Hi. On Wed, 29 Apr 2015 11:11:52 -0500 Tim K wrote: > For me, and I think anyone with a sensibly laid out system, it's so much > less trouble and time to reinstall. While the amount of trouble is subjective, the install/upgrade time is objective. And it's the last one that you estimated wrong

Re: issue with systemd-udev-settle

2015-04-29 Thread Matthias Bodenbinder
Am 29.04.2015 um 10:32 schrieb Christian Seiler: Just use journalctl (without -b) to see all messages (they are still in RAM in the journal - as per the log you posted, journald will use up to 80 MiB [2] which is more than enough to keep all 3000 or so messages). Just look through them (there are

Re: Jessie and screensaver on lid-close

2015-04-29 Thread Gary Roach
On 04/28/2015 05:27 AM, Francesco Ariis wrote: Hello, I recently upgraded my laptop from wheezy to jessie, and everything is going smoothly. I run a very simple system, with X but no DE. I would like to lock the screen when the lid of my laptop is closed (by running xscreensaver, which I cu

Re: Screen resolution in Jessie

2015-04-29 Thread Frank Miles
On Wed, 29 Apr 2015 18:30:03 +0200, Gary Roach wrote: > I just upgraded to Jessie with no problems. I use a 24" 16x9 monitor. > With wheezy, there was a 1920 x 1080? mode that gave the correct aspect > ratio for the 16x9 screens. Jessie seems to only have the 4x3 1600x1200 > mode. All of my cir

Re: issue with systemd-udev-settle

2015-04-29 Thread Matthias Bodenbinder
Am 29.04.2015 um 15:28 schrieb Michael Biebl: Am 29.04.2015 um 10:32 schrieb Christian Seiler: Am 2015-04-29 07:15, schrieb Matthias Bodenbinder: systemd-analyze blame: 56.397s systemd-udev-settle.service Yeah, that shouldn't happen. Matthias, do you have any custom udev rules in

Re: [Debian 8.0 Installation] Firmware files on USB stick with debian iso

2015-04-29 Thread Curt
On 2015-04-29, Avinash Sonawane wrote: > On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 9:50 PM, David Wright > wrote: > > But then won't Debian will be downloading all the packages from > internet while installing from netinst image? Can I use the existing > amd64 dvd1 iso then? (instead of downloading packages extra

Re: Screen resolution in Jessie

2015-04-29 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 29.04.2015 um 18:28 schrieb Gary Roach: > I just upgraded to Jessie with no problems. I use a 24" 16x9 monitor. > With wheezy, there was a 1920 x 1080? mode that gave the correct aspect > ratio for the 16x9 screens. Jessie seems to only have the 4x3 1600x1200 > mode. All of my circles are now el

Re: Bluetooth mouse problems on Jessie

2015-04-29 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 29 Apr 2015 17:23:08 +0200 Johann Spies wrote: Hello Johann, >On 29 April 2015 at 11:40, Brad Rogers wrote: >> As Lisi says, you've not eliminated the mouse as the problem (in fact, >> you've probably done the opposite). >Correct! Thanks for opening my eyes for that possibility. You'

Question: Why do you dist-upgrade?

2015-04-29 Thread Tim K
For me, and I think anyone with a sensibly laid out system, it's so much less trouble and time to reinstall. I can only really think of one reason to dist-upgrade, and that's if the system is remote (and a very good reason it is). I'm wondering why some of you dist-upgrade ... do you just like it t

Screen resolution in Jessie

2015-04-29 Thread Gary Roach
I just upgraded to Jessie with no problems. I use a 24" 16x9 monitor. With wheezy, there was a 1920 x 1080? mode that gave the correct aspect ratio for the 16x9 screens. Jessie seems to only have the 4x3 1600x1200 mode. All of my circles are now elipses. Is there a solution to this problem. Is

Re: [Debian 8.0 Installation] Firmware files on USB stick with debian iso

2015-04-29 Thread Avinash Sonawane
On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 9:50 PM, David Wright wrote: > But my workaround (to reduce bandwidth as much as I could) would be to > install with firmware-netinst as far as the first reboot and then use > the DVD you've got from then on. But then won't Debian will be downloading all the packages from

Re: [Debian 8.0 Installation] Synaptics touchpad not working in Graphical Install

2015-04-29 Thread German
On Wed, 29 Apr 2015 21:53:52 +0530 Avinash Sonawane wrote: > 3 Days back when I tried to install debian 7.8.0 on my laptop, at the > time of install my mouse touchpad was working just fine. But when I > tried to install Debian 8.0 in graphical way touchpad isn't working at > all. > > Does that m

[Debian 8.0 Installation] Synaptics touchpad not working in Graphical Install

2015-04-29 Thread Avinash Sonawane
3 Days back when I tried to install debian 7.8.0 on my laptop, at the time of install my mouse touchpad was working just fine. But when I tried to install Debian 8.0 in graphical way touchpad isn't working at all. Does that mean Jessie lacks the Synaptics driver in default install? Will I be able

