already should have
these files?
I also tried installing from regular Debian Buster 10.2 net installer
and the same problem persists.
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Can i change the fontsize of the noveau framebuffer ?
It's too small for me.
Richard,
Yes, i acknowledge the meaning of logs. Who would not !
I'm just reverting the order like DENY, ALLOW. It's desktop machines, not
servers. I'm not going to trace attacks back over weeks, or seacrh for weird
things which happened yesterday. I'm almost always interested in today, an
Richard,
> If I don't need them persistent, then I probably don't need them at all.
You are right. I deinstalled syslog long time ago ...
Just found xsensors, it shows voltage. However, we can't easily see
fluctuations, since there is no graph and no min/max.
Matus,
> try psensor
Works -- thank you !
Although the graph is hard to read and somewhat unusable, but the sensors table
with min/max ranges is is enough for me.
Just, there's no way to define additional sensors like for voltage; and i can't
even see any configuration file ... my preferences
Hi all,
I used to monitor these values (different temperatures together with fan speed
and voltage - to detect if a fan is getting old), with ksysguard. It's easy to
setup a custom sensors set here.
However, certain dependencies (via libpolicykit) seem to make it increasingly
difficult to kee
Matus, Sebastian
... understood :D
Well, ok, these are some good arguments.
I guess with modern large SSDs the whole thing became obsolete now, but i'm
still on old hardware.
Actually, i've got a more basic question: If i configure large sizes, but are
mostly unused - are these memory
other top folders of /var for that
option too.
> On 22.10.18 10:02, Michael wrote:
> >Recently made a lot of stuff tmpfs (like /tmp and /var/cache and
> >$HOME/.cache) and i'm not sure about this ...:
> >
> >Is there any reason why /var cannot be completely tmpfs ?
&
Hi all,
Recently made a lot of stuff tmpfs (like /tmp and /var/cache and $HOME/.cache)
and i'm not sure about this ...:
Is there any reason why /var cannot be completely tmpfs ? That is, when
mounting /var/cache/apt as seperate harddisk partition, later on - i'd like to
keep the d/l packages
Bob,
I abandoned my TP60 many years ago but i remember the prorietary fglrx driver
for X worked best, in comparison the alternate free X driver was not optimized.
However at some point fglrx was no more supported. There might be ways to
insert it from some package archive, though. Look for stuf
> no its forbiden
. but if spam is fun, it might pass
hello josh
Am 07.10.2017 um 21:15 schrieb Josh Blagden:
> is it possible to disable Secure Boot or
yes
take a look at the BIOS on "Security" Options.
> otherwise get around it?
take a look here:
https://wiki.debian.org/UEFI
http://www.rodsbooks.com/linux-uefi/
ahoj
Michael
unknown lightdm:
> pam_unix(lightdm:auth): authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0
> tty=:1 ruser= rhost=
any idea whats happend?
thx
Michael
I've bluetooth spec 3.0 which never worked in any linux i tried anyway (doesn't
get recognized), and it turns off like randomly in Win10. The suggested
solution is to tweak the power management not to turn off BT to save battery.
( However that won't work for me. It appears the mouse disconnect
Robert,
From recovery shell, find X log (probably in /var/log/Xorg*) and lookup the
last dozen lines (especially those with (EE) for errors). If you don't know
about shell commands, report back here.
If you've got old nvidia GPU then maybe the migration to *-legacy driver caused
the problem. M
Haines,
> I'm running Jessie on a Thinkpad x250. When playing a DVD, I find the
> speaker volume lower than I like and headphone at an intolerable high
> level. If I bring volume down with pavucontrol or with the keyboard
> volume controls, it is too low in the speakers. How do I increase
> speake
Leslie wrote:
> a) If you loaded up a few programs and had many open files, you do not want
> your system to lockup
I've never got so far and i'm not clear about if the system locks up at all.
The kernel manages memory in a robust way. I guess if it gets too crowded then
launching the next ap
Hey folks,
Why dn't we just assume that Leslie knwos what he's doing ?? I mean, come on,
there are lots of possibilities, like Matus' pointed out or like he wanted to
test different desktops coming with different distros, and maybe even how
distros do their installation.
Going through package
onto a hard disk. This has the added advantage of protecting your
/home partition (which should also contain copies of configs) when the OS
fails.
ciao,
Michael
On Sat, Feb 6, 2016 at 9:03 AM, Aleksandar Atanasov wrote:
> Hi Jos,
>
> Usually SSDs are used to store things that you wan
Jos,
Originally, i wantded to wrtie "if we take Stefan seriously, then something
like 2/3 of RAM size should be 99.99% enough; and you'll probably never see the
0.01% worst case in your lifetime".
