Re: What drivers do I need for a Nvidia geforce GTX 1660 Ti to work?

Hi, Did you try to install "nvidia-driver"? I run nvidia drivers successfully with GTX 1050ti (on SID) as follows: When you install the driver test if the nvidia modules were build by "lsmod" or "modprobe nvidia". If the module is missing "dpkg-reconfigure nvidia-kernel-dkms". You should als

Re: systemd-nspawn container with non systemd system

On 9/2/2019 3:55 PM, basti wrote: > Hello, > > in the past i use systemd-nspawn containers with different debian/ > raspbian versions. so far so good. > now i try to use alpine linux (a non systemd OS) in the container. > > systemd-nspawn -b --directory=/var/lib/machines/... > > can start and i can

Re: nft 'modules'

Hi, > In ipchains, there were a lot of modules that I used a few of, like > recent and the one that put comments on the end of a rule. I can't find > anything, one way or the other, discussing these add-ons with nft. > > Is there such a thing in nft? Is nft so new that they just haven't been > wr

Re: Suspicious post [was: Problème d'installation]

Hi. On Tue, Sep 03, 2019 at 06:00:08PM -0700, Thomas D. Dean wrote: > On 9/3/19 1:55 PM, Reco wrote: > > Hi. > > > > On Tue, Sep 03, 2019 at 09:18:43AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 02, 2019 at 11:50:12PM +0200, Siard wrote: > > > > > > [...] > > > > > > > Suspici

Re: Suspicious post [was: Problème d'installation]

On 9/3/19 1:55 PM, Reco wrote: Hi. On Tue, Sep 03, 2019 at 09:18:43AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Mon, Sep 02, 2019 at 11:50:12PM +0200, Siard wrote: [...] Suspicious post, nevertheless. Strange e-mail address, strange name, and... the .tar.xz file appears to contain an execut

Re: cat and pipelines, mostly (was Re: Delete all after a pattern)

On Tue 03 Sep 2019 at 09:49:45 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sat, Aug 31, 2019 at 06:49:38PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > Exactly; so > > cat afile | some-filter … > > is just the degenerate of the general case > > cat somefiles* | some-filter … > > where there happens to be only one

Re: Temporary color prompt in bash script

On Tue 03 Sep 2019 at 14:20:11 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Sep 03, 2019 at 01:07:08PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > Trap is designed to break the sequential flow of commands. > > I can't see any reason to do that when the OP wants the > > sequence: > > > > execute a script > >

Re: Suspicious post [was: Problème d'installation]

Hi. On Tue, Sep 03, 2019 at 09:18:43AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Mon, Sep 02, 2019 at 11:50:12PM +0200, Siard wrote: > > [...] > > > Suspicious post, nevertheless. Strange e-mail address, strange name, > > and... the .tar.xz file appears to contain an executable?? > > Yikes.

Re: Sponge [was: Delete all after a pattern]

On 9/3/19, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Sep 03, 2019 at 04:17:01PM -0400, Lee wrote: >> Just out of curiosity, >> sed 's/foo/bar/g' file > tmpfile && sync && mv tmpfile file >> seems to be the 'more correct' version of >> sed 's/foo/bar/g' file > tmpfile && mv tmpfile file >> >> Do you ever

Re: AMD Vega 6 on Debian 10

On 2019-09-03 21:49 +0200, Étienne Mollier wrote: > Alessandro Vesely, on 2019-09-03 : >> That laptop features a radeon "Vega 6" graphic card, which >> doesn't seem to be recognised (lspci -k reports no drivers for >> VGA and Non-VGA entries). I'm wandering if I should try and >> install the pack

Re: Sponge [was: Delete all after a pattern]

On Tue, Sep 03, 2019 at 04:17:01PM -0400, Lee wrote: > Just out of curiosity, > sed 's/foo/bar/g' file > tmpfile && sync && mv tmpfile file > seems to be the 'more correct' version of > sed 's/foo/bar/g' file > tmpfile && mv tmpfile file > > Do you ever take it that far or is the "slight risk

Re: Is Buster ready?

