Re: How can I benchmark my brand new usb 3.0 WD My Passport hdd

2014-05-29 Thread Anubhav Yadav
> It's not exactly obvious what you're trying to achieve. You already > bought the drive. Do you intend to return it if the tested speeds are > not to your liking? > > Or maybe you just want to know what speeds to expect when doing > real-life transfers? Then the best test is to actually time those

How can I benchmark my brand new usb 3.0 WD My Passport hdd

2014-05-29 Thread Anubhav Yadav
it says that since the disk contains a GPT, it cannot benchmark the disk. Are there any better ways to find out about the read-write speeds of my disk? -- Regards, Anubhav Yadav Imperial College of Engineering and Research, Pune. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Ad-Hoc Configuration

2014-04-20 Thread Anubhav Yadav
; mode. > Happy to help :) -- Regards, Anubhav Yadav Imperial College of Engineering and Research, Pune. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/ca+jf9ahrz9

Re: Ad-Hoc Configuration

2014-04-19 Thread Anubhav Yadav
spot-access.html Working flawlessly here -- Regards, Anubhav Yadav Imperial College of Engineering and Research, Pune. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: h

Re: Unable to start nm-applet

2014-04-05 Thread Anubhav Yadav
on as I kill it. -- Regards, Anubhav Yadav Imperial College of Engineering and Research, Pune. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.or

Re: [i3]Not able to get the reboot/suspend script work.

2014-04-02 Thread Anubhav Yadav
ebian.org/03042014002035.9f494f9d2...@desktop.copernicus.demon.co.uk > -- Regards, Anubhav Yadav Imperial College of Engineering and Research, Pune. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.o

Re: [i3]Not able to get the reboot/suspend script work.

2014-04-02 Thread Anubhav Yadav
On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 12:03 AM, Brian wrote: > On Wed 02 Apr 2014 at 23:30:10 +0530, Anubhav Yadav wrote: > >> > I'll back down on that. ~/.profile tests for $BASH_VERSION, which is >> > empty. Therefore $HOME/.bashrc isn't sourced through ~/.xsessionrc. >

Re: [i3]Not able to get the reboot/suspend script work.

2014-04-02 Thread Anubhav Yadav
> I'll back down on that. ~/.profile tests for $BASH_VERSION, which is > empty. Therefore $HOME/.bashrc isn't sourced through ~/.xsessionrc. > Is this because dash is the shell being used, I wonder? > echo $BASH_VERSION 4.2.37(1)-release So it's not empty. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-us

Re: Unable to start nm-applet

2014-04-02 Thread Anubhav Yadav
e xfce panel. So I guess yes, something is wrong with i3 -- Regards, Anubhav Yadav Imperial College of Engineering and Research, Pune. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.

Re: Unable to start nm-applet

2014-04-02 Thread Anubhav Yadav
-applet still running? > Can you strace it and see if that reveals anything. Yes the applet is still running, I need to send the interrupt ctrl-c to kill it. How can I use strace? I have no idea what is it! -- Regards, Anubhav Yadav Imperial College of Engineering and Research, Pune. --

Re: Unable to start nm-applet

2014-04-02 Thread Anubhav Yadav
ecated. Assuming 'px'. ... ... ... ... ** Message: applet now removed from the notification area -- Regards, Anubhav Yadav Imperial College of Engineering and Research, Pune. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: Unable to start nm-applet

2014-04-02 Thread Anubhav Yadav
re a stand-alone versions like policykit-1-gnome or mate-polkit which > you can use, though neo1691@Innovator:~$ ps aux | grep policykit root 3162 0.0 0.0 131964 4236 ?Sl 20:20 0:00 /usr/lib/policykit-1/polkitd --no-debug neo1691 6444 0.0 0.0 15300 1036

Re: Unable to start nm-applet

2014-04-02 Thread Anubhav Yadav
I stopped the keyring service because it was bringing up the gnome-keyring warning whenever I used to run git commands. neo1691@Innovator:~$ ps aux | grep notify root33 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S20:19 0:00 [fsnotify_mark] neo1691 6323 0.0 0.0 15300 1032 pts/1S+ 20:39

