Re: Re: Re: Sudden death of bluetooth headphone connectivity

2017-08-03 Thread dekkzz78
On 08/04, Mark Fletcher wrote: I guess the next thing to try is your blueman suggestions. It strikes me as odd that it would be working fine and then suddenly break though. in my 2 years using my FSL headphones BT has broken several times usually on bluez updates and has never been particular

Re: I was hoping we could have a closer acquaintance Carolyn

2017-08-03 Thread Muhammad Suleiman
Yeah in terms of what dear? On Jul 7, 2017 9:25 PM, "Carolyn Meijerhoven" wrote: > > Will you reveal me what do you like? > http://bitly.com/2sWjzMd

pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW

2017-08-03 Thread Jape Person
A few weeks ago a CUPS upgrade to our Debian testing systems started showing a new driver for our Brother MFC-9340CDW in print dialogs and in the CUPS printer list and in the system-config-printer utility. You'd think that was good news, but we've been unable to find any way to make the queue

Re: Live recording

2017-08-03 Thread David Christensen
On 08/03/17 06:19, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Jeremy Nicoll writes: What makes and models are your mics? I can't tell, because they're old and I don't keep their specs. One of them was given to me about 15 years ago, the other I don't even remember how I have it. One more question that might e

Re: Unable to change mouse acceleration and threshold in Stretch

2017-08-03 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Thu, Aug 03, 2017 at 10:59:39PM +0500, Илья Валеев wrote: > Hello! > > I'm unable to change mouse acceleration and threshold in Stretch. > > It does not depend on DE. There are no error appears. For example, in > KDE settings applies correctly, ~/.kde/share/config/kcminputrc creates > and cont

Re: Live recording

2017-08-03 Thread David Christensen
On 08/03/17 05:23, Rodolfo Medina wrote: The mic input on my PC [may be] stereo. In fact, it is a laptop, nay a netbook, doesn't have a line in and it is reasonable that its mic input is also a line in; What is the make and model of your netbook? My Dell Inspiron E1505 laptop has a stereo mi

Re: Network config

2017-08-03 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Thu, Aug 03, 2017 at 08:49:05PM +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 03/08/2017 à 15:52, Zenaan Harkness a écrit : > > On Thu, Aug 03, 2017 at 08:53:27AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > But the problem is, various Unix DHCP client daemons do *too much*. > > > All I want them to do is set the IP

Re: Where to install Flash Player?

2017-08-03 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Thu, 3 Aug 2017 14:01:42 -0400 Thomas George wrote: > I downloaded flash-player-ppapi_26.0.0.137-1_amd64.deb into /opt and > used dpkg -i to install it. > > Is this the best way to do it? dpkg -s flash-player-ppapi responds ok > installed but dpkg -p flash-player-ppapi doesn't recognize it.

Re: Sudden death of bluetooth headphone connectivity

2017-08-03 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 04 Aug 2017, Mark Fletcher wrote: > suddenly stopped working. I didn't do an apt autoremove last Sunday, but > may have done one the Sunday before -- which would have been reckless The log files are at: /var/log/apt* /var/log/apt/* Failing that: /var/log/dpkg* It will list everything t

Re: Sudden death of bluetooth headphone connectivity

2017-08-03 Thread deloptes
Mark Fletcher wrote: > If anyone can remember which package that is, I can check if it is > installed... The only thing is I am not sure how it would have got onto > the system if it isn't depended on and I didn't install it manually. And > if it IS depended on, or I did install it manually, apt a

Re: Live recording

2017-08-03 Thread deloptes
First of all you need to get basic knowledge of signal and audio processing One good way to understand things 8especially about electricity is water and pipes. Now your mic is a one bucket full of water and you have to pipes (left and right) ... where does the water flow? Rodolfo Medina wrote:

Re: Sudden death of bluetooth headphone connectivity

2017-08-03 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Thu, Aug 03, 2017 at 10:39:03PM +0200, deloptes wrote: > Mark Fletcher wrote: > > > > I vaguely recall there was a package that needs to be installed for the > audio to work, but it does not show into dependencies, so it is not pulled > with bluez or pulse audio (this is based on jessie storie

