Re: Using vlc to Transcode mpeg2 File to mp4

2016-02-10 Thread jdd
Le 09/02/2016 23:34, Martin McCormick a écrit : I have been pounding my head against this wall for a couple of days. I tried to answer from my android phone, but I don't see my message, forgive me if this is a duplicate (I'm now at home) the best mp4 converter is handbrake and it hav

Re: PowerTop on Debian Stretch

2016-02-10 Thread Dwijesh Gajadur
I used PowerTop on Ubuntu 15.10. I found that Ubuntu 15.10 uses PowerTop 2.7. However Debian Stretch uses PowerTop 2.8. And it seems that the bug is in the 2.8 version. I tried to downgrade PowerTop and installed the 2.7 version on Debian. But now I am getting another error line: *** Error in `po

Re: Using vlc to Transcode mpeg2 File to mp4

2016-02-10 Thread Martin McCormick
jdd writes: > I tried to answer from my android phone, but I don't see my message, > forgive me if this is a duplicate (I'm now at home) > > > the best mp4 converter is handbrake and it have GUI and CLI First, thanks to all who responded. I did receive a reply from jdd . It was addresse

Re: Using vlc to Transcode mpeg2 File to mp4

2016-02-10 Thread jdd
Le 10/02/2016 14:32, Martin McCormick a écrit : Unless something totally unexpected happens, handbreakcli will be the tool of choice. this script is the one I use, and it's able to produce html5/mp4 good quality video, readable approximately with every browser (not always with firefox) #!

Re: bad sectors on disk

2016-02-10 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Hello Thomas, On Tue, 2016-02-09 at 12:53 +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote: >  > > Linux pi 4.1.16-v7+ #833 SMP Wed Jan 27 14:32:22 GMT 2016 armv7l > GNU/Linux > > The source code where i find the message text in my Sid kernel > is not depending on the CPU architecture. So it is supposed to be > in ef

Re: bad sectors on disk

2016-02-10 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > I've seen the same message again, today. but at different locations. > [...] there are no other message about any sense code. One point for the theory of volatile bus problems. The disk itself seems happy. Maybe its bus controller is not. Did i already mention that

Re: PowerTop on Debian Stretch

2016-02-10 Thread Adam Wilson
On Wed, 10 Feb 2016 13:11:43 +0400 Dwijesh Gajadur wrote: > I used PowerTop on Ubuntu 15.10. I found that Ubuntu 15.10 uses > PowerTop 2.7. However Debian Stretch uses PowerTop 2.8. And it seems > that the bug is in the 2.8 version. > > I tried to downgrade PowerTop and installed the 2.7 version

Re: PowerTop on Debian Stretch

2016-02-10 Thread Richard Owlett
On 2/10/2016 9:21 AM, Adam Wilson wrote: On Wed, 10 Feb 2016 13:11:43 +0400 Dwijesh Gajadur wrote: I used PowerTop on Ubuntu 15.10. I found that Ubuntu 15.10 uses PowerTop 2.7. However Debian Stretch uses PowerTop 2.8. And it seems that the bug is in the 2.8 version. I tried to downgrade Powe

permanent disabling of Wireless-N for Thinkpad

2016-02-10 Thread Haines Brown
I'm running Jessie on a x250 Thinkpad and encountered the common problem of its dropping its wifi connection. The fix was to disable the Wireless-N function of the iwlwifi module when I load it. I want to make this permanent, which I gather can be done by placing the line 11n_disable=1 into /etc/m

Re: PowerTop on Debian Stretch

2016-02-10 Thread arian
Hi, On 10.02.2016 10:11, Dwijesh Gajadur wrote: > I used PowerTop on Ubuntu 15.10. I found that Ubuntu 15.10 uses PowerTop 2.7. > However Debian Stretch uses PowerTop 2.8. And it seems that the bug is in the > 2.8 version. > > I tried to downgrade PowerTop and installed the 2.7 version on Debia

Re: permanent disabling of Wireless-N for Thinkpad

2016-02-10 Thread arian
> I want to make this permanent, which I gather can be done by placing the > line 11n_disable=1 into /etc/modprobe.d/wireless.conf. However, such a > file does not appear in my Jessie. Can it be created and simply hold the > line above? yes, create it; modprobe will consider all files in /etc/mo

Re: permanent disabling of Wireless-N for Thinkpad

2016-02-10 Thread Haines Brown
On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 05:39:54PM +0100, arian wrote: > > > I want to make this permanent, which I gather can be done by placing the > > line 11n_disable=1 into /etc/modprobe.d/wireless.conf. However, such a > > file does not appear in my Jessie. Can it be created and simply hold the > > line abo

RE: PowerTop on Debian Stretch

2016-02-10 Thread Yates, Alexandra
Have you reported the error on the PowerTOP mailing list? If not please do http://01.org/powertop There are all the instruction on how to join the mailing list and contribute in case you have a fix for the error you experienced. BTW what platform are you running? What devices are hindering t

Re: Welcome to emergency mode!

2016-02-10 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Tue, Feb 09, 2016 at 04:28:16PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Bob Holtzman writes: > > Read the first line of my post. > > You wrote: > > As root journalctl produces a long list > > Which we, of course, read as "When I run the command journalctl as root > it produces a long list". > > Then you

Re: PowerTop on Debian Stretch

2016-02-10 Thread David Wright
On Wed 10 Feb 2016 at 11:32:48 (+0530), Jos Collin wrote: > Hi, I'm not answering your question. But my suggestion is: don't bother about > your battery life. Because even if you get 10 hours now, it is going to reduce > slowly and reach 30 mins or 10 mins with in a few years. Then you have to > re

Re: Welcome to emergency mode!

