Re: Lenovo laptop - Type Control D to Continue

2009-03-13 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Jimmy Johnson wrote: Hey Guy's I have Lenovo laptop, new "Lenny install" and I'm having to type control+d to continue boot, I looked at "dmesg" and I can't make what the problem is, so I post and maybe someone can figure the problem. If more info is needed

Re: Lenovo laptop - Type Control D to Continue

2009-03-14 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Thorny wrote: On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 17:47:13 -0700, Jimmy Johnson wrote: Jimmy Johnson wrote: Hey Guy's I have Lenovo laptop, new "Lenny install" and I'm having to type control+d to continue boot, I looked at "dmesg" and I can't make what the problem is, so

Re: nvidia problems after upgrade

2009-03-15 Thread Jimmy Johnson
want to use: www.mepis.org/docs/en/index.php/Smxi so far it's worked for me on Lenny, Squeeze and Sid for both ATI & nVidia. I did get a report that it did not work for a Voodoo Graphics card though. -- Jimmy Johnson Bakersfield, CA. U.S.A. Registered Linux User #380263 K.I.S.S. (Keep it

Re: SOLVED, sortof... Re: I'm rather embarrassed to even be asking this...

2009-03-15 Thread Jimmy Johnson
IOS", but if you do decide to try it, make sure you have back-up copy of your old BIOS on a Flash Drive. :) -- Jimmy Johnson Bakersfield, CA. U.S.A. Registered Linux User #380263 K.I.S.S. (Keep it simple stupid) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: How do I Install your Linux operating system.

2009-03-15 Thread Jimmy Johnson
caleb rodgers wrote: Hey how do I Install your Linux operating system Go here http://goodbye-microsoft.com/ and download and install debian.exe, that's all you need to do. -- Jimmy Johnson Bakersfield, CA. U.S.A. Registered Linux User #380263 K.I.S.S. (Keep it simple stupid)

Re: Hello sir

2009-03-15 Thread Jimmy Johnson
"2240dcac38e8aaadfbb670506eb7323a" -- Jimmy Johnson Bakersfield, CA. U.S.A. Registered Linux User #380263 K.I.S.S. (Keep it simple stupid) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: install from tiny CD

2009-03-15 Thread Jimmy Johnson
n the debian.iso as a bootable cd. Here's a good guide for burning an .iso in Windows: www.mepis.org/docs/en/index.php/Burning_MEPIS_CD_in_Windows Here's a good guide for burning an .iso in Linux: www.mepis.org/docs/en/index.php/Burning_MEPIS_CD_in_Linux -- Jimmy Johnson Bakersf

Re: External USB HD showing up late in /dev

2009-03-18 Thread Jimmy Johnson
4e-0ad185e47b9f /home/jimmy/2-Linux ext3 users,atime,auto,rw,nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0 First as Superuser I use the command "blkid" to get the UUID's. -- Jimmy Johnson Bakersfield, CA. U.S.A. Registered Linux User #380263 K.I.S.S. (Keep it simple stupid) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: DVD authoring

2009-03-23 Thread Jimmy Johnson
ne got any suggestions ? Take a look at "DeVeDe" it's in the repos and here's a link for more info: www.rastersoft.com/programas/devede.html -- Jimmy Johnson Bakersfield, CA. U.S.A. Registered Linux User #380263 K.I.S.S. (Keep it simple stupid) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: Iceweasel: Can't find helper application

2009-03-23 Thread Jimmy Johnson
the plug in, wish I could help more but I'm not using my Debian at the moment to search this for you. -- Jimmy Johnson Bakersfield, CA. U.S.A. Registered Linux User #380263 K.I.S.S. (Keep it simple stupid) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: lenny reinstall

2009-03-24 Thread Jimmy Johnson
ave it formated (this is good if you have /home on the /root partition), as for /home you do not need to format, if you want a clean install it's best to let the installer format all the partitions. The /swap will be auto-formated, you have no choice. -- Jimmy Johnson Bakersfield, CA

