Re: Emacs and loss of highlighting: problem semi-solved (Buster MATE)

2020-01-27 Thread tomas
On Sun, Jan 26, 2020 at 08:04:29PM -0600, Tom Browder wrote: > On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 2:17 AM wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 04:10:37PM -0600, Tom Browder wrote: [...] > > > $ xrdb /dev/null > > > > Yikes. Like hitting your TV set with a wrench ;-) [...] > Maybe, but I felt like I had n

Re: Kernel Panic

2020-01-27 Thread deloptes
deloptes wrote: > And gcrypt is libcrypt-2.28.so not .so.20 sorry I was wrong about that /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcrypt.so.20 is linked to /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgpg-error.so.0 check where the link is pointing to ldd /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcrypt.so.20 linux-vdso.so.1 (0x7ffebd

Lingual Translation & Interpretation Services

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Re: Emacs and loss of highlighting: problem semi-solved (Buster MATE)

2020-01-27 Thread 황병희
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Re: Emacs and loss of highlighting: problem semi-solved (Buster MATE)

2020-01-27 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2020 26 Jan 20:14 -0600, Tom Browder wrote: > On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 6:01 AM Nate Bargmann wrote: > > What do you get if there is no ~/.emacs or ~/.emacs.d/init.el file? > > Still no highlighting without the xrdb incantation. Sorry, I've never had to do anything like that, so I'm of no fur

Re: Emacs and loss of highlighting: problem semi-solved (Buster MATE)

2020-01-27 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2020 27 Jan 02:40 -0600, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sun, Jan 26, 2020 at 08:04:29PM -0600, Tom Browder wrote: > > Emacs*Background:#cecece > > Emacs*Dialog*background:#cecece > > Emacs*Dialog*foreground:#3c3c3c > > Emacs*Foreground:#3c3c3c > > Emacs*XlwScrollBar.Background:

Re: Emacs and loss of highlighting: problem semi-solved (Buster MATE)

2020-01-27 Thread Tom Browder
On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 5:00 AM Nate Bargmann wrote: > OP, Tom, you might try: > > grep -i "Emacs" /etc/X11/app-defaults/* Nothing on mine, either, Nate. Thanks. -Tom

Re: Emacs and loss of highlighting: problem semi-solved (Buster MATE)

2020-01-27 Thread Tom Browder
On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 05:37 Tom Browder wrote: > On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 5:00 AM Nate Bargmann wrote: > > OP, Tom, you might try: > > > > grep -i "Emacs" /etc/X11/app-defaults/* > Would it help if I post my entire /etc/X11 directory and init.el on my github account? BTW, I do not use the GUI

Re: Emacs and loss of highlighting: problem semi-solved (Buster MATE)

2020-01-27 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2020 27 Jan 07:03 -0600, Tom Browder wrote: > Would it help if I post my entire /etc/X11 directory and init.el on my > github account? At this point probably not. If there was nothing referencing Emacs in /etc/X11/app-defaults then wherever those resources are being set must be in your home

Re: Emacs and loss of highlighting: problem semi-solved (Buster MATE)

2020-01-27 Thread Tom Browder
On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 07:49 Nate Bargmann wrote: ... > At this point, I think you need to find any file on your system that has > the Emacs X resources that xrdb showed and comment them out. ... Good suggestion, Nate. And thanks for your and the other folks' patience. -Tom

Re: Emacs and loss of highlighting: problem semi-solved (Buster MATE)

2020-01-27 Thread Curt
On 2020-01-27, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > At this point, I think you need to find any file on your system that has > the Emacs X resources that xrdb showed and comment them out. > As perhaps an unhelpful and not necessarily related data point, there exists a bug report concerning Xresources and Ema

Re: Planning a Debian NAS

2020-01-27 Thread 황병희
> Mine are all RPi3+. +1, also i think RPi is good. Sincerely, -- ^고맙습니다 _地平天成_ 감사합니다_^))//

Re: Emacs and loss of highlighting: problem semi-solved (Buster MATE)

