Re: Windows on VMware on Deb 11: safely usable?

2022-08-17 Thread hdv@gmail
On 2022-08-17 12:53, Tom Browder wrote: Unfortunately, I have to have a Windows host. I have given up dual hosting because of the pain, so I am using a dedicated Win 10 box and a Deb laptop. I would love to run Windows on a VM on Debian iff I can have it be reliable enough to use with

Re: Windows on VMware on Deb 11: safely usable?

2022-08-17 Thread hdv@gmail
On 2022-08-17 12:53, Tom Browder wrote: Unfortunately, I have to have a Windows host. I have given up dual hosting because of the pain, so I am using a dedicated Win 10 box and a Deb laptop. I would love to run Windows on a VM on Debian iff I can have it be reliable enough to use with

Re: Under each of these scenarios, what is the neatest and simplest way to manipulate the /etc/network/interfaces file?

2022-03-19 Thread hdv@gmail
On 2022-03-19 13:19, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: On 19/03/2022 09:06, Stella Ashburne wrote: No thank you. I won't touch NetworkManager or its variants with a ten foot pole. Why? Reason #1 [quote] I am sorry but we do not support NetworkManager. I would go so far as to say do not use it at

Re: Screen goes blank for 1-2 seconds

2022-02-09 Thread hdv@gmail
cat /sys/class/drm/card0/device/hwmon/hwmon0/temp1_input Should give temperature: Mine right now is: 29000 which apparently is 29C. /sys/class/drm/card0/device/hwmon/hwmon0/pwm1 is the power management. I returned home yesterday. It seems the temperature here isn't out of the ordinary: $

Re: Screen goes blank for 1-2 seconds

2022-01-28 Thread hdv@gmail
On 2022-01-28 16:53, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: Wherever possible, it's easier if you are using Debian stable: more people will hae experience / be running that at any one time. All the very best, as ever, Andy Cater I know. But testing is more convenient for me. I need to test current

Re: Screen goes blank for 1-2 seconds

2022-01-28 Thread hdv@gmail
On 2022-01-28 16:48, Bijan Soleymani wrote: On 2022-01-28 10:16, hdv@gmail wrote: About the fan: I seem to remember I had to install amdgpu-fan (needed to look that up, forgot the name) when I got this setup. Not sure if it still is needed or that the driver can control the fan reliably

Re: Screen goes blank for 1-2 seconds

2022-01-28 Thread hdv@gmail
On 2022-01-28 15:31, Bijan Soleymani wrote: On 2022-01-28 08:40, hdv@gmail wrote: I am reasonably sure the problem lies in some form or combination of software. Sadly, my expertise in that area is insufficient to find out what it is exactly. What kernel/OS/driver are you using

Re: Screen goes blank for 1-2 seconds

2022-01-28 Thread hdv@gmail
On 2022-01-28 14:12, Pankaj Jangid wrote: Pankaj Jangid writes: UPDATE: I have changed the HDMI cable and since last 6hrs I have not faced that event again. Will update in the thread if it re-appears. Another thing happened when I was replacing the cable. I heard the sparking noise in the

Re: Screen goes blank for 1-2 seconds

2022-01-27 Thread hdv@gmail
On 2022-01-27 11:16, Bijan Soleymani wrote: On 2022-01-27 5:00 a.m., hdv@gmail wrote: My guess is about once every week. The display is on for roughly 16 hours each day. There seems to be no discernable relation to "load". At least not that I could confirm. I haven't fo

Re: Screen goes blank for 1-2 seconds

2022-01-27 Thread hdv@gmail
On 2022-01-27 10:40, Bijan Soleymani wrote: On 2022-01-27 4:23 a.m., Bijan Soleymani wrote: Are you also connected via HDMI? I think I am using DVI to mini display port. I will have to check when I return home from this assignment in 2 weeks time, but I am almost certain I am using DP. I

Re: Screen goes blank for 1-2 seconds

2022-01-27 Thread hdv@gmail
On 2022-01-27 05:35, Pankaj Jangid wrote: Since I have setup a new hardware - x570 chipset, rx570 GPU - I am facing a very strange problem. The monitor goes blank for a brief time, like 1-2s and then comes back. It is connected with the GPU using HDMI cable. During that 1-2s, the machine

Re: OT: Recommendation for a new Debian laptop

2022-01-15 Thread hdv@gmail
On 2022-01-15 17:13, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Mi, 12 ian 22, 08:54:50, john doe wrote: Debians, i've been using a laptop for a fiew years now and before this laptop dies on me I would like to buy a new laptop. I'm thinking about two options: - Buying something of the shelph and installing

Re: How to secure access to SD cards a la USBGuard?

