Re: Slow performance due to llvmpipe being used despite Radeon kernel and X modules being loaded

2020-05-07 Thread didier gaumet
Le 07/05/2020 à 19:28, Sven Joachim a écrit : > No, it is just listed because the llvmpipe driver was developed by > VMWare. You can see this for yourself, setting LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 > in the environment makes libgl use the llvmpipe driver: > > , > | LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 glxinfo | gre

Re: Why do I have so many packages to upgrade with Debian 10.4?

2020-05-10 Thread didier gaumet
Hello, I am not sure of it but perhaps this is linked to the absence of proposed-updates in your sources.list: https://www.debian.org/releases/proposed-updates

Re: Why do I have so many packages to upgrade with Debian 10.4?

2020-05-11 Thread didier gaumet
Le 11/05/2020 à 19:12, l0f...@tuta.io a écrit : > Hi, > > 10 mai 2020 à 23:24 de didier.gau...@gmail.com: > >> I am not sure of it but perhaps this is linked to the absence of >> proposed-updates in your sources.list: >> https://www.debian.org/releases/proposed-updates >> > Isn't proposed-updates

Re: Suggestion on hardware issue?

2020-05-11 Thread didier gaumet
Hello, perhaps try to install in text mode and lowmem: https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch05s03.en.html perhaps you have a RAM problem in a particular area that is not reported by the RAM verifying tool you used. If the installation succeeds, it could mean you have to replace the RA

Re: Suggestion on hardware issue?

2020-05-11 Thread didier gaumet
I do not know well the subject but RAM problems can be a nightmare and I suppose yours could be -for example- caused by a particular area of the RAM that does not systematically fail under workload (transiant fault) and thus is not detected https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_tester

Re: Excess security measures

2020-05-17 Thread didier gaumet
if you like risky business: 1) assuming you use sddm: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=193261 (you probably also may auto-login as root which would be simpler) 2) https://askubuntu.com/questions/74345/how-do-i-bypass-ignore-the-gpg-signature-checks-of-apt

Re: Installing Debian In Intel Optane System

2020-06-15 Thread didier . gaumet
Hello, disclaimer: I do not have Optane hardware, all the following is supposition you will probably be interested in reading some of the links mentioned here: https://nvdimm.wiki.kernel.org/start I would imagine that you could use the pmem memmap kernel parameter to launch the Debian install

Re: KDE run Dolphin as root?

2020-06-17 Thread didier . gaumet
(Apologies if this link have been given before) You will find a thread there on a KDE forum detailing why running Dolphin as root is discouraged and how to bypass this measure: https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?t=141836

Re: KDE run Dolphin as root?

2020-06-17 Thread didier . gaumet
Le mercredi 17 juin 2020 01:40:05 UTC+2, Gary L. Roach a écrit : [...] > I now have to start communications with the Elmerfem people who have > religated their GUI Qt4 problems from a bug to an inhancement. I have > gotten warnings from several different sources that Debian is dropping > Qt4 be

Re: Package management

2020-07-03 Thread didier . gaumet
Hello There are metapackages (groups of packages) in Debian. I am not aware a a global multimedia Debian metapackage There are some multimedia metapackages, though: $ apt search multimedia- [...] multimedia-ambisonics/stable 0.7 all Packages for working with ambisonics (3D surround sound) m

Re: Package management

2020-07-03 Thread didier . gaumet
Le 03/07/2020 à 11:43, Baabu JOY a écrit : > Hello Mr didier >Thanks for your valuable reply . i need depth > understanding how ur doing (apt search multimedia-animation/stable 0.7 ) > Im also expecting same output like this . can u please share information > regarding t

Re: Probleme Bullseye / hp spectre x360 15

2020-07-04 Thread didier . gaumet
Bonjour, d'abord quelques observations: - tu as posté le même message en français sur les lites debian.user et debian.user.french: tu dois poster sur debian.user.french en français mais si tu postes sur debian.user tu dois le faire en anglais - ces listes ne sont pas des supports techniques d'un

Re: Probleme Bullseye / hp spectre x360 15

2020-07-04 Thread didier . gaumet
Sorry for being so absent-minded: I answered here thinking I was answering on the same message on the french list. Apologies :-)

Re: No "type=APPARMOR_ALLOWED/DENIED" logs

2020-07-06 Thread didier . gaumet
Hello, Sorry, I am almost totally Apparmor ignorant but would both set enforce and complain modes for your profiles give you the result you expect?

