Re: sources.list for Mozilla VPN

2024-12-10 Thread Paul Scott
Andy, Thank you for your reply. https://packages.debian.org/sid/mozillavpn shows the packages listed as backports Paul On 12/10/24 11:41 AM, Andy Smith wrote: Hi, On Mon, Dec 09, 2024 at 12:30:01PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: Can someone tell what to add to sources.list to get mozillavpn

sources.list for Mozilla VPN

2024-12-09 Thread Paul Scott
I have never been completely clear about the format for sources.list. Can someone tell what to add to sources.list to get mozillavpn (sid) TIA, Paul

zathura and databases

2024-08-22 Thread Paul Scott
Usually Zathura works to display PDFs even though for some time now I get a warning about database. I don't have that warning to share but I think it's current behavior should lead to solving the same problem. Currently zathura [filename] gives: info: Opening plain database via sqlite backend

alt-~ in xfce

2024-06-02 Thread Paul Scott
(Debian sid) Can alt-~ in  XFCE switch windows of the same application? TIA, Paul

Re: Installing testing on Acer Aspire 315 [finished]

2024-05-13 Thread Paul Scott
On 5/12/24 21:30, David Wright wrote: On Sun 12 May 2024 at 21:10:16 (-0700), Paul Scott wrote: On 5/9/2024 1:59 PM, Charles Curley wrote: On Thu, 9 May 2024 09:32:32 -0700 Paul Scott wrote: The error I'm getting is during "Install base system."  The only way I knew to s

Re: Installing testing on Acer Aspire 315

2024-05-12 Thread Paul Scott
On 5/9/2024 1:59 PM, Charles Curley wrote: On Thu, 9 May 2024 09:32:32 -0700 Paul Scott wrote: The error I'm getting is during "Install base system."  The only way I knew to save the log was with a camera. Even though I resized the image this list apparently didn't allow

Re: Installing on Acer Aspire 315

2024-05-09 Thread Paul Scott
On 5/9/2024 9:32 AM, Paul Scott wrote: On 5/2/2024 11:31 PM, Sirius wrote: I would appreciate any thoughts or suggestions, Check the PCI ids of your Ethernet controller. Download the kernel image you are considering, check if any of its modules matches these ids. n I may need to do that

Re: Installing testing on Acer Aspire 315

2024-05-09 Thread Paul Scott
On 5/2/2024 11:31 PM, Sirius wrote: I would appreciate any thoughts or suggestions, Check the PCI ids of your Ethernet controller. Download the kernel image you are considering, check if any of its modules matches these ids. n I may need to do that.  Thank you, In the mean time, an install se

Re: Installing testing on Acer Aspire 315

2024-05-03 Thread Paul Scott
On 5/3/2024 11:25 PM, Max Nikulin wrote: On 03/05/2024 13:27, Paul Scott wrote: In the mean time, an install seemed to be working but gave an failure error which said it would be in the log and visible on virtual terminal 4, I didn't know how to get to a virtual in the installer.  Va

Re: Installing testing on Acer Aspire 315

2024-05-02 Thread Paul Scott
On 5/1/2024 10:44 AM, Nicolas George wrote: Paul Scott (12024-05-01): I read that I should try a more complete image which I am downloading (jigdo) now. Waste of time. The drivers are either in the kernel image or in individual packages, you can install them on top of what you have. I

Re: Installing testing on Acer Aspire 315

2024-05-02 Thread Paul Scott
On 5/2/2024 8:06 PM, Max Nikulin wrote: On 02/05/2024 12:19, Sirius wrote: If your wifi is also the AX200 (maybe a different revision), it *should* work. lspci -nn may help with more precise identification. I don't have linux on the machine for which I want the information.  I now have t

Re: Installing testing on Acer Aspire 315

2024-05-01 Thread Paul Scott
On 5/1/2024 10:57 AM, Sirius wrote: In days of yore (Wed, 01 May 2024), Paul Scott thus quoth: Hello, I have many installs over many years (only a few per year).. I tried a Testing net install pn my new Acer Aspire 315 and it didn't find an Ethernet driver.  (wireless?). I read t

