Re: Thunderbird inbox malfunction

2024-02-15 Thread D. R. Evans
Paul D Schmitt wrote on 2/14/24 10:49: After an upgrade of Debian 11 yesterday, Thunderbird 115.7.0 now has an inbox issue where the listings move making it difficult to save or delete them!  I had this exact issue with Debian based Antix 22 after a recent upgrade.  That problem was resolved by

Re: running a snap package on bookworm?

2024-01-25 Thread D. R. Evans
Greg Wooledge wrote on 1/24/24 12:24: On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 12:16:21PM -0700, D. R. Evans wrote: 4. But now how do I actually run the program? I tried just running: $ acrordrdc Have you looked at the man page for snap? It's very long, so I took a guess and looked for "run".

running a snap package on bookworm?

2024-01-24 Thread D. R. Evans
1. I've never used a snap package before. 2. I want to run the acrordrdc program, which is available as a snap package. 3. Following instructions found following a search for help with snap, I ran: sudo apt install snapd sudo snap install core sudo snap install acrordrdc There were no

Re: X: how to *really* switch from nouveau to modesetting?

2023-09-13 Thread D. R. Evans
Felix Miata wrote on 9/12/23 11:51: You really should eliminate that xorg.conf file, and if the problem continues, don't assume it's the kernel driver at fault. Just report a bug if so inclined. Where would depend on behavior after removing xorg.conf. If it fixes the problem, there is almost

Re: X: how to *really* switch from nouveau to modesetting?

2023-09-12 Thread D. R. Evans
they won't make any practical difference, but might make the system a bit cleaner to administer. And, from what you say here: > D. R. Evans composed on 2023-09-11 11:47 (UTC-0600): > >> Graphics: >> Device-1: NVIDIA GF108 [GeForce GT 430] vendor: Gigabyte driver: nouveau >

X: how to *really* switch from nouveau to modesetting?

2023-09-11 Thread D. R. Evans
This is a follow-on to the thread that started with: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2023/05/msg00657.html Following the upgrade to bookworm that I recently performed, I was hoping that the problem described in the first post in that thread would magically go away. It didn't :-( Felix

Re: bookworm and network connections

2023-09-02 Thread D. R. Evans
Brian wrote on 9/2/23 04:51: Installation over ethernet, no DE - ifupdown provided. Installation over ethernet or wireless with a DE - network-manager provided. Yep, that one's exactly what I experienced. Although the machine is used more like a server than a desktop, it has DE (KDE) to

Re: WORKAROUND (longish): was bookworm and network connections

2023-09-02 Thread D. R. Evans
Brian wrote on 9/2/23 13:01: Send a mail to cont...@bugs.debian.org Ib the mail body put ressign 1051086 installation-report thanks Sorry. That's "reassign". Done. Thank you. I pondered where to assign in, and couldn't see anywhere that the report really fit. (I interpreted

Re: bookworm and network connections

2023-09-02 Thread D. R. Evans
Michael Kjörling wrote on 9/2/23 03:23: You might want to poke around a little among the files in /etc/NetworkManager, particularly /e/NM/system-connections. That's what NetworkManager _should_ be using to set up the interfaces. See if there's something there to explain the two seemingly being

WORKAROUND (longish): was bookworm and network connections

2023-09-02 Thread D. R. Evans
Starting a new thread so that this doesn't get lost in the postings in the original thread. The original thread was started at: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2023/09/msg00024.html That post contains a description of the problem. I now have a workaround (although not an explanation)

Re: bookworm and network connections

2023-09-01 Thread D. R. Evans
David Wright wrote on 9/1/23 19:40: I don't see that the OP is doing anything complicated that requires rc.local to run at all. They just need to distinguish between the two Correct. I was simply trying to workaround the problem by putting commands into rc.local that are known to work when I

Re: bookworm and network connections

2023-09-01 Thread D. R. Evans
Michel Verdier wrote on 9/1/23 15:06: If you want old names put in /etc/default/grub GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="net.ifnames=0" Nice to know, but I'll stay with the new names, I think. network manager is good for changing networks. For a server the network must not change normally. So you could

Re: bookworm and network connections

2023-09-01 Thread D. R. Evans
Andy Smith wrote on 9/1/23 16:32: Your situation appears to have been triggered by the renaming of your network interfaces (which was warned about in the release These weird names like "Wired connection enp11s0(eth0)" were names that the debian installer came up with several OS versions ago