Re: Unable to start nm-applet

2014-04-02 Thread Anubhav Yadav
ing stable debian wheezy 64 bit. Sorry for not putting that up in the OP loginctl is not available in stable repositories. and libpam-systemd is not installed on my system although it is available in the stable repositories! -- Regards, Anubhav Yadav Imperial College of Engineering and Research,

Re: Unable to start nm-applet

2014-04-02 Thread Anubhav Yadav
> dbus daemon is not something you start by hand, and not something that a > window manager have to handle. > > To know if dbus is started, the easier is to run this command: > "$/usr/sbin/service dbus status". [ ok ] dbus is running -- Regards, Anubhav Yadav Imperi

Re: Unable to start nm-applet

2014-04-02 Thread Anubhav Yadav
7;user-session=i3' so that by default i3 is selected in the session menu of lightdm and not xfce, or default xsession. -- Regards, Anubhav Yadav Imperial College of Engineering and Research, Pune. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "

Re: Unable to start nm-applet

2014-04-01 Thread Anubhav Yadav
rnative for something like the xfce-panel network applet, through which I can switch between my various profiles for eth0 and also switch different wifi networks! -- Regards, Anubhav Yadav Imperial College of Engineering and Research, Pune. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists

Re: [i3]Not able to get the reboot/suspend script work.

2014-04-01 Thread Anubhav Yadav
side effects and the outcome is completely predictable. > > What you choose is up to you. I got you, just one last question, Should I modify my .profile? More precisely, should I remove the exporting of PATH in .profile? -- Regards, Anubhav Yadav Imperial College of Engineering and Research,

Re: Unable to start nm-applet

2014-04-01 Thread Anubhav Yadav
Hi, I am using i3 windows manager and I need nm-applet to show in i3status bar. I have added this line in my ~/.i3/config exec --no-startup-id nm-applet Also NetworkManager is running in the background. If I start nm-applet as a normal user, I get lot of gtk theme warnings regarding px, and then

Unable to start nm-applet

2014-04-01 Thread Anubhav Yadav
, Anubhav Yadav Imperial College of Engineering and Research, Pune. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CA+Jf9AF+0BKv0QrnGaL7iUOU3ZNiWev1B3HMpf3y

Re: [i3]Not able to get the reboot/suspend script work.

2014-04-01 Thread Anubhav Yadav
obody' yet? A bit > shy but she can do a lot for you. > > You are the administrator of your machine. You are also a user. You have > two personalities. This "only user of my laptop" is a cop out because it > places the user's requirements as more important than the

Re: I don't receive mails from the list anymore

2014-04-01 Thread Anubhav Yadav
g > the same? I tested my email address, it does receive emails. > > How can I find out, if I'm unsubscribed or banned? I got this mail of yours, And I am not facing the same problem! Good luck! -- Regards, Anubhav Yadav Imperial College of Engineering and Research, Pune. -- To

Re: [i3]Not able to get the reboot/suspend script work.

2014-04-01 Thread Anubhav Yadav
hutting down etc the > machine then the script could reside in /usr/local/bin. I am the only user of my laptop, but I would love to be an administrator one day and learn how things work in such an environment! -- Regards, Anubhav Yadav Imperial College of Engineering and Researc

Re: Unable to execute a script without asking for sudo password, even after editing sudoers file.

2014-04-01 Thread Anubhav Yadav
> Works For Me (tm). Thanks! It Worked! :) -- Regards, Anubhav Yadav Imperial College of Engineering and Research, Pune. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Ar

Re: Unable to execute a script without asking for sudo password, even after editing sudoers file.

