Re: Controlling power settings for external USB disk drives using sdparm

2015-08-04 Thread Tixy
On Tue, 2015-08-04 at 20:44 -0700, Jesse Molina wrote: > If you want a spindown time longer than 5-minutes, you'll have to > figure it out yourself, because I have no idea. Try 'man sdparm'. (I have hdparm and the man page describes the timeout value, assume sdparm does too). -- Tixy -- To UN

Re: Controlling power settings for external USB disk drives using sdparm

2015-08-04 Thread Jesse Molina
Update to this: In the message below, I said that setting "SCT=18000" would be a 15 minute spindown, but this does not appear to be correct. I suspect this parameter is like the hdparm -S argument, which is non-linear. I have confirmed that SCT=1200 is 1-minute, and SCT=3000 is 5-minutes.

Re: Question about "mv" operation.

2015-08-04 Thread Joel Rees
On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 5:11 PM, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: > Hi, > > Say I am moving a file between two harddisks. Now you know. You don't want to do that. (Although I just did that. It was a notebook, I knew the battery was good, and I was only mv-ing, uhm, well, it was more than one file. I w

Re: sound stopped working after upgrade

2015-08-04 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 04 August 2015 16:29:08 Nicolas George wrote: > Le septidi 17 thermidor, an CCXXIII, Lisi Reisz a écrit : > > > I assume, of course, that you re-re-checked the speakers and tried to > > > plug them in all sockets? > > > > Sorry, but...  And checked that they are plugged in to a turned on

Re: where is my old mutt?

2015-08-04 Thread rlharris
It appears that /usr/bin/mutt-org is the "original" mutt (that is, mutt without sidebar). And in /usr/share/doc/mutt is the mutt manual version 1.5.23 dated 2014.03.12. So now mutt appears to be up and running pretty much as I remember it. Thus far, I have not figured out how to utilize the si

Re: Question about "mv" operation.

2015-08-04 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20150804_1611+0800, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: > Hi, > > Say I am moving a file between two harddisks. Both filesystems are Ext4. > During the operation, I cut off the power. Then boot the host, and fix the > filesystems. > > Now, I see in both locations, there are the file. My question is, i

Re: Slow Xorg performance on dual Opteron + Radeon, Jessie 64-bit

2015-08-04 Thread NY Tan
On 8/4/2015 at 8:57 PM, "Chris Edwards" wrote: > >Thanks all for your help and suggestions. I'll summarise what >further >testing I've done: > >I believe 3D acceleration is working. `glxgears` runs and seems to >achieve a smooth 60 Hz. The __memcpy_sse2_unaligned load doesn't >seem >to incr

Re: sound stopped working after upgrade

2015-08-04 Thread Bruno Schneider
On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 11:16 AM, Nicolas George wrote: > You could try posting the output of amixer (with the correct -D option for > your card), someone may spot something not correctly routed. Output is at the bottom. Also included a screenshot of alsamixer here: http://postimg.org/image/jf

Re: Question about "mv" operation.

2015-08-04 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 04 August 2015 09:11:38 Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: > Now, I see in both locations, there are the file. My question is, is it > safe to remove file in dest, and move to it again from src? Why not rename it (mv it to another name) in dest before mv-ing it again from src? Lisi -- To

Re: sound stopped working after upgrade

2015-08-04 Thread Nicolas George
Le septidi 17 thermidor, an CCXXIII, Lisi Reisz a écrit : > > I assume, of course, that you re-re-checked the speakers and tried to plug > > them in all sockets? > Sorry, but... And checked that they are plugged in to a turned on wall > socket > and turned on themselves? That is not even enough

Re: sound stopped working after upgrade

2015-08-04 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 04 August 2015 15:16:39 Nicolas George wrote: > I assume, of course, that you re-re-checked the speakers and tried to plug > them in all sockets? Sorry, but... And checked that they are plugged in to a turned on wall socket and turned on themselves? Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: Bizarre issue: USB 3 disconnecting and dying

2015-08-04 Thread Jesse Molina
Hey David, did you ever get this figured out? Did you ever inspect the device parameters via sdparm or hdparm? I have *heard* of some Seagate devices disappearing when they go into suspend, but your problem doesn't sound like this issue since it happens in the middle of writing. Still, I thou

Controlling power settings for external USB disk drives using sdparm

2015-08-04 Thread Jesse Molina
Hi everyone I wanted to post, for posterity, what I recently learned while playing with my new external USB3 disk drive. I needed to control the power settings for this drive. I noticed that it was never ever spinning down, so I wanted to be able to either power in up/down on command, or ha

Re: sound stopped working after upgrade

2015-08-04 Thread Nicolas George
Le septidi 17 thermidor, an CCXXIII, Bruno Schneider a écrit : > I can see my card in /proc/asound/cards: Good. > But I can't play sound on it: The reason is in the error message. Unlike some other systems, Linux gives useful error messages, reading them is a good habit to take. > aplay: set_pa