Re: bookworm and network connections

2023-09-01 Thread D. R. Evans
Greg Wooledge wrote on 9/1/23 15:38: In particular, when using /etc/network/interfaces, only interfaces that are marked as "auto" need to be up, to satisfy this criterion. An I don't think that debian has used used /etc/network/interfaces for a while, at least not by default. Certainly

Re: bookworm and network connections

2023-09-01 Thread D. R. Evans
Thank you for your thoughts... As people are addressing the rc.local issue (I now realise that I shouldn't have mentioned it :-) )... I just checked, and: 1. rc.local is being executed; 2. it is executing the nmcli commands; 3. the commands are successful. But it remains true that when the

bookworm and network connections

2023-09-01 Thread D. R. Evans
I just upgraded my main server to bookworm, having successfully, over the course of the past couple of months, methodically upgraded my other machines with only minor issues. Unfortunately, the upgrade of the server, the most important of my machines, has not been smooth at all, even though

Re: Transport endpoint is not connected

2023-07-05 Thread D. R. Evans
Greg Wooledge wrote on 7/5/23 08:59: I'm still waiting for setup details to be provided. Is "sh" the user's I was merely trying to inform the OP that he wasn't alone in seeing this "Transport endpoint is not connected" message coming from bookworm when prior versions of debian stable were

Re: Transport endpoint is not connected

2023-07-05 Thread D. R. Evans
to...@tuxteam.de wrote on 7/4/23 22:23: FWIW, since upgrading to bookworm, I see: sh: 0: getcwd() failed: Transport endpoint is not connected when I ssh into the upgraded box. This seems to be coming from getcwd() (aka get current working directory, see man page). Asking the intertubes,

Re: Transport endpoint is not connected

2023-07-04 Thread D. R. Evans
hlyg wrote on 6/28/23 21:32: notification message: Transport endpoint is not connected FWIW, since upgrading to bookworm, I see: sh: 0: getcwd() failed: Transport endpoint is not connected when I ssh into the upgraded box. I have no idea why. (And, just to be clear, this has never

Re: video issue following latest bullseye update

2023-05-31 Thread D. R. Evans
I'm sorry I'm so slow to respond... it's all a matter of trying to put aside quality uninterruptible time to work on this. Since the problem is not so bad that I can't perform work with this computer, a lot of other work-related things unfortunately have to take priority. Felix Miata wrote

Re: video issue following latest bullseye update

2023-05-22 Thread D. R. Evans
Felix Miata wrote on 5/19/23 11:23: How much time did you allow the login screen to show up? I've lately seen on Somewhere between three and five minutes, I'd say. Certainly long after the disk light stopped flickering and the system seemed to have reached a stable state.

Re: video issue following latest bullseye update

2023-05-18 Thread D. R. Evans
Felix Miata wrote on 5/15/23 13:25: Try using the (default) modesetting DIX display driver instead of Nouveau. Remove package xserver-xorg-video-nouveau and reboot to see if it makes a difference. I did this, and when I rebooted I was in the Linux console instead of Light DM

Re: video issue following latest bullseye update

2023-05-17 Thread D. R. Evans
Felix Miata wrote on 5/15/23 13:25: Try using the (default) modesetting DIX display driver instead of Nouveau. Remove package xserver-xorg-video-nouveau Synaptic is telling me that this will also remove: xserver-xorg-video-all Is it OK that that will also be removed? Doc --

Re: video issue following latest bullseye update

2023-05-15 Thread D. R. Evans
Felix Miata wrote on 5/15/23 11:16: D. R. Evans composed on 2023-05-15 09:49 (UTC-0600): I'm wondering if someone can walk me through how to figure out what video driver I am using, and what other drivers might be available to try? Not without knowing anything about your GPU: Yes, I

video issue following latest bullseye update

2023-05-15 Thread D. R. Evans
Following an update this morning to one of my bullseye systems, an irritating video problem has surfaced. The best way I can think of to describe the problem is that if one has a line of black text on what is supposed to be a white background, to the right of the text a clear, short tail of

Thunderbird and font size used to display plain text e-mails?

2023-04-30 Thread D. R. Evans
I have looked everywhere I can think of, and have been unable to find an answer -- among the ridiculous number of ways that fonts appear to be controlled in Thunderbird -- that works for this issue :-( I recently changed to a larger monitor, and, after lots of twiddling, have more-or-less got

Re: ZFS performance (was: Re: deduplicating file systems: VDO with Debian?)