Re: Re: Sudden death of bluetooth headphone connectivity

2017-08-03 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Thu, Aug 03, 2017 at 08:25:27PM +0100, dekkz...@gmail.com wrote: > > Mark, > > What BT chipset are you using, have you acccidently disabled it in BIOS? > Nothing shows up in google about protocol not available but there was a bug > in gnome 3.24 and pulseaudio 10 with gnome/GDM where GDM start

Re: Flash Player Problem

2017-08-03 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
Hi, Do you absolutely want to use free software for Flash? Otherwise, pepper-flash package is a good solution, up-to-date and working. Best regards, Le 03/08/2017 à 19:38, Thomas George a écrit : > An attempt to log in to the Bridgebase website fails. > > Login using firefox ESR results in

Re: Coucou! vas-tu me dire un petit 'salut'? Melanie

2017-08-03 Thread abdelkrim daghar
bsr Melani comment vatu > Envoyé: jeudi 3 août 2017 à 17:28 > De: "Melanie Kherchoof" > À: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Objet: Coucou! vas-tu me dire un petit 'salut'? Melanie > > > > Viens qu'on discute un peu toi et moi. > http://bit.ly/2u4im6W >

Re: Arial vs. Helvetica.

2017-08-03 Thread Felix Miata
pe...@easthope.ca composed on 2017-08-02 06:26 (UTC-0700): > I want to specify a variable pitch font in a wiki. The font should be > widely available and acceptable to commonly used browsers. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arial explains, "It [Arial] was created > to be metrically identical t

Re: Sudden death of bluetooth headphone connectivity

2017-08-03 Thread deloptes
Mark Fletcher wrote: > > [Full disclosure -- I previously had a different problem on upgrading to > Stretch from Jessie -- see this link for that problem and a link to its > solution --> https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2017/06/msg01196.html > I have never been particularly happy with the sol

re: Coucou! vas-tu me dire un petit 'salut'? Salome

2017-08-03 Thread Christian ALLION
       STOP  STOP         > Message du 03/08/17 18:20 > De : "Salome Dvitharana" > A : debian-user@lists.debian.org > Copie à : > Objet : Coucou! vas-tu me dire un petit 'salut'? Salome > > > > Viens qu'on discute un peu toi et moi. > http://bitly.com/2vtz3vQ >

Re: Live recording

2017-08-03 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Doug writes: > On 08/03/2017 08:19 AM, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> Jeremy Nicoll writes: >> >>> On Thu, 3 Aug 2017, at 13:23, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >>> 3) mic2 is stereo. >>> Not necessarily. It might be a mono signal that's been duplicated across >>> two outputs. It's only 2-channel if it c

Re: Re: Sudden death of bluetooth headphone connectivity

2017-08-03 Thread dekkzz78
On 08/03, Mark Fletcher wrote: On Thu, Aug 03, 2017 at 02:03:36PM +0100, stuart watt wrote: On 08/03, Mark Fletcher wrote: > Hello the list! > > Suddenly, earlier this week, my bluetooth headphones stopped working > with Stretch. > > I update weekly, usually on Sundays, and I am not sure because

Re: Live recording

2017-08-03 Thread Doug
On 08/03/2017 08:19 AM, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Jeremy Nicoll writes: On Thu, 3 Aug 2017, at 13:23, Rodolfo Medina wrote: 3) mic2 is stereo. Not necessarily. It might be a mono signal that's been duplicated across two outputs. It's only 2-channel if it can record two separate sounds at the

Re: Network config

2017-08-03 Thread Henning Follmann
On Thu, Aug 03, 2017 at 08:53:06PM +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 03/08/2017 à 17:20, Joshua Schaeffer a écrit : > > > > Configuration in /etc/network/interfaces only works when NetworkManager > > isn't installed, > > Wrong. The default NetworkManager behaviour is not to manage interfaces >

cups: Backend /usr/lib/cups/backend/usb does not exist! [solved]

2017-08-03 Thread Simon Brandmair
Hi everybody, it took me quite a while to figure this out so I thought I post this here for someone else in need to find this. I wanted to reinstall my printer Brother HL-3040CN after I upgraded to stretch. That didn't work at first. The installer failed with "Backend /usr/lib/cups/backend/usb do

Re: Network config

2017-08-03 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 03/08/2017 à 17:20, Joshua Schaeffer a écrit : Configuration in /etc/network/interfaces only works when NetworkManager isn't installed, Wrong. The default NetworkManager behaviour is not to manage interfaces defined in /etc/network/interfaces.