Sid/unstable+mozilla-mplayer

2009-03-24 Thread Jimmy Johnson
mark mozilla-mplayer for removal. Only in Synaptic is it showing as obsolete. -- Jimmy Johnson Bakersfield, CA. U.S.A. Registered Linux User #380263 K.I.S.S. (Keep it simple stupid) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

Re: Sid/unstable+mozilla-mplayer

2009-03-24 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Jimmy Johnson wrote: On my latest Sid/unstable update I see that mozilla-mplayer is now marked as obsolete, dose anybody have any info as way it's getting marked obsolete? apt-get -u dist-upgrade gave me no info nor did it mark mozilla-mplayer for removal. aptitude full-upgrade gave

Re: Illogical drives?

2009-03-27 Thread Jimmy Johnson
o view your drives/partitions usage while using a GUI application. Note: KDF will only show partitions correctly written to fstab and connected USB drives while GParted will show all working drive/partitions connected to your computer mounted or not. -- Jimmy Johnson Bakersfield, CA. U.S.A. Regi

Re: Linux server power cut

2009-03-30 Thread Jimmy Johnson
hadi motamedi wrote: Dear All Can you please technically let me know why the Linux servers suffer from sudden power cut ? Using a Live CD such as Mepis or even the GParted Live CD to "check your partitions" may solve your problem. -- Jimmy Johnson Bakersfield, CA. U.S.A. Regist

Re: GRUB "Error 18" booting lenny

2009-04-16 Thread Jimmy Johnson
s now a boot option on all Debian install cd's. -- Jimmy Johnson Bakersfield, CA. U.S.A. Registered Linux User #380263 K.I.S.S. (Keep it simple stupid) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Sid+KDE4+scrollkeeper

2009-05-11 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Careful, Scrollkeeper is now obsolete and needed for Synaptic. -- Jimmy Johnson Debian GNU/Linux Sid KDE4 64-Bit Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: no sound

2009-06-10 Thread Jimmy Johnson
s", then reboot. -- Jimmy Johnson Bakersfield, CA. U.S.A. Registered Linux User #380263 K.I.S.S. (Keep it simple stupid) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Sid+KDE4+scrollkeeper (SOLVED)

2009-06-10 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Jimmy Johnson wrote: Careful, Scrollkeeper is now obsolete and needed for Synaptic. This problem has been dealt with, if you install "rarian-compat" it will replace "scrollkeeper". -- Jimmy Johnson Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: no sound

2009-06-10 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Wed,10.Jun.09, 10:42:23, Jimmy Johnson wrote: Make sure you also have these two files installed, "alsa-oss" and Why would alsa-oss be necessary? Regards, Andrei I also have intel audio device and was searching for "no sound" problem and f

Re: equivalent to mepis-network

2009-06-13 Thread Jimmy Johnson
ot in Lenny. If you add the Lenny backports you can get wicd: www.backports.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=instructions or using wget from the wicd home page: http://wicd.sourceforge.net/download.php -- Jimmy Johnson Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: Debian Etch r8 64bit installation problem

2009-06-25 Thread Jimmy Johnson
you check the md5sum of the downloaded iso file and the burned cd? -- Jimmy Johnson Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: etch-to-lenny upgrade problem...

2009-06-29 Thread Jimmy Johnson
long when I say that sorting the little problems that may pop-up are fun too and a feeling of accomplishment after the problem is solved. :) -- Jimmy Johnson Bakersfield, CA. U.S.A. Registered Linux User #380263 K.I.S.S. (Keep it simple stupid) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@l

Re: etch-to-lenny upgrade problem...

2009-06-29 Thread Jimmy Johnson
art of the installer, even if /home is not on a separate partition, works a treat. -- Jimmy Johnson Bakersfield, CA. U.S.A. Registered Linux User #380263 K.I.S.S. (Keep it simple stupid) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe&q

Re: Gmail filtering. NOT OT

2009-06-29 Thread Jimmy Johnson
this I will never see the response. That is exactly the problem. Thanks! In gmail you have a folder named "All Mail" use it and you will see your replies, after all they are Sent Mail and that is how gmail handles it. -- Jimmy Johnson Bakersfield, CA. U.S.A. Registered Linux User #3802

Re: Booting 5 OSes? Is this possible?