2022-11-09 Thread D. R. Evans
hw wrote on 11/9/22 04:41: configure the controller cards, so that won't really work. And ZFS with Linux isn't so great because it keeps fuse in between. That isn't true. I've been using ZFS with Debian for years without FUSE, through the ZFSonLinux project. The only slightly

Re: issue with purging an old kernel

2022-06-21 Thread D. R. Evans
DdB wrote on 6/20/22 10:07: Since i am running dozens of VM's, i can say: Me2 am running into this regularly, when i am trying to purge old kernels. I am seeing this so frequently, that i even wrote a script (meant to be run inside the VM's) to clean up the mess, some apt-scripts happen to leave

issue with purging an old kernel

2022-06-20 Thread D. R. Evans
Normally to remove an old kernel from my debian stable systems, I issue the following command: apt purge linux-headers--amd64 linux-headers--common linux-image--amd64 Following this recipe, which has always worked in the past, I issued: apt purge

[SOLVED] Re: postfix + gmail

2022-06-03 Thread D. R. Evans
And, of course, half an hour after giving up and asking for help, I discovered what I needed to change. I did a "journalctl | grep smtp" and noticed that, when my machine was connecting to gmail, it seemed to be doing so on port 25. Aha! So I changed my transport file explicitly to use port

postfix + gmail

2022-06-03 Thread D. R. Evans
I am trying to configure postfix correctly to send e-mail to a gmail.com account, using my gmail credentials. 1. It all works fine if I use Thunderbird, with the following configuration: server name: smtp.googlemail.com port:587 Connection security: STARTTLS Authentication

Re: Start ZFS partition on boot.

2022-03-18 Thread D. R. Evans
James Allsopp wrote on 3/18/22 15:20: I'm having lots of trouble starting my zfs /var partition as part of boot, I urge you to post the question on the zfs-discuss reflector. Doc -- Web: http://enginehousebooks.com/drevans

Re: jupyter-notebook and bullseye

2021-12-31 Thread D. R. Evans
Reco wrote on 12/31/21 1:47 PM: That was certainly a help (although I wonder why it was necessary for me to do that manually), It's official Debian policy now, believe it or not. python 2.x is /usr/bin/python2. python 3.x is /usr/bin/python3. If the user really wants /usr/bin/python the

Re: jupyter-notebook and bullseye

2021-12-31 Thread D. R. Evans
Reco wrote on 12/17/21 6:10 AM: Hi. On Thu, Dec 16, 2021 at 12:43:51PM -0700, D. R. Evans wrote: FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/bin/python' ... Can someone suggest how I might get back to the fully-working set of kernels that I had in buster? Try

jupyter-notebook and bullseye

2021-12-16 Thread D. R. Evans
I don't use jupyter-notebook often, so I only just discovered that I am encountering a problem with it following my upgrade from buster to bullseye a couple of months ago. It worked fine on buster, and I have changed nothing related to jupyter since the upgrade. When jupyter-notebook starts

Re: bullseye and running graphics over ssh

2021-10-07 Thread D. R. Evans
Greg Wooledge wrote on 10/7/21 2:21 PM: On Thu, Oct 07, 2021 at 02:15:45PM -0600, D. R. Evans wrote: For years (decades, actually) I have routinely executed graphical programs over ssh (i.e., I sit at computer A, ssh into computer B, then run a graphical program on computer B whose windows

bullseye and running graphics over ssh

2021-10-07 Thread D. R. Evans
For years (decades, actually) I have routinely executed graphical programs over ssh (i.e., I sit at computer A, ssh into computer B, then run a graphical program on computer B whose windows, mouse events, etc., all occur on computer A). In bullseye, at least out-of-the-box bullseye, this

Re: failed upgrade buster -> bullseye

2021-10-07 Thread D. R. Evans
D. R. Evans wrote on 10/4/21 4:36 PM: D. R. Evans wrote on 10/4/21 4:12 PM: I just tried to upgrade my main desktop machine (this machine) from buster to bullseye. I am suspicious that the problem is related to having root on ZFS on this machine. So I have posted a request for help

