Re: Plug and Pray; My Life with Linux Sound

2016-05-16 Thread deloptes
Martin McCormick wrote: > It's possible that there is a jumper in the wrong place > on the card causing a contention issue since PNP sees it but > nothing else seems to run right. > > Thanks for any constructive ideas. /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf ## ALSA portion alias char-major-116 snd alia

Re: Libreoffice mail merge not working

2016-05-16 Thread Paolo Cavallini
Il 17/05/2016 02:54, Rodary Jacques ha scritto: > Sorry, I can't help you. But I suppose you know what you are doing, > using an instable distribution to work on a db. of course, I'm ready to deal with bugs. what I asked the list is a confirmation it is a real bug, and a hint whether it is better

Re: Network manager (again) Re:

2016-05-16 Thread Rodary Jacques
Le samedi 14 mai 2016, 06:47:11 Hans a écrit : > Am Samstag, 14. Mai 2016, 05:27:06 schrieb Bhasker C V: > > Hi, > try wicd (vicd-ncurses, wicd-gtk, wicd-cli). It may fit your needs. And you > can have entries in /etc/network/interfaces, so you can be already > connected without any window-manager

Re: Libreoffice mail merge not working

2016-05-16 Thread Rodary Jacques
Le samedi 14 mai 2016, 08:28:42 Paolo Cavallini a écrit : > Il 14/05/2016 00:28, Rodary Jacques ha scritto: > > Try convert your docs in .doc (not readable in recent MsOffice), .docx > > (not readable in old MsOffice :-) )or better in pdf, where the p stands > > for portable, remember. Or best lear

Re: need to make an eth0:1 net interface

2016-05-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 16 May 2016 15:55:33 Brian wrote: > On Mon 16 May 2016 at 14:45:12 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Monday 16 May 2016 00:48:11 Andy Smith wrote: > > > More details first, I think. > > > > > > Cheers, > > > Andy > > > > Thanks for the interest Andy, but I got it working and its been > >

Second ? for the day/ Dualbooting Debian with encryption?

2016-05-16 Thread Ralph Sanchez
This is my first time really considering a full dual boot i feel the need to first ask if this is possible...to dual boot two linux OS's, one is debian jessie, the other a debian based OS, with full disk encryption?Or rather I guess it would be two seperate encrypted partitions? Or would it be two

Re: Multiple live iso's on a single bootable flash drive?

2016-05-16 Thread Rodary Jacques
Le samedi 14 mai 2016, 06:59:27 Richard Owlett a écrit : > On 5/3/2016 8:37 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Tuesday 03 May 2016 11:11:45 Richard Owlett wrote: > >> I hope the result will be a document aimed at the beginner but > >> not the picture book style that seems prevalent at that level. > >> Mu

Re: Hardening/RulesFile

2016-05-16 Thread Tim Dengel
Am 17.05.2016 um 01:28 schrieb Ralph Sanchez: > [...] > I'm reading the hardening walkthrough, and other debian hardening > docs, and I'm supposed to be making changes to my rules (also written > in docs as debian/rules). > [...] The hardening walkthrough is a guide for package maintainers to har

Building just one module against the current kernel

2016-05-16 Thread tony mollica
Just trying to build one module for a piece of hardware I have. All of the information and guidance I've found to make one single modules don't work. The kernel source and headers and any supporting packages ar

Hardening/RulesFile

2016-05-16 Thread Ralph Sanchez
Hey all, maybe this is generally a security question but it's also a user related question... I'm reading the hardening walkthrough, and other debian hardening docs, and I'm supposed to be making changes to my rules (also written in docs as debian/rules). A search in Dolphin shows me HTTPSEVERYWHE

Re: Plug and Pray; My Life with Linux Sound

2016-05-16 Thread Jude DaShiell
alsa is probably a subsystem now of pulseaudio unless all of pulseaudio is off of your system and out of your $HOME directory structure. For that reason, you may need to use pulseaudio tools and they may or may not help you out. Another possibility would be jack2 which is what serious audophi

Re: Some Flash news

2016-05-16 Thread Mike Castle
On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 2:26 PM, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > That's Shumway from Mozilla. Google's Swiffy fits into this domain as well. mrc

Re: Some Flash news

2016-05-16 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Mon, 2016-05-16 at 17:01 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > When will someone provide a Flash implementation in Javascript That's Shumway from Mozilla.  -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Plug and Pray; My Life with Linux Sound Better Description

2016-05-16 Thread Martin McCormick
No, I haven't fixed it, but I think I know a systematic description of the problem. What has gone wrong when dmesg shows all the sound cards one has installed on the system in Plug&Play, there are kernel modules for them all, but we come up short in alsa as one or more of the cards does no

Re: Some Flash news

2016-05-16 Thread Stefan Monnier
> For those still using Flash and/or Chrome > http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2458329/googles-chrome-browser-will-switch-off-flash-content-by-default When will someone provide a Flash implementation in Javascript (probably by combining the existing Flash implementation with a C-to-Javascr

Re: Jessie Performance under GNOME

2016-05-16 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-05-16, Tomas Kral wrote: > Dear Pete and All, > > I also use LXDE on RPI, that is our second machine in the household. > > I quite like GNOME for its appearance ala MacOS, and the new version of > GNOME has got many new great ideas, it looks awesome, though it does not > perform very well

Re: need to make an eth0:1 net interface

2016-05-16 Thread Brian
On Mon 16 May 2016 at 14:45:12 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 16 May 2016 00:48:11 Andy Smith wrote: > > > More details first, I think. > > > > Cheers, > > Andy > > Thanks for the interest Andy, but I got it working and its been > re-installed in place of the router that wasn't properly

Re: Jessie Performance under GNOME

2016-05-16 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 05/16/2016 09:42 AM, Michael Milliman wrote: On 05/16/2016 09:12 AM, Stefan Monnier wrote: "Jessie" is not generally very responsive compared to "Wheezy", display update and mouse tracking is very very slow. Could it be that your wheezy install did not use Gnome-3 and that you're now using

how to make systemd execute init.d script status statements?

