Re: moderators, I would appreciate if you could interfere

2021-08-16 Thread deloptes
Jeremy Ardley wrote:

> I don't think this is accidental, and you can see clear signs of
> continuous influence by major players using Wikipedia 'editors' to
> further various agendas.

+1

China and North Korea getting envy.

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Re: Wishing for an off-topic mail list with debian-user participants (or most of them) (was: Re: On improving mailing list [was: How to Boot Linux ISO Images Directly From Your Hard Drive Debian])

2021-08-18 Thread deloptes
Jonathan Dowland wrote:

> I think the way forward this time would be to request one on the
> official Debian mailing list server, rather than elsewhere.  But,
> such a list will only serve its purpose if it gets used *instead*
> of off-topic conversations on this list. Does anyone think that
> d-community-offtopic served that purpose? My general feeling is
> things are worse now than they were when d-community-offtopic was
> around and active, but I'm not sure that this is causation.

I do not think it will work, because it is against the logic how
communication work. We communicate in the same channel and go off topic and
then back to topic. It is not natural to change list because something goes
off topic.
I am also sorry for triggering some of the off topic here, but I am getting
annoyed from time to time by peoples attitude as well. There are
some "morally superior" users that try to impose their views. However I
prefer to stop as soon as possible to reduce the damage. 
I hope this list stays as is and people just learn to respect each other
(and "plonk" as little as possible).


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Re: Wishing for an off-topic mail list with debian-user participants (or most of them) (was: Re: On improving mailing list [was: How to Boot Linux ISO Images Directly From Your Hard Drive Debian])

2021-08-18 Thread deloptes
Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote:

> You seem pretty good a drawing a line between *good* and *bad*, always
> putting yourself on the *good* side.
> 

see this is exactly the attitude I am reffering to. 

> What if ? What if there wasn't any *bad* user ? You are the one bringing
> over old subject that you consider off-topic. You seem really touched by
> giving your self a role as governor of a mailing list or policing what's
> acceptable and not. But don't seem to understand that the community
> itself made the choice of having this list un-moderated.
> 

You see yourself in a role to correct someone ... typical for leftist with
moral superiority syndrome.

> That is, the people chose that it will remain like this. Even if they
> ain't with all the good technical genius expertise you have. That's what
> was decided. So maybe it's time you just accept it...

This post was totally unnecessary. And this is my problem with you.
I usually ignore what you write, but as this is in the focus of the
discussion, I write this only once and "plonk" you. I am sorry for that and
for you and for your family especially children if you have such.

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Re: Debian 11, Nvidia Quadro P400, 2xiiyama 2560x1440, nvidia driver

2021-09-06 Thread deloptes
Roger Price wrote:

> Before I plunge into the details, does anyone have a working xorg.conf for
> such a setup?  I would prefer to start with something that works rather
> than describe in detail something that doesn't work.

I'm not an expert but shouldn't be there only one screen with 2 monitors
configured?



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HP Elitebook with external display and color issue

2021-09-11 Thread deloptes
Hi,
I don't know how to explain my problem, but I try hoping that someone would
understand and help me fix it.

So I have one HP Elitebook (I think it is 820 G2) with 16GB RAM and Intel(R)
Core(TM) i5-7200U CPU @ 2.50GHz.

The issue is that when it starts with its own display the colors are OK, but
as soon as I activate an additional display the colors get messed and it is
looking ugly like described
https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-Video-Display-and-Touch/820-g1-Ubuntu-Screen-artifacts/m-p/7029819/highlight/true#M188601)

It is not clear to me what should I do to solve it.

Thank you in advance

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Re: HP Elitebook with external display and color issue

2021-09-12 Thread deloptes
Andrei POPESCU wrote:

> That link mentions using a D-SUB (you didn't specify what you are using,
> please do so), in which case take particular care to ensure it is
> properly inserted, at *both* ends.
> 
> Even so, you should try using HDMI/DVI/DisplayPort instead (whichever is
> available).

Thank you Andrei!

I give a try to the relevant part of the posting and 


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Re: HP Elitebook with external display and color issue [SOLVED]

2021-09-12 Thread deloptes
deloptes wrote:

>> That link mentions using a D-SUB (you didn't specify what you are using,
>> please do so), in which case take particular care to ensure it is
>> properly inserted, at *both* ends.
>> 
>> Even so, you should try using HDMI/DVI/DisplayPort instead (whichever is
>> available).
> 
> Thank you Andrei!
> 
> I give a try to the relevant part of the posting and

(sorry pressed ENTER)

TearFree option did the trick

Section "Device"
Identifier  "Card0"
Driver  "intel"
...
Option "TearFree"   "off" # []
EndSection


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Re: LTS versions - confusion

2021-09-14 Thread deloptes
Greg Wooledge wrote:

>> Anyone do this for important (maybe not 'mission critical') servers?
> 
> I'm sure someone does, but it's not *wise*.

yes indeed. server + sid is contradicting somehow unless you do development
of server software

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Re: Your Thoughts on Printer Replacement

2021-09-17 Thread deloptes
Dan Ritter wrote:

> If you print in black/white more often than you need color, you could
> still use a local print shop or get things mailed to you for those
> occasions - photos and posters, especially, but basically any document.
> 
> In that case, get a monochrome laser printer. I recommend a
> Brother with all of the following features:

I have always used HP laser and now I have 402dn (double side + network). It
cost around 200,- and works great (2y since I have it)
Before this I used HP laser 5L which I used over 15y.

I also go to the local copy shop for printing in color (once every 3-4y).

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Re: Debian bullseye

2021-09-17 Thread deloptes
Greg Wooledge wrote:

> So you're also below the minimum memory requirement for a no-desktop
> system (220 MB vs. 256 MB), but it's not by a *lot*.  So you're probably
> just scraping by.  This hardware is past its end of life, I would say.
> Anything you get it to do at all is just a bonus.

But one could tweak this and that and fit to the system size.

The firewall here has minimal installation and 256MB memory + 4GB compact
flash card of which 770MB are used (openvpn and shorewall)

OP could afford a RPi4 for approx 50,- and be better off at the end

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Re: backup directory/file exclusion pattern list for borgbackup

2021-09-27 Thread deloptes
Default User wrote:

> Hello!
> 
> I want to try using borgbackup to do backups of my (only) user directory:
> /home/debian-user
> 
> I just want to do so using Vorta, a GUI for borgbackup.
> 
> But I just need a good, general list of directory and file type
> exclusions that I can just cut and paste into the Exclude Patterns
> window in Vorta.  Something like the default list of exclusions that
> appears by default in the Backintime backup program.
> 

I use this. For file type I do not know

borg create --progress --stats --compression zstd,10 \
-e 'pp:/sys' \
-e 'pp:/proc' \
-e 'pp:/dev' \
-e 'pp:/run' \
-e 'pp:/tmp' \
-e 'pp:/var/tmp' \
-e 'pp:/var/log'



Re: Privacy and defamation of character on Debian public forums

2021-09-28 Thread deloptes
Borden wrote:

> Empathy is the ability to step outside your own experience to see the
> world from someone else's perspective. It's an evolved human attribute
> that separates us from other animals, I've read.

Well, still your perception is quite different than someone else. For me
debian user is quite OK, even when it crosses borders (me including).
I do not see why you should bring up empathy here. My observation is that
more and more are infant and do not understand irony, sarcasm and other
human qualities that separate us even more from other animals.
Take it with humor and go on. If you are affected by what is written/said
here ... seek a help from psyhologist. AFAIK the forum is not a therapy
place.
However on the other side people should stop being rude if someone asks for
this.


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Re: No sound after bullseye install

2021-10-03 Thread deloptes
Bob Latest wrote:

> after installing Debian bullseye I can't get sound to work. I'm using
> lightdm + dwm, and I have pulseaudio installed. "pavucontrol" ist stuck
> on the message "Establishing connection to PulseAudio. Please wait..."
> 

perhaps the pulseaudio server is not running - you can check

> I don't understand zilch about how sound on Linux works, but my
> previous version of Debian on the same hardware worked.

you have 

hardware -> kernel driver -> alsa -> pulseaudio -> application

- kernel driver utilizes the hardware
- alsa utilizes the kernel driver
- PA utilizes ALSA and provides a unified interface + capabilities

so it could be anything in the chain - check if you need firmware for
example if ALSA works (aplay etc) then check the next in the chain


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Re: mail service

2021-10-10 Thread deloptes
fxkl47BF wrote:

> no offense taken
> i use expect_mkpasswd to generate passwords
> decades ago i got tired of trying to come up with user names
> i just use expect_mkpasswd to make a short unique name
> today everyone is trying to glean all of the personal info they can
> i try not give out any more than is necessary

but we are still human and at least I prefer seeing a human like name and
not some scribles, but ofcourse it is your choice how you appear in the
public.

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Re: Choosing a DE (was: How exactly do I create a Debian...)

2021-10-11 Thread deloptes
Felix Miata wrote:

> 
> I have several with Bullseye running on E8400s and 1680x1050 or 1920x1200
> or 2560x1440 screens. All are running TDE.
> https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/Trinity_Desktop_Environment

I can second that - this is the most stable desktop

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Re: LUKS encryption help

2021-10-11 Thread deloptes
David Christensen wrote:

> When I boot my Debian machines with LUKS encrypted root filesystems, I
> see a bunch of time-stamped bootloader messages followed by the prompt:
> 
> Please unlock disk sda3_crypt:
> 
> 
> When I type on the keyboard, nothing is echoed to the screen.