Re: failed upgrade buster -> bullseye

2021-10-04 Thread D. R. Evans
D. R. Evans wrote on 10/4/21 4:12 PM: I just tried to upgrade my main desktop machine (this machine) from buster to bullseye. I am suspicious that the problem is related to having root on ZFS on this machine. So I have posted a request for help on the zfsonlinux reflector, and probably

failed upgrade buster -> bullseye

2021-10-04 Thread D. R. Evans
I just tried to upgrade my main desktop machine (this machine) from buster to bullseye. The upgrade halted with: ... Setting up libgnustep-base1.27 (1.27.0-3) ... Processing triggers for shared-mime-info (2.0-1) ... Setting up gnustep-base-runtime (1.27.0-3) ... Setting up unar

Re: Debian stable - updates

2021-06-25 Thread D. R. Evans
Christian wrote on 6/25/21 6:19 AM: Is Debian stable safe to use - I mean in the sense that it gets security updates for the installed packages? Yes, it does get security updates. It also gets non-security updates for some of the most popular packages. For years I have run debian stable

Re: TDE (Trinity Desktop Environment) vs KDE

2021-04-22 Thread D. R. Evans
Andrew M.A. Cater wrote on 4/22/21 2:57 PM: On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 04:23:02PM -0400, Kenneth Parker wrote: I saw TDE discussed in another, recent Thread, and had to look it up, as I am not familiar with it. How does it compare with the current KDE? Other than a qemu VM with KDE (so that I

Re: debian stable kernel not updating on one machine

2021-02-03 Thread D. R. Evans
Andy Smith wrote on 2/2/21 6:33 PM: Perhaps you do not have the virtual package "linux-image-amd64" for some reason. That package depends upon the latest actual kernel package, so causes you to see upgrades. That's it. Somehow both linux-image-amd64 and the linux-headers-amd64 were no

debian stable kernel not updating on one machine

2021-02-02 Thread D. R. Evans
I went to update one of my machines running debian stable today, using (as usual) synaptic [which I think is basically a wrapper for various apt functions]. The machine is running: [Z:~] uname -a Linux zserver 4.19.0-13-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.19.160-2 (2020-11-28) x86_64 GNU/Linux [Z:~]

Re: rsync link corruption with -H and --link-dest

2020-11-22 Thread D. R. Evans
Celejar wrote on 11/22/20 7:46 AM: On a list like this, changing the subject line while leaving the other headers in place will result in many users' MUAs still associating the new message with the old thread, annoying those users. Just compose a And also meaning that users such as myself who

Re: Thunderbird / enigmail

2020-10-21 Thread D. R. Evans
Greg Marks wrote on 10/21/20 5:23 PM: I had no problems transitioning from Enigmail to Thunderbird 78.3.1, which has removed Enigmail. With an existing GPG installation, it was necessary to run the command "gpg --export-secret-keys --armor > private_key.asc" for importation into Thunderbird.

Re: Thunderbird / enigmail

2020-10-21 Thread D. R. Evans
Greg Marks wrote on 10/13/20 9:37 AM: I had no problems transitioning from Enigmail to Thunderbird 78.3.1, which has removed Enigmail. With an existing GPG installation, it was necessary to run the command "gpg --export-secret-keys --armor > private_key.asc" for importation into Thunderbird.

Re: rsync --delete

2020-10-16 Thread D. R. Evans
Mike McClain wrote on 10/16/20 4:09 PM: > I've been using rsync to backup to a flash drive but it's not > performing exactly as I expected. > > The man page says: > --deletedelete extraneous files from dest dirs > A section of the backup script is so: > Params=(-a --inplace

Re: Thunderbird / enigmail

2020-10-13 Thread D. R. Evans
Greg Marks wrote on 10/13/20 9:37 AM: >> So I'd like to know if anyone who uses encrypted e-mail has taken >> the plunge and installed the newer version of Thunderbird that the >> official buster repository is offering (and also, therefore, removed >> enigmail); and, if so, have there been any

Re: Thunderbird / enigmail

2020-10-13 Thread D. R. Evans
to...@tuxteam.de wrote on 10/13/20 8:25 AM: > On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 07:26:28AM -0600, D. R. Evans wrote: >> repository. But I seem to recall reading somewhere a while back that the >> enigmail functionality was going to be incorporated into Thunderbird >> upstream. >

Thunderbird / enigmail

2020-10-13 Thread D. R. Evans
I see that the latest official updates to debian stable want to remove enigmail and install a new version of Thunderbird. I recall a couple of years ago the same thing happened, and encrypted e-mail was effectively broken for a couple of months until a version of enigmail compatible with the

Re: arc_meta_used > arc_meta_limit, need tuning hints

2020-09-30 Thread D. R. Evans
Victor Sudakov wrote on 9/30/20 7:12 AM: > No ZFS gurus here? Where could I ask? > zfs-disc...@list.zfsonlinux.org Doc -- Web: http://enginehousebooks.com/drevans signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: 32 versus 64 bit reading list suggestions

2020-09-07 Thread D. R. Evans
David Wright wrote on 9/7/20 12:53 PM: > > That may be an unfair comparison as the OP has a 64-bit machine > running the 32-bit software, rather than two machines of different > generations. > Sorry; I missed that. (I find it too easy to skim instead of actually /read/ on a computer screen.)

