Re: Swap

2016-02-08 Thread Eric S Fraga
current laptop has only an SSD for storage (256 GB, I believe, half for Linux and half for Windows). I use Linux on it 98% of the time. Swap space allocated on the SSD. No problem at all so far in 1 year of operation. -- : Eric S Fraga, GnuPG: 0xFFFCF67D : in Emacs 25.0.90.1 + Ma Gnus v0.14 + evil-git-ff74cfb : BBDB version 3.1.2 (2015-10-28 10:47:01+00:00)

Re: Aw: Change home and root directories

2016-02-07 Thread Eric S Fraga
igured sudoers file, there should seldom be a need to log in as root. Not never, of course, but with such infrequency and so little disk use as to be negligible. -- : Eric S Fraga, GnuPG: 0xFFFCF67D : in Emacs 25.0.50.1 + Ma Gnus v0.16 + evil-git-ff74cfb : BBDB version 3.1.2 (2015-10-28 10:47:01+00:00)

Re: Swap

2016-02-04 Thread Eric S Fraga
ncur. For my use case, if I needed more than 1GB of swap, the system would likely end up thrashing so I only typically allocate 1GB for RAM >= 4GB. -- : Eric S Fraga, GnuPG: 0xFFFCF67D : in Emacs 25.0.50.1 + Ma Gnus v0.14 + evil-git-ff74cfb : BBDB version 3.1.2 (2015-10-28 10:47:01+00:00)

Re: Swap

2016-02-04 Thread Eric S Fraga
should not be an issue. I could see, maybe, how suspend may need some swap, mind you, as it does use RAM but very little over and above what is currently being used by the running programs? -- : Eric S Fraga, GnuPG: 0xFFFCF67D : in Emacs 25.0.50.1 + Ma Gnus v0.14 + evil-git-ff74cfb : BBDB version

Re: Wireless connection falls

2015-11-28 Thread Eric S Fraga
lan0 power off -- : Eric S Fraga, GnuPG: 0xFFFCF67D : in Emacs 25.0.50.2 + Ma Gnus v0.14 + evil-git-ff74cfb : BBDB version 3.1.2 (2014-04-28 23:20:47+00:00)

Re: Bluetooth manager for connecting to Android

2015-09-13 Thread Eric S Fraga
s. > Anyway, with cable, he one thing that would work is if the Androids' > external SD card appears as storage in the laptop file > browser. See jmtpfs. -- : Eric S Fraga, GnuPG: 0xFFFCF67D : in Emacs 25.0.50.2 + Ma Gnus v0.14 + evil-git-ff74cfb : BBDB version 3.1.2 (2014-04-28 23:20:47+00:00)

Re: Bluetooth manager for connecting to Android

2015-09-09 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Monday, 7 Sep 2015 at 16:28, Michael wrote: > but they wont use a cable connection, which, anyway, did not work on > linux for me so far. FYI, gphotofs and gthumb, tools that depend on gphoto2, work very well for a cable connection with Android phones, at least for photos. > But i won't try t

Re: I get a black screen and the Laptop continues to be turned on

2015-07-03 Thread Eric S Fraga
huts down instead of hibernates if the power goes too low? Shutting down may seem extreme but at least it will be in a better state. -- : Eric S Fraga, GnuPG: 0xFFFCF67D : in Emacs 25.0.50.1 + Ma Gnus v0.14 + evil-git-ff74cfb : BBDB version 3.1.2 (2015-05-23 14:39:47 -0500) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Now that I've installed 8.0.0...

