Re: Trouble with upgrading debian 7 (wheezy)

2020-09-07 Thread David Wright
On Thu 27 Aug 2020 at 19:44:56 (-0500), R. Ramesh wrote: > I finally decided to move from debian 7 to 10. As a first step I > wanted to upgrade to debian 8 (jesse) > > I changed all ftp.us.debian.org part in /etc/apt/sources.list to > archive.debian.org and tried aptitude upd

Re: Re: Re: Trouble with upgrading debian 7 (wheezy) (solved)

2020-09-02 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Wed, Sep 02, 2020 at 12:43:35PM -0500, R. Ramesh wrote: >   My only wish is apt is updated to say something about  the fact > that this is unsupported and users are on their own, but still > provide the download/install without we having to manually > intervene. I think¹ that there are

Re: Re: Re: Trouble with upgrading debian 7 (wheezy) (solved)

2020-09-02 Thread R. Ramesh
The expired keys do complicate life but my understanding of the rationale is that the limited key lifetime serves as a sort of contract regarding the integrity of the files. Once a release has been archived it does not fall under that promise from the project any more and so the expired keys serve

Re: Re: Trouble with upgrading debian 7 (wheezy) (solved)

2020-09-02 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Tue, Sep 01, 2020 at 08:23:33PM -0500, R. Ramesh wrote: > I did think about fresh install, but every method has its drawback. There > are subtle changes that I could not get right in the past, so I chose > upgrade path. Last year I did do a squeeze to stretch upgrade by upgrading to eac

Re: Re: Trouble with upgrading debian 7 (wheezy) (solved)

2020-09-01 Thread R. Ramesh
That said, Wheezy is  *way*  too far away from Buster!  For example,  "Update in Place" is likely to fail, because of SystemD changes.  (Heck, I had trouble updating Stretch to Buster in Place, but some of that was User Error). I did think about fresh install, but every method has its drawback

Re: Trouble with upgrading debian 7 (wheezy) (solved)

2020-09-01 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On 2/9/20 3:56 am, Kenneth Parker wrote: My Recommendation, if it isn't too late, is to Install Buster in a separate Partition, and then copy /home files as desired. Reclaim the Wheezy Partition when you are sure that you don't need it anymore. +1 FWIW I'd recommend this course for most ma

Re: Trouble with upgrading debian 7 (wheezy) (solved)

2020-09-01 Thread Kenneth Parker
On Tue, Sep 1, 2020, 12:17 PM R. Ramesh wrote: > My attempts to upgrade to Jesse (8) did not work at all and all the > information on the net seem old and not current that Buster is out and > jesse is already archived. Anyway, after looking around, I made ddrescue > copy of the current install di

Re: Trouble with upgrading debian 7 (wheezy) (solved)

2020-09-01 Thread R. Ramesh
My attempts to upgrade to Jesse (8) did not work at all and all the information on the net seem old and not current that Buster is out and jesse is already archived. Anyway, after looking around, I made ddrescue copy of the current install disk (only 64GB, so easy) first and then directly upgra

Trouble with upgrading debian 7 (wheezy)

2020-08-27 Thread R. Ramesh
I finally decided to move from debian 7 to 10. As a first step I wanted to upgrade to debian 8 (jesse) I changed all ftp.us.debian.org part in /etc/apt/sources.list to archive.debian.org and tried aptitude update and got the following error W: GPG error: http://archive.debian.org wheezy

Re: How to use Garmin Connect with Debian 7?

2017-07-15 Thread rhkramer
On Saturday, July 15, 2017 04:10:01 AM Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > rhkra...@gmail.com wrote on 07/14/17 14:10: > > Can you provide a more precise link--that link gives me "Oh! Die Seite > > konnte nicht gefunden werden." ... > Today, at 7:57 UTC o'clock both links worked for me. Thanks--it worked

Re: How to use Garmin Connect with Debian 7?

2017-07-15 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
rhkra...@gmail.com wrote on 07/14/17 14:10: >> Am 13.07.17 12:13 nachm., schrieb Jörg-Volker Peetz: >>> there's this nice blog in German: >>> https://blog.dafb-o.de/neue-firmware-fuer-garmin-devices-unter-linux/ >>> where the firmware update procedure from Linux is detailed and a link to >>> the fi

Re: How to use Garmin Connect with Debian 7?