Installing testing on Acer Aspire 315

2024-05-01 Thread Paul Scott
Hello, I have many installs over many years (only a few per year).. I tried a Testing net install pn my new Acer Aspire 315 and it didn't find an Ethernet driver.  (wireless?). I read that I should try a more complete image which I am downloading (jigdo) now. I would appreciate any thought

Re: Recommended simple PDF viewer to replace Evince

2023-12-06 Thread Paul Scott
On 12/6/23 9:06 PM, Bert Riding wrote: On Tue, 05 Dec 2023 14:30:01 +0100, Eric S Fraga wrote: I use zathura which is also quite light but I'm not sure if you can print from it. I tend to print directly using lp although very infrequently in any case. In zathura :print brings up the Gtk+ prin

Re: Recommended simple PDF viewer to replace Evince

2023-12-05 Thread Paul Scott
On 12/5/23 6:23 AM, Eric S Fraga wrote: I use zathura which is also quite light but I'm not sure if you can print from it. I tend to print directly using lp although very infrequently in any case. I do a lot of printing from zathura but have had trouble setting up print preview.. Paul

Re: configuring zathura's print preview

2023-07-10 Thread Paul Scott
On 7/10/23 5:06 AM, Brian wrote: On Sun 09 Jul 2023 at 12:31:21 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: On 7/9/23 12:00 PM, Brian wrote: On Sun 09 Jul 2023 at 10:42:52 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: (snip) Does lp -o "letter" scale the document? This is an option unknown to CUPS. It will be ignored

Re: understanding the print dialog

2023-07-09 Thread Paul Scott
On 7/9/23 12:49 PM, Charles Curley wrote: On Sun, 9 Jul 2023 11:15:10 -0700 Paul Scott wrote: Can I somehow configure the print dialog to use Zathura for print preview for PDFs? To which print dialog are you referring? The native Zathura one (if any; I have no idea, so I ask), the naive one

Re: configuring zathura's print preview

2023-07-09 Thread Paul Scott
On 7/9/23 12:00 PM, Brian wrote: On Sun 09 Jul 2023 at 10:42:52 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: (snip) Does lp -o "letter" scale the document? This is an option unknown to CUPS. It will be ignored. I found that in man lp Paul

Re: configuring zathura's print preview

2023-07-09 Thread Paul Scott
On 7/9/23 12:16 PM, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: Brian wrote: On Sun 09 Jul 2023 at 10:42:52 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: On 7/9/23 4:40 AM, Brian wrote: [...] The file displayed by zathura is not the file that is sent to the printing system. The latter can be viewed by using Print

understanding the print dialog

2023-07-09 Thread Paul Scott
From my apparently misinformed thread about Zathura print preview I would like to understand the print dialog that appears when I press Ctrl-P in Zathura particularly. Can I somehow configure the print dialog to use Zathura for print preview for PDFs? What is the reason that the print dialog

Re: configuring zathura's print preview

2023-07-09 Thread Paul Scott
On 7/9/23 4:40 AM, Brian wrote: On Sat 08 Jul 2023 at 22:28:52 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: On 7/8/23 3:58 PM, Charles Curley wrote: On Sat, 8 Jul 2023 13:35:43 -0700 Paul Scott wrote: Can someone please direct me to documentation for or tell me how to set what program does print preview for

Re: configuring zathura's print preview

2023-07-08 Thread Paul Scott
On 7/8/23 3:58 PM, Charles Curley wrote: On Sat, 8 Jul 2023 13:35:43 -0700 Paul Scott wrote: Can someone please direct me to documentation for or tell me how to set what program does print preview for Zathura?  I would Zathura would be a possibility. charles@jhegaala:~$ apt-cache show

configuring zathura's print preview

2023-07-08 Thread Paul Scott
Can someone please direct me to documentation for or tell me how to set what program does print preview for Zathura?  I would Zathura would be a possibility. My problem is discovering whether a PDF will fit well enough on an 8"x11" sheet of paper. TIA, Paul

Re: power glitch has killed X solved

2023-06-15 Thread Paul Scott
On 6/15/23 10:24 AM, Paul Scott wrote: On 6/15/23 09:57, Paul Scott wrote: It has been years since I needed to know some basic system stuff.  I have been running Debian sid for over 20 years. There was apparently a power glitch in the last 8 hours.  My desktop is fine.  My laptop which

