Re: Nvidia Optimus, Debian 10, and Firefox ESR crashes

On 04.01.2021 09:31, David Christensen wrote: Reboot -- boots okay -- login manager displayed -- login okay -- Xfce desktop okay -- external monitor not getting signal. Xfce -> Settings -> Display only lists one monitor "default": Resolution    1920x1080 (or 640x480) Refresh rat

Re: Nvidia Optimus, Debian 10, and Firefox ESR crashes

On 04.01.2021 04:41, David Christensen wrote: On 2021-01-03 06:51, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: On 03.01.2021 02:52, David Christensen wrote: Any suggestions for trouble-shooting the crashes? Have you checked the systemd journal? Even after you reboot frozen system you can see last syslog

Re: Nvidia Optimus, Debian 10, and Firefox ESR crashes

On 03.01.2021 02:52, David Christensen wrote: Any suggestions for trouble-shooting the crashes? Have you checked the systemd journal? Even after you reboot frozen system you can see last syslog messages easily from previous boot with this command:     $ sudo journalctl -b -1 Journald keeps

Re: Monitor Problem???

On 03.01.2021 16:58, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: My main computer runs  Debian Buster and is displaying some unusual behavior. The monitor is blanking, without warning, at random times, and restoring the screen  while I working. There is no warning, nor does the computer seem to be overheating (

Re: recommendations for supported, affordable hardware raid controller.

On 01.01.2021 23:06, Steven Mainor wrote: I'm looking for recommendations for a 6 or 8 port SATA hardware raid controller that will hopefully be supported by the kernel and/or open source drivers to put in my desktop computer. Any input welcome, thanks. Over the years I've been fond of RAID ad

Re: Sound does not work on Debian 10

On 31.12.2020 18:06, Hassans Tech wrote: In addition, the output of aplay -l  Is: List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices card 0: Audio [Intel HDMI/DP LPE Audio], device 0: HdmiLpeAudio [Intel HDMI/DP LPE Audi]   Subdevices: 1/1   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 0: Audio [Intel HDMI/DP LPE A

Re: mdadm usage

On 30.12.2020 15:42, Thomas A. Anderson wrote: it could all very well be, that I have borked these two drives. It's not the end of the world, there was no data loss, and the data was already transferred off of them. And, my lesson has been learned. RAID sounds all good and dandy, and does provide

Re: mdadm usage

On 29.12.2020 20:32, mick crane wrote: On 2020-12-29 13:10, Andy Smith wrote: <..> The default metadata format (v1.2) for mdadm is at the beginning of the device. If you've put a filesystem directly on the md device then the presence of the metadata will prevent it being recognised as a simple f

Re: NULL pointer dereference

On 21.12.2020 04:16, Grzesiek Sójka wrote: On 12/19/20 9:57 PM, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: If this is recurring error, was it identical in terms of codes, trace and register data? Errors look similar but I'm not an expert. Some numbers are different. I think it started after insta

Re: NULL pointer dereference

On 19.12.2020 21:13, Grzesiek Sójka wrote: Hi there, I found the following in my "server" log: == BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0008 PGD 0 P4D 0 Oops: [#2] SMP PTI CPU: 5 PID: 12441 Comm: awk Tainted: G

Re: AMD GPU Sea Islands Problem

On 12.12.2020 21:23, Guyenne Tsui wrote: Try purging xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu and xserver-xorg-video-ati, then restarting X. That should automatically result in using the modesetting X driver. It does for my sea islands. If it's OK, either keep it that way, or try reinstalling only xserver-xo

Re: GPU HANG: any quick (temporal) fix?

On 26.11.2020 23:52, riveravaldez wrote: Hi, I'm having what seems to be GPU hangs (they occurred consistently using both Openbox and IceWM, with both Firefox and Epiphany, and always when playing video, both with videocall or YT videos), screen gets mostly frozen (but all system and software kee

Re: An apt repository has changed its key

On 25.11.2020 00:56, Bob Bernstein wrote: On Wed, 25 Nov 2020, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: URL doesn't open for me either. It looks like this ppa was removed and "now been folded into Ubuntu itself". [1] [1] https://launchpad.net/~wireguard Ah...thanks for finding th

