Re: CPU overheating then shutting down while encoding video with ffmpeg

2015-07-22 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Chris Bannister writes: > On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 10:17:31AM -1000, Joel Roth wrote: >> >> In addition, you could put your laptop up on some blocks, so >> the airflow is better, or use an external fan or >> vaccuum cleaner to help. > > I'd be a bit hesitant to recommend to use a vacuum cleaner,

Re: debian 8 on a raspex raspberry pi2

2015-07-22 Thread Joe Zien
Joe Zien wrote: I installed raspex on a raspberry pi2 which is using debian 8. Only one problem, can't get sound working. Installed alsaplayer and kmix but can't config to play a sound file. jozien I neglected to state that I am using xfce4 with slim login manager jozien -- To UNSUBSCRIB

debian 8 on a raspex raspberry pi2

2015-07-22 Thread Joe Zien
I installed raspex on a raspberry pi2 which is using debian 8. Only one problem, can't get sound working. Installed alsaplayer and kmix but can't config to play a sound file. jozien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Re: Off topic, but has lists.sourceforge.net hung itself for good?

2015-07-22 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 09:13:10AM +1000, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > Hi, > > On 20/07/2015 8:39 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > I am on a couple mailing lists hosted at lists.sourceforge.net. > > Msgs to those lists goto a black hole, and the last

Re: CPU overheating then shutting down while encoding video with ffmpeg

2015-07-22 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 10:17:31AM -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > > In addition, you could put your laptop up on some blocks, so > the airflow is better, or use an external fan or > vaccuum cleaner to help. I'd be a bit hesitant to recommend to use a vacuum cleaner, wouldn't static electricity be a

DHCP not working for attempted Jessie install

2015-07-22 Thread David Bruce
Hi, I have installed Debian dozens of times since 2003 but never ran into any significant problems. I just rebuilt my main home machine with pretty standard equipment including both on-board Realtek eth0 and wlan0 via a PCI card. I had an old Debian 6.03 amd64 netinst disc lying around, and the i

Re: A Question about the Application Called mail or mailx

2015-07-22 Thread Martin G. McCormick
Dan Ritter writes: > mail -t needs to be followed by an address, not a message body. Makes sense. Thanks. > If you want to send a full message which has all needed headers, > trust the "sendmail" command which is shipped by anything which > can supply the MTA package role. > > exim, send

Re: Bizarre issue: USB 3 disconnecting and dying

2015-07-22 Thread David Fuchs
On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 3:17 PM, Håkon Alstadheim wrote: > How long are your USB-cables? What kind of power supply do you have, and > what else is drawing power? > The USB cable the drive is currently on is fairly short - about 80cm if I had to guess. The drive has its own wall-wart specced at 2A

Re: Bizarre issue: USB 3 disconnecting and dying

2015-07-22 Thread Håkon Alstadheim
How long are your USB-cables? What kind of power supply do you have, and what else is drawing power? I just went from a PSU specced at 5x the needed sustained power to 10x . Got a slight but definite improvement in USB stability. Yes, my system is drawing ~ 150w from a 1200w supply. Externally

[solved] fsck root filesystem, was Re: File check at boot

2015-07-22 Thread David Wright
Quoting Jape Person (jap...@comcast.net): > Not sure this will be at all helpful considering that the consensus > seems to be that fsck is probably not what you need right now. I > just wanted to be sure that you got some sort of answer regarding > the running of systemd-fsck. > > You should be a

Re: A Question about the Application Called mail or mailx

2015-07-22 Thread Dan Ritter
On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 12:40:27PM -0500, Martin G. McCormick wrote: > The old "mail" application or "mailx" if one has > heirloom-mail does work but I have a question about piping a > message to it. > > It looks from documentation that mail can read headers > such as: > > From: "mart

no keyboard layouts after upgrade

2015-07-22 Thread Dmitry Zvorikin
Hi everyone! I updated my Debian 7 and got lots of problems. The biggest one for now is that I don't have any way to switch the keyboard layouts. gnome-control-center was removed during dist-upgrade so I had to reinstall it manually. Now I set two input sources there (Russian + English), but there

A Question about the Application Called mail or mailx

2015-07-22 Thread Martin G. McCormick
Until I get out-bound messages going through nmh properly, I have found a possible stop-gap measure to use. The old "mail" application or "mailx" if one has heirloom-mail does work but I have a question about piping a message to it. It looks from documentation that mail ca