Re: MacBook pro 2014 stopped booting

2024-12-07 Thread nsrxnst
holy smokes. I deleted the part, created ext4 on it, then mkswap'ed it, and I'm booting! On December 6, 2024 11:31:51 AM EST, Felix Miata wrote: >tomas composed on 2024-12-06 10:47 (UTC+0100): > >> On Thu, Dec 05, 2024 at 09:39:55PM -0500, nsrxnst wrote: >>> aha. > >>> booted a live USB. on

Re: MacBook pro 2014 stopped booting

2024-12-06 Thread David Wright
On Fri 06 Dec 2024 at 19:14:51 (+), Chris Green wrote: > nsrxnst wrote: > > [-- text/plain, encoding quoted-printable, charset: utf-8, 70 lines --] > > > > The machine was gifted, and I was just so happy I could get Debian to boot > > That doesn't mean what you intended! (at least not to m

Re: MacBook pro 2014 stopped booting

2024-12-06 Thread Chris Green
nsrxnst wrote: > [-- text/plain, encoding quoted-printable, charset: utf-8, 70 lines --] > > The machine was gifted, and I was just so happy I could get Debian to boot That doesn't mean what you intended! (at least not to me it didn't) It means the machine was clever (in itself). What you mea

Re: MacBook pro 2014 stopped booting

2024-12-06 Thread nsrxnst
The machine was gifted, and I was just so happy I could get Debian to boot then I never really investigated the hardware or thought much about it. it looks like there is a solution floating around this thread that I'm going to be trying. I have a Lenovo running Deb 12. The MacBook was also ru

Re: MacBook pro 2014 stopped booting

2024-12-06 Thread nsrxnst
having dug through all the functioning partitions, I have concluded it is my swap partition. I even had the intuition to reformat the swap partition. I'm going to try the no resume option and see if that does it. On December 6, 2024 11:31:51 AM EST, Felix Miata wrote: >tomas composed on 2024-12

Re: MacBook pro 2014 stopped booting

2024-12-06 Thread Felix Miata
tomas composed on 2024-12-06 10:47 (UTC+0100): > On Thu, Dec 05, 2024 at 09:39:55PM -0500, nsrxnst wrote: >> aha. >> booted a live USB. one of the partitions is now of type "swsuspend". my >> sleuthing has led me to decide it's a corrupted fs. > I've got a different hunch from the others expre

Re: MacBook pro 2014 stopped booting

2024-12-06 Thread tomas
On Thu, Dec 05, 2024 at 09:39:55PM -0500, nsrxnst wrote: > aha. > > booted a live USB. one of the partitions is now of type "swsuspend". my > sleuthing has led me to decide it's a corrupted fs. I've got a different hunch from the others expressed in this thread: your computer is trying to resto

Re: MacBook pro 2014 stopped booting

2024-12-05 Thread Felix Miata
Greg Wooledge composed on 2024-12-05 21:41 (UTC-0500): > Assuming you use GRUB (I don't know whether a "MacBook pro 2014" is an > amd64 system), you should be able to interrupt the boot sequence, press Apple didn't drop Intel CPUs until 2023. My iMac 2007 is an Intel 64 bit. > the 'e' key to edi

Re: MacBook pro 2014 stopped booting

2024-12-05 Thread David Christensen
On 12/5/24 18:03, nsrxnst wrote: while I was at work, chaos happened in my house. my wife cleaned my office, and her nephew locked himself in there. my Debian install has never been ideal: the GUI is spotty, but the underlying system has always functioned just fine, and to that extent, I have

Re: MacBook pro 2014 stopped booting

2024-12-05 Thread eben
On 12/5/24 21:39, nsrxnst wrote: > booted a live USB. one of the partitions is now of type "swsuspend". my > sleuthing has led me to decide it's a corrupted fs. > > how do I go about recovering this??? If you do something like mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/temp -o ro -t ext4 (modify as appropriate) doe

