Re: WiFi on a headless PC using a laptop NIC

2015-11-27 Thread didier gaumet
Le 27/11/2015 08:16, Leslie Rhorer a écrit : [...] > Upon detecting this card, Debian Jessie uses the rfkill API to soft > block the wireless adapter, assuming this to be a laptop who should > not have WiFi enabled unless the user specifically enables it > manually. Of course, if there were a moni

Re: Install Debian 9.1 stretch on Pentium II system: pata_hpt3x2n required?

2017-09-05 Thread didier gaumet
Le 05/09/2017 à 11:34, David Max a écrit : > Hello > > I am attempting to install Debian 9.1 stretch on an old Pentium II system. > > Setup -- > > cpu Pentium II 400 MHz > ram 512 MB > video card ATI RAGE IIC AGP > hdd #1 6.8 GB Fujitsu (with Windows installed, also a 1GB Linux swap > partition)

Re: Workable installation of VTK and GWT

2017-09-09 Thread didier gaumet
Disclaimer: I have never used or built Elmer >From the Elmer wiki at http://www.elmerfem.org/elmerwiki/index.php?title=Compilation_of_Elmer_on_Linux_using_Cmake : [...] "Furthermore, ElmerGUI will be compiled - this expects the "devel" versions of OpenCascade, QWT and a binary (should the post-pr

Re: Splitting MP3 files (again)

2017-09-25 Thread didier gaumet
found a similar question on the web: https://askubuntu.com/questions/27574/how-can-i-split-a-mp3-file/27637 I have not experimented these solutions myself, but Audacity seems not to be the best way. Mentionned here are mp3split (CLI and GUI) and ffmpeg (CLI).

Re: Splitting MP3 files (again)

2017-09-25 Thread didier gaumet
Le 25/09/2017 à 20:14, deloptes a écrit : > I'll try the GUI, though I prefer not installing packages just for > testing ... perhaps a VM will server. > > As for the mp3splt - as said before I use it, but I have to enter manually > the time point to plit, which I expect to be possible to do in a

Re: does elinks have a show hidden links option?

2017-12-14 Thread didier gaumet
Le 14/12/2017 à 09:56, Curt a écrit : [...] > Maybe some other kind soul (not that I am one of those) is both an > elinks guru and a paypal client (if they aren't mutually exclusive > categories) and he or she will pipe up here in this forum. [...] Curt's post reminded me that I do have a Paypal ac

Re: Problems making a bootable DVD

2017-12-23 Thread didier gaumet
You seem to use Windows 7 and from this OS on, Micosoft includes an iso burner: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd451080.aspx

Re: Alternatives to Iceape Display Problems?

2011-11-05 Thread didier gaumet
Hi, http://kb.mozillazine.org/Images_in_messages_do_not_appear may be this page will hell you -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/2005094441.68f83..

Re: Plymouth only displays text bar

2012-01-27 Thread didier gaumet
Le Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:08:52 + (UTC), Ramon Hofer a écrit : > Hi all > > I'm playing with plymouth. I had no problems configuring it on my > laptop but I have a htpc where I wanted to set the xbmc-logo plymouth > theme. Unfortunately it only shows the white blue progress bar from > the text

Re: Plymouth only displays text bar

2012-01-27 Thread didier gaumet
Le Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:45:23 + (UTC), Ramon Hofer a écrit : [...] > Now I have installed the nvidia-glx package nvidia-glx recommends a nvidia specific kernel and aptitude/apt-get installs recommended packages by default so you do have multiple kernels installed? > from the repos what rep

Re: Plymouth only displays text bar

2012-01-27 Thread didier gaumet
Sorry for my stupidity: I should have read carefully and not made a confusion between a specific nvidia kernel module and a specific nvidia kernel. the only sensible aspect of my previous post is to know if you try to mix nvdia-glx from stable repo and a backported kernel. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: Plymouth only displays text bar

2012-01-27 Thread didier gaumet
Le Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:15:19 + (UTC), Ramon Hofer a écrit : [...] > So if I get you right, I'm fine when I install linux-image-amd64 and > nvidia-glx both from the squeeze backports? That's what I was thinking: to install the kernel and the nvidia driver from the same repo (either stable or

Re: Squeeze Backports kernel with nVidia driver package

2012-01-28 Thread didier gaumet
Le Sat, 28 Jan 2012 10:20:58 + (UTC), Ramon Hofer a écrit : [...] > I have added "deb http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports > squeeze- backports main" to my /etc/apt/sources.list "deb http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports squeeze- backports main non-free" would be better [...]

