Re: idsoftware games

2006-09-30 Thread Sven Arvidsson
Doom 3, it sounds like there is an update available that adds support for ALSA. Might be worth trying? http://zerowing.idsoftware.com/linux/doom/ -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Using XINE to play a DVD ISO Image?

2006-10-03 Thread Sven Arvidsson
y works fine) or, if the image actually is ISO9660, try to remaster it with mkisofs. http://www.tumfatig.net/docs/11_soft_client/mmedia/mkisofs%20-%20burn% 20a%20DVD-video.html -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: motorola v3i synchronize

2006-10-03 Thread Sven Arvidsson
ial, it's in german and for SuSE, but it might help you. http://www.linuxnetmag.com/de/issue9/m9kmobile1.html Also, if the V3i is the same as the Razr V3i it seems moto4lin is what you want to communicate with the phone. http://moto4lin.sourceforge.net/wiki/Main_Page -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsso

Re: gxine and real on BBC radio

2006-10-04 Thread Sven Arvidsson
successfully reverse engineered RealAudio. I simply use mplayer rtsp://... or mplayer -playlist http:// -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: bind my hibernate key to some command?

2006-10-04 Thread Sven Arvidsson
ess well for both suspend and hiberntion than the > hibernate package does. gnome-power-manager actually uses whatever backend is available, for example hibernate. Sometimes some minor adjustments of the hal scripts can be necessary. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BD

Re: Can't switch resolution in xorg

2006-10-04 Thread Sven Arvidsson
a Debian bug open for this one. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: gnome-volume-manager mount options for removable devices

2006-10-05 Thread Sven Arvidsson
, so /etc/fstab > entries are not needed. Try editing /etc/hal/fdi/policy/preferences.fdi, there is a section about "how to put sync and noatime on for devices smaller then 1Gb and off for device larger then that". -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: gnome-volume-manager mount points

2006-10-05 Thread Sven Arvidsson
ount points, I think that is the job of udev. http://www.reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: gxine and real on BBC radio

2006-10-05 Thread Sven Arvidsson
at the reverse engineered implentation is somewhat lacking, but thats not something that bothers me much. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: How to change gnome's defaut WM?

2006-10-06 Thread Sven Arvidsson
Sessions. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: xine and subtitles

2006-10-06 Thread Sven Arvidsson
format. Is there some way I can get the subtitles to display? Those are most likely vobsub subtitles, and it sounds like Xine can't handle those. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xine-user&m=111640711330457&w=2 You could try MPlayer, or try to find the same subtitles in a suppo

Re: cinelerra error

2006-10-06 Thread Sven Arvidsson
to be allocated by default. This needs to be increased to do anything useful. Run the following command: echo "0x7fff" > /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22 signature.asc Description: This is a digit

Re: how to set up ipw2200 (wi-fi card).

2006-10-06 Thread Sven Arvidsson
-2 > ipw2200: Unable to load firmware: -2 > ipw2200: failed to register network device Hi, You need to load the firmware for that card to work. http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=4021&; -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: azx_get_response -- please help!

2006-10-10 Thread Sven Arvidsson
45150 But this thread from lkml seems to suggest that some users still have trouble in 2.6.18. http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/9/25/209 One of the last messages in that thread suggests that disabling the built in modem may cause this. Might be worth a shot. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.

Re: problem playing vcd with totem

2006-10-13 Thread Sven Arvidsson
k-around for this? Not sure what is causing this, but please try totem from the experimental archive and report a bug if it still gives you problems. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Compiz and XGL on Debian

2006-10-13 Thread Sven Arvidsson
n-user/ AFAIK only AIGLX and Compiz is supported in Debian unstable at the moment. You need to find som third party packages or build from source for Xgl. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Unable to start courier-imap?

2006-10-13 Thread Sven Arvidsson
tarting Courier IMAP server:/etc/init.d/courier-imap: xrealloc: > ../bash/subst.c:512: cannot reallocate 512 bytes (0 bytes allocated) Just a guess, but according to this old thread, it sounds like you're running out of memory? http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/02/msg01603.html -- Chee

Re: Name for Etch+1?