Re: 32 versus 64 bit reading list suggestions

2020-09-07 Thread D. R. Evans
Richard Owlett wrote on 9/7/20 9:12 AM: >> > > Answers I'm seem focused on too low levels. I'm interested in the > end-user experience. > > E.G. what end user observable difference would there be between 32 bit > based browser and a 64 bit based browser? > The short version: what Reco

Re: Recommendation for filesystem for USB external drive for backups

2020-08-13 Thread D. R. Evans
Greg Wooledge wrote on 8/13/20 2:29 PM: > > The simplest answer would be to use ext4. > I concur, given the OP's use case. And I speak as someone who raves about ZFS at every reasonable opportunity :-) Doc -- Web: http://enginehousebooks.com/drevans signature.asc Description: OpenPGP

Re: grub update and reinstallation

2020-08-03 Thread D. R. Evans
Tom Dial wrote on 8/1/20 9:31 PM: > > My experience, now on eight machines, indicates that it should be if the > installed, configured, and used versions of grub components is > > 2.02+dfsg1-20+deb10u2. > > I could be wrong, but here it has been the case for both UEFI (and root > on ZFS) and

Re: Do other owners of WD Gold disks hear a periodic plonk ?

2020-07-24 Thread D. R. Evans
rhkra...@gmail.com wrote on 7/24/20 4:28 PM: > On Friday, July 24, 2020 05:35:34 PM Thomas Schmitt wrote: >> David Christensen wrote: >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Click_of_death >> >> But that's a different technology (and 20 years ago). > > You might not have read the entire article. >

Re: Advice on hardware server to use for small a dedicated data center

2020-06-28 Thread D. R. Evans
Dan Ritter wrote on 6/26/20 1:41 PM: > echo test wrote: > >> Note: I will need some RAID solution hard or soft. > > We are firmly of the opinion that mdadm or ZFS are the best > solutions here. > Absolutely. Actually I'd go further and differentiate the two by suggesting that if you use ECC

Re: Looping Shell Scripts and System Load

2020-06-24 Thread D. R. Evans
Martin McCormick wrote on 6/24/20 11:19 AM: > > Right now, uptime looks like: > > 11:48:07 up 26 days, 23:10, 7 users, load average: 16.15, 15.60, 10.65 > > That's pretty loaded so ideally, one could start the > looping script and it would fire up processes until things got >

[SOLVED] Re: Question for users of Thunderbird on buster

2020-06-22 Thread D. R. Evans
Virgo Pärna wrote on 6/16/20 6:27 AM: > > Nothing to do with keyboard layouts. Some fonts have ligatures, > that combine two different characters into one symbol. I actually tried > it on Windows with Thunderbird and "Cascadia Mono" font. Rendering > engine in Thunderbird probably has

Re: Question for users of Thunderbird on buster

2020-06-22 Thread D. R. Evans
Virgo Pärna wrote on 6/16/20 6:34 AM: > On Thu, 11 Jun 2020 13:12:25 -0600, D. R. Evans wrote: >> >> I'll have to dig in and see if there's a way to turn it off. I'll look at the >> details of the font as well; I'm not at all sure what exactly is telling TB >> "

Re: Question for users of Thunderbird on buster

2020-06-11 Thread D. R. Evans
Virgo Pärna wrote on 6/11/20 1:27 AM: > On Wed, 10 Jun 2020 14:10:45 -0600, D. R. Evans wrote: >> For example: >> if I type the "-" character twice in a row, Thunderbird displays only one, >> even though both characters are present in the text >> if I

Question for users of Thunderbird on buster

2020-06-10 Thread D. R. Evans
As far as I can tell, no one else using other OSes seems to be having this problem, so maybe it's a Thunderbird-on-buster issue that needs to be reported somewhere. Or maybe it's just my system for some obscure reason So, with current buster, the installed version of Thunderbird is 68.8.0. I

Re: how to build package alsa-utils?

