Re: how to compute predictable network interface names?

2017-02-23 Thread Stephen Powell
ot;add", ATTR{address}=="00:11:25:86:61:87", NAME="net0" This rule will assign the Ethernet adapter with MAC address 00:11:25:86:61:87 the interface name net0. Reference the interface by this name in /etc/network/interfaces. I hope this helps. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: Don't taint kernel when using the forcepae kernel boot parameter

2017-02-18 Thread Stephen Powell
find at least some of it useful. I have received much benefit over the years as a user of open source software. The docs are my attempt at giving something back. Regards, -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `-

Don't taint kernel when using the forcepae kernel boot parameter

2017-02-18 Thread Stephen Powell
patch For more information about building a custom kernel, see http://www.stevesdebianstuff.org/Kernel.htm -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: Last spam: Let me know Munich Mayor's email address, please..

2017-02-17 Thread Stephen Powell
tes, do we not have the best Congress money can buy? -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `-

A new HOWTO page for the Adobe Flash Player plugin under chromium under Linux

2017-02-15 Thread Stephen Powell
ative. I'd like to make the page as good as I can. Here's the link: http://www.stevesdebianstuff.org/flash.htm Let me know what you think. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: Recreating a second boot kernel in LILO

2017-01-19 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, Jan 18, 2017, at 20:49, Stephen Powell wrote: > > ... > The first two "image" entries define the standard "most recent" and > "next-most recent" kernels and don't need to be messed with, provided > that the standard symbolic link names are

Re: Recreating a second boot kernel in LILO

2017-01-18 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, Jan 18, 2017, at 20:49, Stephen Powell wrote: > ... > One such program, memtest86+, provides a stand-alone memory testing > program built to resemble a Linux kernel, so that Linuxboot loaders > think it is a Linux kernel and will load it like one (the entire boot image is &

Re: Recreating a second boot kernel in LILO

2017-01-18 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, Jan 14, 2017, at 11:38, Stephen Powell wrote: > > If there are special kernels that you want to be able to boot which are > outside > the normal "last two", then you must manually edit /etc/lilo.conf to provide > the capability to boot this kernel, then run lil

Re: Recreating a second boot kernel in LILO

2017-01-14 Thread Stephen Powell
ng web page where there are execs called zy-symlinks which will provide equivalent function for custom kernels. If there are special kernels that you want to be able to boot which are outside the normal "last two", then you must manually edit /etc/lilo.conf to provide the capability to boot this kernel, then run lilo. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: cant get to desktop anymore

2016-09-21 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, Sep 21, 2016, at 16:32, Stephen Powell wrote: > > I did notice one thing peculiar. startx output is written to the terminal > of vt1, of course, even though it's running as a background task. And I got > the error message > > modprobe: FATAL: Module mach64 not

Re: cant get to desktop anymore

2016-09-21 Thread Stephen Powell
error message modprobe: FATAL: Module mach64 not found in directory /lib/modules/xxx where xxx is the identity of the running kernel. Strange. The kernel has never had a mach64 module in it, as far as I know. mach64 is the name of the X driver, but there is no kernel module by that name. I obviously don't like using this work-around, but I can at least limp along until somebody somewhere fixes this problem. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `-

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

2016-09-07 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, Sep 5, 2016, at 12:46, Stephen Powell wrote: > > To determine which module to blacklist, issue > >dmesg|less > > and see if you can figure out which module is loading. You can also issue > >lsmod|less > > to see which modules are loaded. Perhaps

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

2016-09-05 Thread Stephen Powell
a clue as to the identity of the frame buffer driver. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: Downloading and naming

2016-08-02 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, Aug 2, 2016, at 18:33, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 02/08/2016 à 02:28, Stephen Powell a écrit : >> My original point remains. If one's computer has less than 4 GiB of >> memory installed, and the processor does not support the XD/NX bit, then >> running a 32-b

