Re: No Grub after install Debian 8 on laptop

2015-11-23 Thread Hannu Virtanen
the right thing to do. You might find the solution that way. with best, -hv From: Bob Proulx To: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org Sent: Monday, November 23, 2015 10:32 PM Subject: Re: No Grub after install Debian 8 on laptop Dwijesh Gajadur wrote: > Hannu Virtanen wrote

Re: No Grub after install Debian 8 on laptop

2015-11-23 Thread Hannu Virtanen
ijesh Gajadur To: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org Sent: Monday, November 23, 2015 9:59 PM Subject: Re: No Grub after install Debian 8 on laptop Hannu Virtanen wrote: > Have you tried to go through the installation process again and select there > an expert installation' and

Re: Unable to log-in

2015-04-10 Thread Hannu Virtanen
Are you sure that it happens because of the system upgrade..? Sometimes something goes wrong with hardware, keyboard especially. 1) Once with one of my friends there was the problem that 'number lock' of his laptop went on and he had no clue about the problem. (that problem had nothing to do

Re: Huawei E3372: still a problem

2015-03-02 Thread Hannu Virtanen
Bye! --- What to do with that 'no switching method given' ? -hv On Monday, March 2, 2015 1:00 PM, Hannu Virtanen wrote: Installed 'Jessie' using net-install on that other machine. (old HP latop with amd64 cpu). Can't make Huawei E3372 working. Somehow

Re: Huawei E3372: still a problem

2015-03-02 Thread Hannu Virtanen
given or found. Abort --- What to do??? -hv On Friday, February 27, 2015 4:32 PM, Eric S Fraga wrote: On Friday, 27 Feb 2015 at 03:08, Hannu Virtanen wrote: > Trying to install more packages from 'jessie' > to get the missing dependencies in order. >

Re: Huawei E3372: still a problem

2015-02-27 Thread Hannu Virtanen
- On Fri, 2/27/15, Eric S Fraga wrote: Subject: Re: Huawei E3372: still a problem To: "Hannu Virtanen" Cc: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org Date: Friday, February 27, 2015, 2:57 PM On Friday, 27 Feb 2015 at 03:08, Hannu Virtanen wrote: > Trying to install more

Re: Huawei E3372: still a problem

2015-02-27 Thread Hannu Virtanen
27; break the whole system? Maybe I should give up..? -hv ---- On Fri, 2/27/15, Hannu Virtanen wrote: Subject: Re: Huawei E3372: still a problem To: "Bjørn Mork" Cc: "Petr Kubánek" , debian-l

Re: Huawei E3372: still a problem

2015-02-27 Thread Hannu Virtanen
en, because of some missing packets from 'Jessie'. There are quite many, which would be needed. I will work with it a bit more today to see. -hv ---- On Thu, 2/26/15, Hannu Virtanen wrote: Subject: Re: Huawei E3372: still a problem To:

Re: Huawei E3372: still a problem

2015-02-26 Thread Hannu Virtanen
started working. 4) What should I do to get it permanently working? -hv On Thu, 2/26/15, Hannu Virtanen wrote: Subject: Re: Huawei E3372: Success (!) To: "Bjørn Mork" Cc: "Petr Kubánek" , debian-laptop@lists.debian.org Date

Re: Huawei E3372: Success (!)

2015-02-26 Thread Hannu Virtanen
----- On Thu, 2/26/15, Hannu Virtanen wrote: Subject: Re: Huawei E3372 To: "Bjørn Mork" Cc: "Petr Kubánek" , debian-laptop@lists.debian.org Date: Thursday, February 26, 2015, 5:01 PM It was written: 1) --- Use the -J option if you want to switch it ma

Re: Huawei E3372

2015-02-26 Thread Hannu Virtanen
7;ll try that first. -hv On Thu, 2/26/15, Bjørn Mork wrote: Subject: Re: Huawei E3372 To: "Hannu Virtanen" Cc: "Petr Kubánek" , debian-laptop@lists.debian.org Date: Thursday, February 26, 2015, 4:36 PM Hannu Virtanen w

