Re: How to change the console font?

2017-09-28 Thread Dejan Jocic
On 27-09-17, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > I used to be able to change the console font with a GUI program. > But I have forgotten how to do that. Console setup doesn't do it, I don't > know what that does. > > Can anybody help me out here? > > Hugo (Sid) > Don't know about GUI program, can't rememb

Re: How to change the console font?

2017-09-28 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Hugo Vanwoerkom [2017-09-27 21:14 -0500]: > I used to be able to change the console font with a GUI program. > But I have forgotten how to do that. Console setup doesn't do it, I don't > know what that does. dpkg-reconfigure console-setup Elimar -- Obviously the human brain works like a co

Re: How to change the console font?

2017-09-28 Thread igor80
Hi, $ man setfont -- igor

Re: An answer to "Gave up waiting for suspend/resume device"

2017-09-28 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 09/27/2017 02:38 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 27/09/2017 à 10:37, Jimmy Johnson a écrit : On 09/26/2017 02:25 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 26/09/2017 à 03:55, Jimmy Johnson a écrit : Hi Mark, while multi-booting I use the device name in fstab, /dev/sd?? none swap sw 0 0, it works for all

Re: no sound on Lenovo Ideapad 110

2017-09-28 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 09/26/2017 03:37 AM, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: On Tue, 26 Sep 2017, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: Yes. It looks like sound card was detected and initialized, but Pulse Audio was unable to set it as "default" automatically. Have you tried to list and use available cards from alsa perspective (yo

System hardening: adding hidepid to /proc?

2017-09-28 Thread Brent Clark
Good day Guys I came across this document: https://linux-audit.com/linux-system-hardening-adding-hidepid-to-proc/ The idea is to increase security by hiding the display of running processes, and their arguments, which belong to other users. This helps avoid problems if users enter passwords on t

Re: An answer to "Gave up waiting for suspend/resume device"

2017-09-28 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 28/09/2017 à 09:39, Jimmy Johnson a écrit : On 09/27/2017 02:38 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 27/09/2017 à 10:37, Jimmy Johnson a écrit :   But if everything is correct and you are using lets say sda1 as root in your fstab your system will use sda1 as the LABEL, I've seen this over and ov

Re: no sound on Lenovo Ideapad 110

2017-09-28 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Thu, 28 Sep 2017, Jimmy Johnson wrote: I've seen that problem before, the mini plug was not pushed in all the way and there was no sound. I hope your problem is that simple. Hi Jimmy, it seems you missed these lines:   the sound works corre

How to use zram ?

2017-09-28 Thread Pierre Couderc
I have found no howto for zram under debian,  nor even the word "zram" in the archives of this list ! I have tried to use zramctl but it refuses with : root@nous:~# zramctl --find --size 1024M zramctl: no free zram device found I suppose I should init something somewere, but what ? On the con

Re: How to use zram ?

2017-09-28 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 11:47:56AM +0200, Pierre Couderc wrote: > I have found no howto for zram under debian,  nor even the word > "zram" in the archives of this list ! > > I have tried to use zramctl but it refuses with : > > root@nous:~# zramctl -

Re: How to use zram ?

2017-09-28 Thread Pierre Couderc
On 09/28/2017 11:56 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 11:47:56AM +0200, Pierre Couderc wrote: I have found no howto for zram under debian,  nor even the word "zram" in the archives of this list ! I have tried to use zramctl but it refuses with : root@nous:~# zramctl --find --

Re: How to change the console font?

2017-09-28 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 09:14:46PM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: I used to be able to change the console font with a GUI program. But I have forgotten how to do that. Console setup doesn't do it, I don't know what that does. Can anybody help me out here? I use 'setfont' from the kbd package.

Re: no sound on Lenovo Ideapad 110

2017-09-28 Thread Curt
On 2017-09-28, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > > So, the problem is not with the plug, as generally it must unplugged > to get the sound through the speaker. > I suppose it is possible that the sensing circuitry or switch (?) in the headphone jack is faulty or failing so that when you pull the h

Re: How to use zram ?

