Re: Linux Mint, Ubuntu, Arch Linux recognize my Acer Aspire S wifi, debian does not

2017-03-14 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 03/14/2017 09:57 PM, Dean Valentine wrote: I have installed three operating systems on this computer: Linux Mint, Ubuntu, and Arch Linux. None of them had any problems detecting and using my "Network Manager: Qualcomm Atheros 003e", and it shows up on lspci, but when the Debian graphic install

Re: Linux Mint, Ubuntu, Arch Linux recognize my Acer Aspire S wifi, debian does not

2017-03-14 Thread Johann Spies
On 15 March 2017 at 06:57, Dean Valentine wrote: > I have installed three operating systems on this computer: Linux Mint, > Ubuntu, and Arch Linux. None of them had any problems detecting and using > my "Network Manager: Qualcomm Atheros 003e", and it shows up on lspci, but > when the Debian grap

Linux Mint, Ubuntu, Arch Linux recognize my Acer Aspire S wifi, debian does not

2017-03-14 Thread Dean Valentine
I have installed three operating systems on this computer: Linux Mint, Ubuntu, and Arch Linux. None of them had any problems detecting and using my "Network Manager: Qualcomm Atheros 003e", and it shows up on lspci, but when the Debian graphic installer attempts to do this, it fails and tells me "N

Re: MBR partitioning, and content after partition table but before first partition

2017-03-14 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 08:36:59PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: > Is anyone aware of a utility that can walk a file system and replace > identical files with hard links? As an alternative to doing this, you could consider using a filesystem with block-level de-duplication support. ZFS

Re: MBR partitioning, and content after partition table but before first partition

2017-03-14 Thread David Christensen
On 03/14/2017 04:52 AM, The Wanderer wrote: On 2017-03-13 at 23:36, David Christensen wrote: Is anyone aware of a utility that can walk a file system and replace identical files with hard links? Try rdfind. It's in Debian; I don't use it myself, largely because the (accepted upstream years a

Re: MBR partitioning, and content after partition table but before first partition

2017-03-14 Thread David Christensen
On 03/14/2017 03:34 AM, David wrote: On 14 March 2017 at 14:36, David Christensen wrote: Doing a quick test, it appears that rsync copies hard linked files as if each were a different file: rsync -a hard-link-1/ hard-link-2 Here, 'man rsync' says: "Note that -a does not preserve hardlinks,

Broken Dell UEFI Firmware?

2017-03-14 Thread Kent West
I have a new Dell Precision 3620. I have just installed Jessie on the drive, in UEFI mode, creating a separate EFI partition, FAT-formatted, in a GPT partition table. After install, the "grubx64.efi" file is in in the "\[GUID]\EFI\debian" directory. But when I boot the machine, it fails to boot,

Re: New motherboard, no network

2017-03-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 14 March 2017 10:24:29 Tony van der Hoff wrote: > After many years, my faithful ASUS motherboard died, so I've replaced > it with a Gigabyte GA-F2A68HM-HD2. t booted up fine from my existing > disk set into Jessie, but networking is inoperative. The board has an > on-board network inter

Re: If Linux Is About Choice, Why Then ...

2017-03-14 Thread Sven Hartge
Miles Fidelman wrote: > There USED TO BE a lot of demand for a choice of installer at init > time - from pretty much all of us who object to systemd. Nobody > listened, eventually people gave up, and a lot moved to other distros. Can we please not have this discussion for the umpteenth time? Th

Re: Guide(s?) to backup philosophies

2017-03-14 Thread Dan Ritter
On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 12:15:15PM -0700, Miles Fidelman wrote: > On 3/14/17 11:18 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 05:54:06PM +, Glenn English wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 12:38 PM, Dan Purgert wrote: > > > > David Christensen wrote: > > > > > On 03/11/2017 07:10 A

Re: If Linux Is About Choice, Why Then ...

2017-03-14 Thread Glenn Holmer
On 03/14/2017 01:53 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: > There USED TO BE a lot of demand for a choice of installer at init time > - from pretty much all of us who object to systemd. Nobody listened, > eventually people gave up, and a lot moved to other distros. Really? How many people switched away from

Re: If Linux Is About Choice, Why Then ...

