Re: seeding /dev/random from a security key

2024-03-25 Thread eben
On 3/25/24 17:27, Andy Smith wrote: The thread covers how to make rngd feed /dev/random from a OneRNG in Debian 12, but it is no longer possible to tell if that does anything useful. If not from devices like this, from where does Debian get its randomness? -- For is it not written, wheresoever

Re: Bookworm: Where are the ImageMagick binaries other than `convert`?

2024-04-01 Thread eben
On 4/1/24 21:37, Christian Gelinek wrote: Hi, I have ImageMagick installed, but only the `convert` binary is in my path. Other binaries like `magick` are not. Where can I find them, In Synaptic, if you get the properties of an installed package one of the tabs is "installed files". You can f

Re: tbird troubles

2024-04-15 Thread eben
On 4/15/24 10:01, gene heskett wrote: On 4/15/24 09:09, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 08:28:24AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: For the last 2 or 3 reboots, when launching t-bird, I get 2 copies of the gui stacked on top of each other. I can move them separately to 2 separate workspa

Re: Fwd: Debian 11 Xfce panel Network Manager applet has disappeared

2024-04-17 Thread eben
On 4/17/24 15:37, Richmond wrote:> David Christensen writes: > >> My WAG is that nm-applet is failing to start, but I have been unable to >> find if and where any error message is reported. > > What are the permissions on the nm-applet binary? And is its filesystem mounted with noexec? > maybe

Re: Fwd: Debian 11 Xfce panel Network Manager applet has disappeared

2024-04-18 Thread eben
On 4/18/24 05:27, David Christensen wrote: On 4/17/24 12:37, Richmond wrote: David Christensen writes: What are the permissions on the nm-applet binary? maybe it doesn't have permission to execute, or the process which starts it doesn't have permission. 2024-04-18 02:24:20 root@laalaa ~ #

Re: SOLVED: Re: Glitchy sound in Steam games after hard drive upgrade

2024-04-23 Thread eben
On 4/24/24 00:46, Charlie Gibbs wrote: On 2024-04-22 16:50, Jeffrey Walton wrote: What are the old and new hard drive model numbers and specs? Correction: the 4TB drive is a Western Digital WD40EFPX.  I was reading it by shining a flashlight through a gap in the frame and squinting from a wid

Re: Markup in mail messages

2024-05-14 Thread eben
On 5/14/24 22:17, Max Nikulin wrote: On 15/05/2024 02:32, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, May 14, 2024 at 08:16:20PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: Messages in Markdown in the Windows world? I have never seen it. [...] The only sensible interpretation I can come up with for why these asterisks wer

Re: Suspicious "invoice" email?

2024-05-17 Thread eben
On 5/17/24 15:28, PMA wrote: > Dear List, > > I received the following today from (Jerry Henley at) Ella White > . > > I suspect fraud here, so have not opened the invoice he/she attached. > > Can you possibly tell me whether the message is legitimate? >> Greetings! customer, It came through this

Re: "Repeaters", etc.

2024-05-27 Thread eben
On 5/27/24 17:09, Paul M Foster wrote: The local internet provider will likely provide a wireless router, as they all do. My idea is to put a device which receives wireless signal from the router/modem, and has an RJ45 jack in it in each room. So each room would have one of these, and the device

Re: "Repeaters", etc. - FRITZ!Box 7490

2024-05-28 Thread eben
On 5/28/24 11:13, Curt wrote: On 2024-05-28, Paul M Foster wrote: but I'd rather not. Since the wifi signal will permeate the whole house, it seemed more reasonable to plant a device in each room which could pick up the wifi, and provide wired internet to that room. I don't see why that woul

Re: "Repeaters", etc. - FRITZ!Box 7490

2024-05-28 Thread eben
On 5/28/24 14:04, Paul M Foster wrote: On Tue, May 28, 2024 at 03:13:26PM -, Curt wrote: On 2024-05-28, Paul M Foster wrote: but I'd rather not. Since the wifi signal will permeate the whole house, it seemed more reasonable to plant a device in each room which could pick up the wifi, and

Re: "Repeaters", etc.