2017-09-28 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 12:27:01PM +0200, Pierre Couderc wrote: > On 09/28/2017 11:56 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: [...] > >I didn't even know what it is -- but the zram(8) man page and a little > >guesswork at least leads in some direction. > Thank

Re: How to use zram ?

2017-09-28 Thread David Baron
On יום חמישי, 28 בספטמבר 2017 12:27:01 IDT Pierre Couderc wrote: > On 09/28/2017 11:56 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 11:47:56AM +0200, Pierre Couderc wrote: > >> I have found no howto for zram under debian, nor even the word > >> "zram" in the archives of this list ! > >>

Re: no sound on Lenovo Ideapad 110

2017-09-28 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Thu, 28 Sep 2017, Curt wrote: On 2017-09-28, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: So, the problem is not with the plug, as generally it must unplugged to get the sound through the speaker. I suppose it is possible that the sensing circuitry or switch (?) in the headphone jack is faulty or fai

Re: no sound on Lenovo Ideapad 110

2017-09-28 Thread davidson
On Mon, 25 Sep 2017, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: On Mon, 25 Sep 2017, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: Probably some ALSA module or codec firmware is missing. Look for errors in syslog and provide some information about what sound codec is onboard your laptop mobo:     $ sudo journalctl -b Use "/" ke

Re: How to use zram ?

2017-09-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 28 September 2017 05:47:56 Pierre Couderc wrote: > I have found no howto for zram under debian,  nor even the word "zram" > in the archives of this list ! > > I have tried to use zramctl but it refuses with : > A better question from me might be, what is it? > root@nous:~# zramctl --f

Re: How to use zram ?

2017-09-28 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 09:51:21AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 28 September 2017 05:47:56 Pierre Couderc wrote: > > > I have found no howto for zram under debian,  nor even the word "zram" > > in the archives of this list ! > > > > I have

Security updates for Chromium on Debian Jessie

2017-09-28 Thread Daniel Bareiro
Hi all! In the last DSA for the chromium-browser package (DSA-3985-1) I noticed that the updates were released for stable, testing and unstable but not for oldstable. I think the same thing happened with the previous update. Maybe I'm missing something and Chromium on Jessie is no longer getting

Re: How to use zram ?

2017-09-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 28 September 2017 09:58:39 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 09:51:21AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Thursday 28 September 2017 05:47:56 Pierre Couderc wrote: > > > I have found no howto for zram under debian,  nor even the word > > > "zram" in the archives of this

Re: [sane-devel] Compatibility of the Irisscan executive 4 scanner

2017-09-28 Thread Alex ARNAUD
Le 28/09/2017 à 15:45, Olaf Meeuwissen a écrit : Hi Alex, Alex ARNAUD writes: Dear all, I install Debian GNU/Linux on computer for visual-impaired users and I've a request about the compatibility of a Irisscan executive 4 scanner. I've sought on the internet without finding any specific data

Debian 9.1.0

2017-09-28 Thread Sumit Jain
While I was installing sudo in Debian it is not getting installed . It shows that media change please insert the disc labelled.

Re: [sane-devel] Compatibility of the Irisscan executive 4 scanner

2017-09-28 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Hi Alex, Alex ARNAUD writes: > Dear all, > > I install Debian GNU/Linux on computer for visual-impaired users and > I've a request about the compatibility of a Irisscan executive 4 scanner. > > I've sought on the internet without finding any specific data about this > model. Based on a quick `gi

Re: no sound on Lenovo Ideapad 110

2017-09-28 Thread Curt
On 2017-09-28, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > On Thu, 28 Sep 2017, Curt wrote: > >> On 2017-09-28, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: >>> >>> So, the problem is not with the plug, as generally it must unplugged >>> to get the sound through the speaker. >>> >> >> I suppose it is possible that the sensing ci

Re: How to use zram ?

