Re: AMD Graphics on Debian 7.4

2014-04-12 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 12 April 2014 04:04:29 ray wrote: > Well, I am running wheezy, Debian 7.4.  So I tried: > sh ./amd-catalyst-13.12-linux-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg > Debian/experimental This doesn't make sense. Wheezy is Stable, so surely: sh ./amd-catalyst-13.12-linux-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg Debian

the importance of defaults ( was: Debian default desktop environment )

2014-04-12 Thread alberto fuentes
tl;dr go to [0] On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 1:06 PM, Ghislain Vaillant wrote: > My vote would be on GNOME 3 classic for now, but XFCE with sensible and > visually appealing defaults would do it for me too. You are all facing different experiences with end-users because end-users are probably differe

apache ssl without virtualhosts?

2014-04-12 Thread Richard Hector
Hi all, I'm trying to add SSL to my (debian packaged) ledgersmb setup. The ledgersmb package sets up the apache config in conf.d, so it's not in a VirtualHost. But when I put 'SSLEngine on' in the global config, I get an error in the logs that it should be in a VirtualHost block, and the server

jd only Japanese?

2014-04-12 Thread sp113438
JD offers a comfortable browsing experience on 2ch-style bulletin board systems. But it is in Japanese language. Am I mistaken? Debian Unstable amd64 Thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.d

Re: jd only Japanese?

2014-04-12 Thread Martin Read
On 12/04/14 12:56, sp113438 wrote: JD offers a comfortable browsing experience on 2ch-style bulletin board systems. But it is in Japanese language. Am I mistaken? A quick look at the upstream website, which has no easily-spotted links containing the names of European languages, suggests that

Re: apt-get doesn't upgrade, but synaptic does

2014-04-12 Thread John Hasler
Try removing libreoffice-core . -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA -- 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/877g6ud7y9@thumper.dhh.gt.org

Copying complete SET of installation DVDs to a USB stick

2014-04-12 Thread Richard Owlett
I will be installing Debian at locations which DO NOT have internet. Instead of juggling a stack of DVDs, I want everything on a USB stick. I am using Debian 6.0.5 as test case - it's what I have available. There was no problem copying the first DVD to the beginning of the USB stick with dd. I

Re: Copying complete SET of installation DVDs to a USB stick

2014-04-12 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 12 April 2014 15:01:05 Richard Owlett wrote: > I rebooted to an operable system and created a large partition on > the remainder of the flash drive. I then attempted to copy DVDs > to the flash drive using first >      cp -r -l /media/cdrom0 /media/mydrive/disk1 [snip] >      cp -r -l

Re: Copying complete SET of installation DVDs to a USB stick

2014-04-12 Thread Richard Owlett
Lisi Reisz wrote: On Saturday 12 April 2014 15:01:05 Richard Owlett wrote: I rebooted to an operable system and created a large partition on the remainder of the flash drive. I then attempted to copy DVDs to the flash drive using first cp -r -l /media/cdrom0 /media/mydrive/disk1 [snip]

Re: AMD Graphics on Debian 7.4

2014-04-12 Thread ray
> Yes, the error was that you needed "stable", certainly > not "experimental"! > OK, I tried: Generating package: Debian/stable ./packages/Debian/ati-packager.sh: 1: ./packages/Debian/ati-packager.sh: dpkg-architecture: not found Error: unsupported architecture: Just to confirm: lsb_relea

Re: S-Video on ThinkPad T42 with Debian Jessie - can't get above 800x600

2014-04-12 Thread Chris Angelico
On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 12:50 AM, Chris Angelico wrote: > I've just converted a laptop from Windows XP to Debian Jessie, with > the expectation that I'd be able to do everything at least as well as > before. That's been mostly true, but I'm stuck on a problem with the > S-Video output: whatever I

Desktop 3d

2014-04-12 Thread Benedito Junior
Hello for all, Does anyone here can say me which is the repository to install desktop 3d in Wheezy version. I am looking for at the internet but i did not found it. Thanks a lot.

Re: Cropping a large collection of .PNG screenshots

2014-04-12 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 10 Apr 2014 00:43:45 +0300 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 09 apr 14, 08:59:51, Steve Litt wrote: > > > > Or, you can just redirect ls into a file, use Vim to convert and > > rename each file individually. > > Could you please elaborate on this? ls -1 *.png > doit.sh chmod a+x doit.sh g

Re: Cropping a large collection of .PNG screenshots

2014-04-12 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 2:26 AM, Steve Litt wrote: > On Thu, 10 Apr 2014 00:43:45 +0300 > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > >> On Mi, 09 apr 14, 08:59:51, Steve Litt wrote: >> > >> > Or, you can just redirect ls into a file, use Vim to convert and >> > rename each file individually. >> >> Could you please