But then, with modern harddrives, who cares about one or two G more or less :)
* As a sidenote,
Leslie, thanks you for the clarification.
Apparently, my SSDs are still first generation and i still need to TRIM by OS.
I heard of controllers with inbuilt auto-TRIM but wasn't sure if it's already
standard. It's good to know !
Are you able to configure these features in your machines BIOS (or
Hello, i'm interested in this topic too although i can't tell anything exciting
new. But here's my opinion.
As for SSD specifics pls read https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/SSD it's a
nice overview. As you can see, for SSD, any disk operation is 'bad' so you
would try to put as much I/O as po
btw. aafm is only "for the time being". My hope is i to connect to a local
linux webdav (apache) server.
Seems to work without too much hassle.
I had to first install android-tools-adb which is available from the Debian
testing package servers. Then i could dpkg -i the downloaded Ubuntu aafm
package. Next i had to insert some udev rules manually, following
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/A
Ricardo,
Thanks for the link ! Let's see if i can screw it in ... !
Hi there,
Does anybody know if i there is an Debian package for 'aafm' somewhere out in
the net ?
https://github.com/sole/aafm
I could install aafm in archlinux (from the AUR repository) and it worked out
of the box.
greets mi
Jerome,
Sounds good. I'll need more time but i will try it out !
thx
Hello, here is another tricky question ...
Can i network-connect (WiFi) a linux laptop with an iPhone or iPad for copying
files (in both directions) ?
Something like NFS or Samba ?
Eric,
I'm on the road now and only occasionally online.
> FYI, gphotofs and gthumb, tools that depend on gphoto2, work very well
> for a cable connection with Android phones, at least for photos.
But it definitely has to work for video and music files too, and i doubt gphoto
will deal with them
Uhm, i am really not looking for a cloud storage / cloud desktop solution ...
as fascinating as it is - but what i am looking for, need work w/o internet
access.
Ranf,
Thank you !
> Have look at the Android-App AirDroid. You access the phone over Wifi from a
> browser on the desktop.
Can't test this right now. Just let me ask beforehand, what kind of browser ? A
specific AirDroid browser, or just something like Firefox ?
Can i transfer multiple file
Well, the situation is, these kids have easily 2 - 3 Gigabytes of media files
(including many own video clips each usually between 50 - 100 Mbyte) on their
smartphones which i would like them - for various reasons - backup to their
laptops; but they wont use a cable connection, which, anyway, d
Also, right now (transferring photos from android to laptop) i've got a
transfer rate of 200 Bytes (yes) per second ... which is kind of amazing. It
means downloading 100 photos will take forever.
Is that normal ?? I remember transferring files from android <-> android much
faster.
Cindy,
Many thanks !
Just for the records, i first tired 'blueberry' but it diint work ...
esepcially when downloadig files from the smartphone, it disconnects
immediately.
So i tried your suggestion blueman (which also pulls in the 'bluez' backend
stuff) and yes, it works. But somehow it's i
Like, download photos from the phone to the computer, upload music files to the
smartphone. One Linux bluetooth manager for all kind of files, talking to the
android bluetooth manager. Is that possible ?
Matus,
It's about up- / downloading music and photos. It should be usable for kids, so
an easy graphical frontend is required. Just as easy as it works with android
<-> android.
> On 06.09.15 15:16, Michael wrote:
> >Is there a bluetooth manager for exchange data with
Well, guess what i'm asking here :)
Is there a bluetooth manager for exchange data with Android smartphones, which
is approxmiately as easy to use as the Android side (meaning usable even for
kids) ?
Ionel,
Testing the wicd-gtk thingy now and it looks great. Maybe a little complicated
for kids on first look, but after all they still need only to click and insert
the passphrase and that's what i was looking for.
Thanks you very much.
Ah, i guess it's just 'systemctl enable wicd'. I'm still running sysvinit and
are not too familiar with systemd.
Ionel,
> Have a look at wicd. I use wicd-gtk -n because I do not run a desktop
> manager.
Many thanks.
I'm testing this right now and the installer says 'add wicd to your systemd
configuration', do you know how to do this ?
Hello,
I'm having a hard time to find a wireless connection manager appropriate for
some kids Laptops.
In Android, you got the list of access points and you tap on one and enter the
passphrase, and that's it.
Is there anything comparable for a linux desktop, which does not require to
enter a
Jan-Rens,
> What's the output of:
>
> $lsusb -v | grep Device
Buss 002 Device 003: ID 041e:4097Creative Technology, Ltd
then some Root Hubs and the Mouse
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Hello,
First of all: I can listen to music in all the players, by internal speakers or
by headset headphones.
