Re: Video hangs on ThinkPad X220 T

riveravaldez composed on 2021-03-26 23:23 (UTC-0300): > Any idea what to do/where to look? Any chance the cooling system needs cleaning? Are you using a display manager (login greeter) to launch? There are two DDX d

Re: Running debian on WSL (windows-system-for-linux)

On 3/26/21 12:37 PM, David Christensen wrote: AIUI ... there is no such thing as installing another Linux distribution on top of WSL. Right and wrong -- you can install a WSL 2 version of Debian GNU/Linux into WSL 2 via the Microsoft Store: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/

Video hangs on ThinkPad X220 T

Hi, I'm having what I suppose are random (not frequent) video server hangs. This is a ThinkPad X220 T with Debian Testing and: 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0126] (rev 09) I'm using IceWM here

pdf-tools, doc-view and emacs 27.1 in bullseye is very slow

Hello folks, Just upgraded to bullseye, and pdf-tools and doc-view for the emacs folks is very different: -- startup is very slow, and emacs seems to stutter (like, pre-26, pre-threading...) on conversion. -- the place in the pdf is no longer reliably bookmarked -- doc-view-fit-to-width is no l

Re: Running debian on WSL (windows-system-for-linux)

On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 08:02:32PM -0700, Dan Hitt wrote: > Does anybody have any experience running debian on a WSL > (windows-system-for-linux) machine? Yes, I use WSL2 on my work machine and run Debian in it. [...] > In particular, i would like to > (a) be able to remotely access the WSL debia

Re: efibootmgr headach?

On Fri, 26 Mar 2021 11:33:48 + Steve McIntyre wrote: > didier.gau...@gmail.com wrote: > >the /EFI/BOOT subdirectory is a common standard: > > https://members.uefi.org/specs/esp_registry > > > >I have not retrieved the UEFI specification wich details its usage, > >but there is a Fedora doc th

Re: Dell R440 with Debian 10.7.0 Display Issues

Doug Windle composed on 2021-03-26 15:56 (UTC-0500): > The embedded VGA compatible controller is a Matrox G200eW3 102b:0536 rev 04 > I updated the package sources configuration file is to use the > apt-add-repository command and added the non-free package for all sources > and it now works!! > a

Re: My X server not working. I think it cannot find /dev/dri/card0 [Solved]

On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 06:51:21PM -0500, R. Ramesh wrote: > >    00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Device 8a56 > >    (rev 07) Google gave me . It says: This requires a later kernel t

Re: Minisforum X35G hangs on first boot. [Solved]

a question. are you installing using graphics mode or not? it not then the next bit might make a difference. all i can think of is that the hardware may be so new that buster may not work for some hardware reason. i suggest trying a netinst iso from the debian installer for the upcomi

Re: My X server not working. I think it cannot find /dev/dri/card0 [Solved]

On 3/26/21 4:50 PM, R. Ramesh wrote: Hi,   I installed debian buster on minisforum X35G with Core i3-1005G1. Install went through fine, but lightdm does not start up. Upon inspecting logs, I found out that X server does not startup for lightdm to use. Looking /var/log/Xorg.0.log, I see these

Re: Minisforum X35G hangs on first boot.

On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 04:14:47PM -0500, R. Ramesh wrote: > Looking at /var/log/lightdm/x-0.log, we see >(EE) >Fatal server error: >(EE) Cannot run in framebuffer mode. Please specify busIDs for all >framebuffer devices >(EE) >(EE) >Please consult the The X.Org Foundati

Re: Dell R440 with Debian 10.7.0 Display Issues

On Fri 26 Mar 2021 at 17:01:16 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 08:47:38PM +, Brian wrote: > > On Fri 26 Mar 2021 at 15:22:01 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > Issues with video chipset drivers/firmware are extremely common, > > > especially > > > if one installed with th

Re: Minisforum X35G hangs on first boot.

R. Ramesh wrote: ... a question. are you installing using graphics mode or not? it not then the next bit might make a difference. all i can think of is that the hardware may be so new that buster may not work for some hardware reason. i suggest trying a netinst iso from the debian instal

Re: fail2ban Squawk

Martin McCormick writes: /lib/systemd/system/fail2ban.service:12: PIDFile= references path below legacy directory /var/run/, updating /var/run/fail2ban/fail2ban.pid → /run/fail2ban/fail2ban.pid; please update the unit file accordingly. So I looked in to that file and the actual line

Re: mdadm and whole disk array members

On 2021-03-26 02:59, deloptes wrote: Gary Dale wrote: Perhaps it only works with virgin drives? Mine had been removed from another machine where they had been part of a different array. I zeroed the superblocks before creating the new array. I doubt that - IMO should be either the BIOS or the

Re: mdadm and whole disk array members

On 2021-03-26 00:04, Felix Miata wrote: Gary Dale composed on 2021-03-25 21:19 (UTC-0400): From what I read in looking for solutions, the problem is common. I even tried one workaround of zapping any existing partition table on the drives. Nothing worked.

