Problems with TV card "TeVii S472"

2015-11-13 Thread Hendrik Oenings
; [8.47] cx23885_dev_checkrevision() Hardware revision = 0xa5 > [8.422230] cx23885[0]/0: found at :03:00.0, rev: 4, irq: 19, > latency: 0, mmio: 0xf7c0 > $ dmesg | grep ds3103 > $ dmesg | grep ts2020 The firmware (dvb-fe-ds3103.fw) was copied to /lib/firmware. Regards, Hendrik

Re: Laptops, UEFI, Secure Boot and Debian

2015-08-13 Thread Hendrik Boom
esktop users, although I'm unable to back that up. For those of us > who prefer to build their own machines, I think it will be much less of > a problem. everything about compatibility having to do with laptops is *always* more of a problem than desktops. -- hendrik

Re: Cheap way to track disk usage?

2015-03-03 Thread Hendrik Boom
. Can do something similar with du and xdu. The output of du can diverted to a file, running overnight, and then afterward, xdu can take it as input ad display it nicely. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubs

Looking for document and file organisation tools

2015-03-03 Thread Hendrik Boom
that *should* exist but currently don't? I'm ready to experiment. -- hendrik -- 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/md4q33$ib1$1...@ger.gmane.org

Re: replacing boot and only disk drive

2014-11-30 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, 23 Nov 2014 13:17:24 -0800, seeker5528 wrote: > On 11/23/2014 12:03 PM, Doug wrote: >> Yes, grub can boot Windows _just fine_ if Windows is bootable. Windows >> wants to be "activated" and I found that GParted's activation does not >> suffice.That's why I mentioned obtaining a program to a

random bits in badblocks

2014-11-30 Thread Hendrik Boom
each block get its own randomly chosen data, presumably generated by a pseudorandom generator so as to catch bad seeks? In this case, is the seed always the same, so I could take a disk I wrote on with -t random and check it next week, the computer being off in between? -- hendrik -- To U

Re: replacing boot and only disk drive

2014-11-23 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, 22 Nov 2014 18:38:41 -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 11:29:20PM +0000, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> I have a laptop (an old Asus EEEPC), and I need to replace its only >> disk drive with a larger one. The hardware aspects are easy -- keep >> static elect

Re: replacing boot and only disk drive

2014-11-23 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, 23 Nov 2014 12:14:25 +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Pascal Hambourg a écrit : >> Hendrik Boom a écrit : >> >>> Unless the MBR or something related to it contains information about >>> the size of the entire disk, which will now be wrong. >> >

Re: replacing boot and only disk drive

2014-11-22 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, 23 Nov 2014 00:45:38 +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Gary Dale a écrit : >> On 22/11/14 06:29 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: >>> >>> And it's not hard to copy the file systems, either. I can temporarily >>> access the new drive using a USB adaptor. fd

Re: replacing boot and only disk drive

2014-11-22 Thread Hendrik Boom
Linux disk to get back to that. It's > all a pain, but it's doable. > (I'm thinking of doing the same basic thing myself, to put a SSD in my > laptop.) > Good luck! > --doug Where does Windows keep its boot information, anyway? -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: replacing boot and only disk drive

2014-11-22 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, 22 Nov 2014 23:29:20 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > I have a laptop (an old Asus EEEPC), and I need to replace its only disk > drive with a larger one. The hardware aspects are easy -- keep static > electricity away and use a screwdriver. I have the new drive on my desk

replacing boot and only disk drive

2014-11-22 Thread Hendrik Boom
rive even though when that gets used it will be in a different electronic location on the machine. (it'll be /dev/sda instead of /dev/sdb) What are the gotchas that are easy to get wrong in an operation like this? -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.

systemd-free alternatives are not off topic.

2014-11-22 Thread Hendrik Boom
e viable, whether default or not, and whether there are packages taht cannot run without it. But it is absurd to say that discussing these real problems faced by Debian users, and their potential remedies, is off topic in the debian- user mailing list. There are lots of topics on this list that ar

Re: Has the systemd fork already happened?

