Debian 11 bullseye - will it work on 12th gen core i3-12100?

2022-04-25 Thread R. Ramesh
Hi,   My age old intel NUC with pentium N3700 is sick and needs replacement. I am interested in building one based on core i3-12100 cpu. It has intel UHD 730 per my quick check. Is this CPU/GPU combo fully supported in debian 11/bullseye? I am looking to run the current setup as is on new

Which nvidia driver? xset +dpms issues. Is my video card dead/broken?

2022-02-26 Thread R. Ramesh
Hi,   A few weeks ago after my usual monthly update/upgrade, xset +dpms stopped working. Using dpms works as expected initially, but Xorg hangs after about 15min in to power save state. Everything else except the monitor works. I can ssh and reboot. Since then I have been disabling dpms. 1.

Re: Cannot install vlc on bullseye

2021-10-18 Thread R. Ramesh
The best expert opinion is fairly well summed up on the Debian wiki at https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian . The advice given above is fairly blunt and matter of fact because the users and developers on this list have seen this sort of thing lots

Re: Cannot install vlc on bullseye

2021-10-16 Thread R. Ramesh
On 10/16/21 2:20 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: R. Ramesh wrote: from deb-multimedia to make things work. I have kept it since. I have no desire to install older packages just because it is straight from debian vs. deb-multimedia. I expect those two repositories to be already aware of situation like

Re: Cannot install vlc on bullseye

2021-10-16 Thread R. Ramesh
On 10/16/21 12:43 AM, piorunz wrote: On 16/10/2021 06:32, R. Ramesh wrote: I was suspecting this, but did not know how to go about finding versions available vs. what is installed. As you point out my version of libpostproc55 is from debian whereas I need the newer version in deb-multimedia. I

Re: Cannot install vlc on bullseye

2021-10-15 Thread R. Ramesh
On 16/10/2021 04:52, R. Ramesh wrote: The following packages have unmet dependencies:  libpostproc55 : Depends: libavutil56 (= 7:4.3.2-0+deb11u2) but 10:4.4-dmo4+deb11u2 is to be installed  libswscale5 : Depends: libavutil56 (= 7:4.3.2-0+deb11u2) but 10:4.4-dmo4+deb11u2 is to be installed E

Cannot install vlc on bullseye

2021-10-15 Thread R. Ramesh
Hi,   I am trying to install vlc and I get this error n-lata [rramesh] 284 > apt -s install vlc NOTE: This is only a simulation!   apt needs root privileges for real execution.   Keep also in mind that locking is deactivated,   so don't depend on the relevance to the real current

Re: Minisforum X35G hangs on first boot. [Solved]

2021-03-26 Thread R. Ramesh
a question. are you installing using graphics mode or not? it not then the next bit might make a difference. all i can think of is that the hardware may be so new that buster may not work for some hardware reason. i suggest trying a netinst iso from the debian installer for the

Re: My X server not working. I think it cannot find /dev/dri/card0 [Solved]

2021-03-26 Thread R. Ramesh
On 3/26/21 4:50 PM, R. Ramesh wrote: Hi,   I installed debian buster on minisforum X35G with Core i3-1005G1. Install went through fine, but lightdm does not start up. Upon inspecting logs, I found out that X server does not startup for lightdm to use. Looking /var/log/Xorg.0.log, I see

My X server not working. I think it cannot find /dev/dri/card0

2021-03-26 Thread R. Ramesh
Hi,   I installed debian buster on minisforum X35G with Core i3-1005G1. Install went through fine, but lightdm does not start up. Upon inspecting logs, I found out that X server does not startup for lightdm to use. Looking /var/log/Xorg.0.log, I see these error messages yoda-mini

Re: Minisforum X35G hangs on first boot.

2021-03-26 Thread R. Ramesh
On 3/25/21 11:02 PM, R. Ramesh wrote: Hi,   I am trying to install debian buster (debian-10.8.0-amd64-netinst.iso) on minisforum X35G. This comes installed with windows 10. It has  Core i3-1005G1 cpu 16GB memory and 512 PCIe nvme SSD as far as I can tell. Everything during the install goes

Minisforum X35G hangs on first boot.