2020-05-29 Thread D. R. Evans
to...@tuxteam.de wrote on 5/29/20 8:08 AM: > On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 07:54:51AM -0600, D. R. Evans wrote: >> I am trying to build alsa-utils from source, but am clearly missing something >> obvious. >> >> 1. I executed: >> apt-get source alsa-utils >>

Re: how to build package alsa-utils?

2020-05-29 Thread D. R. Evans
to...@tuxteam.de wrote on 5/29/20 8:08 AM: > On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 07:54:51AM -0600, D. R. Evans wrote: > > This is a Debian package. One of the things Debian does for you is > to unify all that buildery. So first > > - install the package "build-essential" &g

how to build package alsa-utils?

2020-05-29 Thread D. R. Evans
I am trying to build alsa-utils from source, but am clearly missing something obvious. 1. I executed: apt-get source alsa-utils and that seemed to run OK, generating: drwxr-xr-x 23 n7dr n7dr4096 May 29 07:41 alsa-utils-1.1.8 -rw-r--r-- 1 n7dr n7dr 27076 Apr 9 2019

unable to create SCHED_FIFO thread on 64-bit buster

2020-05-20 Thread D. R. Evans
I have some code that has worked for years under 32-bit versions of Debian (and other distros before that). Specifically, it works fine under 32-bit buster. But on a pristine 64-bit installation it fails, and I can sort-of understand why, but I don't know how to fix it. The code tried to create a

Re: R performance

2020-05-12 Thread D. R. Evans
Mark Fletcher wrote on 5/12/20 9:55 AM: > On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 08:16:52AM -0600, D. R. Evans wrote: >> Mark Fletcher wrote on 5/12/20 7:34 AM: >>> Hello >>> >> >> I have noticed that recent versions of R supplied by debian are using all the >> avai

Re: R performance

2020-05-12 Thread D. R. Evans
Mark Fletcher wrote on 5/12/20 7:34 AM: > Hello > > I have recently had cause to compare performance of running the R > language on my 10+-year-old PC running Buster (Intel Core i7-920 CPU) > and in the cloud on AWS. I got a surprising result, and I am wondering > if the R packages on Debian

Re: authentication failing through PolicyKit

2020-03-02 Thread D. R. Evans
john doe wrote on 3/2/20 12:31 PM: > On 3/2/2020 8:22 PM, D. R. Evans wrote: >> I am trying to run a command that appears to need super-user privileges. When >> it tries to run, I get: >> >> --- >> >> AUTHENTICATING FOR org.freedesktop.policykit.exec

authentication failing through PolicyKit

2020-03-02 Thread D. R. Evans
I am trying to run a command that appears to need super-user privileges. When it tries to run, I get: --- AUTHENTICATING FOR org.freedesktop.policykit.exec === Authentication is needed to run `/tmp/hda-jack-retask-0TDDG0/script.sh' as the super user Authenticating as: D. R. Evans

Re: buster: low audio level

2020-02-13 Thread D. R. Evans
Curt wrote on 2/13/20 9:31 AM: > On 2020-02-13, D. R. Evans wrote: >> >> I'm wondering if there's a problem with the sound driver that the system = >> is >> using, and therefore: >> 1. How to determine which driver I'm using? >> 2. How to switch to

Re: buster: low audio level

2020-02-13 Thread D. R. Evans
D. R. Evans wrote on 2/12/20 4:58 PM: > For what it's worth, "aplay -l" says, for the port I'm using: > > card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC888-VD Analog [ALC888-VD Analog] > Subdevices: 0/1 > Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 > I'm wondering if there's a p

Re: buster: low audio level

2020-02-12 Thread D. R. Evans
D. R. Evans wrote on 2/12/20 12:28 PM: > Doug McGarrett wrote on 2/12/20 12:19 PM: >> >> >> On 2/12/20 1:05 PM, D. R. Evans wrote: >>> Jonas Smedegaard wrote on 2/12/20 10:43 AM: >>>> Quoting D. R. Evans (2020-02-12 18:34:27) >>>>> I just

Re: buster: low audio level

2020-02-12 Thread D. R. Evans
Jonas Smedegaard wrote on 2/12/20 3:21 PM: > I would recommend to first try locate possible places where volume is > turned down, and only as a last option (for this setup, before giving up > and buying another card) artificially amplify the weak audio - because > that will undoubtedly lead to