Re: Huawei E3372

2015-02-26 Thread Hannu Virtanen
one from Ubuntu..? Using Gnome. -hv On Thu, 2/26/15, Petr Kubánek wrote: Subject: Re: Huawei E3372 To: "Hannu Virtanen" Cc: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org Date: Thursday, February 26, 2015, 4:28 PM You must ask modem to dial..hard way: http:

Re: Huawei E3372

2015-02-26 Thread Hannu Virtanen
It had no effect. It seems that the thing is somewhat working all the time, because the light is on, but it has no connection with the computer... -hv On Thu, 2/26/15, Hannu Virtanen wrote: Subject: Re: Huawei E3372 To: "Petr Kubánek&

Re: Huawei E3372

2015-02-26 Thread Hannu Virtanen
-> Run lsusb to note any changes. Bye. --- Let's see if it had any effect and if working now... -hv ---- On Thu, 2/26/15, Hannu Virtanen wrote: Subject: Re: Huawei E3372 To: "Petr Kubánek" Cc: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org Date

Re: Huawei E3372

2015-02-26 Thread Hannu Virtanen
-hv On Thu, 2/26/15, Petr Kubánek wrote: Subject: Re: Huawei E3372 To: "Hannu Virtanen" Cc: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org Date: Thursday, February 26, 2015, 1:19 PM Sorry, typo: lsusb should work. Petr Hannu Virtanen píše v Čt 26. 02. 2015

Re: Huawei E3372

2015-02-26 Thread Hannu Virtanen
if root@gone:/# lsubs it says: 'bash: lsubs: komentoa ei löydy' (in Finnish: 'no such command') -hv On Thu, 2/26/15, Petr Kubánek wrote: Subject: Re: Huawei E3372 To: "Hannu Virtanen" Cc: debian-laptop@li

Re: Huawei E3372

2015-02-26 Thread Hannu Virtanen
if root@gone:/# lsubs it says: 'bash: lsubs: komentoa ei löydy' (in Finnish: 'no such command') -hv On Thu, 2/26/15, Petr Kubánek wrote: Subject: Re: Huawei E3372 To: "Hannu Virtanen" Cc: debian-laptop@li

Re: Huawei E3372

2015-02-26 Thread Hannu Virtanen
if root@gone:/# lsubs it says: 'bash: lsubs: komentoa ei löydy' (in Finnish: 'no such command') -hv On Thu, 2/26/15, Petr Kubánek wrote: Subject: Re: Huawei E3372 To: "Hannu Virtanen" Cc: debian-laptop@li

Re: Huawei E3372

2015-02-26 Thread Hannu Virtanen
tr Kubánek wrote: Subject: Re: Huawei E3372 To: "Hannu Virtanen" Cc: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org Date: Thursday, February 26, 2015, 12:24 PM usb_modeswitch -H or usb_modeswitch -J, see usb_modeswitch man page. Then it is the same as other GPRS modems. Petr Hannu Virta

Huawei E3372

2015-02-25 Thread Hannu Virtanen
Anybody got Huawei E3372 working with debian? If got, how to do it? -hv -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1424936295.48391.yahoomailba...@web14160

Re: Compaq nx9010?

2014-05-21 Thread Hannu Virtanen
Efraim Flashner wrote: Subject: Re: Compaq nx9010? To: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org Date: Tuesday, May 20, 2014, 1:16 PM On Mon, 19 May 2014 08:57:45 -0700 (PDT) Hannu Virtanen wrote: > Has anyone installed Debian 'wheezy' on Compaq nx9010? > > I had there D

Compaq nx9010?