My X server not working. I think it cannot find /dev/dri/card0

Hi,   I installed debian buster on minisforum X35G with Core i3-1005G1. Install went through fine, but lightdm does not start up. Upon inspecting logs, I found out that X server does not startup for lightdm to use. Looking /var/log/Xorg.0.log, I see these error messages yoda-mini [rramesh

fail2ban Squawk

I was attempting to setup a systemd timer and checking the syntax of that when I ran across a complaint from the fail2ban program which is a bit confusing. It reads: /lib/systemd/system/fail2ban.service:12: PIDFile= references path below legacy directory /var/run/, updating /var/run/fail2ban/fai

Re: Minisforum X35G hangs on first boot.

On 3/25/21 11:02 PM, R. Ramesh wrote: Hi,   I am trying to install debian buster (debian-10.8.0-amd64-netinst.iso) on minisforum X35G. This comes installed with windows 10. It has  Core i3-1005G1 cpu 16GB memory and 512 PCIe nvme SSD as far as I can tell. Everything during the install goes fi

Re: Dell R440 with Debian 10.7.0 Display Issues

On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 08:47:38PM +, Brian wrote: > On Fri 26 Mar 2021 at 15:22:01 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > Issues with video chipset drivers/firmware are extremely common, especially > > if one installed with the "official" images, rather than the "unofficial" > > ones which contain no

RE: Dell R440 with Debian 10.7.0 Display Issues

The embedded VGA compatible controller is a Matrox G200eW3 102b:0536 rev 04 I updated the package sources configuration file is to use the apt-add-repository command and added the non-free package for all sources and it now works!! apt-add-repository non-free apt-get update Thanks,   Doug Win

Re: mdadm and whole disk array members

Hello, On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 02:31:21PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: > I'm not convinced that the problem is the BIOS writing a partition > table. In your link the last post talks about zapping the > partition table to stop the behaviour. This suggests the BIOS/UEFI > was restoring the backup partiti

Re: Dell R440 with Debian 10.7.0 Display Issues

On Fri 26 Mar 2021 at 15:22:01 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 02:07:26PM -0500, Doug Windle wrote: > > I have new in box Dell R440 that I am trying to install Debian 10.7.0. The > > install process of Debian goes fine until after reboot. After the OS > > install and upon r

Re: Button events from headphone+micro combo

> Does acpi-listen pick them up? No, it does give me the jack/headphone HEADPHONE unplug jack/headphone HEADPHONE plug events but nothing when I press those buttons. > It's entirely possible that the Librem doesn't have a sound chip > that translates impedance changes to button clicks.

Re: Dell R440 with Debian 10.7.0 Display Issues

On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 02:36:08PM -0500, Doug Windle wrote: > The Dell R440 does not have GPU and it is using only the onboard graphics to > drive the display. That's good. It's probably an Intel chipset. Now, use lspci -nn and dmesg | grep -i firmware to see what you need to do.

Re: Running debian on WSL (windows-system-for-linux)

Dan Hitt writes: Does anybody have any experience running debian on a WSL (windows-system-for- linux) machine? Yes, limited experience with it here :) I need to get a machine for family use, but i would also like to be able to also use it myself.  So i would like to be able to ssh in, back

Re: Running debian on WSL (windows-system-for-linux)

On 3/25/21 8:02 PM, Dan Hitt wrote: Does anybody have any experience running debian on a WSL (windows-system-for-linux) machine? I need to get a machine for family use, but i would also like to be able to also use it myself. So i would like to be able to ssh in, back up files into it, and do ot

RE: Dell R440 with Debian 10.7.0 Display Issues

The Dell R440 does not have GPU and it is using only the onboard graphics to drive the display. Thanks,   Doug Windle Director of Audio Visual Operations Ace Audio Communications Inc. P.O. Box 609 Hutto, Texas 78634   512.218.4043 Office 512.535.4673 Fax 512.694.2048 Cell -Original Mess