Re: AMD Graphics on Debian 7.4

2014-04-12 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sat, 12 Apr 2014 07:38:14 -0700 (PDT) ray wrote: > ./packages/Debian/ati-packager.sh: 1: ./packages/Debian/ati-packager.sh: > dpkg-architecture: not found Install 'dpkg-dev' package to solve this. Reco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: AMD Graphics on Debian 7.4

2014-04-12 Thread Curt
On 2014-04-12, ray wrote: > > Yes, wheezy is stable; today. But at the time the driver package was > built, what would have been 'stable'? > I deduce squeeze. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists

Re: AMD Graphics on Debian 7.4

2014-04-12 Thread Bruno Schneider
On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 11:38 AM, ray wrote: > > Yes, wheezy is stable; today. But at the time the driver package was built, > what would have been 'stable'? > Ray, why don't you install the fglrx driver from repositories? I'm having my own problems with that driver, but since I use testing, I'

AMD Graphics and Gnome on testing (Jessie)

2014-04-12 Thread Bruno Schneider
I'm having trouble with the fglrx module on a notebook with Debian testing (Jessie). It was working well, then after a system upgrade on April 10, Gnome no longer works. The upgrade included gnome, linux-kernel, xorg and fglrx. By no long works, I mean: Gdm3 no longer shows the list of users. It

Re: My fellow (Debian) Linux users ...

2014-04-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2014-04-12 at 20:48 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > I experience issues with Debian lists :(. _With Debian lists only_ :(. > > :( I'm still subscribed to d-community-offtopic, I checked it, however, > my latest mail didn't come through the list: My apologies, it was delayed and did came trou

My fellow (Debian) Linux users ...

2014-04-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
I experience issues with Debian lists :(. _With Debian lists only_ :(. :( I'm still subscribed to d-community-offtopic, I checked it, however, my latest mail didn't come through the list: Forwarded Message From: Ralf Mardorf To: d-community-offto...@lists.alioth.debian.org Subj

list issues [was: Re: My fellow (Debian) Linux users ...]

2014-04-12 Thread Miles Fidelman
Well.. do be aware that as of mid-last week, any messages sent from a yahoo mail account are pretty likely to bounce from other yahoo accounts, rcn, hotmail, comcast, and other large mail systems. See "Yahoo breaks every mailing list in the world including the IETF's" http://www.ietf.org/mail

Re: My fellow (Debian) Linux users ...

2014-04-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
> Well.. do be aware that as of mid-last week, any messages sent from > a yahoo mail account are pretty likely to bounce from other > yahooaccounts, rcn, hotmail, comcast, and other large mail systems. > See "Yahoo breaks every mailing list in the world including the > IETF's" http://www.ietf.org/

Re: My fellow (Debian) Linux users ...

2014-04-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2014-04-12 at 21:31 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > Well.. do be aware that as of mid-last week, any messages sent from > > a yahoo mail account are pretty likely to bounce from other > > yahooaccounts, rcn, hotmail, comcast, and other large mail systems. > > See "Yahoo breaks every mailing

Re: Cropping a large collection of .PNG screenshots

2014-04-12 Thread Cousin Stanley
> for fn in *.png; do mv $fn $fn.bak; convert -crop whatever $fn.bak $fn; done > > But that's assuming you know how to use 'convert -crop' > to do what you want, which I don't. > # convert source -crop geometry target # # geometry : width x height + w_offset + h_offset # # width x heig

Re: My fellow (Debian) Linux users ...

2014-04-12 Thread Miles Fidelman
Ralf Mardorf wrote: Well.. do be aware that as of mid-last week, any messages sent from a yahoo mail account are pretty likely to bounce from other yahooaccounts, rcn, hotmail, comcast, and other large mail systems. See "Yahoo breaks every mailing list in the world including the IETF's" http://ww

Re: My fellow (Debian) Linux users ...

2014-04-12 Thread Miles Fidelman
Ralf Mardorf wrote: PPS & OT: In Germany there's a huge OpenSSL security risk hype going on. I don't follow this crappy "news", since I never relied on OpenSSL for my needs. Not just in Germany. And, if you access password-protected sites that expose an https: or other SSL interface - those p

Re: AMD Graphics and Gnome on testing (Jessie)

2014-04-12 Thread Gary Dale
On 12/04/14 02:20 PM, Bruno Schneider wrote: I'm having trouble with the fglrx module on a notebook with Debian testing (Jessie). It was working well, then after a system upgrade on April 10, Gnome no longer works. The upgrade included gnome, linux-kernel, xorg and fglrx. By no long works, I mea

Re: My fellow (Debian) Linux users ...