2014-03-31 Thread Anubhav Yadav
had to use > ~/.xsessionrc for that. And assuming that I have my .profile set up with my PATH variable that I want to use, I can create a ~/.xsessionrc and just source ~/.profile in it? That should work right? [1]http://www.rvm.io -- Regards, Anubhav Yadav Imperial College of Engineering a

Re: .Xresources not loading on start

2014-03-31 Thread Anubhav Yadav
On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 9:22 PM, Brian wrote: > On Mon 31 Mar 2014 at 05:03:14 +0530, Anubhav Yadav wrote: > >> Which should be the best option for me? >> >> xterm*color1: #f92672 >> >> or >> >> XTerm*VT100*color1: #f92672 > > Both override w

Re: [i3]Not able to get the reboot/suspend script work.

2014-03-31 Thread Anubhav Yadav
taught me when I messed up with my global .Xresources directory. ( Remember ) :) I somehow need to get /home/neo1691/bin into my PATH variable before starting i3, or before starting lightdm. Thanks for hearing me out! -- Regards, Anubhav Yadav Imperial College of Engineering and Research, Pune.

Re: Unable to execute a script without asking for sudo password, even after editing sudoers file.

2014-03-31 Thread Anubhav Yadav
> The default ~/.profile on Debian already has: > > # set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists > if [ -d "$HOME/bin" ] ; then > PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH" > fi > I think I am really messed up in that situation. If I run 'echo $PATH' in a terminal session then this is

Re: [i3]Not able to get the reboot/suspend script work.

2014-03-31 Thread Anubhav Yadav
starts my i3. So If I make a .~/.xsession will it clash with my setup right now? I will try your method and report again! Thanks! -- Regards, Anubhav Yadav Imperial College of Engineering and Research, Pune. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subjec

Re: .Xresources not loading on start

2014-03-30 Thread Anubhav Yadav
he difference between the resources color1 and color? -- Regards, Anubhav Yadav Imperial College of Engineering and Research, Pune. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archiv

Re: Unable to execute a script without asking for sudo password, even after editing sudoers file.

2014-03-30 Thread Anubhav Yadav
Yes that worked! Thanks a lot! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/ca+jf9ah0b+swn6f3+frzy95jbwt8l-2rru_bfwpjju3ut2y...@mail.gmail.com

Re: [i3]Not able to get the reboot/suspend script work.

2014-03-30 Thread Anubhav Yadav
On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 10:34 PM, Dmitrii Kashin wrote: > > That's my configuration. I suppose it can be useful. > > ~/.i3/config > # power-mode > mode "power" { > bindsym s exec sudo /usr/sbin/pm-suspend > bindsym h exec sudo /usr/sbin/pm-

Re: Unable to execute a script without asking for sudo password, even after editing sudoers file.

2014-03-30 Thread Anubhav Yadav
3exit to run without asking any password, as I will be using this script to be executed by i3. So I guess your second option will suit me. If I do something like this: neo1691 ALL=(ALL) ALL, NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/pm-suspend, /usr/sbin/pm-hibernate -- Regards, Anubhav Yadav Imperial College of Enginee

Unable to execute a script without asking for sudo password, even after editing sudoers file.

2014-03-30 Thread Anubhav Yadav
ipt without asking for a password? 2) Is exporting the PATH variable like I had did is the correct way to add my directory to PATH, if I want the other processes to also access the scripts in that folder? Thanks! -- Regards, Anubhav Yadav Imperial College of Engineering and Research, Pune. -- T

Re: .Xresources not loading on start

2014-03-29 Thread Anubhav Yadav
So ultimately the conclusion is that for me to have the most optimized settings, I should change all my colors from xterm*color to XTerm*color Is that right? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debi

Re: .Xresources not loading on start

2014-03-28 Thread Anubhav Yadav
esources should be more *specific* to the resources used system wide. In that case my settings for colors should be: XTerm*VT100*color: #f92672? Is that right? -- Regards, Anubhav Yadav Imperial College of Engineering and Research, Pune. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-

Re: [i3]Not able to get the reboot/suspend script work.

2014-03-25 Thread Anubhav Yadav
he point it that it is introduced in wheezy just for introduction (From what I heard on irc). It lacks many functionalities like hibernate! I already have given that a try! Even If I get that to work, only the script would change, not the fact that i3 is not able to get the script working. -- Regard

Re: [i3]Not able to get the reboot/suspend script work.