If you want to try a newer kernel with AMD graphics built in, try this: https://github.com/M-Bab/linux-kernel-amdgpu-binaries Il giorno mar 3 set 2019 alle ore 20:10 Alessandro Vesely ha scritto: > On Tue 03/Sep/2019 16:28:48 +0200 Greg Wooledge wrote: > >> On Mon, 2 Sep 2019 22:50:41 +0200 Ales

Re: Sponge [was: Delete all after a pattern]

On 9/3/19, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sat, Aug 31, 2019 at 06:28:15PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: >> Me too, I didn't know about sponge. Small, nifty utility, doing one >> thing -- pretty Unixy. > > Oh god, no. Don't use sponge unless you enjoy data loss. Nope - don't enjoy data loss at all.

AMD Vega 6 on Debian 10 (Was: Is Buster ready?)

Alessandro Vesely, on 2019-09-03 : > That laptop features a radeon "Vega 6" graphic card, which > doesn't seem to be recognised (lspci -k reports no drivers for > VGA and Non-VGA entries). I'm wandering if I should try and > install the packages in > https://www.amd.com/en/support/kb/release-notes

Re: Is Buster ready?

On Tue, 3 Sep 2019 20:10:08 +0200 Alessandro Vesely wrote: > MOST IMPORTANT HELP WANTED: > === You will get better response on the list by starting a new email thread, with an appropriate subject, for each topic. -- "When we talk of civilization, we are too apt to limit

Re: Autoloading_the_preseeding_file_from_a_webserver_via_DHCP

On 9/3/2019 8:02 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Quoting john doe (2019-09-03 19:03:41) >> I'm trying to understand how it is possible to do (1). >> >> In other words, how can I provide an URL to a client for it to >> download a preseed file. >> >> My DHCP server is dnsmasq. > > I can recommend that

Re: mplayer won't play m4a

"Thomas Schmitt" writes: > i wrote: >> > All this riddling just because of silent rejection of oversized mail. > > Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> Yes... :-( > > At least it was served with interesting red herrings. Interesting, yes... > Now you only need to find a way to publish your attachment.

Re: Temporary color prompt in bash script

On Tue, Sep 03, 2019 at 01:07:08PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > Trap is designed to break the sequential flow of commands. > I can't see any reason to do that when the OP wants the > sequence: > > execute a script > print a string Are you actually able to discern the OP's desires? I can'

Re: Is Buster ready?

On Tue 03/Sep/2019 16:28:48 +0200 Greg Wooledge wrote: >> On Mon, 2 Sep 2019 22:50:41 +0200 Alessandro Vesely wrote: >>> I've been trying to install 10.0 via netinst. but it also has >>> some funny behavior, like not adding /sbin to the PATH after a >>> successful su command. >> > > This is a c

Re: Temporary color prompt in bash script

On Tue 03 Sep 2019 at 15:07:43 (+), Larry Dighera wrote: > On Mon, 02 Sep 2019 08:48:50 +0200, Computer Planet > > wrote: > > >Is It possible to print of a string at the exit of a bash script? > > Have a look at `man bash` and search for 'trap.' Trap is designed to break the sequential fl

Re: Autoloading_the_preseeding_file_from_a_webserver_via_DHCP

Quoting john doe (2019-09-03 19:03:41) > I'm trying to understand how it is possible to do (1). > > In other words, how can I provide an URL to a client for it to > download a preseed file. > > My DHCP server is dnsmasq. I can recommend that you install package di-netboot-assistant and read it

nft 'modules'

In ipchains, there were a lot of modules that I used a few of, like recent and the one that put comments on the end of a rule. I can't find anything, one way or the other, discussing these add-ons with nft. Is there such a thing in nft? Is nft so new that they just haven't been written yet? Is the

Autoloading_the_preseeding_file_from_a_webserver_via_DHCP

Hi, I'm trying to understand how it is possible to do (1). In other words, how can I provide an URL to a client for it to download a preseed file. My DHCP server is dnsmasq. Looking online didn't help me. :) Any help is welcome and appriciated. 1) https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Pres

Re: mplayer won't play m4a

Hi, i wrote: > > All this riddling just because of silent rejection of oversized mail. Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Yes... :-( At least it was served with interesting red herrings. Now you only need to find a way to publish your attachment. Have a nice day :) Thomas

Re: Sponge [was: Delete all after a pattern]

Quoting to...@tuxteam.de (2019-09-03 16:23:02) > On Tue, Sep 03, 2019 at 09:54:21AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 31, 2019 at 06:28:15PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > Me too, I didn't know about sponge. Small, nifty utility, doing > > > one thing -- pretty Unixy. > > > > Oh g

