Re: watchdog did not stop (on rebooting)

2017-06-07 Thread Dekks Herton
If you have a thinkpad and use tlp you can set the NMI watchdog to off in /etc/default/tlp also look at /proc/sys/kernel/nmi_watchdog to see the state RavenLX writes: > I was trying to find a way to fix this warning on my Thinkpad. I have > found out that it is normal for this to happen

Re: Laptop recommendation

2017-09-05 Thread Dekks Herton
Jonas Hedman writes: Hello I hope that is not OT for this list. Basically I'm on the hunt for a newish laptop on which I naturally want to run Debian. I'm a student and I spend most of my daily outandabout computer time reading pdfs, writing LaTeX docs, surfing

Re: p laptop with stretch/xfce: screen blanks but won't "wake up"

2017-11-24 Thread dekks herton
On 11/24, Jaime T wrote: Hi all. I'm running stable (stretch)/xfce on an hp/compaq nx6110 laptop, and when the screen blanks, I can't get it to wake up again (nothing appears on the screen when I press the keys on the keyboard and move the mouse). The closest debian bug report that I've seen

Thinkpadt60p/Stretch 9.2 Start up error

2017-11-24 Thread dekks herton
Hello Off my latest boots i've found the following errors, googling shows variations of https://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2017/01/msg00361.html for xen based systems & some redhat ones from the recent 6 months. Any ideas what module/hardware is throwing the error? [ cut

Re: firefox cannot download after jessie->stretch

2017-11-24 Thread dekks herton
On 11/24, Frank Miles wrote: firefox/iceweasel has worked just fine for years I just upgraded my home jessie machine to stretch. That went very smoothly, so far only one exception. I can no longer download anything with this browser. I've reinstalled, cleared out my profile, run in 'safe'

gocryptfs?

2017-11-23 Thread dekks herton
Hello, Has anyone used gocryptfs to create an encrypted folder in ones home directory? any opinions good or bad? signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Firefox not displaying text on website(s)

2017-11-17 Thread dekks herton
On 11/16, Sridhar M A wrote: Yesterday when I updated my system, I got firefox 57. It does appear to work faster. But, I noticed that the sites I frequent, do not display the text: distrocwatch.com, slashdot.org, gmail, etc. Removed $HOME/.mozilla and checked again. Same problem :-( The

Re: Compatible laptops

2017-11-11 Thread dekks herton
On 11/11, Maureen L Thomas wrote: I do know that this list is for real problems but I am looking to get a new laptop, 17 inch preferable or an all in one computer.  The problem is I have only used Toshiba laptops and have had no problems with them.  I do not know if an all in one would be a

Re: Re: Compatible laptops

2017-11-15 Thread dekks herton
On 11/15, Byung-Hee HWANG (황병희, 黃炳熙) wrote: In Article <7b17f175-2608-c4de-e06c-15c84b5ed...@verizon.net>, Maureen L Thomas writes: [...sorry for snip...] debian.  I do not need a game playing machine.  If there is a list [...] How about Chromebook? In my case, i am

Re: Re: Compatible laptops

2017-11-13 Thread dekks herton
On 11/12, Joe wrote: On Mon, 13 Nov 2017 08:55:51 +1100 Charlie S <taoques...@gmail.com> wrote: On Sun, 12 Nov 2017 13:23:46 + dekkz...@gmail.com sent: > On 11/12, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > >On Sunday, November 12, 2017 02:39:22 AM dekks herton wrote: > >> in gen

Re: kernle 4.13 and headphones not work

2017-12-08 Thread dekks herton
On 12/08, behrad eslami wrote: Hi I have Thinkpad x260 with debian stretch. I switch to kernel 4.13 in backport , because hibernate work well. But headphones not work.  # lspci -k...00:1f.3 Audio device: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio (rev 21) Subsystem: Lenovo Sunrise Point-LP HD

Re: Swap priority in Debian

2018-08-25 Thread Dekks Herton
Subhadip Ghosh writes: > Hi, > > I am a Debian testing user. Recently I am experiencing freezing on my > Debian system intermittently and during troubleshooting the same, I > found out that the I have a swap partition with priority set to > -2. But according to the below manpage: > >

Re: Re: which blend caters to TaL computer programming? . . .