2024-05-28 Thread eben
On 5/28/24 14:03, rtnetz...@windstream.net wrote: - Original Message - From: "Paul M Foster" I've never see a 3 phase in a house. Quite some years ago my father inquired about getting 3 phase power to his house to power a rather husky lathe. The answers were distributed between "impo

Re: Question About Free File Transfering Apps

2024-05-29 Thread eben
On 5/29/24 10:07, Carter Zhang wrote: Are there any free apps for GNU/Linux and Android to share files over LAN? There have already been LocalSend, LanXchange, LANDrop, NitroShare, Sharik, Warpinator, TrebleShot, but they have respective problems. scp / sshd nc, but you don't get authenticati

Re: tree with dir size

2024-05-30 Thread eben
On 5/30/24 18:28, Northwind wrote: Hello, is there a command that shows dir/subdir structure like `tree`, but for each dir has the size in results as well? It looks like "tree --du" should do it, but "tree -d --du -h" says ├── [452K] Documents when du says it's 787M. -- When we've nuked th

Re: tree with dir size

2024-05-30 Thread eben
On 5/30/24 18:54, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Thu, May 30, 2024 at 06:51:30PM -0400, e...@gmx.us wrote: It looks like "tree --du" should do it, but "tree -d --du -h" says ├── [452K] Documents when du says it's 787M. Well, that sounds like one of the numbers includes subdirectories and the other

Re: Question About Free File Transfering Apps

2024-05-30 Thread eben
On 5/30/24 20:08, mick.crane wrote: On 2024-05-29 15:07, Carter Zhang wrote: Are there any free apps for GNU/Linux and Android to share files over LAN? There have already been LocalSend, LanXchange, LANDrop, NitroShare, Sharik, Warpinator, TrebleShot, but they have respective problems.  I don

Re: Question About Free File Transfering Apps

2024-05-30 Thread eben
On 5/30/24 22:46, Carter Zhang wrote: Dear Dan, Thanks a lot for your reply but I am not clear how to use SFTP, SCP or NFS on Android. Could you please show me how? Any help will be appreciated. (lines wrapped) SFTP / SCP: https://ic.pics.livejournal.com/pushpitha/50334853/1538653/1538653_80

Re: Audio broken by kernel update

2024-05-31 Thread eben
On 5/31/24 10:04, Evgeny Kapun wrote: After I upgraded my system, my integrated sound card (Intel HDA) stopped working properly. The sound plays, but it is severely distorted. If I boot the same system with an older kernel, it works. Currently, I am using kernel 6.6.13+bpo-amd64, because newer v

Parenthesis or square brackets and "was" (was: Re: Monthly FAQ for Debian-user mailing list (last modified 20240501))

2024-06-02 Thread eben
On 6/1/24 23:02, Max Nikulin wrote: On 02/06/2024 02:59, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: If you change subject or emphasis in mid-thread, please change the subject line on your email accordingly so that this can be clearly seen. For example: New question [WAS Old topic] Are square brackets intention

Re: Yet ANOTHER ThunderTurd ( Thunderbird ) topic... Text Size

2024-06-02 Thread eben
On 6/2/24 14:03, Chris M wrote: I noticed that in SeaMonkey Mail's latest version 2.53.18.2 that the text is small in SOME emails, and in some emails its fine. And I can't figure out what to change to make the text a little bigger without having to use CTRL ++ on those certain emails. Any ideas

Re: alt-~ in xfce

2024-06-03 Thread eben
On 6/3/24 02:50, Paul Scott wrote: (Debian sid) Can alt-~ in  XFCE switch windows of the same application? alt-tilde in XFCE does nothing, at least in my installation (XFCE 4.18) -- Driscoll's Observation: The product of the IQs of each member of a tech-support conversation is a const

Re: alt-~ in xfce

2024-06-03 Thread eben
On 6/3/24 10:34, Dan Ritter wrote: Paul Scott wrote: (Debian sid) Can alt-~ in  XFCE switch windows of the same application? Settings -> Window Manager -> Keyboard Find "Switch window for same application". Tap "Edit" Type alt ~ Try it out. Ah, by default it's ctrl-alt-tab. -- He who

Re: Bookworm and its kernel: any updates coming?

2024-06-03 Thread eben
vulnerability in kernels 5.14 through 6.6. I have not seen any updates and uname -a shows: 6.1.0-13-amd64 Anyone concerned? I have the same kernel, and no updates. eben@cerberus:~$ sudo apt-get update [sudo] password for eben: Hit:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm InRelease Hit:2 http

Re: [ SOLVED] Re: Yet ANOTHER ThunderTurd ( Thunderbird ) topic... Text Size

2024-06-03 Thread eben
On 6/3/24 12:10, James H. H. Lampert wrote: (who still hasn't figured out why Ford named a car, and the Air Force named its demonstration team, after that same cheap wine) The USAF Thunderbirds predate Gallo Thunderbird by at least a year. They were founded in 1953, and the law allowing Gallo

Re: [ SOLVED] Re: Yet ANOTHER ThunderTurd ( Thunderbird ) topic... Text Size

2024-06-03 Thread eben
On 6/3/24 15:45, Bret Busby wrote: On 4/6/24 03:25, e...@gmx.us wrote: On 6/3/24 12:10, James H. H. Lampert wrote: (who still hasn't figured out why Ford named a car, and the Air Force named its demonstration team, after that same cheap wine) The USAF Thunderbirds predate Gallo Thunderbird by

Re: Bookworm and its kernel: any updates coming?

