Re: info

2017-04-08 Thread darkestkhan
ing. More choice. Most of them are highly specialized anyway and cater to particular kind of user. -- darkestkhan -- Feel free to CC me. jid: darkestk...@gmail.com May The Source be with You.

Re: why??why?why??

2017-03-12 Thread darkestkhan
stance). > > Reco > All is nice and well, but... it is not up to debian to decide - this is all about in what direction gnome and kde are being developed (among others). If debian wanted to change that then we are talking about doing development of not only debian but also of kde, gnome, systemd, and other various software included in given debian release. We are talking about serious manpawer here - not something 1000 or so devs can do in their spare time for free. -- darkestkhan -- Feel free to CC me. jid: darkestk...@gmail.com May The Source be with You.

Re: why??why?why??

2017-03-10 Thread darkestkhan
But then I'm using traditional init and fluxbox... so I'm detached from how things are moving in general. -- darkestkhan -- Feel free to CC me. jid: darkestk...@gmail.com May The Source be with You.

Re: No sound

2017-02-28 Thread darkestkhan
unable to open slave [AO_ALSA] >>> Playback >>> open error: No such file or directory >>> Failed to initialize audio driver 'alsa' >>> [AO SDL] Samplerate: 22050Hz Channels: Mono Format floatle >>> [AO SDL] using aalib audio driver. >>> [AO SDL] Unsupported audio format: 0x1d. >>> [AO SDL] Unable to open audio: No available audio device >>> Failed to initialize audio driver 'sdl:aalib' >>> Could not open/initialize audio device -> no sound. >>> Audio: no sound >>> Starting playback... >>> Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied. >>> VO: [vdpau] 400x300 => 400x300 Planar YV12 >>> V: 2.7 0/ 0 9% 3% 0.0% 0 0 >>> >>> Exiting... (Quit) >>> >>> >>> Thanks for any help, >>> >>> Rodolfo >> >> >> >> > > -- > -- darkestkhan -- Feel free to CC me. jid: darkestk...@gmail.com May The Source be with You.

Re: Nvidia Legacy 304xx

2016-12-02 Thread darkestkhan
gl1-mesa-dri from unstable, but don't hold your > breath. Improving support for these old cards is not a high priority > for the Nouveau project. > > Cheers, >Sven > > > 1. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=845639 > -- darkestkhan -- Feel free to CC me. jid: darkestk...@gmail.com May The Source be with You.

Re: PulseAudio (was Re: Sid Foibles)

2014-06-12 Thread darkestkhan
ould file bug. Why bother doing so if purging PA fixes every issue I have with sound? Especially when you consider that I don't need PA capabilities. -- darkestkhan -- Feel free to CC me. jid: darkestk...@gmail.com May The Source be with You. --

Re: Updating not working as expected

2014-02-09 Thread darkestkhan
ed up with them or why I would (or would not) want them. > Should I just change them to 'jessie'? > Personally I'm dubious if using `jessie` instead of `testing` atm should even work - considering that it is basically testing for the time being. -- darkestkhan --

Re: Any reason not to run amd64 these days?

2014-02-04 Thread darkestkhan
. This by itself can give quite a bit of speedup for some applications (like games, media, {de,}compression). I'm running it w/o any issues on laptop with 2.5GB RAM available. Granted sometimes I would like to have slightly more RAM (4GB would be really nice), but on day to day b

Re: how to remove ? directory

2014-01-28 Thread darkestkhan
e owner and group (chmod, chgrp, which you also have to do with root privileges in this case). -- darkestkhan -- Feel free to CC me. jid: darkestk...@gmail.com May The Source be with You. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian

Re: Hey humans, I'm a machine

2014-01-18 Thread darkestkhan
anicus, I just had to ;) PS: I wonder how many will `get` this reference. -- darkestkhan -- Feel free to CC me. jid: darkestk...@gmail.com May The Source be with You. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: ext3 mount failing due to bad superblock.

2013-11-09 Thread darkestkhan
l. I also tried all possible combinations of "e2fsck -b " - result is the same. -- darkestkhan -- Feel free to CC me. jid: darkestk...@gmail.com May The Source be with You. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

ext3 mount failing due to bad superblock.

