Re: I have a Gigabyte GA-A320M-H is there a BUG in this motherboard?

2021-01-02 Thread tom arnall
thanks David for this message. @Isaac Shields, please share with us the results of your efforts. also, you might if you continue to have problems with your Gigabyte machine, install Debian on a more ordinary machine in order to gain experience for an install on the less ordinary Gigabyte machine.

Cannot compile qemu

2021-01-02 Thread Kamil Jońca
I tried to compile qemu by myself (this is not the first time). I issued %sudo apt-get build-dep qemu %apt-get source qemu and then in qemu directory %debuild -us -uc -b claims about header files: [...] cc -fPIE -DPIE -std=gnu99 -Wall -m64 -mcx16 -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFI

Re: Open Source Flash Alternatives

2021-01-02 Thread The Wanderer
On 2021-01-02 at 17:26, didier gaumet wrote: > Hello, > > From what I understand from the lightspark website (1) and the > wikipedia page about lightspark (2), > - Gnash is both a free standalone flash player and flash plugin for > Actionscript 1&2 > - Lightspark is also both a free standalone fl

Re: ZFS guidance

2021-01-02 Thread Dan Ritter
Gregory Seidman wrote: > I've been running 10+ LVM volumes on top of dmcrypt on top of md RAID1 on > Debian for many, many years and it has served me well. I've been > double-mirroring (i.e. three active drives in the RAID array) for the last > several with the idea that I can manually fail a disk

Re: ZFS guidance

2021-01-02 Thread Georgi Naplatanov
On 1/2/21 11:10 PM, Gregory Seidman wrote: > I've been running 10+ LVM volumes on top of dmcrypt on top of md RAID1 on > Debian for many, many years and it has served me well. I've been > double-mirroring (i.e. three active drives in the RAID array) for the last > several with the idea that I can m

Re: Open Source Flash Alternatives

2021-01-02 Thread didier gaumet
Le vendredi 1 janvier 2021 à 16:40:07 UTC+1, Kenneth Parker a écrit : > Since Adobe Flash is going the way of the Dodo Bird, I thought I'd check up > on Open Source Alternatives, since I have some Standalone .swf files (games, > etc). > > Two came up in my searches, Lightspark (which seems to be

Re: automatic answer in mozilla-thunderbird email programm

2021-01-02 Thread Ángel
On 2021-01-02 at 16:29 +0100, steef wrote: > Hi out there! > > How can I setup an automatic answer-email in mozilla-thunderbird? A > maybe rather stupid question but somehow i cannot get it done this > time. > > regards, > steef Hi there steef See the instructions at https://amitlyblog.wordpre

Re: ZFS guidance

2021-01-02 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-02 13:10, Gregory Seidman wrote: I've been running 10+ LVM volumes on top of dmcrypt on top of md RAID1 on Debian for many, many years and it has served me well. I've been double-mirroring (i.e. three active drives in the RAID array) for the last several with the idea that I can manual

Re: Nvidia Optimus, Debian 10, and Firefox ESR crashes

2021-01-02 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-02 05:23, Darac Marjal wrote: Thanks for the reply. :-) On 01/01/2021 23:51, David Christensen wrote: I have a Dell Latitude E6520 with Nvidia Optimus graphics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia_Optimus I have disabled Optimus in the CMOS Setup: Video -> Optimus -> Enabl

Re: recommendations for supported, affordable hardware raid controller.

2021-01-02 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-02 03:24, Andrei POPESCU wrote: http://www.unixsheikh.com/articles/battle-testing-data-integrity-verification-with-zfs-btrfs-and-mdadm-dm-integrity.html That looks interesting. Thanks for the link. :-) On 2021-01-02 08:08, Richard Hector wrote: On 3/01/21 12:24 am, Andrei POPES

ZFS guidance

2021-01-02 Thread Gregory Seidman
I've been running 10+ LVM volumes on top of dmcrypt on top of md RAID1 on Debian for many, many years and it has served me well. I've been double-mirroring (i.e. three active drives in the RAID array) for the last several with the idea that I can manually fail a disk, pull it out (and replace with

Re: recommendations for supported, affordable hardware raid controller.

