Re: hplip and use of the "driver plugin"

2016-11-20 Thread James P. Wallen
On 11/20/2016 02:52 PM, Brian wrote: On Sat 19 Nov 2016 at 16:38:20 -0500, Jape Person wrote: On 11/19/2016 03:09 PM, Brian wrote: Sorry to be awkward, but what does "it's" refer to? Uh, I'm the awkward one here. That's why I'm asking for help. Not at all. I've learned a thing or two f

Re: Stretch System Stops Boot Process Immediately After Grub Screen

2016-10-23 Thread James P. Wallen
Double checked to see if I was right about the video subsystem. It is not ATI, it is Intel integrated. No docs on this thing. It was never officially sold in U.S., where I live currently. Since I can't boot it to usable state, I can't (easily) find out exactly which video it uses. It's probab

Re: A stop job is running for...

2015-12-02 Thread James P. Wallen
On 12/02/2015 06:06 AM, Martin Read wrote: On 02/12/15 03:07, James P. Wallen wrote: Thanks for your response, Sven. It's nice to know that someone else has seen this type of problem. I was thinking that this could be self-inflicted. Perhaps that's a little less likely now. S

Re: A stop job is running for...

2015-12-01 Thread James P. Wallen
On 12/01/2015 09:47 AM, Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Mon, 2015-11-30 at 21:04 -0500, Jape Person wrote: Make remote CUPS printers available locally Network Time Synchronization For several weeks I've been seeing this stop job notification for these two items frequently when rebooting or shutting

Re: [Solved, but not explained] Re: Using OpenVPN client with wicd

2015-07-09 Thread James P. Wallen
On 07/09/2015 11:56 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: On Thu, Jul 09, 2015 at 09:44:40AM -0400, James P. Wallen wrote: Between the Debian and Archlinux documentation and a little pondering I was able to use the OpenVPN client manually with wicd as the network manager. Which you are going to keep a

[Solved] Re: Using OpenVPN client with wicd

2015-07-09 Thread James P. Wallen
On 07/08/2015 09:40 AM, James P. Wallen wrote: On 07/08/2015 03:17 AM, Petter Adsen wrote: On Tue, 07 Jul 2015 13:20:35 -0400 "James P. Wallen" wrote: On 07/07/2015 08:34 AM, Petter Adsen wrote: https://wiki.debian.org/OpenVPN Have you seen this? It doesn't contain anythin

Re: Using OpenVPN client with wicd

2015-07-08 Thread James P. Wallen
On 07/08/2015 03:17 AM, Petter Adsen wrote: On Tue, 07 Jul 2015 13:20:35 -0400 "James P. Wallen" wrote: On 07/07/2015 08:34 AM, Petter Adsen wrote: https://wiki.debian.org/OpenVPN Have you seen this? It doesn't contain anything particular to wicd, but you could use what is th

Re: Using OpenVPN client with wicd

2015-07-07 Thread James P. Wallen
On 07/07/2015 03:26 PM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: ... I suppose I could set up a server on the home network. That would protect my traffic from prying eyes when I'm a visitor on another network, but it wouldn't really keep my home ISP from snooping on me. Or am I missing something? There has to

Re: Using OpenVPN client with wicd

2015-07-07 Thread James P. Wallen
On 07/07/2015 09:23 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jul 07, 2015 at 07:55:26AM -0400, James P. Wallen wrote: [...] Hi, Tomas! Thanks for your reply. I wish I cold've been more helpful, but hey, you're welcome. No, my issue has

Re: Using OpenVPN client with wicd

2015-07-07 Thread James P. Wallen
On 07/07/2015 08:34 AM, Petter Adsen wrote: On Tue, 07 Jul 2015 07:55:26 -0400 "James P. Wallen" wrote: On 07/07/2015 04:25 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jul 06, 2015 at 04:23:28PM -0400, James P. Wallen wrote: [...] If any

Re: Using OpenVPN client with wicd

2015-07-07 Thread James P. Wallen
On 07/07/2015 04:25 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jul 06, 2015 at 04:23:28PM -0400, James P. Wallen wrote: [...] If any of you has managed to do this in conjunction with wicd, I'd really appreciate a pointer to information to help m

Using OpenVPN client with wicd

2015-07-06 Thread James P. Wallen
I loved wicd and used it for several years but finally gave up and went with network-manager so that I could easily use a private VPN when I'm out-and-about and connecting to access points on the road. I've never really been thrilled with network-manager, though at least it works a lot better

Re: apt stuck at "Reading database"

2015-04-13 Thread James P. Wallen
On 04/13/2015 11:10 AM, Curt wrote: On 2015-04-13, Jape Person wrote: IIRC apt-listbugs or apt-listchanges (or both) don't work without the deb-src entries in /etc/apt/sources.list. I think these are tools that They don't? Is that documented somewhere? Not that I can find. I remembered

Re: Who is systemd-gpt-auto-generator, and why does s/he not like my partition table?

