Re: Fetchmail may almost be working in pop3.

Quoting David Wright (deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk): > Quoting Martin G. McCormick (mar...@server1.shellworld.net): > > The mainlog file displays the error that > > smtp.suddenlink.net is reporting > > > > 2015-07-11 06:29:26 1ZDsyD-0001Rm-PO ** mar...@shellworld.net R=smarthost > > T=remote_smtp_sma

Re: YAGF is a seriously screwed package

On Sat, 11 Jul 2015, Miles Fidelman wrote: Still, at $59/device - who's going to buy enough of the things to instrument all of their plants - maybe a garden plot, though. Reinhard Heydrich famously detested all plants: "The silly things will rat out their own families just for some extra wa

Re: i915 module bug (was: can't disable Thinkpad touchpad)

On Sat, 11 Jul 2015, Haines Brown wrote: > At kernel.org, there's available a stable kernel 4.1.2 dated 10 > July. Although I've never ventured to compile a kernel, I suspect I > could download the tarball and try to compile it. Or am I on the wrong > track? You might want to reconsider that. 4.

Re: YAGF is a seriously screwed package

John Hasler wrote: Paul E Condon writes: Just "Hi," has the benefit of fewer key strokes. (;-) And it's suitable even for an email addressed to single potted plant. I wrote: I've given up emailing them. They never answer. Arno Schuring writes: There's an app for that: http://www.parrot.com/u

Re: CPU slow after running web browser, any command to recover it back again soon?

Quoting Rodolfo Medina (rodolfo.med...@gmail.com): > I simply want to speed > up the natural process through which the machine itself gets back to working > normally as before, like someone that breaths with difficulty after a > tremendous scare and it takes time to get breathing normally again.

Re: Fetchmail may almost be working in pop3.

On 20150708_2203-0500, Martin G. McCormick wrote: > I am trying to get a debian squeeze system to pull mail > from my cable provider's pop3 server. It appears they are not > doing anything really out of the ordinary but I obviously have > something set wrong. > > Here is a short snippe

Re: bug? laptop-mode-tools - mouse turns off after 3s of inactivity after last update

On 07/11/2015 at 09:04 AM, Hans wrote: > Dear list, > > I accidently had to reinstall laptop-mode-tools. I had to purge and > reinstall the package. > > After this, I noticed, that my usb-mouse (cable), turns off after 3s > of inactivity. This behaviour was already deccribed here in older > foru

Re: YAGF is a seriously screwed package

Paul E Condon writes: > Just "Hi," has the benefit of fewer key strokes. (;-) And it's > suitable even for an email addressed to single potted plant. I wrote: > I've given up emailing them. They never answer. Arno Schuring writes: > There's an app for that: > http://www.parrot.com/usa/products/fl

Re: New user having trouble with new install

On 7/11/15, Brian wrote: > Reinstall; one partition for everything. > > The base system is installed next. You have no control over this. > > When it comes to installing other software do not install anything. > Also, deselect anything which is marked as selected. > > Complete installation and re

RE: YAGF is a seriously screwed package

I know I shouldn't, but... > From: jhas...@newsguy.com > Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2015 15:58:03 -0500 > > Paul E Condon writes: >> Just "Hi," has the benefit of fewer key strokes. (;-) And it's >> suitable even for an email addressed to single potted plant. > > I've given up emailing them. They never ans

Re: New user having trouble with new install

On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 04:15:09PM -0600, Jonathan Levine wrote: > On 7/11/15, Gary Dale wrote: > > > That almost sounds like a video driver problem. Are you running a gui? > > As I said, I went with the default install, so I don't know what it thinks > it's trying to run. I wasn't *expecting*

Re: New user having trouble with new install

On 7/11/15, Brian wrote: > Not knowing how how you installed, do you fancy trying this: Sure, no reason not to. > Reinstall; one partition for everything. That's how I did it first time around, as that was the default. I'm accustomed to more complex partition schemes in other unixen, but figu

Re: New user having trouble with new install

On Sat 11 Jul 2015 at 15:18:21 -0600, Jonathan Levine wrote: > On 7/11/15, Brian wrote: > > > A nice account. > > > > At the GRUB splash screen press 'E'. Find the line beginning 'linux' and > > add > > > >longhaul.enable=1 > > > > to the end of the line. Press F10. See how you go on. > > D

Re: New user having trouble with new install

On 7/11/15, Gary Dale wrote: > That almost sounds like a video driver problem. Are you running a gui? As I said, I went with the default install, so I don't know what it thinks it's trying to run. I wasn't *expecting* one - I just need command-line on this thing. And it does (inconsistently) f

Re: CPU slow after running web browser, any command to recover it back again soon?

