Re: Motherboards

2010-05-25 Thread Jean-François
Le 25/05/10 18:44, Jordan Metzmeier a écrit : I run Debian Lenny on a DFI Lanparty DK p45-t2rs. I really like the board but it did throw a curveball at me. Since it had an Intel ICH10R southbridge, I expected it to have an Intel ICH storage controller and use the ata_piix driver. This was not t

Re: Debian support on newer 4K Advanced format drives (rather than 512 bytes)

2010-07-08 Thread Jean-François
I have a WD20EARS here. As these drives still report their sector size to be 512B instead of 4KB (for compatibility purposes, apparently), you have to manually align the partition when creating it. (otherwise you'll get very slow performance, ~3.5 MB/s instead of the ~90MB/s this drive can do)

Re: is it save to clean /var/tmp?

2004-06-27 Thread Jean-François Lemaire
Hello, On Sunday 27 June 2004 10:27, William Ballard wrote: > On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 09:48:02AM +0200, Andreas Janssen wrote: > > You can of course delete the files from time to time, but probably > > some apps expect their files to still be there after reboot. > > It seems pretty obvious that

Re: Fonts looking bad on qt apps

2009-10-13 Thread Jean-François Pirlet
> Any one else has noticed this problem and found a fix for that? I would > appreciate any pointers to fix this problem. Same problem here, Debian Squeeze/Testing amd64, Gnome, using e.g. LyX or Kile. There seems to be something wrong with the way qtconfig loads its settings when you're a normal

Re: How to make Debian/GNome manage network automatically

2009-10-19 Thread Jean-François Pirlet
Comment out the "auto eth1" and "iface eth1 inet dhcp" lines. Edit your /etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf to "managed=true". E.g. from : "[main] plugins=ifupdown,keyfile [ifupdown] managed=false" to: "[main] plugins=ifupdown,keyfile [ifupdown] managed=true" Reboot (or restart NM), an

Re: debian-installer (squeeze-ia64) fails on new machine

2009-10-24 Thread Jean-François Pirlet
Le vendredi 23 octobre 2009 à 14:55 -0700, Frank Miles a écrit : > Has anyone tried installing 'squeeze' recently on a i7/860 machine? > Trying the small-CD method - the line "Loading Operating System ..." > comes up... and never goes away. No error messages, beeps, or any > other complaints. The

Re: using lame

2009-10-28 Thread Jean-François Pirlet
> This is only partly correct. The real answer is you can convert from > any lossless format to lossy to acheive the desired results. WAV is > uncompressed lossless audio data, whereas FLAC, Wavpack, etc. are > lossless compression file formats that also have the ability to store > ID3 tag info

Re: No "Shut Down..." option in "System" menu

2009-11-02 Thread Jean-François Pirlet
> I receive ``the administrator is not allowed to log in from this > screen.'' I am thus unable to log graphically in as root. If you're trying to log in as root from gdm, this behaviour is normal. You should log in as root from another console (tty1, for example), kill GDM and then startx. For

Re: Intel D945GSEJT LAN and Debian not working

2009-11-11 Thread Jean-François Pirlet
> realtek has just joined ati as something I will never spend money on > again. Intel is about to join that list too. Huh, if you blacklist Realtek (Realtek chips are found almost everywhere...), Intel and Ati, given that Ati belongs to AMD, it's likely you won't spend much money on computers i

Re: Intel D945GSEJT LAN and Debian not working

2009-11-12 Thread Jean-François Pirlet
> Strangely the system seems to be referring to "squeeze" instead of sid > (?). Well, if you have used the testing-netinst, that's pretty normal (unless you have configured your sources.list to Sid). Squeeze is the current Testing distro. Sid is the Unstable distro. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Using ICH10R or ICH9R created volumes

2009-11-17 Thread Jean-François Pirlet
> Is using volumes created in chipset RAID utilities supported? > > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/SataRaid -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: screenshots.debian.net contains image with ubuntu screenshot, is it fine ?

2009-11-25 Thread Jean-François Pirlet
> The problem is that not there are a checkbox-gtk package in debian, so > why a screenshot of this ? Because Debian is not the only one to use that repository, Ubuntu also uses it, hence that screenshot. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "uns

Re: torrents for testing

2009-12-22 Thread Jean-François Pirlet
> I'm curious... are there any torrents out there for testing/squeeze? Hello. http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/ for weekly builds. http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/ for daily builds. Choose your arch. Iso-cd contains ISOs, bt-cd contains torrents,

Re: The future of "nv" driver (was: Linux compatible mainboards -another thought)

2010-04-24 Thread Jean-François Pirlet
> The VESA driver is not adequate > for many users. If I recall correctly, the VESA driver only makes > use of video graphics modes supported by the video BIOS. These video > modes often cannot exploit the maximum video resolution available on > many modern LCD displays. This was the main reason

DoS protection solutions for Debian Servers ?

2024-03-13 Thread Jean-François Bachelet
Hello folks :) Looking for advice for protecting debian servers from DoS attacks as there are more and more of these ones to fight against :/ needless to say that fail2ban isn't enough for this task... scripts for firewall too... and tiring to make as hackers responses are damn' fast to this

Re: Bookworm Fasttrack and Virtualbox

2024-03-14 Thread Jean-François Bachelet
Hello :) Le 15/03/2024 à 00:26, Miguel A. Vallejo a écrit : Hello! This evening I tried to install virtualbox into a fresh Bookworm install. I followed the steps in Virtualbox's Debian Wiki entry. After set up fasttrack repository successfully and issue a apt install virtualbox command I get

Re: Debian 12, Pyzor, Razor, DCC?