2016-05-16 Thread Juha Heinanen
When I upgraded one of my wheezy hosts to jessie, I noticed that /etc/init.d/ status command stopped working. Looks like systemd does not execute the statements in status) case of the init script at all, but just checks if the daemon process exists. My '/etc/init.d/ status' did much more, i.e.,

Re: need to make an eth0:1 net interface

2016-05-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 16 May 2016 00:48:11 Andy Smith wrote: > Hi Gene, > > On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 07:38:46PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Do we have a utility that makes it easy to add a :1 to an existing > > eth0 interface? > > It depends what exactly you are trying to achieve. > > If you just want to ad

Re: Some Flash news

2016-05-16 Thread Erwan David
Le 16/05/2016 à 20:00, Frank McCormick a écrit : > For those still using Flash and/or Chrome > > > http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2458329/googles-chrome-browser-will-switch-off-flash-content-by-default > > > > Problem is not the browser. Problem is sites/Appliances which require it (eg. V

Plug and Pray; My Life with Linux Sound

2016-05-16 Thread Martin McCormick
This is a Dell mother board running squeeze which needs to record from two sound cards simultaneously and it can do that but things are not rosey or I wouldn't be bugging the rest of you for suggestions. I discovered that the second sound card which was an ensoniq, apparently is no

Some Flash news

2016-05-16 Thread Frank McCormick
For those still using Flash and/or Chrome http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2458329/googles-chrome-browser-will-switch-off-flash-content-by-default

Re: Jessie Performance under GNOME

2016-05-16 Thread Michael Milliman
On 05/16/2016 09:12 AM, Stefan Monnier wrote: "Jessie" is not generally very responsive compared to "Wheezy", display update and mouse tracking is very very slow. Could it be that your wheezy install did not use Gnome-3 and that you're now using the standard Gnome-3 desktop (which presumes exi

Re: Guidelines for allocating system resources for VMs?

2016-05-16 Thread Linux-Fan
[Sat, 14 May 2016 11:35:53 +] Albin Otterhäll wrote: > Martin Read: > > On 14/05/16 10:05, Albin Otterhäll wrote: > >> I want to use virtual machines for my everyday work on my laptop > >> (with a Intel Core i5-3320M @ 2.60 GHz * 4 and 16GB RAM), using > >> KVM on Debian as my hypervisor. > >>

Re: emacs menu line disappeared

2016-05-16 Thread Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen
Not able to downgrade via synaptics, apparently because synaptic doesn't find the -3-18.9-1 package files, don't know why. But I changed desktop environment to cinnamon, which behaves better. Now emacs have the standard toolbar icons, but the ones from auctex does't show. At least somewhat better

Re: Jessie Performance under GNOME

2016-05-16 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Yes "Wheezy" under GNOME-2, and "Jessie" under GNOME-3 Right. Gnome-3 requires decent 3D support. > I see, it has to do with graphics after all. X.Org's XAA and EXA are 2D > accelerators, right? That's right. > My PC mainboard manual states it has got on-chip AGP 2D/3D. I don't think X.org

Re: Jessie Performance under GNOME

2016-05-16 Thread Tomas Kral
Dear Stefan, Yes "Wheezy" under GNOME-2, and "Jessie" under GNOME-3 I see, it has to do with graphics after all. X.Org's XAA and EXA are 2D accelerators, right? My PC mainboard manual states it has got on-chip AGP 2D/3D. "Wheezy" performs well with XAA, that is not maintained upstream any longe

Re: Jessie Performance under GNOME

2016-05-16 Thread Tomas Kral
Dear Pete and All, I also use LXDE on RPI, that is our second machine in the household. I quite like GNOME for its appearance ala MacOS, and the new version of GNOME has got many new great ideas, it looks awesome, though it does not perform very well on my older PC platform. I also tried X with

Re: Jessie Performance under GNOME

2016-05-16 Thread Stefan Monnier
> "Jessie" is not generally very responsive compared to "Wheezy", display > update and mouse tracking is very very slow. Could it be that your wheezy install did not use Gnome-3 and that you're now using the standard Gnome-3 desktop (which presumes existence of 3D GPU acceleration) on a system who

Re: Jessie Performance under GNOME

2016-05-16 Thread Pete Orrall
On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 1:30 PM, Tomas Kral wrote: > Dear Users, > > I have finally installed "Jessie" in a separate partition of the machine > where I also run "Wheezy" for past few years. > > I use GNOME desktops. Hi Tomas, Is GNOME a requirement? If not, perhaps take a look at some lighter

Jessie Performance under GNOME

2016-05-16 Thread Tomas Kral
Dear Users, I have finally installed "Jessie" in a separate partition of the machine where I also run "Wheezy" for past few years. I use GNOME desktops. "Jessie" is not generally very responsive compared to "Wheezy", display update and mouse tracking is very very slow. I have to admit that my P

Jessie Performance under GNOME

2016-05-16 Thread Tomas Kral
Dear Users, I have finally installed "Jessie" in a separate partition of the machine where I also run "Wheezy" for past few years. I use GNOME desktops. "Jessie" is not generally very responsive compared to "Wheezy", display update and mouse tracking is very very slow. I have to admit that my P

Re: emacs menu line disappeared

2016-05-16 Thread Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen
Thanks! http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=128288 sems to have relevant information. Kjetil On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 10:14 AM, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > I've filed a bug already (#822944) without remedy so far. It's due to > changes in > gtk-3. That's also the reason why the fire