Re: How to properly install Radeon drivers for Sid

Mostafa Shahverdy composed on 2016-06-04 10:16 (UTC+0430): On Thu, Jun 02, 2016 at 11:54:00PM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: Mostafa Shahverdy composed on 2016-05-30 17:53 (UTC+0430): > I have an ultra wide monitor that supports 2560x1080. > While I have a Radeon 5450 graphic card, running Debi

Re: How to properly install Radeon drivers for Sid

On Thu, Jun 02, 2016 at 06:49:51PM +0200, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > Are there some relevant messages in dmesg or .xsession-errors ? I could find these lines in my dmesg: [ 20.761805] [drm] radeon kernel modesetting enabled. [ 22.045156] radeon :01:00.0: Invalid PCI ROM header signature: e

Re: How to properly install Radeon drivers for Sid

On Thu, Jun 02, 2016 at 11:54:00PM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > Mostafa Shahverdy composed on 2016-05-30 17:53 (UTC+0430): > > > I have an ultra wide monitor that supports 2560x1080. > > While I have a Radeon 5450 graphic card, running Debian Sid, I only can get > > 1920x1080. > ... > > I suggest

Re: updates on skylake power management issues?

On Wed, 01 Jun 2016, Richard Hector wrote: > Does anyone know where I can keep up to date with progress on fixing > the problems? I scan the LKML archives occasionally, but haven't seen > much that looks relevant. lwn.net and LKML are, AFAIK, the only places you might get some information about th

Re: Teeny tiny console font after firmware-linux

On Fri, 3 Jun 2016, Felix Miata wrote: In summary, 16x32 at a lower screen resolution translates to a bigger glyph on any given display. Thanks. That comports with my feeble cogitations. I'll give her a whirl. -- Man is essentially a dreamer, wakened sometimes for a moment by some peculiar

Re: Teeny tiny console font after firmware-linux

Bob Bernstein composed on 2016-06-03 21:48 (UTC-0400): I discovered and remedied that I only had one of the firmware-linux-free/nonfree packages installed. Then I enabled framebuffer and began to run dpkg-reconfigure console-setup with some success. I now have Terminus2Bold 16x32 to use in my co

Re: Ideas to obtain text file list of emails in an IMAP folder?

On Sat 04 Jun 2016 at 00:06:34 (-), Dan Purgert wrote: > Ron Leach wrote: > > On 03/06/2016 17:31, Dan Purgert wrote: > >> Ron Leach wrote: > >>> Have any debian-user readers ever tried to create a list of all the > >>> email messages stored in an IMAP folder? > > > >> Do the same here (Dovecot

Re: Teeny tiny console font after firmware-linux

On Thu, 21 May 2015, Bob Bernstein wrote: On Thu, 21 May 2015, Sven Arvidsson wrote: It's probably a good idea to have the firmware packages installed, I think these are used to handle throttling to make sure it doesn't overheat. As can be seen, when we last left Bob he was stuck with an i

Re: Teeny tiny console font after firmware-linux

Sorry...sent this first using an incorrect -- for debian-user -- account. Bah. On Thu, 21 May 2015, Sven Arvidsson wrote: It's probably a good idea to have the firmware packages installed, I think these are used to handle throttling to make sure it doesn't overheat. As can be seen, when w

Re: CUPS under jessie

On Fri, Jun 03, 2016 at 11:15:22PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 03 June 2016 21:00:52 Alan McConnell wrote: > > I would be very grateful for any aid.  Just to show how bad things > > are:  I try to access  http://localhost:631 on my iceweasel and I get > > the message:  Unable to connect.  

Re: SOS

On 06/03/2016 07:12 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jun 03, 2016 at 07:05:44AM -0500, Michael Milliman wrote: [...] It got there because his grandson put it there. (He said last time.). Lisi However, what 'it' is is still in question. Re

Re: Pursuant to my efforts to remove, and update the remaining :amd64 built packages

On Friday 03 June 2016 20:06:57 Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > Some more explanations: these tilde-on-letter combinations are search > patterns for aptitude. "~c" stands for packages already removed but > not purged, there are some config files left on the system. See also > "--purge --pending" in the

Re: Ideas to obtain text file list of emails in an IMAP folder?