Re: sound stopped working after upgrade

2015-08-04 Thread Bruno Schneider
On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 5:18 PM, Nicolas George wrote: > > I gave a few hints about the tools to use for that in this message: > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2015/07/msg00648.html I can see my card in /proc/asound/cards: $ cat /proc/asound/cards 0 [Generic]: HDA-Intel - HD-Audio

Re: Slow Xorg performance on dual Opteron + Radeon, Jessie 64-bit

2015-08-04 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Wed, 2015-08-05 at 00:46 +1200, Chris Edwards wrote: > Perhaps interestingly, `glxinfo -i` reports: > > name of display: :0.0 > X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer parameter out of range > for > operation) >Major opcode of failed request: 155 (GLX) >Minor opcode of failed r

Re: where is my old mutt?

2015-08-04 Thread Matthew Moore
On 2015-08-03 12:24:07 AM, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > On Sun, August 2, 2015 10:16 pm, sp113438 wrote: > > mutt-patched: > > This package adds the following patches: > > > > * sidebar: list mailboxes (with new mail) in a separate column on > > screen > > * nntp: NNTP support for mutt > > * multip

Re: Slow Xorg performance on dual Opteron + Radeon, Jessie 64-bit

2015-08-04 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
What's the output of $ grep render /var/log/Xorg.0.log ? -- 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/mpqfeg$4m8$1...@ger.gmane.org

A repo for Firefox Nightly ?

2015-08-04 Thread Some Body
I'm trying to install the latest Firefox Nightly (test builds released each day) on my laptop. On Ubuntu, there is a PPA that ships fairly recent versions of Nightly. But on Debian, I can't find such repository. I use the mozilla.debian.net repo to get the latest stable Iceweasel. I see that ther

Re: What pulls in the tray of my /dev/sr1 ?

2015-08-04 Thread Curt
On 2015-08-04, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Curt wrote: >> What about >> sysctl -w dev.cdrom.autoclose=0 > > Now that's an interesting name. > > # sysctl dev.cdrom.autoclose > dev.cdrom.autoclose = 1 > > Nitpickingly, i'd say that /dev/cdrom is not the mad drive sr1, > but rather its iwell

Re: Slow Xorg performance on dual Opteron + Radeon, Jessie 64-bit

2015-08-04 Thread Chris Edwards
Thanks all for your help and suggestions. I'll summarise what further testing I've done: I believe 3D acceleration is working. `glxgears` runs and seems to achieve a smooth 60 Hz. The __memcpy_sse2_unaligned load doesn't seem to increase due to running glxgears. glxgears -info reports: GL

Re: Question about "mv" operation.

2015-08-04 Thread Some Body
Le mardi 04 août 2015 à 08:49 -0400, James Montgomery a écrit : > On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 4:11 AM, Magicloud Magiclouds > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Say I am moving a file between two harddisks. Both filesystems are Ext4. > > During the operation, I cut off the power. Then boot the host, and fix the >

Re: Question about "mv" operation.

2015-08-04 Thread James Montgomery
On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 4:11 AM, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: > Hi, > > Say I am moving a file between two harddisks. Both filesystems are Ext4. > During the operation, I cut off the power. Then boot the host, and fix the > filesystems. > > Now, I see in both locations, there are the file. My questi

Re: Slow Xorg performance on dual Opteron + Radeon, Jessie 64-bit

2015-08-04 Thread Chris Edwards
Thanks all for your help and suggestions. I'll summarise what further testing I've done: I believe 3D acceleration is working. `glxgears` runs and seems to achieve a smooth 60 Hz. The __memcpy_sse2_unaligned load doesn't seem to increase due to running glxgears. glxgears -info reports: GL

Re: Write access to USB

2015-08-04 Thread anxiousmac
On Monday, 3 August 2015 19:30:05 UTC+1, notoneofmy wrote: > On 08/03/2015 07:21 PM, anxiousmac wrote: > > Perhaps related to my issue posted to debian.maint.kde about a week ago? > > > > I happened upon a debian-installer bug report which points out that if one > > needs firmware from a stick du

Re: What pulls in the tray of my /dev/sr1 ?

2015-08-04 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Curt wrote: > What about > sysctl -w dev.cdrom.autoclose=0 Now that's an interesting name. # sysctl dev.cdrom.autoclose dev.cdrom.autoclose = 1 Nitpickingly, i'd say that /dev/cdrom is not the mad drive sr1, but rather its iwell behaved neighbor sr0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Aug 3 1

Re: What pulls in the tray of my /dev/sr1 ?

