Re: [DNG] machine locks up switching between console and X session

2018-04-26 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 14:03:53 -0500 goli...@dyne.org wrote: > On 2018-04-26 13:05, Lars Noodén wrote: > > On 04/26/2018 08:34 PM, KatolaZ wrote: > > [snip]> the drivers you get from Debian Stretch repos are exactly > > the same > >> drivers (bit-by-bit) that you get through Devuan ASCII repos.

Re: [DNG] machine locks up switching between console and X session

2018-04-26 Thread Adam Borowski
On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 07:56:52PM +0200, J. Fahrner wrote: > I can second this. I have long years of experience with Nvidia and Amd > graphic cards under Linux, and I can say: the "free" drivers for these cards > (made by reverse engeneering) can drive you mad. Use the proprietary drivers > for

Re: [DNG] Two packages I miss in ascii/stretch

2018-04-26 Thread Irrwahn
lpb+dev...@kandl.houston.tx.us wrote on 26.04.2018 21:09: > I'm putting off an upgrade to ascii because it doesn't include two > packages I (still?) use: nagios3 and twinkle. > > * how can I find out why they're not moving forward? > * what would you suggest as a replacement for nagios or twinkle

Re: [DNG] Two packages I miss in ascii/stretch

2018-04-26 Thread lpb+devuan
Thank you Aldemir for the recommendation, I will start moving over to icinga. On 04/26/2018 02:16 PM, Aldemir Akpinar wrote: > > On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 at 22:09, > wrote: > > I'm putting off an upgrade to ascii because

Re: [DNG] Two packages I miss in ascii/stretch

2018-04-26 Thread Aldemir Akpinar
On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 at 22:09, wrote: > I'm putting off an upgrade to ascii because it doesn't include two > packages I (still?) use: nagios3 and twinkle. > > * how can I find out why they're not moving forward? > * what would you suggest as a replacement for

[DNG] Two packages I miss in ascii/stretch

2018-04-26 Thread lpb+devuan
I'm putting off an upgrade to ascii because it doesn't include two packages I (still?) use: nagios3 and twinkle. * how can I find out why they're not moving forward? * what would you suggest as a replacement for nagios or twinkle (SIP client)? Thanks, Luigi

Re: [DNG] machine locks up switching between console and X session

2018-04-26 Thread golinux
On 2018-04-26 13:05, Lars Noodén wrote: On 04/26/2018 08:34 PM, KatolaZ wrote: [snip]> the drivers you get from Debian Stretch repos are exactly the same drivers (bit-by-bit) that you get through Devuan ASCII repos. And I mean it. Whatever it is, it's indeed the very same package, really,

Re: [DNG] machine locks up switching between console and X session

2018-04-26 Thread KatolaZ
On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 09:05:41PM +0300, Lars Noodén wrote: > On 04/26/2018 08:42 PM, Florian Zieboll wrote: > [snip] > > in one of your previous mails you pasted the output of your attempt to > > install the "nvidia-driver" package. If you follow down the dependency > > chain by manually trying

Re: [DNG] machine locks up switching between console and X session

2018-04-26 Thread Lars Noodén
On 04/26/2018 08:42 PM, Florian Zieboll wrote: [snip] > in one of your previous mails you pasted the output of your attempt to > install the "nvidia-driver" package. If you follow down the dependency > chain by manually trying to install the "not installable" predepends, > sooner or later you'll

Re: [DNG] machine locks up switching between console and X session

2018-04-26 Thread Lars Noodén
On 04/26/2018 08:34 PM, KatolaZ wrote: [snip]> the drivers you get from Debian Stretch repos are exactly the same > drivers (bit-by-bit) that you get through Devuan ASCII repos. And I > mean it. Whatever it is, it's indeed the very same package, really, > *the* *very* *same* *package*. [snip] Ok

Re: [DNG] machine locks up switching between console and X session

2018-04-26 Thread J. Fahrner
Am 2018-04-26 19:34, schrieb KatolaZ: the drivers you get from Debian Stretch repos are exactly the same drivers (bit-by-bit) that you get through Devuan ASCII repos. And I mean it. Whatever it is, it's indeed the very same package, really, *the* *very* *same* *package*. Your problem looks like

Re: [DNG] machine locks up switching between console and X session

2018-04-26 Thread Florian Zieboll
On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 19:51:47 +0300 Lars Noodén wrote: > I suspect that if I could figure out 1) the appropriate drivers, and > 2) how to get them from Debian, that would be the solution. Hallo Lars, in one of your previous mails you pasted the output of your attempt to

Re: [DNG] machine locks up switching between console and X session

2018-04-26 Thread KatolaZ
On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 07:51:47PM +0300, Lars Noodén wrote: > On 04/26/2018 06:37 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > > On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 06:36:14 +0300 > > Lars Noodén wrote: > [snip] > >> Looking at the task manager in XCFE and top in the shell, the RAM and > >> swap usage

Re: [DNG] machine locks up switching between console and X session

2018-04-26 Thread Lars Noodén
On 04/26/2018 06:37 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 06:36:14 +0300 > Lars Noodén wrote: [snip] >> Looking at the task manager in XCFE and top in the shell, the RAM and >> swap usage eventually start to climb more and more rapidly until >99% >> of RAM is in use

Re: [DNG] machine locks up switching between console and X session

2018-04-26 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 06:36:14 +0300 Lars Noodén wrote: > On 01/15/2018 06:13 PM, Chillfan wrote: > [snip] > > Try with the official NVIDIA drivers and see what happens. > > > > https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers > > Thanks. I've been unable to install the

Re: [DNG] machine locks up switching between console and X session

2018-04-26 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 06:36:14 +0300, Lars wrote in message <47850509-8a3c-3d51-ed44-f0416e372...@gmail.com>: > On 01/15/2018 06:13 PM, Chillfan wrote: > [snip] > > Try with the official NVIDIA drivers and see what happens. > > > > https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers ..does your