Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2003 #3350

2003-11-02 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
Une Debiane ?? [Une verre d'Evian = one glass of Evian water] Une distribution Debian me semble tres bien. Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Good Debian-based distro

2003-08-14 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 02:28:38AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > From: Loren M Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Debian-User Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Good Debian-based distro > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I'm looking for a good debian-based distro wi

Re: Fedora

2004-11-25 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 12:47:07AM -0800, ken keanon wrote: > Hi, > This Fedora project is developing along the same line as Debian i.e. > community-base, open-sourced. What's more, It is supported by RedHat. > > Anybody has any opinion about it? Is it better than Debian? > > Ken > Is an or

Re: Full replacement of MS

2004-11-29 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 12:38:12PM -0600, Gayle Lee Fairless wrote: > > ken keanon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote the folowing: > > Hi, > > I'm still toying with the idea of fully replacing Windows w Debian > GNU/Linux. > The doubt I am still having is this: will I be able to use all the data > tha

Re: Full replacement of MS

2004-11-29 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 02:25:26PM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 20:08 +0000, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > --snip-- > > I've used Linux virtually exclusively for ten years. About the only > > thing I currently use MS Windows for is listening to the B

Re: Full replacement of MS

2004-11-30 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 04:54:45AM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 08:08:03PM +0000, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 12:38:12PM -0600, Gayle Lee Fairless wrote: > > > > > I've used Linux virtually exclusively for ten year

Re: cannot display with res 1024x768

2004-12-08 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 06:59:06AM -0800, jack kinnon wrote: > Hi, > > No one got any solution to my problem? > Can you please point me to when you first stated your problem. I can't readily find it in the mailing list archives. Otherwise, a very brief restatement and I might have a crack at

Re: Debian retail kit?

2004-12-10 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 03:03:19PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Friday 10 December 2004 1:53 pm, Ralph Katz wrote: > > > OK, now we've got some focus. I'd argue that what probably makes your > > firm successful and valued by your customers is not the hardware you > > deliver, but the compete

Re: Sarge Betting Pool

2004-12-17 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 04:07:55PM -0500, William Ballard wrote: > I'll say Sarge on April 1st, 2005. Takers? > Feb 25 2005 > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: CD/DVD writer successes anyone?

2004-12-13 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 09:46:33PM +, Pedro M (Morphix User) wrote: > Ron Johnson escribió: > > >On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 15:46 -0700, Dean Allen Provins wrote: > > > > > >>Hello: > >> > >>I'm interested in adding a CD/DVD reader/writer to my meager system and > >>have been looking at LG GSA 416

Re: Woody-->Sarge

2004-12-19 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 06:54:51PM -0600, Eric Scott wrote: > Hey, sorry to ask this FAQ, I know I've done it before, but google is NO > help to me here. > > What exactly do I do to upgrade from Woody to Sarge. I know i have to > plop something in sources.list, the do apt-get update && apt-get

Re: Upgrading a 2.2 kernel (3.0r2) to 2.6

2004-12-23 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 04:37:27PM +0800, Cameron G wrote: > I'm just wondering, what's the best practice for upgrading a default > installation 3.0 installation to the latest and greatest? I'd really rather > avoid rolling my own kernels, it always ends up being a pain to maintain, > and I have se

X upgrade / downgrade / upgrade??

2001-11-14 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, Problem: (work) I have a Compaq Deskpro 5200MMX 200M Pentium machine - lots of software on the disk, lots of users. The disk was originally in a Compaq Deskpro P166 - I upgraded hardware and memory to a "new" machine with new CD-RW etc. Th

Hercules 3D Prophet 4000XT "Kyro" 32MB support in Woody textmode/XFree86 4.1

2002-01-27 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
Subject says it all. Any idea how I can install Debian with one of these cards. A "Woody" CD from ftp.fsn.hu won't even get past the first screen. All help appreciated. Not currently subscribed to the list - please cc all replies to me as well as to the list. Thanks, Andy

Netgear WG311v2 54M wireless card - drivers, kernel?

