Re: New Dell Inspiron 15 3000 Series 3511 sound problem on Debian 11 Stable

2023-02-13 Thread Anssi Saari
Default User writes: > xserver-xorg-video-cirrus_1.5.3-1+b3_amd64.deb for Debian Stable (Bullseye) > does seem to be at > deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian bullseye main > but that is not a backport. It's also not a Linux kernel and not relevant to your sound HW. Just some video support

Re: New Dell Inspiron 15 3000 Series 3511 sound problem on Debian 11 Stable

2023-02-12 Thread Anssi Saari
Default User writes: > The dumbed-down make-believe BIOS on the new computer lists the Audio > Controller as: > "Cirrus Logic CS8409". So it looks like this is the actual sound hardware that's in use, not the Tiger Lake stuff. A quick search found

Re: New Dell Inspiron 15 3000 Series 3511 sound problem on Debian 11 Stable

2023-02-11 Thread Anssi Saari
Default User writes: > BTW, > sudo apt show firmware-sof-signed > shows firmware-sof-signed as installed for both Debian Live 11.0 > and Debian Live 11.6. : OK, next step is to run sudo dmesg | grep -i audio in a terminal to see if there's any problem loading the driver or firmware and

Re: support for ASUS AC1200 USB-AC53 Nano wifi dongle

2023-02-10 Thread Anssi Saari
Gary Dale writes: > Thanks. Found that github repo myself. I hope you are right about 6.2 > integration, but I'm not sure we'll get there with Bookworm... In fact I think 6.2 in Bookworm is unlikely since 6.1 is apparently the next long term kernel and it's in Bookworm now. The next long term

Re: New Dell Inspiron 15 3000 Series 3511 sound problem on Debian 11 Stable

2023-02-10 Thread Anssi Saari
Default User writes: > In Debian 11 "Live", lspci -nn reports: > "00:1f.3 Audio device [0403]: Intel Tiger Lake-LP Smart Sound Technology > Audio Controller [8086:a0c8] (rev > 20)". This isn't new sound hardware so should work in Debian 11. With a quick look, you probably need the non-free

Re: support for ASUS AC1200 USB-AC53 Nano wifi dongle

2023-02-09 Thread Anssi Saari
"Alexander V. Makartsev" writes: > Good to hear you've made it working. > You might want to walk an extra mile and setup DKMS [1][2] for it, so it will > automatically re-compile and re-install itself after every kernel image > update. > > > [1]

Re: ipv6 maybe has arrived.

2023-02-09 Thread Anssi Saari
jeremy ardley writes: > On 9/2/23 17:13, Anssi Saari wrote: >> If forwarding is not enabled, then the LAN IPv6 hosts are just as >> isolated from incoming traffic from the internet as hosts behind NAT. >> > If you don't have IPv6 forwarding on the router then none

Re: ipv6 maybe has arrived.

2023-02-09 Thread Anssi Saari
jeremy ardley writes: > In the case of adding IPv6 without NAT, then without a firewall, external > baddies can connect unsolicited to your internal devices. Some of your > devices will > have their own personal firewalls already, e.g. any windows machine. Some > won't, e.g. a printer. In the

Re: support for ASUS AC1200 USB-AC53 Nano wifi dongle

2023-02-09 Thread Anssi Saari
Gary Dale writes: > I thought this would be easier than it's turned out to be. There are Internet > posts going back years about support for this device but nothing recent - > including a 5 year old Ubuntu post saying it works. Other wifi devices seem > to be recognized out of the box or with

Re: initrd sizes mushroomed several months ago

2023-02-06 Thread Anssi Saari
David Wright writes: > You presumably aren't running 686 and amd64 kernels, then, > unlike Felix. It depends on the system too. My amd64 based router doesn't have microcode in the initramfs but that's OK since microcode is handled by the BIOS (Coreboot). Also I think the microcode's not free to

Re: Completely locking out a user

2023-02-04 Thread Anssi Saari
Nicolas George writes: > - crontabs or atjobs that download instructions from the web; Removing the user's crontab and any at jobs should do, after adding the user to /etc/at.deny and /etc/cron.deny. IMO cron's a handy service but you might still deny access to it by default. Systemd stuff

Re: ASCII formatting for plain text email

2023-01-31 Thread Anssi Saari
Pierre Willaime writes: > 1- a simple way to draw a line (without pressing 72 times on "-") > --- > > 2- a simple way to align some text to the right (that is to say to > automatically calculate how many spaces are needed to

Re: partition appears to be mounted, but not according to umount or lsblk

2023-01-20 Thread Anssi Saari
Jude DaShiell writes: > I wonder if blkid might be a bit more informative. I don't know, I usually run mount without arguments to see what's mounted or look in the file /proc/mounts.

