Re: seeking new laser printer [solved, mostly]

2025-01-01 Thread Kleene, Steven (kleenesj)
-dpi high-quality JPG with other software. So the Brother gives good quality when scanning as TIF but not as JPG. Thanks. From: Roy J. Tellason, Sr. Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2024 4:53 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: seeking new la

Re: seeking new laser printer [solved, mostly]

2024-12-30 Thread Kleene, Steven (kleenesj)
Re: seeking new laser printer [solved, mostly] External Email: Use Caution On Mon, Dec 30, 2024 at 18:15:31 +, Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote: > 1. Formerly (but still Bookworm), I had an HP LaserJet 5MP connected with a > USB-to-parallel adapter. I saw this character special device: >

Re: seeking new laser printer [solved, mostly]

2024-12-30 Thread Kleene, Steven (kleenesj)
On December 7, 2024 4:21 PM, I wrote: > If you are able, please recommend a black-and-white Postscript laser > printer that will work well with Debian (Bookworm). ... With advice from the group, I bought a Brother DCP-L2640DW driverless monochrome printer/scanner. I run the fvwm window manager

Re: seeking new laser printer

2024-12-08 Thread Kleene, Steven (kleenesj)
r printer External Email: Use Caution On Saturday 07 December 2024 04:21:40 pm Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote: > If you are able, please recommend a black-and-white Postscript laser printer > that will work well with Debian (Bookworm). After 29 years, I'm finally, and > sadly, givi

seeking new laser printer

2024-12-08 Thread Kleene, Steven (kleenesj)
If you are able, please recommend a black-and-white Postscript laser printer that will work well with Debian (Bookworm). After 29 years, I'm finally, and sadly, giving up on my HP LaserJet 5MP. At work I had problems with Linux drivers for a Xerox laser, and I'm trying to avoid that. Some Red

Re: loss of screen resolution, part 2

2022-12-21 Thread Kleene, Steven (kleenesj)
On Wednesday, December 21, 2022 3:37 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > Could it just be that the microcontroller (in the display) responsible for > providing the EDID is dead? That might have seemed like a good explanation when I saw it with the older desktop, but now it seems unlikely. With the ne

Re: loss of screen resolution, part 2

2022-12-20 Thread Kleene, Steven (kleenesj)
u need either a backport kernel containing > Alder Lake support, or Bookworm (Testing) or Sid (Unstable). I did a clean install of Bookworm and am happy to report that solved the problem. Thank you. ________ From: Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) Sent: Tuesday, December

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

loss of screen resolution, part 2

2022-12-19 Thread Kleene, Steven (kleenesj)
On Thursday, December 1, 2022 9:41 PM, I started a thread (same title as this minus "part 2"), with: > Out of the blue today, my usual screen resolution (1920x1200) became > unavailable. Despite many helpful suggestions, the problem wasn't resolved. Since I was about to get a new desktop, I figur

Re: loss of screen resolution

2022-12-07 Thread Kleene, Steven (kleenesj)
f getting a new desktop built anyway. I think I'll just live with this until I can abandon ship. Thanks for all your efforts, Felix. I did learn a few things. From: Felix Miata Sent: Sunday, December 4, 2022 8:22 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org S

Re: loss of screen resolution

2022-12-04 Thread Kleene, Steven (kleenesj)
.debian.org Subject: Re: loss of screen resolution External Email: Use Caution Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) composed on 2022-12-02 02:41 (UTC): ... Your old Xorg.0.logs differ significantly from your current ones, and my own on a similar Intel GPU. In what follows, the current ones and the old ones om

Re: loss of screen resolution

2022-12-03 Thread Kleene, Steven (kleenesj)
day, December 3, 2022 1:23 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: loss of screen resolution External Email: Use Caution Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) composed on 2022-12-03 14:15 (UTC): > For Xorg.0.log, > https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fpaste.debi