2021-01-02 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Sat, Jan 02, 2021 at 09:23:02AM -0600, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > Im afraid I have to agree with this advice. In the presence of software > like ZFS (from Sun) and LVM (from IBM's AIX), with easy availability of > NAS, SAN and cloud storage, the arguments in favor of hardware RAID local > to a

Re: mdadm usage

2021-01-02 Thread Linux-Fan
deloptes writes: Linux-Fan wrote: > deloptes writes: >> Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> >> Each LSI card has a 6 bay cage attached and I have raided 6x2TB WD RED >> >> spinning discs (for data) and 2x1TB WD RED spinning discs (for OS) [...] > Sounds OK to me :) From my point of view, I would work to

Re: recommendations for supported, affordable hardware raid controller.

2021-01-02 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 02 January 2021 11:08:52 Richard Hector wrote: > On 3/01/21 12:24 am, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Sb, 02 ian 21, 01:40:14, David Christensen wrote: > >> On Linux (including Debian), MD (multiple disk) and LVM (logical > >> volume manager) are the obvious choices for software RAID. Ea

Re: recommendations for supported, affordable hardware raid controller.

2021-01-02 Thread Sven Hartge
Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > On Sat, Jan 2, 2021, 5:49 AM Sven Hartge wrote: >> My advise: Don't bother "learning RAID controllers". > Im afraid I have to agree with this advice. In the presence of > software like ZFS (from Sun) and LVM (from IBM's AIX), with easy > availability of NAS, SAN and c

Re: recommendations for supported, affordable hardware raid controller.

2021-01-02 Thread Richard Hector
On 3/01/21 12:24 am, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Sb, 02 ian 21, 01:40:14, David Christensen wrote: On Linux (including Debian), MD (multiple disk) and LVM (logical volume manager) are the obvious choices for software RAID. Each have their respective learning curves, but they're not too high. An

Re: Instalar Debían sin Cd-Dvd

2021-01-02 Thread tomas
On Sat, Jan 02, 2021 at 04:20:07PM +0100, Manuel Anguren Sanjulian wrote: > Hola > Llevo años viendo siempre el mismo problema de las instalaciones Linux que > si no se tiene un cd- dvd donde venga la distribución [...] 1. Ésta es una lista en inglés. Si quieres que la gente te entienda... (hay

automatic answer in mozilla-thunderbird email programm

2021-01-02 Thread steef
Hi out there! How can I setup an automatic answer-email in mozilla-thunderbird? A maybe rather stupid question but somehow i cannot get it done this time. regards, steef

Re: Open Source Flash Alternatives

2021-01-02 Thread deloptes
to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > [...] > >> Why would you need this. update your sites to HTML5 [...] > > If I read correctly, the OP hasn't a "site" (s)he coule "update". Rather > some .swf files of value to him/her. > > Who are we to judge whether it's feasible to rewrite them? And whether > html5 i

Instalar Debían sin Cd-Dvd

2021-01-02 Thread Manuel Anguren Sanjulian
Hola Llevo años viendo siempre el mismo problema de las instalaciones Linux que si no se tiene un cd- dvd donde venga la distribución, EL GRAN LINUX Y SU GRAN COMUNIDAD no lo han resuelto porque no existe esa comunidad que tanto pregona trabaja para mejorar Debían. Parece ser que se quedaron colga

Re: mdadm usage

2021-01-02 Thread deloptes
Linux-Fan wrote: > deloptes writes: > >> Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> >> >> Each LSI card has a 6 bay cage attached and I have raided 6x2TB WD RED >> >> spinning discs (for data) and 2x1TB WD RED spinning discs (for OS) >> > >> > 1TB for OS (assuming RAID1) seems... excessive to me. All my current >>

Re: recommendations for supported, affordable hardware raid controller.

