Re: Testing/Unstable Synaptic broken again.

On Sat, 17 Sep 2016 15:41:30 -0700 Jimmy Johnson wrote: > On 09/15/2016 09:58 AM, Joe wrote: > >> > > > > Synaptic still broken on Sid for me, fully upgraded except for a few > > packages which won't. > > Hi Joe, why not use both testing and sid repos and get a full > upgrade, both my Sid s

Re: Boot Debian via PXE without Internet connection

Hi all, I solved the issue by adding d-i debian-installer/allow_unauthenticated string true to the preseed file. best, Valerio Il 18/09/2016 02:03, Valerio ha scritto: > Hi, > > thanks for your feedback. > I managed to successfully to boot the .iso via memdisk but now the > problem is that i

Re: Sound on Jessie

On Sat 17 Sep 2016 at 20:10:15 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > Lisi Reisz composed on 2016-09-17 11:56 (UTC+0100): > > >Alan McConnell wrote: > > >>Alas for the days of wheezy, when everything _worked_!! > > >Wheezy is LTS (though admittedly more successfully for servers), so if > >everything Just

Re: Very hard to find MD5 checksum of Debian CDs!

On Sunday 18 September 2016 02:05:42 Shervin Emami wrote: > At "www.debian.org" I clicked on "Getting Debian", and then to get a net > install image there are 3 different pages that all have direct links to the > ISO files, but no link at all about how to get the MD5sums. Even the Verify > page doe

Re: Sound on Jessie

On Sunday 18 September 2016 11:13:03 Brian wrote: > > Lisi Reisz composed on 2016-09-17 11:56 (UTC+0100): > > >Alan McConnell wrote: > > >>Alas for the days of wheezy, when everything _worked_!! > > > > > >Wheezy is LTS (though admittedly more successfully for servers), so if > > >everything Just W

Re: Sound on jessie

On 2016-09-17, deloptes wrote: > Lisi Reisz wrote: > >> He keeps saying that he is using Jessie.  Why do you think he is using >> Ubuntu? > Sorry I seem to have misread something. > Easy to do in these protracted, tangential, niggling threads that devolve into acrimony and invidiousness before ex

Re: Sound on jessie

- Original Message - From: "Lisi Reisz" To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2016 5:56:13 PM Subject: Re: Sound on jessie On Saturday 17 September 2016 14:43:04 Alan McConnell wrote: > Alas for the days of wheezy, when everything _worked_!! Wheezy is LTS (thou

Re: xaralx package

On 15 September 2016 at 19:23, Michael Fothergill < michael.fotherg...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On 15 Sep 2016 19:08, "Frank" wrote: > > > > Op 15-09-16 om 19:32 schreef Michael Fothergill: > >> > >> On 15 Sep 2016 18:17, "Frank" wrote: > >>> > >>> That's 'only' from March 2014. Haven't tried wo

random I/O errors

Yesterday I was getting random I/O errors for stuff as simple as clear (to clear a terminal), and I got one for halt, even (I manually shut the machine off, and rebooted) haven't seen the problem since then but things are sluggish and weird. Is this a warning I should heed? This is on a brand n

Re: xaralx package

Op 18-09-16 om 16:16 schreef Michael Fothergill: I tried using gdebi to install xaralx deb file. The error I get seems to suggest I need a newer version of the libjpeg package than I currently have.. See here:​ root@rhinoceros:/home/mikef/Documents/xaralx# gdebi xaralx_0.7r1785-7_amd64.deb

Re: Bluetooth: impossible to send files from phone to computer

2016-09-13 23:21 GMT+02:00 deloptes : > Frédéric Mesplède wrote: > >> I do not know how I am supposed to connect the phone to my computer... >> When I use gnome tool [ http://i66.tinypic.com/2912n89.png ] the >> switch instantly comes back to off position and I cannot turn it on... > > Use bluetoot

Re: How to permanently change default sound input source?