2014-03-23 Thread Anubhav Yadav
for me. Hi thanks for replying me. But systemd is only implemented completely and not in wheezy! So I am not looking at systemd unless it gets merged with stable! -- Regards, Anubhav Yadav Imperial College of Engineering and Research, Pune. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.deb

[i3]Not able to get the reboot/suspend script work.

2014-03-23 Thread Anubhav Yadav
Hi, I am using debian 64 bit. I use lightdm to start i3. I am trying to get the reboot/suspend script work from i3 control mode as follows. I have created a script called i3exit , and placed it in ~/bin/ directory, this directory is my PATH. Here are the contents of the script. #!/bin/sh

Lightdm doesn't start after using the lightdm-webkit-greeter

2014-03-21 Thread Anubhav Yadav
reading such a long post! Any help would be really appreciated. Cheers! -- Regards, Anubhav Yadav Imperial College of Engineering and Research, Pune. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@list

Re: .Xresources not loading on start

2014-03-21 Thread Anubhav Yadav
olor settings in /etc/x11/Xresources and the settings in XTerm should be loaded. Okay after adding the said line in .Xresources (*customization:) and reloading them (xrdb .Xresource) color1 is xterm*color1: #f92672 Which is the same? Am I missing something? Sorry for a delayed response! -- Regard

Re: .Xresources not loading on start

2014-03-19 Thread Anubhav Yadav
Thanks a lot Brian That sure cleared lot of things! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CA+Jf9AFyyJ02xgY+feMzTmRHsxXTQvhONuq1Qz5m2_ZJ50=v...@mail.gmail.

Re: .Xresources not loading on start

2014-03-18 Thread Anubhav Yadav
s it has something to do with the class of applications/ instance of applications! -- Regards, Anubhav Yadav Imperial College of Engineering and Research, Pune. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Re: .Xresources not loading on start

2014-03-18 Thread Anubhav Yadav
on you motivated me to find the solution myself. Cheers for that. Can I change my subject header and all [SOLVED] to it? Because last time I did it, the mail went as a new thread on the mailing list! Thanks again, really appreciated your time and effort! -- Regards, Anubhav Yadav Imperial Coll

Re: .Xresources not loading on start

2014-03-18 Thread Anubhav Yadav
> (If it wasn't clear, I intended you to try the two lines I gave you > earlier in your existing .Xresources, replacing the ones you have). > Sorry, I had the impression that you wanted me to stick to only that colors. Ok I cleared my .Xresources and now it has only these to lines. xterm*foregroun

Re: .Xresources not loading on start

2014-03-18 Thread Anubhav Yadav
lcddefault etc. Also here is what my terminal looks like when I start my laptop and how it should look actually: http://imgur.com/a/C3EZi -- Regards, Anubhav Yadav Imperial College of Engineering and Research, Pune. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a s

Re: .Xresources not loading on start

2014-03-18 Thread Anubhav Yadav
> Are those the default settings, or did you run xrdb -load already? > No I haven't run xrdb -load .Xresources yet These are the same colors that I have used in my .Xresources. -- Regards, Anubhav Yadav Imperial College of Engineering and Research, Pune. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: .Xresources not loading on start

2014-03-18 Thread Anubhav Yadav
c6 *color13: #9e6ffe Regards, Anubhav Yadav Imperial College of Engineering and Research, Pune. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/ca+jf9af

Re: .Xresources not loading on start

2014-03-17 Thread Anubhav Yadav
ying to use http://paste.debian.net/88298/ The only thing that works for me is "xrdb -load .Xresources" and "xrdb .Xresources" -- Regards, Anubhav Yadav Imperial College of Engineering and Research, Pune. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: .Xresources not loading on start

2014-03-16 Thread Anubhav Yadav
out time and helping me out here. Much appreciated. -- Regards, Anubhav Yadav Imperial College of Engineering and Research, Pune. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archiv