Ron Leach wrote: > On 03/06/2016 17:31, Dan Purgert wrote: >> Ron Leach wrote: >>> Have any debian-user readers ever tried to create a list of all the >>> email messages stored in an IMAP folder? > >> Do the same here (Dovecot + Postfix), not 100% certain if this'll match >> your setup, but it shou

Re: Pursuant to my efforts to remove, and update the remaining :amd64 built packages

Some more explanations: these tilde-on-letter combinations are search patterns for aptitude. "~c" stands for packages already removed but not purged, there are some config files left on the system. See also "--purge --pending" in the man page of dpkg. So this does no harm if you don't intend to rei

Re: CUPS under jessie

On Friday 03 June 2016 21:00:52 Alan McConnell wrote: > I would be very grateful for any aid.  Just to show how bad things > are:  I try to access  http://localhost:631 on my iceweasel and I get > the message:  Unable to connect.    ? ? ? ?    Aaaagghhh!! You said that you purged CUPS. Since

Re: Ideas to obtain text file list of emails in an IMAP folder?

On 03/06/2016 17:31, Dan Purgert wrote: Ron Leach wrote: Have any debian-user readers ever tried to create a list of all the email messages stored in an IMAP folder? Do the same here (Dovecot + Postfix), not 100% certain if this'll match your setup, but it should be pretty close. [snip] #!/

Re: Pursuant to my efforts to remove, and update the remaining :amd64 built packages

On Friday 03 June 2016 14:15:17 Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > aptitude purge '~i~ramd64 Returns: root@coyote:/var/lib/dpkg# aptitude purge '~i~ramd64' No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed. 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B of arch

Re: Pursuant to my efforts to remove, and update the remaining :amd64 built packages

On Friday 03 June 2016 14:09:21 Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > Hi, > > Gene Heskett wrote on 06/03/16 13:14: > > Greetings all; > > > > I re-added the amd64 architecture to the architecture's in > > dpkg/synaptic, but the package -> force-version remains stubbornly > > ghosted, so I cannot fix any bro

Re: Hello Debian

On 02/06/16 20:48, Pier wrote: > http://… > pierg75@… Yes, that's a URL and an email address. Well done. Now try again with some actual relevant (to the list) content this time. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. sig

CUPS under jessie

CUPS seems to be the standard printing SW used by Linux, or at least by Debian. But my CUPS is totally broken and I'd like to get rid of it all and reinstall. So I ran apt-get purge cups, but there are still lots of cups-related files on my system, like in /etc/cups/, /usr/lib/cups, /usr/share/cu

rsync deletion target files

Hi all Debian users. rsync's `--delete' option works fine when the target directory is the same as the sender one. In the following example, I'm sending all the content of /home/rodolfo from machine1 to /home/rodolfo in machine2: $ rsync --dry-run -vrtul --delete --exclude='/.*' . 192.168.0.2:/

Re: Pursuant to my efforts to remove, and update the remaining :amd64 built packages

Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote on 06/03/16 20:09: > Hi, > > Gene Heskett wrote on 06/03/16 13:14: >> Greetings all; >> >> I re-added the amd64 architecture to the architecture's in dpkg/synaptic, >> but the package -> force-version remains stubbornly ghosted, so I cannot >> fix any broken patckages tha

Re: Pursuant to my efforts to remove, and update the remaining :amd64 built packages

Hi, Gene Heskett wrote on 06/03/16 13:14: > Greetings all; > > I re-added the amd64 architecture to the architecture's in dpkg/synaptic, > but the package -> force-version remains stubbornly ghosted, so I cannot > fix any broken patckages that are preventing the install of any updates. > > So

Re: Ideas to obtain text file list of emails in an IMAP folder?