2004-10-03 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
I've just installed the appropriate source / modules (acx111) to drive the above card. Having rebuilt the modules and downloaded the (Windows XP driver) firmware for the card, it fails. Default Debian 2.6 kernels (currently on 2.6.8 running Debian unstable) don't include some magic wireless ingr

Re: Netgear WG311v2 54M wireless card - drivers, kernel?

2004-10-03 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 10:11:50PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > On Sun, 03 Oct 2004 the mental interface of > Andrew M.A. Cater told: > > > I've just installed the appropriate source / modules (acx111) to > > drive the above card. Having rebuilt the modules and d

Re: how stable is testing?

2004-10-22 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Oct 23, 2004 at 01:10:16AM +0200, Szabó András wrote: > Hi! > > Testing sometimes had problems in the last some years, not so much, > but more than zero is a problem :) Anyway, it is called testing :) > > András > Very few problems have lasted longer than two or three days - most of thes

Re: Re: when sarge will be released?( install 14 Cd's)?

2004-11-08 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 01:50:00PM +0100, belahcene wrote: > I think the best way ( I am using it!! ) is: > > creat a web server on ayour or another machine , you put all your CD's > in a directory > say /var/www/Debian, ( I assume that your default web is in /var/www, > the address of the

Re: why debian - longer

2004-11-14 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 08:25:19PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > I don't need to know which directories > to tar, they're in the dpkg. > If you ever need to insert raw .debs from scratch: ar -x on the .deb yields a control.tar.gz and a data.tar.gz. cp or mv the data.tar.gz to / and unpack it with

Re: how to edit a pdf file in linux

2004-11-16 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 01:23:05PM +0100, Martin Lorenz wrote: > In-reply-to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Jerome BENOIT wrote: > > >>>I have just complete a PDF form using both acrobat reader and ps2dpf > > >>>as > > >>>follows: > > >>>1] I filled the form; >

Re: Server vendors supporting Debian

2004-11-18 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
> Hash: SHA1 > > Hi All, > > I need to move from DELL machines to some other vendor. > This is because of a disagreement between me and them. > > Are there any vendors out there who have specificly supported Linux > in general or Debian in special even? > > Are there any server brands? > > Th

Re: Newbie looking for some answers please...........

2004-11-18 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 09:17:02AM -0800, Chad wrote: > I just installed Debian 3.0 r3. I'm a newbie and looking for some > anwers to some of my questions...if someone can anwser one, some, or > all Please > > 1. I know that apt-get is the main utility to add and remove programs > (in Debian a

Re: XFree86 and USB Mouse & Keyboard ---> Frustrating!

2004-11-18 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 06:45:50AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In the root I run: > "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86" > > It prompts me with the instructions about drivers, resolution, and refresh > rates. I enter in the correct responses. Then it comes to the mouse. > > Reference (both

Re: init scripts etc.

2004-06-30 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 02:18:11PM -0400, MillTek wrote: > H, > Can someone please tell me the name and location of an Init script that > I can use to run a sctript of my own? If I write a script that is > executed by one of the 'official' scripts, do I have to do anything > special to return c

Re: Apt Questions

2004-07-10 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 01:58:47PM -0400, Paul Tsai wrote: > A couple of apt questions, > How do you install a package including all the suggested packages? > Also, is there a way to remove a package along with all the dependencies? > Paul > > Apt per se is not meant to do this. Apt-get install w

[Fwd: Re: Newbie problems galore]

2004-07-15 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
--- Begin Message --- David A. Cobb wrote: Hi! I purchased a CD set of "Debian 3.0 "Woody" Official" and started to install it. First woe: my hardware is by nVidia; the Official kernel on the CD is 2.4.18, nVidia provides a driver for 2.4.20/21 and the Debian archive has nVidia patches fo

Re: Is Linux Unix?

2004-07-24 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 02:44:06PM -0700, Ryo Furue wrote: > Hi, > > Since Kent West has kindly clarified what I wanted to say, I'm not going to > repeat my main point. Only the following: > > By the way, Intel compiler is really critical to my work. So, I'm sticking > to version 7 of it, which

Re: NFS, Samba, something more obscure?

2004-08-07 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 05:28:10PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > Now I have a tower and a laptop at home, and to share files it would be much > easier to share a filesystem. Depends how many files you need to share: I tend to shove stuff round the network via scp. I like the fact that it does binary tr

Re: Sid is Sid, before or after a release, right?

