Re: Installing Linux on a Mac Mini without OSX

2014-12-05 Thread Georgi Naplatanov
On 12/05/2014 08:32 AM, Brian Sammon wrote: > On Thu, 04 Dec 2014 21:39:08 -0800 > Jimmy Johnson wrote: > >> As mentioned earlier, your machine is currently not using EFI. > > I missed that -- and how do I know that for sure? If the Debian installer has installed grub-pc(-*) package then the in

Re: Debian fork: 'Devuan', Debian without Systemd

2014-12-05 Thread Curt
On 2014-12-05, Buntunub wrote: > > And so it comes full circle. This is why there is a need for a Debian fork. > /I/ don't have to do any of those things. You don't either. The good folks > at Devuan will take care of all that for you. > Fine then go fork yourselves with a Devuan. -- To UNSUBS

Re: LVM RAID5 with missing disk?

2014-12-05 Thread Mart van de Wege
Gary Dale writes: > On 04/12/14 12:51 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: >> On Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 02:13:59PM +0100, mad wrote: >>> Hi! >>> >>> I wanted to create a RAID5 with lvm. The basic setup is something like >>> >>> lvcreate --type raid5 -i 2 -L 1G -n my_lv my_vg >>> >>> which would mean 3 physical dr

Debian by default / Debian jessie

2014-12-05 Thread Frederic Robert
Hello, How are you? Pulseaudio is used by default. I'm using debian jessie. I'd like to use Alsa by default. I removed pulseaudio (apt-get remove pulseaudio) and installed alsa-base. When i reboot the computer, i don't have sound :( Greetings, -- Frederic Robert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Debian by default / Debian jessie

2014-12-05 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Hi On Fri, Dec 05, 2014 at 10:47:16AM +, Frederic Robert wrote: > Hello, > > How are you? Pulseaudio is used by default. I'm using debian > jessie. I'd like to use Alsa by default. I removed pulseaudio > (apt-get remove pulseaudio) and installed alsa-base. When i reboot > the computer, i don'

Re: Debian by default / Debian jessie

2014-12-05 Thread Florent Peterschmitt
Le 2014-12-05 11:47, Frederic Robert a écrit : Hello, How are you? Pulseaudio is used by default. I'm using debian jessie. I'd like to use Alsa by default. I removed pulseaudio (apt-get remove pulseaudio) and installed alsa-base. When i reboot the computer, i don't have sound :( Greetings, --

Re: Debian fork: 'Devuan', Debian without Systemd

2014-12-05 Thread Ric Moore
On 12/05/2014 04:44 AM, Curt wrote: On 2014-12-05, Buntunub wrote: And so it comes full circle. This is why there is a need for a Debian fork. /I/ don't have to do any of those things. You don't either. The good folks at Devuan will take care of all that for you. Fine then go fork yourselve

[Preseed] Partman expert recipe Error

2014-12-05 Thread claude juif
Hi, I'm stuck with partman expert_recipe for 3 days now and it's driving me crazy. I've a 250GB hard drive and i try to use the following partition layout : primary partition 512M /boot 4096M swap LVM 10G /usr 20G /var 10G / left free space to /home so i use this recipe : d-i partman-a

Re: Debian fork: 'Devuan', Debian without Systemd

2014-12-05 Thread Steve McIntyre
[ Apologies to others for maybe prolonging this, but I can't let this go uncorrected... ] Thiago wrote: >>> Jessie isn't Debian. >> >> So you say. Others have a different opinion. > >Absolutely, it is just an opinion, I know. > >Also, it seems to be Joey's opinion too: "It's become abundantly cl

Re: Installing Linux on a Mac Mini without OSX

2014-12-05 Thread Steve McIntyre
Brian wrote: >I was recently given a Mac Mini (Intel Mid 2007) that had been wiped. > >I tried to install Debian (Wheezy) on it, and the installer reported success, >but >when it came time to eject and reboot, Debian didn't boot from the hard drive. > >Googling finds me various pages about instal

iregl_apl_loadDatabase] Error APL: apl initialize fail

2014-12-05 Thread Buntunub
Hello. This happens consistently in Wheezy (KDE) when I open a terminal which always loads on the top left side of the screen by default, and then close the terminal window using the x button. This causes my xserver to crash every time. Can anyone help with this please? -- View this message in c

Re: Installing Linux on a Mac Mini without OSX

2014-12-05 Thread Brian Sammon
On Fri, 05 Dec 2014 14:51:11 + Steve McIntyre wrote: > Hi Brian, > > You might be in luck - I'm looking into installer stuff right now and > I've literally just got an Intel Mac Mini like yours last night to > play with. To the best of my knowledge, the Mac Mini you've got *is* > EFI capable

Re: LVM RAID5 with missing disk?

