Re: Duel Booting Debian on a Mac

2015-01-30 Thread José Silva
On 30-01-2015 00:57, John Holland wrote: In the end I uninstalled Debian because of the following problems: 1. The brightness of the screen does not readjust after suspend/resume in Debian (I worked hard trying to solve this with some published hacks, but no full success). 2. Often the Mac go

Re: the developers have spoken

2014-11-19 Thread José Silva
On 19/11/14 22:08, Scott Ferguson wrote: [curious] Other than a possible exercise in self-validation - if, as you've previously stated, *you have ceased using Debian* - why do you continue posting to Debian user? Although not his advocate, he could, as myself, be changing all his boxes to FreeB

Re: forks, derivatives, other distros - what are you thinking/doing

2014-11-05 Thread José Silva
On 05/11/14 16:38, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Wednesday 05 November 2014 16:12:12 Jason C. Taylor wrote: So my opinions are Void for a laptop, desktop, notebook. Server's are trickier. Depends on your hardware and what software you need to run and how much time and effort you're willing to put it to

Re: usb dvd drive does not mount automatically as it used to

2014-10-05 Thread José Silva
On 05/10/14 13:39, Marko Randjelovic wrote: On Sun, 5 Oct 2014 12:05:30 +0100 José Silva wrote: Hello, My external dvd drive (usb) used to get automatically mounted on my jessie x64 / xfce, at /media/cdrom if I recall. It doesn't anymore, I guess due to updates I do daily. lsusb list

Re: wrong mount point after update

2014-10-05 Thread José Silva
On 04/10/14 16:07, José Silva wrote: On 04/10/14 06:00, Marko Randjelovic wrote: On Sat, 4 Oct 2014 00:20:19 +0100 José Silva wrote: On 03/10/14 23:44, José Silva wrote: Hello, On my Jessie x64, until today, I was used to my usb disks being mounted at /media/myuser/disklabel. After

Re: usb dvd drive does not mount automatically as it used to

2014-10-05 Thread José Silva
On 05/10/14 12:05, José Silva wrote: Hello, My external dvd drive (usb) used to get automatically mounted on my jessie x64 / xfce, at /media/cdrom if I recall. It doesn't anymore, I guess due to updates I do daily. lsusb lists the device. Further observation after trying several t

usb dvd drive does not mount automatically as it used to

2014-10-05 Thread José Silva
Hello, My external dvd drive (usb) used to get automatically mounted on my jessie x64 / xfce, at /media/cdrom if I recall. It doesn't anymore, I guess due to updates I do daily. lsusb lists the device. I wonder if this is connected to my post two days ago "wrong mount point after update" abo

Re: wrong mount point after update

2014-10-04 Thread José Silva
On 04/10/14 06:00, Marko Randjelovic wrote: On Sat, 4 Oct 2014 00:20:19 +0100 José Silva wrote: On 03/10/14 23:44, José Silva wrote: Hello, On my Jessie x64, until today, I was used to my usb disks being mounted at /media/myuser/disklabel. After today's update, the first disk alway

Re: wrong mount point after update

2014-10-03 Thread José Silva
On 03/10/14 23:44, José Silva wrote: Hello, On my Jessie x64, until today, I was used to my usb disks being mounted at /media/myuser/disklabel. After today's update, the first disk always get mounted at /media/usb0 and the ones after that, follow the old rule as above. Further observ

wrong mount point after update

2014-10-03 Thread José Silva
Hello, On my Jessie x64, until today, I was used to my usb disks being mounted at /media/myuser/disklabel. After today's update, the first disk always get mounted at /media/usb0 and the ones after that, follow the old rule as above. This is bad for me because my virtual machines reside on a

Re: Choose your side on the Linux divide

2014-08-26 Thread José Silva
On 26/08/14 09:06, Tom H wrote: On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 6:44 PM, Steve Litt wrote: http://www.infoworld.com/d/data-center/choose-your-side-the-linux-divide-248950?source=IFWNLE_nlt_daily_pm_2014-08-25 There's a OT list for this BS. If you replace you "BS" by "thing", "comment", whatever,

