Re: RECOMMEND: Wireless Home Router with VPN Built-In

2016-04-26 Thread Petter Adsen
On Mon, 25 Apr 2016 17:46:31 -0700 Patrick Bartek wrote: > On Mon, 25 Apr 2016, Lars Noodén wrote: > > > On 04/25/2016 05:01 AM, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > Hi! all, > > > > > > Toying with the idea of setting up a personal, that is, > > > non-business, VPN for a device or two for those rare

Re: Changing Boot Order

2016-03-26 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sat, 26 Mar 2016 12:11:22 -0400 Alan McConnell wrote: > I am taking up a lot of message time here. But my question is a > very simple one: can one, after booting, and as root, change the > BIOS so that the machine will boot from a DVD if one is present, > or from a USB thumb device, if one is

Re: ZFS on Debian GNU/Linux

2016-02-29 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sun, 28 Feb 2016 20:22:37 -0800 David Christensen wrote: > On 02/28/2016 02:40 AM, Saša Janiška wrote: > > I'd like to use zfs, but, it's still lacks proper distro support to > > fiddle with it. > > I believe the crux issue is incompatible licenses between Linux (GPL) > and OpenZFS (CDDL

Re: Verify packages?

2016-02-26 Thread Petter Adsen
On Fri, 26 Feb 2016 11:42:07 +0100 Hans wrote: > Hello list, > > is there an easy way to verify installed packages against the repo? > > I want to secure, that my installed files are still the same as those > in the repo. > > Can I use apt or aptitude? 'sudo dpkg --verify' will tell you what

Re: iceape availability

2016-02-25 Thread Petter Adsen
On Thu, 25 Feb 2016 16:32:47 +0800 Bret Busby wrote: > Is there a way (a switch for the apt-get command?) to download all of > the dependencies? I have looked at man apt-get, and, that has an > option "download" (as opposed to install or find), but I could not > find, from the man entry for apt-g

Re: Stretch color scheme problems

2016-02-18 Thread Petter Adsen
On Tue, 16 Feb 2016 09:22:10 -0800 Gary Roach wrote: > On 02/15/2016 09:59 PM, Adam Wilson wrote: > > On Mon, 15 Feb 2016 17:39:26 -0800 Gary Roach > > wrote: > > > >> Ever since I switch to Stretch I have been having a problem with > >> the color scheme of various applications. I get a lot of

Re: AR9285 identified as AR5008

2016-02-09 Thread Petter Adsen
On Tue, 9 Feb 2016 05:17:03 -0500 German wrote: > Another question. How we can say for sure that ath5k is loaded for > AR5008? I looked in database of supported hardware for ath5k and > couldn't find AR5008. Thanks 'lspci -k' will tell you what kernel module is loaded for each device. Petter -

Re: How to build Debian-based wireless router

2016-01-22 Thread Petter Adsen
On Thu, 21 Jan 2016 21:19:54 -0800 GC wrote: > There's a lot of great tutorials on how to build your own router > (wired) but I can't seem to find anything that covers steps on how to > build your own wireless router? Anyone have some advice on this topic > or can share some articles, step-by-ste

Re: Looking for Linux-friendly PCI Express 2.0 x1 host bus adapter internal SATA 6 Gbps

2016-01-04 Thread Petter Adsen
On Mon, 4 Jan 2016 22:17:27 -0800 David Christensen wrote: > On 01/04/2016 09:36 PM, Brandon Vincent wrote: > > If you want a high end card, go with LSI. If you're looking for > > something at a consumer price point, any card from StarTech is a > > good starting point. Most of these cards use AHC

Re: Attempt to Move Root

2016-01-01 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sun, 27 Dec 2015 10:07:13 -0500 Gene Heskett wrote: > I made the mistake of trying to install a wheezy derivitive on a 2T > drive that had been prepared using GPT partitions. The installer > could not see them at all, so after 2 tries, I just let it go ahead > and do its own partitioning and

Re: POP3 was: Re: command not found [SOLVED]

2015-12-18 Thread Petter Adsen
On Fri, 18 Dec 2015 11:07:57 -0500 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 18 December 2015 10:19:46 Petter Adsen wrote: > > If you want to try setting up a Dovecot server, there are lots of > > good tutorials and other docs out there. I can probably dig up > > links to the pages

Re: POP3 was: Re: command not found [SOLVED]

2015-12-18 Thread Petter Adsen
On Fri, 18 Dec 2015 09:31:45 -0500 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 18 December 2015 05:32:01 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > Having just by implication been told by someone that only muggles, > > lusers and/or dinosaurs use POP3, how many others of us will admit > > to it? (For the avoidance of doubt, I us

Re: Scrolling problem, all apps.