2014-11-09 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, 09 Nov 2014 20:27:56 +, Brian wrote: > On Sun 09 Nov 2014 at 18:19:21 +0000, Hendrik Boom wrote: > >> On Sun, 09 Nov 2014 14:40:47 +, Brian wrote: >> >> > On Sun 09 Nov 2014 at 14:04:59 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> > >> &

Re: Has the systemd fork already happened?

2014-11-09 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, 09 Nov 2014 14:40:47 +, Brian wrote: > On Sun 09 Nov 2014 at 14:04:59 +0000, Hendrik Boom wrote: > >> I just encountered a link about refracta. >> >> Refracta would appear to be rather close to Debian testing. Its home >> page is http://www.ibiblio

Has the systemd fork already happened?

2014-11-09 Thread Hendrik Boom
body know more? Does it use Debian's repositories? Are there any other forks? -- hendrik -- 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/m3nsab$cit$2...@ger.gmane.org

Re: forks, derivatives, other distros - what are you thinking/doing

2014-11-09 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, 09 Nov 2014 14:22:46 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 09 nov 14, 04:05:56, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> >> I've started to have trouble mounting the NTFS partition on my machine >> from Linux. No problem doing this in Windows, of course. I used to be >>

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-08 Thread Hendrik Boom
as Debian-based Refracta which just posted > a systemd-free 'Proto-Refracta Jessie with sysvinit' iso (without > libsystemd0): Does Refracta mean that the long-wanted systemd0free Debian for is a reality? -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian

Re: Joey Hess is out?

2014-11-08 Thread Hendrik Boom
a San > Francisco sort of thing. Possibly a Montreal thing, too. But despite being a Montrealer, the originally intended meaning of 'out' was still at the top of my mind. Here we too say, 'I'm out' as a statement of nonparticipation. Or possibly winning or los

Re: How *not* to concatenate my domain name?

2014-11-08 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, 08 Nov 2014 20:05:05 +, Joe wrote: > On Sat, 8 Nov 2014 18:49:50 + (UTC) > Hendrik Boom wrote: > >> When I do a web search from my laptop, connected via wifi to my server >> and then too the rest of the world, if it for any reason fails to find, >> sa

Re: forks, derivatives, other distros - what are you thinking/doing

2014-11-08 Thread Hendrik Boom
ctions still told me to use floppy disks. Remember those days? > 3.What other options/initiatives are you aware of that you've discarded or > otherwise are not considering, and why? I'm not going back to Windows, OS/2, or DOS. Except maybe in emulation for really ancient lega

Re: Multiple desktops in lightdm? -- SOLVED

2014-11-08 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, 06 Nov 2014 10:15:51 +, Brian wrote: > On Thu 06 Nov 2014 at 11:14:58 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > >> On Jo, 06 nov 14, 03:58:13, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> > >> > I want to be able to log on multiple times, simultaneously, to the >> > same machi

Re: How *not* to concatenate my domain name?

2014-11-08 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, Nov 09, 2014 at 04:57:57AM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: > 2014/11/09 3:50 "Hendrik Boom" : > > > > When I do a web search from my laptop, connected via wifi to my server > > and then too the rest of the world, if it for any reason fails to find, > > say, a

How *not* to concatenate my domain name?

2014-11-08 Thread Hendrik Boom
already containing a dot)? I'm running a jessie system with systemv init and systemd-shim, in case it matters. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: Multiple desktops in lightdm?

2014-11-05 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, 04 Nov 2014 14:19:52 -0500, Gary Dale wrote: > On 03/11/14 11:20 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> I've been using lightdm, and it more or less works. >> >> About a decade ago, on another ancient Linux, I could get multiple >> desktops, selected by ctl-alt-f7 th

Re: Browser font size selection for printer -- SOLVED, but I'd llike to understand.

