Re: system drive encryption question

2017-04-05 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Apr 05, 2017 at 05:31:38PM -0600, FHDATA wrote: > > > hello, > > I am not currently using debian as linux OS but > considering it ... > > > If I clean install debian (latest of course) and during > the install process have its / (system d

Re: Jesse Xfce wallpaper stuck

2017-04-05 Thread David Christensen
On 04/04/2017 09:10 PM, Charlie Kravetz wrote: On my dual video Lenovo thinkpad T520, I had this same issue. I deleted all the nvidia video stuff, then installed the intel I965 video files. Rebooting allowed the system to come and set the correct resolution. Then the backgrounds worked correctly.

system drive encryption question

2017-04-05 Thread FHDATA
hello, I am not currently using debian as linux OS but considering it ... If I clean install debian (latest of course) and during the install process have its / (system drive) encrypted with pass-phrase then later on, can I add a key, residing on a usb flash drive, to that encryption?

Re: unattended upgrades does not do anything

2017-04-05 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 05 April 2017 21:26:16 Erwan David wrote: > Le 04/05/17 à 21:59, Tom Dial a écrit : > > On 04/05/2017 10:22 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > >> On Wednesday 05 April 2017 15:46:53 Jonathan Dowland wrote: > >>> On Wed, Apr 05, 2017 at 10:26:18PM +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote: > I am going to h

Re: unattended upgrades does not do anything

2017-04-05 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 05 April 2017 20:59:02 Tom Dial wrote: > On 04/05/2017 10:22 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Wednesday 05 April 2017 15:46:53 Jonathan Dowland wrote: > >> On Wed, Apr 05, 2017 at 10:26:18PM +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote: > >>> I am going to have a go at getting unattended-upgrades to work so

Re: Sound problems (mpd, mpv mainly)

2017-04-05 Thread Martin Read
On 05/04/17 16:02, Ric Moore wrote: What blows my mind is why this happens so frequently and pavucontrol is not a "depend" on pulseaudio. Your problem occurs frequently without pavucontrol being automagically installed to use. Glad to be of assistance! Ric pulseaudio currently Suggests: pavucon

Re: GPU advice for Debian stretch?

2017-04-05 Thread Martin Read
On 05/04/17 18:25, Joshua Schaeffer wrote: If you are looking for an exact answer of "Card /XYZ/ works in Debian Stretch with package /ABC/" then I don't have an answer for you. Could you provide a little more detail about your requirements, like what you plan to use the card for. Do you do any v

Re: unattended upgrades does not do anything

2017-04-05 Thread Erwan David
Le 04/05/17 à 21:59, Tom Dial a écrit : > > > On 04/05/2017 10:22 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: >> On Wednesday 05 April 2017 15:46:53 Jonathan Dowland wrote: >>> On Wed, Apr 05, 2017 at 10:26:18PM +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote: I am going to have a go at getting unattended-upgrades to work sometime >>

Re: Re: unattended upgrades does not do anything

2017-04-05 Thread Tom Dial
On 04/05/2017 10:22 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Wednesday 05 April 2017 15:46:53 Jonathan Dowland wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 05, 2017 at 10:26:18PM +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote: >>> I am going to have a go at getting unattended-upgrades to work sometime >>> in the next few days, I will post back what my

Re: GPU advice for Debian stretch?

2017-04-05 Thread Nikunj Sharma
Can you please remove siwzh...@tesla.com from mail list. He is no more with company and I am getting all his emails. On 4/5/17, 11:03 AM, "deloptes" wrote: Martin Read wrote: > I'm currently using an AMD "APU" system with integrated Radeon HD6530D > graphics (yes, that's a

Re: GPU advice for Debian stretch?

2017-04-05 Thread Catherine Gramze
On Apr 05, 2017, at 01:25 PM, Joshua Schaeffer wrote: However, Almost any discrete, modern, mainline card (Geforce or ATI) will work. If you want to use proprietary drives then just check the manufacturers website if that particular card has a Linux driver for download. I haven't video card

Re: Likely a BUG - was [Re: Recording needed data from mate-search-tool - possible?]

