Re: Memory Upgrade for Ancient Enspiron 2600

2017-01-18 Thread David Christensen
On 01/18/17 22:02, Doug wrote: On 01/19/2017 12:01 AM, Martin McCormick wrote: I gave Dell the service tag number and found that this model can only hold 512 MB maximum and I was able to contact a company that is shipping two 256 MB modules. One is the easy one, the little door in the bottom ne

audio mixer stopped working

2017-01-18 Thread Charles Zeitler
my xfce jessie audio mixer has stopped detecting my audio devices, according to error message. It suggests missing gstreamer or permission problems. I haven't changed any permissions or uninstalled any gstreamer packages. I tried reinstalling gstreamer and audio mixer, but no joy. Any suggestions?

Re: Memory Upgrade for Ancient Enspiron 2600

2017-01-18 Thread Doug
On 01/19/2017 12:01 AM, Martin McCormick wrote: Jimmy Johnson writes: Hi Martin, How much memory does the Dell Inspiron 2600 Series Laptop take? I gave Dell the service tag number and found that this model can only hold 512 MB maximum and I was able to contact a company that is shipping two

Re: Memory Upgrade for Ancient Enspiron 2600

2017-01-18 Thread Martin McCormick
Jimmy Johnson writes: > Hi Martin, > > How much memory does the Dell Inspiron 2600 Series Laptop take? I gave Dell the service tag number and found that this model can only hold 512 MB maximum and I was able to contact a company that is shipping two 256 MB modules. One is the easy one, the littl

Re: Recreating a second boot kernel in LILO

2017-01-18 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, Jan 18, 2017, at 20:49, Stephen Powell wrote: > ... > One such program, memtest86+, provides a stand-alone memory testing > program built to resemble a Linux kernel, so that Linuxboot loaders > think it is a Linux kernel and will load it like one (the entire boot image is > loaded, not just

Re: Recreating a second boot kernel in LILO

2017-01-18 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, Jan 14, 2017, at 11:38, Stephen Powell wrote: > > If there are special kernels that you want to be able to boot which are > outside > the normal "last two", then you must manually edit /etc/lilo.conf to provide > the capability to boot this kernel, then run lilo. > As an example, here is

[solved] Re: Stretch changes the time of my laptop

2017-01-18 Thread Gerard ROBIN
On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 11:06:06AM -0500, Felix Miata wrote: > Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2017 11:06:06 -0500 > From: Felix Miata > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Stretch changes the time of my laptop > Gerard ROBIN composed on 2017-01-18 14:33 (UTC+0100): > > >I installed stretch on a

Re: Memory Upgrade for Ancient Enspiron 2600 (clarification)

2017-01-18 Thread David Christensen
On 01/18/17 13:23, Doug wrote: Note that the following applies to a Dell E1505, as I said in a previous post. I do not know how it fits with the computer under discussion here. --doug The CPU upgrade I installed was not something from the Dell website. You can replace the CPU with a T7600, and

Re: Memory Upgrade for Ancient Enspiron 2600

2017-01-18 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 01/18/2017 08:28 AM, Martin McCormick wrote: Felix Miata writes: Are you sure? I searched for "inspiron 2600 RAM" and found lots of hits on dell.com and elsewhere. Thanks to you and all others who responded. has 256 MB of RAM. I am of the understanding that the 128-MB m

Re: Memory Upgrade for Ancient Enspiron 2600

2017-01-18 Thread rhkramer
On Wednesday, January 18, 2017 04:08:09 PM Doug wrote: > Whether or not this is all economically worth while, or you should throw > the machine out and buy a new one is up to you. I typically build replacement computers (for myself, son, and a few others) for $200 to $300 (or less) (without Windo

Re: [SOLVED] Netinstall Debian-8.7.0

2017-01-18 Thread Klaus Jantzen
On 01/17/2017 01:45 PM, Klaus Jantzen wrote: > Hello, > > I was about to praise the ease of installation when an error occurred in > the step > > 'Select and install software' > > The was no indication what exactly went wrong; it said I would be able > to install the missing item later. > > The sub

Re: Memory Upgrade for Ancient Enspiron 2600 (clarification)

2017-01-18 Thread Doug
On 01/18/2017 04:08 PM, Doug wrote: On 01/18/2017 03:04 PM, David Christensen wrote: On 01/17/17 19:00, Martin McCormick wrote: I have an old Dell Enspiron 2600 which still works but it only has 256 MB of RAM. I am of the understanding that the 128-MB memory card under the little door on th

Re: Memory Upgrade for Ancient Enspiron 2600

2017-01-18 Thread Doug
On 01/18/2017 03:04 PM, David Christensen wrote: On 01/17/17 19:00, Martin McCormick wrote: I have an old Dell Enspiron 2600 which still works but it only has 256 MB of RAM. I am of the understanding that the 128-MB memory card under the little door on the bottom can be replaced with a 512 MB

stretch/KDE: bluetooth: unable to connect

2017-01-18 Thread solitone
Hi all, can't get the bluetooth work in scratch. From KDE Bluetooth Device Wizard, I see the device I want to pair with (e.g. an android tablet), I select it, I confirm both on debian and on the tablet that the pairing code I see is correct, but then the Bluetooth Device Wizard says that the se

Re: Memory Upgrade for Ancient Enspiron 2600

2017-01-18 Thread David Christensen
On 01/17/17 19:00, Martin McCormick wrote: I have an old Dell Enspiron 2600 which still works but it only has 256 MB of RAM. I am of the understanding that the 128-MB memory card under the little door on the bottom can be replaced with a 512 MB card and that pretty much does it. There is another