2004-08-08 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 07:28:56PM -0700, William Ballard wrote: > I run Sid. Whenever Debian makes a major release, it doesn't affect me > at all, right, because in theory I'm already running the same or later > versions of everything that's being released. > > Right? > Right. You should know

[Unstable] Fetchmail upgrade to 6.2.3 breaks :(

2003-08-03 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
Have been using fetchmail here successfully for some years :) The newest fetchmail in unstable breaks - I keep getting messages about null message headers at my ISP account or some such. Any clues welcome. A cc reply to me would be appreciated - although I read this list, I get it in digest form

WiFi with Netgear WG311?

2004-05-16 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
Have just bought a Netgear router and card. The router I can cope with - once I've got the card running - because it has a Web interface. The card is the Netgear WG311 which uses the Prism chipset (I think). Using kernel 2.6.5 here and unstable - insmodding the prism54 prism.ko module results in

Re: interview with joey hess

2004-09-02 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 04:13:38PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > http://debian.degismez.com/debian.mp3 > > This is not me, it's Jaldhar H. Vyas. Apparently our names sound similar > in poor-quality mp4 audio. Interesting :) I see so much from people on mailing lists and see other Debian folk in Rea

Apt-get dist-upgrade threatening to remove 1500 files - SOLVED

2004-09-12 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
All, Apologies for the bandwidth used. I had the entry for security.debian.org stable updates in my /etc/apt/sources.list. Upgrade-system saw that and attempted to downgrade my entire system such that it complied with the latest security updates for stable or some such - resulting in the perver

Citrix ICA client software ??

2004-03-13 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
A while ago, I seem to remember client software for the Citrix ICA protocol in Debian [it may have been non-free and therefore not part of the distribution]. tsclient, which is a frontend for rdesktop, says that it has experimental support for ICA - but the options for the protocol are greyed

Re: Linux clients in network - experiences?

2004-03-20 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 03:41:20AM +0100, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: > Yo! > > So far, my experience was with administrating smallish servers and mostly > stand-alone clients. The future shines bright, however, and I may soon be in > a position to do much more than that. But, l

Re: Root location

2021-08-14 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Aug 13, 2021 at 12:11:37PM -0400, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > Hi, > > On 2021-08-13 11:47 a.m., Gunnar Gervin wrote: > > Thx to Polyna especially, for telling me that I have x86-64 machine. Do > > not yet know x86 part but 64bit it certainly is. > > In Mint 32bit i686 still. b

Re: Preliminary hardware support status report - one week before the release of Debian 11

2021-08-14 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Aug 13, 2021 at 06:12:54AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > On 11/8/21 11:03 pm, Andrey Ponomarenko wrote: > > The report is now available in Debian Salsa: > > https://salsa.debian.org/linuxhw/TestCoverage/-/tree/main/Dist/Debian_11 > > > > > Hello all! > > > > > > See report here [1]. We have

Re: Meta: behavior on list

2021-08-14 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Aug 13, 2021 at 12:41:40PM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > deloptes wrote: > > @Brian communication with Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside is meaningless and > > a waste of time. > > You should have stopped here. > > > > I even had to google her, because I had the feeling I talk to a troll. I

Re: [OT] browsable archive of OFTC debian channels?

2021-08-14 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Aug 14, 2021 at 01:05:00PM +0200, Marco Möller wrote: > > Hello! Is there somewhere publicly accessible an archive of the > conversations taking place in the #debian[*] OFTC channels? Would be great, > because I am not constantly online and thus am unable to fully follow > conversations th

Re: Debian 10.6 boots to black screen; “no screens found(EE) in log”

2021-08-15 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Aug 15, 2021 at 01:21:24PM +0200, Evelyn Pereira Souza wrote: > On 15.08.21 10:52, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > You also have a "2019 5k iMac"? Because that is very important in this > > context. > > Here more details about my HW: > > # inxi -Fxz > System:Host: norp Kernel: 4.19.0-17-a

