Re: network-manager-gnome - no primary & secondary dns possible?

2021-10-16 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 16.10.21 um 09:27 schrieb dude: Hello, on latest Debian 11 + MATE Desktop (it is software simplicity at it's best :) why is it not possible to set primary & secondary dns via network-manager-gnome? (only "additional dns") It is possible. Choose Method: Automatic (DHCP) addresses only [

network-manager-gnome - no primary & secondary dns possible?

2021-10-16 Thread dude
Hello, on latest Debian 11 + MATE Desktop (it is software simplicity at it's best :) why is it not possible to set primary & secondary dns via network-manager-gnome? (only "additional dns") also: it used to be /etc/resolv.conf where nameservers are set systemd is doing it’s own thing /et

Re: Xfce4 Problem with User Desktop Background Color

2021-10-16 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
On 10/15/2021 06:18 PM, Lee wrote: On 10/15/21, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: On 10/15/2021 09:51 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: Stephen P. Molnar wrote: Hit send a bit too soon. The Root desktop is not affected by the problem. On 10/15/2021 09:16 AM, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: I am running Debian Bust

Re: Xfce4 Problem with User Desktop Background Color

2021-10-16 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
On 10/15/2021 08:16 PM, Keith Bainbridge wrote: On Fri, 15 Oct 2021 09:51:46 -0400 Dan Ritter wrote: Given your second message, it is clear that this is a configuration issue that is under the control of your normal user, not an OS-wide problem. You will not need to reinstall. G'day All

Disk partitioning phase of installation

2021-10-16 Thread Richard Owlett
I routinely place /home on its own partition. Its structure resembles: /home/richard ├── Desktop ├── Documents ├── Downloads ├── Notebooks └── Pictures My questions: 1. Can I have /home/richard/Downloads bed on its own partition? 2. How could I have found the answer? TIA

Re: Disk partitioning phase of installation

2021-10-16 Thread piorunz
On 16/10/2021 11:39, Richard Owlett wrote: I routinely place /home on its own partition. Its structure resembles: /home/richard ├── Desktop ├── Documents ├── Downloads ├── Notebooks └── Pictures My questions: 1. Can I have /home/richard/Downloads bed on its own partition? Of course. Create a p

Re: Disk partitioning phase of installation

2021-10-16 Thread Linux-Fan
Richard Owlett writes: I routinely place /home on its own partition. Its structure resembles: /home/richard ├── Desktop ├── Documents ├── Downloads ├── Notebooks └── Pictures My questions: 1. Can I have /home/richard/Downloads bed on its own partition? Yes. The only thing to consider is that

Re: Disk partitioning phase of installation

2021-10-16 Thread Richard Owlett
On 10/16/2021 06:01 AM, Linux-Fan wrote: Richard Owlett writes: I routinely place /home on its own partition. Its structure resembles: /home/richard ├── Desktop ├── Documents ├── Downloads ├── Notebooks └── Pictures My questions: 1. Can I have /home/richard/Downloads be on its own partition?

Re: Xfce4 Problem with User Desktop Background Color

2021-10-16 Thread Dan Ritter
Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > > > > > Thank your for your reply. I find that right click on the desktop no longer > brings up the Desktop Settings. This still works in the root desktop. Your > recommendation for desktop settings is what I routinely use. Ah-hah! Mike Kupfer's suggestion is corr

Re: Xfce4 Problem with User Desktop Background Color

2021-10-16 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
On 10/16/2021 07:13 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: Stephen P. Molnar wrote: Thank your for your reply. I find that right click on the desktop no longer brings up the Desktop Settings. This still works in the root desktop. Your recommendation for desktop settings is what I routinely use. Ah-hah! M

Re: Disk partitioning phase of installation

2021-10-16 Thread Brian
On Sat 16 Oct 2021 at 06:27:49 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 10/16/2021 06:01 AM, Linux-Fan wrote: > > Richard Owlett writes: > > > > > I routinely place /home on its own partition. > > > Its structure resembles: > > > /home/richard > > > ├── Desktop > > > ├── Documents > > > ├── Downloads >

Re: general broad question for help in setting up linux server and suggestions

2021-10-16 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Oct 15, 2021 at 06:09:48PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: > On 10/14/21 23:33, Semih Ozlem wrote: > > Hello everyone > > > > I am a mathematics PhD student completing my dissertation at > > Yeditepe University Istanbul working under Prof Ilhan Ikeda who is at > > Bosphorus University Ista

Re: Disk partitioning phase of installation

2021-10-16 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Oct 16, 2021 at 01:19:05PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Sat 16 Oct 2021 at 06:27:49 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > On 10/16/2021 06:01 AM, Linux-Fan wrote: > > > Richard Owlett writes: > > > > > > > I routinely place /home on its own partition. > > > > Its structure resembles: > > > > /ho

Re: Disk partitioning phase of installation

2021-10-16 Thread Richard Owlett
On 10/16/2021 07:19 AM, Brian wrote: On Sat 16 Oct 2021 at 06:27:49 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: On 10/16/2021 06:01 AM, Linux-Fan wrote: Richard Owlett writes: I routinely place /home on its own partition. Its structure resembles: /home/richard ├── Desktop ├── Documents ├── Downloads ├── No

Re: why pae kernel has only 3G memory

2021-10-16 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Oct 15, 2021 at 10:05:13AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Fri 15 Oct 2021 at 07:48:06 (-0400), lou wrote: > > > https://support.hp.com/us-en/product/hp-t5740e-thin-client/4282707/manuals > > > > from hp's QuickSpecs: Note: Minimum of 1GB and a maximum of 4GB* (2 X > > 2GB) can be support