2013-11-09 Thread darkestkhan
ext2 filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock: e2fsck -b 8193 " Is there some way to recover filesystem (or at least data contained in it)? darkestkhan -- "May the source be w

Re: linux debian

2013-10-14 Thread darkestkhan
update ; sudo aptitude install flashplugin-nonfree -- darkestkhan -- Feel free to CC me. jid: darkestk...@gmail.com May The Source be with You. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: Multiple audio applications with the same Alsa device

2013-07-21 Thread darkestkhan
person with savant syndrome or similar? I'm not kidding, it's interesting to know more about people who are able to follow a bunch of audio streams at the same time. > > Is this really that surprising? For me (and some other I know) it is normal mode of operating and I don't think that I'm savant or similar. darkestkhan

Re: Multiple audio applications with the same Alsa device

2013-07-21 Thread darkestkhan
gt; but when I listening mp3 with Alsaplayer - or other player - I can't hear any sounds on other applications - for example Chrome with Youtube. > > How to solve this? > Check if you have pulseaudio installed, if so then removing it may solve this problem. darkestkhan

Re: GPG error with ftp.debian.org

2013-05-12 Thread darkestkhan
On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 4:01 PM, darkestkhan wrote: > For few days now I'm receiving following error when updating sid: > > $ sudo aptitude update > Building old list of packages... [done] > Building old list of available updates... [done] > Building old list of watched p

GPG error with ftp.debian.org

2013-05-12 Thread darkestkhan
27;m installing what I think I'm installing, so is there some kind of solution for this issue? (I did last upgrade somewhere around last week) -- darkestkhan -- Feel free to CC me. jid: darkestk...@gmail.com May The Source be with You. -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: PulseAudio--is there a viable alternative?

2013-02-05 Thread darkestkhan
Mixing works out of the box here too - some integrated Intel audio chipset. darkestkhan

Re: killing a job-not solved but stopped

2013-02-04 Thread darkestkhan
t times I wouldn't worry about few small zombies :-) darkestkhan

Re: What happens when you upgrade a package with modified config files?

2013-01-08 Thread darkestkhan
the location of your config file with suffix .new (or .old) (iirc). darkestkhan

Re: when new versions will be available at wheezy ?

2013-01-08 Thread darkestkhan
On Jan 8, 2013 3:01 PM, "Chris Bannister" wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 12:47:52PM +0000, darkestkhan wrote: > > Wheezy :-) > > Only after release testing will start receiving new packages once again. > > Next version will be called Jessie (but if you plan

Re: when new versions will be available at wheezy ?

2013-01-08 Thread darkestkhan
lease testing will start receiving new packages once again. Next version will be called Jessie (but if you plan to use constantly testing then just put testing in place of Wheezy in your apt preferences). darkestkhan

Re: kernel not found

2013-01-06 Thread darkestkhan
On Jan 5, 2013 4:39 PM, "gabry" @ tiscali.it > wrote: > > Hi, I am going to install debian on amd k6 166 mhz. I've downloaded the > net version i386, but the system installation break and tell that no > kernel is not available . > > Why? The i386 arch name is quite misleading, because to best of m

Re: which version of debian to download

2012-12-18 Thread darkestkhan
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 7:16 PM, Daniel wrote: > hello > > Which version of debian is compatable with i3 or i5 processors systems ? > > Thank you > > Daniel > As long as you have >= 2 GB RAM you should download AMD64 (othe

Re: [OT] End of the world

2012-12-01 Thread darkestkhan
f virtue. > > > Thank you Debian Users! > Beco > Isn't this a bit too fast ? Wasn't End of the World scheduled in crontab for 21.12.2012 ? ;) -- darkestkhan -- Feel free to CC me. jid: darkestk...@gmail.com May The Source be with Y

Re: Outrageous Xenophobia. Was: Outrageous sexism. Was: Re: Mail client, threads, etc...

2012-11-26 Thread darkestkhan
27;s ok to make jokes about this time, but equate banality with serious > orders to kill people is dangerous. > I'm from Poland and I will tell you that we make this kind of jokes quite a lot so I didn't find it offensive at all (in fact I thought

Re: Is there a howto for dual boot of Windows 7 and debian?

2012-11-10 Thread darkestkhan
tion, unless you tell it > to. > > --doug > Alternatively he can create LVM2 group on that partition and put everything inside that LVM2 group (though I never tried putting /boot directly on LVM). -- darkestkhan -- Feel free to CC me. jid: dar

Re: how to practice.

