Re: terminal will not wak after hibernation

2018-07-09 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 05:27:44PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Sat, 7 Jul 2018 20:32:03 +0100 > Joe wrote: > > > On Sat, 7 Jul 2018 11:24:59 -0400 > > Dan Ritter wrote: > > ... > > > > The majority of machines can do suspend-to-RAM and/or > > > suspend-to-disk and wake up smoothly afterwards. >

Re: More on locale

2018-07-09 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 06:37:19PM +0100, John wrote: > A short time ago I sought your advice about messages I am getting > about locales I thought I did what was suggested but I still see > > CC libclamav_internal_utils_nothreads_la-strlcat.lo > ../libtool: line 1748: warning: setlocale

Re: Looking for ratings of all-in-one printers for Linux (Ubuntu in particular)

2018-07-09 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 07:05:52PM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 06:53:44PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 06:39:29PM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > You're both missing the main point, which is that a Brother > printer with BRscript/3 is essentially a Postscri

Re: BTRFS and debian

2018-07-09 Thread David Christensen
On 07/09/18 11:17, Ge wrote: Hi there! I am new here. Welcome! :-) I am trying to install debian on a VM to test it before i install it on my laptop. What hardware? What host OS? What hypervisor? Since its a laptop i would like to encrypt the hard drive. Disk encryption is a discus

Re: terminal will not wak after hibernation

2018-07-09 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 7 Jul 2018 20:32:03 +0100 Joe wrote: > On Sat, 7 Jul 2018 11:24:59 -0400 > Dan Ritter wrote: ... > > The majority of machines can do suspend-to-RAM and/or > > suspend-to-disk and wake up smoothly afterwards. > > > > I'll take your word for it. I've never seen such a combination. I gi

Re: Looking for ratings of all-in-one printers for Linux (Ubuntu in particular)

2018-07-09 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 10/07/18 10:39, Dan Ritter wrote: You're both missing the main point, which is that a Brother printer with BRscript/3 is essentially a Postscript printer, and you can treat it as one. No drivers needed. And AFAIK models with BR-Script3 support also support PCL6, for which we have great CUPS

Re: Looking for ratings of all-in-one printers for Linux (Ubuntu in particular)

2018-07-09 Thread Dan Ritter
On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 06:53:44PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 06:39:29PM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > > You're both missing the main point, which is that a Brother > > printer with BRscript/3 is essentially a Postscript printer, and > > you can treat it as one. No drivers n

Re: how to remove a file and change dns server

2018-07-09 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
.tsil siht no noitnevnoc eht si gnitsop mottoB On 09/07/18 19:12, Long Wind wrote: Thank Ben! i just return home my old resolv.conf has that line too but i use twm and don't have easy gui app for Network Manager You should be able to run nm-connection-editor manually at the command line. b

Re: Looking for ratings of all-in-one printers for Linux (Ubuntu in particular)

2018-07-09 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 06:39:29PM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: You're both missing the main point, which is that a Brother printer with BRscript/3 is essentially a Postscript printer, and you can treat it as one. No drivers needed. So you can use it as an all-in-one postscript printer/scanner?

Re: Looking for ratings of all-in-one printers for Linux (Ubuntu in particular)

2018-07-09 Thread Dan Ritter
On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 06:16:59PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > If you meant hplip drivers, which are available from Debian > > repository, then I wonder what actually makes them so much "from > > Debian"? IMHO, their avalability from Debian repository does not > > really make them particular

Re: Looking for ratings of all-in-one printers for Linux (Ubuntu in particular)

2018-07-09 Thread Stefan Monnier
> If you meant hplip drivers, which are available from Debian > repository, then I wonder what actually makes them so much "from > Debian"? IMHO, their avalability from Debian repository does not > really make them particulary "Debian". They are still developed by HP > or their development is

Re: BTRFS and debian

2018-07-09 Thread Matthew Crews
On 7/9/18 12:58 PM, Ulf Volmer wrote: > On 09.07.2018 21:32, Matthew Crews wrote: >> On 7/9/18 11:17 AM, Ge wrote: >>> Should i make a different partition for /home/ ? >> >> I would, especially if you intend on using BTRFS snapshot feature. Last >> thing you want to do is accidentally roll back a c