2014-11-04 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, 04 Nov 2014 03:02:03 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > I cannot get chrome or chromium (or Iceweaasel either) to print a web > page in a twelve-point font on my laser printer. It insists on using a > font that's about twice the size. Well, let me apologize for even posting tha

Multiple desktops in lightdm?

2014-11-03 Thread Hendrik Boom
good, actually; they don't have to all be there at boot. In case it makes a difference, I'm running squeeze with the traditional sysv init. I use icewm and fvwm as window managers and do not run gnome or kde. Not that some of those libraries aren't there anyway. -- hendrik

Browser font size selection for printer

2014-11-03 Thread Hendrik Boom
nt is destroying my page layout (which looks perfectly OK in the browser itself). I can adjust text size on the screen with control-plus and control- minus, but there sees to be no way to do this for printer output. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debia

Persistent hash sum mismatch in aptitude

2014-10-14 Thread Hendrik Boom
[+14], 15048 new [+7]. Notice that this happens with *two* mirrors. Is there something I should do to stop this? Is it even something to worry about? My subsequent safe-upgrades seem to work just fine. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a su

wifi password problem solved, or at least, worked around.

2014-10-06 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, 28 Sep 2014 21:28:35 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > Near the beginning of September, I reported suddenly being unable to > connect to wifi in coffee shops. Around the same time, I has done a > routine upgrade to my jessie system; I do this every week or two. > > Ever

Re: Wifi works again. Should I post bug reports?

2014-10-06 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, 06 Oct 2014 12:35:39 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 06 oct 14, 01:40:23, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> >> Against network manager and wifi radar that they should warn the >> sysadmin on installation or upgrade that there will be a permissions >> problem, and w

Re: Wifi works again. Should I post bug reports?

2014-10-05 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, 08 Sep 2014 22:13:52 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > After the last time I did a routine safe-upgrade in jessie, my ASUS > 1000HE no longer connects to wifi after a reboot and login. Presumably > something is wrong with the network manater. What it tells me after I > log in

Still no wifi passwords after routine Jessie upgrade.

2014-09-28 Thread Hendrik Boom
del number correctly. it was the first ASUS netbook to require no proprietary drivers at all; ironically, it was available only with Windows preinstalled). It has performed well for years. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of &q

Re: Restricted wifi after routine jessie upgrade

2014-09-11 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, 09 Sep 2014 00:28:41 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Tue, 09 Sep 2014 00:05:56 +0000, Hendrik Boom wrote: > >> On Tue, 09 Sep 2014 01:37:33 +0200, B wrote: >> >>> On Mon, 8 Sep 2014 23:21:05 + (UTC) >>> Hendrik Boom wrote: >>> &g

Re: Restricted wifi after routine jessie upgrade

2014-09-08 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, 09 Sep 2014 03:02:24 +0200, B wrote: > On Tue, 9 Sep 2014 00:28:41 + (UTC) > Hendrik Boom wrote: > >> Well, wifi-radar is available as a Debian package (though I can't find >> a wifi-supplicant package), and I found the wifi-radar wiki, so I >> su

Re: Restricted wifi after routine jessie upgrade

2014-09-08 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, 09 Sep 2014 03:00:04 +0200, B wrote: > On Tue, 9 Sep 2014 00:33:01 + (UTC) > Hendrik Boom wrote: > >> Is it likely to be a systemd problem? Would it help to uninstall >> gnome? > > I was kidding (as systemd devs have the same dick heads as the gno

Re: Restricted wifi after routine jessie upgrade

2014-09-08 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, 09 Sep 2014 02:24:29 +0200, B wrote: > On Tue, 9 Sep 2014 00:05:56 + (UTC) > Hendrik Boom wrote: > >> Not quite true, it seems. Now that I'm back at home, it connects to my >> home wifi just fine. So it looks as if I have trouble only when I want &g

Re: Restricted wifi after routine jessie upgrade

2014-09-08 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, 09 Sep 2014 00:05:56 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Tue, 09 Sep 2014 01:37:33 +0200, B wrote: > >> On Mon, 8 Sep 2014 23:21:05 +0000 (UTC) >> Hendrik Boom wrote: >> >>> I can't connect to wifi at all. > > Not quite true, it seems.