Re: Xen and Squeeze (was: When will Debian 7.0 with Linux Kernel 3.x be Released?)

2012-03-27 Thread didier gaumet
Le Tue, 27 Mar 2012 13:04:57 +0800, "Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)" a écrit : [...] > Why do I want Linux Kernel 3.x? Because > I want to play around with Xen virtualization (dom0 required). [...] Maybe I am wrong, but I don't think you need another kernel than the squeeze stock kernel. Take a look

Re: Calendar/ reminder wanted - recommendations

2009-11-18 Thread didier gaumet
Le Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:27:35 +, AG a écrit : [...] > I want to have a reminder that can run in the background when I don't > need it and minimises to the notification area (system tray?) in > Gnome (the area near the clock on a default lay out), and when an > appointment is due it pops up wi

Re: Back to Debian after 10 years

2010-01-07 Thread didier gaumet
On Wed, 6 Jan 2010 20:28:08 +, Vasco Costa wrote : [...] > By the way, in case I want to go back to a rolling release scheme, how > does Debian testing/unstable behave in this regard for an experienced > power user? I know all the nuts and bolts of Archlinux, including > using the testing rep

Re: Multiple logins with XDM

2011-07-19 Thread didier gaumet
Le Tue, 19 Jul 2011 20:02:24 +1200, Aidan Gauland a écrit : > Hi, > > I am on squeeze using XDM as my display manager and XScreenSaver. > When I click the "New Login" button from the locked screensaver > dialog, XScreenSaver complains about not being able to find > gdmflexiserver. So it seems t

Re: 64-bit netbooks with Debian linux

2010-05-02 Thread didier gaumet
Le Sun, 2 May 2010 12:17:54 -0700, Peter Tenenbaum a écrit : > I've been thinking about getting a netbook and I'd like to install > Debian linux on it when / if I do. I'd also like to get one which > uses an AMD64-class processor. Does anyone have any suggestions? > The Gateway LT21 looks like

Re: SCIM, anthy, and French

2010-05-13 Thread didier gaumet
Le Fri, 14 May 2010 02:31:58 + (UTC), Hendrik Boom a écrit : > I'm using scim, anthy [...] > I'd like also the be able to switch in a French input method [...] > But I can't figure out how to set that up. (currently running Debian > squeeze on an Asus 1000HE.) Hi, You probably need to r

Re: Entrance (Enlightenment)

2010-08-31 Thread didier gaumet
Le Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:01:00 +0200, Jangita a écrit : > Hi Guys, > > I've STFW but all in vain, any one knows how to download/install > Enlightenment Entrance for my log in? I'm on lenny and i've managed > to install e17 using the repositories on enlightenment.org - now > entrance remaining. >

Re: OT: advice on Notebook, smartbook from alwaysinnovating

2010-10-14 Thread didier gaumet
Le Wed, 13 Oct 2010 22:40:02 +0200, Thierry Chatelet a écrit : An answer a little aside your question: if import (VAT, delays, warranty and so on) is too of a hassle for you and openness is not not an absolute requirement, you could take a look at the Toshiba AC100 Android ARM smartbook: http://

Re: iPAQ connection to Debian Squeeze

2010-11-26 Thread didier gaumet
On Fri, 26 Nov 2010 14:54:20 -0800 Gary Roach wrote: [...] > I have the following software loaded on the Squeeze/KDE4 system: > > synce-trayicon > synce-hal > multisyn [...] I can't assure you it will solve your problem but I would suggest to install multisync0.90 instead of multisync. I unders

Re: Why is bullseye-backports recommended on bookworm?

2023-11-14 Thread didier gaumet
Le 14/11/2023 à 23:01, Vincent Lefevre a écrit : [...] Then why does reportbug mention the bullseye-backports kernel? [...] Hello, I don't know why particularly a Bullseye-backports kernel is promoted here in a mixed stable/unstable context but perhaps (I have not tested it) you could set ch

Re: Looking to a KDE or desktop agnostic software to batch resize pictures

2023-04-05 Thread didier gaumet
Hello, I do not use image editing/modifying tools, so I cannot say if these solutions are good in your usecase, but there are at least three tools packaged in Debian: - Converseen (GUI batch tool: conversion, resizing, etc...) https://www.makeuseof.com/batch-convert-resize-images-linux-using-c

Re: Email bodies not show anymore in Evolution Email

2023-05-04 Thread didier gaumet
Le 04/05/2023 à 09:54, Christoph Pleger a écrit : Hello, suddenly, I have the problem in Evolution Email, that email bodies are not shown anymore, but only the headers. This affects my private email account as well as my email account for work. Maybe I have changed some setting, but I cannot r

Re: Email bodies not show anymore in Evolution Email

2023-05-05 Thread didier gaumet
Le 04/05/2023 à 20:21, Jim Popovitch a écrit : [...] Excellent job Debian team! +1 Great. Hats down to Debian folks :-)

Re: how to find out regdomain/country of wifi network

2023-05-13 Thread didier gaumet
Hello, some info here: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/networking/regulatory.html

Re: how to boot freebsd from bullseye?