Re: An apt repository has changed its key

On 25.11.2020 00:19, Bob Bernstein wrote: At least, that's my diagnosis. Here's the pertinent line from an entry in my /etc/apt/sources.list.d/: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/wireguard/wireguard/ubuntu focal main Here's the output of 'apt-get update': --snip-- 0% [Working] 0% [Connecting to d

Re: RTL8821CE does not load automatically at boot time

On 24.11.2020 21:07, Kanito 73 wrote: Hello community I have (almost) ready mylaptop, but there are still a few details to fix... I've used an external driver for my RTL8821CE wifi(https://github.com/tomaspinho/rtl8821ce ) but it is not loaded during

Re: AMD Ryzen 5 3550H + GPU AMD Radeon Vega 8 (+nVidia)

On 19.11.2020 19:27, Kanito 73 wrote: Hello I am about to buy a laptop (HP) that comes with the processor AMD Ryzen 5 3550H (link below) and the GPU AMD Radeon Vega 8 is integrated. In the description table of the laptop it shows the Vega 8 graphics, but just below it also shows the nVidia Ge

Re: HDD for CCTV

On 13.11.2020 12:56, mick crane wrote: regarding earlier post with do not reply request. There's loads of HDDs advertised as "for CCTV, like a PC disk" Is there some difference between HDDs for video recording and regular PC HDDs ? mick In addition to Reco's advice, some HDDs have special prog

Re: problem with nvidia on debian buster

On 10.11.2020 18:18, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Ma, 10 nov 20, 15:02:42, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: On 10.11.2020 14:04, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Ma, 10 nov 20, 13:32:13, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: I want to stay on stable branch for as long as I can, so I found that installation of

Re: problem with nvidia on debian buster

On 10.11.2020 14:04, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Ma, 10 nov 20, 13:32:13, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: I want to stay on stable branch for as long as I can, so I found that installation of nvidia-driver (with myriad of its additional relevant packages) from buster-backports is a bit tricky

Re: problem with nvidia on debian buster

On 08.11.2020 22:05, Vinko Tosevski wrote: Hi Brad, Thanks for the quick reply, this is my first experience with the debian-user mailing list and it makes for a positive one. I ran nvidia-detect every now and then and it doesn't tell me exactly which version to install. Instead, it tells me

Re: Intel RST driver -> SSD bug ?

On 21.10.2020 22:21, A. Kapetanovic wrote: > David Christensen writes: >> >> If you think your SSD is dying, backup your data and be sure to >> preserve old backups. > > That's done. My laptop is quite new (2 months old), Asus. > Could you tell us exact model of your laptop? What type of filesystem

Re: Partial Mouse Lockup. New keyboard no response

On 12.10.2020 17:18, Thomas George wrote: > 10/12/20. Mouse working perfectly since reboot on 10/6/20 but this > morning no response from keyboard. Tried ctl-alt-f1 and ctl-alt-f7 but > no response. Not able to switch workplaces. Continued working in the > current workspace using the mouse only. Ve

Re: how to test disk for bad sector

On 29.08.2020 07:59, Long Wind wrote: > installation of linux to sdb1 fails > i believe hard disk has bad sector If hard drive has bad sectors or recently encountered them, information about this should be noted to hard drive's SMART table. Alternatively, you can use "badblocks" program from "e2fsp

Re: ...

On 08.05.2020 23:14, Thomas McAtee Jr wrote: > For some reason unable to file a bug report. Tried under kernel and the > Linux Image as well. > > Here is my issue. I'm using Debian Testing Mate and a couple days ago I > did my update/upgrades. I received the new Linux Image 5.6.0.1. After I > did t

Re: Looking for video card recommendation

On 05.05.2020 20:29, Alberto Sentieri wrote: > Last time I installed it I downloaded the driver from NVIDIA web site. > I was able to install it and it worked well, but updates started > bothering me. Maybe I should have tried a Debian repo, but I did not > and I have no recollection of the reason.