2017-07-14 Thread rhkramer
> Am 13.07.17 12:13 nachm., schrieb Jörg-Volker Peetz: > >there's this nice blog in German: > >https://blog.dafb-o.de/neue-firmware-fuer-garmin-devices-unter-linux/ > >where the firmware update procedure from Linux is detailed and a link to > >the firmware files for your device is given http://gawi

Re: How to use Garmin Connect with Debian 7?

2017-07-13 Thread Joerg Desch
Am 13.07.17 12:13 nachm., schrieb Jörg-Volker Peetz: there's this nice blog in German: https://blog.dafb-o.de/neue-firmware-fuer-garmin-devices-unter-linux/ where the firmware update procedure from Linux is detailed and a link to the firmware files for your device is given http://gawisp.com/perry

Re: How to use Garmin Connect with Debian 7?

2017-07-13 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Hi Joerg, I use an older Garmin device, so have not tested what follows: there's this nice blog in German: https://blog.dafb-o.de/neue-firmware-fuer-garmin-devices-unter-linux/ where the firmware update procedure from Linux is detailed and a link to the firmware files for your device is given http

Re: How to use Garmin Connect with Debian 7?

2017-07-12 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 12:20:17PM +, Joerg Desch wrote: > Am Wed, 12 Jul 2017 14:14:20 +0200 schrieb tomas: [whine... cloud... blah... ;-] > My mistake... The Forerunner works like a charm without cloud connection. > It's my personal choose to

Re: How to use Garmin Connect with Debian 7?

2017-07-12 Thread Joerg Desch
Am Wed, 12 Jul 2017 14:14:20 +0200 schrieb tomas: > I'm downright appalled to see that a little piece of hardware comes tied > to TahCloud and doesn't give the user any choices in that. I'd be raging > at Garmin, were I their customer, for being (mis)treated like that. My mistake... The Forerunne

Re: How to use Garmin Connect with Debian 7?

2017-07-12 Thread Joerg Desch
Am Wed, 12 Jul 2017 14:08:22 +0200 schrieb solitone: > Yes, I used to have a VirtualBox instance on my previous laptop, and it > did work. Then I migrated that VirtualBox image to KVM when I prepared > my new laptop, and it continued to work. Just because you mentioned it You have build a Vir

Re: How to use Garmin Connect with Debian 7?

2017-07-12 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 11:58:10AM +, Joerg Desch wrote: > Am Wed, 12 Jul 2017 07:43:31 -0400 schrieb Fungi4All: > > > I think you need to read up to the NMEA183 protocol, which for a while > > it was the standard of i/o data ever since the first

Re: How to use Garmin Connect with Debian 7?

2017-07-12 Thread solitone
On Wednesday, 12 July 2017 11:55:25 CEST Joerg Desch wrote: > I could use the Windows license key of the dead > windows notebook and run it inside VirtualBox. Do you know if the USB > connection to the Garmin devices runs through the virtual host? Yes, I used to have a VirtualBox instance on my pr

Re: How to use Garmin Connect with Debian 7?

2017-07-12 Thread Joerg Desch
Am Wed, 12 Jul 2017 07:43:31 -0400 schrieb Fungi4All: > I think you need to read up to the NMEA183 protocol, which for a while > it was the standard of i/o data ever since the first gps had wired > connections on it. Both devices are visible as filesystem. So I can easily copy and convert the re

Re: How to use Garmin Connect with Debian 7?

2017-07-12 Thread Joerg Desch
Am Wed, 12 Jul 2017 13:28:11 +0200 schrieb solitone: > I have a Garmin Edge 520, and I use the Garmin Connect app on my > smartphone to sync it, not the Windows tool. I just needed the Windows > tool during initial configuration, but once it's registered you no > longer need it (except for some ra

Re: How to use Garmin Connect with Debian 7?

2017-07-12 Thread Fungi4All
> From: solit...@mail.com > On Wednesday, 12 July 2017 11:07:39 CEST Joerg Desch wrote: >> I"m using a Garmin Edge 520 for my bycicle and a (new) Forerunner for >> running. How can I access Garmin Connect without installing the Windows >> tools? >> >> The Garmin Edge 520 is already registered to my

Re: How to use Garmin Connect with Debian 7?