Re: Suspend button greyed out on Xfce on Sid

2014-07-17 Thread José Silva
On 17/07/14 20:52, Nate Bargmann wrote: I did another "upgrade" a couple of days ago and now Xfce has no idea that power management exists. This is manifested by the logout dialog not having options for suspend and hibernate in it any more and the custom session buttons on my taskbar which have

Re: gedit ugly under xfce

2014-07-15 Thread José Silva
On 15/07/14 23:11, Steve Litt wrote: On Tue, 15 Jul 2014 22:00:34 +0100 José Silva wrote: On 15/07/14 21:03, Bret Busby wrote: Pluma Pluma is a text editor which supports most standard editor features. What's wrong with xfce mousepad? Just the other day it ate someones whole fi

Re: gedit ugly under xfce

2014-07-15 Thread José Silva
On 15/07/14 21:03, Bret Busby wrote: Pluma Pluma is a text editor which supports most standard editor features. What's wrong with xfce mousepad? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: No windows decoration only on some apps

2014-04-14 Thread José Silva
On 14/04/14 16:26, Reco wrote: Hi. On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 12:46:52PM +0100, José Silva wrote: Hello, I have a sid system since a long time and I'm very happy with it. It started using gnome 2 when I switched from MS but now has xfce and compiz using the common Glossy theme. Since

No windows decoration only on some apps

2014-04-14 Thread José Silva
Hello, I have a sid system since a long time and I'm very happy with it. It started using gnome 2 when I switched from MS but now has xfce and compiz using the common Glossy theme. Since a few weeks, some applications ceased to show windows decorations, or at least not having the configured

Re: software for (reminder) recommendation

2013-11-13 Thread José Silva
On 13/11/13 14:17, José Silva wrote: On 13/11/13 14:07, lina wrote: I checked most, seems none has "pop up" action before the events. I always miss some seminars I registered. Thunderbird esr / IceOwl with Lightning AddOn. Works a charm, it's my main app, love it. I'

Re: software for (reminder) recommendation

2013-11-13 Thread José Silva
On 13/11/13 14:07, lina wrote: I checked most, seems none has "pop up" action before the events. I always miss some seminars I registered. Thunderbird esr / IceOwl with Lightning AddOn. Works a charm, it's my main app, love it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.o

Re: who uses dual boot? [was: How to start using a free OS]

2013-11-13 Thread José Silva
On 13/11/13 11:36, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 13/11/13 21:44, José Silva wrote: On 13/11/13 01:46, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 13/11/13 11:59, José Silva wrote: On 13/11/13 00:26, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 13/11/13 09:10, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 2013-11-12 at 21:36 +0100, Alois Mahdal wrote

Re: who uses dual boot? [was: How to start using a free OS]

2013-11-13 Thread José Silva
On 13/11/13 01:46, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 13/11/13 11:59, José Silva wrote: On 13/11/13 00:26, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 13/11/13 09:10, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 2013-11-12 at 21:36 +0100, Alois Mahdal wrote: 1.8GHz dual core and 4G RAM attempting Win XP in VBox for even the most simple

Re: who uses dual boot? [was: How to start using a free OS]

2013-11-12 Thread José Silva
On 13/11/13 00:26, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 13/11/13 09:10, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 2013-11-12 at 21:36 +0100, Alois Mahdal wrote: 1.8GHz dual core and 4G RAM attempting Win XP in VBox for even the most simple tasks was a royal PITA. Then something is fishy. (Also one reason to keep the

Re: who uses dual boot? [was: How to start using a free OS]

2013-11-12 Thread José Silva
On 12/11/13 13:32, Miles Fidelman wrote: Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 2013-11-12 at 23:01 +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: Install a Linux and call it Windows 2014 - super professional special admin edition and this kind of user will have no issue, call it Linux and they will ask you to remove it a

Re: UPC Fonts

2013-07-23 Thread José Silva
On 23/07/13 15:49, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: "Ethan Rosenberg, PhD" writes: Dear List - I hope that this is not too much off topic. Does anyone know the name of the UPC font that is used for example: grocery packages? Where can I download the fonts? This isn't quite the answer to your question,

Re: the continuing disappointment of Debian 7

2013-06-29 Thread José Silva
On 29/06/13 23:18, Stephen Powell wrote: On Sat, 29 Jun 2013 18:07:14 -0400 (EDT), Jeff Shearer wrote: Iceweasel crashes all the time and cannot play flash I'm sorry things aren't working well for you, but that has not been my experience. I'm running jessie now, but I was running wheezy for

Re: Tomboy Notes alternative?