2015-12-16 Thread Petter Adsen
On Wed, 16 Dec 2015 20:35:15 -0600 Dennis Wicks wrote: > Greetings; > > I am running Jessie and XFCE. > > I have a continuing problem with scrolling that occurs with > all programs/applications. > > I am used to clicking in the scroll bar to move it a page, > more or less. Now it jumps all t

Re: no response from listmaster

2015-12-14 Thread Petter Adsen
On Mon, 14 Dec 2015 13:31:06 + (UTC) Steve Kleene wrote: > What I like about my existing setup is that all of my mail gets > deposited locally on my machine. I can read most (but no longer all) > of the text with a simple "mail" from the command line. This is the > easiest way to read and a

Re: SATA HD hotplug "Authentication is required"

2015-11-29 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sun, 29 Nov 2015 12:08:04 -0300 Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: > On Sun, 29 Nov 2015 15:34:05 +0100 > Petter Adsen wrote: > > > > I have just added an eSATA outlet on my box; when I plug in a SATA > > > disk, it is visible in gparted, its label is displayed in

Re: SATA HD hotplug "Authentication is required"

2015-11-29 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sun, 29 Nov 2015 11:20:01 -0300 Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: > I have just added an eSATA outlet on my box; when I plug in a SATA > disk, it is visible in gparted, its label is displayed in the Places > column of PCManfm, but when I click on it I get an error > "Authentication is required". >

Re: Xorg replaces TTY1

2015-11-27 Thread Petter Adsen
On Fri, 27 Nov 2015 18:08:51 +1300 Chris Bannister wrote: > On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 06:54:34PM +, Brian wrote: > > For many readers (diligent or otherwise), isn't this a matter of > > updated documentation and re-education. There are still users (an > > example is in this thread) who believe

Re: Prob activating Samba

2015-11-23 Thread Petter Adsen
On Mon, 23 Nov 2015 11:59:35 -0300 Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: > Trying to activate Samba with chkconfig, I get: > > root@ron:/home/ron # chkconfig –add smb 5 ^ >chkconfig -a|--add [names] ^^ Try adding another hyphen. Petter --

Re: smartphone forum for the technically-oriented

2015-10-18 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sat, 17 Oct 2015 16:29:31 -0500 rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > On Sat, October 17, 2015 3:22 pm, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > > No problem! > > I have the first generation EeePC, which I would happily give away, but > > I doubt you plan on visiting Sweden anytime soon? ;) > > Your offer is gracious

Re: fstab entry for a 3.6TB drive

2015-10-15 Thread Petter Adsen
On Fri, 16 Oct 2015 00:57:11 +0100 Sharon Kimble wrote: > Thanks Darac. > > This is what I've ended up doing - > > --8<---cut here---start->8--- > /dev/sdb1 /mnt/backa ext4defaults,nofail 0 2 > --8<---cut here---e

Re: Graphical tools for traffic analysis

2015-10-15 Thread Petter Adsen
On Tue, 13 Oct 2015 14:11:29 -0300 Daniel Bareiro wrote: > Hi all! > > I'd like to know your experience based on these tools and what you can > recommend me. > > Specifically I would like some sort of web tool to interact with Squid > and, moreover, have some graphical tool for graphics of band

Re: Please tipps for Desktop ( gnome, kde, xfce, etc. ) Debian 8 jessie and some minor issues

2015-10-11 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sat, 10 Oct 2015 15:31:11 +0200 Peter Berlau wrote: > WIFI HP Officejet 7500 driver hp-officejet_7500_e910 > prints fine, but i can not scan... xscanimage shows " wrong argument" > I did not know what this mean or > what i should do... Take a look here, there are some good suggestions on

Re: Broadcom 43121 wlan issue

2015-10-04 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sun, 4 Oct 2015 13:22:44 +0530 Himanshu Shekhar wrote: > I updated my system last night after which I was not able to use network on > my laptop. I tried to install ethernet driver as I had it locally but could > not make the wifi work. > Earlier the /lib/modules folder had 3.16* directory onl

Re: googleearth-package (jessie)

2015-10-03 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sat, 3 Oct 2015 00:21:44 -0500 rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > On Wed, September 30, 2015 1:08 am, Heracles wrote: > > I just installed Google-Earth using "synaptic" in Debian8 and it worked > > fine. It had to install a few other bits and pieces but as it did all the > > work I was fine with it.