Re: No "type=APPARMOR_ALLOWED/DENIED" logs

2020-07-06 Thread didier . gaumet
OK, I have read a little bit :-) Now I understand better the difference between enforce (for production) and complain (for testing/setup) modes and that they are mutually exclusive. man aa-genprof seems to indicate that the complain mode is set only during the generation of the profile: when

Re: Browsers crashing in Bullseye armhf

2020-07-12 Thread didier . gaumet
Hi, you may launch chromium whith the -g option from a terminal: once in the debugger, you "start" and wait for a crash in the browser while you navigate the web. I suppose, the debugger in the terminal should give you a trace of the crash.

Re: Debian 10.4

2020-07-31 Thread didier . gaumet
Hello, perhaps the solutions detailed here will work in your case: https://askubuntu.com/questions/237051/undetected-logitech-mx-5500-keyboard-and-mouse

Re: Enlarging /boot

2020-08-03 Thread didier . gaumet
Hello, If I understand correctly, it seems the minimum size (32MB, 100MB or 260MB) of the ESP depends on the sector logical and physical size of the disk: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufacture/desktop/configure-uefigpt-based-hard-drive-partitions#diskpartitionrules http

Re: aptitude problem with control file (in stretch)

2020-08-05 Thread didier . gaumet
Hello, perhaps options described here could help you: https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/aptitude/ch02s05s05.en.html

Re: Disks renamed after update to 'testing'...?

2020-08-18 Thread didier gaumet
Hello, Apparently, it is also possible to either: - give a name to the filesystem (use e2label to do so, the filesystem being ext4) and mount the filesystem by using this name as a parameter of the mount command instead of /dev/sd* or an UUID - give a name to the underlyning partition (use par

Re: next LTS version?

2018-07-04 Thread didier gaumet
Le 03/07/2018 à 23:52, Gene Heskett a écrit : > Greetings all; > > Since wheezy is pretty much EOL even for security stuffs, whats the next > version that will be LTS? >From what I gather: *all* Debian stable releases are LTS for the relevant architectures (nowadays: x86, amd64, armhf). A possib

Re: Debian Stretch Am Confused about /dev/dsp

2018-08-31 Thread didier gaumet
Hello, from what I understand, using alsa-oss would be better than using the OSS emulation module, partircularly if one is to use sound plug-ins? https://packages.debian.org/stretch/alsa-oss

Re: Unable to install .iso's in virtualbox, but why?

2018-09-10 Thread didier gaumet
Le 09/09/2018 à 16:20, Sharon Kimble a écrit : [...] > VT-x is disabled in the BIOS for all CPU modes > (VERR_VMX_MSR_ALL_VMX_DISABLED). [...] > How can I enable 'VT-x' then please so that I can run successfully > virtual machines on this box please? [...] Take a look at your Motherboard manual,

Re: SyncTeX?

2018-09-14 Thread didier gaumet
Le 14/09/2018 à 18:05, Boyan Penkov a écrit : > ! SyncTeX > Error : No file? It seems to be a TEX search tool: https://www.tug.org/TUGboat/tb29-3/tb93laurens.pdf

Re: Unstable update ridiculousness

2018-09-20 Thread didier gaumet
Le 20/09/2018 à 03:16, Default User a écrit : >  182 packages? from https://www.debian.org/releases/sid/ : "The unstable distribution ("sid") The code name for Debian's development distribution is "sid", aliased to "unstable". Most of the development work that is done in Debian, is uploaded to

Re: using a Windows 7 disk image with KVM?

2018-09-20 Thread didier gaumet
>From what you describe, I would surmise that the main problem is that you use BIOS instead of UEFI to boot your Windows image: if it is not already installed, install the ovmf package and invoke KVM with the needed parameters. There is an ovmf page in the Ubuntu wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UE

Re: using a Windows 7 disk image with KVM?

