How to build Debian-based wireless router

2016-01-21 Thread GC
There's a lot of great tutorials on how to build your own router (wired) but I can't seem to find anything that covers steps on how to build your own wireless router? Anyone have some advice on this topic or can share some articles, step-by-step tutorials, links, etc on this?

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

2016-01-21 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Thu, 21 Jan 2016 00:30:03 +0100 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Wednesday 20 January 2016 22:25:55 Charles Kroeger wrote: > > On Wed, 20 Jan 2016 08:50:02 +0100 > > > > Jarle Aase wrote: > > > I just wanted to share > > > > Where's Stan Hooper when you need him? I miss your hardware critiques Stan > >

Re: turning off Google Chrome's warning

2016-01-21 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, Jan 21, 2016, at 21:59, Frank McCormick wrote: > > On 21/01/16 09:41 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: >> >> What does chrome give you that chromium does not? > > Nothing that I know of...but I thought that staying with the Google > product is just simpler. I've had chromium on this machine for

Konqueror default view mode -- how to make it ‘really’ permanent?

2016-01-21 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 My default view profile for Konqueror is ‘File management’. In that profile I have set the ostensible default view mode to ‘detailed list’. However, during a Konqueror session it does not always stay that way; sometimes it reverts to ‘icon view’. For

Re: turning off Google Chrome's warning

2016-01-21 Thread Mike Castle
On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 6:59 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: > So I just > might remove google-chrome and live with chromium for now. An install of > 64-bit Debian is not in the cards for now. At some point, there may be 64-bit only code introduced into Chrome that could cause subtle bugs on 32-bit s

Re: getting sound in Sid

2016-01-21 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Thu, 21 Jan 2016 23:00:02 +0100 Floris wrote: > Op Thu, 21 Jan 2016 22:25:20 +0100 schreef Haines Brown > : > > > I apparently have ALSA on Debian Sid on a Thinkpad, or at least > > alsa-mixer seems set up correctly. But $ speaker-test makes no sound. > > > > # lspci | grep audio returns no

Re: turning off Google Chrome's warning

2016-01-21 Thread Frank McCormick
On 21/01/16 09:41 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: On Thu, Jan 21, 2016, at 18:55, Frank McCormick wrote: Does anyone know how to urn off the warning from Google-Chrome that comes up every time you go into the browser. The warning is about Google no longer supporting 32 bit versions as of March. It's

Re: turning off Google Chrome's warning

2016-01-21 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, Jan 21, 2016, at 18:55, Frank McCormick wrote: > > Does anyone know how to urn off the warning from Google-Chrome > that comes up every time you go into the browser. The warning is > about Google no longer supporting 32 bit versions as of March. > It's really annoying. > > Thanks > Oops

ssd issues

2016-01-21 Thread Banio
I have a new Asus NX500J with a Samsung PCIe SSD with jessie (8.2) installed and I'm having problems with disc speed. It is supposed to have up to (write: 930 MB/s read: 1170 MB/s), but I'm seeing performance that is horrible. Here is iostat info while doing an aptitude update: avg-cpu: %use

Re: turning off Google Chrome's warning

2016-01-21 Thread Frank McCormick
On 21/01/16 07:51 PM, Mike Castle wrote: Besides switching to 64-bit or chromium or keeping the browser open? (Actually, does chromium issue the same warning?) mrc No it doesn't. Personally I don't think Google-Chrome is a good reason to switch to 64-bit. But getting rid of the warning wou

Re: turning off Google Chrome's warning

2016-01-21 Thread Mike Castle
Besides switching to 64-bit or chromium or keeping the browser open? (Actually, does chromium issue the same warning?) mrc

turning off Google Chrome's warning

2016-01-21 Thread Frank McCormick
Does anyone know how to urn off the warning from Google-Chrome that comes up every time you go into the browser. The warning is about Google no longer supporting 32 bit versions as of March. It's really annoying. Thanks

Re: Fw: Books Inquiry

2016-01-21 Thread Gary Roach
On 01/20/2016 02:26 PM, jdd wrote: Le 20/01/2016 19:43, mohammad Harun a écrit : It's hard to know how to download Debian ? though I tried many links on your download page but still don't know what to download & how to download. the simple way is to use the forst dvd http://cdimage.debian.or

