Please help me find a good Debian compatible video card

[Jiangsu Kumquat]

I want to get a good fast Debian compatible card for 1080p.

I was looking at this page...

Best Graphics Cards 2020 - Top Gaming GPUs for the Money | Tom's Hardware
https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/best-gpus,4380.html

However, I think most or all of those cards won't work that great for Linux
because of compatibility issues.

Can you recommend a good card for me to use? I play windows games in Debian
with wine.

I tend to prefer AMD cards, but Nvidia cards are okay I guess as long as
they work well with Debian.

Thanks!!

_
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Re: firefox 75 pulseaudio sound suddenly stopped working

[deloptes]

0...@caiway.net wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On my debian stable firefox 75 the sound stopped working.
> 
> Another user does have sound on stock firefox.
> 
> I can not go back to stock firefox, my profile of firefox 75 can not be
> loaded any longer.
> 
> 7 Chapters of troubleshooting pulseaudio did not help me in 4 hours:
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio/Troubleshooting
> 

I was willing to upgrade the firefox for a long time now. I just downloaded
the 75 firefox and unzipped.

Started. I don't know since which version it always creates a new profile. I
type about:profiles and select my old profile as default.

Sound works also great.

Perhaps it is something else. I can not confirm what you are experiencing.

regards

Re: firefox 75 pulseaudio sound suddenly stopped working

[Andrew McGlashan]

Hi,

On 25/4/20 6:40 am, 0...@caiway.net wrote:
> On my debian stable firefox 75 the sound stopped working.

Personally, I always use direct downloads for browsers.

I've also started to use apulse with Firefox and other browsers with alsa sound 
only.

/usr/bin/apulse /home/andrewm/firefox/firefox

All the above single line chagnes is to adjust the LD_LIBRARY_PATH and give you 
sound "as if" you had pulseaudio installed.


Cheers
A.



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Re: Working (but not fully understood (was: Re: Activate the mouse after a reboot which didn't activate the mouse?)

[rhkramer]

On Friday, April 24, 2020 07:28:38 PM rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> Intentionally top posting.
> 
> Well, the mouse is working now.  Since the last time I wrote, I did try
> rebooting, and rebooting did not make the mouse work, so I tried varioius
> things, like unplugging the mouse cable from the kvm and plugging in a
> spare mouse (which I'm pretty sure was good, but didn't seem to help).

Oh, just to be clear, after each of those changes, I reboooted. 

> Finally, I tried plugging only one of the two cables from the KVM for the
> mouse and keyboard into the Jessie computer (one of the cables has a PS/2
> plug and I had had that plugged into the only PS/2 port on this computer
> (I thought (and still think) it is for the keyboard), and the other has a
> USB plug.
> 
> At this point, both the keyboard and mouse are working via that one USB
> cable.
> 
> What I don't understand is how / why the system booted up properly when I
> first installed the KVM (a few months ago).
> 
> But, it is working now, so I'll keep my fingers crossed.
> 
> Nothing new below this line:

Re: Please help me find a good Debian compatible video card

[Henning Follmann]

On Sat, Apr 25, 2020 at 05:20:33AM -0600, Jiangsu Kumquat wrote:
> I want to get a good fast Debian compatible card for 1080p.
> 
> I was looking at this page...
> 
> Best Graphics Cards 2020 - Top Gaming GPUs for the Money | Tom's Hardware
> https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/best-gpus,4380.html
> 
> However, I think most or all of those cards won't work that great for Linux
> because of compatibility issues.
> 
> Can you recommend a good card for me to use? I play windows games in Debian
> with wine.
> 
> I tend to prefer AMD cards, but Nvidia cards are okay I guess as long as
> they work well with Debian.
> 
> Thanks!!
>


I do not know about GPU and I do not care. For my purpose any simple card
does the jobe well enough.
However when it comes to reviews with linux in mind
https://www.phoronix.com
might be a good start.

my $0.02

-H

-- 
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Jitsi (was Re: Please help me find a good Debian compatible video card).

[Kenneth Parker]

I couldn't help noticing your .sig reference to Jitsi.  There were threads
about it, as a good replacement for Zoom.  Also, there is a strong need in
another online community that I belong to.

How is your experience with a "room" with, say about 10 people in it with
some using Video, but others preferring Audio only?

