Re: Re: ACPI BIOS ERROR

2018-12-08 Thread steve
Le 07-12-2018, à 17:34:20 -0500, Tyler McLean a écrit : Having this same exact series of error messages on boot and the first time i press a key after boot. fresh debian install, latest BIOS. super annoying. did you ever resolve this? No, I guess it's a firmware bug, so only chance is th

after Stretch VLC is ugly

2018-12-08 Thread Felmon Davis
Greets! I decided to upgrade from Jessie to Stretch last night. it seems to have worked though there are some oddities. now VLC has grotesquely large control buttons ("Play," "Pause", etc.); the interface in general seems to run on a different 'theme' than before. the font size is ok. I ha

[OT] Howto use an environment that doesn't make use of GL for basic tasks

2018-12-08 Thread riveravaldez
Hi, I'm having random freezes on my debian-testing box (normal install, fully updated, only fluxbox, no desktop environment) and asking on Nouveau's mailing-list they recommended me this: > Use an environment that doesn't make use of GL for basic tasks. Any hint on how to do this on Debian? I'm

Re: after Stretch VLC is ugly

2018-12-08 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 8/12/18 8:24 pm, Felmon Davis wrote: > Greets! > > I decided to upgrade from Jessie to Stretch last night. it seems to have > worked though there are some oddities. High DPI changes perhaps? A.

Re: Non-GUI Arduino IDE ?

2018-12-08 Thread Dan Purgert
Jason wrote: > On Fri, Dec 07, 2018 at 05:05:30PM -, Dan Purgert wrote: >> Jason wrote: >> > Does anyone know if there is a console based Arduino IDE available for >> > Debian? I am interested in making a portable programmer that could be >> > taken out on a job to edit and upload Arduino pro

Re: issues with stretch, part 1 of many

2018-12-08 Thread Stefan Krusche
Good day, Ionel, Am Dienstag, 27. November 2018 schrieb Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă: > The first question I want to ask relates to ssh, ssh-ask and > ssh-agent. When I ssh to another computer I am asked "Allow use of key > id_rsa? Key fingerprint ..." If I uninstall all ssh-ask programs I > simply can't

Re: librecad

2018-12-08 Thread John Hasler
Gene writes: > LinuxCNC depends on a low latency IRQ response. > ... We understand all that, and I understand and agree with the "If it aint broke don't fix it" philosophy that leads to running "obsolete" computers and software in machine controls. What does it have to do with the machine you run

sending display to other monitor

2018-12-08 Thread mick crane
I can ssh into a debian PC from windows PC with putty and start a program to be displayed on monitor plugged into windows PC with Xming. Is possible ssh to debian PC and start program displayed on monitor plugged into debian PC ? mick -- Key ID4BFEBB31

Re: Setting up a chroot on a Jessie system to compile a program using sid

2018-12-08 Thread rhkramer
On Saturday, December 08, 2018 02:59:15 AM Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: > You are over-complicating things. I can believe that ;-) > You can build chroot in just a > separate folder using debootstrap. Ahh, ok, then that is almost surely what I'll try at least at first. Looking ahead, if I lat

Re: sending display to other monitor

2018-12-08 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sat, Dec 08, 2018 at 01:38:21PM +, mick crane wrote: > I can ssh into a debian PC from windows PC with putty and start a program to > be displayed on monitor plugged into windows PC with Xming. Is possible ssh > to debian PC and start program displayed on monitor plugged into debian PC ? >

Re: Setting up a chroot on a Jessie system to compile a program using sid

2018-12-08 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sat, Dec 08, 2018 at 09:21:33AM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > Looking ahead, if I later want to experiment with real VMs, do they need to > be > on separate partitions or can they also just be in separate folders? > Every VM solution that I can think of supports using disk image files

Re: Setting up a chroot on a Jessie system to compile a program using sid

2018-12-08 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 08.12.2018 19:21, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > Ahh, ok, then that is almost surely what I'll try at least at first. > > Looking ahead, if I later want to experiment with real VMs, do they need to > be > on separate partitions or can they also just be in separate folders? > > And if they can be