Re: OpenSolaris Boot Environements equivalent

2023-01-20 Thread Anssi Saari
Yassine Chaouche writes: > Hello all, > > I was wondering if there was anyone working on an equivalent of OpenSolaris > BE? A quick search came up with https://docs.zfsbootmenu.org/, does that fit your needs?

Re: Cloning a disk: partclone?

2023-01-20 Thread Anssi Saari
Tixy writes: > Surely it's also straightforward to just copy the data in the partition > then resize the filesystem... > > cp /dev/sdX1 /dev/sdY1 > resize2fs /dev/sdY1 Sure. Partclone, since the OP asked about that, can speed this up for a partition since it's smart enough to not copy parts

Re: X11 and hot-plugged keyboards and multiple layouts

2023-01-15 Thread Anssi Saari
Nicolas George writes: > Does the xmodmap effect stay if you run it manually after the keyboard > is hot-plugged? Yes. I don't have a desktop environment in use on my desktop computer either so this should work for me.

Re: need kino. or a substitute that can work with a sony hi-8 metal 720 by handicam.

2023-01-15 Thread Anssi Saari
gene heskett writes: > What happened to kino? That was an all in one package, and while > kdenlive is pretty, it can't capture from the camera... Looks like kino has died. The last version is currently in unstable though, apparently there has been some issue that made it impossible to include

Re: X11 and hot-plugged keyboards and multiple layouts

2023-01-09 Thread Anssi Saari
Nicolas George writes: > Nicolas George (12020-02-19): >> 8<8<8<8< xi2watch.c >8>8>8>8 > > Hi. > > I am replying to my own mail of three years ago where I explained how to > configure X11 to set different layouts on different keyboards and handle >

Re: Lenovo ThinkCentre M92p driving two monitors.

2022-12-27 Thread Anssi Saari
Felix Miata writes: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DisplayPort#Multi-Stream_Transport_(MST) is the > way. I wonder if that works in Linux since the wikipedia article doesn't say, only that it works in unspecified Windows and not in MacOS 10.15 Catalina. Not that I have any displays with the

Re: latest testing update broke my laptop

2022-12-23 Thread Anssi Saari
Stefan Monnier writes: > I use Debian Testing Different story then. Breakage is expected in Testing. > so if you mostly reinstall from scratch when an upgrade comes along > you'd likely be fine. I've reinstalled Debian only once when it was time to switch to 64-bit sometime in the decade

Re: latest testing update broke my laptop

2022-12-21 Thread Anssi Saari
"Andrew M.A. Cater" writes: > I'd start from the firmware .iso and an expert text modeinstall and then > uncheck > everything other than standard - so no graphics environment AT ALL - before > rebooting. (You might want to add network manager or similar for nmtui to > configure WiFi). Looks

Re: latest testing update broke my laptop

2022-12-21 Thread Anssi Saari
Stefan Monnier writes: >> I can recommend the laptop as a reasonable candidate for Linux. Apart from >> the need for proprietary drivers, which is something I blame nVidia for, it >> seems to work perfectly. > > IME, getting the nVidia driver to work is easy, but keeping the nVidia > driver

Re: dep hell NOT with Trinity

2022-12-07 Thread Anssi Saari
Bret Busby writes: > It is perhaps, the oldest surviving email application (through its > incarnations) I did just see a patch for Elm posted in alt.sources so Alpine is maybe the second oldest surviving email client. Not that it's packaged for Debian. Looks like they offer .deb creation

Re: Getting PC with Ubuntu; change to Debian?

