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Re: Secure boot - Uefi installation

On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 6:30 AM, Karagkiaouris Diamantis wrote: > Dear All, > > How can i install debian with UEFI support? Is there any simple tutorial? I hate to ask the obvious, but have you searched the web for, say, "secure boot shim grub" ? And have you looked at https://wiki.d

How to Fix ACPI Error : Namespace lookup failure

Dear all, After I reverted BIOS back to default setting, I found some following error messages related to ACPI: [0.847234] ACPI: Thermal Zone [THM] (25 C) [0.847347] ACPI Error: [\_SB_.PCI0.LPCB.H_EC.ECAV] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20160831/psargs-359) [0.847605] ACPI

Re: Spam on Debian lists

On 4/20/17, Ben Finney wrote: > Patrick Bartek writes: > >> On Thu, 20 Apr 2017 22:40:56 +0200 Jochen Spieker >> wrote: >> >> > fc: >> > > Why not just restrict it to people who have subscribed? >> > >> > Because this excludes use cases that are deemed valid by the list >> > masters. >> >> Like

Re: Spam on Debian lists

Patrick Bartek writes: > On Thu, 20 Apr 2017 22:40:56 +0200 Jochen Spieker > wrote: > > > fc: > > > Why not just restrict it to people who have subscribed? > > > > Because this excludes use cases that are deemed valid by the list > > masters. > > Like what? I can't speak for the list masters,

How to fix "dell_laptop: Setting old previous keyboard state failed"

Dear all, After I reverted BIOS back to default setting, I found some errors at boot stage of My Debian Testing. [2.513354] dell_laptop: Setting old previous keyboard state failed How do I fix this problem?

Re: Spam on Debian lists

Joel Rees writes: > On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 6:52 AM, Patrick Bartek wrote: >> On Thu, 20 Apr 2017 22:40:56 +0200 Jochen Spieker >> wrote: >> >>> fc: >>> > >>> > Actually -- does anyone monitor this list for this type of stuff? >>> >>> You have no idea *how much* spam is blocked by the work of t

Re: Spam on Debian lists

Patrick Bartek writes: > On Thu, 20 Apr 2017 22:40:56 +0200 Jochen Spieker > wrote: > >> fc: >> > >> > Actually -- does anyone monitor this list for this type of stuff? >> >> You have no idea *how much* spam is blocked by the work of the list >> masters. But it's not that anybody monitors all o

Re: Debian hardware compatibility

On 20/04/17 17:12, John Elliot V wrote: Will stretch RC3 smoothly transition to stable (with an apt-get dist-upgrade) when stretch is released? You should not need to do anything. When stretch is released as stable, you will already be on it. Just make sure that, when stretch is released, you

Re: Debian hardware compatibility

On 21/04/17 00:15, John Elliot V wrote: On 20/04/17 01:14, Joshua Schaeffer wrote: I would recommend the 850 Evo vs the 850 Pro Thanks for the tip. I had considered the Evo but this: https://www.kosagi.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=421 had me a little spooked. That is the 840 Evo. Completely d

Re: Secure boot - Uefi installation

pas...@plouf.fr.eu.org wrote: >Le 20/04/2017 à 15:41, Kent West a écrit : >> >> I installed on a Dell (don't recall the model number now, but it's a recent >> model), and I found that the firmware appears to be buggy, in that you can >> specify a UEFI installation to boot, and it shows the settin

Re: libreboot? Doc to follow? -- Re: Secure boot - Uefi installation

f...@areyouforthepeople.org wrote: > >Hello: > >2 things: > >a. Even given all of their recent "damage" to themselves, >how does Libreboot play into this? Is there a guide with respect to >Debian that people can use to go the Libreboot route -- supported >by this list? Pass. >b. This UEFI crap -

Re: Spam on Debian lists (was: Actually)

On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 6:52 AM, Patrick Bartek wrote: > On Thu, 20 Apr 2017 22:40:56 +0200 Jochen Spieker > wrote: > >> fc: >> > >> > Actually -- does anyone monitor this list for this type of stuff? >> >> You have no idea *how much* spam is blocked by the work of the list >> masters. But it's n

Re: Spam on Debian lists (was: Actually)

On Thu, 20 Apr 2017 22:40:56 +0200 Jochen Spieker wrote: > fc: > > > > Actually -- does anyone monitor this list for this type of stuff? > > You have no idea *how much* spam is blocked by the work of the list > masters. But it's not that anybody monitors all of the almost 300 > Debian lists¹ wit

How to report Debian ML SPAM.

