Re: WiFi after initial install

2016-12-05 Thread Seeker
On 12/5/2016 12:00 PM, Seeker wrote: On 12/5/2016 7:31 AM, Mark Fletcher wrote: All my past Debian experience of setting up WiFi is pre-systemd / pre-stretch, and a long time in my past so I have forgotten more than I ever knew :) Outside Debian, I've done it on LFS using systemd-net

Re: WiFi after initial install

2016-12-05 Thread Seeker
the above solution works for my needs. Later, Seeker

Re: A workaround was -[Re: Index of hardware test utilities available in official Debian repositories]

2016-11-30 Thread Seeker
g specific that did not include a bunch of scanner and other things the have scan in the name/tag/description. https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=diskscan&searchon=names&suite=stable§ion=all Later, Seeker

Re: Uninstalling Gnome

2016-11-29 Thread Seeker
t in a text editor and start deleting stuff, after saving an extra copy somewhere so you can set the selection back the way they were if needed. Personally I would use Synaptic to remove the stuff you don't want, then if you still want to use aptitude later, deal with it's issues after the fact. Later, Seeker

Re: Gparted will not label an existing FAT32 partition

2016-11-11 Thread Seeker
ch, please advise. --doug I like SystemRescueCd for partitioning/troubleshooting. https://www.system-rescue-cd.org/SystemRescueCd_Homepage Later, Seeker

Re: Replaygain, alternatives to Easymp3gain-gtk/-qt.

2016-10-15 Thread Seeker
On 10/13/2016 10:15 PM, Seeker wrote: To do this stuff I am normally browsing my music directories in PCManFM and using the open with feature to open the files in Picard, mediainfo or Ex Falso and it's just as easy to click the tools menu and open a terminal window, so the method I settl

Re: Replaygain, alternatives to Easymp3gain-gtk/-qt.

2016-10-13 Thread Seeker
On 10/4/2016 12:19 AM, Seeker wrote: It looks like Ex Falso is the way I'm going to go. The replaygain plugin in Ex Falso is disabled by default so you have to enable it first. Once enabled you can select some tracks in the song list, right click, then select replaygain to initiate the

Re: replaygain, soundkonverter, aac/m4a glitch

2016-10-05 Thread Seeker
On 10/3/2016 6:42 AM, Mark Fletcher wrote: On Sun, Oct 02, 2016 at 04:29:24PM -0700, Seeker wrote: Am I the only one on the list listening to music off of my phone over bluetooth in the car or having some other reason to want normalized music playback? :O :) No, but you are the only one top

Re: Replaygain, alternatives to Easymp3gain-gtk/-qt.

2016-10-04 Thread Seeker
On 9/18/2016 12:34 PM, Seeker wrote: Initially looked into the replaygain stuff in 2008. Don't remember what all was available at the time. Remember that I looked into Sounkoverter and easymp3gain-gtk. More recently have preferred easymp3gain-qt. I'm running unstable, investi

Re: replaygain, soundkonverter, aac/m4a glitch

2016-10-03 Thread Seeker
On 10/3/2016 2:39 AM, Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Sun, Oct 02, 2016 at 04:29:24PM -0700, Seeker wrote: Am I the only one on the list listening to music off of my phone over bluetooth in the car or having some other reason to want normalized music playback? :O :) I've never used replaygai

Re: replaygain, soundkonverter, aac/m4a glitch

2016-10-02 Thread Seeker
Am I the only one on the list listening to music off of my phone over bluetooth in the car or having some other reason to want normalized music playback? :O :) On 10/2/2016 1:18 PM, Seeker wrote: Where the glitch comes in is with m4a files. The replay gain tool just shows question marks in

replaygain, soundkonverter, aac/m4a glitch

2016-10-02 Thread Seeker
en this behavior https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=136507 As I write this there were 6 views, no replies. Same question here, anybody else seeing this behavior? Later, Seeker

Re: Failed to execute child process (no such file or directory), but the script DOES exist in $HOME/bin, openbox users, especially take a look, please.