Re: Network config

2017-08-03 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 03/08/2017 à 15:52, Zenaan Harkness a écrit : On Thu, Aug 03, 2017 at 08:53:27AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: But the problem is, various Unix DHCP client daemons do *too much*. All I want them to do is set the IP address, netmask, and gateway. I *don't* want them to change the system hostname

Re: Where to install Flash Player?

2017-08-03 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 8/3/17, Thomas George wrote: > I downloaded flash-player-ppapi_26.0.0.137-1_amd64.deb into /opt and > used dpkg -i to install it. > > Is this the best way to do it? dpkg -s flash-player-ppapi responds ok > installed but dpkg -p flash-player-ppapi doesn't recognize it. I'm not sure what to tel

Re: Live recording

2017-08-03 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Jeremy Nicoll writes: > On Thu, 3 Aug 2017, at 16:45, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > >> Thanks. But all my 4 microphones terminates in 3.5mm, and the splitter I >> was >> talking about is two 3.5mm female and one 3.5mm male. Is this you >> mean...? > > No. Look at: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/x1q9MXvjDlM/

Re: Live recording

2017-08-03 Thread Rodolfo Medina
David Wright writes: > On Thu 03 Aug 2017 at 15:43:15 (+0200), Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> Rodolfo Medina writes: >> >> > Jeremy Nicoll writes: >> > >> >> On Thu, 3 Aug 2017, at 13:23, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> >> >> >>> 3) mic2 is stereo. >> >> >> >> Not necessarily. It might be a mono signal th

Re: Flash Player Problem

2017-08-03 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Thu, 3 Aug 2017 13:38:37 -0400 Thomas George wrote: > An attempt to log in to the Bridgebase website fails. > > Login using firefox ESR results in an all blue screen. The firefox > plugin shockwave flash is installed. > > My system is debian stretch using the LXDE desktop. I have also > inst

Unable to change mouse acceleration and threshold in Stretch

2017-08-03 Thread Илья Валеев
Hello! I'm unable to change mouse acceleration and threshold in Stretch. It does not depend on DE. There are no error appears. For example, in KDE settings applies correctly, ~/.kde/share/config/kcminputrc creates and contain properly values, but mouse behavior does not changes. 'xset m 3 1' also

Where to install Flash Player?

2017-08-03 Thread Thomas George
I downloaded flash-player-ppapi_26.0.0.137-1_amd64.deb into /opt and used dpkg -i to install it. Is this the best way to do it? dpkg -s flash-player-ppapi responds ok installed but dpkg -p flash-player-ppapi doesn't recognize it.

Re: Flash Player Problem

2017-08-03 Thread Curt
On 2017-08-03, Thomas George wrote: > An attempt to log in to the Bridgebase website fails. Seems to work here (Wheezy, Firefox-esr). > Login using firefox ESR results in an all blue screen. The firefox > plugin shockwave flash is installed. Background is indeed glaucous, but in the foreground

Re: Flash Player Problem

2017-08-03 Thread Joe
On Thu, 3 Aug 2017 13:38:37 -0400 Thomas George wrote: > An attempt to log in to the Bridgebase website fails. > > Login using firefox ESR results in an all blue screen. The firefox > plugin shockwave flash is installed. > > My system is debian stretch using the LXDE desktop. I have also > inst

Flash Player Problem

2017-08-03 Thread Thomas George
An attempt to log in to the Bridgebase website fails. Login using firefox ESR results in an all blue screen. The firefox plugin shockwave flash is installed. My system is debian stretch using the LXDE desktop. I have also installed gnash, gnash-common, and browser-plugin-gnash in an attempt to s

RE: Live recording

2017-08-03 Thread larry owens
FYI the "tip, ring and sleeve" notation derives from the 3-wire connection that connects old land-lines to the telephone central office in the user's area. Larry -Original Message- From: Jeremy Nicoll [mailto:jn.ml.dbn...@letterboxes.org] Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2017 10:07 AM To: deb