I use plymouth or alike and there I see the asterisk displayed, but with
backspace I can delete an asterisk and it does not produce another one.
It seems there was something wrong with the terminal there.

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Re: why pae kernel has only 3G memory

2021-10-17 Thread deloptes
lou wrote:

> Thanks, i've just installed linux-image-686, result is same

you understand that in most cases if you use a 32bit OS with 4GB of memory
you may not utilize 1GB, because the overhead of utilizing this memory
consumes much of this memory with the registers to overcome the 3GB
barrier.
So IMO you have two options:
1. leave it as it is
2. sell 1GB on ebay

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Re: A .profile puzzle

2021-10-17 Thread deloptes
Gene Heskett wrote:

> 1. Before the latest failure I could do all this as me because the mount
> point for the card is in my home directory, I own it all. And didn't
> have to be root to do any of it.  This was not fixed by a 2nd reboot.
> 

I guess this problem is not related to the .profile issue you are having
below.
Check the permissions on the mount point and the fstab and also your group
membership.
The SD card might also need a fsck.

> 2. and another pesky thing is starting a konsole to do work, needs a
> $PATH modification that we used to put in ~.profile. But opening a
> terminal hasn't called a ". .profile" since about jessie.  So thats
> another PITA.
> 
> So, what has replaced .profile as the function for such as that in recent
> releases?

AFAIK bash is not reading profile when you login, but not sure - it could be
also that it is not a login shell.
AFAIK you should open the terminal with "bash --login" to read the profile.
So try in the terminal "bash --login"

I have put in my .profile

alias bash='bash --login'

long time ago

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Re: eMail Com Between Hosts on a Private Net

2021-10-20 Thread deloptes
Martin McCormick wrote:

> The installation, here, is like millions of others.  We are on a
> private VLAN with the router acting as the gateway to our ISP's
> network and the internet.  There is nothing unusual about that so
> the question is Can systems on a 192.168.x VLAN use smtp to send
> mail to each other?
> 

I think you are using the term VLAN improperly. FRom what I know VLAN is
virtual LAN, which is usually achieved with tagging.

But the answer to your question is yes they can.

> I really should know the answer to this because I am a
> retired systems engineer who used unix systems and mailers all
> the time but that was in a university network and I would just
> assign a DNS name to each box and maybe a MX record if it was
> necessary so that box1.midlevel.edu could deliver mail to
> box2.midlevel.edu whether it was across the room or on another
> continent.
> 

And for the 192.168.0.0/16 apply same rules ... well you can also
use /etc/hosts.

> The DNS support is what you don't have on a private VLAN
> so I want to do this in a safe but simple way.
> 

You do not have, because you did not install and configure, but from my
experience if you manage more devices, you should consider using DHCP and
MTA

There are all sort of solutions like minimal DNS etc. IMO DHCP is must +
DNS, minimal DNS or /etc/hosts file

> This would make it possible for Linux boxes on the
> network to send messages to the system I normally receive mail on
> so that squawks about a process crashing or some other problem
> are sure to be seen.
> 

good conclusion - go for that

> The other systems sending those messages don't even
> necessarily need to send mail outside the network but they do
> need to send mail to the system I normally read mail on.
> 

I would consider something as server, because if your machine is not
reachable, you will have the complains in the log files and bouncing mail.

So basically you need the whole concept. IMAP or POP/MTA/DHCP/DNS

> I looked up this topic using duckduckgo and found very
> little hits that were on topic and lots of mercantile buzz about
> email hosting companies, etc.  All are necessary but not what I
> was asking about.
> 
> I have put static IP records in to the dhcp server on our
> router so 192.168.1.xx will always either have a specific host at
> that address or nothing if the MAC address changes and the record
> hasn't been updated.
> 
> Also, I have put /etc/hosts files on Linux systems and a
> Mac and I believe there is a hosts file one can add to Windows
> systems for a similar effect.

if you implement DHCP and DNS in the router make sure you make backup of the
configuration. you are left with the MTA and IMAP/POP

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Re: Can't connect bluetooth headset after resent update (testing)

2021-11-02 Thread deloptes
Олександр Скоропад wrote:

> Nov 1 16:09:10 Skoropad bluetoothd[1204]:
> src/service.c:btd_service_connect() a2dp-sink profile connect failed for
> 00:16:94:42:30:F4: Protocol not available I've found that there were
> similar error with previous versions of pipewire and apt history shows
> that there was pipewire update couple of days before issue (I don't use
> headset everyday), so maybe it's related to this isue

I had this recently too. One package was missing. I think it was 
libpulse-mainloop-glib0:amd64

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Re: what is the best package to design the layout of the house

2021-11-03 Thread deloptes
Reco wrote:

> I don't know about garden design, but I used sweethome3d for an
> apartment design back in the day.
> 
> Written in Java, but works reasonably fast.

I can second Sweethome3D for interior. It helped us save a lot of time
planing furniture layout 

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Re: Can't connect bluetooth headset after resent update (testing)

2021-11-04 Thread deloptes
Олександр Скоропад wrote:

> Unfortunately not my case, because libpulse-mainloop-glib0 already
> installed

try 

backup and deleting
~/.pulse
/var/lib/bluetooth/
reboot
pair

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Trying to setup obexd but Operation not permitted

2021-11-04 Thread deloptes


This is how I am starting the daemon

/usr/lib/bluetooth/obexd -d -n -r /home/user/Downloads -a

and this is what I get when trying to transfer a file

obexd[4068]: obexd/src/obex.c:obex_session_start()
obexd[4068]: obexd/src/obex.c:cmd_connect()
obexd[4068]: CONNECT(0x0), (0xff)
obexd[4068]: obexd/src/obex.c:cmd_connect() Selected driver: Object Push
server
obexd[4068]: CONNECT(0x0), (0x0)
obexd[4068]: obexd/src/obex.c:cmd_put()
obexd[4068]: PUT(0x2), (0xff)
obexd[4068]: obexd/src/obex.c:parse_name() NAME: 20020011.jpg
obexd[4068]: obexd/src/obex.c:parse_length() LENGTH: 1207160
obexd[4068]: open(/home/user/Downloads/20020011.jpg): Operation not
permitted (1)
obexd[4068]: PUT(0x2), Forbidden(0x43)
obexd[4068]: obexd/src/obex.c:cmd_disconnect() session 0x5638a90b7140
obexd[4068]: DISCONNECT(0x1), (0xff)
obexd[4068]: DISCONNECT(0x1), Success(0x20)
obexd[4068]: disconnected: Transport got disconnected
obexd[4068]: obexd/src/obex.c:obex_session_destroy()

ls -altr ~/Downloads/
total 24
drwxr-xr-x 197 user user 20480 Nov  4 08:06 ..
-rw---   1 user user 0 Nov  4 17:35 20020011.jpg
drwx--   2 user user  4096 Nov  4 17:35 .


When I use tmp
/usr/lib/bluetooth/obexd -d -n -r /tmp -a

obexd[4087]: obexd/src/obex.c:obex_session_start()
obexd[4087]: obexd/src/obex.c:cmd_connect()
obexd[4087]: CONNECT(0x0), (0xff)
obexd[4087]: obexd/src/obex.c:cmd_connect() Selected driver: Object Push
server
obexd[4087]: CONNECT(0x0), (0x0)
obexd[4087]: obexd/src/obex.c:cmd_put()
obexd[4087]: PUT(0x2), (0xff)
obexd[4087]: obexd/src/obex.c:parse_name() NAME: 20020011.jpg
obexd[4087]: obexd/src/obex.c:parse_length() LENGTH: 1207160
obexd[4087]: obexd/src/obex.c:recv_data() name=20020011.jpg type=(null)
file=0x8 size=4096
obexd[4087]: obexd/src/obex.c:driver_write() 4096 written
obexd[4087]: PUT(0x2), Continue(0x10)
obexd[4087]: obexd/src/obex.c:recv_data() name=20020011.jpg type=(null)
file=0x8 size=32567
obexd[4087]: obexd/src/obex.c:driver_write() 32567 written
obexd[4087]: obexd/src/obex.c:recv_data() name=20020011.jpg type=(null)
file=0x8 size=32567
obexd[4087]: obexd/src/obex.c:driver_write() 32567 written
obexd[4087]: obexd/src/obex.c:recv_data() name=20020011.jpg type=(null)
file=0x8 size=32567
obexd[4087]: obexd/src/obex.c:driver_write() 32567 written
obexd[4087]: obexd/src/obex.c:recv_data() name=20020011.jpg type=(null)
file=0x8 size=32567
obexd[4087]: obexd/src/obex.c:driver_write() 32567 written
obexd[4087]: obexd/src/obex.c:recv_data() name=20020011.jpg type=(null)
file=0x8 size=32567
obexd[4087]: obexd/src/obex.c:driver_write() 32567 written
obexd[4087]: obexd/src/obex.c:recv_data() name=20020011.jpg type=(null)
file=0x8 size=32567
obexd[4087]: obexd/src/obex.c:driver_write() 32567 written
obexd[4087]: obexd/src/obex.c:recv_data() name=20020011.jpg type=(null)
file=0x8 size=32567
obexd[4087]: obexd/src/obex.c:driver_write() 32567 written
obexd[4087]: obexd/src/obex.c:recv_data() name=20020011.jpg type=(null)
file=0x8 size=32567
obexd[4087]: obexd/src/obex.c:driver_write() 32567 written
obexd[4087]: obexd/src/obex.c:recv_data() name=20020011.jpg type=(null)
file=0x8 size=32567
obexd[4087]: obexd/src/obex.c:driver_write() 32567 written
obexd[4087]: obexd/src/obex.c:recv_data() name=20020011.jpg type=(null)
file=0x8 size=32567
obexd[4087]: obexd/src/obex.c:driver_write() 32567 written
obexd[4087]: obexd/src/obex.c:recv_data() name=20020011.jpg type=(null)
file=0x8 size=32567
obexd[4087]: obexd/src/obex.c:driver_write() 32567 written
obexd[4087]: obexd/src/obex.c:recv_data() name=20020011.jpg type=(null)
file=0x8 size=32567
obexd[4087]: obexd/src/obex.c:driver_write() 32567 written
obexd[4087]: obexd/src/obex.c:recv_data() name=20020011.jpg type=(null)
file=0x8 size=32567
obexd[4087]: obexd/src/obex.c:driver_write() 32567 written
obexd[4087]: obexd/src/obex.c:recv_data() name=20020011.jpg type=(null)
file=0x8 size=32567
obexd[4087]: obexd/src/obex.c:driver_write() 32567 written
obexd[4087]: obexd/src/obex.c:recv_data() name=20020011.jpg type=(null)
file=0x8 size=32567
obexd[4087]: obexd/src/obex.c:driver_write() 32567 written
obexd[4087]: obexd/src/obex.c:recv_data() name=20020011.jpg type=(null)
file=0x8 size=32567
obexd[4087]: obexd/src/obex.c:driver_write() 32567 written
obexd[4087]: obexd/src/obex.c:recv_data() name=20020011.jpg type=(null)
file=0x8 size=32567
obexd[4087]: obexd/src/obex.c:driver_write() 32567 written
obexd[4087]: obexd/src/obex.c:recv_data() name=20020011.jpg type=(null)
file=0x8 size=32567
obexd[4087]: obexd/src/obex.c:driver_write() 32567 written
obexd[4087]: obexd/src/obex.c:recv_data() name=20020011.jpg type=(null)
file=0x8 size=32567
obexd[4087]: obexd/src/obex.c:driver_write() 32567 written
obexd[4087]: obexd/src/obex.c:recv_data() name=20020011.jpg type=(null)
file=0x8 size=32567
obexd[4087]: obexd/src/obex.c:driver_write() 32567 written
obexd[4087]: obexd/src/obex.c:recv_data() name=20020011.jpg type=(null)
file=0x8 size=32567
obexd[4087]: obexd/src/obex.c:driver_write() 32567 writ