2016-09-26 Thread Seeker
if you use a session other than the default session. I only verified use of .xsessionrc to set variables using lightdm as my display manager and lxqt as my X session. Putting a line in .xsessionrc to export a variable works. Later, Seeker

Re: WARNING! New Perl/Perl-base upgrade removes 141 Sid/Unstable packages

2016-09-24 Thread Seeker
in order to upgrade something you already have. I don't normally upgrade from the command line, so have not used 'apt upgrade' enough to notice if it will do the upgrade in cases where libsomething01 has to be removed and libsomething02 has to be installed. Later, Seeker

Re: Resolved: Failed to execute child process (no such file or directory), but the script DOES exist in $HOME/bin, openbox users, especially take a look, please.

2016-09-23 Thread Seeker
On 9/23/2016 10:28 AM, Brian wrote: On Fri 23 Sep 2016 at 10:07:43 -0700, Seeker wrote: On 9/22/2016 6:18 PM, Seeker wrote: In spite of the existence of 60xprofile and the fact that '~/.xprofile' did get sourced in the ast, I'm not finding any information on when y

Re: Resolved: Failed to execute child process (no such file or directory), but the script DOES exist in $HOME/bin, openbox users, especially take a look, please.

2016-09-23 Thread Seeker
On 9/22/2016 6:18 PM, Seeker wrote: On 9/22/2016 10:45 AM, Brian wrote: On Thu 22 Sep 2016 at 12:10:35 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 09:00:11AM -0700, Seeker wrote: A little late, but personally I would have tried using '~/.xprofile' first. I believe the i

Re: Resolved: Failed to execute child process (no such file or directory), but the script DOES exist in $HOME/bin, openbox users, especially take a look, please.

2016-09-22 Thread Seeker
On 9/22/2016 10:45 AM, Brian wrote: On Thu 22 Sep 2016 at 12:10:35 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 09:00:11AM -0700, Seeker wrote: A little late, but personally I would have tried using '~/.xprofile' first. I believe the information about this from the Arch Wi

Re: Failed to execute child process (no such file or directory), but the script DOES exist in $HOME/bin, openbox users, especially take a look, please.

2016-09-22 Thread Seeker
?keywords=lightdm+greeter&searchon=names&suite=stable§ion=all Later Seeker

Re: Resolved: Failed to execute child process (no such file or directory), but the script DOES exist in $HOME/bin, openbox users, especially take a look, please.

2016-09-22 Thread Seeker
to fire off my scripts. such as this one, which I fire off qwith the print screen key: A little late, but personally I would have tried using '~/.xprofile' first. I believe the information about this from the Arch Wiki applies equally to Debian. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/xprofile Later, Seeker

Re: page RELOAD by Firefox

2016-09-19 Thread Seeker
On 9/18/2016 9:11 PM, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: On Sun, September 18, 2016 7:10 pm, Seeker wrote: Is this web page on the PWS or out on the internet? Is the PWS using the same data connection you are using to access the web page? Is there advertising on this page? If you do not leave the

Re: page RELOAD by Firefox

2016-09-18 Thread Seeker
some some kind of ad blocker. Later, Seeker

Replaygain, alternatives to Easymp3gain-gtk/-qt.