Re: BTRFS and debian

2018-07-09 Thread Ulf Volmer
On 09.07.2018 22:52, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 09/07/2018 à 21:58, Ulf Volmer a écrit : >> why not using a subvolume for /home? i see that concept in OpenSuse for >> example to exclude /var from snapper. > > openSUSE uses XFS for /home, not a btrfs subvolume. Yes. i assume that's caused by the

Re: BTRFS and debian

2018-07-09 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 09/07/2018 à 21:58, Ulf Volmer a écrit : On 09.07.2018 21:32, Matthew Crews wrote: On 7/9/18 11:17 AM, Ge wrote: Should i make a different partition for /home/ ? I would, especially if you intend on using BTRFS snapshot feature. Last thing you want to do is accidentally roll back a critica

Re: BTRFS and debian

2018-07-09 Thread Ulf Volmer
On 09.07.2018 21:32, Matthew Crews wrote: > On 7/9/18 11:17 AM, Ge wrote: >> Should i make a different partition for /home/ ? > > I would, especially if you intend on using BTRFS snapshot feature. Last > thing you want to do is accidentally roll back a critical document. why not using a subvolume

Re: BTRFS and debian

2018-07-09 Thread Matthew Crews
On 7/9/18 11:17 AM, Ge wrote: > Should i make a different partition for /home/ ? I would, especially if you intend on using BTRFS snapshot feature. Last thing you want to do is accidentally roll back a critical document. > > 2.I will obviously make the / partition btrfs. Do i have to use btrfs >

Re: Nvidia drivers

2018-07-09 Thread Boyan Penkov
Thanks for being a good guy and following up; I was looking into this and this report was keeping me from apt-get dist-upgrade this evening, so I know I'm OK now... Silent thanks to all that have faffed with getting this sorted in the last week -- cheers! On 07/09/2018 02:17 PM, Matthew Crew

Re: Nvidia drivers

2018-07-09 Thread Matthew Crews
On 7/9/18 5:55 AM, Matthew Crews wrote: > On Fri, Jul 06, 2018 at 09:55:45AM +0100, Darac Marjal wrote: >>> On Thu, Jul 05, 2018 at 08:03:22PM -0500, Mark Allums wrote: >>> This requires a workaround, a kernel parameter at boot. >>> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="slab_common.usercopy_fallback=

BTRFS and debian

2018-07-09 Thread Ge
Hi there! I am new here. I am trying to install debian on a VM to test it before i install it on my laptop. Since its a laptop i would like to encrypt the hard drive. I would also like to be able to return my whole system to a previous state or just my home directory. I would like to ask 1. What

More on locale

2018-07-09 Thread John
A short time ago I sought your advice about messages I am getting about locales I thought I did what was suggested but I still see CC libclamav_internal_utils_nothreads_la-strlcat.lo ../libtool: line 1748: warning: setlocale: LC_CTYPE: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF-8) when compiling, a

Re: Looking for ratings of all-in-one printers for Linux (Ubuntu in particular)

2018-07-09 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Mon, 09 Jul 2018 11:14:53 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> I used to own MFC 7460DN. I own currently HL-L2389DW wireless -e >> xcellent unit. Any of them work under Ubuntu, Debian (my current >> distro), Fedora, >> OpenSuse, etc. without a problem. Installation is a breeze. The >> drivers ava

Re: Debian testing - release number

2018-07-09 Thread Curt
On 2018-07-09, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sat, Jul 07, 2018 at 07:55:26AM +, Curt wrote: >> On 2018-07-07, davidson wrote: >> > Speculation: I suspect that the listserv software escapes "From" after >> > a newline, and that its chosen escape is synonymous with the embedded >> > quote character

Re: Looking for ratings of all-in-one printers for Linux (Ubuntu in particular)