Re: sending display to other monitor

2018-12-08 Thread Jason
On Sat, Dec 08, 2018 at 01:38:21PM +, mick crane wrote: > I can ssh into a debian PC from windows PC with putty and start a program to > be displayed on monitor plugged into windows PC with Xming. Is possible ssh > to debian PC and start program displayed on monitor plugged into debian PC ? I

Re: Setting up a chroot on a Jessie system to compile a program using sid

2018-12-08 Thread Carl Fink
On 12/8/18 9:21 AM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday, December 08, 2018 02:59:15 AM Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: You are over-complicating things. I can believe that ;-) You can build chroot in just a separate folder using debootstrap. Ahh, ok, then that is almost surely what I'll try

Re: Non-GUI Arduino IDE ?

2018-12-08 Thread Jason
On Sat, Dec 08, 2018 at 01:33:42PM +1100, Erik Christiansen wrote: > On 07.12.18 16:42, Jason wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 07, 2018 at 05:05:30PM -, Dan Purgert wrote: > > > Jason wrote: > > > > Does anyone know if there is a console based Arduino IDE available for > > > > Debian? I am interested in

Re: [OT] Howto use an environment that doesn't make use of GL for basic tasks

2018-12-08 Thread Dan Ritter
riveravaldez wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having random freezes on my debian-testing box (normal install, > fully updated, only fluxbox, no desktop environment) and asking on > Nouveau's mailing-list they recommended me this: > > > Use an environment that doesn't make use of GL for basic tasks. > > Any

Re: Setting up a chroot on a Jessie system to compile a program using sid

2018-12-08 Thread David Christensen
On 12/7/18 7:36 PM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: This is sort of a continuation of the thread started with the post "Recommendation for Virtual Machine and Instructions to set it up?" (https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2018/12/msg00144.html) Aside: the programmer has been able to send me a bina

Re: after Stretch VLC is ugly

2018-12-08 Thread Felmon Davis
On Sat, 8 Dec 2018, Andrew McGlashan wrote: On 8/12/18 8:24 pm, Felmon Davis wrote: Greets! I decided to upgrade from Jessie to Stretch last night. it seems to have worked though there are some oddities. High DPI changes perhaps? DPI is set to 96. f. -- Felmon Davis

Re: librecad

2018-12-08 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 08 December 2018 08:38:15 John Hasler wrote: > Gene writes: > > LinuxCNC depends on a low latency IRQ response. > > ... > > We understand all that, and I understand and agree with the "If it > aint broke don't fix it" philosophy that leads to running "obsolete" > computers and software

Re: sending display to other monitor

2018-12-08 Thread mick crane
On 2018-12-08 16:10, Jason wrote: On Sat, Dec 08, 2018 at 01:38:21PM +, mick crane wrote: I can ssh into a debian PC from windows PC with putty and start a program to be displayed on monitor plugged into windows PC with Xming. Is possible ssh to debian PC and start program displayed on moni

Re: librecad

2018-12-08 Thread John Hasler
Gene writes: > I've started to do something in freecad several times, I don't have it > here anymore, but the lack of a plainly marked, multiple step undo > gets me into a dead end box that results in a quit w/o save every > time. I find that undoing one action at a time almost always suffices. T

Re: librecad

2018-12-08 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 08 December 2018 14:42:06 John Hasler wrote: > Gene writes: > > I've started to do something in freecad several times, I don't have > > it here anymore, but the lack of a plainly marked, multiple step > > undo gets me into a dead end box that results in a quit w/o save > > every time.

Re: librecad

2018-12-08 Thread John Hasler
Gene writes: > Thats what I'm embarking on doing, building master from src. but the > zip seems to be a problem That's doing it the hard way. Use git as suggested here: https://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/CompileOnUnix#Getting_the_source It works. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI U

Re: librecad

2018-12-08 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 08 December 2018 15:22:36 John Hasler wrote: > Gene writes: > > Thats what I'm embarking on doing, building master from src. but the > > zip seems to be a problem > > That's doing it the hard way. Use git as suggested here: > > https://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/CompileOnUnix#Getting_the