2014-05-19 Thread Hannu Virtanen
Has anyone installed Debian 'wheezy' on Compaq nx9010? I had there Debian 'squeeze' and as far as I remember I managed to get it working reasonably well. Now I took the laptop on my desk and updated into 'wheezy'. I'm having quite much problems with the screendriver, which is some kind of Rad

Compaq nx9010

2014-05-19 Thread Hannu Virtanen
Has anyone installed Debian 'wheezy' on Compaq nx9010? I had there Debian 'squeeze' and as far as I remember I managed to get it working reasonably well. Now I took the laptop on my desk and updated into 'wheezy'. I'm having quite much problems with the screendriver, which is some kind of

Re: brightness of the screen at boot, kernel 3.11-2-686-pae

2013-12-17 Thread Hannu Virtanen
My machine is Fujitsu Siemens Esprimo mobile. Mine starts with with the screen brightness at the minimum. I can adjust the sreen brighness if using gnome. With lxde (my favorite) I can't. But I can set the brightness correct with gnome and then logout and start lxde; it stays as tuned with

Re: it is avahi? Re: network

2013-07-01 Thread Hannu Virtanen
The problem solved. Hi, I have been away for a while. But the solution seems to here now. I did as Sebastian Salvino suggested: For those of you who might want to keep using the provider's name servers; Change the value of AVAHI_DAEMON_DETECT_LOCAL, wh

Re: it is avahi? Re: network

2013-06-27 Thread Hannu Virtanen
I've started thinking that it would be easiest to drop the whole avahi out. I don't need it for anything. But I've realized that it has been gnome, which has been dependent on it. I've installed gnome, but I'm really seldom using it. I'm normally using lxde. Just now I'm using gnome, just try

Re: it is avahi? Re: network

2013-06-27 Thread Hannu Virtanen
I quite much agree with Michael. I don't see anything like eavesdropping with this situation. Cristian, what do you mean? -hv - Original Message - > From: Michael > Subject: Re: it is avahi? Re: network > > Cristian, > >> That looks like someone is attempting to eavesdrop

Re: it is avahi? Re: network

2013-06-26 Thread Hannu Virtanen
do that configuring? Please tell me, which tools to use, or if I can write something directly into some (which?) files -hv > > From: Sebastian Salvino >To: Hannu Virtanen >Cc: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org; Michael >Sent: Wednesday, June 2

Re: it is avahi? Re: network

2013-06-26 Thread Hannu Virtanen
Hello, "Sebastian Salvino": here you'll get some more info: -- # dig local. SOA ; <<>> DiG 9.8.4-rpz2+rl005.12-P1 <<>> local. SOA ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 63972 ;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 1, AD

Re: it is avahi? Re: network

2013-06-25 Thread Hannu Virtanen
stack=4194304 rlimit-nproc=3 ~ ~ (END) - Something seems to be wrong with that advice. -hv P.S. I think that I should reconfigure the network... > > From: Sebastian Salvino >To: Hannu Virtanen >

Re: it is avahi? Re: network

2013-06-25 Thread Hannu Virtanen
"zzz might know what the original English term is???" I guess 'toimialue' is 'domain' in English. -hv - Original Message - > From: Hannu Virtanen > To: Michael ; "debian-laptop@lists.debian.org" > > Cc: > Sent: Tuesday

Re: it is avahi? Re: network

2013-06-25 Thread Hannu Virtanen
j> ust curious, how did you translate 'region' (in the error > message) ? > Is the original finnish (?) word a technical term and what does it refer to > exactly. The original Finnish: 'Nykyisen verkkosi toimialue on .local'. At present my system doesn't give all error messages in English.