2006-10-13 Thread Sven Arvidsson
t; the first Toy Story film ;-) Code names are chosen by the release manager. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/01/msg00472.html Also, read the rest of that thread for a discussion about running out of names... -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22 signature.as

Re: default nautilus character encoding

2006-10-14 Thread Sven Arvidsson
to true. In the long run, I think it's simply easier to embrace UTF-8 and take the time to convert your filenames. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: how to play .wmv files on Debian..???

2006-10-15 Thread Sven Arvidsson
t play these formats yet. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: mp3 organizer

2006-10-15 Thread Sven Arvidsson
kage? A few suggestions, Easytag, Cowbell, Exfalso. I'm sure there are tons more. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: how to play .wmv files on Debian..???

2006-10-16 Thread Sven Arvidsson
er, acroread, > etc). For details on this, see > http://www.debiantutorials.org/content/view/86/114/ For MPlayer and WMV9 w32codecs is no longer necessary. One less non-free package... In experimental (and maybe unstable?) Totem provides a very good browser plugin. -- Cheers, Sven

Re: Xine vs. GStreamer

2006-10-16 Thread Sven Arvidsson
yback of Flash Video and WMV9. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Good photo organizer?

2006-10-17 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 12:41 +0300, Yura wrote: > Good photo organizer for Debian? F-Spot. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Is there an interactive Linux tutorial?

2006-10-17 Thread Sven Arvidsson
d package it, and > if it were good, do you think it might get shipped with Debian? > Do you think they might put in a little plug for it for people who > type newbie commands like "help" or the DOS commands "del" or "ren" in > the Bash shell? Sounds like

Re: Sound via ssh

2006-10-17 Thread Sven Arvidsson
o starts playing > the mp3. However, the sound is not forwarded to my > headphones connected to my Sun terminal. What is wrong? > Do I need to install any more modules/programs? I think you need to install, configure and run a sound server such as esd or arts on both systems. -- Cheers, Sv

Re: firewalls and installation stuff....

2006-10-18 Thread Sven Arvidsson
The configuration can be run inside X from a terminal, but you need to restart X for the changes to take effect. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: how to install ali web cam .

2006-10-18 Thread Sven Arvidsson
linux kernel. http://m560x.x3ng.com/wiki/CurrentState You need to compile it for yourself. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Keyboard Shortcuts in Gnome

2006-10-18 Thread Sven Arvidsson
u mentioned seems to be about the screenshot feature in the installer. Instead see #275091, #231076 and http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125048 -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: cdebootstrap, USB-Ethernet

2006-10-18 Thread Sven Arvidsson
estion. You can list the loaded modules and the installed packages and try to find any differences between the systems. lsmod and dpkg -l -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: how to change password in keyring

2006-10-20 Thread Sven Arvidsson
id=338088 AFAIK, the only way to reset the keyring is to delete ~/.gnome2/keyrings/ (You might need to kill the keyring daemon or log out and in again). -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: TV-out with XFree86 and nv - possible?

2006-10-22 Thread Sven Arvidsson
t want to watch movies on > my TV. Any pointers to where should I start digging? Hi, Depending upon the graphic card and the tv encoder chip, it's quite possible. See the documentation in /usr/share/doc/nvtv/ for the supported list. If your card and chip is supported, no XFree86/Xorg configu

Re: CF memory card data recovery?

2006-10-26 Thread Sven Arvidsson
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Re: unmounting /media/usbdisk from the command line?

