Re: Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one!

rhkra...@gmail.com composed on 2016-09-15 07:28 (UTC-0400): ... my only reason for writing is to suggest (to the OP) that he consider using a fairly inexpensive digital flat screen tv as his monitor. I currently use a 1080P 32" T that I bought for under $200 (on sale, somewhere, sometime, prob

Re: Testing/Unstable Synaptic broken again.

On 09/17/2016 03:37 PM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: On 09/15/2016 12:50 AM, Ric Moore wrote: On 09/14/2016 04:10 PM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: Thank you upstream developing and packaging team for replacing the effected packages. Yay! These packages have now been upgraded in Sid, 'gir1.2-gtk-3.0, libgtk-

Re: Primary and secondary school education in free software

On 9/17/16, Ben Finney wrote: > Howdy all, > > Does anyone know people skilled in education curricula – teachers and > those who write such curricula – also passionate about software freedom? > > I am wanting to find people skilled in producing primary and secondary > school curricula, who would b

Re: Boot Debian via PXE without Internet connection

Hi, thanks for your feedback. I managed to successfully to boot the .iso via memdisk but now the problem is that i cannot preseed the installation as the machine boots. I have two options: - either I hack the iso and set a default preseed - I backtrack and use the netinst installation by preseedi

Primary and secondary school education in free software

Howdy all, Does anyone know people skilled in education curricula – teachers and those who write such curricula – also passionate about software freedom? I am wanting to find people skilled in producing primary and secondary school curricula, who would be interested in working to make material th

Re: Very hard to find MD5 checksum of Debian CDs!

At "www.debian.org" I clicked on "Getting Debian", and then to get a net install image there are 3 different pages that all have direct links to the ISO files, but no link at all about how to get the MD5sums. Even the Verify page doesn't show how to find the MD5sums. So I think it will help many us

Re: Very hard to find MD5 checksum of Debian CDs!

On 18/09/16 11:33, Shervin Emami wrote: Am I just not noticing the obvious link, or does the Debian website really not give the info about how to verify checksums? Shervin, it seemed obvious to me. The checksum files are at the top of the download directory listing [1]. Starting at

Re: Very hard to find MD5 checksum of Debian CDs!

Am 18. Sep, 2016 schwätzte Shervin Emami so: moin moin Shervin, Which specific ISO were you downloading? Where did you get the link to the image? The main download site does have checksum files right alongside the ISO images. http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/8.5.0/amd64/iso-cd/ http://cdim

Re: Sound on Jessie

Lisi Reisz composed on 2016-09-17 11:56 (UTC+0100): Alan McConnell wrote: Alas for the days of wheezy, when everything _worked_!! Wheezy is LTS (though admittedly more successfully for servers), so if everything Just Worked, and you liked it, why did you change? There are indeed valid rea

Re: Sound on Jessie

Lisi Reisz composed on 2016-09-17 11:56 (UTC+0100): Alan McConnell wrote: Alas for the days of wheezy, when everything _worked_!! Wheezy is LTS (though admittedly more successfully for servers), so if everything Just Worked, and you liked it, why did you change? There are indeed valid rea

Very hard to find MD5 checksum of Debian CDs!

Hi, I've been using Debian for about 6 years now, but today I went to download Debian Jessie from the "debian.org" website and realized there doesn't seem to be any link on any of the pages to show what the MD5 checksum is of the Debian installation CDs! I looked through many of the official Debia

Re: Testing/Unstable Synaptic broken again.

On Saturday 17 September 2016 23:37:31 Jimmy Johnson wrote: > A fixed release cycle sucks, > where not getting some bugs fixed, just a new system every 2 years and > it seems to have started with Wheezy Just one of the attempts to please the Ubuntu crowd. :-(( Lisi

Re: Sound on jessie

Alan McConnell wrote: > 0 [PCH            ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel PCH > HDA Intel PCH at 0xdf32 irq 142 > 1 [NVidia         ]: HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia > HDA NVidia at 0xdf08 irq 17 > > I have no idea what the above means.  Presumably one or both are > functional. So which one is your pre

Re: Sound on jessie

Lisi Reisz wrote: > He keeps saying that he is using Jessie.  Why do you think he is using > Ubuntu? Sorry I seem to have misread something.

Re: Testing/Unstable Synaptic broken again.

On 09/15/2016 09:58 AM, Joe wrote: On Thu, 15 Sep 2016 03:50:21 -0400 Ric Moore wrote: On 09/14/2016 04:10 PM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: On 09/01/2016 08:51 AM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: The latest upgrades have broken Synaptic, unable to use Menus or right click and Search is affected too. Thank yo

Re: Testing/Unstable Synaptic broken again.