Fw: Temporary color prompt in bash script

On Mon, 02 Sep 2019 08:48:50 +0200, Computer Planet wrote: >Is It possible to print of a string at the exit of a bash script? Have a look at `man bash` and search for 'trap.' trap [-lp] [[arg] sigspec ...]               The command arg is to be read and executed when the shell receives signa

Re: mplayer won't play m4a

Hello Rodolfo, Forgive me, if this was already answered. On Sat, Aug 24, 2019, 9:26 AM Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Hi all... > > >From mplayer.user mailing list I got no answer... > > $ playfile fantasia_a_due-prova_13_agosto.m4a I use the terminal "play" command, which is part of the sox package

Re: Is Buster ready?

On Mon, Sep 02, 2019 at 03:28:33PM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > On Mon, 2 Sep 2019 22:50:41 +0200 > Alessandro Vesely wrote: > > I've been trying to install 10.0 via netinst. but it also has > > some funny behavior, like not adding /sbin to the PATH after a > > successful su command. > > How a

Re: Sponge [was: Delete all after a pattern]

On Tue, Sep 03, 2019 at 09:54:21AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sat, Aug 31, 2019 at 06:28:15PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > Me too, I didn't know about sponge. Small, nifty utility, doing one > > thing -- pretty Unixy. > > Oh god, no. Don't use sponge unless you enjoy data loss. > > S

Re: After buster upgrade gdm login not working

On Sun, Sep 01, 2019 at 11:41:05AM -0400, Kenneth C. Schalk wrote: > After looking through logs for a while, I suspect that this error > message from the X server might be the best clue as to what's going > wrong: > > (EE) xf86OpenConsole: Cannot open virtual console 7 (Permission denied) > > A

Re: mplayer won't play m4a

"Thomas Schmitt" writes: > Hi, > > Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> I can see all my recent messages through gmane.news server in >> linux.debian.user group... > > Here i see none of you between > > from : Andrei POPESCU > date : Mon, 26 Aug 2019 21:10:02 +0200 > subject: Re: mplayer won't pla

Re: mplayer won't play m4a

Hi, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > I can see all my recent messages through gmane.news server in > linux.debian.user group... Here i see none of you between from : Andrei POPESCU date : Mon, 26 Aug 2019 21:10:02 +0200 subject: Re: mplayer won't play m4a and from : Rodolfo Medina dat

Re: Sponge [was: Delete all after a pattern]

On Sat, Aug 31, 2019 at 06:28:15PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > Me too, I didn't know about sponge. Small, nifty utility, doing one > thing -- pretty Unixy. Oh god, no. Don't use sponge unless you enjoy data loss. See .

Re: mplayer won't play m4a

Andrei POPESCU writes: > On Sb, 24 aug 19, 13:26:00, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> >> What missing, what should I install...? If my two-minutes-ago full-upgrade >> ok, >> I should be running Stable: Debian 10. > > Instead of guessing you could show the output of 'apt policy' ;) > > The output of thi

Re: cat and pipelines, mostly (was Re: Delete all after a pattern)

On Sat, Aug 31, 2019 at 06:49:38PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > Exactly; so > cat afile | some-filter … > is just the degenerate of the general case > cat somefiles* | some-filter … > where there happens to be only one filename matching somefiles*. > So if you start prototyping some complic

Re: test, Was: mplayer won't play m4a

"Thomas Schmitt" writes: > Hi, > > Curt wrote: >> I guess I wasn't precise enough. news.gmane.org is the news server. >> gmane.linux.debian.user is this newsgroup. I am here. > > So what you post to gmane.linux.debian.user ends up on debian-user > mailing list too ? Of course, that's the way I

Re: tasksel

On Sat, Aug 31, 2019 at 07:52:23PM +0100, Paul Sutton wrote: > #!/bin/bash > OPTIONS="Update List Upgrade Autoremove Clean Quit" > select opt in $OPTIONS; do :-( :-( Please don't abuse string variables to hold lists in bash. Bash has array variables. Use an array to hold a list. >     elif