2020-01-27 Thread David Wright
On Mon 27 Jan 2020 at 08:23:00 (-0600), Tom Browder wrote: > On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 07:49 Nate Bargmann wrote: > ... > > > At this point, I think you need to find any file on your system that has > > the Emacs X resources that xrdb showed and comment them out. You showed us your Xresources, pre

Re: Emacs and loss of highlighting: problem semi-solved (Buster MATE)

2020-01-27 Thread David Wright
On Mon 27 Jan 2020 at 14:34:14 (-), Curt wrote: > On 2020-01-27, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > > > At this point, I think you need to find any file on your system that has > > the Emacs X resources that xrdb showed and comment them out. > > > > As perhaps an unhelpful and not necessarily related d

Re: Planning a Debian NAS

2020-01-27 Thread Klaus Singvogel
황병희 wrote: > > Mine are all RPi3+. > > +1, also i think RPi is good. Please think about installation of a 64-bit distribution too. As soon as your NAS stores large files, and they should become avail via webinterface/php, the 64-bit will become necessary. In my case: I was running my OwnCloud o

Re: Planning a Debian NAS

2020-01-27 Thread basti
On 27.01.20 16:29, Klaus Singvogel wrote: > 황병희 wrote: >>> Mine are all RPi3+. >> >> +1, also i think RPi is good. > > Please think about installation of a 64-bit distribution too. > > As soon as your NAS stores large files, and they should become avail via > webinterface/php, the 64-bit will bec

Re: Emacs and loss of highlighting: problem semi-solved (Buster MATE)

2020-01-27 Thread Curt
On 2020-01-27, David Wright wrote: > On Mon 27 Jan 2020 at 14:34:14 (-), Curt wrote: >> On 2020-01-27, Nate Bargmann wrote: >> > >> > At this point, I think you need to find any file on your system that has >> > the Emacs X resources that xrdb showed and comment them out. >> > >> >> As perha

Re: Sudo

2020-01-27 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 25 ian 20, 19:28:39, Patrick Bartek wrote: > On Sat, 25 Jan 2020 12:27:21 -0600 > Paul Johnson wrote: > > > On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 11:40 AM Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > > > > I never use sudo. I consider it too much a security risk even on a > > > system with only a single user. > > >

Re: Howto?

2020-01-27 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 26 ian 20, 05:08:47, Gene Heskett wrote: > > I have very little idea what all that was supposed to do, but I did > figure out how to tar it, then xz the resultant a.tar. Thats working now > and looks like it might be done in another hour. Big, ready built, rt > kernel for an rpi4. I'd lu

Re: System Crashing Keyboard & mouse locking up

2020-01-27 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 26 ian 20, 14:47:19, J.W. Foster wrote: > I have a newly built system using several distros incl Debian Linux & > Windows10. It seems to have a hardware issue in all Linuxes. NOT > Windows 10. The Keyboard & mouse are locking up randomly. I can't get > it to duplicate, just occurs. And t

Re: Sudo

2020-01-27 Thread David Wright
On Mon 27 Jan 2020 at 18:21:30 (+0200), Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Sb, 25 ian 20, 19:28:39, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > On Sat, 25 Jan 2020 12:27:21 -0600 Paul Johnson wrote: > > > On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 11:40 AM Patrick Bartek > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > I never use sudo. I consider it too muc

Re: Emacs and loss of highlighting: problem semi-solved (Buster MATE)

2020-01-27 Thread Tom Browder
On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 10:11 AM Curt wrote: > On 2020-01-27, David Wright wrote: > > On Mon 27 Jan 2020 at 14:34:14 (-), Curt wrote: > >> On 2020-01-27, Nate Bargmann wrote: ... A few points ref my problem: 1. I have to admit I've always been confused by the menuing inside emacs to change

Re: Planning a Debian NAS

2020-01-27 Thread Aidan Gauland
On 27/01/20 12:59 am, ghe wrote: If you don't already have all the router(s) and WiFi access points and such, may I suggest a pile of Raspberry Pis. Can a r-pi be set up with RAID easily?