2017-07-12 Thread solitone
On Wednesday, 12 July 2017 11:07:39 CEST Joerg Desch wrote: > I'm using a Garmin Edge 520 for my bycicle and a (new) Forerunner for > running. How can I access Garmin Connect without installing the Windows > tools? > > The Garmin Edge 520 is already registered to my Garmin Connect account. > I've

How to use Garmin Connect with Debian 7?

2017-07-12 Thread Joerg Desch
I'm using a Garmin Edge 520 for my bycicle and a (new) Forerunner for running. How can I access Garmin Connect without installing the Windows tools? The Garmin Edge 520 is already registered to my Garmin Connect account. I've used an old Windows 7 notebook with isn't functional anymore. Now I'

ELO touchscreen and Debian 7

2017-05-25 Thread Luca Pradovera
Hello, I have been pretty much desperately trying to get a serial B&R 900 series touchscreen to work on Debian 7 using the elographics driver. The device works but it is not well calibrated, and we are using LXDE so the manufacturer tool does not work. I have tried a mishmash of solutions,

Re: Intel 82576 Gigabit on Debian 7 slow speed.

2015-12-22 Thread David Christensen
On 12/20/2015 08:36 AM, Mimiko wrote: zpool create -f -m none -o ashift=12 zfspool raidz2 wwn-0x5xxx . (all disks). On 12/21/2015 11:20 PM, Mimiko wrote: > One channel is connected to 8 x 2TB the other channel to 8 x 1TB. ... > zfs list > NAME USED AVAIL REFE

Re: Intel 82576 Gigabit on Debian 7 slow speed.

2015-12-22 Thread David Christensen
On 12/21/2015 11:20 PM, Mimiko wrote: One [RAID] channel is connected to 8 x 2TB the other channel to 8 x 1TB. What is the part number of your cables? JBOD for software raid [on Wheezy]. I thought the 'zpool create ...' invocation showed all 16 drives in one raidz2 pool (?). This is not

Re: Intel 82576 Gigabit on Debian 7 slow speed.

2015-12-21 Thread Mimiko
On 21.12.2015 09:58, David Christensen wrote: On 12/20/2015 08:36 AM, Mimiko wrote: The HDD's are connected thru SuperMicro SAS RAID AOC-USASLP-L8i (PCI-E). http://www.supermicro.com.tr/AOC-USASLP-L8i.cfm.htm So, one RAID card, eight SAS channels, and one 2 TB and one 1 TB drive per channel

Re: Intel 82576 Gigabit on Debian 7 slow speed.

2015-12-21 Thread David Christensen
On 12/21/2015 12:24 AM, David Christensen wrote: Download a live CD image, burn two discs/ USB flash drives, and try again: https://www.debian.org/CD/live/ debian-live-8.2.0-amd64-standard.iso I just realized that the live disc might not have iperf... Perhaps Knoppix: http://knopp

Re: Intel 82576 Gigabit on Debian 7 slow speed.

2015-12-21 Thread David Christensen
On 12/19/2015 07:24 PM, David Christensen wrote: > I ran iperf ... ~950 MB/s. Oops -- make that 950 Mbps. On 12/20/2015 09:13 AM, Mimiko wrote: I've tested using iperf the file server to the windows server and I've got 400Mbits. Something is wrong. The other li

Re: Intel 82576 Gigabit on Debian 7 slow speed.

2015-12-20 Thread David Christensen
On 12/20/2015 08:36 AM, Mimiko wrote: If LUKS you mean Linux Unified Key Setup, then I don't use [it]. Okay. The HDD's are connected thru SuperMicro SAS RAID AOC-USASLP-L8i (PCI-E). http://www.supermicro.com.tr/AOC-USASLP-L8i.cfm.htm So, one RAID card, eight SAS channels, and one 2 TB an

Re: Intel 82576 Gigabit on Debian 7 slow speed.

2015-12-20 Thread Mimiko
I've tested using iperf the file server to the windows server and I've got 400Mbits. The other linux server got 600Mbits. Also I've tested iperf between windows server and another same type supermicro with hyper-v and got around 650Mbits. I've tested samba speed from windows to other linux ser

Re: Intel 82576 Gigabit on Debian 7 slow speed.