Ron Leach wrote: > List, good afternoon, > > Have any debian-user readers ever tried to create a list of all the > email messages stored in an IMAP folder? > > We run Dovecot as an IMAP server. Email messages relating to > different projects/activities are held in different IMAP folders. I'd >

Re: Running without X was: Re: ssh-ing in inside private network

On Friday 03 June 2016 15:32:14 David Wright wrote: > I did discover that it's obvious if you try to Xorg -configure > while X is running There's a hole in the bucket, dear Eliza This is why I was trying to do it at single user level, to be *certain* that X wasn't running. :-) X is there,

Re: google-chrome-stable on Wheezy

On Friday 03 June 2016 15:45:43 Mike McGinn wrote: > I am buying a new laptop in February, this one will be eight years old > by then. Then I shall start clean with Jessie. By next February (9 months away), shouldn't you be thinking of Stretch? It will probably already be full-frozen, and Jessie

Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs

On Friday 03 June 2016 10:51:15 Joe wrote: > On Fri, 3 Jun 2016 07:36:24 -0400 > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 03 June 2016 07:03:54 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > On Friday 03 June 2016 10:59:53 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > Greetings all; > > > > > > > > Wheezy, i386. > > > > > > > > libreCAD look

Acronis Software Users

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Re: Ideas to obtain text file list of emails in an IMAP folder?

On Fri, 03 Jun 2016 15:05:08 +0100 Ron Leach wrote: > List, good afternoon, > > Have any debian-user readers ever tried to create a list of all the > email messages stored in an IMAP folder? > Sorry if you're a determined non-programmer, but the quickest approach might be a perl or php script

Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs

On Fri, 3 Jun 2016 07:36:24 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 03 June 2016 07:03:54 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > On Friday 03 June 2016 10:59:53 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > Greetings all; > > > > > > Wheezy, i386. > > > > > > libreCAD looks like a simple enough cad I could learn how to use > > >

Re: google-chrome-stable on Wheezy

On 06/03/2016 10:28 AM, SamuelOPH wrote: > ​Hi Mike,​ > > 2016-06-01 6:47 GMT-03:00 Mike McGinn >: > > Hi Samuel, > It is not an issue of need, it is an issue of time. I am the software > engineer / server guy at work, so I use my laptop at work and

Re: Running without X was: Re: ssh-ing in inside private network

On Fri 03 Jun 2016 at 10:28:32 (+0100), Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 03 June 2016 10:07:13 Lisi Reisz wrote: > >  I wanted to log in without X > > and runlevel 1 has no X. > > So I next tried to shut X down. I have tried this before without success, so > I googled again, and gathered that what

Re: google-chrome-stable on Wheezy

​Hi Mike,​ 2016-06-01 6:47 GMT-03:00 Mike McGinn : > Hi Samuel, > It is not an issue of need, it is an issue of time. I am the software > engineer / server guy at work, so I use my laptop at work and home. When > I upgraded from Squeeze it tool more than eight hours. I simply do not > have a day

Re: dphys-swapfile why don't us fallocate to create swapfile

On Thursday 02 June 2016 09:50:31 basti wrote: > so why you don't use this? Why doesn't who use it? Lisi

Re: SOS

On Friday 03 June 2016 15:09:01 Stephen Allen wrote: > On Fri, Jun 03, 2016 at 02:12:52PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 03, 2016 at 07:05:44AM -0500, Michael Milliman wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > >It got there because his grandson put it there. (He said last time.). > > > > > >

Re: icons missing in kde 5 applications

On Friday 03 June 2016 15:04:50 Stephen Allen wrote: > On Fri, Jun 03, 2016 at 07:27:41AM -0500, Ariel Molinuevo wrote: > > Ok. I managed to fix it following the instructions from here: > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Qt#Configuration_of_Qt5_apps_under_e > >nvironments_other_than_KDE > > >

Re: SOS

On Fri, Jun 03, 2016 at 02:12:52PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Fri, Jun 03, 2016 at 07:05:44AM -0500, Michael Milliman wrote: > > [...] > > > >It got there because his grandson put it there. (He said last time.). > > > > > >Lisi > > However, what 'it' is is still in question. Really str

Re: icons missing in kde 5 applications

On Fri, Jun 03, 2016 at 07:27:41AM -0500, Ariel Molinuevo wrote: > Ok. I managed to fix it following the instructions from here: > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Qt#Configuration_of_Qt5_apps_under_environments_other_than_KDE > > and installing qt5ct from here: > http://ppa.launchpad.net/nila