Re: Downloading and naming

2016-08-01 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, Aug 1, 2016, at 19:30, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 01/08/2016 à 04:02, Stephen Powell a écrit : >> >> To the best of my knowledge, there are no 32-bit-only processors which >> support the NX bit. A 32-bit PAE-enabled kernel can only use NX if it >> is running on

Re: Downloading and naming

2016-07-31 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, Jul 31, 2016, at 19:07, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 01/08/2016 à 00:00, Stephen Powell a écrit : >> one's processor supports PAE, but the motherboard only supports a maximum of >> 2 GiB of RAM, what does a PAE kernel buy one? Nothing, as far as I can see. > > P

Re: Downloading and naming

2016-07-31 Thread Stephen Powell
here and try to tell us that we should be doing things the way Ubuntu does. We're different for a reason. I'm not saying there isn't room for improvement: I'm sure there is. But asking questions is one thing. Telling us we should be like Ubuntu is another. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: Terminal

2016-07-29 Thread Stephen Powell
ds and parameters, it is organized in a task-oriented fashion. (Oh, you want to do *that*! Here, type this ...) -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: What Linux distribution to use?

2016-07-28 Thread Stephen Powell
ase. As I understand it, the AMD Geode processor is one instruction short of the full Pentium Pro instruction set: NOPL. But it appears that the GCC compiler has been modified to not generate NOPL instructions when "-march i686" is used. Therefore, the AMD Geode should qualify. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: What Linux distribution to use?

2016-07-26 Thread Stephen Powell
th *-686 and *-686-pae kernels. You don't necessarily *need* to run a PAE kernel. Some prefer to run a non-PAE kernel because it's easier on the memory requirements. But the processor must support the Pentium Pro instruction set, which all Pentium Ms do. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: does anybody remember which debian release was it that asked for the MAC ID details at the end ?

2016-07-18 Thread Stephen Powell
installer. A bug in the testing release of the installer that was fixed before it became the stable installer is not likely one that I would have encountered. Sorry I can't be more helpful. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `-

LXDE - how to set default image viewer?

2016-07-16 Thread Stephen Powell
ify if it works. P.S. I apologize for the broken thread. My e-mail client does not appear to provide a way to set the "In-reply-to" header, and I've already deleted your original e-mail. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: reasons to ditch LILO before upgrading to jessie?

2016-07-10 Thread Stephen Powell
d, CSM-less UEFI systems may fail in the marketplace. There have been attempts in the past to eliminate 16-bit support which failed. We'll just have to wait and see. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: reasons to ditch LILO before upgrading to jessie?

2016-07-09 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, Jul 9, 2016, at 18:25, Brian wrote: > On Sat 09 Jul 2016 at 16:41:24 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: >> >> Long live choice! > > For choice to exist it does not have to be presented as such in the > installer. > Your point is well taken. The installer does not

Re: reasons to ditch LILO before upgrading to jessie?

2016-07-09 Thread Stephen Powell
om installers trying to do what I don't want or need done If you do the installation in expert mode, you can skip the step to install a boot loader. But that's in interactive mode. I've never done an automated installation, so I don't know what can and cannot be done in that environment. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: reasons to ditch LILO before upgrading to jessie?

2016-07-09 Thread Stephen Powell
BIOS/CSM. But for UEFI-only systems, there's elilo as a grub alternative. Long live choice! -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: reasons to ditch LILO before upgrading to jessie?

2016-07-09 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, Jul 9, 2016, at 10:53, Felix Miata wrote: > Stephen Powell composed on 2016-07-09 08:58 (UTC-0400): > >> As for features, LILO has all the features that I need. > > One feature it never acquired AFAIK, which Grub shares with Syslinux, is the > ability to edit the k

Re: reasons to ditch LILO before upgrading to jessie?

2016-07-09 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, Jul 7, 2016, at 20:53, Felix Miata wrote: > Stephen Powell composed on 2016-07-07 20:30 (UTC-0400): > > > If your system has a BIOS and a traditional DOS-style partition table, > > there's no reason not to use LILO, unless you just don't want to. > >

Re: reasons to ditch LILO before upgrading to jessie?