Re: power glitch has killed X

2023-06-15 Thread Paul Scott
On 6/15/23 09:57, Paul Scott wrote: It has been years since I needed to know some basic system stuff.  I have been running Debian sid for over 20 years. There was apparently a power glitch in the last 8 hours.  My desktop is fine.  My laptop which was charging only boots (grub) to the

power glitch has killed X

2023-06-15 Thread Paul Scott
It has years since I needed to know some basic system stuff.  I have been running Debian sid for over 20 years. There was apparently a power glitch in the last 8 hours.  My desktop is fine.  My laptop which was charging only boots (grub) to the command line. Aptitude works and I have tried re

Re: Getting PHP to work with Apache on other directories

2022-09-14 Thread Paul Scott
On 9/14/22 06:49, pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: Folks: I just installed Debian testing. I do PHP development. I host live websites at /var/www/html and development sites at /home/paulf/public_html. I have Apache configured so that localhost/~paulf/ gets me to the sites at /home/paulf/public_htm

Re: dynupdater not seeming to do anything

2022-07-31 Thread Paul Scott
On 7/31/22 07:42, David wrote: On Sun, 31 Jul 2022 at 23:28, Paul Scott wrote: On 7/31/22 04:50, Curt wrote: On 2022-07-31, wrote: I would be just as happy to have ddclient working. I only have dyn_updater because ddclient didn't seem to be working. Hi, I haven't used an

Re: dynupdater not seeming to do anything

2022-07-31 Thread Paul Scott
On 7/31/22 04:50, Curt wrote: On 2022-07-31, wrote: Doesn't it seem from the OP that the daemon doesn't start? I interpret the process list in the original post as showing a running dyn_updater: You're right. I misread all that somehow. Documentation is infuriatingly sparse, but mentions

Re: dynupdater not seeming to do anything

2022-07-30 Thread Paul Scott
On 7/30/22 11:00 PM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Sat, Jul 30, 2022 at 05:55:23PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: Can someone please help me diagnose why dynupdater is not seeming to update my ip address so I cna access my local computer from somewhere else. ps ax |grep dyn    5237 ?    Sl   170

dynupdater not seeming to do anything

2022-07-30 Thread Paul Scott
Can someone please help me diagnose why dynupdater is not seeming to update my ip address so I cna access my local computer from somewhere else. ps ax |grep dyn    5237 ?    Sl   170:43 dyn_updater    5269 ?    Sl 5:38 /usr/bin/dyn_updater --daemon start  719685 pts/2    R+ 0:00

Re: booting from install usb

2022-05-09 Thread Paul Scott
On 5/9/22 14:19, Felix Miata wrote: Paul Scott composed on 2022-05-09 12:25 (UTC-0700): I let my laptop update its UEFI BIOS which of course zapped GRUB. Not in the way you think... /dev.sda2 which is "ef EFI (FAT-12/16/32)" This should be the key, suggesting strongly that

booting from install usb

2022-05-09 Thread Paul Scott
Greetings, I haven't done serious system work for many years. I let my laptop update its UEFI BIOS which of course zapped GRUB. I am in rescue mode from the USB stick used for install and have mounted the root file system and done: chroot /mydisk (where my root file system is mounted) I am

Re: installing on Lenovo Ideapad 3 now working

2022-03-29 Thread Paul Scott
On 3/29/22 10:32, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 07:35:46AM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: Greetings, Having done many Debian installs I am now trying to install on a new Lenovo IdeaPad 3. I have disabled Trusted Platform Module and Secure Boot. I used Balena Etcher to install

Re: installing on Lenovo Ideapad 3

2022-03-29 Thread Paul Scott
On 3/29/2022 10:28 AM, Christian Britz wrote: On 2022-03-29 19:20 UTC+0200, Paul Scott wrote: Which ISO? debian-11.2.0-amd64-netinst.iso This could be the root cause for the networking problems. Try the "unofficial" ISO which supports binary blobs. Thank you, That makes se

Re: installing on Lenovo Ideapad 3

2022-03-29 Thread Paul Scott
On 3/29/2022 9:26 AM, Charles Curley wrote: On Tue, 29 Mar 2022 07:35:46 -0700 Paul Scott wrote: Having done many Debian installs I am now trying to install on a new Lenovo IdeaPad 3. Is that the complete model name? I have a "Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 13". If you can boot pretty much