Re: Trying to setup obexd but Operation not permitted

2021-11-04 Thread deloptes
Greg Wooledge wrote:

> That's an interesting message for that operation.
> 
> The open(2) man page shows only two possible sources for EPERM on an open:
> 
> EPERM  The  O_NOATIME  flag was specified, but the effective user ID of
> the caller did not match the owner of the file  and  the  caller
> was not privileged.
> 
> EPERM  The operation was prevented by a file seal; see fcntl(2).
> 
> I don't know whether this is truly a comprehensive list of causes.  I'm
> wondering about things like FUSE-mounted file systems.  What kind of
> file system is /home/user/Downloads/ part of?

Thank you,
yes it is interesting indeed, because obexd is started as the user and
should operate on behalf of the user.

/home/user/Downloads/ is on NFS share, but Downloads is writable only for
the user (700)

these are the mount options

type nfs4
(rw,relatime,vers=4.0,rsize=1048576,wsize=1048576,namlen=255,hard,proto=tcp,timeo=600,retrans=2,sec=sys,clientaddr=192.168.40.68,local_lock=none,addr=192.168.40.40,_netdev)

IMO there is something fishy in obexd, because as you see it is able to
create the file, but not write the content and I am not that enlightened in
this matter :/.


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Re: Trying to setup obexd but Operation not permitted

2021-11-05 Thread deloptes
Burhan Hanoglu wrote:

> Could be something about that NFS mount. To narrow down; point it to
> /home/user/something that is not on NFS but on the local FS instead
> and see what happens.

Hi,
yes it looks like it is somehow related, because on a local FS even with
same directory permissions (700) files are transferred fine.
So ... what is your opinion, where is the bug?

BR

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Re: bluetooth audio

2021-11-05 Thread deloptes
Luis Mochan wrote:

> After a recent update/upgrade in debian/bookworm my bluetooth
> earphones and my bluetooth earphones stopped working.
> I found a solution in the discussion of at
> 
>
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=997862&archived=no&mbox=no&mboxmaint=no
> 
> related to bug #997862 which seemed to work for me, that is,
> installing a package libspa-0.2-bluetooth.

FYI: Same is up on the pulseaudio devel list
Bug#993011: pulseaudio-module-bluetooth: no longer detects bluetooth
headphones



Re: Trying to setup obexd but Operation not permitted

2021-11-05 Thread deloptes
Greg Wooledge wrote:

> Check whether the systemd unit file is restricting network access for
> the service/process.

??? How do I do this - a hint would be helpful.

thanks in advance

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Re: Trying to setup obexd but Operation not permitted

2021-11-05 Thread deloptes
Greg Wooledge wrote:

> So, never mind.  Continue whatever other investigations you have lined
> up.

Ah yes, obexd is meant to be run at user level. In my case it is started by
a master application, but anyway thank you for the effort.

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Re: Trying to setup obexd but Operation not permitted

2021-11-05 Thread deloptes
David Wright wrote:

> Because both tests are run by hand, that does make it easier to strace
> what's going on in more detail than the debug output. For example, the
> open's flags are listed.

I forgot to mention that home is actually a link to home-lisa which is the
mount point for the NFS share.

I now used strace
writev(2, [{iov_base="obexd[23074]: PUT(0x2), Nov  5 18:04:33 obexd[23074]"..., 59, MSG_NOSIGNAL, NULL, 0)
= 59
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/home/user/Downloads/20211105_090338.jpg", O_WRONLY
O_CREAT|O_TRUNC, 0600) = 8
fstat(8, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
lstat("/home", {st_mode=S_IFLNK|0777, st_size=10, ...}) = 0
readlink("/home", "home-lisa/", 4095)   = 10
lstat("/home-lisa", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
lstat("/home-lisa/user", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=20480, ...}) = 0
lstat("/home-lisa/user/Downloads", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0700,
st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
lstat("/home-lisa/user/Downloads/20211105_090338.jpg", {st_mode=S_IFREG
0600, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
close(8)= 0
getpid()= 23074
writev(2, [{iov_base="obexd[23074]: open(/home/user"..., iov_len=92},
{iov_base="\n", iov_len=1}], 2) = 93
sendto(3, "<27>Nov  5 18:04:33 obexd[23074]"..., 112, MSG_NOSIGNAL, NULL, 0)
= 112
getpid()= 23074
writev(2, [{iov_base="obexd[23074]: PUT(0x2), Forbidde"..., iov_len=39},
{iov_base="\n", iov_len=1}], 2) = 40

so you see it resolves the link, but then fails with Forbidden.

Now I conducted the same test after createing a symlink to the local
directory (thus exclude NFS as root for the problem)

The result is the same
sendto(3, "<31>Nov  5 18:22:28 obexd[23364]"..., 59, MSG_NOSIGNAL, NULL, 0)
= 59
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/data/local/Downloads.test/20211105_090338.jpg", O_WRONLY
O_CREAT|O_TRUNC, 0600) = 8
fstat(8, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
lstat("/data", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
lstat("/data/local", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
lstat("/data/local/Downloads.test", {st_mode=S_IFLNK|0777, st_size=10, ...})
= 0
readlink("/data/local/Downloads.test", "Downloads/", 4095) = 10
lstat("/data/local/Downloads", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0700, st_size=4096, ...}) =
0
lstat("/data/local/Downloads/20211105_090338.jpg", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600,
st_size=0, ...}) = 0
close(8)= 0
getpid()= 23364
writev(2, [{iov_base="obexd[23364]: open(/data/local/D"..., iov_len=95},
{iov_base="\n", iov_len=1}], 2) = 96
sendto(3, "<27>Nov  5 18:22:28 obexd[23364]"..., 115, MSG_NOSIGNAL, NULL, 0)
= 115
getpid()= 23364
writev(2, [{iov_base="obexd[23364]: PUT(0x2), Forbidde"..., iov_len=39},
{iov_base="\n", iov_len=1}], 2) = 40
sendto(3, "<31>Nov  5 18:22:28 obexd[23364]"..., 59, MSG_NOSIGNAL, NULL, 0)
= 59

Conclusion: the problem is related to the directory link in the path and to
me it looks like a problem in obexd

How do you see this?

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Re: Trying to setup obexd but Operation not permitted

2021-11-05 Thread deloptes
Greg Wooledge wrote:

> WHAT application?  And how is THAT creature spawned?

Sorry for confusion. For testing I run it on the command line, but it is
meant to be spawned from one BT manager application. It is spawned as
process the same way I start it in the command line.

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Re: Trying to setup obexd but Operation not permitted

2021-11-05 Thread deloptes
Greg Wooledge wrote:

> In the absence of a useful error message, you could either source-dive
> into obexd and try to figure out what it's actually doing... or you could
> *guess* (as I am currently guessing) that it's complaining about
> too-loose permissions, and then look at all the permissions of all the
> subdirectories along the /home-lisa/user/Downloads path, and see if one
> of them is group-writable or world-writable.  If so, fix it, and see if
> that makes the problem go away.

