Debian "testing" is looking really great on my new "Skylake" PC

2016-01-19 Thread Jarle Aase
I built myself a new PC with an Intel i7-6700K ("Skylake" architecture) - and I was prepared for lots of grief and trouble. However, installing Debian "testing" yesterday, from the latest Amd64 snapshot, was absolutely painless. I'm using kde as desktop, and it looks really great. I installed

Re: dselect, init and systemd-sysv

2016-01-19 Thread koanhead
On Sun, 17 Jan 2016 12:00:02 +0100, Aldo Maggi wrote: > Yesterday while updating my system via dselect (I'm using testing) I've > received the warning that "init and systemd-sysv" were going to be > uninstalled and I had to approve or deny that action. > I've thought that as in previous cases (to

Re: About new mail client

2016-01-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 10:51:53AM +1000, Stuart Longland wrote: > On 21/12/15 23:59, Chris Bannister wrote: > >> Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. Umm, I didn't write that. (You went overboard with your snipping.) > > Sent using mutt from my laptop! > > Oddly

Re: Reporting unmaintained packages

2016-01-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 07:03:33PM +, Brian wrote: > A small point: duplicate bugs are merged, not closed. You could do it if > > you are confident in your judgement. A more pertinent point is whether >

Re: ?? user in group audio -- but only root can play sound

2016-01-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 06:28:17PM +0100, Gregor Zattler wrote: > Thinking about: mpd is also not in these groups and I can her > music. > > So that's still not it. > > When I play some sound, I see aplay working, but do not hear sound: > > $ play /home/grfz/Downloads/tuxok.wav Just as an

Re: Setting up LVDS display in Jessie stable

2016-01-19 Thread venkat
On 20-01-2016 02:09, deloptes wrote: Venkat Ragavan Swaminathan wrote: I am just trying to setup my debian 8.2 stable in my Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N2600 @ 1.60GHz. The installation goes smooth without any issues. For this system , we are planning to use DUAL display with HDMI & LVDS. we see t

Re: Setting up LVDS display in Jessie stable

2016-01-19 Thread venkat
On 20-01-2016 02:09, deloptes wrote: Venkat Ragavan Swaminathan wrote: I am just trying to setup my debian 8.2 stable in my Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N2600 @ 1.60GHz. The installation goes smooth without any issues. For this system , we are planning to use DUAL display with HDMI & LVDS. we see t

Re: About new mail client

2016-01-19 Thread Stuart Longland
On 21/12/15 23:59, Chris Bannister wrote: >> Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. > Sent using mutt from my laptop! Oddly enough, I've found mutt running on my server from my phone using ConnectBot (for SSH) vastly superior to K-9 Mail (and the stock Android client)

Re: www.lists.debian.org

2016-01-19 Thread Stuart Longland
On 20/01/16 02:03, Anders Andersson wrote: > Hi, GOOGLE CERTIFIED PARTNER. The address list of your spam targets is > outdated and affecting your outcome on prominent mailing lists. > > No regards. Certified partner no longer, I'd imagine, if ever. They listed an Australian address, so well and

Re: Setting up tap-to-click in gdm3

2016-01-19 Thread Francois Gouget
On Mon, 14 Dec 2015, Sven Arvidsson wrote: [...] > Try this: > http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?p=347944 I finally got time to test this but none of the recommendations on that post worked. I finally found GNOME bug 747811 which indicates that this should really be configured through gset

Re: no wifi on jessie install

2016-01-19 Thread deloptes
Chris Bannister wrote: > It can be very frustrating and time consuming to get it going again > trying the different combinations while in wicd-client pushing f5 to > scan the networks, and using ifconfig, etc. rfkill on rather modern kernel would help you at least find out what is the state unles

