Re: Laptop + VGA + X

2015-12-29 Thread Joel Roth
Hudson Flavio Meneses Lacerda wrote: > Hi. > > The monitor of my laptop is broken, thus the screen frequently becomes > white. Then, it is needed to turning off the energy and restart the laptop > (not always with success). > > Therefore, I plugged a VGA monitor. However, the VGA monitor does not

Re: Laptop + VGA + X

2015-12-29 Thread Gary Dale
On 29/12/15 07:00 PM, Hudson Flavio Meneses Lacerda wrote: Hi. The monitor of my laptop is broken, thus the screen frequently becomes white. Then, it is needed to turning off the energy and restart the laptop (not always with success). Therefore, I plugged a VGA monitor. However, the VGA mon

Re: Putting It All On a Stick

2015-12-29 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 29, 2015, at 5:52 PM, Steve Matzura wrote: >> On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 04:18:15PM -0500, Steve Matzura wrote: >>> Is there a way to place the contents of all the Debian installation >>> ISO's on a single USB drive? For example, after creating the boot >>> drive from the first ISO image, ca

Re: Debian using USB stick on diskless machine

2015-12-29 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 29, 2015, at 12:51 AM, Ross Boylan wrote: > The system is a bit sluggish; maybe ext4 on lvm wasn't the best choice for it. > Ross Make sure the USB stick you’re using is rated for USB3, even if the computer’s port is just USB2. The older USB2 sticks tend to be much slower at doing sust

Re: New Install Fails at Step 14

2015-12-29 Thread Steve Matzura
No to both, as neither of those options appear in the install script. On Tue, 29 Dec 2015 18:35:38 -0500 (EST), you wrote: >Did you set message priority to low and set logs to save to a mounted >partition? The first adjustment asks more questions and the second >preserves logs if something blo

Re: Putting It All On a Stick

2015-12-29 Thread Steve Matzura
Thanks, Andy. I downloaded the Windows Jigdo downloader and found a mirror in my state, but I keep getting the following when trying to download the Blu-ray image after several connect attempts: result too large >On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 04:18:15PM -0500, Steve Matzura wrote: >> Is there a way to p

(SOLVED) Re: Weird problem with wbar

2015-12-29 Thread Frank McCormick
On 29/12/15 06:16 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: I have switched back to running wbar on several of my desktops and have run into a strange problem. Because it happened under openbox the first time I noticed it, I posted the problem on that list but so far nobody has come up with any ideas. so I thou

Re: is twitter useful for debian?

2015-12-29 Thread Jude DaShiell
With at least ttytter, there is no 140 character limit. You go around that by sending multiple tweets each 140 or fewer characters and ttytter makes that easily done too. On Tue, 29 Dec 2015, Donald Norwood wrote: Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2015 18:48:14 From: Donald Norwood To: debian-user@lists.de

Laptop + VGA + X

2015-12-29 Thread Hudson Flavio Meneses Lacerda
Hi. The monitor of my laptop is broken, thus the screen frequently becomes white. Then, it is needed to turning off the energy and restart the laptop (not always with success). Therefore, I plugged a VGA monitor. However, the VGA monitor does not work when X is active. (It works very fine wi

Re: is twitter useful for debian?

2015-12-29 Thread Donald Norwood
Hi Michael, On 12/28/2015 06:48 AM, Michael Fothergill wrote: > > ​Dear Folks, > > I don't use twitter much. But I noticed that debian is on twitter > ie The Debian Project @debian. ​ > > What benefit is there in that? > > I tried tweeting a bit on twitter but I did

Re: New Install Fails at Step 14

2015-12-29 Thread Jude DaShiell
Did you set message priority to low and set logs to save to a mounted partition? The first adjustment asks more questions and the second preserves logs if something blows up. I think you can even have the logs saved to floppy disk too. On Tue, 29 Dec 2015, Steve Matzura wrote: Date: Tue, 2

Weird problem with wbar

2015-12-29 Thread Frank McCormick
I have switched back to running wbar on several of my desktops and have run into a strange problem. Because it happened under openbox the first time I noticed it, I posted the problem on that list but so far nobody has come up with any ideas. so I thought I try here. I am running Debian Sid wi

Re: HAL

2015-12-29 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 29 December 2015 17:33:34 kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > One thing of note is that I installed libhal1-flash, > pepperflashplugin-nonfree and removed them while testing it out. I am > not sure if that did the trick. But now it works with google chrome > even without libhal1-flash. Google

Bug#806858 Re: s-nail: mailx: Unable to (dot) lock mailbox, aborting operation: Permission denied