Re: .Xresources not loading on start

2014-03-16 Thread Anubhav Yadav
Next I enabled lightdm: #update-rc.d lightdm enable Rebooted and from lightdm logged in to i3. Opened up an xterm and the background was red. Now I used my original .Xresources and reboot. Again same error! 'xrdb -merge .Xresources' and 'xrdb -overide .Xresources' will no

Re: .Xresources not loading on start

2014-03-16 Thread Anubhav Yadav
ons. And I made the changes in this file: /etc/X11/Xsession.d/30x11-common_xresources I have made a backup of the above file! Just to be safe! -- Regards, Anubhav Yadav Imperial College of Engineering and Research, Pune. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org wi

Re: .Xresources not loading on start

2014-03-15 Thread Anubhav Yadav
Solved. I edited the file /etc/X11/Xsession.d/30x11-common_xresources and changed the "xorg -merge ..." lines to "xorge ..." and it worked. I don't know if it is a good solution or not! Regards, Anubhav Yadav Imperial College of Engineering and Research, Pune. --

Re: .Xresources not loading on start

2014-03-15 Thread Anubhav Yadav
sts.debian.org/debian-user/2014/03/msg00888.html -- Regards, Anubhav Yadav Imperial College of Engineering and Research, Pune. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: htt

Re: .Xresources not loading on start

2014-03-15 Thread Anubhav Yadav
On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 4:36 AM, Anubhav Yadav wrote: > Hello, > Suddenly my .Xresources are not working on startup. Meaning I have to > manually startup a terminal and issue "xrdb .Xresources" and restart > the shell to see my colors. > > I am using(learning to

.Xresources not loading on start

2014-03-15 Thread Anubhav Yadav
6 *color12: #8cedff [..snipped..] 2) I edited the file /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf and added this line: user-session=i3 to make i3 as default in i3. 3) I created a file ~/.xessionrc and added the line to it export PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH -- Regards, Anubhav Yadav Imperial College of Engineering and Rese

Re: Not able to get mpd/ncmpcpp to work

2014-03-10 Thread Anubhav Yadav
Yes I have now configured mpd as a normal user using this guide. http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=17386 I would appreciate if someone goes through the guide and see if it has any security issues. The guide is written for a single user, not for system wide! I am now able to run ncmp

[Solved]: Not able to get mpd/ncmpcpp to work

2014-03-09 Thread Anubhav Yadav
Anyways I solved the problem by following this guide. http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=17386 I would appreciate if someone goes through the guide and see if it has any security issues. The guide is written for a single user, not for system wide! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: Not able to get mpd/ncmpcpp to work

2014-03-09 Thread Anubhav Yadav
> When I press 'u' in ncmpcpp it says (at the bottom) > > Database update started! Yes it says, "Database update started" and immediately afterwards it says "Database update finished". > > and at the top bottom, right below Volume % you should see a capital 'U' > in square brackets, possibly w

Not able to get mpd/ncmpcpp to work

2014-03-09 Thread Anubhav Yadav
ncmpcpp. Result: Nothing again. 3) I tried changing the user option in ncmpcpp to neo1691, then the service mpd would never start. Please help! Thanks! -- Regards, Anubhav Yadav Imperial College of Engineering and Research, Pune. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.

Re: [i3]Colors and transparency problems with rxvt-unicode-color

2014-02-25 Thread Anubhav Yadav
TERM is > 'rxvt-unicode-256color'. Yes and I changed that in the .bashrc too. But didn't help much. However uncommenting the line force_color_prompt=yes did make my prompt (user@hostname:$) coloured. But that was the same color as my background. Made it look even more uglier. -

[i3]Colors and transparency problems with rxvt-unicode-color

2014-02-25 Thread Anubhav Yadav
Now I have installed both xfce terminal and xterm. Any inputs would be greatly appreciated! -- Regards, Anubhav Yadav Imperial College of Engineering and Research, Pune. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

Re: Need to make sure I have the nvidia proprietary driver running.