Re: Reporting unmaintained packages

2016-01-19 Thread Brian
On Tue 19 Jan 2016 at 16:27:36 +0100, Francois Gouget wrote: > On Mon, 18 Jan 2016, Francesco Ariis wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 12:36:34PM +0100, Francois Gouget wrote: > > >> The clamav-unofficial-sigs package has quite important bugs that cause > > >> it to fail to retrieve the Securi

Re: ?? user in group audio -- but only root can play sound

2016-01-19 Thread Gregor Zattler
Hi Alexis, debian-users, * Alexis [19. Jan. 2016]: >>Hi Jude, debian users, * Jude DaShiell [18. Jan. 2016]: This is astonishing, because my main user is in $ groups grfz cdrom floppy sudo audio dip video plugdev netdev lpadmin bluetooth scanner being in group audio shou

Re: Debian-Installation on sunxi armhf hardware

2016-01-19 Thread Andreas Henriksson
Hello Hadmut Danisch. On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 10:46:02PM +0100, Hadmut Danisch wrote: > Hi, > > I tried to use the original debian installer as described on > > https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Allwinner > https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/armhf/ch05s01.html.en > > > in order to

Re: eagle-lin64-7.5.0.run, won't

2016-01-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 11:38:11AM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Tuesday 19 January 2016 09:59:23 Chris Bannister wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 05:19:34PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > I hadn't thought of that. My bad. OTOH, although no one has come thru > > > the router except to view my

Re: no wifi on jessie install

2016-01-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 06:57:45PM -0700, Bob Holtzman wrote: > On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 11:42:23AM -0700, Bob Holtzman wrote: > > Finally got around to installing jessie (clean install) on a thinkpad > > 420 and all seemes to go well except there is no wireless, only ethernet. > > > > lsmod shows

Re: About new mail client

2016-01-19 Thread Dan Ritter
On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 11:11:33AM -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: > On Tue, 19 Jan 2016, Jonas Hedman wrote: > > >Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2016 08:41:22 > >From: Jonas Hedman > >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > >Subject: Re: About new mail client > > > >On 15-12-18 11:12:29, Klearchos-Angelos Gkountras w

Re: About new mail client

2016-01-19 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Tue, 19 Jan 2016, Jonas Hedman wrote: Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2016 08:41:22 From: Jonas Hedman To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: About new mail client On 15-12-18 11:12:29, Klearchos-Angelos Gkountras wrote: My branch is sid and used to use icedove as default mail client . I think wi

Re: www.lists.debian.org

2016-01-19 Thread Anders Andersson
On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 9:24 AM, SHARON | WEBEX-E NetWork Pty Ltd wrote: > > Hi, > > The version of your website and SEO-Algorithm is outdated and affecting your > outcome on prominent search-engines. > We can make the necessary changes to improve your rankings in the organic > search result and

Re: Libre graphics could become the standard if we push right now

2016-01-19 Thread Anders Andersson
>> Just for the record, if microcode can play with the CPU internal >> system state, say, the bits that specify whether the CPU is in >> supervisor or user state, there's not much to stop, for instance, a >> microcode update from providing an undocumented trap to a hidden >> routine in the BIOS tha

Re: Libre graphics could become the standard if we push right now

2016-01-19 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
Joel Rees: Just for the record, if microcode can play with the CPU internal system state, say, the bits that specify whether the CPU is in supervisor or user state, there's not much to stop, for instance, a microcode update from providing an undocumented trap to a hidden routine in the BIOS that

Re: Reporting unmaintained packages

2016-01-19 Thread Francois Gouget
On Mon, 18 Jan 2016, Francesco Ariis wrote: > On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 12:36:34PM +0100, Francois Gouget wrote: > >> The clamav-unofficial-sigs package has quite important bugs that cause > >> it to fail to retrieve the SecuriteInfo virus signatures and send cron > >> spam every 4 hours. > >> >