2009-06-30 Thread Jimmy Johnson
and don't forget to make a swap partition, one or two GB's for swap will be more than enough. The layout would be Windows, Windows, Windows and the the extended partition, swap, Linux, Linux and then the shared partition/s. 5) Any special tips? Nope, sounds like you have it all fi

Re: OT: Re: Gmail filtering. NOT OT

2009-06-30 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Steve Lamb wrote: Steve Kemp wrote: Seriously this is way off-topic for the list. Yeah, you couldn't be more wrong on that. I always giggle when someone tries to declare something OT here. Lemme know how that works out for you. ;) Steve, Real men don't giggle. ;

Re: ThinkPad freezing after hw update?

2009-07-02 Thread Jimmy Johnson
n go to the Kmenu, System, Mepis, Mepis System Assistant and check and repair your partitions. It also has the tools needed for most computer maintenance like Testdisk, GParted etc and good to have in your toolbox. -- Jimmy Johnson Bakersfield, CA. U.S.A. Registered Linux User #380263

Re: ThinkPad freezing after hw update?

2009-07-03 Thread Jimmy Johnson
I don't see the 1.07, maybe check this page and re-flash the BIOS. Also they have some tools to test your system. -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Etch at sda14 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: ThinkPad freezing after hw update?

2009-07-03 Thread Jimmy Johnson
I don't see the 1.07, maybe check this page and re-flash the BIOS. Also they have some tools to test your system. -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Etch at sda14 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: KDE and Squeeze

2010-03-10 Thread Jimmy Johnson
e advanced tab, leave out the above quotes and when you're done just click Save. In konqueror you will need to set it up the way you like by using the settings tab, configure konqueror, general, use common view properties for all folders and then save you settings to filemanagement. -- Jimmy

Re: editing grub in lenny to boot from ext4 partition

2010-03-10 Thread Jimmy Johnson
entry in /mnt/boot/grub/grub.cfg to /etc/grub.d/40_custom 3. run update-grub (it should say that it detects the other os's kernel) 4. new entries for that os will be appended in /boot/grub/grub.cfg Another way to boot an ext4 system is to add 'rootfstype=ext4' t

Re: upgrade from 7 to testing no longer possible

2014-10-06 Thread Jimmy Johnson
de-system'. Good luck. -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Sid - KDE 4.14.1 - AMD64 - EXT4 at sda14 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https

Re: GR proposed re: choice of init systems

2014-10-17 Thread Jimmy Johnson
ystemlog' broke, bug reports filed and ignored and now I know why and 'it' should not be in Jessie. -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Squeeze - KDE 4.4.5 - AMD64 - EXT4 at sda10 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subjec

Re: GR proposed re: choice of init systems

2014-10-17 Thread Jimmy Johnson
see who actually steps up to the plate to do all of the extra work. Especially amongst all of those pledged seconds. I hope someone is keeping a list. :) Ric What's the hurry, Squeeze is good until 2016, we have plenty of time to test other init-systems. -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Sq

Re: GR proposed re: choice of init systems

2014-10-17 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 10/17/2014 08:44 PM, Ric Moore wrote: On 10/17/2014 10:22 PM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: What's the hurry, Squeeze is good until 2016, we have plenty of time to test other init-systems. You use KDE. Where you there when KDE3 became KDE4 and broke our hearts? What a flame fest that was

Re: GR proposed re: choice of init systems

2014-10-17 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 10/17/2014 10:12 PM, Steve Litt wrote: On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 21:59:44 -0700 Jimmy Johnson wrote: On 10/17/2014 08:44 PM, Ric Moore wrote: On 10/17/2014 10:22 PM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: What's the hurry, Squeeze is good until 2016, we have plenty of time to test other init-systems.