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

2016-01-21 Thread Jude DaShiell
udev may be having adverse impacts on abilities to play sounds from certain cards after reboot. Anyone interested may find sound devices in black listed category they don't want to have black listed. Correcting such black listing for now is beyond my capability since I haven't done enough wit

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

2016-01-21 Thread Gregor Zattler
Hi Floris, debian users, * Floris [21. Jan. 2016]: > Op Thu, 21 Jan 2016 20:32:21 +0100 schreef Gregor Zattler > : > >>since a few days my normal user, which is in group sound, cannot >>play sound (aplay works but no sound) while root can. >> [...] >>>You are right, the right permissi

apt-cacher-ng ""500 Bad redirection (path)" - some debugging info

2016-01-21 Thread Brian Candler
I have been observing intermittent "500 Bad redirection (path)" errors from apt-cacher-ng. This is something which appears to have been reported before but not resolved: e.g. https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2015/03/msg00877.html However I have been able to capture some information, including

Re: Books Inquiry

2016-01-21 Thread jdd
Le 21/01/2016 21:02, Brian a écrit : On Thu 21 Jan 2016 at 16:41:19 +0100, jdd wrote: Le 21/01/2016 03:53, Adam Wilson a écrit : OP is using an x86 32-bit computer- so i386 it would be, then. ordinary debian dvd is hybrid, 32 bits and 64 bits as well May we have a link for this "ordinary"

Re: Books Inquiry

2016-01-21 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 21 January 2016 20:58:11 Bob Holtzman wrote: > On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 05:50:07AM +0300, Adam Wilson wrote: > > On Wed, 20 Jan 2016 14:36:52 -0700 Bob Holtzman wrote: > > > > > > Google is your friend. > > > > Google isn't your friend, but DuckDuckGo is. > > https://stallman.org/googl

Re: getting sound in Sid

2016-01-21 Thread Floris
Op Thu, 21 Jan 2016 22:25:20 +0100 schreef Haines Brown : I apparently have ALSA on Debian Sid on a Thinkpad, or at least alsa-mixer seems set up correctly. But $ speaker-test makes no sound. # lspci | grep audio returns nothing. So I wondered if alsa drivers are installed. Soundcore is insta

getting sound in Sid

2016-01-21 Thread Haines Brown
I apparently have ALSA on Debian Sid on a Thinkpad, or at least alsa-mixer seems set up correctly. But $ speaker-test makes no sound. # lspci | grep audio returns nothing. So I wondered if alsa drivers are installed. Soundcore is installed, but I discovered there is no longer any alsa-modules pack

Re: problems running backup

2016-01-21 Thread Ulf Volmer
On 01/20/2016 10:33 PM, Bob Holtzman wrote: On 12/3/15, Bob Holtzman wrote: rsync: mkdir "/media/cf0a98ed-3c11-4107-b61e-f5139d024396/Jessie-laptop" failed: No such file or directory (2) rsync error: error in file IO (code 11) at main.c(674) [Receiver=3.1.1] That second line is strange as I

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

2016-01-21 Thread Floris
Op Thu, 21 Jan 2016 21:43:53 +0100 schreef Floris : Op Thu, 21 Jan 2016 20:32:21 +0100 schreef Gregor Zattler : since a few days my normal user, which is in group sound, cannot play sound (aplay works but no sound) while root can. Any ideas how to debug this? In Debian Testing systemd

Re: Books Inquiry

2016-01-21 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 05:50:07AM +0300, Adam Wilson wrote: > On Wed, 20 Jan 2016 14:36:52 -0700 Bob Holtzman wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 06:43:31PM +, mohammad Harun wrote: > > > Sir > > > > > > Is there any book/guide/tutorial about how to use GUI (graphical > > > user interfac

Re: problems running backup

2016-01-21 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 01:13:04AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 21 January 2016 00:33:45 Bob Holtzman wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 04:59:05PM -0500, ken wrote: > > > On 01/20/2016 04:33 PM, Bob Holtzman wrote: > > > >>2) Target partition was mounted BUT had quietly been auto-re

Re: 3 screens do it work + 2 gpu's

2016-01-21 Thread Floris
Op Thu, 21 Jan 2016 20:52:57 +0100 schreef mess-mate-gmx : oeps Hi, i have 3 screens, 2 on a geforce 9800GT. The other screen (n°3) is connected to a graph.card with a geforce gt 730. This screen is seen by nvidia but is disabled and enabling result in a black one. There are multiple n