2021-03-25 Thread R. Ramesh
Hi,   I am trying to install debian buster (debian-10.8.0-amd64-netinst.iso) on minisforum X35G. This comes installed with windows 10. It has  Core i3-1005G1 cpu 16GB memory and 512 PCIe nvme SSD as far as I can tell. Everything during the install goes fine (warnings about some realtec NIC

Re: Re: aptitude safe-upgrade vs apt-get upgrade.

2020-10-26 Thread R. Ramesh
So, if you don't pin down the priority of deb-multimedia, virtually every audio- and video-related package on your system will be replaced with the deb-multimedia version, which for the sake of stability is very likely a bad idea. So it is safer to lower the priority of deb-multimedia and that of

Re: Raid 1 borked

2020-10-26 Thread R. Ramesh
Hi folks, So we're setting up a small server with a pair of 1 TB hard diskssectioned into 5x100GB Raid 1 partition pairs for data, with 400GB+reserved for future uses on each disk.I'm not sure what happened, we had the five pairs of disk partitions setup properly through the installer

Re: Re: aptitude safe-upgrade vs apt-get upgrade.

2020-10-26 Thread R. Ramesh
To resolve this, you might consider to create a file like e.g. /etc/apt/preferences.d/multimedia . Here the content of that file looks like: Package: * Pin: release o=Unofficial Multimedia Packages,n=buster Pin-Priority: 332 Package: * Pin: release o=Unofficial Multimedia

Re: Re: aptitude safe-upgrade vs apt-get upgrade.

2020-10-25 Thread R. Ramesh
To begin with, which distribution is it? In general, with Stable, it pretty much doesn't matter which tool is used. The kind of problems you have indicate Unstable or Testing. First, apt is pretty much apt-get, with different syntax and a few extra features. Aptitude can generally do a better

Re: Re: Re: Trouble with upgrading debian 7 (wheezy) (solved)

2020-09-02 Thread R. Ramesh
The expired keys do complicate life but my understanding of the rationale is that the limited key lifetime serves as a sort of contract regarding the integrity of the files. Once a release has been archived it does not fall under that promise from the project any more and so the expired keys

Re: Re: Trouble with upgrading debian 7 (wheezy) (solved)

2020-09-01 Thread R. Ramesh
That said, Wheezy is  *way*  too far away from Buster!  For example,  "Update in Place" is likely to fail, because of SystemD changes.  (Heck, I had trouble updating Stretch to Buster in Place, but some of that was User Error). I did think about fresh install, but every method has its

Re: Trouble with upgrading debian 7 (wheezy) (solved)

2020-09-01 Thread R. Ramesh
My attempts to upgrade to Jesse (8) did not work at all and all the information on the net seem old and not current that Buster is out and jesse is already archived. Anyway, after looking around, I made ddrescue copy of the current install disk (only 64GB, so easy) first and then directly

Trouble with upgrading debian 7 (wheezy)

2020-08-27 Thread R. Ramesh
I finally decided to move from debian 7 to 10. As a first step I wanted to upgrade to debian 8 (jesse) I changed all ftp.us.debian.org part in /etc/apt/sources.list to archive.debian.org and tried aptitude update and got the following error W: GPG error: http://archive.debian.org wheezy

Re: 64bit ext4 and kernel version compatibility

2020-01-09 Thread R. Ramesh
On 1/9/20 2:02 AM, Klaus Singvogel wrote: R. Ramesh wrote: I want to make sure that my current kernel version does not have any limitation to support 64bit ext4. Please consult the Kernel Wiki regarding Ext4: https://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page You will notice that Linux

Re: Re: 64bit ext4 and kernel version compatibility

2020-01-09 Thread R. Ramesh
On Thu, Jan 09, 2020 at 05:06:29PM +, Tixy wrote: > On Thu, 2020-01-09 at 14:35 +0300, Reco wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 08, 2020 at 06:08:16PM -0600, R. Ramesh wrote: > > > Before I get the source and build and update e2fsprogs and then the > > > file system, I want t

64bit ext4 and kernel version compatibility

2020-01-08 Thread R. Ramesh
Hi,   On my DVR, I am running fairly old version of kernel (3.13.0-132-generic, mythbuntu 14.04.5 LTS). I want to convert ext4 fs on this server to 64bit so that I can grow it past 16TB limit. At that time of installation (2014), e2fsprogs did not support 64bit fs.  Now it does. Before I get

Re: Re: kvm win8 guest audio is terrible.