Re: it is avahi? Re: network

2013-06-25 Thread Hannu Virtanen
Message - > From: Hannu Virtanen > To: "debian-laptop@lists.debian.org" > Cc: > Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2013 1:05 PM > Subject: Re: it is avahi? Re: network > > > > From: Andrey Rahmatullin : > > > > But still avahi is telling the same me

Re: it is avahi? Re: network

2013-06-25 Thread Hannu Virtanen
DNS servers? Where are they residing in debian wheezy? -hv - Original Message - > From: Andrey Rahmatullin > To: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org > Cc: > Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2013 11:49 AM > Subject: Re: it is avahi? Re: network > > On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 01:36

Re: it is avahi? Re: network

2013-06-25 Thread Hannu Virtanen
I have been reading recommended texts how to do network setup.  1) Chapter 5. Network setup has got one notice telling something about 'wheezy'. Maybe the problem has something to do with my upgrade to the latest stable: It says: Tip Although this document still uses old ifconf

Re: it is avahi? Re: network

2013-06-24 Thread Hannu Virtanen
Hi, thanks for the messages. The thing is that the network works. But it is complaining that something is configured .local. Do you know if it is my computer or is it the vdsl modem? You wrote: 'but change internal domain'. Do you know how to do it? If you know, can you tell it to m

Re: it is avahi? Re: network

2013-06-24 Thread Hannu Virtanen
.org > Cc: > Sent: Monday, June 24, 2013 3:58 PM > Subject: Re: it is avahi? Re: network > > On 24.06.13 04:59, Hannu Virtanen wrote: >> The message seems to be coming from avahi: > >> (An English translation: 'Network searching is disabled. The present >

it is avahi? Re: network

2013-06-24 Thread Hannu Virtanen
hone connection only. >I think that I should reconfigure the network system. How to do it? > > > > > > From:  Florian Reitmeir ; >To:  ; >Subject:  Re: network >Sent:  Mon, Jun 24, 2013 8:14:18 AM > > >Hi, > >i really don't understand your problem. >

Re: network

2013-06-24 Thread Hannu Virtanen
My debian system is the latest stable. When connecting to my new wlan the system is complaining that the network system has been set to .local and it is not the recommend way. The network works anyway.  I think that while I originally installed it I set the network .local, because I used th

Re: network

2013-06-22 Thread Hannu Virtanen
I'm sorry for various typos. I just updated the system and for some reason my spelling system didn't work. Of course it should have been  'I have got another type of network'... with best, -hv - Original Message - > From: Hannu Virtanen > To: "

network

2013-06-22 Thread Hannu Virtanen
My laptop network system has been set to .local. I did it such ways because at the time of the installation I had only mobile phone network system available.  Nowadays I have got another tipy of network, too. How can I configure the network to be more 'normal'? with best, -hv P.S

Re: can't get Iceweasel to work on my laptop

2012-04-05 Thread Hannu Virtanen
of course  you can do it without reinstalling all and you can do all the things without knowing the password. (I was not willing to write here all the ways to give all the commands without knowing the password. So that every ten years old guy can find *just here* all the ways how to destr

Re: Fan control (and power-saving in general) on Dell Inspiron Studio 153x

2012-04-03 Thread Hannu Virtanen
Hi, I used earlier a HP laptop with a powerful (and old) amd processor. If it was on many hours, it overheated so that the inner control mechanism suddenly shut off the whole thing...   I think that it is better if the fan is used too much than too little.  -hv  - Original Messag

Re: can't get Iceweasel to work on my laptop

2012-04-03 Thread Hannu Virtanen
a good idea in my opinion. -hv - Original Message - From: Ruperto Mendiones I'm late to this thread and don't fully know the specs of the laptop in question. But.. if Tina can boot from a cd, could she use Knoppix  to identify a hardware problem vs a software one? Ruperto -- To UN

Re: can't get Iceweasel to work on my laptop

2012-04-03 Thread Hannu Virtanen
-- some clarifications:  --- - Original Message - From: Hannu Virtanen Of course everybody understands to backup the important files if reinstalling the whole computer? This is just a computer, not a house; to  ('install' was dropped off...) a debian

