Re: Nvidia driver on Debian 10

2024-01-03 Thread Thomas Anderson
Thanks a lot, Macro! it worked. Sorry for delay, I got side tracked with "my day" =) On 03/01/2024 12:03, Marco Moock wrote: Am 03.01.2024 um 11:52:59 Uhr schrieb Thomas Anderson: Here is the output. Wow, a lot. All those lines with ii at the beginning mean the package is insta

Re: Nvidia driver on Debian 10

2024-01-03 Thread Thomas Anderson
-video-nvidia-any (no description available) un xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-legacy-304xx (no description available) On 03/01/2024 11:47, Marco Moock wrote: Am 03.01.2024 um 11:36:03 Uhr schrieb Thomas Anderson: Key information: I am aware that there are two different installation paths

networking issue upon reboot, i need to restart networking for it to work properly.

2024-01-03 Thread Thomas Anderson
hello, Have a funky issue with Debian 10, that is network related. Whenever I restart my computer, I cannot access the internet. I need to restart networking either via CLI, or from the networking panel turn off/on networking. Then, everything works. But, that is rather annoying. Trying to

Nvidia driver on Debian 10

2024-01-03 Thread Thomas Anderson
Ok, throwing up the bat signal. I will upgrade Debian to 12 within the next month or so...but before I do, want to clean up my current system. I have to kernels: 4.19.0-25 and 4.19.0-24. The latter will boot fine, the former (newer kernel) will not. it just goes to a blinking cursor,

Re: linux headers and upgrading nvidia driver

2022-09-15 Thread Thomas Anderson
I tried the suggestions mentioned in this thread. I forgot to mention the hardware in question. It is a rather modern GTX 1030 low profile Nvidia card. it is nothing fancy at all, and would not expect to game from it, but that is not what I bought it for. Just wanted more than null graphics.

linux headers and upgrading nvidia driver

2022-09-15 Thread Thomas Anderson
First off, I am running Debian 9, Stretch. I know it is old and I should upgrade and that is something I want to do. The primary problem is that I have a lot of important systems (email, cloud), and other less important (web host). Simple dist-upgrades have always broken my mail server, that

Cannot login to my user?

2022-02-18 Thread Thomas Anderson
Hello Friends, I have Debian 9, I know I need to upgrade my dist, will do that tonight or tomorrow =) Last week, I made a new user say "Sally." Previously, for years, my main user "Bob" was running perfectly with a gnome desktop. Recently, I realized, I cannot login to Bob anymore?!? The

Re: cinnamon - slow boot up times

2022-02-16 Thread Thomas Anderson
on't  have any services running, no servers or anything that should cause such a delay. On 2/16/22 12:09, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 04:21:43AM -0500, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: On 2/15/22, Thomas Anderson wrote: Hello, I have Bullseye installed on an SSD, it boo

cinnamon - slow boot up times

2022-02-15 Thread Thomas Anderson
Hello, I have Bullseye installed on an SSD, it boots up fast as expected up until the login screen. I enter my login credentials...then, queue the music...just a darker screen (not pitch black, flickering, or anything bad) 42 seconds later I get my desktop. I do have a Cinnamon desktop

Re: Throw an hard drive with Debian installation into...

2022-02-15 Thread Thomas Anderson
Thanks for replies. It all makes sense once I get the answers. =) On 2/15/22 07:29, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Tue, Feb 15, 2022 at 01:58:24AM +0100, Thomas Anderson wrote: I am curious, what would happen if I threw a fully functionally, Linux installation (HDD) into an entirely different

Throw an hard drive with Debian installation into...

2022-02-14 Thread Thomas Anderson
I am curious, what would happen if I threw a fully functionally, Linux installation (HDD) into an entirely different hardware configuration: Different Process AMD->Intel? Ram/mobo I assume doesn't matter? I half expect it to boot up, and be fully functional. But, I have not tested it. I am

Plop in Debian install HDD into entirely new system

2022-02-11 Thread Thomas Anderson
Hello friends, I was curious what would happen if I threw my server HDD, into an entirely new system: different motherboard, different CPU (Intel instead of AMD), Ram, video card, everything. I would like to upgrade my system, and ideal case, this would simply work. I think I have done

Re: Sata Hard drive testing

2021-10-24 Thread Thomas Anderson
Thank you everyone that helped me with this issue. I learned a great deal. Namely, for my particular use case, SMR drives are sub-optimal. It is VERY difficult to even find out if drives are SMR or CMR, because apparently the manufacturers try to put it all out the door. As mentioned by Mr.