2018-09-20 Thread didier gaumet
Le 20/09/2018 à 19:25, Gary Dale a écrit : > Thanks. I also use the virt-manager GUI. However what it does is store > the options and creates the command line, so its rarely relevant. > Unfortunately it doesn't seem to expose the firmware option once the VM > is created. > > I've installed the pa

Re: Synaptic problems - operator ERROR ;{

2018-09-20 Thread didier gaumet
Le 20/09/2018 à 17:33, Richard Owlett a écrit : > I'm using Debian 9 with MATE. > I installed Emacs using Synaptic. [...] >  There error messages were: >> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. [...] not using Synaptic myself, but from the Synaptic Help: To Fix Broken Packa

Re: Distinguish instances of GUI file manager by color

2018-09-26 Thread didier gaumet
Gnome-Commander (packaged in Debian) could be of interest for you: GUI but two-panel mc-like, several color themes, color set-up, advanced search and rename tools, etc... https://gcmd.github.io/shots.html

Re: No sound after installing debian

2018-10-02 Thread didier gaumet
Hella Matthew, There is a dedicated mailing list for Debian accessibility: https://lists.debian.org/debian-accessibility/ >From what you describe I would surmise that you do have sound after install but lack accessibility features like an audio screen reader. Sorry, I have never installed or se

Re: permanently adding driver to Debian live USB stick

2022-10-20 Thread didier gaumet
Hello, Ypu could prpbably find a way to include the relevant firmware into a Debian Live ISO image by reading the Debian Wiki Debian Live page: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianLive and then studying the docs linked there But as the file you mention is included in the firmware-iwlwifi Debian B

Re: Failure in fuse3 hook prevents initramfs update

2022-10-27 Thread didier gaumet
Le 27/10/2022 à 00:52, Joe Pfeiffer a écrit : I'm trying to do an update to my Debian 11 system, and keep getting the following failure: E: /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/fuse failed with return 1. Trying to get a little more information, I ran update-initramfs -u -v -k all and after many l

Re: Request for Debian Subsystem for Windows like

2022-10-27 Thread didier gaumet
Hello, Dan's answer is spot on but I supposed Suman would appreciate more details :-) From my point of view: - Microsoft is a company with a considerable amount of money and a sizeable human workforce. And it took them years to propose Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) and Windows Sybsyst

Re: t-bird screwing up

2022-10-31 Thread didier gaumet
Hello Gene, Bullseye and Thunderbird (102.4) up to date here. I do not use filters but I just created (Tools/Filters/New Menu (guessed translation as my Debian is installed in french)) a filter that I saved. I then closed Thunderbird. I reopened it. Then went to the Tools/Filters/Modify Menu

Re: deduplicating file systems: VDO with Debian?

2022-11-07 Thread didier gaumet
Le 07/11/2022 à 10:30, hw a écrit : Hello, Disclaimer: I am really almqst ignorant about deduplication On Mon, 2022-11-07 at 09:14 +0100, Anders Andersson wrote: On Mon, Nov 7, 2022 at 3:04 AM hw wrote: [...] You could always buy Red Hat Enterprise Linux license, sign up for a support cont

Re: definiing deduplication (was: Re: deduplicating file systems: VDO with Debian?)

2022-11-08 Thread didier gaumet
Le 08/11/2022 à 05:13, hw a écrit : On Mon, 2022-11-07 at 13:57 -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: I didn't (and don't) know much about deduplication (beyond what you might deduce from the name), so I google and found this article which was helpful to me:    * [[https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/

Re: deduplicating file systems: VDO with Debian?

2022-11-08 Thread didier gaumet
Le 08/11/2022 à 04:49, hw a écrit : [...] When I want to have 2 (or more) generations of backups, do I actually want deduplication? It leaves me with only one actual copy of the data which seems to defeat the idea of having multiple generations of backups at least to some extent. [...] I would

Re: definiing deduplication (was: Re: deduplicating file systems: VDO with Debian?)

2022-11-09 Thread didier gaumet
Le 09/11/2022 à 10:27, hw a écrit : [...] Yes, I've seen those. I can only wonder how much performance impact VDO would have for backups. And I wonder why it doesn't require as much memory as ZFS seems to need for deduplication. It's *only* an hypothesis, but I would suppose that ZFS was desi

Re: deduplicating file systems: VDO with Debian?

2022-11-09 Thread didier gaumet
I am no expert (in Linux, backporting or anything else) and cannot emit a viable advice about what your backup plan should be. You are in better position to evaluate your needs, your means and design a satisfying backup plan accordingly. What I was underlyning is that in my opinion you are

Re: deduplicating file systems: VDO with Debian?

2022-11-09 Thread didier gaumet
Le 09/11/2022 à 13:12, hw a écrit : On Wed, 2022-11-09 at 11:37 +0100, didier gaumet wrote: [...] in my opinion you are confusing deduplicating during backup and incremental/differential backups. [...] I don't know why you think that.[...] Because earlier in a previous message you s

Re: ZFS performance (was: Re: deduplicating file systems: VDO with Debian?)