2016-09-18 Thread Seeker
n, but I was not real happy with the way it works, seemed a little quirky but some of that may have been whatever updates were happening in unstable at the time when I looked at it. Later, Seeker

Re: debian version ID

2016-08-09 Thread Seeker
On 8/9/2016 4:49 PM, David Wright wrote: On Tue 09 Aug 2016 at 13:27:34 (-0700), Seeker wrote: On 8/9/2016 4:34 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 09/08/2016 à 10:44, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard a écrit : Andrew M.A. Cater: /etc/os-release just contains major version You are going to have to

Re: debian version ID

2016-08-09 Thread Seeker
is as different from 11.10 as 11.10 is different from 12.04. That was my first thought too, but looking up base-files for one of the LTS releases on packages.ubuntu.com and reading the change log, looks like to do update the os-release with xx.xx.1, xx.xx.2, etc... Later, Seeker --- This emai

Re: debian version ID

2016-08-05 Thread Seeker
"*Please note that this update does not constitute a new version of Debian 8 *but only updates some of the packages included. *There is no need to throw away old**"jessie" CDs or DVDs but only to update via an up-to-date Debian mirror after an installation*, to cause any out of date p

Re: WebRTC with Firefox in Debian Jessie

2016-05-24 Thread Seeker
On 5/24/2016 6:11 AM, Markos wrote: Hi, I just found the WebRTC (https://webrtc.org/) project but I still don't understand if I already can use it as an alternative to Skype. How do I use it with Firefox in Debian Jessie? Any tip? Thanks, Markos http://www.techradar.com/us/how-to/compu

Re: wireless without network-manager... is it still possible?

2016-05-24 Thread Seeker
inents' plural. You would have 'The Americas' plural. I can't think of a usage that makes sense to collectively refer to people from two separate continents and a region of land that connects them as 'American'. What am I missing?! ;) Later, Seeker

Re: User's bin path not recognised in login script

2016-03-22 Thread Seeker
ped with the piece off of the old drive if necessary or left off if the drive fits tight enough if really necessary. The face plate is less likely the match up between the two drives, especially between a DVD drive and a Blue Ray drive. Later, Seeker

Re: User's bin path not recognised in login script

2016-03-22 Thread Seeker
ons may or may not do. I did see some bug reports which would probably have some relevant information in the responses. Create '~/.xprofile' and put your export commands and extra non-desktop specific stuff you always want to run there. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/xprofile Later, Seeker

Re: can you boot a dvd iso file from a tv dvd player?

2016-03-22 Thread Seeker
ped with the piece off of the old drive if necessary or left off if the drive fits tight enough if really necessary. The face plate is less likely the match up between the two drives, especially between a DVD drive and a Blue Ray drive. Later, Seeker

Re: can you boot a dvd iso file from a tv dvd player?

2016-03-22 Thread Seeker
ped with the piece off of the old drive if necessary or left off if the drive fits tight enough if really necessary. The face plate is less likely the match up between the two drives, especially between a DVD drive and a Blue Ray drive. Later, Seeker

Re: User's bin path not recognised in login script

2016-03-22 Thread Seeker
stributions may or may not do. I did see some bug reports which would probably have some relevant information in the responses. Create '~/.xprofile' and put your export commands and extra non-desktop specific stuff you always want to run there. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/xprofile Later, Seeker

Re: Debian and Firefox/Iceweasel

2016-02-26 Thread Seeker
openwebrtc.org>//implementation. Much of the WebRTC support will be implemented in the core of WebKit and therefore shared among all WebKit ports. This will also enable integration of other WebRTC backends such as //webrtc.org <http://webrtc.org>//." / http://www.webrtcinwebkit.org// / Later, Seeker / /

Re: Warning Linux Mint Website Hacked and ISOs replaced with Backdoored Operating System

2016-02-23 Thread Seeker
dds might be, that you get a corrupted download that passes verification. If I have extra reason to suspect corruption might occur I definitely want to use the most capable option for detecting that. Just because that is not generally that case doesn't mean I generally want to settle for a less capable option. Later, Seeker

Re: group membership activation

2016-02-18 Thread Seeker
ed, but the relevant Archwiki page does mention that if the user is logged in at the time the change is made, they will need to log out and log in before they see the change. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/users_and_groups Later, Seeker

Re: Problem with look and feel after installing LXDE

2015-10-12 Thread Seeker
I think it probably uses aptitude to find out what those are, so maybe some one more familiar with aptitude knows the magic search query and will chime in. Later, Seeker