Re: [Debian 8.0 Installation] Firmware files on USB stick with debian iso

2015-04-29 Thread David Wright
Quoting Avinash Sonawane (root...@gmail.com): > On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 9:18 PM, Curt wrote: > > On 2015-04-29, Avinash Sonawane wrote: > >>> > >>> I'm not sure which iso you downloaded. If it was the netinst version > >>> from https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/debian-installer/ > >>> take a

Re: Bluetooth mouse problems on Jessie

2015-04-29 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 29 April 2015 16:23:08 Johann Spies wrote: > On 29 April 2015 at 11:40, Brad Rogers wrote: > > On Wed, 29 Apr 2015 09:10:25 +0200 > > Johann Spies wrote: > > > > Hello Johann, > > > > >mouse which I have been using for years. I get the message > > >"successfully added but failed to

Re: [Debian 8.0 Installation] Firmware files on USB stick with debian iso

2015-04-29 Thread Curt
On 2015-04-29, Curt wrote: >> > > Yes, you have the official iso, but in order to obviate the difficulties > you're encountering, David is saying you have the option of downloading the > unofficial iso with the firmware included (that way you're off and > running to the races without further ado).

Re: [Debian 8.0 Installation] Firmware files on USB stick with debian iso

2015-04-29 Thread Avinash Sonawane
A new development: Now I have managed to create a separate FAT partition using fdisk which is holding the firmware files. The reason why earlier I couldn't is because I used default block values from fdisk. Start partition at block more that size of iso - #debian IRC Now installer to begins smo

Re: [Debian 8.0 Installation] Firmware files on USB stick with debian iso

2015-04-29 Thread Avinash Sonawane
On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 9:18 PM, Curt wrote: > On 2015-04-29, Avinash Sonawane wrote: >>> >>> I'm not sure which iso you downloaded. If it was the netinst version >>> from https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/debian-installer/ >>> take a look further down the page where there's a panel with a r

Re: [Debian 8.0 Installation] Firmware files on USB stick with debian iso

2015-04-29 Thread Curt
On 2015-04-29, Avinash Sonawane wrote: >> >> I'm not sure which iso you downloaded. If it was the netinst version >> from https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/debian-installer/ >> take a look further down the page where there's a panel with a red >> cross. Here you can get the netinst iso with f

Re: testing or stable

2015-04-29 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 02:37:43PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > The "experimental" repository has no codename, at least not that I know > of. It is used entirely for packages that developers want to make My understanding is that it is affectionally referred to as 'rc-buggy' -- "If you're not car

Re: testing or stable

2015-04-29 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 09:02:17AM -0700, Joris Bolsens wrote: > I've been using Debian Jessie for ~ a year now, now that it is stable > should I update to sid? or stick with jessie? > > I enjoy tinkering with everything, so I'm OK with things breaking or > needing some special configuration, hell

Re: no ntp installed

2015-04-29 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 29.04.2015 um 15:34 schrieb Michael Biebl: > There is also man systemd.index, an index of all man pages. It's > massive. You should skip all (3) entries, which are API documentation > and only relevant for developers. All man pages are also available for reading online. The aforementioned syste

Re: Bluetooth mouse problems on Jessie

2015-04-29 Thread Johann Spies
On 29 April 2015 at 11:40, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Wed, 29 Apr 2015 09:10:25 +0200 > Johann Spies wrote: > > Hello Johann, > > >mouse which I have been using for years. I get the message > >"successfully added but failed to connect". > > As Lisi says, you've not eliminated the mouse as the prob

Re: where adjusts system date/time?

2015-04-29 Thread songbird
Michael Biebl wrote: >schrieb songbird: >> will it stay masked when updates to systemd come through? > > The mask is created in /etc/systemd/system, which is admin territory, > i.e. not overwritten by the package. > > So your answer is yes. thanks again! i really appreciate having you and

Re: [Debian 8.0 Installation] Firmware files on USB stick with debian iso

2015-04-29 Thread Avinash Sonawane
On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 8:26 PM, David Wright wrote: > Quoting Avinash Sonawane (root...@gmail.com): >> I am trying to install Debian 8.0 on my system. While installing it >> reported some firmware being missing (more specifically >> brcm/bcm43xx-0.fw) so I downloaded the firmware files from >> ht

Re: where adjusts system date/time?

