Re: debian 8.2 live "standard" install - how to set up wifi?

2015-11-27 Thread moxalt
On Fri, 27 Nov 2015 19:58:46 +, Brian wrote: > On Fri 27 Nov 2015 at 21:16:40 +0300, moxalt wrote: > > > On Thu, 26 Nov 2015 12:19:22 +, Francis Gerund > > wrote: > > > > > > > So, how do I install wifi? > > > > > > > > > > I could uninstall, then try re-installing from a netinst iso,

Re: Slow Display of Graphics in Chrome

2015-11-27 Thread moxalt
On Fri, 27 Nov 2015 19:32:25 +, Alan Chandler wrote: > Just recently, I notice a sudden slowing down of the display of areas of > the screen in Chrome when it fully maximised ( but still with toolbar > etc on display) If you want a Chrome-like browser, what's wrong with Chromium? Is it lac

Re: Changing Monitor that gdm uses

2015-11-27 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 07:40:43PM -0500, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > +++ > If xorg.conf is missing for some reason, Xorg will probe your hardware > on every startup [...] > Switch to a console as root (not a terminal emulator in X), then run: > > # /

Re: Slow Display of Graphics in Chrome

2015-11-27 Thread Alan Chandler
On 27/11/15 23:52, Patrick Bartek wrote: On Fri, 27 Nov 2015, Alan Chandler wrote: Just recently, I notice a sudden slowing down of the display of areas of the screen in Chrome when it fully maximised ( but still with toolbar etc on display) I am running a dual monitor gnome 3 setup with intel

Re: Changing Monitor that gdm uses

2015-11-27 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 11/27/15, Alan Chandler wrote: > On 27/11/15 10:46, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: >> On 11/25/15, Alan Chandler wrote: >>> >>> But gdm3 has decided it is going to come up on the secondary monitor. >>> Once the desktop starts the order of the displays is probably* also >>> wrong, but of course can be

Re: debian 8.2 live "standard" install - how to set up wifi?

2015-11-27 Thread Francis Gerund
Thanks for the replies. And the good information - I would have spent a long time digging and still not have found the links provided. I downloaded a "regular" netinst iso, and did a fresh install from that, choosing the MATE desktop. Networking (including wireless) works. So, the problem was s

Re: Slow Display of Graphics in Chrome

2015-11-27 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Fri, 27 Nov 2015, Alan Chandler wrote: > Just recently, I notice a sudden slowing down of the display of areas > of the screen in Chrome when it fully maximised ( but still with > toolbar etc on display) > > I am running a dual monitor gnome 3 setup with intel display driver. > > Quite freque

Re: Xorg replaces TTY1

2015-11-27 Thread The Wanderer
On 2015-11-27 at 13:14, Brian wrote: > On Fri 27 Nov 2015 at 09:09:37 -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > >> On 2015-11-22 at 19:45, Brian wrote: >>> It's the first time I've heard using a bash alias described as a >>> "kludge". >> >> It's the difference between "configuring foo to do bar" and "tellin

Re: debian 8.2 live "standard" install - how to set up wifi?

2015-11-27 Thread Brian
On Fri 27 Nov 2015 at 21:16:40 +0300, moxalt wrote: > On Thu, 26 Nov 2015 12:19:22 +, Francis Gerund wrote: > > > > > So, how do I install wifi? > > > > > > > > I could uninstall, then try re-installing from a netinst iso, but I > > > > suspect I would end up with the same problem. > > I do

Slow Display of Graphics in Chrome

2015-11-27 Thread Alan Chandler
Just recently, I notice a sudden slowing down of the display of areas of the screen in Chrome when it fully maximised ( but still with toolbar etc on display) I am running a dual monitor gnome 3 setup with intel display driver. Quite frequently, but not predictably so (say once every few minut

Re: Changing Monitor that gdm uses

2015-11-27 Thread Alan Chandler
On 27/11/15 10:46, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: On 11/25/15, Alan Chandler wrote: My desktop Debian Jessie PC just got a new monitor to replace an old one that failed. Because the new one is bigger than my previous main monitor, I have swapped them round so that my bigger 27inch monitor is the prim

systemd - .timer .service files

2015-11-27 Thread hpfn
Hi, I'm using .timer and .service files (systemd) to execute a task. The .timer file always wake up the pc if necessary but in 33 days it failed to run the .service file 8 times. When .service file is not executed, I check with journalctl and there is no messages (blank). So I conclude that it

Re: Xorg replaces TTY1

2015-11-27 Thread moxalt
On Wed, 25 Nov 2015 08:22:20 +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 23 Nov 2015, John L. Ries wrote: > > Actually, if someone is starting X via startx instead of a display manager, > > it normally means either that the user is trying to test his X > > configuration, or that X is only intended to run

Re: debianlive iso with xfce and clamav

2015-11-27 Thread David Christensen
On 11/25/2015 11:40 PM, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: On Wed, November 25, 2015 10:32 pm, David Christensen wrote: ... there are valid reasons for putting the rescue operating system and the images on one large capacity device ... I do not understand. 1. Would not that require the drive to be pa

Re: debian 8.2 live "standard" install - how to set up wifi?