Re: GR proposed re: choice of init systems

2014-10-17 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 10/17/2014 10:06 PM, Steve Litt wrote: On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 18:52:32 -0700 Jimmy Johnson wrote: On 10/17/2014 07:54 AM, Rusi Mody wrote: On Friday, October 17, 2014 8:00:02 PM UTC+5:30, Rob Owens wrote: - Original Message - Now let's see what happens with this!

Re: GR proposed re: choice of init systems

2014-10-18 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 10/17/2014 10:26 PM, Doug wrote: On 10/18/2014 12:59 AM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: /snip/ I think that depends on what solution you propose, smart people listen. AMEN! I can say that I long ago upgraded to Jessie/systemd so that I could be the first to yell about it. I'm still lo

Re: libjpeg mess in testing

2014-10-19 Thread Jimmy Johnson
same with my two Jessie systems and got past it, the first was harder and the second was easy..Have you tried 'aptitude -f install'? -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Sid - KDE 4.14.1 - AMD64 - EXT4 at sda14 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.

Re: download files from iceweasel using kdialog

2014-10-19 Thread Jimmy Johnson
kdialog to choose the file location when I try to download something? Have you made your settings in 'Paths', KDE/'systemsetting'/'Account Details'? -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Sid - KDE 4.14.1 - AMD64 - EXT4 at sda14 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: download files from iceweasel using kdialog

2014-10-19 Thread Jimmy Johnson
kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 12:40 PM, Jimmy Johnson mailto:field.engin...@gmail.com>> wrote: kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: When I download a file via chromium, it uses kdialog to figure out where the file is supposed to be stored on the disk.

Re: GR proposed re: choice of init systems

2014-10-19 Thread Jimmy Johnson
;t blame you for moving out of the way, maybe some pieces will be left and you will still be here to help put them pieces back together again, or something new and better will come along, have faith my friend. -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Sid - KDE 4.14.1 - AMD64 - EXT4 at sda14 Registered Linux Us

linux-image-3.16-3-amd64

2014-10-19 Thread Jimmy Johnson
No 'linux-headers-amd64' or 'linux-image-amd64' packages are available for the new kernel(linux-image-3.16-3-amd64). -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Sid - KDE 4.14.1 - AMD64 - EXT4 at sda14 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian

Re: linux-image-3.16-3-amd64

2014-10-19 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Sven Joachim wrote: On 2014-10-19 20:46 +0200, Jimmy Johnson wrote: No 'linux-headers-amd64' or 'linux-image-amd64' packages are available for the new kernel(linux-image-3.16-3-amd64). You had better report this on the debian-kernel mailinglist, or file a bug report (repo

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-20 Thread Jimmy Johnson
y X-wife. So, what would you all propose? For a server? Or for a user desktop? Or something that fulfills both scenarios? And why? Just wondering. See above and unless you are a tester or developer you may want to roll-back to Squeeze. -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Squeeze - KDE 4.4.5 - A

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-21 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 10/21/2014 01:03 AM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Am Montag, 20. Oktober 2014, 19:49:43 schrieb Jimmy Johnson: So, what would you all propose? For a server? Or for a user desktop? Or something that fulfills both scenarios? And why? Just wondering. See above and unless you are a tester or

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-22 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Martin Steigerwald wrote: Am Montag, 20. Oktober 2014, 19:49:43 schrieb Jimmy Johnson: So, what would you all propose? For a server? Or for a user desktop? Or something that fulfills both scenarios? And why? Just wondering. See above and unless you are a tester or developer you may want

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-22 Thread Jimmy Johnson
do things that weren't even around (or dreamt of) at its inception. And it still works and is completely customizable. Wow! Just maybe I can get by using it for a couple more years. -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Squeeze - KDE 4.4.5 - AMD64 - EXT4 at sda11 Registered Linux User #380263 --

