Re: zenity --text-info autoscrolling?

2017-03-29 Thread Jason
On Tue, 28 Mar 2017 21:26:43 +0200 Floris wrote: >Op Tue, 28 Mar 2017 04:03:20 +0200 schreef Jason : > >> On Sun, 26 Mar 2017 22:03:33 +0200 >> Floris wrote: >> >>> Op Fri, 24 Mar 2017 23:33:06 +0100 schreef Jason >>> : >>> In interactive shell scripts I like piping output into zenity >>

Re: HP Printer (OfficeJet 8730) Installation

2017-03-29 Thread Peter Hillier-Brook
On 29/03/17 18:27, Brian wrote: > On Wed 29 Mar 2017 at 17:59:03 +0100, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: > >> Fully up to date Jessie installation >> >> my printer recently died and I replaced it with a new OfficeJet as >> above. Regrettably support is not available with hplip in Jessie, nor >> with ver

Re: DD bs=4M option on USB mem-stick creates false format

2017-03-29 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, kAt wrote: > I am trying to find out > what firmware works with this medium and what it really does. It's a little computer which implements USB bus operation, and a subset of the SCSI command protocol, and also manages the mapping from logical addresses (LBA) to physical addresses. What it d

Re: Movie 'n Book recommendations by Curt

2017-03-29 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 29 March 2017 20:46:00 kAt wrote: > What do you mean down?  You arrogant yankee? Don't Yankees come from the United States?? Or is Curt an expat?? Lisi

Re: Wan/Lan problem

2017-03-29 Thread Mike McClain
On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 08:50:15AM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Wednesday, March 29, 2017 03:17:37 AM David Christensen wrote: > > On 03/28/2017 04:46 PM, Mike McClain wrote: > > > phoneeth0 eth1 > > > > > > AT&T---| || || |---| | > > >

Re: Wan/Lan problem

2017-03-29 Thread kAt
Is ipv6 on/off/capable on this system? Mike McClain: > Howdy, > I have a WAN/LAN challenge I'm hoping for help with. >

Re: Matrox G550 mga driver hangs system

2017-03-29 Thread Felix Miata
Tony Stoneley composed on 2017-03-29 20:28 (UTC+0100): Felix Miata suggested https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2017/03/msg00895.html Thanks, Felix, but I had already seen that and tried it, to no great effect. I should have said so. Except that I see the log I filed doesn't say so. Here is

Re: DD bs=4M option on USB mem-stick creates false format

2017-03-29 Thread kAt
Thomas Schmitt: > Hi, > > kAt wrote: >> All I can say is that I feel honored that some useful code was produced >> with my problem statement as an inspiration. > > Whether it's useful will still have to turn out. :) > Up to now it has one happy user. I think being able to use a thumb-stick as a

Re:Movie 'n Book recommendations by Curt

2017-03-29 Thread kAt
Curt: > On 2017-03-28, kAt wrote: > >> All I can say is that I feel honored that some useful code was produced >> with my problem statement as an inspiration. > > That's like some befuddled bumpkin down in North Carolina saying he's > proud to find a portrait of himself in one of Thomas Wolfe's

Re: Matrox G550 + mga driver hangs system

2017-03-29 Thread Tony Stoneley
to...@tuxteam.de wrote on Wed, 29 Mar 2017 16:29:52 +0200 >is the system totally dead or just the display? Can you ping (or even >ssh) your box? In case you have no network, the effort of setting one >up (locally) might well pay off. I wish I could, but alas I only have one PC here, albeit on a sm

Re: Matrox G550 mga driver hangs system

2017-03-29 Thread Tony Stoneley
Felix Miata suggested https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2017/03/msg00895.html Thanks, Felix, but I had already seen that and tried it, to no great effect. I should have said so. Except that I see the log I filed doesn't say so. Here is (part of) one that does, and fails similarly- [ 6651.505]