Re: can't get Iceweasel to work on my laptop

2012-04-03 Thread Hannu Virtanen
EEST Scott Ferguson wrote: >On 03/04/12 20:44, Hannu Virtanen wrote: >> >> >> >> >> - Original Message - >> From: Scott Ferguson >> >> -hv said: >> >>> I think that you need to get root password. >>>

Re: can't get Iceweasel to work on my laptop

2012-04-03 Thread Hannu Virtanen
- Original Message - From: Scott Ferguson -hv said: >> I think that you need to get root password. >> You maybe better to reinstall the whole thing Scott Ferguson said: *If* Tina had the root password she wouldn't need to rebuild everything. - Yes I agree. *If* Tina

Re: can't get Iceweasel to work on my laptop

2012-04-02 Thread Hannu Virtanen
Ii think that you need to get root password. You maybe better to reinstall the whole thing... debian cds are very cheap. -hv -- On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 12:54 AM EEST tina braxton wrote: > > >Thank you for all your ideas.  I have now tried all the suggestions for >

Re: can't get Iceweasel to work on my laptop

2012-03-29 Thread Hannu Virtanen
oot' Do you know the root password? with best, -hv --- On Thu, 3/29/12, tina braxton wrote: From: tina braxton Subject: Re: can't get Iceweasel to work on my laptop To: "Hannu Virtanen" , "debian-laptop@lists.debian.org" Date: Thursday, March 29, 2012, 12:1

Re: can't get Iceweasel to work on my laptop

2012-03-25 Thread Hannu Virtanen
hello,  please tell, which program you are using  to connect the laptop in the net.  or is it automatically connected after you boot it?  have you tried other browsers besides iceweasel?  with best,  -hv p.s. i'm myself using about 8 years old hp laptop and a sony ericsson mobile phone to c

Re: tv format external hard disk

2012-02-19 Thread Hannu Virtanen
--- On Sun, 2/19/12, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > > I have got an (usb) external hard disk and some tv > programs recorded on the disk by Sony Bravia tv. > > > > TV is telling after formatting the hard disk that 'the > hard disk can be now used by tv only'.  I know that the > hard disk can

tv format external hard disk

2012-02-19 Thread Hannu Virtanen
I have got an (usb) external hard disk and some tv programs recorded on the disk by Sony Bravia tv. TV is telling after formatting the hard disk that 'the hard disk can be now used by tv only'. I know that the hard disk cannot be read by a computer with windows operating system. Can my lapto

hp 550 hardware problem

2011-12-20 Thread Hannu Virtanen
hi, I've got a broken hp 550 laptop. First there was only a broken screen. I renewed and got the machine working just ok. Then suddenly everything stopped. Pushing the power button has now no effect at all. The battery seems to be ok, charger working. The machine doesn't start either with

usb bluetooth problems

2009-12-16 Thread Hannu Virtanen
I'm using Debian GNU/linux ('stable' with gnome) on a hp nx9005. Kernel version 2.6.28-1-686 (Debian 2.6.28-2~snapshot.12850) (wa...@debian.org) (gcc version 4.3.3 (GCC) ) #1 SMP Thu Feb 19 02:24:16 UTC 2009 I bought a bluetooth adapter Biltema art 23-799. The software with it was bluesoleil (

Re: HP laptop

2009-07-04 Thread Hannu Virtanen
Do you want to use wireless network connection? It depends on which kind of device you have got. If it is such a thing which doesn't have any program installed with the device it should work. If it is the one with windows program inside then it might be difficult. I'm using a 3G gsm mob

Re: Acer TravelMate 3040

2009-03-12 Thread Hannu Virtanen
If not sure,if all the hardware works with debian maybe best to do first a dual-boot installation. To leave a windows installation there, too.  -- When debian works it is definitely more stable than any windows.