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-22 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Martin Steigerwald wrote: Hi Jimmy, Am Mittwoch, 22. Oktober 2014, 09:17:16 schrieb Jimmy Johnson: Martin Steigerwald wrote: Am Montag, 20. Oktober 2014, 19:49:43 schrieb Jimmy Johnson: So, what would you all propose? For a server? Or for a user desktop? Or something that fulfills both

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-22 Thread Jimmy Johnson
fear of that come from? Martin, "fear"..I have no fear..but I'm not naive ether and taking this subject any further on list I will not do, but you are welcome to contact me off list. -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Squeeze - KDE 4.4.5 - AMD64 - EXT4 at sda11 Registered Linux User

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-22 Thread Jimmy Johnson
where posting off list. -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Squeeze - KDE 4.4.5 - AMD64 - EXT4 at sda11 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.

Re: Systemd and Unix

2014-11-04 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 11/04/2014 08:06 PM, Gary Dale wrote: I've got a problem with sysvinit on one machine running Wheezy.. Would you mind telling us what the problem is? -- Jimmy Johnson Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subje

Re: Systemd and Unix

2014-11-05 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 11/05/2014 06:30 AM, Gary Dale wrote: On 05/11/14 12:54 AM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: On 11/04/2014 08:06 PM, Gary Dale wrote: I've got a problem with sysvinit on one machine running Wheezy.. Would you mind telling us what the problem is? I already did a couple of days ago on this

Re: Debian-Live 7.6.0 usb username & password?

2014-11-06 Thread Jimmy Johnson
. You can switch to root with sudo -i or set a password for root with sudo passwd. -- Jimmy Johnson Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Arch

Re: Debian-Live 7.6.0 usb username & password?

2014-11-06 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 11/06/2014 02:56 PM, Joel Rees wrote: On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 7:19 AM, Jimmy Johnson <420.christian.sin...@gmail.com> wrote: On 11/06/2014 11:15 AM, m...@raseone.com wrote: Someone likes confusing usernames. :-P Hello, I am attempting to run Debian-Live 7.6.0 from a usb drive (v

Re: Debian-Live 7.6.0 usb username & password?

2014-11-06 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 11/06/2014 03:13 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Thursday 06 November 2014 22:19:17 Jimmy Johnson wrote: On 11/06/2014 11:15 AM, m...@raseone.com wrote: and I am unable to log in to the default user or root account. There is not any root password. You can switch to root with sudo -i or

Re: Debian-Live 7.6.0 usb username & password?

2014-11-07 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 11/07/2014 01:06 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Thursday 06 November 2014 23:39:06 Jimmy Johnson wrote: On 11/06/2014 03:13 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Thursday 06 November 2014 22:19:17 Jimmy Johnson wrote: On 11/06/2014 11:15 AM, m...@raseone.com wrote: and I am unable to log in to the

Re: USB problem, hardware issue?

2014-11-20 Thread Jimmy Johnson
have experience with this? thanks, Do you have a liveOS on a cd/usb you can run as a test? -- Jimmy Johnson Debian - Wheezy - KDE 4.8.4 - AMD64 - EXT4 at sda1 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: Q: wheezy: how to increase X resolution?

2014-11-20 Thread Jimmy Johnson
pretty much at a brick wall at this point. Doc Evans I'm an advocate for Easy-Linux and install my video driver using the smxi script, sometimes I need to run it twice to get the xorg.conf correct but it never fails me, I use nvidia driver, but it should work for you too. http://smxi.

Re: USB problem, hardware issue?