Re: loss of screen resolution

2022-12-03 Thread Kleene, Steven (kleenesj)
same as before except showing 1024x768 instead of 1920x1200. For Xorg.0.log, http://paste.debian.net/1262735/ Thanks again. From: Felix Miata Sent: Saturday, December 3, 2022 1:14 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: loss of screen resolution

Re: loss of screen resolution

2022-12-02 Thread Kleene, Steven (kleenesj)
December 2, 2022 10:12 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: loss of screen resolution External Email: Use Caution Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) composed on 2022-12-02 13:11 (UTC): > I'll add that I did do a weekly apt upgrade shortly before this happened, Now let's see how all those th

Re: loss of screen resolution

2022-12-02 Thread Kleene, Steven (kleenesj)
an Ritter Sent: Friday, December 2, 2022 7:43 AM To: Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: loss of screen resolution External Email: Use Caution Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote: > Out of the blue today, my usual screen resolution (1920x1200) became > unava

loss of screen resolution

2022-12-02 Thread Kleene, Steven (kleenesj)
Out of the blue today, my usual screen resolution (1920x1200) became unavailable. I booted to the console and called startx, which brings up fvwm. But my default base window went way off-screen, and the type was huge. xrandr said I was at 1024x768 and did not list the 1920x1200 option at all. (It

Re: support for ancient peripherals

2022-11-08 Thread Kleene, Steven (kleenesj)
able Peter Sent from my phone. Please forgive misspellings and weird “corrections” > On 7 Nov 2022, at 23:09, David wrote: > > On Mon, 7 Nov 2022 at 05:01, Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) > wrote: > >> For me a scroll wheel has always been a deal-breaker, and I recently >>

Re: support for ancient peripherals

2022-11-07 Thread Kleene, Steven (kleenesj)
er? Thanks. From: Peter von Kaehne Sent: Monday, November 7, 2022 10:39 AM To: Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: support for ancient peripherals External Email: Use Caution I have installed last week a HP Laserjet 4P which is the same ilk. It

Re: support for ancient peripherals

2022-11-07 Thread Kleene, Steven (kleenesj)
they can suggest a good local shop. From: mick.crane Sent: Monday, November 7, 2022 2:17 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: support for ancient peripherals External Email: Use Caution On 2022-11-05 23:21, Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote: > 3. An HP LaserJet 5MP

Re: support for ancient peripherals

2022-11-06 Thread Kleene, Steven (kleenesj)
On November 5, 2022 7:21 PM, I wrote: >> As you might understand, I'd like to replace my desktop, a 2006 Pentium 4 >> with a 3-GHz processor. It has always run Debian, and so will the new one. >> >> My concern is about support for three ancient peripherals that I like better >> than the modern eq

support for ancient peripherals

2022-11-05 Thread Kleene, Steven (kleenesj)
As you might understand, I'd like to replace my desktop, a 2006 Pentium 4 with a 3-GHz processor. It has always run Debian, and so will the new one. My concern is about support for three ancient peripherals that I like better than the modern equivalents: 1. A Northgate Omnikey 101 keyboard (from

Re: NFC security key on a desktop

2022-07-10 Thread Kleene, Steven (kleenesj)
ut think there may not be one yet. From: Celejar Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2022 2:34 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: NFC security key on a desktop External Email: Use Caution On Sun, 10 Jul 2022 01:23:27 + "Kleene, Steven (kleenesj)&q

NFC security key on a desktop

2022-07-10 Thread Kleene, Steven (kleenesj)
My employer uses Duo for two-factor authentication and offers three options: cellphone, landline, or security key. I go to the desired app (e.g. Outlook) in Firefox. I select the landline I want, Duo calls it, and I hit any key to authenticate. So far so good. But as of January 1st, my emplo

Re: Google sites don't work

2021-08-02 Thread Kleene, Steven (kleenesj)
On Saturday, July 31, 2021 4:54 PM I wrote concerning firefox-esr: > Neither translate.google.com nor images.google.com functions properly. I have figured out the problem and solved it. At some point I remembered that I have in place an old-fashioned way of blocking sites. In /etc/hosts, I have