Re: Looking for video card recommendation

On 03.05.2020 19:51, Alberto Sentieri wrote: > I have a Nvidia NVS310 installed in my Linux computer for a few years. > It works well with the Nvidia driver, and not so well with the Linux > nouveau driver. I am looking for a equivalent replacement (a cheap > one) which works well with a standard n

Re: Please help me find a good Debian compatible video card

On 25.04.2020 16:20, Jiangsu Kumquat wrote: > I want to get a good fast Debian compatible card for 1080p. > > I was looking at this page... > > Best Graphics Cards 2020 - Top Gaming GPUs for the Money | Tom's Hardware > https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/best-gpus,4380.html > > However, I think m

Re: Boot so slow it never completes, while Windows boots fine

On 23.04.2020 19:57, Marcin Owsiany wrote: > TL;DR: My laptop starts ~20x slower than normal. Booting Debian hangs > before the kernel starts. Windows 10 boots slow, but then works fine. > Hardware problem? > > More details: > > I bought a Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 5 in April 2019. It came with Windows >

Re:

On 23.04.2020 01:52, Default User wrote: > Hey, > > A recent thread got me to thinking. So I checked my primary (only > installed) ssd: > > === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === > Model Family: SandForce Driven SSDs > Device Model: KINGSTON SV300S37A120G This drive is based on MLC (2-bit) NA

Re: For all specimens of Homo sapiens - about COVID19

On 19.04.2020 18:23, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 19 April 2020 03:03:53 Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: > > As for Covid-19 vaccine, we are getting there. I know that because for > past month I was running my systems in full power for BOINC project > Rosetta@Home. > Every re

Re: For all specimens of Homo sapiens - about COVID19

On 19.04.2020 04:55, Gene Heskett wrote: > > And it isn't even properly coded pgp. Draw your own conclusions about > its veracity. > Cheers, Gene Heskett According to news on the Internet these kinds of bait-mail become much common these days. Every low-life scumbag is now trying to cash-in on C

Re: javascript (roundup)

On 17.04.2020 08:15, Russell L. Harris wrote: > On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 03:50:24PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > > Dan Ritter & Kenneth Parker: The mp3 link Dan provided works.  I > searched for it in the page source, but without success; so that I can > find the link to the next program, kindly tell

Re: Any way to open Thunar as root beside this?

On 07.04.2020 23:55, kaye n wrote: > On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 1:50 AM john doe > wrote: > > On 4/7/2020 7:42 PM, kaye n wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 1:40 AM kaye n > wrote: > > > >> Hello Friends! > >> > >> I w

Re: x-www-browser doesn't change even after package delete, update-alternatives

On 05.04.2020 18:53, Carl Fink wrote: > On 4/5/20 8:37 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> The output above shows epiphany-browser as being the current selection. > True. But not relevant. >> Maybe rclone is not using x-www-browser, but some other mechanism (or >> just hardcodes firefox). >> > I asked wh

Re: Things Kids Shouldn't Do at Home

On 02.04.2020 06:07, Martin McCormick wrote: > I have killed an 8 GB thumb drive while doing an experiment. > > I had 2 8 GB PNY drives. One has a FAT 32 file system > and the other had no partitions on it as I had deleted the ones > that were there. > > The good drive had it's UUID ta

Re: Guest can't see hosts network connection using QEMU-KVM

On 27.03.2020 12:45, deloptes wrote: > Gary L. Roach wrote: > >> AMD-64 4 cpu processor >> >> Host Debian Buster >> >> Guest kubuntu 18.04 >> >> Virtual Machine QEMU > Why don't you take virtualbox or vmplayer? > > Choosing QEMU in such a case is masochism pure. > I've had quite smooth sailing usin

Re: Trying to understand why WiFi gets disconnected in Debian Buster

On 10.03.2020 04:59, Miguel A. Vallejo wrote: > Mar 9 17:35:28 waterhole kernel: [18873.586016] AP a0:64:8f:xx:xx:xx > changed bandwidth, new config is 5540 MHz, width 2 (5550/0 MHz) > Mar 9 17:35:28 waterhole kernel: [18873.586018] AP a0:64:8f:xx:xx:xx > changed bandwidth in a way we can't suppo

Re: Cant boot without ACPI=off after BIOS was updated

On 08.03.2020 17:02, Sebastián Carloza R wrote: > Hi > > My PC's (ASUS X571GD) BIOS was updated (to BIOS 306). I think Windows > did it automatically in an update. I have a Dual Boot with Debian 10.3 > and windows 10. From that moment I have to boot with ACPI = off, to > load Debian. > > I don't kn