(thread broken on purpose). 1. Never reply to SPAM in the Debian MLs, just report it as SPAM using the web interface. 2. If you need to talk about spam, open a new thread (as that thread will not be spam, although it *might* be quite off-topic). Doing it this way makes it easier/neater to

Re: Spam on Debian lists (was: Actually)

On 20 April 2017 at 21:40, Jochen Spieker wrote: > fc: > > > > Actually -- does anyone monitor this list for this type of stuff? > > You have no idea *how much* spam is blocked by the work of the list > masters. But it's not that anybody monitors all of the almost 300 Debian > lists¹ with thousan

Spam on Debian lists (was: Actually)

fc: > > Actually -- does anyone monitor this list for this type of stuff? You have no idea *how much* spam is blocked by the work of the list masters. But it's not that anybody monitors all of the almost 300 Debian lists¹ with thousands of posts each day. > I see these types of things come throug

Re: pdf file editieren mit dicken Pinsel

Hi, thanks a lot, this seemed to be what I have looked for. #aptitude install xournal bye Thomas Am Donnerstag, 20. April 2017, 13:26:03 schrieb Thane of Athos: > Hallo, > > ich würde dir Xournal empfehlen. Ist in den Repos. > > LG, > > Thanatos. > > On 04/20/2017 11:17 AM, Thomas wrote: >

Re: Warning ---- Re: debian-user@lists.debian.org: Upgrading MailBox in Progress Verify Password

Next time, try to replace http with xxx or something. Dnia 2017-04-20, czw o godzinie 19:45 +0100, Mr Smiley pisze: > Well the xxx's didn't disable highlighted links :o( so don't click on > them > > > On 20/04/17 19:41, Mr Smiley wrote: > > > I hope none of you are falling for this crap > >

Re: Jessie for Udoo X86?

On Thu 20 Apr 2017 at 07:11:53 (-0700), Larry Dighera wrote: > What I have discovered thus far, is that Debian wants to launch X11 by > default, instead of the command line UI. That appears to result in a black > screen with a frozen system. > > At this point, I have no idea of the correct way

libreboot? Doc to follow? -- Re: Secure boot - Uefi installation

Hello: 2 things: a. Even given all of their recent "damage" to themselves, how does Libreboot play into this? Is there a guide with respect to Debian that people can use to go the Libreboot route -- supported by this list? b. This UEFI crap - and Microsoft/Intel trying to lock everything to

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Re: Secure boot - Uefi installation

Le 20/04/2017 à 02:36, Joel Rees a écrit : On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 4:02 AM, Diamantis Karagkiaouris wrote: I am really pissed off with the installation as it failed miserably. If it fails after disabling UEFI, you probably have a machine with a BIOS that doesn't really disable UEFI when you t

Re: spam to aliases and system accounts

On 20/04/17 13:27, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 10:43:33AM +0100, Brian wrote: >> You would have to sound out and convince the exim4 maintainers. I can >> well imagine their enthusiasm for a change might be muted. > > I've reported this before, IIRC, and was ignored. There's

Re: Secure boot - Uefi installation

Le 20/04/2017 à 15:41, Kent West a écrit : I installed on a Dell (don't recall the model number now, but it's a recent model), and I found that the firmware appears to be buggy, in that you can specify a UEFI installation to boot, and it shows the setting you enter, but it ignores that setting a

Re: Possibly erroneous "device not present" message during boot

On Thu 20 Apr 2017 at 07:51:47 (+0200), Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 20/04/2017 à 04:10, David Wright a écrit : > > > >AFAICT cards that can boot appear later as: > > > >$ ls -l /dev/disk/by-id/ [edited] > >usb-General_Combo_CardMMC_SD_12345678-0:0 -> ../../sdb > >usb-General_Combo_CardMMC_SD_00

Re: Debian hardware compatibility

John Elliot V wrote: > On 20/04/17 10:33, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: >> why not just install stretch from RC3? stretch is close to release. > > Sounds like a good idea! Thanks Ben. > > Will stretch RC3 smoothly transition to stable (with an apt-get > dist-upgrade) when stretch is released? if you

Re: Jessie for Udoo X86?

On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 07:11:53AM -0700, Larry Dighera wrote: > I'm familiar with the dmesg output at boot time. I see that when I choose > to boot into recovery mode from the grub menus. When the scrolling text > stops, I'm left with what I thought was a frozen screen, but it turns out to > be

Re: Jessie for Udoo X86?

On Tue, 18 Apr 2017 08:30:00 +, GiaThnYgeia wrote: > > >Larry Dighera: >> I found the 'debian-8.7.1-amd64-DVD-1.iso' image here: >> , burned it to >> SD card in a USB reader with Rufus , and booted it >> from

Re: Secure boot - Uefi installation

On Thursday, 20 April 2017 08:41:26 CEST Kent West wrote: > I installed on a Dell (don't recall the model number now, but it's a recent > model), and I found that the firmware appears to be buggy, in that you can > specify a UEFI installation to boot, and it shows the setting you enter, > but it ig

Re: Secure boot - Uefi installation

On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 8:41 AM, Kent West wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 4:30 PM, Karagkiaouris Diamantis < > diamantis.karagkiaouris@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Dear All, >> >> How can i install debian with UEFI support? Is there any simple tutorial? >> Also do i have to disable the secure

Re: Secure boot - Uefi installation

On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 4:30 PM, Karagkiaouris Diamantis < diamantis.karagkiaouris@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear All, > > How can i install debian with UEFI support? Is there any simple tutorial? > Also do i have to disable the secure boot and then proceed with uefi > installation? > I have tried b

Re: Debian hardware compatibility

On Thursday, 20 April 2017 08:07:51 CEST Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 03:12:33PM +1000, John Elliot V wrote: > > Will stretch RC3 smoothly transition to stable (with an apt-get > > dist-upgrade) when stretch is released? > > Yes. In fact there's a very strong possibility you won

Re: Debian man pages - mechanics of creation/publication?