IMO it is obviously the link, because obexd can write
to /data/local/Downloads but not to the link to this directory, which is 
/data/local/Downloads.test

I will have a look into the code over the weekend.

thanks and BR

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Re: Trying to setup obexd but Operation not permitted

2021-11-05 Thread deloptes
Thomas Schmitt wrote:

> Can it be that obexd is allergic to symbolic links ?
> 
>
https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/cannot-receive-file-over-bluetooth/1813/3
> points to
>
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/bluetooth/bluez.git/tree/obexd/plugins/filesystem.c#n95
> which spews -EPERM if not obex_option_symlinks() is true.
> 
> Above discussion raises the question whether option --symlinks with
> manually started obexd does help ?
> 
> It is remarkably difficult to find documentation about obexd's options.
> My best catch is source code like:
>
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/bluetooth/bluez.git/tree/obexd/src/main.c#n141
> 
> { "symlinks", 'l', [...]
> "Allow symlinks leading outside of the root "
> "folder" },

Yes with this option it is working. I still wonder why this is necessary and
yes it is hard to find documentation.

thanks for the hint

regards

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Re: unkown root password and mkdir problem.

2021-11-05 Thread deloptes
Thomas George wrote:

> Thanks, this fixed my problem and as Greg recommended I have reset mkdir
> ownership and options

If I were you, I would be very careful using root

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Re: ALSA device names.

2021-11-09 Thread deloptes
pe...@easthope.ca wrote:

> surround21:CARD=Set,DEV=0
> and
> surround40:CARD=Set,DEV=0
> aren't atomic names.  Is the syntax and semantics explained in
> documentation?
> 
> No surround22, surround23 ... surround39 evident here. How does ALSA
> derive or find the names and numbers?

you hopefully know that sourround21 stands there for 2+1 and 40 stands for 4
outputs
Also it is explained in documents like for example on the alsa-project web
site
https://alsa-project.org/wiki/DeviceNames

I sometimes wonder if some peoples google is broken. For me it worked quite
well. I type in "ALSA device name"

another excellent reading is
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Advanced_Linux_Sound_Architecture

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Re: downgrade qt version from 5 to 4

2021-11-10 Thread deloptes
Jerome BENOIT wrote:

>> I intend to downgrade qt5 to qt4.
> 
> You are looking for trouble here.

yes indeed - the only thing that make sense is a virtual machine with some
old distro that has qt4

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Re: Dcopserver not loading

2021-11-13 Thread deloptes
Ken Heard wrote:

> It is consequently my understanding that running the 'dcopserver'
> command is presumably required as part of the initial boot-up.  If such
> is usually the case I would appreciate knowing what I need to do to have
> my computer, named Morcom, do so as well.  Can anyone tell me?

Hi Ken,
how are you starting TDE, do you use the Login Manager TDM?
Usually dcopserver is started by tdeinit AFAIR.

If it is not starting, it mean, something is going wrong between login into
the windows manager and running tde

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Re: Sound

2021-11-21 Thread deloptes
Gunnar Gervin wrote:

> Hi again. Please help me get sound.
> Installed Debian again in my 2,1 Macbook from 2017, works, but no sound in
> internal speakers, or in headphones.
> Plugged in external speakers, which worked, but then disappeared.
> Pulse audio program is installed, but does not give response in the form
> of sound..
> BR,
> Gunnar G

what always used to help was to start alsamixer for the right hardware
(usually alsamixer -c0) and unmute the PCM device (or check some outputs
for muted and unmute)


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Re: Impossible to verify GPG signature on Debian Release file

2021-11-23 Thread deloptes
john doe wrote:

> What am I missing?

this specific key seems not to be available on the debian keyserver
try keyserver.ubuntu.com, you can find the key there

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what to do with USB stick that gives badblocks errors

2021-11-23 Thread deloptes
I'm sure there are many ideas around, but I want to hear your opinion

so there is one USB stick that I noticed started mocking about errors when
booting off.
I ran badblocks (without options) and then with -s -n and this produced a
slightly different output.
Is the output resulting from the options or is something really wrong with
the USB

Should I throw it away?

If no should I try reformat it

thanks & regards


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usb32_SanDisk_badblocks.diff.gz
Description: application/gzip


Re: Firefox Has Disabled FVD Speed Dial

2021-11-23 Thread deloptes
David wrote:

> A few seconds web search finds this:
> https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/fvd-speed-dial-stopped-working/39165

also after upgrades since perhaps 1-2 years it is creating new profile by
default and one should go to about:profiles and select the old one as
default.

BR

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Re: where to find wifi card info in linux-doc

2021-11-26 Thread deloptes
lou wrote:

> sorry, i use wrong word
> 
> i mean wifi adapter, not wifi card
> 
> in Chinese, it's called wireless card, though it's really USB wifi adapter

I think you are looking for usb/WUSB-Design-overview.txt which I found with

grep -r -i wireless usb/

otherwise

grep -r -i wireless .

points to different aspects ABI, Netowrking, USB drivers etc.


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Re: where to find wifi card info in linux-doc

2021-11-26 Thread deloptes
Christian Britz wrote:


>> I think you are looking for usb/WUSB-Design-overview.txt which I found
>> with
>> 
>> grep -r -i wireless usb/
> 
> How did you do this exactly? I installed package linux-dox like lou and
> issued grep -i -r wireless /usr/share/doc/linux-doc/Documentation/ ,
> without any results.

It is always better to use the original source
cd linux-4.19.190/Documentation
grep -r -i wireless .

sorry for not mentioning that and I wonder how it is possible that the
Documentation directory has different content
and notice -i wireless (means ignore case for wireless) , while -r is to do
recursive grep

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Re: Avoid rebooting server to gain back RS232 connection

2021-12-01 Thread deloptes
john doe wrote:

> I'm using a RS232 cable to connect to a server everything is properly
> set up and works fine.
> For some reasons I lost the connection to my server that is I can not
> control the server using serial console.
> If I reboot that server I can once again manage that server using serial
> console.
> 
> Is there a way to get back the connection without having to reboot the
> server?
> 
> In other words, how can I reconnect when the cable has been disconnected

Above you say for some reason and now you say cable was disconnected.
If it is a straight forward RS232 on the mainboard of the server and you are
using something like minicom, you just need to reconnect to the device
(after attaching the cable).
If you have an issue with that, you need to debug what is going on.
IF you have the rs232 serial as module, you can try SSH to the server and
rmmod/insmod or modprobe ... but if you could SSH why would you RS232 to
the server?
Anyway ... based on the scare information, this is the only thing that came
into my mind.

BR

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Re: Can you help me?

2021-12-10 Thread deloptes
Jeremy Ardley wrote:

> Plug in a different monitor. If it's dim as well then it is a computer
> software/hardware problem. If not it's a monitor problem which can
> usually be fixed by swapping out the monitor power supply capacitors.

Yes sure, I have a PC store and 5 monitors to choose from :/

Most probably it is the stupidity of developers of course, especially if you
are on a new Gnome or KDE or derivative desktop.
Guys did not get it that they are testing for free.

But I admit there might be a chance to be hardware failure ... around 1%.
Few days ago the notebook stopped seeing the monitor. It turned out it is
the HDMI cable or the KVM inbetween - I need another cable to test ... but
luckily I have a PC store and can borrow one from there :D

I hope you have a sense of humor.
BR

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Re: Can you help me?

2021-12-11 Thread deloptes
Jeremy Ardley wrote:

> Most people will have a friend, with a monitor.
> 
> But I guess that isn't something that occurred to you.

No ... actually not - they do not have either a spare monitor or time.
Luckily they also have no st**id ideas either.

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Re: How to get linux headers or source code for debian 8.0 kernel 3.16.0-4-amd64 ?

2021-12-14 Thread deloptes
Kiyanovski, Arthur wrote:

> But it got the sources for kernel linux-3.16.84 and not 3.16.0-4
>  
> Can you please help me? I need to make sure my code compiles on this
> kernel but I can't get its sources or headers ☹

you sure you are not on ubuntu
https://howtoinstall.co/en/linux-headers-3.16.0-4-amd64

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Re: regarding No SOUND

2021-12-15 Thread deloptes
Maureen L Thomas wrote:

> I misstated the version I am using.  I am using 10.6, Buster, 64 bit.  I
> have tried a few things that I am aware of and am looking for help.

there is profound documentation regarding sound on arch linux (see below), I
can recommend, but 90% of the issues are solved if you open alsamixer for
the hardware and check if all is unmuted.
Then open pulseaudio and check your settings.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Advanced_Linux_Sound_Architecture

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Re: all of a sudden I have no sound

2021-12-16 Thread deloptes
Maureen L Thomas wrote:

> Any help would be greatly appreciated.

you were already answered before

on Debian 9 it might be you need some debugging after the shutdown via the
power switch. it could be anything from hardware to software  - the
archlinux article is good

I would start with alsamixer first

you must do the work yourself

BR

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Re: realtek bluetooth puzzle

2021-12-16 Thread deloptes
Jude DaShiell wrote:

> So in reality this may actually not be a card
> The disk that came with this claimed it was an realtek-0179 device if
> memory serves.

did you check firmware if required - do you have it installed?

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Re: all of a sudden I have no sound

2021-12-16 Thread deloptes
Jude DaShiell wrote:

> debian-accessibility is interested in replacing pulseaudio with pipewire
> and I can understand why!  Not saying pipewire has these essential
> features but pulseaudio has been a p.i.t.a. since I've had it on any
> hardware I've used.  Whenever possible I avoid installing pulseaudio or
> remove it from a system that installs it automatically for sanity
> purposes.

as of approx version 11 of pulseaudio, there are virtually no issues, so you
may revisit your decision now.