Thank you and best regards,

Kenneth Parker

On Sat, Apr 25, 2020, 7:21 AM Jiangsu Kumquat  wrote:

> I want to get a good fast Debian compatible card for 1080p.
>
> I was looking at this page...
>
> Best Graphics Cards 2020 - Top Gaming GPUs for the Money | Tom's Hardware
> https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/best-gpus,4380.html
>
> However, I think most or all of those cards won't work that great for
> Linux because of compatibility issues.
>
> Can you recommend a good card for me to use? I play windows games in
> Debian with wine.
>
> I tend to prefer AMD cards, but Nvidia cards are okay I guess as long as
> they work well with Debian.
>
> Thanks!!
>
> _
> PrivacyTools - Encryption and tools to protect against global mass
> surveillance - https://www.privacytools.io -
> https://www.reddit.com/r/privacytoolsIO/
> --
> More secure, more flexible, and completely free video conferencing. Go
> ahead, video chat with the whole team. In fact, invite everyone you know.
> Jitsi Meet is a fully encrypted, 100% open source video conferencing
> solution that you can use all day, every day, for free — with no account
> needed.
> https://jitsi.org/jitsi-meet/
>
>

Re: firefox 75 pulseaudio sound suddenly stopped working

[0...@caiway.net]

On Fri, 24 Apr 2020 22:26:30 +0100
Phil Wyett  wrote:

> On Fri, 2020-04-24 at 22:40 +0200, 0...@caiway.net wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On my debian stable firefox 75 the sound stopped working.
> > 
> > Another user does have sound on stock firefox.
> > 
> > I can not go back to stock firefox, my profile of firefox 75 can not
> > be
> > loaded any longer.
> > 
> > 7 Chapters of troubleshooting pulseaudio did not help me in 4 hours:
> > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio/Troubleshooting
> > 
> > Another thing from this guy Pottering does not give any hint:
> > 
> > journalctl -f 
> > journalctl -f | grep pulseaudio
> > 
> > nothing
> > 
> > pulsemixer does seem to be alright:
> > firefox: AudioStream is showing up, I can select it, and set volume
> > (but
> > no sound).
> > 
> > but:
> > $ pactl list sink-inputs 
> > no output at all
> > 
> > $ pacmd list-sink-inputs 
> > 0 sink input(s) available.
> > 
> > 
> > I am left clueless.
> > (no timidity here installed.
> > alsamixer shows the pulseaudio interface, unmuted)
> > 
> > [
> > I hate pulseaudio since when I had a linux terminal server project
> > LAN.
> > In those days pulseaudio fucked up all LAN audio playing.
> > ]
> > 
> > Waterfox and Palemoon browsers both play audio well.
> > 
> > Hope someone can give a hint
> > 
> > Thanks 4 reading
> > 
> > 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Where did you source the firefox 75 you are using with debian
> buster/stable?
> 
> Regards
> 
> Phil
> 

I downloaded this firefox from mozilla.

I also tried the apulse method: no sound.

debian buster, daily updated, amd64.

Re: Linux & AD mixted authentication issue

[Jack Dangler]

On 4/24/20 5:08 PM, Jean-Luc Chandezon wrote:


Hello,

I configure AD authentication (I followed 
https://wiki.debian.org/AuthenticatingL ... eDirectory), and it works 
fine.


I added AD group to debian sudoers, no problem. @mydomain.ad is the 
default suffix for login. USers does not need to put this.


My issue:

Even locally I can not open session aymore, as root, or as local unix 
user. Is it possible?


Here are krb5.conf:

---

logging]

Default = FILE:/var/log/krb5.log

[libdefaults]

ticket_lifetime = 24000

click-skew = 300

default_realm = MYDOMAIN.AD

# The following krb5.conf variables are only for MIT Kerberos.

kdc_timesync = 1

ccache_type = 4

forwardable = true

proxiable = true

[realms]

MYDOMAIN.AD = {

kdc = mydomain.ad:88

admin_server = mydomain.ad:464

default_domain = mydomain.ad

}

[domain_realm]

.mydomain.ad = MYDOMAIN.AD

mydomain.ad = MYDOMAIN.AD

---

Thanks

Jean-Luc


Surprised you got to the page. I get -


 Forbidden

You are not allowed to access this!

when attempting to access the wiki at all.

Re: Linux & AD mixted authentication issue

[Jean-Luc C.]

