Re: graphic tablet controls

2018-04-10 Thread Bruce Byfield
"how recent a kernel do you have? what version of Debian are you on? what desktop?" I'm running stretch, using a 4.9.0-6 kernel. The problem exists on all the major desktops including GNOME, KDE, Cinammon, and LXDE, so the problem is unlikely to be the desktop "First of all check if your Wacom

Re: SSD's and many edits of a single file

2018-04-10 Thread David Christensen
On 04/09/18 20:58, Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 09 April 2018 21:25:34 David Christensen wrote: On 04/09/18 07:30, Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 09 April 2018 09:51:37 Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Apr 09, 2018 at 09:46:07AM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: To your original problem, have yo

Re: No sound in Debian Stretch

2018-04-10 Thread deloptes
Daniel Bareiro wrote: > Hi, deloptes. > > On 10/04/18 19:36, deloptes wrote: > >>> Has anyone experienced something like that and has some clue how to fix >>> it? > >> try >> alsamixer -c0 >> or >> amixer -c0 >> and see if something is muted there >> usually 0 is the alsacard driver - it might

Re: No sound in Debian Stretch

2018-04-10 Thread Daniel Bareiro
Hi, Ben. On 10/04/18 19:51, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > On 11/04/18 10:15, Daniel Bareiro wrote: >>  From one day to the next I ran out of sound in Debian Stretch. It's >> strange because I don't remember making any changes and everything was >> running without problem. >> I installed pavucontrol

Re: No sound in Debian Stretch

2018-04-10 Thread Daniel Bareiro
Hi, deloptes. On 10/04/18 19:36, deloptes wrote: >> Has anyone experienced something like that and has some clue how to fix >> it? > try > alsamixer -c0 > or > amixer -c0 > and see if something is muted there > usually 0 is the alsacard driver - it might be other index for you though This is th

Status of Intel-related vulnerabilities and bugs?

2018-04-10 Thread Niclas Arndt
Hello, I'm trying to get my head around all the recent Intel-related vulnerabilities and bugs and what they mean for the practical usefulness of my not-so-old and still under warranty motherboards in the role of a secure Debian internet server. I have spent quite some time googling for both in

Re: transfer disk

2018-04-10 Thread Felix Miata
Pascal Hambourg composed on 2018-04-10 20:47 (UTC+0200): > Felix Miata composed: >> Putting a disk from an Intel system into a system with AMD, VIA or GeForce >> chipset is almost certain to fail unless the initrd includes most drivers. > This is the default (MODULES=most). Likely it's one of t

Re: No sound in Debian Stretch

2018-04-10 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 11/04/18 10:15, Daniel Bareiro wrote: From one day to the next I ran out of sound in Debian Stretch. It's strange because I don't remember making any changes and everything was running without problem. I installed pavucontrol to see if there is something muted, but that does not seem to be th

Re: No sound in Debian Stretch

2018-04-10 Thread deloptes
Daniel Bareiro wrote: > Has anyone experienced something like that and has some clue how to fix > it? try alsamixer -c0 or amixer -c0 and see if something is muted there usually 0 is the alsacard driver - it might be other index for you though regards

Re: graphic tablet controls

2018-04-10 Thread deloptes
Bruce Byfield wrote: > I recently started using a Wacom Intuos Draw tablet. Its functions as a > mouse substitute are available as soon as I plug it in, and the > device is detected by the operating system. However, the tools > available in desktop environments for configuring buttons and drawing

Re: No sound in Debian Stretch

2018-04-10 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Tue, 10 Apr 2018 19:15:35 -0300 Daniel Bareiro wrote: > Hi all! > > From one day to the next I ran out of sound in Debian Stretch. It's > strange because I don't remember making any changes and everything was > running without problem. > > I installed pavucontrol to see if there is some

No sound in Debian Stretch

2018-04-10 Thread Daniel Bareiro
Hi all! From one day to the next I ran out of sound in Debian Stretch. It's strange because I don't remember making any changes and everything was running without problem. I installed pavucontrol to see if there is something muted, but that does not seem to be the case. For example when I am play

Re: graphic tablet controls

2018-04-10 Thread songbird
Bruce Byfield wrote: > > I recently started using a Wacom Intuos Draw tablet. Its functions as a > mouse substitute are available as soon as I plug it in, and the > device is detected by the operating system. However, the tools > available in desktop environments for configuring buttons and drawing