Re: Trilinos build from source code

On 06.02.2020 00:51, Gary L. Roach wrote: > > I know that this is not a main stream debian question but I have not > been able to get any response from the Trilinos (sandia labs) mailing > list. I am desparate. > > I am running a Debian Buster KDE system and am trying to set up Elmer > with Trilino

Re: OT: Belkin F1DS104J KVM and PCs on a UPS

On 30.01.2020 17:36, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > Anybody have experience with the Belkin F1DS10[2 4]J KVMs? > >   > > I just bought a used KVM switch (Belkin F1DS104J) and it requires > power (9VDC (and has a power brick)), but the instructions say that it > should be powered up before the attach

Re: Fresh install UEFI debian-10.2.0-amd64-xfce-CD-1 will not boot

On 30.01.2020 10:27, David Christensen wrote: > On 2020-01-29 10:51, David Christensen wrote: >> root@d-i:/# grub-install --target x86_64-efi-signed >> grub-install: error: /usr/lib/grub/x86_64-efi-signed/modinfo.sh >> doesn't exist. Please specify --target or --directory. > > I was able

Re: Dell BIOS Changes

On 28.01.2020 10:13, J. D. Leach wrote: > To Whom it May Concern, > > Have a Dell Inspiron 3668 desktop with the latest Dell firmware > (1.12.2). This update, and numerous of the preceding ones, do not > allow ANY type of loading of Debian (or any othe Linux flavor) onto > the PC. In the BIOS confi

Re: Dell BIOS Changes

On 28.01.2020 10:13, J. D. Leach wrote: > To Whom it May Concern, > > Have a Dell Inspiron 3668 desktop with the latest Dell firmware > (1.12.2). This update, and numerous of the preceding ones, do not > allow ANY type of loading of Debian (or any othe Linux flavor) onto > the PC. In the BIOS confi

Re: Running buster with jessie kernel possible?

On 22.01.2020 15:06, Robert Pommrich wrote: > Hi, > > As documented in two bug [1] reports [2], the only working kernel for my > system is 3.16. > The system is running jessie stretch at the moment with the jessie stock > kernel, which is 3.16. > > As I would like to upgrade to buster, I'd like to

Re: Debian on server

On 21.01.2020 19:41, Alessandro Baggi wrote: > Hi to all members of this list, > > I'm not new to linux and I'm searching a good stable distro for > server. Many said CentOS and other Debian but really I have not enough > experiences to choose one. > > So, I know this is a debian list and could be

Re: noapi acpi=off

On 21.01.2020 10:21, Zahid Rahman wrote: > So if you have  the latest version of debian and it is logging on and > off ok ,  what are  the acpi setting,  kernel parameters. > > You can find this out by pressing 'e' when the grub screen is showing. > > I should have taken note when I had debian inst

Re: Protecting no longer supported Windows7

On 15.01.2020 18:39, The Wanderer wrote: > >> It also means Microsoft will now change many downloadable support >> packages so they won't run anymore on Windows 7 > Possible, although I wouldn't expect them to bother to go and make > changes en-masse. It's more likely that they just won't bother t

Re: Protecting no longer supported Windows7

On 15.01.2020 10:25, john doe wrote: > Hi, > > I have a Debian server serving/doing DHCP/DNS/firewall/..., as of today, > Microsoft stops supporting Windows7. > > Is there anything that I could do to protect those Windows7 hosts that > are behind this server? > > P.S. > > For the sake of this quest

Re: iptables DROP before PREROUTING

On 10.01.2020 00:46, Jim Popovitch wrote: > Hello! > > Is there a way to have iptables DROP before PREROUTING. > > Consider this bit of rules on a home firewall, where 24.126.xx.yy is my > home external IP address. > > - > iptables -P INPUT DROP > iptables -P OUTPUT ACCEPT > iptables -A INP

Re: just a general question really

On 04.01.2020 05:06, mick crane wrote: > are things getting more complicated because there is something wrong ? > Many things are getting simpler from my perspective. Not so long ago I had to fiddle with many jumpers before I insert a CPU into motherboard, to select right voltage, clock speed, mult

Re: considering a new system and a sshd hybrid drive

On 30.12.2019 20:18, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 30 December 2019 05:16:51 Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: > >> On 29.12.2019 16:56, Gene Heskett wrote: >>> On Sunday 29 December 2019 04:42:20 Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: >>>> On 29.12.2019 12:37, sh