Please find the following link:
https://wiki.debian.org/AuthenticatingLinuxWithActiveDirectory
I don't know why it was truncated

Le sam. 25 avr. 2020 à 14:35, Jack Dangler  a écrit :

>
> On 4/24/20 5:08 PM, Jean-Luc Chandezon wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I configure AD authentication (I followed
> https://wiki.debian.org/AuthenticatingL ... eDirectory), and it works
> fine.
>
> I added AD group to debian sudoers, no problem. @mydomain.ad is the
> default suffix for login. USers does not need to put this.
>
>
>
> My issue:
>
> Even locally I can not open session aymore, as root, or as local unix
> user. Is it possible?
>
>
>
> Here are krb5.conf:
>
> ---
>
> logging]
>
> Default = FILE:/var/log/krb5.log
>
>
>
> [libdefaults]
>
> ticket_lifetime = 24000
>
> click-skew = 300
>
> default_realm = MYDOMAIN.AD
>
>
>
> # The following krb5.conf variables are only for MIT Kerberos.
>
> kdc_timesync = 1
>
> ccache_type = 4
>
> forwardable = true
>
> proxiable = true
>
> [realms]
>
> MYDOMAIN.AD = {
>
> kdc = mydomain.ad:88
>
> admin_server = mydomain.ad:464
>
> default_domain = mydomain.ad
>
> }
>
>
>
> [domain_realm]
>
> .mydomain.ad = MYDOMAIN.AD
>
> mydomain.ad = MYDOMAIN.AD
>
> ---
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
> Jean-Luc
>
> Surprised you got to the page. I get -
> Forbidden
>
> You are not allowed to access this!
>
> when attempting to access the wiki at all.
>

Re: Jitsi (was Re: Please help me find a good Debian compatible video card).

[Jiangsu Kumquat]

I actually have not used it yet... I mainly have that linked because zoom
is full of major security holes... and JItsi seems like a great app.

https://www.cnet.com/news/zoom-every-security-issue-uncovered-in-the-video-chat-app/

On Sat, Apr 25, 2020 at 6:06 AM Kenneth Parker  wrote:

> I couldn't help noticing your .sig reference to Jitsi.  There were threads
> about it, as a good replacement for Zoom.  Also, there is a strong need in
> another online community that I belong to.
>
> How is your experience with a "room" with, say about 10 people in it with
> some using Video, but others preferring Audio only?
>
> Thank you and best regards,
>
> Kenneth Parker
>
> On Sat, Apr 25, 2020, 7:21 AM Jiangsu Kumquat  wrote:
>
>> I want to get a good fast Debian compatible card for 1080p.
>>
>> I was looking at this page...
>>
>> Best Graphics Cards 2020 - Top Gaming GPUs for the Money | Tom's Hardware
>> https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/best-gpus,4380.html
>>
>> However, I think most or all of those cards won't work that great for
>> Linux because of compatibility issues.
>>
>> Can you recommend a good card for me to use? I play windows games in
>> Debian with wine.
>>
>> I tend to prefer AMD cards, but Nvidia cards are okay I guess as long as
>> they work well with Debian.
>>
>> Thanks!!
>>
>> _
>> PrivacyTools - Encryption and tools to protect against global mass
>> surveillance - https://www.privacytools.io -
>> https://www.reddit.com/r/privacytoolsIO/
>> --
>> More secure, more flexible, and completely free video conferencing. Go
>> ahead, video chat with the whole team. In fact, invite everyone you know.
>> Jitsi Meet is a fully encrypted, 100% open source video conferencing
>> solution that you can use all day, every day, for free — with no account
>> needed.
>> https://jitsi.org/jitsi-meet/
>>
>>

Re: Please help me find a good Debian compatible video card

[Alexander V. Makartsev]

On 25.04.2020 16:20, Jiangsu Kumquat wrote:
> I want to get a good fast Debian compatible card for 1080p.
>
> I was looking at this page...
>
> Best Graphics Cards 2020 - Top Gaming GPUs for the Money | Tom's Hardware
> https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/best-gpus,4380.html
>
> However, I think most or all of those cards won't work that great for
> Linux because of compatibility issues.
>
> Can you recommend a good card for me to use? I play windows games in
> Debian with wine.
>
> I tend to prefer AMD cards, but Nvidia cards are okay I guess as long
> as they work well with Debian.
>
> Thanks!!
>
> _
> PrivacyTools - Encryption and tools to protect against global mass
> surveillance - https://www.privacytools.io -
> https://www.reddit.com/r/privacytoolsIO/
> --
> More secure, more flexible, and completely free video conferencing. Go
> ahead, video chat with the whole team. In fact, invite everyone you
> know. Jitsi Meet is a fully encrypted, 100% open source video
> conferencing solution that you can use all day, every day, for free —
> with no account needed.
> https://jitsi.org/jitsi-meet/
>
I highly recommend Nvidia-based cards, if you don't mind closed-source
drivers.
Many (Most?) games with Linux-native ports officially support only
Nvidia by game developers. I think, this is because of the drivers,
their quality and stability.
AMD-based card will usually work too, but (as long as I can remember)
quality of their drivers were something to be desired and drivers for
Linux are under heavy development, but they are open-source.
In case of Proton\WINE, you could get mixed results, because some games
(via DXVK) will work better with Nvidia and some are better with AMD.
"Better" here as in "less graphical glitches, more performance and
stability."
To play modern games in 1080p 60fps with high graphics settings you
would want minimum GTX1660 or better with 6Gb VRAM or more.