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

2015-10-12 Thread Seeker
els of Toshiba laptops that are designed in a way that the keyboard can not be easily replaced without replacing the whole palm rest. http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/161849099488?ul_noapp=true&chn=ps&lpid=82 Personally I like Lenovo, lean a little toward the Thinkpads over the other models. Later, Seeker

Re: a little jessie whinage

2015-10-12 Thread Seeker
not tried setting an interface for DHCP with static DNS using a 'dns-nameservers' line in case you want to use Google DNS server, OpenDNS, or some other public DNS server when you are on the road. But you can use dhclient for that if you need to, have not personally tried that either. Later, Seeker

Re: Machine freezes after kernel update

2015-10-09 Thread Seeker
valid stuff and didn't get left dangling. Later, Seeker

Re: Advertising and commercial services in free software

2015-10-05 Thread Seeker
uldn't be crossed, but I would see these lines as being more in the area of software that uses a service or services in a way that is legally questionable. Popcorn Time would be an example of that, some of the unofficial plugins for Kodi would be another example, just using those as examples because they are low hanging fruit. Later, Seeker

Re: Sound card question

2015-09-30 Thread Seeker
e same/similar audio hardware will chime in with what they see. Later, Seeker

Re: [OT] Free software vs non-free, here we go again

2015-09-30 Thread Seeker
On 9/30/2015 1:51 AM, Reco wrote: Hi. On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 08:57:13PM -0700, Seeker wrote: If you think of non-free in terms of Debian non-free, then non-free and proprietary can be different things. That gets into a whole different hornets nest. Evaluate here, please. I

Re: [OT] Free software vs non-free, here we go again

2015-09-29 Thread Seeker
ry blobs that are required to get some hardware to work as much as the next person, but I stop short of saying non-free is *always* a bad choice. If you think of non-free in terms of Debian non-free, then non-free and proprietary can be different things. That gets into a whole different hornets nest. Later, Seeker

Re: can I access SD card in cell phone?

2015-09-25 Thread Seeker
y-use-it-and-how-set-it http://www.howtogeek.com/192732/android-usb-connections-explained-mtp-ptp-and-usb-mass-storage/ Later, Seeker

Re: Problem VNC (Vino) access from windows or other clients

2015-09-18 Thread Seeker
working for me on my Linux desktop using Chromium, so could still be an issue using it with Chromium. It allows you to set up a permanent connection for yourself, may be an issue if you want to allow other people to connect without you having to be there to generate a code. Later, Seeker

Re: Bug? - Debian does not assign IP address after reboot?

2015-09-16 Thread Seeker
connect wpa-psk linuxthefish address 192.168.43.200 netmask 255.255.255.0 Please can someone tell me why this happens? :( Thanks! I hope that is not your real wireless key. If it is you might want to change it now that it has been shared in a public forum. ;-) Later, Seeker

Re: Debian + Windows with UEFI

2015-09-15 Thread Seeker
l. They may only provide that for models they actually ship with Linux, but it doesn't hurt to look. Later, Seeker

Re: Upgrading Debian

2015-09-14 Thread Seeker
ossibility of some driver/init related stuff being a little different in a re-install compared to just doing the normal update, but the odds of noticing the difference is pretty small so If it ain't broke, don't fix it. In the general sense, more or less the same as it is with Debian.:-) Later, Seeker

Re: adobe flash player in iceweasel does not work anymore in jessie

2015-09-13 Thread Seeker
play flash-games have problems. For listening radio are good alternatives available. Video-sites are working most of the time good with HTML5. Flash seems to have problems on every platform, I use the installer in Debian, it works for the stuff I care about, YMMV. Later, Seeker

Re: get software list of one software repository

2015-09-06 Thread Seeker
On 9/6/2015 12:55 PM, Seeker wrote: I sounds like aptitude *is* the tool that you want. I don't use aptitude so I am taking it on faith that the given example is a working example and you just need adjust it to fit your needs. If you want a list of software in 'debian testing

Re: upgrade stable to testing or upgrading testing - very bad situation of the repository!