Re: [Reportbug]:which package should i point

2016-01-21 Thread Brian
On Thu 21 Jan 2016 at 15:06:49 -0500, Yves wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to report a bug related to Debian jessie, because when i start > the computer some programs doesn't run like the sound and the synaptic > touch-pad plus when i try to shut down the computer in GUI mode it > doesn't work too

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

2016-01-21 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 04:56:31PM +0100, Gregor Zattler wrote: [...] > You are right of course. play is an alias for sox on my system. > They give different output on the terminal, but otherwise they > behave the same: sound as root no sound as use

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

2016-01-21 Thread Floris
Op Thu, 21 Jan 2016 20:32:21 +0100 schreef Gregor Zattler : since a few days my normal user, which is in group sound, cannot play sound (aplay works but no sound) while root can. Any ideas how to debug this? In Debian Testing systemd takes care for setting the right rights That is why yo

Re: problems running backup

2016-01-21 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 04:14:58AM -0500, ken wrote: > On 01/21/2016 12:33 AM, Bob Holtzman wrote: > >On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 04:59:05PM -0500, ken wrote: > >>On 01/20/2016 04:33 PM, Bob Holtzman wrote: > 2) Target partition was mounted BUT had quietly been auto-renamed by > >my system k/t

[Reportbug]:which package should i point

2016-01-21 Thread Yves
Hi, I'm trying to report a bug related to Debian jessie, because when i start the computer some programs doesn't run like the sound and the synaptic touch-pad plus when i try to shut down the computer in GUI mode it doesn't work too, I have to go in the shell and type the following command: sh

Re: Books Inquiry

2016-01-21 Thread Brian
On Thu 21 Jan 2016 at 16:41:19 +0100, jdd wrote: > Le 21/01/2016 03:53, Adam Wilson a écrit : > > >OP is using an x86 32-bit computer- so i386 it would be, then. > > ordinary debian dvd is hybrid, 32 bits and 64 bits as well May we have a link for this "ordinary" DVD?

3 screens do it work + 2 gpu's

2016-01-21 Thread mess-mate-gmx
oeps Hi, i have 3 screens, 2 on a geforce 9800GT. The other screen (n°3) is connected to a graph.card with a geforce gt 730. This screen is seen by nvidia but is disabled and enabling result in a black one. There are multiple nvidia packages in jessie, what one do i install to run also my 3d

3 screens do it work + 2 gpu's

2016-01-21 Thread mess-mate-gmx
Hi, i have 3 screens, 2 on a geforce 9800GT. The other screen (n°3) is connected to a graph.card with a geforce 7130. This screen is seen by nvidia but is disabled and enabling result in a black one. There are multiple nvidia packages in jessie, what one do i install to run also my 3d screen. T

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

2016-01-21 Thread Gregor Zattler
Hi Floris, debian user, * Floris [21. Jan. 2016]: > Op Thu, 21 Jan 2016 16:52:44 +0100 schreef Gregor Zattler > : >>* Floris [21. Jan. 2016]: >>>Op Sat, 16 Jan 2016 20:06:22 +0100 schreef Gregor Zattler >>>: since a few days my normal user, which is in group sound, cannot play sound (apla

Re: Fw: Books Inquiry

2016-01-21 Thread Bret Busby
On 21/01/2016, mohammad Harun wrote: > Sir > > Is there any book/guide/tutorial about how to use GUI (graphical user > interface) or Mouse in Debian ? > > It's hard to know how to download Debian ? though I tried many links on your > download page but still don't know what to download & how to dow

Re: Books Inquiry

2016-01-21 Thread Brian
On Thu 21 Jan 2016 at 05:53:46 +0300, Adam Wilson wrote: > On Wed, 20 Jan 2016 19:30:08 + Brian wrote: > > > On Wed 20 Jan 2016 at 18:43:31 +, mohammad Harun wrote: > > > > > Sir > > > > > > Is there any book/guide/tutorial about how to use GUI (graphical > > > user interface) or Mou