Re: Button events from headphone+micro combo

On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 03:05:58PM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > Stefan Monnier wrote: > > >> My Librem mini comes with a an audio jack in the front into which I can > > >> connect the same headphones-with-micro as used typically on phones. [...] > > > Do the events "arrive" somewhere in the Big So

Re: Dell R440 with Debian 10.7.0 Display Issues

On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 02:07:26PM -0500, Doug Windle wrote: > I have new in box Dell R440 that I am trying to install Debian 10.7.0. The > install process of Debian goes fine until after reboot. After the OS > install and upon reboot/startup of OS with GNOME I get a tearing/scrambling > of the l

Dell R440 with Debian 10.7.0 Display Issues

I have new in box Dell R440 that I am trying to install Debian 10.7.0. The install process of Debian goes fine until after reboot. After the OS install and upon reboot/startup of OS with GNOME I get a tearing/scrambling of the local display. The local display works fine thru the startup of the D

Re: Button events from headphone+micro combo

Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> My Librem mini comes with a an audio jack in the front into which I can > >> connect the same headphones-with-micro as used typically on phones. > >> This works fine to the extent that I can hear the audio out and it can > >> grab the audio from the microphone, but what

Re: Button events from headphone+micro combo

>> My Librem mini comes with a an audio jack in the front into which I can >> connect the same headphones-with-micro as used typically on phones. >> This works fine to the extent that I can hear the audio out and it can >> grab the audio from the microphone, but what about the buttons >> (typically

Re: efibootmgr headach?

Le 26/03/2021 à 12:33, Steve McIntyre a écrit : Please see https://wiki.debian.org/UEFI for more documentation on UEFI in Debian. In that document I tried to cover a lot of the issues raised in this thread. ... and you succeeded. Thank you for your good work, Steve :-)

Re: Possible?! A Debian public repository for all complex code lines with examples and scripts?

Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 10:59:20AM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > > To be completely clear, Debian did change sh from Bourne-ish sh > > to dash in Squeeze -- 2006 or so. > > Squeeze was released in 2011. ... > The change from bash to dash as the default /bin/sh happened in squ

Re: mdadm and whole disk array members

Hello, On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 06:20:56PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: > I've found many other people complaining about similar issues when using > whole disks to create mdadm RAID arrays. Some of these complaints go back > many years, so this isn't new. Any time I've seen this problem pursued (as opp

Re: Possible?! A Debian public repository for all complex code lines with examples and scripts?

On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 10:46:23AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Fri 26 Mar 2021 at 19:11:24 (+0530), Susmita/Rajib wrote: > > It is clearly noticed that wide applications of tricks with wildcards, > > regex and redirections aren't simply available in the man pages. Nor should they be. The man

Re: how to record sound to mp3 [wav, for those who can]

On Thu 25 Mar 2021 at 23:22:35 (+0100), Nicolas George wrote: > David Wright (12021-03-25): > > > > $ arecord -d 10 -f cd -v -v -v -D plughw:0,0 /tmp/audiofile.wav > > > This command does not record the sound being played. > > … on your machine. > > On no machine, unless specifically configured, w

Re: Possible?! A Debian public repository for all complex code lines with examples and scripts?

On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 10:59:20AM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > To be completely clear, Debian did change sh from Bourne-ish sh > to dash in Squeeze -- 2006 or so. Squeeze was released in 2011. Debian originally used bash as /bin/sh (as most Linux distributions did, back in those days). At some po

Re: Possible?! A Debian public repository for all complex code lines with examples and scripts?

On Fri 26 Mar 2021 at 19:11:24 (+0530), Susmita/Rajib wrote: [ … ] > > Even the book that I have procured — The Linux Command Line, A > Complete Introduction, by William Shotts — has all codes spread (or > s[t]rewn) across many pages and has to be brought together by exhaustive > note taking. Th

Re: Possible?! A Debian public repository for all complex code lines with examples and scripts?

Unfortunately this is a bit of a mess but you need to understand the history and politics here. First off, Debian, as well as the other Unix and Linux distributions are a collection of lots of different things from differnet places and you get an operating system out of it all. Something like Mic

Re: Possible?! A Debian public repository for all complex code lines with examples and scripts?

George Shuklin wrote: > But it's all software. Debian can't change sh to be 'not sh'. And any > changes in a build stack are touching vast amount of software with extremely > complex use-cases, so it's almost impossible to 'replace'. You can 'add' a > new one, but it just make xkcd #927. To be co

Re: Possible?! A Debian public repository for all complex code lines with examples and scripts?