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how to install python packages, again

[Anil F Duggirala]

hello,
Im having an issue while installing a piece of software with pip3:
pip3 install --user -r contrib/requirements/requirements-binaries.txt

Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in
/tmp/pip-install-48wlqr39/PyQt5/

I had previously installed: apt install python3-pyqt5. Now, pyqt5 is
listed in the requirements-binaries.txt list, however, it requires a
newer version than the one installed by apt. 

Online I find many people getting a similar error and suggesting using
pip3 upgrade to upgrade the "pip" and the "setuptools" modules. And
this brings me to my question. What happens if I use pip3 to upgrade a
module that was installed via apt?

Now pip3 list is listing both the pip and setuptools modules (which
were installed using apt). It even tells me about a newer version
available (via pip). However pip3 list is not listing the pyqt5 module
as installed, why is it not showing this module, which is installed?
Does this have to do with the fact that my pip or setuptools modules
are outdated? (both have much newer versions available via pip)

thank you,

Anil

/etc/default/keyboard not loaded at startup

[gwinship]

I added following configuration to my /etc/default/keyboard

XKBMODEL="pc105"
XKBLAYOUT="gb,de"
XKBVARIANT=""
XKBOPTIONS="grp:win_space_toggle"

BACKSPACE="guess"

however. This does not load at boot.

My configuration

Debian 10.3

i3, xdm

ThinkPad E580

The /var/log/Xorg.log is

[   268.754] (**) Power Button: Applying InputClass "libinput keyboard catchall"
[   268.754] (**) Power Button: Applying InputClass "system-default"
[   268.754] (II) LoadModule: "libinput"
[   268.755] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/libinput_drv.so
[   268.763] (II) Module libinput: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[   268.763]compiled for 1.20.4, module version = 0.28.2
[   268.763]Module class: X.Org XInput Driver
[   268.763]ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 24.1
[   268.763] (II) Using input driver 'libinput' for 'Power Button'
[   268.763] (**) Power Button: always reports core events
[   268.763] (**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/event3"
[   268.763] (**) Option "_source" "server/udev"
[   268.766] (II) event3  - Power Button: is tagged by udev as: Keyboard
[   268.766] (II) event3  - Power Button: device is a keyboard
[   268.767] (II) event3  - Power Button: device removed
[   268.781] (**) Option "config_info" 
"udev:/sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXPWRBN:00/input/input5/event3"
[   268.781] (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Power Button" (type: 
KEYBOARD, id 6)
[   268.781] (**) Option "xkb_model" "pc105"
[   268.781] (**) Option "xkb_layout" "gb,de"
[   268.781] (WW) Option "xkb_variant" requires a string value
[   268.781] (**) Option "xkb_options" "grp:win_shift_toggle"
[   268.832] (II) event3  - Power Button: is tagged by udev as: Keyboard
[   268.832] (II) event3  - Power Button: device is a keyboard

I also tried adding the setting using localectl, but this didn't yield any 
results either.

Best,
Felix

One more firewall question

[Gene Heskett]

Greetings all;

One last name stands out in my apache2 logs.

Is AppleWebKit a bot? There sure are a lot of them.

Thanks all.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
-- 
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
 - Louis D. Brandeis
Genes Web page 

Re: One more firewall question

[Liam O'Toole]

On Sat, 25 Apr, 2020 at 13:08:38 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Greetings all;
> 
> One last name stands out in my apache2 logs.
> 
> Is AppleWebKit a bot? There sure are a lot of them.
> 
> Thanks all.
> 
> Cheers, Gene Heskett

AppleWebKit appears in the user-agent string sent by chrome and other
browsers. It makes sense that there are a lot of occurrences in the
apache logs.

Re: Please help me find a good Debian compatible video card

[nito]

On Sat, Apr 25, 2020 at 18:58:45 +0500, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote:
> On 25.04.2020 16:20, Jiangsu Kumquat wrote:
> > I want to get a good fast Debian compatible card for 1080p.
> >
> > […]
> >
> > However, I think most or all of those cards won't work that great for
> > Linux because of compatibility issues.
> >
> > Can you recommend a good card for me to use? I play windows games in
> > Debian with wine.
> >
> > I tend to prefer AMD cards, but Nvidia cards are okay I guess as long
> > as they work well with Debian.
>
> I highly recommend Nvidia-based cards, if you don't mind closed-source
> drivers.
> Many (Most?) games with Linux-native ports officially support only
> Nvidia by game developers. I think, this is because of the drivers,
> their quality and stability.
Many games officially recommend the proprietary drivers, though with any 
recent AMD-GPUs (as in: supported by AMDGPU instead of radeon) I've never 
needed them (some Phoronix benchmarks even seem to indicate, that AMDGPU 
often but not always even works better than AMDGPU-PRO).
With NVidia cards the open source noveau driver will not be sufficient for 
gaming though.