Re: Google sites don't work

2021-08-01 Thread Kleene, Steven (kleenesj)
:49 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Google sites don't work On 8/1/2021 3:18 PM, Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote: > On Saturday, July 31, 2021 4:54 PM I wrote concerning firefox-esr: >>> Neither translate.google.com nor images.google.com functions properly. > > On

Re: Google sites don't work

2021-08-01 Thread Kleene, Steven (kleenesj)
ere, except for the two Google subdivisions mentioned above. From: Greg Wooledge Sent: Saturday, July 31, 2021 11:38 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Google sites don't work On Sat, Jul 31, 2021 at 08:54:12PM +, Kleene, Steven (kl

Google sites don't work

2021-07-31 Thread Kleene, Steven (kleenesj)
My home desktop is running Buster (4.19.0-17-amd64) and firefox-esr 78.12.0esr-1~deb10u1. Neither translate.google.com nor images.google.com functions properly. If I go to Google Translate and enter "je ne sais pas" in the left window, nothing happens. It should automatically show a translation

Google Translate stopped working

2021-03-14 Thread Kleene, Steven (kleenesj)
My home desktop (let's call it PC1) has been running Wheezy and firefox-esr 68.9.0esr-1~deb9u1. (I held back upgrades to firefox-esr for reasons I won't go into.) A month or two ago, translate.google.com stopped working. Normally, if I enter a phrase in the left window, a translation comes up in

Re: problem with slow network transmission

2020-05-26 Thread Kleene, Steven (kleenesj)
On Tuesday, May 26, 2020 4:57 PM, deloptes asked: > Are you in VPN? this slows down things. No. Fortunately, I don't need it, because the VPN my employer has doesn't work with Debian (and Windows users have some trouble too). > Also what browser you use, cause I'm not sure there is a native we

Re: problem with slow network transmission

2020-05-26 Thread Kleene, Steven (kleenesj)
speedtest.net). Tomorrow I'll have my first Webex conference since I added the 1Gbps NIC and maxed out memory. We'll see what happens. From: deloptes Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2020 1:16 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: problem w

Re: problem with slow network transmission

2020-05-26 Thread Kleene, Steven (kleenesj)
__ From: Andrei POPESCU Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2020 1:51 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: problem with slow network transmission On Lu, 25 mai 20, 17:02:58, Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote: > My network transmission rate seems much slower than it should be. My deskto

problem with slow network transmission

2020-05-25 Thread Kleene, Steven (kleenesj)
My network transmission rate seems much slower than it should be. My desktop runs Stretch (v9, oldstable) on a Pentium 4 (3 GHz) with 4GB of RAM (the maximum) and a 1Gbps network interface card (NIC). We pay for fiber optic service at 500Mbps. The specifications for my router (ZyXEL VMG4381-B10A

Re: using Webex from Stretch

2020-04-11 Thread Kleene, Steven (kleenesj)
etch On 4/10/20 3:49 PM, Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote: > I got what I needed yesterday, given that I didn't want to speak anyway. I'm > grateful for all the help here. Now I need to read up on how to initiate a > Webex conference (maybe from my wife's Windows box) so

Re: using Webex from Stretch

2020-04-10 Thread Kleene, Steven (kleenesj)
xteam.de Sent: Friday, April 10, 2020 4:33 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: using Webex from Stretch On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 07:55:25AM -, Curt wrote: > On 2020-04-06, Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote: > > My employer is now having lots of audio/video conferences, some o

Re: using Webex from Stretch

2020-04-09 Thread Kleene, Steven (kleenesj)
hursday, April 9, 2020 11:21 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: using Webex from Stretch On Thursday, April 09, 2020 07:09:35 AM Carl Fink wrote: > On 4/9/20 2:37 AM, deloptes wrote: > > Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote: > >> I was given two options. If I chose "