2012-05-21 Thread darkestkhan
2012/5/21 Muhammad Yousuf Khan : > thanks guys , learned new things and Good tips also.  :) > You can also use flashcard program (like mnemosyne or anki) as a way to not forget commands. -- darkestkhan -- Feel free to CC me. jid: darkestk...@gma

Re: what's the best media player ?

2011-12-19 Thread darkestkhan
ed laptop without truly re-start). > > Thanks with best regards, > VLC - it just rocks, and plays almost anything (streaming included) darkestkhan -- Feel free to CC me. jid: darkestk...@gmail.com May The Source be with You. -- To UNS

Re: a short cut on desktop on gnome3

2011-12-03 Thread darkestkhan
icons on your desktop, what good is the desktop?  You > might as well have DOS! > > --doug > I'm not using GNOME, but my desktop doesn't have any icons. Beside I always have some windows maximized, which would make them quite useless. And desktop without icons is goo

Re: Debian: A noob query

2011-11-26 Thread darkestkhan
led by default) which you dont need to >> do with other distros but its not difficult and the end result is worth it. > > Lastly, I am confused, if using Debian and installing software is easy > or tough for noobs? > > Thanks. I believe installing apps on Debian, through either GU

Re: Debian: A noob query

2011-11-26 Thread darkestkhan
mainly proprietary) do not support 64bit too well (flashplugin-nonfree? (recently it is working w/o much problems)) * some drivers may not work on 64bit system darkestkhan -- Feel free to CC me. jid: darkestk...@gmail.com May The Source be with You

Re: problems

2011-11-13 Thread darkestkhan
ows system, which some ppl do hope you did) Also if you get white cursor on black screen with pristine installation my guess is that you have NVidia GPU, which needs firmware from firmware-nonfree to properly work. You can add nomodesettings in kernel parameters (just after quiet) to fall back o

Re: [OT] British vs. American English

2011-10-03 Thread darkestkhan
eck this one (and few other associated with it): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-voltage_direct_current The problem with DC at times of Tesla/Edison was the fact that there was/is no efficient way to change voltage, while for AC it was quite easy for many years already. darkestkhan ---

Re: Still trying to reduce the size of /, now that I have the bit between my teeth....

2011-09-23 Thread darkestkhan
ery much. My server's /usr uses 1.8GB, my laptop's /usr uses > 6.6GB. Apart from /home (and possibly /var, again depending on your > usage pattern), /usr is usually tha largest directory. Your laptop /usr is small - mine /usr (also laptop) is 15.6GB darkestkhan ---

Re: Encoder for linux

2011-09-16 Thread darkestkhan
one of which would have occurred to me. How about ffmpeg and mencoder? > -- > Carl Fink                           nitpick...@nitpicking.com In my experience ffmpeg works very well, though I'm using it mostly for converting video files to .ogv and audio files to .ogg (beside using it to decode

Re: ReInstall of System borked Admin Pwd for Apps

2011-09-04 Thread darkestkhan
2011/9/4 Stephen Allen : > On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 08:04:20AM +0000, darkestkhan wrote: >> 2011/9/3 Stephen Allen : >> > On Sat, Sep 03, 2011 at 11:32:00AM +, darkestkhan wrote: > >> >> /etc/sudoers contains informations about who has rights to access root >

Re: ReInstall of System borked Admin Pwd for Apps

2011-09-04 Thread darkestkhan
2011/9/3 Stephen Allen : > On Sat, Sep 03, 2011 at 11:32:00AM +0000, darkestkhan wrote: >> 2011/9/3 Stephen Allen : > >> > It contains just 2 fields; >> > >> >        # User privilege specification >> >        root    ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL >> >

Re: ReInstall of System borked Admin Pwd for Apps

2011-09-03 Thread darkestkhan
2011/9/3 Stephen Allen : > On Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 05:32:03AM +0000, darkestkhan wrote: >> 2011/9/1 Stephen Allen : >> > Hello. > >> > What do I have to do to fix this? > >> >> check out /etc/sudoers if it contains all fields > ---end quoted text---

Re: ReInstall of System borked Admin Pwd for Apps

2011-09-01 Thread darkestkhan
10901201610.ga8...@thinkpad.gateway.2wire.net > > check out /etc/sudoers if it contains all fields darkestkhan -- Feel free to CC me. jid: darkestk...@gmail.com May The Source be with You. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.deb

Re: Want to build new Debian PC. Is IDE interface gone?