Re: quality keyboards

2015-08-31 Thread Petter Adsen
On Mon, 31 Aug 2015 22:40:22 +0900 Joel Rees wrote: > On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 9:38 PM, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: > > Joel Rees writes: > > > > > > Say what? Since when does a keyboard need a firmware update? > > > > > > Hmm. Maybe the USB controller stuff, but still, ... > > > > Nope. Check t

Re: quality keyboards

2015-08-31 Thread Petter Adsen
On Mon, 31 Aug 2015 08:25:25 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 31 August 2015 07:04:22 Joel Rees wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 4:09 PM, wrote: > > > On Sun, August 30, 2015 8:49 pm, Martin Read wrote: > > >> Cherry still *are* (or at some point resumed) making mechanical > > >> keys

Re: quality keyboards

2015-08-31 Thread Petter Adsen
On Mon, 31 Aug 2015 20:15:44 +0900 Joel Rees wrote: > On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 6:52 PM, Petter Adsen wrote: > > The Windows software will also auto-update the firmware in the > > keyboard, > > Say what? Since when does a keyboard need a firmware update? > > Hmm. May

Re: quality keyboards

2015-08-31 Thread Petter Adsen
On Mon, 31 Aug 2015 09:45:03 +0200 "Gian Uberto Lauri" wrote: > Petter Adsen writes: > > On Mon, 31 Aug 2015 02:09:23 -0500 > > rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > > > How much do those things cost? Now that a keyboard can be had for $10 or > > > $15,

Re: quality keyboards

2015-08-31 Thread Petter Adsen
On Mon, 31 Aug 2015 02:09:23 -0500 rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > On Sun, August 30, 2015 8:49 pm, Martin Read wrote: > > Cherry still *are* (or at some point resumed) making mechanical > > keyswitches with a rated life in the tens of millions, and the Internet is > > full of mail-order vendors sell

Re: What pulls in the tray of my /dev/sr1 ?

2015-08-04 Thread Petter Adsen
On Tue, 04 Aug 2015 09:06:15 +0200 "Thomas Schmitt" wrote: > Hi, > > Stuart Longland wrote: > > Silly question, but why does re-loading a disc take more than 197 seconds? > > It comes out (intentionally) after a backup run is complete > and went well. (See man xorriso example "Incremental backu

Re: Browser with weak ciphers in testing ?

2015-07-26 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sat, 25 Jul 2015 20:03:59 +0200 Erwan David wrote: > To access some appliances/devices whose https console only knows weak > ciphers (but on a protected network), I need a browser accepting those > weak ciphers (less I go to each device with a serial cable to enable the > clear connection). >

Re: Music Player with Lyrics Capabilities.

2015-07-17 Thread Petter Adsen
On Fri, 17 Jul 2015 11:02:46 -0500 David Paulson wrote: > I am looking for a music player that has lyrics capabilities, specifically > be able to sync the lyrics with the song. It would also be nice if the > lyrics changed as the song changed. Any suggestions welcome. gmusicbrowser can grab lyri

Re: shutting off screen blanker forever?

2015-07-17 Thread Petter Adsen
On Thu, 16 Jul 2015 14:17:13 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote: > My atom boxes are using xfce I think. And I have studied up on xset, and > tried every combo that even looks suspicious in an effort to kill the > screen blanker once and for all. But I can't even do it for 10 minutes > in a row. > >

Re: writing to an external USB3 HD

2015-07-11 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sat, 11 Jul 2015 04:53:42 -0400 Gary Dale wrote: > Further to the issue, the problem is triggered by reading from the disk. > I can copy files onto the disk without problems but when I issue the cmp > command to compare the copy to the original, I get system error messages > and the drive va

Re: Using OpenVPN client with wicd

2015-07-08 Thread Petter Adsen
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 the

Re: Using OpenVPN client with wicd

2015-07-07 Thread Petter Adsen
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 of you has managed to do

Re: XFCE and screensavers

2015-07-07 Thread Petter Adsen
On Mon, 6 Jul 2015 14:06:40 -0700 Paul Zimmerman wrote: > Just a minor annoyance. Every time I install Debian with my favored > desktop environment, XFCE, I get a different result with the > screensaver. Not even between different versions. I can literally > install twice from the same install di

Re: setting up vsftpd

2015-07-04 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sat, 4 Jul 2015 15:45:05 -0700 wrote: > On Sat, 04 Jul 2015 13:55:36 +1000 > Alexis wrote: > > > > > bri...@aracnet.com writes: > > > > > just to recap. machine 1 :firewall. i can ftp into machine 2 > > > machine 2: no firewall. i cannot ftp into machine 1 > > > > > > i tried the iptable

Re: Light web browser for old PC

2015-06-30 Thread Petter Adsen
On Wed, 01 Jul 2015 07:21:56 +0100 Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Hi all the listers. > > I have an old Hyundai Notebook too slow for Gnome, in fact I > installed openbox as Window Manager in it and am happy with it and > think I'll be using it for good, so simple fast and essential as it > is. As web

Re: Slightly OT: SSD question

2015-06-29 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sun, 28 Jun 2015 20:16:58 +0300 Selim T. Erdoğan wrote: > On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 02:40:31PM +0200, Petter Adsen wrote: > > I know this isn't Debian-specific, but I hope someone can give me > > some useful information here anyway, or point me to a better place > >