On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 09:34:57PM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > Thanks. But maybe I was meaning something different. I simply want to speed > up the natural process through which the machine itself gets back to working > normally as before, like someone that breaths with difficulty after a >

Re: New user having trouble with new install

On 11/07/15 11:14 AM, Jonathan Levine wrote: On 7/11/15, Brian wrote: On Fri 10 Jul 2015 at 21:29:23 -0600, Jonathan Levine wrote: I'm a hardware guy, and not a linux wonk, so I hope you'll all be gentle and use words without too many syllables. I've just completed the "small cd" internet i

Re: New user having trouble with new install

On 7/11/15, Richard Owlett wrote: > You might want to try a live-cd {https://www.debian.org/CD/live/}. > The netinst cd is a very minimal system. I can see it "running" > when a "full" system might not. When I was looking for a distro I > purchased live-cd's > [https://www.debian.org/CD/vendors/]

Re: New user having trouble with new install

On 7/11/15, Brian wrote: > A nice account. > > At the GRUB splash screen press 'E'. Find the line beginning 'linux' and > add > >longhaul.enable=1 > > to the end of the line. Press F10. See how you go on. Did that. Result was exactly the same, with the exception of not getting the longhaul

Re: YAGF is a seriously screwed package

Paul E Condon writes: > Just "Hi," has the benefit of fewer key strokes. (;-) And it's > suitable even for an email addressed to single potted plant. I've given up emailing them. They never answer. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-req

Re: writing to an external USB3 HD

On 11/07/15 11:40 AM, Gary Dale wrote: On 11/07/15 06:41 AM, Petter Adsen wrote: On Sat, 11 Jul 2015 04:53:42 -0400 Gary Dale wrote: Further to the issue, the problem is triggered by reading from the disk. I can copy files onto the disk without problems but when I issue the cmp command to com

Re: YAGF is a seriously screwed package

On 20150710_1208-0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: > John Hasler wrote: > >Lisi writes: > >>No, I disagree. Mesdames is now fully accepted, and I would say expected, > >>giving: > >>Dear Sirs/Mesdames or even dear Mesdames/Sirs. > >>Duck includes drake and mankind includes women. > >Ok. Let's settle on

Re: CPU slow after running web browser, any command to recover it back again soon?

Gábor Hársfalvi writes: > Hi, > > I think - You should try some tricks like swappiness or zRAM. > > Good Luck! Thanks. But maybe I was meaning something different. I simply want to speed up the natural process through which the machine itself gets back to working normally as before, like someo

Re: New user having trouble with new install

Jonathan Levine wrote: On 7/10/15, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Saturday 11 July 2015 04:29:23 Jonathan Levine wrote: I've just completed the "small cd" internet install of the current distribution on a small-footprint pc based on the VIA EDEN ESP 6000. I went with all the defaults and it seemed to

Re: Fetchmail may almost be working in pop3.

Quoting Martin G. McCormick (mar...@server1.shellworld.net): > David Wright writes: > > I don't see what the issue is. "People" with different usernames > > send mail from this system. > > Correct. After looking at what I posted, it is confusing. Let's > try again. > > > Do you mean /etc/mailname

Re: TV-Tuner with Alsa with Jessie NO SOUND... :(

I've got this in the .asoundrc file: pcm.!dmix { type dmix ipc_key 1024 slave { pcm "hw:0,0" channels 6 period_size 1024 buffer_size 5120 } } pcm.!default { type plug slave.pcm "dmix" slave.channels 6 route_policy duplicate } 2015-07-05 20:47 GM

Re: CPU slow after running web browser, any command to recover it back again soon? (was: Light web browser for old PC)

Hi, I think - You should try some tricks like swappiness or zRAM . Good Luck! 2015-07-11 18:04 GMT+02:00 Rodolfo Medina : > Rodolfo Medina writes: > > > After closing Midori, my old PC for minutes and minutes remain