2015-12-29 Thread Rick Thomas
Hi Steffan, So what, exactly, are the correct permissions for s-nail-privsep? Should it be: -rwxr-sr-x 1 root mail 10104 Dec 4 14:52 /usr/lib/s-nail/s-nail-privsep or: -rwsr-xr-x 1 root mail 10104 Dec 4 14:52 /usr/lib/s-nail/s-nail-privsep or: -rwsr-sr-x 1 root mail 10104 Dec 4 14:

Re: Debian using USB stick on diskless machine

2015-12-29 Thread David Christensen
On 12/29/2015 12:51 AM, Ross Boylan wrote: I think if I had run debian installer from one flash drive and installed onto another flash drive things would have gone more smoothly. Likely, so. I managed to get things mostly working. It was extremely ugly. I'll try to post full details later,

Re: QEMU

2015-12-29 Thread Reco
Hi. On Tue, 29 Dec 2015 21:05:20 + Andrew Wood wrote: > On 30/10/15 09:36, Reco wrote: > > Specifing $SOME_IP instead of 0.0.0.0 should be possible, although I > > have to admit that I've never tried it (127.0.0.1 does not count). But > > 'refused to start' lacks some specific deta

Re: Putting It All On a Stick

2015-12-29 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 04:18:15PM -0500, Steve Matzura wrote: > Is there a way to place the contents of all the Debian installation > ISO's on a single USB drive? For example, after creating the boot > drive from the first ISO image, can the files from the second and > third images be simply copie

Re: Question: eth0 vs enp1s0

2015-12-29 Thread Felix Miata
Hans composed on 2015-12-29 20:55 (UTC+0100): > and both got the same settings What makes you sure of this? ... > The only thing, which IMO would explain it, that the EEEPC is newer than the > other one. But then the hardware must talk to the operation system and give > more information to ude

Re: Question: eth0 vs enp1s0

2015-12-29 Thread Brian
On Tue 29 Dec 2015 at 20:55:45 +0100, Hans wrote: > Hi Brian, Felix and Charlie, > > Persistant name generation is enabled by default since udev 220-7 and > > will be used on new installations or with new hardware. Existing > > installations and hardware which get upgraded to udev 220-7 are covere

Putting It All On a Stick

2015-12-29 Thread Steve Matzura
Is there a way to place the contents of all the Debian installation ISO's on a single USB drive? For example, after creating the boot drive from the first ISO image, can the files from the second and third images be simply copied onto the USB drive, creating one complete three-disk installation set

New Install Fails at Step 14

2015-12-29 Thread Steve Matzura
I'm installing 8.2 from DVD with speech output. At Step 14, I select the packages I want--Web server, ssh server, and #11 which just says it's most of a lot of other things), and the install fails. I am not using a mirror. My DVD's all pass muster as per option 20 (check CD-ROM integrity). Option 1

Re: QEMU

2015-12-29 Thread Andrew Wood
On 30/10/15 09:36, Reco wrote: Specifing $SOME_IP instead of 0.0.0.0 should be possible, although I have to admit that I've never tried it (127.0.0.1 does not count). But 'refused to start' lacks some specific details: 1) What vnc stanza have you use? 2) What's the list of IPs on the host tha

Re: Question: eth0 vs enp1s0

2015-12-29 Thread Hans
Hi Brian, Felix and Charlie, > Persistant name generation is enabled by default since udev 220-7 and > will be used on new installations or with new hardware. Existing > installations and hardware which get upgraded to udev 220-7 are covered > by the old 75-persistent-net-generator.rules and will k

Re: Question: eth0 vs enp1s0

2015-12-29 Thread Charlie Kravetz
On Tue, 29 Dec 2015 19:34:43 +0100 Hans wrote: >Hi folks, > >just a question about network names, which I do not understand. > >I have two different computers, both are installed with the same versions of >debian packages. But one of it has enp1s0 as network interface name( my EEEPC >1005HGO) ,

Re: Question: eth0 vs enp1s0

2015-12-29 Thread Brian
On Tue 29 Dec 2015 at 19:34:43 +0100, Hans wrote: > just a question about network names, which I do not understand. > > I have two different computers, both are installed with the same versions of > debian packages. But one of it has enp1s0 as network interface name( my EEEPC > 1005HGO) , the o

Re: Funny integer problem in wide-dhcpv6-client (20080615-12)?