Re: installing on Lenovo Ideapad 3

2022-03-29 Thread Paul Scott
On 3/29/2022 8:44 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 07:35:46AM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: Greetings, Having done many Debian installs I am now trying to install on a new Lenovo IdeaPad 3. I have disabled Trusted Platform Module and Secure Boot. I used Balena Etcher to

installing on Lenovo Ideapad 3

2022-03-29 Thread Paul Scott
Greetings, Having done many Debian installs I am now trying to install on a new Lenovo IdeaPad 3. I have disabled Trusted Platform Module and Secure Boot. I used Balena Etcher to install a Debian iso to a USB stick. Rather than a boot order that IdeaPad allows enabling USB and two network o

Re: identifying my LInux machine on my LAN - some success

2021-02-17 Thread Paul Scott
On 2/17/21 10:03 AM, IL Ka wrote: paul@Joy4:~/music/pima$ systemctl status ssh`` ● ssh.service - OpenBSD Secure Shell server   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/ssh.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)   Active: active (running) since Tue 2021-02-16 11:53

Re: identifying my LInux machine on my LAN

2021-02-17 Thread Paul Scott
On 2/16/21 1:07 PM, IL Ka wrote: systemctl status ssh`` paul@Joy4:~/music/pima$ systemctl status ssh`` ● ssh.service - OpenBSD Secure Shell server Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/ssh.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: active (running) since Tue 2021-02-16 11:5

Re: identifying my LInux machine on my LAN

2021-02-16 Thread Paul Scott
On 2/16/21 11:57 AM, Paul Scott wrote: On 2/16/21 10:50 AM, Kenneth Parker wrote: On Tue, Feb 16, 2021, 11:56 AM IL Ka <mailto:kazakevichi...@gmail.com>> wrote: Check that * connection is not blocked by firewall: ``sudo iptables -L`` paul@Joy4:~$ sudo iptables

Re: identifying my LInux machine on my LAN

2021-02-16 Thread Paul Scott
On 2/16/21 10:50 AM, Kenneth Parker wrote: On Tue, Feb 16, 2021, 11:56 AM IL Ka > wrote: Check that * connection is not blocked by firewall: ``sudo iptables -L`` paul@Joy4:~$ sudo iptables -L [sudo] password for paul: Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT) tar

identifying my LInux machine on my LAN

2021-02-16 Thread Paul Scott
My LAN used to have 1 or two computers and/or debices and my Debian Linux machine on it.  I used to be able to log in either on the LAN from my wife's Windows computer or from outside the LAN with my Debian laptop with ssh or Windows machines on which I had installed putty or Bitvise. I have d

Re: FileZilla / ftp / GnuTLS error connecting to sites with Testing/Bullseye

2021-02-12 Thread Paul Scott
On 2/12/21 12:12 PM, Frank wrote: Op 12-02-2021 om 18:19 schreef Gary Dale: I appreciate the people doing this, but this is a serious issue. I have to resort to firing up a VM or resorting to the command line on my local server to update my web sites because I can't do it from Testing. What f

Re: X framebuffer problem on AMD Picasso [fixed]

2020-04-12 Thread Paul Scott
On 4/12/20 11:23 AM, Paul Scott wrote: On 4/12/20 3:10 AM, Paul Scott wrote: On 4/11/2020 5:47 PM, Paul Scott wrote: Hi, I haven't posted for a long time! I just successfully did my first UEFI installation. It's a new AMD machine with.  X is failing to start.  I have solved a

Re: X framebuffer problem on AMD Picasso [fixed]

2020-04-12 Thread Paul Scott
On 4/12/20 3:10 AM, Paul Scott wrote: On 4/11/2020 5:47 PM, Paul Scott wrote: Hi, I haven't posted for a long time! I just successfully did my first UEFI installation. It's a new AMD machine with.  X is failing to start.  I have solved a number of related problems within online i

Re: X framebuffer problem on AMD Picasso [fixed]

2020-04-12 Thread Paul Scott
On 4/11/2020 5:47 PM, Paul Scott wrote: Hi, I haven't posted for a long time! I just successfully did my first UEFI installation. It's a new AMD machine with.  X is failing to start.  I have solved a number of related problems within online information including finding the fi