Re: System Crashing Keyboard & mouse locking up

2020-01-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 27 January 2020 11:42:29 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 26 ian 20, 14:47:19, J.W. Foster wrote: > > I have a newly built system using several distros incl Debian Linux > > & Windows10. It seems to have a hardware issue in all Linuxes. NOT > > Windows 10. The Keyboard & mouse are locking

Re: Emacs and loss of highlighting: problem semi-solved (Buster MATE)

2020-01-27 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2020 27 Jan 10:11 -0600, Curt wrote: > I missed that point, yet I'm still left to wonder whether the mate > settings daemon xrdb plugins referenced above (if it is indeed running > on the OP's machine as part of the Mate kitchen sink) might be > responsible for the rather copious Emacs 'xdrb -

Re: Planning a Debian NAS

2020-01-27 Thread deloptes
Aidan Gauland wrote: > Can a r-pi be set up with RAID easily? perhaps yes as it is more or less normal linux, but where do you attach the disks - do you think of using a SATA extention? I do not know what is the throughput of such extentions, but should be considered.

Re: Planning a Debian NAS

2020-01-27 Thread basti
Am 27.01.20 um 20:43 schrieb deloptes: Aidan Gauland wrote: Can a r-pi be set up with RAID easily? perhaps yes as it is more or less normal linux, but where do you attach the disks - do you think of using a SATA extention? I do not know what is the throughput of such extentions, but should b

Re: Planning a Debian NAS

2020-01-27 Thread deloptes
basti wrote: > Yes a rpi can run software raid with mdadm. In this case I would use a > rpi4b with USB3 and USB to SATA adapter but be aware that the rpi is at > the moment not fully supportet by debian > (https://github.com/lategoodbye/rpi-zero/issues/43). If raspian is good > enough for your nee

Re: Sudo

2020-01-27 Thread Joe
On Mon, 27 Jan 2020 11:24:16 -0600 David Wright wrote: > > It's always interesting to read opinions of which aspects of Debian > are too insecure for people to use. > Compared to, say, Windows? A few days ago, I installed Windows 10 for the first time. It *still* makes the first user an ad

Re: Sudo

2020-01-27 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Mon, 27 Jan 2020 18:21:30 +0200 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Sb, 25 ian 20, 19:28:39, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > On Sat, 25 Jan 2020 12:27:21 -0600 > > Paul Johnson wrote: > > > > > On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 11:40 AM Patrick Bartek > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > I never use sudo. I consider

Re: Sudo

2020-01-27 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Mon, 27 Jan 2020 20:58:58 + Joe wrote: > On Mon, 27 Jan 2020 11:24:16 -0600 > David Wright wrote: > > > > > > It's always interesting to read opinions of which aspects of Debian > > are too insecure for people to use. > > > > Compared to, say, Windows? > > A few days ago, I instal

Re: Planning a Debian NAS

2020-01-27 Thread basti
Am 27.01.20 um 21:42 schrieb deloptes: basti wrote: Yes a rpi can run software raid with mdadm. In this case I would use a rpi4b with USB3 and USB to SATA adapter but be aware that the rpi is at the moment not fully supportet by debian (https://github.com/lategoodbye/rpi-zero/issues/43). If

Re: Planning a Debian NAS

2020-01-27 Thread tomas
On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 09:42:40PM +0100, deloptes wrote: > basti wrote: > > > Yes a rpi can run software raid with mdadm. In this case I would use a > > rpi4b with USB3 and USB to SATA adapter [...] > I tried many years ago SATA adapter with USB2 and the performance was very > poor. Might be bet

Re: Planning a Debian NAS

2020-01-27 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting deloptes (2020-01-27 21:42:40) > basti wrote: > > > Yes a rpi can run software raid with mdadm. In this case I would use > > a rpi4b with USB3 and USB to SATA adapter but be aware that the rpi > > is at the moment not fully supportet by debian > > (https://github.com/lategoodbye/rpi-zer

Re: Planning a Debian NAS

2020-01-27 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 10:16:24PM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: Does the Raspi chipset support natively SATA? There are other small, affordable SBCs with direct SATA support. They'd make more sense for this application. OTOH -- if the main interest is in tinkering and learning... tinker away!

Re: Planning a Debian NAS

2020-01-27 Thread tomas
On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 10:23:49PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: [...] > A quite cheap (but not too cheap like RPi) option is Olimex LIME2 with > native SATA port: > https://www.olimex.com/Products/OLinuXino/A20/A20-OLinuXino-LIME2/ This one actually looks nice. But just one SATA port, right?