2022-12-06 Thread Anssi Saari
Greg Wooledge writes: > However, if a newer X server, Mesa or whatever else is also needed, then > it might be worth trying to run testing. Indeed. I've run into trouble with backports kernels since apparently the kernel team doesn't give a damn about what other packages break with an updated

Re: Logout at apt upgrade

2022-11-30 Thread Anssi Saari
Jeffrey Walton writes: > KDE works as expected. Yep. > God bless those who have stuck with GNOME after the change to GNOME3. > They have the tolerance of saints. I have to agree. I did get Gnome 3 to somewhere I kinda liked but when an updated wiped my customizations, it was time to say good

Re: Starting Tomcat 10 at bootup

2022-11-28 Thread Anssi Saari
Amn Ojee Uw writes: > systemctl status tomcat.service > ● tomcat.service - Tomcat webs servlet container > Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/tomcat.service; enabled; vendor > preset> > Active: activating (auto-restart) (Result: exit-code) since Fri > 2022-11-25> > Process:

Re: How to check for scheduled shutdown

2022-11-23 Thread Anssi Saari
Sven Joachim writes: > Perhaps that the --show option was only added in systemd 250 and is not > available in Bullseye and older Debian releases. Except as a backport, Bullseye backports has systemd 251.3.

Re: Plasma 5: USB-Stick not recognized when second time put in

2022-11-21 Thread Anssi Saari
Hans writes: > But, if I want to use the same usb-stick again and plug it back into the usb- > port, it is not recognized, that an usb-stick is plugged in. However, syslog > does see it, but it looks the windowmanager does not recognize it. > Can somebody confirm this behaviour, too? Late

Re: tbird broken

2022-11-19 Thread Anssi Saari
gene heskett writes: > And I'll repeat one more time, then I'm done, there is NO html content > in the messages, not even a mimetype boundary for it. Except for this: --=_Part_88_360748977.1668870493425 Content-Type: text/html;charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 > Here is a

Re: tbird broken

2022-11-18 Thread Anssi Saari
gene heskett writes: > Mail only, no newsgroup involved. It simply ignores a base64, several > times from a business that would like to sell me some stepper motors I > need. Is there a library its missing? Or something equally accidental? I don't think there's a separate base64 library for

Re: Causing segmentations fault; Was: Re: No Public Key

2022-11-14 Thread Anssi Saari
steve writes: > Le 14-11-2022, à 08:58:02 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de a écrit : > >>On Mon, Nov 14, 2022 at 08:51:47AM +0100, Henning Follmann wrote: >> >>[...] >> >>> Mutt crashes trying to open this post (while opening gnupg). >>> That's weird. >> >>Confirmed. > > Here too. > > mutt 2.2.7

Re: RFC: What would be the "correct debian way" to clean up unwanted languages from an installation?

2022-11-13 Thread Anssi Saari
Charles Curley writes: > On Sun, 13 Nov 2022 16:32:51 +0100 > DdB wrote: > >> every backup contains loads of unnecessary language files, and i saw >> them scroll by during rsync. So one day, i wanted to get rid of those. > > You might take a look at the localepurge package. As I'm a little

Re: Will my reconstructed fstab work?

2022-11-03 Thread Anssi Saari
"Rick Thomas" writes: > Sorry to hear of your mishap, Ken ... > In regards to possibly making your system un-bootable, I have two suggestions: > 1) First make a backup of everything ASAP! (and make plans for frequent > regular backups into the future) And for now, as the mounts are mounted and

Re: Fwd: [SECURITY] [DLA 3173-1] linux-5.10 security update

2022-11-02 Thread Anssi Saari
John Boxall writes: > On 2022-11-02 03:40, Anssi Saari wrote: >> Looks like a linux-5.10 source package was indeed added to Buster in >> August and as you noted, it's getting security updates too. There's some >> info on the what and when at https://tracker.debian.org/pk

Re: Fwd: [SECURITY] [DLA 3173-1] linux-5.10 security update

2022-11-02 Thread Anssi Saari
John Boxall writes: > Did I miss something in the last three years? When did buster go to a > 5.10 kernel? My buster system is still on kernel 4.19. Looks like a linux-5.10 source package was indeed added to Buster in August and as you noted, it's getting security updates too. There's some info

Re: Dangerous installation of bullseye: What shall i do next?

2022-10-23 Thread Anssi Saari
DdB writes: > Now, i would like to learn from you, how are you booting ISO files on > bullseye (or buster) with current grub2? I seem to be unable to ... > ... although RAM cannot be the problem, there are 128GB of ECC-RAM, > which is more than enough to copy-to-RAM an ISO. ... methinks I have

Re: is Ansible easy to use?

2022-10-20 Thread Anssi Saari
Philipp Ewald writes: > Hi folks, > > is ansible a easy way to configure customized hosts? > First try, its super complicated for me. For me it has been. ssh loops work too though. Sometimes I've felt Ansible whines needlessly, something like "please don't do what you need to do, do it our

Re: permanently adding driver to Debian live USB stick

2022-10-20 Thread Anssi Saari
Adam Weremczuk writes: > Is there a way of permanently including the firmware file so that the > WiFi automatically becomes operational every time I boot Debian live? Debian Live supports persistence which means you can have persistent changes to the live setup. Like adding that firmware file

Re: How to can make a partition in my hard disk ?

2022-10-20 Thread Anssi Saari
William Torrez Corea writes: > The Booting is very dawdled, when I start firefox the page stays loading too > much time and when > I try to open LibreOffice or Gimp it loads the program very slow. In the > browser I have > different tabs open. Since it has been established by you that you

Re: SSD Optimization - Crucial CT1000MX500SSD1

2022-10-07 Thread Anssi Saari
piorunz writes: > Your 5600X is 12 threaded 65W processor. So it should behave like my > 1700, same TDP range, but 1700 never reaches throttling temperature. > Your never gen. CPU probably goes far beyond 65W in power draw. See if > you can tweak BIOS settings, that may save you not only buying

Re: SSD Optimization - Crucial CT1000MX500SSD1

2022-10-06 Thread Anssi Saari
piorunz writes: > I am glad intel feels breath of competition on their neck and starting > to unlock ECC for *some* customer grade CPUs and motherboards. *Some* being: > "Speaking of Intel’s W680, it is necessary to note that this chipset has > essentially the same features as Z690, but given

Re: ssh -X authentication with sudo

2022-10-05 Thread Anssi Saari
martin f krafft writes: > But you are running GUIs as root?? I only run one, GParted. As I don't mess around with partitions that often I want a clear GUI tool that hopefully shows me if I'm about to do something catastrophical. IOW, I don't see an alternative.

Re: How to configure (aka deal with) /tmp in the best way?

2022-10-05 Thread Anssi Saari
DdB writes: > How are the more experienced people among you handle /tmp ? > Could i just benefit from your experience? I leave /tmp as is or if I see a benefit for the system, then I put something like this in /etc/fstab: none /tmp tmpfs defaults,size=55% 0 0 The 55% is

Re: Error including file in nftables.conf

2022-10-04 Thread Anssi Saari
Dave Parker writes: > So, I copied /lib/systemd/system/nftables.service to > /etc/systemd/system/nftables.service, set > ProtectHome=false, ran "systemctl daemon-reload", and now it works! Well, good, buy why not put configuration data in /etc instead of /root where it belongs and keep the

Re: Debian 8

2022-09-29 Thread Anssi Saari
David writes: > I have loaded Debian 8 on to a 64 bit pc. > > Everything went well until I came to configure it, the local screen is > blank, but if I SSH into the box it works. But I can only logon as a > user. > > I need to be able to logon as root to make changes. I've tried sudu, > but as

Re: linux headers and upgrading nvidia driver

2022-09-15 Thread Anssi Saari
Bret Busby writes: > My understanding is that, to run Linux, or, any non-MS operating > system, with nvidia graphics, especially, if you have nvidia Optimus, > you need to run Ubuntu Linux. Maybe in 2012 that was the case? I have 2016 vintage HP zbook gen3 which worked without issue when I put

Re: Sometimes different network interface name?

2022-09-03 Thread Anssi Saari
David Wright writes: > If you look at how the package iwd keeps the kernel's choice of name, > you'll see it installs: [...] Interesting. I can't say I'm convinced by the systemd.link manpage that this is the correct configuration but let's assume the iwd peeps know what they're doing. I set

Re: Sometimes different network interface name?

2022-09-02 Thread Anssi Saari
Tixy writes: > The number in the name looks like a MAC address and its value is in the > 'locally administered' range, i.e. not something baked into the device > by the manufacturer. It's an LTE device so it doesn't have a MAC address even though it presents an ethernet-like interface. Or I

Re: Substitute for archivemail

2022-09-02 Thread Anssi Saari
Sven Joachim writes: > On 2022-08-31 08:47 -0400, Kenneth Parker wrote: > >> On Wed, Aug 31, 2022, 5:36 AM riveravaldez >> Okay. So archivemail hasn't been updated for Python 3 yet. > > s/ yet// > > Some people have tried, but gave up eventually, therefore the package > has been removed.

Sometimes different network interface name?

2022-09-02 Thread Anssi Saari
I have an LTE module in my Debian router for failover in case my fiber goes down. It has this occasional issue that mostly its interface is wwan0 but sometimes it's wwx0a697e2d934f. When that happens I have something like this in my syslog: Sep 1 08:34:40 animus kernel: [8.150781]

Re: networking.service: start operation timed out [SOLVED]

2022-09-02 Thread Anssi Saari
Chuck Zmudzinski writes: > On 8/31/22 11:03 AM, Jeremy Ardley wrote: > It also seems to be a ridiculously long time (ten minutes) for your provider > to configure your interface. I would look for a different provider if they > can't or won't fix it. Or maybe just create an overlay for the

Re: networking.service: start operation timed out [SOLVED]

2022-08-31 Thread Anssi Saari
Greg Wooledge writes: > On Wed, Aug 31, 2022 at 08:49:29AM +0800, Jeremy Ardley wrote: >> One of my problems with systemd is the that name resolution is by default >> done by resolved. > > Not in Debian. > > unicorn:~$ systemctl status systemd-resolved > ● systemd-resolved.service - Network Name

Re: Substitute for archivemail

2022-08-29 Thread Anssi Saari
Leandro Noferini writes: > In these days I upgraded the server to bullseye and so I have not yet > archivemail: what could I use as subsitute? I wonder about that too, I use archivemail to clean up my spam folder of older spam. My email provider still runs Buster and they're in no hurry to

Re: networking.service: start operation timed out

2022-08-27 Thread Anssi Saari
Ross Boylan writes: > In Debian 11/bullseye my system keeps reporting timeouts while trying > to bring up the first non-loopback interface. I wonder why it is that you have a script for wpa_supplicant if you don't have wireless interfaces? Assuming that's not the problem, I guess you'll need

Re: Clearing RAM Caches

2022-08-15 Thread Anssi Saari
Timothy M Butterworth writes: > When I run `sudo echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches` I receive the following > error: bash: /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches: Permission denied Unfortunately, it's your current shell and not root who does the redirection in this case so no permissions. For a longer

Re: which package provides kde-config?

2022-08-03 Thread Anssi Saari
Vincent Lefevre writes: > I'm wondering which package provides kde-config[*]. > "apt-file search kde-config" doesn't give any answer. > > Note: I currently don't have KDE installed. That's why I'm asking. > I just want to do some check of the kde-config behavior (and > possibly, its code). > >

Re: Installing on Rock Pi 4

2022-07-21 Thread Anssi Saari
Nicolas George writes: > Hi. I am trying to install Debian on a Rock Pi 4 (v1.73). It is a > system-on-chip similar to and mostly compatible with the Raspberry Pi 4 > but with an on-board SSD. > > I have managed to boot and install one of the Debian images provided by > the vendor, but they are

Re: root crontab @reboot for loop fails

2022-07-16 Thread Anssi Saari
Tixy writes: > rc.local is still run on the latest Debian stable. You need to make > sure it's a proper executable, i.e. starts with a shebang like > '#!/bin/sh' and the file has execute permissions. Yes and that's because the systemd package contains the rc-local.service which just runs

Re: Debian 11: How to disable IPv6

2022-07-12 Thread Anssi Saari
rhkra...@gmail.com writes: > I could not find (in the searching I did) equivalent functionality for IPv6, > so > I disabled IPv6 in hopes of keeping my systems (fairly) secure. The equivalent to NAT in IPv6 is NAT, of course. It's not usually spoken of much but for example my VPN provider does

Re: nft newbie

2022-07-12 Thread Anssi Saari
"Gareth Evans" writes: > On Tue 12 Jul 2022, at 10:19, Maximiliano Estudies > wrote: > >> drop and reject are not equivalent. > > Fair enough > > [...] >> In most cases it's a best practice to configure all chains with >> _policy drop_ and then add rules for the traffic that you want to >>

Re: ipv6 accept_ra

2022-06-28 Thread Anssi Saari
Lee writes: > I have a desktop and a laptop - neither one is picking up the ipv6 > network prefix from the router advertisement. 'ifconfig -a' on both > show a single 'inet6 fe80::' line under each interface. Well, how do you manage your network? Is there a checkbox to check or uncheck

Re: Grub Problem

2022-06-25 Thread Anssi Saari
"Stephen P. Molnar" writes: > Assistanc will be mucn appeciated. You didn't really specify what you want assistance with but I guess you want to boot the new Bullseye too? I don't really see the point of having two copies of the same OS installed though. Assuming a BIOS system and os-prober