Re: considering a new system and a sshd hybrid drive

On 29.12.2019 16:56, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 29 December 2019 04:42:20 Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: > >> On 29.12.2019 12:37, shirish शिरीष wrote: >>> Dear all, >>> >>> Last year I had read some articles when I was looking to build a >>> sy

Re: considering a new system and a sshd hybrid drive

On 29.12.2019 15:49, shirish शिरीष wrote: > Hi all, > > I read Alexander's reply with interest at [1] . > > @Alexander, thank you for taking time to answer my question/s . Maybe > you can CC me the next time :) > > What was also interesting in your answer was the use of dark marketing > practises u

Re: considering a new system and a sshd hybrid drive

On 29.12.2019 12:37, shirish शिरीष wrote: > Dear all, > > Last year I had read some articles when I was looking to build a > system there seemed to problems with hybrid drives. Does anybody know > how things stand/look today and if anybody had any good/bad experience > with them ? IIRC, the issues

Re: Firefox equivalent of SeaMonkey's pref.js

On 20.12.2019 02:52, Richard Owlett wrote: > As I date from Netscape era I much prefer SeaMonkey. > However when I did a reasonably default install of Debian 9.8 I got > Firefox 60.5.0esr . > > Due to *OPERATOR ERROR*, I mangled a preference. > On the mozilla.general list I was told to edit pref.js

Re: Help! Borked suspend/hibernate after adding swap partition

On 13.12.2019 23:44, Ottavio Caruso wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running LMDE3 (based on Debian oldstable) on Thinkpad Edge E130. > I'm not getting much support lately from the Mint forums and that's > why I'm posting here. > > This laptop had been running happily with a mere 4GB RAM and no swap > until a

Re: Install buster, mouse lag

On 13.12.2019 1:34, guy MARQUIS wrote: > Linux, > > I am sad, I didn't get a response to my mouse lag question. Yes after > 24 hours I get a blue ribbon for impatience. > > I read one forum that sounded similar to the bug I am getting, but it > related to an AMD/GPU hybrid. And suggested setting th

Re: cannot detect SSD

On 28.10.2019 16:04, lina wrote: > Hi, > > I am still struggling to install the debian (stable or testing) on > latest MacBook pro. > > It just cannot detect the SSD. only the USB with the iso image. > > Any suggestions? > > lina > What is model and make of your SSD? Is internal 1TB HDD detected in

Re: lenovo t410 - i915 - black screen

On 09.10.2019 17:53, Frederic Robert wrote: > On 10/9/19 12:38 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 09, 2019 at 09:04:06AM +, Frederic Robert wrote: >>> How to find the card model? lspci? >> >> lspci -nn >> >> This will include the 8-digit hexadecimal PCI ID number, which is the >> best indi

Re: Rescuing hard disks

On 23.09.2019 3:40, Mark Fletcher wrote: > Hello > > While setting up a newly purchased RAID-capable hard disk cage I've > damaged the contents of 2 hard disks and want to know if it is possible > to recover. > > The cage has 5 disk slots each occupied by 3TB hard disks. 4 of the > disks came fr

Re: Psychedelic GUI after stable update to buster

On 17.07.2019 3:52, ho...@rumormillnews.com wrote: >> On 14.07.2019 12:02, ho...@rumormillnews.com wrote: On 14.07.2019 4:20, Felix Miata wrote: > ho...@rumormillnews.com composed on 2019-07-13 18:07 (UTC-0400): > >> Thanks for the tip. Looks like a lot of information here but I d

Re: Psychedelic GUI after stable update to buster

On 14.07.2019 12:02, ho...@rumormillnews.com wrote: >> On 14.07.2019 4:20, Felix Miata wrote: >>> ho...@rumormillnews.com composed on 2019-07-13 18:07 (UTC-0400): >>> Thanks for the tip. Looks like a lot of information here but I don't really understand it. Xorg seems to have unloaded t

Re: Psychedelic GUI after stable update to buster

On 14.07.2019 4:20, Felix Miata wrote: > ho...@rumormillnews.com composed on 2019-07-13 18:07 (UTC-0400): > >> Thanks for the tip. Looks like a lot of information here but I don't >> really understand it. Xorg seems to have unloaded the radeon driver...? >> Graphics: Device-1: AMD Kaveri [Radeon