Re: Is anybody Running Debian on Acer Aspire E5-571G

2016-01-21 Thread Bret Busby
On 13/01/2016, Dikomodo wrote: > Hallo everybody > Is anybody Running Debian on Acer Aspire E5-571G? > Thankyou very much > > The above message is the only message that I have seen in the thread, from the original poster, so I say this, without the above message explaining why the question is ask

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

2016-01-21 Thread Floris
Op Thu, 21 Jan 2016 16:52:44 +0100 schreef Gregor Zattler : Hi Floris, debian user, * Floris [21. Jan. 2016]: Op Sat, 16 Jan 2016 20:06:22 +0100 schreef Gregor Zattler : since a few days my normal user, which is in group sound, cannot play sound (aplay works but no sound) while root can. A

Re: Books Inquiry

2016-01-21 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Wed, 20 Jan 2016, mohammad Harun wrote: > Sir > > Is there any book/guide/tutorial about how to use GUI (graphical user > interface) or Mouse in Debian ? > > It's hard to know how to download Debian ? though I tried many links > on your download page but still don't know what to download &

[HITB-Announce] #HITB2016AMS CFP Closes in < 3 Weeks

2016-01-21 Thread Hafez Kamal
The Call for Papers for HITBSecConf2016 - Amsterdam (#HITB2016AMS) closes in approximately 3 weeks! Working on something interesting? Submit! Call for Papers: http://cfp.hackinthebox.org/ Deadline: 14th February An initial list of accepted talks and speakers has just been announced: - Virtualiz

Re: Latest NVIDIA driver (346.96) issue

2016-01-21 Thread Pascal Obry
Le jeudi 21 janvier 2016 à 10:56 +0100, Mart van de Wege a écrit : > Check the documentation to see if your chipset is still supported. I > had > this problem with the upgrade, as the Quadro in my laptop is no > longer > supported by the mainline driver. Yes, the K1100M is still listed as supporte

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

2016-01-21 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Wed, 20 Jan 2016, Jarle Aase wrote: > > > Den 01/20/16 18:56, skrev Patrick Bartek: > > What if anything special like disabling Secureboot did you do to > > facilitate this painless install? > Nothing really. I specified "Other OS" and enabled virtualization - > that's all that I changed in

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

2016-01-21 Thread Gregor Zattler
Hi Chris, * Chris Bannister [20. Jan. 2016]: > 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: >> >>

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

2016-01-21 Thread Gregor Zattler
Hi Floris, debian user, * Floris [21. Jan. 2016]: > Op Sat, 16 Jan 2016 20:06:22 +0100 schreef Gregor Zattler > : >>since a few days my normal user, which is in group sound, cannot >>play sound (aplay works but no sound) while root can. >> >>Any ideas how to debug this? >> >>This is a debian testi

Re: Books Inquiry

2016-01-21 Thread jdd
Le 21/01/2016 03:53, Adam Wilson a écrit : OP is using an x86 32-bit computer- so i386 it would be, then. ordinary debian dvd is hybrid, 32 bits and 64 bits as well jdd

Re: Books Inquiry

2016-01-21 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 05:50:07AM +0300, Adam Wilson wrote: > On Wed, 20 Jan 2016 14:36:52 -0700 Bob Holtzman wrote: [...] > > Google is your friend. > > Google isn't your friend, but DuckDuckGo is. > https://stallman.org/google.html :-) Google

Re: Is anybody Running Debian on Acer Aspire E5-571G

2016-01-21 Thread Adam Wilson
On Fri, 15 Jan 2016 12:47:05 -0300 Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: > On Fri, 15 Jan 2016 14:27:54 + > Brian wrote: > > > On Fri 15 Jan 2016 at 08:53:46 -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > > > > I ran a netinst installation so no didn't have the nonfree rt2800 > > > package earlier. Anyone know wh

Re: Books Inquiry

2016-01-21 Thread Adam Wilson
On Wed, 20 Jan 2016 19:30:08 + Brian wrote: > On Wed 20 Jan 2016 at 18:43:31 +, mohammad Harun wrote: > > > Sir > > > > Is there any book/guide/tutorial about how to use GUI (graphical > > user interface) or Mouse in Debian ? > > > > It's hard to know how to download Debian ? though

Re: Books Inquiry

2016-01-21 Thread Adam Wilson
On Wed, 20 Jan 2016 14:36:52 -0700 Bob Holtzman wrote: > On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 06:43:31PM +, mohammad Harun wrote: > > Sir > > > > Is there any book/guide/tutorial about how to use GUI (graphical > > user interface) or Mouse in Debian ? > > > > It's hard to know how to download Debian ?

