Re: startx returns "Xf86EnableIO: failed to enable I/O ports 0000-03ff"

2024-09-08 Thread Max Nikulin
On 09/09/2024 03:48, Pierre Willaime wrote: Thanks. My user was *not* member of the 'input' group. I made the change but it does not fix my issue (startx returns still an error, see my other email). Have you tried to boot from a live media? It should help to determine if your problem is caus

Re: BASH reference for those who are "learning by doing"?

2024-09-08 Thread jeremy ardley
On 9/9/24 06:23, George at Clug wrote: If I required glasses for reading the car's speedometer, then I would definitely be using a bifocal pair of glasses. So far I can easily read the instrument panel, and since most of the time we spend focusing on the traffic about us, a quick glance now an

Re: BASH reference for those who are "learning by doing"?

2024-09-08 Thread George at Clug
> single focus reading glasses made to suit the distance their screen is > away. > For any prolonged activity: 1) Like others who have responded, I do the above and recommend the same: "single focus reading glasses made to suit the distance the screen is away". Maintaining that distance is

Re: startx returns "Xf86EnableIO: failed to enable I/O ports 0000-03ff"

2024-09-08 Thread Pierre Willaime
On 08/09/2024 15:41, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: Maybe your account is missing some authorizations. What's the output of `id`? Is your account member of the groups 'video' and 'input'? Thanks. My user was *not* member of the 'input' group. I made the change but it does not fix my issue (startx r

Re: startx returns "Xf86EnableIO: failed to enable I/O ports 0000-03ff"

2024-09-08 Thread Pierre Willaime
On 07/09/2024 23:32, Dan Ritter wrote: Try sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg-legacy and if that doesn't work, edit /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config (and read the man page for it) Thanks. I tried to select "Root Only" (to restore old behavior) or "Anybody" when reconfiguring xserver-xorg-legacy. T

Disk drive zero-fill benchmarks for various synchronization methods and block sizes

2024-09-08 Thread David Christensen
debian-user: I had the need to zero-fill a Seagate Constellation ES.2 3 TB SATA magnetic hard disk drive using an Intel DQ67SW motherboard, Intel Core i7-2600S processor, 8 GB dual-channel memory, StarTech PEXSAT32 adapter, and Debian: 2024-09-08 08:05:02 root@bullseye-bios ~/hardware/seaga

Re: BASH reference for those who are "learning by doing"?

2024-09-08 Thread Yassine Chaouche
Missed (deleted) the start of the discussion. Not sure if it helps but: I juste made public my toolbox.txt file: https://ychaouche.github.io/toolbox.txt it is meant to be open in emacs, so that you can use its outliner mode and read only what you're interested in. The relevant part is in "** com

Re: Glasses for monitor work (was Re: BASH reference for those who are "learning by doing"?)

2024-09-08 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
On 09/08/2024 12:17 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: [My examples are from my experiments with re-formatting text at https://ebible.org/engkjvcpb/ for comfortable reading by fellow tri-focal wearing senior citizens As a mere bifocal (well va

Re: Glasses for monitor work (was Re: BASH reference for those who are "learning by doing"?)

2024-09-08 Thread eben
On 9/8/24 12:17, Steve McIntyre wrote: debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: [My examples are from my experiments with re-formatting text at https://ebible.org/engkjvcpb/ for comfortable reading by fellow tri-focal wearing senior citizens As a mere bifocal (well vari-focal)

Re: BASH reference for those who are "learning by doing"?

2024-09-08 Thread ael
On Sun, Sep 08, 2024 at 04:43:20PM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Sun, 8 Sep 2024 16:25:04 +0100 > debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > > Hello debian-u...@howorth.org.uk, > > >Tell them to get a [very cheap] pair of single focus reading glasses > >made to suit the distance their screen is away.

Glasses for monitor work (was Re: BASH reference for those who are "learning by doing"?)

2024-09-08 Thread Steve McIntyre
debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: >Richard Owlett wrote: >> [My examples are from my experiments with re-formatting >> text at https://ebible.org/engkjvcpb/ for comfortable reading by >> fellow tri-focal wearing senior citizens > >As a mere bifocal (well vari-focal) wearer can I suggest a differen

Re: BASH reference for those who are "learning by doing"?

2024-09-08 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sun, 8 Sep 2024 16:25:04 +0100 debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: Hello debian-u...@howorth.org.uk, >Tell them to get a [very cheap] pair of single focus reading glasses >made to suit the distance their screen is away. Exactly what I did. Sure, one /can/ use [bi|tri|vari]focals, but it's a ri

Re: BASH reference for those who are "learning by doing"?

2024-09-08 Thread debian-user
Richard Owlett wrote: > [My examples are from my experiments with re-formatting > text at https://ebible.org/engkjvcpb/ for comfortable reading by > fellow tri-focal wearing senior citizens As a mere bifocal (well vari-focal) wearer can I suggest a different approach. Stop wearing tri-focals or a

Re: BASH reference for those who are "learning by doing"?

2024-09-08 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sun, Sep 08, 2024 at 06:48:30 +0200, Sirius wrote: > Bash has some nifty uses when it comes to variables. > > If you just want to store a file in a variable, > VAR="$( will do it. If you want to do an array instead, use the 'while read line; > do' construct. As others have pointed out, this is

Re: startx returns "Xf86EnableIO: failed to enable I/O ports 0000-03ff"

2024-09-08 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Maybe your account is missing some authorizations. What's the output of `id`? Is your account member of the groups 'video' and 'input'? Regards, Jörg.

Re: BASH reference for those who are "learning by doing"?

2024-09-08 Thread Richard Owlett
On 09/07/2024 10:36 PM, Max Nikulin wrote: On 08/09/2024 04:22, Richard Owlett wrote: [My examples are from my experiments with re-formatting text at https://ebible.org/engkjvcpb/ for comfortable reading by fellow tri-focal wearing senior citizens - that I want to minimize the number of HTML

Re: BASH reference for those who are "learning by doing"?

2024-09-08 Thread Richard Owlett
On 09/07/2024 06:51 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sat, Sep 07, 2024 at 22:00:27 +, Quaeryth wrote: A query like "site:stackoverflow.com bash how to read file into variable" via Google or DuckDuckGo (and maybe other search engines) usually points me in the right direction. Good luck with your e