Re: librecad

2018-12-08 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Sat, 8 Dec 2018, at 18:59, Gene Heskett wrote: > ... but the lack of a plainly marked, multiple step undo gets > me into a dead end box that results in a quit w/o save every time. I had a similar problem with a music-typesetting package under Windows. I guess a versioning file system (as di

Unpacking a large zipfile, was Re: librecad

2018-12-08 Thread David Wright
On Sat 08 Dec 2018 at 15:01:11 (-0500), Gene Heskett wrote: > Thats what I'm embarking on doing, building master from src. but the zip > seems to be a problem, mc is unpacking it and copying to ~/src, doubling > the 180 some megs of the zip, but with mc piping both, its watch paint > dry slow, a

Re: librecad

2018-12-08 Thread John Hasler
The latest Freecad version claims to have a robust undo-redo stack. I haven't really put it to the test yet, though. Even infinite undo does not always suffice. You may not remember exactly when and how you went off the rails, or you may have other reasons to want to look back. version control

Re: automating reactions to file system changes

2018-12-08 Thread David Christensen
On 12/8/18 3:55 PM, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Sat, Dec 08, 2018 at 03:48:56PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: On Linux, the inotify(7) is an alternative to polling: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inotify Specifically, I have had very good success with incron. Yes, incrond(8) and incr

Re: automating reactions to file system changes

2018-12-08 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Sat, 8 Dec 2018, at 23:49, David Christensen wrote: > On Linux, the inotify(7) is an alternative to polling: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inotify Windows has event-driven ways to do this too, (one can] google for, for example, WMI and PowerShell event-based scripts)... but I'd have

Re: Non-GUI Arduino IDE ?

2018-12-08 Thread Ryan Nowakowski
I'm a big fan of platform IO https://platformio.org/ It's not really an IDE, but instead a bunch of command line tools that replace the functions of the Arduino IDE. On December 7, 2018 10:28:48 AM CST, Jason wrote: >Does anyone know if there is a console based Arduino IDE available for >Debia

Re: after Stretch VLC is ugly

2018-12-08 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2018-12-08, Felmon Davis wrote: > Greets! > > I decided to upgrade from Jessie to Stretch last night. it seems to > have worked though there are some oddities. > > now VLC has grotesquely large control buttons ("Play," "Pause", etc.); > the interface in general seems to run on a different 'th

Re: librecad

2018-12-08 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 08 December 2018 17:53:01 Jeremy Nicoll wrote: [...] > The pid was there so that when writing and testing the script > I could tell which was which in taskmanager, which saw them > all as the same thing - an instance of the script language's > interpreter being run. > I can see where th

Re: librecad

2018-12-08 Thread John Hasler
If you want to move on from REXX look at Tcl. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: librecad

2018-12-08 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Sun, 9 Dec 2018, at 01:47, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 08 December 2018 17:53:01 Jeremy Nicoll wrote: > [...] > > The pid was there so that when writing and testing the script > > I could tell which was which in taskmanager, which saw them > > all as the same thing - an instance of the scr

Re: librecad

2018-12-08 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 08 December 2018 21:10:13 John Hasler wrote: > If you want to move on from REXX look at Tcl. Linuxcnc uses a bunch of that in its gui's, which it has several flavors of, -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and am

Re: after Stretch VLC is ugly [SOLVED]

2018-12-08 Thread Felmon Davis
On Sun, 9 Dec 2018, Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2018-12-08, Felmon Davis wrote: Greets! I decided to upgrade from Jessie to Stretch last night. it seems to have worked though there are some oddities. now VLC has grotesquely large control buttons ("Play," "Pause", etc.); the interface in general s

automating reactions to file system changes

2018-12-08 Thread David Christensen
On 12/8/18 2:53 PM, Jeremy Nicoll wrote:> On Sat, 8 Dec 2018, at 18:59, Gene Heskett wrote: ... but the lack of a plainly marked, multiple step undo gets me into a dead end box that results in a quit w/o save every time. I had a similar problem with a music-typesetting package under Windows.

Re: automating reactions to file system changes

2018-12-08 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sat, Dec 08, 2018 at 03:48:56PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: > On Linux, the inotify(7) is an alternative to polling: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inotify Specifically, I have had very good success with incron. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez