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 (1.10.1-2+

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 it

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 on the

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 sudden

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

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 th

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 bus

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 use

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 can

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 o

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

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 method

[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 5

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 linux-headers-5.10.0-11-amd

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

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 said

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: 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

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 updat

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. >

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 issu

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 --d

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: 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. Th

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

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: 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 longe

how to use systemd to delete old files and directories on stretch?

2019-06-28 Thread D. R. Evans
My reading of the man page for tmpfiles.d suggests that if I edit the file /etc/tmpfiles.d/tmp.conf so that it contains the line: d /tmp 1777 root root 35d then files in /tmp will be deleted after 35 days. However, that isn't happening; I see for example: drwxr-xr-x 18 n7dr n7dr4096 Ma

Re: how to use systemd to delete old files and directories on stretch?

2019-07-02 Thread D. R. Evans
Sven Joachim wrote on 6/28/19 11:06 PM: > > If you cannot get systemd-tmpfiles-clean.service to do its job, > something like this should do the trick: > > find /tmp -mindepth 1 -mtime +35 -atime +35 -delete > I was hoping to avoid having to write a script (because obviously one needs to add so

Re: HTTP shimmed to HTTPS; was Re: stunnel as transparent proxy.

2019-07-17 Thread D. R. Evans
pe...@easthope.ca wrote on 7/17/19 3:32 PM: > Jul 16 11:25:16 joule stunnel: LOG5[4]: Service [https] accepted connection > from 127.0.0.1:36140 > > * From: Reco recovery...@enotuniq.net > * Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2019 11:01:32 +0300 >> No, you're incorrect. A client application has connecte

buster: DNS server?

2019-08-14 Thread D. R. Evans
1. I have a server that does all I need it to do under stretch. 2. On that machine, I have installed a clean version of buster on a separate bootable drive. 3. Under buster on that machine, I have installed (by copy from stretch) an iptables configuration that seems to be behaving as I expect. In

SOLVED: Re: buster: DNS server?

2019-08-15 Thread D. R. Evans
Thanks to those who replied to my original post, <45c61e48-0393-a413-4f7a-d88be911a...@gmail.com>; the responses gave me enough clues to find the source of the problem. The solution turned out to be obvious in retrospect (like so many things). For some reason, the buster installation had not inst

buster: multiple instances of konqueror?

2019-09-01 Thread D. R. Evans
How do I configure konqueror in buster so that I can run more than one instance? Doc -- Web: http://enginehousebooks.com/drevans signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

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

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 pe

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 afra

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: 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 afrai

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 ha

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

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

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 alsa-utils_1.1.8-2.de

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

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 >>

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 have

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

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 tellin

[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 ligat

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 > rea

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 me

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. > Hav

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 le

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 d

jupyter notebook immediately crashes with dead kernel

2018-11-05 Thread D. R. Evans
Running current debian stable (64-bit). I installed the jupyter-notebook package (which caused several other packages associated with python3 to be installed). There was no indication of any problems with the installation, and I didn't see any messages suggesting that anything else needs to be do

Re: jupyter notebook immediately crashes with dead kernel

2018-11-05 Thread D. R. Evans
vipul kumar wrote on 11/05/2018 05:35 PM: > Run Jupyter-notebook from terminal. Send log report which you'll get on > terminal while running jupyter-notebook. > > [W 18:07:15.047 NotebookApp] Widgets are unavailable. On Debian, notebook support for widgets is provided by the package jupyt

Re: jupyter notebook immediately crashes with dead kernel

2018-11-06 Thread D. R. Evans
D. R. Evans wrote on 11/05/2018 06:14 PM: > vipul kumar wrote on 11/05/2018 05:35 PM: >> Run Jupyter-notebook from terminal. Send log report which you'll get on >> terminal while running jupyter-notebook. >> > > > [HN:~] jupyter-notebook > [I 18:11:04.2

Re: jupyter notebook immediately crashes with dead kernel

2018-11-07 Thread D. R. Evans
D. R. Evans wrote on 11/06/2018 07:56 AM: > D. R. Evans wrote on 11/05/2018 06:14 PM: >> vipul kumar wrote on 11/05/2018 05:35 PM: >>> Run Jupyter-notebook from terminal. Send log report which you'll get on >>> terminal while running jupyter-notebook. >>>

Re: jupyter notebook immediately crashes with dead kernel

2018-11-07 Thread D. R. Evans
finn wrote on 11/07/2018 08:45 AM: > Solution 1: > sudo apt purge python3-ipykernel > sudo apt install python3-ipykernel > > Solution 2: > OR, purge python-notebook package and install it again, it will automatically > install ipykernel package while resolving its dependency. > sudo apt purge pyt

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 discomfortin

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 1600x1200.

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. Sometim

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) fro

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
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. >> >>>

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 thi

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 > thun

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

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

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

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: 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 fin

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 had

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

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

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 h

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

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 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
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 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
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

2020-02-13 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

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. Ho

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.

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

Q: wheezy: how to increase X resolution?

2014-11-20 Thread D. R. Evans
I just installed wheezy on a new system, and no matter what I have tried, I am unable to get the attached monitor to display at 1920x1200. All my other systems display at that resolution when attached to the same monitor. I won't bore you with all the things I've tried without success. (At least,

Re: Q: wheezy: how to increase X resolution?

2014-11-20 Thread D. R. Evans
Andrei POPESCU wrote on 11/20/2014 12:19 PM: > On Jo, 20 nov 14, 12:05:11, D. R. Evans wrote: >> I just installed wheezy on a new system, and no matter what I have tried, I >> am >> unable to get the attached monitor to display at 1920x1200. All my other >> systems disp

Re: Q: wheezy: how to increase X resolution?

2014-11-20 Thread D. R. Evans
Andrei POPESCU wrote on 11/20/2014 02:03 PM: > your adapter. It might be prudent to give more details about where you > obtained it from (e.g. the download page). I downloaded it from: http://www.asus.com/us/Commercial_Servers_Workstations/P9DE4L/HelpDesk_Download/ Select Linux, then VGA. T

Re: Q: wheezy: how to increase X resolution?

2014-11-21 Thread D. R. Evans
Mark Neyhart wrote on 11/20/2014 05:49 PM: >> The update (auto-update.sh) executed without error with the message: >> "ASPEED Graphics Family Linux XORG 7.7 driver update finished" >> > This should result in the file ast_drv.so in > /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers > > Is it there? Yes; as I ment

Re: Q: wheezy: how to increase X resolution?

2014-11-21 Thread D. R. Evans
Andrei POPESCU wrote on 11/20/2014 10:51 PM: > On Jo, 20 nov 14, 16:00:23, D. R. Evans wrote: >> >> The update (auto-update.sh) executed without error with the message: >> "ASPEED Graphics Family Linux XORG 7.7 driver update finished" > > I'll stop wit

Re: Q: wheezy: how to increase X resolution?

2014-11-21 Thread D. R. Evans
lee wrote on 11/20/2014 04:36 PM: > "D. R. Evans" writes: > >> I just installed wheezy on a new system, and no matter what I have tried, I >> am >> unable to get the attached monitor to display at 1920x1200. All my other >> systems display at that reso

no network after jessie -> stretch

2017-06-21 Thread D. R. Evans
I just completed an upgrade to stretch on an i386 machine. There were no obvious showstopping errors during the install. I saw a few "unable to delete directory; directory not empty" errors fly by, but nothing that seemed dangerous, and the installation didn't complain about anything. But when I

Re: no network after jessie -> stretch

2017-06-21 Thread D. R. Evans
Gian Carlo wrote on 06/21/2017 01:05 PM: > What is the output of "/sbin/ifconfig"? It's too long to type it all. If you want some part of it, please let me know and I'll try to type it without too many mistakes. > Do you see "eth0" or something like "enXX"? eth0, eth1 and lo are the three n

Re: no network after jessie -> stretch

2017-06-21 Thread D. R. Evans
Felix Miata wrote on 06/21/2017 01:33 PM: > Gian Carlo composed on 2017-06-21 21:05 (UTC+0200): > . >> What is the output of "/sbin/ifconfig"? >> Do you see "eth0" or something like "enXX"? > . > ip is not included in a default Stretch install. Try 'ip a' > That command seems to give more or

quasi-SOLVED: Re: no network after jessie -> stretch

2017-06-22 Thread D. R. Evans
D. R. Evans wrote on 06/21/2017 09:53 AM: > But when I tried the reboot following the upgrade, I lost all network > connectivity. The boot screen said: > Failed to Start Network Manager Wait Online > > It also suggested issuing the command: > systemctl status N

Re: quasi-SOLVED: Re: no network after jessie -> stretch

2017-06-23 Thread D. R. Evans
Fungi4All wrote on 06/22/2017 09:48 PM: >> From: doc.ev...@gmail.com >> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >> >> D. R. Evans wrote on 06/21/2017 09:53 AM: >> It adds about 30 useless seconds to the boot time while the system waits for >> it >> to time ou

Re: quasi-SOLVED: Re: no network after jessie -> stretch

2017-06-23 Thread D. R. Evans
David Wright wrote on 06/23/2017 08:42 AM: >> Can anyone provide suggestions as to how to remove this delay? > > Did you miss https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2017/06/msg00858.html > which gave one possibility? It also asked for two things, neither of > which were forthcoming. I can't find an

Re: quasi-SOLVED: Re: no network after jessie -> stretch

2017-06-26 Thread D. R. Evans
David Wright wrote on 06/24/2017 06:42 PM: > >>> The error message above indicates, that you have network-manager >>> installed and since stretch NetworkManager-wait-online.service is >>> enabled by default (it wasn't in jessie). > > this would suggest a cause. Do you need the network before you

video driver?

2017-07-17 Thread D. R. Evans
Beginning a couple of weeks ago, I started to experience occasional freezes or sudden blank screens on my 64-bit jessie system. It just happened again, and this time the following appeared in the syslog: Jul 17 13:55:05 homebrew kernel: [24064.296254] nouveau E[ PFIFO][:01:00.0] write fault

video driver - new thread

2017-07-22 Thread D. R. Evans
As my old thread has been hijacked, I thought that I'd better start a new one. Teemu Likonen wrote on 07/17/2017 03:09 PM: > D. R. Evans [2017-07-17 14:19:32-06] wrote: > >> Beginning a couple of weeks ago, I started to experience occasional freezes >> or >> sudd

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