2024-06-03 Thread eben
On 6/3/24 15:06, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Jun 03, 2024 at 02:18:40PM -0400, e...@gmx.us wrote: eben@cerberus:~$ apt-cache policy linux-image-amd64 linux-image-amd64: Installed: (none) Candidate: 6.1.90-1 What am I doing wrong? You haven't installed the linux-image-

Re: lightdm errors

2024-06-04 Thread eben
On 6/4/24 12:44, Charles Curley wrote: > On Tue, 4 Jun 2024 09:55:51 -0400 > Eben King wrote: > >> Jun 04 01:57:07 cerberus lightdm[1547009]: xrandr: cannot find mode >> 1920x1200 >> >> and so on. >> >> I have three monitors on the onboard conn

Re: last(1) missing after upgrade from 12.5 to sid (util-linux 2.38.1 to 2.40.1-4)

2024-06-04 Thread eben
On 6/4/24 10:59, songbird wrote: t...@tommiller.us wrote: Hello! last(1) seems to have disappeared following an upgrade from 12.5 to sid. ... i've been using the "more" command provided by the util-linux package. How do you use "more" to do what "last" does? -- Q: What did one photon s

Re: system won't suspend automatically

2024-06-10 Thread eben
On 6/10/24 16:51, David Wright wrote: > On Mon 10 Jun 2024 at 15:05:23 (-0400), Eben King wrote: >> Hi, I have a Debian 12 (Bookworm?) installation with XFCE as my DE. I have >> three monitors, the left one is rotated CW so it's tall, and because lightdm >> can't

Re: system won't suspend automatically

2024-06-11 Thread eben
On 6/10/24 21:11, Ralph Katz wrote: On 6/10/24 13:05, Eben King wrote: Hi, I have a Debian 12 (Bookworm?) installation with XFCE as my DE. [...] and it still doesn't suspend over night.  Suspend works just fine when I go to log out and hit the suspend button.   I don't see any obvi

Re: system won't suspend automatically

2024-06-11 Thread eben
On 6/11/24 12:27, Max Nikulin wrote: On 11/06/2024 21:44, e...@gmx.us wrote: Does anyone know how to get the monitor state programmatically? ddccontrol Thanks. However I am lost if you need to put your monitor to standby state (or to turn it off) or you expect suspend to RAM after some per

Re: system won't suspend automatically

2024-06-11 Thread eben
On 6/11/24 12:37, Charles Curley wrote: On Tue, 11 Jun 2024 10:44:12 -0400 e...@gmx.us wrote: Well, that is not encouraging. Does anyone know how to get the monitor state programmatically? I'll write my own script based on that. DFMS works. I mean if the computer won't do it for you, roll y

Re: systemrescuecd -- a bit off Debian topics

2024-06-12 Thread eben
On 6/12/24 18:14, Van Snyder wrote: Does anybody know how to contact systemrescuece developers? Their web page https://www.system-rescue.org/ doesn't have a "contact" or "forum" button. I haven't found a way to make the toolbar large when I boot systemrescuecd. I think the window manager is xfce

Re: systemrescuecd -- a bit off Debian topics

2024-06-12 Thread eben
On 6/12/24 18:27, Van Snyder wrote: On Wed, 2024-06-12 at 18:19 -0400, e...@gmx.us wrote: On 6/12/24 18:14, Van Snyder wrote: Does anybody know how to contact systemrescuece developers? Their webpage https://www.system-rescue.org/ doesn't have a "contact" or "forum"button. I haven't found a way

Re: system won't suspend automatically

2024-06-13 Thread eben
On 6/11/24 12:54, e...@gmx.us wrote: On 6/11/24 12:27, Max Nikulin wrote: On 11/06/2024 21:44, e...@gmx.us wrote: Does anyone know how to get the monitor state programmatically? ddccontrol Thanks. However I am lost if you need to put your monitor to standby state (or to turn it off) or yo

Re: system won't suspend automatically

2024-06-13 Thread eben
time. Right now, for example: eben@cerberus:~$ free total used freeshared buff/cache available Mem: 32294664 26585308 3050572 5360560 8486244 5709356 Swap: 0 0 0 eben@cerberus:~$ uptime 12:14:13 up 4 days, 22:00, 2 users,

Re: system won't suspend automatically

2024-06-13 Thread eben
On 6/13/24 13:30, David Wright wrote: Swap:0 0 0 You have no swap. Well, that's another good reason it won't work. 1. Fix /etc/fstab so it has PARTLABEL=swapnone swapsw 0 0 2. Run "sudo swapon PARTLABE