2018-03-13 Thread dekks herton
On 03/13, Gary Dale wrote: On 2018-03-13 10:04 AM, Albretch Mueller wrote: I have a group of kids that are very good in Math and they want to learn some actual programming My approach is to introduce them to the basics of coding using ANSI C, C++ and java (so they learn what pointers are

Re: Re: Federated, decentralised communication on the internet

2018-03-22 Thread dekks herton
On 03/21, Miles Fidelman wrote: On 3/21/18 11:48 AM, Charlie Gibbs wrote: On 21/03/18 01:00 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: My problem with "social networks" is that they're monopolies. Imagine popping down to the local pub for a pint and a bit of conversation, only to find that it's part of a

Re: Pulseaudio as bluetooth Headset Audio Gateway (HSP/HFP)

2018-11-09 Thread dekks herton
On 11/09, Martin wrote: Hi folks, I wonder if some of you uses pulseaudio with cell phone telephony. For me, I see in the pulseaudio configuration window a Headset Audio Gateway (HSP/HFP) with is offered by an Android phone. But the Buetooth blueman-manager refuses to set this audio profile.

Re: 100Base-FX (SC) card PCI/PCIe

2018-11-08 Thread dekks herton
On 11/07, Michelle Konzack wrote: Good day *, I am running on my Organic Farm and my Forest into problems with the lenght (100m) of Ethernet cables and want to use now for this case Fiber Multimode 1310nm cables. Is microwave between buildings not an option - overhanging & line of sight not

Re: Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage

2018-10-11 Thread dekks herton
On 10/10, bw wrote: I would sure be interested in your method of running firefox on stretch, without using extensions or addons from outside the debian repositories? I never mentioned jessie, not sure what the reference is about? My point was that is ff needs extensions to be "secure" or

Re: Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage

2018-10-11 Thread dekks herton
On 10/08, Pétùr wrote: Le 08/10/2018 à 20:59, Patrick Bartek a écrit : On Mon, 8 Oct 2018 20:07:26 +0200 Pétùr wrote: Hi, I experience a very slow response time (and high cpu usage) for firefox in debian sid these days. I use the 62.0.3 version and the latency is particularly present at

Re: text editors

2019-03-29 Thread Dekks Herton
David Wright writes: > On Thu 28 Mar 2019 at 08:30:47 (+), Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: >> > "JH" == John Hasler writes: >> >> JH> deloptes writes: >> >> learning emacs means learning lisp >> >> JH> Not true. >> >> In my experience is true. But needs some more words. >> >> When you

Re: text editors

2019-03-29 Thread Dekks Herton
David Wright writes: > On Thu 28 Mar 2019 at 08:30:47 (+), Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: >> > "JH" == John Hasler writes: >> >> JH> deloptes writes: >> >> learning emacs means learning lisp >> >> JH> Not true. >> >> In my experience is true. But needs some more words. >> >> When you

Re: User rw Permissions on New Hard Drive

2019-02-28 Thread Dekks Herton
"Stephen P. Molnar" writes: > I am running Stretch and after much trial and tribulation, and at times > abject horror, I have succeeded in installing a new SSD. > > My drive structure is: > > comp@AbNormal:~$ lsblk > NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT > sda 8:00 465.8G 0 disk

Re: User rw Permissions on New Hard Drive

2019-02-28 Thread Dekks Herton
David Wright writes: > On Thu 28 Feb 2019 at 15:45:47 (-0500), Stephen P. Molnar wrote: >> I am running Stretch and after much trial and tribulation, and at >> times abject horror, I have succeeded in installing a new SSD. >> >> My drive structure is: >> >> comp@AbNormal:~$ lsblk >> NAME

Re: A call to drop gnome

2019-04-16 Thread Dekks Herton
Reco writes: > Hi. > > On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 04:54:02PM +1000, Keith Bainbridge wrote: >> On 15/4/19 9:31 pm, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:> Because GNOME. GNOME's upstream >> said their word loud and clear, and that >> > word is - 'thou shall use Wayland for it is our favorite toy now'. > > I

Re: Debian Programming languages

2019-05-24 Thread Dekks Herton
Paul Sutton writes: > Hi > > As I am trying to promote contributing to Debian, what programming > languages are mostly used? I am asking as it helps to give people an > idea of what they need to learn or will learn as part of helping. AFAIK Kernel + low level plumbing are primarily

Re: Does 32-bit x86 support (aka [multilib] ) have a future with Debian after Buster

2019-06-21 Thread Dekks Herton
Andrew McGlashan writes: > Hi, > > On 20/6/19 4:28 pm, Reco wrote: >> Hi. >> >> On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 01:03:50AM +0200, Matthew Crews wrote: >>> On 6/19/19 3:30 PM, Lazar Tadić wrote: Don't worry Mathew, 32-bit arch is currently 2nd most popular arch on Debian. There's no way it