2024-04-08 Thread Jean-François Bachelet
Hello :) Le 08/04/2024 à 14:40, Michael Grant a écrit : I have built dcc myself from their most recent source.  I guess I could send that to whoever wants it, or the debian dir. cool :) that would be kind and usefull to see :) thanks Michael Grant -- Original Message -- From "Marc

Re: CD/DVD is obsolete or deprecate at 2025?

2024-06-18 Thread Jean-François Bachelet
Hello ^^) Le 18/06/2024 à 03:00, Stefan Monnier a écrit : Is there a chance to change in next versions i.e. Debain 13 or other versions an assembly specifically for a USB flash drive as primary download? Do you think the time has come? When do you think this moment will happen? AFAIK, all the

Re: VirtualBox (VB) and Windows on Debian

2024-07-16 Thread Jean-François Bachelet
Le 16/07/2024 à 16:31, jeremy ardley a écrit : VirtualBox is not supported on Debian 12. why ? I use it daily and it works well on my debian 12... There are alternatives that include: - KVM/QEMU - VMWare Workstation Pro (which is now free for private use) cool ! will try it too :)

Re: problem with fwlogwatch.service (debian 12)

2024-11-20 Thread Jean-François Bachelet
Hello Marial :) Le 20/11/2024 à 20:16, Darac Marjal a écrit : On Wed, Nov 20, 2024 at 05:35:58PM +0100, Jean-François Bachelet wrote: [cut] 'systemctl status fwlogwatch.service' : fwlogwatch.service - Firewall log analyzer Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/fwlogwat

Re: problem with fwlogwatch.service (debian 12)

2024-11-20 Thread Jean-François Bachelet
Hello Tomas :) Le 20/11/2024 à 13:38, to...@tuxteam.de a écrit : On Wed, Nov 20, 2024 at 01:19:24PM +0100, Jean-François Bachelet wrote: Hello folks :) I got a machine to look at, so I've issued a 'systemctl status' and see a 'degraded' state. so I've done a &

problem with fwlogwatch.service (debian 12)

2024-11-20 Thread Jean-François Bachelet
Hello folks :) I got a machine to look at, so I've issued a 'systemctl status' and see a 'degraded' state. so I've done a 'systemctl status --failed' and see that 'fwlogwatch.service' was never started and shows 'exit code' as reasons... looking at the logs it appears it has never started f

Re: BD backup?

2024-11-16 Thread Jean-François Bachelet
hello :) Le 16/11/2024 à 18:47, Arno Lehmann a écrit : Hi, Am 16.11.2024 um 18:36 schrieb Eben King: My wife bought a Blu-ray disk at a library sale, and now I need to transcode its contents and stick them on the media server so we can watch it. So, I did the naïve thing and tried to read i

Re: sources.list for Mozilla VPN

2024-12-10 Thread Jean-François Bachelet
Hello :) Le 10/12/2024 à 19:41, Andy Smith a écrit : Hi, On Mon, Dec 09, 2024 at 12:30:01PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: Can someone tell what to add to sources.list to get mozillavpn (sid) I think you would be better off asking Mozilla how to install software they make, as this is not packaged

Re: OT: Possible memory leak in an exercise of a C handbook

2024-12-17 Thread Jean-François Bachelet
Hello :) Le 17/12/2024 à 12:20, Anssi Saari a écrit : Franco Martelli writes: I'd prefer a mailing-list instead, once finished all the exercises, I'd like to looking for somebody that he has my same handbook and to ask him for exchange the exercises for comparison purpose. Just curious, whi

[SOLVED] Re: problem with fwlogwatch.service (debian 12)

2024-11-21 Thread Jean-François Bachelet
Hello Michel ^^) Le 21/11/2024 à 08:33, Michel Verdier a écrit : On 2024-11-20, Jean-François Bachelet wrote: I might be reading this wrong, but the "ExecStart" command is a shell script which basically says "if the $START_DAEMON variable does not equal 'true', the

Re: What is going on with firefox

2025-01-14 Thread Jean-François Bachelet
hello :) Le 13/01/2025 à 16:18, Daniel Harris a écrit : 12 Gen i9 processor 16 core 24 threads 64GB ram onboard intel Alderlake GT1 gpu should be sufficient to run firefox pretty well with not many tabs running and light cpu usage and lots of free mem. sure :) btw, you need to install noscr

Re: case fan speed

2025-04-15 Thread Jean-François Bachelet
Hello Eben :) Le 13/04/2025 à 22:15, Eben King a écrit : I have a video card which has fans (GTX 970) on Debian Bookworm (12.10).  Unfortunately the card is broken in such a way that the fans almost never work, and I can't afford to replace it with one that isn't broken.  Changing the GPU's inte

Re: pdfarranger and update-alternatives

2025-03-05 Thread Jean-François Bachelet
Hello :) Le 05/03/2025 à 12:46, Gerard ROBIN a écrit : Hello, I use Bookworm and Trixie. With Bookworm no problem when I click on "file:///home/user/file.png" the file file.png opens with display (imagemagick) but with Trixie it is pdfarranger that opens the file. I put pdfarranger in the displa

problem with debian 12.11 and session control...

2025-05-20 Thread Jean-François Bachelet
Hello folks ^^) I've a little problem that's bugging me : each time I reboot my machine I have all sort of stuff that open open (multiple Dolphin, firefox, etc...) but all this was closed thoroughly before reboot, and the '.config/session/' folder completely emptied. before, emptying this