Re: systemrescuecd -- a bit off Debian topics

2024-06-15 Thread eben
On 6/12/24 19:00, e...@gmx.us wrote: On 6/12/24 18:27, Van Snyder wrote: On Wed, 2024-06-12 at 18:19 -0400, e...@gmx.us wrote: On 6/12/24 18:14, Van Snyder wrote: I haven't found a way to make the toolbar largewhen I boot systemrescuecd. I think the window manager is xfce. Can thetool bar be m

Re: Bluetooth/SSH issue

2024-06-16 Thread eben
On 6/16/24 19:27, George at Clug wrote: Rayan, On Monday, 17-06-2024 at 09:18 Ryan Nowakowski wrote: On Sun, Jun 16, 2024 at 02:30:32PM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: On one of my machines, I have some interesting interference. Bluetooth works just fine, and so does networking. Bluetooth is norm

Re: Time, was Re: Maximum size .bash_aliases file

2024-06-17 Thread eben
On 6/17/24 11:36, David Wright wrote: On Mon 17 Jun 2024 at 10:23:46 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: I wonder if Keith's confusion is simply due to my MUA using "AM" and "PM" in its attribution line, and Keith not seeing the "PM". Maybe I should look into configuring that differently. Along wit

Re: Modifying Desktop Icons

2024-06-17 Thread eben
On 6/17/24 15:29, Pranjal Singh wrote: Hi, I am trying to modify the Firefox desktop icon so that it opens an incognito window by default. ... What I've done is changing /usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop: - Exec=firefox %u + Exec=firefox -private-window %u I also created a desktop fi

Re: Access and Back-up a Root locked laptop

2024-06-17 Thread eben
On 6/17/24 15:33, HERIBERTO AVELINO wrote: Dear all My root account is locked. I experienced the well known issue "Debian authentication failure" at the log-in stage, i.e. it would not accept the root password. I accessed the BIOS to enter the safe mode, and discovered that my hard drive is almos

Re: CD/DVD is obsolete or deprecate at 2025?

2024-06-17 Thread eben
On 6/17/24 19:44, Vitold S wrote: Today in my environment I can be faced with a CD only for scaring away birds or as an intricate amulet on teenagers’ backpacks as a reference to the era of their parents, but not for recording images. Let's say, is this my particular progressive experience, or do

Re: mounting external hard drive from rescue mode shell?

2024-06-19 Thread eben
On 6/19/24 11:04, Heriberto Avelino wrote: Furthermore, the ultimate question is how could I copy folders from the computer's hard drive to the external one while in rescue mode? Is your computer's hard drive is already mounted? Are you comfortable in a shell? -- For is it not written, wheres

Re: mounting external hard drive from rescue mode shell?

2024-06-19 Thread eben
On 6/19/24 15:23, Heriberto Avelino wrote: I am now on a shell (BusyBox v.35.0 Debian 1:1.35.0-4+b3) There is nothing under media nor root Things mounted by the system would probably show up under /media or /mnt . Where are the internal h-drive and the external? To mount those you need

Re: System time/timezone, was Re: Maximum size .bash_aliases file

2024-06-23 Thread eben
On 6/23/24 02:30, gene heskett wrote: A attribute the FCC forced on broadcasters as they like to see transmitter logs kept in 24 hour time. I got so used to it that when I retired in 2002, I'd been on 24 hour time for 40 years and didn't convert back to two 12 hour periods a day. I started usi

Re: htmldoc default font size

2024-06-23 Thread eben
On 6/23/24 10:32, Roger Price wrote: I'm using htmldoc 1.9.11-4+deb11u3 to convert html files to pdf.  When playing with the fontsize option I discover that the default is not a whole number, more like 11.2 points. Hmm, maybe the author used something in mm? Weird. 4mm is 11.33 points. -- An

Re: System time/timezone, was Re: Maximum size .bash_aliases file

2024-06-24 Thread eben
On 6/24/24 11:42, Bret Busby wrote: On 24/6/24 21:38, Curt wrote: You can become confused, though, when filling out US forms where the birth date is written M/D/Y instead of D/M/Y, and sometimes you have to be careful not commit the silly mistake that will entrain months of delay in intricate

Re: marble or marble-qt?