2015-08-04 Thread Curt
On 2015-08-04, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > Nevertheless i disabled this kernel feature by > echo 0 >/sys/block/sr1/events_poll_msecs > and now btrace(8) does not show any SCSI traffic when the tray > goes in. > What about sysctl -w dev.cdrom.autoclose=0 Or is that completely off the mark? --

Re: Backup on BD-R. Was: What pulls in the tray of my /dev/sr1 ?

2015-08-04 Thread Joel Roth
Thomas Schmitt wrote: > I use BD-R and BD-RE for multi-volume backups with scdbackup, > and for multi-session backups with xorriso directly. > > scdbackup > http://scdbackup.sourceforge.net/main_eng.html > splits large backup areas into file collections which > fit on single media: (...) > htt

Backup on BD-R. Was: What pulls in the tray of my /dev/sr1 ?

2015-08-04 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > I apologize for mailing you off-list Well, i got it with these headers To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org The mail address scdbac...@gmx.net is public for support of optical drives, ISO 9660, and backup in general. If your topic is of public in

Re: pptp-based vpn I am trying to setup pptpd to initiate a connection to

2015-08-04 Thread Darac Marjal
On Mon, Aug 03, 2015 at 08:29:31PM -0500, martin McCormick wrote: > ukvpn.ufreevpn.com and I have never seen this work before so I am > not sure what a working setup behaves like. It appears that it > takes a sort of grand tour in which it makes 7 or 8 attempts at > connecting but it ultimately giv

Re: Question about "mv" operation.

2015-08-04 Thread shawn wilson
On Aug 4, 2015 1:26 AM, "Some Body" wrote: > > Le mardi 04 août 2015 à 16:11 +0800, Magicloud Magiclouds a écrit : > > > > Now, I see in both locations, there are the file. My question is, is > > it safe to remove file in dest, and move to it again from src? > > > If you don't want to take a risk

Re: Missing qt modules in python2.7

2015-08-04 Thread Darac Marjal
On Mon, Aug 03, 2015 at 12:06:55PM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: > Hi all, > > My IDE is throwing the following error on start up: > > >Traceback (most recent call last): > > File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ninja_ide/core/plugin_manager.py", > > line 319, in load > >dir_name) > > File "/

Re: Question about "mv" operation.

2015-08-04 Thread Martin Skjöldebrand
Quoting Magicloud Magiclouds : Hi,   Say I am moving a file between two harddisks. Both filesystems are Ext4. During the operation, I cut off the power. Then boot the host, and fix the filesystems.   Now, I see in both locations, there are the file. My question is, is it safe to r

Re: Re: libstdc++6 breaks libboost-date-time1.55.0

2015-08-04 Thread G.S. G.S.Alex
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Re: Question about "mv" operation.

2015-08-04 Thread Some Body
Le mardi 04 août 2015 à 16:11 +0800, Magicloud Magiclouds a écrit : > > Now, I see in both locations, there are the file. My question is, is > it safe to remove file in dest, and move to it again from src? I think that if you were just reading files from src, there is no reason for the source to

Re: Question about "mv" operation.

2015-08-04 Thread David Guyot
Le mardi 04 août 2015 à 16:11 +0800, Magicloud Magiclouds a écrit : > Hi, Hello. > > Say I am moving a file between two harddisks. Both filesystems are > Ext4. During the operation, I cut off the power. Then boot the host, > and fix the filesystems. > > > Now, I see in both locations, there are

Question about "mv" operation.

2015-08-04 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Hi, Say I am moving a file between two harddisks. Both filesystems are Ext4. During the operation, I cut off the power. Then boot the host, and fix the filesystems. Now, I see in both locations, there are the file. My question is, is it safe to remove file in dest, and move to it again from src?

Re: What pulls in the tray of my /dev/sr1 ?

2015-08-04 Thread Petter Adsen
On Tue, 04 Aug 2015 09:06:15 +0200 "Thomas Schmitt" wrote: > Hi, > > Stuart Longland wrote: > > Silly question, but why does re-loading a disc take more than 197 seconds? > > It comes out (intentionally) after a backup run is complete > and went well. (See man xorriso example "Incremental backu

Re: What pulls in the tray of my /dev/sr1 ?

2015-08-04 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Stuart Longland wrote: > > Finally it discourages the tray's misuse by the illiterate (e.g. as a > > carry handle or cup holder). Chris Bannister wrote: > That sounds like Windoze thinking. I, personaly, would hate the idea > that the disc tray may automatically retract without notice. > Does

Re: What pulls in the tray of my /dev/sr1 ?

2015-08-04 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Stuart Longland wrote: > Silly question, but why does re-loading a disc take more than 197 seconds? It comes out (intentionally) after a backup run is complete and went well. (See man xorriso example "Incremental backup of a few directory trees".) Then i'd expect it to stay out until i remove