Re: memtest86

2022-06-18 Thread Anssi Saari
Felix Miata writes: >> menuentry "memtest86 7.4 EFI" { >> search --no-floppy --label --set=root TM8P01ESP >> chainloader /mt74x64.efi >> } > > IIRC, to get mt74x64.efi, and later mt83x64.efi, I had to loop mount the free > to > download bootable .iso and copy it off to a Grub-visible

Re: new install: configuring ethernet strangeness

2022-06-18 Thread Anssi Saari
John Covici writes: > So, how can I either get back to /etc/network/interfaces This should be simple enough. Uninstall NetworkManager, package network-manager, edit /etc/network/interfaces as you like. The networking.service is used to run ifup and ifdown to configure and reconfigure the

Re: user perms

2022-06-17 Thread Anssi Saari
gene heskett writes: > I just did all that, so now I have an /etc/rc.local but not an rc-local > but he changes from rc.local to rc-local in the middle. confusing. > > So which is it. I originally created an rc.local, changed it to > rc-local, and back with mv. The script file is /etc/rc.local

Re: user perms

2022-06-16 Thread Anssi Saari
David Wright writes: > As it happens, I find I have (but don't use): > $ grep -i ttyusb /lib/udev/rules.d/* I actually found this in 50-udev-default.rules: KERNEL=="tty[A-Z]*[0-9]|ttymxc[0-9]*|pppox[0-9]*|ircomm[0-9]*|noz[0-9]*|rfcomm[0-9]*", GROUP="dialout" So that should set the group for

Re: user perms

2022-06-16 Thread Anssi Saari
gene heskett writes: > now my additional reply is munged, backspaces or Del's will not "take" > What the heck is this vertical bar it uses for a quote level, whats wrong > with > >> etc for quote indicators? There's a button containing an A > overlaid by a graphical double square as the last

Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-12 Thread Anssi Saari
rhkra...@gmail.com writes: > IIRC, the bootable flag is pretty much irrelevant in Linux -- it doesn't have > to be set to boot from a partitions. Am I mis-remembering? I remember I once had an Intel motherboard where the BIOS wouldn't boot a partition if it wasn't set to bootable. But as you

Re: debian app on UserLAnd: upgrading to bullseye

2022-06-10 Thread Anssi Saari
agyaana...@yahoo.com writes: > am i missing on something. i have limited data plan. hence, requesting > opinion or suggestions here. One suggestion then would be to uninstall any software you're not using so it doesn't have to be updated and use up your data plan. The release notes cover some

Re: (cmake) Could NOT find LibSoup: Found unsuitable version "" ...

2022-06-03 Thread Anssi Saari
Albretch Mueller writes: > ... Could NOT find LibSoup: Found unsuitable version "", but required > is at least "2.54.0" (found LIBSOUP_INCLUDE_DIRS-NOTFOUND) Hm. Debian Bullseye packages libsoup 2.4 so even if you had it installed (and the development package too which has the stuff cmake looks

Re: had another crash, reboot usb failed, powerdown reboot usb failed

2022-06-02 Thread Anssi Saari
gene heskett writes: > Do I have to reset those perms everytime I'm forced to reboot, which is > usually in 5 to 10 days. Or is there someplace in /lib/udev/rules.d where > I can fix this until the next udev update? It seems almost certain the permissions for /dev/ttyUSB* won't stick, unless

Re: Netgen installation problem

2022-05-25 Thread Anssi Saari
"Gary L. Roach" writes: > Thanks for the reply Tomas, > > Running the apt-file search libgui.so search now gets the exact same results > as your search. Unfortunately, > running netgen still gives the same error message. Now what? Maybe a hint: apt-file search doesn't list files that're

Re: Resetting a USB port in Debian 10

2022-05-19 Thread Anssi Saari
Jason writes: > What is the best way to power cycle or reset a USB port? I need to do > this to reset a USB modem if it stops responding. The system in > question is Debian 10 aarch64 on RockPi 4b+. As far as I know, power cycling is not usually a function of USB. For resetting, in my case a

Re: Alternatives to ISC dhcp-client ?

2022-05-09 Thread Anssi Saari
Dan Ritter writes: > The package name is udhcpc. Yes, and it's very cool. Well, poorly documented so it was a little hard to understand. Mostly my problem was the script it wants to run for various events and how to fix that to do the stuff I need and not do stuff that messes up my network

Re: Dual booting Debian on an Windows machine.