2015-09-06 Thread Seeker
On 9/6/2015 2:45 PM, Seeker wrote: On 9/6/2015 1:19 PM, Joe wrote: OK, thanks. I would hope not Gimp also... Don't know how affected testing is by which transitions, but the ones the were causing me grief in unstable were taglib, clucene, ffmpeg-libav, and opencv. I expect

Re: upgrade stable to testing or upgrading testing - very bad situation of the repository!

2015-09-06 Thread Seeker
small, then I will give the OK for that, then switch to 'Custome Filter --> Marked Changes' then change the selection for the things I want to keep to upgrade in order to see what else that triggers. Later, Seeker

Re: get software list of one software repository

2015-09-06 Thread Seeker
ges in the Debian repository that are in the main section of the unstable archive, results from testing would be filtered out. I had trouble getting it to work in my earlier attempts, but I think it was probably because I was missing this part of the equation.. > Start by running "grep Origin: /var/lib/apt/lists/*Release" to see where > your packages from from. As opposed to guessing the correct origin base on the way Synaptic shows it to you. Later, Seeker

Re: Another system management tool to disappear.

2015-09-02 Thread Seeker
On 9/2/2015 3:23 AM, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: On Wed, 2 Sep 2015 01:09:45 -0700 Seeker wrote: > >> To exit the shell created with "machinectl shell", you are instructed "Press ^] three times within 1s to exit session." That is very unfriendly for disabled.

Re: Another system management tool to disappear.

2015-09-02 Thread Seeker
On 9/2/2015 3:25 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Wednesday 02 September 2015 09:09:45 Seeker wrote: Unless you have set keyboard settings somewhere to have an excessively slow repeat, as opposed to a longer delay before the repeat kicks in, theoretically it should not be that hard to get 3 ^]s in 1

Re: Another system management tool to disappear.

2015-09-02 Thread Seeker
a shell session will work for this too and ^] is more of an emergency exit. Later, Seeker

Re: new laptop: DVD or Blu-ray

2015-08-28 Thread Seeker
On 8/28/2015 12:38 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Friday 28 August 2015 06:24:33 Seeker wrote: On 8/27/2015 12:48 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: Connecting home computers to TVs came _before_ connecting them to monitors. The circle has merely come back to the beginning. Lisi I had a Commodor 64, but did

Re: new laptop: DVD or Blu-ray

2015-08-27 Thread Seeker
On 8/27/2015 1:19 PM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, Seeker wrote: RPC-1 [...] It was left up to the software to honor the region code or not. RPC-2, commonly accessible software is available that does not care about region code settings. Initialization was changed so software does not have

Re: new laptop: DVD or Blu-ray

2015-08-27 Thread Seeker
On 8/27/2015 12:48 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Thursday 27 August 2015 19:30:48 Seeker wrote: On a marginally related but not relevant note, that was at a time when hooking a computer to a TV was not so common, My, we have some youngsters on this list now. ;-) LOL Connecting home computers

Re: new laptop: DVD or Blu-ray

2015-08-27 Thread Seeker
t relevant note, that was at a time when hooking a computer to a TV was not so common, so a Windows desktop, a Linux desktop, and finally a laptop or 2 later I was able to find a combination that would put out a refresh rate the TV would accept. G. ;) Later, Seeker

Re: virtualbox-usb printer not recognized

2015-08-25 Thread Seeker
On 8/25/2015 3:19 PM, Whit Hansell wrote: Seeker, Thanks so much for the reply. I tried to do whaat the link you gave me said to do but messed it up because I'm not Windows proficient. Found another site that gives info on how to set up the network printer and will try that soon

Re: virtualbox-usb printer not recognized

2015-08-24 Thread Seeker
first instructions I saw and never looked to much after. I expect if there is extra set up required someone will chime in. Later, Seeker

Re: Debian Gnome Or XFCE ?