Re: GRUB error: failure reading sector

On 11/07/15 12:10 PM, Haines Brown wrote: I am running Sid on a Thinkpad x250, and decided to create a rescue USB key by using grub-rescue-pc package. On a 1 Gb unmounted Ex3 key, which is /dev/sdb, I do # cp /usr/lib/grub-rescue-pc/grub-rescue-usb.img /dev/sdb this takes a while. When I

Re: GRUB error: failure reading sector

On Sat 11 Jul 2015 at 12:10:15 -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > I am running Sid on a Thinkpad x250, and decided to create a rescue USB > key by using grub-rescue-pc package. > > On a 1 Gb unmounted Ex3 key, which is /dev/sdb, I do > > # cp /usr/lib/grub-rescue-pc/grub-rescue-usb.img /dev/sdb >

Re: GRUB error: failure reading sector

On Sat 11 Jul 2015 at 12:24:56 -0400, Louis Wust wrote: > On Sat, Jul 11, 2015, at 12:10, Haines Brown wrote: > > cp /usr/lib/grub-rescue-pc/grub-rescue-usb.img /dev/sdb > > I suspect you need "dd" instead of "cp" as specified in the package > documentation at /usr/share/doc/grub-rescue-pc/READM

Re: GRUB error: failure reading sector

On Sat, Jul 11, 2015, at 12:10, Haines Brown wrote: > cp /usr/lib/grub-rescue-pc/grub-rescue-usb.img /dev/sdb I suspect you need "dd" instead of "cp" as specified in the package documentation at /usr/share/doc/grub-rescue-pc/README.Debian: sudo dd if=grub-rescue-usb.img of=/dev/sdb bs=32k Try

Re: Fetchmail may almost be working in pop3.

On 2015-07-11, Martin G. McCormick wrote: > > > The smarthost sees mar...@suddenlink.net and what it should see > in the From: line is marti...@suddenlink.net > Here are all the non-comments from update-exim4.conf.conf > Cannot this be defined in /etc/email-addresses? mar...@suddenlink.net: mart

GRUB error: failure reading sector

I am running Sid on a Thinkpad x250, and decided to create a rescue USB key by using grub-rescue-pc package. On a 1 Gb unmounted Ex3 key, which is /dev/sdb, I do # cp /usr/lib/grub-rescue-pc/grub-rescue-usb.img /dev/sdb this takes a while. When I boot to key, I get "GRUB" in upper left corn

CPU slow after running web browser, any command to recover it back again soon? (was: Light web browser for old PC)

Rodolfo Medina writes: > After closing Midori, my old PC for minutes and minutes remains very very > slow. Then gradually, slowly, painfully, only after five or ten minutes it > starts working normally again. Then, to try to recover it, I do: $ sync , but this is not enough. Is there any co

Re: New user having trouble with new install

On Sat 11 Jul 2015 at 09:14:33 -0600, Jonathan Levine wrote: > On 7/11/15, Brian wrote: > > > On Fri 10 Jul 2015 at 21:29:23 -0600, Jonathan Levine wrote: > > > >> I'm a hardware guy, and not a linux wonk, so I hope you'll all be > >> gentle and use words without too many syllables. > >> > >> I'

Re: writing to an external USB3 HD

On 11/07/15 07:50 AM, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: Don't forget to try another cable. Not easy to do from 50k away. I'm hoping to avoid a site visit. :( -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: writing to an external USB3 HD

On 11/07/15 06:41 AM, Petter Adsen wrote: On Sat, 11 Jul 2015 04:53:42 -0400 Gary Dale wrote: Further to the issue, the problem is triggered by reading from the disk. I can copy files onto the disk without problems but when I issue the cmp command to compare the copy to the original, I get syst

Re: New user having trouble with new install

On 7/11/15, Brian wrote: > On Fri 10 Jul 2015 at 21:29:23 -0600, Jonathan Levine wrote: > >> I'm a hardware guy, and not a linux wonk, so I hope you'll all be >> gentle and use words without too many syllables. >> >> I've just completed the "small cd" internet install of the current >> distributi

Re: Fetchmail may almost be working in pop3.