2022-11-09 Thread didier gaumet
Le 09/11/2022 à 12:41, hw a écrit : [...] In any case, I'm currently tending to think that putting FreeBSD with ZFS on my server might be the best option. But then, apparently I won't be able to configure the controller cards, so that won't really work. And ZFS with Linux isn't so great because

Re: definiing deduplication (was: Re: deduplicating file systems: VDO with Debian?)

2022-11-09 Thread didier gaumet
Le 09/11/2022 à 14:25, hw a écrit : I don't think it was, see https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/zfs/ I does mention performance, but I remember other statements saying that was designed for arrays with 40+ disks and, besides data integrity, with ease of use in mind. Performance doesn'

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

Re: Q. re "Software" on new 11.6 Install

2022-12-28 Thread didier gaumet
Le mercredi 28 décembre 2022 à 09:05 -0600, Kent West a écrit : [...] > I found "Synaptic", which seems to be what I thought "Software" was > going to be. Perhaps "Synaptic" is Debian-specific, whereas > "Software" is Cinnamon-specific. Maybe? [...] I would say that Synaptic or Gnome-packagekit a

Re: PowerBook G4 OS

2023-01-11 Thread didier gaumet
Le mardi 10 janvier 2023 à 16:32 -0800, Bob Crochelt a écrit : > > > Thanks to all who replied.  I appreciate the help and advice.  Think > I > will just sit tight with the system, as it works fine for what I > need: > email, a little (slow surfing) and some note writing. > > I imagine you have s

Re: switch from IDE to AHCI causes not finding root FS

2023-01-28 Thread didier gaumet
Le samedi 28 janvier 2023 à 03:15 -0500, Felix Miata a écrit : > I thought only Windows was like that, but apparently not always. I > keep my > initramfs configuration set to =dep. I have an old multiboot Core2Duo > on ICH8 that > I found had been set to IDE instead of AHCI. I changed it to AHCI, >

Re: Initramfs/ Initrd Resolution

2023-01-30 Thread didier gaumet
Le lundi 30 janvier 2023 à 12:48 +0100, basti a écrit : > Hello, > > I have setup a Laptop with 3K display (2880 x 1800 pixels). > In Grub I can set the Resolution with gfxmode. > > Is there an option to setup the resolution in the Initramfs (initrd)? > > Best regards Hello, (I 've never tried

Re: No USB with qemu+macOS+USB+iPads

2023-01-31 Thread didier gaumet
Hello, You will probably find the dedicated Qemu doc helpful: https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/system/devices/usb.html I don't use Qemu directly, I use virtmanager, so I am not familiar with Qemu syntax and howto. But I would launch qemu with the "-device qemu-xhci" parameter (you only need xh

Re: No USB with qemu+macOS+USB+iPads

2023-02-02 Thread didier gaumet
Le 02/02/2023 à 00:15, stand...@gmx.net a écrit : Thanks, I know it, but nothing of these works for me. I also tred virt-manager without success. I think there ist another problem which I don't see. I do not use Qemu (directly) nor MacOS X nor Ipads so I cannot assure you what you want is

Re: No USB with qemu+macOS+USB+iPads

2023-02-06 Thread didier gaumet
Le 02/02/2023 à 17:00, stand...@gmx.net a écrit : [...] - in your guest (MacOSX) VM Virtmanager window menu, click on "Virtual Machine", then "redirect a USB peripheral", This is greyed, I can not click it. - if this happens while the VM is open but not started, it's normal: the VM has to st

Re: No USB with qemu+macOS+USB+iPads

2023-02-06 Thread didier gaumet
Le 31/01/2023 à 21:36, stand...@gmx.net a écrit : Hi from Germany. Sorry, I found no other way/group to ask. I want to use macOS to maintain some iPads for my school. [...] That is not exactly what you want but there is the irecovery CLI utility that is packaged in Debian. I you don't have al

Re: Installing Debian11 on Lenovo P1 Gen5

2023-02-07 Thread didier gaumet
Le 07/02/2023 à 00:31, Todor Petkov a écrit : [...] dpkg -l | grep -- firmware [...] Hello, I would suggest you to install firmware-linux, it would install (as dependencies) firmware-linux-nonfree and AMD/Intel microcodes

Re: Evolution doesn't receive messages in Debian 11.