2017-04-05 Thread David Wright
On Wed 05 Apr 2017 at 07:06:22 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > On 04/03/2017 12:59 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > >[SNIP] > > > >The annoying facet of the problem is that > >"Applications->Accessories->Search for files" retrieves exactly > >the data I want and can sort it so that it visually groups d

Re: Laptop reboot and suspend

2017-04-05 Thread solitone
On Wednesday, 5 April 2017 19:49:29 CEST Teemu Likonen wrote: > If hibernation is like s2disk then yes, it works. I don't use it often, > though. Yes, it's suspend to disk. I would use it, but unfortunately in my system it doesn't work (screen does not turn on). Ciao

Re: If Linux Is About Choice, Why Then ...

2017-04-05 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 05.04.2017 um 20:05 schrieb Dan Ritter: > On Wed, Apr 05, 2017 at 07:26:03PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: >> Am 05.04.2017 um 17:04 schrieb Dan Ritter: >>> On Wed, Apr 05, 2017 at 03:47:33PM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Mon, Apr 03, 2017 at 05:06:22AM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: > Asi

Re: If Linux Is About Choice, Why Then ...

2017-04-05 Thread Dan Ritter
On Wed, Apr 05, 2017 at 07:26:03PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 05.04.2017 um 17:04 schrieb Dan Ritter: > > On Wed, Apr 05, 2017 at 03:47:33PM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > >> On Mon, Apr 03, 2017 at 05:06:22AM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: > >>> Aside from being insulting, this is just plain un

Re: GPU advice for Debian stretch?

2017-04-05 Thread deloptes
Martin Read wrote: > I'm currently using an AMD "APU" system with integrated Radeon HD6530D > graphics (yes, that's a component from 2011; the computer still works > fine). This is kind of awkward when considering moving to stretch: happened to me also when upgading ubuntu 12 to ubuntu 16 and had

Re: GPU advice for Debian stretch?

2017-04-05 Thread Teemu Likonen
Martin Read [2017-04-05 13:51:46+01] wrote: > I don't have the money to replace my computer right now, so I'm > looking at the number-and-letter soup of PCI Express discrete graphics > cards. Any recommendations? Not looking for some all-singing > all-dancing thing with seventeen fans, just someth

Re: GPU advice for Debian stretch?

2017-04-05 Thread Felix Miata
Martin Read composed on 2017-04-05 13:51 (UTC+0100): I'm currently using an AMD "APU" system with integrated Radeon HD6530D graphics (yes, that's a component from 2011; the computer still works fine). This is kind of awkward when considering moving to stretch: * The DKMS-support package for t

Re: If Linux Is About Choice, Why Then ...

2017-04-05 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 05.04.2017 um 17:04 schrieb Dan Ritter: > On Wed, Apr 05, 2017 at 03:47:33PM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: >> On Mon, Apr 03, 2017 at 05:06:22AM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: >>> Aside from being insulting, this is just plain untrue. There are well over >>> 100,000 professional Linux sysadmins wor

Re: GPU advice for Debian stretch?

2017-04-05 Thread Joshua Schaeffer
I've used the following cards over the years without any issues in my Linux boxes. They are typically higher end (at least at the time the series was relevant) because I buy them for my Windows gaming machine, then when I upgrade the graphic card I put the now old card in my main Linux workstation:

Re: Laptop reboot and suspend

2017-04-05 Thread Teemu Likonen
solit...@mail.com [2017-04-05 12:35:42+02] wrote: > On Wednesday, 5 April 2017 11:24:12 CEST Teemu Likonen wrote: >> My laptop's (Apple Macbook Air) suspend-resume works >> well with Debian 8 > > Does hibernation work as well? I have a MacBook Pro 12,1 with Debian 9 > and while suspend does work,

Re: unattended upgrades does not do anything

2017-04-05 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 05 April 2017 15:46:53 Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Wed, Apr 05, 2017 at 10:26:18PM +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > I am going to have a go at getting unattended-upgrades to work sometime > > in the next few days, I will post back what my results, even if the only > > thing that result

Re: Likely a BUG - was [Re: Recording needed data from mate-search-tool - possible?]