2006-10-26 Thread Sven Arvidsson
have to use pumount. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: rhythmbox missing files

2006-10-26 Thread Sven Arvidsson
d path? Are the missing songs on a local filesystem or shared by nfs/ssh or similar? -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2006-10-26 Thread Sven Arvidsson
[ ex-falso ] * terminal emulator [ gnome-terminal ] * text editor [ emacs, gedit ] * 3D animation [ blender ] * video player [ totem-gstreamer, mplayer ] * web browser [ epiphany ] * word-processor [ abiword ] * (unreleased) [ ] * (great honours) [ rockbox ] -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http

Re: rhythmbox missing files

2006-10-27 Thread Sven Arvidsson
ebin ! fakesink -t If you have no luck, make sure to report it as a bug, and include the first 500k or so of the song. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: rhythmbox missing files

2006-10-29 Thread Sven Arvidsson
reamer, sound-juicer). You might need to start rhythmbox with the debug flag (rhythmbox -d) and check for errors. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Slow Firefox

2006-10-29 Thread Sven Arvidsson
ave a 20-40s load time! Am i the only one? That doesn't sound right. Try moving ~/.mozilla out of the way and start with a fresh profile. If that doesn't work, maybe you can try launching firefox with strace and see if you can spot something strange. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://w

Re: Why I left Debian

2006-10-29 Thread Sven Arvidsson
ue. The w32codecs package isn't really needed for most video formats. The only mainstream ones I can think of is the newest Real Video ones. What you need are players with a recent ffmpeg version. ffmpeg supports most formats, for example WMV9. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP K

Re: rhythmbox missing files

2006-10-30 Thread Sven Arvidsson
st > in case it was something stupid, I copied the text strings from Amazon and > saved > them to the tags. No dice. I'm not sure actually. There are a few bugs open about missing or wrong covers, maybe you can add a comment about these albums? -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.

Re: rhythmbox missing files

2006-10-30 Thread Sven Arvidsson
; but that's all I can find amongst the stream of debug info. What should I be > looking for? The warnings about HAL doesn't look good, but I'm not sure what can be done about them, better file a bug. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Monitor sarge server(s) from win box

2006-10-30 Thread Sven Arvidsson
cation he tried..? That link is broken, and I have never used gkrellm, but can't you simply run it from the server, run an X server in Windows and display the monitor there? -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Monitor sarge server(s) from win box

2006-10-30 Thread Sven Arvidsson
ystem unless absolutely necessary and to just run > GKRELLM ..well I dont see that it is the thing to do I understand about the bandwidth, but the X server would not be running on the server. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22 signature.asc Description: This

Re: emacs and mutt

2006-11-01 Thread Sven Arvidsson
them work in .muttrc. > Curiously, > > set editor="emacs -nw" I haven't used Mutt for a while, but when I did I hade the following in .muttrc: set editor='emacs %s -nw -f mail-mode' I would guess that it should work for text-mode too. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: x.org and unplugged hotplug devices

2006-11-03 Thread Sven Arvidsson
: Option "AllowMouseOpenFail" "boolean" This allows the server to start up even if the mouse device can’t be opened/initialised. Default: false. HTH, -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: xscreensaver

2006-11-05 Thread Sven Arvidsson
nd for this? Or, if I'm wrong, > another explanation for these freeze-ups when playing these games? Try disabling xscreensaver to make sure that it is to blame. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: How to make Firefox to show unicode text?

2006-11-09 Thread Sven Arvidsson
try installing ttf-tamil-fonts. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: How to make Firefox to show unicode text?

2006-11-10 Thread Sven Arvidsson
an. Maybe you could provide a screenshot of the problem? -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: undetected network card etch installer

2006-11-11 Thread Sven Arvidsson
> using this card with sarge without problems with the natsemi driver. > This driver is also listed in the available drivers of the etch > installation but if I select it nothing happens. Any suggestion? Report it as a bug. Either for the appropriate linux-image package or the installer.