2014-02-21 Thread Anubhav Yadav
> Did you add yourself to the bumblebee group? > > adduser $USER bumblebee ...as root > where $USER corresponds to your username. Don't forget to log out and log > back in for this to take effect. Yes > https://wiki.debian.org/Bumblebee#Installation > I think I am almost there! Bumblebee servic

Re: Need to make sure I have the nvidia proprietary driver running.

2014-02-20 Thread Anubhav Yadav
I found something interesting grep nvidia /var/log/Xorg.8.log [ 4576.924] (++) Using config file: "/etc/bumblebee/xorg.conf.nvidia" [ 4576.925] (++) ModulePath set to "/usr/lib/nvidia,/usr/lib/xorg/modules" [ 4576.928] (II) Loading /usr/lib/nvidia/libglx.so [ 4577.050] (II) LoadModule: "nvidi

Re: Need to make sure I have the nvidia proprietary driver running.

2014-02-20 Thread Anubhav Yadav
amp;t=110314 It means that I have got two problems. 1) The nvidia driver not working 2) The bumblebee module is not working. Or the two are related to each other. I feel that I should remove all the packages including the linux headers and the nvidia driver and then restarting the process again.

Re: Need to make sure I have the nvidia proprietary driver running.

2014-02-20 Thread Anubhav Yadav
> Stop X, modprobe -r the unwanted driver, modprobe nvidia, start X? I am not able to find out which driver I need to modprobe? I posted the output of lsmod before. If you can help me there?

Re: Need to make sure I have the nvidia proprietary driver running.

2014-02-19 Thread Anubhav Yadav
>> What happens if you remove the module for the integrated graphics and >> load the nvidia module at startup? Here is the output of my lsmod Module Size Used by nls_utf8 12456 1 nls_cp437 16553 1 vfat 17316 1 fat

Re: Need to make sure I have the nvidia proprietary driver running.

2014-02-17 Thread Anubhav Yadav
> First thing I did, when I built a new Desktop machine, and inserted my > nVidia card in, was to disable the onboard GPU in the bios setup. That keeps > it all nice and clean, with regards to video detection. No need to have two > dissimilar GPU's contending for display rights. You just wind up wi

Re: Need to make sure I have the nvidia proprietary driver running.

2014-02-17 Thread Anubhav Yadav
> And besides the command: > > bumblebeed service restart > > Do not restart the program. [ 4558.021580] [ERROR]Daemon already running, pid 2798 Neither it would stop. This was my output > > If you find a solution, please share with the list. We will find a solution. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Need to make sure I have the nvidia proprietary driver running.

2014-02-17 Thread Anubhav Yadav
> Anubhav Yadav, please reply to the list only, don't Cc. I am using gmail and it has two options, reply and reply to all. If I hit reply your name is there as the sender, if I hit reply to all then debian user list is there in cc and your name in senders list. I will now manually delet

Re: Need to make sure I have the nvidia proprietary driver running.

2014-02-17 Thread Anubhav Yadav
> OK, thats the driver for the Intel graphics chip. > So you have an embedded Intel graphics in the motherboard *and* a > plugged in NVIDIA Corporation GF108 card? Yes! But the docs wont help. -- Regards, Anubhav Yadav Imperial College of Engineering and Research, Pune. -- To UN

Re: Need to make sure I have the nvidia proprietary driver running.

2014-02-17 Thread Anubhav Yadav
clusion in my case? Is nvidia driver is running or not? -- Regards, Anubhav Yadav Imperial College of Engineering and Research, Pune. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Arch

Re: Need to make sure I have the nvidia proprietary driver running.

2014-02-17 Thread Anubhav Yadav
> Perhaps also useful to check > > $ less /var/log/Xorg.0.log > > even if there are no EE (errors). I could find anything even close to nvidia. Here is the complete output: http://paste.debian.net/82488/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsub

Re: Need to make sure I have the nvidia proprietary driver running.