Re: how to to start X Window in debian-live-11.0.0-i386-standard.iso

2021-08-15 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Aug 14, 2021 at 11:22:12PM -0400, lou wrote: > > On 8/14/21 11:08 PM, Weaver wrote: > > > > At the prompt, type `startx'. > > Depending on permissions, you may need to become root. > > Cheers! > > > > Harry. > > > > startx don't seem to be included in ISO image > > and what is passwor

Re: Grub efi etc

2021-08-15 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Aug 15, 2021 at 10:13:07PM +0300, Gunnar Gervin wrote: > Hi. > After I put EFI in sda1 Refracta installer was not satisfied and told me to > put 'boot installer' in, and write some (unspecified) text in fstab, but > wasn't in ETC. > > How and what to write in fstab? > > You tell me to spe

Re: moderators, I would appreciate if you could interfere

2021-08-15 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Aug 14, 2021 at 10:01:37PM +0200, Marco Möller wrote: > Dear moderators, I would appreciate if you could interfere. > This list recently is flooded with never ending arguing, and respect and > politeness too often got lost. > > Same here as already for Michael Howards "Fwd: [OFFTOPIC] Plon

Re: Debian 11 installer crashed and reboot

2021-08-16 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 02:30:33PM +0800, John Mok wrote: > Hi all, > > Tried to install Debian 11 guest using netinst, but the installer > crashed and reboot automatically. > > Host: Xen 4.11.4 on Debian 10 > Guest: Debian 11 (kernel 5.10) > > Here is the steps to reproduce the problem:- > 1)

Re: Moving from Testing to Stable + Backports

2021-08-16 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 05:10:36AM -0400, Michael Grant wrote: > I've been using Testing for about a decade now with very few problems. > But now I'm moving to Stable. Just wanted to mae sure I'm doing this > right. > > I last updated using Testing on the friday, then the release happened > on sa

[WAS Re: Grub efi etc - specific mention of WSL - Windows Subsystem for Linux]

2021-08-16 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 06:19:47AM -0400, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > Hi, > > On 2021-08-16 2:30 a.m., to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 15, 2021 at 05:21:41PM -0400, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside > > wrote: > >> > >> > >>

Re: bookworm

2021-08-16 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 12:14:41PM +0100, mick crane wrote: > Are there release notes for bookworm somewhere ? > mick > -- > Key ID4BFEBB31 > No, not yet. It only forked on Saturday: I suggest that the differences from Bullseye are relatively minimal at the moment and also that release goal

Re: Can't boot following re-install to LVM on LUKS [was: can't login via gdm]

2021-08-16 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 03:46:51PM +0100, Morgan Read wrote: > On 11/08/2021 11:30 pm, David Christensen wrote: > > On 8/11/21 6:45 AM, Morgan Read wrote: > >> After having overcome a fairly fundamental bug with calamares as > >> described here: > >> https://github.com/calamares/calamares/issues/15

Re: Still on stretch, getting ready for bullseye

2021-08-17 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 07:24:45AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > I just installed another sata controller and 4 1 T-byte Samsung SSD's. > > The controller claims to be a 15 port port expander, but only 6 are > bonded out, and collectively show up at ata7 in dmesg. > > They sho

Re: Debian 11, nouveau, Nvidia GF100GL Quadro 4000 - monitors freeze after a few minutes

2021-08-17 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 12:28:55PM +0200, Roger Price wrote: > A Dell Precision 7500 with an Nvidia NVC0 (Fermi) GF100GL Quadro 4000 video > card and two iiyama B2783QSU monitors, Xfce and nouveau: very nice indeed > when it comes up, but after 3-30 minutes the monitors freeze and lock up. No > rea

Re: Sources list with contrib repositories on DVD-1

2021-08-17 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 05:02:00PM +, mu...@disroot.org wrote: > Wouldn't it be necessary to update this document then? > > "The main archive area forms the Debian distribution. > > Packages > in the other archive areas (contrib, non-free) are not considered to be > part of the Debian dist

Re: DisplayPort not working on 11th gen i7 / UHD Graphics 750

2021-08-17 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 01:18:11PM -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > I've installed Debian testing on a new computer, with an Intel Core i7-11700 > processor. > > After I added "i915.force_probe=4c8a" to the kernel command-line, graphics > work, but only on the HDMI port. A second monitor in th