2023-02-22 Thread didier gaumet
Hello, Le mardi 21 février 2023 à 12:09 -0800, Van Snyder a écrit : > I just upgraded to Debian 11. I had been using Debian 10. I've used > Evolution for many years. The version in Debian 11 is 3.48. Evolution in Debian Stable (11, Bullseye) is 3.38 [...] > But the messages don't appear in Ev

Re: Unable to associate to mobile hotspot

2023-03-03 Thread didier gaumet
Le 03/03/2023 à 00:53, Charles Curley a écrit : [...] I see some lines in there that are suspicious, but I don't know enough about wpa_supplicant to go further. Anyone else? Hello, I would look at the WPA type used by the android hotspot: in the past I have had problems with pure WPA3 or even

Re: Windows Subsystem for Linux Debian

2023-03-07 Thread didier gaumet
Le 07/03/2023 à 21:17, Richmond a écrit : I have Debian 11 on Windows Subsystem for Linux, but it is using a version 4 kernel. (I have established that it is debian 11 by looking in /etc/issue, and /etc/apt/sources). The Kernel says it is Microsoft: 4.4.0-19041-Microsoft #2311-Microsoft So I gu

Re: PDF on debian

2023-03-09 Thread didier gaumet
Le 09/03/2023 à 16:11, Vincent Lefevre a écrit : libreoffice --headless --convert-to pdf file.txt produces a PDF of better quality (fewer spacing issues). [...] Hello, I do not use it myself so I don't know it well but unoconv seems to be a headless Libreoffice converter with the ability

Re: Debian 8.10 and later on eMac G4 1.25 GHz

2018-12-14 Thread didier gaumet
Le 13/12/2018 à 18:26, Alex McKeever a écrit : > I’m stumped as to why Debian 7.11 is the last that works on the eMac G4’s out > of the box... any reason why compatibility broke between 7.11 and 8.10 (and > likewise later releases like Buster)? The same issue plagues the Ubuntu > releases after

Re: Debian 8.10 PowerPC issues with eMac G4 retail model

2018-12-18 Thread didier gaumet
Le 18/12/2018 à 23:17, Alex McKeever a écrit : > I remember having no luck with getting a display on Debian 8.10 on my > eMac G4... had to go back to 7.11 to get a working system if I remember > right. Anyhow I am wondering why 8.10 doesn’t work like it should? It’s > technically the last official

Re: Wireless driver

2018-12-29 Thread didier gaumet
Le 29/12/2018 à 13:04, john doe a écrit : > The Debian page: > > " * Qualcomm Atheros QCA988X board configuration, version 1" > > and the kernel wireless wiki page: > > "QCA9882 Version 2 found in Compex WLE600VX" I think there is a misunderstanding here: - Yes, it seems to exist a V2 of the h

Re: Thunderbird + Enigmail + saving draft with encryption

2019-02-02 Thread didier gaumet
Hello Paul, Same versions of thunderbird and Enigmail here but Debian Buster. I do not observe the same thing as you do: the draft is saved with the intended title It is probably of no importance but my Debian (and Thunderbird) is in french

Re: Thunderbird + Enigmail + saving draft with encryption

2019-02-03 Thread didier gaumet
In my previous test I did not close Thunderbird before reopening the signed and encrypted draft message. this time I did it and nothing changed: The right title of the draft was still there. I prefer to stick to Stable but my main laptop is fairly new, that is why Buster is installed on it. So

Re: Was told to "change my system theme"

2019-02-04 Thread didier gaumet
Le 04/02/2019 à 08:43, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson a écrit : > On https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=914504 > they tell me to "change my system theme". > > So how shall I "change my system theme"? > And will it affect other things more that the white on black text? > > Are they talking ab

Re: What am I missing that causes this error response from the wheezy mozilla?

2019-02-05 Thread didier gaumet
Le 05/02/2019 à 14:00, Gene Heskett a écrit : > I checked the about:config, no java related stuff is disabled. > > Cheers, Gene Heskett Hello Gene, - Java and Javascript are different things - If you have installed a Firefox extension like Noscript, it partially or totally disables scripts for

Re: WiFi without Network Manager

2019-02-15 Thread didier gaumet
Hello, - As a GUI alternative to NetworkManager; Wicd has been mentionned, but there is also Connman - the GUI part of NetworkManager (the gnome applet: network-manager-gnome) is not mandatory: there are TUI (nmtui) and CLI (nmcli) interfaces included in the NetworkManager base package (network-ma