I can't complain about the AMDGPU driver more than any of the other graphic 
drivers. In fact I tend to find AMDGPU easier to handle than the proprietary 
NVidia drivers.
As far as I heard, for stability you should not use a GPU that was just 
released some months prior, though. The drivers need some time.

> AMD-based card will usually work too, but (as long as I can remember)
> quality of their drivers were something to be desired and drivers for
> Linux are under heavy development, but they are open-source.

If choosing a AMD GPU for gaming I'd recommend to atleast use kernel 5.4 from 
backports, as afaik there were some (for gaming) signinficant improvements 
after 5.0.

> In case of Proton\WINE, you could get mixed results, because some games
> (via DXVK) will work better with Nvidia and some are better with AMD.
> "Better" here as in "less graphical glitches, more performance and
> stability."
> To play modern games in 1080p 60fps with high graphics settings you
> would want minimum GTX1660 or better with 6Gb VRAM or more.

If you want to achieve the highest of high gaming performance, Nvidia cards 
currently offer better (and more expensive) hardware.
If you are happy with (just) decent performance Nvidia vs AMD probably doesn't
matter too much and is mostly game dependent.

Re: /etc/default/keyboard not loaded at startup

[Darac Marjal]

On 25/04/2020 17:39, gwinship wrote:
> I added following configuration to my /etc/default/keyboard
> |XKBMODEL="pc105" XKBLAYOUT="gb,de" XKBVARIANT=""
> XKBOPTIONS="grp:win_space_toggle" BACKSPACE="guess" |however. This does not 
> load at boot.
> My configuration
> Debian 10.3
> i3, xdm
> ThinkPad E580
> The /var/log/Xorg.log is
> [   268.754] (**) Power Button: Applying InputClass "libinput keyboard
> catchall"
> [   268.754] (**) Power Button: Applying InputClass "system-default"
> [   268.754] (II) LoadModule: "libinput"
> [   268.755] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/libinput_drv.so
> [   268.763] (II) Module libinput: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
> [   268.763]    compiled for 1.20.4, module version = 0.28.2
> [   268.763]    Module class: X.Org XInput Driver
> [   268.763]    ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 24.1
> [   268.763] (II) Using input driver 'libinput' for 'Power Button'
> [   268.763] (**) Power Button: always reports core events
> [   268.763] (**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/event3"
> [   268.763] (**) Option "_source" "server/udev"
> [   268.766] (II) event3  - Power Button: is tagged by udev as: Keyboard
> [   268.766] (II) event3  - Power Button: device is a keyboard
> [   268.767] (II) event3  - Power Button: device removed
> [   268.781] (**) Option "config_info"
> "udev:/sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXPWRBN:00/input/input5/event3"
> [   268.781] (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Power Button"
> (type: KEYBOARD, id 6)
> [   268.781] (**) Option "xkb_model" "pc105"
> [   268.781] (**) Option "xkb_layout" "gb,de"
> [   268.781] (WW) Option "xkb_variant" requires a string value
> [   268.781] (**) Option "xkb_options" "grp:win_shift_toggle"
> [   268.832] (II) event3  - Power Button: is tagged by udev as: Keyboard
> [   268.832] (II) event3  - Power Button: device is a keyboard
>
> I also tried adding the setting using localectl, but this didn't yield
> any results either.

The warning of "xkb_variant requires a string value" suggests to me that
the empty string is not allowed. What happens if you remove the
XKBVARIANT line from the config? Alternatively, the man page for
"keyboard" suggests that leaving the entry completely null (XKBVARIANT=)
is acceptable.

 

>
> Best,
> Felix


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Re: One more firewall question

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 25 April 2020 13:44:56 Liam O'Toole wrote:

> On Sat, 25 Apr, 2020 at 13:08:38 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > Greetings all;
> >
> > One last name stands out in my apache2 logs.
> >
> > Is AppleWebKit a bot? There sure are a lot of them.
> >
> > Thanks all.
> >
> > Cheers, Gene Heskett
>
> AppleWebKit appears in the user-agent string sent by chrome and other
> browsers. It makes sense that there are a lot of occurrences in the
> apache logs.