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Re: realtek bluetooth puzzle

2021-12-16 Thread deloptes
Jude DaShiell wrote:

> No Linux firmware came on the disk only windows files.  To that extent I
> checked.  On debian does a way exist to check devices for missing
> firmware?
> 

in the log file journalctl or /var/log/syslog, after plugging in the usb (I
am not sure if it is usb stick, because you mentioned card, but anywa)
When bluetooth initializes you should see if it is looking for firmware and
in your case not loading it.

It could be that you have to install linux firmware packages free or not
free (depends on the chip you have on the device)

You could also check output of command rfkill list and see if hci0 device
exists and is blocked

The other thing use hcitool command (hcitool dev) and see if it shows hci
device - I have seen some cases that hciattach needs to be run to enable
the device.

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Re: realtek bluetooth puzzle

2021-12-16 Thread deloptes
Thomas Schmitt wrote:

> I find its home page somehow confusing
> https://www.draisberghof.de/usb_modeswitch/
> But the web says that it is supposed to work automagically for known
> devices.

may be OP is needing the firmware and this mode is a fallout mode. It is
strange if it would need usb_modeswitch.
Also it is strange that it does not try anything else first.

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Re: realtek bluetooth puzzle

2021-12-16 Thread deloptes
Jude DaShiell wrote:

> Dec 16 17:10:08 taf systemd[1]: Condition check resulted in Bluetooth
> service being skipped.
> Dec 16 17:10:33 taf dbus-daemon[475]: [system] Failed to activate service
> 'org.bluez': timed out (service_start_timeout=25000ms)
> Dec 16 17:20:36 taf kernel: Bluetooth: Core ver 2.22
> Dec 16 17:20:36 taf kernel: Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager
> initialized
> Dec 16 17:20:36 taf kernel: Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
> Dec 16 17:20:36 taf kernel: Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
> Dec 16 17:20:36 taf kernel: Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized

it says it can not start bluetooth, but HCI device and connection manager
initialized, so what does hcitool said?
and why is pulseaudio involved - perhaps you need
pulseaudio-module-bluetooth and reboot to be sure it all setup properly

also what said rfkill?

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Re: realtek bluetooth puzzle

2021-12-16 Thread deloptes
Jude DaShiell wrote:

> hcitool and rfkill list showed nothing, according to them the device isn't
> there yet.  I might be able to get this going with usb_modeswitch but need
> a product identifier and another item to do that.

based on the product name, find what is the chip inside and ask google

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Re: realtek bluetooth puzzle

2021-12-16 Thread deloptes
Jude DaShiell wrote:

> I have firmware-realtek installed for wireless devices and that's all
> debian offers.

but sometime if it is a new device on the market you may need either to wait
for the firmware to go to the package or you can download from vendor or
you can extract from the windows package

Anyway - by price of BT USB dongles around 12,- it is perhaps worth to
return and find a supported one

Before doing this perhaps try on another linux if available

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Re: OT: Recommendation for a new Debian laptop

2022-01-12 Thread deloptes
john doe wrote:

> I'm thinking about two options:
> - Buying something of the shelph and installing Debian on it
> - Buying a pine64 or alike
> - Any other alternative?

regarding arm or aarch64 I tried with RPi4, but it could not meet all
requirements (not all applications I use can be compiled for arm)

On the company notebook (HP EliteBook 850 G4) I boot with USB stick, because
I am not allowed to modify the hard disk. Everything seems fine - I am
using it in this dual mode for about an year now and also on business
trips. I would buy the same for me if I needed, I don't like Amazon, but it
says it is there for 499,- US

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Re: imagemagick policy setting

2022-01-16 Thread deloptes
Emanuel Berg wrote:

> attempt to perform an operation not allowed by the security policy `PDF' @
> error/constitute.c/IsCoderAuthorized/421

Is google broken where you live?
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1127260/imagemagick-convert-not-allowed

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Re: imagemagick policy setting

2022-01-17 Thread deloptes
local10 wrote:

> Those who suggest that you use google are not your friends. You can start
> here:
> 
> 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Google
> 
> 2. https://nomoregoogle.com/
> 

Oh come on, it is a synonym for a search engine. Of course it is a sh*t
business model they have towards customers/users, but the search engine is
really good.
I've tried duckduckgo for some time, but it is not comparable and it is also
understandable. I agree it would be better we use alternatives, but in
terms of quality, there are none.

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Re: /usr/share/calendar.usholiday

2022-01-17 Thread deloptes
Greg Wooledge wrote:

> I'd imagine it's used by the "calendar" program in the calendar package.
> The string "calendar.usholiday" appears in the calendar(1) man page, in
> an example, as well as in the FILES section.

And if you look into the file, you see it has no years associated with the
date, so it doesn't matter when it was written unless there was a change in
the official holidays in the US.

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Re: TDE File Manager options

2022-01-20 Thread deloptes
c. marlow wrote:

> And I am wondering what other file managers work with TDE 14 besides
> Konqueror,  which ain't worth a dang!

the erason many use TDE is 
- it is very small in size
- it is very reliable (things just work)

even the bugs are well known and constantly fixed

So may be you are more for an adventage with another desktop. For me some
few months experience with Gnome or KDE4 or 5 was enough to stick to TDE.

>From the positive side - it is good that you have choice.


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Re: TDE File Manager options

2022-01-20 Thread deloptes
Hans wrote:

> Reading these, and I am also very old school, with my first linux
> installation of SuSE 6.0 in 1986, I am asking myself: What is better,
> working fast or working with nice tools?

according to this article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SUSE_Linux
SuSE Linux 6.0  was released on 1998-12-21 

AFAIR October 4, 1985 was founded the free software foundation

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Re: Special installation issue

2022-01-21 Thread deloptes
Hans wrote:

> Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

I usually use debootstrap and install to the USB stick (that is to boot
from). So I have a fully bootable system. I use qemu to prepare and test
the basics.
As mentioned those arm beasts are usually with various hardware combinations
and might be needed that you find what hardware specs you have and find the
proper kernel version or even compile your own. Problem are usually the
firmwares and binary blobs

But anyway if you use working bootable USB stick, you will not have to limit
yourself by the installer

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Re: hostname is being reset, killing net on reboot

2022-01-22 Thread deloptes
Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:

> If you want to know how to run (fairly)
> vanilla Debian - but including the non-free raspberry pi firmware
> and rpi-eeprom - it's possible using either Gunnar Wolf's images
> or Pete Batard's version of UEFI for the Pi 4 and the Debian
> arm64 ISO file. _That_ I can help you with.

I use the RPi with Debian, but not after I adopted their kernel. So all that
was necessary to do is to copy the few packages.
I find this as good compromise

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Re: Why did Norbert Preining (having maintained KDE) left Debian?

2022-01-23 Thread deloptes
Marco Möller wrote:

> I feel that a concise statement from Debian insiders would gain a lot to
> not provoke avoidable discussions and would right away defeat heat given
> off obstructively.
> As Thomas pointed out, there are hundreds of posts from years old
> discussions which appear to be the prelude to the current situation.
> Some of these public discussions have been quite controversial, partly
> also questioning if community processes are always taking place
> sufficiently transparent. Currently I find only a public statement from
> one party. This could harm the Debian project. Some concise statement
> from somebody in the Debian project with insights into the issue could
> prevent Debian from bad repute by declassifying which are the positions
> of the present disagreement.

I am not aware of the current problem, but my personal observation is that
there are more often such conflicts and I expect the number to rise in
future.
According my observation the problem is in lack of education in the fields
of logic and rhetoric. The new generation (called milenials or gen Z or
whatever) mostly brainwashed to the political left, but I do not exclude
also the once to the right, are not able to have a meaningful debate.
So what happens - again this is my personal opinion - they are not able to
have a meaningful conversation over an issue and can not solve conflicts.
Thus the only way is to break the communication. Sadly this is observable
also in politics and I hope we do not end up in nuclear war.

The first such experience I had was exactly the KDE project, when it
released version 4. It was not possible to convince the developers that we
need a working desktop and not just shiny one. So I had to abandon KDE.
Since then I had this experience in many different situations especially
with younger people. It is very sad! Again I see this problem mainly in the
education, but it could have also relation to the family a person was
raised in.

All together it is sad that conflicts are not solved for one or another
reason.


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Re: Why did Norbert Preining (having maintained KDE) left Debian?

2022-01-23 Thread deloptes
Marco Möller wrote:

> Asking for transparency to sound like trolling wasn't my intention. I am
> sorry if I wasn't able to find the correct wording for keeping these to
> things distinguishable.
> 
> Being a grateful user of Debian, and being in my circle of influence a
> strong advocate of the Debian project, and also of the KDE Plasma
> desktop environment as available in Debian, I do not feel it to be, lets
> say, insolent, if interested in community affairs. Actually, I feel it
> desirable to stay well informed for reinforcing advocacy, and asking for
> transparency is to me a coherent step.
> 
> I feel that a concise statement from Debian insiders would gain a lot to
> not provoke avoidable discussions and would right away defeat heat given
> off obstructively.
> As Thomas pointed out, there are hundreds of posts from years old
> discussions which appear to be the prelude to the current situation.
> Some of these public discussions have been quite controversial, partly
> also questioning if community processes are always taking place
> sufficiently transparent. Currently I find only a public statement from
> one party. This could harm the Debian project. Some concise statement
> from somebody in the Debian project with insights into the issue could
> prevent Debian from bad repute by declassifying which are the positions
> of the present disagreement.