2016-07-07 Thread Stephen Powell
hat big. If your system has a BIOS and a traditional DOS-style partition table, there's no reason not to use LILO, unless you just don't want to. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: ssh-ing in inside private network

2016-05-31 Thread Stephen Powell
uot;. If you don't see it, it's not running. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: ssh-ing in inside private network

2016-05-31 Thread Stephen Powell
to hack. But if you really want to do it, edit the file /etc/ssh/sshd_config. In the # Authentication section, look for Permitrootlogin no and change it to Permitrootlogin yes then bounce the ssh daemon with /etc/init.d/ssh restart As I said, it's not recommended; but it's your gun, your bullet, and your foot! -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: Grub won't install

2016-05-19 Thread Stephen Powell
uple of years old that uses it. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: What happened to the info tutorial?

2016-04-16 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, Apr 16, 2016, at 17:31, Stephen Powell wrote: > The "info" command in jessie has a tutorial which can be accessed by pressing > the "H" key. Oops!, I meant to say the "h" key, not the "H" key. Otherwise, the question remains as written. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `-

What happened to the info tutorial?

2016-04-16 Thread Stephen Powell
's the scoop on this? -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: turning off Google Chrome's warning

2016-01-21 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, Jan 21, 2016, at 21:59, Frank McCormick wrote: > > On 21/01/16 09:41 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: >> >> What does chrome give you that chromium does not? > > Nothing that I know of...but I thought that staying with the Google > product is just simpler. I've

Re: turning off Google Chrome's warning

2016-01-21 Thread Stephen Powell
u really need chrome? What does chrome give you that chromium does not? -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: Attempt to Move Root

2015-12-27 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 25 Dec 2015 10:33:56 -0500 (EST), Stephen Powell wrote: > On Tue, 22 Dec 2015 10:57:41 -0500 (EST), Nicolas George wrote: >> ... >> I noticed that LILO seems to be actually capable >> of finding the sectors for files on LVM. > > In the general case, the s

Re: Attempt to Move Root

2015-12-25 Thread Stephen Powell
re are no rules for the use of unallocated sectors. And grub-legacy and grub-pc (by default at least) now do a similar thing. They store information in unallocated sectors. That's one of the reasons (but not the only reason) that I switched back to LILO. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: Attempt to Move Root

2015-12-25 Thread Stephen Powell
thread carefully, so maybe it has already been > addressed, but all this suggest that the OP should install GRUB instead of > LILO and be done with that kind of trouble. As subsequent posts have indicated, the trouble was with an incorrect UUID. It had nothing to do with the OP's choice of boot loader. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: Attempt to Move Root

2015-12-21 Thread Stephen Powell
be part of the same filesystem. I've been on the wrong track for several posts now. Please excuse the noise. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: Attempt to Move Root

2015-12-21 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 21 Dec 2015 10:31:54 -0500 (EST), Lisi Reisz wrote: > > Could he not dd them onto another drive? > ... He can copy the /boot data to another drive, not necessarily with dd. In fact, if he wants to be able to remove the existing IDE drive, he must. But he cannot copy it to an LVM2 logical

Re: Attempt to Move Root

2015-12-21 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 21 Dec 2015 10:36:48 -0500 (EST), David Baron wrote: > > On Monday 21 December 2015 10:25:15 Stephen Powell wrote: >> >> Obviously, the LILO map file is on the IDE drive. Is your /boot partition >> on the IDE drive? If so, you cannot remove it. The /boo

Re: Attempt to Move Root

2015-12-21 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 21 Dec 2015 04:50:00 -0500 (EST), David Baron wrote: > > Went through all the motions, both ways: On native and chroot. Results were > the same. Get in that loop of lv not ready messages. Difference: Native > attempt still needs the IDE plugged in or I get 99 99 99 ... , chroot does >