Re: Sata Hard drive testing

2021-10-20 Thread Thomas Anderson
n Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 06:25:19PM +0200, Thomas Anderson wrote: >> I have been having problems with a drive (non-SSD) for a while now, >> but I would like to "identify" the problem specifically, so that I may >> perhaps be able to get the drive replaced. > Assuming i

Re: Sata Hard drive testing

2021-10-18 Thread Thomas Anderson
Cool, thanks Reco! Will post again tomorrow =) Takes 987 minutes apparently. On 10/18/21 6:52 PM, Reco wrote: Hi. On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 06:25:19PM +0200, Thomas Anderson wrote: I have been having problems with a drive (non-SSD) for a while now, but I would like to "ide

Sata Hard drive testing

2021-10-18 Thread Thomas Anderson
Hello Gurus, I have been having problems with a drive (non-SSD) for a while now, but I would like to "identify" the problem specifically, so that I may perhaps be able to get the drive replaced. Essentially, I have been experienced data loss, where nodes become unreadable, when I try to

Re: Get Terminal to Echo line in buffer on backspace

2021-09-01 Thread Thomas Anderson
Thanks for the insightful replies. I think I am getting closer to a solution. Wouldn't it be possible to bind the "redraw-current-line" to the delete (ASCII DEL), i.e. Alt 127?? And, just add that to my user's bash file? I am thinking out loud, not sure this would work. Also, yes. Zsh, I

Re: Get Terminal to Echo line in buffer on backspace

2021-08-30 Thread Thomas Anderson
/2021 14:41, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Aug 30, 2021 at 12:26:32PM +0200, Thomas Anderson wrote: >> My issue is: if I am typing to terminal, while receiving data, and I >> backspace -- I just don't know how far I have backspaced, I have to guess. > What you want to do is

Get Terminal to Echo line in buffer on backspace

2021-08-30 Thread Thomas Anderson
Hello Debian Users, Maybe someone can help a brother out. I would really like to be able to use terminal in such a way that when I backspace, it will echo the line I am currently typing 1. say if I am receiving data into the terminal window, and 2. I have *not* pressed carriage return. My

vnc is making my cry

2020-11-15 Thread Thomas Anderson
I have had vnc working in the past, then as of the past week or so, it has stopped working. I have spent many hours going in circles i feel. No matter what I try the result is the same. Basically, a black-white pixelated screen with a X curser (that I can move), and that is about it. I won't

drives spin 100% of the time, idle down?

2020-11-12 Thread Thomas Anderson
Hello List, I have two drives (setup in a RAID 1 array). The drives are mostly for archive purposes, and accessible via SMB on my local network. They are not constantly accessed, and performance/speed is irrelevant. I would rather they idle/sleep when not being directly accessed. I know they

Re: suid, www-data user, and gui program amarok, not working together.

2010-02-03 Thread Thomas Anderson
looking for answers. Thanks again. -- Regards, Thomas Anderson Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

suid, www-data user, and gui program amarok, not working together.

2010-02-02 Thread Thomas Anderson
that it is indeed running as user tommy? I've been at it for hours. Any ideas on how to proceed and perhaps solve my problem? -- Regards, Thomas Anderson Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: [Solved] Unable to install mencoder debian package from debian-multimedia.org.

2009-08-13 Thread Thomas Anderson
. Thanks to everyone who contributed in helping me with this issue! -- Regards, Thomas Anderson Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Unable to install mencoder debian package from debian-multimedia.org.

2009-08-12 Thread Thomas Anderson
-get update? It's not a dumb question :). But, yes, I remembered to apt-get update. So that wasn't the reason.. -- Regards, Thomas Anderson Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Unable to install mencoder debian package from debian-multimedia.org.

2009-08-12 Thread Thomas Anderson
ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/os/Linux/distributions/debian-multimedia/ stable main But that gave the same result, too. -- Regards, Thomas Anderson Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Unable to install mencoder debian package from debian-multimedia.org.

2009-08-12 Thread Thomas Anderson
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 14:24, Ron Johnsonron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: On 2009-08-12 06:19, Thomas Anderson wrote: I have the following entry in my sources.list file: deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org lenny main But I cannot install any package from that repository. I get this error

Unable to install mencoder debian package from debian-multimedia.org.

2009-08-11 Thread Thomas Anderson
from that repository. I've apt-get updated, and it still won't work. I've got an Intel quadcore CPU (which means I'm on the AMD64 architecture, right?) and am running Debian stable (Lenny). Any suggestions as to how I can fix my problem? -- Regards, Thomas Anderson Quidquid latine dictum sit

[Solved again] Program for quoting text like in email?

2009-06-10 Thread Thomas Anderson
of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software -- Regards, Thomas Anderson Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Program for quoting text like in email?