2014-12-05 Thread Gary Dale
On 05/12/14 05:01 AM, Mart van de Wege wrote: Gary Dale writes: On 04/12/14 12:51 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: On Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 02:13:59PM +0100, mad wrote: Hi! I wanted to create a RAID5 with lvm. The basic setup is something like lvcreate --type raid5 -i 2 -L 1G -n my_lv my_vg which wou

No Flash-based audio in Google Chrome/Chromium with a USB Sound Card

2014-12-05 Thread Pete Orrall
Hi All, I am apologizing for the long post now. I installed Wheezy a couple weeks ago on my workstation and things are fantasticwith the exception of a Flash-based audio problem: I don't have audio from any Flash-based media (Youtube, Vimeo, or otherwise) in either Google Chrome or Chromium.

Re: Debian fork: 'Devuan', Debian without Systemd

2014-12-05 Thread Martinx - ジェームズ
On 5 December 2014 at 11:45, Steve McIntyre wrote: > [ Apologies to others for maybe prolonging this, but I can't let this > go uncorrected... ] Me too... > Spout crap if you like (but please do it elsewhere), but don't put > words into Joey's mouth. As he later clarified in > http://joeyh.nam

Re: No Flash-based audio in Google Chrome/Chromium with a USB Sound Card

2014-12-05 Thread Curt
On 2014-12-05, Curt wrote: > On 2014-12-05, Pete Orrall wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> I am apologizing for the long post now. I installed Wheezy a couple >> weeks ago on my workstation and things are fantasticwith the >> exception of a Flash-based audio problem: I don't have audio from any >> Flas

Re: No Flash-based audio in Google Chrome/Chromium with a USB Sound Card

2014-12-05 Thread Curt
On 2014-12-05, Pete Orrall wrote: > Hi All, > > I am apologizing for the long post now. I installed Wheezy a couple > weeks ago on my workstation and things are fantasticwith the > exception of a Flash-based audio problem: I don't have audio from any > Flash-based media (Youtube, Vimeo, or ot

Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-05 Thread Eduardo Nogueira
With init, skipping a scheduled fsck during boot was easy, you just pressed Ctrl+c, it was obvious! Today I was late for an online conference. I got home, turned on my computer, and systemd decided it was time to run fsck on my 1TB hard drive. Ok, I just skip it, right? Well, Ctrl+c does not work,

Re: Debian fork: 'Devuan', Debian without Systemd

2014-12-05 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 05 December 2014 16:19:08 Martinx - ジェームズ wrote: > On 5 December 2014 at 11:45, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > [ Apologies to others for maybe prolonging this, but I can't let this > > go uncorrected... ] > > Me too... > > > Spout crap if you like (but please do it elsewhere), but don't put

Re: Debian fork: 'Devuan', Debian without Systemd

2014-12-05 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 05/12/14 18:19, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 05 December 2014 16:19:08 Martinx - ジェームズ wrote: >> On 5 December 2014 at 11:45, Steve McIntyre wrote: >>> [ Apologies to others for maybe prolonging this, but I can't let this >>> go uncorrected... ] >> >> Me too... >> >>> Spout crap if you like

Re: Installing Linux on a Mac Mini without OSX

2014-12-05 Thread Steve McIntyre
Brian wrote: >On Fri, 05 Dec 2014 14:51:11 + >Steve McIntyre wrote: > >> Hi Brian, >> >> You might be in luck - I'm looking into installer stuff right now and >> I've literally just got an Intel Mac Mini like yours last night to >> play with. To the best of my knowledge, the Mac Mini you've g

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-05 Thread Brian
On Fri 05 Dec 2014 at 09:04:14 -0800, Eduardo Nogueira wrote: > With init, skipping a scheduled fsck during boot was easy, you just pressed > Ctrl+c, it was obvious! Today I was late for an online conference. I got > home, turned on my computer, and systemd decided it was time to run fsck on my >

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-05 Thread The Wanderer
On 12/05/2014 at 01:05 PM, Brian wrote: > On Fri 05 Dec 2014 at 09:04:14 -0800, Eduardo Nogueira wrote: > >> With init, skipping a scheduled fsck during boot was easy, you just >> pressed Ctrl+c, it was obvious! Today I was late for an online >> conference. I got home, turned on my computer, and

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-05 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> With init, skipping a scheduled fsck during boot was easy, you just >> pressed Ctrl+c, it was obvious! Today I was late for an online >> conference. I got home, turned on my computer, and systemd decided >> it was time to run fsck on my 1TB hard drive. Ok, I just skip it, >> right? Well, Ctrl