Re: Wishing for an off-topic mail list with debian-user participants (or most of them)

2021-08-17 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 03:36:58PM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Tuesday, August 17, 2021 03:26:19 PM Weaver wrote: > > On 18-08-2021 04:56, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > > Somewhat relevant to the subject of an off-topic mailing list, I'm now > > > puzzling over why an NiMH AA battery test

Re: Still on stretch, getting ready for bullseye

2021-08-17 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 11:05:44PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Tue 17 Aug 2021 at 16:54:54 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > Where do I find the recipe to update stretch to buster? > > What, in this helpful thread, do you find difficult to understand? > > You have a collection of important machines

Re: Still on stretch, getting ready for bullseye

2021-08-18 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
uesday 17 August 2021 18:48:34 Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > > > > [an abridged version of the release notes] > > > > > > > Thank you Andy, thats more of the recipe I need to follow. > > > > > > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > > > &g

Re: Reading of release notes (was Re: Still on stretch, getting ready for bullseye)

2021-08-18 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 11:26:18AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Wed 18 Aug 2021 at 07:39:26 (-0400), The Wanderer wrote: > > On 2021-08-17 at 13:36, Brian wrote: > > > On Tue 17 Aug 2021 at 16:00:57 +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > > > >> Do the updat

Re: Respect for newbies and new comers [ was : moderators, I would appreciate if you could interfere ]

2021-08-19 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 08:18:50PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Steve McIntyre wrote: > > > > This mailing list, like all > > > > Debian-hosted mailing lists, is subject to both the Debian mailing > > > > list Code of Conduct and the main Debian Code of Conduct: > > > > [...] > > > > I

Re: smart fans

2021-08-24 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Aug 23, 2021 at 08:54:29PM +0200, Emanuel Berg wrote: > David Christensen wrote: > > > Changing settings and making measurements at idle is > > a starting point. You should also put the machine under load > > and make measurements. > > Yes, but I know already that even with all fans (2*CP

Re: CUPS permissions

2021-08-26 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 11:31:30AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 04:25:54PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > On Thu 26 Aug 2021 at 10:56:55 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > > On Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 03:49:23PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > > > On Thu 26 Aug 2021 at 06:18:21 -0700, Pete

Re: Debian stable + backports + testing

2021-08-30 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Aug 29, 2021 at 07:19:14AM -0700, Peter Ehlert wrote: > > On 8/28/21 5:35 PM, Yoann LE BARS wrote: > > Hello everybody out there! > > > > On 2021/08/29 at 02:26 am, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > > That said, Dan's advice is quite solid: have your mixed environment in a > > > VM, chroot, o

Monthly FAQ for Debian-user mailing list

2021-09-01 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
debian-user is a mailing list provided for support for Debian users, and to facilitate discussion on relevant topics. Some guidelines which may help explain how the list works: * The language on this mailing list is English. There may be other mailing lists that are language-specific for exam

Re: amdgpu broken on bookworm?

2021-09-01 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Sep 01, 2021 at 09:06:47AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Sat 28 Aug 2021 at 22:19:05 (-0400), songbird wrote: > > David Wright wrote: > > > On Sat 28 Aug 2021 at 08:36:32 (-0400), songbird wrote: > > ... > > >> just to note that using "bookworm" in your subject line can > > >> give the

Re: Monthly FAQ for Debian-user mailing list

2021-09-02 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Sep 01, 2021 at 08:12:06PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 01 sep 21, 12:32:19, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > debian-user is a mailing list provided for support for Debian users, > > and to facilitate discussion on relevant topics. > > > > Some guidelines

Re: Telegram Systray Icon

2021-09-02 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Sep 02, 2021 at 08:23:43PM +0200, Miguel A. Vallejo wrote: > I thought it was clear, but I was wrong. > > Telegram from website ( version 3.0.1 ), running in KDE under Unstable. > Everything was ok until Bullseye came out and a tsunami of new packages > arrived to Unstable. Since that mome

[WAS Re: Telegram Systray Icon] WORKAROUND: Use light theme/alternate icons

2021-09-02 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Sep 02, 2021 at 10:01:24PM +0100, piorunz wrote: > On 02/09/2021 21:30, Miguel A. Vallejo wrote: > > Oh. You Are running UNSTABLE version of Debian. And just installed a > > program outside of Debian, from third party website. You must know what > > you are doing. > > > > I kno

Re: how to forbid debhelper to modify /home ?