2015-05-16 Thread Eric S Fraga
ng present (although I don't have it installed) deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free in my /etc/apt/sources.list file. Did you maybe not put the hyphen in "non-free"? -- : Eric S Fraga, GnuPG: 0xFFFCF67D : in Emacs 25.0.50.1 + Ma Gnus v0.12 + evil-gi

Re: Memory usage Debian Jessie (stable)

2015-05-13 Thread Eric S Fraga
ynx or, most often, eww within Emacs. -- : Eric S Fraga, GnuPG: 0xFFFCF67D : in Emacs 24.4.1 + Ma Gnus v0.12 + evil-git-43eaf60 : BBDB version 3.1.2 (2014-08-30 22:31:11 -0500) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: Memory usage Debian Jessie (stable)

2015-05-09 Thread Eric S Fraga
There are plenty of browsers to choose from in Debian, many of which are low memory. Iceweasel (Firefox) is not the best choice necessarily... -- : Eric S Fraga, GnuPG: 0xFFFCF67D : in Emacs 25.0.50.1 + Ma Gnus v0.12 + evil-git-4892acc : BBDB version 3.1.2 (2014-05-06 11:45:08 -0500) --

Re: Memory usage Debian Jessie (stable)

2015-05-09 Thread Eric S Fraga
ral instances of emacs, several xterms, and various sundry utilities (conky, music) running. You'll see that about 1.5 GB is green: that's the actual memory footprint of the active processes. The other memory use is mostly buffered memory. There's a smidgen of swap as well. -- : Eric

Re: Circulant matrix

2015-05-08 Thread Eric S Fraga
r needs to be rotated one element to the right > relative to the preceding row vector. Find a smooth surface. Put one finger in the centre of the laptop. Use the other hand to spin the laptop. What does this have to do with debian-laptop? -- : Eric S Fraga, GnuPG: 0xFFFCF67D : in Emacs 25.0

Re: Memory usage Debian Jessie (stable)

2015-05-08 Thread Eric S Fraga
well use the memory as much as you can. -- : Eric S Fraga, GnuPG: 0xFFFCF67D : in Emacs 25.0.50.1 + Ma Gnus v0.12 + evil-git-4892acc : BBDB version 3.1.2 (2014-05-06 11:45:08 -0500) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

Re: Graphical display is black after upgrade from Debian 7 to 8

2015-05-06 Thread Eric S Fraga
rt to learn to do things with > the CLI. Very true ... but maybe not very helpful for the OP? For the OP, have you (a) looked at the system logs (which you can easily do in text mode) and maybe (b) reconfigured the X server? -- : Professor Eric S Fraga, CPSE, Chemical Engineering

Re: Installing Debian with only 64mb RAM

2015-04-19 Thread Eric S Fraga
AM so very large in comparison! :) -- : Eric S Fraga, GnuPG: 0xFFFCF67D : in Emacs 25.0.50.1 + Ma Gnus v0.12 + evil-git-bdeb602 : BBDB version 3.1.2 (2014-05-06 11:45:08 -0500) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe&qu

Re: Debian on Acer Aspire E15

2015-03-09 Thread Eric S Fraga
forehand, but the laptop > was offered as a special deal. You may need to install firmware from the non-free Debian repository. For instance, on my Dell laptop, I needed to install firmware-iwlwifi to get the WiFi working. What does 'lspci -v' show as output? -- : Eric S Fraga, GnuPG:

Re: Huawei E3372: still a problem

2015-02-27 Thread Eric S Fraga
est moving completely to Jessie: update the sources list and do an 'apt-get dist-upgrade'... Or, if you have /home separate, install Jessie over whatever you have installed currently. This often works best and is one of the main reasons for having separate disk partitions for / and

Re: Problem with Intel HD graphics

2015-01-19 Thread Eric S Fraga
date driver. -- : Eric S Fraga, GnuPG: 0xFFFCF67D : in Emacs 25.0.50.1 + Ma Gnus v0.12 + evil-git-2748228 : BBDB version 3.1.2 (2014-05-06 11:45:08 -0500) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lis

Re: Problem with Intel HD graphics

2015-01-18 Thread Eric S Fraga
check the output of "lspci -v" to see what the graphics card is specifically. -- : Eric S Fraga, GnuPG: 0xFFFCF67D : in Emacs 25.0.50.1 + Ma Gnus v0.12 + evil-git-2748228 : BBDB version 3.1.2 (2014-05-06 11:45:08 -0500) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@list