2015-11-27 Thread moxalt
On Thu, 26 Nov 2015 09:23:27 + (UTC), Liam O'Toole wrote: > On 2015-11-26, Francis Gerund wrote: > > --001a11c3b1dadc040205256a8a50 > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > > > Hello! > > > > I just installed debian 8.2 stable, using the live "standard" 64-bit iso. > > The install was

Re: debian 8.2 live "standard" install - how to set up wifi?

2015-11-27 Thread moxalt
On Thu, 26 Nov 2015 12:19:22 +, Francis Gerund wrote: > 1) > Per lspci, the network adapter is: > 02:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros AR9285 Wireless Network > Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01). > > It is somewhat old, but not uncommon. I have > run many distributions using it (includ

Re: Xorg replaces TTY1

2015-11-27 Thread Brian
On Fri 27 Nov 2015 at 09:09:37 -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2015-11-22 at 19:45, Brian wrote: > > > On Sun 22 Nov 2015 at 19:00:36 -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > > > >> On 2015-11-22 at 18:52, Chris Bannister wrote: > > >>> In .bashrc (if using bash) > >>> > >>> alias startx="startx -- vt7" >

Re: boot takes too long (swap?)

2015-11-27 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2015-11-27 14:35 -0200, Bruno Schneider wrote: > Updating: > > I commented out the swap partition in fstab, boot still took a long > time, after boot, no swap was active. I didn't try other swap related > suggestions such as mkswap. > > The output of systemd-analyze critical-chain was not usefu

Re: Xorg replaces TTY1

2015-11-27 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2015-11-27 09:09:37 -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2015-11-22 at 19:45, Brian wrote: > > Quoting: > > > > There are 2 reasons for this change: > > > > 1) It is needed to make Xorg run without root rights > > Which has never been necessary before... > > I can see why it would be desirabl

Re: boot takes too long (swap?)

2015-11-27 Thread Bruno Schneider
Updating: I commented out the swap partition in fstab, boot still took a long time, after boot, no swap was active. I didn't try other swap related suggestions such as mkswap. The output of systemd-analyze critical-chain was not useful, as everything mentioned starts after 3min. The output of sy

Re: Do I need to do fstrim on Jessie?

2015-11-27 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 10:29:26AM +0200, David Baron wrote: > > > Either you add "discard" as a mount option to your fstab or you crate a > > > cronjob to run "fstrim -a -v". > > > > fstab created by the installer (normal SATA HDs) only has "defaults." Is this > implicit here? You don't need "

Re: two pulseaudio processes

2015-11-27 Thread David Wright
On Fri 27 Nov 2015 at 11:57:22 (+0100), Mart van de Wege wrote: > rgfoiugztfgvbhjk writes: > > I am using Pulseaudio in testing. > > > > Playing sound through the laptop built-in sound card is working fine. > > But I also have a Bluetooth Headset (Phillips SHB9100), This is where the > > Problem

Re: Xorg replaces TTY1

2015-11-27 Thread The Wanderer
(Phew. Sorry for the delay in replying.) On 2015-11-22 at 19:45, Brian wrote: > On Sun 22 Nov 2015 at 19:00:36 -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > >> On 2015-11-22 at 18:52, Chris Bannister wrote: >>> In .bashrc (if using bash) >>> >>> alias startx="startx -- vt7" >> >> While that would technically

Re: installing hplip-3.15.11 for my HP Deskjet_1000_J110

2015-11-27 Thread Sharon Kimble
Brian writes: > On Fri 27 Nov 2015 at 10:08:44 +, Sharon Kimble wrote: > >> Brian writes: >> >> > Does the machine print with >> > >> > lp -d print_queue >> >> No, it says - >> >> --8<---cut here---start->8--- >> lp -d print_queue /home/boudiccas/res

Re: Xorg replaces TTY1

2015-11-27 Thread Brian
On Fri 27 Nov 2015 at 10:49:09 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2015-11-27 18:36:39 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > > but by changing '/etc/systemd/logind.conf' to > > NAutoVTs=7 > > > > then on login 'alt-F7' will change to tty7 and issue startx from there. > > which doesn't solve the problem

Re: Xorg replaces TTY1

2015-11-27 Thread Brian
On Fri 27 Nov 2015 at 18:29:20 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 06:40:00PM +, Brian wrote: > > On Wed 25 Nov 2015 at 15:48:48 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > > > But then, if the user does "startx -- vt7", he would still be affected > > > by the session manager issu

Re: installing hplip-3.15.11 for my HP Deskjet_1000_J110

2015-11-27 Thread Brian
On Fri 27 Nov 2015 at 10:08:44 +, Sharon Kimble wrote: > Brian writes: > > > Does the machine print with > > > > lp -d print_queue > > No, it says - > > --8<---cut here---start->8--- > lp -d print_queue /home/boudiccas/research/adoc/herbal/herbals-mai

