latest testing update broke my laptop

2022-12-16 Thread Gary Dale
My laptop no longer boots thanks to the latest update. It stops after I select a normal boot - it goes to the text mode console and displays an error message about: [ 0.717939] ACPI BIOS Error (bug). If I go into recovery mode, I don't get that error but then it stops after a message about the

Re: kernels in testing (was: Re: Debian failed)

2022-12-16 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
On Fri, Dec 16, 2022 at 2:05 PM songbird wrote: > Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > ... > > Testing and Sid track pretty close to the latest kernel releases. Testing > > currently has version 6.0.10. New kernel versions are first uploaded to > Sid > > then after about a week they are uploaded to tes

Re: apt update fails due to Label and Version changes for buster security

2022-12-16 Thread John Boxall
On 2022-12-16 13:00, Tim Woodall wrote: Thanks Tim, I will root around in the docs a little more. Strange because I've done multiple updates since your last backup date of Dec 2nd and not had this issue. H. -- Regards, John Boxall

Re: Dell Precision 3570 - Debian instead of Ubuntu

2022-12-16 Thread B.M.
On Fri, 2022-12-16 at 18:12 +0100, B.M. wrote: > Hi, > > The new laptop just arrived and I had a first look what the people > did > at Dell or Canonical: > > After switching it on the first time, I was asked to enter > / configure > WLAN, username, password, hostname, keyboard layout, time zone.

Re: kernels in testing (was: Re: Debian failed)

2022-12-16 Thread songbird
Timothy M Butterworth wrote: ... > Testing and Sid track pretty close to the latest kernel releases. Testing > currently has version 6.0.10. New kernel versions are first uploaded to Sid > then after about a week they are uploaded to testing. Testing, when not in > freeze, is more like a rolling di

Re: apt update fails due to Label and Version changes for buster security

2022-12-16 Thread Tim Woodall
On Fri, 16 Dec 2022, Tim Woodall wrote: On Fri, 16 Dec 2022, Tim Woodall wrote: On Thu, 15 Dec 2022, John Boxall wrote: The following happened just now when updating my Buster system: + apt update Hit:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian buster InRelea

Re: apt update fails due to Label and Version changes for buster security

2022-12-16 Thread Tim Woodall
On Fri, 16 Dec 2022, Tim Woodall wrote: On Thu, 15 Dec 2022, John Boxall wrote: The following happened just now when updating my Buster system: + apt update Hit:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian buster InRelease Get:2 http://security.debian.org/debia

Re: apt update fails due to Label and Version changes for buster security

2022-12-16 Thread Tim Woodall
On Thu, 15 Dec 2022, John Boxall wrote: The following happened just now when updating my Buster system: + apt update Hit:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian buster InRelease Get:2 http://security.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates InRelease [34.

Re: Debian failed

2022-12-16 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 15 Dec 2022 22:35:04 -0600 George Olson wrote: > I had enough of a functional > graphics environment and terminal to change all my sources to > Testing, which goes by the codename Bookworm, because to me that was > easier than trying to figure out how to use backports to install a > newe

Re: Dell Precision 3570 - Debian instead of Ubuntu

2022-12-16 Thread B.M.
Hi, The new laptop just arrived and I had a first look what the people did at Dell or Canonical: After switching it on the first time, I was asked to enter / configure WLAN, username, password, hostname, keyboard layout, time zone. It also let me create a recovery USB stick. After a reboot I now

Re: kernels in testing (was: Re: Debian failed)

2022-12-16 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
On Fri, Dec 16, 2022 at 8:01 AM wrote: > On Thursday, December 15, 2022 11:35:04 PM George Olson wrote: > > I have an RX 6600 XT also. I use a 4 monitor setup and had to configure > > things so that it would work with 2 on top and 2 on the bottom. I can't > > remember exactly how I did it, but I

Re: Debian failed

2022-12-16 Thread hede
On 2022-12-15 08:36 hw wrote: It turned out that the AMD card is not even an option anymore because it's built so badly that not only the height but also the width exceeds the slot size. It's a few millimeters too wide and as a result, the fans won't spin and the card overheats. That doesn't

Re: stopping mass surveillance

2022-12-16 Thread Fred
On 12/15/22 17:34, operation.privacyenforcem...@secure.mailbox.org wrote: Dan Ritter wrote: operation.privacyenforcem...@mailbox.org wrote: On 1/9/84 19:84, Jeremy Hendricks message was saved by the all seeing eye: Please provide code examples, flow chart, or a white paper. Releasing anythin

Again, stop feeding the troll (Was: Re: stopping mass

2022-12-16 Thread Henning Follmann
On Thu, Dec 15, 2022 at 08:48:44PM -0500, Dan Ritter wrote: > operation.privacyenforcem...@secure.mailbox.org wrote: > > Dan Ritter wrote: > > > operation.privacyenforcem...@mailbox.org wrote: > > > > On 1/9/84 19:84, Jeremy Hendricks message was saved by the all seeing > > > > eye: > [...] >

kernels in testing (was: Re: Debian failed)

2022-12-16 Thread rhkramer
On Thursday, December 15, 2022 11:35:04 PM George Olson wrote: > I have an RX 6600 XT also. I use a 4 monitor setup and had to configure > things so that it would work with 2 on top and 2 on the bottom. I can't > remember exactly how I did it, but I first installed Bullseye and > figured out it was

Secret Keyboard code in KDE/Plasma?

2022-12-16 Thread Hans
Hi Folks, does somebody know, if there is a secret code or key combination, that switches off the internal keyboard in a laptop? It is since years, that suddenly the keyboard is deactivated during typing. As I am not a good typist, it happens, that I am pressing some keys together or touching