2023-05-14 Thread didier gaumet
There is a utility called os-prober that scans for other OSes than the one os-prober is running in. This utility is called by update-grub. but I think this has been modified from Debian 12 Bookworm on. please verify if os-prober is installed: $ dpkg -l os-prober if it is not installed, inst

Re: how to boot freebsd from bullseye?

2023-05-14 Thread didier gaumet
You seem to be using i686 Debian architecture: - if it is an educated choice and you do want want 32 bits only, that is perfectly fine - if you have chosen i686 Debian architecture because you have an Intel CPU, please be aware that in Debian, i686 architecture is for 32 bits Intel or AMD CPUs,

Re: how to boot freebsd from bullseye?

2023-05-14 Thread didier gaumet
Correction: there is no Debian i686 architecture: this is still called i386, even if CPUs before i686 are not supported anymore

Re: how to boot freebsd from bullseye?

2023-05-15 Thread didier gaumet
Le 14/05/2023 à 23:02, hl a écrit : Thank didier gaumet! os-prober seems to be installed by default. it thinks my freebsd is unknown linux distro. if it's windows, i bet it can detect it correctly. freebsd is close cousin of linux they say, it is treated shabbily - As far as I know,

Re: NetworkManager, Iphone, Bullseye, and Bookworm

2023-05-28 Thread didier gaumet
Le 28/05/2023 à 17:47, Charles Curley a écrit : On Sun, 28 May 2023 03:31:21 +0500 "Alexander V. Makartsev" wrote: Probably, an updated "wpasupplicant" package is what you need. The version in "bullseye-backports" is slightly older, so you might need to build a backport from sources in "bookwo

Re: "dpkg-reconfigure" dash no longer works

2023-06-09 Thread didier gaumet
Le 09/06/2023 à 15:38, S M a écrit : Good day. I noticed on a newly installed system with Debian 12 that dpkg-reconfigure no longer allows to switch the /bin/sh symlink from dash to bash. This is apparently intentional as per the following: https://launchpad.net/debian/+source/dash/0.5.11+git

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-17 Thread didier gaumet
Le 16/06/2023 à 20:32, gene heskett a écrit : greetings, just had to reinstall bullseye. from an 11.2 netinstall. Sudo -E cannot run synaptic, and cannot run it from menu pulldown after entering my pw. So what package manager with a gui for selection is compatible with wayland? Something I can

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-17 Thread didier gaumet
Le 17/06/2023 à 14:09, gene heskett a écrit : On 6/17/23 04:44, didier gaumet wrote: [...] - if you want an even more user-friendly and guided approach, use an app store instead of a package manager: Gnome-software or Apper I do use several AppImages because of debians glacial speed of

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-20 Thread didier gaumet
Le 20/06/2023 à 04:41, pa...@quillandmouse.com a écrit : On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 03:58:18 +0200 Anders Andersson wrote: [snip] I've been watching this thread from afar for a while and it still puzzles me why people keep bringing up wayland. I've been running wayland for years, and synaptic works

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-20 Thread didier gaumet
Le 20/06/2023 à 09:13, gene heskett a écrit : That needs a better explanation, Felix. As I see it, wayland can't run as root, so no app that needs root works with wayland. Since package managers with a gui need wayland, all the package managers that do have a gui, are now dead except gnome pac

Re: ibus-wayland question

2023-06-20 Thread didier gaumet
Le 20/06/2023 à 05:07, Byung-Hee HWANG (황병희) a écrit : Hellow Debian hackers,s I'm CJK user with Debian Gnome from South Korea. Nowdays i am interested in Wayland and Input Method. So i did install ibus-wayland: [...] Please please show me the example config for testing inputing with ibus-way

Re: ibus-wayland question

2023-06-20 Thread didier gaumet
Le 20/06/2023 à 13:05, Byung-Hee HWANG a écrit : Let me say my plan: There is lovely Korean Input Method for Korean Linux users. That name is Nabi. However Nabi is run only X11 environment. I want to take the Nabi to the next generation "Wayland world". This is my lifelong wish. Really i love th