2014-11-20 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 11/20/2014 03:38 PM, Joel Roth wrote: On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 12:56:31PM -0800, Jimmy Johnson wrote: On 11/20/2014 12:24 PM, Joel Roth wrote: Dear List, I started noticing a delay between when I start moving the mouse on my T410 (running sid), and when the cursor actually starts to move. I

Re: Debian fork: 'Devuan', Debian without Systemd

2014-12-04 Thread Jimmy Johnson
al system tasks. First Squeeze has to get upgraded to Wheezy without any systemd components and then upgrade Wheezy to Jessie without systemd. -- Jimmy Johnson Debian - Wheezy - KDE 4.8.4 - AMD64 - EXT4 at sda1 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debi

Re: Installing Linux on a Mac Mini without OSX

2014-12-04 Thread Jimmy Johnson
o next to troubleshoot/fix this? > > Another random question: > The installer gave me the choice of installing Grub on the partition or on the > Master Boot Record. Which of these should I choose? Installing to the MBR should fix your booting problems. -- Jimmy Johnson D

Re: Installing Linux on a Mac Mini without OSX

2014-12-04 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 12/04/2014 09:25 PM, Brian Sammon wrote: On Thu, 04 Dec 2014 20:34:22 -0800 Jimmy Johnson wrote: Installing to the MBR should fix your booting problems. This brings to mind another question/issue: I need to educate myself on how MBRs work on EFI machines. Questions such as: When it says

Re: Random X crash

2014-12-04 Thread Jimmy Johnson
install firmware-linux* too, if not already installed. -- Jimmy Johnson Debian - Wheezy - KDE 4.8.4 - AMD64 - EXT4 at sda1 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.

Re: basic fstab .. pilot idiocy??

2014-08-06 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Jimmy Johnson wrote: Harry Putnam wrote: Trying to do a simple edit to fstab but keep failing. I want to mount a device in such a way that it ends up with uid and gid of my choice. But when I attempt to add those options (or any others it seems) the mount fails with this error: # mount

Re: Debian Jessie Release

2014-08-10 Thread Jimmy Johnson
oing to be handled? -- Jimmy Johnson Debian-Live - Wheezy - KDE 4.8.4 - AMD64 - EXT4 at sda1 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: cannot find public key for verifying SHASUM file for debian live iso

2014-08-10 Thread Jimmy Johnson
his was not the outcome I was hoping for, but I am not sure what to do next. I've always have good luck using the md5sum, open the console where the .iso is and type:$'md5sum debian-live-7.6.0-amd64-standard.iso' ,it's fast and easy. :) -- Jimmy Johnson Debian-Live - Wheezy

Re: Debian Jessie Release

2014-08-10 Thread Jimmy Johnson
is the current stable and Jessie is the current testing, so yes Jessie will be the new stable release. -- Jimmy Johnson Debian-Live - Wheezy - KDE 4.8.4 - AMD64 - EXT4 at sda1 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "u

Sid running systemd.

2014-08-11 Thread Jimmy Johnson
I checked my Sid system and see it's already running systemd, and all required packages are installed, so I pulled the plug on sysvinit(completely removed) and it still boots. :) -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Sid - KDE 4.13.3 - AMD64 - EXT4 at sda14 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBS

Re: How to install qt5 on Wheezy, and is that even a good idea?

2014-08-22 Thread Jimmy Johnson
w the only app that is going to use the package I installed is the app that requires that package. So it seems to me that installing gt5 is a safe move if it's needed by the app you want to use. -- Jimmy Johnson Debian-Live - Wheezy - KDE 4.8.4 - AMD64 - EXT4 at sda1 Registered Linux

Re: embrace, extend, extinguish

2014-09-01 Thread Jimmy Johnson
ght Wheezy, two Jessie, one Sid and one Squeeze, I'm always running other distros too and I'm watching.. -- Jimmy Johnson Debian-Live - Wheezy - KDE 4.8.4 - AMD64 - EXT4 at sda1 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a sub

Re: embrace, extend, extinguish

2014-09-02 Thread Jimmy Johnson
, who took the decision to support systemd on democratic, and non-emotional grounds. I don't know whether that decision was, or was not, the right one, but I'm certainly not going to be belly-aching after the event. Maybe you should do some reading and maybe run Debian testing htt

Re: embrace, extend, extinguish

2014-09-02 Thread Jimmy Johnson
d-login0' and imposable to remove, somebody correct me if I'm wrong..please! -- Jimmy Johnson Debian-Live - Wheezy - KDE 4.8.4 - AMD64 - EXT4 at sda1 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: Upgrading to Jessie