Sounds good then. Its not eating up a huge amount of my upload bandwidth 
but I was curious.  Thanks. 

Cheers, Gene Heskett
-- 
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
 - Louis D. Brandeis
Genes Web page 

Hardware Accelerated Video Playback in Chromium

[Neil E. Hodges]

Hello everyone,

Does anybody know the status of hardware-accelerated video playback in
Chromium on Debian as of 2020?  There's a lot of outdated information
out there, and the only recent stuff I've seen has involved a PPA on
Ubuntu.

Thank you,

- Neil

Re: cleanly getting rid of manually installed transitional packages due to rename

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2020-04-24 23:48:16 -0500, David Wright wrote:
> On Fri 24 Apr 2020 at 21:07:31 (+0200), Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> 
> > Since you don't want to purge pdftk, why did you decide to purge it
> > above?
> 
> Because in Real Life, pdftk is an empty transitional package.
> In your hypothetical example you said it wasn't.

Oops, a typo: s/not/now/. So my example should be, after replacing
"not" by "now" (and I hope "currently, this is like your example"
makes more sense now):

I think that you are over-optimistic. Imagine the following case.
The pdftk package has been manually installed in the past and is
now a transitional package to pdftk-java (currently, this is like
your example). But the system has some package that depends on
pdftk-java. So, when you run

  apt-get -s purge pdftk

you won't have any message about pdftk-java. Later in the future,
the dependency on pdftk-java disappears, so that pdftk-java will
be proposed for autoremoval. But since this can occur a long time
after the removal of pdftk, you probably have forgotten that you
still need pdftk-java, even if you use it everyday. Well, for
this one, one can probably guess (not sure though, as "-java"
could also mean an extension for java), but there are packages
for which one cannot remember/know all command they define.

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[Resolved] Re: Persistent sshfs mount from inside a Buster virtual machine?

[Nate Bargmann]

Well, I think this is resolved and it turns out to be self-inflicted.

Yesterday I did a clean Stretch installation in a Qemu VM and did the
minimum to get it up so I could do an sshfs mount from it and it too
would disconnect the mount after five minutes or so.  On a whim I copied
it to my laptop running Bullseye this morning and the sshfs connection
stayed up for several hours.  I then copied the Buster VM over and it
too stayed up for well over an hour.

My attention turned to differences in the SSH configuration of each host
computer.  Several years ago when it appeared I may need to use a
Cellular 4G router for Internet access I did not want to lose my ability
to SSH into the home LAN remotely.  The 4G router provided a less than
reliable connect and on the cell network it was placed behind Carrier
NAT which meant the IP address it was assigned from the cell network was
not reachable from the greater Internet.  

I set up an AWS host at the time and created an SSH tunnel into it from
here that I could attach to with the laptop from elsewhere.  The flaky
connection caused me to set the sshd_config options of
ClientAliveInterval to a value of 300 (five minutes) and
ClientAliveCountMax to 1.  The idea was to have SSH timeout quickly when
the router's 4G connection was reset and I had a script that would
attempt a reconnect upon this closure.  Commenting these options and
letting them be at their defaults of 0 and 3 respectively have
apparently resolved my issue.

Some months later the WISP built out a new system in this area, which
they at first said they weren't going to do that had prompted the 4G
experiment.  Once they did that I no longer needed the AWS host and SSH
tunnel.  As I had not seen any issue with connections from over the LAN
or Internet with these options set as noted above, I forgot about them,
until now.  Funny how that works...

My guess is that the way Qemu sets up the network bridge that my host
could not send the keep-alive message to the guest and simply dumped the
connection as it was configured to do, assuming the guest had gone away.
In the guest, systemd seeing the closed connection dutifully unmounted
the mounts.  No big bad bugs to report after all.

- Nate

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Re: /etc/default/keyboard not loaded at startup

[David Wright]

On Sat 25 Apr 2020 at 16:39:24 (+), gwinship wrote:
> I added following configuration to my /etc/default/keyboard
> 
> XKBMODEL="pc105"
> XKBLAYOUT="gb,de"
> XKBVARIANT=""
> XKBOPTIONS="grp:win_space_toggle"
> 
> BACKSPACE="guess"
> 
> however. This does not load at boot.

Have you tested that fact on a VC? (You might need to
boot without going into graphics mode.)

