Re: Do one thing. Do it right.

2020-02-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 14 February 2020 22:56:11 Richard Owlett wrote: > On 02/14/2020 12:52 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 14 February 2020 09:55:41 Richard Owlett wrote: > >> We old fogies need to teach these youngsters. > > > > But its awful hard to get them to listen when that particular thing > > h

There is no mk_MK locale in KDE Plasma

2020-02-14 Thread Barney G
In plasma KDE in system configuration->Personalization->Regional Settings->Formats->Detailed Settings you cannot chose mk_MK. This is a bug or it is feature? Barney G.

Re: No display power management: Intel i915 display

2020-02-14 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 14 Feb 2020 16:20:48 -0700 Charles Curley wrote: > Running Buster as updated. I recently had occasion to reboot my Lenovo > T520, and now the power management will not shut the display off. I > conjecture that some update in the last two months broke things > (again!). > > I tried both t

Re: Do one thing. Do it right.

2020-02-14 Thread Richard Owlett
On 02/14/2020 12:52 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Friday 14 February 2020 09:55:41 Richard Owlett wrote: We old fogies need to teach these youngsters. But its awful hard to get them to listen when that particular thing has never left toothprints in the vicinity of their wallets. ;-) Or if *the

Re: Do one thing. Do it right

2020-02-14 Thread Mark Allums
On 2/14/2020 3:29 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote: What I don't know is whether they bother (from a technical standpoint rather than espionage) to track a SIM-less phone. Making contact in Same question for a phone with an old SIM card. Same question for a phone in "airplane mode". Stefan

Re: Do one thing. Do it right

2020-02-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 14 February 2020 16:29:10 Stefan Monnier wrote: > > The OP might be better off buying old stuff from ebay. > > Indeed, tho craigslist seems ethically superior. > > I suspect that "we"'ve built enough gadgets over the last 20 years > that there really shouldn't be any need for me to buy s

No display power management: Intel i915 display

2020-02-14 Thread Charles Curley
Running Buster as updated. I recently had occasion to reboot my Lenovo T520, and now the power management will not shut the display off. I conjecture that some update in the last two months broke things (again!). I tried both the power management in xscreensaver (5.42+dfsg1-1) and xfce4-power-mana

Re: iwlwifi problem with Debian kernel 5.4.0-4-amd64

2020-02-14 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Stefan Pietsch (2020-02-14 22:36:39) > iwlwifi has a problem with the latest Debian unstable kernel package > (5.4.0-4-amd64). > The wifi interface is not usable. > > 5.4.0-3-amd64 works fine instead. > > Is anyone experiencing the same problem? Best way to find out is to check if anyon

Re: Do one thing. Do it right.

2020-02-14 Thread Dan Purgert
On Feb 14, 2020, Richard Owlett wrote: > Youngsters have two foibles: > More is always better. "less is more" > Glitz for its own sake. > > For perspective: > 1. although only in mid-70's, my parents would be in their 12th > decade. > 2. my father took a M.E. degree rather than E.E.

iwlwifi problem with Debian kernel 5.4.0-4-amd64

2020-02-14 Thread Stefan Pietsch
Hi list, iwlwifi has a problem with the latest Debian unstable kernel package (5.4.0-4-amd64). The wifi interface is not usable. 5.4.0-3-amd64 works fine instead. Is anyone experiencing the same problem? ## dmesg at boot: [ 10.318868] iwlwifi :03:00.0: enabling device (

Re: Do one thing. Do it right

2020-02-14 Thread Stefan Monnier
> The OP might be better off buying old stuff from ebay. Indeed, tho craigslist seems ethically superior. I suspect that "we"'ve built enough gadgets over the last 20 years that there really shouldn't be any need for me to buy some new electronic device for the rest my lifetime ;-) > Surely any

Re: Do one thing. Do it right.

2020-02-14 Thread David Wright
On Fri 14 Feb 2020 at 14:33:54 (-0500), Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 14 February 2020 10:29:26 David Wright wrote: > > On Fri 14 Feb 2020 at 08:55:41 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote: > > > On 02/14/2020 07:35 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > On Friday 14 February 2020 07:50:01 Richard Owlett wrote:

Re: Do one thing. Do it right.

2020-02-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 14 February 2020 10:29:26 David Wright wrote: > On Fri 14 Feb 2020 at 08:55:41 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote: > > On 02/14/2020 07:35 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Friday 14 February 2020 07:50:01 Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > Youngsters have two foibles: > > > > More is always be

Re: Do one thing. Do it right.

2020-02-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 14 February 2020 09:55:41 Richard Owlett wrote: > We old fogies need to teach these youngsters. But its awful hard to get them to listen when that particular thing has never left toothprints in the vicinity of their wallets. ;-) Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be use

Re: help with gitlab on buster

2020-02-14 Thread deloptes
john doe wrote: > First off, backup your data! :) also no one upgrades production stuff without testing the procedure - right?!