Re: Attempt to Move Root

2015-12-20 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 20 Dec 2015 15:51:22 -0500 (EST), David Baron wrote: > > So ... do I need the chroot and the binds and all this at all? That's the recommended way. Make sure that the edited copies of /etc/lilo.conf, /etc/fstab, and /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume, in the chrooted environment, all mak

Re: Attempt to Move Root

2015-12-20 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 20 Dec 2015 05:58:47 -0500 (EST), David Baron wrote: > > OK, mounted newrootpartition newroot > Did a cp -x / newroot > Successful so far, elementary > > Edited newroot/etc/fstab and newroot/etc/lilo.conf to point root to > newrootpartition (by uuid) > > mount --bind /dev newroot/dev >

Re: My web site is back

2015-12-09 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 08 Dec 2015 18:55:43 -0500 (EST), Gener Badenas wrote: > > How much is the hosting now and with whom? $48 for hosting, $9.00 for domain registration, total $57. Good for one year. I'll have to pay again next year. I decided to go with debian-hosting.info. So far, I haven't yet figured o

Re: My web site is back

2015-12-08 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 08 Dec 2015 12:36:44 -0500 (EST), Martin Read wrote: > On 08/12/15 16:58, Darac Marjal wrote: >> >> To which, the venerable W3C replied "Cool URIs don't change": >> http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html > > Your criticism is invalid, given that the action that has clearly been > taken

My web site is back

2015-12-08 Thread Stephen Powell
Old site: h t t p : / / u s e r s . w o w w a y . c o m / ~ z l i n u x m a n / New site: http://www.stevesdebianstuff.org/ If you have bookmarks set for the old site you should update your bookmarks. Some pages from the old site are not on the new site because I judged them to be obsolete.

Re: [OT] Soliciting Advice on e-mail and web-hosting providers

2015-12-05 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 05 Dec 2015 18:43:13 -0500 (EST), Lisi Reisz wrote: > > I ma assuming (or subconsciously remembering) that you are in the USA. Is > that correct? Hi, Lisi. Yes, that's correct. I hope you won't hold that against me. :-) Wow used to offer free web hosting to subscribers to their ca

Re: [OT] Soliciting Advice on e-mail and web-hosting providers

2015-12-05 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 28 Nov 2015 10:15:08 -0500 (EST), mister s jones wrote: > On Saturday, November 28, 2015 09:49:47 Stephen Powell wrote: >> So, does anyone wish to share their experiences, good or bad? Is there >> anyone you wish to recommend? Is there anyone you want to warn me to stay &g

Re: OT: reply styles, family matters

2015-11-30 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 30 Nov 2015 20:31:29 -0500 (EST), Bob Bernstein wrote: > ... > With that as background, here is my question/request: is anyone > aware of a spirited defence of our ideal method of "selective > quoting," (for lack of a better label) one, say, that perhaps > has achieved the status of a "n

[OT] Soliciting Advice on e-mail and web-hosting providers

2015-11-28 Thread Stephen Powell
I currently get my internet connectivity, e-mail service, and web-hosting service from the same provider. I recently complained to my ISP about backscatter SPAM I was getting from other people's infected machines that were sending out SPAM to invalid e-mail addresses and spoofing me as the sender.

Re: How to identify obsolete packages

2015-10-31 Thread Stephen Powell
w, but IIRC, this works for install but not for safe-upgrade or full-upgrade. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `-

[SOLVED] How to identify obsolete packages

2015-10-31 Thread Stephen Powell
ing about! Thanks! (Although it does require the installation of another package: apt-show-versions.) I'm curious, though. Do you use the C shell? Or did you just customize your prompt? -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: How to identify obsolete packages (was: Anybody know why aptitude is not installed by default in Sid?)

2015-10-31 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 31 Oct 2015 10:38:48 -0400 (EDT), "Reco" wrote: > On Sat, 31 Oct 2015 10:29:48 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote: >> Does anyone know an easy way to identify obsolete packages without >> using aptitide? > > deborphan --guess-all According to

How to identify obsolete packages (was: Anybody know why aptitude is not installed by default in Sid?)