2014-04-12 Thread John Hasler
Miles Fidelman writes: > Not just in Germany. And, if you access password-protected sites that > expose an https: or other SSL interface - those passwords are at risk. Just TLS and just with Web servers that used the "heartbeat" kluge. Still a very serious bug, though. -- John Hasler jhas...@ne

Re: Desktop 3d

2014-04-12 Thread Sheepherd
Hi There, Checking sourceforge, apparently the project is unmaintained since mid 2005. (last release) This is also confirmed on the bug tracker: "There is no maintainer for 3ddesktop. This means that this package no longer exists (or never existed)." And since unmaintained software is afaik remo

Re: AMD Graphics on Debian 7.4

2014-04-12 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 12 April 2014 15:38:14 ray wrote: > Yes, wheezy is stable; today.  But at the time the driver package > was built, what would have been 'stable'? Try testing. If the driver is an old driver, Wheezy may have been Testing when the driver was released. Wheezy was released as Stable on

Re: My fellow (Debian) Linux users ...

2014-04-12 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sat, 12 Apr 2014 16:07:23 -0500 John Hasler wrote: > Miles Fidelman writes: > > Not just in Germany. And, if you access password-protected sites that > > expose an https: or other SSL interface - those passwords are at risk. > > Just TLS and just with Web servers that used the "heartbe

Re: My fellow (Debian) Linux users ...

2014-04-12 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 13 Apr 2014, Reco wrote: > On Sat, 12 Apr 2014 16:07:23 -0500 > John Hasler wrote: > > Miles Fidelman writes: > > > Not just in Germany. And, if you access password-protected sites that > > > expose an https: or other SSL interface - those passwords are at risk. > > > > Just TLS and just

Re: AMD Graphics on Debian 7.4

2014-04-12 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 12 April 2014 15:38:14 ray wrote: > OK, I tried: > Generating package: Debian/stable > ./packages/Debian/ati-packager.sh: 1: > ./packages/Debian/ati-packager.sh: dpkg-architecture: not found > Error: unsupported architecture: (my stars) I haven't been reading this properly.

Re: My fellow (Debian) Linux users ...

2014-04-12 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 12 April 2014 23:11:35 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > There IS a reason why it was given a "Severity: Apocaliptic" label > by the best in the field: So what action do readers recommend? Change every single password, or just passwords to sensitive sites/information? Lisi --

ERRATA - Re: AMD Graphics on Debian 7.4

2014-04-12 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 12 April 2014 23:18:26 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Saturday 12 April 2014 15:38:14 ray wrote: > > OK, I tried: > > Generating package: Debian/stable > > ./packages/Debian/ati-packager.sh: 1: > > ./packages/Debian/ati-packager.sh: dpkg-architecture: not found > > > > Error: unsupported ar

Re: My fellow (Debian) Linux users ...

2014-04-12 Thread John Hasler
Henrique writes: > It also includes the emails that were read over a > heartbleed-vulnerable IMAP, and every data that went over a > heartbleed-vulnerable VPN tunnel, for example. I wasn't aware that IMAP and VPN used heartbeat. I don't see that IMAP is all that serious, though. Email isn't secu

Re: mirroring debian-security, sharing package pool with stable/testing/sid pool

2014-04-12 Thread bob
On 04/11/2014 02:56 AM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: 8< snip Thus my question: Is it possible to use debmirror, to mirror stable,testing,sid as well as debian-security for stable and testing, and have them all share the same package pool? I can't see it, and I'm hoping I am simply not understanding s

Re: My fellow (Debian) Linux users ...

2014-04-12 Thread John Hasler
Lisi writes: > So what action do readers recommend? Change every single password, or > just passwords to sensitive sites/information? If I did any online banking I would certainly change the passwords: I might even close the accounts. But I don't. I may change my Ebay password and perhaps the

Re: My fellow (Debian) Linux users ...

2014-04-12 Thread Steve Litt
On Sat, 12 Apr 2014 23:20:40 +0100 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Saturday 12 April 2014 23:11:35 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > There IS a reason why it was given a "Severity: Apocaliptic" label > > by the best in the field: > > So what action do readers recommend? Change every single password

Re: Cropping a large collection of .PNG screenshots

2014-04-12 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 5:48 AM, Cousin Stanley wrote: >> Personally, I'd whip up a quick Pike script > > # I think you also sprechen der python :-) > > #!/usr/bin/env python > > import subprocess as SP > process = SP.Popen( args , shell = False ) > That's still calling on convert, though;

Re: My fellow (Debian) Linux users ...

2014-04-12 Thread John Hasler
SteveT writes: > I'm changing every password: That's about 100 of them. I really don't see why I should change my Reddit or Slashdot passwords or any of the others for sites of similarly trivial importance. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-

Re: Skype - no microphone input sound...