Re: Wan/Lan problem

2017-03-29 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 08:51:58AM -0700, Mike McClain wrote: > On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 10:14:50PM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 04:46:02PM -0700, Mike McClain wrote: > > > > The situation is this: > > > > > > phone

Re: Wan/Lan problem

2017-03-29 Thread David Christensen
On 03/29/2017 08:51 AM, Mike McClain wrote: On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 10:14:50PM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 04:46:02PM -0700, Mike McClain wrote: I'm runniing Debian 7.11 on a Pentium 3 with 250MB ram. ... phoneeth0 eth1 AT&T---| || ||

Re: Wan/Lan problem

2017-03-29 Thread Joshua Schaeffer
I'm going to join the fray and take a crack at this. I'll try to help as best I can to resolve the situation in your current setup, but I would like to say that I agree with what others have posted and would say that this is a little (but not too much) unorthodox. Typically desktop, server, applica

Re: An INCOMPLETE solution - was [Re: Where is data stored when Synaptic scans DVDs?]

2017-03-29 Thread Brian
On Tue 28 Mar 2017 at 16:10:57 +, Curt wrote: > On 2017-03-28, David Wright wrote: > > 84% could be "hiding" other information from our eyes. > > > > I've never looked at (let alone examined) these files after scanning > > CDs with synaptic (assuming these same filenames are used), so I have

Re: HP Printer (OfficeJet 8730) Installation

2017-03-29 Thread Brian
On Wed 29 Mar 2017 at 17:59:03 +0100, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: > Fully up to date Jessie installation > > my printer recently died and I replaced it with a new OfficeJet as > above. Regrettably support is not available with hplip in Jessie, nor > with version 3.16.11 that is current in hplip do

HP Printer (OfficeJet 8730) Installation

2017-03-29 Thread Peter Hillier-Brook
Hello All, Fully up to date Jessie installation my printer recently died and I replaced it with a new OfficeJet as above. Regrettably support is not available with hplip in Jessie, nor with version 3.16.11 that is current in hplip downloads. Has anyone achieved success with this device and, if s

Re: Wan/Lan problem

2017-03-29 Thread Mike McClain
On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 10:14:50PM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 04:46:02PM -0700, Mike McClain wrote: > > The situation is this: > > > > phoneeth0 eth1 > > AT&T---| || || |---| | > > AT&T modem/ Linux my

Re: Matrox G550 + mga driver hangs system

2017-03-29 Thread Felix Miata
Tony Stoneley composed on 2017-03-29 14:36 (UTC+0100): I'm trying an experimental upgrade from stable to testing on an elderly system with a Matrox Millenium G550 graphics adaptor plugged directly into the motherboard, using the mga driver, and have run into a brick wall with the xserver. When s

Re: DD bs=4M option on USB mem-stick creates false format

2017-03-29 Thread Curt
On 2017-03-28, kAt wrote: > All I can say is that I feel honored that some useful code was produced > with my problem statement as an inspiration. That's like some befuddled bumpkin down in North Carolina saying he's proud to find a portrait of himself in one of Thomas Wolfe's books. Actually i

Re: Matrox G550 + mga driver hangs system

2017-03-29 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 02:36:55PM +0100, Tony Stoneley wrote: > I'm trying an experimental upgrade from stable to testing on an > elderly system with a Matrox Millenium G550 graphics adaptor plugged > directly into the motherboard, using the mga drive

Matrox G550 + mga driver hangs system

2017-03-29 Thread Tony Stoneley
I'm trying an experimental upgrade from stable to testing on an elderly system with a Matrox Millenium G550 graphics adaptor plugged directly into the motherboard, using the mga driver, and have run into a brick wall with the xserver. When started, eg with startx, the system immediately freezes and

