Re: No sound at boot

2015-05-24 Thread Mark Allums
Take a look in /etc/modules-load.d - you can add a file called, say, "sound.conf" there with the contents: snd-hda-intel That should load that module on boot. I haven't tested it, as I've never had the need to force a module to load in recent years, but it should work. Didn't work. Nor did add

Re: No sound at boot

2015-05-24 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Sun, 24 May 2015, Mark Allums wrote: . . . as long as I could fix it by running modprobe, I wasn't in a big hurry. Anyway, if this had worked, it feels like a workaround, and isn't really getting to the actual cause of the problem. So, any more sug

Re: No sound at boot

2015-05-24 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sun, 24 May 2015 01:39:25 -0500 Mark Allums wrote: > > > On 05/24/2015 12:58 AM, Petter Adsen wrote: > > On Sat, 23 May 2015 23:29:27 -0500 > > Mark Allums wrote: > > > >> I have a decent setup with an ASUS ROG motherboard (overkill for > >> Linux, I know). I was tooling along nicely, when

Re: No sound at boot

2015-05-24 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Sun, 24 May 2015, Mark Allums wrote: What does it mean sysfs path '/sys' is invalid? do you have in /etc/fstab the line sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 cheers, -- Pierre Frenkiel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian

Re: HELP- very slow download speeds

2015-05-24 Thread Gary Roach
On 05/22/2015 01:19 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: Darac Marjal wrote: Gary Roach wrote: When I start a download, it starts at 50M for the first few seconds and then drops to 500K to 100K range. Finally, don't rule out the possibility that your ISP is throttling you. While you may be synced at 50M and

Re: Laptops, UEFI, Secure Boot and Debian

2015-05-24 Thread Bret Busby
On 23/05/2015, Petter Adsen wrote: > On Fri, 22 May 2015 23:53:14 -0700 > Patrick Bartek wrote: > >> >> Researching a laptop purchase (within the next 6 months or so) to >> replace my aging Desktop (1 to 8.5 years depending on which parts). >> Going to abandoned the Big Box forever. Need to be v

Re: No sound at boot

2015-05-24 Thread Mark Allums
On 05/24/2015 02:23 AM, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: On Sun, 24 May 2015, Mark Allums wrote: What does it mean sysfs path '/sys' is invalid? do you have in /etc/fstab the line sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 cheers, No such line in /etc/fstab. How

Re: Need SAS HBA for Debian Jessie

2015-05-24 Thread Petter Adsen
On Fri, 22 May 2015 18:37:05 -0700 (PDT) Leslie Rhorer wrote: > On Monday, May 18, 2015 at 5:40:05 AM UTC-5, Petter Adsen wrote: > > On Sat, 16 May 2015 05:38:30 -0700 (PDT) > > I am sorry if this is a dumb question, > >Not at all. > > > but if this is a home system, > > why can you not go

Re: HELP- very slow download speeds

2015-05-24 Thread Gary Roach
On 05/22/2015 01:19 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: Darac Marjal wrote: Gary Roach wrote: When I start a download, it starts at 50M for the first few seconds and then drops to 500K to 100K range. Finally, don't rule out the possibility that your ISP is throttling you. While you may be synced at 50M and

Re: HELP- very slow download speeds

2015-05-24 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sun, 24 May 2015 00:27:02 -0700 Gary Roach wrote: > On 05/22/2015 01:19 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > > Darac Marjal wrote: > >> Gary Roach wrote: > >>> When I start a download, it starts at 50M for the first few > >>> seconds and then drops to 500K to 100K range. > >> Finally, don't rule out the po

Re: Laptops, UEFI, Secure Boot and Debian

2015-05-24 Thread Bret Busby
On 24/05/2015, Bret Busby wrote: > On 23/05/2015, Petter Adsen wrote: >> On Fri, 22 May 2015 23:53:14 -0700 >> Patrick Bartek wrote: >> >>> >>> Researching a laptop purchase (within the next 6 months or so) to >>> replace my aging Desktop (1 to 8.5 years depending on which parts). >>> Going to a

IP performance question

2015-05-24 Thread Petter Adsen
I've been trying to improve NFS performance at home, and in that process i ran iperf to get an overview of general network performance. I have two Jessie hosts connected to a dumb switch with Cat-5e. One host uses a Realtek RTL8169 PCI controller, and the other has an Intel 82583V on the motherboar