2018-07-09 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Note that these settings use PCL6 emulation. Models that lack PCL6 support > may need proprietary Brother CUPS drivers. When I checked, these were only > available for i386. When I switched to the foomatic PCL6 driver, I was able > to ditch the i386 drivers and my entire i386 arch support. This w

Re: Looking for ratings of all-in-one printers for Linux (Ubuntu in particular)

2018-07-09 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I used to own MFC 7460DN. I own currently HL-L2389DW wireless -e xcellent > unit. Any of them work under Ubuntu, Debian (my current distro), Fedora, > OpenSuse, etc. without a problem. Installation is a breeze. The drivers > available on Brother website. Wait, does that mean the printer is no

Re: VT2 for Xorg?

2018-07-09 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 11:52:05PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 09:41:32AM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 09:08:17AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > On Sun, Jul 08, 2018 at 01:08:59PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > > > With a bash fn like: > > >

Re: VT2 for Xorg?

2018-07-09 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 09:41:32AM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 09:08:17AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 08, 2018 at 01:08:59PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > > With a bash fn like: > > > ttyGetNum () { return $(tty | grep -oE '[0-9]+$') ; } > > > > > > The

Re: VT2 for Xorg?

2018-07-09 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 09:08:17AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sun, Jul 08, 2018 at 01:08:59PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > With a bash fn like: > > ttyGetNum () { return $(tty | grep -oE '[0-9]+$') ; } > > > > Then something like this will id your current tty: > > ttyGetNum; export

Re: ifconfig/ ifupdown/ ip -

2018-07-09 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 09:32:31AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 11:20:20PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > configured to say office, I want to be able to run my reset bash > > script as follows: > > > > reset eth0=internet > > I suggest you choose a different name, as

Re: VT2 for Xorg?

2018-07-09 Thread Dan Ritter
On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 09:08:17AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sun, Jul 08, 2018 at 01:08:59PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > With a bash fn like: > > ttyGetNum () { return $(tty | grep -oE '[0-9]+$') ; } > > > > Then something like this will id your current tty: > > ttyGetNum; export

Re: ifconfig/ ifupdown/ ip -

2018-07-09 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 11:20:20PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > configured to say office, I want to be able to run my reset bash > script as follows: > > reset eth0=internet I suggest you choose a different name, as reset(1) is already taken. If your script is supposed to take two pieces of

Re: ifconfig/ ifupdown/ ip -

2018-07-09 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 09:16:51PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 11:01:22AM +0100, Darac Marjal wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 11:52:36AM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > > So I change between two internet connections from time to time. > > > > > > I use /etc/network

Re: how to remove a file and change dns server

2018-07-09 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 12:55:21AM +, Long Wind wrote: > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 51 May 15 20:52 /etc/resolv.conf > > i can't remove file above, the story behind it: You don't WANT to remove that file! If you do, you won't be able to use DNS. > dns servers are usually provided by isp > but t

Re: Nvidia drivers

2018-07-09 Thread Matthew Crews
On Fri, Jul 06, 2018 at 09:55:45AM +0100, Darac Marjal wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 05, 2018 at 08:03:22PM -0500, Mark Allums wrote: >> This requires a workaround, a kernel parameter at boot. >> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="slab_common.usercopy_fallback=y" >> Edit the config file like this, >>

Re: VT2 for Xorg?

2018-07-09 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sun, Jul 08, 2018 at 01:08:59PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > With a bash fn like: > ttyGetNum () { return $(tty | grep -oE '[0-9]+$') ; } > > Then something like this will id your current tty: > ttyGetNum; export Xorg_vt=vt$? Ew! The return status of a shell function is NOT intend

Re: Debian testing - release number

2018-07-09 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Jul 07, 2018 at 07:55:26AM +, Curt wrote: > On 2018-07-07, davidson wrote: > > Speculation: I suspect that the listserv software escapes "From" after > > a newline, and that its chosen escape is synonymous with the embedded > > quote character.[1] > The culprit is therefore Wooledge h

Re: Editing a piped in stream?

