Re: latest testing update broke my laptop

2022-12-20 Thread David
On Tue, 20 Dec 2022 at 20:16, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Mon, 19 Dec 2022 23:33:19 -0500 Gary Dale wrote: > >you need to start with Debian/Stable then upgrade > > That's not correct. You *can* do it that way, but there are installer > ISOs for testing. Hi, I don't know myself what is correct, but

Re: latest testing update broke my laptop

2022-12-20 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I can recommend the laptop as a reasonable candidate for Linux. Apart from > the need for proprietary drivers, which is something I blame nVidia for, it > seems to work perfectly. IME, getting the nVidia driver to work is easy, but keeping the nVidia driver working over time across upgrades is

Re: use of awk instead of complex multielement commands (was Re: 'grep -o -m' (was Re: Can't mount CD image of Win95 game))

2022-12-20 Thread David
On Wed, 21 Dec 2022 at 04:18, Lee wrote: > On 12/20/22, David wrote: > > $ echo -e '100:CD001\nXXX\n200:CD001' | awk 'BEGIN { FS=":" ; done=0 } > > /CD001/ && done==0 { print $1 - 50 ; done=1 }' > > 50 > > You can do it without flags: > > $ echo -e '100:CD001\nXXX\n200:CD001' | awk -F: '/CD001/

Re: latest testing update broke my laptop

2022-12-20 Thread David Christensen
On 12/20/22 17:29, David Christensen wrote: On 12/19/22 20:38, Gary Dale wrote: On 2022-12-18 00:53, David Christensen wrote: On 12/17/22 13:00, Gary Dale wrote: On 2022-12-17 14:39, David Christensen wrote: On 12/17/22 04:44, Gary Dale wrote: On 2022-12-16 21:29, Gary Dale wrote: My laptop

Re: latest testing update broke my laptop

2022-12-20 Thread David Christensen
On 12/19/22 20:38, Gary Dale wrote: On 2022-12-18 00:53, David Christensen wrote: On 12/17/22 13:00, Gary Dale wrote: On 2022-12-17 14:39, David Christensen wrote: On 12/17/22 04:44, Gary Dale wrote: On 2022-12-16 21:29, Gary Dale wrote: My laptop no longer boots thanks to the latest update.

Re: latest testing update broke my laptop

2022-12-20 Thread Gary Dale
On 2022-12-19 23:38, Gary Dale wrote: On 2022-12-18 00:53, David Christensen wrote: On 12/17/22 13:00, Gary Dale wrote: On 2022-12-17 14:39, David Christensen wrote: On 12/17/22 04:44, Gary Dale wrote: On 2022-12-16 21:29, Gary Dale wrote: My laptop no longer boots thanks to the latest updat

Re: latest testing update broke my laptop

2022-12-20 Thread Gary Dale
On 2022-12-20 04:16, Brad Rogers wrote: On Mon, 19 Dec 2022 23:33:19 -0500 Gary Dale wrote: Hello Gary, you need to start with Debian/Stable then upgrade That's not correct. You *can* do it that way, but there are installer ISOs for testing. Not with this laptop. The Debian/Testing install

Re: Can't mount CD image of Win95 game

2022-12-20 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i meanwhile had a chance to inspect the image file and found that it shows a repeating pattern of bytes with value 255 every 2352 bytes. This corresponds to the size of medium level CD sectors, as can be obtained by SCSI command "READ CD" (e.g. via Linux ioctl CDROMREADRAW). CD-DA audio secto

Re: stopping mass surveillance

2022-12-20 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Releasing anything of requested documents is not desired yet. The idea is > not patented yet and will make the developers a high value target for a lot > of agencies worldwide. Reminds me a bit of the trisectors (http://web.mst.edu/~lmhall/WhatToDoWhenTrisectorComes.pdf) I really hope those de

Re: loss of screen resolution, part 2

2022-12-20 Thread Kleene, Steven (kleenesj)
On Monday, December 19, 2022 9:12 PM, I wrote: >> Today I have my new desktop and did a clean install of Bullseye. I call fvwm >> with startx, and once again my screen is 1024x768. On Monday, December 19, 2022 10:29 PM, Felix Miata replied: > To use Bullseye, at the least you need either a back

Re: loss of screen resolution, part 2

2022-12-20 Thread Kleene, Steven (kleenesj)
On Monday, December 19, 2022 9:12 PM, I wrote: >> Today I have my new desktop and did a clean install of Bullseye. I call fvwm >> with startx, and once again my screen is 1024x768. On Monday, December 19, 2022 9:49 PM, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > Newer Intel graphics require closed source bina

Re: use of awk instead of complex multielement commands (was Re: 'grep -o -m' (was Re: Can't mount CD image of Win95 game))

2022-12-20 Thread Lee
On 12/20/22, David wrote: > On Tue, 20 Dec 2022 at 22:04, David wrote: >> On Tue, 20 Dec 2022 at 22:02, David wrote: > >> > $ echo -e '100:CD001\n200:CD001' | awk 'BEGIN { FS=":" } /CD001/ && >> > NR==1 { print $1 - 50 }' >> > 50 >> >> Oops, my mistake, that's not the solution. Give me another m

Re: use of awk instead of complex multielement commands (was Re: 'grep -o -m' (was Re: Can't mount CD image of Win95 game))