Re: anysee E30 (+Kaffeine)

2009-03-01 Thread Hannu Virtanen
d demuxer plugin: image demux plugin 16:00:39: xine: found input plugin : file input plugin - Anybody knows which kind of configuration is needed? I tried to reinstall the whole Kaffeine and dvb-apps , but that didn't  help. with best, - hv     --- On Sat, 2/28/09, Ha

anysee E30

2009-02-28 Thread Hannu Virtanen
Hello, anybody else has got Anysee E30 DVB-T usb digi-tv Box? Managed to get it working? --- I tried to get it working with Debian lenny using this advice here: http://forum.ubuntu-fi.org/index.php?topic=1805.0 -- sudo apt-get install mercurial li

Re: external VGA port problem

2009-02-27 Thread Hannu Virtanen
--- On Fri, 2/27/09, Clive Menzies wrote: Hi Alexander I've got a Thinkpad X61 which works an external monitor using xrandr in conjunction with a modified xorg.conf; Ive not looked at s3switch. My partner's using the same combination on an Acer Aspire. Basically, you set the screen size in

Re: external monitor?

2009-02-20 Thread Hannu Virtanen
Hello, I would like to suggest trying out "grandr", which is a graphical front-end for xrandr.   I have also used "arandr", which is another graphical front-end, but it seems it is not available yet on lenny. Regards, Jonás. Hi, I've installed 'grandr' already during the upgrade. That is t

Re: external monitor?

2009-02-20 Thread Hannu Virtanen
Hannu I'm afraid I'm out of ideas. ++ It happens. Thank you  a  lot for your help anyway. Don't worry. After some time I will sort it out, I think. I started using Debian already during the times of 2.1 Slink. Many nights spent trying to solve various problems. Sometim

Re: external monitor?

2009-02-20 Thread Hannu Virtanen
You could try removing gdm: $ sudo aptitude remove gdm and then start X from the command line: $ startx --- OK. I tried. No difference.. So it wasn't with gdm. - hv

Re: external monitor?

2009-02-20 Thread Hannu Virtanen
Maggie wrote: I've just checked my partner's setup which is slightly different to mine although both our monitors sit to the left of our laptops. xorg.conf: Section "Device"    Identifier  "Configured Video Device" EndSection

Re: external monitor?

2009-02-20 Thread Hannu Virtanen
Can you post the relevant parts of your original xorg.conf? + You mean the one, how it was before I changed including your part? Here it is, your part included in the end. --, Section "InputDevice"     Identifier  "Generic Keyboard"  

Re: external monitor?

2009-02-20 Thread Hannu Virtanen
--- On Fri, 2/20/09, Maggie Dusnic wrote: A quick check - did you restart X after changing xorg.conf ? Can you bottom-post to keep it readable ;) +++ Hi, yes I did restart X. I tried even several times restart the whole system. It didn't

Re: external monitor?

2009-02-20 Thread Hannu Virtanen
ed. Maybe that created a problem? - hv --- On Fri, 2/20/09, Maggie Dusnic wrote: From: Maggie Dusnic Subject: Re: external monitor? To: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org Date: Friday, February 20, 2009, 10:25 PM Hannu Virtanen wrote: Hi, than

Re: external monitor?

2009-02-20 Thread Hannu Virtanen
Hi, thank you a lot for your post. I already yesterday tried by replacing the newly created xorg.conf file by the backups I had there.   It didn't help. I will still try with other backups. I have got several of them, because I have tried as well "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" That d

Re: external monitor?

2009-02-20 Thread Hannu Virtanen
Hi, thank you a lot for your post. I spent quite a long time already yesterday with that wiki text. But it didn't help much. Where should you put that "xrandr --output LVDS --mode 1024x768 --output VGA-0 --mode 1024x768 --left-of LVDS" ? In "xorg.conf file" or? the output of xrandr

external monitor?

2009-02-20 Thread Hannu Virtanen
Hello, yesterday I upgraded my system into 'lenny'. Now I've got a problem to get an external monitor working. Earlier with 'etch I had no problems. It worked just by plugging it in. I used a few hours reading other people's posts about this problems and tried tinkering this and that,