Slightly OT: SSD question

2015-06-26 Thread Petter Adsen
I know this isn't Debian-specific, but I hope someone can give me some useful information here anyway, or point me to a better place to ask. My SSD is dead, and I need a new one. Samsung seems to be a generally recommended brand, but according to https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/e64f638483

Re: minidlan, GMPC and MPD

2015-06-25 Thread Petter Adsen
On Tue, 23 Jun 2015 18:18:56 +0200 notoneofmy wrote: > On 15-06-23 6:12 PM, Proxy One wrote: > > What Debian version do you use? I writing from Wheezy box and I have > > just installed GMPC and gmpc-plugins. There is shout plugin and it can > > be activated. > I'm on Jessie. I spent an entire da

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-19 Thread Petter Adsen
On Fri, 19 Jun 2015 17:50:17 +0800 Bret Busby wrote: > I have attached a copy of the file from the Debian 6 installation. It's not loading neither the nouveau nor the nvidia driver, is one of them correctly installed, and is the kernel module loaded? For Squeeze, I simply do not know. There mig

Re: NFS on Raspberry Pi high load

2015-06-19 Thread Petter Adsen
On Fri, 19 Jun 2015 14:09:45 +0200 basti wrote: > The Problem is not the speed of 3 MB/s it's the load of 12 and more. > > On 19.06.2015 14:03, Sven Hartge wrote: > > basti wrote: > > > >> iotop show me a read speed around 3 MB/s, there is a Class 10 UHS card > >> (10-15 MB/s read, 9-5 MB/s wri

Re: I upgraded from jessie to stretch and messed up I used the dist-upgrade command....

2015-06-19 Thread Petter Adsen
On Fri, 19 Jun 2015 12:25:37 +0100 Michael Fothergill wrote: > > Do you have this package installed? What does "apt-cache policy > > linux-firmware-nonfree" say? > > > > ​It says unable to locate linux-firmware-nonfree > > ie it's not installed I guess That message means that apt-cache can't f

Re: I upgraded from jessie to stretch and messed up I used the dist-upgrade command....

2015-06-19 Thread Petter Adsen
On Fri, 19 Jun 2015 10:51:43 +0100 Michael Fothergill wrote: > > I'm running this chip with unstable and it boots fine. > > Looks like testing and unstable are on the same X.org currently, but > > unstable is using a newer kernel. > > > > Also I see something in dmesg about kaveri firmware

Re: Dlna client and backup

2015-06-19 Thread Petter Adsen
On Fri, 19 Jun 2015 11:22:36 +0200 Petter Adsen wrote: > Kodi/XBMC is both a server and a client, so you can use it in either > role. I run it on a Raspberry Pi as a media center, it isn't really > that big a drain on resources. If you only want to play music, I would > guess se

Re: Dlna client and backup

2015-06-19 Thread Petter Adsen
On Fri, 19 Jun 2015 10:27:33 +0200 notoneofmy wrote: > > > On 15-06-19 10:01 AM, Petter Adsen wrote: > >> > Just two quick question I hope to get help one. > >> > > >> > I've spent now weeks putting installing Jessie and solving > &g

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-19 Thread Petter Adsen
On Fri, 19 Jun 2015 16:23:03 +0800 Bret Busby wrote: > On 19/06/2015, Petter Adsen wrote: > > How do you determine that it doesn't detect the monitor? You can > > read through /var/log/Xorg.0.log, but it's easier to just run > > "xrandr" (when both scree

Re: Dlna client and backup

2015-06-19 Thread Petter Adsen
On Fri, 19 Jun 2015 09:45:16 +0200 notoneofmyseeds wrote: > Just two quick question I hope to get help one. > > I've spent now weeks putting installing Jessie and solving problems. > It makes sense to find a good backup and restore program. Ideally, > something that I can use to back up the ent

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-18 Thread Petter Adsen
On Fri, 19 Jun 2015 12:15:59 +0800 Bret Busby wrote: > I note also, that I used synaptic to remove all the nvidia stuff, from > the Debian 7 installation, and I removed the bumblebee stuff from that > installation, and reinstalled bumblebee on that installation, and the > Debian 7 installation als

Re: I upgraded from jessie to stretch and messed up I used the dist-upgrade command....

2015-06-18 Thread Petter Adsen
On Thu, 18 Jun 2015 14:11:19 +0100 Michael Fothergill wrote: > ​​Seeing an Xorg.0.log file from a normal boot would be good, plus the > complete dmesg output. > > Cheers, > Sven > > The ​ Xorg.0.log file is found here: > > http://paste.debian.net/237917/ [ 453.202] (II) [KMS] drm report mod

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-18 Thread Petter Adsen
On Thu, 18 Jun 2015 15:07:47 +0800 Bret Busby wrote: > On 18/06/2015, Petter Adsen wrote: > > > > > > > As to your problem with bumblebee, I think Optimus support is > > something that is fairly recent, and might well have come after > > Squeeze.