2015-10-31 Thread Stephen Powell
ferent. That's not the same thing as an obsolete package. An obsolete package may have been manually installed, but it's still obsolete, and I need to be able to identify it as such. Does anyone know an easy way to identify obsolete packages without using aptitide? -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: RealTek RTL8192EU drivers

2015-10-30 Thread Stephen Powell
ow-Power a.k.a. LP-PHY). Make sure that you have the contrib and the non-free sections of the archive enabled in /etc/apt/sources.list, as this involves non-free stuff. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: RealTek RTL8192EU drivers

2015-10-27 Thread Stephen Powell
Ubuntu, not Debian; but perhaps it can be adapted for Debian. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `-

[SOLVED] [OT] Has my e-mail account been hacked?

2015-10-15 Thread Stephen Powell
t been hacked, just spoofed. I will report this to my ISP. Thanks to all who participated in this thread. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: [OT] Has my e-mail account been hacked?

2015-10-13 Thread Stephen Powell
the money of a Linux user. But if you have problems, you're on your own. That was a few years ago. Maybe it's better now. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: [OT] Has my e-mail account been hacked?

2015-10-13 Thread Stephen Powell
e taken, it is still possible for a password to be "discovered". Having said that, it looks like someone else's credentials may have been used, based on some other posts to this thread. But I am not an expert in these matters. That's why I asked for help. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: [OT] Has my e-mail account been hacked?

2015-10-13 Thread Stephen Powell
pid [or ignorant at best] to > use public [or otherwise open] WiFi -- if you don't run it yourself or > you totally trust the person whom is running it, then leave it alone. That may have been the case for Stuart's friend, but it is not the case with me. I use only wired ethernet. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: [OT] Has my e-mail account been hacked?

2015-10-13 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 13 Oct 2015 04:15:21 -0400 (EDT), Jochen Spieker wrote: > > Stuart Longland: >> On 13/10/15 09:58, Stephen Powell wrote: >>> >>> Unfortunately, I don't. Attached below is one of the mail delivery >>> failure notices, which includes the head

Re: [OT] Has my e-mail account been hacked?

2015-10-13 Thread Stephen Powell
dows installed. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: [OT] Has my e-mail account been hacked?

2015-10-13 Thread Stephen Powell
esters. There is no-one else at home. In short, I have not "handed it over". -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: [OT] Has my e-mail account been hacked?

2015-10-12 Thread Stephen Powell
ft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1081 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1081 -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `-

[OT] Has my e-mail account been hacked?

2015-10-12 Thread Stephen Powell
tion; so I have marked it off-topic. But I suspect that it is of interest to users of this list, since this list is accessed via e-mail. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `-

Broadcom 4311 network adapter doesn't work under Jessie (was debian-user-digest Digest V2015 #1143)

2015-09-23 Thread Stephen Powell
ct line implies that you are not subscribed to the main list. Please do not CC me back; just reply to the list, since I am subscribed to the list. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: debian8 & graphics

2015-09-22 Thread Stephen Powell
run Debian. The machine with the Nvidia card runs Debian 8. The machine with the ATI card used to run Debian 8, but now runs what will become Debian 9. Perhaps I could have been one of those who might have provided some help. But you've given up without asking for help, so that will not happen. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: Compiling coreutils from source

2015-09-17 Thread Stephen Powell
uild process for this package is that you use fakeroot debian/rules clean1 to do a clean, rather than the usual fakeroot debian/rules clean I don't know if this helps or not. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: Getting a serial console to work on Jessie

2015-09-08 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 07 Sep 2015 18:08:05 -0400 (EDT), Bob Bernstein wrote: > > What a great contribution! > > My null-modem cable ought to still be around here somewhere! > > :-) I try to focus on the latest technology. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: Getting a serial console to work on Jessie