2016-02-10 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Tue, Feb 09, 2016 at 10:54:30PM +, Brian wrote: > On Tue 09 Feb 2016 at 14:50:40 -0700, Bob Holtzman wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 08, 2016 at 05:52:27PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > > > Bob Holtzman writes: > > > > As root journalctl produces a long list, tail journalctl produces > > > > > > >

Re: Welcome to emergency mode!

2016-02-10 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Tue, Feb 09, 2016 at 04:01:12PM -0600, Dutch Ingraham wrote: > On Tue, Feb 09, 2016 at 02:49:20PM -0700, Bob Holtzman wrote: > > > > > > > >As root journalctl produces a long list, tail journalctl produces > > > > > > > >"tail: cannot open ‘journalctl’ for reading: No such file or directory". >

Re: Welcome to emergency mode!

2016-02-10 Thread David Wright
On Wed 10 Feb 2016 at 12:41:21 (-0700), Bob Holtzman wrote: > On Tue, Feb 09, 2016 at 10:54:30PM +, Brian wrote: > > On Tue 09 Feb 2016 at 14:50:40 -0700, Bob Holtzman wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Feb 08, 2016 at 05:52:27PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > > > > Bob Holtzman writes: > > > > > As root j

Re: permanent disabling of Wireless-N for Thinkpad

2016-02-10 Thread Reco
Hi. On Wed, 10 Feb 2016 13:09:12 -0500 Haines Brown wrote: > On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 05:39:54PM +0100, arian wrote: > > > > > I want to make this permanent, which I gather can be done by placing the > > > line 11n_disable=1 into /etc/modprobe.d/wireless.conf. However, such a > > > file

disk space disappeared

2016-02-10 Thread Gary Dale
I have a Jessie/64 server that seems to have lost a lot of disk space. It boots from a 55G SSD (mounted as /) with a RAID6 array for /home. df shows that the SSD is full but I can't find out where the space has gone. When I add up all the space in the various directories off /, they don't come

Re: disk space disappeared

2016-02-10 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Gary Dale a écrit : > I have a Jessie/64 server that seems to have lost a lot of disk space. > It boots from a 55G SSD (mounted as /) with a RAID6 array for /home. df > shows that the SSD is full but I can't find out where the space has > gone. When I add up all the space in the various director

I need help

2016-02-10 Thread Ghaith Etaiwi
Hello, I'm starting in linux I used Ubuntu and didn't like it and I have read that many people that used Debian had a better experience, I have a MacBook Pro 4GB ram/ 500HDD/Intel HD 3000/ i5 2nd generation, can it run Debian?. Also, I want to know what version of Debian to download, I saw somethin

Re: [computers] bad sectors on disk

2016-02-10 Thread TWS Admin
Please remove julius.robe...@wildernes.org.au from this list, he's no longer working with us. thanks, the Wilderness society On 9 February 2016 at 19:57, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > Hello, > > On my RPi2, I saw the following reported by my kernel. > > [156278.815976] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] UNKNOWN(0

Re: [computers] bad sectors on disk

2016-02-10 Thread Joseph Loo
On 02/10/2016 07:35 PM, TWS Admin wrote: > Please remove julius.robe...@wildernes.org.au > from this list, he's no longer > working with us. > > thanks, > > the Wilderness society > > On 9 February 2016 at 19:57, Ritesh Raj Sarraf

disk space disappeared

2016-02-10 Thread Gary Dale
I have a Jessie/64 server that seems to have lost a lot of disk space. It boots from a 55G SSD (mounted as /) with a RAID6 array for /home. df shows that the SSD is full but I can't find out where the space has gone. When I add up all the space in the various directories off /, they don't come

Re: Problems with VLC in jessie

2016-02-10 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Mon, 08 Feb 2016 19:10:01 +0100 "Juan R. de Silva" wrote: > > If that does not help, please share the output of vlc -vvv. > > Well, I did... You might as well try this: $ vlc --reset-config -- CK

Good keyboard

2016-02-10 Thread David Niklas
Hello, If I'm remembering rightly, a while back (months), there was a discussion about keyboards. I noticed this one and wanted to know if it looks good and is worth $220 (the average BK goes for $100, so you can imagine my surprise), I'm uncertain. I'm I know that this might be an opinion matter.

Re: PowerTop on Debian Stretch

2016-02-10 Thread Dwijesh Gajadur
Guys, I am glad to tell you that my problem has been solved. The problem was actually with my AMD GPU. *Thank you Arian*, for driving my attention on the GPU. I followed the instructions on https://wiki.debian.org/AtiHowTo#Debian_Stretch_.28testing.29 and installed the missing firmwares and package

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2016-02-10 Thread Payal
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Re: Good keyboard

2016-02-10 Thread rlharris
On Wed, February 10, 2016 11:00 pm, David Niklas wrote: > If I'm remembering rightly, a while back (months), there was a > discussion about keyboards. I noticed this one and wanted to know if it > > https://www.crowdsupply.com/ugl/ultimate-hacking-keyboard To add a bit of perspective, can you visu

Re: I need help

2016-02-10 Thread Steve Witt
On Thu, 11 Feb 2016, Ghaith Etaiwi wrote: Hello, I'm starting in linux I used Ubuntu and didn't like it and I have read that many people that used Debian had a better experience, I have a MacBook Pro 4GB ram/ 500HDD/Intel HD 3000/ i5 2nd generation, can it run Debian?. Also, I want to know what