SOLVED: Re: suspend no longer works after upgrading something: Samsung N220

2011-05-04 Thread Eric S Fraga
Eric S Fraga writes: > Hello, > > I was hoping somebody could suggest where to start looking to try to > sort out a problem with my laptop. I have a Samsung N220 which has been > running Debian testing+unstable for over a year now. I have been able > to suspend (not

suspend no longer works after upgrading something: Samsung N220

2011-04-27 Thread Eric S Fraga
-cut here---end------->8--- Any suggestions very welcome indeed! Thanks, eric -- : Eric S Fraga (GnuPG: 0xC89193D8FFFCF67D) in Emacs 24.0.50.1 + No Gnus v0.16 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

no statistics for wlan0 on samsung n220

2010-12-03 Thread Eric S Fraga
! Any pointers welcome. Thanks, eric -- Eric S Fraga (: http://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucecesf/ :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87fwufq6oy@ucl.ac.uk

Re: lenny -> squeeze, questions ...

2010-11-28 Thread Eric S Fraga
Gérard Robin writes: [...] > I feel that listening music on command line is no longer fashionable. It may not be fashionable (although I am not sure how this has been quantified) but it's my preferred way of listening to music on a computer. I use moc, by the way. -- Eric S Frag

Re: Debian squeeze on Samsung N220: almost working very well but no control of brightness

2010-03-21 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 15:29:01 +0100, Martin Ågren wrote: > > A post for the archives... > > I have now installed Squeeze on Samsung N220, but since my experiences > (and hardware!?) differ a little, I'll add to Eric's report: [...] > I got AR9285 instead, using ath9k. Modules loaded and Intere

Re: Debian squeeze on Samsung N220: almost working very well but no control of brightness

2010-03-19 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:03:58 +, Eric S Fraga wrote: > I recently acquired a Samsung N220 laptop (Intel Atom N450 chip, 10" [...] > which I cannot seem to control in any way: I cannot adjust the > brightness of the display. The display is stuck at a fairly low level &

Re: Debian squeeze on Samsung N220: almost working very well but no control of brightness

2010-03-18 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 22:53:06 +0100, Martin Ågren wrote: > > [Off-list] > > On 18 March 2010 20:03, Eric S Fraga wrote: > > I recently acquired a Samsung N220 laptop (Intel Atom N450 chip, 10" > > screen, etc).  After some playing around, yesterday I was able to

Debian squeeze on Samsung N220: almost working very well but no control of brightness

2010-03-18 Thread Eric S Fraga
Hello, I recently acquired a Samsung N220 laptop (Intel Atom N450 chip, 10" screen, etc). After some playing around, yesterday I was able to install Debian squeeze on this system and managed to get even wireless working (once I tracked down the firmware required). Sounds works as well. Unfortun

Re: Lenny. How to start X from console with a chosen DM?

2009-02-27 Thread Eric S Fraga
On 2009-02-27, Mark Goldshtein wrote: > Actually, the task is not to start WindowMaker instead of KDE. I need > them both and seek for ability to choose one at the moment of X > session started. According to your method, will I have a chance to > start X session with KDE? I do the following (you'

Re: Toshiba A215-S5808 info

2008-02-18 Thread Eric S Fraga
At Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:53:12 -0600, Preston Boyington wrote: > > I am looking at picking up this laptop for a friend of mine this > afternoon and will be installing Debian on it shortly thereafter (I > don't plan to boot this thing up into Vista at all). Seeing as how this > is a 64 bit machin

Re: [SOLVED] dual head support for Dell Latitude D630

2007-11-19 Thread Eric S Fraga
At Fri, 16 Nov 2007 16:36:17 +, I wrote: > I've been trying to get my Dell Latitude D630 with an Intel graphics > controller to display on an external monitor. I did manage to get it > to display the same as on the laptop but am told I can have the > external monitor display a separate desktop

dual head support for Dell Latitude D630

2007-11-16 Thread Eric S Fraga
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Re: dual head support for Dell Latitude D630

2007-11-16 Thread Eric S Fraga
At Fri, 16 Nov 2007 16:36:17 +, I wrote: > Can anybody help? I have attached my current xorg.conf file which > is based on one I found on the 'net. I guess it would help if I had actually attached the file... sigh. eric xorg.conf Description: Binary data