Bug#996000: general: System does not boot with second monitor attached

2021-10-09 Thread Andy Simpkins
Control: Severity -1 normal Package: general Severity: important X-Debbugs-Cc: gaff...@live.com Dear Maintainer, I installed Debian 11 on a new computer (with a single monitor during installation, connected with HDMI). Installation went well, but the monitor came up with a very limited reso

Re: Mozilla Firefox DoH to CloudFlare by default (for US users)?

2019-09-11 Thread Andy Simpkins
On 11/09/2019 06:16, Ingo Jürgensmann wrote: Am 10.09.2019 um 07:50 schrieb Florian Lohoff : On Mon, Sep 09, 2019 at 03:31:37PM +0200, Bjørn Mork wrote: I for one, do trust my ISPs a lot more than I trust Cloudflare or Google, simply based on the jurisdiction. There are tons of setups whic

Re: regarding non-free firmware for wi-fi and ethernet

2019-07-26 Thread Andy Simpkins
On 25/07/19 14:00, Abibula Aygun wrote: > > Hello Debian Team, Hi there :-) > We have an little problem. > The installer can't detect many simple wi-fi or ethernet hardware. > Things that was ok on Stretch version. Are you able to tell us WHICH wifi / ethernet hardware worked without non-free

Testing release images - Call for help

2019-06-30 Thread Andy Simpkins
Hi there, We have the release of Buster scheduled to happen next Saturday. As always on a release day new iso images are generated and *before* they get signed we try and smoke test them to make sure that the builds went ok and nothing critical is missing from the manifests. We do the same for l

Re: Proposition: Simlify the Installation

2019-06-24 Thread Andy Simpkins
There has been a lot of descension over the past couple of weeks about DI and what it could do to be better. I think it is important that I join that debate with a couple of requirements for any replacement / enhancement: (1)  Must work on all architectures supported by Debian (2)  Must work

Re: Bits from /me: A humble draft policy on "deep learning v.s. freedom"

2019-05-23 Thread Andy Simpkins
dancy on a random binary blob (music / fonts / game levels / textures etc) and we wouldn't put that in main. It is my belief that we consider training data sets as 'source' in much the same way /Andy On 23 May 2019 16:33:24 BST, Sam Hartman wrote: >>>>>> &

Re: Bits from /me: A humble draft policy on "deep learning v.s. freedom"

2019-05-23 Thread Andy Simpkins
On 22/05/2019 03:53, Mo Zhou wrote: Hi Tzafrir, On 2019-05-21 19:58, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: Is there a way to prove in some way (reproducible build or something similar) that the results were obtained from that set using the specific algorithm? I wrote a dedicated section about reproducibility

Re: FYI/RFC: early-rng-init-tools

2019-03-07 Thread Andy Simpkins
On 03/03/19 17:59, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > I think the only sane things are: > - Use a hardware RNG (CPU, TPM, chaos key, ...) > - Credit a seed file stored during the previous boot > - Wait for new entropy from other sources > > Note that is can be a combination of all 3. > > We currently do not cr

Re: FYI/RFC: early-rng-init-tools

2019-02-25 Thread Andy Simpkins
On 24/02/2019 20:00, Philipp Kern wrote: On 2/24/2019 8:52 PM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: In buster/sid, I noticed a massive delay booting up my laptop and some virtual machines, which was reduced by hitting the Shift and Ctrl keys multiple times randomly during boot; a message “random: crng init

Re: package management symlink

2019-02-06 Thread Andy Simpkins
Sören please see: https://xkcd.com/927/ /Andy On 05/02/2019 06:20, Sören Reinecke wrote: Dear Debian mailing list community, I am Sören alias Valor Naram and I founded the project "goeasyLinux". I will help to make linux more user friendly. A short introduction to "goeasyLinux" can be foun

Re: Handling of entropy during boot

2019-01-21 Thread Andy Simpkins
Hi, This thread seems to have gone quite for some time. Re-Reading the thread I don't see any solutions being proposed that will truly suit everyone. If I have correctly understood the problem we are seeing a change from a more open and trusting software environment to one with more emphasis on

Re: Conflict over /usr/bin/dune

2018-12-19 Thread Andy Simpkins
On 18/12/2018 17:48, Ian Jackson wrote: Ian Jackson writes ("Re: Conflict over /usr/bin/dune"): https://www.google.com/search?q=dune+software https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_(software) https://www.google.com/search?q=%2Fusr%2Fbin%2Fdune Under the circumstances it seems obvious that,

Re: Upcoming Qt switch to OpenGL ES on arm64

2018-11-24 Thread Andy Simpkins
On 24/11/18 14:14, bret curtis wrote: >>> But even here in this place I have seen *a lot* of "cheap" arm64 boards. >>> Yes, >>> the RPI3[+] is ubiquitous. And having to render Open GL stuff by CPU is >>> precisely not the fastest thing around. >> >> "I have a Raspberry Pi (or similar mobile class

Re: Upcoming Qt switch to OpenGL ES on arm64

2018-11-24 Thread Andy Simpkins
On 24/11/2018 02:05, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: Andy: explicitly CCing you because I think it answers part of a question you did but in another part of the thread. El viernes, 23 de noviembre de 2018 06:58:13 -03 Steve McIntyre escribió: On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 03:27:57AM +030

Re: Upcoming Qt switch to OpenGL ES on arm64

2018-11-23 Thread Andy Simpkins
actually, all of them!) to either one or the other. El jueves, 22 de noviembre de 2018 20:04:33 -03 Andy Simpkins escribió: On 22/11/18 22:33, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: El jueves, 22 de noviembre de 2018 15:37:29 -03 Dmitry Shachnev escribió: Hi all! The Qt framework can be b

Re: Upcoming Qt switch to OpenGL ES on arm64

2018-11-22 Thread Andy Simpkins
On 22/11/18 22:33, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: > El jueves, 22 de noviembre de 2018 15:37:29 -03 Dmitry Shachnev escribió: >> Hi all! >> >> The Qt framework can be built either with “desktop” OpenGL, or with OpenGL >> ES support. At the moment we are building it with OpenGL ES on arm

Re: Opt-in to continue as DD/DM? (was: I resigned in 2004)

2018-11-13 Thread Andy Simpkins
Speaking as someone who has had his world shattered by betrayal and breach of trust by an organisation (not Debian related), I can completely understand how any correspondence opens old wounds. I am not trying to justify anything here; only to say that I understand it from *both* sides, and (I m

Video-team sprint 4-6 November

2015-10-14 Thread Andy Simpkins
CC to correct address this time Hi. First my apologises for net getting round to this sooner. I should have done this weeks ago. Sorry. As part of the Cambridge Miniconf [1], ARM have kindly offered the video team the opportunity to run a video team sprint in the preceding few days. We wi