Re: Planning a Debian NAS

2020-01-27 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Sun, Jan 26, 2020 at 12:20:01PM +0100, Linux-Fan wrote: I'd recommend the ext4 filesystem in combination with RAID1 with MDADM of each two devices such that you have two or three filesystems. If everything needs to be a single filesystem, I'd go for RAID10. I agree with most of this advice.

Re: Planning a Debian NAS

2020-01-27 Thread basti
we use IPU boards as firewall in raid mode (https://www.ipu-system.de/index.html) with a raid. with a big smata it could also be used as NAS. not shure if it's selled in other countrys. Am 27.01.20 um 22:27 schrieb to...@tuxteam.de: On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 10:23:49PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard

Intel Frost Canyon NUC Intel I219-V drivers

2020-01-27 Thread Kim Haverblad
It's my understanding that Linux driver is now available for Intel I219-V (10) which is utilised in Intel NUC Frost Canyon I7-10710U and my question is when this would be included the ISO images? Kr, Kim

graphics woes :-(

2020-01-27 Thread D. R. Evans
Running debian stable (64 bit). For the past couple of months I've been trying to get a system with onboard Intel graphics to work completely correctly, but have never been able to get rid of flicker on the console tty or on fine text in konsole in a graphical desktop. There are enough threads on

Re: Emacs and loss of highlighting: problem semi-solved (Buster MATE)

2020-01-27 Thread Tom Browder
On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 1:00 PM Nate Bargmann wrote: > * On 2020 27 Jan 10:11 -0600, Curt wrote: > > I missed that point, yet I'm still left to wonder whether the mate > > settings daemon xrdb plugins referenced above (if it is indeed running Gang, I've tried various combinations of: 1. removing

Re: Emacs and loss of highlighting: problem semi-solved (Buster MATE)

2020-01-27 Thread Tom Browder
On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 2:39 AM wrote: > On Sun, Jan 26, 2020 at 08:04:29PM -0600, Tom Browder wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 2:17 AM wrote: ... > > Have you had a look in /etc/X11/Xresources? Yes, contents: $ cat /etc/X11/Xresources/x11-common ! $Id$ ! load color-specific resources for cl

Re: graphics woes :-(

2020-01-27 Thread D. R. Evans
D. R. Evans wrote on 1/27/20 2:57 PM: > Running debian stable (64 bit). > > For the past couple of months I've been trying to get a system with onboard > Intel graphics to work completely correctly, but have never been able to get > rid of flicker on the console tty or on fine text in konsole in a

Re: graphics woes :-(

2020-01-27 Thread Stefan Monnier
> anything at all, then, after a very long time, I see the stream of Linux text > messages that indicates booting, but I never see a graphical login screen. > (The delay before the messages appear is far longer than a normal boot cycle > -- indeed, I had given up waiting for something to happen and

Re: graphics woes :-(

2020-01-27 Thread Felix Miata
D. R. Evans composed on 2020-01-27 14:57 (UTC-0700): > I'm sure I'm missed out important information, so feel free to ask and I'll do > my best to answer. I have a display that takes a long time to initialize when connected to a PC using UEFI mode and a disk configured with GPT and UEFI boot, bu

Re: graphics woes :-(

2020-01-27 Thread D. R. Evans
Stefan Monnier wrote on 1/27/20 4:06 PM: >> anything at all, then, after a very long time, I see the stream of Linux text >> messages that indicates booting, but I never see a graphical login screen. >> (The delay before the messages appear is far longer than a normal boot cycle >> -- indeed, I had

Re: graphics woes :-(

2020-01-27 Thread D. R. Evans
Felix Miata wrote on 1/27/20 4:47 PM: > D. R. Evans composed on 2020-01-27 14:57 (UTC-0700): > >> I'm sure I'm missed out important information, so feel free to ask and I'll >> do >> my best to answer. > > I have a display that takes a long time to initialize when connected to a PC > using > UE