X framebuffer problem on AMD Picasso

2020-04-11 Thread Paul Scott
Hi, I haven't posted for a long time! I just successfully did my first UEFI installation. It's a new AMD machine with.  X is failing to start.  I have solved a number of related problems within online information including finding the firmware-amd-graphics package.  I can't easily post log co

Re: why can't I visit this web site

2017-06-06 Thread Paul Scott
On Wed, Jun 07, 2017 at 10:18:48AM +0800, Long Wind wrote: > really?? > > i just install chromium > it has same problem as iceweasel Works fine here on Firefox on sid (Debian is going back to Firefox), Has button to change to English as someone else mentioned. Paul > > > On 6/7/17, Charlie S

Re: [OT] alternative to dnsdynamic.com?

2014-11-24 Thread Paul Scott
course... You give no description but from the name it seems pretty clear that you want a dynamic dns service. I have been using dyndns.org from dyn.com for years. Paul Scott > > Hugo > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: wireless routing broken after recent sid update

2014-07-23 Thread Paul Scott
On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 11:09:48PM +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Paul Scott a écrit : > > On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 09:28:41AM +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > >> As a workaround until an update fixes the bug, I guess you can manually > >> disable the wired ethernet inter

Re: wireless routing broken after recent sid update

2014-07-23 Thread Paul Scott
On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 09:28:41AM +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Paul Scott a écrit : > > On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 08:36:04PM +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > >>> > >>> route gives me: > >>> > >>> Destination Gateway Genmask

Re: wireless routing broken after recent sid update

2014-07-23 Thread Paul Scott
On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 02:23:12PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 10:56:55PM +0200, B wrote: > > On Tue, 22 Jul 2014 13:19:12 -0700 > > Paul Scott wrote: > > > > > No change. > > > > > > > Also set a DHCP server up (link

solved Re: wireless routing broken after recent sid update

2014-07-22 Thread Paul Scott
On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 10:56:55PM +0200, B wrote: > On Tue, 22 Jul 2014 13:19:12 -0700 > Paul Scott wrote: > > > No change. > > > > > Also set a DHCP server up (link-local shouldn't be there). > > > > I am using isc-dhcp-client. > > Ok

Re: wireless routing broken after recent sid update

2014-07-22 Thread Paul Scott
On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 08:36:04PM +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Paul Scott a écrit : > > > > I have a sid system on this laptop that I keep updated. A week or two > > ago an update broke my ability to connect to the Internet through wireless > > access points. I

Re: wireless routing broken after recent sid update

2014-07-22 Thread Paul Scott
On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 08:30:19PM +0200, B wrote: > On Tue, 22 Jul 2014 11:04:16 -0700 > Paul Scott wrote: > > > Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric > > RefUse Iface default * 0.0.0.0 > > U 100

wireless routing broken after recent sid update

2014-07-22 Thread Paul Scott
* 255.255.0.0 U 1000 00 wlan0 192.168.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 wlan0 TIA for any ideas, Paul Scott -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

Re: P* - New language for web programming

2013-11-19 Thread Paul Scott
On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 03:46:14PM +0100, Atle Solbakken wrote: > Den 19. nov. 2013 10:33, skrev Diep Pham Van: > > > >I'm about to get the package, until I realize that there is no way to > >get syntax highlighting with vim. > > > > Hi > > There's no VIM-plugin yet, do you know how to make one?

Re: P* - New language for web programming

2013-11-18 Thread Paul Scott
Why? > > > > It's always nice to get some input from other people, especially > since I've been living in my own little bubble with this for a > while. Hopefully I will get some constructive feedback on this to > help me develop P* further. Is there a Debian package

Re: viewing html or clicking link in Jessie/sid crashes system

2013-09-27 Thread Paul Scott
On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 10:58:21AM +0200, Marko Randjelovic wrote: > On Wed, 18 Sep 2013 08:02:40 -0700 > Paul Scott wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Jessie/sid, Mutt from Gnome-terminal: > > > > Whenever I try to view an HTML portion of a message in > &

viewing html or clicking link in Jessie/sid crashes system

2013-09-18 Thread Paul Scott
any ideas, Google didn't show me anything. Paul Scott -- 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/20130918150240.GA3855@joyhome