2015-09-07 Thread Stephen Powell
sfully after "systemctl daemon-reload". Done. Refresh the page and see if that's what you had in mind. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: Getting a serial console to work on Jessie

2015-09-07 Thread Stephen Powell
x27;ve looked at it recently. Then read the new instructions for enabling a serial terminal under systemd. If you then have any questions, please post a follow-up. Sven and Michael, please review this also and correct me if I made a mistake. I do not want to publish bad advice. Regards, -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: Getting a serial console to work on Jessie

2015-09-06 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 06 Sep 2015 16:06:35 -0400 (EDT), Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 06.09.2015 um 21:04 schrieb Stephen Powell: >> ... >>[Service] >>ExecStart=-/sbin/agetty -8 --noclear %I 38400 ibm3151 >> >> But when I restart the service, I get the following error

Re: Getting a serial console to work on Jessie

2015-09-06 Thread Stephen Powell
> But it is the way systemd is designed and you can either work with it or > fight it every centimeter of the way. > Well, Sven, that's a nice idea, but I can't get it to work for me in this situation. I issued systemctl edit serial-getty@ttyS0.service and placed the f

Re: Screen goes blank after "EDID checksum is invalid" errors

2015-09-06 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 06 Sep 2015 08:07:32 -0400 (EDT), Sven Joachim wrote: > > On 2015-09-06 12:31 +0200, Stephen Powell wrote: >> Some monitors have invalid EDID checksums. Blame the manufacturer. >> Windows is more tolerant of EDID checksum errors than Linux is. >> If switching moni

Re: Screen goes blank after "EDID checksum is invalid" errors

2015-09-06 Thread Stephen Powell
id_strict=0 This may allow you to use your faulty monitor anyway. Good luck. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: Getting a serial console to work on Jessie

2015-09-04 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 03 Sep 2015 20:06:43 -0400 (EDT), Michael Biebl wrote: > > Am 03.09.2015 um 03:14 schrieb Stephen Powell: >> Do you know a similar technique for overriding individual udev rules in >> a system-provided rules file? > > A similar mechanism exists for udev rule

Re: Getting a serial console to work on Jessie

2015-09-02 Thread Stephen Powell
uot;systemctl edit unitname" and it will create the needed directory > structure in the correct place for you. Thanks for the tip, Sven. I'll try to incorporate your suggestion in the next revision of my serial console document. With luck, I may get to it this weekend. Do you know a similar technique for overriding individual udev rules in a system-provided rules file? -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: Getting a serial console to work on Jessie

2015-09-01 Thread Stephen Powell
his on my desktop PC > running Jessie, it doesn't work. > ... I realize that you already have a resolution to your problem, but if you're using serial consoles on Debian Linux, you might find some useful information here: http://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/serial.htm -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: PAE (was: Debian Gnome Or XFCE ?)

2015-08-25 Thread Stephen Powell
s than 4G of RAM do for *me*? All I see it doing is making the kernel bigger and chewing up more RAM. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: PAE (was: Debian Gnome Or XFCE ?)

2015-08-24 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 24 Aug 2015 13:52:30 -0400 (EDT), Mirko Parthey wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 06:45:10AM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: >> Furtherfore, a non-PAE kernel is >> useful even on PAE-capable hardware. The main purpose of PAE is to >> address memory above 4G. But

Re: Debian Gnome Or XFCE ?

2015-08-24 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 15 Aug 2015 06:28:53 -0400 (EDT), Bret Busby wrote: > > On 15/08/2015, Stephen Powell wrote: >> ... >> My IBM ThinkPad X31 laptop, which is still quite usable, >> would be a brick if I ran Ubuntu. It has a Pentium M >> processor in it, and that processor do

Re: Debian Gnome Or XFCE ?

2015-08-15 Thread Stephen Powell
ou know where to look. But I do not wish to argue about it. Peace. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: Debian Gnome Or XFCE ?