2009-06-09 Thread Thomas Anderson
if pine fails. Thankful for any ideas. -- Regards, Thomas Anderson Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Program for quoting text like in email?

2009-06-08 Thread Thomas Anderson
supports top-posting. I'd like to cut-n-paste the text I wish to reply, quote it with and then cut-n-paste it back into my facebook reply message. I'd also like line breaks to be put in once every 80 characters (email standard?). I use Debian Lenny. -- Regards, Thomas Anderson Quidquid latine

Program for quoting text like in email?

2009-06-08 Thread Thomas Anderson
other editors do. I use tcltext because I wrote it.  Works for me. I tried medit per your recommendation. The quote feature there was however intended as quoting programming code, i.e adding /* */ around code. I could not find an email quoting feature there though. -- Regards, Thomas Anderson

[Solved] Program for quoting text like in email?

2009-06-08 Thread Thomas Anderson
the tofrodos debian package to quickly convert it into linux format. I skimmed your script searching for any rm -rf / and such and am happy to report that it is short, readable and does no nasty stuff. Thanks; I'll be using your solution to my problem. -- Regards, Thomas Anderson Quidquid latine

Re: Program for quoting text like in email?

2009-06-08 Thread Thomas Anderson
, thanks for letting me know about the fmt command. I hadn't heard of it before. I'll experiment with your solution too, later though, as I also have to write my long postponed facebook reply ;). -- Regards, Thomas Anderson Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

xorg not working after synaptic upgrade (Lenny stable)

2009-04-13 Thread Thomas Anderson
) to 2:1.4.2-10.lenny1 xserver-xorg-video-savage (1:2.2.1-2) to 1:2.2.1-2.lenny1 Installed the following packages: linux-image-2.6.26-2-amd64 (2.6.26-15) -- Regards, Thomas Anderson Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: [Solved] xorg not working after synaptic upgrade (Lenny stable)

2009-04-13 Thread Thomas Anderson
+3+lenny1) On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 13:17, Thomas Anderson andersontho...@gmail.com wrote: I did the usual synaptic update and upgrade and after I rebooted the X server refuses to start. I'm on Debian stable Lenny. I temporarily changed the nvidia string in xorg.conf to nv and it works

Re: xorg not working after synaptic upgrade (Lenny stable)

2009-04-13 Thread Thomas Anderson
the Debian prebuilt nvidia proprietary binary blob packages. -- Regards, Thomas Anderson Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Who uses Debian? Wikipedia doesn't tell.

2008-01-17 Thread Thomas Anderson
none. I couldn't find info about it on debian.org either. Can someone suggest a place (url) that is trustworthy (to a proprietary minded employer) and contains such a list? - -- Regards, Thomas Anderson Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur OpenPGP fingerprint: ED7E 1E98 225A 3FCC 458C B3D7 D625

lsof |grep /dev/dsp # gives 0 output but still busy?

2007-12-15 Thread Thomas Anderson
# - -- Regards, Thomas Anderson Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur OpenPGP fingerprint: ED7E 1E98 225A 3FCC 458C B3D7 D625 20E6 F316 BD21 OpenPGP public key: http://todu.dyndns.org/pubkey.txt -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http

Future rabbits run Debian on Intel processors.

2007-09-23 Thread Thomas Anderson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimzy If you look at 1:18:35 in the movie, you will see what resembles a Debian logo. Debian ftw! - -- Regards, Thomas Anderson Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur OpenPGP fingerprint: ED7E 1E98 225A 3FCC 458C

What uses xorg process?

2007-09-01 Thread Thomas Anderson
its stuff for it? I already tried the graphical top commands tree view to see what subprocesses might use the xorg process. But I could find none. - -- Regards, Thomas Anderson Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur OpenPGP fingerprint: ED7E 1E98 225A 3FCC 458C B3D7 D625 20E6 F316 BD21 OpenPGP

How do I enable piping to programs in /etc/aliases?

2007-08-09 Thread Thomas Anderson
. I don't understand what I would have to do to make mailman work with exim4 on Debian Etch without enabling piping. If anyone has step by step information I would really appreciate if you could give me a link to it. - -- Regards, Thomas Anderson Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur OpenPGP

Re: question about installing everything

2007-08-09 Thread Thomas Anderson
to security holes. - -- Regards, Thomas Anderson Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur OpenPGP fingerprint: ED7E 1E98 225A 3FCC 458C B3D7 D625 20E6 F316 BD21 OpenPGP public key: http://todu.dyndns.org/pubkey.txt -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG

Mailman+exim4 on Etch howto?