I bought a Creative Live HD VF 0790 usb webcam, which is advertised to work
with Linux, and plugged it into a Thinkpad 410s.
According to dmesg, it is recognized by name and the kernel
Arghya,
> i can get into root terminal through elementary OS recovery mode but i cant
> remove the entry from system startup.
If update.rc does not work for you (for whatever reasons) just delete the
script in init.d - that alone should suffice to give you a normal boot again,
and you can clean
Arghya,
You don't need any sudo when the script is run by init, because it will be
executed with system (root) authority.
Just make it one line
echo OFF > /sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitcheroo/switch
and it should work.
That is, if "OFF" is correct here, and "vgaswitcheroo" really sounds a little
Sreedhav,
Your links appear to not support the complaint.
> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/firefox-3-0-4-overheats-system-memory-and-cpu-use-inacceptable-687418/
and that one is way old (Jan 2008)
> A great song by Simon & Art Garfunkel- I Am a Rock with lyrics -url:
> short of memory just because browsers (and,
> more generally, graphics) are blowing up without control.
From the point of the browser developers, their browsers got burdened with all
kind of tasks that were desktop applications in the past: Multimedia, dynamic
content from multiple sources,
Ulff,
I lost the thread already, sorry, but just in case you didn't know. Yuo
probably have to debug this in 'single user mode' which you can get by grub, if
the grub menu displays at all. (Try hitting escape, then chose 'advanced
options' or maybe 'e' for edit to see the options).
Lookup the
> work.
>
> At least now you know it's not just you. Hopefully another member has
> insight as to why it would be set up that way..
>
> One thought: It might help other members if you explain why you're
> trying to change the permissions. Sometimes there's another angle
Have a look here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightweight_Linux_distribution
Yes, with an old Laptop one really should chose a rather old kernel, but then,
the latest 'stable' Debian possibly will not run on that thing (for example,
systemd). So you would either chose an old Debian in the first
ah sorry i mistyped it all the time. It's a Thinkpad T410s not 401.
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Hi Loredana
> Most modern laptop are much less powerful than older ones (as a rough measure
> compare processor speed)
I'm not sure about it. For example, my T401 have Intel Quadcore, and i believe
most modern laptops have a multi core CPU. You probably know how parallel
processing beats singl
In the past, installed GNU/Linux on Dell Inspiron as well.
It's kind of sad that after so many years, recommendations still are Dell and
Thinkpad (which is Lenovo of China now - go figure ...).
I'm not up to date but maybe there are more options today.
Intel based
http://zareason.com/shop/Lapto
The libreboot laptop mentioned by Francesco have Intel AMT removed. I didn't
even know what this feature does, and looked it up.
It's no surprise that corporate giants like Intel oder AMD evolve into that
direction, but still, thinking about the kind of implicit power (for example,
theoreticaly
Tobias,
I installed Jessie on 4 year old Lenovo Thinkpad X301 (small) and 410 (larger),
both with 128M SSD. As far as for my standard usage, anything works. I didn't
try the WiMAX/ WWAN-GPS stuff or fingerprint sensor.
You may lookout for Swiss keyboards.
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Dwijesh,
Glad it works for you now.
Anyway, i never suggested a firmware / BIOS update, though it's a really good
idea with very new laptops, so please honor your own right doecision :)
Just for the records, how did you do the update ? From the a Dell
'rescue&repair' boot (the dell system par
wow, that's solid advice.
Dave, what i've written before was off the road. Please do Loredanas thing. And
i beg your pardon, i should not answer in a hurry, wen i'm not even in the
position to do.
(Is it Horsefall, for real ?? another wow. take care.)
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Dave,
aptitude install firmware-atheros
or
apt-get install firmware-atheros
will choose the most recent version available. If that is not what you need,
then it's probably easier to use aptitude as a interactive application (start
without any option) and do the downgrade manually - with aptit
Dwijesh,
What happens when you shut down from a boot DVD (life CD) Linux ? Like GRML
oder some installer disk.
www.grml.org
If that works then try to install the same kernel.
Anyway, does it work from Windows (does the laptop still have that ?), and can
you do the Dell hardware check ?
Shoul
Gajadur,
There is /etc/default/halt (or so, i'm no more using Debian), you can try to
switch to the alternative. Maybe it works...
If not, try to find out which command (as root or via sudo, from a terminal)
does shut down the machine. For example, "shutdown -h now" should never do a
reboot. I
Maiky,
> I'm running 3.16, but I can't use wifi.
You did not tell the reason. IMHO in English, "can't" can mean it works, but
you won't do it.