2021-09-03 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Sep 03, 2021 at 08:03:23AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Sep 03, 2021 at 07:57:44AM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 03, 2021 at 11:14:45AM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote: > > > Hi folks, > > > > > > how can I tell the debhelper scripts to not install home directories >

Re: icewm anomaly after bullseye upgrade

2021-09-04 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Sep 04, 2021 at 01:58:41AM -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote: > On Fri, 3 Sep 2021, Michael Lange wrote: > > > according to https://ice-wm.org/man/icewm-preferences the syntax for > > using a bold font should rather be: > > > ActiveTaskBarFontNameXft=”sans-serif:size=12:bold” . > > Ah. RTFM sti

Re: How to update Debian 11 source.list to testing?

2021-09-04 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Sep 03, 2021 at 10:17:21AM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Fri, Sep 03, 2021 at 04:11:49PM +0200, Richard Forst wrote: > > I just installed Debian using netinstall image. I thought I install testing > > version, but apparently it's Debian 11. So now my source.list looks like > > bel

Re: Sound input source detected but not capturing

2021-09-04 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Sep 03, 2021 at 10:52:45PM +0530, Pankaj Jangid wrote: > I have a fresh Bullseye installation on a laptop. Sound output is > working. But the input is not working. The device is detected. > > --8<---cut here---start->8--- > $ arecord -l > List of CA

Re: Installation Done after login it Hangs

2021-09-05 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Sep 05, 2021 at 04:52:27PM +0530, Tushar Dasondi wrote: > Dear Debian team, > > After intallation of Debian 11 it hangs at login page after entering the > password.please support > > Regards > Tushar Dasondi > > Tus Can you please give more details. What machine? What desktop envir

Re: masked service file

2021-09-05 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Sep 01, 2021 at 03:09:59PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Sep 01, 2021 at 07:54:02PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > As a non-professional sysadmin, this "Brian person" is wondering why > > the OP's question (clearly relating to saned) is sidelined in favour > > of other concerns. > > I'm n

Re: Internet diagnosing

2021-09-05 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Sep 05, 2021 at 04:57:44PM +0200, Julius Hamilton wrote: > Hey, > > I was wondering if anyone knew a similar user email group like this one for > questions related to internet connectivity. Maybe there is a widely used > open source network software tool where people discuss network questi

Re: EFI boot installer

2021-09-05 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Sep 05, 2021 at 09:21:38PM +0300, Gunnar Gervin wrote: > Hi all. > Where do I find a live Debian x86-64 iso image with EFI 'cd image' in it ? > (My 2007 ex-Mac computer now only runs Puppy x86-64 live dvd in RAM.) > My Macbook 64b computer won't open any iso without a cd image named EFI. >

Re: APT testing and unstabe Firefox: can't find newest version from unstable

2021-09-05 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Sep 05, 2021 at 08:56:36PM +0200, Oliver Schoede wrote: > On Fri, 03 Sep 2021 20:50:06 +0200 > Sven Joachim wrote: > > > >Version 91 is only in experimental. > > > > Probably blocked by some Rust stuff again. Anyone who's waiting and if > possible please get a flatpak and get on with your

Re: sources.list 's security line

2021-09-06 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Sep 06, 2021 at 06:53:25AM -0300, riveravaldez wrote: > Hi, > > after reading the various sources of documentation (handbook, > wiki, FAQs, Release Notes, etc.) I think I'm finding myself with > kinda four options for the security line in /etc/apt/sources.list > Those being: > > deb http:

Re: (pure text) Re: Trouble upgrading Debian (reply to David Wright)

2021-09-06 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Sep 07, 2021 at 12:20:26AM -0300, Dedeco Balaco wrote: > > > Em 06/09/2021 23:48, Kenneth Parker escreveu: > > > > > > On Mon, Sep 6, 2021 at 7:58 PM Greg Wooledge > > wrote: > > > > On Mon, Sep 06, 2021 at 04:46:21PM -0300, Dedeco Balaco wrote: > > >