2024-06-25 Thread eben
On 6/25/24 07:47, Hans wrote: Hi folks, I am a little confused, because I got marble double on my system. There is marble (package marble) and kde-marble (which is marble-qt), which both look the same when started. Question is, which one should be preferly installed and can one be left? Idea

Re: how2 format a flash drive

2024-06-25 Thread eben
On 6/25/24 10:39, David Wright wrote: Of course, we're not told what "normal" means, what was tried, nor how normality was tested. It's possible that they need to use, say, mkdosfs to get back to the state in which USB sticks are typically bought, so it can be plugged into other devices. I kee

Re: how2 format a flash drive

2024-06-25 Thread eben
On 6/25/24 15:43, Lee wrote: Whoever came up with scroll bars that play hide & seek should be tarred & feathered. Agree. Most programs that do that crap can be convinced not to. Same with Thunderbird putting the menu bar below that next bit, whatever you call it. Search the net for | scrollba

Re: System time/timezone, was Re: Maximum size .bash_aliases file

2024-06-26 Thread eben
On 6/25/24 20:36, Keith Bainbridge wrote: On 23/6/24 23:22, e...@gmx.us wrote: I started using 24 hour time in junior high school with digital watches.  I just thought it made more sense, especially for setting alarms.  Several decades later I've not seen any reason to change, though it annoys

Re: ePub or mobi from LaTeX or PDF? (was PDF editors)

2024-06-27 Thread eben
On 6/27/24 04:02, Richard wrote: Am Do., 27. Juni 2024 um 06:33 Uhr schrieb Van Snyder < van.sny...@sbcglobal.net>: "file" has no idea what any of the files are. > Otherwise, what exactly does "file" or better "file -i" say? I think you missed that.

Re: Backup.

2024-06-27 Thread eben
On 6/27/24 14:23, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: Finding a file as it existed months or years ago can be tedious. For example, find A/MailMessages as it was at 2023.02.07. Otherwise the backup system works well. On one computer I use rsync to do what appear to be complete backups, only files ident

Re: Backup.

2024-06-27 Thread eben
On 6/27/24 15:52, e...@gmx.us wrote: > When I boot the file server (possibly today but definitely tomorrow) I'll > post my backup script. OK, it's pretty long so I won't post the whole thing, but the important lines are rsyncoptions="--archive --progress --verbose --recursive" "$rsync" $rsyncop

Re: Backup.

2024-06-30 Thread eben
On 6/30/24 10:42, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > From: e...@gmx.us > Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2024 15:52:44 -0400 >> On one computer I use rsync ... > > See reply to Eduardo. Ah, you mean this one: On 6/30/24 10:36, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > From: Eduardo M KALINOWSKI > Date: Thu, 27

Re: Creating PDF/A from LaTeX source and from existing PDF

2024-07-03 Thread eben
On 7/3/24 15:20, Van Snyder wrote: On Wed, 2024-07-03 at 18:38 +0200, Richard wrote: For anything further, you'll have to research yourself as ghostscript is very complex but used by many people. Please stop using such a dinky font. That's what ctrl-shift-+ is for.

Re: How to find suitable mailing list or USENET group

2024-07-09 Thread eben
On 7/9/24 16:32, cgi...@surfnaked.ca wrote: On Tue, 09 Jul 2024 18:20:01 +0200, John Hasler wrote: > I don't think a graphical Usenet client exists but it easily could. > Even easier might be a browser plugin. The Pan newsreader does the job nicely and is about as graphical as you'd want to

Re: stty permanently undef "start"

2024-07-10 Thread eben
On 7/10/24 18:57, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Wed, Jul 10, 2024 at 18:39:38 -0400, songbird wrote: that is a strange choice of termination and i would actually consider it a bug in rtorrent, ESC or Ctrl-C should work for that purpose. Emacs and bash both use Ctrl-S to do stuff, and in both case

Re: stty permanently undef "start"

2024-07-10 Thread eben
On 7/10/24 21:18, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Wed, Jul 10, 2024 at 21:01:41 -0400, e...@gmx.us wrote: On 7/10/24 18:57, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Wed, Jul 10, 2024 at 18:39:38 -0400, songbird wrote: that is a strange choice of termination and i would actually consider it a bug in rtorrent, ESC o

Re: Why is Firefox crashing so much lately?

2024-07-17 Thread eben
On 7/17/24 21:25, Gary Dale wrote: I'm running Debian/Trixie on an AMD64 system, using the Plasma 5 over X desktop. Firefox 115.12.0esr is crashing multiple times per day. It frequently happens when page I'm transfers to another page that creates a > PDF or just has a complicated link. It's ann

Re: web site displays blank page

2024-07-18 Thread eben
On 7/18/24 02:06, Russell L. Harris wrote: My ISP is RTA.  I am in a rural area near Austinn, Texas, and have a > 10/1 microwave link.  Could the problem be with RTA? It's probably a routing issue between you and them. Or maybe "delivery content network" (That's what it's called, right? A com

Re: Cookie (&/or JavaScript) issue? - was [Re: web site displays blank page

2024-07-18 Thread eben
On 7/18/24 08:23, Richard Owlett wrote: On 07/18/2024 01:16 AM, Alain D D Williams wrote: On Thu, Jul 18, 2024 at 06:06:05AM +, Russell L. Harris wrote: When I try to visit www.chewy.com a blank page.  This is a major pet supply web site.  Other web sites display as usual without problems.