2014-09-19 Thread Jimmy Johnson
install but do not format '/'. Just another way to do an install keeping all on one partition. -- Jimmy Johnson Debian-Live - Wheezy - KDE 4.8.4 - AMD64 - EXT4 at sda1 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Good News from debian-multimedia

2011-03-01 Thread Jimmy Johnson
22/02/2011 : Finaly I'm trying to restore Oldstable/Lenny. Should be finished tonigth or tomorrow. Sorry -- Jimmy Johnson SimplyMEPIS 11.0 Beta-2 at sda12 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: Good News from debian-multimedia

2011-03-01 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Lisi wrote: On Tuesday 01 March 2011 16:58:59 Jimmy Johnson wrote: 22/02/2011 : Finaly I'm trying to restore Oldstable/Lenny. Should be finished tonigth or tomorrow. Sorry Thanks for the work, Jimmy. I look forward to uncommenting my multimedia sources! Lisi if you want you can thi

Re: NTP-Server no longer available in Squeeze?

2011-03-01 Thread Jimmy Johnson
check to Internet server and set the time at each boot. It's in your Debian repos. -- Jimmy Johnson SimplyMEPIS 11.0 Beta-2 at sda12 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact li

Re: NTP-Server no longer available in Squeeze?

2011-03-01 Thread Jimmy Johnson
John Hasler wrote: Jimmy Johnson writes: Instead of the 'ntp' server what you probably want is 'ntpdate' installed... Ntpdate is deprecated. ...it's the client... It is a client, and a very limited one. Ntpd is both client and server. Use it or Chrony.

Re: Debian 6 uninstallable?

2011-03-01 Thread Jimmy Johnson
, the netinstall will give an internet connection and the base install only. -- Jimmy Johnson SimplyMEPIS 11.0 Beta-2 at sda12 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@l

Re: Debian 6 uninstallable?

2011-03-02 Thread Jimmy Johnson
ke an iso from the cd. -- Jimmy Johnson Kubuntu 10.10 - KDE 4.6.0 at sda9 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4d6e9ea3.30...@gmail.com

Re: Revert to lenny's grub

2011-03-02 Thread Jimmy Johnson
egacy, next run 'grub-update /dev/sdax' (x being the partition number) and it will create a new menu.lst. But the error 15 is probably a wrong UUID, you can check that by running as root 'blkid' and check the UUID you get against fstab and the menu.lst. -- Jimmy Johnson

Re: Revert to lenny's grub

2011-03-03 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Tom H wrote: On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: The way to do that is to first remove grub-pc and it will cleanup grub for you, remember not to reboot yet ;-), then make sure you have a /etc/boot/grub folder, now install grub-legacy, next run 'grub-update /dev/sdax'

Re: Revert to lenny's grub

2011-03-03 Thread Jimmy Johnson
George wrote: On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 7:10 AM, Tom H wrote: On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: The way to do that is to first remove grub-pc and it will cleanup grub for you, remember not to reboot yet ;-), then make sure you have a /etc/boot/grub folder, now install grub

Re: X starts only after rebooting

2011-03-11 Thread Jimmy Johnson
first when the problem happens and then when it does not. Have you installed nvidia-settings and run nvidia-xconfig and then run nvidia-settings and then run gksu nvidia-settings and save to xorg.conf? -- Jimmy Johnson SimplyMEPIS 8.5 - AMD 64 - EXT4 at sda5 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: AW: Virus

2011-03-19 Thread Jimmy Johnson
bian.org/ a lot of what I'm seeing is coming from Ubuntu, personally I don't care for most of what I'm seeing, like the auto updater and the sources list helper application, but they can be removed. ;-) -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Wheezy - KDE 4.5.2 at sda8 Registered Linux User #380

Re: Upgrade to Squeeze and KDE

2011-03-19 Thread Jimmy Johnson
ntu 10.04 LTS. http://apt.pearsoncomputing.net/cdimages/index_old.html -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Wheeze - KDE 4.5.2 at sda8 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Ar