2011-07-11 Thread darkestkhan
ing about an IDE connector, the >> industry has dropped IDE and they are going to drop PCI too. > > What will rplace PCI?` > Wouldn't that be PCIE? unless there is some shiny bleedingly bleeding edge technology that I don't know of... darkestkhan -

Re: Want to build new Debian PC. Is IDE interface gone?

2011-07-11 Thread darkestkhan
> two possibilities: you meant 64bits CPU - I still can't get 64 core w/o going to tilera, powerpc (those new shiny ones) or sparc (ie. niagara) or it was meant as a sarcasm darkestkhan -- Feel free to CC me. jid: darkestk...@gmail.com May The Source

Re: Wheezy install - grub wont write to MBR with RAID and LVM

2011-07-06 Thread darkestkhan
>From what I know you GRUB won't work installed on LVM or software RAID, it has to be installed on normal /boot partition or on hardware RAID. darkestkhan -- Feel free to CC me. jid: darkestk...@gmail.com May The Source be with You. -- To UNS

Re: Is there any valid reason to add a script that only cause a PITA? Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2011 #1172

2011-06-18 Thread darkestkhan
2011/6/18 Ralf Mardorf : > >> > Forwarded Message >> > From: darkestkhan >> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >> > Subject: Re: Is there any valid reason to add an idiotic script >> > to /etc/init.d by an default Debian instal

Re: Is there any valid reason to add an idiotic script to /etc/init.d by an default Debian install that only cause a PITA?

2011-06-17 Thread darkestkhan
n't like something in Linux you can always change it, that is the beauty of it. But having the ability to change governor to powersave or performance just by changing simple configuration file is good thing. Having to compile new kernel just to change CPU gover

Re: Linux for humans that differ to averaged people was - Re: Subscription

2011-06-11 Thread darkestkhan
one", and it is quite often, so I wouldn't be so hasty to this judgment of effective death (though it may be caused by wandering in strange dark corners of Internet). darkestkhan -- Feel free to CC me. jid: darkestk...@gmail.com May The Source

Re: Setting CPU affinity for binaries in given directory

2011-06-07 Thread darkestkhan
2011/6/6 William Hopkins : > On 06/06/11 at 10:14pm, darkestkhan wrote: >> 2011/6/6 William Hopkins : >> > On 06/06/11 at 02:50pm, darkestkhan wrote: >> >> Is there any way to specify CPU affinity for binaries >> >> launched from given directory (and it&#x

Fwd: Setting CPU affinity for binaries in given directory

2011-06-06 Thread darkestkhan
2011/6/6 William Hopkins : > On 06/06/11 at 02:50pm, darkestkhan wrote: >> Is there any way to specify CPU affinity for binaries >> launched from given directory (and it's subdirectories) ? > > AFAIK, no. You can set up a process watcher to scan for processes with a &g

Re: Setting CPU affinity for binaries in given directory

2011-06-06 Thread darkestkhan
2011/6/6 William Hopkins : > On 06/06/11 at 02:50pm, darkestkhan wrote: >> Is there any way to specify CPU affinity for binaries >> launched from given directory (and it's subdirectories) ? > > AFAIK, no. You can set up a process watcher to scan for processes with a &g

Setting CPU affinity for binaries in given directory

2011-06-06 Thread darkestkhan
binaries launched from given directory (and it's subdirectories) ? darkestkhan -- Feel free to CC me. jid: darkestk...@gmail.com May The Source be with You. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "u

Re: New Guy asks: I want to run Squeeze, except for a few particular things...

2011-06-04 Thread darkestkhan
of the time, though I can't guarantee that as I'm running Debian sid / experimental, which is also working most of the time (at least for me, though in sid / exp from time to time it is not working properly). I would say go with Wheezy (especially that you are not new to GNU/Linux) darke

Re: update KDE

2011-03-27 Thread darkestkhan
2011/3/27 hamed hosseini : > how can i update gnome to KDE in debian 6? > I wouldn't call it update but I'm guessing that you want to install KDE this one should work: apt-get install kde darkestkhan -- Feel free to CC me. jid: darkestk.

iinstallation of Debian 6

2011-03-27 Thread darkestkhan
ng. My _guess_ is it is problem with drivers or hardware. Some additional information about your system configuration would be helpful. darkestkhan -- jid: darkestk...@gmail.com May The Source be with You. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ..

