Re: Good keyboard

2016-02-12 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Sat, 13 Feb 2016, shawn wilson wrote: > On Feb 11, 2016 1:21 PM, "David Christensen" > wrote: > > > > Thoughts? Comments? > > > > I don't have one of those (but I think I'll buy one). Currently I > swear by my ducky mini (obviously remap caps lock to escape - also, I > use vim/vim mode so Y

Re: Good keyboard

2016-02-12 Thread shawn wilson
On Feb 11, 2016 1:21 PM, "David Christensen" wrote: > Thoughts? Comments? > I don't have one of those (but I think I'll buy one). Currently I swear by my ducky mini (obviously remap caps lock to escape - also, I use vim/vim mode so YMMV if you like arrowing around which means it also doesn't do

Re: GNOME Shell can't unmount my USB key

2016-02-12 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Sat, 13 Feb 2016, Stuart Longland wrote: > On 13/02/16 04:22, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > You know, I've never even seen a key that doesn't have an LED on it. > > Of course, I only buy the big "thumb" drives and not the teenie, > > tiny ones designed to be inconspicuous. > > I have here, and hav

Re: GLX and nouveau [SOLVED]

2016-02-12 Thread Lucio Crusca
Il 12/02/2016 21:24, Sven Joachim ha scritto: Try "update-glx --config glx" and select the mesa implementation (untested, I don't use those packages). Thanks a lot, that worked. Now that I don't use the buggy NVidia driver anymore I feel relief.

Re: GNOME Shell can't unmount my USB key

2016-02-12 Thread Stuart Longland
On 13/02/16 04:22, Patrick Bartek wrote: > You know, I've never even seen a key that doesn't have an LED on it. > Of course, I only buy the big "thumb" drives and not the teenie, tiny > ones designed to be inconspicuous. I have here, and have seen, several such drives in various sizes. -- Stuart

Re: Fonts query

2016-02-12 Thread Ron
On Fri, 12 Feb 2016 21:03:59 +0100 Siard wrote: > > Ta, I'll risk the hackish way as I want those fonts to be available > > to all users. > In that case, there is a third way: > su -l -c "ln -sf ~/MyFonts /usr/local/share/fonts" > But the usual way to install fonts system wide beyond the p

Re: GLX and nouveau

2016-02-12 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2016-02-12 18:44 +0100, Lucio Crusca wrote: > Il 12/02/2016 18:37, Sven Joachim ha scritto: >> On 2016-02-12 18:02 +0100, Lucio Crusca wrote: >> >>> $ ldd /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so >>> linux-vdso.so.1 (0x7ffda3181000) >>> libGL.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/li

Re: Fonts query

2016-02-12 Thread Siard
Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI: > Reco: > > Debian-correct upgrade-safe way: > > su -l -c "ln -sf ~/MyFonts ~/.fonts" > > > Hackish you've-been-warned way: > > Add "~/MyFonts" stanza into /etc/fonts/fonts.conf. > > Second way is hackish *and* wrong because Keith Packard himself > > tells you that from the

Re: Fonts query

2016-02-12 Thread Ron
On Fri, 12 Feb 2016 14:44:03 -0500 Felix Miata wrote: > > Ta, I'll risk the hackish way as I want those fonts to be available to all > > users. > > Make symlink from ~/MyFonts to /usr/local/share/fonts Ta, that should remain through updates. Cheers, Ron. -- Some people are worried a

Re: Fonts query

2016-02-12 Thread Felix Miata
Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI composed on 2016-02-12 16:05 (UTC-0300): > On Fri, 12 Feb 2016 21:46:55 +0300 Reco wrote: >> > Given a collection of .ttf font files I keep in my ~/MyFonts/ directory. >> > How do I instruct Wheezy to also look in that dir when I run >> >root@ron:/home/ron # fc-cache -fv

Re: Fonts query

2016-02-12 Thread Ron
On Fri, 12 Feb 2016 21:46:55 +0300 Reco wrote: > > Given a collection of .ttf font files I keep in my ~/MyFonts/ directory. > > How do I instruct Wheezy to also look in that dir when I run > > root@ron:/home/ron # fc-cache -fv > > to reload the font cache ? > Debian-correct upgrade-safe way:

Re: I need help

2016-02-12 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 06:44:47PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 12 February 2016 17:58:06 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > And, "I need help" better applies to "I need help" to stop people > > > posting messages with useless subject lines like "I

