Re: jwm

On Mon 23 Dec 2013 at 00:01:12 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > doesn't run something automatically? I can install it, read --help and > than need to manually run a command? Or will it automatically run a > command when I install the package? When an application is installed/uninstalled you have to e

Re: Nvidia package installation problems

On Du, 22 dec 13, 19:15:25, Jon N wrote: > > "NWRM: API mismatch: the client has the version 304.108, but this > kernel module has the version 319.76. Please make sure that this > kernel module and all NVIDIA driver components have the same version." > > That sounds simple enough, but I have sea

Re: keyboard configuration problem

On Sun 22 Dec 2013 at 18:41:11 +0100, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > The problem is that the actual layout is still "us", in the login > greeting window as well as in xterm. I must then run, at each session start, >setxkbmap -layout gb (that works) > as the layout reverts to us when I logout > > Ca

Re: keyboard configuration problem

On Mon, 23 Dec 2013, Brian wrote: X (whether started with a login manager or startx) gets information about the keyboard from udev via evdev. . . . desktop:/home/brian# udevadm info --export-db | grep XKB ... desktop:/home/brian# udevadm trigger --subsystem-match=input --action=change . . .

Re: Nvidia package installation problems

On Sun, 22 Dec 2013 19:15:25 -0500 Jon N wrote: Hello Jon, >I love the idea of not having to re-installed the downloaded Nvidia >drivers every time the kernel updates (plus it seems to keep breaking) >so I would like to get this to work. Any suggestions? As Andrei has said, make sure you have

Re: keyboard configuration problem

On Mon 23 Dec 2013 at 11:47:49 +0100, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > As far as the 2 commands above are concerned, you are perfectly right, but > the problem is that they change nothing for the keyboard actual > behaviour, using the fvwm display manager or startx. > As the Xorg.0.log is correct,

Re: Copy and Paste between xterm and other windows in a Debian XFCE environment

On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 9:30 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > > $ echo "XTerm*SelectToClipboard:true" >> ~/.Xresources > $ xrdb -m ~/.Xresources Much simpler than what I'd posted earlier. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Re: Copy and Paste between xterm and other windows in a Debian XFCE environment

On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 10:13 PM, Brian wrote: > On Sat 21 Dec 2013 at 21:09:56 +, Tom H wrote: >> >> 2) OT: I don't use XFCE but isn't xfce4-terminal its default terminal? > > It is if task-xfce-desktop is installed (and recommends enabled): > > Recommends: xfprint4, xfce4-terminal, ...

Re: [SOLVED] Copy and Paste between xterm and other windows in a Debian XFCE environment

On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 12:18 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: > > I couldn't find any documented options in xorg.conf for emulating a > 3-button mouse with a 2-button mouse either. I remember that option > from older versions of the X server. These days, input devices, > such as keyboards and mice, are

Re: keyboard configuration problem

On Mon, 23 Dec 2013, Brian wrote: Following Andrei's suggestion wouldn't be a bad idea. 'service kdm stop' first. as the problem occurs with startx, no session manager od display manager is involved. More, the problem already exists at the grub level: I checked that by lauching the grub

Re: Debian Wheezy Compromised - www-data user is sending 1000 emails an hour

2013/12/14 Lukasz Szybalski > >> Thanks for the feedback. I did check with other production sites I run, > and most of them are owned by root. I have to test to see "if you want to > use the "wordpress" to upload a theme using the site UI", I think you might > be forced to have the www-data own a

Re: Nvidia package installation problems

On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 4:21 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 22 dec 13, 19:15:25, Jon N wrote: >> >> "NWRM: API mismatch: the client has the version 304.108, but this >> kernel module has the version 319.76. Please make sure that this >> kernel module and all NVIDIA driver components have the

Re: Nvidia package installation problems

On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 6:20 AM, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Sun, 22 Dec 2013 19:15:25 -0500 > Jon N wrote: > > Hello Jon, > >>I love the idea of not having to re-installed the downloaded Nvidia >>drivers every time the kernel updates (plus it seems to keep breaking) >>so I would like to get this to

Re: Nvidia package installation problems

On Mon, 23 Dec 2013 09:35:52 -0500 Jon N wrote: Hello Jon, >I did check that, but it looks OK (correct version installed). > >Thanks, No problem. I've just re-read your original message, and picked up on some stuff I missed previously. Specifically, stuff about version number mismatches (319

RE: Gmail Grrrr.