2021-01-02 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Sat, Jan 2, 2021, 5:49 AM Sven Hartge wrote: > > My advise: Don't bother "learning RAID controllers". > Im afraid I have to agree with this advice. In the presence of software like ZFS (from Sun) and LVM (from IBM's AIX), with easy availability of NAS, SAN and cloud storage, the arguments in

Re: Open Source Flash Alternatives

2021-01-02 Thread The Wanderer
On 2021-01-02 at 09:23, Curt wrote: > On 2021-01-02, wrote: > >> This is awesome. I never used anything flash myself, but it's >> always great to see someone caring. > > Adobe Flash officially died at the tail-end of 2020, so I wonder what > need exists to prolong it's life in open source. Th

Re: Open Source Flash Alternatives

2021-01-02 Thread Curt
On 2021-01-02, wrote: > > This is awesome. I never used anything flash myself, but it's always > great to see someone caring. Adobe Flash officially died at the tail-end of 2020, so I wonder what need exists to prolong it's life in open source. > Let me know if you need some help. >

Re: mdadm usage

2021-01-02 Thread Linux-Fan
deloptes writes: Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> Each LSI card has a 6 bay cage attached and I have raided 6x2TB WD RED >> spinning discs (for data) and 2x1TB WD RED spinning discs (for OS) > > 1TB for OS (assuming RAID1) seems... excessive to me. All my current > installations are in 10 GiB partition

Re: mdadm usage

2021-01-02 Thread Jesper Dybdal
On 2020-12-30 14:58, Andy Smith wrote: You can see the event count with: # mdadm --examine /dev/sda1 # or whatever the member device is So yes in one way your idea that the most recently modified half is the one chosen could be said to be correct, if by "most recently modified" you actually m

Re: Nvidia Optimus, Debian 10, and Firefox ESR crashes

2021-01-02 Thread Darac Marjal
On 01/01/2021 23:51, David Christensen wrote: > debian-users: > > I have a Dell Latitude E6520 with Nvidia Optimus graphics: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia_Optimus > > > STFW and RTFM: > > https://wiki.debian.org/NVIDIA%20Optimus > > -> Using only the integrated GPU > > https://wiki.debi

Re: Open Source Flash Alternatives

2021-01-02 Thread The Wanderer
On 2021-01-02 at 06:45, deloptes wrote: > Kenneth Parker wrote: > >> On Fri, Jan 1, 2021, 10:29 AM Kenneth Parker >> wrote: >> >>> Since Adobe Flash is going the way of the Dodo Bird, I thought >>> I'd check up on Open Source Alternatives, since I have some >>> Standalone .swf files (games, etc

Re: Open Source Flash Alternatives

2021-01-02 Thread tomas
On Sat, Jan 02, 2021 at 12:45:55PM +0100, deloptes wrote: [...] > Why would you need this. update your sites to HTML5 [...] If I read correctly, the OP hasn't a "site" (s)he coule "update". Rather some .swf files of value to him/her. Who are we to judge whether it's feasible to rewrite them? An

Re: mdadm usage

2021-01-02 Thread The Wanderer
On 2021-01-02 at 07:09, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Sb, 02 ian 21, 13:49:27, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > >> On Sb, 02 ian 21, 06:28:24, The Wanderer wrote: >>> On previous systems I investigated things like autoclean, but >>> AFAIR I never identified a way to get such a mechanism to keep >>> the .deb

Re: mdadm usage

2021-01-02 Thread The Wanderer
On 2021-01-02 at 06:49, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Sb, 02 ian 21, 06:28:24, The Wanderer wrote: > >> On 2021-01-02 at 05:58, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> >>> How many package versions do you keep around? >>> My laptop is indeed on a 30 GiB partition, but using only 14 GiB. >>> I do (auto)clean the

Re: [Kiwix-developer] Any preferrably java libraries, tutorials, ... about working with zim files? ...

2021-01-02 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Jan 02, 2021 at 11:44:12AM +0100, Albretch Mueller wrote: > I could not find the zim-tools utility on the debian repository: > https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=zim-tools > https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=zim > and I can't use git since I do not connect my work com

Re: mdadm usage

2021-01-02 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 02 ian 21, 13:49:27, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Sb, 02 ian 21, 06:28:24, The Wanderer wrote: > > > > At the very least, I'd need to be able to keep the .deb files for > > whatever version is presently installed - and probably more than that, > > given that I do sometimes try installing a ne

Re: Open Source Flash Alternatives

2021-01-02 Thread deloptes
Kenneth Parker wrote: > On Fri, Jan 1, 2021, 10:29 AM Kenneth Parker wrote: > >> Since Adobe Flash is going the way of the Dodo Bird, I thought I'd check >> up on Open Source Alternatives, since I have some Standalone .swf files >> (games, etc). >> >> Two came up in my searches, Lightspark (whic

Re: mdadm usage

2021-01-02 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 02 ian 21, 06:28:24, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2021-01-02 at 05:58, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > How many package versions do you keep around? > > Basically all of them. In theory I go in and delete the oldest unneeded > ones from time to time, but in practice that hasn't happened much. > >

Re: recommendations for supported, affordable hardware raid controller.