Re: Can't Upgrade to Buster

2019-07-07 Thread Dekks Herton
Mark Allums writes: > I've been running Buster in Testing happily for months. So technically, I'm > already upgraded. However, > >> root@martha:~# apt-get update >> Get:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian buster InRelease [118 kB] >> Get:2 http://security.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates

Re: Relatively boring bullseye upgrade reports

2021-08-17 Thread Dekks Herton
More grist for the mill. T60p - no issues Thinkpad Helix 2nd Gen. - had to raise bug #986822 as debian kernels were not configured for the newly re-written [5.4+] intel SST sound modules for Haswell & Broadwell. Buster's 4.19 worked with old drivers/modules, now resolved so sound is fine on

Re: [marathon.duran...@gmail.com: Libinput Error]

2021-08-29 Thread Dekks Herton
SDA writes: > Resending, didn't make it to the list for some reason. > > From: SDA > Subject: Libinput Error > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2021 13:38:12 -0400 (1 week, 12 hours, 21 minutes ago) > > Hi, > I've been getting the following messages in the journal-log even

Re: OT, Recommendation for low cost laptop

2022-07-18 Thread Dekks Herton
"Rick Thomas" writes: > On Sun, Jul 17, 2022, at 1:59 PM, Charlie Gibbs wrote: >> On Sun Jul 17 09:16:57 2022 Dekks Herton wrote: >> >> > john doe writes: >> > >> >> I'm comtemplating buying a Pinebook pro but I'm not sure if this is

Re: Debian 9 cron = sounds are ok : Debian 11 cron no sound

2022-07-18 Thread Dekks Herton
Roger Price writes: > This ran for years with Debian 9. I upgrade to Debian 11 and hear > nothing. The usual advice is > (a) in /etc/crontab export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000 > (b) play the sound from a script. > > But that doesn't work with Debian 11. Does any reader of this list > have

Re: OT, Recommendation for low cost laptop

2022-07-17 Thread Dekks Herton
john doe writes: > I'm comtemplating buying a Pinebook pro but I'm not sure if this is > better then buying a Windows laptop and putting linux on it. > > I'm looking for something cheap (max would be around 300 bucks), do you > have any suggestions/ideas? 2nd hand Thinkpad off ebay, craigslist

Re: Debian 9 cron = sounds are ok : Debian 11 cron no sound

2022-07-21 Thread Dekks Herton
Roger Price writes: > On Mon, 18 Jul 2022, Dekks Herton wrote: >> What kernel is 11 running? are you using a Haswell or Broadwell CPU? > > Command inxi reports: > System:Host: titan Kernel: 5.10.0-15-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 > Desktop: Xfce 4.16.0 Distro

Re: What is z3fold and do I need it? (error: /usr/sbin/mkinitramfs: 12: /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/local.conf: z3fold: not found)

2022-04-30 Thread Dekks Herton
z3fold a choice for zsap compressor module, normally if your seeing a problem you need to add z3fold to initramfs modules file and rebuild. see https://baronhk.wordpress.com/2021/10/03/setting-up-zswap-in-debian-11-gnu-linux/

Re: Bookworm: Firefox v102 seems to be hanging quite often

2022-08-25 Thread Dekks Herton
local10 writes: > Aug 23, 2022, 13:34 by pior...@gmx.com: > >> On 22/08/2022 21:19, local10 wrote:.1.0 >> Have upgraded to FF v102 a couple of days ago but it looks like something isn't quite right with this version of FF. Have to restart it once or twice a day because FF just

Re: Bookworm: Firefox v102 seems to be hanging quite often

2022-08-26 Thread Dekks Herton
local10 writes: > Aug 25, 2022, 09:07 by dekkz...@gmail.com > >> Yes all fine here >> >> Version: 102.1.0esr-2 >> > > > Are you using NoScript or uBlock Origin plugins? Both? Thanks Yes to both as i replied. Regards...

Re: Issues with audio after updating

2022-10-09 Thread Dekks Herton
Maximiliano Estudies writes: > After an update yesterday my audio stopped working. I'm currently on > Linux version 5.19.0-2-amd64 (debian-ker...@lists.debian.org) (gcc-11 > (Debian 11.3.0-6) 11.3.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Debian) > 2.38.90.20220713) #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 5.19.11-1

Re: No emacs source files in Debian testing?

2022-10-05 Thread Dekks Herton
Charles Curley writes: > On Wed, 5 Oct 2022 08:40:14 -0400 > Haines Brown wrote: > >> With an upgrade to testing, I get this warning when I load emacs: >> >> Warning (comp): Cannot look-up eln file as no source file was found >> for /home/haines/.emacs.d/elisp/ibus.elc > > Judging by the