Re: Setup Grub-Legacy on Jessie

2017-07-22 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 21/07/2017 à 04:11, Felix Miata a écrit : Pascal Hambourg composed on 2017-07-20 23:40 (UTC+0200): Felix Miata composed: Grub Legacy requires no scripts or filesystem mounting to setup, and its menu.lst is magnitudes easier than Grub2's grub.cfg to manually maintain. This is your opini

Re: Setup Grub-Legacy on Jessie

2017-07-22 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 21/07/2017 à 08:34, Felix Miata a écrit : To be clear, in MBR systems I only ever install DOS or OS/2 on a primary partition. All other OS go on logicals. Except for one ancient PC that has only WinXP on it (which I did not install), at least one primary is always EXT2 with Grub Legacy and li

Re: Can "PulseAudio Volume Control" devs be redeemed?

2017-07-22 Thread Curt
On 2017-07-22, Ric Moore wrote: > On 07/22/2017 12:51 AM, Erik Christiansen wrote: > >> There is no rational explanation for failing to make all 5 tabs visible. > > No idea what your problem is, I have always been able to see the tabs. Ric > Me neither. I've got all five. Ordinary display size he

Re: More Pulseaudio Issues

2017-07-22 Thread Curt
On 2017-07-22, michael.e.milli...@gmail.com wrote: > This is a revisit of previous threads dealing with pulseaudio and > bluetooth devices. This problem is that there are two instances of the > pulseaudio daemon running on the system. One for user Debian-gdm and > the other for the local user.

Re: Can "PulseAudio Volume Control" devs be redeemed?

2017-07-22 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 22.07.17 09:36, Curt wrote: > On 2017-07-22, Ric Moore wrote: > > On 07/22/2017 12:51 AM, Erik Christiansen wrote: > > > >> There is no rational explanation for failing to make all 5 tabs visible. > > > > No idea what your problem is, I have always been able to see the tabs. Ric > > > > Me nei

Re: Free software

2017-07-22 Thread rhkramer
On Friday, July 21, 2017 11:49:04 PM Gene Heskett wrote: > Not hardly, the vesa standard, and the cards that support it cannot do > more that 15 frames a second, at nowhere near the resolution we need, > which these days is 1920P @ 60 fps. You can buy $90 monitors at wallies > that can do that toda

Re: Can "PulseAudio Volume Control" devs be redeemed?

2017-07-22 Thread Curt
On 2017-07-22, Erik Christiansen wrote: > On 22.07.17 09:36, Curt wrote: >> On 2017-07-22, Ric Moore wrote: >> > On 07/22/2017 12:51 AM, Erik Christiansen wrote: >> > >> >> There is no rational explanation for failing to make all 5 tabs visible. >> > >> > No idea what your problem is, I have alwa

Re: Can "PulseAudio Volume Control" devs be redeemed?

2017-07-22 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Erik Christiansen writes: > Aha, if the "PulseAudio Volume Control" window is manually widened, the > suppressed tabs become visible. Is it then the Debian 9.0.0 distro-smiths > who have set too small a window size in their LXDE menu item invocation? It seems to remember what size it was last star

Re: Can "PulseAudio Volume Control" devs be redeemed?

2017-07-22 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 22.07.17 13:47, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > Erik Christiansen writes: > > Aha, if the "PulseAudio Volume Control" window is manually widened, the > > suppressed tabs become visible. Is it then the Debian 9.0.0 distro-smiths > > who have set too small a window size in their LXDE menu item invocatio

Re: Free software

2017-07-22 Thread Joe
On Sat, 22 Jul 2017 07:25:27 -0400 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Friday, July 21, 2017 11:49:04 PM Gene Heskett wrote: > > Not hardly, the vesa standard, and the cards that support it cannot > > do more that 15 frames a second, at nowhere near the resolution we > > need, which these days is 1920P