Re: Detecting change in running kernel version between reboots

2024-07-21 Thread eben
On 7/21/24 07:43, Mike wrote: Hi all, I have a TV card in one of my boxen, which requires a kernel module to be built. I've got that all nicely scripted and so I can kick it off with relative ease. The issue is detecting when it needs to be done. ie after a change in the running kernel. At t

Re: update system periodically

2024-07-21 Thread eben
On 7/21/24 17:47, cor...@free.fr wrote: Hi list, I have been running an old debian 11 for many days. is it safe to run 'apt upgrade' and 'apt update' periodically? for example put them into crontab. I wouldn't have the upgrade run automatically, because maybe there's a package you wouldn't wan

Re: Ente Auth

2024-07-26 Thread eben
On 7/26/24 09:31, Mick Ab wrote: I found ente_auth@ in both /bin and /usr/bin I thought I needed to run this in order to launch ente-auth, so typed ente_auth@ but my system said the command could not be found. Any suggestion as to what I am doing wrong, please ? The @ suffix is ls's way of i

Re: switch users and still use display

2024-07-27 Thread eben
On 7/27/24 12:43, fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote: > does ssh destinguish between "ssh host1" and "ssh localhost" Probably the interface it uses. host1 -> eth0 and localhost -> lo. Unless you've done something funny with hostnames or routing. Anyhow that's my guess, and if not, someone will b

Re: Planned path - was [Re: Installing current i386 Debian on OLD syst W/O CD/DVD drive]

2024-08-02 Thread eben
On 8/2/24 09:11, DdB wrote: If all you have is swap space or outdated crap, then back it up and do whatever you like. GPT is no must, if the disk is below 2TB in size and UEFI no option. If you have >4 partitions, then except for booting and recalcitrant OS installers, GPT is easier to deal wi

Re: nsswitch what should come first

2024-08-03 Thread eben
On 8/2/24 14:18, Darac Marjal wrote: Back before IANA's recent explosion in TLDs - when all you really had was .com, .org, .net and a bunch of country-specific TLDs and .gov and .mil? - there was a healthy business in alternative DNS roots (altroots). -- The best answer when anybody asks

Re: can this iso be put on a micro-sd

2024-08-03 Thread eben
On 8/3/24 20:04, gene heskett wrote: On 8/3/24 19:39, gene heskett wrote: [ISO]    debian-12.6.0-arm64-DVD-1.iso Wrote it to /dev/sdl, won't mount on sdl or sdl1. gparted says sdl2 is the dos partition?? If it's meant to be written to a thumb drive to result in a bootable drive, you need to

Re: nouveau OK for GTX 970?

2024-08-06 Thread eben
On 8/6/24 14:19, Felix Miata wrote: Eben King composed on 2024-08-06 13:11 (UTC-0400): Hi, I got a new-to-me EVGA Nvidia GTX 970. I understand the Nouveau driver handles this card. Is this correct? Technically, no, because you wrote "the No..." The nouveau kernel module does prov

Re: nouveau OK for GTX 970?

2024-08-06 Thread eben
On 8/6/24 14:43, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2024-08-06 13:11 -0400, Eben King wrote: Hi, I got a new-to-me EVGA Nvidia GTX 970. I understand the Nouveau driver handles this card. Is this correct? Some features are missing, e.g. there is no accelerated video decoding. Running a desktop should

Re: nouveau OK for GTX 970?

2024-08-06 Thread eben
On 8/6/24 15:48, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2024-08-06 14:56 -0400, e...@gmx.us wrote: On 8/6/24 14:43, Sven Joachim wrote: That may be a sign that the firmware for the card is not installed, AFAIK it is necessary to do anything useful with it. In Debian 12 and earlier the firmware is in the pa

Re: nouveau OK for GTX 970?

2024-08-06 Thread eben
On 8/6/24 16:39, Felix Miata wrote: e...@gmx.us composed on 2024-08-06 16:29 (UTC-0400): Sven Joachim wrote: You could run "sudo dmesg| grep -E '(drm|nouveau)'" and show us the results. [0.801515] ACPI: bus type drm_connector registered ... He meant run the command with the GTX inst

Re: nouveau OK for GTX 970?