2021-01-02 Thread Sven Hartge
Steven Mainor wrote: > The idea was to create a large striped raid array(perhaps RAID6) of > spinning disks to use as a large storage area for extra VM backups and > large projects I'm working on. And in the process I could learn more > about RAID controllers. To be honest: RAID controllers a

Re: mdadm usage

2021-01-02 Thread deloptes
Andrei POPESCU wrote: > My laptop is indeed on a 30 GiB partition, but using only 14 GiB. I do > (auto)clean the package cache more or less regularly though, even on > unstable installs. Hi Andrei, thank you for sharing your thoughts. # df -hl . Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /

Re: mdadm usage

2021-01-02 Thread The Wanderer
On 2021-01-02 at 05:58, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Sb, 02 ian 21, 04:35:59, The Wanderer wrote: > >> / itself (excluding child filesystems) contains 23GB of data. 22GB >> of that is under /root. 17GB of *that* consists of backups of >> other data that isn't read-time-accessible to any other user

Re: recommendations for supported, affordable hardware raid controller.

2021-01-02 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 02 ian 21, 01:40:14, David Christensen wrote: > > On Linux (including Debian), MD (multiple disk) and LVM (logical volume > manager) are the obvious choices for software RAID. Each have their > respective learning curves, but they're not too high. An interesting article I stumbled upon: h

Re: mdadm usage

2021-01-02 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 02 ian 21, 04:35:59, The Wanderer wrote: > > / itself (excluding child filesystems) contains 23GB of data. 22GB of > that is under /root. 17GB of *that* consists of backups of other > data that isn't read-time-accessible to any other user - both because it > isn't convenient to create the b

Re: [Kiwix-developer] Any preferrably java libraries, tutorials, ... about working with zim files? ...

2021-01-02 Thread Albretch Mueller
I could not find the zim-tools utility on the debian repository: https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=zim-tools https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=zim and I can't use git since I do not connect my work computer to the Internet. Is there a debian package or tar ball somewhere wh

Issues with mouse and touchpad in plasma5

2021-01-02 Thread Hans
Hi folks and a very, very happy new year! I habe a little issue, that I want to tell about, running debian/testing and plasma5. Since several months I am running into an issue with the external mouse and touchpad. From time to time it apppears that there are some issues with the mouse. Either

Re: Open Source Flash Alternatives

2021-01-02 Thread tomas
On Sat, Jan 02, 2021 at 04:00:21AM -0500, Kenneth Parker wrote: [...] > I will contact gnu.org and see about taking it over. It will be a > Challenge, but I've got more time on my hands now. This is awesome. I never used anything flash myself, but it's always great to see someone caring. Let m

Re: mdadm usage

2021-01-02 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 02 ian 21, 10:05:11, deloptes wrote: > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > The speed gain of SSD vs. spinning discs for the OS is hard to describe. > > Think jet aircraft vs. car. > > > > I've done this for a laptop (partially out of necessity, after I dropped > > it) and it was like buying a ne

Re: recommendations for supported, affordable hardware raid controller.

2021-01-02 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-02 00:11, Steven Mainor wrote: All, thanks for all the help so far. For all the people asking why, a few reasons. First I love to tinker with and learn about things and the only raid controller I have access to is on my production server and I don't really get to "play" with it muc

Re: Debian Squeeze Installer: HTTP proxy server to access outsideworld?

2021-01-02 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-02 00:48, FadeOut FF wrote: I want http proxy server If you are asking how to respond to the "HTTP Proxy?" question in the Debian Installer, I press and leave it blank. David

Re: I have a Gigabyte GA-A320M-H is there a BUG in this motherboard?