Re: I upgraded from jessie to stretch and messed up I used the dist-upgrade command....

2015-06-18 Thread Petter Adsen
On Thu, 18 Jun 2015 08:44:22 +0200 Petter Adsen wrote: > On Tue, 16 Jun 2015 23:09:31 +0100 > Michael Fothergill wrote: > > > On 16 June 2015 at 21:40, Sven Joachim wrote: > > > > > On 2015-06-16 21:41 +0200, Bob Proulx wrote: > > > > > > >

Re: I upgraded from jessie to stretch and messed up I used the dist-upgrade command....

2015-06-17 Thread Petter Adsen
On Tue, 16 Jun 2015 23:09:31 +0100 Michael Fothergill wrote: > On 16 June 2015 at 21:40, Sven Joachim wrote: > > > On 2015-06-16 21:41 +0200, Bob Proulx wrote: > > > > > Michael Fothergill wrote: > > >> (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. > > > > > > Note that it w

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-17 Thread Petter Adsen
On Thu, 18 Jun 2015 13:54:51 +0800 Bret Busby wrote: > On 16/06/2015, Ric Moore wrote: > > On 06/15/2015 12:39 PM, Bret Busby wrote: > > > >> Get:1 http://http.debian.net/debian/ squeeze/non-free > >> nvidia-kernel-dkms amd64 195.36.31-6squeeze2 [7,138 kB] > >> Fetched 7,138 kB in 12s (575 kB/s)

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-13 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sun, 14 Jun 2015 14:37:47 +0800 Bret Busby wrote: > IIn running Synaptic, and searching on the string nvidia, to find what > nvidia drivers are installed (as I do not know how else to find that > information, in Debian 6), I found the following two packages > installed; > > " > xserver-xorg-vi

Re: CUPS set-up for the 0.01%

2015-06-13 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sat, 13 Jun 2015 22:24:21 -0700 wrote: > On Sat, 13 Jun 2015 23:57:16 +0100 > Brian wrote: > > > On Sat 13 Jun 2015 at 12:16:29 -0700, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > > > > > form cupsd.conf > > > > > > Listen localhost:631 > > > Listen /var/run/cups/cups.sock > > > > Ok. > > > > > Listen 19

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-12 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sat, 13 Jun 2015 03:54:49 +0800 Bret Busby wrote: > On 13/06/2015, Bret Busby wrote: > > On 12/06/2015, Matthijs Wensveen > > wrote: > >> > >> > >> On 11-6-2015 7:13, Bret Busby wrote: > >>> On 11/06/2015, Ric Moore wrote: > On 06/10/2015 03:45 PM, Bret Busby wrote: > > On 11/06/20

Re: forum help

2015-06-11 Thread Petter Adsen
On Wed, 10 Jun 2015 23:03:14 +0100 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Wednesday 10 June 2015 21:46:29 bcp wrote: > > I didn't know quite where to send this. I was trying to get onto > > the forum to get hardware help. The problem is I recall neither my > > password nor my username, but the system still has

Re: combine key to output char with xmodmap

2015-06-11 Thread Petter Adsen
On Thu, 11 Jun 2015 00:09:00 +0200 Emanuel Berg wrote: > Sven Arvidsson writes: > > >> How can I change this line > >> > >> xmodmap -e 'keycode 66=0xe2' # rebind key: CAPS (66) -> â > >> (0xe2) > >> > >> so that doesn't happen on CAPS alone (66), but > >> instead (and only) on M-CAPS (her

Re: Nvidia vs AMD open source drivers

2015-06-11 Thread Petter Adsen
On Wed, 10 Jun 2015 20:02:38 +0200 Dan wrote: > On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 12:09 PM, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > > On Wed, 2015-06-10 at 04:45 -0400, Ric Moore wrote: > >> OK, for some cases ~it works~, but not ~all~ cases. So, enough > >> with the warm fuzzies, here's actual benchmark comparison. > >>

Re: Change for systemd the UUID of the home partition, how to?