2019-05-30 Thread R. Ramesh
More info needed: - HW (cpu, graphics, soundcard) Motherboard audio. I think it is realtek alc 887. - BIOS (cpu power-states) Guest cpu? Not sure how to answer this. I did not do anything special. My command looks something like this /usr/bin/kvm -usbdevice tablet -full-screen -localtime\

Re: Re: kvm win8 guest audio is terrible.

2019-05-30 Thread R. Ramesh
On 5/20/19 10:35 PM, David Christensen wrote: On 5/20/19 2:55 PM, R. Ramesh wrote: I created a fresh install of debian stretch amd64. In that I created a qemu/kvm guess install of win8. It only accepted hda as a valid sound card. All others show us without drivers. So, I am limited to only

kvm win8 gues audio is terrible.

2019-05-29 Thread R. Ramesh
I created a fresh install of debian stretch amd64. In that I created a qemu/kvm guess install of win8. It only accepted hda as a valid sound card. All others show us without drivers. So, I am limited to only HDA as -soundhw. Further HDA sounds so broken if I try to test with any sound file or

kvm win8 guest audio is terrible.

2019-05-20 Thread R. Ramesh
I created a fresh install of debian stretch amd64. In that I created a qemu/kvm guess install of win8. It only accepted hda as a valid sound card. All others show us without drivers. So, I am limited to only HDA as -soundhw. Further HDA sounds so broken if I try to test with any sound file or

kvm win8 gues audio is terrible.

2019-05-16 Thread R. Ramesh
I created a fresh install of debian stretch amd64. In that I created a qemu/kvm guess install of win8. It only accepted hda as a valid sound card. All others show us without drivers. So, I am limited to only HDA as -soundhw. Further HDA sounds so broken if I try to test with any sound file or

debian stretch tigervnc issues

2019-05-16 Thread R. Ramesh
Recently I got a nvme ssd and did a fresh install of debian stretch (amd64). In the new install, tigervnc is acting up. Commands like "vncconfig" and "vncserver" do not always work. Randomly, about half the time, commands just hang waiting for something and at other times they will exit

Re: Re: Please help me resize my ext4 file system to size > 16TB

2017-06-13 Thread R. Ramesh
> I am just looking for path of least resistance. That is why I asked if it That would be organizing your videos into N subdirectories and using new filesystems for some of those. Each single filesystem will be smaller than 16TB. If that works with your use case, you could do that now.

Re: Please help me resize my ext4 file system to size > 16TB

2017-06-13 Thread R. Ramesh
On 06/13/2017 10:48 AM, Doug wrote: On 06/12/2017 11:33 PM, R. Ramesh wrote: You implied you don't even have a backup of that data, which means you have exactly one chance of getting it right. This is a non-starter. First: you are warned to NEVER proceed with a filesystem resize before you

Re: Re: Please help me resize my ext4 file system to size > 16TB

2017-06-12 Thread R. Ramesh
You implied you don't even have a backup of that data, which means you have exactly one chance of getting it right. This is a non-starter. First: you are warned to NEVER proceed with a filesystem resize before you have a valid, current, and *tested* backup. You are also warned that the ext4

Re: Re: How to delay resume after suspend to get disks ready, using kernel command line switch?

2017-06-12 Thread R. Ramesh
> Problem: > > I am having a problem with ubuntu 14.04 resume from suspend. I suspect a > race condition in boot process. I have a mpt2sas (LSISAS2008: > FWVersion(20.00.07.00)) host adapter to which several of my disks are > attached. On occasions, there is a delay before these devices become >

Re: Samba help.

2017-02-01 Thread R. Ramesh
On 02/01/2017 08:02 PM, R. Ramesh wrote: On 1/29/2017 11:25 AM, John Darrah wrote: On 1/29/2017 12:25 AM, R. Ramesh wrote: I recently upgraded my debian jesse to 8.6. All of a sudden all samba guest access to this box stopped working. I did

Re: Re: Samba help.

2017-02-01 Thread R. Ramesh
On 1/29/2017 11:25 AM, John Darrah wrote: On 1/29/2017 12:25 AM, R. Ramesh wrote: I recently upgraded my debian jesse to 8.6. All of a sudden all samba guest access to this box stopped working. I did not update smb.conf file any time before

Re: Re: Samba help.