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-21 Thread didier gaumet
Le 21/06/2023 à 19:53, gene heskett a écrit : welp, I just did a net install of at least half of bookworm, [...] Oh, and synaptic asks for a pw, I give it mine, and it runs just fine. Cheers, Gene Heskett. Glad to hear it, Gene :-)

Re: Firefox on wrong desktop

2023-07-11 Thread didier gaumet
Le 12/07/2023 à 04:53, Manphiz a écrit : writes: Folks: This is Bookworm, XFCE4. Using claws-mail, when I click on a web link, it opens a tab for that URL on Firefox. As expected. I run Firefox on desktop 1 and claws-mail on desktop 2. However, when claws-mail launches a tab in firefox, it mo

Re: I reinstalled debian bullsee and still have the same messages and this one too

2023-07-16 Thread didier gaumet
Hello This error message could probably disappear if you install xdg-desktop-portal.service package. There is also a backported version for Bullseye and that could suggest also that for whatever reason the ordinary Bullseye package does not function anymore at least in certain conditions

Re: Pulseaudio - Daemon.conf

2023-07-19 Thread didier gaumet
Le 19/07/2023 à 09:30, Michel Nakache a écrit : Bonjour, pourquoi sur une nouvelle installation de bookworm c'est toujours pulse audio qui et de base installé? Hello Michel, this is a mailing list in english. (translation of the question): Hello, why on a new installation of bookworm is it st

Re: Pulseaudio - Daemon.conf

2023-07-19 Thread didier gaumet
Le 19/07/2023 à 11:51, Stefan Schumacher a écrit : For the record: I am using Gnome. The system in question is not an update from Bullseye but a clean new install on new hardware. dpkg -l | grep pulse shows these (below), but trying to install pulseaudio itself would remove critical components f

Re: Pulseaudio - Daemon.conf

2023-07-19 Thread didier gaumet
Le 19/07/2023 à 13:48, didier gaumet a écrit : [...] https://pipewire.pages.freedesktop.org/wireplumber/configuration/alsa.html#startup-tweaks [...] Sorry, the correct link for the Alsa section of the Wireplumber configuration files is here: https://pipewire.pages.freedesktop.org/wireplumber

Re: Overzealous polkit

2023-07-25 Thread didier gaumet
Le 24/07/2023 à 23:55, Charles Curley a écrit : A fresh install of Debian 12.1 on a Lenovo Yoga 13. I have firewalld installed, and firewall-config 1.3.0-1 to manage it. Polkit insists on authentication, which is fine. It then has extremely short timeouts (or something), so I have to keep re-auth

Re: NetworkManager, Iphone, and Bookworm

2023-07-31 Thread didier gaumet
Hello Charles, it seems the connection times out because authentication does not succeed. Perhaps you can try to ensure that the WPA version is the same on both (on the Iphone I don't know, in NetworkManager, that is in the security tab of the connection)

Re: NetworkManager, Iphone, and Bookworm

2023-07-31 Thread didier gaumet
Le 01/08/2023 à 06:30, Charles Curley a écrit : According to Apple web sites, iOS devices (including iPhones) have used WPA3 for several years. But there is no way to select the WPA version on the iPhone. I have no Apple hardware and have experimented this but you could *probably* use a MDM s

Re: NetworkManager, Iphone, and Bookworm

2023-07-31 Thread didier gaumet
Le 01/08/2023 à 07:18, didier gaumet a écrit : [...] If wpasupplicant is up to date and you still are not able to connect, consult le Archlinux wiki, there are instructions to manage WPA3 mixed (with WPA2) manually (wpa_cli): https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Wpa_supplicant

Re: Debian 12: Failure to build ALPS kernel module

2023-08-04 Thread didier gaumet
Le 04/08/2023 à 11:44, Loris Bennett a écrit : Hi, I have a 10 year-old Dell E6230 laptop which I have updated regularly, starting from Squeeze and have now updated to Bookworm. Everything seems to work except for the fact that a module fails to build for the new kernel: Error! Bad return s

Re: GPIO

2024-05-16 Thread didier gaumet
Le 17/05/2024 à 06:16, manjunathreddy boreddy a écrit : Hello     I am using debian 12 bookworm i am unable to export gpio pins by using echo 0 > /sys/class/gpio/export i am getting bash: echo : write error earlier it was working fine when i re installed debian package i am unable to