Re: Installing Linux on a Mac Mini without OSX

2014-12-05 Thread Ric Moore
On 12/05/2014 10:55 AM, Brian Sammon wrote: On Fri, 05 Dec 2014 14:51:11 + Steve McIntyre wrote: Hi Brian, You might be in luck - I'm looking into installer stuff right now and I've literally just got an Intel Mac Mini like yours last night to play with. To the best of my knowledge, the M

Re: Installing Linux on a Mac Mini without OSX

2014-12-05 Thread Andreas Weber
On 2014-12-05 19:18, Steve McIntyre wrote: >>> To the best of my knowledge, the Mac Mini you've got *is* EFI >>> capable, but doesn't work in quite the way we'd normally expect. IIRC Apple's EFI is (was) not exactly what now is known as UEFI "standard". None of my Mac Minis did work with the Debia

Re: Canon printers on wheezy (solved)

2014-12-05 Thread ken
Hey, Rob, I've been trying, unsuccessfully, to get a Canon PIXMA MX422 (same as the MX429 sold at Walmart) working. It's a newer all-in-one printer. I downloaded both source code and rpm tarballs from Canon Singapore. The RPM wouldn't install because it needed libusb v.1.0.1 which is much h

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-05 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
On 12/05/2014 07:43 PM, The Wanderer wrote: On 12/05/2014 at 01:05 PM, Brian wrote: On Fri 05 Dec 2014 at 09:04:14 -0800, Eduardo Nogueira wrote: With init, skipping a scheduled fsck during boot was easy, you just pressed Ctrl+c, it was obvious! Today I was late for an online conference. I go

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-05 Thread Brian
On Fri 05 Dec 2014 at 14:00:40 -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> With init, skipping a scheduled fsck during boot was easy, you just > >> pressed Ctrl+c, it was obvious! Today I was late for an online > >> conference. I got home, turned on my computer, and systemd decided > >> it was time to run

Re: LVM RAID5 with missing disk?

2014-12-05 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Hello, Some mistakes in what you wrote. Gary Dale a écrit : > > RAID 1 and RAID 5 are both immune to single disk > failures in their most common configurations (1 or more data disks with > 1 parity disk). RAID 10 is also immune to single disk failure but uses > half the disks for parity. RAID

Re: LVM RAID5 with missing disk?

2014-12-05 Thread Ric Moore
On 12/05/2014 03:35 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Linux can use a special RAID 10 mode (mirror+stripe) with two or three disks. with 6 disks, RAID 6 will give you double the capacity of 4 disks or get you immunity to 3 disks failing. RAID 6 can survive 2 disk failures regarless of the number of

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-05 Thread Brian
On Fri 05 Dec 2014 at 13:43:32 -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > On 12/05/2014 at 01:05 PM, Brian wrote: > > > On Fri 05 Dec 2014 at 09:04:14 -0800, Eduardo Nogueira wrote: > > > >> With init, skipping a scheduled fsck during boot was easy, you just > >> pressed Ctrl+c, it was obvious! Today I was la

anacron does not run cron.daily reliably

2014-12-05 Thread Rainer Dorsch
Hello, I have one machine here on which cron.daily is not run reliably with anacron. I see in rd@blackbox:~/Managed/LinuxInst$ grep cron.daily /var/log/syslog Dec 1 22:55:11 blackbox anacron[14161]: Job `cron.daily' terminated (mailing output) rd@blackbox:~/Managed/LinuxInst$ i.e. it run la

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-05 Thread Ron
On Fri, 5 Dec 2014 20:59:25 + Brian wrote: > But remember our current slogan "Linux is all about choice". One can > choose to boot with or without "fsck.mode=skip". What about the choice to stop fsck it if it has started at an inconvenient moment ? Cheers, Ron. -- Whoever said "

Re: anacron does not run cron.daily reliably

2014-12-05 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-12-05 23:24 +0100, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > I have one machine here on which cron.daily is not run reliably with anacron. > > I see in > > rd@blackbox:~/Managed/LinuxInst$ grep cron.daily /var/log/syslog > Dec 1 22:55:11 blackbox anacron[14161]: Job `cron.daily' terminated (mailing > outp

Screen rotation question

2014-12-05 Thread Jacek Dudek
I'm trying to get screen rotation to work on my desktop computer. Here's my system information. I don't have an auto-generated xorg.conf file. uname -a Linux jzd 3.14-0.bpo.2-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.14.15-2~bpo70+1 (2014-08-21) i686 GNU/Linux lspci ... 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Cor

Re: Debian fork: 'Devuan', Debian without Systemd

2014-12-05 Thread Eduard Bloch
Hallo, * Erwan David [Wed, Dec 03 2014, 04:13:14PM]: > > As explained several times on this ML, depending against libsystemd0 > > package doesn't mean anything about requiring systemd to be used as > > PID1 or not. Even Ian's GR was not taking the "I don't want any systemd > > package on my machine