> If I load Ubuntu Live using the "use only libre software" option at boot
> everything work well.
I do not understand this piece. If the nonfree iwl
Florian,
> too. There is no guarantee that the filesystem will not change the
> offset. An FSCK
Uh, i did not think of that...hmpf. Indeed, that's a problem.
Well, as a workaround, i could figure the actual offset by boot script and ...
uhm ... put it where ... ?
(Building a new initrd in cas
Cindy,
Your idea is pretty close to what really happens, but it's happening in another
'sphere'.
You probably mean the 'export' shell builtin command. It is used in the context
of the shell (the login environment), for example when compiling code from
sources.
A shelled login creates a conext
Hey all,
On my old laptop, i used a swap partition for hibernate. It could be declared
to the kernel (or rather, pm-utils?) by "resume=/dev/sdx" parameter.
Now i'm going with a /swapfile, already created and mkswapped, but dunno how to
tell the system about it.
There is https://wiki.archlinux
Florian,
> you never even tested (debian/bsd), and you are not working on it.
>
> So you spread fear to problems you don't have, you don't understand, and
> you don't work on them.
But which of these apply to you :) i wonder.
But, anyway, OT as is, let's not extend it any further.
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Like
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=systemd
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?repeatmerged=no&src=systemd
https://wiki.debian.org/systemd#Known_Issues_and_Workarounds
?
> Could you please point me (us?) to a good and reasonably short summary
> about the known is
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=74589#c9
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
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Florian,
> so the argument, that they "rejected to care for other kernels" is
> simple invalid. if there are some developers who care, nobody will stop
> them in getting the bsd port in shape for release.
Please have mercy when i'm not really into the exact tech specs, and i'm not a
developer ei
Florian,
Well, you can see it this way. I'd rather seen a bit more sensibility in doing
that 'big step' when it means so much damage.
> systemd is a big step for debian, but its not the cause for everything.
Yes, true.
Well, anyway, poweroff button stopped working for me too, on both my lapto
Florian,
i did not mean it literally. I meant that systemd upstream rejected to care for
any other kernel, than Linux, and that was the result. I can dig up the
respective mails if you require me too, but it will be some work since i did
not bookmark them (and i have no browser history).
But,
Bjørn,
> Yes, systemd will happily break existing ACPI PM setups without any
> warning.
>
> The systemd point of view is that any breakage is caused by other
> packages failing to detect that systemd is installed.
And besides, that's how they shot down the Debian OpenBSD port, just like that.
Edit /etc/default/halt and change the value as Eddy writes.
Yes, systemd is probably the cause, it replaced pm acpi by its own terminology,
disregarding the legacy convention.
if nothing else helps, replace systemd with systemd-shim emulation (maybe also
switching back to sysvinit).
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I'm going to setup just one partition for anything (except swap), since i could
not find any arguments why to split /home or anything else, applying to me. I
don't keep massive data on a travel laptop anyway, and If i'd need a reinstall
i can backup /home easily to some external drive, with the
Hello all,
I booted the laptop into a grml boot-cd, then checked things with hpdarm -I. It
appeared this old SSD does not do TRIM.
Given that it's just an old disk with possibly low firmware performance, and a
small and cheap one anyway, and without TRIM, i decided to just go with the
memory c
I think i meant GPT here.
And from what i've read, following the link Bob Prolux posted, i conclude it
doesn't really matter, as GPT is just a newer and more flexible system to cover
disk sizes >2T, but for laptops the old MRB system should be good enough (as
long as grub supports it).
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Bob,
That was a lot of useful information. Thank you !
No i'm not affiliated :) i'm just occasionally (as a hobby) doing support for
people who run into problems. I think i kind of know this OS a little bit, and
i have to admit over the years (although i was indifferent at the beginning) i
sta
Bjørn,
thx for the infos. There is more of these old TPs (next is a T410) which i'm
giving away, so i have to calculate a bit. But i'll consider your ideas.
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Leslie,
Ah, but since fstrim works only on a mounted filesystem, there is already a
difference to a reset by SSD BIOS. A filesystem allocates lots of blocks, for
tables and journal and the redundancy backups. (I wonder if that's even anymore
useful with a SSD, and if there are specific SSD mkfs
Florian,
thx for reply.
I got no further yet through workload delays.
> > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/SSD_Memory_Cell_Clearing
> i would just reinstall, and the use "fstrim" to clear the rest of the drive.
Another friendly guy from this list already recommended this approach. So. i
As for the firmware, Samsung (and also Magician) seem to support only model 470
and newer.