Re: Setup Grub-Legacy on Jessie

2017-07-22 Thread Felix Miata
Pascal Hambourg composed on 2017-07-22 11:03 (UTC+0200): > Felix Miata composed: >> To be clear, in MBR systems I only ever install DOS or OS/2 on a primary >> partition. All other OS go on logicals. Except for one ancient PC that has >> only >> WinXP on it (which I did not install), at least on

Re: cups

2017-07-22 Thread Pol Hallen
Hello and thanks to all :) Impossible to say in your situation without knowing the printer make it's a lexmark e460dn: I tried also ppd from lexmark website and many from foomatic, etc I tried the ppd from a debian stable installation (where there printers runs) but same problem Please post

Samba / Domain Member

2017-07-22 Thread Neo
Hi dear Debian fellows I have some Debian9 machines, which are joined to a W2K8 Windows AD. I can succesfully login/auth to the domain, but it keeps crashing somehow. I see quickly the login msg, but then its crashing me out. There are no references in the logs. As im a bit puzzled about wha

Re: Hibernate in stretch

2017-07-22 Thread solitone
On my previous laptop with jessie hibernation didn't work. On my current laptop with stretch hibernation doesn't work either. During the several updates that interested stretch in the last few months, the symptoms changed, and I don't remember exactly their evolution at the moment. Currently, w

Re: Hibernate in stretch

2017-07-22 Thread solitone
On Thursday, 20 July 2017 02:28:32 CEST behrad eslami wrote: > I increase swap and have same problem yet. Did you increased the swap partition, or are you using a swap file? -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁Sent from my brain using neurons fueled by glucose. ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ ⠈⠳⣄

Re: Free software

2017-07-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 22 July 2017 07:25:27 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Friday, July 21, 2017 11:49:04 PM Gene Heskett wrote: > > Not hardly, the vesa standard, and the cards that support it cannot > > do more that 15 frames a second, at nowhere near the resolution we > > need, which these days is 1920P

Re: Setup Grub-Legacy on Jessie

2017-07-22 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 22/07/2017 à 14:52, Felix Miata a écrit : Pascal Hambourg composed on 2017-07-22 11:03 (UTC+0200): Felix Miata composed: at least one primary is always EXT2 with Grub Legacy and little else, unless the disk is a pure data-only disk, in which case its MBR sector is empty but for the partit

video driver - new thread

2017-07-22 Thread D. R. Evans
As my old thread has been hijacked, I thought that I'd better start a new one. Teemu Likonen wrote on 07/17/2017 03:09 PM: > D. R. Evans [2017-07-17 14:19:32-06] wrote: > >> Beginning a couple of weeks ago, I started to experience occasional freezes >> or >> sudden blank screens on my 64-bit jess

Re: video driver - new thread

2017-07-22 Thread Hans
Maybe try to add a file /etc/X11/xorg.conf (ask google, how it has to look), and in it set the driver "nvidia". Make sure, the nouveau kernel driver is blacklisted. BTW: Is the proprietrary driver compatible with latest xserver-xorg again? Best regards Hans > Thanks to people for their helpfu

Re: video driver - new thread

2017-07-22 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sat, 22 Jul 2017 11:48:42 -0600 "D. R. Evans" wrote: > As my old thread has been hijacked, I thought that I'd better start a new one. > > Teemu Likonen wrote on 07/17/2017 03:09 PM: > > D. R. Evans [2017-07-17 14:19:32-06] wrote: > > > >> Beginning a couple of weeks ago, I starte

Re: video driver - new thread

2017-07-22 Thread D. R. Evans
Reco wrote on 07/22/2017 12:37 PM: > grep -i glx ~/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.[0-9]*.log [HN:~] grep -i glx ~/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.[0-9]*.log grep: /home/n7dr/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.[0-9]*.log: No such file or directory [HN:~] Doc -- Web: http://enginehousebooks.com/drevans signature.asc De