2017-01-29 Thread R. Ramesh
On 1/29/2017 11:25 AM, John Darrah wrote: On 1/29/2017 12:25 AM, R. Ramesh wrote: I recently upgraded my debian jesse to 8.6. All of a sudden all samba guest access to this box stopped working. I did not update smb.conf file any time before or after. I vaguely

Samba help.

2017-01-29 Thread R. Ramesh
I recently upgraded my debian jesse to 8.6. All of a sudden all samba guest access to this box stopped working. I did not update smb.conf file any time before or after. I vaguely remember that there was a flash of notes flying by when samba was upgraded, but do not recall what it is. BTW, I

Re: Re: Growing md0 by larger disk - which is best method.

2013-04-22 Thread R. Ramesh
On 21/04/13 01:11 PM, R. Ramesh wrote: I have a mdadm implemented raid5 with 3 disks (2x 3TiB and 1x 2TiB). Each disk has one partition only for the full size of that disk and the partitions are then combined in to md0. I like to swap out the 2TiB with a new 3TiB. While I

Growing md0 by larger disk - which is best method.

2013-04-21 Thread R. Ramesh
I have a mdadm implemented raid5 with 3 disks (2x 3TiB and 1x 2TiB). Each disk has one partition only for the full size of that disk and the partitions are then combined in to md0. I like to swap out the 2TiB with a new 3TiB. While I do not expect issue with this, a lot of reading about

Re: Re: Growing md0 by larger disk - which is best method.

2013-04-21 Thread R. Ramesh
On 21/04/13 01:11 PM, R. Ramesh wrote: I have a mdadm implemented raid5 with 3 disks (2x 3TiB and 1x 2TiB). Each disk has one partition only for the full size of that disk and the partitions are then combined in to md0. I like to swap out the 2TiB with a new 3TiB. While I

Re: Re: Re: Please help me to evaluate flash/ssd life using vmstat -d

2011-02-05 Thread R. Ramesh
On Fri, 2011-02-04 at 18:30 -0600, R. Ramesh wrote: I do not have SSD. I have a USB flash drive - went cheap on this :-) Regardless of the above, still every write by the kernel has to be translated in to NAND writes. I have read in more than one place that these writes will be in units

Please help me to evaluate flash/ssd life using vmstat -d

2011-02-04 Thread R. Ramesh
All, I run a debian firewall on an atom PC running of a 16G flash drive. I am trying understand the amount of disk write performed in order to understand how long my flash is likely to last. I have two vmstat -d information on the flash 2011-01-31 00:35 disk-

Re: Re: Please help me to evaluate flash/ssd life using vmstat -d

2011-02-04 Thread R. Ramesh
On Fri, 2011-02-04 at 12:34 -0600, R. Ramesh wrote: All, I run a debian firewall on an atom PC running of a 16G flash drive. I am trying understand the amount of disk write performed in order to understand how long my flash is likely to last. [..] Note that the kernel writes do

Re: How to get rid of this firewall error.

2010-07-29 Thread R. Ramesh
Ramasubramanian Ramesh wrote: top posting - iihh ugly ;-p well, it's the netfilter code from the kernel instructed by an iptables rule, that spits out that message. most likely this is a message informing you about a blocked packet. the question is: who/what set this iptables rule to

Re: Is it possible to get Nvidia 8500GT Vid. card to work with debian stable?

2008-01-13 Thread R. Ramesh
On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 12:24:18AM -0600, R. Ramesh wrote: Per debian package search and apt-cache info the version of Xorg in stable is 7.1. Open source nv driver in Xorg 7.1 seem to support only upto Geforce 7xxx. I want to buy nvidia 8500GT cart and it is based on Geforce 8xxx. My

Is it possible to get Nvidia 8500GT Vid. card to work with debian stable?

2008-01-12 Thread R. Ramesh
Hi, Per debian package search and apt-cache info the version of Xorg in stable is 7.1. Open source nv driver in Xorg 7.1 seem to support only upto Geforce 7xxx. I want to buy nvidia 8500GT cart and it is based on Geforce 8xxx. My understanding is that this card is supported by nv driver in

Re: Re: How to make boot CD to run your curent hard disk installed linux?

2005-10-23 Thread R. Ramesh
On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 11:57:47PM -0500, Ramasubramanian Ramesh wrote: Hi, I have installed stable release of debian (using the netinst CD) on a headless machine (no kb, mouse or monitor) . The machine also does not have a floppy drive. I like to make a bood cd of the installed kernel so