Re: IP performance question

2015-05-24 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sun, 24 May 2015 10:36:39 +0200 Petter Adsen wrote: > I've been trying to improve NFS performance at home, and in that > process i ran iperf to get an overview of general network performance. > I have two Jessie hosts connected to a dumb switch with Cat-5e. One > host uses a Realtek RTL8

Re: Laptops, UEFI, Secure Boot and Debian

2015-05-24 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sun, 24 May 2015 16:12:50 +0800 Bret Busby wrote: > Oh, and one thing that I forgot to mention, is that, due to the > immovable files, the Microshite Windows 8.x installation occupies > about 250GB of unusable disk space. > > Now, it has occurred to me that it could be a good idea to install >

Re: Need SAS HBA for Debian Jessie

2015-05-24 Thread Winfried Boxleitner
hello leslie, On Fri, 22 May 2015, Leslie Rhorer wrote: On Tuesday, May 19, 2015 at 9:50:06 AM UTC-5, Winfried Boxleitner wrote: I'm using an Adaptec 7805H Hmm. That is SFF-8643. 'Not ideal. I would really rather SFF-8088, or at least SFF-8087, for which I have some adapters. (PCIe)

Re: No sound at boot

2015-05-24 Thread Mark Allums
>> I have a decent setup with an ASUS ROG motherboard (overkill for Linux, I know). I was tooling along nicely, when, after an update (back when Jessie was Testing), sound quit working at boot. Of course, the first thing I tried was root@persephone:~# modprobe snd-hda-intel and that got me soun

Re: No sound at boot

2015-05-24 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Sun, 24 May 2015, Mark Allums wrote: No such line in /etc/fstab. However, a line similar to above is in /etc/mtab. (The defaults are not there. All of the options are spelled out.) I have the same thing on 2 laptops, and the directory /sys exists. I imagine it is mounted directly by th

Re: Boot menu entries

2015-05-24 Thread Brian
On Sat 23 May 2015 at 20:27:39 -0500, Emil Payne wrote: > On 05/22/2015 04:56 PM, Brian wrote: > > > >Delete headers packages too. You put them there and should know whether > >you need them. > > > > > As far as I know, I never put them there. I've had to reinstall > Debian a few times lately and

Re: No sound at boot

2015-05-24 Thread Mark Allums
On 05/24/2015 04:13 AM, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: On Sun, 24 May 2015, Mark Allums wrote: No such line in /etc/fstab. However, a line similar to above is in /etc/mtab. (The defaults are not there. All of the options are spelled out.) I have the same thing on 2 laptops, and the directory /sy

Re: IP performance question

2015-05-24 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sun, 24 May 2015 12:02:32 +0300 Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Sun, 24 May 2015 10:36:39 +0200 > Petter Adsen wrote: > > > I've been trying to improve NFS performance at home, and in that > > process i ran iperf to get an overview of general network > > performance. I have two Jessie hosts conne

Re: No sound at boot

2015-05-24 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sun, 24 May 2015 04:12:03 -0500 Mark Allums wrote: > > Try to run "lsmod | grep snd", and add the modules that > > snd-hda-intel depend on before the line loading it in the relevant > > file in /etc/modules-load.d or in /etc/modules. > root@persephone:~# lsmod | grep snd > snd_hda_codec_hdmi

Re: test if fan is working

2015-05-24 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Sat, 2015-05-23 at 16:59 -0700, Anil Duggirala wrote: > Ive installed the xsensors package as well, it only shows me 2 > temperature readings, temp1 and core 0, cant see any rpm (Im running > lxde). Is there a way for me to manually turn the fan on? > thanks, You could try installing and config

Re: IP performance question

2015-05-24 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sun, 24 May 2015 11:28:36 +0200 Petter Adsen wrote: > > On Sun, 24 May 2015 10:36:39 +0200 > > Petter Adsen wrote: > > > > > I've been trying to improve NFS performance at home, and in that > > > process i ran iperf to get an overview of general network > > > performance. I have two Je

Re: No sound at boot

2015-05-24 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Sat, 2015-05-23 at 23:29 -0500, Mark Allums wrote: > I have a decent setup with an ASUS ROG motherboard (overkill for Linux, > I know). I was tooling along nicely, when, after an update (back when > Jessie was Testing), sound quit working at boot. Of course, the first > thing I tried was >