Re: External hard drive with mounting problems

2011-03-20 Thread darkestkhan
gt; if there were any problems.  Shred had no difficulty writing to any part of > the disk. > > What exactly is going on here?  Does my drive have a hardware problem?  What > tools can I use to evaluate the condition of this drive? > Just strange behavior

Re: What are your best practices for running Debian unstable?

2011-03-13 Thread darkestkhan
2011/3/13 Andrei Popescu : > On Sb, 12 mar 11, 19:07:50, darkestkhan wrote: >> >> I'm running sid / experimental so dist-upgrade in my case is almost >> like throwing away half of the system; And I'm using aptitude >> safe-upgrade which is good solution. Al

Re: What are your best practices for running Debian unstable?

2011-03-12 Thread darkestkhan
2011/3/12 John Hasler : > darkestkhan writes: >> ...I don't see a reason why should I do dist-upgrade, after all I'm >> running sid constantly... > > Because the sort of inter-release changes dist-upgrade is intended to > handle can happen in Sid at any time. &g

Re: What are your best practices for running Debian unstable?

2011-03-12 Thread darkestkhan
e should have installed I don't check Debian Weather, and I don't see a reason why should I do dist-upgrade, after all I'm running sid constantly darkestkhan -- jid: darkestk...@gmail.com May The Source be with You. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: problems with fluxbox after actualization to 1.3~

2011-03-06 Thread darkestkhan
olution you want with xrandr (I hope this utility > can work with vesa...). xrandr -s 0 # solved my problem, though I really didn't want to loose those pixels, but I can still live w/o those 48px Thx for help; xrandr does work with vesa darkestkhan

Re: problems with fluxbox after actualization to 1.3~

2011-03-06 Thread darkestkhan
2011/3/6 Camaleón : > On Sun, 06 Mar 2011 14:15:42 +0000, darkestkhan wrote: > >> I have been using resolution 1280x760 for about 1 year now, and I never [ SNIP ] > Too high or too low? As per your description, seems to be the latter. To high >> Is there any [ SNIP ] >

problems with fluxbox after actualization to 1.3~

2011-03-06 Thread darkestkhan
can see entire screen properly again ( beside changing resolution to lower ) ? graphic driver - vesa graphic card - GeForce 9200 M G kernel - 2.6.37.1 beside that up to date Debian sid/experimental darkestkhan -- jid: darkestk...@gmail.com May The Source be

Re: Setting the screen resolution in grub2

2011-02-23 Thread darkestkhan
ault/grub specific. > > TIA > > > Regards, > Rob > Try in adding this grub boot menu ( and iirc you should add it in /boot/grub/grub.cfg ) darkestkhan -- jid: darkestk...@gmail.com May The Source be with You. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: strange behavior of mount

2011-02-04 Thread darkestkhan
2011/2/3 Tom H : > On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 1:53 PM, darkestkhan wrote: >> >> [ . . . ] > > You're simply overlaying mounts; it isn't a bug. How are you mounting > these devices? > How? I'm just doing: sudo mount /dev/sdX4 /storage #X is always greater t

strange behavior of mount

2011-02-03 Thread darkestkhan
blems, but when mounting again mount _doesn't_ FAIL even though df is still telling me that there are mounted volumes in given location: darkestkhan@khanat /dev $ df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/vg_khanat-lv_root 516

Re: X freeze the system after upgrade

2011-02-03 Thread darkestkhan
Try disabling KMS in GRUB and see how it is working ( up until recently I had to disable them to make X usable ) PS: What graphic card you have? darkestkhan -- jid: darkestk...@gmail.com May The Source be with You. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: Debian (sid) painfully slow.

2011-01-10 Thread darkestkhan
You may also try this one: http://ada.cx/OlS But I started testing it today so I can't really say what exact effect in system responsiveness is. darkestkhan -- jid: darkestk...@gmail.com May The Source be with You. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: Debian (sid) painfully slow.

2011-01-10 Thread darkestkhan
kernels (2.6.36 and lower) I also experienced random fs crash - sometimes even 2 or 3 in one day (when I was still using lenny); and remember that when you are starting BOINC it is loading its apps and data in to memory, which may take some time darkestkhan

Re: google's ads

2011-01-05 Thread darkestkhan
don't have nice web browser . . . darkestkhan -- jid: darkestk...@gmail.com May The Source be with You. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.de