2015-12-20 Thread Mimiko
On 20.12.2015 02:36, Frank Pikelner wrote: > There appear to be driver issues discussed in other threads with > respect to Intel driver and slow throughput due to interrupts and CPU > offloading. May want to review driver parameters and look at trying a > few changes. Yes, I've read about that. I

Re: Intel 82576 Gigabit on Debian 7 slow speed.

2015-12-19 Thread David Christensen
RAM is too much, too little, or just right? Same cable types, same server type on windows gives faster file transfer. All servers is on gigabit switch. Then it's software and/or configuration. iperf between two Debian 7 servers gives a good performance almost. The problem server has Inte

Re: Intel 82576 Gigabit on Debian 7 slow speed.

2015-12-19 Thread Frank Pikelner
There appear to be driver issues discussed in other threads with respect to Intel driver and slow throughput due to interrupts and CPU offloading. May want to review driver parameters and look at trying a few changes. Frank On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 11:24 AM, Sven Hartge wrote: > Mimiko wrote: >

Re: Intel 82576 Gigabit on Debian 7 slow speed.

2015-12-19 Thread Sven Hartge
Mimiko wrote: > After reviewing the results of test, I've modified smb.conf. I've added > max protocol = SMB2 and removed SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 from > socket options. The read speed from this server increased to 40MB/s, the > write speed to this server increased to 30MB/s. The SO_*BUF

Re: Intel 82576 Gigabit on Debian 7 slow speed.

2015-12-19 Thread Mimiko
U @ 2,4GHz with 18 GB ram. > What version of Debian? Which kernel? Any other customizations? Message title states Debian 7 which is Wheezy, Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.68-1+deb7u6 x86_64 GNU/Linux. All updates installed. It's a standard install with ZFS for software raid and

Re: Intel 82576 Gigabit on Debian 7 slow speed.

2015-12-18 Thread David Christensen
On 12/18/2015 09:44 AM, Mimiko wrote: ifconfig bond0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr UP BROADCAST RUNNING MASTER MULTICAST MTU:9000 Metric:1 RX packets:654308767 errors:0 dropped:5238 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:761897714 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:

Re: Intel 82576 Gigabit on Debian 7 slow speed.

2015-12-18 Thread David Christensen
On 12/18/2015 03:35 AM, Mimiko wrote: I've bonded two onboard Intel 82576 Gigabit networks on an supermicro server for load balancing (round-robin). It is working, but transfer rate is about 10-20MB/s, while on same type of server the same configuration in windows I get around 100MB/s. How did

Re: Intel 82576 Gigabit on Debian 7 slow speed.

2015-12-18 Thread Dan Ritter
On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 07:44:58PM +0200, Mimiko wrote: > iperf -c ip > > Client connecting to ip, TCP port 5001 > TCP window size: 23.5 KByte (default) > > [ 3] local ip port

Re: Intel 82576 Gigabit on Debian 7 slow speed.

2015-12-18 Thread Mimiko
On 18.12.2015 16:32, Michael Beck wrote: > Any lost packets? ifconfig bond0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr UP BROADCAST RUNNING MASTER MULTICAST MTU:9000 Metric:1 RX packets:654308767 errors:0 dropped:5238 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:761897714 errors:0 dropped:0

Re: Intel 82576 Gigabit on Debian 7 slow speed.

2015-12-18 Thread Michael Beck
> Am 18.12.2015 um 12:35 schrieb Mimiko : > > Hello. > > I've bonded two onboard Intel 82576 Gigabit networks on an supermicro server > for load balancing (round-robin). It is working, but transfer rate is about > 10-20MB/s, while on same type of server the same configuration in windows I > g

Intel 82576 Gigabit on Debian 7 slow speed.

2015-12-18 Thread Mimiko
Hello. I've bonded two onboard Intel 82576 Gigabit networks on an supermicro server for load balancing (round-robin). It is working, but transfer rate is about 10-20MB/s, while on same type of server the same configuration in windows I get around 100MB/s. cat /proc/net/bonding/bond0 Ethernet

Re: Debian 7 to 8 upgrade changlog displays unstable/experimental packages

2015-11-23 Thread Sven Hartge
Andrew Puschak wrote: > I inherited some Debian servers running 7 wheezy and am upgrading to 8 > jessie. During apt-get upgrade (after setting /etc/apt/sources.list to > jessie) I get a less command displaying changelogs as seen below with > the first package being nagios-nrpe. I also get a list