Re: Psychedelic GUI after stable update to buster

On 13.07.2019 13:14, ho...@rumormillnews.com wrote: >> On 13.07.2019 12:44, ho...@rumormillnews.com wrote: On Fri, 12 Jul 2019 20:22:55 -0400 ho...@rumormillnews.com wrote: >> On Fri, 12 Jul 2019 17:52:43 -0400 >> ho...@rumormillnews.com wrote: >> >>> Following recent

Re: Psychedelic GUI after stable update to buster

On 13.07.2019 12:44, ho...@rumormillnews.com wrote: >> On Fri, 12 Jul 2019 20:22:55 -0400 >> ho...@rumormillnews.com wrote: >> On Fri, 12 Jul 2019 17:52:43 -0400 ho...@rumormillnews.com wrote: > Following recent 'buster' move to 'stable' I got wild psychedelic > colors >

Re: strange behaviour with RDP clients connecting to Windows 10 machines

On 14.06.2019 17:41, Gary Dale wrote: > On 2019-06-14 3:45 a.m., Curt wrote: >> On 2019-06-14, john doe wrote: >>> Not realy an answer, depending on what you need vnc for, one >>> alternative >>> would be to use Cygwin as an ssh server on the Windows boxes. >> >> He might try removing ~/.config/fr

Re: Recover data from unallocated space

On 05.06.2019 19:52, Vipul wrote: > I had a dual booted PC ( Windows and Debian in HP notebook with 1 TB > hard-disk) and from few months Windows cannot starts ( because one day I was > in hurry change size of two of partitions using "gparted' and to fix this I > had many solutions but failed) s

Re: Request for a Good Practice for webdev doc.

On 28.04.2019 21:42, aprekates wrote: > Experimenting with wsgi and python webapp dev > i came upon issues and roads to choose mainly > regarding to installation , deployment and security > related issues. > > sudo pip install ..   or  pip install > > is virtualenv secure or is just redicect tricke

Re: apt pinning: find out from which system version is a package

On 29.04.2019 10:35, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Quoting Emanuel Berg (2019-04-29 05:30:30) >> With apt pinning [1], in /etc/apt/preferences , >> I have learned that one can have certain packs >> from another release than the rest of the >> system, seemlessly (?) with apt-get and the >> other tools,

Re: Remote Access

On 17.04.2019 18:35, Francisco M Neto wrote: > Greetings! > > At work, we have several computers that are located at different > locations throughout the country. Some of them are highly inaccessible by > usual > means, and it requires a certain planning to reach them to have direct access.

Re: Stretch with MATE DE - odd new file association problem

On 17.04.2019 8:51, Andy Smith wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 01:15:07PM +0500, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: >> On 16.04.2019 12:08, Andy Smith wrote: >>> I don't have seamonkey installed so haven't tried myself, but does >>> it even run as roo

Re: A call to drop gnome

On 16.04.2019 22:54, Matthew Crews wrote: > I will concede that as long as Nvidia drivers do not play nicely with > Wayland (and they don't AFAIK), X will still be required. But I did just > read that Plasma 5.16 landed Nvidia patches that let it work under > Wayland with Nvidia, so maybe not that

Re: Stretch with MATE DE - odd new file association problem

On 16.04.2019 12:08, Andy Smith wrote: > Hello, > > On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 04:39:06AM +0500, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: >> You can add SeaMonkey config manually if you want, but you will have to >> track the changes after that. >>     $ sudo update-alternatives --ins

Re: Stretch with MATE DE - odd new file association problem

On 16.04.2019 2:05, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 04/15/2019 01:14 PM, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: >> On 15.04.2019 18:09, Richard Owlett wrote: >>> Somehow I had messed up preferred application to open a file. >>> I fixed by selecting a file of appropriate type, se

Re: Stretch with MATE DE - odd new file association problem

On 15.04.2019 18:09, Richard Owlett wrote: > Somehow I had messed up preferred application to open a file. > I fixed by selecting a file of appropriate type, selecting Properties, > and setting preferred application. > > That solved almost all my problems. > > The only exception is when using Synap