2022-05-03 Thread Anssi Saari
Richard Owlett writes: > I will be setting up a Windows laptop to dual boot Debian. > If the machine has legacy BIOS, no problem as I've done that before. > > If it is a UEFI machine (possibly with secure boot, what should I be > reading. I did this last fall, I may still have notes with links

Re: Debian 10 and also 11 installation fails, because grub fails - please fix

2022-04-28 Thread Anssi Saari
Jaroslav Fojtík writes: > Syntax errors are detected in generated GRUB config file. > Ensure that there are no errors in /etc/default/grub > and /etc/grub.d/* files or please file a bug report with > /boot/grub/grub.cfg.new file attached. Interesting, it looks like os-prober gets confused by

Re: Crucial SSDs and Debian Bullseye

2022-04-27 Thread Anssi Saari
Tom Browder writes: > On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 07:08 Alexander V. Makartsev > wrote: > ... > > The laptop is a Toshiba C655D-S5136 Satellite. > The SSD is a Crucial MX500 1000GB 2.5 inch SSD. Some quick specs from https://www.cnet.com/reviews/toshiba-satellite-c655d-review/: Price as reviewed

Re: toshiba video problem

2022-04-07 Thread Anssi Saari
Noah Sombrero writes: > Specs say 32 mb external video memory, which says to me that it is > shared ram. But limited to 32 mb, so higher resolution should not > cause a problem? 1440*900*4 (assuming 32 bits per pixel) is less than 5 MB so no, shouldn't cause a problem. For sure video RAM is

Re: Predictable Network Interface Names

2022-04-01 Thread Anssi Saari
Erwan David writes: > I also got a name change with an upgrade (I do not remember wether it > was kernel, systemd or udev). > > SInce interfaces where combined in a bond, imagine the mess... I think I noticed something like that too as I've updated my desktop HW and booted from some different

Re: Wayland vs X

2022-03-14 Thread Anssi Saari
Marco Möller writes: > I am not sure if I understood your answer. Is it a suggestion of what > should be of importance, or is it the confirmation that Wayland is > capable to configure clipboard access restrictive like this? Um, I thought a question mark is a fairly common indication of a

Re: Wayland vs X

2022-03-14 Thread Anssi Saari
Nicholas Geovanis writes: > Isn't it all about X by design to not be able to safely protect a > running X applications to snoop on other running X applications, > something like the content of a window cannot safely kept private? Well, what about something basic like allowing only specific

Re: 11.2 sometimes wrong /etc/resolv.conf

2022-03-12 Thread Anssi Saari
Christian Groessler writes: > Hi, > > when I boot my laptop with Debian 11.2 and LAN cable connected, I'm > sometimes getting a wrong /etc/resolv.conf. > > The resolv.conf is not in fact wrong, but it's the one from the Wifi > network. But when booting with network cable connected I want to have

Re: Changing hardware

2022-03-09 Thread Anssi Saari
piorunz writes: > Free drivers are terrible to use if user wants hardware acceleration. > Clocks are not ramped up, because nouveau does not support re-clocking. > That means horrible performance, or crashes. I don't ever recommend, or > sometimes even mention, nouveau. Hear, hear. I was

Re: Startx works, but sddm/lightdm/xdm doesn't

2022-03-01 Thread Anssi Saari
John Goerzen writes: > But sddm doesn't work. In fact, when it starts, it causes my monitor to > go "no signal". Oddly, though, if I can log in blindly, then once I hit > enter after putting in my password, KDE will come up and work like it > should. > > I also tried lightdm and xdm. Both of

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

2022-02-15 Thread Anssi Saari
Thomas Anderson writes: > 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

Re: /etc/adjtime (setting the hardware clock to local time on Debian 11)

2022-02-11 Thread Anssi Saari
José Luis González writes: > According to > > https://wiki.debian.org/DateTime > > There should be an /etc/adjtime file to configure the timezone for the > hardware clock. I have no such file in my Debian 11 laptop. May I know > if the file was removed and what was it replaced with? >From what

Re: Mounting NFS share from Synology NAS

2022-02-10 Thread Anssi Saari
Andrei POPESCU writes: > Are you sure you're actually using NFSv4? (check 'mount | grep nfs'). Yes I'm sure. It's all host on path type nfs4 and in options also vers=4.2. Also the bog standard auto.net these days has code to mount using NFSv4. > In my experience in order to make NFSv4 work

