Re: Firefox non-ESR update needed

On Lu, 06 iul 20, 23:33:46, Gary Dale wrote: > On 2020-07-06 20:00, Bob Weber wrote: > > > > Firefox 78 is in unstable.  I run testing but I occasionally pick up > > things in unstable if they don't mess up testing like firefox.  I have > > used it for a while mainly watching Netflix and for other

Re: X starting but nothing shows on the screen

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Re: Using .XCompose

On Mon, 6 Jul 2020 davidson wrote: On Mon, Jul 06, 2020 at 05:34:59AM +, Ajith R wrote: [snip] The problem I am trying to tackle: One of the Malayalam letters, ങ (U+0D19), is used much more commonly in its geminate form which is composed of three unicode charcters ങ ്ങ (U+0D19 U+0D4D

Real bounces from debian-user

TL;DR: How can I use *one* query (web or otherwise) to retrieve *all* my recently-bounced debian-user mail, or a list of URLs by which they can be retrieved? DETAILS: In the past 3 months I've averaged about 5 messages monthly saying "lists.debian.org has received bounces from you". These don't t

Re: Firefox non-ESR update needed

On 7/7/20 8:20 am, Dan Ritter wrote: Gary Dale wrote: This is a wish-list feature but I'm running Debian/Bullseye and the only version of Firefox is the ESR one. It's stable but it has display bugs that I'd like to if they are fixed in a newer version. An updated (non-ESR) version of Firefox wo

Re: Firefox non-ESR update needed

On 2020-07-06 20:00, Bob Weber wrote: On 7/6/20 5:28 PM, Gary Dale wrote: This is a wish-list feature but I'm running Debian/Bullseye and the only version of Firefox is the ESR one. It's stable but it has display bugs that I'd like to if they are fixed in a newer version. While generally the

Re: Firefox non-ESR update needed

On 2020-07-06 18:20, Dan Ritter wrote: Gary Dale wrote: This is a wish-list feature but I'm running Debian/Bullseye and the only version of Firefox is the ESR one. It's stable but it has display bugs that I'd like to if they are fixed in a newer version. An updated (non-ESR) version of Firefox

Re: tangent on man page locations [was Re: Using .XCompose]

On Mon 06 Jul 2020 at 23:08:29 (+), davidson wrote: > On Mon, 6 Jul 2020 David Wright wrote: > > > I presume XCompose(3) is a typo for 5, the file format section. > > Probably not. Here we have > […] > and hence > > $ man -w 3 XCompose > /usr/share/man/man5/Compose.5.gz > > $ man -w 5

Re: Firefox non-ESR update needed

On 7/6/20 5:28 PM, Gary Dale wrote: This is a wish-list feature but I'm running Debian/Bullseye and the only version of Firefox is the ESR one. It's stable but it has display bugs that I'd like to if they are fixed in a newer version. While generally the pages I create look pretty much the sam

HP z820 workstation Soundcard?

running a HP z820 workstation, Buster Mate. onboard sound does not cut it. I need more volume, and 5.1 stereo would be great I have a couple free PCIe slots What sage advice can I get here? Internal vs USB Brand? budget is modest, I tell myself under $100 thanks, Peter == I did not do my hom

tangent on man page locations [was Re: Using .XCompose]

On Mon, 6 Jul 2020 David Wright wrote: I presume XCompose(3) is a typo for 5, the file format section. Probably not. Here we have $ zcat /usr/share/man/man3/XCompose.3.gz .so man5/Compose.5 $ realpath /usr/share/man/man5/XCompose.5.gz /usr/share/man/man5/Compose.5.gz and hence $

Re: Using .XCompose

On Mon 06 Jul 2020 at 05:34:59 (+), Ajith R wrote: > My .XCompose file in my home directory is-include "%L" > : "ങ്ങ" > : "ങ്ങ" > ങ : "ങ്ങ"- > I found the name XK_Shift_L in keysymdef.h file. I tried the unicode > character and its code as well to i

Re: Very old hardware...