2017-09-28 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 10:09:27AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 28 September 2017 09:58:39 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: [...] > I do have the kernel module, but not the zramctl. One is not useful w/o > the other. But I learned something from

Re: How to use zram ?

2017-09-28 Thread Pierre Couderc
On 09/28/2017 02:11 PM, David Baron wrote: ... But It seems to work : root@nous:~# modprobe zram num_devices=2 root@nous:~# zramctl --find --size 1024M /dev/zram0 root@nous:~# zramctl --find --size 1024M /dev/zram1 root@nous:~# free -th totalusedfree shared

Re: How to use zram ?

2017-09-28 Thread Richard Owlett
On 09/28/2017 05:27 AM, Pierre Couderc wrote: [snip] Thank you very much. I have not found "the zram(8) man page [snip] See https://manpages.debian.org/stretch/util-linux/zramctl.8.en.html

Re: How to use zram ?

2017-09-28 Thread Pierre Couderc
On 09/28/2017 03:51 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 28 September 2017 05:47:56 Pierre Couderc wrote: I have found no howto for zram under debian,  nor even the word "zram" in the archives of this list ! I have tried to use zramctl but it refuses with : A better question from me might b

Re: How to use zram ?

2017-09-28 Thread Pierre Couderc
On 09/28/2017 04:09 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 28 September 2017 09:58:39 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 09:51:21AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 28 September 2017 05:47:56 Pierre Couderc wrote: I have found no howto for zram under debian,  nor even the wor

Re: How to use zram ?

2017-09-28 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
I'm trying to wrap my head around what the performance implications (or advantages) of zram might be in the virtualized environments. Currently for me that means mostly VMware and a little Xen. There are at least two aspects, namely its potential use in the hypervisor and use in the VMs. Does anyon

Re: no sound on Lenovo Ideapad 110

2017-09-28 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Thu, 28 Sep 2017, davidson wrote: By default journalctl sends its output to a pager. Most likely that pager is of the less/more variety yes: in my case, it is less, but you can't do: "journalctl -b /audio" as you suggest: ->>journalctl -b /audio Couldn't s

Re: no sound on Lenovo Ideapad 110

2017-09-28 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Thu, 28 Sep 2017, Curt wrote: I missed that detail. Dual boot, is that it? yes Turn the volume way up in Windows and use the function keys to make sure the speakers are turned on and functioning before booting into Debian. After booting on

Re: How to use zram ?

2017-09-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 28 September 2017 10:37:19 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 10:09:27AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Thursday 28 September 2017 09:58:39 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > [...] > > > I do have the kernel module, but not the zramctl. One is not useful > > w/o the other. B

Re: Debian 9.1.0

2017-09-28 Thread Dan Ritter
On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 07:41:42PM +0530, Sumit Jain wrote: > While I was installing sudo in Debian it is not getting installed . It > shows that media change please insert the disc labelled. You have configured your system to look for packages on a CD or DVD. The configuration is in /etc/apt/ i

Re: How to use zram ?

2017-09-28 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 11:42:47AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > This sounds handy on a memory starved machine. And at 8GB in this > machine, I'm still using swap, with a 13 hour uptime, 22megs almost as > soon as I'd rebooted, and still 22. Which I don't fully grok, htop says > 22 megs used for

Re: How to use zram ?

2017-09-28 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 28/09/2017 à 15:58, to...@tuxteam.de a écrit : It seems to be a way to swap out to "compressed RAM" Actually zram is just a compressed ramdisk block device. It can be used as swap space or anything else.

Re: How to use zram ?

2017-09-28 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 28/09/2017 à 16:37, to...@tuxteam.de a écrit : Remember Stacker? The disk compression tool for MS-DOS ? (this one is actually smarter, because when it *has* to swap, the already compressed stuff gets swapped out, reducing I/O). From what I have read about zram, I did not get the impress

Re: Security updates for Chromium on Debian Jessie

2017-09-28 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2017-09-28 11:08 -0300, Daniel Bareiro wrote: > In the last DSA for the chromium-browser package (DSA-3985-1) I noticed > that the updates were released for stable, testing and unstable but not > for oldstable. I think the same thing happened with the previous update. > > Maybe I'm missing some

Re: How to use zram ?