> My configuration
> 
> Debian 10.3
> 
> i3, xdm
> 
> ThinkPad E580
> 
> The /var/log/Xorg.log is
> 
> [   268.754] (**) Power Button: Applying InputClass "libinput keyboard 
> catchall"
> [   268.754] (**) Power Button: Applying InputClass "system-default"
> [   268.754] (II) LoadModule: "libinput"
> [   268.755] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/libinput_drv.so
> [   268.763] (II) Module libinput: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
> [   268.763]compiled for 1.20.4, module version = 0.28.2
> [   268.763]Module class: X.Org XInput Driver
> [   268.763]ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 24.1
> [   268.763] (II) Using input driver 'libinput' for 'Power Button'
> [   268.763] (**) Power Button: always reports core events
> [   268.763] (**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/event3"
> [   268.763] (**) Option "_source" "server/udev"
> [   268.766] (II) event3  - Power Button: is tagged by udev as: Keyboard
> [   268.766] (II) event3  - Power Button: device is a keyboard
> [   268.767] (II) event3  - Power Button: device removed
> [   268.781] (**) Option "config_info" 
> "udev:/sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXPWRBN:00/input/input5/event3"
> [   268.781] (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Power Button" (type: 
> KEYBOARD, id 6)
> [   268.781] (**) Option "xkb_model" "pc105"
> [   268.781] (**) Option "xkb_layout" "gb,de"
> [   268.781] (WW) Option "xkb_variant" requires a string value
> [   268.781] (**) Option "xkb_options" "grp:win_shift_toggle"
> [   268.832] (II) event3  - Power Button: is tagged by udev as: Keyboard
> [   268.832] (II) event3  - Power Button: device is a keyboard

I don't see your keyboard there. If you type
$ xinput
it should be clearer which ID corresponds to your keyboard.
Mine is ID 13.

$ xinput
⎡ Virtual core pointer  id=2[master pointer  (3)]
⎜   ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointerid=4[slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ Logitech M325 id=10   [slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPadid=14   [slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ ELAN Touchscreen  id=9[slave  pointer  (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3[master keyboard (2)]
↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard   id=5[slave  keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button  id=6[slave  keyboard (3)]
↳ Video Bus id=7[slave  keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button  id=8[slave  keyboard (3)]
↳ Lenovo EasyCamera: Lenovo EasyC   id=11   [slave  keyboard (3)]
↳ Ideapad extra buttons id=12   [slave  keyboard (3)]
↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard  id=13   [slave  keyboard (3)]
$ 

> I also tried adding the setting using localectl, but this didn't yield any 
> results either.

I've never knowingly used any of that. But I do see on the man page:
   "Note that the changes performed using this tool might require the
initramfs to be rebuilt to take effect during early system
boot. The initramfs is not rebuilt automatically by localectl."
which could explain why something doesn't work when booting.

Cheers,
David.

Re: firefox 75 pulseaudio sound suddenly stopped working

[Marco Möller]

I am not sure if this has anything to do with your problem, but maybe 
check also for this:
Using KDE Plasma and knowing that PulseAudio is in use, I am observing 
since roughly 3 months now that for unknown reason Firefox started to 
kind of randomly appear configured with the application specific audio 
volume set to 0%. I have no idea why sometimes Firefox starts up at 100% 
volume as it should be, and sometimes at 0% as it (for me) should not 
be. I for now suspect, that there is some application audio volume mixer 
in PulseAudio active, and this mixer supposedly stores for each 
application an individual volume level before it streams a final audio 
stream to the audio card which then has its global volume adjustment 
available. Unfortunately, Firefox becomes (sometimes) configured in the 
supposedly present mixer with the (by me) unwanted value of 0%.


At least I have my workaround for it:
This setting appears in KDE under: System Settings - Hardware - Audio, 
there on the Tab "Applications", where "Firefox: AudioStream" appears 
with its individual to the application configured value, as soon as 
audio is to be reproduced by this application (currently audio inactive 
applications are not shown there). It consequently can be readjusted to 
the wanted value. The same configuration option is also accessible via 
the audio icon in the System Tray, and from there faster to reach.


Maybe you experience something similar and haven't been aware about this 
application specific setting to exist, and like it unfortunately happens 
sometimes to me maybe also for you Firefox there is now set to 0% ?

Good Luck! Marco.

Package integration date into repository

[l0f4r0]

Hi,

Just a simple question: is there a CLI command to get the date from which a 
specific package is available through my configured repositories please?
Or am I expected to directly check dates in "versioned links > changelog" at 
https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/ 
my_package?

NB: I'm not interested in knowing the installation date.

Thank you in advance :)
l0f4r0

Re: Package integration date into repository

[Marco Möller]

On 25.04.20 22:53, l0f...@tuta.io wrote:

is there a CLI command to get the date from which a specific package is 
available through my configured repositories please?
Or am I expected to directly check dates in "versioned links > changelog" at 
https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/ my_package?