2015-04-29 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 29.04.2015 um 16:54 schrieb songbird: > will it stay masked when updates to systemd come through? The mask is created in /etc/systemd/system, which is admin territory, i.e. not overwritten by the package. So your answer is yes. -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent

Re: [way OT, but desperate] GoBook speakers

2015-04-29 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 06:39:31PM -0600, Glenn English wrote: > I'll try anything I haven't tried. I played with alsamixer, and it did > just what it looked like it'd do. But I'll follow your suggestions > very carefully. Thanks. I'd also suggest trying with one or more live distributions. -- "

Botched upgrade to jessie

2015-04-29 Thread Guimarães Faria Corcete DUTRA , Leandro
I had completed apt-get upgrade alright, but then the computer was turned off during apt-get dist-upgrade. Now I tried apt-get -f upgrade: […] libaccountsservice0 libapt-pkg4.12 libatasmart4 libatk-adaptor libatk-wrapper-java-jni libatkmm-1.6-1 libavahi-gobject0 libavahi-ui-gtk3-0 libbluetooth3 l

Re: [Debian 8.0 Installation] Firmware files on USB stick with debian iso

2015-04-29 Thread David Wright
Quoting Avinash Sonawane (root...@gmail.com): > I am trying to install Debian 8.0 on my system. While installing it > reported some firmware being missing (more specifically > brcm/bcm43xx-0.fw) so I downloaded the firmware files from > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/firmware

Re: where adjusts system date/time?

2015-04-29 Thread songbird
Michael Biebl wrote: > schrieb songbird: >> help? any futher things to try that come to mind? > > That's most likely hwclock-save.service, which is run on shutdown. > This was added due to [1]. Some users where quite adamant, that they > needed it. > > You can mask the unit via > $ systemctl ma

Re: where adjusts system date/time?

2015-04-29 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 29.04.2015 um 16:28 schrieb songbird: > help? any futher things to try that come to mind? That's most likely hwclock-save.service, which is run on shutdown. This was added due to [1]. Some users where quite adamant, that they needed it. You can mask the unit via $ systemctl mask hwclock-sav

[Debian 8.0 Installation] Firmware files on USB stick with debian iso

2015-04-29 Thread Avinash Sonawane
Hi! Debian n00b here! I am trying to install Debian 8.0 on my system. While installing it reported some firmware being missing (more specifically brcm/bcm43xx-0.fw) so I downloaded the firmware files from http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/firmware/jessie/current/ I am using US

Re: making thumbnails

2015-04-29 Thread Igor Cicimov
http://www.imagemagick.org/script/mogrify.php On 29/04/2015 2:28 AM, "Steve Greig" wrote: > I have about 60 large jpg files in a directory. They are almost all over > 2MB in size. I want to put them on the internet but wanted to make a > thumbnail version and a small version (about 75KB) of each

where adjusts system date/time?

2015-04-29 Thread songbird
i reboot this system several times a day, it is not always connected to the network, it makes no sense to try to adjust the time or drift factors when it isn't connected... a while ago i had things working exactly as i wanted. which means, the system clock only gets adjusted when i manually en

Re: Power completely drained in hibernate mode?

2015-04-29 Thread Darac Marjal
On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 09:50:18AM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > Hello: > > To hibernate, I use 'sudo pm-hibernate' (because the hibernate button > on my Xfce power manager tells me 'Sleep verb not supported'). I > thought hibernate mode was not supposed to use any power, but after 4 > days, my

Re: no ntp installed

2015-04-29 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 29.04.2015 um 15:34 schrieb Michael Biebl: > journalctl -u systemd-timesyncd.service This command needs to be run as root. Or you add your user to the systemd-journal group, to grant read privileges for the system journal. -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in t

Power completely drained in hibernate mode?

2015-04-29 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Hello: To hibernate, I use 'sudo pm-hibernate' (because the hibernate button on my Xfce power manager tells me 'Sleep verb not supported'). I thought hibernate mode was not supposed to use any power, but after 4 days, my laptop was powerless (it wasn't when I hibernated). Any thoughts about how t

Re: Unable to set LAN Internet connection on Debian Server

2015-04-29 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 29 April 2015 10:57:30 Darac Marjal wrote: > On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 03:12:44PM +0545, Binod Yadav wrote: > >Dear all, > >We are unable to set LAN Connection in the server and so we are unable > > to get online service through Teamviewer for Koha and Dspace software. > > Please

Re: issue with systemd-udev-settle

2015-04-29 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 29.04.2015 um 10:32 schrieb Christian Seiler: > Am 2015-04-29 07:15, schrieb Matthias Bodenbinder: >> systemd-analyze blame: >> 56.397s systemd-udev-settle.service > > Yeah, that shouldn't happen. Matthias, do you have any custom udev rules in /etc/udev/rules.d/? Is this an upgraded o

Re: no ntp installed

2015-04-29 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 29.04.2015 um 07:20 schrieb Matthias Bodenbinder: > Thank you for this hint. I will try this in favor of ntp. Lets see how > that works. How can I montior this service to check if it works correctly? $ systemctl status systemd-timesyncd.service and $ journalctl -u systemd-timesyncd.service wi

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