Re: Wan/Lan problem

2017-03-29 Thread rhkramer
On Wednesday, March 29, 2017 03:17:37 AM David Christensen wrote: > On 03/28/2017 04:46 PM, Mike McClain wrote: > > Howdy, > > I have a WAN/LAN challenge I'm hoping for help with. > > > > I'm runniing Debian 7.11 on a Pentium 3 with 250MB ram. > > > > mike@/deb7:~> uname -a > > Linux playground 3

Re: DD bs=4M option on USB mem-stick creates false format

2017-03-29 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, now i have spoiled the wet run messages. "Wrote" rather than "Removed" in the messages agout APM and GPT. Gr. New source: http://scdbackup.webframe.org/make_isombr_part.c MD5 34aa900801f65955a61cebf0280eeb3b Compile by cc -g -Wall -o make_isombr_part make_isombr_part.c New amd6

Re: Future upgrade from Stretch RC2 to release

2017-03-29 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 07:44:15PM +, Niclas Arndt wrote: > * Is there any chance that Stretch will be stable by 2017-05-16 when OpenSUSE > Leap 42.1 goes EOL? I'd say no. > * Is it advisable to install Stretch RC2 today, start configuring the server, > and later upgrade to the release versio

Re: DD bs=4M option on USB mem-stick creates false format

2017-03-29 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i adopted the idea of a dry run for educational purposes. It demonstrates in detail what make_isombr_part would do to the storage device. With debian-8.7.1-i386-xfce-CD-1.iso on /dev/sdc: - $ ./make_isombr_part /dev/sdc a

Re: Wan/Lan problem

2017-03-29 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 04:46:02PM -0700, Mike McClain wrote: > Howdy, > I have a WAN/LAN challenge I'm hoping for help with. > > I'm runniing Debian 7.11 on a Pentium 3 with 250MB ram. > > mike@/deb7:~> uname -a > Linux playground 3.2.0-4-686-pae #1

Random usb failure at bootup

2017-03-29 Thread solitone
Hi, this morning I experienced a bad issue that worried me for a while, but happily it ended well with no consequences. After resuming from suspend, the monitor was black, and I had to press the power button to hard shutdown the computer. On reboot, the monitor still didn't switch on. I tried

Re: Future upgrade from Stretch RC2 to release

2017-03-29 Thread Sven Hartge
Niclas Arndt wrote: > * Does anybody know if Squirrelmail is working properly with PHP7 now? > (I know that this is off-topic.) Squirrelmail is dead. I would not invest any time in it. Try Roundcube as a replacement. Grüße, Sven. -- Sigmentation fault. Core dumped.

Re: Thin Client

2017-03-29 Thread Joel Roth
On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 10:42:14AM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 05:08:34AM +, David wrote: > > On Fri, 2017-03-24 at 19:48 +, Brian wrote: > > > On Fri 24 Mar 2017 at 19:20:54 +, David wrote: > > > > > > > Dear Group, > > > > > > > > Has anybody put Debian onto a

Re: DD bs=4M option on USB mem-stick creates false format

2017-03-29 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, isongbird wrote: > also, consider that bugs do happen and sometimes > a dry run switch will discover them before it does > the actual write to the device. The code still contains a conditional part which i used with the initial tests. If you change /* # def ine Make_isombr_part_dummY yes

Re: DD bs=4M option on USB mem-stick creates false format

2017-03-29 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, kAt wrote: > All I can say is that I feel honored that some useful code was produced > with my problem statement as an inspiration. Whether it's useful will still have to turn out. :) Up to now it has one happy user. I am pondering about the partition table mess since quite a while. On the o

Re: Wan/Lan problem

2017-03-29 Thread David Christensen
On 03/28/2017 04:46 PM, Mike McClain wrote: Howdy, I have a WAN/LAN challenge I'm hoping for help with. I'm runniing Debian 7.11 on a Pentium 3 with 250MB ram. mike@/deb7:~> uname -a Linux playground 3.2.0-4-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.2.84-2 i686 GNU/Linux The situation is this: phone