2015-08-14 Thread Stephen Powell
an Ubuntu. It has a Pentium M processor in it, and that processor does not have the PAE feature. Long live pure Debian! And kudos to the Debian kernel team! -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: Debian Gnome Or XFCE ?

2015-08-13 Thread Stephen Powell
de. After the upgrade, I got the infamous "fail whale". That does not give me an incentive to try GNOME again. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: Debian Gnome Or XFCE ?

2015-08-12 Thread Stephen Powell
ever looked back. XFCE is my standard desktop now. When doing new installs on new machines, I install XFCE as the desktop by selecting it as the desktop of choice in the Debian installer. If I were to start over from scratch today, I might try LXDE. But I'm happy with XFCE, and I see no compelling reason to change at this point. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: Debian Gnome Or XFCE ?

2015-08-12 Thread Stephen Powell
ich I am familiar with. I'll probably stick with XFCE until there is a compelling reason to change. That's my two cents worth. Take it with however many grains of salt you think it's worth. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: Login failure after new install

2015-08-09 Thread Stephen Powell
es not specifically require it, we prefer the usenet style of interleaved quoting here, not top-posting. (I haven't seen you top post yet, but I'm just letting you know since you're new.) Regards, -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- --

Re: [SOLVED -- sort of] Unwanted application autostarting at login with XFCE

2015-07-27 Thread Stephen Powell
started autostarting again at each login. Thanks for trying. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.d

[SOLVED -- sort of] Unwanted application autostarting at login with XFCE

2015-07-26 Thread Stephen Powell
ve still got LibreOffice Writer installed if I need a word processor. Thanks to all who participated in this thread. If anyone has a clue how to fix this without purging the package, I'll try reinstalling it. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To

Unwanted application autostarting at login with XFCE

2015-07-25 Thread Stephen Powell
ext time I login. I've checked Applications -> Settings -> Session and Startup in the "Application Autostart" and "Session" tabs, but abiword is not listed there. I've searched the Internet, but did not find anything. Any ideas? -- .''`

Re: shutting off screen blanker forever?

2015-07-17 Thread Stephen Powell
the box labeled "Mode:". Single left click on "Disable Screen Saver" in the drop-down box. Close the window. For a text console, edit /etc/kbd/config and change BLANK_TIME to 0. This requires root privileges to edit the file and a reboot is necess

Re: [SOLVED] Trailing "m"s at the end of every line when viewing man pages

2015-04-14 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 06 Apr 2015 21:51:05 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote: > > Here's how I fixed it, or rather, how I worked around it. > ... For those of you who are interested, I wrote up what I learned about serial terminals and serial consoles and put it in my lilo web pa

[SOLVED] Trailing "m"s at the end of every line when viewing man pages

2015-04-06 Thread Stephen Powell
y for not sending the right clear code. The other is in grotty (probably) for not sending the right "turn off special modes" code. Thanks to all those who helped. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-re

Re: Trailing "m"s at the end of every line when viewing man pages

2015-04-05 Thread Stephen Powell
these things can be done on a line-mode (dumb) terminal, such as a mechanical teletype machine. It is more than a "glass teletype". -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/147246682.18737453.1428280689780.javamail.zim...@wowway.com

Re: Trailing "m"s at the end of every line when viewing man pages

2015-04-05 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 05 Apr 2015 04:01:10 -0400 (EDT), Bob Proulx wrote: > > Stephen Powell wrote: >> ... >> But when I issue the MAN command, I see lower-case "m"s >> at the end of each line. > > How does the terminal handle control-m carriage returns? Normally at

Trailing "m"s at the end of every line when viewing man pages

2015-04-04 Thread Stephen Powell
ts. Ideas, anyone? -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/168936

Re: Recompiling debian kernel

2015-03-06 Thread Stephen Powell
procedure carefully, I believe you will get good results. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@li

Re: understanding kernel compilation and

2014-10-23 Thread Stephen Powell
art here: http://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/Kernel.htm -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1447628788.8589810.1414083839681.javamail.zim...@wowway.com

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