Re: Laptop wireless problem - very slight tangent

2016-07-03 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 7/3/16, deloptes wrote: > Lisi Reisz wrote: > >> I have discovered something I find interesting in this, which does not >> seem to be directly in reply to anything that has gone before - so it was >> difficult >> to place it in the thread. I have deliberately broken the >> "conversation", >> b

Re: Laptop wireless problem - very slight tangent

2016-07-03 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 03 July 2016 21:36:58 deloptes wrote: > Lisi Reisz wrote: > > .  It would obviously be helpful, but I have always heretofore just > > accepted the interface name I was given!  Google here I come again. > > just comment out the eth1 lines from the udev file and reboot. it should > add the

Re: Laptop wireless problem - very slight tangent

2016-07-03 Thread deloptes
Lisi Reisz wrote: > .  It would obviously be helpful, but I have always heretofore just > accepted the interface name I was given!  Google here I come again. just comment out the eth1 lines from the udev file and reboot. it should add the proper one after AFAIR

Re: Laptop wireless problem - very slight tangent

2016-07-03 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 03 July 2016 19:59:50 deloptes wrote: > Lisi Reisz wrote: > > I have discovered something I find interesting in this, which does not > > seem to be directly in reply to anything that has gone before - so it was > > difficult > > to place it in the thread. I have deliberately broken the >

Re: Laptop wireless problem - very slight tangent

2016-07-03 Thread deloptes
Lisi Reisz wrote: > I have discovered something I find interesting in this, which does not > seem to be directly in reply to anything that has gone before - so it was > difficult > to place it in the thread. I have deliberately broken the "conversation", > but not the thread. > > From the router

Re: Sound gone when watching movies - Pulseaudio

2016-07-03 Thread Norbert Kiszka
Dnia 2016-07-03, nie o godzinie 20:09 +0200, Hársfalvi Gábor pisze: > Hi, > > I don't know why - but meanwhile listening some music or sound - for > example watching online movies with Chrome - all the sound gone and > can't work again since rebooted the computer. > > Please help! > > Thanks.

Sound gone when watching movies - Pulseaudio

2016-07-03 Thread Hársfalvi Gábor
Hi, I don't know why - but meanwhile listening some music or sound - for example watching online movies with Chrome - all the sound gone and can't work again since rebooted the computer. Please help! Thanks.

Re: Laptop wireless problem

2016-07-03 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Lisi Reisz wrote on 07/03/16 17:56: > On Sunday 03 July 2016 15:05:00 Lisi Reisz wrote: >> On Sunday 03 July 2016 14:56:07 Lisi Reisz wrote: >>> On Sunday 03 July 2016 14:49:44 deloptes wrote: Lisi Reisz wrote: > Ah! That could be part of the problem,but on its home network it has > w

Re: catastrophe - but how? Aptitude goes mad

2016-07-03 Thread John Hasler
Gene writes: > No, thats just grep being grep, it says that of ANY binary file it > tries to read as text. No, it says that of any binary file in which it finds a match. You don't want it to print out the "line" in the binary file where it found the match because the "line" could be thousands of

Re: Laptop wireless problem

2016-07-03 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 03 July 2016 15:05:00 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Sunday 03 July 2016 14:56:07 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Sunday 03 July 2016 14:49:44 deloptes wrote: > > > Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > > Ah!  That could be part of the problem,but on its home network it has > > > > worked fine for several years, and

Re: catastrophe - but how? Aptitude goes mad

2016-07-03 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 03 July 2016 17:11:43 Wes wrote: > On 2016-06-30, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > I ran > > # aptitude install libreoffice-grammarcheck-en-gb > > and aptitude just carried on without asking as is correct when there > > is only one package; but it proceeded to uninstall my entire desktop > > environ

Re: catastrophe - but how? Aptitude goes mad

2016-07-03 Thread Wes
On 2016-06-30, Lisi Reisz wrote: I ran # aptitude install libreoffice-grammarcheck-en-gb and aptitude just carried on without asking as is correct when there is only one package; but it proceeded to uninstall my entire desktop environment, hundreds of packages. Both apt-get and aptitude have a

Re: Adding condition on package version pinning (example case: linphone)

2016-07-03 Thread Francesco Montanari
Sorry, just found the solution by specifying the problematic version and giving negative priority (instead of forcing downgrade). Package: linphone* Version: 3.6.1-2.6 Pin: release n=stretch Pin-Priority: -10 On Sun, Jul 3, 2016 at 12:35 PM, Francesco Montanari wrote: > Hi, > > I am on Stretch

Re: Laptop wireless problem

2016-07-03 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 03 July 2016 14:56:07 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Sunday 03 July 2016 14:49:44 deloptes wrote: > > Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > Ah!  That could be part of the problem,but on its home network it has > > > worked fine for several years, and stopped working suddenly on Friday > > > afternoon, on the c

Re: Laptop wireless problem

2016-07-03 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 03 July 2016 14:49:44 deloptes wrote: > Lisi Reisz wrote: > > Ah!  That could be part of the problem,but on its home network it has > > worked fine for several years, and stopped working suddenly on Friday > > afternoon, on the clients' premises,  while connected.  I had been > > upgradin

Re: Laptop wireless problem - very slight tangent

2016-07-03 Thread Lisi Reisz
I have discovered something I find interesting in this, which does not seem to be directly in reply to anything that has gone before - so it was difficult to place it in the thread. I have deliberately broken the "conversation", but not the thread. From the router's log: Every time I try (onc

Re: Laptop wireless problem

2016-07-03 Thread deloptes
Lisi Reisz wrote: > Ah!  That could be part of the problem,but on its home network it has > worked fine for several years, and stopped working suddenly on Friday > afternoon, on the clients' premises,  while connected.  I had been > upgrading earlier. If it was working, then perhaps it messed up

Re: Laptop wireless problem

2016-07-03 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 03 July 2016 12:53:22 deloptes wrote: > Lisi Reisz wrote: > > I have just checked.  It is not working.  I suspect that none of the GUI > > software, this being an old 32 bit laptop, can handle IPv6.  But it seems > > very odd that the card is finding the networks (and it is finding quite

Re: Laptop wireless problem

2016-07-03 Thread deloptes
Lisi Reisz wrote: > I have just checked.  It is not working.  I suspect that none of the GUI > software, this being an old 32 bit laptop, can handle IPv6.  But it seems > very odd that the card is finding the networks (and it is finding quite a > few) and getting an IPv6 address, but not getting a

Re: Laptop wireless problem

2016-07-03 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 03 July 2016 10:41:31 deloptes wrote: > Lisi Reisz wrote: > > eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:16:6f:00:3a:b3 > > Ah and check txpower with iwconfig > > sometimes it is set to 0dB rendering wireless useless. > example > iwconfig eth1 txpower 10 root@debian-wheezy:/home/sarah# iwc

Re: Laptop wireless problem

2016-07-03 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 03 July 2016 10:25:55 deloptes wrote: > now what I don't understand is can you use your intel/build in. No. That was the original problem and why I was trying to use an external card in the first place. > you also > did not post the intel dmesg firmware loading lines, but i assume if

Re: Laptop wireless problem

2016-07-03 Thread deloptes
Lisi Reisz wrote: > eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:16:6f:00:3a:b3 Ah and check txpower with iwconfig sometimes it is set to 0dB rendering wireless useless. example iwconfig eth1 txpower 10 regards

Adding condition on package version pinning (example case: linphone)

2016-07-03 Thread Francesco Montanari
Hi, I am on Stretch and the default linphone version is unusable for me (I got reported bugs #743494). However Jessie's version works, so I pinned it in /etc/apt/preferences: Package: linphone* Pin: release n=jessie Pin-Priority: 1001 However, the version is quite old (e.g. lacks of ZRTP support

Re: Laptop wireless problem

2016-07-03 Thread deloptes
Lisi Reisz wrote: > root@debian-wheezy:~# dmesg | grep wifi > [ 13.615263] rtl8192cu: Loading firmware rtlwifi/rtl8192cufw_TMSC.bin > [ 13.615316] usb 1-1: firmware: failed to load > [ rtlwifi/rtl8192cufw_TMSC.bin > (-2) > [ 13.634110] usb 1-1: firmware: failed to load rtlwifi/rtl8192cufw.bin > [

Re: Truncating MPGs or MP4s

2016-07-03 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Sat, Jul 02, 2016 at 05:39:58PM +0100, Brian wrote: > If the command line puts you off you wouldn't want to use > > ffmpeg -ss 00:00:00 -t 00:50:00 -i input.mp4 -acodec copy -vcodec copy > output.mp4 I'd second this; it is a more direct way to ask libav to do the job, most of the GUI tools