2017-03-14 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2017-03-14, Miles Fidelman wrote: > > > On 3/14/17 4:37 AM, Liam O'Toole wrote: >> On 2017-03-13, Erwan David wrote: >>> Le 03/13/17 à 20:40, Greg Wooledge a écrit : On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 12:30:11PM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > The Linux mantra has always been "choice," plethoras

Re: Guide(s?) to backup philosophies

2017-03-14 Thread Miles Fidelman
On 3/14/17 11:18 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 05:54:06PM +, Glenn English wrote: On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 12:38 PM, Dan Purgert wrote: David Christensen wrote: On 03/11/2017 07:10 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: I've vague ideas of what backup pattern(s) I might follow. I'm lo

Re: Guide(s?) to backup philosophies

2017-03-14 Thread Miles Fidelman
On 3/14/17 10:54 AM, Glenn English wrote: On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 12:38 PM, Dan Purgert wrote: David Christensen wrote: On 03/11/2017 07:10 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: I've vague ideas of what backup pattern(s) I might follow. I'm looking for reading materials that might trigger "I hadn't thou

Re: If Linux Is About Choice, Why Then ...

2017-03-14 Thread Miles Fidelman
On 3/14/17 4:37 AM, Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2017-03-13, Erwan David wrote: Le 03/13/17 à 20:40, Greg Wooledge a écrit : On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 12:30:11PM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: The Linux mantra has always been "choice," plethoras of choices. So why at install time, is there no choice

Re: Guide(s?) to backup philosophies

2017-03-14 Thread Merlin Büge
On Sat, 11 Mar 2017 09:10:54 -0600 Richard Owlett wrote: > I've been good about telling others that backups are a good idea. > Guess who hadn't and then crashed his system and spent hours putting > things back together ;< > > In the past individual projects ended up on individual flash drives >

Re: radeon black screen

2017-03-14 Thread Felix Miata
Catherine Gramze composed on 2017-03-14 16:47 (UTC): Note that I am not necessarily looking for a solution. I have a working 4K system using the integrated graphics card. I most want to understand WHY Jessie doesn't work with the radeon driver. For that I have to suggest asking the specialists

Re: Guide(s?) to backup philosophies

2017-03-14 Thread Dan Ritter
On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 05:54:06PM +, Glenn English wrote: > On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 12:38 PM, Dan Purgert wrote: > > David Christensen wrote: > >> On 03/11/2017 07:10 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > >>> I've vague ideas of what backup pattern(s) I might follow. > >>> I'm looking for reading mater

Re: Guide(s?) to backup philosophies

2017-03-14 Thread Glenn English
On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 12:38 PM, Dan Purgert wrote: > David Christensen wrote: >> On 03/11/2017 07:10 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: >>> I've vague ideas of what backup pattern(s) I might follow. >>> I'm looking for reading materials that might trigger "I hadn't thought >>> of that" moments. >>> >>> S

Re: radeon black screen

2017-03-14 Thread Catherine Gramze
On Mar 14, 2017, at 12:35 AM, Felix Miata wrote: Something is defective, MSI's motherboard BIOS/firmware, Radeon's VBIOS, hardware, display or some combination. If all acquired together, it ought to have been taken up with the vendors when new so that you would have had some recourse. Maybe

after todays upgrade mouse closes current doc (tab)

2017-03-14 Thread ivm41
today's upgrade severely damaged my system. After it, the mouse became behaving randomly. Sometimes the left click opens a right click menu, sometimes it issues double-click, very often it closes the current document (tab, not a whole app). Noticed for all browsers, konsole, skype uname -a Linu

Re: New motherboard, no network

2017-03-14 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 14/03/17 15:33, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 04:12:15PM +0100, Hans wrote: Hi Tony, # PCI device 0x10ec:0x8169 (r8169) SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="6c:fd:b9:00:6f:76", ATTR{dev_id}=="0x0", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="eth0" # PCI

Re: New motherboard, no network

2017-03-14 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 04:12:15PM +0100, Hans wrote: > Hi Tony, > > # PCI device 0x10ec:0x8169 (r8169) > > SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", > > ATTR{address}=="6c:fd:b9:00:6f:76", ATTR{dev_id}=="0x0", > > ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="eth0" > > > > # PCI device 0x10ec:0x8

Webex Using Companies Contacts

2017-03-14 Thread stacey . lloyd
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Re: New motherboard, no network

2017-03-14 Thread Hans
Hi Tony, > /etc/udev/70-persistent-net.rules presumably contains the addresses for > the old motherboard: > > # This file was automatically generated by the /lib/udev/write_net_rules > # program, run by the persistent-net-generator.rules rules file. > # > # You can modify it, as long as you keep

Re: New motherboard, no network

2017-03-14 Thread Dan Ritter
On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 02:24:29PM +, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > After many years, my faithful ASUS motherboard died, so I've replaced it > with a Gigabyte GA-F2A68HM-HD2. t booted up fine from my existing disk > set into Jessie, but networking is inoperative. The board has an > on-board networ