Re: Debian 7 to 8 upgrade changlog displays unstable/experimental packages

2015-11-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 04:11:13PM +, Andrew Puschak wrote: > Hi Everyone! > > I inherited some Debian servers running 7 wheezy and am upgrading to 8 > jessie. During apt-get upgrade (after setting /etc/apt/sources.list to > jessie) I get a less command displaying changelogs as seen below with

Debian 7 to 8 upgrade changlog displays unstable/experimental packages

2015-11-23 Thread Andrew Puschak
Hi Everyone! I inherited some Debian servers running 7 wheezy and am upgrading to 8 jessie. During apt-get upgrade (after setting /etc/apt/sources.list to jessie) I get a less command displaying changelogs as seen below with the first package being nagios-nrpe. I also get a list of packages dur

Re: Subtitles don't show properly in VLC, how to fix it? (Debian 7)

2015-10-10 Thread Mario Castelán Castro
I found a solution. I compared this .srt file with another .srt file that works on my version of VLC. I found that the difference is the format of the time tags. I changed it accordingly from: 00:03:47.47 --> 00:03:53 to: 00:03:47,470 --> 00:03:53,000 (which is the format used in the .sr

Subtitles don't show properly in VLC, how to fix it? (Debian 7)

2015-10-10 Thread Mario Castelán Castro
Hello. When I try to watch a video with external .srt subtitles in VLC, I get strings like "98 --> 00:00:11" (which are strings part of the .stt file) instead of the proper text. The problem is the same whether I open the subtitles with the "Open (advanced)" menu option, or name both files the

Re: Subtitles don't show properly in VLC, how to fix it? (Debian 7)

2015-10-10 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Sat, 2015-10-10 at 13:08 -0500, Mario Castelán Castro wrote: > Hello. > > When I try to watch a video with external .srt subtitles in VLC, I > get > strings like "98 --> 00:00:11" (which are strings part of the .stt > file) > instead of the proper text. The problem is the same whether I open

Re: Major bug with wired/wireless connections in Debian 7

2015-06-17 Thread linuxthefish
Hey guys, Thanks so much for your help! I can confirm removing the default gateway from eth0 solved this! I don't use ethernet much, so it's not a big deal to add the default gateway manually when I do so. Thanks On 16 Jun 2015 20:24, "Bob Proulx" wrote: > Reco wrote: > > linuxthefish wrote: >

Re: Major bug with wired/wireless connections in Debian 7

2015-06-16 Thread Bob Proulx
Reco wrote: > linuxthefish wrote: > > auto lo > > iface lo inet loopback > > > > auto eth0 > > iface eth0 inet static > > address 172.16.0.4 > > gateway 172.16.0.1 > > netmask 255.255.0.0 > > > > allow-hotplug wlan0 > > iface wlan0 inet static > > wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant0.conf

Re: Major bug with wired/wireless connections in Debian 7

2015-06-16 Thread Reco
Hi. On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 11:00:23PM +0100, linuxthefish wrote: > Hello, > > It looks like Debian will only connect to a wireless network when the > ethernet cable has been plugged in and unplugged. Both the wired and > wireless connections are set to automatically come up - but wireless > wil

Re: Major bug with wired/wireless connections in Debian 7

2015-06-15 Thread Bob Proulx
linuxthefish wrote: > It looks like Debian will only connect to a wireless network when the > ethernet cable has been plugged in and unplugged. No. If you are seeing this it is either a bug or a configuration or use problem. Works fine for most of us. So my guess is a configuration or use probl

Major bug with wired/wireless connections in Debian 7

2015-06-15 Thread linuxthefish
Hello, It looks like Debian will only connect to a wireless network when the ethernet cable has been plugged in and unplugged. Both the wired and wireless connections are set to automatically come up - but wireless will not come up and fails to respond to ping unless a ethernet cable has been plug

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 03:35:13PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > Quoting Chris Bannister (cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz): > > On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 04:03:37PM +, Curt wrote: > > > On 2015-04-19, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > > > > > > > > With this many others of us not having any problems on multip

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-21 Thread John Hasler
Celejar writes: > I run my main browser instance with all JavaScript disabled… I wrote: > So do I. Lots of sites put up banners warning me that some "features" > may not operate properly without JS but generally those are exactly the > "features" that I specifically don't want. A few other sites