Re: eagle-lin64-7.5.0.run, won't

2016-01-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 19 January 2016 08:00:12 Darac Marjal wrote: > On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 11:38:11AM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > >On Tuesday 19 January 2016 09:59:23 Chris Bannister wrote: > >> On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 05:19:34PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> > I hadn't thought of that. My bad. OTOH, alt

Re: eagle-lin64-7.5.0.run, won't

2016-01-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 19 January 2016 07:54:30 Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > On 1/19/16, Chris Bannister wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 05:19:34PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> I hadn't thought of that. My bad. OTOH, although no one has come > >> thru the router except to view my web page, do I really wa

Re: About new mail client

2016-01-19 Thread Jonas Hedman
On 15-12-18 11:12:29, Klearchos-Angelos Gkountras wrote: > My branch is sid and used to use icedove as default mail client . I think > with enigmail is kinda broken and I can't use as encryption and sign messages > . any suggestions ? I am thinking about sylpheed or claws .which one you > sugges

Re: sexist content in the package openclipart2-png

2016-01-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Jan 08, 2016 at 04:38:02PM -0500, David Niklas wrote: > > You two are really funny. > This thread is kinda funny too, don't you guys have more productive things > to do then argue? Probably the best time, at a guess, is *after* productive work. -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers

Re: eagle-lin64-7.5.0.run, won't

2016-01-19 Thread Darac Marjal
On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 11:38:11AM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Tuesday 19 January 2016 09:59:23 Chris Bannister wrote: On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 05:19:34PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > I hadn't thought of that. My bad. OTOH, although no one has come thru > the router except to view my web page, d

Re: eagle-lin64-7.5.0.run, won't

2016-01-19 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 1/19/16, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 05:19:34PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >> >> I hadn't thought of that. My bad. OTOH, although no one has come thru >> the router except to view my web page, do I really want to do that in >> the event they do get thru? That could make t

Re: Libre graphics could become the standard if we push right now

2016-01-19 Thread Joel Rees
2016/01/16 1:16 "Alberto Salvia Novella" : > > [...] > > Firmware is a common concern because it can be overwritten by malware, have > malicious functionalities, or have back-doors. > > That has never been the case with microcode. It just declares the instruction > set, but is not an executable.

Re: ?? user in group audio -- but only root can play sound

2016-01-19 Thread Alexis
Gregor Zattler writes: Hi Jude, debian users, * Jude DaShiell [18. Jan. 2016]: This is astonishing, because my main user is in $ groups grfz cdrom floppy sudo audio dip video plugdev netdev lpadmin bluetooth scanner being in group audio should be enough. If you're using PulseAudio, th

Re: ?? user in group audio -- but only root can play sound

2016-01-19 Thread Gregor Zattler
Hi Jude, debian users, * Jude DaShiell [18. Jan. 2016]: >>This is astonishing, because my main user is in >> >>$ groups >>grfz cdrom floppy sudo audio dip video plugdev netdev lpadmin >>bluetooth scanner >> >>being in group audio should be enough. >> >> >>Actually I do hear music ATM with ncmpcpp/

Re: eagle-lin64-7.5.0.run, won't

2016-01-19 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 19 January 2016 09:59:23 Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 05:19:34PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > I hadn't thought of that. My bad. OTOH, although no one has come thru > > the router except to view my web page, do I really want to do that in > > the event they do get t

Re: eagle-lin64-7.5.0.run, won't

2016-01-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 05:19:34PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > I hadn't thought of that. My bad. OTOH, although no one has come thru > the router except to view my web page, do I really want to do that in > the event they do get thru? That could make their raising a little hell > just that

Setting up LVDS display in Jessie stable

2016-01-19 Thread Venkat Ragavan Swaminathan
I am just trying to setup my debian 8.2 stable in my Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N2600 @ 1.60GHz. The installation goes smooth without any issues. For this system , we are planning to use DUAL display with HDMI & LVDS. we see that that only HDMI is working and LVDS screen is blank. However, we notice

www.lists.debian.org

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