Re: test if fan is working

2015-05-24 Thread Ron
On Sun, 24 May 2015 12:09:44 +0200 Sven Arvidsson wrote: > Just because it doesn't find the fan or reports 0 rpm doesn't > necessarily mean the fan isn't running. Or it may mean that an older fan does not have a RPM sensor... Cheers, Ron. -- He that breaks a thing to find ou

Re: No sound at boot

2015-05-24 Thread Mark Allums
On 05/24/2015 04:50 AM, Petter Adsen wrote: On Sun, 24 May 2015 04:12:03 -0500 Mark Allums wrote: Try to run "lsmod | grep snd", and add the modules that snd-hda-intel depend on before the line loading it in the relevant file in /etc/modules-load.d or in /etc/modules. root@persephone:~# lsm

Re: IP performance question

2015-05-24 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sun, 24 May 2015 13:20:04 +0300 Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Sun, 24 May 2015 11:28:36 +0200 > Petter Adsen wrote: > > > > On Sun, 24 May 2015 10:36:39 +0200 > > > Petter Adsen wrote: > > > > > > > I've been trying to improve NFS performance at home, and in that > > > > process i ran iperf t

Re: IP performance question

2015-05-24 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sun, 24 May 2015 13:26:52 +0200 Petter Adsen wrote: > Thanks to you, I now get ~880Mbps, which is a lot better. It seems > increasing the MTU was what had the most effect, so I won't bother > with TCP window size. Now, this is a little odd: petter@monster:/etc$ iperf -i 1 -c fenris -r --

Re: No sound at boot

2015-05-24 Thread Mark Allums
On 05/24/2015 04:50 AM, Petter Adsen wrote: On Sun, 24 May 2015 04:12:03 -0500 Mark Allums wrote: Try to run "lsmod | grep snd", and add the modules that snd-hda-intel depend on before the line loading it in the relevant file in /etc/modules-load.d or in /etc/modules. root@persephone:~# lsmod

Re: No sound at boot

2015-05-24 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sun, 24 May 2015 07:07:29 -0500 Mark Allums wrote: > On 05/24/2015 04:50 AM, Petter Adsen wrote: > > On Sun, 24 May 2015 04:12:03 -0500 > > Mark Allums wrote: > > > >>> Try to run "lsmod | grep snd", and add the modules that > >>> snd-hda-intel depend on before the line loading it in the rele

Re: IP performance question

2015-05-24 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sun, 24 May 2015 13:26:52 +0200 Petter Adsen wrote: > > On Sun, 24 May 2015 11:28:36 +0200 > > Petter Adsen wrote: > > > > > > On Sun, 24 May 2015 10:36:39 +0200 > > > > Petter Adsen wrote: > > > > > > > > > I've been trying to improve NFS performance at home, and in that > > > > > p

Re: IP performance question

2015-05-24 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sun, 24 May 2015 13:47:48 +0200 Petter Adsen wrote: > On Sun, 24 May 2015 13:26:52 +0200 > Petter Adsen wrote: > > Thanks to you, I now get ~880Mbps, which is a lot better. It seems > > increasing the MTU was what had the most effect, so I won't bother > > with TCP window size. > > Now

[SOLVED] Re: New Jessie Install: Laptop fan doesn't run

2015-05-24 Thread Federico Ramos
Hi, my name is Federico Ramos and I have the same problem. I read that it is a solved trouble, but in the last e-mail sent, i read "Luckily I had an old XP install disk hanging around and was able to upgrade the firmware"... What this means? Can any one give some more information about how can I ap

Re: Problem with Jessie, Chrome, and Icedove

2015-05-24 Thread Charles Chambers
Hi All: Sorry I'm late in responding, but I went back to 7.8. How did you install Jessie? Brand new install onto formatted drive (not an upgrade). My mail is in the cloud, so I don't worry about blowing away a drive unless my message filters or contact list is not backed up. Is icedove rebuildi

Re: [SOLVED] Re: New Jessie Install: Laptop fan doesn't run

2015-05-24 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Sun, 2015-05-24 at 12:42 -0300, Federico Ramos wrote: > Hi, my name is Federico Ramos and I have the same problem. I read that it > is a solved trouble, but in the last e-mail sent, i read "Luckily I had an > old XP install disk hanging around and was able to upgrade the firmware"... > What this