Re: video driver - new thread

2017-07-22 Thread D. R. Evans
Hans wrote on 07/22/2017 11:55 AM: > Maybe try to add a file /etc/X11/xorg.conf (ask google, how it has to look), > and in it set the driver "nvidia". > nvidia-xconfig created such a file, and the driver in it is set to "nvidia", so I think that is indeed the confirmation I was looking for. Tha

Re: video driver - new thread

2017-07-22 Thread Felix Miata
D. R. Evans composed on 2017-07-22 13:06 (UTC-0600): > Reco wrote: >> grep -i glx ~/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.[0-9]*.log > [HN:~] grep -i glx ~/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.[0-9]*.log > grep: /home/n7dr/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.[0-9]*.log: No such file or directory > [HN:~] > I don't know why he suggeste

Re: video driver - new thread

2017-07-22 Thread Curt
On 2017-07-22, Felix Miata wrote: > D. R. Evans composed on 2017-07-22 13:06 (UTC-0600): > >> Reco wrote: > >>> grep -i glx ~/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.[0-9]*.log > >> [HN:~] grep -i glx ~/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.[0-9]*.log >> grep: /home/n7dr/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.[0-9]*.log: No such file or directo

dhclient doesn't send DHCP options

2017-07-22 Thread Joshua Schaeffer
Anybody seen this issue where dhclient does not send the user-class option in it's solicit message. I have a minimal dhclient.conf file and when I start dhclient I can see that option 15 isn't sent: root@blldhcptest01:~# cat /etc/dhcp/dhclient.conf senduser-class"dhcp ser

Re: video driver - new thread

2017-07-22 Thread Felix Miata
Curt composed on 2017-07-22 15:58 (UTC-0400): > Felix Miata wrote: >> D. R. Evans composed on 2017-07-22 13:06 (UTC-0600): >>> Reco wrote: grep -i glx ~/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.[0-9]*.log >>> [HN:~] grep -i glx ~/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.[0-9]*.log >>> grep: /home/n7dr/.local/share/xorg/Xorg

Re: Apt-get Upgrade Problem in Stretch?

2017-07-22 Thread Fungi4All
> From: a...@cityscape.co.uk > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > On Wed 19 Jul 2017 at 18:21:15 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: >> Fungi4All composed on 2017-07-19 17:39 (UTC-0400): >> > > 27 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded. >> > Need to get 68.5 MB of archives.> After this o

Urgent: how to config network in strech

2017-07-22 Thread Long Wind
i have just installed strech network isn't config during installation i used to use "dhclient eth1", it no longer work in strech device name eth1 change to what? how to config network in strech?

Re: Urgent: how to config network in strech

2017-07-22 Thread Felix Miata
Long Wind composed on 2017-07-23 06:11 (UTC+0800): > i have just installed strech > network isn't config during installation > i used to use "dhclient eth1", it no longer work in strech > device name eth1 change to what? > how to config network in strech? You can override the new system of nami

Re: Urgent: how to config network in strech

2017-07-22 Thread Georgi Naplatanov
On 07/23/2017 01:11 AM, Long Wind wrote: > i have just installed strech > network isn't config during installation This is very strange. Is your network interface wireless? Otherwise you can file a bug report against debian installer. > i used to use "dhclient eth1", it no longer work in strech

(solved)Re: Urgent: how to config network in strech

2017-07-22 Thread Long Wind
Thanks! I add a boot option and can use eth1 now

Re: Urgent: how to config network in strech

2017-07-22 Thread Charlie Kravetz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Sun, 23 Jul 2017 06:11:55 +0800 Long Wind wrote: >i have just installed strech >network isn't config during installation >i used to use "dhclient eth1", it no longer work in strech > >device name eth1 change to what? > >how to config network in

why network install so slow?

2017-07-22 Thread Long Wind
I have tried many mirrors some from US, and ftp.au.debian.org and ftp.ca.debian.org and ... all are slow is that because i use device name eth1?? the strange thing is during "apt-get update" all mirrors are quick when I use "apt-get install" all mirrors becomes slow i regret i install stretch (

Re: why network install so slow?