Re: powernow-k8 module missing in kernel 4.9.0-8-rt-amd64

2019-02-15 Thread didier gaumet
Le 14/02/2019 à 14:16, Suso Comesaña a écrit : > Hello, I was trying to activate the module powernow-k8 to put the system > in "performance" and I realized that it is not there. In the kernel > 4.9.0-8-amd64 if it appears and is fully functional. It has been deleted > for something special, is it a

Re: powernow-k8 module missing in kernel 4.9.0-8-rt-amd64

2019-02-15 Thread didier gaumet
Le 15/02/2019 à 09:26, Curt a écrit : > It's included as a module in *my* kernel 4.9.0-8-amd64: > > curty@einstein:~$ grep -i powernow /boot/con* > /boot/config-4.9.0-7-amd64:CONFIG_X86_POWERNOW_K8=m > /boot/config-4.9.0-8-amd64:CONFIG_X86_POWERNOW_K8=m I have verified: CONFIG_X86_POWERNOW_K8 i

Re: Jessie / Mips fails to downoad index

2019-03-03 Thread didier gaumet
It seems Jessie repository is reachable but Jessie security updates repository is not. That would be logical since Jessie for the Mips architecture is EOL. There are no more security updates for your architecture so you only need to comment out the security updates in the /etc/apt/sources.list f

Re: Group thoughts on: Anti-virus tools

2019-03-12 Thread didier gaumet
Wikipedia makes a comparison of Linux antivirus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_antivirus_software#Linux

Re: BUSTER install - CATCH-22

2019-04-01 Thread didier gaumet
Le 31/03/2019 à 15:28, Richard Owlett a écrit : [...] > I added the line >> deb "file:/media/richard/Debian testing amd64 1/debian" buster contrib >> main > > to the beginning of sources.list . [...] > This is unacceptable when installation via an iso image on a flash drive > is becoming more and

Re: Flatpak and apparmor.

2019-04-07 Thread didier gaumet
Hello, Disclaimer: I have never used Apparmor nor SELinux, I only just installed Apparmor on Stretch because it will be enabled by default on new installations of Buster and I want my future migration result to be like a new install. I would surmise (even if I am not sure of it) that Apparmor p

Re: Stretch with MATE DE - odd new file association problem

2019-04-16 Thread didier gaumet
Le 15/04/2019 à 23:05, Richard Owlett a écrit : [...] >> root@fromdell:/home/richard# update-alternatives --config >> gnome-www-browser >> There is only one alternative in link group gnome-www-browser >> (providing /usr/bin/gnome-www-browser): /usr/bin/firefox-esr >> Nothing to configure. >> root@f

Re: Music sheet scanner

2019-04-19 Thread didier gaumet
maybe Audiveris, not packaged, you have to build it yourself: https://github.com/Audiveris/audiveris

Re: Trying to install Audiveris

2019-04-20 Thread didier gaumet
Le 20/04/2019 à 09:33, Rodolfo Medina a écrit : > I'm experimenting difficulty in installing Audiveris... Anyone has already > installed it...? Please help. What kind of difficulties? I do not use Audiveris myself, but there are instructions for building it from source on their wiki and into t

Re: how to display html files on google drive

2019-04-20 Thread didier gaumet
Le 20/04/2019 à 16:30, Pierre Frenkiel a écrit : > hi, > I can't find a working application to display the html file I've uploaded > to Google Drive. > the "Html viewer" is bugged, as it displays forever a rotating wheel... > Otherwise, is there an other way that html to display images with comment

Re: how to display html files on google drive

2019-04-20 Thread didier gaumet
Le 20/04/2019 à 23:44, Pierre Frenkiel a écrit : > it is not MY drive, it is a google drive, at address > https://drive.google.com/drive/my-drive/pf-index.html > > I don't know what file manager can access that. > gvfs or thunar give: "operation not supported" The address above is http, so

Re: how to display html files on google drive

2019-04-21 Thread didier gaumet
Le 21/04/2019 à 10:10, Pierre Frenkiel a écrit : >    of course, I'm using a web browswer, but with either chromium or > firefox, >    I have the same problem when opening my html file: the images are not >    displayed. 1) What I mean is (from what I understand...): - Google Drive is like GMai

Re: how to display html files on google drives

2019-04-21 Thread didier gaumet
Le 21/04/2019 à 21:22, Pierre Frenkiel a écrit : >    It seems I was not clear enough: what I want to do is to give access >    to other people to the html file, A webpage containing images is not a simple html file (look at the previous link) If you cannot sea pictures in your webpages stored on