Looking into the details to me it seems exactly as expected. The liberal
 hijacked Debian as they did and do routinely with many other
organizations. So now the Communist Party of Debian can rule with CoC.
Great job - makes me feel proud of Debian (ironically).
And I can imagine what will happen in the future. Debian will become like
many other companies a victim of its CoC where it is not important to
provide good software but to comply with what the communist party elite
says. This is a pandemic for itself.
I will be not surprised if I replace debian with something else in the
future. Not because I care that much about the  CoC, but because the
ideologically motivated organization will not be able to deliver the
expected quality.


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Re: Why did Norbert Preining (having maintained KDE) left Debian?

2022-01-23 Thread deloptes
to...@tuxteam.de wrote:

> This is not helpful. If you value logic as much as you talk about (cf.
> your other post), you wouldn't need this narrative of Some Dark
> Conspiracy Taking Over The World (TM).
> 

No conspiracy - it is a fact.

> Stick to the things as they are. Accept that there are other people, who
> think differently and refrain from characterising everyone you disagree
> with as .
> 

Same applies in the opposite direction

> The people who disagree with you are not a cabal. They just... disagree
> with you. Convince them otherwise, using logic.
> 

Same applies in the opposite direction

> This is the price we all have to pay to take part in a social endeavour,
> as a free software distribution is.

Interestingly there was no such price 15y ago. How comes?

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Re: Why did Norbert Preining (having maintained KDE) left Debian?

2022-01-23 Thread deloptes
Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote:

> Thanks for sharing this masterpiece of rhetoric, intellect and
> understanding about how things work in Debian.
> 
> This was enlightening.

you are welcome (I am not stupid, just answering in the same manner)

I do not care what you do in Debian. I use and support the community as long
as it serves my needs.

Also I am ready to ignore all replies as I have found out it is not possible
to have constructive debate with  well lets keep it for myself.

I simply know how this works - once you have the communists inside, it all
falls apart. Knowing Debian, it will take perhaps another 10y.

So instead of attacking me, just think over.

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Re: Why did Norbert Preining (having maintained KDE) left Debian?

2022-01-23 Thread deloptes
Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote:

> I feel like someone is very frustrated and can't seem to self moderate
> himself.
> 
> This is probably the part of opensource community that is the most time
> consuming and more destructive for all projects, what make serious
> people look at us like if we are just a bunch of kids.
> 
> What's the goal of sending a email when you repeat twice, same to you.
> Talk about facts but never give any (fact = substance, not opinions).
> 
> Yes, time have changed since the last 15 years and it has also changed
> since the time we used 2400 baud modem, used terminal connected to S/390
> and the reign of the PDP-11. Have we adapted our software, I think so.
> Why can't we adapt as human ? Some do, other seem to be into doing
> retro-computing with their own brain.

You are not worth spending even this one minute to discuss anything - thats
the point!

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Re: Why did Norbert Preining (having maintained KDE) left Debian?

2022-01-23 Thread deloptes
Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote:

> You do not care but still take plenty time to post a very long paragraph
> full of nonsense which brings nothing relevant to the discussion, and
> shows that you are also able to lack that ability you claim having to
> have a constructive debate instead of asserting, without a shred of
> argument, mocking, diminishing what you *guess* is happening.

I do not know you and I do not insult you, so why you are doing this?
Oh, let me tell you I do not care at all. I learned to distance my self from
offends such as yours. To be honest I am fed up of guys like you.
And let me tell you something as well - I did not want to have any kind of
argumentative discussion here. I just regret the ability to have one in
general. And you are best proof of it. And this is why people like Norbert
Preining are leaving.

If you want to have one debate, you can ask for it, but hey - you are one of
those smart, morally superior *** *, who know they are better. So you
exactly prove what I was saying.
I refuse to come down to that level of debate. If you want to have one, do
it properly - not here and not now. I enjoy my weekend, I hope you do too.

I even do not expect you will understand what I am saying - well obviously
you do not. I hope you can understand and I also forgive you, if you can
not because you are younger (although with 30 you could perform better). 

Once you wake up in a full totalitarian system you yourself created, you
will probably and hopefully understand what I was saying, but first it will
be too late and second at the moment any discussion with you is pointless. 

It is disappointing that people like you demand respect, but are not ready
to give such. I am sorry for you.


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Re: Why did Norbert Preining (having maintained KDE) left Debian?

2022-01-23 Thread deloptes
Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote:

> Just a note, he's not 30

https://people.debian.org/~peb/resume.html

but I stop as it is unbearable ... and I am not sure who is playing the
fool.
You are just digging the grave for this awesome project and I hope I am
wrong. But it could be just evolution happening infront of our eyes (well
for those who still can clearly see where it is going)

BR

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Re: trying to get bookworm net going on an rpi4

2022-01-23 Thread deloptes
gene heskett wrote:

> Greetings folks;
> 
> Let me say first that I'm around 150 miles from any ipv6 capable network,
> just to get that out of the way.
> 
> Its booted to a text login and the first thing I did was import a saved
> copy of the hosts file, and added rpi4-20220122.coyote.den with an alias
> of rpi42 to that file. Then I edited /etc/network/interfaces.d/eth0 to
> set a static address, and added a dns-nameserver 192.168.xx.1 line to it,
> my router and gateway, and a second additional line to set /proc/sys/
> net/.../eth0/disable_ipv6 to a 1. And I've checked, disable_ipv6 is now a
> 1.
> 
> But that's not enough, ip a, after a /e/i/networking restart, still shows
> its active, so I assume its sending its dns request out the ipv6 portal
> and my router is a dummy load for anything ipv6. So I can ping all the
> local machines, but cannot look up yahoo.com.
> 

I'm not sure - I think dns uses mostly ipv6 - but I can't tell for sure. I
have it on my todo list to get familiar with ipv6 and until then I also
refuse to use it.

> So question one:
> So what is the official, works in bookworm every time, way to totally
> kill ipv6, making it use ipv4 for everything?
> 

AFAIR it is a module (or could be compiled as module) so disabling ipv6 will
nuke it

> This ought to be in a faq somewhere. Except everybody has their own
> method. :(
> 
> And question 2:
> I noticed also, there is not a first user, can I assume the first time
> adduser gets run it will assign him/her/it as user 1000 AND will put that
> user into sudoers?
> 

yes first user will have ID 1000, but I am not sure it is added
automatically to sudoers

> Again, this is the 20220121 bookworm.
> 
> Thanks all.
> 
> Cheers, Gene Heskett.

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Re: trying to get bookworm net going on an rpi4

2022-01-23 Thread deloptes
Andy Smith wrote:

> However, if for your own eccentric reasons you insist:
> 
> # echo 'net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6=1' > /etc/sysctl.d/disableipv6.conf
> 
> will disable it from the next boot.
> 
> You can use:
> 
> # sysctl --system
> 
> to re-apply all sysctl configs immediately, so disabling IPv6
> without needing to reboot.

Don't know but I have following there (in /etc/sysctl.conf)

net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6 = 1
net.ipv6.conf.default.disable_ipv6 = 1
net.ipv6.conf.lo.disable_ipv6 = 1

and it does not disable ipv6

# lsmod | grep ipv
ipv6  458752  80 bridge,udp_diag

however when I blacklist module ipv6 - it is gone ;-)

kernel used 4.19.161


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Re: [SUMMARY STATEMENT] Was: Re: Why did Norbert Preining (having maintained KDE) left Debian?

2022-01-23 Thread deloptes
local10 wrote:

> I asked you a simple question: Is there a list of all the horrible things
> Norbert Preining said that was used to support the decision to demote him?
> 
> Instead of providing a clear answer to the question you seem to be more
> interesting in engaging in sophism and detracting from the essence of the
> matter. In a way this is also an answer, it just shows and you are evasive
> and want to rely on trickery and distractions to support your point
> instead of facts.
> 
> Anyhow, I've heard enough.

yes, it is meaningless - as I mentioned it looks like Debian is being indeed
hijacked and Polyna is good example of liberal left that you can not talk
to - never gives up and do not provide logical or meaningful discussions. 

In fact it is impossible to find a common ground. As Charles Curley it is a
difference in the world view. I just hope that people grow up and learn how
important it is to be cooperative.

In fact just recently something similar happened to an honored professor who
is famous for his contributions to argumentation theory. Someone censored
an article of his by simply removing it from their scholar forum.
Fortunately this someone was fired in the case. It shows how far we've gone
and I am afraid the future will be even worse. I hope I am wrong.

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USB UEFI recovery stick

2022-01-23 Thread deloptes


Hi all,
is there a way to have a USB UEFI stick that works similar to the Debian
installer - for example to boot into UEFI and recover the boot loader.
One machine here seems a bit older and refuses to boot into UEFI from the
USB - rendering USB obsolete as recovery option. In BIOS USB says AUTO
(other option is Legacy) however if I disable Legacy keyboard does not
work.

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Re: [SUMMARY STATEMENT] Was: Re: Why did Norbert Preining (having maintained KDE) left Debian?

2022-01-23 Thread deloptes
Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote:

> This seems to me close to harassment.

its just popcorn but you'll obviously never get it.

please stop as well and thank you in advance

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Re: USB UEFI recovery stick

2022-01-24 Thread deloptes
Thank you for the response

David Christensen wrote:

> I have a computer with an Intel DQ67SW desktop motherboard (released Q1,
> 2011).  The Setup utility allows me to select BIOS/MBR mode or UEFI/GPT
> mode.  d-i seems to detect if the computer is running in BIOS/MBR mode
> or in UEFI/GPT mode, and performs an install to match.  So, I installed
> Debian twice (via textual "Install") onto a pair of USB sticks, once in
> each mode.  (An "Expert" installation may offer more options.)