Re: Disk partitioning phase of installation

2021-10-16 Thread Brian
On Sat 16 Oct 2021 at 07:42:39 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 10/16/2021 07:19 AM, Brian wrote: > > On Sat 16 Oct 2021 at 06:27:49 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > > On 10/16/2021 06:01 AM, Linux-Fan wrote: > > > > Richard Owlett writes: > > > > > > > > > I routinely place /home on its ow

Re: dead lock

2021-10-16 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Oct 16, 2021 at 03:00:28PM +1100, Keith Bainbridge wrote: > > On 15/10/21 00:14, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > If for some reason you've forgotten the root password that you used > > during installation, or you've lost your membership in the sudo group, > > then you can add "init=/bin/bash" to

Re: Disk partitioning phase of installation

2021-10-16 Thread Richard Owlett
On 10/16/2021 08:13 AM, Brian wrote: On Sat 16 Oct 2021 at 07:42:39 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: On 10/16/2021 07:19 AM, Brian wrote: On Sat 16 Oct 2021 at 06:27:49 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: On 10/16/2021 06:01 AM, Linux-Fan wrote: Richard Owlett writes: I routinely place /home on its

Re: Disk partitioning phase of installation

2021-10-16 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sat, Oct 16, 2021 at 06:27:49AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > Can I, during the manual disk partitioning phase, specify that > /home/richard/Downloads be on its own partition *AND* the rest of > /home/richard/ be on its own partition? Yes, because when you specify what filesystem or ot

Re: Disk partitioning phase of installation

2021-10-16 Thread David Wright
On Sat 16 Oct 2021 at 09:28:30 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > On 10/16/2021 08:13 AM, Brian wrote: > > On Sat 16 Oct 2021 at 07:42:39 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > On 10/16/2021 07:19 AM, Brian wrote: > > > > On Sat 16 Oct 2021 at 06:27:49 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > > On 10/16/2021

Re: wpa supplicant not starting - code 1...........

2021-10-16 Thread Henning Follmann
On Fri, Oct 15, 2021 at 12:39:41PM +1100, Charlie wrote: > > On Thu, 14 Oct 2021 12:31:16 -0400 Henning Informed me about > Re: wpa supplicant not starting - code 1... > > > On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 12:14:05PM +1100, Charlie wrote: > > > > > > From my keyboard: > > > > > >

Re: Cannot install vlc on bullseye

2021-10-16 Thread R. Ramesh
On 10/16/21 12:43 AM, piorunz wrote: On 16/10/2021 06:32, R. Ramesh wrote: I was suspecting this, but did not know how to go about finding versions available vs. what is installed. As you point out my version of libpostproc55 is from debian whereas I need the newer version in deb-multimedia. I

Re: Disk partitioning phase of installation

2021-10-16 Thread Brian
On Sat 16 Oct 2021 at 10:12:34 -0500, David Wright wrote: [Lots of snipping] > If you want to see a blow-by-blow example of the partitioner, you > could revisit this post from a while back. IIRC the thread exercises > most of the wrinkles that could occur if the user interface is > misunderstood.

Re: why pae kernel has only 3G memory

2021-10-16 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Any particular reason why you must use pae rather than > the standard 32 bit kernel? Hmm... isn't "the standard 32 bit kernel" `linux-image-686-pae` ? At least the `linux-image-686` package seems to describe itself as for use only on those machines where `linux-image-686-pae` doesn't work.

Re: Cannot install vlc on bullseye

2021-10-16 Thread piorunz
On 16/10/2021 18:27, R. Ramesh wrote: What is the fix I need to do? Remove my preferences.d/multimedia for deb-multimedia? My apologies, I am not very good with apt and dependencies and this may be something straightforward. Can you give me more detail on what I need to fix? BTW, I did not hav

Re: Cannot install vlc on bullseye

2021-10-16 Thread Dan Ritter
R. Ramesh wrote: > from deb-multimedia to make things work. I have kept it since. I have no > desire to install older packages just because it is straight from debian vs. > deb-multimedia. I expect those two repositories to be already aware of > situation like mine and therefore handle these witho

Re: Cannot install vlc on bullseye

2021-10-16 Thread R. Ramesh
On 10/16/21 2:20 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: R. Ramesh wrote: from deb-multimedia to make things work. I have kept it since. I have no desire to install older packages just because it is straight from debian vs. deb-multimedia. I expect those two repositories to be already aware of situation like mine

Re: Disk partitioning phase of installation

2021-10-16 Thread Tom Dial
On 10/16/21 05:27, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 10/16/2021 06:01 AM, Linux-Fan wrote: >> Richard Owlett writes: >> >>> I routinely place /home on its own partition. >>> Its structure resembles: >>> /home/richard >>> ├── Desktop >>> ├── Documents >>> ├── Downloads >>> ├── Notebooks >>> └── Pictures

AMD OpenCL support

2021-10-16 Thread piorunz
Hello, How can I install AMD GPU OpenCL support? I use open source AMD graphics driver, everything works perfectly. But I don't have OpenCL support. AMD doesn't provide proprietary packages for Debian I think. I have installed: $ dpkg -l | grep opencl ii mesa-opencl-icd:amd64

Re: why pae kernel has only 3G memory

2021-10-16 Thread lou
On 10/16/21 10:32 AM, Stefan Monnier wrote: Any particular reason why you must use pae rather than the standard 32 bit kernel? Hmm... isn't "the standard 32 bit kernel" `linux-image-686-pae` ? At least the `linux-image-686` package seems to describe itself as for use only on those machines wh

Re: dead lock

2021-10-16 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On 17/10/21 00:33, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sat, Oct 16, 2021 at 03:00:28PM +1100, Keith Bainbridge wrote: On 15/10/21 00:14, Greg Wooledge wrote: If for some reason you've forgotten the root password that you used during installation, or you've lost your membership in the sudo group, then yo