On יום ראשון, 15 בינואר 2017 19:44:36 IST Felix Miata wrote:
> Jimmy Johnson composed on 2017-01-15 13:43 (UTC-0800):
> > The 965 is only using "ro", the 4.8 and 4.9 kernel are installed but not
> > working. The 4.7.0-1 kernel works swell, if the newer kernel's are not
> > working later on I will d
On Sunday 15 January 2017 20:29:49 John Darrah wrote:
> On 1/15/2017 3:26 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > And any drive thats 10 years old & maybe even some newer ones are
> > desperately in need of being pulled out, and any covers that are
> > blocking good access to the carriage drive screw, need to
How can I find out the display manager currently running on a machine
from the command line?
Google tells me that /etc/X11/default-display-manager will show the
default display manager. But I want the display manager that is
currently running (which can be different from the default). Is that
poss
On 1/15/2017 3:26 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
And any drive thats 10 years old & maybe even some newer ones are
desperately in need of being pulled out, and any covers that are
blocking good access to the carriage drive screw, need to be uncovered
for a serious cleaning with alcohol or even acetone s
Hi all,
I've got a new machine:
LENOVO ThinkPad X230 i5 23252GG
To replace my ol' trusty x61s.
Fresh install of Sid, with
liquorix 4.9-3 (2017-01-07) x86_64 kernel (for RT audio work).
Have also installed linrunner's TLP.
My understanding is that the x230's Ivy Bridge processor should make use o
I have been running version 7.11 of Debian for several
years on a desktop with a dual boot of windows and linux
via grub. I upgraded to windows 10 roughly 8 months ago,
and the system continued to work.
On January 9, I noticed that the grub menu no longer
displayed a windows option, instead
Jimmy Johnson composed on 2017-01-15 13:43 (UTC-0800):
The 965 is only using "ro", the 4.8 and 4.9 kernel are installed but not
working. The 4.7.0-1 kernel works swell, if the newer kernel's are not
working later on I will do something else, like import another kernel
that will be updated.
ro
On Sunday 15 January 2017 16:36:08 Martin McCormick wrote:
> I must first say a big thank you to everybody who helped.
>
> I got it working and here is what happened and how to
> format a totally blank diskette.
>
> The man page for setfdprm should have had at least one
> example of ho
On Sun 15 Jan 2017 at 15:36:08 -0600, Martin McCormick wrote:
[A trip down Memory Lane snipped]
For those who may want to use Plop boot manager, it is far quicker and
more reliable to do so from GRUB on the hard disc. The Plop website has
details. Struggling with a pile of floppies is no fun and
On 01/15/2017 04:36 PM, Martin McCormick wrote:
I must first say a big thank you to everybody who helped.
I got it working and here is what happened and how to
format a totally blank diskette.
The man page for setfdprm should have had at least one
example of how to use it sinc
On 01/15/2017 10:48 AM, Felix Miata wrote:
Jimmy Johnson composed on 2017-01-15 10:24 (UTC-0800):
This is Nvidia GeForce7025 using nvidia-legacy-304xx-driver using the
4.8.0-2 kernel because it's the only thing I've found to work.
I'm also using an Intel desktop with ATI Radeon 9550 graphics
I must first say a big thank you to everybody who helped.
I got it working and here is what happened and how to
format a totally blank diskette.
The man page for setfdprm should have had at least one
example of how to use it since syntax, especially for something
one doesn't use e
On Sun, 15 Jan 2017, Gene Heskett wrote:
> To add to the confusion, Martin, windows won the battle of fdc
> capabilities around a decade back with the fdc chip makers. This $300
Hmm, no. More like the fdc's all became "IP" ("intellectual property
module") verilog/vhdl to be added as an extra d
Jimmy Johnson composed on 2017-01-15 10:24 (UTC-0800):
This is Nvidia GeForce7025 using nvidia-legacy-304xx-driver using the
4.8.0-2 kernel because it's the only thing I've found to work.
I'm also using an Intel desktop with ATI Radeon 9550 graphics and an
Intel Laptop with Intel 965 graphics
On 01/14/2017 09:51 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
Jimmy Johnson composed on 2017-01-14 20:37 (UTC-0800):
Is something missing in the kernel, maybe a module?
Which gfxchip do you have?
This is Nvidia GeForce7025 using nvidia-legacy-304xx-driver using the
4.8.0-2 kernel because it's the only thing
On Sunday 15 January 2017 09:17:45 Martin McCormick wrote:
> Mirko Parthey writes:
> > On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 03:32:08PM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote:
> > > What happened after I zapped the floppy is that fdformat will not
> > > run because it sees no pre-existing format information.
> > >
> >
On Sat 14 Jan 2017 at 15:32:08 -0600, Martin McCormick wrote:
> The fdformat utility allows one to low-level format a
> floppy disk. I need to convince an older PC that it should boot
> from one of it's usb ports and the Plop Project has a boot
> manager that fits on a 1.4Mb floppy. It is ca
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On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 12:45:54PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
[...]
> Interestingly enough, I don't seem to have either setfdprm(8) or
> setfdprm itself in my amd64 Debian Jessie system, so I can't check this
> for you. /etc/mediaprm
On Sun, 15 Jan 2017, Martin McCormick wrote:
>The generic floppy devices, /dev/fd0 and /dev/fd1, will fail to work
>with fdformat when a non-standard format is being used, or if the for-
>mat has not been autodetected earlier. In this case, use setfdprm(8)
>to
Mirko Parthey writes:
> On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 03:32:08PM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote:
> > What happened after I zapped the floppy is that fdformat will not
> > run because it sees no pre-existing format information.
> >
> > What am I forgetting or what has changed?
>
> According to the
Thank you.
M.A.P.
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On 01/15/2017 10:28 AM, Jeremy Nicoll wrote:
On Sun, 15 Jan 2017, at 09:16, M.A. Perry wrote:
3. From 1. and 2. I have concluded that the non-free
"programming" added to the interface hardware
is non-volatile (i.e. persistent); which raises the
questio
On Sun, 15 Jan 2017, at 09:16, M.A. Perry wrote:
> 3. From 1. and 2. I have concluded that the non-free
> "programming" added to the interface hardware
> is non-volatile (i.e. persistent); which raises the
> question how does one de-install the non-free
> firmware should t
People,
My thanks to all of you for the useful reactions
to my question. I will try to summarise what
was said.
1. The ethernet internet card (in my case a
chip set on the motherboard) requires
"firmware" and not software. [In fact when
I wrote "software" in my initial pos
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