2024-08-06 Thread eben
On 8/6/24 17:16, e...@gmx.us wrote: On 8/6/24 16:39, Felix Miata wrote: e...@gmx.us composed on 2024-08-06 16:29 (UTC-0400): Sven Joachim wrote: You could run "sudo dmesg| grep -E '(drm|nouveau)'" and show us the results. [    0.801515] ACPI: bus type drm_connector registered ... He me

Re: webp in Image Viewer

2024-08-06 Thread eben
On 8/6/24 18:40, cor...@free.fr wrote: Hi My Image Viewer on desktop seems not to support webp format. do you have any ideas? You might need the package "webp-pixbuf-loader". "webp-pixbuf-loader integrates libwebp library into GDK image processing framework, so GDK based application can use W

Re: nouveau OK for GTX 970?

2024-08-07 Thread eben
On 8/7/24 00:33, Felix Miata wrote: eben composed on 2024-08-06 17:16 (UTC-0400): That'll take some doing, as I don't have a non-X mail client. Gimme a bit. Email client shouldn't be relevant. You can redirect dmesg to a file, to copy or pastebin any time. Before retiring

Re: nouveau OK for GTX 970?

2024-08-07 Thread eben
On 8/6/24 21:20, Jeffrey Walton wrote: Dang, I didn't capture dmesg. $ sudo lspci | grep -i vga 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GM204 [GeForce GTX 970] (rev a1) or I did "AND". Oopsie. $ sudo lshw -C video I couldn't remember the syntax so I ran "lshw > file" th

Re: nouveau OK for GTX 970?

2024-08-07 Thread eben
On 8/7/24 00:33, Felix Miata wrote: eben composed on 2024-08-06 17:16 (UTC-0400): Felix Miata wrote: eben composed on 2024-08-06 16:29 (UTC-0400): Sven Joachim wrote: You could run "sudo dmesg| grep -E '(drm|nouveau)'" and show us the results. [0.80

Re: nouveau OK for GTX 970?

2024-08-07 Thread eben
On 8/6/24 20:02, George at Clug wrote: On Wednesday, 07-08-2024 at 03:11 Eben King wrote: Hi, I got a new-to-me EVGA Nvidia GTX 970. I understand the Nouveau driver handles this card. Is this correct? With Debian Bookworm, I had Nvidia GTX 970 and Nvidia GTX 960 cards working on Nouveau

Re: nouveau OK for GTX 970?

2024-08-07 Thread eben
On 8/7/24 21:12, Van Snyder wrote: I ran glmark2 on my primary desktop, with NVidia Quadro K2200 and the 535 driver. The score was 4455. Then I ran it on another desktop with GeForce GT 630. nvidia-detect says it's "not supported by any driver version up to 535.183.01." Searching for the driver

Re: Nearly-spam mail causes unsubscription threat

2024-08-11 Thread eben
On 8/11/24 17:11, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Normally GMX puts spam into a separate box where i can unjail it if i deem it not guilty. (Happens often enough.) * they do actually filter some extreme stuff out that I believe is required by law or somesuch. I never see it, so I don't know exactly

Re: anyone uses ReiserFS today

2024-08-12 Thread eben
On 8/12/24 04:09, Wesley wrote: Most recent years we keep using the ext4 filesystem. But years ago before ext4 we used the ReiserFS filesystem. In my memory ReiserFS was a good choice for our application (many small files). Do you anybody still use ReiserFS today? How about it compares to ext4?

Re: nvidia driver for GTX 970

2024-08-15 Thread eben
On 8/15/24 05:05, Hans wrote: Hi Ebon, I am running a NVidia GTX-960 iin Debianbookworm and it is working lie a charme. No problems with any of the apps, Greg mentioned. KDE, Steam games and everything elese is working great. FYI I am running a backport kernel, it is 6.9.7+bpo-amd64. Proba

Re: nvidia driver for GTX 970

2024-08-15 Thread eben
I am currently running in X with the GTX. Only two of three monitors are connected. The right one currently has a VGA cable which doesn't work with this card. In the console, the left (sideways, DVI) worked but the center (HDMI) didn't until "startx". How can I fix that, or is the DVI one the

Re: nvidia driver for GTX 970

2024-08-15 Thread eben
On 8/15/24 12:54, e...@gmx.us wrote: On 8/15/24 05:05, Hans wrote: If it is now starting well, you are good and can move your loginmanagers back. After reboot, it should automatically starting the -Server witrh a login greeter. OK, I'll try that. I haven't changed anything but we'll see wh

Re: nvidia driver for GTX 970

2024-08-15 Thread eben
On 8/15/24 13:47, Hans wrote: Hi Ebon, you said, it is flashing? Or do you have a blamk screen? It's all black, but the backlight flashes. I'll see if making the fixmonitors script correct works. I wrote that script and it uses xrandr to reset the monitors to the way they should be. Now thei

Re: Replying to a conversation (Thread)

2024-08-24 Thread eben
On 8/24/24 17:36, Joe B wrote: Hello, IF i see a thread i want to jump into to help out how can i be part of the conversation? as of right now i'm just putting the debian-user list email and the RE with the subject and replying that way. I noticed on the list there is a message id. is it possib

Re: tbird hot keys.