Re: Correct way to install Intermediate certificates in Debian

On 13.04.2019 23:21, Tyler A wrote: > I found a temporary solution that at least lets me visit the sites in Firefox. > > However this doesn't fix OpenSSL (thus things like curl, wget). > > #!/usr/bin/env bash > > sudo apt-get install libnss3-tools > > downloadCerts=(http://cacerts.thawte.com/Thawte

Re: Correct way to install Intermediate certificates in Debian

On 13.04.2019 21:20, Tyler A wrote: > On 13/4/19 3:57 pm, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: >> On 13.04.2019 19:40, Tyler A wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I had trouble visiting these two websites in Firefox, Epiphany and >>> verifying with OpenSSL. >>>

Re: Liquorix kernel?

On 15.04.2019 5:37, Francisco M Neto wrote: > Greetings! > > I have just now heard about this custom kernel directed to > performance and I was wondering - anyone here has any experience with > that? > I'd rather just download their .config and compile the kernel > from a deb src packag

Re: Correct way to install Intermediate certificates in Debian

On 13.04.2019 19:40, Tyler A wrote: > Hi, > > I had trouble visiting these two websites in Firefox, Epiphany and > verifying with OpenSSL. > > - Births Deaths and Marriages (Government of South Australia) > https://bdm.cbs.sa.gov.au/bdmsaonline/dbweb.asp?dbcgm=1&prprc=oac > > - Hostplus Superannu

Re: Measuring (or calculating) how many bytes are actually written to disk when I repeatedly save a file

On 12.04.2019 23:47, Michael Stone wrote: > On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 01:13:49PM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: >> It looks like I am writing something like 20 GB per day > > That's basically nothing for a reasonably sized modern SSD. > Still the SSD market is having a steady decline in terms of qu

Re: New dual-boot laptop with two SSD drives: should I use LVM (and I have no experience with it)?

On 12.04.2019 19:41, Tom Browder wrote: > I've been using Linux for over 20 years, and Debian for over 10, but > I've always used conventonal partitions and /etc/fstab definitions. > > Now that I'm getting a virgin, up-to-date laptop, I am considering > ising LVM but want to get the option of exper

Re: terminal with right-click = paste?

On 11.04.2019 1:37, Lee wrote: > On 4/10/19, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: >> On 11.04.2019 0:41, Lee wrote: >>> I installed the xfce version of debian 9 & have a terminal icon on the >>> menu bar that starts xfce4-terminal >>> >>> Is there som

Re: terminal with right-click = paste?

On 11.04.2019 0:41, Lee wrote: > I installed the xfce version of debian 9 & have a terminal icon on the > menu bar that starts xfce4-terminal > > Is there some way to configure xfce4-terminal so that a right mouse > click pastes text? > What I have now is right-click brings up a menu where I have t

Re: Measuring (or calculating) how many bytes are actually written to disk when I repeatedly save a file

On 08.04.2019 19:56, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Monday, April 08, 2019 10:18:28 AM Curt wrote: >> On 2019-04-08, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: >>> And someone would (or should) ask what does "frequently" mean, and that >>> is what I am trying to quantify. >> Sure. But below a certain level of gran

Re: Measuring (or calculating) how many bytes are actually written to disk when I repeatedly save a file

On 08.04.2019 17:39, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Monday, April 08, 2019 03:40:54 AM Curt wrote: >> Maybe an SSD is not the most appropriate >> storage device for frequent editing of large files. > That is what I'm trying to decide / determine. There are NVMe drives and SSDs intended to be used

Re: Measuring (or calculating) how many bytes are actually written to disk when I repeatedly save a file

On 06.04.2019 22:39, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > Background: I am considering buying a new disk (and will write an email later > with some other questions or observations about the process), but I know > that, > at least often for SSD drives, they now specify what I will call the > longevity >

Re: 'synaptic' removed from buster

On 04.04.2019 15:52, David wrote: > People accustomed to using synaptic might want to begin considering > alternative tools, because synaptic has been removed from buster. > > More info: > https://tracker.debian.org/news/1037065/synaptic-removed-from-testing/ > https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/synapt

Re: Grrrrr, howinhell do I stop the 3 minutes of inactivity shutdown of a new stretch install?