VoIP in jessie

2015-05-24 Thread peter
Can anyone recommend a VoIP for jessie which doesn't depend upon pulseaudio? A VoIP with minimal "features" and dependancies. In squeeze, Twinkle worked. In wheezy, linphone worked. But Linphone depends upon pulseaudio which appears to be the culprit breaking audio in jessie. Ref. https:/

Re: VoIP in jessie

2015-05-24 Thread Erwan David
Le 24/05/2015 18:48, pe...@easthope.ca a écrit : > Can anyone recommend a VoIP for jessie which doesn't > depend upon pulseaudio? A VoIP with minimal "features" > and dependancies. > > In squeeze, Twinkle worked. In wheezy, linphone worked. > But Linphone depends upon pulseaudio which appears

VoIP in jessie

2015-05-24 Thread Juha Heinanen
pe...@easthope.ca writes: > Can anyone recommend a VoIP for jessie which doesn't > depend upon pulseaudio? A VoIP with minimal "features" > and dependancies. sure, the best one is baresip (cli and web user interface): https://github.com/alfredh/baresip/wiki/Install:-GIT-Version the source of

Re: Cups Problem: cups-ipp-missing-send-document

2015-05-24 Thread Brian
On Thu 21 May 2015 at 23:37:43 +0200, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Thu, 2015-05-21 at 16:35 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > > Cups found the printer with an ethernet attachment to our LAN. > > lp test.txt apparently works but nothing printed. > > job status is rendering complete > > Gnome tools-pri

Re: Boot menu entries

2015-05-24 Thread Emil Payne
On 05/24/2015 01:20 AM, Petter Adsen wrote: On Sat, 23 May 2015 20:27:39 -0500 Emil Payne wrote: On 05/22/2015 04:56 PM, Brian wrote: On Fri 22 May 2015 at 16:24:29 -0500, Emil Payne wrote: On 05/22/2015 03:24 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: $ uname -r 3.9-1-amd64 Don't remove the running kernel n

Re: Boot menu entries

2015-05-24 Thread Emil Payne
On 05/24/2015 04:20 AM, Brian wrote: On Sat 23 May 2015 at 20:27:39 -0500, Emil Payne wrote: On 05/22/2015 04:56 PM, Brian wrote: Delete headers packages too. You put them there and should know whether you need them. As far as I know, I never put them there. I've had to reinstall Debian a

Danger of stray : in PATH, Re: Problem Running Application with Alias

2015-05-24 Thread David Wright
Quoting Petter Adsen (pet...@synth.no): > PS: What _are_ the security implications of having a PATH set to > "/foo/bar:"? man bash: PATH The search path for commands. It is a colon-separated list of directories in which the shell looks for commands (see COMMAND EXECUTION below

Re: Boot menu entries

2015-05-24 Thread Emil Payne
I should have mentioned this earlier, but there is a package floating around out there called "GRUB Customizer", that you can use to edit the menu. It wouldn't have uninstalled the extraneous kernels, I think, but it can be nice if you are not familiar with GRUBs syntax (which I admit I don't fu

Re: CLI download interface/tool for Google Images?

2015-05-24 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 01:38:37AM +0200, Emanuel Berg wrote: > Mihamina Rakotomandimby > writes: > > > Feel free to mature it and show us what you call > > a mature piece of code. > > I don't have to show a lamer like you anything. > > The reason I call it immature as a program is that it > ou

Re: (should be) simple bind problem

2015-05-24 Thread Glenn English
Bob Proulx sent me a number of suggestions, and I tested them. Then I inadvertently replied to him instead of the list. Sorry, Bob, and thanks for the ideas. On May 21, 2015, at 3:40 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > The first reason that comes to mind for permission denied is that it > doesn't have pe

mixer.app ; how do i use it after installing it with aptitude?

2015-05-24 Thread Paul E Condon
I found a .deb package, named 'mixer.app' by accident in aptitude interactive mode. My current sound mixer is the one installed by xfce, which uses much to much area on my display screen for my taste. (about 20%) I think I need to learn how to create a 'launcher', which is something I have never

Re: VoIP in jessie

2015-05-24 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 24 May 2015 17:48:54 pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > pulseaudio which appears to be > the culprit breaking audio in jessie. I have it working perfectly. > Ref. > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=487719 That seems to be all about alsa, not pulseaudio. Lisi -- To UNSUBSC