2022-12-20 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Not that that is always important. But I just commented today > because so often 'awk' is ignored as if its only capability is 'print $1' > when in fact it is actually very powerful but neglected. FWIW, `sed` can also do that job. Tho the subtraction part would take a lot more work (`sed` does

gnome-remote-desktop on bookworm

2022-12-20 Thread Mark Fletcher
Hi Does anyone know what state gnome-remote-desktop is in on bookworm? I can't get it to work. I have a system recently upgraded to bookworm, running Gnome if that wasn't obvious. In Gnome settings, under Sharing I have turned on Remote Desktop and Remote Control, but other clients on my network

Re: loss of screen resolution, part 2

2022-12-20 Thread Max Nikulin
On 20/12/2022 09:49, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: Newer Intel graphics require closed source binary blobs. Try installing firmware-linux-nonfree. In the previous thread somebody spotted an issue with fetching modes supported by the monitor. Examples of commands to debug such problem: get-edi

Re: Weekly Live Builds

2022-12-20 Thread didier gaumet
Le 20/12/2022 à 12:46, Timothy M Butterworth a écrit : Does anyone know what is going on with weekly live builds? There are no ISO images. Is there a different Live Builds for testing that I am not aware of? [...] Hello, from https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/: [...]"We used to have weekly l

Weekly Live Builds

2022-12-20 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
Does anyone know what is going on with weekly live builds? There are no ISO images. Is there a different Live Builds for testing that I am not aware of? https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-live-builds/amd64/iso-hybrid/ Thanks Tim -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian - The universal operating system

Re: use of awk instead of complex multielement commands (was Re: 'grep -o -m' (was Re: Can't mount CD image of Win95 game))

2022-12-20 Thread David
On Tue, 20 Dec 2022 at 22:04, David wrote: > On Tue, 20 Dec 2022 at 22:02, David wrote: > > $ echo -e '100:CD001\n200:CD001' | awk 'BEGIN { FS=":" } /CD001/ && > > NR==1 { print $1 - 50 }' > > 50 > > Oops, my mistake, that's not the solution. Give me another minute and I > will post a better one

Re: 'grep -o -m' (was Re: Can't mount CD image of Win95 game)

2022-12-20 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, The Wanderer wrote: > With the '-o' option, grep prints only the parts of the line that were > matched - but the plural here is very relevant. If that guess is > correct, then the "line" in question has *four* occurrences, so grep > prints them all - each on a separate line of output. The man

Re: Can't mount CD image of Win95 game

2022-12-20 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Yvan Masson wrote: > Kernel logs say "isofs_fill_super: get root inode failed". So there is more stuff inserted between the volume descriptor and the root directory of the ISO. (The descriptor contains a minimal directory record which points to the content of the root directory. All attribut

Re: use of awk instead of complex multielement commands (was Re: 'grep -o -m' (was Re: Can't mount CD image of Win95 game))

2022-12-20 Thread David
On Tue, 20 Dec 2022 at 22:02, David wrote: > $ echo -e '100:CD001\n200:CD001' | awk 'BEGIN { FS=":" } /CD001/ && > NR==1 { print $1 - 50 }' > 50 Oops, my mistake, that's not the solution. Give me another minute and I will post a better one one.

Re: use of awk instead of complex multielement commands (was Re: 'grep -o -m' (was Re: Can't mount CD image of Win95 game))

2022-12-20 Thread David
On Tue, 20 Dec 2022 at 21:53, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2022-12-20 at 05:37, David wrote: > > On Tue, 20 Dec 2022 at 21:10, The Wanderer wrote: > >> On 2022-12-20 at 02:51, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > >>> This contradicts the promises of man grep about option -m. > >> It does seem to, at least at a

use of awk instead of complex multielement commands (was Re: 'grep -o -m' (was Re: Can't mount CD image of Win95 game))

2022-12-20 Thread The Wanderer
On 2022-12-20 at 05:37, David wrote: > On Tue, 20 Dec 2022 at 21:10, The Wanderer > wrote: > >> On 2022-12-20 at 02:51, Thomas Schmitt wrote: >>> This contradicts the promises of man grep about option -m. >> >> It does seem to, at least at a glance - but I think I've figured >> out what's going

Re: 'grep -o -m' (was Re: Can't mount CD image of Win95 game)

2022-12-20 Thread David
On Tue, 20 Dec 2022 at 21:10, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2022-12-20 at 02:51, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > >>> offst=$( expr \ > >>> $( grep -a -o -b -m 1 CD001 cdimage.iso \ > >>> | sed -e 's/:/ /' \ > >>> | awk '{ print $1 }' ) - 32769 ) > > > > The Wande

'grep -o -m' (was Re: Can't mount CD image of Win95 game)

2022-12-20 Thread The Wanderer
On 2022-12-20 at 02:51, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > i wrote: >>> To obtain the offset of the first occurence of "CD001", do >>> >>> offst=$( expr \ >>> $( grep -a -o -b -m 1 CD001 cdimage.iso \ >>> | sed -e 's/:/ /' \ >>> | awk '{ print $1 }' )

Re: latest testing update broke my laptop

2022-12-20 Thread Brad Rogers
On Mon, 19 Dec 2022 23:33:19 -0500 Gary Dale wrote: Hello Gary, >you need to start with Debian/Stable then upgrade That's not correct. You *can* do it that way, but there are installer ISOs for testing. -- Regards _ "Valid sig separator is {dash}{dash}{space}" / ) "The

Re: Can't mount CD image of Win95 game

2022-12-20 Thread Yvan Masson
So the new safer proposal is: offst=$( expr \ $( grep -a -o -b -m 1 CD001 cdimage.iso \ | head -1 \ | sed -e 's/:/ /' \ | awk '{ print $1 }' ) - 32769 ) Afterwards $offst should hold a number > 0, which may be used with mo