On Wednesday, April 19, 2017 09:25:31 AM Richard Owlett wrote: > For want of a better term, they might be considered to be "Debian > specific footnotes Well, an alternate that would not require upstream participation (at least in most cases, assuming no copyright issues) would be to create a new

Re: Debian hardware compatibility

On 20/04/17 01:14, Joshua Schaeffer wrote: > I would recommend the 850 Evo vs the 850 Pro Thanks for the tip. I had considered the Evo but this: https://www.kosagi.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=421 had me a little spooked. I've already parted with my money for the Pro. I've made bigger mistakes

Re: Debian hardware compatibility

On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 03:12:33PM +1000, John Elliot V wrote: > Will stretch RC3 smoothly transition to stable (with an apt-get > dist-upgrade) when stretch is released? Yes. In fact there's a very strong possibility you won't even need to do a whole dist-upgrade. A simple "apt-get update; apt-

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Re: spam to aliases and system accounts

On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 10:43:33AM +0100, Brian wrote: > You would have to sound out and convince the exim4 maintainers. I can > well imagine their enthusiasm for a change might be muted. I've reported this before, IIRC, and was ignored. There's also a potential DoS situation because the default c

Re: pdf file editieren mit dicken Pinsel

Hallo, ich würde dir Xournal empfehlen. Ist in den Repos. LG, Thanatos. On 04/20/2017 11:17 AM, Thomas wrote: Hallo, ich suche ein Programm um einfach eine Zeile oder ein paar Wörter unkenntlich zu machen. Bei Windows hatte ich da ein Programm und konnte einfach mit einem dicken Pinsel drübe

Re: pdf file editieren mit dicken Pinsel

On 2017-04-20 11:17, Thomas wrote: > Hallo, > ich suche ein Programm um einfach eine Zeile oder ein paar Wörter unkenntlich > zu machen. Bei Windows hatte ich da ein Programm und konnte einfach mit einem > dicken Pinsel drüber gehen. > Hier drucke ich das aus, gehe mit einem eding drüber und scan

Re: pdf file editieren mit dicken Pinsel

Thomas wrote: > ich suche ein Programm um einfach eine Zeile oder ein paar Wörter > unkenntlich zu machen. Bei Windows hatte ich da ein Programm und > konnte einfach mit einem dicken Pinsel drüber gehen. Master PDF Editor for Linux can do this, it can edit text as well. https://code-industry.net/f

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

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 10:12:47AM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 07:40:04PM +0300, Reco wrote: > > I stand corrected. They (HP) hid it pretty well, though. > > I was under impression that they prefer something more enterprise

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

On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 07:40:04PM +0300, Reco wrote: > I stand corrected. They (HP) hid it pretty well, though. > I was under impression that they prefer something more enterprisey > there, like SuSE or RHEL. > To complete the analogy with Fedora one needs to count all DDs who are on HPE > payroll

Re: spam to aliases and system accounts

On Wed 19 Apr 2017 at 20:15:02 +0200, Daniel Pocock wrote: > When people install Debian (or any distro), they usually get a bunch of > entries in /etc/aliases and various system accounts (/etc/passwd entries > with UID < 1000) created by the packages they install. > > I've noticed an increase in

Re: pdf file editieren mit dicken Pinsel

Hi, Thomas wrote: > Hallo Deutsch gutt. debian-user-ger...@lists.debian.org besser. :)) Well the answer to the question about a PDF editor in Debian, which can blacken text lines, would be of interest to me. Not so much because i need to remove info from PDF but because i look for a PDF editor

Re: pdf file editieren mit dicken Pinsel

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 11:17:44AM +0200, Thomas wrote: > Hallo, > ich suche ein Programm um einfach eine Zeile oder ein paar Wörter unkenntlich > zu machen. Bei Windows hatte ich da ein Programm und konnte einfach mit einem > dicken Pinsel drüber ge

Re: pdf file editieren mit dicken Pinsel

Am 20.04.2017 um 11:17 schrieb Thomas: > Hallo, > ich suche ein Programm um einfach eine Zeile oder ein paar Wörter unkenntlich > zu machen. Bei Windows hatte ich da ein Programm und konnte einfach mit einem > dicken Pinsel drüber gehen. > Hier drucke ich das aus, gehe mit einem eding drüber un

pdf file editieren mit dicken Pinsel

Hallo, ich suche ein Programm um einfach eine Zeile oder ein paar Wörter unkenntlich zu machen. Bei Windows hatte ich da ein Programm und konnte einfach mit einem dicken Pinsel drüber gehen. Hier drucke ich das aus, gehe mit einem eding drüber und scanne das wieder ein. Da leidet natürlich die B