Re: sources.list 's security line

2021-09-07 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Sep 06, 2021 at 07:29:19PM -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote: > On September 6, 2021 5:05:45 PM UTC, Steve Dondley wrote: > > On 2021-09-06 05:53 AM, riveravaldez wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > after reading the various sources of documentation (handbook, > > > wiki, FAQs, Release Notes, etc.) I t

Re: shim_init error for debian-live-11.0.0-amd64-kde.iso

2021-09-09 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Sep 09, 2021 at 03:24:47PM +0200, Bernd Speiser wrote: > Hi, > > I do not know to which mailing list I should send this request/bug report > since it is not obviously related to a particular package. I'd be grateful > for your help. > > I use a Fujitsu Lifebook A3510 which only has uefi b

Re: Debian Wiki down

2021-09-09 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Sep 09, 2021 at 09:54:48PM +0200, s...@hardwarepunk.de wrote: > Hello alltogether, > > the Debian Wiki seems to be down, and I do not know where and how to > send a bug report to. If I go to any side below > https://wiki.debian.org/, I only get the following message: > > Forbidden > > Yo

Re: support for xfce in bullseye minimal netinst iso

2021-09-14 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 05:50:53AM +, Sriram wrote: > Hi Team > Please include support for xfce in the minimal bullseye netinst iso file. > The existing file dose not include xfce and it is a pain to use the xfce > without GUI > > Earlier editions like buster included xfce in the minimal inst

Re: support for xfce in bullseye minimal netinst iso

2021-09-14 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 01:56:23PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > If a DVD image is too big to download in and of itself, there are > > tools like jigdo which will allow you to build the media images from > > individual packages >

Re: LTS versions - confusion

2021-09-14 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 02:33:23AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 13 sep 21, 10:18:54, Tanstaafl wrote: > > > > I'm a former Gentoo user, and really appreciated the rolling release > > aspect, since it meant no huge jumps between LTS releases with other > > distros. > Debian 11 - Bullseye

Re: was: support for xfce in bullseye minimal netinst iso

2021-09-14 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 11:49:02AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 14 September 2021 10:08:34 Brian wrote: > > > On Tue 14 Sep 2021 at 09:27:25 +, Sriram wrote: > > > [...] Can you suggest some links for downloading the bullseye along > > > with xfce which comes to less than 1 GB or pr

Re: LTS versions - confusion

2021-09-15 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Sep 15, 2021 at 10:06:47AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 14 sep 21, 16:33:55, Tanstaafl wrote: > > > > Hmmm... ok, so, I could run sid 'forever', as long as I keep it updated > > regularly? > > Technically, yes. > > > Anyone do this for important (maybe not 'mission critical') s

Re: support for xfce in bullseye minimal netinst iso

2021-09-16 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 10:48:02AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Jo, 16 sep 21, 05:06:02, Sriram wrote: > > Hi Team > > i have tried to install the minimal iso file yesterday , but Network > > Manager is not installing, also build-essentials not there for building the > > xfce tar files > >

Re: Debian bullseye

2021-09-18 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Sep 18, 2021 at 07:54:50AM +1200, Dawn Dorsett wrote: > I have been using Debian for several years and have just upgraded to > Bullseye and I wish I hadn't. It has some bug fixes in it (which were > more like minor inconveniences anyway), but Bullseye is SLOW. Its getting > to be as ba

Re: Your Thoughts on Printer Replacement

2021-09-18 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Sep 17, 2021 at 04:38:27PM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > I have an HP Officejet Pro L7700, which is starting to show its age. > Also HP has discontinued the standard size cartridges. I can get the > large ones. > > First question: > > I print rarely. Inkjet or laser? Or other? The carts

Re: How do I clone a Debian Distro from a 32Gb Class 10 MicroSD card to a 16Gb Class 10 A1 MicroSD card?