2018-07-09 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sun, Jul 08, 2018 at 07:39:07AM +0200, john doe wrote: > The issue here is that we don't know what the OP wants (original and desired > output)!!! :) Indeed. That's nearly always the problem (not just with this individual). https://mywiki.wooledge.org/XyProblem https://mywiki.wooledge.org/Par

Re: Separate /home directories etc?

2018-07-09 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Jul 07, 2018 at 08:35:51PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Sat 07 Jul 2018 at 08:04:16 (-0400), cyaiplexys wrote: > > I used to have a separate /home directory back in the day. But I > > realized that anytime I wanted to reinstall or redo my system > > (upgrade major version seems to work b

Re: ifconfig/ ifupdown/ ip -

2018-07-09 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 11:01:22AM +0100, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 11:52:36AM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > So I change between two internet connections from time to time. > > > > I use /etc/network/interfaces ("/e/n/i") > > > > When I modify /e/n/i , I then run a little

Re: ifconfig/ ifupdown/ ip -

2018-07-09 Thread john doe
On 7/9/2018 12:01 PM, Darac Marjal wrote: On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 11:52:36AM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: So I change between two internet connections from time to time. I use /etc/network/interfaces ("/e/n/i") When I modify /e/n/i , I then run a little "reset" script, like so: dev=eth0 ifdo

Re: ifconfig/ ifupdown/ ip -

2018-07-09 Thread Darac Marjal
On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 11:52:36AM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: So I change between two internet connections from time to time. I use /etc/network/interfaces ("/e/n/i") When I modify /e/n/i , I then run a little "reset" script, like so: dev=eth0 ifdown $dev ifconfig $dev down ifup $dev Here

Re: how to remove a file and change dns server

2018-07-09 Thread Max Harmathy
Am 09.07.2018 um 09:12 schrieb Long Wind: > Thank Ben! i just return home > > my old resolv.conf has that line too > but i use twm and don't have easy gui app for Network Manager > > but i don't miss them > and could you help me delete that resolv.conf? > Thanks! > > On Monday, July 9, 2018, 9

Bad recoding with ffmpeg

2018-07-09 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello*, I recode from a PHP webinterface with the help of ffmpeg. My mobil Videoplayer does not support OGM files The commandline is simply ffmpeg -i input.ogm output.mp4 but I get this output: [ c 'ffmpeg -i input.ogm output.mp4' ]-- ffmpeg version 3.2.10

Re: ifconfig/ ifupdown/ ip -

2018-07-09 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 08:08:46AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 11:52:36AM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > So I change between two internet connections from time to time. > > > > I use /etc/network/interfaces ("/e/n/i") > > > > When I modify /e/n/i , I then run a lit

Re: how to remove a file and change dns server

2018-07-09 Thread john doe
Bottom posting. On 7/9/2018 10:05 AM, Long Wind wrote: Thank John! i have a look at the thread suggested by Roberto it's long and my energy is limited but i have 2 PCs and i can let one use dns by isp, the other by vpn so i want to delete that file On Monday, July 9, 2018, 3:22:36 PM

Re: how to remove a file and change dns server

2018-07-09 Thread Long Wind
Thank John! i have a look at the thread suggested by Roberto it's long and my energy is limited but i have 2 PCs and i can let one use dns by isp, the other by vpn so i want to delete that file On Monday, July 9, 2018, 3:22:36 PM GMT+8, john doe wrote: Bottom posting. On 7/9/2018 9

Re: how to remove a file and change dns server

2018-07-09 Thread john doe
Bottom posting. On 7/9/2018 9:12 AM, Long Wind wrote: Thank Ben! i just return home my old resolv.conf has that line too but i use twm and don't have easy gui app for Network Manager but i don't miss them and could you help me delete that resolv.conf? Thanks! On Monday, July 9, 2018, 9

Re: how to remove a file and change dns server

2018-07-09 Thread Long Wind
Thank Ben! i just return home my old resolv.conf has that line too but i use twm and don't have easy gui app for Network Manager but i don't miss them and could you help me delete that resolv.conf? Thanks! On Monday, July 9, 2018, 9:24:37 AM GMT+8, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: On 09/07/