Re: Fonts query

2016-02-12 Thread Reco
Hi. On Fri, 12 Feb 2016 15:37:56 -0300 Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: > Given a collection of .ttf font files I keep in my ~/MyFonts/ directory. > > How do I instruct Wheezy to also look in that dir when I run > > root@ron:/home/ron # fc-cache -fv > > to reload the font cache ? De

Re: I need help

2016-02-12 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 12 February 2016 17:58:06 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > And, "I need help" better applies to "I need help" to stop people > > posting messages with useless subject lines like "I need nelp". > > This looks like unnecessary, gratuitous bashing. It looks like > venting of frustration. I'd sugg

Fonts query

2016-02-12 Thread Ron
Given a collection of .ttf font files I keep in my ~/MyFonts/ directory. How do I instruct Wheezy to also look in that dir when I run root@ron:/home/ron # fc-cache -fv to reload the font cache ? Cheers, Ron. -- Toute loi qui viole les droits imprescriptibles de l'homme,

Re: I need help

2016-02-12 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 01:48:34AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > On 12/02/2016, Ric Moore wrote: > > > > It would be sweet if we didn't encourage people to post subject lines > > like "I need help". It helps no one else but the OP. Ric > > > > Quite agr

Re: I need help

2016-02-12 Thread Michael Fothergill
On 12 February 2016 at 17:48, Bret Busby wrote: > On 12/02/2016, Ric Moore wrote: > > > > It would be sweet if we didn't encourage people to post subject lines > > like "I need help". It helps no one else but the OP. Ric > > > > Quite agree. > > "I need help" also happens to sound like a spam me

Re: GNOME Shell can't unmount my USB key

2016-02-12 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Thu, 11 Feb 2016, Me wrote: > Le jeudi 11 février 2016 à 11:57 -0800, Patrick Bartek a écrit : > > All I can say is it works, caveats you mentioned aside. No > > problems in 3 years of use. > > Your system probably doesn't use caching then, unlike the default > Debian+GNOME install. Since you

Re: I need help

2016-02-12 Thread Bret Busby
On 12/02/2016, Ric Moore wrote: > > It would be sweet if we didn't encourage people to post subject lines > like "I need help". It helps no one else but the OP. Ric > Quite agree. "I need help" also happens to sound like a spam message subject line, quite appart from it lacking any indication of

Re: GLX and nouveau

2016-02-12 Thread Lucio Crusca
Il 12/02/2016 18:37, Sven Joachim ha scritto: On 2016-02-12 18:02 +0100, Lucio Crusca wrote: $ ldd /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so linux-vdso.so.1 (0x7ffda3181000) libGL.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1 (0x7f135aa8) Where does that file ultimately

Re: GLX and nouveau

2016-02-12 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2016-02-12 18:02 +0100, Lucio Crusca wrote: > Il 12/02/2016 17:43, Sven Joachim ha scritto: >> What does "ldd /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so" print? >> Cheers, Sven > > $ ldd /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so > linux-vdso.so.1 (0x7ffda3181000) > libGL.so.1 => /

Re: GNOME Shell can't unmount my USB key

2016-02-12 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Fri, 12 Feb 2016, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 10:49:43AM -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > [...] > > > In 3 years of use, I've experienced no problems. Why does no one > > believe me? > > I *do* believe what you state

Re: replacement for old /etc/mtab that lists only real filesystems like ext4 or fat

2016-02-12 Thread Curt
On 2016-02-11, Felix Miata wrote: > Jan Gregor composed on 2016-02-11 22:25 (UTC+0100): > >> I used /etc/mtab to list mounted filesystems with their mount options. >> Unfortunatelly /etc/mtab no longer exists in debian jessie, it is just >> symlink to /proc/mounts that lists 31 filesystems and I

SATA cables

2016-02-12 Thread David Christensen
On 02/12/2016 12:24 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: is the sata cable a semi-reddish [?]... That particular color of sata cables has a very poor record of satisfactory service at my location,... > microphone cable of a CB Radio, ... > 'hot red' colored wire in a mic cable that always broke, ... > After

Re: GLX and nouveau

2016-02-12 Thread Lucio Crusca
Il 12/02/2016 16:52, Ric Moore ha scritto: Got libGL installed? I think so, because I do have libgl1-mesa-glx and libgl1-mesa-dri installed. Do I need other packages for libGL?