2022-01-11 Thread hdv@gmail
On 2022-01-11 12:41, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Du, 02 ian 22, 20:52:25, David Wright wrote: On Fri 10 Dec 2021 at 17:20:52 (+0100), Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 06 dec 21, 10:18:49, David Wright wrote: On Sun 05 Dec 2021 at 13:33:41 (+0100), Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Vi, 12 nov 21, 12:27:59,

Re: Reasonably simple setup for 1TB HDD and 250GB M.2 NVMe SSD

2021-12-15 Thread hdv@gmail
On 2021-12-15 15:51, Jorge P. de Morais Neto wrote: Hello, Em [2021-12-09 qui 15:00:43+0100], hdv@gmail escreveu: Regarding the swap space: I wouldn't make it so big. That really isn't necessary. I have a 64GB RAM system here, on which I have 2GB of swap. I doubt I have ever seen conky

Re: Reasonably simple setup for 1TB HDD and 250GB M.2 NVMe SSD

2021-12-09 Thread hdv@gmail
On 2021-12-09 15:46, Dan Ritter wrote: hdv@gmail wrote: On 2021-12-08 15:27, Jorge P. de Morais Neto wrote: Hi everyone! I have a Dell Inspiron 5570 laptop with 1TB HDD and 16 GiB RAM (it supports 32 GiB). I am about to buy an M.2 NVMe 250GB SSD---a Regarding the swap space: I wouldn't

Re: Reasonably simple setup for 1TB HDD and 250GB M.2 NVMe SSD

2021-12-09 Thread hdv@gmail
On 2021-12-08 15:27, Jorge P. de Morais Neto wrote: Hi everyone! I have a Dell Inspiron 5570 laptop with 1TB HDD and 16 GiB RAM (it supports 32 GiB). I am about to buy an M.2 NVMe 250GB SSD---a Western Digital WD Blue SN550. I would like to set the system for reliability, SSD durability¹ and

Re: How to secure access to SD cards a la USBGuard?

2021-12-05 Thread hdv@gmail
On 2021-12-05 13:33, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Vi, 12 nov 21, 12:27:59, Stefan Monnier wrote: As mentioned, the way to control it will depend on the specific tool used to mount. E.g. if it's mounted by hand via a rule in /etc/fstab, then you can rules that specify the device via

Re: How to secure access to SD cards a la USBGuard?

2021-11-12 Thread hdv@gmail
On 2021-11-12 17:13, Stefan Monnier wrote: I'd like to limit access to (micro) SD cards on our systems to only those cards that have been vetted up front. IIUC the way SD card are interfaced with the system, you can't use an approach like USBGuard for that indeed. I was getting afraid of

How to secure access to SD cards a la USBGuard?

2021-11-11 Thread hdv@gmail
Hi all, I'd like to limit access to (micro) SD cards on our systems to only those cards that have been vetted up front. At first glance I thought maybe USBGuard would help me do this, but that will only detect built-in or USB-mounted card readers in which the card is plugged, not the

Re: vim not seeing many Unicode chars

2021-05-18 Thread hdv@gmail
On 2021-05-18 18:37, IL Ka wrote: Thanks all. I looked at my config files (which go back at least 15 years) and found lots of explicitly setting both LC_ALL=C and LC_LANG=C. Should I remove all, or just remove the LC_ALL? > Using LC_ALL is strongly discouraged as it overrides

Re: About mouse settings

2021-01-31 Thread hdv@gmail
On 2021-01-31 00:16, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2021-01-30 19:58:13 +0100, hdv@gmail wrote: I use xinput and xbindkeys to solve issues with mice and keyboards. Had to to get my Logitech MX Ergo Trackball and MX Keys to do what I wanted them to do. Works remarkably well, ... if the mouse

Re: About mouse settings

2021-01-30 Thread hdv@gmail
On 2021-01-30 19:49, reader wrote: Are there any tools that can set what each button or scrollwhere does? I have a mouse that when pressing scrollwheel will not paste. I can think of no other mouse I've had that does not paste (in linux) when the scroll where is pressed (assuming something has

Re: Looking for help with locale configuration

2021-01-14 Thread hdv@gmail
On 2021-01-14 20:06, Rasmus MK wrote: Hi list, I'm looking for help in understanding how locales work and how to configure my system running Debian Testing. During the Debian installation (graphical) I configured my locale to be "en_SE.UTF-8". Recently a python script crashed with the error

Re: Monitor Problem???