Re: Upgrade to Squeeze and KDE

2011-03-19 Thread Jimmy Johnson
s in a root terminal: Code: chown root $(which ntfs-3g) chmod 4755 $(which ntfs-3g) note that setuid root has a security risk...It's the old convenience versus security struggle." -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Wheeze - KDE 4.5.3 at sda8 Registered Linux Us

Re: Upgrade to Squeeze and KDE

2011-03-20 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Ubuntu also has KDE 4.6.1, just thought I'd let you know. -- Jimmy Johnson Kubuntu 10.10 - AMD64 - EXT4 - KDE 4.6.1 at sda9 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Using 2nd monitor with Stretch and MATE desktop

2017-05-09 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 05/09/2017 11:15 PM, Johann Spies wrote: arandr is a graphical frontend to xrandr. Johann Yep! -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Sid/Testing - Plasma 5.8.6 - Intel I5-3320M - EXT4 at sda8 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: improving the UX with the default KDE installation

2017-05-18 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Kaffeine I install SMplayer. -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Wheezy - KDE 4.8.4 - Intel G3220 - EXT4 at sda7 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust

2017-05-19 Thread Jimmy Johnson
apped a while back. I hadn't stopped to nose around about it until just yesterday. This might not work for your problem, but I found mine are now at /usr/share/images/desktop-base/. All the system wallpaper installed can be found in /usr/share/wallpaper. I use a photo viewer to browse that

Re: (OT) problem with unknown software

2017-05-19 Thread Jimmy Johnson
nn English Hi Glenn, have you looked at this using gparted, maybe you can get some info there, also is this partition/drive in fstab? Does #blkid give you any info? -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Stretch - Plasma 5.8.6 - EXT4 at sda11 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: (OT) problem with unknown software

2017-05-19 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 05/19/2017 05:34 PM, Glenn English wrote: On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 10:37 PM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: Hi Glenn, have you looked at this using gparted, maybe you can get some info there, Just looked. gparted says sdd exists and that it, and the other disks on this machine, all look normal

Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust

2017-05-19 Thread Jimmy Johnson
of testing and not something you would expect from a stable system which Stretch is not, yet. As I told Cindy, you can find the installed wallpaper in /usr/share/wallpaper. -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Sid/Testing - KDE Plasma 5.8.6 - Intel E5300 - EXT4 at sda15 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

2017-05-21 Thread Jimmy Johnson
g the files you can save /home. But now you need to look at that drive with a partition editor like gparted, maybe use a live-cd with gparted installed OR the wheezy live disc will let you install gparted. -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Sid/Testing - Plasma 5.8.6 - EXT4 at sda15 Registered Linux

Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

2017-05-21 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 05/21/2017 12:57 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 21/05/2017 à 09:55, Jimmy Johnson a écrit : No, you should NOT have deleted the partition, now your partition table is messed up. Bullshit. This is just a Gnome error. Unless you are deleting the last partition your partition table is

Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

2017-05-21 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 05/21/2017 03:25 AM, Michael Milliman wrote: On 05/21/2017 05:09 AM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: On 05/21/2017 12:57 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 21/05/2017 à 09:55, Jimmy Johnson a écrit : No, you should NOT have deleted the partition, now your partition table is messed up. Bullshit. This

Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

2017-05-21 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 05/21/2017 08:48 AM, Michael Milliman wrote: On 05/21/2017 05:48 AM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: On 05/21/2017 03:25 AM, Michael Milliman wrote: On 05/21/2017 05:09 AM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: On 05/21/2017 12:57 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 21/05/2017 à 09:55, Jimmy Johnson a écrit : No

Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

2017-05-21 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 05/21/2017 12:52 PM, Michael Milliman wrote: On 05/21/2017 12:23 PM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: However, the OP's post does not mention anything of this nature. The OP deleted the existing Debian partition(s) leaving the existing Windows partition(s) alone. No mention was made o

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