2017-04-05 Thread songbird
Richard Owlett wrote: > On 04/05/2017 08:28 AM, Mark Fletcher wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 05, 2017 at 07:06:22AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: >>> On 04/03/2017 12:59 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: [SNIP] The annoying facet of the problem is that "Applications->Accessories->Search for files

Re: where is usb.h?

2017-04-05 Thread Mark Copper
On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 2:39 AM, Dominique Dumont wrote: > On Tuesday, 4 April 2017 17:00:28 CEST songbird wrote: >> Can't locate object method "nNumInterfaces" via package >> >> > "Device::USB::DevConfig" at ./read_usb.pl line 26, line 1. > > Looks like a typo in Device::USB::DevConfig synopsis:

Re: If Linux Is About Choice, Why Then ...

2017-04-05 Thread Michael Fothergill
On 5 April 2017 at 12:27, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Wed, Apr 05, 2017 at 01:29:07AM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: > >> >> On Apr 3, 2017, at 7:36 AM, Tom Browder wrote: >> >> But I kind of understand why systemd, but I wish I could find a good >>> cookbook description of how to add or modify a new pr

Re: If Linux Is About Choice, Why Then ...

2017-04-05 Thread Dan Ritter
On Wed, Apr 05, 2017 at 03:47:33PM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Mon, Apr 03, 2017 at 05:06:22AM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: > > Aside from being insulting, this is just plain untrue. There are well over > > 100,000 professional Linux sysadmins worldwide. I'd estimate that at least > > a thir

Re: Sound problems (mpd, mpv mainly)

2017-04-05 Thread Ric Moore
On 04/01/2017 05:41 AM, Sharon Kimble wrote: Ric Moore writes: On 03/31/2017 02:56 PM, Sharon Kimble wrote: How can I get sound continuously with mpd and mpv without the card being seemingly dropped please? Are you using pulseaudio and have you installed pavucontrol?? Run alsamixer, make

Re: If Linux Is About Choice, Why Then ...

2017-04-05 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Mon, Apr 03, 2017 at 05:06:22AM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: > Aside from being insulting, this is just plain untrue. There are well over > 100,000 professional Linux sysadmins worldwide. I'd estimate that at least > a third of them administer at least one - and probably more than one - > system

Re: unattended upgrades does not do anything

2017-04-05 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Wed, Apr 05, 2017 at 10:26:18PM +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote: > I am going to have a go at getting unattended-upgrades to work sometime > in the next few days, I will post back what my results, even if the only > thing that results is sympathy for your situation and a "me-too!" I have a working

Re: Likely a BUG - was [Re: Recording needed data from mate-search-tool - possible?]

2017-04-05 Thread Richard Owlett
On 04/05/2017 08:28 AM, Mark Fletcher wrote: On Wed, Apr 05, 2017 at 07:06:22AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: On 04/03/2017 12:59 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: [SNIP] The annoying facet of the problem is that "Applications->Accessories->Search for files" retrieves exactly the data I want and can so

Re: Thanks Thomas!

2017-04-05 Thread songbird
Thomas Schmitt wrote: >songbird wrote: ... >> ok, looks like the two versions are the same in >> the first sector (netinst for i386 and amd64) so >> the fix should work... > > The fix should apply to all Debian i386 and amd64 ISOs which were made > with isohybrid functionality. The bug was introd

Re: Likely a BUG - was [Re: Recording needed data from mate-search-tool - possible?]