Re: old ruby 1.9.1 problem - Solved

2013-01-10 Thread Paul Scott
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 07:54:54AM -0500, Lázaro wrote: > Thread name: "Re: old ruby 1.9.1 problem" > Mail number: 3 > Date: Thu, Jan 10, 2013 > In reply to: Darac Marjal > > > > On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 10:38:31AM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > > > I ha

Re: old ruby 1.9.1 problem

2013-01-09 Thread Paul Scott
On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 10:38:31AM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > I have had the following problem for months but didn't want to break my > system: > The answers I have found like install ruby1.9.1-dev give the same prpblem. I probably should have said that aptitude stops on this error

old ruby 1.9.1 problem

2013-01-09 Thread Paul Scott
I have had the following problem for months but didn't want to break my system: The answers I have found like install ruby1.9.1-dev give the same prpblem. /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require': cannot load such file -- TIA for any help, Paul Scott

Re: Maildir not working

2012-03-07 Thread Paul Scott
On 03/07/2012 01:17 AM, Jochen Spieker wrote: Paul Scott: I have set up an Ubuntu machine as I have set other Debian machines with fetchmail and dovecot. I must have fumbled something in some configuration file because my mail ends up in /var/mail/. Here is the output of dovecot -n -- snip

Maildir not working

2012-03-07 Thread Paul Scott
user 'waterho...@ultrasw.com' there with password 'secret' is 'paul' here TIA for any ideas, Paul Scott -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: disable Gnome 3 screen lockout solved

2011-11-20 Thread Paul Scott
On 11/20/2011 07:45 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 20 Nov 2011 07:33:36 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: Upgrade to Gnome 3 has enabled a screen lockout after inactivity. I used to be able to find such things. How do I disable this. Go to "System configuration → Personal sub-section → Screen"

disable Gnome 3 screen lockout

2011-11-20 Thread Paul Scott
Hi, Upgrade to Gnome 3 has enabled a screen lockout after inactivity. I used to be able to find such things. How do I disable this. TIA, Paul Scott -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: GNOME 3 Alt-Tab takes two hands now?

2011-11-15 Thread Paul Scott
he most on Linux, Windoze and Mac. :) Paul Scott -- 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/4ec36602.8020...@ultrasw.com

Re: root path change

2011-08-30 Thread Paul Scott
On 08/30/2011 11:56 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: Paul Scott wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: What is your path after the sudo? This is easy to tell with: sudo printenv PATH I see this on my Sid machine: $ sudo printenv PATH /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin I get: sudo

Re: root path change

2011-08-30 Thread Paul Scott
On 08/30/2011 11:02 AM, David Goodenough wrote: On Tuesday 30 Aug 2011, Paul Scott wrote: Hi, I'm running sid. I have found several partial answers with Google but nothing conclusive. About a week ago 'sudo aptitude' stopped working because /sbin and /usr/sbin are no longer o

Re: root path change

2011-08-30 Thread Paul Scott
On 08/30/2011 11:16 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: Camaleón wrote: Paul Scott wrote: About a week ago 'sudo aptitude' stopped working because /sbin and /usr/sbin are no longer on the path. Is this possible a recent security improvement? Aptitude works fine if I use "su -" instead

Re: root path change

2011-08-30 Thread Paul Scott
On 08/30/2011 10:43 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 10:02:58 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: About a week ago 'sudo aptitude' stopped working because /sbin and /usr/sbin are no longer on the path. Is this possible a recent security improvement? Aptitude works fine if I use "s

root path change

2011-08-30 Thread Paul Scott
"su -" instead of sudo. Thanks for any information, Paul Scott -- 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/4e5d17c2.8090...@ultrasw.com

Re: creating a preseed file

2011-07-13 Thread Paul Scott
ave a debian system yet. Nikhil, you are hijacking a thread (and you did it twice!) :-) Better open a new one for each of your problems to avoid messing up messages that do not share the same topic. Some thread hijackers may not realize that using Reply hihacks a thread. Paul Scott -- To UNSUBS