Re: Restricted wifi after routine jessie upgrade

2014-09-08 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, 09 Sep 2014 01:37:33 +0200, B wrote: > On Mon, 8 Sep 2014 23:21:05 + (UTC) > Hendrik Boom wrote: > >> I can't connect to wifi at all. Not quite true, it seems. Now that I'm back at home, it connects to my home wifi just fine. So it looks as if I have

Re: Suddenly no wifi after routine jessie upgrade -- further details

2014-09-08 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, 08 Sep 2014 22:13:52 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > After the last time I did a routine safe-upgrade in jessie, my ASUS > 1000HE no longer connects to wifi after a reboot and login. Presumably > something is wrong with the network manater. What it tells me after I > log in

Suddenly no wifi after routine jessie upgrade

2014-09-08 Thread Hendrik Boom
password is all it uses. This has worked smoothly for over a year now. -- hendrik -- 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/lul9n0$1hr$1...@ger.gmane.org

Re: IPV6 dns server running on IPV4 Connection??

2014-09-04 Thread Hendrik Boom
ISPs) are still > using IPV4 only, and will not be able to access your site. > > Jerry There's a company I heard of a few years ago that provides IPv6-over-IPv3 tunnelling. I think it's called Hurricane Electric. Look it up, see if it fits your needs. -- hendrik -

out-of-date libtool in a former Debian package.

2014-09-04 Thread Hendrik Boom
s. But that's for the (far?) uture. -- hendrik -- 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/lub4np$u6v$1...@ger.gmane.org

Re: The case of the read-only USB sticks.

2014-07-04 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, 22 Feb 2014 17:18:11 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Sat, 22 Feb 2014 16:38:34 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > >> On Sb, 22 feb 14, 14:33:24, Hendrik Boom wrote: >>> I have a problem with my USB sticks mysteriously becoming read-only. >> >> You didn

Re: asciidoc and emacs

2014-06-23 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 19:50:31 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > The package emacs-goodies-el contains markdown-mode, which is for > editing markdown files. > > Has anything analogous been packaged foe asciidoc instead? > > If not, there seems to be an asciidoc.el file at > htt

asciidoc and emacs

2014-06-23 Thread Hendrik Boom
testing system where emacs will find it but it won't interfere with any of the filesystems that are managed by Debian's package manager? -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Chromium cannot access pages.

2014-06-23 Thread Hendrik Boom
rnal trouble rather that a problem with the source >> per se. > > At first blush, that reminds me of bug 751278, in which ld from the > currently-packaged binutils crashes fairly reliably under some > circumstances. > > This seems to be fixed in the binutils now in unstable, so

Chromium cannot access pages.

2014-06-17 Thread Hendrik Boom
, too. Even the 'about chromium' page fails to display, so it won't tell me what version of chromium I'm using. Aptitude tells me it's version 35.0.1916.153-1. Running chromium from a shell tells me: hendrik@notlookedfor:~$ chromium [4810:4834:0617/075836:ERROR:nss_ut

Re: Third-Party Software Needs Non-Debian Format for Kernel Version

2014-02-22 Thread Hendrik Boom
gt; might get a kernel which will boot but nothing will run, for instance. When you install your custom kernel, make sure you keep an old kernel around, just in case. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

Re: The case of the read-only USB sticks.

2014-02-22 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, 22 Feb 2014 16:38:34 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Sb, 22 feb 14, 14:33:24, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> I have a problem with my USB sticks mysteriously becoming read-only. > > You didn't provide any information about make, model, size, > partitioning, file systems,

The case of the read-only USB sticks.