Re: help with gitlab on buster

2020-02-14 Thread john doe
On 2/14/2020 5:42 PM, Graham Seaman wrote: > I run a debian house server for firewall, routing etc. The last few > years I've also run gitlab on it, which I use to manage text files I > work on from an assortment of laptops/PCs; I have a lot of these files > (currently around 12 Gb) and really don'

help with gitlab on buster

2020-02-14 Thread Graham Seaman
I run a debian house server for firewall, routing etc. The last few years I've also run gitlab on it, which I use to manage text files I work on from an assortment of laptops/PCs; I have a lot of these files (currently around 12 Gb) and really don't want to lose them. After the initial setup I

Re: PAM Configuration

2020-02-14 Thread Christoph Pleger
Hello, On 2020-02-14 13:25, Christoph Pleger wrote: auth[success=2 default=ignore] pam_p11.so /usr/local/lib/libcvP11.so # here are the per-package modules (the "Primary" block) auth[success=1 default=ignore] pam_unix.so nullok_secure # here's the fallback if no module succe

Re: Do one thing. Do it right.

2020-02-14 Thread David Wright
On Fri 14 Feb 2020 at 08:55:41 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote: > On 02/14/2020 07:35 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 14 February 2020 07:50:01 Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > > Youngsters have two foibles: > > > More is always better. > > > Glitz for its own sake. > > > > > > For persp

Re: Do one thing. Do it right.

2020-02-14 Thread Richard Owlett
On 02/14/2020 07:35 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Friday 14 February 2020 07:50:01 Richard Owlett wrote: Youngsters have two foibles: More is always better. Glitz for its own sake. For perspective: 1. although only in mid-70's, my parents would be in their 12th decade. 2. m

Re: PAM Configuration

2020-02-14 Thread Christoph Pleger
Hello, auth[success=2 default=ignore] pam_p11.so /usr/local/lib/libcvP11.so [...] This works nearly exactly as desired, "nearly" because though the login with unix password works, the application shows "Login failed" for a short time. Is there something I can change in the above fil

Re: Mac El Capitan Dual Boot

2020-02-14 Thread Kenneth Parker
On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 2:19 PM Charles Curley < charlescur...@charlescurley.com> wrote: > On Thu, 13 Feb 2020 12:03:20 -0500 > Kenneth Parker wrote: > > > I am helping a friend install Debian on an older MacBook, running OS X > > 10.11 (El Capitan). > > How old? The current version of Mac OS is

Re: Mac El Capitan Dual Boot

2020-02-14 Thread Kenneth Parker
On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 12:35 PM Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Quoting Kenneth Parker (2020-02-13 18:03:20) > > I am helping a friend install Debian on an older MacBook, running OS X > > 10.11 (El Capitan). It currently has a single 300G HFS Plus (Journaled) > > Partition, with lots of free space. >

Re: PAM Configuration

2020-02-14 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Hi Christoph. Quoting Christoph Pleger (2020-02-14 13:25:24) > I created a PAM configuration with the goal to make it possible that a > user can either login by inserting a smartcard into a card reader and > entering the correct PIN, or by entering the traditional UNIX > password. This is what

Re: Do one thing. Do it right.

2020-02-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 14 February 2020 07:50:01 Richard Owlett wrote: > Youngsters have two foibles: >More is always better. >Glitz for its own sake. > > For perspective: >1. although only in mid-70's, my parents would be in their 12th > decade. >2. my father took a M.E. degree rather t

Re: The nightmare of Intel Integrated GPUs under Linux in general and Debian in particular

2020-02-14 Thread James Daldry
I have a Lenovo Z570 Ideapad with GMA3000 graphics (Sandy Bridge). I had gone through all the tricks - /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d, etc/default/grub, grub command line, firmware-nonfree, Ubuntu graphics PPA. Had it mostly OK, usable. Since I was using testing, did apt update apt upgrade. Lost all 7 virtua

Do one thing. Do it right.

2020-02-14 Thread Richard Owlett
Youngsters have two foibles: More is always better. Glitz for its own sake. For perspective: 1. although only in mid-70's, my parents would be in their 12th decade. 2. my father took a M.E. degree rather than E.E. as it gave him more of what today would be considered a minimal B

PAM Configuration

2020-02-14 Thread Christoph Pleger
Hello, I created a PAM configuration with the goal to make it possible that a user can either login by inserting a smartcard into a card reader and entering the correct PIN, or by entering the traditional UNIX password. This is what my /etc/pam.d/common-auth looks like: # # /etc/pam.d/common

Re: The nightmare of Intel Integrated GPUs under Linux in general and Debian in particular

2020-02-14 Thread Miguel A. Vallejo
Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > Do you also use the skylake GPU firmware which should be located in > /lib/firmware/i915/ > (from package firmware-linux-nonfree, I think; file names beginning with > "skl_")? Of course. I even installed the missing files in current testing / unstable https://bugs.deb

Re: Wifi USB dongle

2020-02-14 Thread didier . gaumet
The Netgear A6210 (mt76 driver) would do. Readily available in France at Darty.

Re: Best file system to use?

2020-02-14 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 12 feb 20, 17:55:52, Dennis Wicks wrote: > Greetings; > > I have 4TB running on an AMD Ryzen under Buster. What is the current > consensus of the best file system to use for general data usage? I have been > using xfs but that is based on info from many years ago. If you must ask, use ext4

Re: buster: low audio level

2020-02-14 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 12 feb 20, 10:34:27, D. R. Evans wrote: > I just installed buster on a new (to me) machine, and the audio level is very > low. With all the mixer controls and the physical volume control on the > speakers turned up, I can hear audio, but even then it is unpleasantly quiet, > certainly nothin

Re: buster: low audio level

2020-02-14 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 12 feb 20, 19:15:57, Doug McGarrett wrote: > > What on earth is bikeshedding? That's a new one on me! http://bikeshed.org/ Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser signature.asc Description: PGP signature