Re: How to install a browser (epiphany) without affecting mailcap etc.?

2025-02-10 Thread Chris Green
songbird wrote: > Chris Green wrote: > ... > > It would be much easier if I could simply tell epiphany (or another > > browser) **not** to try and become the default for everything, rather > > than having to try and unset all the changes it has made. > > Chris, for something like testing i woul

(solved) anyone experienced in dual boot freebsd?

2025-02-10 Thread hlyg
Thank Curley, but i have solved on my own isn't installer syslog supposed to record my choice during installation? i let bios boot 2nd disk, which also has deb12, run update-grub now it can boot newly-installed deb12 on 1st disk, then follow stanza at https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/

Re: Debian download

2025-02-10 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Feb 11, 2025 at 12:42 AM Peter Barnes wrote: > > Newbie here. I have a DVD Debian 11.6 Bullseye 64bit and installed it > successfully on my PC. I have downloaded later versions of Debian and when I > go to install nothing happens. Am I missing a step? Is it possible for you to > give me

Re: -request

2025-02-10 Thread tomas
On Mon, Feb 10, 2025 at 07:04:49PM -0600, William Torrez Corea wrote: > On Sun, Feb 9, 2025 at 11:31 PM wrote: > > > You don't need to tell that to the other 4999 subscribers :-) [...] > Ok, haughty. Please, don't take it personally :) Cheers -- t signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Bluetooth

2025-02-10 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 10 Feb 2025 22:17:37 -0600 Gregory Forster wrote: > I've been looking on Amazon.  Is there a bluetooth dongle I can plug > into my desktop PC USB port that will work with Debian GNU/Linux > 12.8? Everything I find specify s for Windows. > I've found these work well with Bluetooth mice:

Bluetooth

2025-02-10 Thread Gregory Forster
I've been looking on Amazon.  Is there a bluetooth dongle I can plug into my desktop PC USB port that will work with Debian GNU/Linux 12.8?  Everything I find specify s for Windows. -- -- Greg

Re: anyone experienced in dual boot freebsd?

2025-02-10 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, 11 Feb 2025 18:18:45 +0800 hlyg wrote: > i follow usual wisdom, and install freebsd in 1st partition, then > install deb12  in 2nd partition, hoping grub can handle both > > but grub fails to show, freebsd's bootloader remains unchanged > > i didn't see any error or warning msg during

Re: Debian download

2025-02-10 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, 11 Feb 2025 13:20:13 +1100 Peter Barnes wrote: > Newbie here. I have a DVD Debian 11.6 Bullseye 64bit and installed it > successfully on my PC. I have downloaded later versions of Debian and > when I go to install nothing happens. Do you want to do a brand new installation, wiping your

Re: Debian download

2025-02-10 Thread Dan Ritter
Peter Barnes wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Newbie here. I have a DVD Debian 11.6 Bullseye 64bit and installed it > successfully on my PC. I have downloaded later versions of Debian and when I > go to install nothing happens. Am I missing a step? Is it possible for you > to give me step by step instru

Debian download

2025-02-10 Thread Peter Barnes
Hi everyone, Newbie here. I have a DVD Debian 11.6 Bullseye 64bit and installed it successfully on my PC. I have downloaded later versions of Debian and when I go to install nothing happens. Am I missing a step? Is it possible for you to give me step by step instructions? Would greatly apprec

anyone experienced in dual boot freebsd?

2025-02-10 Thread hlyg
i follow usual wisdom, and install freebsd in 1st partition, then install deb12  in 2nd partition, hoping grub can handle both but grub fails to show, freebsd's bootloader remains unchanged i didn't see any error or warning msg during installation i paste last part of installer syslog  below(c

internal microphone stops working

2025-02-10 Thread Janet C
Hello, I'm running bookworm on a Thinkpad T14s Gen4 AMD and am having an issue with the internal microphone. Using the kernel from bookworm, the microphone doesn't work at all, so I installed kernel 6.12 from backports. Now the microphone works when I boot, but at some point, it stops working u

Re: Firefox

2025-02-10 Thread David Wright
On Mon 10 Feb 2025 at 17:18:34 (-), Greg wrote: > On 2025-02-10, Max Nikulin wrote: > > > > I am against suggestions to *kill* applications as well, unless it is > > the last resort measure. It increases chance to lost data stored in > > browser profile (list of opened tabs, passwords, etc.)