Re: jessie install cd no network

Javier wrote: >Hello, I downloaded the Jessie install cd and added a preseed file to >automatically install some packages, but running the install cd does not >recognize the realtek network cards, telling me that no network hardware >was detected. > >If I install it in a Virtualbox machine (with a

Re: Running without X was: Re: ssh-ing in inside private network

Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 03 June 2016 10:07:13 Lisi Reisz wrote: >>  I wanted to log in without X >> and runlevel 1 has no X. > > So I next tried to shut X down. I have tried this before without success, so > I googled again, and gathered that what I needed to do in fact was shut down > my

Re: jessie install cd no network

Javier Marcon wrote: > Hello, I downloaded the Jessie install cd and added a preseed file to > automatically install some packages, but running the install cd does not > recognize the realtek network cards, telling me that no network hardware > was detected. They probably need "non-free" drivers,

Re: enable telnetd?

Felix Miata wrote: > Dan Purgert composed on 2016-06-02 19:57 (UTC): > >> Felix Miata wrote: > >>> I have no interest in answers explaining ssh and security risk. These are >>> understood. All I'm interested in is capturing dmesg and logs from a test >>> installation while normal logins are busy wi

Re: jessie install cd no network

Thanks, the problem is with realtek pci and pci express ethernet cards. I will try to find the module to add in /lib/firmware in the installation cd to see if it works. the weird thig is that after installing, the intalled debian uses the cards perfectly (but debian installer) does not recognize th

Re: icons missing in kde 5 applications

Ok. I managed to fix it following the instructions from here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Qt#Configuration_of_Qt5_apps_under_environments_other_than_KDE and installing qt5ct from here: http://ppa.launchpad.net/nilarimogard/webupd8/ubuntu/pool/main/q/qt5ct/. Regards. Ariel

Re: SOS

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jun 03, 2016 at 07:05:44AM -0500, Michael Milliman wrote: [...] > >It got there because his grandson put it there. (He said last time.). > > > >Lisi > However, what 'it' is is still in question. Really strange all around. Let's hope 'it' a

Re: SOS

On 06/02/2016 09:19 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Thursday 02 June 2016 09:44:51 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [CCed, because probably not on list. Perhaps it's just a spam trap -- so be it] He had already had two replies to the same question, which he is h

jessie install cd no network

Hello, I downloaded the Jessie install cd and added a preseed file to automatically install some packages, but running the install cd does not recognize the realtek network cards, telling me that no network hardware was detected. If I install it in a Virtualbox machine (with a phisical disk mapped

Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs

On Friday 03 June 2016 07:03:54 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 03 June 2016 10:59:53 Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > Wheezy, i386. > > > > libreCAD looks like a simple enough cad I could learn how to use but > > it cannot find its help docs. > > > > I do not see a separate docs packa

Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs

On Friday 03 June 2016 06:43:23 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Fri, Jun 03, 2016 at 05:59:53AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > Wheezy, i386. > > > > libreCAD looks like a simple enough cad I could learn how to use but > > it cannot find its help docs. > > > > I do not see a sep

Pursuant to my efforts to remove, and update the remaining :amd64 built packages

Greetings all; I re-added the amd64 architecture to the architecture's in dpkg/synaptic, but the package -> force-version remains stubbornly ghosted, so I cannot fix any broken patckages that are preventing the install of any updates. So I try to have dpkg remove the amd64 aarchitecture, but no

Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs

On Friday 03 June 2016 10:59:53 Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > Wheezy, i386. > > libreCAD looks like a simple enough cad I could learn how to use but it > cannot find its help docs. > > I do not see a separate docs package in the repo's. > > Does anyone have a clue where they might be fou

Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jun 03, 2016 at 05:59:53AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > Wheezy, i386. > > libreCAD looks like a simple enough cad I could learn how to use but it > cannot find its help docs. > > I do not see a separate docs package in th