On 26/03/2021, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: ... ... [snipped] ... ... >> Shouldn't all codes and tricks involving them be available for >> everyone to use, but still have the system so robust that it can't be >> hacked? > > I think "all" is a very tall order: the whole

Re: Possible?! A Debian public repository for all complex code lines with examples and scripts?

On 26/03/2021 15:41, Susmita/Rajib wrote: Even the book that I have procured — The Linux Command Line, A Complete Introduction, by William Shotts — has all codes spread (or sprewn) across many pages and has to be brought together by exhaustive note taking. It is clearly noticed that wide appli

Re: Possible?! A Debian public repository for all complex code lines with examples and scripts?

Susmita/Rajib wrote: > It is clearly noticed that wide applications of tricks with wildcards, > regex and redirections aren't simply available in the man pages. > > So is it then not necessary to have a repository of codes, with all > permutations & combinations of possibilities with wildcards/re

Re: Possible?! A Debian public repository for all complex code lines with examples and scripts?

On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 07:11:24PM +0530, Susmita/Rajib wrote: > My illustrious Team Leaders and Movers of the Debian List, [...] > Shouldn't all codes and tricks involving them be available for > everyone to use, but still have the system so robust that it can't be > hacked? I think "all" is a

Re: MATE desktop - changing icon of a Launcher

On 3/26/21 3:09 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 03/25/2021 08:06 PM, Peter Ehlert wrote: On 3/23/21 7:26 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: I've been use MATE almost since it came out. IIRC I used to use a series of mouse clicks to determine the file name {including path} of the current icon. On my c

Possible?! A Debian public repository for all complex code lines with examples and scripts?

My illustrious Team Leaders and Movers of the Debian List, It has often been advised by experienced users of Debian for the learners to focus more on man pages. I shall seek a few examples before i place my questions. Let us for instance look at the man page of ls at: https://manpages.debian.org

Re: efibootmgr headach?

didier.gau...@gmail.com wrote: >the /EFI/BOOT subdirectory is a common standard: > https://members.uefi.org/specs/esp_registry > >I have not retrieved the UEFI specification wich details its usage, but >there is a Fedora doc that explains it a little the shim (SecureBoot) case. > And I seem to r

Re: MATE desktop - changing icon of a Launcher

On 03/25/2021 08:06 PM, Peter Ehlert wrote: On 3/23/21 7:26 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: I've been use MATE almost since it came out. IIRC I used to use a series of mouse clicks to determine the file name {including path} of the current icon. On my current systems {one Stretch, one Buster} if I

Re: how to record sound to mp3 [wav, for those who can]

On Fri, 26 Mar 2021 09:47:28 +0100 Michael Lange wrote: > Plus, I don't know how to switch the OSS capture > device programmatically (if this is important for the OP's purpose). uh, got it. $ aumix -v R sets "Vol" as capture device. Regards Michael .-.. .. ...- . .-.. --- -. --. .- -. -.

Re: how to record sound to mp3 [wav, for those who can]

Hi, On Fri, 26 Mar 2021 08:38:02 +0100 wrote: > On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 11:22:35PM +0100, Nicolas George wrote: > > David Wright (12021-03-25): > > > > > $ arecord -d 10 -f cd -v -v -v -D plughw:0,0 /tmp/audiofile.wav > > > > This command does not record the sound being played. > > > … on your m

Re: Running debian on WSL (windows-system-for-linux)

On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 11:23:05PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > Does anybody have any experience running debian on a WSL [...] > So maybe you can just ditch the Windows part, :-) Some aren't so lucky. Microsoft's latest trick is to outsource the compulsory part to employers (they've got the

Re: Button events from headphone+micro combo

On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 09:59:08PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > My Librem mini comes with a an audio jack in the front into which I can > connect the same headphones-with-micro as used typically on phones. > > This works fine to the extent that I can hear the audio out and it can > grab the audi

Re: how to record sound to mp3 [wav, for those who can]

On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 11:22:35PM +0100, Nicolas George wrote: > David Wright (12021-03-25): > > > > $ arecord -d 10 -f cd -v -v -v -D plughw:0,0 /tmp/audiofile.wav > > > This command does not record the sound being played. > > … on your machine. > > On no machine, unless specifically configured,

Re: Running debian on WSL (windows-system-for-linux)

On 3/26/2021 4:02 AM, Dan Hitt wrote: Does anybody have any experience running debian on a WSL (windows-system-for-linux) machine? I'm not able to directly answer your question but I wanted to point out that you could also look at Cygwin or Qemu. In the case of Qemu, Debian would be the host