Re: GPIO

2024-05-16 Thread didier gaumet
by private mail manjunathreddy boreddy wrote: I am unable to access under /dev/gpio*. Please post to the debian user mailing list rather than to me :-) I do not myself use GPIO devices so I am not able to offer a truely sensible advice but I would begin with what the gpiodetect command (gpi

Re: Using packaged Nix

2024-06-28 Thread didier gaumet
Hello, Disclaimer: I have never used Nix from the Nix to Debian phrasebook ( https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Nix_to_Debian_phrasebook ) I would try: $ nix-env -qaP '.*libossp_uuid.*' As an answer to your other question (is there another package system managing dependencies available on Debian?), I h

Re: Need help with narroely focused use case of Emacs

2024-06-28 Thread didier gaumet
Le 28/06/2024 à 21:04, Richard Owlett a écrit : Pluma is my editor of choice. *BUT* it can NOT handle Search and Replace operations involving regular expressions. [...] Hello Richard, According to the Mate wiki, Pluma handles regular expressions the Perl way: https://wiki.mate-desktop.org/mat

Re: How to use Wine, How to get Gecko to install and work

2024-06-30 Thread didier gaumet
Le 01/07/2024 à 01:24, George at Clug a écrit : [...] I have not found useful documentation that can get me over the "Could not find Wine Gecko", "Failed to init Gecko" error messages. [...] Hello, disclaimer: I have not used Wine in ages, so I cannot be of real help Note, you could tell wh

Re: How to use Wine, How to get Gecko to install and work

2024-07-01 Thread didier gaumet
Hello, Absolutely no idea if it will help you solve your problem but the Archwiki has an potentially interesting tip for reverting the Debian default behavior: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Wine#Prevent_installing_Mono/Gecko so, perhaps setting the WINEDLLOVERRIDES environment variable to

Re: Cannot execute any container using podman run

2024-07-02 Thread didier gaumet
Le 02/07/2024 à 16:38, Jörg Kastning a écrit : [...] :~$ podman run --rm hello-world conmon: option parsing failed: Unknown option --full-attach Error: write child: broken pipe [...] Hello, please be aware that I never used podman nor conmon so what I say may be totally irrelevant the above

Re: Using packaged Nix

2024-07-04 Thread didier gaumet
Le 04/07/2024 à 15:07, Nicolas George a écrit : Unfortunately, no luck. [...] What I need is something that explains how to use Nix on Debian when all you have are documentations about Nix not on Debian. I tried the Debian way (installing nix-setup-systemd, which install nix-bin) without su

Re: Using packaged Nix

2024-07-04 Thread didier gaumet
(sorry Nicolas, I first sent you a private mail instead of posting on this list, my bad) Le 04/07/2024 à 15:07, Nicolas George a écrit : > Unfortunately, no luck. > > error: selector '.*libossp_uuid.*' matches no derivations [...] Guix, the GNU version of Nix, seems (at least basically) fun

Re: Using packaged Nix

2024-07-05 Thread didier gaumet
Le 05/07/2024 à 11:31, Nicolas George a écrit : [...] There is another property of Nix I need: Nix never replaces a file, it only creates new files under different directories. This is important for me as I intend to use the same snapshot of the /nix volume connected read-only on multiple virtual

Re: Debian Sid/Unstable is not a rolling user distro [WAS:Re: Kernel 6.9.9 (amd64) results in huge initrd / initramfs size]

2024-07-19 Thread didier gaumet
Le 19/07/2024 à 09:43, to...@tuxteam.de a écrit : On Fri, Jul 19, 2024 at 09:25:22AM +0200, didier gaumet wrote: Le 19/07/2024 à 05:12, songbird a écrit : [...] You are perfectly right: there is no contract and one i free to use which Debian distro one wants to... Actually, there /is/ a

Re: Debian Sid/Unstable is not a rolling user distro [WAS:Re: Kernel 6.9.9 (amd64) results in huge initrd / initramfs size]

2024-07-19 Thread didier gaumet
Le 19/07/2024 à 09:25, didier gaumet a écrit : [...] You are perfectly right: there is no contract and one i free to use which Debian distro one wants to... [...] typo error, sorry: You are perfectly right: there is no contract and one is free to use which Debian distro one wants to...