Re: Wanted: decent GNOME player with MP4/AAC support

2006-11-12 Thread Sven Arvidsson
gst-launch-0.10 playbin uri=file:///path/to/song.aac If it works so far, you need to see if the failure is in Rhythmbox itself. Running with the debug flag, -d and trying to import the files is a good start. HTH, -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22

Re: Want to get Radeon HD 8970M working with Debian 8.4 on MSI GX70 laptop

2016-05-23 Thread Sven Arvidsson
oot-ubuntu-14-04 But if I'm not mistaken the GPU in you system is so new (GCN family?) that 8.4 won't have proper support for it. You probably need testing, and unless I'm mistaken again, kernel 4.5 or newer. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Gnome top bar clock

2016-05-27 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Fri, 2016-05-27 at 15:16 +0200, Hársfalvi Gábor wrote: > Hi! > > Is there any way to move the clock on the bar top on the screen? For  > example from center to left side. You need to use extensions for that https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/2/move-clock/ -- Cheers, Sven Ar

Re: Improper visuals after update

2016-05-30 Thread Sven Arvidsson
ated yet? (If you are using unstable (that's a quite important detail to mention) you need to read the NEWS and/or changelogs, be patient, and check your logs to see what packages changed during the upgrade.) -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Pitivi can't run on xfce 4.12

2016-06-01 Thread Sven Arvidsson
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=819291 There's mention of a patch there, so hopefully it will be fixed and a new package released soon. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: How to properly install Radeon drivers for Sid

2016-06-02 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Thu, 2016-06-02 at 18:49 +0200, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > I use the kernel parameter "radeon.dpm=1" for saving some energy with > my GPU. That shouldn't be necessary with an up to date kernel. Power management is automatic. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.s

Re: enable telnetd?

2016-06-02 Thread Sven Arvidsson
ty risk. These > are  > understood. All I'm interested in is capturing dmesg and logs from a > test  > installation while normal logins are busy with segfaulting or > otherwise  > inaccessible. Does logging in through telnet not work at all, or just not as root? -- C

Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs

2016-06-05 Thread Sven Arvidsson
er versions appear not to be. See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=646621 -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: wrong owner of /run/user/1000/dconf/user causes X to freeze

2016-06-08 Thread Sven Arvidsson
eported (quite a few times): https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=769889 You can also file bugs against the "general" pseudo package, but it's generally discouraged. Better to ask for guidance on the list. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5

Re: Touchpad, audio, and wifi not working

2016-06-09 Thread Sven Arvidsson
5.0-2-amd64 I get an infinite loop when booting, > setting > [...] That hardware is so new, you need to use at least testing. It's a Skylake system too, so extra important to use the latest kernel/microcode/firmware etc. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 sig

Re: Touchpad, audio, and wifi not working

2016-06-09 Thread Sven Arvidsson
the laptop.  You didn't mention it in your post, but I doubt you would get proper OpenGL/OpenCL support and video hardware decoding without X/libdrm/Mesa from testing. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Touchpad, audio, and wifi not working

2016-06-09 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Thu, 2016-06-09 at 08:40 -0500, Zachary Tretter wrote: > On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 8:24 AM, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > > > > Skylake have had some serious > > problems you might want to read up on. (To the point of the > > hardware > > being damaged or at lea

Re: Upgrading iceweasel on Wheezy LTS

2016-06-10 Thread Sven Arvidsson
> your > own iceweasel transitional package to depend on firefox[2],  equivs is probably the easiest way to create a fake iceweasel package to override the deps, if you want to solve the problem that way. FWIW gnome-core in unstable depends on firefox-esr or firefox. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsso

Re: Adding Desktop files

2016-06-11 Thread Sven Arvidsson
er &" with an executable on my system, and it shows up fine. Might be a problem with your blender binary not being marked as executable? (Reboot should never be necessary, valid desktop files should be picked up by the shell during runtime.) HTH, -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: testing, rhythmbox err msg "Failed to open output device: Unable to prepare device"

2016-06-15 Thread Sven Arvidsson
any difference now. Most likely a problem with Gstreamer, is gstreamer1.0-alsa installed? -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: error trying to launch the first firefox window on Debian Jessie

2016-06-17 Thread Sven Arvidsson
his is most likely an extension you installed is having problems. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: ThinkPad fan

2016-06-17 Thread Sven Arvidsson
g games on a laptop. I wouldn't worry about it if it just happens momentarily, but long running tasks that stress the system like that is probably not suitable on a laptop. Anyway, as others have pointed out, check for dust and make sure that you don't impede air flow yourself (by placi