2017-09-28 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 06:01:10PM +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 28/09/2017 à 16:37, to...@tuxteam.de a écrit : > > > >Remember Stacker? > > The disk compression tool for MS-DOS ? > > >(this one is actually smarter, because when it *has* to > >s

Re: no sound on Lenovo Ideapad 110

2017-09-28 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Thu, 28 Sep 2017 14:48:27 +0200 (CEST) Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > On Thu, 28 Sep 2017, Curt wrote: > > > On 2017-09-28, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > >> > >> So, the problem is not with the plug, as generally it must > >> unplugged to get the sound through the speaker. > >> > > > > I suppose it

Re: Security updates for Chromium on Debian Jessie

2017-09-28 Thread Daniel Bareiro
Hi, Sven. On 28/09/17 14:13, Sven Joachim wrote: >> In the last DSA for the chromium-browser package (DSA-3985-1) I noticed >> that the updates were released for stable, testing and unstable but not >> for oldstable. I think the same thing happened with the previous update. >> >> Maybe I'm missin

Debian v9 it's a stretch

2017-09-28 Thread tony mollica
Been off the mailing list for a short time but I found something that's probably common knowledge by now, but I'll post it anyway. After a fresh install of Stretch my networking, especially my wifi networking, took a turn for the worse, neither NM nor wicd working to any degree of connection r

Re: no sound on Lenovo Ideapad 110

2017-09-28 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Thu, 28 Sep 2017, Patrick Bartek wrote: I don't know if this will help, but I read a post somewhere (don't remember where) of someone who had troubles with the Ideapad 110S -- sound, touchpad, suspend, etc. -- after replacing Windows 10 with Stretch. Installing a newer kernel from Stretch-Ba

Re: An answer to "Gave up waiting for suspend/resume device"

2017-09-28 Thread David Wright
On Thu 28 Sep 2017 at 10:29:27 (+0200), Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 28/09/2017 à 09:39, Jimmy Johnson a écrit : > >On 09/27/2017 02:38 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > >>Le 27/09/2017 à 10:37, Jimmy Johnson a écrit : > > > >>>  But if everything is correct and you are using lets say sda1 > >>>as root i

Re: no sound on Lenovo Ideapad 110

2017-09-28 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 09/28/2017 11:38 AM, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: On Thu, 28 Sep 2017, Patrick Bartek wrote: I don't know if this will help, but I read a post somewhere (don't remember where) of someone who had troubles with the Ideapad 110S -- sound, touchpad, suspend, etc. -- after replacing Windows 10 with Str

Re: no sound on Lenovo Ideapad 110

2017-09-28 Thread Curt
On 2017-09-28, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > On Thu, 28 Sep 2017, Patrick Bartek wrote: > >> I don't know if this will help, but I read a post somewhere (don't >> remember where) of someone who had troubles with the Ideapad 110S >> -- sound, touchpad, suspend, etc. -- after replacing Windows 10 with >>

Re: no sound on Lenovo Ideapad 110

2017-09-28 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Thu, 28 Sep 2017, Jimmy Johnson wrote: Installing package firmware-linux in Stretch will pull in all the firmware, free, non-free, etc. they are already installed, but only firmware-linux-free is not empty, and I don't see something useful (for me) in it.