Debian Sid/Unstable is not a rolling user distro [WAS:Re: Kernel 6.9.9 (amd64) results in huge initrd / initramfs size]

2024-07-19 Thread didier gaumet
Le 19/07/2024 à 05:12, songbird a écrit : The Wanderer wrote: ... By taking on yourself the risk and burden of running sid, you are volunteering to be one of those who helps notice issues before they reach testing, and report those issues so that the machinery of the archive can stop the package

Re: KVM/QEMU/libvirt, and automatically release mouse pointer in Debian guest

2024-07-29 Thread didier gaumet
Le 29/07/2024 à 06:13, Jeffrey Walton a écrit : Hi Everyone, I have KVM/QEMU/libvirt installed to manage my VMs. I have a Debian 12 guest, x86_64, fully patched. The Debian guest has qemu-guest-agent installed. The qemu-guest-agent service is running on the Debian guest. The problem is, the Deb

Re: Authenticator apps

2024-08-04 Thread didier gaumet
Le 04/08/2024 à 22:16, Mick Ab a écrit : I realise that Authy is still available on smartphones and tablets, but I do not want to use a smartphone or a tablet. I simply need to run a simple 2FA TOTP authenticator on my Debian desktop PC. Hello, I do not use such applications but a search

Re: nvidia driver for GTX 970

2024-08-15 Thread didier gaumet
Le 15/08/2024 à 19:17, e...@gmx.us a écrit : [...] > Aug 15 12:57:24 cerberus lightdm[1085]: Error getting user list from > org.freedesktop.Accounts: > GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name > org.freedesktop.Accounts was not provided by any .service files [...] didier@hp-

Re: Virtual machine - booting from USB?

2024-08-21 Thread didier gaumet
Le 21/08/2024 à 13:27, Hans a écrit : [...] does one know, if it is possible to boot from an USB-stick within a virtual machine? [...] Short answer like "yes, it wqill wor with" or "no, this is not possible..." will be fine for me. [...] yes https://www.baeldung.com/linux/qemu-boot-physi

Re: Newbie install - Live DVD for 32 bit system

2024-08-21 Thread didier gaumet
Le 21/08/2024 à 14:15, James Freer a écrit : I was hoping i was doing the right thing with this live DVD. I realise 32 bit is going but i just wanted to test the hardware. I can't risk a hard disk install until i have leave from work and can spend the necessary time on an installation. Seems odd

Re: Newbie install - Live DVD for 32 bit system

2024-08-21 Thread didier gaumet
Le 21/08/2024 à 14:28, didier gaumet a écrit : [...] - You can use a Debian installation image as a repair image to start a shell that permits you to verify some basic points (no GUI...) [...] ...without installing anything on the disk(s)...

Re: Newbie install - Live DVD for 32 bit system

2024-08-21 Thread didier gaumet
Le 21/08/2024 à 15:15, James Freer a écrit : My apologies No need to apologize :-) I should have remembered that traditional installation medias are rarer amongst user-friendly distros like Ubuntu that provide primarily live-medias i thought this image was a live image and that was what i

Re: Newbie install - Live DVD for 32 bit system

2024-08-21 Thread didier gaumet
Le 21/08/2024 à 15:44, didier gaumet a écrit : [...] it is nontheless 64 bits hardware. Hey, reread your prose before posting, man! ;-) => nonetheless

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Virtual machine - booting from USB?

2024-08-21 Thread didier gaumet
Le 21/08/2024 à 18:30, Hans a écrit : [...] Well, now as I know, that qemu is working, I will check if I can use also the commandline with qemu. Should be possible! [...] That, too, is explained in the link I indicated previously, ("3. Boot From the Command Line"): https://www.baeldung.com/linu

Re: emacs service and session start

2024-08-23 Thread didier gaumet
Le 23/08/2024 à 10:08, Erwan David a écrit : I enabled the emacs user service (starts emacs as daemon). The ssh-agent is the one started by plasma. However, emacs (more exactly tram in emacs) does not see the ssh-agent. If I restart the emacs service once the session is on, it uses the ke

Re: confused about available 32bit kernels in Trixie

2024-10-17 Thread didier gaumet
Le 17/10/2024 à 00:55, Felix Miata a écrit : # apt-mark showhold # grep ^deb /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ trixie main non-free non-free-firmware contrib deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org trixie main non-free deb http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity-sb trixie dep

Re: How to can upgrade my BIOS?

2024-10-31 Thread didier gaumet
Le 31/10/2024 à 04:50, William Torrez Corea a écrit : Dell Inspiron 14R 5437 Hello, Dell website offers instructions to flash the BIOS without Windows: one has to make a bootable DOS USBkey: https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-us/product-support/product/inspiron-14r-5437/drivers FreeDOS US

Re: Is there any way to STD in Debian?