2017-04-05 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Wed, Apr 05, 2017 at 07:06:22AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 04/03/2017 12:59 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > >[SNIP] > > > >The annoying facet of the problem is that > >"Applications->Accessories->Search for files" retrieves exactly > >the data I want and can sort it so that it visually groups

Re: unattended upgrades does not do anything

2017-04-05 Thread Mark Fletcher
I'm going to break my own self-imposed rule on top-posting to make sure you see my exhortation not to cc me as I am subscribed to the list On Wed, Apr 05, 2017 at 01:20:56AM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Tuesday 04 April 2017 20:29:26 Gregor Zattler wrote: > > Hi Mark, debian users, > > > > * Mar

GPU advice for Debian stretch?

2017-04-05 Thread Martin Read
I'm currently using an AMD "APU" system with integrated Radeon HD6530D graphics (yes, that's a component from 2011; the computer still works fine). This is kind of awkward when considering moving to stretch: * The DKMS-support package for the fglrx proprietary driver will not be available for

Likely a BUG - was [Re: Recording needed data from mate-search-tool - possible?]

2017-04-05 Thread Richard Owlett
On 04/03/2017 12:59 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: [SNIP] The annoying facet of the problem is that "Applications->Accessories->Search for files" retrieves exactly the data I want and can sort it so that it visually groups data 'productively'{right word??}. But it can only be saved as an image. I ne

Re: If Linux Is About Choice, Why Then ...

2017-04-05 Thread Darac Marjal
On Wed, Apr 05, 2017 at 01:29:07AM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: On Apr 3, 2017, at 7:36 AM, Tom Browder wrote: But I kind of understand why systemd, but I wish I could find a good cookbook description of how to add or modify a new process. +1 Indeed: The main thing I personally have a problem

Re: Laptop reboot and suspend

2017-04-05 Thread solitone
On Wednesday, 5 April 2017 11:24:12 CEST Teemu Likonen wrote: > My laptop's (Apple Macbook Air) suspend-resume works > well with Debian 8 Does hibernation work as well? I have a MacBook Pro 12,1 with Debian 9 and while suspend does work, I didn't manage to have hibernate working reliably.

Re: If Linux Is About Choice, Why Then ...

2017-04-05 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Wed, Apr 05, 2017 at 07:47:19AM +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote: > (Not that I am an Apple fan by any means, but Apple have for decades > been highly successful making zero effort at backwards compatibility. Zero? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_(software) And before that https://en.wikipe

Re: If Linux Is About Choice, Why Then ...

2017-04-05 Thread Rick Thomas
On Apr 3, 2017, at 7:36 AM, Tom Browder wrote: > But I kind of understand why systemd, but I wish I could find a good > cookbook description of how to add or modify a new process. +1 Indeed: The main thing I personally have a problem with in systemd that I did not have a problem with in sysv

Laptop reboot and suspend

2017-04-05 Thread Teemu Likonen
Florian Lohoff [2017-04-05 07:55:29+02] wrote: > I have a very different perception - It is so rare that i reboot my > notebook which travels with me all day that everytime i do i have > troubles remembering the 30+ character Luks passphrase. I > suspend/resume multiple times a day and thats my cu

Re: Thin Client

2017-04-05 Thread Curt
On 2017-04-04, Brian wrote: > > Commas before the conjunction "and"? Not here. Rewrite the sentence should > there be any ambiguity. Or or. Exempt from overtime pay in a dairy company in Portland, Me: The canning, processing, preserving, freezing, drying, marketing, storing, packing for ship

Re: where is usb.h?

2017-04-05 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Tuesday, 4 April 2017 17:00:28 CEST songbird wrote: > Can't locate object method "nNumInterfaces" via package > > > "Device::USB::DevConfig" at ./read_usb.pl line 26, line 1. Looks like a typo in Device::USB::DevConfig synopsis: nNumInterfaces is referenced only there. On the other hand bNu

Re: Thanks Thomas!

2017-04-05 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i wrote: > > (It would be embarrassing if a different Thomas was meant.) songbird wrote: > context is good... i dislike posting last names to usenet/mailing lists. Well, germany is full of baby-boomer Thomases. :)) > > http://www.ludd.ltu.se/~ams/tmp/isohdpfx.bin.170324 > i hope the