2016-09-05 21:21 GMT+02:00 didier gaumet : > > 1) pacmd modifies only a running instance of pulseaudio: all is lost > when pulseaudio stops > 2) to alter permanently the default source input in pulseaudio, you may > edit your client config' file (cf man pulse-client.conf) > 3) mate-media depends ei

Re: Very hard to find MD5 checksum of Debian CDs!

On Sun, 18 Sep 2016, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Sunday 18 September 2016 02:05:42 Shervin Emami wrote: At "www.debian.org" I clicked on "Getting Debian", and then to get a net install image there are 3 different pages that all have direct links to the ISO files, but no link at all about how to get th

Re: Very hard to find MD5 checksum of Debian CDs!

Clarifying edits ("link" => "link's url") in square brackets, below. On Sun, 18 Sep 2016, david...@freevolt.org meant to write: 3. What web browser does not enable editing the current link['s url]? In firefox, one can right-click on a link, select "Copy link location" from a menu, and then past

Re: Sound on Jessie

On Sun 18 Sep 2016 at 12:55:13 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Sunday 18 September 2016 11:13:03 Brian wrote: > > > Lisi Reisz composed on 2016-09-17 11:56 (UTC+0100): > > > >Alan McConnell wrote: > > > >>Alas for the days of wheezy, when everything _worked_!! > > > > > > > >Wheezy is LTS (though ad

Sane issue

Hi, I've sane installed and running. Sane-find-scanner and scanimage -L detect my scanner, and the test works fine. But when I launch xsane they say that can't find any device. With simple-scan I have the same problem. Any idea?? Thanks.

Re: Sane issue

On Sun 18 Sep 2016 at 19:31:48 +0200, David Rotger wrote: > I've sane installed and running. Sane-find-scanner and scanimage -L detect > my scanner, That's good. Would you post the output of both these commands and also say what scanner (or multi-functional device) you have. > and th

Re: Very hard to find MD5 checksum of Debian CDs!

On 9/18/2016 12:18 PM, david...@freevolt.org wrote: On Sun, 18 Sep 2016, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Sunday 18 September 2016 02:05:42 Shervin Emami wrote: At "www.debian.org" I clicked on "Getting Debian", and then to get a net install image there are 3 different pages that all have direct links to

Re: Very hard to find MD5 checksum of Debian CDs!

TLDR: links to pertinent bug reports: #381555 - http://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/ : add link to iso md5 cheksum bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=381555 #640054 - Download pages should have prominent links to image verification instructions bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=64

Re: Very hard to find MD5 checksum of Debian CDs!

On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 01:43:26PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 9/18/2016 12:18 PM, david...@freevolt.org wrote: > >On Sun, 18 Sep 2016, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > >>On Sunday 18 September 2016 02:05:42 Shervin Emami wrote: > >>>At "www.debian.org" I clicked on "Getting Debian", and then to > >>>

Replaygain, alternatives to Easymp3gain-gtk/-qt.

Initially looked into the replaygain stuff in 2008. Don't remember what all was available at the time. Remember that I looked into Sounkoverter and easymp3gain-gtk. More recently have preferred easymp3gain-qt. I'm running unstable, investigating why esaymp3gain-gtk/-qt are showing up in the ob

Re: Very hard to find MD5 checksum of Debian CDs!

On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 07:26:59PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > May I suggest lmgtfy.com ? [Other, equally good and useful search > engines are also available at other web locations.] > > "Debian CD md5 sum" gives you these as the first two links if you > look for them. OP is not complaining

problem mouse copy/past from PDF

I've begun to experience problems using the mouse to select a passage in a PDF displayed with xpdf 3.03-10 in order to paste it elsewhere. The ends of lines are truncated to varying degrees. For example in a PDF with this: 123456789 123456789 1234567 The past might look like 12345678

cant get to desktop anymore

hello i installed debian 8 and i cant get into my desktop..why plz help roberto 438 881 9269 all i get is ablack scren even recory mode doesnt help

Re: Very hard to find MD5 checksum of Debian CDs!