2015-08-13 Thread Seeker
uot;/ /Save. Quit. Run:// //sudo update-grub/ /Reboot and try the update again./ Later, Seeker

Re: Debian Gnome Or XFCE ?

2015-08-13 Thread Seeker
days. Sparky Linux has non-PAE options available. http://sparkylinux.org/download/ This article has a couple of others. http://www.everydaylinuxuser.com/2014/08/5-linux-distributions-for-very-old.html Later, Seeker

Re: Debian Gnome Or XFCE ?

2015-08-13 Thread Seeker
to the rest of the Intel line up. From what I can find quickly on Google looks like Celeron M and Pentium M have the same issues reltive to current day expectations and the Linux kernel, and I did see that there was another reply with a link that may help you with that. Later, Seeker

Re: Wireless disabled in Debian after MacOS use (stuck)

2015-07-21 Thread Seeker
nager should only make a difference if there is configuration in /etc/network/interfaces for the interface in question. Later, Seeker -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: anyone booting debian with secure boot enabled? And/or from GPT partitions?

2015-07-14 Thread Seeker
ernation/fastboot when you try to mount the Windows partition in Linux you need to boot into Windows, open a command window with administrator rights and issue the command: powercfg /hibernate off Later, Seeker -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subje

Re: Comments on Lenovo desktops

2015-07-13 Thread Seeker
standard connections an off the shelf power supply would have before buying one. Later, Seeker

Re: install Arial fonts lost in latex

2015-07-05 Thread Seeker
nload the .exe files with his phone over the network of the university. Strange. Later, Seeker -- 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/55994e2f.7040...@comcast.net

Re: How do I find what drivers are installed

2015-07-01 Thread Seeker
On 6/30/2015 2:27 AM, Bret Busby wrote: On 30/06/2015, Seeker wrote: On 6/29/2015 11:40 AM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: On Seg, 29 Jun 2015, Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Tue, 2015-06-30 at 00:48 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: So the computer does not work properly (in terms of the graphics, anyway

Re: How do I find what drivers are installed

2015-06-29 Thread Seeker
from several long previous threads, because he does not want Gnome 3, and he doesn't want Mate either because the names of applications are in Spanish. Gnome-core doesn't depend on those. Later, Seeker -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Boots into emergency mode. How to analyze?

2015-06-26 Thread Seeker
s in Ubuntu and did not bother creating a root password there. Normally if I have to do something from the command line one of 'sudo -H 'some command'', or 'sudo su' meets my needs or the gtk/kde frontends for sudo if I have to start something with a GUI. Later, See

Re: Change systemd to not be default in Stretch

2015-06-24 Thread Seeker
On 6/24/2015 3:58 PM, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: On Wed, 24 Jun 2015 14:47:27 -0700 Seeker wrote: Paranoia is the foundation of paranoia, fueled by those who would prevent others from having a choice of using systemd. No-one wants to prevent others from having a choice of using systemd

Re: Change systemd to not be default in Stretch

2015-06-24 Thread Seeker
s as dependencies, so that may vary depending on what you install. Later, Seeker -- 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/558b256f.3060...@comcast.net

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

2015-06-18 Thread Seeker
ing loaded, which I believe is provided by the linux-firmware-nonfree package, in case you don't have this installed. Looks like Petter has a better handle on this stuff than I do, so follow his instructions for getting the system to boot to the command line. Later, Seeker

Re: multitouch / touchscreen support in Debian

2015-06-08 Thread Seeker
sito/touchegg/commit/798d586e271f7cc0ee2c70d874cc80934f8325f7 https://wiki.debian.org/RFP Later, Seeker

Re: multitouch / touchscreen support in Debian

2015-06-08 Thread Seeker
stuff that is in Debian https://launchpad.net/canonical-multitouch Looks like you might be able to get touchegg to compile against Debian libraries... http://packages.ubuntu.com/source/vivid/touchegg Later, Seeker

Re: mixer.app ; how do i use it after installing it with aptitude?