2015-06-11 Thread Petter Adsen
On Thu, 11 Jun 2015 00:02:02 -0400 Ken Heard wrote: > On 2015-06-10 13:17, Don Armstrong wrote: > > On Tue, 09 Jun 2015, Ken Heard wrote: > >> After some research I found file /etc/crypttab which contains a > >> list of the UUIDs for encrypted partitions, /home in my case. I > >> thought it would

Re: adding network printer

2015-06-10 Thread Petter Adsen
On Wed, 10 Jun 2015 12:27:12 +0200 notoneofmy wrote: > On 15-06-09 8:15 PM, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > > Have you used this printer with lpd before? > > > > Everything I find on Google says it only speaks a proprietary > > protocol called bjnp. > > > > Which should be covered by the cups-backend-bjn

Re: Nvidia vs AMD open source drivers

2015-06-09 Thread Petter Adsen
On Wed, 10 Jun 2015 09:38:46 +0900 Man_Without_Clue wrote: > > > On Wednesday, 10 June, 2015 07:01 AM, Ric Moore wrote: > > On 06/09/2015 05:28 PM, Dan wrote: > >> Hi, > >> I would live to buy a workstation and install Jessie. I would like > >> to use the open source drivers for the graphic car

Re: debugging / logging udev?

2015-06-09 Thread Petter Adsen
On Tue, 09 Jun 2015 21:09:03 +0930 Arthur Marsh wrote: > I'm trying to track down what is going on with my eth0 interface not > coming up automatically on my amd64 machine with recent versions of > udev 219-10 or later, see: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=787364 > > Are t

Re: fluxbox: overriding style background color

2015-06-09 Thread Petter Adsen
On Mon, 08 Jun 2015 20:36:12 +0200 notoneofmy wrote: > On 15-06-08 6:08 PM, Siard wrote: > > AFAIK, you can do that in the style file, > > i.e. /usr/share/fluxbox/styles/Twice. > > > > In the last line, 'background.color: grey20', > > change 'grey20' to 'black'. > Can I do the same with xfce. >

Re: Autologin to X session (Debian 8)?

2015-06-08 Thread Petter Adsen
On Mon, 8 Jun 2015 17:48:11 +0200 Siard wrote: > Teemu Likonen: > > Nicolas George: > > > Someone recently suggested to use "nodm"; a quick test a few days > > > ago seems to indicate it still works. > > > > It works, indeed. Thanks. > > But how to log out with nodm?? After logging out, I get

Re: Moving server to new server with tar

2015-06-08 Thread Petter Adsen
On Mon, 8 Jun 2015 16:49:45 -0600 Bob Proulx wrote: > Lisi Reisz wrote: > > Bob Proulx wrote: > > > Every file. File by file. I liked this presentation and found it > > > quite interesting. > > > > > > http://marc.merlins.org/perso/linux/post_2014-01-06_My-Live-Upgrading-Many-Thousands-of-Serve

Re: I upgraded from jessie to stretch and messed up I used the dist-upgrade command....

2015-06-08 Thread Petter Adsen
On Mon, 8 Jun 2015 16:35:16 -0600 Bob Proulx wrote: > Michael Fothergill wrote: > > I can boot in recovery mode but if I do that as root if I run > > aptitude it doesn't download packages - I think there is no > > internet connection being made. > > That makes me think you are running NetworkMan

Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-08 Thread Petter Adsen
On Mon, 8 Jun 2015 16:54:09 +0800 Bret Busby wrote: > On 08/06/2015, Bret Busby wrote: > > On 08/06/2015, Petter Adsen wrote: > >> On Mon, 8 Jun 2015 16:10:23 +0800 > >> Bret Busby wrote: > >> > >>> On 27/05/2015, Patrick Bartek wrote: > >

Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-08 Thread Petter Adsen
On Mon, 8 Jun 2015 16:10:23 +0800 Bret Busby wrote: > On 27/05/2015, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > > > > > If it's enabled, CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE will halt X and all GUI stuff, > > and drop you to a terminal. Once you've installed the nVidia > > driver, etc., just type startx. > > > > B > > > >

Re: HELP- very slow download speeds

2015-06-05 Thread Petter Adsen
On Thu, 04 Jun 2015 16:44:53 -0700 Gary Roach wrote: > On 06/03/2015 11:55 PM, Petter Adsen wrote: > > Well, it's not shut down, as I just tried it and it works fine here. > > Maybe it was down, though, and you should try again? > > > > If it still doesn'

Re: Jessie Mate - a GUI user admin tool?

2015-06-04 Thread Petter Adsen
On Thu, 04 Jun 2015 02:14:36 -0500 Richard Owlett wrote: > With Gnome2 under Squeeze there was a users administration tool under > System->Administration->Users and Groups . > > Is there such a tool available for Mate under Jessie? I know this isn't what you're asking for, but you could have a

Re: HELP- very slow download speeds

2015-06-03 Thread Petter Adsen
On Wed, 03 Jun 2015 09:41:49 -0700 Gary Roach wrote: > On 05/25/2015 11:16 PM, Petter Adsen wrote: > > iperf will use either TCP or UDP. :) > > > > Petter > > > Well, I'm back > > I used iperf3 as follows: > iperf3 -c iperf.scottlinux.com

Re: Problems with SSD

2015-06-03 Thread Petter Adsen
On Tue, 2 Jun 2015 18:36:43 +0300 Selim T. Erdoğan wrote: > On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 11:18:35AM +0200, Petter Adsen wrote: > > > > This just in: > > [12675.977977] ata5: hard resetting link > > [12680.979063] ata4: softreset failed (1st FIS failed) > > [12680.