Re: OpenJDK-8-jre-jamvm mips version start failed

Hi, On Fri, 2016-06-03 at 15:59 +0800, 飞颜 wrote: > Dear Group, > >    I used QEMU run Debian8.4(jessie) MIPS(big endian) version, I need use > java environment for develop OSGI bundles. > >    openjdk hospot jvm is very slow, i want to change to jamvm, but it can > not start successfully. the er

libreCAD, can't find help docs

Greetings all; Wheezy, i386. libreCAD looks like a simple enough cad I could learn how to use but it cannot find its help docs. I do not see a separate docs package in the repo's. Does anyone have a clue where they might be found? Thanks all. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to

Re: ssh-ing in inside private network

On Friday 03 June 2016 09:59:29 Lisi Reisz wrote: > I didn't know what foo was anyway. I meant that I didn't know specifically what foo was in that context. Lisi

Running without X was: Re: ssh-ing in inside private network

On Friday 03 June 2016 10:07:13 Lisi Reisz wrote: >  I wanted to log in without X > and runlevel 1 has no X. So I next tried to shut X down. I have tried this before without success, so I googled again, and gathered that what I needed to do in fact was shut down my dm. See: https://wiki.debia

Re: ssh-ing in inside private network

On Wednesday 01 June 2016 18:52:40 David Wright wrote: > AIUI one can configure a box to run X in all runlevels but 1; > however, there's no need to do it that way. None of my machines > run X automatically at runlevel 2: I have to use startx. This is indubitably true, but irrelevant to the proble

Re: Execute sh script inside a new terminal windows

On Fri, Jun 03, 2016 at 10:54:29AM CEST, "heqami...@runbox.com" said: > Hi, > > Is possible to execute a .sh inside a **new** terminal? > > if inside a terminal I try to execute > > gnome-terminal myscript.sh > > I got a new terminal, but 'myscript.sh' will be ignored. > > Thanks for help >

Re: ssh-ing in inside private network

On Wednesday 01 June 2016 14:43:29 Mark Fletcher wrote: > On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 9:10 PM Dan Purgert wrote: > > Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > On Tuesday 31 May 2016 23:56:02 Richard Hector wrote: > > >> On 01/06/16 07:31, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > >> > Now to do what I really wanted to do all along, and ssh

Re: ssh-ing in inside private network

On Wednesday 01 June 2016 23:07:55 David Wright wrote: > On Tue 31 May 2016 at 20:31:32 (+0100), Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Thursday 31 March 2016 15:08:24 Brian wrote: > > > On Thu 31 Mar 2016 at 13:27:35 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > > On Thursday 31 March 2016 12:28:57 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > >

Execute sh script inside a new terminal windows

Hi, Is possible to execute a .sh inside a **new** terminal? if inside a terminal I try to execute gnome-terminal myscript.sh I got a new terminal, but 'myscript.sh' will be ignored. Thanks for help

Re: Syslog-NG

On Fri, 2016-06-03 at 08:16 +0100, Joe wrote: > On Fri, 03 Jun 2016 07:42:46 +0100 > David wrote: > > > Dear Group, > > > > I am running Syslog-ng on a Raspberry Pi, it stores the data sent to > > it on a 64G memory stick. It's working very well. > > > > I retrieve the syslog file by SSHing int

OpenJDK-8-jre-jamvm mips version start failed

Dear Group, I used QEMU run Debian8.4(jessie) MIPS(big endian) version, I need use java environment for develop OSGI bundles. openjdk hospot jvm is very slow, i want to change to jamvm, but it can not start successfully. the error meaasge is below: java: relocation error: /usr/lib/jvm/ja

Re: Syslog-NG

On Fri, 03 Jun 2016 07:42:46 +0100 David wrote: > Dear Group, > > I am running Syslog-ng on a Raspberry Pi, it stores the data sent to > it on a 64G memory stick. It's working very well. > > I retrieve the syslog file by SSHing into the Pi and copying the file > to my main PC. > > The problem

Re: Syslog-NG

I don't have my pi with me, but in Debian, the logrotate package handles regular rotation and signaling daemons to open new files. You should be able to figure out a suitable configuration from one of the files already in /etc/logrotate.d/ As for the large log file you already have, I think split