Re: Stretch changes the time of my laptop

2017-01-18 Thread deloptes
Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Wednesday 18 January 2017 13:33:38 Gerard ROBIN wrote: >> Hello, >> I installed stretch on a external usb hard drive and when I boot on the >> had drive and I shut down, then I boot again, but on the internal hard >> drive, with jessie, the time is delayed by one hour. >> >>

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2017-01-18 Thread Internet Cafe
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Re: Memory Upgrade for Ancient Enspiron 2600

2017-01-18 Thread Martin McCormick
Felix Miata writes: > Are you sure? I searched for "inspiron 2600 RAM" and found lots of hits on > dell.com and elsewhere. Thanks to you and all others who responded. > > > > has 256 MB of RAM. I am of the understanding that the 128-MB > memory card under the little door on the

Re: Stretch changes the time of my laptop

2017-01-18 Thread Felix Miata
Gerard ROBIN composed on 2017-01-18 14:33 (UTC+0100): I installed stretch on a external usb hard drive and when I boot on the had drive and I shut down, then I boot again, but on the internal hard drive, with jessie, the time is delayed by one hour. I would like to know if this is normal, and

Re: ffmpeg / avconv

2017-01-18 Thread Nicolas George
Le nonidi 29 nivôse, an CCXXV, Pol Hallen a écrit : > I use ffmpeg (or avconv) and also winff to convert video (transcode) from a > format to another. > > The question: it there an extended version to transcode keep same bitrate > (audio and video) to output file? > > Because I've to set manually

ffmpeg / avconv

2017-01-18 Thread Pol Hallen
Hello to all :-) I use ffmpeg (or avconv) and also winff to convert video (transcode) from a format to another. The question: it there an extended version to transcode keep same bitrate (audio and video) to output file? Because I've to set manually (using ffmpeg -i file) bitrate from each

Re: Memory Upgrade for Ancient Enspiron 2600

2017-01-18 Thread Ric Moore
On 01/18/2017 12:32 AM, Doug wrote: On 01/17/2017 10:38 PM, Felix Miata wrote: Martin McCormick composed on 2017-01-17 21:00 (UTC-0600): I have an old Dell Enspiron 2600 which still works but it only Are you sure? I searched for "inspiron 2600 RAM" and found lots of hits on dell.com and el

Re: Stretch changes the time of my laptop

2017-01-18 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 18 January 2017 13:33:38 Gerard ROBIN wrote: > Hello, > I installed stretch on a external usb hard drive and when I boot on the > had drive and I shut down, then I boot again, but on the internal hard > drive, with jessie, the time is delayed by one hour. > > I would like to know if th

Stretch changes the time of my laptop

2017-01-18 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Hello, I installed stretch on a external usb hard drive and when I boot on the had drive and I shut down, then I boot again, but on the internal hard drive, with jessie, the time is delayed by one hour. I would like to know if this is normal, and if not what can I do to fix the problem ? (Without

Re: shutdown fails to power off host

2017-01-18 Thread Hans
I had this issue in the past. Sometimes I could fix it by just reinstalling grub and the kernel. However, what that fixed? Dunno, but worked for me. Best Hans

Re: shutdown fails to power off host

2017-01-18 Thread Verde Denim
On 1/17/2017 1:00 PM, Curt wrote: On 2017-01-17, wrote: Since it's a desktop I told the users that it's safe to power off the thing when in this state and filed it under "unsolved hardware/init system quirks". I suffer from one of these unsolved quirks. Occasionally my machine will shutdown

Re: Recovering from failure to install Grub

2017-01-18 Thread Brian
On Wed 18 Jan 2017 at 04:55:05 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 1/17/2017 5:58 PM, Brian wrote: > >On Tue 17 Jan 2017 at 14:19:11 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > >>I just installed Jessie to a USB flash drive. > >>Unfortunately I mistyped the name of the preseed.cfg file and ran the one > >>wh

Re: Recovering from failure to install Grub

2017-01-18 Thread Richard Owlett
On 1/17/2017 5:58 PM, Brian wrote: On Tue 17 Jan 2017 at 14:19:11 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: I just installed Jessie to a USB flash drive. Unfortunately I mistyped the name of the preseed.cfg file and ran the one which did not install grub to the target drive. On a working Jessie machine I in

Re: Recovering from failure to install Grub

2017-01-18 Thread Richard Owlett
On 1/17/2017 2:59 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 1/17/2017 2:37 PM, Hans wrote: [snip] If this all fails, you can try the same way by using RIP-Livefile (aka Rescue- is-possible livefile cd.) I didn't find a current link. Is it still available?

Re: How to find out the current display manager?

2017-01-18 Thread Felipe Salvador
On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 11:46:05AM -0500, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 6:00 AM, Felipe Salvador > wrote: > > 0;115;0cIn-Reply-To: > > > > > > On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 09:47:40PM -0500, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > >> How can I find out the display manager currently running

Re: shutdown fails to power off host

2017-01-18 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 18.01.2017 um 08:44 schrieb Joerg Desch: > Am Wed, 04 Jan 2017 22:59:46 -0800 schrieb Bob McGowan: > >> When I shutdown my desktop system, the screen displays messages from >> systemd (I presume), the last of which is "Reached target Shutdown". > > Just a thought... > > I'm running Debian Jes