2024-09-26 Thread didier gaumet
Le 26/09/2024 à 11:51, YOYO a écrit : Hello everyone, Recently, I need to cut off power supply with all my running tasks saved. But it seems that the hibernate mode provided in Debian only allows me to Suspend to Ram(STR, or S3 mode in ACPI). Is there any way to Suspend to Disk (STD, or S4 Mode i

Re: problem with fwlogwatch.service (debian 12)

2024-11-20 Thread didier gaumet
Hello, it seems possible to increase the verbosity of systemctl for a particular service with the service-log-level command (cf systemctl manpage), perhaps (or not) it could provide useful infos.

Re: Encrypted /boot partition gets decrypted twice during boot

2025-02-04 Thread didier gaumet
Hello, From what I understand, a year ago, grub2 upstream LUKS2 support was still only initial and thus not complete: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?55093 So it still probably better to stick with LUKS1 for /boot for now

Re: How to send a message to a user logged in over ssh

2024-12-05 Thread didier gaumet
Le 05/12/2024 à 06:52, Ben Wong a écrit : Howdy! On most (all?) current Unix systems I can use `write` to communicate with users logged in over `ssh`. However, now that Debian is removing `mesg` and `writed` from util-linux [1], I'm wondering what the officially recommended replacement is. I

Re: HFS+

2025-01-21 Thread didier gaumet
Hello, (I have never used HFS/HFS+) I would look at theses packages: didier@hp-notebook14:~$ LANG=en-US.UTF-8; apt search hfs [...] hfsplus/stable 1.0.4-17 amd64 Tools to access HFS+ formatted volumes hfsprogs/stable 540.1.linux3-5+b1 amd64 mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems [...]

Re: Backports (bookworm), upgrade to all x for kernel 6.12.x, but not upgrade to 6.13

2025-01-22 Thread didier gaumet
Le 22/01/2025 à 21:48, Marco Möller a écrit : On 1/22/25 01:12, Greg Wooledge wrote: It's not yet clear to me whether you're trying to use a backported kernel because you *need* it, or because it has a higher number and you think higher numbers are better. I would like to optimize my laptop f

Re: Backports (bookworm), upgrade to all x for kernel 6.12.x, but not upgrade to 6.13

2025-01-22 Thread didier gaumet
Le 22/01/2025 à 23:23, didier gaumet a écrit : [...) DAW usage and I don not think he was not using backports) [...) I did not take time to read myself before posting, sorry: "I do not think he was using backports" is more correct ;-)

Re: Backports (bookworm), upgrade to all x for kernel 6.12.x, but not upgrade to 6.13

2025-01-22 Thread didier gaumet
Le 22/01/2025 à 23:41, Marco Möller a écrit : On 1/22/25 23:23, didier gaumet wrote: Debian provides realtime kernels in its repositories. For an AMD64 PC and Debian 12 Bookworm (without backports), the last LTS realtime kernel package is: linux-image-6.1.0-29-rt-amd64 Do I understand

Re: remark related about package removal on bookworm providing a systemd service

2025-01-27 Thread didier gaumet
Le 27/01/2025 à 17:39, Patrice Duroux a écrit : Hi, I do not know if this is something already addressed (elsewhere or in Trixie), a package issue or something more general. On a bookworm system, removing systemd-timesyncd is leaving a broken symlink (/etc/systemd/system/dbus-org.freedesktop.ti

Re: remark related about package removal on bookworm providing a systemd service

2025-01-28 Thread didier gaumet
Le 28/01/2025 à 23:28, David Wright a écrit : [...] But would that not be /etc/systemd/system/…/systemd-timesyncd.service? The dangling symlink is for ….timesync1.service, whatever that is. Analogously, my systemd-networkd service has two symlinks: /e/s/s/dbus-org.freedesktop.network1.service

Re: remark related about package removal on bookworm providing a systemd service

2025-01-28 Thread didier gaumet
Le 28/01/2025 à 19:39, Greg Wooledge a écrit : [...] hobbit:/etc/systemd/system$ ls -l dbus-org.freedesktop.timesync1.service lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 45 Feb 17 2024 dbus-org.freedesktop.timesync1.service -> /lib/systemd/system/systemd-timesyncd.service [...] I'm unclear on exactly how this sym

Re: remark related about package removal on bookworm providing a systemd service

2025-01-28 Thread didier gaumet
Le 28/01/2025 à 20:42, didier gaumet a écrit : [...] the installation of the package (seemly the default policy in Debian), [...] sorry for my poor english: please replace "seemly" by "apparently"