Hi, >> > But I have in the past signed onto my own account on my netbook and >> > %$^&*^$£ Google won't allow me to do anything else. I can sign into >> > my account, add Peter as an additional account, and then in future >> > sign into his account from my account. But I don't want that. I >

Re: Nvidia package installation problems

On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 10:20 AM, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Mon, 23 Dec 2013 09:35:52 -0500 > Jon N wrote: > > Hello Jon, > >>I did check that, but it looks OK (correct version installed). >> >>Thanks, > > No problem. I've just re-read your original message, and picked up on > some stuff I missed

bumblebee on laptop

hi community! i have asus x550v laptop and two videocard on it: $ lspci|egrep -i 'vga|3d' 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller (rev 09) 01:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK208M [GeForce GT 740M] (rev ff) so i need to install bumble

Re: bumblebee on laptop

Hi On Mon, 23 Dec 2013 18:09:33 +0200 andrey.ry...@bilkent.edu.tr wrote: > hi community! > i have asus x550v laptop and two videocard on it: > $ lspci|egrep -i 'vga|3d' > 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core > processor Graphics Controller (rev 09) > 01:00.0 3D contr

Re: Nvidia package installation problems

On Mon, 23 Dec 2013 11:05:51 -0500 Jon N wrote: Hello Jon, >The card is a 8600 GT, which does use the latest drivers. in fact, I >uninstalled 319.76 that I had downloaded from nvida to install 319.76 Okay, now I know what GPU you've got. And yes, you're right of course, it uses the 319 drive

Re: Gmail Grrrr.

On Monday 23 December 2013 15:53:36 Bonno Bloksma wrote: > Hi, > > >> > But I have in the past signed onto my own account on my > >> > netbook and %$^&*^$£ Google won't allow me to do anything > >> > else. I can sign into my account, add Peter as an additional > >> > account, and then in future si

Re: bumblebee on laptop

> Try running it like this: > > vblank_mode=0 glxgears > Where should i write this? And main question is not what does glxgears output, but why does FPS equal with optirun and without it... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

Re: Acpi "Lid" Suspend with Eeepc 900 Not Working

On Sun, 22 Dec 2013, Gregory Nowak wrote: > On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 07:14:09PM -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > Did my original post below make to the list? Or did it end up being > > filtered as spam? Just wondering. > > I saw it, so guess others probably did as well. I guess nobody seems > to

Re: keyboard configuration problem

On Mon 23 Dec 2013 at 14:29:23 +0100, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > On Mon, 23 Dec 2013, Brian wrote: > > >Following Andrei's suggestion wouldn't be a bad idea. 'service kdm stop' > >first. > > as the problem occurs with startx, no session manager od display manager is > involved. > More, the pr

Re: Gmail Grrrr.

On Mon, 23 Dec 2013 16:53:36 +0100, Bonno Bloksma wrote: But, isn't this the whole reason we use different login names and let people have different home directories with their own configs? Not necessarily when it's a family computer. Helpful could be different browser profiles. Some browse

Re: Debian Wheezy Compromised - www-data user is sending 1000 emails an hour

Le 23/12/2013 15:30, Raffaele Morelli a écrit : 2013/12/14 Lukasz Szybalski > [...] root should not own files served by apache for any reason, that's really "dangerous"! you should never do that... Excuse-me, but I think you're wrong. The only reason I see

Re: keyboard configuration problem

On Mon, 23 Dec 2013, Brian wrote: If you had a .xsessionrc file in your home directory containing the line "setxkbmap us" this would account for what you see in an xterm. However, it does not explain what you get at the kdm login prompt. So you likely do not have such a file. I wonder whether xd

Re: Acpi "Lid" Suspend with Eeepc 900 Not Working

On Sun, 22 Dec 2013, Bob Proulx wrote: > Patrick Bartek wrote: > > Did my original post below make to the list? Or did it end up being > > filtered as spam? Just wondering. > > I saw it. If you ever wonder then check the mailing list archives. > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2013/1

wi-fi hardware disabled

hi everybody! in my network icon in Gnome3 i have "wi-fi hardware disabled". How i can enable it? # lspci -k|grep -i wi -A 3 03:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros AR9485 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01) Subsystem: AzureWave Device 2c97 Kernel driver in use: ath9k # ip a l

Re: bumblebee on laptop

Hi, Dňa Mon, 23 Dec 2013 20:16:44 +0400 Reco napísal: > Running synchronized to the vertical refresh. The framerate should be > approximately the same as the monitor refresh rate. > > Try running it like this: > > vblank_mode=0 glxgears I tried this at my desktop PC (only one VGA - GeForce G

Re: keyboard configuration problem

On Mon 23 Dec 2013 at 19:07:16 +0100, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > I don't have a .xsessionrc and my .xinitrc just calls fvwm. So, as the > problem occurs > with startx, it doesn't seem useful to look at session managers. Anyway, > I'll > try with xdm when coming back, in 2 weeks. All the in

Mounting Compact flash attached to USB card reader makes it unreadable.

Hi all, Debian testing, 3.11-2-amd64 kernel. I got a all-in-one USB card reader to read a camera's compact flash. The reader works fine, and the device appears. However if mounted (and then unmounted) the card becomes unreadable by both the camera (which reports a card error) and Debian. Th

carrying running laptop, was: Re: Acpi "Lid" Suspend with Eeepc 900 Not Working

On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 11:15:06PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > That is my normal method of sleeping my laptop. I consider it a > feature. It sleeps when I tell it to and not just because I closed > the lid. Allows me to carry my laptop from here to there and open it > and not have it asleep and n

Re: wi-fi hardware disabled

On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 08:14:29PM +0200, andrey.ry...@bilkent.edu.tr wrote: > hi everybody! > in my network icon in Gnome3 i have "wi-fi hardware disabled". How i can > enable it? > > # lspci -k|grep -i wi -A 3 > 03:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros AR9485 Wireless Network > Adapter (rev

Re: wi-fi hardware disabled

On Mon, 23 Dec 2013 20:14:29 +0200 andrey.ry...@bilkent.edu.tr sent: > hi everybody! > in my network icon in Gnome3 i have "wi-fi hardware disabled". How i > can enable it? > > # lspci -k|grep -i wi -A 3 > 03:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros AR9485 Wireless Network > Adapter (rev 01) >

Xfce4 - drags open browser from other desktop..........

From my keyboard: Using Debian Jessie - Xfce4 When I click on a URL in my mail program, my open browser window is dragged from it's position on another desktop, over my open mail program window rather than what I prefer. Being that I am taken to the desktop where my browser wi

Re: wi-fi hardware disabled

On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 07:49:57AM +1100, Charlie wrote: > This is probably to silly to even contemplate, but is there a "button" > or key where you have to actually turn on your wifi hardware on your > machine? > > I know people have asked me why their wifi was suddenly down, and they > didn't kn

Re: carrying running laptop, was: Re: Acpi "Lid" Suspend with Eeepc 900 Not Working

On Mon 23 Dec 2013 at 13:24:25 -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote: > This begs the question, though not directly related to debian. For It isn't even indirectly related to debian. > those of us with electro-mechanical drives, is it safe to carry the > laptop while the hard drive is running? In the old d

Re: wi-fi hardware disabled

On Mon, 23 Dec 2013 14:01:29 -0700 Gregory Nowak sent: > > This is probably to silly to even contemplate, but is there a > > "button" or key where you have to actually turn on your wifi > > hardware on your machine? > > > > I know people have asked me why their wifi was suddenly down, and > > the

Re: Xfce4 - drags open browser from other desktop..........

On Tue 24 Dec 2013 at 07:59:54 +1100, Charlie wrote: > > From my keyboard: > > Using Debian Jessie - Xfce4 > > When I click on a URL in my mail program, my open browser window is > dragged from it's position on another desktop, over my open mail program > window rather than wha

Re: Debian Wheezy Compromised - www-data user is sending 1000 emails an hour

On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 2:42 AM, Gilles Mocellin wrote: > Le 23/12/2013 15:30, Raffaele Morelli a écrit : > > 2013/12/14 Lukasz Szybalski >>> >>> >> [...] > > > root should not own files served by apache for any reason, that's really > "dangerous"! > you should never do that... > > > Excuse-me, b

Re: carrying running laptop, was: Re: Acpi "Lid" Suspend with Eeepc 900 Not Working