2014-02-22 Thread Hendrik Boom
d any luck. I have no idea if their experience has any relevance. -- hendrik -- 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/leacfk$g51$1...@ger.gmane.org

Re: images that play nicely with revision control?

2014-02-10 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, 10 Feb 2014 16:42:57 -0900, Mark Neyhart wrote: > On 02/09/2014 03:28 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> I'm looking for a file format for images that plays nicely with >> revision control. Ideally I'd like to edit them while seeing what I'm >> editing, whethe

Re: images that play nicely with revision control?

2014-02-10 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, 09 Feb 2014 10:47:11 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > Hendrik Boom wrote: >> I'm looking for a file format for images that plays nicely with >> revision control. Ideally I'd like to edit them while seeing what I'm >> editing, whether it's a li

Re: images that play nicely with revision control?

2014-02-09 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, 09 Feb 2014 10:47:11 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > Hendrik Boom wrote: >> I'm looking for a file format for images that plays nicely with >> revision control. Ideally I'd like to edit them while seeing what I'm >> editing, whether it's a li

Re: images that play nicely with revision control?

2014-02-09 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, 09 Feb 2014 08:07:57 -0500, Henning Follmann wrote: > On Sun, Feb 09, 2014 at 12:28:45PM +0000, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> I'm looking for a file format for images that plays nicely with >> revision control. Ideally I'd like to edit them while seeing what I'm &

images that play nicely with revision control?

2014-02-09 Thread Hendrik Boom
format, or some such. I would definitely prefer not to write a whole new image editor from scratch. -- hendrik -- 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/ld7s9t$knr$1...@ger.gmane.org

Don't blame yourself. Re: Won't complete bootup (gdm3 problem?)

2013-12-08 Thread Hendrik Boom
There must be some way to choose a different window manager using .xinitrc or .xserverrc or something like that, but I don't know what it is. I used to, over a decade ago, when you *had* to hand-edit these files to survive. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@li

Re: mdadm gives segmentatin fault on wheezy. RAID array now incomplete.

2013-11-21 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, 10 Oct 2013 01:59:21 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Wed, 09 Oct 2013 10:59:48 -0600, Shane Johnson wrote: > >> On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 10:50 AM, Hendrik Boom >> wrote: >>> I ran >>> >>> mdadm /dev/md1 --add /dev/sdd2 >>> >&g

Circular initscript dependency prevents use of aptitude on wheezy

2013-11-21 Thread Hendrik Boom
#x27; missing LSB tags and overrides insserv: There is a loop between service mediatomb and modutils if stopped insserv: loop involving service modutils at depth 2 insserv: loop involving service mediatomb at depth 1 insserv: Stopping modutils depends on mediatomb and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true! insserv: exiting now without changing boot order! update-rc.d: error: insserv rejected the script header dpkg: error processing cups (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: samba initscripts cups Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Reading state information... Reading extended state information... Initializing package states... Reading task descriptions... -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/l6l8fu$hb6$1...@ger.gmane.org

Re: mdadm gives segmentatin fault on wheezy. RAID array now incomplete.

2013-10-09 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, 09 Oct 2013 10:59:48 -0600, Shane Johnson wrote: > On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 10:50 AM, Hendrik Boom > wrote: >> I ran >> >> mdadm /dev/md1 --add /dev/sdd2 >> >> and got a segmentation fault. >> >> >> april:/farhome/hendrik# cat /proc/mds

Re: Mail logs missing in wheezy

2013-10-09 Thread Hendrik Boom
-/var/log/lpr.log mail.* -/var/log/mail.log user.* -/var/log/user.log I can't find it mentioned in the man page for rsyslog.cong what the minus signs mean in front of the file names. -- hendrik > >

mdadm gives segmentatin fault on wheezy. RAID array now incomplete.

2013-10-09 Thread Hendrik Boom
I ran mdadm /dev/md1 --add /dev/sdd2 and got a segmentation fault. april:/farhome/hendrik# cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid1] md1 : active raid1 sdb2[1] 2391295864 blocks super 1.2 [2/1] [_U] md0 : active raid1 sda4[0] sdc4[1] 706337792 blocks [2/2] [UU] unused

Mail logs missing in wheezy

2013-10-01 Thread Hendrik Boom
zy changed the handling on the mail logs. I use postfix. Where have the mail logs moved to? Or is there some option I need to set to get them back? -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: NOT QUITE: headphones still don't work.

2013-09-17 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, 17 Sep 2013 17:32:50 +0100, Klaus wrote: > On 17/09/13 16:36, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> >> How *do* you do it? >> >> -- hendrik >> >> > Just learned something over on Lisi's thread :-) > On my system I get this: > > > $ am

Re: NOT QUITE: headphones still don't work.

2013-09-17 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, 17 Sep 2013 09:40:05 +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Hi Hendrik, > > Am Dienstag, 17. September 2013, 00:32:49 schrieb Hendrik Boom: >> On Tue, 17 Sep 2013 00:02:29 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> > On Mon, 16 Sep 2013 21:43:21 +0100, Klaus wrote: >> >&g

NOT QUITE: headphones still don't work.

2013-09-16 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, 17 Sep 2013 00:02:29 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Mon, 16 Sep 2013 21:43:21 +0100, Klaus wrote: > >> >> Can this be another instance of a muted Master switch? What do get for: >> >> $ amixer info >> $ amixer contents >> $ amixer scontents

Audio vanished with jessie

2013-09-16 Thread Hendrik Boom
nor in VLC. Neither paplay nor aplay give me any sound. The audio device is *Enabled* in the BIOS. What tests should I be performing to narrow down the problem. Or is this already a well-known bug in jessie? -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a sub

SUCCESS: though Audio vanished with jessie, it came back with alsamixer.

2013-09-16 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, 16 Sep 2013 21:43:21 +0100, Klaus wrote: > On 16/09/13 20:44, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> On Mon, 16 Sep 2013 20:40:01 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 17:33:39 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: >>>> It's an ASUS 1HE running je

Re: Audio vanished with jessie

2013-09-16 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, 16 Sep 2013 20:40:01 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > Are there any error messages when you start these applications from the > command line in an X terminal? What do you get from running > speaker-test? Running audacity: hendrik@notlookedfor:~$ audacity ALSA li

Re: Audio vanished with jessie

2013-09-16 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, 16 Sep 2013 20:40:01 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 17:33:39 +0000, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> It's an ASUS 1HE running jessie. >> >> Today sound wouldn't work, though it worked a few weeks ago. >> >> I won't sa

Re: Audio vanished with jessie

2013-09-16 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, 16 Sep 2013 18:44:49 +0100, Sharon Kimble wrote: > On Mon, 16 Sep 2013 17:33:39 + (UTC) > Hendrik Boom wrote: > >> It's an ASUS 1HE running jessie. >> >> Today sound wouldn't work, though it worked a few weeks ago. >> >> I

Slide viewer?

2013-08-22 Thread Hendrik Boom
aries, and versatile. Yes, I know, choose any two... I can google and get lists of viewers, such as http:// blends.alioth.debian.org/imaging/tasks/imageviewer, but that doesn't give me much insight from actual use. So, any recommendations? -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

OT: Sanskrit vs Latin (Was: Typing in bar characters (accented characters?)

2013-08-22 Thread Hendrik Boom
ed as a second language for communication), its important literature was written when it was already dead. Take that, Latin! -- hendrik P.S. Not to mention the alphabet. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

xfce on jessie has no icons on desktop

2013-08-17 Thread Hendrik Boom
Today, after I rebooted after an upgrade a day or two ago, suddenly there are no icons on my desktop in xfce. Usually it has a few filesystems and some random other things, but today it is blank. The menus are there as usual, though, so I can still use the thing. -- hendrik -- To

top menu and icon bar gets glued to mouse ponter in xfce..

2013-08-16 Thread Hendrik Boom
ly minimizes to a small bloc on the left edge). Moving my mouse back, without pressing buttons, and it expands and glues itself onto the mouse again. Anyone know a way to get it to top stalking the mouse pointer? -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.

Re: Deleting chromium DNS cache entry doesn't seem to help.

2013-08-06 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, 03 Aug 2013 16:29:06 -0500, Selim T. Erdogan wrote: > Hendrik Boom, 3.08.2013: >> >> Every other program on my laptop finds the right IP number for >> slashdot. >> It's just Chromium that doesn't. Even Chrome gets it right. Somewhere >>

Re: encrypted USB backup.

2013-08-03 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, 03 Jul 2013 01:03:39 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Tue, 02 Jul 2013 17:00:35 -0400, Rob Owens wrote: > >> - Original Message - >>> From: "Hendrik Boom" >>> >>> What is the recommended way to set up part of a USB volume as an

Re: Dotfiles

2013-08-03 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, 02 Jul 2013 23:20:31 -0400, shawn wilson wrote: > The point about mentioning browsers is that you don't generally look > there. The other point about browsers is that when I look at my home directory with firefox, the dotfiles take up most of the visual space. -- hendr

Re: Dotfiles

2013-08-03 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, 04 Jul 2013 23:55:38 +0100, Chris Davies wrote: > Slavko wrote: >> Dňa 02.07.2013 23:32 John Hasler wrote / napísal(a): >>> Look at the access times. Dotfiles that have not been accessed in >>> years can probably be safely removed. > >> Sure, but do not forget, that the "relatime" (defau

Re: Dotfiles

2013-08-03 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, 04 Jul 2013 03:12:40 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Wed, Jul 03, 2013 at 01:08:05AM +0000, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> On Tue, 02 Jul 2013 16:06:17 -0500, Yaro Yaro wrote: >> >> > Package managers don't track .dotfiles. >> >> No, they don&#x

Re: Deleting chromium DNS cache entry doesn't seem to help.

2013-08-03 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, 19 Jul 2013 06:45:26 -0400, Stephen Allen wrote: > On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 04:43:07PM +0000, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> It's been most of a week now, and the problem persists. >> Chromium still insists on going to the website normally known as >> topoi.pooq.com w

xfce terminal first-time unusable.

2013-07-31 Thread Hendrik Boom
mething must be wrong. -- hendrik -- 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/ktbnuk$je3$1...@ger.gmane.org

Re: Deleting chromium DNS cache entry doesn't seem to help.

2013-07-18 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, 14 Jul 2013 14:57:14 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Sat, 13 Jul 2013 16:53:01 -0400, staticsafe wrote: > >> On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 08:39:10PM +0000, Hendrik Boom wrote: >>> For some reason, chromium seems to have got it stuck in its head that >>> slashdot

Re: No nscd as far as I can tell.

2013-07-15 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, 15 Jul 2013 00:21:59 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Mon, 15 Jul 2013 07:01:56 +1000, Igor Cicimov wrote: > >> Do you have nscd running by any chance? > > Doesn't look like, unless it hides under an alias: > > root@notlookedfor:/home/hendrik# ps -Al |

No nscd as far as I can tell.

2013-07-14 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, 15 Jul 2013 07:01:56 +1000, Igor Cicimov wrote: > Do you have nscd running by any chance? Doesn't look like, unless it hides under an alias: root@notlookedfor:/home/hendrik# ps -Al | grep nscd root@notlookedfor:/home/hendrik# -- hendrik > On 15/07/2013 12:58 AM, &q

Re: Deleting chromium DNS cache entry doesn't seem to help.

2013-07-14 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, 13 Jul 2013 16:53:01 -0400, staticsafe wrote: > On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 08:39:10PM +0000, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> For some reason, chromium seems to have got it stuck in its head that >> slashdot,org is at 69.165.131.134. At least, when I try to browse to >> slashd

Deleting chromium DNS cache entry

2013-07-13 Thread Hendrik Boom
chrome have no trouble reaching the real site. And I can read slashdot just fine on chromium if I enter the IP number 216.34.181.45 instead of the domain name. So I'm guessing that chromium has got that IP number stuck in some internal DNS cache. How can I get it to forget it? -- hendrik -

Re: Dotfiles

2013-07-02 Thread Hendrik Boom
like the way packages declare their dependencies. This would be useful even if it were not enforced. It would give us a clue. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.d

Re: encrypted USB backup.

2013-07-02 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, 02 Jul 2013 17:00:35 -0400, Rob Owens wrote: > - Original Message - >> From: "Hendrik Boom" >> >> What is the recommended way to set up part of a USB volume as an >> encrypted volume, so that I can back up those few of my files that >>

Re: Dotfiles

2013-07-02 Thread Hendrik Boom
browser's history (cache, etc) > because the store has too many files? The browsers maintain their own cache policy. And nowadays they put them in ~/.cache, which is reasonably out of the way. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

encrypted USB backup.

2013-07-02 Thread Hendrik Boom
transparently (so as not to lose the data by losing an encryption key). I just need to encrypt a few of them -- a file here and there, and a directory or two. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Dotfiles

2013-07-02 Thread Hendrik Boom
? And which ones are obsolete -- the user equivalent of configuration files, which are properly tracked by the package manager? Should there be? -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: trouble formatting 3TB Seagate external HDrives. need help

2013-06-28 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, 24 Jun 2013 09:55:46 -0600, paul condon wrote: > I have two 3TB Seagate external HDs. They were purchased from different > stores at slightly different times earlier this year, here in Colorado. > I want them to have ext4 file systems on them, excepting if someone on > this list can give a

Re: INSTALLATION OF DEBIAN IN WINDOWS XP

2013-06-28 Thread Hendrik Boom
extended partition was the empty one. That's where I created all the partitions Linux needs. Now read on: -- hendrik > Now make an EXTENDED partition > to cover the rest of the hard disk. In that extended partition, you can > make LOGICAL partitions. Make two partitions, / (about 15

Re: wifi disappeared completely last night on a Debina Jessie laptop.

2013-06-11 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, 10 Jun 2013 17:05:52 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Mon, 10 Jun 2013 09:59:35 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > >> On Lu, 10 iun 13, 04:04:41, Hendrik Boom wrote: >>> >>> I think -- maybe I should ask it to shut down wifi altogether (using >>> the

Re: wifi disappeared completely last night on a Debina Jessie laptop.

2013-06-10 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, 10 Jun 2013 09:59:35 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 10 iun 13, 04:04:41, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> >> I think -- maybe I should ask it to shut down wifi altogether (using >> the network manager's menu, and then ask it to turn it on again. Maybe >> t

Re: wifi disappeared completely last night on a Debina Jessie laptop.

2013-06-10 Thread Hendrik Boom
acting. -- hendrik -- 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/kp5152$22r$3...@ger.gmane.org

Re: wifi disappeared completely last night on a Debina Jessie laptop.

2013-06-10 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, 10 Jun 2013 04:04:41 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > I press F2 again, and verify that WLAN is indeed enabled -- I seem to > have done that right. > > I boot Debian wheezy, using grub2. > > once I log in, there's no wifi. > > When I reboot and check the B

wifi disappeared completely last night on a Debina Jessie laptop.

2013-06-09 Thread Hendrik Boom
s to give me any options to turn it on again. How do I get out of this mess? Presumably there's some configuration file I can edit Meanwhile, the other wifi devices in the house are still working just fine. -- hendrik P.S. Something like this happened to me last summer when I was

Re: Debian in the sunshine? transreflective screen?

2013-05-11 Thread Hendrik Boom
Anyone have any user experience with transreflective screens? Are they like the LCD screens on the old Nintendo hand-helds -- the ones with an optional backlight? If so, are they better now? Aparently Pixel Qi is a spinoff from the OLPC project. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-

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