Re: how to display html files on google drives

2019-04-22 Thread didier gaumet
Le 21/04/2019 à 23:40, Pierre Frenkiel a écrit : > On Sun, 21 Apr 2019, didier gaumet wrote: > >> What I gather is that Google did not announce end of html support (It's >> the heart of its ecosystem) but end of life of its Google Drive PC >> tools, in order to ac

Re: Convert PDF to TIFF at a certain bits-per-sample amount

2019-04-23 Thread didier gaumet
Le 23/04/2019 à 22:02, Rodolfo Medina a écrit : > Hi all. > > How can I convert PDF to TIFF at a certain bit-per-sample quantity? Say, > 8...? > Any particular option to > > $ convert file.pdf file.tif > > ? Or any other way...? > > Thanks for any help, > > Rodolfo > > with convert, may

Re: Testing netinstall, but use stable release?

2019-05-08 Thread didier gaumet
Le 08/05/2019 à 22:47, Rory Campbell-Lange a écrit : [..] > I downloaded debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso on 29 April but having > just tested this I'm not getting a choice of distribution. I'm in expert > mode (console) -- perhaps I'll try again on the graphical version. [..] Hello Rory, being i

Re: Does anyone know where chkconfig went?

2019-05-11 Thread didier gaumet
you could take a look at sysv-rc-conf or rcconf packages

Re: Firefox in SID

2019-10-12 Thread didier . gaumet
Hello, It seems 2.10 versions of the freetype libs are not in Sid but in Experimental: https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=freetype&searchon=names&suite=all§ion=all

Re: Firefox in SID

2019-10-13 Thread didier . gaumet
Le dimanche 13 octobre 2019 09:50:04 UTC+2, Marek Mosiewicz a écrit : > > Hello, > > > > It seems 2.10 versions of the freetype libs are not in Sid but in > > Experimental: > > > > https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=freetype&searchon=names&suite=all§ion=all > > > Firefox uses is own co

Re: Firefox in SID

2019-10-13 Thread didier . gaumet
firefox-esr (68) in Sid is built upon freetype2 v2.9: https://salsa.debian.org/mozilla-team/firefox/tree/esr68/master/modules/freetype2 but firefox (69) in Sid is built upon freetype v2.10: https://salsa.debian.org/mozilla-team/firefox/tree/release/master/modules/freetype2 To avoid a franke

Re: Buster: any graphical browser not depending on systemd?

2019-10-20 Thread didier . gaumet
Le samedi 19 octobre 2019 18:10:05 UTC+2, to...@tuxteam.de a écrit : [...] > Now to read more on apt pinning. Perhaps I've to give sysvinit-core > a higher prio. [...] When, out of curiosity, I tried to install Debian without systemd in a VM, I blacklisted (negative priority) systemd* or even *sy

Re: Adobe Flash Player on Debian Buster

2019-10-20 Thread didier . gaumet
As Andrew expressed it, using Flash Player is a bad idea but if you really want to use it, take a look there: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/why-do-i-have-click-activate-plugins

Re: alternatives to gmail?

2019-11-19 Thread didier . gaumet
Hello Karen A quick web search for "gmail alternatives" gives plenty of answers, for example: https://lifehacker.com/ditch-gmail-with-these-alternatives-1829337583 It is possible, though, that you encounter the same problems (javascript support in text-mode browsers) as with gmail. If it is t

Re: Booting Debian 10 installer ISO from USB

2019-11-20 Thread didier . gaumet
Le mercredi 20 novembre 2019 18:50:04 UTC+1, pru...@finsakxim.com.mx a écrit : > So in the end no one being able to help booting Debian 10 with grub > loopback? > My grub.cfg and symptoms are back in first post of this thread. > Cannot understand why Debian kernel/initrd are unable to find the IS

Re: enigmail

2019-11-22 Thread didier . gaumet
Le vendredi 22 novembre 2019 19:00:05 UTC+1, Alessandro Vesely a écrit : > On Mon 18/Nov/2019 21:15:41 +0100 Reco wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 12:57:16PM -0700, D. R. Evans wrote: > >> I see that the update to debian stable that I was going to do today > >> wants to update thunderbird but rem

Re: xdm config

2019-12-09 Thread didier . gaumet
Perhaps wdm would be of interest for you: https://packages.debian.org/buster/wdm

Re: instable X after upgrade to buster - X? firefox? liberoffice? screensaver? lxde?

