Unattended Upgrades question

2018-10-15 Thread rv riveravaldez
Hi, two doubts: 1. Is it OK to disable/remove Unattended Upgrades on Debian testing? 2. If the answer is 'yes': which would be the best/proper way to do it? Thanks a lot!

Re: (Debian) USB Audio interface makes terrible noises

2018-10-09 Thread rv riveravaldez
On Sat, Oct 6, 2018 at 9:56 AM, deloptes wrote: > deloptes wrote: > >> Mask The Truth God wrote: >> >>> Hi ive asked this on multiple different sites and still no replies so ill >>> try and see if anyone knows here. >>> >>> as i have just recently switched to debian i have most things sorted out >

Re: Scribus has stopped importing PDF files

2018-09-27 Thread rv riveravaldez
On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 5:50 PM, Gary Dale wrote: > For the last few days, some Scribus documents I work with have stopped > accepting PDF files within image frames. Prior to this, they would display a > preview. Now new image frames that I create show just the file name, but > some older frames w

Re: Print with mupdf?

2018-09-19 Thread rv riveravaldez
On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 4:59 PM, Brian wrote: > On Wed 19 Sep 2018 at 14:41:24 -0500, Jason wrote: > >> On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 01:32:47AM -0300, Felipe Portales wrote: >> > El domingo, 16 de septiembre de 2018 17:15:16 -03, Glenn English escribió: >> > > Anybody know of a civilized, bug-free pdf

Re: SSD unrecognized disk label

2018-09-14 Thread rv riveravaldez
On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 6:16 PM, Allen Hoover wrote: > I have an SSD that has some serious issues. It contains files that > are fairly important to recover. The user had not done backups quite > recently. > > If I view the SSD in parted, it says unrecognized disk label, and the > size is shown as

Re: Problems with kernel 4.17.0-1-amd64 [AUDIO SOLVED]

2018-09-13 Thread rv riveravaldez
On Sat, Aug 11, 2018 at 11:45 AM, Nicolas George wrote: > rv riveravaldez (2018-07-26): >> I'm having an audio issue with this same kernel: there's a permanent >> buzz that starts at soon as the system has loaded and only stops when >> I play some sound (any audi

Re: Problems with kernel 4.17.0-1-amd64

2018-07-25 Thread rv riveravaldez
On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 10:55 AM, Nicolas George wrote: > Hi. > > I am running testing on a fairly normal i3-based PC. Since yesterday, it > is using the 4.17.0-1-amd64 kernel instead of 4.16.0-2-amd64, and I am > experiencing the following two issues: > > The device for the audio controller takes

Re: HP ProLiant ML350p Gen8 Hot Plug 6 LFF - Is Jessie or Stretch ok?

2018-07-15 Thread rv riveravaldez
On Sat, Jul 14, 2018 at 1:28 PM, Bernie Elbourn wrote: > Hi > > I have one of these running Wheezy - been stable for years without issue. It > also has original firmware etc. Yep - needs updating > > Has anyone got one of these running Jessie, or Stretch OK ... Is/was there > any pain? > > Deb

Re: prevent packages from installing

2018-06-19 Thread rv riveravaldez
> > The man page for apt_preferences is clear as mud about any (pinning) example > that seems equivalent, or even what name(s) of file(s) are supposed to be to > create pins. Google so far has been no help. Holding is either being ignored, > or > holds are being silently unheld. How do I keep unwa

How to diagnose and report a bug

2018-06-15 Thread rv riveravaldez
Hi, I've found this bug consistently on debian testing (updated): Steps to reproduce: In pcmanfm's address bar, type: ssh://user@ip Write password, Enter. Navigate to the remote machine user's folder. Open, edit and save a plain text file with leafpad. Result: The file gets blanked (no content at

Serious bug: pcmanfm-ssh-leafpad [howto diagnose]

2018-06-10 Thread rv riveravaldez
Hi, I've found this bug consistently on debian testing (updated): Steps to reproduce: >From the address bar of pcmanfm, type: ssh://user@ip Write password, Enter. Navigate to the remote machine user folder. Open, edit and save a plain text file with leafpad. The file gets blanked (no content at al

Re: which program do you recommend to read pdf file

2018-05-09 Thread rv riveravaldez
On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 11:20 PM, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > On 09/05/18 06:37 PM, Long Wind wrote: > >> i download a lot of books in pdf form from archive.org >> >> as an example and for test purpose:introductiontomo00plet.pdf >> >> but my acrobat reader in stretch is painfully slowin displaying them

Re: Activate/deactivate kernel parameters without reboot

2018-03-30 Thread rv riveravaldez
On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 11:28 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> I'm running with a 'nouveau.noaccel=1' kernel parameter added at hand > [...] >> Is there any way to deactivate and reactivate such a parameter without >> the need to reboot? > > You can try and change it with > > # echo 0 > /sys/modul

Activate/deactivate kernel parameters without reboot

2018-03-29 Thread rv riveravaldez
Hi, I'm running with a 'nouveau.noaccel=1' kernel parameter added at hand at boot (for a random freeze that appears with nouveau driver and the NVIDIA C61 [GeForce 7025 / nForce 630a] (rev a2) GPU). Is there any way to deactivate and reactivate such a parameter without the need to reboot? Thanks

Re: desktop icons locked

2018-03-06 Thread rv riveravaldez
>> Desktop icons on Debian 4.9.65-3+deb9u2 are locked. >> >> Please provide work around on how to fix this problem. >> >> Thanks, >> >> >> Eugenia Lemberg >> On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 3:29 PM, Hans wrote: > Am Dienstag, 6. März 2018, 18:10:01 CET schrieb Eugenia: > Please check your windowmanager set

nouveau 0000:00:0d.0: bus: MMIO write of 00000000 FAULT at 00b010

2018-03-05 Thread rv riveravaldez
Hi, I'm having this since installation (debian testing, starting with netinstall and then adding packages as needed, always following Debian's wiki instructions): $ sudo dmesg | grep nouveau [8.473315] nouveau :00:0d.0: NVIDIA C61 (04c000a2) [8.483404] nouveau :00:0d.0: bios: versi