Re: install udpxy.1.0.23

2015-11-27 Thread Alex Vong
On 27/11/2015, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 09:42:51PM +0800, Alex Vong wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Nexttime please send mail to instead of >> since the later list is mostly for >> junior maintainers instead of users. > > Ummm, whenever anyone has a question about packaging and they

Re: two pulseaudio processes

2015-11-27 Thread Mart van de Wege
rgfoiugztfgvbhjk writes: > Hi, > > I am using Pulseaudio in testing. > > Playing sound through the laptop built-in sound card is working fine. > But I also have a Bluetooth Headset (Phillips SHB9100), This is where the > Problems occur. > > root@schenker:/home/ich# ps aux | grep pulse > Debia

Re: Changing Monitor that gdm uses

2015-11-27 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 11/25/15, Alan Chandler wrote: > My desktop Debian Jessie PC just got a new monitor to replace an old > one that failed. Because the new one is bigger than my previous main > monitor, I have swapped them round so that my bigger 27inch monitor is > the primary one and the original 24inch one ha

Re: install udpxy.1.0.23

2015-11-27 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, linuxuser wrote on debian-ment...@lists.debian.org: > > > Can you help me how to installed udpxy.1.0.23-0-prod.tar.gz Alex Vong wrote: > > Nexttime please send mail to > > instead of > > > > [... helpful explanation of building from upstream tarball ...] Chris Bannister wrote: > Ummm, whe

Re: Xorg replaces TTY1

2015-11-27 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 04:57:17PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > There s/b a GOOD reason to change something so basic and well > established, and I have not seen that reason adequately explained yet. > Did I miss the memo? You either haven't read the whole thread or just don't agree with the rea

Re: installing hplip-3.15.11 for my HP Deskjet_1000_J110

2015-11-27 Thread Sharon Kimble
Brian writes: > On Thu 26 Nov 2015 at 19:03:49 +, Sharon Kimble wrote: > I've been >trying to set up my HP Deskjet_1000_J110 which is recognised > by >jessie, but when I print a test page it does it with no problem, but > >when I try to print a letter from libreoffice, it just churns out blan

Re: Xorg replaces TTY1

2015-11-27 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2015-11-27 18:36:39 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > but by changing '/etc/systemd/logind.conf' to > NAutoVTs=7 > > then on login 'alt-F7' will change to tty7 and issue startx from there. which doesn't solve the problem at all since the goal is to type startx from some tty and have X run on *an

Re: WiFi on a headless PC using a laptop NIC

2015-11-27 Thread didier gaumet
Le 27/11/2015 08:16, Leslie Rhorer a écrit : [...] > Upon detecting this card, Debian Jessie uses the rfkill API to soft > block the wireless adapter, assuming this to be a laptop who should > not have WiFi enabled unless the user specifically enables it > manually. Of course, if there were a moni

Re: Xorg replaces TTY1

2015-11-27 Thread Mauro Condarelli
People in this thread might find interesting: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=801487 Regards Mauro Il 27/11/2015 09:39, Petter Adsen ha scritto: On Fri, 27 Nov 2015 18:08:51 +1300 Chris Bannister wrote: On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 06:54:34PM +, Brian wrote: For many reade

Re: debian 8.2 live "standard" install - how to set up wifi?

2015-11-27 Thread didier gaumet
Le 26/11/2015 13:19, Francis Gerund a écrit : > 1) > Per lspci, the network adapter is: > 02:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros AR9285 Wireless Network > Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01). > > It is somewhat old, but not uncommon. I have > run many distributions using it (including Debian), a

Re: debianlive iso with xfce and clamav

2015-11-27 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-11-27, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 03:59:26PM +, Liam O'Toole wrote: >> might feel slow compared to a 'normal' installation.) The live iso, on >> the other hand, is intended for installation and system rescue and is >> read-only. > > Isn't the term 'live' a misnome

Re: two pulseaudio processes

2015-11-27 Thread Gabriel Corona
> Does anybody know who Debian-+ is, why he is starting pulseaudio and > using my headsets, and if this is a bug that should be reported > against pulseaudio or something else? "Debian-+" is used by ps to tell you that the the user name was truncated and beginning with "Debian-": $ ps -O user,uid

Re: Debian seems unable to drive my (4) monitors

2015-11-27 Thread Mauro Condarelli
Il 26/11/2015 02:07, Felix Miata ha scritto: Ric Moore composed on 2015-11-25 19:31 (UTC-0500): as the only other way to achieve what you want is xrandr. I tried to use/configure it once and got a headache for my trouble. If Mauro wants to try xrandr as a workaround until the root problem ca

Re: Xorg replaces TTY1

2015-11-27 Thread Petter Adsen
On Fri, 27 Nov 2015 18:08:51 +1300 Chris Bannister wrote: > On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 06:54:34PM +, Brian wrote: > > For many readers (diligent or otherwise), isn't this a matter of > > updated documentation and re-education. There are still users (an > > example is in this thread) who believe