Java perspective missing in Eclipse 3.8.1-10

2017-08-03 Thread rudu
Hello, It was almost a year ago when I last used Eclipse to work on some Java projects and everything was going fine. Today, it freezed on its splash screen on every launch. I first removed ~/.eclipse to no avail. When I removed path/to/my/workspace/.metadata Eclipse did open a fresh window wh

Re: Live recording

2017-08-03 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Thu, 3 Aug 2017, at 16:45, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Thanks. But all my 4 microphones terminates in 3.5mm, and the splitter I > was > talking about is two 3.5mm female and one 3.5mm male. Is this you > mean...? No. Look at: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/x1q9MXvjDlM/maxresdefault.jpg That should sho

Re: Fonts readability (was: Arial vs. Helvetica.)

2017-08-03 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 03 Aug 2017, Nicolas George wrote: > Another point where the bitmap fonts beat the vectorial fonts at tiny > sizes: you usually want your vectorial fonts anti-aliased, but at tiny > sizes it hurts readability. Even worse, the anti-aliasing is done wrong: > it is done without taking gamma co

Re: Live recording

2017-08-03 Thread Rodolfo Medina
David Wright writes: > On Thu 03 Aug 2017 at 15:43:15 (+0200), Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> Rodolfo Medina writes: >> >> > Jeremy Nicoll writes: >> > >> >> On Thu, 3 Aug 2017, at 13:23, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> >> >> >>> 3) mic2 is stereo. >> >> >> >> Not necessarily. It might be a mono signal th

Re: Fonts readability (was: Arial vs. Helvetica.)

2017-08-03 Thread Nicolas George
Le sextidi 16 thermidor, an CCXXV, rhkra...@gmail.com a écrit : > > Even worse, the anti-aliasing is done wrong: > > it is done without taking gamma correction into account. That means that > > when 50% intensity is wanted, it produces 22% intensity instead: > > black-on-white is too thick, white-o

Re: Network config

2017-08-03 Thread Joshua Schaeffer
On 08/02/2017 06:56 PM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > I've preferred a static networking config for years, and resolvconf > works well in this situation - but once resolvconf is configured, > I've always put the dns setting in /etc/networks/interfaces I agree with this as well. If you want to use st

Thinkpad function keys in Stretch

2017-08-03 Thread Proxy
Hello, After update to Debian Stretch, I'm having problem with function keys on T440s. On Jessie, everything worked out of the box, but now volume up and down, screen brightness and mic mute don't work. Sound mute work, but only partialy. Led indicator doesn't turns on and it just mute the sound,

Re: Live recording

2017-08-03 Thread David Wright
On Thu 03 Aug 2017 at 15:43:15 (+0200), Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Rodolfo Medina writes: > > > Jeremy Nicoll writes: > > > >> On Thu, 3 Aug 2017, at 13:23, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > >> > >>> 3) mic2 is stereo. > >> > >> Not necessarily. It might be a mono signal that's been duplicated across > >> t

Re: Redmine on server in DMZ

2017-08-03 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Johann Spies wrote on 08/02/17 11:56: > A few years ago we got redmine working on a server in the DMZ on our > network using ruby gems copied there from another computer with access > to the internet. > > This server has now been updated to Debian Stretch - which broke the > redmine installation.

Re: How to Work Around Bug?

2017-08-03 Thread Kent West
On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 4:15 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2017-08-02 15:51 -0500, Kent West wrote: > > > I'm running Sid (so I know brokenness happens), and I got bit by bug > > #869670, "linux-headers-4.11.0-2-amd64 : Depends: > > linux-headers-4.11.0-2-common (= 4.11.11-1+b1) but it is not going

Re: Sudden death of bluetooth headphone connectivity

2017-08-03 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Thu, Aug 03, 2017 at 02:03:36PM +0100, stuart watt wrote: > On 08/03, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > Hello the list! > > > > Suddenly, earlier this week, my bluetooth headphones stopped working > > with Stretch. > > > > I update weekly, usually on Sundays, and I am not sure because I wasn't > > payi

Re: Network config

2017-08-03 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Thu, Aug 03, 2017 at 08:53:27AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > But the problem is, various Unix DHCP client daemons do *too much*. > All I want them to do is set the IP address, netmask, and gateway. > I *don't* want them to change the system hostname, or the system > resolv.conf (in which I have

Re: Fonts readability (was: Arial vs. Helvetica.)