Re: LightDM and .dmrc

2025-01-30 Thread didier gaumet
Hello Nicolas, (Warning: I've never really tried to modify the LightDM setup and I presently use gdm3) Perhaps you will find answers on the GIT page of LightDM (section "Configuration"): https://github.com/canonical/lightdm?tab=readme-ov-file#configuration and on this page which details all

Re: LightDM and .dmrc

2025-01-30 Thread didier gaumet
Le 30/01/2025 à 10:39, didier gaumet a écrit : [...] user-session is not set in Debian LightDM setup: if you want the default session to be the last, perhaps you can try assigning "last" value to it (I don't know, I have tried it) I should read my posts before posting: &q

Re: hardware check

2025-04-11 Thread didier gaumet
Le 10/04/2025 à 09:14, Michel Verdier a écrit : A poor friend of mine is stucked on w$ and his computer has problems. I have no access to his system. Do you know a way to check his hardware, programs such as clamav, smartmontools or memtest, either running on w$ or from a live system? But it has

Re: hardware check

2025-04-11 Thread didier gaumet
Le 11/04/2025 à 10:05, didier gaumet a écrit : [...] When you have access to his PC, you can inquire about software and hardware issues [...] ...investigate... Lousy Speaking Didier

Re: Limiting attack surface for Debian sshd

2025-04-13 Thread didier gaumet
Le 13/04/2025 à 17:13, Marc SCHAEFER a écrit : Hello, would you be open to using another implementation of an ssh server? If so, it would be a third approach: Yes, it would be. It might help with the attack surface issue of current sshd. However, I would guess that most of the alternative t

Re: Limiting attack surface for Debian sshd

2025-04-14 Thread didier gaumet
Le 14/04/2025 à 13:57, Marc SCHAEFER a écrit : Hello, Yes! On the (dynamic) dependancy side it seems ideal. So it means it's a reimplementation of the SSH server, not using libssh? (or it's statically compiled, which could be worse?) libssh does not appear in the build-dependencies of the sou

Re: Limiting attack surface for Debian sshd

2025-04-12 Thread didier gaumet
Le 11/04/2025 à 20:12, Marc SCHAEFER a écrit : Hello, systemd dependancies that are activated on a Debian system imply a lot of library injections into sshd, much more than the stock OpenBSD ssh. To avoid this, there seem to be two approaches: - remove those dependancies (see below) -

Re: where does the this file belong on a debian 12 uptodate amd64system?

2025-03-02 Thread didier gaumet
Le 02/03/2025 à 08:11, gene heskett a écrit : On 3/2/25 01:40, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Sat, Mar 01, 2025 at 04:42:22PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: flathub.flatpakrepo Nowhere. And this is to indicate that flatpaks will not be accepted by debian? Installing that is one of the steps listed

Re: web browser recommendation

2025-03-07 Thread didier gaumet
Hello, from what I understand, the point is not if a web browser implements Manifest V3, but how it does so. Chrome disables certain features (blocking WebRequest) used by adblockers. Chromium still allows to install Ublock Origin (normal version, not Lite version) but warns that perhaps in

Re: Does "secure" old-stable kernel exist with required intel GPU support?

2025-03-12 Thread didier gaumet
Le 12/03/2025 à 13:54, didier gaumet a écrit : [...] But however, your current kernel 6.1 from Bullseye Backports does seem affected by a bug? https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=linux- image-6.1.0-0.deb11.21-amd64;dist=unstable => But however, your current kernel 6.1 f

Re: Does "secure" old-stable kernel exist with required intel GPU support?

2025-03-12 Thread didier gaumet
Hello again Felix, Fist thing first: sorry for having not read your first post carefully enough :-) From what I gather, the LTS team has provided the linux-image-6.1.0-0.deb11.31-amd64-unsigned package through Bullseye Security, without modifying the linux-image-amd64 package nor providing

Re: Does "secure" old-stable kernel exist with required intel GPU support?

2025-03-12 Thread didier gaumet
Hello, - in order to list all installable versions of a package, I find apt policy useful. Here for an amd64 kernel: didier@hp-notebook14:~$ LANG=en-us.UTF8; apt policy linux-image-amd64 linux-image-amd64: Installed: 6.1.129-1 Candidate: 6.1.129-1 Version table: 6.12.12-1~bpo12+1 1

Re: readers running debian

2025-07-03 Thread didier gaumet
Le 03/07/2025 à 13:25, fxkl4...@protonmail.com a écrit : [...] is there no dedicated reader device that can run a linux distro Hello, A minimal search on the web for "linux on " leads to: - for Kindle devices: https://github.com/schuhumi/alpine_kindle - for Kobo devices https://tuxphones.com/k

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