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

2016-01-21 Thread Floris
Op Thu, 21 Jan 2016 12:30:44 +0100 schreef Jude DaShiell : On Thu, 21 Jan 2016, Floris wrote: Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 05:22:59 From: Floris To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: ?? user in group audio -- but only root can play sound Resent-Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 10:23:21 + (UTC)

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

2016-01-21 Thread Joel Rees
2016/01/21 2:33 "Alberto Salvia Novella" : > > Joel Rees: > >> It supports neither your peculiar assertion that microcode is not >> executable nor your equally peculiar assertion that microcode is not >> and has not been a cause for concern. > > > Polynomial (http://tinyurl.com/hdtpa7g): You know,

Re: A heart-felt thank-you to all

2016-01-21 Thread Richard Owlett
On 1/21/2016 3:09 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 10:48:16PM -0500, Steve Matzura wrote: Thanks to all who've helped me climb the learning curve of Debian 8.2 [...] Thanks to you for asking the right questions in the right way :-) [...] I hope I get to pay it forward. T

Re: Debian on Lenovo ideapad y700

2016-01-21 Thread deloptes
Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Thursday 21 January 2016 02:58:35 David Christensen wrote: >> On 01/20/2016 05:17 PM, R.C.F.Kloks wrote: >> > I recently installed Debian on my laptop Lenovo ideapad y700 with >> > succes. On first bootup after grub 2 screen i get an blackscreen. >> > Cant find any possible

Re: (Repeat) Incessant Random Eth Disconnect/Reconnect

2016-01-21 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 01:48:40PM +0200, David Baron wrote: > Royal pain in the ... > What do I do about this? > > (Saw something about network manager/netcfg conflict but I do not have > netcfg.) What have the system logs (dmesg, /var/log/syslog,

Re: Problem with apt-get and sources.list

2016-01-21 Thread Brian
On Thu 21 Jan 2016 at 11:04:18 +, Brian wrote: > If non-free firmware is provided during the course of using the installer > the "official" sources.list includes non-free. A misleading statement. The non-free archive is marked for inclusion but the user must choose to have it written to sour

Re: A heart-felt thank-you to all

2016-01-21 Thread Daniel Bareiro
Hi, Steve. On 21/01/16 00:48, Steve Matzura wrote: > Thanks to all who've helped me climb the learning curve of Debian 8.2 > to get my system up and running. Specific thanks go, in no particular > order, to Daniel, Gary, Reco, Lisi, Dan, Mudongliang, Joe, the > Wanderer, Rick Thomas, and many othe

(Repeat) Incessant Random Eth Disconnect/Reconnect

2016-01-21 Thread David Baron
Royal pain in the ... What do I do about this? (Saw something about network manager/netcfg conflict but I do not have netcfg.)

Re: Debian on Lenovo ideapad y700

2016-01-21 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 21 January 2016 02:58:35 David Christensen wrote: > On 01/20/2016 05:17 PM, R.C.F.Kloks wrote: > > I recently installed Debian on my laptop Lenovo ideapad y700 with succes. > > On first bootup after grub 2 screen i get an blackscreen. > > Cant find any possible solution on the internet

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

2016-01-21 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Thu, 21 Jan 2016, Floris wrote: Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 05:22:59 From: Floris To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: ?? user in group audio -- but only root can play sound Resent-Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 10:23:21 + (UTC) Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org Op Sat, 16 Jan 2016

Re: A heart-felt thank-you to all

2016-01-21 Thread Reco
Hi. On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 10:48:16PM -0500, Steve Matzura wrote: > Thanks to all who've helped me climb the learning curve of Debian 8.2 You're welcome. Glad to be of help. > Thanks again to all of you, and I hope I get to pay it forward. Looking forward to it. Reco

Re: Fw: Books Inquiry

2016-01-21 Thread Brian
On Thu 21 Jan 2016 at 09:59:00 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 07:30:08PM +, Brian wrote: > > On Wed 20 Jan 2016 at 18:43:31 +, mohammad Harun wrote: > > > > > Sir > > > > > > Is there any book/guide/tutorial about how to use GUI (graphical user > > > interfac