Re: Problems with SSD

2015-06-03 Thread Petter Adsen
On Tue, 02 Jun 2015 13:46:55 -0400 Gary Dale wrote: > On 30/05/15 02:17 AM, Petter Adsen wrote: > > On Fri, 29 May 2015 13:18:17 -0600 > > Bob Proulx wrote: > > > >> Jochen Spieker wrote: > >>> Petter Adsen: > >>>> I'm starting to su

Re: Iceweasel slow to freeze

2015-06-02 Thread Petter Adsen
On Tue, 02 Jun 2015 09:11:49 +0200 notoneofmy wrote: > Anyone here having serious issues with Iceweasel in Jessie. > > I went to install some addons and the computer froze. Had to restart. > > At other times, the browser had done same; cause the computer to > freeze. Are you sure it is Iceweas

Re: Old Computers

2015-06-01 Thread Petter Adsen
On Mon, 01 Jun 2015 23:39:15 -0400 Gary Dale wrote: > On 01/06/15 10:10 PM, Martin Read wrote: > > On 02/06/15 01:56, Jose Martinez wrote: > >> The question is, will jessie install and run on these old systems? > >> If not, can I still get a debian distro that will? I expect that > >> the proces

Re: Problems with SSD

2015-05-29 Thread Petter Adsen
On Fri, 29 May 2015 13:18:17 -0600 Bob Proulx wrote: > Jochen Spieker wrote: > > Petter Adsen: > > > I'm starting to suspect that it is. Either that, or the > > > controller on the motherboard, which would be even worse. > > > > Or just the cable (

Re: Problems with SSD

2015-05-29 Thread Petter Adsen
On Fri, 29 May 2015 11:04:09 +0200 Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Fri, 2015-05-29 at 09:08 +0200, Petter Adsen wrote: > > When I woke up this morning, one of my boxen had spewed out a ton of > > errors from one of my SSDs (the root drive), remounted read-only, > > and wen

Problems with SSD

2015-05-29 Thread Petter Adsen
When I woke up this morning, one of my boxen had spewed out a ton of errors from one of my SSDs (the root drive), remounted read-only, and went into a kernel panic. After rebooting everything seems fine, though. I've ran a SMART long test, but as I found out the SMART error log is not supported on

Re: weird problem with one mail account in Thunderbird....ISP or what ?

2015-05-28 Thread Petter Adsen
On Fri, 29 May 2015 08:31:49 +0200 Petter Adsen wrote: > On Thu, 28 May 2015 09:21:05 -0400 > Frank wrote: > > > On 05/28/2015 02:44 AM, Emil Payne wrote: > > > On 05/27/2015 10:16 PM, Charlie wrote: > > >> On Wed, 27 May 2015 21:06:10 -0400 Frank s

Re: weird problem with one mail account in Thunderbird....ISP or what ?

2015-05-28 Thread Petter Adsen
On Thu, 28 May 2015 09:21:05 -0400 Frank wrote: > On 05/28/2015 02:44 AM, Emil Payne wrote: > > On 05/27/2015 10:16 PM, Charlie wrote: > >> On Wed, 27 May 2015 21:06:10 -0400 Frank sent: > >> > >>> When I went into Thunderbird at mid-day one of my accounts with my > >>> ISP Videotron.ca registere

Re: strange booting behavior

2015-05-27 Thread Petter Adsen
On Wed, 27 May 2015 15:50:12 + gofloss gofloss wrote: > ok, i have more data. i am still going crazy trying to get it to > boot. > > first, what does "cryptopts=source=" in the error message? what > does "-r" mean? > > Check cryptopts=source= bootarg:cat/proc/command line or > missing

Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-05-27 Thread Petter Adsen
On Wed, 27 May 2015 10:50:25 +0200 Nicolas George wrote: > L'octidi 8 prairial, an CCXXIII, Petter Adsen a écrit : > > Well, then I would expect something like "sudo pkill gdm" might > > work. > > Closing services cleanly would be better advice. > >

Re: screenshot translation 搜索??