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-05 Thread Brian
On Fri 05 Dec 2014 at 19:06:50 -0300, Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > On Fri, 5 Dec 2014 20:59:25 + > Brian wrote: > > > But remember our current slogan "Linux is all about choice". One can > > choose to boot with or without "fsck.mode=skip". > > What about the choice to stop fsck it if it has star

Re: No Flash-based audio in Google Chrome/Chromium with a USB Sound Card

2014-12-05 Thread Pete Orrall
>> Maybe your problem? You might have to revert to a previous version >> (which would involve a manual extraction from an older Chrome package). >> > > Or maybe not because you're talking about audio only--sorry about that. No worries, Curt. It looks like I will be filing a bug report. Thanks fo

no microphone in skype

2014-12-05 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Can someone please tell me how to get microphone working in Skype? When I do Skype -> Options -> Sound Devices -> Make a test call I can't hear back my own voice. So the microphone is not working. In "Open PulseAudio Volume Control" -> Input Devices , I see two sections 1. Built-in Audio Analog

Re: Canon printers on wheezy (solved)

2014-12-05 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 2:47 PM, ken wrote: > Hey, Rob, > > I've been trying, unsuccessfully, to get a Canon PIXMA MX422 (same as the > MX429 sold at Walmart) working. It's a newer all-in-one printer. > > I downloaded both source code and rpm tarballs from Canon Singapore. The RPM > wouldn't insta

Re: LVM RAID5 with missing disk?

2014-12-05 Thread Gary Dale
On 05/12/14 03:35 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Hello, Some mistakes in what you wrote. Gary Dale a écrit : RAID 1 and RAID 5 are both immune to single disk failures in their most common configurations (1 or more data disks with 1 parity disk). RAID 10 is also immune to single disk failure but us

Re: no microphone in skype

2014-12-05 Thread Gary Dale
On 05/12/14 11:13 PM, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: Can someone please tell me how to get microphone working in Skype? When I do Skype -> Options -> Sound Devices -> Make a test call I can't hear back my own voice. So the microphone is not working. In "Open PulseAudio Volume Control" -> Input Dev

Epson XP-820 Small-in-one

2014-12-05 Thread Gary Dale
I bought the XP-820 because it was on sale and could print to CD/DVD - a feature that I liked about my earlier Espon R-320 printer. Unfortunately the XP-820 needs the Epson escpr driver while the R-320 used the Cups-Gutenprint driver. The former doesn't seem to include the print-to-CD/DVD feat

Re: Epson XP-820 Small-in-one

2014-12-05 Thread Joseph Loo
On 12/05/2014 08:43 PM, Gary Dale wrote: I bought the XP-820 because it was on sale and could print to CD/DVD - a feature that I liked about my earlier Espon R-320 printer. Unfortunately the XP-820 needs the Epson escpr driver while the R-320 used the Cups-Gutenprint driver. The former doesn't se

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-05 Thread Ric Moore
On 12/05/2014 05:06 PM, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: On Fri, 5 Dec 2014 20:59:25 + Brian wrote: But remember our current slogan "Linux is all about choice". One can choose to boot with or without "fsck.mode=skip". What about the choice to stop fsck it if it has started at an inconvenient

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-05 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 05 December 2014 23:16:47 Brian wrote: > On Fri 05 Dec 2014 at 19:06:50 -0300, Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > > On Fri, 5 Dec 2014 20:59:25 + > > > > Brian wrote: > > > But remember our current slogan "Linux is all about choice". One can > > > choose to boot with or without "fsck.mode=skip"

Re: boot fails on jessie on Acer Travelmate

2014-12-05 Thread Pierre Couderc
Le 02/12/2014 23:27, Pierre Couderc a écrit : Hello I have a problem with jessie : my Acer Travelmate (P253) refuses to boot. After many unsuccessful trials... After a break of 2 days (in a monastery)... After a new trial of install, it miraculously boots and works very fine! I suppose so

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-05 Thread Jarle Aase
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/06/2014 01:16 AM, Brian wrote: > On Fri 05 Dec 2014 at 19:06:50 -0300, Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > >> On Fri, 5 Dec 2014 20:59:25 + >> Brian wrote: >> >>> But remember our current slogan "Linux is all about choice". One can >>> choose to boot w

Re: boot fails on jessie on Acer Travelmate

2014-12-05 Thread Pierre Couderc
Le 04/12/2014 09:30, Pascal Hambourg a écrit : Pierre Couderc a écrit : jessie : Model: ATA Crucial_CT480M50 (scsi) Disk /dev/sda: 480GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B Partition Table: gpt Number Start EndSizeFile system Name Flags 1 1049kB 538MB 537MB f