Re: solid state storage device with USB type-A plug for use as OS drive (was Re: Installation "Bullseye")

2022-02-10 Thread Anssi Saari
David Christensen writes: > I am looking for a small (~16 GB), low power, high-endurance, > solid-state storage device with a USB 1.0/1.1/2.0/3.0+ type-A plug, > powered by a USB 1.0/1.1/2.0/3.0+ type-A receptacle, which is designed > to be used as a system drive. I would use it to install and

Re: interface/network scripting - how to?

2022-02-05 Thread Anssi Saari
Kamil Jońca writes: > 2. name resolving is properly configured: > ie. home1.tld DNS queries are passed to home1 network > work1.tld DNS queries are passed to work1 network (via openvpn tunnel) > work2.tld DNS queries are passed to work2 network (via ipsec tunnel) So how have you

Re: How to disable bluetooth probe

2022-02-04 Thread Anssi Saari
Pankaj Jangid writes: > Till the new kernel is available in stable, how can I disable the above > probe and hence the frequent messages? But 5.15 is already in bullseye-backports? And it'll never come to Bullseye so it'll be a wait of a couple of years until Bookworm release if you don't

Re: Mounting NFS share from Synology NAS

2022-02-02 Thread Anssi Saari
Greg Wooledge writes: > I'm unclear on how NFS v4 works. Everything I've read about it in the > past says that you have to set up a user mapping, which is shared by > the client and the server. And that this is *not* optional, and *is* > exactly as much of a pain as it sounds. I've never done

Re: Usenet access.

2022-01-19 Thread Anssi Saari
songbird writes: > eternal-september works well for my use now, but it does > have hiccups here or there. so it's good to be patient > and go read a book or something here or there. What kind of hiccups? I haven't noticed but I see in my Gnus config file there have been issues connecting via

Re: Please take this as constructive

2022-01-19 Thread Anssi Saari
Stefan Monnier writes: > Here's another way to attack those chicken/egg problems: Interesting approach. When I recently installed Debian on a newish computer I needed some firmware packages and a newer kernel too from debian-backports. I was able to use my phone connected to USB enough to

Re: OT: anybody uses eero 6 WiFi router?

2022-01-14 Thread Anssi Saari
"Alexander V. Makartsev" writes: > If I was in the market for the router for myself, I'd always choose > one from MikroTik¹. > They all have no-nonsence hardware and software design... I can't agree with the software part. Or I guess no-nonsense can be agreed but I just find their web config

Re: [OT] sending command to multiple SSH sessions, like in mRemoteNG

2021-12-30 Thread Anssi Saari
Marco Möller writes: > The remote session management app "mRemoteNG" for MS Windows comes > with a functionality by which a command can be entered to its "Multi > SSH" input field, and this command is then sent to all SSH connected > remote systems at once as if the command would have been typed

Re: Firefox ESR EOL

2021-12-18 Thread Anssi Saari
Nicholas Geovanis writes: > Maybe I missed something. Why RISC V? Just having an alternative is attractive to some. Having an open alternative even more so. I'd happily run ARM or RISC-V, if those were an alternative for a decent desktop or laptop computer. Raspberry Pi is scratching and

Re: xmodmap settings lost when (usb) keyboard reattached.

2021-12-17 Thread Anssi Saari
Vincent Lefevre writes: > In the past, I wrote a script, put in the /etc/pm/sleep.d directory: > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=633849#92 > > but there were some issues with it, as I mentioned there. It's also not directly applicable when the issue isn't related to

Re: Firefox ESR EOL

2021-12-10 Thread Anssi Saari
piorunz writes: > https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item=Web-Browser-Packages-Debian They mention the Thunderbird situation as well. Looks like the Thunderbird Debian package has 22 open security issue and is version 78.14 in stable. As I've found an AppImage of Librewolf as a

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

2021-12-09 Thread Anssi Saari
"Jorge P. de Morais Neto" writes: > 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: why Debian?

2021-12-02 Thread Anssi Saari
Thanos Katsiolis writes: > The reasons I chose them is that Debian is considered a stable and reliable > OS (the policy of the OS is not to > include as many and as much quickly as possible new features), and that it > has a large and dependable community. Isn't that enough? I guess I'd say

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