2014-02-17 Thread Anubhav Yadav
> $ lsmod | grep nvidia > if there's no output, you aren't using the nvidia driver. > Run > $ grep nvidia /var/log/dmesg No output > $ grep EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log Only output here is (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. [19.290] (II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-

Re: Need to make sure I have the nvidia proprietary driver running.

2014-02-17 Thread Anubhav Yadav
> Right, which one? > root@tal:~# apt-cache search bumblebee > bumblebee-nvidia - NVIDIA Optimus support using the proprietary NVIDIA Yes, this one. > root@tal:~# lsmod | grep video > Output: uvcvideo 57744 0 videodev 70889 1 uvcvideo v4l2_compat_ioctl3216655

Need to make sure I have the nvidia proprietary driver running.

2014-02-17 Thread Anubhav Yadav
ation.) " So I am pretty sure that I do not need to run that nvidia-xconfig command. But I just want to make sure that I am running the nvidia driver successfully. How can I do that? -- Regards, Anubhav Yadav Imperial College of Engineering and Research, Pune. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning advice. [Solved]

2014-02-11 Thread Anubhav Yadav
> You usually can get away with a much smaller root filesystem if you use > a separate /usr. The good thing is that you won't run into trouble with > dozens of kernels installed (they take more than 100MB in /lib/modules > each). I am still learning. And I am not that strict on space as I have a 7

Re: About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning advice.

2014-02-11 Thread Anubhav Yadav
Okay, I installed debian now, a perfect install with LVM. Here is the output of df -H Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on rootfs 8.7G 330M 7.9G 5% / udev 11M 0 11M 0% /dev tmpfs830M 754k 830M 1% /run /

Re: About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning advice.

2014-02-10 Thread Anubhav Yadav
Okay I figured out how to make more partitions on LVM, just want to make sure if the bootable flag on the LVM should be ON or OFF -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists

Re: About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning advice.

2014-02-10 Thread Anubhav Yadav
> Yes. Partition manually, and create a partition to hold *all* your > Linux data. However, rather than selecting a filesystem type, you > choose "Physical volume for LVM", and then configure LVM. It will > then let you use this partition for a new LVM volume group. Once > that's done you can a

Re: About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning advice.

2014-02-10 Thread Anubhav Yadav
I am reading a lot on LVM, and it seems that I have a small doubt. I found this on tldp HOWTO on LVM: > root on LVM requires an initrd image that activates the root LV. If a kernel > is upgraded without building the necessary initrd image, that >kernel will be > unbootable. Newer distributions s

Re: About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning advice.

2014-02-10 Thread Anubhav Yadav
>From the three possible choice you have enlisted me, I think lvm seems to be the best option for me, ' so that I can give very little allocation to /var or /temp, and I can later expand these logical volumes whenever required? A couple of questions: 1) Suppose I give more allocation to /var and

Re: About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning advice.

2014-02-10 Thread Anubhav Yadav
orities in the > BIOS right. > > BIOSses can be recalcitrant, too. It might take several tries to get > the priorities right. Thanks Joel, I had never heard of this tool, but luckily for me, the situation of my hardisk was not so bad, But I really appreciate the time and effort you gu

Re: About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning advice.

2014-02-09 Thread Anubhav Yadav
nd connect the broken hdd to a debian box. -- Regards, Anubhav Yadav Imperial College of Engineering and Research, Pune. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lis

Re: About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning advice.

2014-02-09 Thread Anubhav Yadav
> Understand that if the HDD has bad electronics, anything you plug it into > could be damaged. > Do you have an anti-static wrist strap and spare anti-static bags? No, But I got myself a meeting with my friend who runs a laptop repairing shop, who is willing to give me access to his hdd casing.

Re: About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning advice.

2014-02-08 Thread Anubhav Yadav
> YES! > > And, damage the motherboard. > NO! I was waiting for someone to reply. Thanks! Now, If I remove my hdd and plug it in the dell laptop and then boot the laptop? Can I try that? And then maybe connect a live usb to that? Will it work? -- Regards, Anubhav Yadav Imperia

Re: About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning advice.