Re: MacBook pro 2014 stopped booting

2024-12-05 Thread eben
On 12/5/24 21:03, nsrxnst wrote: > upon selecting the appropriate option from grub, manually or > automatically, it begins the boot process, displays errors too fast to > comprehend, You may be able to read the errors if you video-record the screen during boot (higher fps=better) then single-step

Re: MacBook pro 2014 stopped booting

2024-12-05 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Dec 05, 2024 at 21:03:45 -0500, nsrxnst wrote: > my Debian install has never been ideal: the GUI is spotty, [...] > upon selecting the appropriate option from grub, manually or automatically, > it begins the boot process, displays errors too fast to comprehend, and the > screen goes to a

Re: MacBook pro 2014 stopped booting

2024-12-05 Thread nsrxnst
aha. booted a live USB. one of the partitions is now of type "swsuspend". my sleuthing has led me to decide it's a corrupted fs. how do I go about recovering this??? On December 5, 2024 9:03:45 PM EST, nsrxnst wrote: >while I was at work, chaos happened in my house. my wife cleaned my office,

Re: Macbook Post-Installation Issue

2019-12-16 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On 17/12/19 5:46 am, Kent West wrote: Unless things have changed recently (and I don't believe they have), you could also run "sudo tasksel" and pick the Desktop Environment[s] you prefer. Just worked for me, when I tried it just for fun -- Keith Bainbridge keith.bainbridge.3...@gmail.co

Re: Macbook Post-Installation Issue

2019-12-16 Thread Kent West
On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 11:43 AM Dan Ritter wrote: > Dr. Jason Amerson wrote: > > Dan, > > > > I cannot login to my desktop. I am just presented with the Debian > GNU/Linux 10 tty1. > > > > > > Jason > > > > > > On 12/16/2019 12:04:09 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: > > Dr. Jason Amerson wrote: > > > Hell

Re: Macbook Post-Installation Issue

2019-12-16 Thread Dan Ritter
Dr. Jason Amerson wrote: > Dan, > > I cannot login to my desktop. I am just presented with the Debian GNU/Linux > 10 tty1. > > > Jason > > > On 12/16/2019 12:04:09 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: > Dr. Jason Amerson wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Me again. Different computer with a different problem. I ma

Re: Macbook Post-Installation Issue

2019-12-16 Thread Dan Ritter
Dr. Jason Amerson wrote: > Hello, > > Me again. Different computer with a different problem. I may ask about other > computers later. I am in the process of migrating my laptops from Windows 10 > to Debian. This computer is a Macbook Pro. I installed Debian without errors, > not even network e

Re: Macbook Air - Stretch - getting rather hot

2017-09-05 Thread Mario Castelán Castro
On 05/09/17 20:24, James Montgomery wrote: > On Tue, Aug 8, 2017 at 7:42 AM, kelsang sherab wrote: >> The last few days my machine seems to be getting hot more than usual - >> any suggestion of what can i do? > > I didn't see any replies to this message. Are you still having this > issue? I have

Re: Macbook Air - Stretch - getting rather hot

2017-09-05 Thread James Montgomery
On Tue, Aug 8, 2017 at 7:42 AM, kelsang sherab wrote: > The last few days my machine seems to be getting hot more than usual - > any suggestion of what can i do? I didn't see any replies to this message. Are you still having this issue? I have had similar issues with my Macbook Air mid-2011 (Ivy

Re: macbook keyboard layout

2017-08-25 Thread solitone
On Friday, 25 August 2017 01:22:09 CEST Gene Heskett wrote: > Works fine ~ for EN, and utf8 here. On a MacBookPro 12,1 with italian keyboard works fine as well ~ (right-alt + ì) -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁Sent from my brain using neurons fueled by glucose. ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ ⠈⠳⣄

Re: macbook keyboard layout

2017-08-25 Thread Darac Marjal
On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 11:58:51AM +0800, ardawan wrote: Hi, unfortunately i am not able to get Tilde character work properly on Debian OS. I am using macbook pro retina 2015 and tried to key the keyboard layout in the settings to any available English option but still i get >or< instead of T