Re: using Webex from Stretch

2020-04-09 Thread Kleene, Steven (kleenesj)
-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: using Webex from Stretch On 4/9/20 2:37 AM, deloptes wrote: > Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote: > >> I was given two options. If I chose "Use computer for audio", I got the >> errors above again. If I chose "Call in", it ju

Re: using Webex from Stretch

2020-04-08 Thread Kleene, Steven (kleenesj)
Subject: Re: using Webex from Stretch On 4/6/20 9:20 PM, Russell L. Harris wrote: > On Mon, Apr 06, 2020 at 04:52:41PM +, Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) > wrote: >> My employer is now having lots of audio/video conferences, some of >> which I >> should at least listen t

using Webex from Stretch

2020-04-06 Thread Kleene, Steven (kleenesj)
My employer is now having lots of audio/video conferences, some of which I should at least listen to. Unfortunately, they are doing the conferences with Cisco Webex. Webex uses an app that's not available for Debian Linux. I've tried Webex's test site and have concluded that getting the full audi

RE: where does fvwm get its xterm icon? [SOLVED]

2018-09-23 Thread Kleene, Steven (kleenesj)
On Mon Sep 10 08:47:39 EDT 2018, I wrote: > I can't figure out where fvwm is getting the xpm icon for an xterm. ... > In Debian 7, calling null.xpm gives me no xpm icon, just a title bar labeled > "syrano". I prefer this because it's very small. I now have this all working as I wanted. First I

RE: where does fvwm get its xterm icon?

2018-09-22 Thread Kleene, Steven (kleenesj)
On September 21, 2018 11:35 PM, David Wright wrote: >> That sounds like a different problem: a race between fvwm and the >> xterms over which order they start in. The manner in which the race >> affects me is that my (open) xterms get mapped all over the place >> instead of where I want them place

RE: where does fvwm get its xterm icon?

2018-09-19 Thread Kleene, Steven (kleenesj)
get its xterm icon? As you seem to be having trouble, here's a fuller answer than the one I posted before. On Mon 17 Sep 2018 at 12:05:35 (+), Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote: > I can't figure out where fvwm is getting the xpm icon for an xterm. The > issue started when I upgr

RE: where does fvwm get its xterm icon?

2018-09-18 Thread Kleene, Steven (kleenesj)
..@gmx.net] Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2018 2:15 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) Subject: Re: where does fvwm get its xterm icon? Hi, Kleene, Steven wrote: > Yes. If I put the cursor in the little screenshot and type a command > (echoed in a font too small to read),

RE: where does fvwm get its xterm icon?

2018-09-17 Thread Kleene, Steven (kleenesj)
an-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: where does fvwm get its xterm icon? On Mon 17 Sep 2018 at 12:05:35 (+), Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote: > I can't figure out where fvwm is getting the xpm icon for an xterm. The > issue started when I upgraded from Debian v7 (fvwm 1:2.5.30) to

where does fvwm get its xterm icon?

2018-09-17 Thread Kleene, Steven (kleenesj)
I can't figure out where fvwm is getting the xpm icon for an xterm. The issue started when I upgraded from Debian v7 (fvwm 1:2.5.30) to Debian v9 (fvwm 1:2.6.7-3). In both cases fvwm-icons was also installed. I have this in ~/.fvwm/config: Style "XTerm" Icon null.xpm, SloppyFocus, IconBox

RE: Wheezy to Stretch

2018-02-22 Thread Kleene, Steven (kleenesj)
On Wednesday, February 21, 2018 12:45 PM, I wrote: > I am running Wheezy (v7 = oldoldstable) and intend to replace it with a fresh > install of Stretch (v9 = stable) before Wheezy's support runs out on May > 31st. I will try the default systemd installation and see how I like it. > ... > I know s

Wheezy to Stretch

2018-02-21 Thread Kleene, Steven (kleenesj)
I am running Wheezy (v7 = oldoldstable) and intend to replace it with a fresh install of Stretch (v9 = stable) before Wheezy's support runs out on May 31st. I will try the default systemd installation and see how I like it. After the installation, I will want to build my system from my favorite w