Re: -request

2025-02-10 Thread William Torrez Corea
On Sun, Feb 9, 2025 at 11:31 PM wrote: > You don't need to tell that to the other 4999 subscribers :-) > > FWIW, I usually answer (friendly) personally to such fat-fingered > unsubscription requests. Spamming the whole list is at least as > mindless. > > Cheers > -- > t > Ok, haughty. -- W

Re: No image from analog cameras with TW6816 video capture card.

2025-02-10 Thread A. F. Cano
First of all thanks to Dan Ritter that replied to my original post but yet I can't find his reply in the debian-user list. On Mon, Jun 03, 2024 at 10:32:27PM -0400, A. F. Cano wrote: > > I'm trying to get these Lorex SR AIS color cameras, that are supposedly > capable of 1024 x 768 max and 728 x

Re: Firefox

2025-02-10 Thread Stefan Monnier
> PS 32GB RAM, and it still locks up to the point that a hardware button > reboot is necessary. That's up there in the inexcusable abuse range. You can mostly fix this problem by imposing a maximum to the amount of RAM used by a process. E.g. you can add a file `/etc/security/limits.d/10-mylimits

Re: How to install a browser (epiphany) without affecting mailcap etc.?

2025-02-10 Thread songbird
Chris Green wrote: ... > It would be much easier if I could simply tell epiphany (or another > browser) **not** to try and become the default for everything, rather > than having to try and unset all the changes it has made. Chris, for something like testing i would just set up another user.

Re: iwlwifi bug in 6.12?

2025-02-10 Thread Boyan Penkov
Hello folks, Sorry to say, the latest looks like this: ``` Feb 10 16:11:14 deanmachine kernel: list_del corruption. prev->next should be d2c55aa04688, but was d2c54c82cdc8. (prev=8dbf2f1d6390) Feb 10 16:11:14 deanmachine kernel: [ cut here ] Feb 10 16:11:14 dea

Re: iwlwifi bug in 6.12?

2025-02-10 Thread Boyan Penkov
On Sun, Feb 9, 2025 at 9:33 PM Max Nikulin wrote: > > On 07/02/2025 22:55, Boyan Penkov wrote: > > I uninstalled firmware-iwlwifi (this machine is wired either way...), > > and the problem has not reared its head in a few hours -- not sure if > > that means its solved... > > I believed that crashe

Re: FN hotkeys not working after kernel loads (Was: Dell Latitude 5400 + plasma - keyboard?)

2025-02-10 Thread Hans
Yes, did so. All keys are working. For example: xxd /dev/input/event12 : 2644 aa67 4336 0900 &D.gC6.. 0010: 0100 e000 0100 2644 aa67 &D.g 0020: 4336 0900 C6.. 0030: 2644

Re: FN hotkeys not working after kernel loads (Was: Dell Latitude 5400 + plasma - keyboard?)

2025-02-10 Thread Nicolas George
Hans (12025-02-10): > However, it is clear, the functions like screen brightness etc. stop working, > as soon as the kernel loads. That is not surprising. Before the kernel loads, the key are handled by the firmware and control the computer. After the kernel loads, the keys are handled by the ker

FN hotkeys not working after kernel loads (Was: Dell Latitude 5400 + plasma - keyboard?)

2025-02-10 Thread Hans
Still hasseling with this problem I am now believing, that the reason of the problem is either a BIOS issue or a kernel issue. Tested several things and I the issue appears as soon as the kernel is started. In the internet I found informations, that if the BIOS does not see Windows, it may

Re: Firefox

2025-02-10 Thread Greg
On 2025-02-10, Max Nikulin wrote: > > I am against suggestions to *kill* applications as well, unless it is > the last resort measure. It increases chance to lost data stored in > browser profile (list of opened tabs, passwords, etc.). > > > If Firefox is killed or crashes I believe you get the

Re: Firefox

2025-02-10 Thread Max Nikulin
On 10/02/2025 10:33, Greg Wooledge wrote: Web browsers are bloated monsters. (side note: just as desktop environments or even operating systems.) Does anybody have a bookmark for an article with a balanced view on degree of responsibility of - web site developers, - users, - browser develope

Re: Firefox

2025-02-10 Thread Max Nikulin
On 10/02/2025 13:12, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote: On 10/2/25 16:06, David Wright wrote: On Sun 09 Feb 2025 at 21:18:31 (-0600), William Torrez Corea wrote: Firefox is using much memory and using swap memory:[...] Kill it and restart it occasionally. Rather than kill it, what I do is: Ctrl Shi

Re: How to install a browser (epiphany) without affecting mailcap etc.?