2007-08-08 Thread Thomas Anderson
a user=list line or something like that in the system_aliases director. ### I don't understand what that means. - -- Regards, Thomas Anderson Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur OpenPGP fingerprint: ED7E 1E98 225A 3FCC 458C B3D7 D625 20E6 F316 BD21 OpenPGP public key: http://todu.dyndns.org

Re: Etch with encrypted lvm, remapping of sata hd names, problem

2007-04-21 Thread Thomas Anderson
, the computer still tries to decrypt my root filesystem from sda instead of from sdb. I guess the initrd file that comes with Etch needs editing, correct? But what to edit and how? I've never changed any initrd file before. On 4/16/07, Jay Flory [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thomas Anderson [EMAIL

Re: Etch with encrypted lvm, remapping of sata hd names, problem

2007-04-21 Thread Thomas Anderson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sat, Apr 21, 2007 at 19:54:09 +0200, Thomas Anderson wrote: [ Earlier attributions were missing, therefore I am not entirely sure who said what already. ] It's been me and Jay Flory talking so far. In all the above

Re: Etch with encrypted lvm, remapping of sata hd names, problem

2007-04-19 Thread Thomas Anderson
of from sdb. I guess the initrd file that comes with Etch needs editing, correct? But what to edit and how? I've never changed any initrd file before. On 4/16/07, Jay Flory [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thomas Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE

Etch with encrypted lvm, remapping of sata hd names, problem

2007-04-15 Thread Thomas Anderson
hd to boot from. But after my bios let's control over to Etch, Etch thinks of itself as being sdb1. Strange, huh? - -- Regards, Thomas Anderson Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur OpenPGP fingerprint: ED7E 1E98 225A 3FCC 458C B3D7 D625 20E6 F316 BD21 OpenPGP public key: http

Etch with encrypted lvm, remapping of sata hd names, problem.

2007-04-15 Thread Thomas Anderson
/ partition. When I booted Knoppix I noticed that the names of the hd's changed. Etch was during install sda1 and now it is sdb1. I tried to add map (hd0) (hd1) and map (hd1) (hd0) in grub, but it still wont work. Any ideas/help? - -- Regards, Thomas Anderson Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur

what command in linux such as mem in dos

2001-09-12 Thread thomas anderson
Hi, is there a command in linux to show a more detailed information on memory usage and alternatively also cpu usage? currently I use 'ps aux' but I need more information... thanks -- Sent through GMX FreeMail - http://www.gmx.net

ghostscript

2001-08-28 Thread thomas anderson
Hi, are there any *significant* advantages to using gs-aladdin over gnu gs aside from the latter being a newer version? I have a deskjet855C hp printer using PDQ with using gnu gs but if there's an advantage to using gs-aladdin then I might switch to it... Thanks for any info Please CC me when

who has *arguably* the best iptables firewall script around here?

2001-08-28 Thread thomas anderson
Hello, If you think you do please tell us why and also kindly send me a copy too! :) -- Sent through GMX FreeMail - http://www.gmx.net

ftp not working

2001-08-26 Thread thomas anderson
hi, recently installed a firewall now ftp doesn't work (i.e. connection times out)...the line to allow ftp thru iptables doesn't seem to work: $IPTABLES -A INPUT -p tcp ! --syn --source-port 20 --destination-port 1024 :65535 -j ACCEPT Thanks -- Sent through GMX FreeMail -

now I am getting somewhere (iptables sid)

2001-08-12 Thread thomas anderson
I think I now know what I need for ipmasq?... I have downloaded and installed iptables package..hopefully compiled my kernel 2.4.7 with the proper modules (anyone pls give me a list to be sure that I didn't miss something)...got a default rc.firewall script for 2.4.x kernel from

iptables vs ipchains vs ipmasq

2001-08-10 Thread thomas anderson
I want to setup my internal network to access the internet via my linux machine over a dial-up line. it seems that ipmasq does the trick...then ipchains comes along now iptables..the best bet so far is iptables...now, is there a reliable HOWTO that tellsa pretty good *newbie* how to setup

Re: hi masters of linux, surely you know some tricks...

2001-06-29 Thread thomas anderson
it's a system that I *have* root access but I wanted to try and *break* it as an ordinary user if there was a way... If you find a way, please report the bug. :) Seriously: Do you mean that this is a system to which you have no root access, or are you the system administrator trying to give

hi masters of linux, surely you know some tricks...

2001-06-28 Thread thomas anderson
Hi masters of the linux community surely you know some tricks to this..., I want to try to put a perl script in the /usr/lib/perl directory however I don't have permission access...I tried symlinking it but it still won't work. is there I way to do this without becoming root or sudo? TIA, --