Ah 2011 seems right to match the one that refer to here.
I can boot from the CD/DVD into UEFI, but it seems I can not do the same
from the USB.
The USB which is UEFI can boot the newer notebook (has secure mode)

> 
> I mostly run my computers in BIOS/MBR mode, and use the BIOS/MBR USB
> stick frequently.
> 
> 
> I have limited experience with the UEFI/GPT USB stick.  I need to test
> it on a newer computer with Secure Boot, and may need to create a third
> USB stick.
> 
> 
> AIUI d-i and Debian Live are open-source projects.  I believe they both
> support all of the above in a single image.  If you have the skills,
> perhaps you could fork one and create your own image with the tools you
> want.

The question is if it is not limited by the board. If I disable Legacy USB I
can not use the keyboard/mouse and I have to reset the bios.

But even in Legacy mode I see in boot options UEFI USB disk, however it does
not boot, but same stick boots on the more recent notebook.

Does someone knows more about it. What and where to check? I would not spend
time if it is the boards BIOS. I'll just keep a copy of the DVD/CD as
rescue

thanks

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Re: Re: Why did Norbert Preining (having maintained KDE) left Debian?

2022-01-24 Thread deloptes
max wrote:

> For comparison, RMS is publicly against singular "they", and Debian
> developers voted not to censure him.
> https://stallman.org/articles/genderless-pronouns.html Seems like a double
> standard, but whatever.

If you engage in such discussion, you are ready to fail. There is no force
in this universe to tell me not to use the pronouns he and she based on
biological sex.
The opposite is complete madness: I recommend listening to Jordan Peterson
on this subject.
I doubt RMS is authority in this field. He has opinion and this is it - he
and not only he - no one has the authority to tell you or me how to speak.
Language is to help us understand each other. Obviously someone does not
want to admit to this basic rule and wants us to roll over into the
Overtone window. It is absolutely unnecessary discussion. J. Peterson
refuses to accept, I refuse and many others. It is perfectly OK. I have the
same rights as you do. Period.

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Re: USB UEFI recovery stick

2022-01-24 Thread deloptes
Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:

> Hi deloptes,
> 
> It depends very much on the machine. I've just saved a machine that has
> 32 bit UEFI implementation and a 64 bit Atom processor. It's an Intel
> Baytrail with a small amount of memory [2G] but required the Debian
> multi-arch .iso to boot.
> 
> A later model of the same series - Lenovo Ideapad - does support 64 bit
> UEFI and UEFI processor. Which machine do you have and what's the
> processor?
> 
> All the very best
> 
> Andy Cater
> 
> Which machine, which processor.

Thank you
I did not know that it could be different BIOS arch version - but of course
why not.
The PC is Fujitsu Esprimo C700
http://support.harlander.com/upload-artikelsupport/computer/fujitsu-siemens/esprimo-c700/c700-datenblatt.pdf

CPU is
vendor_id   : GenuineIntel
cpu family  : 6
model   : 42
model name  : Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2400 CPU @ 3.10GHz

information is too little

thank you in advance

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Re: Use motherboard video-out or GPU’s

2021-03-09 Thread deloptes
Pankaj Jangid wrote:

> Suppose I have a good motherboard with two GPUs installed in the PCIe
> slots. Now, should I connect the monitor to the motherboard video-out or
> should I use GPU’s output? Suppose the OS (Debian GNU/Linux in this
> case) is fully configured to utilize the GPUs i.e. drivers etc. are set
> up. Will the graphic system be able to utilize the GPUs irrespective of
> where I have connected the monitor?

I am not an expert, but first of all what server are you using X or Wayland.
I am not an expert in Wayland, but X is able to utilize any GPU in any
number.
If it does not this automatically you have to manually configure the server.
There are numerous guides on the internet.
It also depends how your MoBo is designed to work. Some do not allow using
both internal/external GPU.

Last but not least - why many GPUs but one monitor? It makes no sense. It
should use the one where the monitor is attached, but usually monitors have
more inputs, which you can utilize.



Re: Use motherboard video-out or GPU’s

2021-03-09 Thread deloptes
Pankaj Jangid wrote:

> Okay. So, this is possible. But my doubt remains. See below.
> 
>> Last but not least - why many GPUs but one monitor? It makes no sense. It
>> should use the one where the monitor is attached, but usually monitors
>> have more inputs, which you can utilize.
> 
> I’ll be using multiple monitors but my original doubt was this. If I am
> not connecting a monitor to GPU output, will I not be utilizing its
> power for (this) display?  Assuming, I have configured X to utilize all
> the GPUs for number crunching. Should it make any difference where I am
> connect the monitor? What will be the highest available resolution? Will
> it depend on where I have connected?

AFAIR A screen will be assigned to the controller/GPU. then to each output a
Monitor and Display will be assigned.

As you know there are few options how it can be handled (Extend/Clone).
The resolution depends on the quality of the cards.

I have only one integrated intel with DVI and HDMI. So I have one screen and
one Monitor, but both DVI and HDMI are connected.
Because I have configured Extend per default, I see the login screen only on
the DVI display and the extention on the other.

I guess you must try out and perhaps manually fine tune this or that.

May be also copy/paste here the make/model of the hardware, so that someone
can give you more detailed information.




Re: A suggestion to multiply your users

2021-03-09 Thread deloptes
Brett Pierce wrote:

> Can I suggest you get a straight-talking non-geek who knows nothing about
> your software and give them several scenarios (eg, A. You want to edit raw
> files for your photos.

Try Ubuntu with Gnome or KDE. It is more user friendly.



Re: Use motherboard video-out or GPU’s

2021-03-09 Thread deloptes
Felix Miata wrote:

> Clear as mud.
> 
> Monitor = display. This is physical.
> 
> Screen for X purposes is comprised of from 1 to N displays aka 1 to N
> monitors, and most often is. It's a logical construct in which displayed
> output can be either mirrored (cloned) or discrete (unique).
> 

Not exactly - it utilizes the device and AFAIR if you have multihead GPU,
you could have more than one screens with more than one monitors and define
there whatever acceptable displays you can define.

> IME, two cables simultaneously connected from one GPU to one display is a
> formula for failure, unless the display specifically supports multiple
> simultaneous discrete inputs, such as PBP, POP or PIP.

Why not? I can do HDMI or DVI as I like. The DVI delivers somehow better
quality - might be because the HDMI has a switch box in between - I suspect
in general being produced in China and it can not deliver full
1920x1080@75, or may be some other reason.
Anyway I kept the DVI and it works with both plugged in just fine - may be
over two years already.



Re: Hardware requirements between Debian 9 and 10

2021-03-09 Thread deloptes
IL Ka wrote:

> By the way: some people use bare window managers instead of full-fledged
> desktop environments.
> 
>> Some window managers (like TWM) can run on 8MB of RAM:). The smallest one
> is called CWM (created by OpenBSD).
> https://packages.debian.org/buster/cwm
> 
> but it is for these old UNIX gurus who never leave the command line, not
> for regular users.

My grandma is not using any window manager :D - she's being managed as she
is 90y.o :D
Sorry I couldn't resist.



Re: Use motherboard video-out or GPU???s

2021-03-09 Thread deloptes
Pankaj Jangid wrote:

> But anyway, I have some spare GPUs from AMD (Radeon RX580) and am
> planning go via Ryzen way. So I guess, I will be able to utilize the
> things nicely now. Thanks.

Keep in mind that AMD dropped support for their older card models.



Re: Could KDE work adequately on a PC with 4 GB of RAM and an Intel Core 2 Duo processor @ 2.33 GHz?

2021-03-09 Thread deloptes
Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z wrote:

> I would like to install Debian 10 with the KDE Plasma task
> on a PC with 4 GB of RAM and Intel Core 2 Duo E6550 @ 2.33 GHz,
> it doesn't have a GPU.
> Do you think it would run without problems
> or would it be slow and laggy?

Yes, I think it will not work - better try lighter desktops or the older KDE
that is called now Trinity Desktop



Re: Hardware requirements between Debian 9 and 10

2021-03-10 Thread deloptes
Felix Miata wrote:

> KDE is one of the oldest DEs, thus has acquired more features. They need
> not be used all at once, so need not generate the giant monolith feeling
> many would have you believe. It need not use any more RAM than XFCE:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrvJOXypAbk

There is a good project called Slax with KDE fitted to <1GB USB. Just tested
last week, but on some modern PCs.
I doubt it will work well on older Core2 Duo PC/Notebook without tweeking,
but it could be I am wrong. The best is trying yourself.




Re: Is there an alternative filesystem hierarchy that could be adapted to Debian.

2021-03-10 Thread deloptes
Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z wrote:

> I think too that it could be better than both Debian and Windows are
> today. In Windows, if you look under C:\Windows\System32\ it becomes
> scary.

Same when you open the hood of your car, no?
Not to mention aircraft engine ... so to put it short - in life a lot of
things are based on conventions (for example language, driving rules,
keyboard etc.). You learn those conventions and go along. The conventions
help us understand each other.
Example: Europe/USA driving on the right side. England/Japan driving on the
left side.
"Scary" means you have no idea - learn, and it will become clear what is
what and why is there.
Once a convention was established, it is very hard to change it, because it
needs re-consolidation of the knowledge of all the people following the
convention. There must be a good reason for this effort and I do not see
any.

