Re: Using 2nd monitor with Stretch and MATE desktop

2017-05-10 Thread Felix Miata
Johann Spies composed on 2017-05-10 08:15 (UTC+0200): > Felix Miata wrote: >> After an xrandr man page refresh, using the following in a startup script: ... >> xrandr --fb 1920x1200 >> xrandr --dpi 120 --output DVI-I-1 --mode 1920x1200 >> xrandr --output VGA-1 --pos 0x0 --

Re: Segmentation fault in top -b1 -hc

2017-05-10 Thread Curt
On 2017-05-09, Bob McGowan wrote: >> > I just tried the OP's command line and got the following error: > > $ top -b1 -hc > procps-ng 3.3.12 > Usage: > top -hv | -bcHiOSs -d secs -n max -u|U user -p pid(s) -o field -w [cols] > > I can say with assurance that I have not manually installed anythi

Re: How stable is the frozen stretch?

2017-05-10 Thread songbird
RavenLX wrote: > My system is used for work (I work from home exclusively) and stuff I do > sometimes can be mission-critical in that if I'm notified, I might have > to go and do some work right away on something important. Customers > would be relying on my ability to fix things. So, I really c

Re: an fstab question

2017-05-10 Thread Martin McCormick
Ben Caradoc-Davies writes: > Martin, please show us the failing line. noatime works fine for me in > fstab Thank you. Your example reminded me of the error of my ways or rather syntax. The , was missing in the following line: UUID=[] / noatime,errors=remount-ro

Re: Using 2nd monitor with Stretch and MATE desktop

2017-05-10 Thread Richard Owlett
On 05/09/2017 11:49 AM, Julian Rüger wrote: On a closer look, kmag seems much more intuitive than xzoom. The other instructions still work, just replace xzoom with kmag. In step 9, click the "Mouse" button in kmag's toolbar, to make it follow your mouse cursor. Does that work for you? I did

Re: How stable is the frozen stretch?

2017-05-10 Thread Michael Milliman
On 05/10/2017 06:57 AM, songbird wrote: [...] > if you wanted to you could have one partition for > booting the stable distribution and only update that > when you have a good time for that. > > the thing with these setups is that in Debian you > don't have to get automatic updates if you don'

Re: Using 2nd monitor with Stretch and MATE desktop

2017-05-10 Thread Richard Owlett
On 05/10/2017 01:15 AM, Johann Spies wrote: arandr is a graphical frontend to xrandr. Having started to read the man page for xrandr I launched arandr. A few minutes of experimentation got me a quite usable interim solution to an immediate problem - legibly displaying mariadb documentation.

Re: bleeding-edge MATE

2017-05-10 Thread songbird
David Griffith wrote: > > I've installed MATE 1.18 into /usr/local/ and added > /usr/local/share/xsessions to the sessions-director path in > /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf. At the Lightdm login screen, I can now select > MATE for my desktop environment, but on logging in, MATE won't start. > What'

Strange clicking noise from my laptop hard drive

2017-05-10 Thread Philip Ashmore
Hi there. I managed to record it using my laptops built-in microphone. To those who would prefer a description: It starts fast and slows down. I opened the file with Audacity and determined the intervals to be 0.1, 0.3, 0.6, 10, 15 seconds, then it repeats. It sounds like some kind of protoc

Re: Strange clicking noise from my laptop hard drive

2017-05-10 Thread Jhoanir Torres
I think your disk is broken. On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 2:32 PM, Philip Ashmore wrote: > Hi there. > > I managed to record it using my laptops built-in microphone. > > To those who would prefer a description: > It starts fast and slows down. I opened the file with Audacity and > determined the in

Re: Strange clicking noise from my laptop hard drive

2017-05-10 Thread Bob Weber
On 5/10/17 3:32 PM, Philip Ashmore wrote: > Hi there. > > I managed to record it using my laptops built-in microphone. > > To those who would prefer a description: > It starts fast and slows down. I opened the file with Audacity and determined > the intervals to be 0.1, 0.3, 0.6, 10, 15 seconds, th

Re: Strange clicking noise from my laptop hard drive

2017-05-10 Thread Sven Hartge
Bob Weber wrote: > To attempt a repair I would boot the SystemRescueCd and run the > command 'badblocks -svn /dev/sdx'. That is a non destructive read > then write test and would try to read the bad blocks and if successful > then write them back giving the drive a chance to relocate the bad >

Re: How stable is the frozen stretch?

2017-05-10 Thread Fungi4All
From: rave...@sitesplace.net >My system is used for work (I work from home exclusively) and stuff I do >sometimes can be mission-critical in that if I'm notified, I might have >to go and do some work right away on something important. Customers >would be relying on my ability to fix things. So, I

Re: UEFI + Raid

2017-05-10 Thread Sam Smith
On 05/09/2017 05:44 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 09/05/2017 à 01:48, Sam Smith a écrit : I have installed Debian Stretch on my first system using UEFI. I used a two disk Raid 1 + LVM configured during install time to mount / on (among other things). But now I need to figure out how to add red

Re: Encrypted RAID1 for storage with Debian Jessie

2017-05-10 Thread commentsabout
Hello, On 2017-04-19 09:11, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: System on usb flash disks always caused me troubles, I use it only if the system can be loaded in ram at boot time and the drive isn't used for write operation. A low-end small SSD would be a far better option in my opinion. Thanks fo

ANN: lynx2.8.9dev.14

2017-05-10 Thread Karen Lewellen
Sharing as there are debian references. Karen On Thu, 11 May 2017, Thomas Dickey wrote: Files: ftp://invisible-island.net/lynx/patches/lynx2.8.9dev.14.patch.gz ftp://invisible-island.net/lynx/patches/lynx2.8.9dev.14.patch.gz.asc ftp://invisible-island.net/lynx/tarballs/l

Re: UEFI + Raid

2017-05-10 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 11/05/2017 à 00:53, Sam Smith a écrit : On 05/09/2017 05:44 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Or use grub-install with --removable and --efi-directory for each disk. Or use grub-install with --efi-directory and --bootloader-id to install a copy of GRUB wherever you want and add an EFI boot entry fo