Re: Distinguishing between hardware, software, and operator induced symptoms

2016-11-18 Thread David Christensen
On 11/18/2016 06:25 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > As noted in the "Invoking ddrescue" thread > [https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2016/11/msg00641.html], my laptop > [dedicated to educational/experimental projects which could fail > spectacularly] used to apparently successfully run ddrescue, malf

Re: BRIGHTNESS LEVEL FIXED ON SONY VAIO VPCEH38FN

2016-11-18 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 11/16/16, Atish Pandey wrote: > Hello everyone, > I am new to Debian, and have recently installed Debian 8.6 Jessie GNOME 3.0 > on my sony vaio VPCEH38FN. It has a Nvidia Geforce 410 M graphics card. > The issue is that the screen brightness is set to maximum and it is not > changing by hotkeys

hplip and use of the "driver plugin"

2016-11-18 Thread Jape Person
Hi. I'm getting ready to replace all of our old equipment that has been used for well over a decade in our home network. I decided to try to do everything with FOSS -- open source Luxul router, open-source-only drivers for everything on the libreboot PCs. But I've run into a snag with the pr

Re: BRIGHTNESS LEVEL FIXED ON SONY VAIO VPCEH38FN

2016-11-18 Thread davidson
On Wed, 16 Nov 2016, Atish Pandey wrote: Hello everyone, I am new to Debian, and have recently installed Debian 8.6 Jessie GNOME 3.0 on my sony vaio VPCEH38FN. It has a Nvidia Geforce 410 M graphics card. The issue is that the screen brightness is set to maximum and it is not changing by hotke

Re: Kicad Installation Issue Regard Of 4.0.4 Its Only Install 4.0.2 In Debian Jessie 8.5

2016-11-18 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Hello Aravind, [-project removed, since this is not on topic there; added backports instead] On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 08:54:40AM +0530, ARAVIND B KUMAR wrote: > Hello Sir > > This Is Aravind From India > > We Are Try To Install Kicad 4.0.4 In Debain Jessie 8.5 But It Only Install > 4.0.2 That v

Re: Distinguishing between hardware, software, and operator induced symptoms

2016-11-18 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 18/11/2016 à 15:25, Richard Owlett a écrit : As noted in the "Invoking ddrescue" thread [https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2016/11/msg00641.html], my laptop [dedicated to educational/experimental projects which could fail spectacularly] used to apparently successfully run ddrescue, malfunct

Re: Re: chromium error: Error initializing NSS without a persistent database: NSS error code: -8023

2016-11-18 Thread Jasper Noë
There was some discussion here: https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts/2016/11/msg00011.html I managed to get chromium on wheezy working again by forcing libnss3 to an earlier version, using synaptic. --Jasper

Re: Why? -- "A Modest Proposal"

2016-11-18 Thread emetib
Thomas Schmitt wrote: > [man page or wiki] either, both, all documentation. yes i know that these, updating documentation, can take a considerable amount of time, especially with the amount of programs/packages that there are available to, especially debian, linux. just looking at my system, l

Re: orriso: listing files+offsets in an ISO9660 image w/o RockRidge

2016-11-18 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i wrote: > > Was that already with -read_fs "norock" ? Jonathan Dowland wrote: > Just retried: alas, no difference > ... > libisofs: SORRY : Damaged RR/SUSP information. It should not even get near to that error message. Grrr ... > I'm wondering if my hand-built modern xorriso is l

Re: Distinguishing between hardware, software, and operator induced symptoms

2016-11-18 Thread Richard Owlett
On 11/18/2016 9:09 AM, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: On 11/18/16, Richard Owlett wrote: On 11/18/2016 8:25 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: [snip] I have a typical collection of diagnostic CD/DVDs from which I can create equivalent iso files. I have a vague recollection of a procedure to put GRUB

Re: Distinguishing between hardware, software, and operator induced symptoms

2016-11-18 Thread Richard Owlett
On 11/18/2016 9:28 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, Richard Owlett wrote: I have a vague recollection of a procedure to put GRUB [or was it LILO?] on a bootable flash drive with multiple iso files and being able to choose which to boot. I guess it depends much on the content of the ISO whether t

Re: Distinguishing between hardware, software, and operator induced symptoms

2016-11-18 Thread Richard Owlett
On 11/18/2016 9:26 AM, Bob Weber wrote: Try system-rescue-cd at http://www.system-rescue-cd.org. I have it in my accumulated collection of CDs. Need to explore it more.