Re: Problem with apt-get and sources.list

2016-01-21 Thread Brian
On Thu 21 Jan 2016 at 23:10:51 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 05:57:52PM +0300, Adam Wilson wrote: > > On Sat, 16 Jan 2016 08:17:42 +1300 Chris Bannister > > wrote: > > > > > On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 06:18:09PM +0300, Adam Wilson wrote: > > > > On Wed, 13 Jan 2016 20:31:1

Re: Problem with apt-get and sources.list

2016-01-21 Thread Brian
On Wed 20 Jan 2016 at 17:56:53 +0300, Adam Wilson wrote: > On Fri, 15 Jan 2016 19:34:31 + Brian wrote: > > > On Fri 15 Jan 2016 at 09:54:30 +0300, Adam Wilson wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 14 Jan 2016 19:08:53 + > > > Brian wrote: > > > > > > > http.debian.net/debian/ > > > > > > > > is e

Re: A heart-felt thank-you to all

2016-01-21 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 21 January 2016 09:09:12 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > You've asked, you've been polite and patient, you've read the answers > and tried to make sense of all -- you have motivated people here to > figure out things... thanks for your contribution :-) Hear! Hear! You have been great in thi

Re: Reporting unmaintained packages

2016-01-21 Thread Brian
On Thu 21 Jan 2016 at 22:35:19 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 07:19:00PM +, Brian wrote: > > On Wed 20 Jan 2016 at 20:02:37 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 07:03:33PM +, Brian wrote: > > > > A small point: duplicate bugs are merged,

Re: A heart-felt thank-you to all

2016-01-21 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 21 January 2016 03:48:16 Steve Matzura wrote: > Thanks to all who've helped me climb the learning curve of Debian 8.2 > to get my system up and running. Specific thanks go, in no particular > order, to Daniel, Gary, Reco, Lisi, Dan, Mudongliang, Joe, the > Wanderer, Rick Thomas, and man

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

2016-01-21 Thread Floris
Op Sat, 16 Jan 2016 20:06:22 +0100 schreef Gregor Zattler : Hi there, since a few days my normal user, which is in group sound, cannot play sound (aplay works but no sound) while root can. Any ideas how to debug this? This is a debian testing system with pulseaudio and mpd running. /dev$ f

Re: Problem with apt-get and sources.list

2016-01-21 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 05:57:52PM +0300, Adam Wilson wrote: > On Sat, 16 Jan 2016 08:17:42 +1300 Chris Bannister > wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 06:18:09PM +0300, Adam Wilson wrote: > > > On Wed, 13 Jan 2016 20:31:18 +0200 > > > Amr Saber wrote: > > > > > > > Hi there, > > > > While I w

Re: Latest NVIDIA driver (346.96) issue

2016-01-21 Thread Mart van de Wege
Pascal Obry writes: > Since yesterday update of NVIDIA 346.96-1 I get an error about uvm > module: > > The module is compiled (dkms): > > $ ls -la /lib/modules/4.3.0-1-amd64/updates/dkms/nv* > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11730792 Jan 20 09:08 > /lib/modules/4.3.0-1-amd64/updates/dkms/nvidia-current.ko

Re: A heart-felt thank-you to all

2016-01-21 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 10:48:16PM -0500, Steve Matzura wrote: > Thanks to all who've helped me climb the learning curve of Debian 8.2 [...] Thanks to you for asking the right questions in the right way :-) > [...] I hope I get to pay it forward. Th

Re: Reporting unmaintained packages

2016-01-21 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 07:19:00PM +, Brian wrote: > On Wed 20 Jan 2016 at 20:02:37 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > 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 > > >

Re: Fw: Books Inquiry

2016-01-21 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 07:30:08PM +, Brian wrote: > On Wed 20 Jan 2016 at 18:43:31 +, mohammad Harun wrote: > > > Sir > > > > Is there any book/guide/tutorial about how to use GUI (graphical user > > interface) or Mouse in Debian ? > > >

Re: problems running backup

2016-01-21 Thread ken
On 01/21/2016 12:33 AM, Bob Holtzman wrote: On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 04:59:05PM -0500, ken wrote: On 01/20/2016 04:33 PM, Bob Holtzman wrote: 2) Target partition was mounted BUT had quietly been auto-renamed by my system k/t that another partition was already bearing the same label name. Fodder