2013-01-21 Thread José Silva
On 21/01/13 16:24, Richard Owlett wrote: I started exploring Tomboy Notes for a writing project I'm starting. The most attractive feature was the ability to high lite a word or phrase causing it to be come the title of a new note. Suggestions on either another note utility or how to add words.

Re: Recover broken SDHC card

2012-09-07 Thread José Silva
On 07-09-2012 19:49, Klaus Pieper wrote: Is it really broken? Have you mounted the SD card on another computer or on a Windows system (just in case...)? Tried the camera and three computers with linux, xp and win7. Linux seems to recognize the device (/dev/sdb on this machine), so does xp (there

Re: for those who dislike gnome3-shell

2011-12-03 Thread José Silva
On 03-12-2011 15:38, Richard wrote: On Sat, 3 Dec 2011 10:27:32 -0500 Patrick Wiseman wrote: On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 10:16 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 03 Dec 2011 13:22:05 +, Richard wrote: On Sat, 3 Dec 2011 12:12:16 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 02 Dec 2011 00:21:02 +, Ric

Re: Gnome 3 crash with iceweasel and chromium

2011-10-27 Thread José Silva
On 25/10/11 16:03, Camaleón wrote: (...) - Have you tried with a different and fresh-new user? Not yet. I'm reluctant to play with that and loose control of my current setup. I'll do it if you think it's necessary. What makes you think that creating a new user will make you to loose the contr

Re: Gnome 3 crash with iceweasel and chromium

2011-10-23 Thread José Silva
On 23/10/11 15:04, Camaleón wrote: (...) (gnome-settings-daemon:7788): Gdk-WARNING **: gnome-settings-daemon: Fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server :0. (...) Ah, then this time it seems is not just gnome-shell that crashes but the whole X server... - What about the Xorg lo

Re: Gnome 3 crash with iceweasel and chromium

2011-10-23 Thread José Silva
On 19/10/11 14:25, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 12:01:59 +0100, José Silva wrote: a few days ago, when it became available, and now I'm experiencing crashes (goes to login screen) with several web pages. Sometimes it repeats with the specific page, sometimes not. Happens both

Re: Gnome 3 crash with iceweasel and chromium

2011-10-19 Thread José Silva
On 18/10/11 15:54, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 18 Oct 2011 09:51:33 +0100, José Silva wrote: I smoothly upgraded my sid install to Gnome 3 GNOME3 ! gnome-shell :-) I have gnome3 installed but (still) not gnome-shell, they are different things (gnome3 is the whole environment and gnome-shell is

Gnome 3 crash with iceweasel and chromium

2011-10-18 Thread José Silva
I smoothly upgraded my sid install to Gnome 3 a few days ago, when it became available, and now I'm experiencing crashes (goes to login screen) with several web pages. Sometimes it repeats with the specific page, sometimes not. Happens both with iceweasel and chromium, didn't try with epiphany.

Re: Gnome 3 and VirtualBox

2011-10-16 Thread José Silva
On 16/10/11 10:34, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 15 Oct 2011 23:04:33 +0100, José Silva wrote: On 15/10/11 19:31, José Silva wrote: (...) With Gnome 3, to start, I don't know how to switch to another desktop if I am in VirtualBox fullscreen. Windows absorbs the Windows key, of course, whi

Re: Gnome 3 and VirtualBox

2011-10-15 Thread José Silva
On 15/10/11 19:31, José Silva wrote: (...) With Gnome 3, to start, I don't know how to switch to another desktop if I am in VirtualBox fullscreen. Windows absorbs the Windows key, of course, which is also the Gnome 3 hot key, and the top left screen corner is occupied by VB. Does anyone

Re: Gnome 3 and VirtualBox

2011-10-15 Thread José Silva
On 15/10/11 17:56, Camaleón wrote: (...) With Gnome 3, to start, I don't know how to switch to another desktop if I am in VirtualBox fullscreen. Windows absorbs the Windows key, of course, which is also the Gnome 3 hot key, and the top left screen corner is occupied by VB. Does anyone know? (