2021-09-18 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Sep 18, 2021 at 12:35:13PM +0100, Myron wrote: > Never done this one with Linux before. I know that there is less than 16Gb > of data written to the Class 10 32Gb MicroSD card which is used as the > primary system storage on a single board system-on-a-chip computer. What > I'm after is ge

Re: installing debian 11.0

2021-09-18 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Sep 18, 2021 at 03:40:18PM +0700, Ngọc Dũng Tạ wrote: > When installing debian 11.0, it asks to scan the additional media "debian > gnu/linux 11.0 _ bullseye _ - official amd64 dvd binary-1", so where can I > get it? > Thanks. > -- Hi, How are you installing Debian 11? What file are you

Re: Lock tab on SD card?

2021-09-19 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Sep 18, 2021 at 03:06:14PM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > John Conover wrote: > > > > Mounting an SD card with the lock tab enabled mounts as read only. > > > > But can Linux still write to the SD card, under any circumstances? > > Under *any* circumstances? Yes. > > Those circumstances in

Re: Debian 11: Nvidia NVS 310 with nvidia driver freezes after two days

2021-09-19 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Sep 19, 2021 at 01:22:30PM +0200, Roger Price wrote: > My Nvidia NVS 310 card with the nvidia 390.144 driver starts off perfectly, > but after two days freezes: no reaction to keyboard or mouse action. > > After reboot, command journalctl -b -1 --no-pager | grep -i -E > "(nvidia|NVRM)" rep

Re: foolish problem with installer: can't load firmware

2021-09-20 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Sep 20, 2021 at 06:48:03AM -0400, lou wrote: > > On 9/20/21 5:38 AM, Stanislav Vlasov wrote: > > 2021-09-20 14:04 GMT+05:00, lou : > > > installer using hard disk method can read firmware in ext3 partition > > May you take installer with integrated firmware? > > > > https://cdimage.debian

Re: write only storage.

2021-09-21 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 12:50:18PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > Well, chattr -i turns that off > > On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 04:29:07PM +, Toni Mas Soler wrote: > > I use to backup my iPhone's photo library using a stfp connection (all in > > the same directory in my PC). Thus, I can chattr +i

Re: Privacy and defamation of character on Debian public forums

2021-09-24 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Sep 24, 2021 at 01:37:45PM -0400, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: > On 9/24/2021 8:04 AM, Brad Rogers wrote: > > On Fri, 24 Sep 2021 07:45:03 -0400 > > Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: > > > > Hello Chuck, > > > > > happened to me, but I would not be surprised > > > if in the U.S. eventually Debian will

Re: `aptitude update' won't update

2021-09-25 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Sep 25, 2021 at 09:08:55AM +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Please help with this: > > # aptitude update > Hit http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable InRelease > Get: 1 http://ftp.debian.org/debian stable InRelease [113 kB] > Get: 2 http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian stable InRelease [113

Re: upgrading and stuff

2021-09-26 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 12:48:37PM -0400, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: Hi Roy, > On Saturday 25 September 2021 06:08:23 pm Andy Smith wrote: > > The release of the three newer stable versions of Debian seems to have > > happened without you noticing. > > Life has handed me a whole mess of thing

Re: upgrading and stuff

2021-09-26 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 01:03:26PM -0400, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > On Saturday 25 September 2021 06:36:34 pm Dan Ritter wrote: > > If the system will not let you login as root from the graphical > > display manager, it's the GDM's fault. It may be a configurable > > option in its /etc/whatever

Re: What happened to cal?

2021-09-26 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 01:08:21PM -0400, Paul M. Foster wrote: > > On 9/26/21 8:37 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 01:24:59AM -0400, Paul M. Foster wrote: > > > I'm wondering if I'm mis-remembering here. As I recall, there used to be a > > > command called "cal" which would s

Re: Upgrading buster => bullseye. Canonicalization of /var/log/journal.

2021-09-28 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 08:55:59AM -0700, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > Hi, > Here the upgrade was completed except for the problem indicated in the > following transcript. > > This page appears relevant. > https://manpages.debian.org/stretch/systemd/systemd-journald.service.8.en.html > > /var/log/

Re: Problem installing (Cont)

2021-09-30 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 10:43:33AM -0500, Igor Korot wrote: > Hi, ALL, > As said I downloaded and successfully installed the full blown Debian > latest stable. Have you missed a step - you have gone direct from stable -> unstable [Sid] Please don't do that: the instructions you had were meant to

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