2021-01-02 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-02 01:06, ike wrote: On 01/01/2021 11:42 PM, ike wrote: I have a Gigabyte GA-A320M-H I have tried to install Debian 10.7 . I have enable Iommu and CSM. When the menu comes up it does not matter what I select after I hit enter the screen is just a mess can you help

Re: mdadm usage

2021-01-02 Thread The Wanderer
On 2021-01-02 at 03:36, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 01 ian 21, 23:09:01, deloptes wrote: >> >> Each LSI card has a 6 bay cage attached and I have raided 6x2TB WD >> RED spinning discs (for data) and 2x1TB WD RED spinning discs (for >> OS) > > 1TB for OS (assuming RAID1) seems... excessive to

Re: Re: I have a Gigabyte GA-A320M-H is there a BUG in this motherboard?

2021-01-02 Thread ike
On 01/01/2021 11:42 PM, ike wrote: I have a Gigabyte GA-A320M-H I have tried to install Debian 10.7 . I have enable Iommu and CSM. When the menu comes up it does not matter what I select after I hit enter the screen is just a mess can you help me please. After I press enter the scr

Re: Re: Debian Squeeze Installer: HTTP proxy server to access outsideworld?

2021-01-02 Thread FadeOut FF
I want http proxy server

Re: mdadm usage

2021-01-02 Thread deloptes
Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> Each LSI card has a 6 bay cage attached and I have raided 6x2TB WD RED >> spinning discs (for data) and 2x1TB WD RED spinning discs (for OS) > > 1TB for OS (assuming RAID1) seems... excessive to me. All my current > installations are in 10 GiB partitions with only a separ

Re: Open Source Flash Alternatives

2021-01-02 Thread Kenneth Parker
On Sat, Jan 2, 2021 at 3:56 AM wrote: > On Fri, Jan 01, 2021 at 06:17:32PM -0500, Kenneth Parker wrote: > > [...] > > > Update: I just installed Stretch in QEMU-KVM in my "Knockabout" Mint 20 > > system and was able to install Gnash on it. I did a bit of research into > > Gnu Gnash, seeing that

Re: Open Source Flash Alternatives

2021-01-02 Thread tomas
On Fri, Jan 01, 2021 at 06:17:32PM -0500, Kenneth Parker wrote: [...] > Update: I just installed Stretch in QEMU-KVM in my "Knockabout" Mint 20 > system and was able to install Gnash on it. I did a bit of research into > Gnu Gnash, seeing that it may not be currently maintained. I wonder if >

Re: recommendations for supported, affordable hardware raid controller.

2021-01-02 Thread deloptes
Steven Mainor wrote: > I'm looking for recommendations for a 6 or 8 port SATA hardware raid > controller that will hopefully be supported by the kernel and/or open > source drivers to put in my desktop computer. Any input welcome, thanks. > I recommend installing two controllers and planning you

Re: recommendations for supported, affordable hardware raid controller.

2021-01-02 Thread Steven Mainor
I missed this question in my last email. Apologies. What is your computer? It is an Asus X470 Motherboard, AMD 2700x Processor --- Steven Mainor On 2021-01-02 03:24, Steven Mainor wrote: Why? See my earlier email. What Debian? Debian 10? Or 9? I'm mainly looking for options. What Linux?

Re: mdadm usage

2021-01-02 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 01 ian 21, 23:09:01, deloptes wrote: > > Each LSI card has a 6 bay cage attached and I have raided 6x2TB WD RED > spinning discs (for data) and 2x1TB WD RED spinning discs (for OS) 1TB for OS (assuming RAID1) seems... excessive to me. All my current installations are in 10 GiB partitions

Re: recommendations for supported, affordable hardware raid controller.

2021-01-02 Thread Steven Mainor
Why? See my earlier email. What Debian? Debian 10? Or 9? I'm mainly looking for options. What Linux? Any still supported main-line or LTS Linux kernel. What application(s)? General storage. What is your network/ environment? Why is network information relevant for a RAID question?

Re: recommendations for supported, affordable hardware raid controller.

2021-01-02 Thread Steven Mainor
All, thanks for all the help so far. For all the people asking why, a few reasons. First I love to tinker with and learn about things and the only raid controller I have access to is on my production server and I don't really get to "play" with it much since it is in use 24/7. I am one of tho