2025-02-10 Thread Max Nikulin
On 10/02/2025 22:25, Chris Green wrote: It would be much easier if I could simply tell epiphany (or another browser) **not** to try and become the default for everything, rather than having to try and unset all the changes it has made. Installing an application may change order of candidates in

Re: How to install a browser (epiphany) without affecting mailcap etc.?

2025-02-10 Thread Chris Green
Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Feb 10, 2025 at 12:45:06 +, Chris Green wrote: > > I had x-www-browser set to vivaldi but web links still got opened in > > epiphany, I tried changing just about every setting I could find for a > > browser to vivaldi but I still got epiphany. > > There isn't a

Re: Firefox

2025-02-10 Thread Lucas Rufkahr
Some people are just used to operating on their own disorganization lol! > On Feb 10, 2025, at 9:03 AM, Greg wrote: > > On 2025-02-10, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: >> >> Ditto on the "open fewer tabs" with news being the offenders in my usage >> case. One's a fairly trustworthy local Atlanta stati

Re: Issues with D-Link DWA-160 network adapter

2025-02-10 Thread eben
On 2/10/25 05:16, Ceppo wrote: > On Thu, Feb 06, 2025 at 09:36:28AM -0500, e...@gmx.us wrote: >> Thermal compound (if there is any) dried out? > > There's none. At least not visible, or replaceable. > >> If you can trigger a failure by heating the device with say a hair >> dryer, that's supporting

Re: Firefox

2025-02-10 Thread Greg
On 2025-02-10, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > > Ditto on the "open fewer tabs" with news being the offenders in my usage > case. One's a fairly trustworthy local Atlanta station, and the other > mixes decent leads with flat out click bait. I've never understood people who say: I've got 580 open tabs.

Re: How to install a browser (epiphany) without affecting mailcap etc.?

2025-02-10 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Feb 10, 2025 at 12:45:06 +, Chris Green wrote: > I had x-www-browser set to vivaldi but web links still got opened in > epiphany, I tried changing just about every setting I could find for a > browser to vivaldi but I still got epiphany. There isn't a single interface for defining what

Re: How to install a browser (epiphany) without affecting mailcap etc.?

2025-02-10 Thread Chris Green
Anssi Saari wrote: > Chris Green writes: > > > However, when I install epiphany it takes over every single thing that > > web browsers can do which is very frustrating, I only want to run it > > explicitly for testing. Is there any way to prevent the install > > changing all the mailcap and mim

Re: Issues with D-Link DWA-160 network adapter

2025-02-10 Thread Ceppo
On Thu, Feb 06, 2025 at 09:36:28AM -0500, e...@gmx.us wrote: > Thermal compound (if there is any) dried out? There's none. At least not visible, or replaceable. > If you can trigger a failure by heating the device with say a hair > dryer, that's supporting evidence. But yeah, it might be some >

Re: Firefox

2025-02-10 Thread Yassine Chaouche
Le 2/10/25 à 04:18, William Torrez Corea a écrit : Firefox is using much memory and using swap memory: Hello William. I recommend installing the Great Suspender / Tab Suspender extension. It will save you a few gigs of RAM by putting unused tabs on sleep. Best, -- yassine -- sysadm http://abo

Re: Firefox

2025-02-10 Thread Karl Vogel
>> On Sun 09 Feb 2025 at 23:06:47 (-0600), David Wright wrote: > On Sun 09 Feb 2025 at 21:18:31 (-0600), William Torrez Corea wrote: > > Firefox is using much memory and using swap memory. > > I have 8GB memory DDR3L 1600MHz > > > > Memory: 93% 7.2GiB > > Swap: 31% 2.7GiB I minimize the swap le

Re: How to install a browser (epiphany) without affecting mailcap etc.?

2025-02-10 Thread Anssi Saari
Chris Green writes: > However, when I install epiphany it takes over every single thing that > web browsers can do which is very frustrating, I only want to run it > explicitly for testing. Is there any way to prevent the install > changing all the mailcap and mime settings etc.? What I've done

How to install a browser (epiphany) without affecting mailcap etc.?

2025-02-10 Thread Chris Green
I use vivaldi as my my web browser and I have it set as the default application for everything web related. In particular it get's used to open web links when you use the context menu to open a web link in a text file. I want to install another browser (epiphany) as a backup/testing browser when