Re: Guide(s?) to backup philosophies

2017-03-14 Thread Richard Owlett
On 03/13/2017 09:12 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 09:10:54AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: I have one partition that might be called a "production" environment, i.e. fairly stable and has the most valuable content. A second partition hosts my experiments - I've a project to create

New motherboard, no network

2017-03-14 Thread Tony van der Hoff
After many years, my faithful ASUS motherboard died, so I've replaced it with a Gigabyte GA-F2A68HM-HD2. t booted up fine from my existing disk set into Jessie, but networking is inoperative. The board has an on-board network interface, plus an extra PCI network board. Neither seem to be working, a

[SOLVED] Re: Kmail2 stores drafts in wrong folder

2017-03-14 Thread Hans
Hi Frederic, > The draft folder is configured in the account settings. > > In kmail menu, select Settings / Configure KMail… > > Select the "Identities" section on the left side of the configuration > window. > > Select your account and click "Modify…". > > Switch to the "Advanced" tab and chan

Re: Kmail2 stores drafts in wrong folder

2017-03-14 Thread Frédéric Marchal
On Tuesday 14 March 2017 11:39:12 Hans wrote: > Hi folks, > > I discovered a weired issue in kmail2.When I want to store a draft mail, it > should be stored in the folder draft. But in real it stores in a folder, I > creted new (a personal folder). > > Is there a configuration file, where I can c

Croatian keyboard

2017-03-14 Thread Max Sievers
I have an Acer Aspire One HAPPY-2DQuu with a croatian keyboard. After installation of stable the keyboard doesn't work properly. Some keys like 5 and 9 don't work at all. This is the case wheter I select the generic 105 keys keyboard or the acer laptop keyboard and with all available croation op

Re: Black screen after "UEFI Installer menu"

2017-03-14 Thread didier gaumet
Le 14/03/2017 à 12:31, Kostiantyn Ponomarenko a écrit : > I managed to install Debian on z240. good news :-) [...] > Thought, I still wonder why Ubuntu works with "Legacy boot disabled > and secure boot disabled" out of the box. may be that has something to do with HP having a commercial agreeme

Re: If Linux Is About Choice, Why Then ...

2017-03-14 Thread Sven Hartge
Martin Read wrote: > On 13/03/17 19:30, Patrick Bartek wrote: >> The Linux mantra has always been "choice," plethoras of choices. So >> why at install time, is there no choice for the init system? > Looking at the BTS page for package 'debian-installer', nobody seems > to have filed a wishlist b

Re: MBR partitioning, and content after partition table but before first partition

2017-03-14 Thread The Wanderer
On 2017-03-13 at 23:36, David Christensen wrote: > On 03/13/2017 02:01 AM, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > >> On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 10:00:45PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: >> and the destination ended up bigger, possibly because one or more >> of the backups on the source had been using some kind

Re: If Linux Is About Choice, Why Then ...

2017-03-14 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2017-03-13, Erwan David wrote: > Le 03/13/17 à 20:40, Greg Wooledge a écrit : >> On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 12:30:11PM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: >>> The Linux mantra has always been "choice," plethoras of choices. So why >>> at install time, is there no choice for the init system? You get what

Re: Black screen after "UEFI Installer menu"

2017-03-14 Thread Kostiantyn Ponomarenko
I managed to install Debian on z240. There are next available option to choose from in my UEFI: 1. "Legacy boot enabled and secure boot disabled" 2. "Legacy boot disabled and secure boot disabled" 3. "Legacy boot disabled and secure boot enabled" With v1.35 z240 firmware each option leads to thes

Re: If Linux Is About Choice, Why Then ...

2017-03-14 Thread Jan-Peter Rühmann
I can´t understand this Discussion, as Normal user I even had not known that there are more than one Init System (SystemV) and I don´t think that this should be chooseable. The Installation is complicated enough dont make it more complex by adding choices which no one understands. By the way I

Kmail2 stores drafts in wrong folder

2017-03-14 Thread Hans
Hi folks, I discovered a weired issue in kmail2.When I want to store a draft mail, it should be stored in the folder draft. But in real it stores in a folder, I creted new (a personal folder). Is there a configuration file, where I can correct these? Background: Alle mails are stored in ~/Mail

Re: MBR partitioning, and content after partition table but before first partition

2017-03-14 Thread David
On 14 March 2017 at 14:36, David Christensen wrote: > > Doing a quick test, it appears that rsync copies hard linked files as if > each were a different file: > > rsync -a hard-link-1/ hard-link-2 Here, 'man rsync' says: "Note that -a does not preserve hardlinks, because finding multiply-linked f