2014-10-16 Thread James P. Wallen
On 10/15/2014 02:45 PM, Jape Person wrote: On 10/15/2014 01:38 PM, Don Armstrong wrote: On Wed, 15 Oct 2014, Sven Joachim wrote: I don't think there is actually an I/O error here, looking at the code systemd-gpt-auto-generator makes this error up: , | errno = 0; | r = blkid

some hplip components non-functional after python changes?

2010-07-08 Thread James P. Wallen
Two clean installations of daily build of Debian Squeeze are unable to run hp-setup. I am using an Officejet 6310 connected to router on home network. All systems are Debian Squeeze. Two of them were installed a few months ago. At that time I was able to run "hp-setup -i xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" to se

Re: Re: Switching from NV to Nouveau in Squeeze

2010-05-11 Thread James P. Wallen
On 01/-10/-28163 02:59 PM, Kelly Clowers wrote: I don't have Nvidia myself, but tt should be a matter of installing Nouveau, and then changing the "Driver" line in /etc/x11/xorg.conf from "nv" to "Nouveau" (or adding the line in the "Device" section if it doesn't exist). Good old /etc/X11/x

Re: The future of "nv" driver (was: Linux compatible mainboards -another thought)

2010-04-27 Thread James P. Wallen
On 01/-10/-28163 02:59 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: And I claim he would be better off using a card that doesn't use firmware[1] or uses free firmware, since non-free firmware is an issue for distributors and it's relatively easy to "accidentally" participate in distributing software in vio

Re: Re: The future of "nv" driver (was: Linux compatible mainboards -another thought)

2010-04-26 Thread James P. Wallen
On 01/-10/-28163 02:59 PM, Celejar wrote: On Sat, 24 Apr 2010 09:53:27 -0400 "James P. Wallen" wrote: ... Heck, I haven't even installed the non-free firmware to make wireless work in a couple of these notebooks. Firmware runs on the external hardware, not the system, so s

Re: Re: The future of "nv" driver

2010-04-25 Thread James P. Wallen
On 01/-10/-28163 02:59 PM, Mark Allums wrote: On 4/24/2010 7:31 AM, John Hasler wrote: Mark Allums writes: Ah, a matter of taste, then. (Debian tastes bad with Nvidia loaded, apparently.) No. A matter of support. Okay. But perhaps a less loaded word than "taint" could be chosen. MAA I a

Re: Icedove/Thunderbird 3.0 (was Re: The future of "nv" ...)

2010-04-25 Thread James P. Wallen
On 01/-10/-28163 02:59 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: On 04/24/2010 06:11 PM, James P. Wallen wrote: [snip] PS: My apologies. Recent update to my mail client coupled with lack of sleep. I accidentally sent Ron a direct e-mail reply. Mea culpa. I don't think I've hated a program more t

Re: The future of "nv" driver

2010-04-24 Thread James P. Wallen
I occasionally turn on Xfce's compositing for specific tasks in which it actually makes my work easier. But most if the time, it's off. How do you enable it? Did you also have to add something to xorg.conf? Desktop compositing in Xfce? I just turn it on in the Compositing tab of the Window Ma

Re: Re: The future of "nv" driver (was: Linux compatible mainboards -another thought)

2010-04-24 Thread James P. Wallen
On 01/-10/-28163 02:59 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > That's one difference between us: I don't use Compiz. That's not a difference. I don't use it, either. My use of Compiz was just a part of exploration of the Gnome DE. I don't even use Gnome now. > ... because I don't need glitzy special effect

Re: Re: The future of "nv" driver

2010-04-24 Thread James P. Wallen
On 01/-10/-28163 02:59 PM, Mark Allums wrote: On 4/24/2010 6:26 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2010-04-24 12:24 +0200, Mark Allums wrote: I've never understood the use of the word "taint" in this context. It means the same as "contaminate". The practical consequence is that nobody will accept

Re: Re: The future of "nv" driver (was: Linux compatible mainboards -another thought)

2010-04-24 Thread James P. Wallen
On 01/-10/-28163 02:59 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: On 04/22/2010 08:49 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: [snip] I shall now avoid, when possible, computers with Nvidia graphics cards. Except that Nvidia's drivers are still *much* better than ATI's drivers. Insofar as my experience goes I'd have to q

Re: Re: [OT] Ubuntu vs Debian forums (was recompiling the kernel with a different version name)

2010-04-08 Thread James P. Wallen
Stephen Powell wrote: On Thu, 8 Apr 2010 13:13:22 -0400 (EDT), Bob McGowan wrote: I run Ubuntu on my laptop, because I got tired of the manual Nvidia setup every time the kernel changed. I have been a regular on this forum for several months now, and I know from experience that the topic of th