Gregory Nowak wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > That is my normal method of sleeping my laptop. I consider it a > > feature. It sleeps when I tell it to and not just because I closed > > the lid. Allows me to carry my laptop from here to there and open it > > and not have it asleep and needing to r

Re: carrying running laptop, was: Re: Acpi "Lid" Suspend with Eeepc 900 Not Working

On 12/23/2013 06:36 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: I know laptop hdds are used in some media players, but how do they actually hold up in those? I think those usually have shock sensors in them. When they sense force they park or otherwise safe the head. Are there any of those with spinning media still

Re: Debian Wheezy Compromised - www-data user is sending 1000 emails an hour

Raffaele Morelli wrote: > Lukasz Szybalski wrote: > > Thanks for the feedback. I did check with other production sites I run, > > and most of them are owned by root. I have to test to see "if you want to > > use the "wordpress" to upload a theme using the site UI", I think you might > > be forced t

Re: carrying running laptop, was: Re: Acpi "Lid" Suspend with Eeepc 900 Not Working

Doug wrote: > On 12/23/2013 06:36 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > >I know laptop hdds are used in some media players, but how do they > >actually hold up in those? I didn't say the above. Which is really the only reason I commented back so quickly. Please be careful with the attributions. > >I think th

Re: carrying running laptop, was: Re: Acpi "Lid" Suspend with Eeepc 900 Not Working

Bob Proulx writes: > I agree that seems intuitive. But apparently they are effective > enough in practice. I don't know if they are a marketing success only > but I note that they have been successfully marketed for years. I > have no personal experience with them. When you drop the machine the

Re: carrying running laptop, was: Re: Acpi "Lid" Suspend with Eeepc 900 Not Working

On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 06:27:56PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > When you drop the machine the acceleration goes quickly from 1G to > zero. I expect that's what it senses. Wow, I see this is quickly going past the two, maybe three replies I expected to get. It is still quite interesting, to myself

[SOLVED] Re: Re: Re: How do I mount mmc card so that a non-root user has write access?

> After mounting the card, run chown to set the mmc root directory > (/media/) owner to your regular user. AFAIK, unixy > filesystems such as ext3 cannot be told to ignore user permissions. Yes! This worked. I think LXDE was acting appropriately given that the mmc card was formated ext3 instead

testiing and sid

1]  My apologies to those who noted that I was sending HTML emails.  Thunderbird is on the computer with no X windows. When I fix that computer the HTML emails will be a thing of the past. 2] In reference to fixing the the computer with the broken X windows, would it be reasonable to load testing o

Re: jwm

On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 03:01:23PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Hi Brian > > On Sun, 2013-12-22 at 13:51 +, Brian wrote: > > On Sun 22 Dec 2013 at 02:40:09 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > How can I change the wallpaper to > > > > > > /usr/share/wallpapers/Grass/[...]? > > > > Use the full p

Re: bumblebee on laptop

Hi. On Mon, 23 Dec 2013 20:05:12 +0100 Slavko wrote: > Hi, > > Dňa Mon, 23 Dec 2013 20:16:44 +0400 Reco > napísal: > > > Running synchronized to the vertical refresh. The framerate should be > > approximately the same as the monitor refresh rate. > > > > Try running it like this: > > > >

Re: Debian Wheezy Compromised - www-data user is sending 1000 emails an hour

2013/12/23 Gilles Mocellin > Le 23/12/2013 15:30, Raffaele Morelli a écrit : > > 2013/12/14 Lukasz Szybalski > >> >>> [...] >> > > root should not own files served by apache for any reason, that's > really "dangerous"! > you should never do that... > > > Excuse-me, but I think you're wro

Re: Debian Wheezy Compromised - www-data user is sending 1000 emails an hour

Hi. On Tue, 24 Dec 2013 08:47:17 +0100 Raffaele Morelli wrote: > I think you should read man pages on shells and privileges first and what a > user can do. Can you elaborate please how exactly serving root-owned file with apache is a bad thing for security? Reco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Debian Wheezy Compromised - www-data user is sending 1000 emails an hour

2013/12/24 Bob Proulx > Raffaele Morelli wrote: > > Lukasz Szybalski wrote: > > > Thanks for the feedback. I did check with other production sites I run, > > > and most of them are owned by root. I have to test to see "if you want > to > > > use the "wordpress" to upload a theme using the site UI