On Sun, 18 Sep 2016, Richard Owlett wrote: On 9/18/2016 12:18 PM, david...@freevolt.org wrote: On Sun, 18 Sep 2016, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Sunday 18 September 2016 02:05:42 Shervin Emami wrote: At "www.debian.org" I clicked on "Getting Debian", and then to get a net install image there are 3 di

Re: Very hard to find MD5 checksum of Debian CDs!

On Sunday 18 September 2016 19:43:26 Richard Owlett wrote: > On 9/18/2016 12:18 PM, david...@freevolt.org wrote: > > On Sun, 18 Sep 2016, Lisi Reisz wrote: > >> On Sunday 18 September 2016 02:05:42 Shervin Emami wrote: > >>> At "www.debian.org" I clicked on "Getting Debian", and then to > >>> get a

SOLVED: Re: Bluetooth: impossible to send files from phone to computer

On Sunday 18 September 2016 17:05:41 Frédéric Mesplède wrote: > 2016-09-13 23:21 GMT+02:00 deloptes : > > Frédéric Mesplède wrote: > >> I do not know how I am supposed to connect the phone to my computer... > >> When I use gnome tool [ http://i66.tinypic.com/2912n89.png ] the > >> switch instantly

Re: Sane issue

On Sunday 18 September 2016 19:18:33 Brian wrote: > On Sun 18 Sep 2016 at 19:31:48 +0200, David Rotger wrote: > > I've sane installed and running. Sane-find-scanner and scanimage -L > > detect my scanner, > > That's good. Would you post the output of both these commands and also > say what scanner

Re: cant get to desktop anymore

On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 3:28 PM, bell canada wrote: > hello i installed debian 8 and i cant get into my desktop..why plz help > > roberto > 438 881 9269 > all i get is ablack scren > even recory mode doesnt help > Do you get to a login prompt at all (graphical or text-based)? What happens if yo

Laserjet p1109w - anyone got it working?

My dear old Laserjet 5N finally having died, I bought an HP Laserjet P1109w to replace it. I have managed to install it to the extent that it's recognised (USB connection, not wireless) but the problem is that it apparently needs a *proprietary* plug-in to print properly. I have H-Ps installer,

page RELOAD by Firefox

My limited G4 data allocation is being depleted much too rapidly for my budget. I suspect that the culprit is the web page of a personal weather station (PWS) in which page measurements are updated every ten minutes. I keep a Firefox window open to monitor the web page. I do not understand the m

Re: Laserjet p1109w - anyone got it working?

On Sun, September 18, 2016 5:10 pm, brian wrote: > My dear old Laserjet 5N finally having died, I bought an HP Laserjet > P1109w to replace it. I have managed to install it to the extent that > it's recognised (USB connection, not wireless) but the problem is that it > apparently needs a *proprieta

Re: page RELOAD by Firefox

On Sep 18, 2016 18:22, wrote: > > My limited G4 data allocation is being depleted much too rapidly for my > budget. I suspect that the culprit is the web page of a personal weather > station (PWS) in which page measurements are updated every ten minutes. I > keep a Firefox window open to monitor

Re: Laserjet p1109w - anyone got it working?

On Sun, 18 Sep 2016 17:30:01 -0500, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: >On Sun, September 18, 2016 5:10 pm, brian wrote: >> My dear old Laserjet 5N finally having died, I bought an HP Laserjet >> P1109w to replace it. I have managed to install it to the extent that >> it's recognised (USB connection, not

Re: Laserjet p1109w - anyone got it working?

On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 06:10:39PM -0400, brian wrote: > Anybody got any ideas before I package the printer up and send it back > to Amazon to exchange it for another brand? I'm using 64-bit testing, > should anyone feel that makes a difference. I'm not a Luddite, but if you still can, I'd ship i

Re: Laserjet p1109w - anyone got it working?