On Saturday, 4 July 2020 15:04:22 -04 Davide Lombardo wrote: > On Friday, 3 July 2020 22:57:06 CEST Charles Curley wrote: > > On Fri, 03 Jul 2020 19:17:33 +0200 > > > > Davide Lombardo wrote: > > > Good evening Debian User, I have found an old PC with these specs: > > > CPU: Pentium III 700 Mhz; >

Re: Firefox non-ESR update needed

Gary Dale wrote: > This is a wish-list feature but I'm running Debian/Bullseye and the only > version of Firefox is the ESR one. It's stable but it has display bugs that > I'd like to if they are fixed in a newer version. > > An updated (non-ESR) version of Firefox would allow me to figure out wh

Firefox non-ESR update needed

This is a wish-list feature but I'm running Debian/Bullseye and the only version of Firefox is the ESR one. It's stable but it has display bugs that I'd like to if they are fixed in a newer version. While generally the pages I create look pretty much the same on whatever browser I use, I have

Re: No "type=APPARMOR_ALLOWED/DENIED" logs

OK, I have read a little bit :-) Now I understand better the difference between enforce (for production) and complain (for testing/setup) modes and that they are mutually exclusive. man aa-genprof seems to indicate that the complain mode is set only during the generation of the profile: when

Re: Very old hardware...

Hello, On Mon, Jul 06, 2020 at 07:11:31PM +0200, deloptes wrote: > 128 and 256MB on the Geode - 12 years in service > buster with sysvinit, postfix, openvpn and shorewall I have a Soekris net4801 which is an AMD Geode 266MHz with 128M RAM, put to similar use. I'm going to retire it this month but

Re: Swappiness in Buster

Martin Reissner wrote: > Yeah, only talking about server and mostly database applications. I > usually set it to 1, but even tried 0 which disabled swap completely on > Stretch but on Buster it didn't make a difference at all, the setting > seems to be ignored while using default swappiness (60?)

Re: iwlwifi

Hi, 6 juil. 2020 à 20:15 de hfollm...@itcfollmann.com: > On Mon, Jul 06, 2020 at 05:47:54PM +, emerald1475 wrote: > >> dmesg: >> >> [ 2.571320] iwlwifi :00:14.3: firmware: failed to load >> iwlwifi-QuZ-a0-jf-b0-52.ucode (-2) >> [ 2.572778] iwlwifi :00:14.3: Direc

AMD FirePro - second monitor

Hello everybody, I am running Debian "Sid" on a desktop PC with the "AMD ATI FirePro W5100" graphics card. When I connect a second monitor, Debian recognizes it but the monitor stays black. I can even move windows on it, but I cannot see them. On the same computer is a Windows 10 partition o

Re: No "type=APPARMOR_ALLOWED/DENIED" logs

Hi, 6 juil. 2020 à 12:05 de didier.gau...@gmail.com: > Sorry > No worries, thanks for replying :) > I am almost totally Apparmor ignorant but would both set enforce and complain > modes for your profiles give you the result you expect? > I'm afraid not because: * most of my profiles are already

Re: Swappiness in Buster

On 06/07/2020 18:11, songbird wrote: > Martin Reissner wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> ever since upgrading machines to Buster the vm.swappiness sysctl >> parameter doesn't seem to do anything anymore and regardless on how I >> set it via sysctl or directly in /proc the system behaves as it would >> have

Re: Using .XCompose

On Mon, 6 Jul 2020 davidson wrote: On Mon, Jul 06, 2020 at 05:34:59AM +, Ajith R wrote: [snip] I am trying to build a custom layout for my mother tongue Malayalam (India, Kerala). [snip] The problem I am trying to tackle: One of the Malayalam letters, ങ (U+0D19), is used much more comm

Fw: Fwd: How do I troubleshoot wireless network dropping?