Re: no sound on Lenovo Ideapad 110

2017-09-28 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Thu, 28 Sep 2017, Curt wrote: Realtek offers a proprietary driver for linux (last updated 2014). Looks like you have to compile it. http://airbornesurfer.com/2015/04/how-to-install-realtek-hd-audio-driver-in-linux/ thanks Curt for this information. I'll look at it to-morrow best regards,

Re: no sound on Lenovo Ideapad 110

2017-09-28 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Thu, 28 Sep 2017 20:38:13 +0200 (CEST) Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > On Thu, 28 Sep 2017, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > I don't know if this will help, but I read a post somewhere (don't > > remember where) of someone who had troubles with the Ideapad 110S > > -- sound, touchpad, suspend, etc. -- af

Re: no sound on Lenovo Ideapad 110

2017-09-28 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
Yeah, I'm still waiting for a reply with requested information from Pierre. Kinda hate it, when people asking for help and assumes everyone here has telepathic abilities. :( On 29.09.2017 01:57, Patrick Bartek wrote: > On Thu, 28 Sep 2017 20:38:13 +0200 (CEST) Pierre Frenkiel > wrote: > >> On Th

Oracle E-Business Suite Users

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Re: image created by debootstrap does not work

2017-09-28 Thread 慕 冬亮
On 09/27/2017 12:42 PM, Reco wrote: > On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 04:32:34PM +, 慕 冬亮 wrote: >> >> On 09/22/2017 04:02 PM, Reco wrote: >>> >>> >>> Hi. >>> >>> On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 07:07:28PM +, 慕 冬亮 wrote: qemu-system-x86_64 -kernel /boot/vmlinuz-4.12.0-1-amd64 -hda qemu-st

Re: no sound on Lenovo Ideapad 110

2017-09-28 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Fri, 29 Sep 2017 02:10:28 +0500 "Alexander V. Makartsev" wrote: > Yeah, I'm still waiting for a reply with requested information from > Pierre. Kinda hate it, when people asking for help and assumes > everyone here has telepathic abilities. :( > > > On 29.09.2017 01:57, Patrick Bartek wrote:

Re: Splitting MP3 files (again)

2017-09-28 Thread Thomas Amm
On Tue, 26 Sep 2017 23:05:15 +0200 deloptes wrote: > Thomas Amm wrote: > > > Have you tried mp3split-gtk? Should do exactly that. > > I installed now mp3splt-gtk > > It looks like it would do exactly what I need, but when I press the > play button, it says "gstreamer error: Internal data str

Debian 9 bluetooth fails worked on Debian 8 (firmware) bluetooth hci0: firmware: failed to load brcm/BCM20702A1-0b05-17cf.hcd

2017-09-28 Thread Len Berman
I copied firmware from Deb8 to Deb9; however, the file name needed to change from BCM20702A1-0b05-17cf.hcd to BCM20702A0-0b05-17cf.hcd, so when I copied the file, it still didn't work. It took a while to see that the file mentioned in dmesg >>really<< wasn't present. Don't let it happen to you.

Re: Debian 9.1.0

2017-09-28 Thread David Christensen
On 09/28/17 07:11, Sumit Jain wrote: While I was installing sudo in Debian it is not getting installed . It shows that media change please insert the disc labelled. The Debian package management system uses a configuration file and a configuration directory to determine where to obtain softwar

Re: Restore backup to KVM

2017-09-28 Thread solitone
On 28/09/17 08:58, Reco wrote: It's initrd that first tries to mount tmpfs filesystems on /root (and fails), and only *then* mounts your root filesystem to /root (with the intention to switch to it as /). Is the stock initrd supposed to work like this? When I boot my production system, I end u

Re: no sound on Lenovo Ideapad 110

2017-09-28 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 9/28/17, Patrick Bartek wrote: > On Thu, 28 Sep 2017 20:38:13 +0200 (CEST) Pierre Frenkiel > wrote: > >> On Thu, 28 Sep 2017, Patrick Bartek wrote: >> >> > I don't know if this will help, but I read a post somewhere (don't >> > remember where) of someone who had troubles with the Ideapad 110S

Re: Restore backup to KVM

2017-09-28 Thread Reco
Hi. On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 06:30:21AM +0200, solitone wrote: > On 28/09/17 08:58, Reco wrote: > > It's initrd that first tries to mount tmpfs filesystems on /root (and > > fails), and only *then* mounts your root filesystem to /root (with the > > intention to switch to it as /). > > Is t