2021-01-03 Thread hdv@gmail
On 2021-01-03 12:58, 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: setting the date for testing

2020-12-13 Thread hdv@gmail
On 2020-12-13 16:34, Michael Grant wrote: and now it appears to stick. So I'm good. Thanks for your help though! Michael Grant Glad to read you have solved it. Grx HdV

Re: setting the date for testing

2020-12-13 Thread hdv@gmail
.  Setting the system using the date command, it just resets itself back to the current date/time after a few seconds.  How can I stop this? Thanks! Michael Grant *From: *hdv@gmail <mailto:hdv.ja...@gmail.com> *Sent: *07 December 2020 07:53 *To: *debian-user@lists.debian.org <mail

Re: setting the date for testing

2020-12-06 Thread hdv@gmail
On 2020-12-06 21:56, hdv@gmail wrote: > # timedatectl set-ntp true I am sorry for the typo. This should of course have been "false"! Grx HdV

Re: setting the date for testing

2020-12-06 Thread hdv@gmail
On 2020-12-06 21:43, Michael Grant wrote: I need to set the date to several years in the future in order to test something.  When I do this via the date command, the date returns back almost instantly (or within a few seconds). # timedatectl set-time 2025-12-06 20:41:41 # date Sat  6 Dec

Re: swamp rat bots Q

2020-12-04 Thread hdv@gmail
On 2020-12-03 13:35, Gene Heskett wrote: I've had it with a certain bot that that ignore my robots.txt and proceeds to mirror my site, several times a day, burning up my upload bandwidth. They've moved it to 5 different addresses since midnight. I want to nail the door shut on the first

Re: Hardware for Debian

2020-02-12 Thread hdv@gmail
On 2020-02-12 12:26, Malcolm Beeson-Earwicker wrote: > I've been a Debian user for about twenty years now, and have found that I have > to run more and more of my machines under windo$e because the latest versions > of > Debian just fail, I imagine due to all this UEFI-rubbish. Does anyone know

Re: Something wakes my laptop from suspend to ram and I don't know what it is

2020-01-22 Thread hdv@gmail
On 2020-01-22 12:41, Ottavio Caruso wrote: > Hi, > > in one my previous posts to the list, I complained that hibernation > was somewhat broken on my Thinkpad and it would generate filesystem > corruption on resume. With the help of the list, I was able to fix > that problem. However, I still have

Re: Top 7 Programming Languages That Employers Really Want

2019-10-18 Thread hdv@gmail
On 18/10/2019 19.26, Doug McGarrett wrote: ... > I'm not sure if any Pascal compilers are still available, but > Turbo was the most popular back when. Until the last version > came out, and it was too complicated for its own good. Forgive me for barging in, but I just had to answer that. Sure

Re: testing: weird resume (black or frozen screen)

2019-04-21 Thread hdv@gmail
On 21/04/2019 10.42, Andrea Borgia wrote: > Il 20/04/19 18:16, hdv@gmail ha scritto: > > >> I see the same type of problems. > > Hmm, I'm not so sure about it: in my case the sytem works except (parts of) X > and it is most likely not kernel-related. In your cas

Re: testing: weird resume (black or frozen screen)

2019-04-20 Thread hdv@gmail
On 20/04/2019 17.43, Andrea Borgia wrote: > Hi. > > Running the testing branch and using xfce, the last couple of resumes from > hibernation were problematic: the first one had the suspend dialog still > visible > with the "yes" button still pushed in, all applications were open, the mouse >

Re: putting config files under revision control

2019-04-09 Thread hdv@gmail
On 09/04/2019 23.09, Lee wrote: > On 4/9/19, hdv@gmail wrote: >> On 09/04/2019 21.23, Lee wrote: >>> On 4/9/19, Dan Ritter wrote: >>>> Lee wrote: >>>>> What are people doing for putting config files in [under?] git? >>>>> >>>&g

Re: putting config files under revision control

2019-04-09 Thread hdv@gmail
On 09/04/2019 21.23, Lee wrote: > On 4/9/19, Dan Ritter wrote: >> Lee wrote: >>> What are people doing for putting config files in [under?] git? >>> >>> I'd like to have at least some system config files maintained in git >>> so I can get a history of changes. >>> (and yes, I know, I really

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

2019-03-07 Thread hdv@gmail
On 08/03/2019 07.39, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> results. I do remember that cached reads were about 1.1 GB/s for both >> the old and the new SSD after the slowness started. > > FWIW, the "cached read" speed of hdparm doesn't have much to do with the > SSD (it reads from the in-RAM cache, not from