This topic is obsolete.






Re: Network connection of a qemu guest.

2021-03-10 Thread deloptes
pe...@easthope.ca wrote:

> Will be happy with telnet or ssh or ftp from the guest to the host. (I
> know telnet and ftp aren't secure but all is within one machine which
> runs shorewall.)  No other machine is involved, for now at least.
> 
> Thanks again,

https://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/Networking

there are different ways to set up networking in the qemu.
I actually choose to take the "bridge" way so that I can set the IP via DHCP
on the local network (still not sure if it were possible the other way
around). At the end it looked like this

sudo qemu-system-aarch64 -nographic -no-reboot \
-boot n \
-machine virt,gic-version=max -m 2048 -cpu cortex-a53 -smp 4 \
-device virtio-net-pci,netdev=vnet,mac=52:54:00:12:xx:xx \
-netdev user,id=vnet,type=tap \
-device virtio-blk-pci,drive=hd \
-drive if=none,file=swap.qcow2,format=qcow2,id=hd \
-kernel vmlinuz-4.19.0-13-arm64 \
-initrd initrd.img-4.19.0-13-arm64 \
-append "root=/dev/nfs rw \
 nfsroot=192.168.xx.xx:/opt/remote/nfsroot/rpi4b-arm64 ip=dhcp"





Re: How i can optimize my operating system?

2021-03-11 Thread deloptes
William Torrez Corea wrote:

> The problem occur when i execute different process at the same time. In
> this case i execute the following program: firefox, facebook, libreoffice.

the partitioning looks normal. you better post output of top. it gives more
information related to applications.

facebook I do not know, but firefox and libreoffice are memory/cpu hungry.
again top is needed here + may be syslog
you could also post output of free
$ free
  totalusedfree  shared  buff/cache  
available
Mem:7644556 6036100  247984  680280 1360472 
480256
Swap:   8388604 1321472 7067132




Re: How to make btrfs forget a disk?

2021-03-11 Thread deloptes
Victor Sudakov wrote:

> "wipefs -t btrfs -f -a /dev/nvme1n1" did the job.
> 
> Still wondering where those labels are stored on disk in Linux.
> 

FS Superblock? 

> In FreeBSD, GEOM(4) usually keeps such stuff in the last sector of a
> volume/device.

I think it depends on the FS not on the OS.

if search engines are not working where you live, I think this is a good
howto (just found it among the top 10hits in duckduckgo)

https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-use-wipefs-to-wipe-a-signature-from-disk-on-linux/



Re: How i can optimize my operating system?

2021-03-11 Thread deloptes
Felix Miata wrote:

> Several months ago FB turned nearly useless with sloth. I have a sense
> what happened is it started screening everything for potential to censor.
> I can type nearly a sentence before any characters appear on screen.
> Anything serious I wish to post has to be composed elsewhere and pasted
> in, then wait and wait and wait for ack.

I have a simple solution to that. I never had or will ever have a facebook
or whatever SM account.
It is just a waste of time. The debian user list (and some others are much
better)




Re: How to make btrfs forget a disk?

2021-03-12 Thread deloptes
Victor Sudakov wrote:

> Well, to search Duckduckgo for wipefs, you need to know about wipefs :-)
> I found it from reading man blkid and lsblk, after that the information
> from wipefs(8) turned out sufficient (and the howto above did not add
> any new knowledge).

I searched for "linux file system signature"



Re: [?]Are Realtek Audio Drivers for Linux available for use

2021-03-12 Thread deloptes
Susmita/Rajib wrote:

> I am searching for Realtek audio drivers for Linux for the Hardware
> details:  "Lenovo ideapad 320-15ISK" LNVNB161216, and "Realtek
> Audio_6.0.1.8652.A.",otherwise, I am afraid that the audio won't be be
> to operate in duplex mode, i.e., won't record audio while playing it.

https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Lenovo/IdeaPad%20300-15ISK

what is your expectation? it seems the audio works OOTB

You should also upgrade your stretch, BTW.



Re: [?]Are Realtek Audio Drivers for Linux available for use

2021-03-12 Thread deloptes
Susmita/Rajib wrote:

> Thank you for replying to my query.
> 
> Expectation is enabling Duplex audio. Record while playing AV stream.
> With pulseaudio Volume Control. Isn't possible presently.
> 

I am not sure what you mean - the use case "Record while playing AV stream"
seems trivial.
You should describe what you are doing. I doubt PA has to do something with
that.
What applications and how are they accessing your audio device.

> If possible, could this link be looked at please?:
> http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=146840
> 
> Any suggestion, except upgrading from Stretch? When Buster reaches End
> of Active Update (i.e., becomes oldstable), then Stretch shall be
> updated to Buster.

it is hard to recreate your use case, but AFAIR the PA in stretch was
version 11 and had multiple issues.
I recall I had to compile 12 to get things working there.
It is your choice however. It looks like you have to wait for couple of
months

regards




Re: How to manually install WiFi firmware on Debian Live?

2021-03-12 Thread deloptes
Anssi Saari wrote:

> udevadm trigger is the command to run to simulate plugging in the wifi
> adapter after you have the firmware available. I don't think modprobe
> loads firmware.

loading the driver, loads the firmware 
unloading the driver, unloads the firmware

both done with modprobe. How do you load firmware manually, please?





Re: [?]Are Realtek Audio Drivers for Linux available for use

2021-03-13 Thread deloptes
Susmita/Rajib wrote:

> So Mr. Tomas, is your distracted :-) email supposed to mean that
> installing Realtek drivers separately isn't a possibility in Debian,
> but a newer installation of Debian should be sought for?
> 
> Please... I am trying to find a solution, as some work isn't possible
> for the issue.
> 
> Could Debian have an option whereby Doze drivers could be used in
> Debian as well? With some tweak to use those binaries?

No, driver goes with kernel - you need newer kernel that has better driver -
but it is not guaranteed that newer kernel has better driver - you have to
find it yourself.

I wonder why you just don't use the youtube-dl and pass the video trough
ffmpeg to get the audio out?

The images you posted suppose you want to mix the output of the videostream
with output of the microphone.
I don't know if this is possible in pulseaudio. I used rosegarden couple of
times or other audio mixer applications (like jackd)




Re: [?]Are Realtek Audio Drivers for Linux available for use

2021-03-13 Thread deloptes
Susmita/Rajib wrote:

> No, that is about recording audio stream as an audio file. Mic is
> muted, had you noticed carefully. My other HP laptop does this
> seamlessly.

yes noticed, is the software version on both the same?

did you try to unmute mic in ALSA?





Re: Google vs. DDG (was: Social-media antipathy)

2021-03-13 Thread deloptes
Andrei POPESCU wrote:

> Interestingly, for my searches recently I've seldom got really better
> hits on Google.

I'm trying DuckDuckGo for 2 weeks now - it's not bad, but Google is (still)
the best



Re: Creating a tap device.

2021-03-14 Thread deloptes
pe...@easthope.ca wrote:

> My previous message was meant for another list.  Apology for the
> disturbance.
> 
> I've set aside the instructions for qemu.  Trying to understand how a
> tap device is created.  "man ip" has minimal explanation of "ip tuntap".
> 
>
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15626088/tap-interfaces-and-dev-net-tun-device-using-ip-tuntap-command
> prompts this.
> 
> peter@joule:/home/peter$ sudo ip tuntap add mode tap tap0
> [sudo] password for peter:
> open: No such file or directory
> 
> peter@joule:/home/peter$ ls -ld /dev/tu*
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Mar 13 07:34 /dev/tun -> /dev/net/tun
> 
> Can anyone succeed to create a tap device using ip in Debian 10?
> 
> Thx,... P.


I spent also some time finding a suitable way to configure qemu (for
aarch64), so came to the bridge interface option as this way I can do a
diskless setup.

note whoami -> is the user you intend to run the qemu and you can replace
eth0 with your ether device

==
TAP NETWORK
==

Setup
   Create a bridge
 brctl addbr br0
   Clear IP of eth0
 ip addr flush dev eth0
   Add eth0 to bridge
 brctl addif br0 eth0
   Create tap interface
 tunctl -t tap0 -u `whoami`
   Add tap0 to bridge
 brctl addif br0 tap0
   Make sure everything is up
 ifconfig eth0 up
 ifconfig tap0 up
 ifconfig br0 up
   Check if properly bridged
 brctl show
   Assign ip to br0
 dhclient -v br0

Cleanup
   Remove tap interface tap0 from bridge br0
brctl delif br0 tap0
   Delete tap0
tunctl -d tap0
   Remove eth0 from bridge
brctl delif br0 eth0
   Bring bridge down
ifconfig br0 down
   Remove bridge
brctl delbr br0
   Bring eth0 up
ifconfig eth0 up
   Check if an IP is assigned to eth0, if not request one
dhclient -v eth0

https://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/Networking
https://www.qemu.org/2018/05/31/nic-parameter/




Re: [?]Are Realtek Audio Drivers for Linux available for use

2021-03-14 Thread deloptes
Susmita/Rajib wrote:

> Now what this entails is to be guided to run some prescribed tests on
> my laptop, particularly for the package pulseaudio, and file the
> outputs of those tests as a Bug Report.
> 

No one will pay attention as you are far behind the current stable version.
As mentioned I recall PA was v11 in stretch and it was awfully buggy.

Try a USB live/stick and try reproducing it on newer PA version.
then come back with results



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