On 09/15/2016 12:50 AM, Ric Moore wrote: On 09/14/2016 04:10 PM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: Thank you upstream developing and packaging team for replacing the effected packages. Yay! These packages have now been upgraded in Sid, 'gir1.2-gtk-3.0, libgtk-3-0. libgtk-3-bin. libgtk-3-common' if you hav

Re: Sound on jessie

On Saturday 17 September 2016 21:58:55 Alan McConnell wrote: > I tried to install alsa.  No result -- I think it is already installed. By what method did you try and what reason have you to think that it is already installed? (I am troubleshooting, not carping.) Lisi

Re: Sound on jessie

On Saturday 17 September 2016 17:17:55 deloptes wrote: > Now that we know Alan is using Ubuntu, he could even try ubuntu live in > former or current version to compare. He keeps saying that he is using Jessie. Why do you think he is using Ubuntu? Lisi

Re: Sound on jessie

On Saturday 17 September 2016 14:43:04 Alan McConnell wrote: > Alas for the days of wheezy, when everything _worked_!! Wheezy is LTS (though admittedly more successfully for servers), so if everything Just Worked, and you liked it, why did you change? There are indeed valid reasons, but what is

Re: Sound on jessie

On Saturday 17 September 2016 14:03:36 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Saturday, September 17, 2016 03:56:20 AM Joe wrote: > > On Sat, 17 Sep 2016 08:57:12 +0200 > > > > deloptes wrote: > > > Joe we are not doing advertisements for this or that distro. > > > > 'Advertisement'? I'm recommending some

Re: libnss3, currently in testing

On Saturday 17 September 2016 10:34:17 claude juif wrote: > 2016-09-09 13:36 GMT+02:00 Gene Heskett : > > On Thursday 08 September 2016 19:02:31 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > > On Thu, 08 Sep 2016, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > Has anyone an idea of a schedule of when that will put this >

Re: Sound on jessie

- Original Message - From: "Joe" To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2016 3:47:10 PM Subject: Re: Sound on jessie On Sat, 17 Sep 2016 12:47:23 -0400 (EDT) Alan McConnell wrote: > > This suggests to me, and I hope to my readers here, that > there i

Re: Difficulties with Firefox/iceweasel

- Original Message - From: "Felix Miata" To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2016 1:26:23 PM Subject: Re: Difficulties with Firefox/iceweasel Alan McConnell composed on 2016-09-17 13:05 (UTC-0400): > I'll have to log in as root to do this, I'm sure. But the

Re: Sound on jessie

On Sat, 17 Sep 2016 12:47:23 -0400 (EDT) Alan McConnell wrote: > > This suggests to me, and I hope to my readers here, that > there is something wrong with the way alsa works, or doesn't work, > here. I can't imagine what the difficulty is, since the cogent > suggestions that have be

Boot Debian via PXE without Internet connection

Hi all, I recently started playing around to install Debian via PXE. I successfully managed to install the netinst version following the documentation available at https://wiki.debian.org/PXEBootInstall. Now I'd like to understand how to boot any debian ISO. For instance, suppose that on my PXE

Re: Boot Debian via PXE without Internet connection

Hi, Valerio wrote: > suppose that on my PXE server I havedebian-8.5.0-amd64-CD-1.iso, [...] > More generally, suppose I create my own iso (with build-simple-cdd), how > can I install it via PXE? I guess this is what you need: http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php?title=MEMDISK (I never tested

Re: Difficulties with Firefox/iceweasel

Alan McConnell composed on 2016-09-17 13:05 (UTC-0400): During my experimentation with Iceweasel, described in another post, I have received warnings from the OS that /tmp was filling up. It seems that when running a video a buffer is opened in /tmp, and /tmp fills up rapidly. At the moment, d

Re: Sound on jessie

Alan McConnell composed on 2016-09-17 09:43 (UTC-0400): Alan, who is pleased at least to be able to get on line from his jessie install Those who helped, and those who use Google, deserve an update to the original thread explaining that you solved the problem, and as best you can, how you di

Re: New Dell Inspiron: Screen flicker

Harris composed on 2016-09-17 09:38 (UTC-0400): Felix Miata wrote: Harris composed on 2016-09-17 08:57 (UTC): I just got a new Dell laptop to replace my former one that I ran Debian on with no issues -- unfortunately with this one, the screen flickers when I have it at essentially the ne

Difficulties with Firefox/iceweasel

During my experimentation with Iceweasel, described in another post, I have received warnings from the OS that /tmp was filling up. It seems that when running a video a buffer is opened in /tmp, and /tmp fills up rapidly. At the moment, df /tmp tells me that 3% of /tmp is used. When I'm trying t

Re: Sound on jessie

- Original Message - From: "deloptes" To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2016 12:17:55 PM Subject: Re: Sound on jessie Alan McConnell wrote: > > > - Original Message - > From: "Anthony Baldwin" > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Sent: Saturday,

Firefox Crash

Hi, since a few weeks I see frequent firefox crashes. Even with a fresh configuration directory, I get rd@blackbox:~$ mv .mozilla/ .mozilla.bak rd@blackbox:~$ firefox Vector smash protection is enabled. ATTENTION: default value of option force_s3tc_enable overridden by environment. intel_do_flu

Re: Sound on jessie

Alan McConnell wrote: > > > - Original Message - > From: "Anthony Baldwin" > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2016 7:56:48 AM > Subject: Re: Sound on jessie > > > I was having a similar problem just last week after an update>safe > upgrade.. After scrat

Re: Longstanding rsync script no longer excludes - SOLVED

On 17/09/16 13:32, Mike Bird wrote $rsync $rsync_opts $password FileServer::rsync \ /home/backup/home/ > /var/rsync/FileServer.$NOW.log I don't see where the $excludes you built is actually used. On 17/09/16 13:44, Clive Menzies wrote: The script wasn't changed and I've always assume

Re: libnss3, currently in testing

2016-09-09 13:36 GMT+02:00 Gene Heskett : > On Thursday 08 September 2016 19:02:31 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > > On Thu, 08 Sep 2016, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > Has anyone an idea of a schedule of when that will put this security > > > update into the wheezy repo's? > > > > https://wiki.

Re: Sound on jessie

On 09/17/2016 09:43 AM, Alan McConnell wrote: - Original Message - From: "Anthony Baldwin" To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2016 7:56:48 AM Subject: Re: Sound on jessie I was having a similar problem just last week after an update>safe upgrade.. After sc

Re: Sound on jessie

- Original Message - From: "Anthony Baldwin" To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2016 7:56:48 AM Subject: Re: Sound on jessie I was having a similar problem just last week after an update>safe upgrade.. After scratching my head for several days and trying eve

Re: Sound on jessie

On Saturday, September 17, 2016 03:56:20 AM Joe wrote: > On Sat, 17 Sep 2016 08:57:12 +0200 > > deloptes wrote: > > Joe we are not doing advertisements for this or that distro. > > 'Advertisement'? I'm recommending something I've found to be a useful > troubleshooting tool, over many years. It i

Re: Longstanding rsync script no longer excludes

On 17-09-2016 07:42, Clive Menzies wrote: > > Hi > > One of the issues we've encountered following a recent Jessie upgrade, > (around 5th September) is an rsync script seems to have changed behaviour. > > We've been using rsync for a daily automated incremental backup and > have three scripts to ma

Re: Sound on jessie

On 09/17/2016 02:57 AM, deloptes wrote: Joe wrote: On Fri, 16 Sep 2016 13:44:09 -0400 (EDT) Alan McConnell wrote: For some reason, my sound doesn't work on my new machine with its present jessie install. It worked on my old machine(which had jessie) and it works fine here on Windoze(I use y

Re: New Dell Inspiron: Screen flicker

Harris composed on 2016-09-17 08:57 (UTC): > I just got a new Dell laptop to replace my former one that I ran Debian on > with no issues -- unfortunately with this one, the screen flickers when I > have it at essentially the next-to-highest brightness setting. I say > "essentially" because it h

Re: New Dell Inspiron: Screen flicker

Harris composed on 2016-09-17 08:57 (UTC): I just got a new Dell laptop to replace my former one that I ran Debian on with no issues -- unfortunately with this one, the screen flickers when I have it at essentially the next-to-highest brightness setting. I say "essentially" because it happens

Longstanding rsync script no longer excludes

Hi One of the issues we've encountered following a recent Jessie upgrade, (around 5th September) is an rsync script seems to have changed behaviour. We've been using rsync for a daily automated incremental backup and have three scripts to maintain an archive of daily snapshots for a week; we

Problem with dpkg-source -b outside current working dir

Hi, according to the man page, dpkg-source -b takes an argument that is "the name of the directory containing the debianized source tree". But that does not work for me if the directory is not the current working directory. When is execute dpkg-source in the package's source directory, i.e.

Re: Sound on jessie

On Sat, 17 Sep 2016 08:57:12 +0200 deloptes wrote: > > > > Joe we are not doing advertisements for this or that distro. 'Advertisement'? I'm recommending something I've found to be a useful troubleshooting tool, over many years. It is of no use as a permanent installation, as it cannot be u

Re: Sound on jessie

First try which amixer and if that isn't found, download alsa-utils. Next sudo -H amixer set Master 85%;alsactl store On Sat, 17 Sep 2016, deloptes wrote: Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2016 02:57:12 From: deloptes To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Sound on jessie Resent-Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2016