I wouldn't recommend using ifconfig to enable or disable your second network card. It is somewhat deprecated. Try using ifup and ifdown. name=Matthew%20Campbell&email=trenix25%40pm.me Original Message On Jul 5, 2020, 9:23 PM, Borden Rhodes wrote: >> Use ps x to see how many co

Re: Using .XCompose

On Mon, Jul 06, 2020 at 05:34:59AM +, Ajith R wrote: Hi, I am new to Linux and Debian. That is good news. Welcome. I am trying to build a custom layout for my mother tongue Malayalam (India, Kerala). That sounds like an interesting challenge. Your original message appears to be in html

Re: i386 packages? - Android Studio - "libc6:i386 libncurses5:i386 libstdc++6:i386 lib32z1 libbz2-1.0:i386"

On Lu, 06 iul 20, 07:58:14, The Wanderer wrote: > > Have you enabled the i386 architecture? > > Try 'dpkg --add-architecture i386' (as root or via sudo, of > course), ... followed by 'apt update' ;) > and see if that changes anything. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDe

Re: iwlwifi

On Mon, Jul 06, 2020 at 05:47:54PM +, emerald1475 wrote: > I am running debian testing on a modern dell inspiron. My kernel > (5.6.0-1-amd64) cant seem to load the iwlwifi driver. > > dmesg: > > [ 2.571320] iwlwifi :00:14.3: firmware: failed to load > iwlwifi-QuZ-a0-

iwlwifi

I am running debian testing on a modern dell inspiron. My kernel (5.6.0-1-amd64) cant seem to load the iwlwifi driver. dmesg: [ 2.571320] iwlwifi :00:14.3: firmware: failed to load iwlwifi-QuZ-a0-jf-b0-52.ucode (-2) [ 2.572778] iwlwifi :00:14.3: Direct firmware load

Re: Very old hardware...

Dan Ritter wrote: > I can point to several VMs that are running useful things on > buster in just over 256MB of RAM -- 384 would provide a fair > amount of headroom. > > nginx and mail and DNS and NTP and so forth, all at once. > > I note that EBay has lots of used 256 and 512MB DDR RAM availabl

Re: sources.list for security

Greg Wooledge wrote: ... > If you are running "eternal testing" (you never convert it to a stable > release), then you HAVE NO security support. None. There is no line > you should use for security, because there isn't any security. false. security updates come via unstable uploads that migra

Re: sources.list for security

Andrei POPESCU wrote: ... > 'testing' receives security updates via 'unstable', there is no separate=20 > repository. > > https://www.debian.org/security/faq#testing ok, thanks! :) i am fine with that. i had an old line in the sources.list that no longer was useful. got rid of that, clean

Re: Swappiness in Buster

Martin Reissner wrote: > Hello, > > ever since upgrading machines to Buster the vm.swappiness sysctl > parameter doesn't seem to do anything anymore and regardless on how I > set it via sysctl or directly in /proc the system behaves as it would > have a pretty high swappiness and thus is swapping

Re: Very old hardware...

to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Mon, Jul 06, 2020 at 11:37:28AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 06, 2020 at 05:34:25PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > On Mon, Jul 06, 2020 at 10:13:14AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > > > > > [...] > > > > > > > One of the benefits of wheezy is that

Re: Very old hardware...

On Mon, Jul 06, 2020 at 05:47:19PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Mon, Jul 06, 2020 at 11:37:28AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 06, 2020 at 05:34:25PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > On Mon, Jul 06, 2020 at 10:13:14AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > > > > > [...] > > > > >

Re: Very old hardware...

On Mon, Jul 06, 2020 at 11:37:28AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Jul 06, 2020 at 05:34:25PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 06, 2020 at 10:13:14AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > One of the benefits of wheezy is that you don't get systemd. > > > > Buster

Re: Very old hardware...

On Mon, Jul 06, 2020 at 05:34:25PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Mon, Jul 06, 2020 at 10:13:14AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > [...] > > > One of the benefits of wheezy is that you don't get systemd. > > Buster runs fine without systemd. But probably not in 64 MB.