2015-12-29 Thread Atle Solbakken
On 29. des. 2015 00:11, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Mon, 28 Dec 2015, Atle Solbakken wrote: I had look into the source code to debug it, but after building from source, the problem disappears so it's kind of hard to figure it out. Can you give us more information about your enviornment

Re: Question: eth0 vs enp1s0

2015-12-29 Thread Felix Miata
Hans composed on 2015-12-29 19:34 (UTC+0100): > just a question about network names, which I do not understand. > I have two different computers, both are installed with the same versions of > debian packages. But one of it has enp1s0 as network interface name( my EEEPC > 1005HGO) , the other o

Question: eth0 vs enp1s0

2015-12-29 Thread Hans
Hi folks, just a question about network names, which I do not understand. I have two different computers, both are installed with the same versions of debian packages. But one of it has enp1s0 as network interface name( my EEEPC 1005HGO) , the other one the old eth0 scheme (my Aspire 7520G). B

Re: HAL

2015-12-29 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 7:06 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Tuesday 29 December 2015 07:41:10 kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: >> > Because, criminal offence though I fully understand it to be, I want to >> > use my television to watch UK Channel 4 catch-up TV and Amazon Prime >> > Video. For that I need t

Re: Avermedia Tuner Volar HD Green USB

2015-12-29 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Tue, 2015-12-29 at 18:01 +0100, Gábor Hársfalvi wrote: > Hi, > > How could I use this? > > With lsusb -> > > Bus 002 Device 006: ID 07ca:1835 AVerMedia Technologies, Inc. > > But I can't found any device with MeTV - "There are no DVB devices > available" or VLC. > > Please help me! You pro

Avermedia Tuner Volar HD Green USB

2015-12-29 Thread Gábor Hársfalvi
Hi, How could I use this? With lsusb -> Bus 002 Device 006: ID 07ca:1835 AVerMedia Technologies, Inc. But I can't found any device with MeTV - "There are no DVB devices available" or VLC. Please help me!

Re: Need a calculator that knows about coulombs

2015-12-29 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 29 December 2015 06:03:14 Joel Rees wrote: > I don't believe I did this. > > On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 7:56 PM, Joel Rees wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 6:12 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> A paste of what I entered: > >> > >> define vc(vs,t,r,c) { > >> return vs * (1-e(-t/(r*c))) > >

Re: HAL

2015-12-29 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 29 December 2015 07:31:02 kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 9:30 PM, Sven Hartge wrote: > > Sven Hartge wrote: > >> But I see there is a package named libhal1-flash available from > >> Christian Marillat in his deb-multimedia.org repository. It contains the > >> code

Re: HAL

2015-12-29 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 29 December 2015 07:41:10 kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > > Because, criminal offence though I fully understand it to be, I want to > > use my television to watch UK Channel 4 catch-up TV and Amazon Prime > > Video. For that I need the computer attached to my television to run > > Flash-pl

Re: Need a calculator that knows about coulombs

2015-12-29 Thread Joel Rees
I don't believe I did this. On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 7:56 PM, Joel Rees wrote: > On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 6:12 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: >> >> A paste of what I entered: >> >> define vc(vs,t,r,c) { >> return vs * (1-e(-t/(r*c))) >> } >> for ( i=0.0; i<5.0; i += 0.1 ) { print i, ":", vc(120,i,83,.01

Re: Need a calculator that knows about coulombs

2015-12-29 Thread Joel Rees
On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 6:12 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > A paste of what I entered: > > define vc(vs,t,r,c) { > return vs * (1-e(-t/(r*c))) > } > for ( i=0.0; i<5.0; i += 0.1 ) { print i, ":", vc(120,i,83,.01 ),"\n" } 0:0 Sorry I missed that. Probably should stay off the list when I'm in a hurry.

Re: Need a calculator that knows about coulombs

2015-12-29 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 29 December 2015 03:39:25 Joel Rees wrote: > erk. > > On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 5:12 PM, Joel Rees wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 9:15 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> On Monday 28 December 2015 01:59:44 Gener Badenas wrote: > >> > >> Back on the list where this belongs. > >> > >>> On

Re: Debian using USB stick on diskless machine

2015-12-29 Thread Ross Boylan
David, thanks for the suggestions. I think if I had run debian installer from one flash drive and installed onto another flash drive things would have gone more smoothly. I managed to get things mostly working. It was extremely ugly. I'll try to post full details later, but basically inserted U

Re: Need a calculator that knows about coulombs

2015-12-29 Thread Joel Rees
erk. On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 5:12 PM, Joel Rees wrote: > On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 9:15 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Monday 28 December 2015 01:59:44 Gener Badenas wrote: >> >> Back on the list where this belongs. >> >>> On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 9:09 AM, Gene Heskett >> wrote: >>> > Greetings all