Re: xorriso: listing files+offsets in an ISO9660 image w/o RockRidge

2016-11-18 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 03:29:54PM +, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > I'm wondering if my hand-built modern xorriso is linking against my old > system libisofs. > I am doing some investigation. I can't see any .so files in my xorriso build directory, but ldd does not show this xorriso binding agai

Re: xorriso: listing files+offsets in an ISO9660 image w/o RockRidge

2016-11-18 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 07:39:22PM +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > > Interestingly 1.4.7 can read one more of these ISOs, leaving 19 bad. > > Was that already with -read_fs "norock" ? Just retried: alas, no difference, same number of unreadable ISOs (19), same output, here's the full outp

Re: Distinguishing between hardware, software, and operator induced symptoms

2016-11-18 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Richard Owlett wrote: > I have a vague recollection of a procedure to put GRUB > [or was it LILO?] on a bootable flash drive with multiple iso > files and being able to choose which to boot. I guess it depends much on the content of the ISO whether this will work: http://www.syslinux.org/w

Re: Distinguishing between hardware, software, and operator induced symptoms

2016-11-18 Thread Bob Weber
Try system-rescue-cd at http://www.system-rescue-cd.org. It has a full set of Linux commands (boots several versions of Linux kernels) and some hardware diagnostics including memtest86 you mentioned. It is a full Linux OS even with a graphical mode (run startx or select on main menu) to run a bro

Re: Distinguishing between hardware, software, and operator induced symptoms

2016-11-18 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 11/18/16, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 11/18/2016 8:25 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: >> [snip] >> I have a typical collection of diagnostic CD/DVDs from which >> I can create >> equivalent iso files. I have a vague recollection of a >> procedure to put GRUB >> [or was it LILO?] on a boota

Re: Distinguishing between hardware, software, and operator induced symptoms

2016-11-18 Thread Richard Owlett
On 11/18/2016 8:25 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: [snip] I have a typical collection of diagnostic CD/DVDs from which I can create equivalent iso files. I have a vague recollection of a procedure to put GRUB [or was it LILO?] on a bootable flash drive with multiple iso files and being

Distinguishing between hardware, software, and operator induced symptoms

2016-11-18 Thread Richard Owlett
As noted in the "Invoking ddrescue" thread [https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2016/11/msg00641.html], my laptop [dedicated to educational/experimental projects which could fail spectacularly] used to apparently successfully run ddrescue, malfunctioned. <*BACKGROUND*> The laptop is a used L

Re: install postgres 8.4

2016-11-18 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 01:42:24PM +0100, Robert Bude wrote: > but how i can install squeeze and are the packages in aktuell squeeze > mirrors ? and were to get squeeze mirror ? ;) https://wiki.debian.org/DebianSqueeze Squeeze is archived (no longer supported, even under "LTS"), so follow the in

install postgres 8.4

2016-11-18 Thread Robert Bude
Hi, we want to install a postgres 8.4 server but can not find via apt-get in wheezy or jessie the packages. How i can install a postgres 8.4 server with minimal effort ? i do not want a detailed instruction only the short track ;) eg.: install squeeze, install lts repo , and then you have postg

Re: Problems with hibernation - randomly cannot resume.

2016-11-18 Thread Carl Fink
One data point: on my system running Testing (kernel 4.08) I can hibernate using hibernate-disk and wake up with no problem. Any suspend, or hibernating from the Xfce menu, and on return there's what I believe is an nVidia graphics problem that is not recoverable. I believe that because if I pr

Nvidia/Qemu

2016-11-18 Thread T.J. Duchene
I have an interesting situation for which I have not found an answer, I've been pondering this for about two weeks. I have two Nvidia cards: a 960 and a 1060. I am forced to use Ubuntu 16.04 when I would rather use Jessie. When I install the nvidia driver package for Jessie or the one from

Re: Why? -- "A Modest Proposal"

2016-11-18 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Greg Wooledge wrote: > The only GNU project > man page that is a complete reference document is bash(1), which is > very, very different from the other GNU man pages. There is at least one more. :)) GNU xorriso offers three man pages which have identical content as the .info documents becaus

Re: Why? -- "A Modest Proposal"

2016-11-18 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 12:21:56AM -0800, emetib wrote: > flame war- > man pages vs info pages? > open source documentation vs closed source documentation? Luckily, discussion seems to be pretty civilized. Far from a flame war. There are sure dif

Re: Why? -- "A Modest Proposal"

2016-11-18 Thread emetib
flame war- man pages vs info pages? open source documentation vs closed source documentation? yes some of them need to be updated. yes there are wiki's that you can contribute to. yet as someone said, 'someone else can do it'. heard that too many times from too many people. why isn't

Re: Why? -- "A Modest Proposal"

2016-11-18 Thread Reco
Hi. On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 04:50:21PM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 10:37:41PM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > While Gnu does prefer info format to man page format (and they have > > their reasons, e.g. info allows links), the man pages (usually derived > > from

Re: Desktop notifications?

2016-11-18 Thread Reco
Hi. On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 06:09:04PM +0200, Teemu Likonen wrote: > I have a backup script that runs once a day with root privileges. It's > handled by systemd timer and service units. I would like to have a > desktop notification text when the backup is ready. > > What I have tried so f