Re: Intermittent blank screen – Stretch

2018-06-01 Thread Mike
Yes, it is a smart tv. On 02/06/18 10:56, Jimmy Johnson wrote: On 05/31/2018 04:27 PM, Mike wrote: I have just installed Stretch and and randomly getting a 2 second (or so) blank screen. I can go for quite some time without it happening, or it can happen several times over a few minutes. I ca

Re: USB "null modem" cables and related Linux driver questions

2018-06-01 Thread David Wright
On Fri 01 Jun 2018 at 09:08:53 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > On 06/01/2018 08:21 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > >On Fri, Jun 01, 2018 at 08:23:42AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > >>>The one choice you have is that one of both sides takes a step > >>>back and plays "gadget" [...] > > > >>The gadge

Re: USB "null modem" cables and related Linux driver questions

2018-06-01 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Jun 01, 2018 at 02:16:47PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: USB-Ethernet dongles would be a lot more useful in the long term than USB-Serial dongles. *WHO* said anything about a "USB-Serial dongle"? I want a USB-USB object. Subtle, but important, distinction. Well, you started out talking

Re: Intermittent blank screen – Stretch

2018-06-01 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 05/31/2018 04:27 PM, Mike wrote: I have just installed Stretch and and randomly getting a 2 second (or so) blank screen. I can go for quite some time without it happening, or it can happen several times over a few minutes. I can dual boot with Jessie and do not have the problem with that – s

Re: USB "null modem" cables and related Linux driver questions

2018-06-01 Thread Andy Smith
Richard, On Fri, Jun 01, 2018 at 02:16:47PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 06/01/2018 09:01 AM, Michael Stone wrote: > >I can't think of any applications where that's going to be better > >over a pair of USB-Serial dongles than a pair of USB-Ethernet > >dongles. > > Please read my stated goals

Re: Intermittent blank screen – Stretch

2018-06-01 Thread floris
Mike schreef op 2018-06-01 01:27: I have just installed Stretch and and randomly getting a 2 second (or so) blank screen. I can go for quite some time without it happening, or it can happen several times over a few minutes. I can dual boot with Jessie and do not have the problem with that – so I

Re: USB "null modem" cables and related Linux driver questions

2018-06-01 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/01/2018 09:01 AM, Michael Stone wrote: On Fri, Jun 01, 2018 at 04:56:32AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: On 05/31/2018 06:58 PM, David Wright wrote: (thanks for your link) gives an idea of the price, and in this case I can see some justification for it because they describe the electronics

Re: Thinkpad T420 resume from sleep via laptop lid doesn't work

2018-06-01 Thread Hans
Am Freitag, 1. Juni 2018, 19:30:28 CEST schrieb Marcel: Yes, I did, but as I said before: It worked a long time, but some say after some upgrade (without any configuration changes), it stopped suddenly working. So, one in the chain (kernel, laptop-mode-tools, dbus, whatever) is buggy. Best H

Re: USB "null modem" cables and related Linux driver questions

2018-06-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 01 June 2018 06:20:59 Richard Owlett wrote: > On 05/31/2018 10:07 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> I have two computers with USB ports. > >> I wish them to communicate as simply as mid-20th-century computers > >> did. > > > > What kind of "communicate" do you need there? > > Essentially an

Re: USB "null modem" cables and related Linux driver questions

2018-06-01 Thread Joe
On Fri, 1 Jun 2018 10:01:57 -0400 Michael Stone wrote: > On Fri, Jun 01, 2018 at 04:56:32AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > >On 05/31/2018 06:58 PM, David Wright wrote: > >>(thanks for your link) gives an idea of the price, and in this case > >>I can see some justification for it because they de

Re: Thinkpad T420 resume from sleep via laptop lid doesn't work

2018-06-01 Thread Marcel
Have you tried laptop-mode-tools? Maybe this helps :) Cheers, Marcel On 06/01/2018 05:12 PM, Ryan Nowakowski wrote: Hello All! I have a T420 that doesn't resume when the laptop lid is opened. I put it to sleep by closing the lid. When I open the lid, the disk indicator flashes and then sto

Re: Nvidia 340 driver bug

2018-06-01 Thread floris
Pétùr schreef op 2018-05-31 16:20: I have a recurrent bug with the nvidia 340 driver. Here is the trace. Any idea is welcomed. Pétùr [6.748358] [ cut here ] [6.748361] Bad or missing usercopy whitelist? Kernel memory exposure attempt detected from SLUB object 'n

Re: exim4 and TLS Once Again

2018-06-01 Thread Brian
On Tue 29 May 2018 at 12:00:20 -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Mon 28 May 2018 at 21:26:59 (-0500), Martin McCormick wrote: > > > > David Wright writes: > > > And exim's logs say …? > > > > 2018-05-28 14:56:38 1fNL0J-0003CQ-70 H=smtp.suddenlink.net [208.180.40.68]: > > Remote host closed conne