On 03.04.2019 23:00, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 03 April 2019 11:16:58 Jonathan Dowland wrote: > >> On Tue, Apr 02, 2019 at 10:18:00PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >>> And the gparted for wheezy won't touch it. e2fsck is too old. So I'll >>> start a new install in the morning. >> I have a vag

Re: System Freezing

On 30.03.2019 12:20, Martin Marais wrote: > > Greetings all. > > Never logged a bug before and need advice where to log this particular > case. > > I have been having issues with my Debian system freezing on my PC - > see specs below - same issue after reinstall on 3 different SSDs > including a US

Re: bcmath extension for php 7.1 on debian linux

On 27.03.2019 16:45, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > That said, you may want to consider installing your PHP packages from > this source: https://deb.sury.org/ > > That site is maintained by Ondřej Surý, who is a Debian Developer and > also one of the main PHP maintainers for Debian and Ubuntu. > > R

Re: bcmath extension for php 7.1 on debian linux

On 27.03.2019 10:43, gro.nai...@lagelagelage.ch wrote: > > Hi all > >   > > We need your help… > >   > > We need to use the bcmath extension on PHP 7.1 with a debian linux server… > > We cant found any source or any think to install this extension. > > We try to intall it with apt-get and also to a

Re: mdadm started before disks are detected

On 25.03.2019 0:50, Mimiko wrote: > hello. > > I came across a problem when booting. In the server is installed 4 > disks connected to raid controller and 2 disks connected to > motherboard sata interfaces. During booting disks connected to raid > controller are detected before md raid assembling p

Re: Unable to unblock bluetooth

On 26.03.2019 14:58, Johann Spies wrote: > On a new installation on a Lenowo w540 I configured bluetooth to use a > mouse and it worked.  Then at a later stage (after installing many > packages) it stopped working. > > I have read a lot on the internet about similar issues but could not > find a so

Re: Printer pull half of a second blank page after the first printed page and stops

On 19.03.2019 1:56, Brian wrote: > On Tue 19 Mar 2019 at 01:45:20 +0500, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: > >> On 19.03.2019 0:38, Brian wrote: >>> The advice is good but is there a good reason to advocate installing >>> hplip from source rather than from the st

Re: Printer pull half of a second blank page after the first printed page and stops

On 19.03.2019 0:38, Brian wrote: > The advice is good but is there a good reason to advocate installing > hplip from source rather than from the stretch package? > I didn't advocated per se the installation of upstream package, the point was to tell OP of it's existence, among the other things. As

Re: Using USB Flash / Pendrives or [micro]SD cards for backup

On 18.03.2019 18:30, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > Is anyone (reading this list) using USB Flash / Pendrives or [micro]SD cards > for backup? > > I've thought about doing that, especially as they continue to come down in > price, but my experience with them at least in some cases has not been good

Re: Printer pull half of a second blank page after the first printed page and stops

On 17.03.2019 23:09, Markos wrote: > > Hi, > > I am having problems with my HP Laserjet 1020 printer installed in > Debian 9 "Stretch". > I installed the drivers from: http://foo2zjs.rkkda.com/ > > ||bash$ | wget |-O | /|foo2zjs.tar.gz > http://foo2zjs.rkkda.com/foo2zjs.tar.gz|/| > ||bash$ | tar |-

Re: WRITING to NTFS drives

On 11.03.2019 23:13, deb wrote: > > > I saw this question come up > > and it set off bells. > > > Someone asked what the status of WRITING to NTFS drives was. > > That it was not yet supported (?) . > > > > *MY* Assumptions: > >  * MIXED NETWORK, with Win, Mac, Linux (EXT4 formatted). > >  * many p

Re: what's status of support for ntfs?

On 07.03.2019 3:46, Long Wind wrote: > freebsd say it can read reliably from ntfs, but write to it unreliably > > i've just checked stretch manual for mount, it seem to support write > to ntfs? > > early linux can't write to ntfs > > ntfs is supported via "ntfs-3g" driver. There could be some cavea

Re: Laptop still extremely slow after replacing msata ssd and putting old one back

On 04.03.2019 19:40, hdv@gmail wrote: > On 04/03/2019 15.36, Ric Moore wrote: >> On 3/4/19 9:19 AM, hdv@gmail wrote: >>> ame day, no old image was used. >> Right, but if you didn't use a "clean install" more than likely an old >> configuration might be at fault. I don't have an SSD but during the i

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