Re: fixed!? monitor detection maybe not working

2011-07-04 Thread Paul Scott
On 07/03/2011 08:10 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 02 Jul 2011 12:23:34 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: On 07/02/2011 02:05 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 01 Jul 2011 13:22:02 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX - nForce GPU] (rev a3). Which VGA driver are you using? Whatever

Re: Enough, enough

2011-07-04 Thread Paul Scott
On 07/04/2011 11:52 AM, T o n g wrote: On Mon, 04 Jul 2011 09:33:30 -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote: That's ... UNBELIEVABLE! You are a woman? I thought you were a young MAN geek, full of energy and helpful ! You are so active in this list! Thank you your help ! And I thought chauvinism was d

Re: OT: Camaleón

2011-07-04 Thread Paul Scott
On 07/04/2011 05:08 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 03 Jul 2011 13:44:21 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: Actually gecko and chameleon are different varieties of lizards. Both words are used in English and don't translate to each other. I did not say "gecko" but "Geeko"

Re: monitor detection maybe not working

2011-07-03 Thread Paul Scott
On 07/03/2011 04:27 PM, Brian wrote: On Sun 03 Jul 2011 at 16:06:24 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: On 07/02/2011 04:04 AM, Claudius Hubig wrote: I don't think he did. :) Paul Scott wrote: On 07/01/2011 03:46 PM, Brian wrote: On Fri 01 Jul 2011 at 15:19:21 -0700, Paul Scott

Re: monitor detection maybe not working

2011-07-03 Thread Paul Scott
On 07/02/2011 04:04 AM, Claudius Hubig wrote: Paul Scott wrote: On 07/01/2011 03:46 PM, Brian wrote: On Fri 01 Jul 2011 at 15:19:21 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: 1024x768 60.0* 800x60060.3 56.2 848x48060.0 640x48059.9 My LCD monitor's n

Re: OT: Camaleón

2011-07-03 Thread Paul Scott
On 07/03/2011 03:25 PM, Lisi wrote: On Sunday 03 July 2011 21:44:21 Paul Scott wrote: "Camaleón" is a sort of nickname I chose long time ago because of the openSUSE mascot (Geeko). It translates as "Chameleon" in English. Actually gecko and chameleon are different varieti

Re: OT: Camaleón

2011-07-03 Thread Paul Scott
ieties of lizards. Both words are used in English and don't translate to each other. Have fun, Paul Scott -- 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/4e10d4a5.8010...@ultrasw.com

Re: cannot go back from nouveau to nv

2011-07-03 Thread Paul Scott
at it inferred the screen size to be 1024x768, so I booted with video=1920x1080 (native monitor size). I would suspect that the monitor is broken and provides no or invalid EDID. or that read-edid is broken? ddcprobe seems to provide correct information for my ViewSonic VA703b. read-edid does n

Re: monitor detection maybe not working - another try

2011-07-03 Thread Paul Scott
On 07/01/2011 01:22 PM, Paul Scott wrote: Hi, I'm running sid. My monitor stopped going to the correct resolution some upgrades ago. I have an nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX - nForce GPU] (rev a3). I'm researching many things from this list etc. to attempt to solve the p

Re: monitor detection maybe not working

2011-07-02 Thread Paul Scott
On 07/02/2011 12:23 PM, Paul Scott wrote: On 07/02/2011 02:05 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 01 Jul 2011 13:22:02 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: I'm running sid. My monitor stopped going to the correct resolution some upgrades ago. I have an nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX - nForce GPU]

Re: monitor detection maybe not working

2011-07-02 Thread Paul Scott
On 07/02/2011 11:58 AM, Brian wrote: On Sat 02 Jul 2011 at 11:01:52 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: On 07/02/2011 07:40 AM, Brian wrote: There is a direct connection between the monitor and the video adapter? AFAIK It would be visually obvious. But the card doesn't do 1280x1024 or 1024x768.