[solved] testing: today's upgrade of xserver-xorg-input-libinput breaks MATE mouse clicking

2018-04-10 Thread songbird
songbird wrote: ... fixed when tested after today's MATE updates. songbird

Re: transfer disk

2018-04-10 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 10/04/2018 à 06:18, Felix Miata a écrit : Putting a disk from an Intel system into a system with AMD, VIA or GeForce chipset is almost certain to fail unless the initrd includes most drivers. This is the default (MODULES=most). This leads me to believe that a minimal module set initrd crea

Re: transfer disk

2018-04-10 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 10/04/2018 à 05:48, Ben Caradoc-Davies a écrit : On 10/04/18 14:01, mick crane wrote: Can you pop a hard disk that boots with a Debian installation on it into another entirely different PC and will the kernel try to make sense of its new hardware ? Mostly. I once had a disk that often move

graphic tablet controls

2018-04-10 Thread Bruce Byfield
I recently started using a Wacom Intuos Draw tablet. Its functions as a mouse substitute are available as soon as I plug it in, and the device is detected by the operating system. However, the tools available in desktop environments for configuring buttons and drawing functions don't detect the ta

Re: GPG and keyring issue

2018-04-10 Thread john doe
On 4/10/2018 4:33 PM, J.W. Foster wrote: I just installed a new Debian 9 system on a reformatted disk in a multidisk system. I used the Netinstall cd from Debian. Installation went ok and I am sending this from the system. Problem is I tried to add the contrib and non-free repos to synaptic i.

Re: how do i tell usb to leave keyboard alone?

2018-04-10 Thread songbird
songbird wrote: ... still happening, collected more info as i was running udevadm this time... always starts with change from KERNEL, so yes, seems to me to be a kernel issue, but the fun thing here is that i've told the kernel to leave the USB keyboard alone via udev rules and i've verified th

Re: hdmi from cable box in a Linux window?

2018-04-10 Thread Dan Ritter
On Mon, Apr 09, 2018 at 04:14:09PM -0700, John Conover wrote: > > Is there a good way of getting hdmi from a cable TV box into a window > on the Linux screen? Anyone done it? Yes, the most straightforward is a box that takes HDMI in, connects to your network and makes an RTSP stream available for

Re: SSD's and many edits of a single file

2018-04-10 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 9 Apr 2018 05:53:18 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote: ... > What else is a good editor? And lets not start yet another vim vs emacs > war. kwrite and kate come to mind. I'm running Trinity Desktop, maybe I > should check them out. Whatever, needs to be able to have several files > open so I c

GPG and keyring issue

2018-04-10 Thread J.W. Foster
I just installed a new Debian 9 system on a reformatted disk in a multidisk system. I used the Netinstall cd from Debian. Installation went ok and I am sending this from the system. Problem is I tried to add the contrib and non-free repos to synaptic i.e. apt sources.list  I simply copied the s

Re: SSD's and many edits of a single file

2018-04-10 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Stefan Monnier wrote: > I see no indication *at all* from Gene's description that the problem > could have anything to do with the OS or the hardware. I don't think so either. But since the discussion began to cycle, i thought that it would be nice to have some tangible proof. If the script

Re: can't access debian no more

2018-04-10 Thread David Wright
On Tue 10 Apr 2018 at 15:21:44 (+0200), mess-mate wrote: > after an install of windows 10 (need it some a progran can't run on linux), > somewhat seems to be changed on the hd. > The startup lock on the disk control/fs. Perhaps look back at your notes on how you fixed this problem. https://lists.d

Re: can't access debian no more

2018-04-10 Thread mess-mate
On 10-Apr-18 15:58, Brian wrote: On Tue 10 Apr 2018 at 09:33:45 -0400, Forest Dean Feighner wrote: On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 9:21 AM, mess-mate wrote: Hi, after an install of windows 10 (need it some a progran can't run on linux), somewhat seems to be changed on the hd. The startup lock on the

Re: can't access debian no more

2018-04-10 Thread likcoras
On 04/10/2018 10:21 PM, mess-mate wrote: > Hi, > after an install of windows 10 (need it some a progran can't run on linux), > somewhat seems to be changed on the hd. > The startup lock on the disk control/fs. > regards > Usually the suggestion on installing both Debian and Windows is to install

Re: can't access debian no more

2018-04-10 Thread Brian
On Tue 10 Apr 2018 at 09:33:45 -0400, Forest Dean Feighner wrote: > On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 9:21 AM, mess-mate wrote: > > > Hi, > > after an install of windows 10 (need it some a progran can't run on linux), > > somewhat seems to be changed on the hd. > > The startup lock on the disk control/fs.