2017-08-03 Thread rhkramer
On Thursday, August 03, 2017 08:23:37 AM Nicolas George wrote: > Even worse, the anti-aliasing is done wrong: > it is done without taking gamma correction into account. That means that > when 50% intensity is wanted, it produces 22% intensity instead: > black-on-white is too thick, white-on-black i

Re: Live recording

2017-08-03 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina writes: > Jeremy Nicoll writes: > >> On Thu, 3 Aug 2017, at 13:23, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> >>> 3) mic2 is stereo. >> >> Not necessarily. It might be a mono signal that's been duplicated across >> two outputs. Is there, as far as you know, a mono microphone model that we can be

Re: Live recording

2017-08-03 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Jeremy Nicoll writes: > On Thu, 3 Aug 2017, at 13:23, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > >> 3) mic2 is stereo. > > Not necessarily. It might be a mono signal that's been duplicated across two > outputs. It's only 2-channel if it can record two separate sounds at the > same time. > > You can get microphone

Re: Sudden death of bluetooth headphone connectivity

2017-08-03 Thread stuart watt
On 08/03, Mark Fletcher wrote: Hello the list! Suddenly, earlier this week, my bluetooth headphones stopped working with Stretch. I update weekly, usually on Sundays, and I am not sure because I wasn't paying attention whether I had successfully used my headphones before the last update I did l

Re: Network config

2017-08-03 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Aug 03, 2017 at 11:09:48AM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > Perhaps in certain scenarios, yes - the world's full of wierd > networks :) Concrete examples? OK. Work system: the Information Technology Division (ITD) runs the DHCP servers, which are basically built around the assumption that

Sudden death of bluetooth headphone connectivity

2017-08-03 Thread Mark Fletcher
Hello the list! Suddenly, earlier this week, my bluetooth headphones stopped working with Stretch. I update weekly, usually on Sundays, and I am not sure because I wasn't paying attention whether I had successfully used my headphones before the last update I did last Sunday. They definitely w

Re: Live recording

2017-08-03 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Thu, 3 Aug 2017, at 13:23, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > 3) mic2 is stereo. Not necessarily. It might be a mono signal that's been duplicated across two outputs. It's only 2-channel if it can record two separate sounds at the same time. You can get microphones which, in a single unit, record mo

Fonts readability (was: Arial vs. Helvetica.)

2017-08-03 Thread Nicolas George
Le sextidi 16 thermidor, an CCXXV, Martin Read a écrit : > On a computer screen, I tend to find that sans or quasi-sans (e.g. fonts > where 'I' and 'l' have serifs but other letters mostly don't) fonts are more > comfortable to read (and, in particular, hold up better at small point > sizes). At s

Re: Live recording

2017-08-03 Thread Rodolfo Medina
deloptes writes: > Rodolfo Medina wrote: > >> Now I was wondering about the stereo o non-stereo character of such a home >> made recording...  I tried to use two microphones together, plugging them >> together into the PC with a small common connection doubber.  Can we say >> the result is stereo

Re: Arial vs. Helvetica.

2017-08-03 Thread Martin Read
On 02/08/17 16:34, Joe wrote: Incidentally, serifs were invented to make blocks of text easier to read, so Times or similar would be a better choice for paragraphs, with a sans-serif font more suited to bold headings. Newspaper sites (not surprisingly including The Times) use serif fonts. On a

Re: Re: apt or apt-get equivalent of 'aptitude --show-why upgrade'

2017-08-03 Thread Christoph Groth
Thanks for the prompt reply! The Wanderer wrote: On 2017-08-02 at 11:44, Christoph Groth wrote: > I'm running Debian testing and would like to upgrade from > "oldtesting" (jessie) to current testing. I noticed that 'apt > upgrade' as well as 'apt-get upgrade' want to install the > package

Re: determining which apps have entries in the applications menu in xfce

2017-08-03 Thread Joe
On Wed, 2 Aug 2017 21:54:48 -0700 Dan Hitt wrote: > > I did have trouble with Settings > Main Menu my version of xfce > doesn't seem to have that. > The Settings submeu jumps from Keyboard to MIME Type Editor, and i > don't see an xfce icon i can click on. (I also tried the Settings > Man