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-21 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 18 Apr 2015 20:51:58 -0500 John Hasler wrote: > Celejar writes: > > I run my main browser instance with all JavaScript disabled… > > So do I. Lots of sites put up banners warning me that some "features" > may not operate properly without JS but generally those are exactly the > "feature

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-21 Thread David Wright
Quoting Chris Bannister (cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz): > On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 04:03:37PM +, Curt wrote: > > On 2015-04-19, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > > > > > > With this many others of us not having any problems on multiple > > > various browsers, I wonder what (other) secondary things might

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-20 Thread Curt
On 2015-04-20, Chris Bannister wrote: > > Don't confuse primary and secondary with counting. Think 'primary = I'm not confused, nor do I require any lessons from you, nor will I bugger this gnat any further. Let's leave it at that. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 04:03:37PM +, Curt wrote: > On 2015-04-19, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > > > > With this many others of us not having any problems on multiple > > various browsers, I wonder what (other) secondary things might be > > 2 is 'many' in your book? Don't confuse primary and sec

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-19 Thread Ric Moore
On 04/19/2015 11:46 AM, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: Saw the other responses so chiming in. https://www.capitalone.com/ works for me here, too. Works for me, Firefox with java enabled. -- My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, a

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-19 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Sun, 19 Apr 2015, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Sunday 19 April 2015 13:06:44 Lisi Reisz wrote:  I want my nose to stay on my face. This was rather excellent. Tres droll. Not in any need of explication. We should not support the current horror of inducing discomfort in others. Learning how to

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-19 Thread Curt
On 2015-04-19, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > > With this many others of us not having any problems on multiple > various browsers, I wonder what (other) secondary things might be 2 is 'many' in your book? At any rate, I got the site to load in chromium. In iceweasal, even in safe mode (all extensio

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-19 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 4/19/15, David Wright wrote: > Quoting John Hasler (jhas...@newsguy.com): >> >> So do I [run browser with javascript disabled]. >> Lots of sites put up banners warning me that some "features" >> may not operate properly without JS but generally those are exactly the >> "features" that I specifi

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-19 Thread Curt
On 2015-04-19, Lisi Reisz wrote: >> > >> > Lisi. >> >> The page will not load for me with javascript enabled (I use NoScript). >> Iceweasal endlessly spins its wheels 'waiting for login.capital.com...' > > Yes, I have javascript enabled. Me too, but the page in question wouldn't load here. --

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-19 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 19 April 2015 13:06:44 Lisi Reisz wrote: >  I want my nose to stay on my face. After what has been said about comprehensibility. I mean that i do not want to cut off my nose to spite my face. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutting_off_the_nose_to_spite_the_face Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-19 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 19 April 2015 12:49:23 Curt wrote: > On 2015-04-19, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > I can't answer the question, but I have just successfully loaded it in > > Chrome, Iceweasel and Konqueror. In Iceweasel it insisted on cookies. > > > > Lisi. > > The page will not load for me with javascript enab

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-19 Thread Curt
On 2015-04-19, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > I can't answer the question, but I have just successfully loaded it in > Chrome, > Iceweasel and Konqueror. In Iceweasel it insisted on cookies. > > Lisi. > The page will not load for me with javascript enabled (I use NoScript). Iceweasal endlessly spins it

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-19 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 19 April 2015 05:44:36 David Wright wrote: > With JS enabled (as it has been for me) and Flash available (at the > moment I have to "Allow Now" on each page) there are odd sites that > still will not work, eg https://www.capitalone.com/ where, if I > try to login, it just says > "The conn

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-18 Thread David Wright
Quoting John Hasler (jhas...@newsguy.com): > Celejar writes: > > I run my main browser instance with all JavaScript disabled… > > So do I. Lots of sites put up banners warning me that some "features" > may not operate properly without JS but generally those are exactly the > "features" that I spe

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-18 Thread John Hasler
Celejar writes: > I run my main browser instance with all JavaScript disabled… So do I. Lots of sites put up banners warning me that some "features" may not operate properly without JS but generally those are exactly the "features" that I specifically don't want. A few other sites really won't w

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-18 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 17 Apr 2015 08:38:43 + (UTC) Liam O'Toole wrote: ... > So do you normally run browsers on squeeze with javascript /dis/abled? I'm > surprised that any modern web sites work at all. I run my main browser instance with all JavaScript disabled, and many / most of the sites I use run pe