Re: ThinkPad fan

2016-06-18 Thread Sven Arvidsson
CPUs use thermal throttling so even if you would run it hot you wouldn't get full performance out of it anyway. Disassembling the heatsink and applying a good thermal paste might shave of a few degrees, but that involves a bit more work. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se signat

Re: Printer color balance

2016-06-21 Thread Sven Arvidsson
ve created profiles for your setup that might be "good enough" but it doesn't look like HP themselves provide them. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: roxterm

2016-06-22 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Wed, 2016-06-22 at 16:34 +0200, gerard ROBIN wrote: > Hello, > xterm disappeared of "stretch". Is this final? roxterm has been removed, see  https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=827768 xterm is still available. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se

Re: Stretch, Radeon 4850, and backlight

2016-06-23 Thread Sven Arvidsson
hoot getting the backlight to go out?  I've got > to: I found some old reports about video output being redirected to the external display, that might be something to investigate? You don't run X at all? If so I'm not quite sure of to check for which display is active or how

Re: boot failure only on first try when starting computer

2016-06-23 Thread Sven Arvidsson
gued with various issues. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Debian Testing Cannot be installed on Hyper-V 2012 R2

2016-06-23 Thread Sven Arvidsson
eezy 7.11 and 8/Jessie 8.5 on > Hyper-V; >   so far no problem on installation with the two versions... It might be a temporary problem with the testing installer image. Have you filed a bug? You could just use the jessie installer and dist-upgrade to testing. -- Cheers, Sven

Re: Stretch, Radeon 4850, and backlight

2016-06-24 Thread Sven Arvidsson
) during modesetting: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/kernel_mode_setting#Forcing_modes_and_EDID You can also do something similar in the Xorg configuration. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Rocksmith?

2016-06-28 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Tue, 2016-06-28 at 01:14 +, Jesse Stephen wrote: > Is there a way to make Rocksmith on Steam to work on diebian? Hi, This question is better suited for the debian-user list (CC:ed). I will reply there. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se signature.asc Description: This i

Re: Rocksmith?

2016-06-28 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Tue, 2016-06-28 at 15:11 +0200, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Tue, 2016-06-28 at 01:14 +, Jesse Stephen wrote: > > > > Is there a way to make Rocksmith on Steam to work on diebian? > > Hi, > > This question is better suited for the debian-user list (CC:

Re: systemd I/O error :-(

2016-06-30 Thread Sven Arvidsson
lated thread on this list, but > have > not succeeded in finding a solution. > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2015/10/msg00663.html Does systemctl --failed give any clues? -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Bash command completion

2016-07-06 Thread Sven Arvidsson
age. A normal bash shell should give completion for anything in PATH without it, and it sounds like even this doesn't work for the OP? Are you sure that your user uses bash for the login shell? There was a transition from bash to dash some releases ago. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Problem w. browser when running on SSD

2016-07-07 Thread Sven Arvidsson
ench > speaker. > > Has anybody ever come across this strange behavior? What do you > suggest? > > Hugo. Your reasoning is a bit hard to follow. If the only difference is the SSD why do you suspect the graphics card at all? What exactly is the problem, is it something that is specific to Google Chrome? -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: why is Inkscape so bad lately?

2016-07-07 Thread Sven Arvidsson
? I work a lot in Inkscape and have not experienced anything you describe here.  -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Debian menu for fvwm2

2016-07-07 Thread Sven Arvidsson
files. (Yes?) That is correct. Looks like fvwm-menu-desktop is quite buggy and has already been rewritten:  https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=808292 -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: why is Inkscape so bad lately?