2015-05-24 Thread Seeker
#x27;.desktop' files gives an example that includes a line to specify an icon and the location to put the file that should get it to show in your applicaton menu. https://linuxcritic.wordpress.com/2010/04/07/anatomy-of-a-desktop-file/ Later, Seeker -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: mixer.app ; how do i use it after installing it with aptitude?

2015-05-24 Thread Seeker
valid types: Application, Link and Directory.// //Name – The name of the specific application or directory. This determines the actual display name for the menu/desktop entry.// //Exec – provides the actual command to execute, with associated arguments (if necessary.)"/ If you don't already have other KDE stuff that you run, it will pull in a lot of dependencies so may not be a desirable option for you. Later, Seeker

Re: Help with ddrescue

2015-05-08 Thread Seeker
s://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2015/04/msg01639.html The problem disk is a Seagate GoFlex. Testdisk deep scan only listed the smaller FAT partition not the NTFS partition. Later, Seeker -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe&q

Re: Help with ddrescue

2015-05-08 Thread Seeker
e plus room for all the files you want to recover. Later, Seeker -- 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/554d8d5b.40...@comcast.net

Re: Help with TestDisk

2015-04-29 Thread Seeker
On 4/29/2015 5:41 AM, German wrote: On Tue, 28 Apr 2015 22:24:50 -0700 Seeker wrote: On 4/28/2015 8:03 PM, German wrote: On Tue, 28 Apr 2015 19:06:29 -0700 Seeker wrote: As you can see, there are two directories, but how to view contents of them I have no clue. Enter, P, Right does

Re: Help with TestDisk

2015-04-28 Thread Seeker
On 4/28/2015 8:03 PM, German wrote: On Tue, 28 Apr 2015 19:06:29 -0700 Seeker wrote: On 4/28/2015 6:09 PM, German wrote: My USB drive won't mount. I tried TestDisk, but I am not sure what to do and how to procede. Are there any experts out there with TestDisk knowledge? Also, if

Re: Help with TestDisk

2015-04-28 Thread Seeker
tdisk web site has a pretty good sample session so you can see what it should look like. http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Step_By_Step Later, Seeker -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@l

Re: Recommendation on video card?

2015-04-25 Thread Seeker
little adapters that do DVI-D to 15 do not work. They must have some use, but I haven't found it yet. Anything with display port shout be able to do 4 monitors. Cards without display port, most likely, will only be able to display on 2 outputs at a time. Later, Seeker -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Is gnome-core *really* the gnome minimal install?

2015-04-13 Thread Seeker
apparently the Gnome devs just want you to call it 'web' now.:-\ https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Web Maybe the Debian devs didn't think people were drinking enough kool-aid for that, so opted for Fire Iceweasel instead. :-) Later, Seeker

Re: Is gnome-core *really* the gnome minimal install?

2015-04-12 Thread Seeker
being a metapackage to install the gnome desktop I would expect many people would consider applications to view/play images, documents, and media to be likely candidates of a minimal install. A messaging application seems like a less likely application, but that goes back to what the Gnom

Re: Is this an April Fool joke running early ? (Systemd to fork the kernel)

2015-03-31 Thread Seeker
Apparently I saw the news about the news before the actual new. ;-) http://ostatic.com/blog/systemd-developers-fork-kernel-docker-package-management Later, Seeker -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: Unattended upgrades, how do stable et al work after upgrade?