Re: monitor detection maybe not working

2011-07-02 Thread Paul Scott
On 07/02/2011 02:05 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 01 Jul 2011 13:22:02 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: I'm running sid. My monitor stopped going to the correct resolution some upgrades ago. I have an nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX - nForce GPU] (rev a3). Which VGA driver are you

Re: monitor detection maybe not working

2011-07-02 Thread Paul Scott
On 07/02/2011 07:40 AM, Brian wrote: On Fri 01 Jul 2011 at 20:47:02 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: On 07/01/2011 03:46 PM, Brian wrote: xrandr believes VGA-1 is only capable of 1024x768. Why do you believe 1280x1024 is possible? 1. The monitor keeps telling me it works better at 1280x1024. Mine

Re: monitor detection maybe not working

2011-07-02 Thread Paul Scott
On 07/02/2011 04:04 AM, Claudius Hubig wrote: Paul Scott wrote: On 07/01/2011 03:46 PM, Brian wrote: On Fri 01 Jul 2011 at 15:19:21 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: 1024x768 60.0* 800x60060.3 56.2 848x48060.0 640x48059.9 My LCD monitor's n

Re: monitor detection maybe not working

2011-07-01 Thread Paul Scott
On 07/01/2011 03:46 PM, Brian wrote: On Fri 01 Jul 2011 at 15:19:21 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: VGA-1 connected 1024x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 0mm x 0mm 1024x768 60.0* 800x60060.3 56.2 848x48060.0 640x48059.9 My LCD

Re: monitor detection maybe not working

2011-07-01 Thread Paul Scott
On 07/01/2011 03:08 PM, Claudius Hubig wrote: Paul Scott wrote: (after stopping gdm3) I get "can't open display" Well, don’t stop gdm then and run these commands in a terminal (such as gnome-terminal or konsole or whatever desktop environment you are using). Also don’t use a

Re: monitor detection maybe not working

2011-07-01 Thread Paul Scott
On 07/01/2011 02:25 PM, Claudius Hubig wrote: Paul Scott wrote: Hi, I'm running sid. My monitor stopped going to the correct resolution some upgrades ago. I have an nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX - nForce GPU] (rev a3). I'm researching many things from this list etc. to

Re: monitor detection maybe not working

2011-07-01 Thread Paul Scott
On 07/01/2011 01:50 PM, Brian wrote: On Fri 01 Jul 2011 at 13:22:02 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: TIA for any comments on this part of my display problem. People may welcome information on the video driver you are using. I mentioned the card from lspci. I am trying as many of the various

monitor detection maybe not working

2011-07-01 Thread Paul Scott
#x27;t think my monitor is being detected correctly. ddcprobe seems to give the correct info but I don't think this info is being used. TIA for any comments on this part of my display problem. Paul Scott -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of &q

Re: Mouse disappeared after update to squeeze 6.0.1

2011-04-09 Thread Paul Scott
being. You do have an intel card, don't you?-- .''`. Wolodja Wentland ed.ac.uk> : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC I had this problem on my laptop as a result of the bug in udev 167-1. It a

Re: Realtek 8185 chipset problem *solved*

2011-01-30 Thread Paul Scott
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 06:30:53PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 03:39:20PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > > > >>Paul > > >What happend if you do: > > > > I have done these many times but I recently got and compiled a > > driver from

Re: Realtek 8185 chipset problem

2011-01-30 Thread Paul Scott
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 03:39:20PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > >>Paul > >What happend if you do: > > I have done these many times but I recently got and compiled a > driver from Realtek (from Wayne's suggestion). It isn't named > rtl8185 but r8185b. I thou

Re: Realtek 8185 chipset problem

2011-01-30 Thread Paul Scott
On 01/30/2011 01:06 PM, consul tores wrote: 2011/1/30 Paul Scott: On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 10:27:09AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sb, 29 ian 11, 19:02:38, Paul Scott wrote: I'm attaching a dmesg because this might help me get the Orinoco Silver working again for se

Re: Realtek 8185 chipset problem

2011-01-30 Thread Paul Scott
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 10:27:09AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sb, 29 ian 11, 19:02:38, Paul Scott wrote: > > >>I'm attaching a dmesg because this might help me get the Orinoco > > >>Silver working again for > > >>secured networks with a newer ker

Re: Realtek 8185 chipset problem

2011-01-29 Thread Paul Scott
On 01/29/2011 06:10 PM, Wayne Topa wrote: On 01/29/2011 07:40 PM, Paul Scott wrote: On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 02:01:49PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 03:02:20PM -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: On Sat, 29 Jan 2011 14:23:54 -0500 (EST), Paul Scott wrote: I must leave for a

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