Re: test, Was: mplayer won't play m4a

Hi, Curt wrote: > I guess I wasn't precise enough. news.gmane.org is the news server. > gmane.linux.debian.user is this newsgroup. I am here. So what you post to gmane.linux.debian.user ends up on debian-user mailing list too ? (I can distinguish a typical server name from a typical group name, b

Re: test, Was: mplayer won't play m4a

"Thomas Schmitt" writes: > Curt wrote: >> I post to the group via news.gmane.org with a NNTP client. > > Can you see gmane.linux.debian.user there ? > > If yes: Are there recent messages from Rodolfo Medina ? > E.g. this one: > > From: Rodolfo Medina > Subject: Re: mplayer won't play m4a >

Re: test, Was: mplayer won't play m4a

On 2019-09-03, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Curt wrote: >> I post to the group via news.gmane.org with a NNTP client. > > Can you see gmane.linux.debian.user there ? I guess I wasn't precise enough. news.gmane.org is the news server. gmane.linux.debian.user is this newsgroup. I am here. > If

Re: test, Was: mplayer won't play m4a

On 2019-09-03 at 07:28, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2019-09-03 at 07:15, Thomas Schmitt wrote: >> Regrettably the newsgroup archive version is still not reachable for me >> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user/558396 >> It would really be interesting to see whether Rodolfo's failed a

Re: test, Was: mplayer won't play m4a

Hi, Curt wrote: > I post to the group via news.gmane.org with a NNTP client. Can you see gmane.linux.debian.user there ? If yes: Are there recent messages from Rodolfo Medina ? E.g. this one: From: Rodolfo Medina Subject: Re: mplayer won't play m4a Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2019 13:15:24 +

Re: test, Was: mplayer won't play m4a

Hi, i wrote: > > Due to no interest in the original topic, i only have the file '90' > > but not a direct mailing list copy of the mail. The Wanderer wrote: > If you'd like, I could send one as an attachment, much as Rodolfo did Not needed. Your report about lack of newsgroup headers matches wha

Re: test, Was: mplayer won't play m4a

On 2019-09-03, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > --- > And a curious question towards Curt : > Your mails have the same > Old-Return-Path: > as in the message copy which Rodolfo gave me as the one to which he tries > to reply and fail

Re: test, Was: mplayer won't play m4a

On 2019-09-03 at 07:15, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > >> I actually have two copies of that message: the one originally >> received by me, and the one later provided by Rodolfo as an >> attachment (with the filename '90'), which latter is the one he's >> been trying to reply to. > > Due to no in

Re: test, Was: mplayer won't play m4a

Hi, > I actually have two copies of that message: the one originally received > by me, and the one later provided by Rodolfo as an attachment (with the > filename '90'), which latter is the one he's been trying to reply to. Due to no interest in the original topic, i only have the file '90' but n

Re: test, Was: mplayer won't play m4a

On 2019-09-03 at 05:40, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > a more elaborate theory: > > https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GnusTutorial > shows that Gnus+Emacs works on e-mail and newsgroups alike. > > If Rodolfo's Gnus got Andrei's message from a newsgroup rather than via > mail, then it might hav

Re: test, Was: mplayer won't play m4a

Hi, a more elaborate theory: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GnusTutorial shows that Gnus+Emacs works on e-mail and newsgroups alike. If Rodolfo's Gnus got Andrei's message from a newsgroup rather than via mail, then it might have directed the reply to that newsgroup. I got the Cc: via mail, b

Re: test, Was: mplayer won't play m4a

Hi, i wrote: > > One header is missing: To: ... Rodolfo Medina wrote: > So what would your theory be...? That Gnus tried to send the message to Newsgroup gmane.linux.debian.user ? That the Debian mailing list server does not accept messages without To:, Cc:, or Bcc: to a debian-list ? I had a

Re: Cannot boot after distro upgrade

Le 03/09/2019 à 01:47, Miroslav Skoric a écrit : On 9/2/19 1:19 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: You should have upgraded the kernel as soon as you upgraded from Wheezy to Jessie. Same when upgrading from Jessie to Stretch. Probably you are right. But it makes me wonder why the previous upgrade

Suspicious post [was: Problème d'installation]

On Mon, Sep 02, 2019 at 11:50:12PM +0200, Siard wrote: [...] > Suspicious post, nevertheless. Strange e-mail address, strange name, > and... the .tar.xz file appears to contain an executable?? Yikes. You're right: cv2019s: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV) [...] So kids