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-18 Thread Petter Adsen
osts - it is to do with the > RAM being used up without memory swapping, occurring, when memory > usage shows at 90-95%, with no memory swapping. > > But, this thread has now descended into flaming, and so I simply give > up on it, and, on trying to get Debian 7 to work, via the mai

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-18 Thread Bret Busby
> I suspect the OP is confused about used vs free memory[1]. > No. It has been made quite clear, in previous posts - it is to do with the RAM being used up without memory swapping, occurring, when memory usage shows at 90-95%, with no memory swapping. But, this thread has now descended into f

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-17 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-04-17, David Wright wrote: > Quoting Bret Busby (bret.bu...@gmail.com): >> The computers upon which I run Debian 6, have only 16 GB of RAM, and, > > Lucky you. 2GB here. > >> expecially with Debian 6 not having adequate memory management (as >> previously mentioned, memory swapping does no

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-17 Thread David Wright
Quoting Bret Busby (bret.bu...@gmail.com): > The computers upon which I run Debian 6, have only 16 GB of RAM, and, Lucky you. 2GB here. > expecially with Debian 6 not having adequate memory management (as > previously mentioned, memory swapping does not work effectively), so, Eh? Squeeze ran qui

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-17 Thread Petter Adsen
on Debian" does not mean that important system packages are interchangeable. If I'm not mistaken, Ubuntu get their packages from Jessie/Sid, if you try to install on Wheezy you likely have an older X server, at the least. I wouldn't attempt it without first doing a little resear

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-17 Thread David Wright
t; It is not "nice" new hardware. This partivular computer was bought to > try to determine whether Debian 7 could run an external monitor - it > has a different graphics hardware configuration. So far, it is not > "nice", as I can't get Debian 7 to run the exter

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-17 Thread Bret Busby
in squeeze was EOL'ed years ago, from a security >>> perspective if nothing else. >>> >> >> >> What it comes down to, has nothing to do with the version number of >> Debian. >> >> What it came down to, is, the web page bien aspx shite, it req

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-17 Thread Bret Busby
no idea, as I > haven't tried, but I would take a backup first, as they may hose things > considerably. > I am well aware that Ubuntu is not Debian, although, from what I understand, it may still be derived from, and, based on Debian. As I had said, the Seamonkey package for Ubuntu, in

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-17 Thread Liam O'Toole
ceweasel on jessie. >> It should work on wheezy, which has the same version of iceweasel, too. >> >> Any browser you run in squeeze was EOL'ed years ago, from a security >> perspective if nothing else. >> > > > What it comes down to, has nothing to d

Ubuntu is not Debian [was: Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors]

2015-04-17 Thread Alexis
Petter Adsen writes: But. These packages are for *Ubuntu*. Ubuntu is not Debian. Yes, they both use .deb packages, but that does not mean that the Ubuntu packages will work well (or at all) on Debian. Since joining this list, i have been quite startled by how many questions get asked here

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-17 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-04-17, Bret Busby wrote: > On 17/04/2015, David Wright wrote: >> Quoting Bret Busby (bret.bu...@gmail.com): >>> On 17/04/2015, Liam O'Toole wrote: >>> > On 2015-04-16, Bret Busby wrote: >>> >> On 17/04/2015, Ric Moore wrote: >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> >>> Have you tried "catalyst" for the

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-17 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-04-17, Bret Busby wrote: > On 17/04/2015, Liam O'Toole wrote: > > > >> Any browser you run in squeeze was EOL'ed years ago, from a security >> perspective if nothing else. >> > > > So, are you claiming that the LTS of Debian 6 LTS, is imaginary, and > does not exist? I am not. I am telli

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-17 Thread Petter Adsen
om whence do I get that? See above. > >> So, I searched within Synaptic, for xserver-xorg-video-radeon . > >> > >> I found that xserver-xorg-video-ati and xserver-xorg-video-radeon, > >> are already installed. > > > > I take it that's on your whee

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-17 Thread Bret Busby
's point. You said you were running a > squeeze browser, 21 lines above and again 6 lines below this one. > That would be a security risk were it not LTS. > Liam's point appeared to be that if anyone (me) is stupid enough to be still using "squeeze", then they (me) can&#x