On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 06:58:53PM -0400, brian wrote: > On Sun, 18 Sep 2016 17:30:01 -0500, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > > >On Sun, September 18, 2016 5:10 pm, brian wrote: > >> My dear old Laserjet 5N finally having died, I bought an HP Laserjet > >> P1109w to replace it. I have managed to insta

Re: Laserjet p1109w - anyone got it working?

On 09/18/2016 06:10 PM, brian wrote: My dear old Laserjet 5N finally having died, I bought an HP Laserjet P1109w to replace it. I have managed to install it to the extent that it's recognised (USB connection, not wireless) but the problem is that it apparently needs a *proprietary* plug-in to pri

Re: page RELOAD by Firefox

On Sun, 18 Sep 2016 17:21:57 -0500 rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > My limited G4 data allocation is being depleted much too rapidly for my > budget. I suspect that the culprit is the web page of a personal weather > station (PWS) in which page measurements are updated every ten minutes. I > keep a

Re: cant get to desktop anymore

On 09/18/2016 06:00 PM, Kent West wrote: On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 3:28 PM, bell canada mailto:bellcanada...@gmail.com>> wrote: hello i installed debian 8 and i cant get into my desktop..why plz help roberto 438 881 9269 all i get is ablack scren even recory mode doesnt help

Re: page RELOAD by Firefox

On 9/18/2016 3:21 PM, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: My limited G4 data allocation is being depleted much too rapidly for my budget. I suspect that the culprit is the web page of a personal weather station (PWS) in which page measurements are updated every ten minutes. I keep a Firefox window ope

Re: page RELOAD by Firefox

On 19/09/16 10:21, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: Is there a way to keep Firefox from automatically reloading this particular web page? Or am I misunderstanding what is happening here? Some pages are automatically reloaded with the HTML meta refresh tag: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_refresh

Re: cant get to desktop anymore

On Sun, 18 Sep 2016 19:57:58 -0400 Ric Moore wrote: > On 09/18/2016 06:00 PM, Kent West wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 3:28 PM, bell canada > > wrote: > > > > hello i installed debian 8 and i cant get into my desktop..why plz help > > > > roberto > >

Rebuilding Debian package from source

I'm trying to rebuild the nginx-extras package from Jessie and I'm running into an error when I run debuild. I want to add a module to Nginx. I've just been following this to rebuild the package: https://raphaelhertzog.com/2010/12/15/howto-to-rebuild-debian-packages/ Here is what I've done: 1

Re: cant get to desktop anymore

On 18/09/16 07:57 PM, Ric Moore wrote: On 09/18/2016 06:00 PM, Kent West wrote: On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 3:28 PM, bell canada mailto:bellcanada...@gmail.com>> wrote: hello i installed debian 8 and i cant get into my desktop..why plz help roberto 438 881 9269 all i get is ablack

Re: page RELOAD by Firefox

On Sun, September 18, 2016 7:10 pm, Seeker wrote: > Is this web page on the PWS or out on the internet? > Is the PWS using the same data connection you are using to access the > web page? Is there advertising on this page? > If you do not leave the page open in a tab, does your data allocation > st

Re: Laserjet p1109w - anyone got it working?

brian wrote: > My dear old Laserjet 5N finally having died, I bought an HP Laserjet > P1109w to replace it. I have managed to install it to the extent that > it's recognised (USB connection, not wireless) but the problem is that > it apparently needs a proprietary plug-in to print properly. No id

Re: Laserjet p1109w - anyone got it working?

On Sunday 18 September 2016 23:30:01 rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > On Sun, September 18, 2016 5:10 pm, brian wrote: > > My dear old Laserjet 5N finally having died, I bought an HP Laserjet > > P1109w to replace it. I have managed to install it to the extent that > > it's recognised (USB connection,