2014-04-12 Thread Man_Without_Clue
Is there anyone who is using Skype with no problem at all on Debian Wheezy 64 bit? On 04/12/2014 12:13 AM, Man_Without_Clue wrote: Hi all, I don't know what really is going on and where to start this off. For some reason Skype doesn't pick up microphone audio at all. I set pulse audio and

Re: My fellow (Debian) Linux users ...

2014-04-12 Thread Joel Rees
Uhm, ... On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 4:31 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > Well.. do be aware that as of mid-last week, any messages sent from > > a yahoo mail account are pretty likely to bounce from other > > yahooaccounts, rcn, hotmail, comcast, and other large mail systems. > > See "Yahoo breaks eve

Re: My fellow (Debian) Linux users ...

2014-04-12 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On 20h20 12 de Abril de 2014, Steve Litt wrote: > I'm changing every password: That's about 100 of them. That's a good thing to do, but only after the server has patched openssl and changed its certificate. Otherwise someone could have captured the private key and other information that could be

Re: AMD Graphics on Debian 7.4

2014-04-12 Thread ray
> > Error: unsupported architecture: > > I haven't been reading this properly. Sorry. :-( Are your distro, > > your driver and your CPU all the same architecture? Yes, from the dpkg --print-architecture --> amd64, the CPU is an Intel i7-3930K, and the Catalyst package is amd-catal

Re: apt-get doesn't upgrade, but synaptic does

2014-04-12 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Sat, 12 Apr 2014, PaulNM wrote: > > On 04/11/2014 09:28 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > On Fri, 11 Apr 2014, PaulNM wrote: > > > >> On 04/11/2014 12:04 AM, Patrick Bartek wrote: > [snip] > > Fine. Everything is installed. Now, sometime later, I want to > > uninstall or purge libreoffice from

Re: apt-get doesn't upgrade, but synaptic does

2014-04-12 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Sat, 12 Apr 2014, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Fri, 11 Apr 2014 18:28:04 -0700 > Patrick Bartek wrote: > > Hello Patrick, > > >uninstall or purge libreoffice from the system. 'apt-get purge > >libreoffice' won't do it. I've done tests, and as far as I can tell > >little or nothing is removed. >

Re: Cropping a large collection of .PNG screenshots

2014-04-12 Thread Cousin Stanley
> > convert -crop whatever $fn.bak $fn > > But that's assuming you know how to use > 'convert -crop' to do what you want, which I don't. This is the part of your post that I was attempting to address and hopefully, clarify the use of the geometry argument to -crop since you stat

GNOME dependencies (was ... Re: apt-get doesn't upgrade, but synaptic does)

2014-04-12 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 12:26:10AM -0400, PaulNM wrote: > paul@debguis2:~$ aptitude why libreoffice-writer > i gnome Depends libreoffice-writer | abiword (>= 2.8) WTF. Shouldn't that be a recommends? Seems like a bug to me. -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the pe

Re: the importance of defaults ( was: Debian default desktop environment )

2014-04-12 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 12:17:47PM +0200, alberto fuentes wrote: > tl;dr http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/tldr > My point is that gnome3 is even more disruptive than unity. Do we want > to attract users or scare them away? Neither. I suggest that the lack of one option doesn't automatically imply

Re: Copying complete SET of installation DVDs to a USB stick

2014-04-12 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 09:01:05AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > I will be installing Debian at locations which DO NOT have internet. > Instead of juggling a stack of DVDs, I want everything on a USB stick. > I am using Debian 6.0.5 as test case - it's what I have available. > There was no problem

Re: Cropping a large collection of .PNG screenshots

2014-04-12 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 1:42 PM, Cousin Stanley wrote: >> >> convert -crop whatever $fn.bak $fn >> >> But that's assuming you know how to use >> 'convert -crop' to do what you want, which I don't. > > This is the part of your post > that I was attempting to address > and hopefully, clar

Re: My fellow (Debian) Linux users ...

2014-04-12 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sat, 12 Apr 2014 23:20:40 +0100 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Saturday 12 April 2014 23:11:35 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > There IS a reason why it was given a "Severity: Apocaliptic" label > > by the best in the field: > > So what action do readers recommend? Change every single pa

Re: GNOME dependencies (was ... Re: apt-get doesn't upgrade, but synaptic does)

2014-04-12 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sun, 13 Apr 2014 16:18:01 +1200 Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 12:26:10AM -0400, PaulNM wrote: > > paul@debguis2:~$ aptitude why libreoffice-writer > > i gnome Depends libreoffice-writer | abiword (>= 2.8) > > WTF. Shouldn't that be a recommends? > > Seems like a bug