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-16 Thread David Wright
t comes down to, has nothing to do with the version number of Debian. I don't think that was Liam's point. You said you were running a squeeze browser, 21 lines above and again 6 lines below this one. That would be a security risk were it not LTS. > What it came down to, is, the web

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-16 Thread Petter Adsen
hing of the sort. The site Works fine in iceweasel on > > jessie. It should work on wheezy, which has the same version of > > iceweasel, too. > > > > Any browser you run in squeeze was EOL'ed years ago, from a security > > perspective if nothing else. > > &g

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-16 Thread Bret Busby
s EOL'ed years ago, from a security > perspective if nothing else. > What it comes down to, has nothing to do with the version number of Debian. What it came down to, is, the web page bien aspx shite, it requires javascript (javashite). I installed a 12.x version of opera (from my Debi

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-16 Thread Bret Busby
On 17/04/2015, Liam O'Toole wrote: > Any browser you run in squeeze was EOL'ed years ago, from a security > perspective if nothing else. > So, are you claiming that the LTS of Debian 6 LTS, is imaginary, and does not exist? -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .. "So once you

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-16 Thread Ric Moore
On 04/16/2015 06:07 PM, Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2015-04-16, Bret Busby wrote: On 17/04/2015, Ric Moore wrote: Have you tried "catalyst" for the AMD setup?? Under AMD Mobility Product Family your 6000 series is listed. http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/AMDCatalyst14-9LINRelease

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-16 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-04-16, Bret Busby wrote: > On 17/04/2015, Ric Moore wrote: >> Have you tried "catalyst" for the AMD setup?? Under AMD Mobility >> Product Family your 6000 series is listed. >> http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/AMDCatalyst14-9LINReleaseNotes.aspx >> > > Hello. > > I assume

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-16 Thread Bret Busby
g/category/VIDEO/?&page=3 >>> >>> Cheers, >>> David. >>> >> >> >> Now, you say that, but, Ubuntu 14.04 shows two different sets of >> information, as shown in my preceding messages; >> >> >> " >> >>

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-16 Thread Ric Moore
note that, having just installed (and presently updating) Ubuntu 14.04LTS, on the Acer E5-521-238Q, the same graphics drive shows as being used, as for Debian 7 on the Acer V3772G; from System Settings -> Hardware -> Overview, I have " Processor: AMD E2-6110 APU with AMD Radeon R2 Graphics

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-16 Thread David Wright
lins [Radeon APU A4-6000 with R2 Graphics]") > of the CPU that I had specified; > ("AMD E2-6110 APU with AMD Radeon R2 Graphics x4") Yes. > but, however it is interpreted, my deduction that both Debian 7 and > Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, appear to be lacking a(n adequate) driver for

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-16 Thread Bret Busby
ing messages; " >> >> >> >> I note that, having just installed (and presently updating) Ubuntu >> >> 14.04LTS, on the Acer E5-521-238Q, the same graphics drive shows as >> >> being used, as for Debian 7 on the Acer V3772G; >> >> >

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-16 Thread David Wright
Quoting Bret Busby (bret.bu...@gmail.com): > bret@bret-Aspire-E5-521:~$ lspci | grep -i vga > 00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. > [AMD/ATI] Mullins [Radeon APU A4-6000 with R2 Graphics] I think you should concentrate on the string in brackets, which appears on http

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-16 Thread Bret Busby
Settings -> Details -> Graphics, it has >> >> > >> >> > " >> >> > Driver: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 0x209) >> >> > Experience: Fallback >> >> > " >> >> > >> >> >> >&g

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-16 Thread Petter Adsen
On Thu, 16 Apr 2015 15:21:46 +0800 Bret Busby wrote: > On 16/04/2015, Petter Adsen wrote: > > On Thu, 16 Apr 2015 14:46:46 +0800 > > Bret Busby wrote: > > > >> On 14/04/2015, Bret Busby wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >> &

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-16 Thread Bret Busby
On 16/04/2015, Petter Adsen wrote: > On Thu, 16 Apr 2015 14:46:46 +0800 > Bret Busby wrote: > >> On 14/04/2015, Bret Busby wrote: >> >> >> >> >> > >> > In the Debian 7 installation on the Acer V3-772G, for >> > System -> Sett

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