My drive has firmware PS105L16. Would anybody be able to tell if there was any
newer version available ?
I guess i'll just skip this step and continue with cell clearing.
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Hello,
Someone gots me a 4y old Lenovo Thinkpad X301 with a 64G Samsung SSD and i'd
like to give it a try and follow this instruction
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/SSD_Memory_Cell_Clearing
There is no usable OS yet on this laptop (albeit a Windows 7) and i consider
booting a Live-CD.
d the data they capture.
Best wishes,
Michael
On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 4:28 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Brian Flaherty wrote:
> > Like many, I have a laptop that I use in multiple settings:
> > - home wired
> > - home wireless
> > - work wired
> > - work wireless
>
Hmm, why didn't you dub this 'pulse audio replacement', i wonder. For most
desktop users, ALSA is already doing about anything they need. Most of the rest
can be done by just the player (maybe using some pulse lib but would not
require the server).
Well apparently gnome-media depends on it. Man
... perhaps you should have explained first that Linux calls it "Bumblebee" ?
https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee/wiki/FAQ
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia_Optimus
hth
> hi,
>
>
> I am on dual-boot debian 7 & ubuntu 14 (updated) with two choices on my
> laptop :
> Nvidia or In
Daniel,
> as MBR has a four partition limit.
the standard way was to make partition #4 of type 'logical' which is a
container where you can add several more partitions, like separate linux /home
(recommended) and linux swap. also, if necessary, grub could even boot a
logical partition too.
i
Cristian,
> That looks like someone is attempting to eavesdrop on you.
I would be interested in how that could work and how to defend against it.
Would you mind to try to explain it, for short ... ?
Here are my questions:
(1) If i understand correctly, the 'dig' result shows that domain 'loca
Hannu,
The only things a fresh avahi-daemon installation puts into the config (that
is, not commented) are:
[server]
use-ipv4=yes
use-ipv6=yes
ratelimit-interval-usec=100
ratelimit-burst=1000
[wide-area]
enable-wide-area=yes
[publish]
[reflector]
[rlimits]
rlimit-core=0
rlimit-data=41943
Hannu, just curious, how did you translate 'region' (in the error message) ?
Is the original finnish (?) word a technical term and what does it refer to
exactly.
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But ugh, that's a lot of stuff to study, when the problem may be rather trivial.
How about try reinstalling all avahi packages. (Using a package manager, check
anything with *avahi* in their names.)
I recommend to move to Debian 'testing' anyway (i.e. upgrade) except your
laptop is way old. I b
Does he even need avahi service at all.
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Stefan,
> Note that this risks will fill your ram&swap with logs, next time some
> problem shows up causing infinitely repeated log entries. For this
> reason I prefer to install busybox-syslogd: it's much smaller than
> rsyslogd, keeps the logs in memory (like your tmpfs) but only keeps the
> la
Turning back to harddisk sleep vs. write access of OS subsystems: Here is my
'todays workout' for the smart OS.
On most of my machines (no online servers) i did not need the last weeks of
logs, for years. The only reason would be intrusion detection, but hey, i'm
talking about laptops and offi
Babu,
> Having been using Debian 64bit on AMD server as a gateway/fileserver with
> samba for a while, the ondemand governor is working perfectly fine
For this office pC, the kernel cpufreq driver just did not scale anything
although the capability was reported. Go figure. Maybe the K8 mainboar
Thanks for the info ! Indeed, on my laptops it just worked fine since long.
However, i was talking about a PC (always ON AC) and there, i needed to install
the daemon to have the CPU actually scaled. Or at least i did not know hot to
user-configure the kernel driver. The cpufreqd config is easy
Sting Wing,
Since your disk is SSD (if i understood correctly), and those normally don't
produce much heat, i wonder if it is some other component which (as side
effect) heats up the disk drive.
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Vladan, maybe the hdparm -m and -M options would ba also interesting for you.
It's amazing what you learn and discover just by dropping into some random
mailing list question. For example, you made me just install cpufreqd on my PC
where i never considered that a priority. But why should i wast
Vladan,
It appears i have thrown out my last 2 WD disks just recently ... ;)
The reason, of course, was they were worn out. I didn't know of the idle3
problem, then.
Anyway, now i'm using only SG and even fresh new drives always show several
'pre failure' values in smartd.
I'm lazy using gsma
sting wing,
although there isn't really anything left to add to Bobs reply (which is good
work, as expected); but just for the fun of it, some related ideas.
If you need to monitor harddrive temperature, then possibly you've already
reason to fear overheating, and you finally would need to lo
Bob,
Many thanks for the interesting hint !
Another thing you could do is run console-log (and bootlogd)
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