Re: buster: low audio level

2020-02-12 Thread D. R. Evans
Jonas Smedegaard wrote on 2/12/20 3:19 PM: > Another thing you might try is go "below" Pulseaudio and mess directly > with ALSA settings: > > Install the package alsa-utils and run (in a terminal) the tool > alsamixer > > By default it will probably show a single volume control for a virtual

Re: buster: low audio level

2020-02-12 Thread D. R. Evans
Jonas Smedegaard wrote on 2/12/20 1:26 PM: > Quoting D. R. Evans (2020-02-12 19:05:40) >> Jonas Smedegaard wrote on 2/12/20 10:43 AM: >>> Quoting D. R. Evans (2020-02-12 18:34:27) >>>> I just installed buster on a new (to me) machine, and the audio >>>

Re: buster: low audio level

2020-02-12 Thread D. R. Evans
Doug McGarrett wrote on 2/12/20 12:19 PM: > > > On 2/12/20 1:05 PM, D. R. Evans wrote: >> Jonas Smedegaard wrote on 2/12/20 10:43 AM: >>> Quoting D. R. Evans (2020-02-12 18:34:27) >>>> I just installed buster on a new (to me) machine, and the audio level

Re: buster: low audio level

2020-02-12 Thread D. R. Evans
Jonas Smedegaard wrote on 2/12/20 10:43 AM: > Quoting D. R. Evans (2020-02-12 18:34:27) >> I just installed buster on a new (to me) machine, and the audio level >> is very low. With all the mixer controls and the physical volume >> control on the speakers turned up, I can

buster: low audio level

2020-02-12 Thread D. R. Evans
I just installed buster on a new (to me) machine, and the audio level is very low. With all the mixer controls and the physical volume control on the speakers turned up, I can hear audio, but even then it is unpleasantly quiet, certainly nothing one would want to listen to. Any suggestions as to

Re: The nightmare of Intel Integrated GPUs under Linux in general and Debian in particular

2020-02-11 Thread D. R. Evans
Miguel A. Vallejo wrote on 2/11/20 12:07 PM: > > What are my alternatives? nVidia cards? I've never used an nVidia card > but I have read also tons of problems with them in the past. How about > now? And how about AMD cards? > > What are your recommendations / experiences? > My advice: put an

Re: graphics woes :-(

2020-01-27 Thread D. R. Evans
Felix Miata wrote on 1/27/20 4:47 PM: > D. R. Evans composed on 2020-01-27 14:57 (UTC-0700): > >> I'm sure I'm missed out important information, so feel free to ask and I'll >> do >> my best to answer. > > I have a display that takes a long time to initialize w

Re: graphics woes :-(

2020-01-27 Thread D. R. Evans
Stefan Monnier wrote on 1/27/20 4:06 PM: >> anything at all, then, after a very long time, I see the stream of Linux text >> messages that indicates booting, but I never see a graphical login screen. >> (The delay before the messages appear is far longer than a normal boot cycle >> -- indeed, I

Re: graphics woes :-(

2020-01-27 Thread D. R. Evans
D. R. Evans wrote on 1/27/20 2:57 PM: > Running debian stable (64 bit). > > For the past couple of months I've been trying to get a system with onboard > Intel graphics to work completely correctly, but have never been able to get > rid of flicker on the console tty or on fine

graphics woes :-(

2020-01-27 Thread D. R. Evans
Running debian stable (64 bit). For the past couple of months I've been trying to get a system with onboard Intel graphics to work completely correctly, but have never been able to get rid of flicker on the console tty or on fine text in konsole in a graphical desktop. There are enough threads on

Re: buster: not reaching login screen on console

2019-12-06 Thread D. R. Evans
Felix Miata wrote on 12/6/19 11:22 AM: > D. R. Evans composed on 2019-12-06 11:11 (UTC-0700): > >> I have a buster system that is failing ever to reach a login prompt on the >> console tty. > >> The last message on the screen is: >> A start job is running for

buster: not reaching login screen on console

2019-12-06 Thread D. R. Evans
I have a buster system that is failing ever to reach a login prompt on the console tty. The last message on the screen is: A start job is running for Hold until boot process finished up followed by a timer that simply increases without end and says "no limit". How do I find out what is causing

Q: how to stop konsole hiding cursor in buster/stable?