2016-07-07 Thread Sven Arvidsson
degrees counter-clockwise. Yep, this I can reproduce, there are a couple of bug reports upstream that seems to match and it looks like it has been fixed for the upcoming 0.92. As a work around you can enter the group and do the edits there, instead of ungrouping and grouping again. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: gimp resynthesizer

2016-07-13 Thread Sven Arvidsson
em (sid) it's in Filters → Map → Resynthesize. The documentation is probably outdated. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Help - 13-year Debian veteran can't install Jessie

2015-07-27 Thread Sven Arvidsson
an get it any > > time you ask for it. > > We are talking ere of making it available at install time... You can enable non-free in the installer. (At least you used to be able too). It would still need to actually download those packages first, but that's not different from many

Re: Slow Xorg performance on dual Opteron + Radeon, Jessie 64-bit

2015-08-02 Thread Sven Arvidsson
nds like it's falling back to using software 3D rendering. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: X Server fails to start

2015-08-03 Thread Sven Arvidsson
WW) but I'm not sure if that is what's causing problems. You might want to check your logs and see exactly what packages were upgraded, check if there are any known regressions and maybe even downgrade. Did you also upgrade the kernel? If so, try using the older kernel. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Slow Xorg performance on dual Opteron + Radeon, Jessie 64-bit

2015-08-04 Thread Sven Arvidsson
#x27;m not sure if that includes r300 cards. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: OT: *FREE* VPN! Why?

2015-08-06 Thread Sven Arvidsson
uldn't you use a VPN to a slightly more trusted network? Anyway, PPTP isn't secure, so don't use it. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Mozilla Firefox exploit

2015-08-07 Thread Sven Arvidsson
e update or just skip > it and > update Iceweasel directly. You could also just set pdfjs.disabled to true in about:config -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Login failure after new install

2015-08-08 Thread Sven Arvidsson
gt; I rebooted into recovery mode, changed the management account > password, and rebooted the system again. The gui login behaved the > same. What’s going on? Sounds like gdm or X is crashing after login. Check dmesg, system logs, Xorg log etc. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.s

Re: Internet sharing?

2015-08-10 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Mon, 2015-08-10 at 08:31 +, Serkan KURT wrote: > Hi. How can I share ethernet from wifi on KDE? > Debian Jessie amd64, KDE. With NetworkManager it is very easy: https://liquidat.wordpress.com/2013/12/19/howto-share-ethernet-via-wifi -with-networkmanager-in-kde/ -- Cheers

Re: Security in our local network

2015-08-15 Thread Sven Arvidsson
very real risk. 1. My router did, but I never used it with anything besides OpenWRT: http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Treacherous-backdoor-found-in-TP-Link-routers-1822720.html -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Security in our local network

2015-08-15 Thread Sven Arvidsson
Another thing to keep an eye on is WPS, Wi-Fi Protected Setup. It's quite easy to crack to gain the password. An informed user will turn off that feature. Except that some routers lie, and remains vulnerable. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signatur

Re: Security in our local network

2015-08-16 Thread Sven Arvidsson
customers... For some users having someone else take care of updates might be nice, so you might be better of than many others. Do you have no control at all over the router? What happens if you need to open a port? -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.a

Iceweasel in sid missing H264?

2015-08-17 Thread Sven Arvidsson
is a known problem? -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Iceweasel in sid missing H264?

2015-08-17 Thread Sven Arvidsson
Turns out it was a more general problem between ffmpeg and glibc, described in bug 793641. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: VLC DVD playback is choppy and pixelated

2015-08-19 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Wed, 2015-08-19 at 09:23 +, d...@661.org wrote: > [7fe848002508] vdpau_avcodec generic error: unsupported codec 2 > or profile -1 It could be that something goes wrong when you use VDPAU. Try to configure VLC to use another backend for playing the video. -- Cheers, Sven Arv

Re: is google earth safe to install?

2015-09-01 Thread Sven Arvidsson
els in shades of > green and tan. Have you tried using Google Maps, and street view? BTW, you should be able to use GE on amd64 if you enable multi-arch. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: is google earth safe to install?

2015-09-02 Thread Sven Arvidsson
4-bit support. Because of the technology paternity, Debian uses the name "AMD64". -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: display problem from wheezy=>jessie upgrade.

2015-09-10 Thread Sven Arvidsson
ign your bug to the driver and mark it as a duplicate, or ask the maintainer to do it for you. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

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