Re: using Webex from Stretch

On 4/9/20 2:37 AM, deloptes wrote: Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote: I was given two options.  If I chose "Use computer for audio", I got the errors above again.  If I chose "Call in", it just showed a phone number. The result was the same whether I allowed them to use my microphone or not. I do

geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps

hello, I am running Gnome 3 in Debian Buster. I am wondering why, even though my Location Services are set to Off (and has always been set to Off), when I enter the Gnome Maps application, it determines and shows my location on the map. thank you,

Re: using Webex from Stretch

On Wednesday, April 8, 2020 5:26 PM, I wrote: > Today I was able in a sense to join a Webex conference: I was connected and > could see the list of participants and some chat text. But I got no audio, > and these messages: > > Can't Connect to Audio > We're having a problem connecting to audio us

Re: using Webex from Stretch

On 4/9/20 8:50 AM, Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote: This is interesting. I see that my Firefox is set to "Block websites from automatically playing sound". I hadn't realized that, because if I play a YouTube video or movie trailer in Firefox, I get the sound just fine anyway. That's confusing,

Re: Partition unreadable [was: Re: Debian Stretch broken !]

Hi Tom, Alexei, Kent and Everyone else, Le 05/04/2020 03:25, Tom Dial a écrit : From the various postings it seems somewhat clear that the system, as such, is not broken. The initial message indicates, I think Felix Miata noted, that there is a problem with gdm starting (probably) gnome.

Re: Partition unreadable [was: Re: Debian Stretch broken !]

On Thu, Apr 09, 2020 at 03:28:43PM +0200, Bernard wrote: > I just realized that in that Debian Stretch system, > > I HAVE NO /home//.gconf directory ! Uh... yay? > but it didn't rebuild itself so far ! > > What should I do to get it rebuilt ? Run something that uses it. Or, if you don't run a

Re: Partition unreadable [was: Re: Debian Stretch broken !]

On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 8:29 AM Bernard wrote: > > > I just realized that in that Debian Stretch system, > > I HAVE NO /home//.gconf directory ! > > [ While I have one my laptop using Ubuntu 14.04, also on my old desktop > running Debian Lenny] > > but it didn't rebuild itself so far ! > > What sh

Re: Partition unreadable [was: Re: Debian Stretch broken !]

Le 09/04/2020 15:45, Kent West a écrit : On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 8:29 AM Bernard mailto:bdebr...@free.fr>> wrote: I just realized that in that Debian Stretch system, I HAVE NO /home//.gconf directory ! It'll rebuild itself when it's needed. The lack of a .gconf directory is p

Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps

On Thu, Apr 09, 2020 at 07:49:46AM -0500, Anil F Duggirala wrote: > hello, > I am running Gnome 3 in Debian Buster. I am wondering why, even though > my Location Services are set to Off (and has always been set to Off), > when I enter the Gnome Maps application, it determines and shows my > locati

Re: Partition unreadable [was: Re: Debian Stretch broken !]

On Thu, Apr 09, 2020 at 04:32:10PM +0200, Bernard wrote: > # tasksel > > a graphical window opens and proposes a choice between Debian Desktop > environment, GNOME, KDE, xfce, MATE... I alternatively chose most of these > including Gnome Desktop env, GNOME, KDE, xfce, MATE. So we don't even known

Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps

On Thu 09 Apr 2020 at 07:49:46 (-0500), Anil F Duggirala wrote: > I am running Gnome 3 in Debian Buster. I am wondering why, even though > my Location Services are set to Off (and has always been set to Off), > when I enter the Gnome Maps application, it determines and shows my > location on the m

Re: Partition unreadable [was: Re: Debian Stretch broken !]

On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 9:32 AM Bernard wrote: > > > Le 09/04/2020 15:45, Kent West a écrit : > > > > > > On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 8:29 AM Bernard > > wrote: > > > > > > > > I just realized that in that Debian Stretch system, > > > > I HAVE NO /home//.gconf director

Re: using Webex from Stretch

On 2020-04-09, Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote: > This is interesting. I see that my Firefox is set to "Block websites from > automatically playing sound". I hadn't realized that, because if I play a > YouTube video or movie trailer in Firefox, I get the sound just fine anyway. > That's confusi

Re: using Webex from Stretch

On Thursday, April 09, 2020 07:09:35 AM Carl Fink wrote: > On 4/9/20 2:37 AM, deloptes wrote: > > Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote: > >> I was given two options. If I chose "Use computer for audio", I got the > >> errors above again. If I chose "Call in", it just showed a phone > >> number. I as

Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps

It's just looking up your IP. The method isn't reliable (it usually puts me on the other side of the state) but it works more often than not. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geolocation_software -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Partition unreadable [was: Re: Debian Stretch broken !]

Le 09/04/2020 16:44, Greg Wooledge a écrit : On Thu, Apr 09, 2020 at 04:32:10PM +0200, Bernard wrote: If you're trying to debug X, start simple. Install a traditional window manager, and just name it on the startx command to override the system defaults. $ startx invariably leads to .

Re: Partition unreadable [was: Re: Debian Stretch broken !]

On Thu, Apr 09, 2020 at 08:04:31PM +0200, Bernard wrote: > [ 15541.577] (EE) AIGLX error: dlopen of > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/nouveau_dri.so failed > (/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/nouveau_dri.so: cannot open shared object > file: No such file or directory) You're missing the libgl1-mesa-dri

New RAM, does Debian has a tool to benchmark?

Hi list! I just purchased new RAM for my Debian Stable running PC to upgrade its performance. I currently have 4GB and the new one is 8GB so I will have 12GB total. My question is this: is there a tool in the repositories which I can use to measure the system's performance with 4GB and then with

Re: New RAM, does Debian has a tool to benchmark?

On Thu, Apr 09, 2020 at 09:26:06PM +0300, dalios wrote: > Hi list! > > I just purchased new RAM for my Debian Stable running PC to upgrade its > performance. I currently have 4GB and the new one is 8GB so I will have > 12GB total. > > My question is this: is there a tool in the repositories which

Can't get my Debian laptop to use my Radeon 520 Mobile graphics card

Hello everyone, my laptop has two graphic devices. According to my hardware probe it does not utilize the actual graphic card or at least something seems wrong with it. I tried installing additional driver packages: xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu mesa-va-drivers but it did not change anything it seems

Re: New RAM, does Debian has a tool to benchmark?

On 2020-04-09 11:26, dalios wrote: Hi list! I just purchased new RAM for my Debian Stable running PC to upgrade its performance. I currently have 4GB and the new one is 8GB so I will have 12GB total. My question is this: is there a tool in the repositories which I can use to measure the system'

Re: using Webex from Stretch

On Thursday, April 9, 2020 8:50 AM, I wrote: > I see that my Firefox is set to "Block websites from automatically playing > sound". ... I'll try changing that permission this afternoon and > see if it works. Alas, Webex was still unable to make an audio connection. Someday I'll be allowed to go

Re: using Webex from Stretch

Hi, I recently had a sound problem with a web page and was instructed to do the following to enable it for a specific web site. Note, this is not exactly intuitive. 1. Go to the web site in your browser; 2. In my Firefox, just to the left of the address bar are some icons, click the "info

Re: New RAM, does Debian has a tool to benchmark?

Thank you to both of you for your answers. I am grateful for your time. My PC is a desktop PC, see hardware details at the end of this email. Here is more info, answering your questions: * I purchased a single 8 GB module and currently the PC has a 4 GB module. My original plan was to buy two