2015-03-16 Thread Seeker
On 3/16/2015 10:53 PM, Seeker wrote: On 3/16/2015 3:57 AM, Tapio Lehtonen wrote: I can't understand how unattended upgrades continues to work after Jessi is stable. In wheezy the config file has "origin=Debian,archive=stable,label=Debian-Security"; "origin=Debi

Re: Unattended upgrades, how do stable et al work after upgrade?

2015-03-16 Thread Seeker
debian.org/UnattendedUpgrades But if you do specify, it's the same as sources.list. If you want to stick with stable, specify stable as the archive. If you want to stick with wheezy, specify wheezy as the archive. Later, Seeker -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@

Re: jessie: Firefox download dialog unusable

2015-03-14 Thread Seeker
On 3/14/2015 7:27 PM, Seeker wrote: On 3/14/2015 12:43 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Saturday 14 March 2015 18:47:46 Ric Moore wrote: It's when you hit version 36 that it blows up. In what way? It seems not significantly worse than it was before. What is yet to happen to me? :-(

Re: jessie: Firefox download dialog unusable

2015-03-14 Thread Seeker
r was not compatible with FF 36. On a laptop where I have Windows 10 VDH just updated to 5.0.1, which seems to work fine. Will have to try it on my Linux boxes now. Later, Seeker -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

XFS: xfs_repair never finishes on lvm partition

2010-10-02 Thread Knowledge Seeker
Hi, I'm using Debian Lenny box with 2 hds. The first one is used by the OS and the second one is another system witch runs in virtual machine (Virtual Box). This virtual machine also runs Debian Lenny. The vm's hd has 2 fdisk partitions, one being LVM. On the last week, due a power failure, the

Re: Apache2 chroot /dev/null permission denied

2010-03-18 Thread Knowledge Seeker
devices? Thanks again. [ ]'s On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 7:52 PM, Mike Bird wrote: > On Wed March 17 2010 19:00:35 Knowledge Seeker wrote: > > That is the problem. > > The permission is set to 666 and the group is root. > > But it still don't work. > > Please post

Re: Apache2 chroot /dev/null permission denied

2010-03-17 Thread Knowledge Seeker
That is the problem. The permission is set to 666 and the group is root. But it still don't work. On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 11:22 PM, Wayne wrote: > Knowledge Seeker wrote: > >> Hi, >> I have an old Debian Etch box, running Apache2 on chroot jail. Yesterday, >> (it s

Apache2 chroot /dev/null permission denied

2010-03-17 Thread Knowledge Seeker
Hi, I have an old Debian Etch box, running Apache2 on chroot jail. Yesterday, (it sounds like joke) I turned off the machine and when I started it again the web server did not come to life again. The problem was a Permission Denied on the /dev/null. I created my device with the command: mknod -m

RPC passing more than 16 Groups

2009-06-12 Thread Knowledge Seeker
Hi folks, I'm using NFS to serve files to my Debian clients and some users are in more than 16 groups. I know RPC just pass the firts 16 groups and I need more than it. On Debian the NGROUPS_MAX is set to 65536, searching on libc6-dev, I found a NGRPS on /usr/include/rpc/auth_unix.h, that is set e

Re: qemu does not start

2007-05-02 Thread seeker
never really understood it that much either, but. Looks like this is covered in: http://www.friedhoff.org/fscaps.html#Qemu : but it looks like the preferred solutions these days would be to use VDE: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2005-06/txtDAJWgugtC1.txt Later, Seek

Re: X11 display terribly slow after upgrade

2007-04-27 Thread seeker
u upgraded. I did notice also that even though on the reconfigure it asks what modules to load, there is no module section in my xorg.conf file, so it seems to be taking advantage of the new autodetection stuff, may be an area to investigate. Later, Seeker -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: dpkg: I refuse to do it and you can't make me!

2007-04-17 Thread seeker
27;dpkg --force-help' shows there being an overwrite-diverted option, which might lead one to think using the command 'dpkg -i --force-overwrite-diverted [some packages]' has some potential to correct the problem. Later, Seeker -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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