Re: Boot stalling in jessie with systemd

2015-05-24 Thread David Wright
Quoting Don Armstrong (d...@debian.org): > On Tue, 28 Apr 2015, David Wright wrote: > > There are one of two services that stall on odd occasions, but most > > have a timeout which is honoured. binfmt-support has an indefinite > > timeout. I have no idea what it's meant to do. All its configuration

Re: Laptops, UEFI, Secure Boot and Debian

2015-05-24 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Sun, 24 May 2015, Petter Adsen wrote: > On Sat, 23 May 2015 12:46:10 -0700 > Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > On Sat, 23 May 2015, Petter Adsen wrote: > > > > > On Sat, 23 May 2015 09:04:55 -0700 > > > Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > > I've read about that, but right now until W10 in its final form

Re: Perl scripts: line by line parsing vs accumulating (was: the correct way to read a big directory? Mutt?)

2015-05-24 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2015-05-22 21:01:01 -0500, David Wright wrote: > However, in https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2015/04/msg01265.html > I was perhaps less ambiguous (point 2): > > "In which case, if you want to know how come mutt is so fast, take a > look at the source. Just to mention one optimisation I wo

Re: Perl scripts: line by line parsing vs accumulating (was: the correct way to read a big directory? Mutt?)

2015-05-24 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2015-05-25 03:22:36 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > One can do better. The code I used in the second test was: > > $header =~ /^\S+:/ || $header =~ /^From / or die; > $header =~ /\n[^:\s]+\s/ and die; > $header =~ /^Message-ID:.*^Message-ID:/ims and die; > $header =~ /^Message-I

Re: Laptops, UEFI, Secure Boot and Debian

2015-05-24 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20150524_1739-0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > On Sun, 24 May 2015, Petter Adsen wrote: > > > On Sat, 23 May 2015 12:46:10 -0700 > > Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > > > On Sat, 23 May 2015, Petter Adsen wrote: > > > > > > > On Sat, 23 May 2015 09:04:55 -0700 > > > > Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > > >

Re: Danger of stray : in PATH, Re: Problem Running Application with Alias

2015-05-24 Thread Bob Proulx
David Wright wrote: > Quoting Petter Adsen: > > PS: What _are_ the security implications of having a PATH set to > > "/foo/bar:"? >... > $ cd /home/evilperson/malicious-programs/ > $ emaca (oops, I mistyped emacs. Funny, why are my files disappearing?) > (oh dear, their file "emac

Re: Laptops, UEFI, Secure Boot and Debian

2015-05-24 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Sun, 24 May 2015, Paul E Condon wrote: > > [BIG snip] > Two comments: > > 1) I saw a few days ago, an NewEgg.com advert. for a specialized > HD/SSD combo. from Western Digital. It is a drop-in replacement for a > SATA HD that combines in the same SATA physical outline, a 120GB SSD > and a 1TB

Re: mixer.app ; how do i use it after installing it with aptitude?

2015-05-24 Thread Seeker
On 5/24/2015 1:46 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: I found a .deb package, named 'mixer.app' by accident in aptitude interactive mode. My current sound mixer is the one installed by xfce, which uses much to much area on my display screen for my taste. (about 20%) I think I need to learn how to create

Re: mixer.app ; how do i use it after installing it with aptitude?

2015-05-24 Thread Seeker
On 5/24/2015 1:46 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: I think I need to learn how to create a 'launcher', which is something I have never done. Where can I find instructions for creating a launcher specific to xfce? Didn't think of it in my last post, but the site with the info about '.desktop' files

Re: VoIP in jessie

2015-05-24 Thread Ric Moore
On 05/24/2015 05:46 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Sunday 24 May 2015 17:48:54 pe...@easthope.ca wrote: pulseaudio which appears to be the culprit breaking audio in jessie. I have it working perfectly. Ref. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=487719 That seems to be all about alsa,

Re: test if fan is working

2015-05-24 Thread briand
On Sat, 23 May 2015 13:01:54 -0700 Anil Duggirala wrote: > hello, > How can I test if my fan is working in Debian?, thanks, > > you might want to try booting into the bios (F2 or DEL or something on boot). often the bios will have an rpm reading on any fans present. Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: mixer.app ; how do i use it after installing it with aptitude?

2015-05-24 Thread Ric Moore
On 05/25/2015 01:08 AM, Seeker wrote: On 5/24/2015 1:46 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: I think I need to learn how to create a 'launcher', which is something I have never done. Where can I find instructions for creating a launcher specific to xfce? Didn't think of it in my last post, but the sit