2017-07-22 Thread Felix Miata
Long Wind composed on 2017-07-23 07:18 (UTC+0800): > I have tried many mirrors > some from US, and ftp.au.debian.org and ftp.ca.debian.org and ... Which continent are you on? > all are slow > is that because i use device name eth1?? No. > the strange thing is during "apt-get update" all mirror

Re: why network install so slow?

2017-07-22 Thread Long Wind
i use default fs, ext4, it is fresh install i am in china, asia but this should not be problem i used to use http.us.debian.org it is quick during some part of day to install new distro, i have to find disk space back up files, it isnot easy to create a new partition i am afraid during "apt-get

Re: why network install so slow?

2017-07-22 Thread Doug
On 07/22/2017 08:21 PM, Long Wind wrote: i use default fs, ext4, it is fresh install i am in china, asia but this should not be problem i used to use http.us.debian.org it is quick during some part of day to install new distro, i have to find disk space back up file

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2017-07-22 Thread arshad mahmood
Hi do you know how I can down load debian 6 server is free to download load or will I need to buy it through a vendor regards

Re: debian 6 download)

2017-07-22 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 23/07/17 04:56, arshad mahmood wrote: Hi do you know how I can down load debian 6 server is free to download load or will I need to buy it through a vendor regards Debian 6 (squeeze) images are free to download but have been moved to the archives. Media images are in the cdimage archive

Re: debian 6 download)

2017-07-22 Thread Georgi Naplatanov
On 07/23/2017 05:04 AM, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > On 23/07/17 04:56, arshad mahmood wrote: >> Hi do you know how I can down load debian 6 server is free to download >> load or will I need to buy it through a vendor regards > > Debian 6 (squeeze) images are free to download but have been moved t

Re: (none)

2017-07-22 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
arshad mahmood writes: > Hi do you know how I can down load debian 6 server is free to download > load or will I need to buy it through a vendor regards Is there a particular reason you want to install a version that was released six years ago? If not, I suggest you install Debian 9 (which was

Re: why network install so slow?

2017-07-22 Thread Felix Miata
Long Wind composed on 2017-07-23 09:21 (UTC+0800): > i use default fs, ext4, > it is fresh install There was a thread here, yesterday I think, explaining that a fresh EXT4 partition isn't completely formatted initially, and depends on the CPU finishing the task in the background after mounting. I

Re: why network install so slow?

2017-07-22 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 7/22/17, Long Wind wrote: > I have tried many mirrors > some from US, and ftp.au.debian.org and ftp.ca.debian.org and ... > > all are slow > is that because i use device name eth1?? > > the strange thing is during "apt-get update" all mirrors are quick > when I use "apt-get install" all mirror

Installed Stretch, but no command line

2017-07-22 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Just finished installing Stretch, using a RAID1, LVM and encryotion for home (passkey) and . It is ant the moment a basic installation with X-server-Xorg, but no DE yet. As part of the boot it accepts my /home password, but I do not get the command li

Re:

2017-07-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 22 July 2017 12:56:05 arshad mahmood wrote: > Hi do you know how I can down load debian 6 server is free to download > load or will I need to buy it through a vendor regards debian 6? I hope you are aware its out of support for years these days. debian 9 is the current release, and i

Re: why network install so slow?

2017-07-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 22 July 2017 23:13:24 Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > On 7/22/17, Long Wind wrote: > > I have tried many mirrors > > some from US, and ftp.au.debian.org and ftp.ca.debian.org and ... > > > > all are slow > > is that because i use device name eth1?? > > > > the strange thing is during "apt-g

Re: Hibernate in stretch

2017-07-22 Thread solitone
On Sunday, 23 July 2017 02:54:06 CEST behrad eslami wrote: > I guess this is VGA kernel driver bug but i cant resolv it > https://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2017/02/msg00210.html > https://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2017/02/msg00211.html > [3.100956] [drm] Finished loading i915/skl_dmc_