Re: macbook keyboard layout

2017-08-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 24 August 2017 23:58:51 ardawan wrote: > Hi, > > unfortunately i am not able to get Tilde character work properly on > Debian OS. I am using macbook pro retina 2015 and tried to key the > keyboard layout in the settings to any available English option but > still i get >or< instead of

Re: macbook pro - new install - issues

2015-10-23 Thread Ryan Nowakowski
On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 03:53:59PM +, Miguel Negrão wrote: > Miguel Negrão friendlyvirus.org> writes: > > > 1 - This mac has a portuguese keyboard layout. The portuguese keyboard > > layout is not working on gnome and gdm. Although it appears in the list of > > keyboard layouts on the top rig

Re: macbook pro - new install - issues

2015-10-21 Thread Miguel Negrão
Miguel Negrão friendlyvirus.org> writes: > 1 - This mac has a portuguese keyboard layout. The portuguese keyboard > layout is not working on gnome and gdm. Although it appears in the list of > keyboard layouts on the top right corner in gdm, typing in the keyboard > always outputs characters acco

Re: Macbook pro re-mapping single key

2012-05-04 Thread Indulekha
On Fri, May 04, 2012 at 07:05:43PM +0200, Riccardo Romoli wrote: >Hi, >I found the easiest way to solve the problem: >[1]https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xkeyboard-config/+bug/2615 >73 >Regards >Riccardo > If that's the punchline, I must have missed something. Oh

Re: Macbook pro re-mapping single key

2012-05-04 Thread Riccardo Romoli
Hi, I found the easiest way to solve the problem: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xkeyboard-config/+bug/261573 Regards Riccardo On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 6:29 PM, Indulekha wrote: > As a matter of fact, I'm on an incredibly slow, painfully > unresposive dialup connection -- so I apologi

Re: Macbook pro re-mapping single key

2012-05-04 Thread Indulekha
As a matter of fact, I'm on an incredibly slow, painfully unresposive dialup connection -- so I apologise, but it may be I can't get to this in anything like a timely fashion. Your favorite search engine is your friend, however. I use and recommend duckduckgo.com, which showed me these links be

Re: Macbook pro re-mapping single key

2012-05-04 Thread Indulekha
On Fri, May 04, 2012 at 05:29:58PM +0200, Riccardo Romoli wrote: >Hi, >but my problem is that I haven't the key I need on my keyboard! So how >can I find the code with xev if I haven't the key to generate the code >itself? >R > You sure are making me edit a lot by posdting you

Re: Macbook pro re-mapping single key

2012-05-04 Thread Riccardo Romoli
Hi, but my problem is that I haven't the key I need on my keyboard! So how can I find the code with xev if I haven't the key to generate the code itself? R On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Indulekha wrote: > (NOTE: please reply inline, so as to preserve the discussion > for the archive. Thanks!)

Re: Macbook pro re-mapping single key

2012-05-04 Thread Indulekha
(NOTE: please reply inline, so as to preserve the discussion for the archive. Thanks!) On Fri, May 04, 2012 at 11:56:07AM +0200, Riccardo Romoli wrote: >Hi, thanks for reply. >Using xev this is what I obtained from the key I would like to re-map: >KeyRelease event, serial 33, syntheti

Re: Macbook pro re-mapping single key

2012-05-04 Thread Riccardo Romoli
Hi, thanks for reply. Using xev this is what I obtained from the key I would like to re-map: KeyRelease event, serial 33, synthetic NO, window 0x401, root 0x12d, subw 0x0, time 778257, (752,-224), root:(833,354), state 0x0, keycode 104 (keysym 0xff8d, KP_Enter), same_screen YES, " XLoo