Re: Thinkpad T420 resume from sleep via laptop lid doesn't work

2018-06-01 Thread Hans
Am Freitag, 1. Juni 2018, 17:12:01 CEST schrieb Ryan Nowakowski: Similar problem hier on my EEEPC since over a year: Going to sleep (suspend-to-disk), then when it has to wake up, you can see, the memeory content is loaded into RAM, after that it shuts off and boots again from BIOS. No problem

Thinkpad T420 resume from sleep via laptop lid doesn't work

2018-06-01 Thread Ryan Nowakowski
Hello All! I have a T420 that doesn't resume when the laptop lid is opened. I put it to sleep by closing the lid. When I open the lid, the disk indicator flashes and then stops. The power button led remains pulsing as if it's still asleep. If I press the power button at this point nothing happ

Re: USB "null modem" cables and related Linux driver questions

2018-06-01 Thread David Wright
On Fri 01 Jun 2018 at 05:26:01 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > On 06/01/2018 01:27 AM, deloptes wrote: > >Richard Owlett wrote: > > > >>I have two computers with USB ports. > >>I wish them to communicate as simply as mid-20th-century computers did. > >>Then we used RS232-C with a null modem &/or

Re: USB "null modem" cables and related Linux driver questions

2018-06-01 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/01/2018 08:21 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jun 01, 2018 at 08:23:42AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: The one choice you have is that one of both sides takes a step back and plays "gadget" [...] The gadget API is the programming API off

Re: USB "null modem" cables and related Linux driver questions

2018-06-01 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Jun 01, 2018 at 04:56:32AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: On 05/31/2018 06:58 PM, David Wright wrote: (thanks for your link) gives an idea of the price, and in this case I can see some justification for it because they describe the electronics hidden inside the plugs (we hope). But consid

Re: USB "null modem" cables and related Linux driver questions

2018-06-01 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jun 01, 2018 at 08:23:42AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > The one choice you have is that one of both sides takes a step > > back and plays "gadget" [...] > The gadget API is the programming API offered by the kernel for the OTG > ports: no

Re: USB "null modem" cables and related Linux driver questions

2018-06-01 Thread Stefan Monnier
> The one choice you have is that one of both sides takes a step > back and plays "gadget" (the jargon term, somewhat unfortunate > as search engine fodder). There seems to be something out there > for that, e.g. [2]. The gadget API is the programming API offered by the kernel for the OTG ports: n

Re: USB "null modem" cables and related Linux driver questions

2018-06-01 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> In some cases one of the two computers's USB port is an "OTG" port, >> meaning that it can act either as "master" or not, in which case you can >> just use a regular USB cable (and usually you then configure the OTG >> side to pretend it's a network card, so it ends up looking to the >> software

Re: exim4 and TLS Once Again

2018-06-01 Thread Brian
On Wed 30 May 2018 at 20:58:12 -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 06:22:49PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > AIUI 587 is the standard email submission port and 465 is now > > deprecated but often still in use. I think they differ in the > > details of how they handle encrypting t

Re: USB "null modem" cables and related Linux driver questions

2018-06-01 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/01/2018 01:27 AM, deloptes wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: I have two computers with USB ports. I wish them to communicate as simply as mid-20th-century computers did. Then we used RS232-C with a null modem &/or appropriate software software at both ends. J., why not take a crossover cab

Re: USB "null modem" cables and related Linux driver questions

2018-06-01 Thread Richard Owlett
On 05/31/2018 10:07 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote: I have two computers with USB ports. I wish them to communicate as simply as mid-20th-century computers did. What kind of "communicate" do you need there? Essentially any ;/ In fact one of the thought experiments I was pursuing was how to do file

Re: Intermittent blank screen – Stretch

2018-06-01 Thread Darac Marjal
On Fri, Jun 01, 2018 at 11:27:46AM +1200, Mike wrote: I have just installed Stretch and and randomly getting a 2 second (or so) blank screen. I can go for quite some time without it happening, or it can happen several times over a few minutes. I can dual boot with Jessie and do not have the pro

Re: USB "null modem" cables and related Linux driver questions

2018-06-01 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jun 01, 2018 at 08:27:13AM +0200, deloptes wrote: > Richard Owlett wrote: > > > I have two computers with USB ports. > > I wish them to communicate as simply as mid-20th-century computers did. > > Then we used RS232-C with a null modem &/or a

Hibernation is not working after upgrading frmo Jessie to Stretch.

2018-06-01 Thread Piotr
Dear all, Recently I upgraded my Debian Jessie to Stretch and I noticed that hibernation does not work anymore. When I try to hibernate to disk the process of saving the current memory state seems to be doing the job correctly. However, when I start the laptop I see that restoring the state be

Re: Upgrade from Jessie to Stretch: Bluetooth mouse is not working.

2018-06-01 Thread Piotr
On Thu, 31 May 2018 11:04:10 -0500 "Martin McCormick" wrote: > You might search web archives and internet discussion > groups to see if there is a replacement driver for the mouse > which is a real shame since it used to work but that particular > module doesn't work which is valuable info