Re: Gnome 3 and VirtualBox

2011-10-15 Thread José Silva
On 15/10/11 12:51, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 14 Oct 2011 19:48:52 +0100, José Silva wrote: Ok, I've just upgraded to Gnome 3, very smoothly I must say, and I think I like it, after a couple of hours operating on my production machine. Now, just noticed my first operating problem. I must

Re: Iceweasel segfault on Sid

2011-10-15 Thread José Silva
On 15/10/11 16:22, Anthony Campbell wrote: Following an upgrade today on Sid, iceweasel segfaults. I therefore installed vanilla firefox and that works correctly. I tried the previous version of iceweasel, which I have in the cache, and that segfaulted too, so I don't think this can be an iceweas

Gnome 3 and VirtualBox

2011-10-14 Thread José Silva
Ok, I've just upgraded to Gnome 3, very smoothly I must say, and I think I like it, after a couple of hours operating on my production machine. Now, just noticed my first operating problem. I must run a Windows cad application in VirtualBox. On Gnome 3 + Compiz, I just used to place this on an

Re: Cannot login to GNOME after sid update

2011-10-14 Thread José Silva
On 14/10/11 18:30, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 14 Oct 2011 12:58:59 -0400, Frank wrote: Did a full upgrade on my Sid system this morning...and now Gnome won't load. The upgrade apparently took Gnome from 2 to 3 and the "infamous" Gnome Shell. Just for the record, I let the upgrade perform a coupl

Re: thunderbird (how to set which application to use which file)

2011-08-05 Thread José Silva
On 05/08/11 20:19, Camaleón wrote: El 2011-08-05 a las 21:16 +0200, Matej Kosik escribió: (resending to the list) On 08/05/2011 08:57 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 05 Aug 2011 19:00:14 +0200, Matej Kosik wrote: How can I tell Icedove which application it should use to open *.pdf files, when t

Re: GPU hang "EQ overflowing. The server is probably stuck in an infinite loop"

2011-07-25 Thread José Silva
On 25/07/11 15:40, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2011-07-25 15:08 +0200, lee wrote: José Silva writes: Given that, I did Ctl+Alt+F1, logged in as user, sudo service gdm stop to stop xserver. Then sudo gdb startx but the system says it's not an executable. How do I run xserver in the deb

Re: GPU hang "EQ overflowing. The server is probably stuck in an infinite loop"

2011-07-24 Thread José Silva
On 23/07/11 20:49, lee wrote: Well, you could check the sources of the driver to see if you can find out what's going on or try to run the X server in the debugger to get more information. Or you wait until the bug is fixed or someone who knows more has an idea --- or you can use the NVIDIA card

Re: GPU hang "EQ overflowing. The server is probably stuck in an infinite loop"

2011-07-23 Thread José Silva
On 23/07/11 15:12, lee wrote: Hm, I can imagine that intel_gpu_dump tries to load (i. e. mmap() )some file which isn't there because the X server didn't crash and thus gives you the error message that it cannot mmap() a file that doesn't exist. Thank you for helping. You're saying in [1] that

Re: GPU hang "EQ overflowing. The server is probably stuck in an infinite loop"

2011-07-22 Thread José Silva
On 22/07/11 10:41, lee wrote: Perhaps CONFIG_DEBUG_FS is not set for the kernel you are using? I can mount and unmount it just fine, and it shows up in the output of "mount". Does it show up when trying to mount it gives you the error message that it's already mounted? If it does, I'd wonder wh

Re: GPU hang "EQ overflowing. The server is probably stuck in an infinite loop"

2011-07-21 Thread José Silva
On 21/07/11 18:52, lee wrote: You could send it about the xserver-xorg-video-intel package. Perhaps you can put additional information into the bug report when you reproduce the problem with xserver-xorg-video-intel-dbg package installed. Thank you for your help. Installed xserver-xorg-video

GPU hang "EQ overflowing. The server is probably stuck in an infinite loop"

2011-07-21 Thread José Silva
Hello, I'm a newbie to Debian although I've used Ubuntu for a couple of years before switching. I'm following the advice of http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting to post here for help. I have this repeatable bug that hangs the GPU when I open a certain .ods file (didn't try others) with Libre