Re: GNOME Shell can't unmount my USB key

2016-02-12 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Fri, 12 Feb 2016, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 11:13:27AM -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > A point of order here: All this applies to Wheezy; I don't know now > > that Debian has adopted systemd and udev has it as a dependency that > > all this will work the same. > > Oh,

Re: GLX and nouveau

2016-02-12 Thread Lucio Crusca
Il 12/02/2016 17:43, Sven Joachim ha scritto: What does "ldd /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so" print? Cheers, Sven $ ldd /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so linux-vdso.so.1 (0x7ffda3181000) libGL.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1 (0x7f135aa8)

Re: GNOME Shell can't unmount my USB key

2016-02-12 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Thu, 11 Feb 2016, David Wright wrote: > On Thu 11 Feb 2016 at 10:49:43 (-0800), Patrick Bartek wrote: > > On Tue, 09 Feb 2016, David Wright wrote: > > > > > On Tue 09 Feb 2016 at 09:00:50 (-0800), Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > > On Tue, 09 Feb 2016, Me wrote: > > > > > > > > > Le lundi 08 févri

Re: GLX and nouveau

2016-02-12 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2016-02-12 10:55 +0100, Lucio Crusca wrote: > I've just switched from proprietary nvidia driver to nouveau (because > the transition of the nvidia driver to nvidia legacy left my system > without graphics, and I prefer using my time to configure nouveau than > to configure nvidia-legacy). I'm

Re: GLX and nouveau

2016-02-12 Thread Ric Moore
On 02/12/2016 04:55 AM, Lucio Crusca wrote: And googling for _glapi_tls_Dispatch suggests there could be some ndivia file left behind and that ldd command can help find it, however I don't know what exactly I'm looking for. Can you help me please? Got libGL installed?? Ric -- My father, Vic

Re: I need help

2016-02-12 Thread Ric Moore
It would be sweet if we didn't encourage people to post subject lines like "I need help". It helps no one else but the OP. Ric -- My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overc

Re: disk space disappeared

2016-02-12 Thread Adam Wilson
On Thu, 11 Feb 2016 17:11:05 + Lisi Reisz wrote: > Have you checked the inodes? He should try df -i.

Re: I need help, install Debian on Macbook pro intel

2016-02-12 Thread Adam Wilson
On Fri, 12 Feb 2016 09:56:01 +0100 err...@free.fr wrote: > I need to adapt keymap, > actualy is a standard azerty keymap, but apple choosed not standard > azerty. (this is not a real problem, we can found many example for > exotic keymap on the web) Can't you just select a different software keym

GLX and nouveau

2016-02-12 Thread Lucio Crusca
Hello all, I've just switched from proprietary nvidia driver to nouveau (because the transition of the nvidia driver to nvidia legacy left my system without graphics, and I prefer using my time to configure nouveau than to configure nvidia-legacy). I'm running stretch/sid amd64. My hardware i

Re: GNOME Shell can't unmount my USB key

2016-02-12 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 12 February 2016 02:39:29 David Wright wrote: > On Thu 11 Feb 2016 at 22:57:02 (+), Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Thursday 11 February 2016 22:27:30 Chris Bannister wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 11:13:27AM -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > > A point of order here: All this applies

Re: Re: replacement for old /etc/mtab that lists only real filesystems like ext4 or fat

2016-02-12 Thread Clive Standbridge
> > I used /etc/mtab to list mounted filesystems with their mount > > options. > > Unfortunatelly /etc/mtab no longer exists in debian jessie, it is > > just > > symlink to /proc/mounts that lists 31 filesystems and I want to see > > just 2 > > > > :-) classic filesystems like ext4, fat,

Re: I need help, install Debian on Macbook pro intel

2016-02-12 Thread err404
> On 2/10/2016 6:01 PM, Ghaith Etaiwi wrote: > (...) I have a MacBook Pro 4GB ram/ 500HDD/Intel HD 3000/ i5 2nd generation, > can it run Debian? I recently installed Net Install Debian testing on Macbook pro Intel. All work fine but: My friend report a short life time on battery, and he become

Re: GNOME Shell can't unmount my USB key

2016-02-12 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 10:49:43AM -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: [...] > In 3 years of use, I've experienced no problems. Why does no one > believe me? I *do* believe what you state above. I just *strongly* recommend against the practice you propose

Re: bad sectors on disk

2016-02-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 12 February 2016 02:42:19 Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > > > > From the report, it says that there are 0 bad blocks. So is > > > > this a bug in e2fsprogs ? > > David Wright wrote: > > Does one I/O error mean that you have a bad block necessarily? > > I pe

Re: [computers] bad sectors on disk

2016-02-12 Thread jdd
Le 12/02/2016 05:12, David Wright a écrit : I can't see any point in running badblocks and not putting any bad blocks that it finds into the badblock inode. So running inode is related to filesystem, so any repartitioning needs to re-run badblocks and can be as long as one day. I often noti