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

2019-03-06 Thread hdv@gmail
On 06/03/2019 02.04, Jimmy Johnson wrote: > hdv@gmail wrote: >> On 05/03/2019 04.28, Paul Ezvan wrote: >>> Le 04/03/2019 à 13:32, deloptes a écrit : >>>> double check - I had similar observation when trying to setup USB stick >>>> boot >>

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

2019-03-05 Thread hdv@gmail
On 05/03/2019 04.28, Paul Ezvan wrote: > Le 04/03/2019 à 13:32, deloptes a écrit : >> double check - I had similar observation when trying to setup USB stick boot >> for a notebook - it's a company property, so not supposed to do that ;-) >> >> Well turned out that I had to modify few bios

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

2019-03-04 Thread hdv@gmail
On 04/03/2019 16.14, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: > 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

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

2019-03-04 Thread hdv@gmail
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 install &g

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

2019-03-04 Thread hdv@gmail
On 04/03/2019 13.53, Hans wrote: > Am Montag, 4. März 2019, 13:04:53 CET schrieb hdv@gmail: > Hi, > > try to start with a livefile system, then check the ssd speed. Thus you see, > if > the problem is by the operating system or by the hardware. > > If it is same slow,

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

2019-03-04 Thread hdv@gmail
Hi all, The mSATA SSD in my Thinkpad W530 was getting full,. So I tried to replace it with a new larger one (Samsung EVO 860). I knew about the mSATA II vs III issue and the BIOS AHCI setting. What I didn't expect was the laptop to slow down to a crawl. To illustrate: even opening de start menu

Re: Looking for advise to replacy Pan newsreader

2019-02-17 Thread hdv@gmail
On 17/02/2019 11.58, Erik Christiansen wrote: > On 17.02.19 10:16, hdv@gmail wrote: >> On 17/02/2019 05.05, Juan R. de Silva wrote: >>> Can your share with me what do you use for newsgroups reading. I do not >>> care >>> about binaries. All I want to follow se

Re: Looking for advise to replacy Pan newsreader

2019-02-17 Thread hdv@gmail
On 17/02/2019 05.05, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > Pan newsreader,which I used happily for several years, lately get buggy > as hell and cannot be used any longer at all. > > I tried Thunderbird from Debian repo and found that the pure thing is not > capable to keep a uniform font size through all

Re: How to ensure that old kernel does not get removed

2019-01-05 Thread hdv@gmail
On 05/01/2019 14.45, songbird wrote: > hdv@gmail wrote: > ... >> So how do I make sure that 4.18.0-2 does not get removed from the boot menu >> after the next kernel upgrade? I'd like to keep it until I have verified >> that an >> upgrade does work. However, as far

Re: How to ensure that old kernel does not get removed

2019-01-05 Thread hdv@gmail
On 05/01/2019 11.19, Reco wrote: > On Sat, Jan 05, 2019 at 11:16:23AM +0100, hdv@gmail wrote: >> On 05/01/2019 08.52, Reco wrote: >>> Hi. >>> >>> On Sat, Jan 05, 2019 at 03:41:05AM +0100, hdv@gmail wrote: >>>> So how do I make sure that

Re: How to ensure that old kernel does not get removed

2019-01-05 Thread hdv@gmail
On 05/01/2019 08.52, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Sat, Jan 05, 2019 at 03:41:05AM +0100, hdv@gmail wrote: >> So how do I make sure that 4.18.0-2 does not get removed from the boot menu >> after the next kernel upgrade? > > Do not uninstall this version of kerne

How to ensure that old kernel does not get removed

2019-01-04 Thread hdv@gmail
Hi list, After a recent upgrade I noticed that my system could not reboot into the new 4.19 kernel. So I rebooted into the kernel before that (4.18.0-3), which did not work either. Booting into the version before that (4.18.-02) did work just fine. It seems I hadn't rebooted after the previous

Re: librecad

2018-12-07 Thread hdv@gmail
On 12/7/18 2:45 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > All very encouraging. But in about 4 hours, I've written and tested about > 90 LOC which is about 75% of what I need to have this do. :) So I think > I'll continue on this path. :) There's always more than one way to scratch an itch... ;-) > Thank

Re: librecad

2018-12-07 Thread hdv@gmail
On 12/7/18 10:50 AM, Joe wrote: > On Thu, 6 Dec 2018 19:46:42 -0500 > Gene Heskett wrote: > >> On Thursday 06 December 2018 17:48:21 hdv@gmail wrote: >> > >>> >>> Some time ago I tried LibreCAD as well and soon had to conclude >>> there were