How to set Gedit left margin to 80 characters

2020-01-27 Thread Default User
Okay, I'm stumped. I'm running 64-bit Debian unstable, Cinnamon desktop environment. All I want to do is set the Gedit left margin to 80 characters, so that text hard-wraps (or at least soft-wraps) at that point. Currently, with the word-wrap setting in Gedit selected, and a visual representatio

Re: Planning a Debian NAS

2020-01-27 Thread ghe
On 1/27/20 11:00 AM, Aidan Gauland wrote: > Can a r-pi be set up with RAID easily? Define 'easily' :-) Its OS is a reasonably close clone of Debian, and I've had very little trouble doing *nix tricks with it. But there's no disk and no SATA interfaces. A couple USB disks would do it, but I don't

Re: Planning a Debian NAS

2020-01-27 Thread ghe
On 1/27/20 12:43 PM, deloptes wrote: > perhaps yes as it is more or less normal linux, but where do you attach the > disks - do you think of using a SATA extention? > > I do not know what is the throughput of such extentions, but should be > considered. The USB3 ports on the 4 might be fast enou

Re: Emacs and loss of highlighting: problem semi-solved (Buster MATE)

2020-01-27 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2020 27 Jan 16:12 -0600, Tom Browder wrote: > Gang, I've tried various combinations of: > > 1. removing/installing the /etc/xrdb/*.ad files I see that the mate-settings-daemon package has the /etc/xrdb/Emacs.ad file. As that package apparently is required for the Mate desktop, it's likely

Re: Emacs and loss of highlighting: problem semi-solved (Buster MATE)

2020-01-27 Thread Nate Bargmann
Or it may be as easy as going into the Mate Settings Daemon application (if it has a GUI) and disabling the xrdg plugin. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us Projects: https://github.com/

Re: How to set Gedit left margin to 80 characters

2020-01-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 27 January 2020 19:16:35 Default User wrote: > Okay, I'm stumped. > > I'm running 64-bit Debian unstable, Cinnamon desktop environment. > > All I want to do is set the Gedit left margin to 80 characters, so > that text hard-wraps (or at least soft-wraps) at that point. > > Currently, wit

Re: Planning a Debian NAS

2020-01-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 27 January 2020 19:34:30 ghe wrote: > On 1/27/20 11:00 AM, Aidan Gauland wrote: > > Can a r-pi be set up with RAID easily? > > Define 'easily' :-) > > Its OS is a reasonably close clone of Debian, and I've had very little > trouble doing *nix tricks with it. But there's no disk and no SA

Dell BIOS Changes

2020-01-27 Thread J. D. Leach
To Whom it May Concern, Have a Dell Inspiron 3668 desktop with the latest Dell firmware (1.12.2). This update, and numerous of the preceding ones, do not allow ANY type of loading of Debian (or any othe Linux flavor) onto the PC. In the BIOS configuration menu, no option is available to boot f

Re: Sudo

2020-01-27 Thread Keith Bainbridge
Good afternoon My limited experience with a Win10 where user is NOT admin, is that everything I have tried even portable apps, works - apart from adding software. I have recommended to ant Win10 user who will listen to set up a separate user account. It's not fun though. When I did my VBox

Re: Sudo

2020-01-27 Thread Keith Bainbridge
So sudo is installed. What happens when you type su in a term? If you are asked for a password, type it in and enter. When there type usermod -a -G sudo charles - looks to be your user name exit Then try sudo again. You should get request for charles password. If you had to install sud

Re: Dell BIOS Changes

2020-01-27 Thread deloptes
J. D. Leach wrote: > Have a Dell Inspiron 3668 desktop with the latest Dell firmware > (1.12.2). This update, and numerous of the preceding ones, do not allow > ANY type of loading of Debian (or any othe Linux flavor) onto the PC. In > the BIOS configuration menu, no option is available to boot fr

Re: Dell BIOS Changes

2020-01-27 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 28.01.2020 10:13, J. D. Leach wrote: > To Whom it May Concern, > > Have a Dell Inspiron 3668 desktop with the latest Dell firmware > (1.12.2). This update, and numerous of the preceding ones, do not > allow ANY type of loading of Debian (or any othe Linux flavor) onto > the PC. In the BIOS confi