Re: SSD's and many edits of a single file

2018-04-10 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Following is a bash script which challenges the disk's fidelity in > respect to small writes on a relatively small file over a long time. I see no indication *at all* from Gene's description that the problem could have anything to do with the OS or the hardware. My guess is rather that his edit

Re: can't access debian no more

2018-04-10 Thread Forest Dean Feighner
On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 9:21 AM, mess-mate wrote: > Hi, > after an install of windows 10 (need it some a progran can't run on linux), > somewhat seems to be changed on the hd. > The startup lock on the disk control/fs. > regards > > Not much to go on but maybe reinstall grub from the installation

can't access debian no more

2018-04-10 Thread mess-mate
Hi, after an install of windows 10 (need it some a progran can't run on linux), somewhat seems to be changed on the hd. The startup lock on the disk control/fs. regards

Re: SSD's and many edits of a single file

2018-04-10 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, re-reading the original mail of Gene https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2018/04/msg00237.html i think it is time to collect some evidence. Following is a bash script which challenges the disk's fidelity in respect to small writes on a relatively small file over a long time. Gene, please

Re: SSD's and many edits of a single file

2018-04-10 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 08:10:07AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 10 April 2018 07:08:03 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 06:49:54AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: [...] > No such clues were evident. Then I'd look for trou

Re: SSD's and many edits of a single file

2018-04-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 10 April 2018 07:08:03 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 06:49:54AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Tuesday 10 April 2018 03:52:55 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > [...] > > > > The most typical symptom [of a failed write due to storage > > > failure] would be that the file

Re: SSD's and many edits of a single file

2018-04-10 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 06:49:54AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 10 April 2018 03:52:55 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: [...] > > The most typical symptom [of a failed write due to storage > > failure] would be that the file system gets remounted >

Re: install printer

2018-04-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 10 April 2018 05:45:46 Dan Purgert wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Monday 09 April 2018 15:45:34 Brian wrote: > >> Not really. It would be a poorer debian-user without > >> well-intentioned engagement. > > > > Maybe so, Brian, but in cases like this it would improve the overall > >

Re: SSD's and many edits of a single file

2018-04-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 10 April 2018 03:52:55 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Mon, Apr 09, 2018 at 06:25:34PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: > > [...] > > > One editor failing would also make me suspect the editor. > > > > > > But two failing editors would make me suspect some common factor, > > such as a share

Re: install printer

2018-04-10 Thread Dan Purgert
Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 09 April 2018 15:45:34 Brian wrote: >> Not really. It would be a poorer debian-user without well-intentioned >> engagement. > > Maybe so, Brian, but in cases like this it would improve the overall > quality of the answers. And that more often than not, is desirable.

Re: hdmi from cable box in a Linux window?

2018-04-10 Thread Erwan David
On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 09:45:46AM CEST, Joe said: > On Mon, 9 Apr 2018 16:14:09 -0700 > cono...@rahul.net (John Conover) wrote: > > > Is there a good way of getting hdmi from a cable TV box into a window > > on the Linux screen? Anyone done it? > > There are converters for below 100 Pounds/Doll

Re: SSD's and many edits of a single file

2018-04-10 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Apr 09, 2018 at 06:25:34PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: [...] > One editor failing would also make me suspect the editor. > > > But two failing editors would make me suspect some common factor, > such as a shared library and/or the kerne

Re: hdmi from cable box in a Linux window?

2018-04-10 Thread Joe
On Mon, 9 Apr 2018 16:14:09 -0700 cono...@rahul.net (John Conover) wrote: > Is there a good way of getting hdmi from a cable TV box into a window > on the Linux screen? Anyone done it? There are converters for below 100 Pounds/Dollars to USB3.0. I've seen 1080p/60 going into VLC on a (fast) Windo