To receive the date from the changelog is the closest I would know of, 
after I for myself have been searching for this in the past. I then 
constructed some ugly but well working CLI (bash) command:


apt-get changelog PACKAGENAME 2> /dev/null| grep -m 1 "^ --" 2> 
/dev/null| cut -d'>' -f2 2> /dev/null| cut -c 3- 2> /dev/null | cut -d' 
' --complement -s -f6 2> /dev/null


Good Luck! Marco.

Re: firefox 75 pulseaudio sound suddenly stopped working

[0...@caiway.net]

On Sat, 25 Apr 2020 22:50:28 +0200
Marco Möller  wrote:


> Maybe you experience something similar and haven't been aware about
> this application specific setting to exist, and like it unfortunately
> happens sometimes to me maybe also for you Firefox there is now set
> to 0% ? Good Luck! Marco.
> 

Hi, thanks for the hint.

I do not run KDE but fluxbox.

pulsemixer shows my soundcard, and when I open a youtube video
pulsemixer shows a new item direct underneath my soundcard, saying: 
Firefox: AudioStream 
and I can adjust the volume slider, but no sound is to be heard.

pavucontrol shows my soundcard under Output Devices, 
and under Playback are listed: 
System Sounds
Firefox: AudioStream on
and I can adjust the volume sliders, but no sound is to be heard.

Re: Package integration date into repository

[l0f4r0]

Hi Marco,

25 avr. 2020 à 23:12 de ta...@debianlists.mobilxpress.net:

> To receive the date from the changelog is the closest I would know of, after 
> I for myself have been searching for this in the past. I then constructed 
> some ugly but well working CLI (bash) command:
>
> apt-get changelog PACKAGENAME 2> /dev/null| grep -m 1 "^ --" 2> /dev/null| 
> cut -d'>' -f2 2> /dev/null| cut -c 3- 2> /dev/null | cut -d' ' --complement 
> -s -f6 2> /dev/null
>
I didn't know about apt(-get) changelog, thank you :)
However, I note there is no direct command to obtain the expected result 
according to you.
NB: I have a suggestion for your command, same logic but probably less 
resource-consuming because there is only one pipe:
apt-get changelog PACKAGENAME 2>/dev/null | awk 'BEGIN{FS=">"} /--/{sub("  
","",$2);print $2;exit}'

Best regards,
l0f4r0

Re: Package integration date into repository

[Roberto C . Sánchez]

On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 01:30:11AM +0200, l0f...@tuta.io wrote:
> Hi Marco,
> 
> 25 avr. 2020 à 23:12 de ta...@debianlists.mobilxpress.net:
> 
> > To receive the date from the changelog is the closest I would know of, 
> > after I for myself have been searching for this in the past. I then 
> > constructed some ugly but well working CLI (bash) command:
> >
> > apt-get changelog PACKAGENAME 2> /dev/null| grep -m 1 "^ --" 2> /dev/null| 
> > cut -d'>' -f2 2> /dev/null| cut -c 3- 2> /dev/null | cut -d' ' --complement 
> > -s -f6 2> /dev/null
> >
> I didn't know about apt(-get) changelog, thank you :)
> However, I note there is no direct command to obtain the expected result 
> according to you.
> NB: I have a suggestion for your command, same logic but probably less 
> resource-consuming because there is only one pipe:
> apt-get changelog PACKAGENAME 2>/dev/null | awk 'BEGIN{FS=">"} /--/{sub("  
> ","",$2);print $2;exit}'
> 
That's neat.  You could turn into a shell function too:

roberto@miami:~$ pkg_date() {
> apt-get changelog "$1" 2>/dev/null | awk 'BEGIN{FS=">"} /--/{sub("  
> ","",$2);print $2;exit}'
> }
roberto@miami:~$ pkg_date chromium
Thu, 02 Apr 2020 22:23:57 +

Regards,

-Roberto

-- 
Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: Hardware Accelerated Video Playback in Chromium

[Celejar]

On Sat, 25 Apr 2020 12:00:58 -0700
"Neil E. Hodges" <47hasbe...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
> 
> Does anybody know the status of hardware-accelerated video playback in
> Chromium on Debian as of 2020?  There's a lot of outdated information
> out there, and the only recent stuff I've seen has involved a PPA on
> Ubuntu.

chrome://settings and chrome://gpu show that it's enabled on my Sid
system. I don't use chromium that often and haven't benchmarked
performance with and without it enabled. Is there a specific question
you have?

Celejar

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Re: firefox 75 pulseaudio sound suddenly stopped working

[deloptes]

0...@caiway.net wrote:

> pavucontrol shows my soundcard under Output Devices,

in the configuration tab does it say duplex?