2024-08-26 Thread eben
On 8/25/24 14:06, Stefan Monnier wrote: Well, i'll be typing along, have most assuredly not done a ctl+a, but all the text will high light, and the next keystroke deletes it all. Sometimes Maybe you have a touchpad and accidentally made the "select all" gesture by brushing it when passing? --

Re: laptop installs

2024-08-27 Thread eben
On 8/27/24 21:42, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: The thing is, this machine doesn't have a DVD drive. What it does have is a couple of USB ports (two different color connectors so I assume different speeds?). I am also assuming that simply putting an iso file on to a USB stick won't quite do it.

Re: printer replacement

2024-08-30 Thread eben
On 8/30/24 09:50, Loris Bennett wrote: Gerard ROBIN writes: However, I print so little these days that when I do, the nozzles have always dried up and I have to go through the whole maintenance rigmarole and use up half a dozen sheets just to print a single page :-/ Yeah, that's why I swore o

Re: Usage: "debian ... amd64-netinst.iso"

2024-09-02 Thread eben
On 9/2/24 07:23, Hans wrote: A little side effect of this was, that some manufacturers obviously do not like ext2/3/4 format (to which the usb-stick were reformatted). After about 10th to 15th time of reformate, they died (memory segments got lost). Others I already during years are reformatted a

Re: Usage: "debian ... amd64-netinst.iso"

2024-09-02 Thread eben
On 9/2/24 13:11, The Wanderer wrote: I have always treated the *nix equivalent to "eject", for the purpose of a USB flash drive, as being 'umount /path/to/mount/location' - which, if I'm not mistaken, does include an implicit sync operation. Thunar has "Safely Remove", which not only does sync

Re: Usage: "debian ... amd64-netinst.iso"

2024-09-03 Thread eben
On 9/3/24 01:07, David Wright wrote: Well, I might expect you to use a command something like: # dd bs=1M if=/dev/sdX of=/dev/stdout count=N | sha512sum This is the default for dd, so you don't have to specify it. I mean, it doesn't hurt i

Re: tab completion being overenthusiastic

2024-09-07 Thread eben
On 9/7/24 09:26, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sat, Sep 07, 2024 at 08:56:08 -0400, Eben King wrote: Hi. I have bash 5.2.15(1). When I cd into an empty directory, and type "cd ", the shell offers 178 possibilities. If I restrict it to an initial letter and hit once, I think the spurious

Re: tab completion being overenthusiastic

2024-09-07 Thread eben
On 9/7/24 09:37, e...@gmx.us wrote: On 9/7/24 09:26, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sat, Sep 07, 2024 at 08:56:08 -0400, Eben King wrote: Hi. I have bash 5.2.15(1). When I cd into an empty directory, and type "cd ", the shell offers 178 possibilities. If I restrict it to an initial lett

Re: tab completion being overenthusiastic

2024-09-07 Thread eben
On 9/7/24 10:07, Greg Wooledge wrote: By the way, there's a trick you can use to find out where shell variables are being defined: PS4='+ $BASH_SOURCE:$FUNCNAME:$LINENO:' bash -ilxc : 2>&1 | grep CDPATH The -il options run an interactive login shell. If you need to check an interactive no

Re: Glasses for monitor work (was Re: BASH reference for those who are "learning by doing"?)

2024-09-08 Thread eben
On 9/8/24 12:17, Steve McIntyre wrote: debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: [My examples are from my experiments with re-formatting text at https://ebible.org/engkjvcpb/ for comfortable reading by fellow tri-focal wearing senior citizens As a mere bifocal (well vari-focal)

Re: BASH reference for those who are "learning by doing"?

2024-09-09 Thread eben
On 9/9/24 05:20, Karl Vogel wrote: On Mon 09 Sep 2024 at 04:47:20 (-0400), Anssi Saari wrote: I've used fixed focus glasses before but I find close range varifocals a huge upgrade. They're extremely useful for monitor work *and also* I can see and read things around me that fall outside the ext

Re: OT: Spectacles

2024-09-10 Thread eben
On 9/10/24 12:22, Brad Rogers wrote: On Tue, 10 Sep 2024 08:54:21 -0700 "James H. H. Lampert" wrote: Hello James and Larry, Correct. An optician can only fill a prescription written by an ophthalmologist or an optometrist. In the UK, Opticians businesses typically have on Optometrist on the

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