Re: Macbook pro re-mapping single key

2012-05-02 Thread Indulekha
On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 09:00:12PM -0500, Mark Allums wrote: > On 5/2/2012 5:05 PM, Riccardo Romoli wrote: > >Hi to all, > > > >I'm a newbie of Debian but using the Debian-Wiky I was able to install > >Debian 6 as single boot, on my MacBookPro (v.3.1). The only problem I > >notice, till now, is

Re: Macbook pro re-mapping single key

2012-05-02 Thread Mark Allums
On 5/2/2012 5:05 PM, Riccardo Romoli wrote: Hi to all, I'm a newbie of Debian but using the Debian-Wiky I was able to install Debian 6 as single boot, on my MacBookPro (v.3.1). The only problem I notice, till now, is about the Alt key. I bought the computer as used from a German guy ignoring

Re: MacBook

2008-02-09 Thread Mark Clarkson
On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 14:46 -1000, RY wrote: > To Whom It May Concern, > > I wanted to know if I could install Debian on a MacBook using Parallel > Desktops. If this is possible which package do I use? > The lack of middle-click plus many other little things drove me Mad when I did this last yea

Re: MacBook

2008-02-05 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Feb 5, 2008, at 5:29 PM, RY wrote: I mean what type of architecture am I looking at? On Feb 5, 2008 3:17 PM, Rodney D. Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Feb 5, 2008, at 4:46 PM, RY wrote: > To Whom It May Concern, > > I wanted to know if I could install Debian on a MacBook using > Paralle

Re: MacBook

2008-02-05 Thread Bob McGowan
RY wrote: To Whom It May Concern, I wanted to know if I could install Debian on a MacBook using Parallel Desktops. If this is possible which package do I use? Hardware Overview: Model Name:MacBook Model Identifier:MacBook2,1 Processor Name:Intel Core 2 Duo Processor Speed

Re: MacBook

2008-02-05 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Feb 5, 2008, at 4:46 PM, RY wrote: To Whom It May Concern, I wanted to know if I could install Debian on a MacBook using Parallel Desktops. If this is possible which package do I use? Hardware Overview: Model Name:MacBook Model Identifier:MacBook2,1 Processor Name:Inte

Re: MACBook + USB-UMTS

2007-10-29 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hallo Michael, Ich selber verwende jetzt ein "Nokia 6120 classic" welches mich 225 Euro in DE gekostet hat. Es unterstützt USB 2.0, GPRS, E-GPRS, EDGE, UMTS/3G sowie HSDPA (1,8, 3,6 und 7,2 MBit). Ich kann es nur empfehlen. Anm.: Deine Frage ist besser auf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> da diese Lis

Re: MACBook + USB-UMTS

2007-10-24 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 01:07:09AM -0700, Michael Post wrote: > Hallo Listenbewohner, > > ich benötige für mein MacBook, auf dem das aktuellste Debian läuft, > eine UMTS-Karte mit Tarif. > Was könnt Ihr empfehlen? > Leider hat das MacBook keinen PCMCIA-Slot und wenn ich das richtig > sehe, dann ko

Re: MacBook Pro and Debian

2006-03-02 Thread Hans du Plooy
Oooh, sorry - wrong slashdot link: http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/02/16/2025243 - > > I have a very naive question: > > can we install Debian on a MacBook Pro (IntelMac) laptop ? Don't think Sarge or Etch will work as is, Sid with some serious panelbeating might. > I thin

Re: MacBook Pro and Debian

2006-03-02 Thread Hans du Plooy
> > I have a very naive question: > > can we install Debian on a MacBook Pro (IntelMac) laptop ? Don't think Sarge or Etch will work as is, Sid with some serious panelbeating might. > I think I read about someone installing windows someway. Only Vista, the earlier ones doesn't support EFI (or what

Re: MacBook Pro and Debian

2006-03-01 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 05:47:00AM +, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello List, > > I have a very naive question: > can we install Debian on a MacBook Pro (IntelMac) laptop ? I think I read about someone installing windows someway. And its an intel duo core which is in the x86 family. So odds are tha