2019-12-17 Thread didier . gaumet
The Debian bug you mention is related to xscreensaver 5.36 in Stretch, I don't know if it is still relevant for xscreensaver 5.42 in Buster. You told us that you upgraded to Buster by accident: did you apt dist-upgrade after apt upgrade?

Re: Re: instable X after upgrade to buster - X? firefox? liberoffice? screensaver? lxde?

2019-12-20 Thread didier . gaumet
Le vendredi 20 décembre 2019 15:40:05 UTC+1, Wolfgang Rosner a écrit : [...] Perhaps you still have in your installed Debian some obsolete packages and non installed recommended packages? (I have had this in the past) The easiest way is probably aptitude in interactive mode: there is a special

Re: No Grub to launch my new Debian 10 with LUKS&LVM (UEFI)

2019-12-27 Thread didier . gaumet
Le vendredi 27 décembre 2019 08:30:04 UTC+1, l0f...@tuta.io a écrit : > Hi everyone, > > I installed some days ago Debian 10 with LVM inside LUKS and specific > formatting (4 logical volumes for /, /home, /var and swap) on my Lenovo > ThinkPad X390 in dual-boot configuration with Windows 10 (whi

Re: No Grub to launch my new Debian 10 with LUKS&LVM (UEFI)

2020-01-01 Thread didier . gaumet
Le mardi 31 décembre 2019 18:50:04 UTC+1, l0f...@tuta.io a écrit : [...] > As soon as I deactivate Secure Boot, I get Grub and then Debian is > launching... > It's pretty weird as I thought Debian 10 works out-of-the-box with Secure > Boot... SecureBoot has its own limitations and perhaps your u

Re: Fresh-installed Debian 10 (UEFI, LUKS&LVM) not accessible through Secure Boot (was: No Grub to launch my new Debian 10 with LUKS&LVM (UEFI))

2020-01-02 Thread didier . gaumet
Le mercredi 1 janvier 2020 14:00:04 UTC+1, l0f...@tuta.io a écrit : [...] > Secure Boot [...] > However, is it normal that I cannot boot my Debian as soon as I installed it? > I mean I didn't go on the Internet and told Debian to install something > specific, I only ran the installer so I shouldn'

Re: Fresh-installed Debian 10 (UEFI, LUKS&LVM) not accessible through Secure Boot

2020-01-02 Thread didier . gaumet
Le mercredi 1 janvier 2020 18:20:04 UTC+1, Pascal Hambourg a écrit : > No. This was only an irrelevant example. Secure boot does not prevent > booting when an unsigned kernel module is present, it would only prevent > loading such module. I struggle to see why it is irrelevant considering it wa

Re: Fresh-installed Debian 10 (UEFI, LUKS&LVM) not accessible through Secure Boot

2020-01-03 Thread didier . gaumet
Le vendredi 3 janvier 2020 17:10:04 UTC+1, l0f...@tuta.io a écrit : [...] > I've used > https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-cd/debian-10.2.0-amd64-netinst.iso Good. I would verify shim* packages are installed and well configured (State/Error flags "ii" at the beginning of the

Re: No official way to make Debian Live USB "persistent"?

2020-01-19 Thread didier . gaumet
Le samedi 18 janvier 2020 15:00:04 UTC+1, kaye n a écrit : > Hello Friends! > > Correct me if I'm wrong but there doesn't seem to be an 'official' way of > creating a Live USB Debian that is 'persistent'. [...] https://live-team.pages.debian.net/live-manual/html/live-manual/customizing-run-time-

Re: identity confusion

2020-01-24 Thread didier . gaumet
Does the --login option provide the same result? EXcerpt from the su man page: "For backward compatibility, su defaults to not change the current di‐ rectory and to only set the environment variables HOME and SHELL (plus USER and LOGNAME if the target user is not root). It

Re: Fresh install UEFI debian-10.2.0-amd64-xfce-CD-1 will not boot

2020-01-30 Thread didier . gaumet
Le jeudi 30 janvier 2020 06:30:04 UTC+1, David Christensen a écrit : > On 2020-01-29 10:51, David Christensen wrote: > >     root@d-i:/# grub-install --target x86_64-efi-signed > >     grub-install: error: /usr/lib/grub/x86_64-efi-signed/modinfo.sh > > doesn't exist. Please specify --target or -

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