On Sat 11 Jul 2015 at 07:43:49 -0500, Martin G. McCormick wrote: > David Wright writes: > > I don't see what the issue is. "People" with different usernames > > send mail from this system. > > Correct. After looking at what I posted, it is confusing. Let's > try again. > > > Do you mean /etc/mai

Re: New user having trouble with new install

On 7/10/15, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Saturday 11 July 2015 04:29:23 Jonathan Levine wrote: >> I've just completed the "small cd" internet install of the current >> distribution on a small-footprint pc based on the VIA EDEN ESP >> 6000. I went with all the defaults and it seemed to complete >> unev

Re: Fetchmail may almost be working in pop3.

On Sat, 11 Jul 2015, Martin G. McCormick wrote: If I hope to send mail through smtp.suddenlink.net, it must see marti...@suddenlink.net plus the password also used to retrieve pop3 mail and the retrieval does work. Does your MUA set "From:" to marti...@suddenlink.net, and also set the envel

Re: Fetchmail may almost be working in pop3.

On Sat, 11 Jul 2015, David Wright wrote: dc_smarthost='smtp.suddenlink.net::587' Syntax is correct. I've not tried that port. Must do so sometime. I think we're learning here in this thread to avoid generalizations, but 587 is known as the "submit" port. I have had good luck with it. Th

Re: New user having trouble with new install

On Fri 10 Jul 2015 at 21:29:23 -0600, Jonathan Levine wrote: > I'm a hardware guy, and not a linux wonk, so I hope you'll all be > gentle and use words without too many syllables. > > I've just completed the "small cd" internet install of the current > distribution on a small-footprint pc based o

bug? laptop-mode-tools - mouse turns off after 3s of inactivity after last update

Dear list, I accidently had to reinstall laptop-mode-tools. I had to purge and reinstall the package. After this, I noticed, that my usb-mouse (cable), turns off after 3s of inactivity. This behaviour was already deccribed here in older forums: http://askubuntu.com/questions/130915/optical-mou

Re: Fetchmail may almost be working in pop3.

David Wright writes: > I don't see what the issue is. "People" with different usernames > send mail from this system. Correct. After looking at what I posted, it is confusing. Let's try again. > Do you mean /etc/mailname? What's actually in there? wb5agz.swbell.net That should never show up on

Re: Wlan

Bonjour Stephan: debian-user@lists.debian.org is an English spoken forum: you may either expose your issue in English or send your issue to the corresponding German forum. Bonne chance, Jerome On 11/07/15 13:25, stephan roehling wrote: > Hallo, > meine wlan-Karte wird von linux nicht gefunden. >

Re: writing to an external USB3 HD

Don't forget to try another cable. -- Regards, jvp. -- 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/mnqvti$9br$1...@ger.gmane.org

Wlan

Hallo, meine wlan-Karte wird von linux nicht gefunden. apt-get install firmware-linux-nonfree funktioniert nicht. Es erscheint die meldung Paket nicht gefunden. Kann jemand helfen. Stephan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: can't disable Thinkpad touchpad

On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 05:05:50PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > I'm glad that synclient could do the job. Yes, thanks David, the command is working nicely. > When you're in X, and if you type Ctrl-Alt-F2, say, is the VC as > screwed up as when you exit X with (I assume) Ctrl-Alt-Rubout. Well, i

Re: writing to an external USB3 HD

On Sat, 11 Jul 2015 04:53:42 -0400 Gary Dale wrote: > Further to the issue, the problem is triggered by reading from the disk. > I can copy files onto the disk without problems but when I issue the cmp > command to compare the copy to the original, I get system error messages > and the drive va

Re: i915 module bug (was: can't disable Thinkpad touchpad)

On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 03:26:30PM -0500, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Fri, 10 Jul 2015, Haines Brown wrote: > > With the Touchpad problem resolved, my problem becomes the more basic > > one of corruption of the display whenever I close the X server. But > > this needs to be pursued in another thread.

Re: writing to an external USB3 HD

On 10/07/15 02:33 PM, Gary Dale wrote: I'm running a Debian/Jessie server whose main purposes are AD DC, file & print and backups. I have just switched to using USB3 WD My Passport Ultra 1T external USB3 drives for offsite backups. The motherboard is an AS Rock 970 Extreme 2. I'm using an onbo