Re: librecad

2018-12-07 Thread hdv@gmail
On 12/7/18 1:46 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 06 December 2018 17:48:21 hdv@gmail wrote: > >> On 12/6/18 11:31 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: >>> Greetings all; >>> >>> The librecad in the debian repos for wheezy is nearly a decade old, >>> v-1

Re: librecad

2018-12-06 Thread hdv@gmail
On 12/6/18 11:31 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > The librecad in the debian repos for wheezy is nearly a decade old, > v-1.02. There are V2-* stuff that still runs on QT4 some of which is > already installed. > > Is there a repo where I can source a newer version than 1.02 without

Re: Distinguish instances of GUI file manager by color

2018-09-26 Thread hdv@gmail
On 2018-09-26 11:52, Richard Owlett wrote: > I'm setting up a new machine and copying files from the old machine's home > directory. At the same time I'm creating a new directory structure to better > match how I work. > > I found it expedient to have at least three instances of the file manager

Re: Buster: KDE still broken in testing?

2018-09-05 Thread hdv@gmail
On 2018-09-05 11:22, local10 wrote: > Hi, > > KDE still broken in tesing or is it just me? Anyone have any ideas when it'll > be fixed? > > Thanks I did an upgrade yesterday and noticed the panel containing my application launchers, task manager and system tray is fully functional again.

Re: [Buster]: KDE wierdness: missing window titlebars + more

2018-08-28 Thread hdv@gmail
On 2018-08-28 07:24, local10 wrote: > Aug 27, 2018, 6:00 PM by cyaiple...@sitesplace.net: > >> I had that happen not too long ago in Stretch. I just rebooted and it was OK. >> > A reboot didn't do it for me, the issue still persist. > > >> You may want to also check your settings in Display -

Re: lots of issues with KDE after update

2018-08-27 Thread hdv@gmail
On 2018-08-27 10:56, Hans wrote: > Hi folks, > > after lates upgrade of KDE in debian/testing, I found several issues. > > 1. Missing of all applications (icons) inm the taskbar > > 2. Missing of all status icons in the taskbar > > 3. Right mouse click in for desktop settimngs in desktop nbo

Re: software to do drawings of houses, gardens, etc.

2017-11-23 Thread hdv@gmail
On 2017-11-23 09:08, Weaver wrote: > I don't think you'll find LibreCad is `dead'. > I think you'll find it just takes a little more than five minutes to get > on top of a programme. > The traffic on a mailing list is also no indication of usage or how > `good' a package is. > Traffic may well be

Re: software to do drawings of houses, gardens, etc.

2017-11-22 Thread hdv@gmail
On 2017-11-23 02:05, Emanuel Berg wrote: > Librecad seems good and I got it working > instantly on a Debian box. > > Only how do I draw a box and then change the > properties to specific side lengths? > > For example, if I want to picture a building > that is rectangular (from above) with one

Re: How to Keep Track of Changes to the System

2017-08-31 Thread hdv@gmail
On 2017-08-31 04:39, ray wrote: > On Sunday, August 27, 2017 at 6:50:06 AM UTC-5, hdv@gmail wrote: >> On 2017-08-26 05:14, ray wrote: >>> I would like to find a way to keep track of changes I make to my system. >>> ...snip >> Hi Ray, >> >> I just retu

Re: How to Keep Track of Changes to the System

2017-08-27 Thread hdv@gmail
On 2017-08-26 05:14, ray wrote: > I would like to find a way to keep track of changes I make to my system. It > seem that I may learn from others on how they keep track of changes they make > to their systems. > > When I make changes, I don't remember where I made changes or why. > > It would

Re: Linux based cellphones?

2015-01-30 Thread hdv@gmail
On 2015-01-30 10:47, Karen Lewellen wrote: Now that seems nifty. Don't know what your timeframe is, but have you considered the Neo900? See neo900.org. It is not out yet, but it seems promising. Grx HdV -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Question about an attempt to upgrade CUPS and cups-filters

2014-11-30 Thread hdv@gmail
On 2014-11-30 19:55, Paul E Condon wrote: I'm using Jessie, and attempting to do frequent update/upgrades. I use aptitude. Computer is HP with dual core pentium cpu. The most recent upgrade left cups and cups-filters only partially installed with the following report: T A cups W A

Re: Lost high res desktop settings on vbox upgrade to 4.3.14

2014-07-23 Thread hdv@gmail
On 2014-07-23 23:04, Harry Putnam wrote: Andreas Rönnquist mailingli...@gusnan.se writes: I upgraded vbox from 4.3.10 to 4.3 14. Now the best screen res I can get in 1024 x 768. When it was something like 1500 x . Not sure of exact setting but desktop was much larger when I logged in