2014-02-08 Thread Anubhav Yadav
egards, Anubhav Yadav Imperial College of Engineering and Research, Pune. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CA+Jf9AHiwSNCYBRz9ogiTpW4GJ_oaC4

Re: About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning advice.

2014-02-08 Thread Anubhav Yadav
ruly ingenious! I will keep on reporting what I am doing. Thanks -- Regards, Anubhav Yadav Imperial College of Engineering and Research, Pune. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas..

Re: About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning advice.

2014-02-08 Thread Anubhav Yadav
> Someone asked how much RAM you have. How much? 1G is not enough with Gnome 3. > > More than 4G is more than is necessary under many "normal" loads, but > if you don't have 4G, 4G is reasonable. If you can add memory or > replace what you have and have the money to spare. I have 8 GB ram :) > Wh

Re: About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning advice.

2014-02-08 Thread Anubhav Yadav
Something really bad happened. I went to format all my partitions from the windows 8 installation menu (Bootable usb) and when I went to format boot partition of windows 100 mb,the installer hanged (typical of windows) After waiting for say half an hour, I hard-rebooted the laptop and it was stuck

Re: About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning advice.

2014-02-06 Thread Anubhav Yadav
oth twm and xfce. 2) i3 vs awesome! Just installed i3, lets see how it fares against awesome. -- Regards, Anubhav Yadav Imperial College of Engineering and Research, Pune. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? C

Re: About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning advice.

2014-02-06 Thread Anubhav Yadav
lopment and programming. So I guess I will have to seperate out the /usr and / part and keep /home on a different partition too. -- Regards, Anubhav Yadav Imperial College of Engineering and Research, Pune. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: PXE install, without internet?

2014-02-05 Thread Anubhav Yadav
> Please post:- > /etc/dhcpd.conf > /etc/default/dhcp3-server Like I said, these files are not there on my box! -- Regards, Anubhav Yadav Imperial College of Engineering and Research, Pune. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of &qu

Re: About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning advice.

2014-02-05 Thread Anubhav Yadav
I don't really get what are you trying to say? Should I go for using tiling wms or not? Or learning the tiling wm are too time consuming? Regards Anubhav Yadav Imperial College of Engineering and Research, Pune. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning advice.

2014-02-05 Thread Anubhav Yadav
ave been thinking that why not use a minimal window manager like awesome or i3? -- Regards, Anubhav Yadav Imperial College of Engineering and Research, Pune. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...

Re: About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning advice.

2014-02-05 Thread Anubhav Yadav
> The slowness you've been > noticing, as people have pointed out, may be due do GNOME and > whichever start-up proggies it has. I'd recommend LXDE, XFCE or > fluxbox instead of awesome though. > I have tried xfce and I believe that its a great great desktop environment, However I am restricted in

Re: About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning advice.

2014-02-05 Thread Anubhav Yadav
On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 2:01 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 12:46:07PM +0530, Anubhav Yadav wrote: >> >> Because when my computer boots up, it takes like 25 seconds more >> to get started after entering the username and password. That is 25 seconds

Re: About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning advice.

2014-02-04 Thread Anubhav Yadav
ate partitions, with > knowledge and/ or experience, then you are making an assumption, and > may be you are better to accept someone else's assumption or > experience... > > May be you read something, but you didn't say, so can't help you further > sorry. >

Re: About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning advice.

2014-02-04 Thread Anubhav Yadav
> I used to use multiple partitions as you do. > > Nowadays, the only partitions I use are: > /boot - about 1GiB > / - root partition, the rest > This way, it's really simple, and the old reasons (for most home users > at least) for having multiple partitions are no longer valid (separate > backups

About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning advice.

2014-02-04 Thread Anubhav Yadav
want a windoze partition of 50-60 gb. 2) As you can see in the screenshot, gparted shows that the hdd is only 698 gb whereas when purchased it was 720 GB. Any ways to recover the lost sectors back? Please pardon me If I am not allowed to post link to images! -- Regards, Anubhav Yadav Imperial

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