2019-11-21 Thread D. R. Evans
After five seconds, konsole hides the cursor if it's within the window boundary. Can anyone tell me where the setting is to stop the cursor from being hidden? Doc -- Web: http://enginehousebooks.com/drevans signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: enigmail

2019-11-19 Thread D. R. Evans
D. R. Evans wrote on 11/18/19 12:57 PM: > I see that the update to debian stable that I was going to do today wants to > update thunderbird but remove enigmail. Does anyone have any insight into how > long it is likely to take before enigmail will be made compatible with the >

enigmail

2019-11-18 Thread D. R. Evans
I see that the update to debian stable that I was going to do today wants to update thunderbird but remove enigmail. Does anyone have any insight into how long it is likely to take before enigmail will be made compatible with the thunderbird that debian stable wants to install? I remember that

Re: intel video

2019-11-11 Thread D. R. Evans
D. R. Evans wrote on 11/11/19 5:32 PM: > Felix Miata wrote on 11/11/19 4:58 PM: >> D. R. Evans composed on 2019-11-11 16:04 (UTC-0700): >> >>> The chip is an E3-1245, which is supposed to be able to operate at 4096x2304 >>> resolution. >> >>&g

Re: intel video

2019-11-11 Thread D. R. Evans
Felix Miata wrote on 11/11/19 4:58 PM: > D. R. Evans composed on 2019-11-11 16:04 (UTC-0700): > >> The chip is an E3-1245, which is supposed to be able to operate at 4096x2304 >> resolution. > >> Any suggestions as to what I might need to do to improve at least

Re: intel video

2019-11-11 Thread D. R. Evans
Michael Lange wrote on 11/11/19 4:11 PM: > (...) >> The chip is an E3-1245, which is supposed to be able to operate at >> 4096x2304 resolution. >> >> Any suggestions as to what I might need to do to improve at least the >> logged-in resolution? >> > > just a guess: maybe some firmware file(s)

Re: intel video

2019-11-11 Thread D. R. Evans
Felix Miata wrote on 11/11/19 4:08 PM: > D. R. Evans composed on 2019-11-11 16:04 (UTC-0700): > >> Any suggestions as to what I might need to do to improve at least the >> logged-in resolution? > > Make sure your kernel cmdline does not include nomodeset. Som

intel video

2019-11-11 Thread D. R. Evans
I just installed buster on a new machine (well, new to me; I think that the mobo is two or three years old). The GUI splash screen comes up with very large icons (i.e., it's low res), and once I am logged in, the (KDE) function to control the size of display provides nothing higher than

Re: OT: Missing sidebar; was buster: multiple instances of konqueror?

2019-09-07 Thread D. R. Evans
R.Lewis wrote on 9/7/19 8:14 AM: > I'm glad to see that you have solved your problem with konqueror, and I'm > wondering if you can help me with mine. > > Do you have a sidebar (F9)? If you do, how did you get it? > Nope. I saw your original question, and have no solution for you, I'm

Re: buster: multiple instances of konqueror?

2019-09-07 Thread D. R. Evans
Curt wrote on 9/7/19 5:37 AM: > On 2019-09-01, D. R. Evans wrote: >> >> How do I configure konqueror in buster so that I can run more than one >> instance? > > > Settings-Configure Konqueror-Performance- > Disable 'Always try to have one preloaded instance' >

Re: buster: multiple instances of konqueror?

2019-09-05 Thread D. R. Evans
Étienne Mollier wrote on 9/5/19 1:38 PM: > On my side, the window manager happily brings up the first > konqueror window having been started, and the "konqueror" > command gives back the hand to the shell, instead of spawning a > new window, which I believe is the expected behaviour ? > I'm

Re: buster: multiple instances of konqueror?

2019-09-05 Thread D. R. Evans
Dan Ritter wrote on 9/5/19 9:36 AM: > D. R. Evans wrote: >> D. R. Evans wrote on 9/1/19 8:51 AM: >>> How do I configure konqueror in buster so that I can run more than one >>> instance? >>> >> >> I haven't seen any responses to this. Is it per

Re: buster: multiple instances of konqueror?

2019-09-05 Thread D. R. Evans
D. R. Evans wrote on 9/1/19 8:51 AM: > How do I configure konqueror in buster so that I can run more than one > instance? > I haven't seen any responses to this. Is it perhaps, for reasons I can't even begin to guess, by design not even possible to run multiple instances of konque

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