2015-05-27 Thread Petter Adsen
On Wed, 27 May 2015 16:36:15 +0800 mudongliang wrote: > > > On 05/27/2015 03:45 PM, Petter Adsen wrote: > > On Wed, 27 May 2015 15:19:46 +0800 > > mudongliang wrote: > > > >> I have a small translation problem about Debian Chinese Edition! > >> In

Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-05-27 Thread Petter Adsen
On Wed, 27 May 2015 16:33:01 +0800 Bret Busby wrote: > On 27/05/2015, Petter Adsen wrote: > > On Wed, 27 May 2015 16:15:36 +0800 > > Bret Busby wrote: > >> Or, is a way available, without causing damage, that I can do > >> something like go to a console () a

Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-05-27 Thread Petter Adsen
On Wed, 27 May 2015 16:15:36 +0800 Bret Busby wrote: > Or, is a way available, without causing damage, that I can do > something like go to a console () and turn off, from > there, the xserver, so as to enable the installation? It depends on what display manager you are using, if it is for exampl

Re: screenshot translation 搜索??

2015-05-27 Thread Petter Adsen
On Wed, 27 May 2015 15:19:46 +0800 mudongliang wrote: > I have a small translation problem about Debian Chinese Edition! > In preference -> keyboard->shortcut, Screenshot is translated to > "搜索" (Chinese),I don't know why it is translated to this word? > mudongliang If you think the translation

Re: IP performance question

2015-05-27 Thread Petter Adsen
On Tue, 26 May 2015 18:18:15 +0300 Reco wrote: > On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 12:42:50PM +0200, Petter Adsen wrote: > > And even worse, after starting to mess with this, browsing is > > _abysmal_. After taking a few speed tests online (speed.io etc), > > upload/download and ping

Re: Backup services and Debian

2015-05-27 Thread Petter Adsen
On Tue, 26 May 2015 19:26:12 -0300 Daniel Bareiro wrote: > Hi, Petter. > > On 26/05/15 19:07, Daniel Bareiro wrote: > > > You could try Bacula. You could also use Dirvish, although it does > > not running as a service, it gives good results. It works with > > rsync and optimize disk space usage

Re: Laptops, UEFI, Secure Boot and Debian

2015-05-26 Thread Petter Adsen
On Tue, 26 May 2015 11:18:00 +0200 Petter Adsen wrote: > Second, virtual machines these days are incredibly easy to set up and > use. Steve Litt posted a link to an introductory article on qemu/KVM > here very recently, I suggest that as a starting point. There is a Sorry about that,

Re: IP performance question

2015-05-26 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sun, 24 May 2015 15:53:17 +0300 Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Sun, 24 May 2015 13:26:52 +0200 > Petter Adsen wrote: > > > > On Sun, 24 May 2015 11:28:36 +0200 > > > Petter Adsen wrote: > > > > > > > > On Sun,

Re: IP performance question

2015-05-26 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sun, 24 May 2015 16:01:41 +0300 Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Sun, 24 May 2015 13:47:48 +0200 > Petter Adsen wrote: > > > On Sun, 24 May 2015 13:26:52 +0200 > > Petter Adsen wrote: > > > Thanks to you, I now get ~880Mbps, which is a lot better. It seems &

Re: Laptops, UEFI, Secure Boot and Debian

2015-05-26 Thread Petter Adsen
On Tue, 26 May 2015 16:58:05 +0800 Bret Busby wrote: > On 26/05/2015, Petter Adsen wrote: > > On Tue, 26 May 2015 12:23:25 +0800 > > Bret Busby wrote: > > > >> On 26/05/2015, Stuart Longland wrote: > >> > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >

Backup services and Debian

2015-05-26 Thread Petter Adsen
I'm still messing with trying to get a good backup routine, and I'm (slowly) coming to the conclusion that other people are better at it than I am, and I need a way to store data remotely anyway. Right now, I'm testing AltDrive on an Ubuntu machine. They have a Java client (which I'm not too happy

Re: yaboot: How to load Debian8 netboot installation images directly from the boot: prompt?

2015-05-26 Thread Petter Adsen
On Tue, 26 May 2015 14:17:13 +0800 clarkw wrote: > On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 2:09 PM, Petter Adsen wrote: > > > On Tue, 26 May 2015 13:16:04 +0800 > > Clark Wang wrote: > > > > > On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 1:10 PM, Herminio Hernandez Jr < > &g

Re: Systemd for dummies

2015-05-25 Thread Petter Adsen
On Mon, 25 May 2015 19:07:07 -0700 Gary Roach wrote: > I upgraded to Jessie recently and lost my BackupPC setup and my > rsyncd setup. I found that both succumbed to the change over from > inet.d to Systemd. None of the documentation mentions anything about > systemd setup. I found some script fo

Re: HELP- very slow download speeds

2015-05-25 Thread Petter Adsen
On Mon, 25 May 2015 18:53:42 -0700 Gary Roach wrote: > On 05/24/2015 12:49 AM, Petter Adsen wrote: > > On Sun, 24 May 2015 00:27:02 -0700 > > Gary Roach wrote: > > > >> On 05/22/2015 01:19 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > >>> Darac Marjal wrote: > >>&

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