Re: Very old hardware...

On Mon, Jul 06, 2020 at 10:13:14AM -0500, David Wright wrote: [...] > One of the benefits of wheezy is that you don't get systemd. Buster runs fine without systemd. Cheers -- t signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Very old hardware...

On Mon 06 Jul 2020 at 07:45:33 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Jul 03, 2020 at 09:34:25PM +0300, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: > > On 7/3/20 8:17 PM, Davide Lombardo wrote: > > > Good evening Debian User, I have found an old PC with these specs: > > > CPU: Pentium III 700 Mhz; > > > DRAM: 64 MB

Re: Very old hardware...

On Sat, 4 Jul 2020 19:19:35 +0200 "0...@caiway.net" <0...@caiway.net> wrote: > On Fri, 03 Jul 2020 19:17:33 +0200 > Davide Lombardo wrote: > > > Good evening Debian User, I have found an old PC with these specs: > > CPU: Pentium III 700 Mhz; > > DRAM: 64 MB SDDR > > GPU: RIVA TNT-2 > > HARDISK:

Re: terminator freezes desktop

On Mon, 6 Jul 2020 06:07:18 + (UTC) davidson wrote: > On Sun, 5 Jul 2020 0...@caiway.net wrote: > > Hi, > > > > terminator, after years of superb stability, started to freeze my > > desktop sometimes. > > I have never used it. > > > This behavior started some 3 months ago. > > > > Freeze ha

Re: i386 packages? - Android Studio - "libc6:i386 libncurses5:i386 libstdc++6:i386 lib32z1 libbz2-1.0:i386"

> Have you read and followed these instructions? > https://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch/HOWTO Thanks guys, that's what I needed..

Re: Using .XCompose

On Mon, Jul 06, 2020 at 05:34:59AM +, Ajith R wrote: > Hi, > I am new to Linux and Debian.I am trying to build a custom layout for my > mother tongue Malayalam (India, Kerala). > The problem I am trying to tackle: > One of the Malayalam letters, ങ (U+0D19), is used much more commonly in its >

Re: Using .XCompose

On Mon, Jul 06, 2020 at 05:34:59AM +, Ajith R wrote: > I am new to Linux and Debian.I am trying to build a custom layout for my > mother tongue Malayalam (India, Kerala). Sadly, I know almost nothing about Asian languages. Does help you? If it's just a han

Re: sources.list for security

> >> >> https://bugs.debian.org/931785 Which says "security suite renamed to bullseye-security (from buster/updates)". On Sun, Jul 05, 2020 at 05:44:44PM -0400, songbird wrote: > >> wishlist for an alias to testing so nobody who=20 > >> follows testing will need to keep changing their > >> so

Re: i386 packages? - Android Studio - "libc6:i386 libncurses5:i386 libstdc++6:i386 lib32z1 libbz2-1.0:i386"

gives: > > # apt install libc6:i386 libncurses5:i386 libstdc++6:i386 lib32z1 > libbz2-1.0:i386 > --->> 20200706@21:51:16 <<--- > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > E: Unable to l

Re: i386 packages? - Android Studio - "libc6:i386 libncurses5:i386 libstdc++6:i386 lib32z1 libbz2-1.0:i386"

> # apt install libc6:i386 libncurses5:i386 libstdc++6:i386 lib32z1 > libbz2-1.0:i386 > --->> 20200706@21:51:16 <<--- > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > E: Unable to locate package libc6:i

i386 packages? - Android Studio - "libc6:i386 libncurses5:i386 libstdc++6:i386 lib32z1 libbz2-1.0:i386"

--->> 20200706@21:51:16 <<--- Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package libc6:i386 E: Unable to locate package libncurses5:i386 E: Unable to locate package libstdc++6:i386 E: Unable to locate packag

Re: Very old hardware...

On Fri, Jul 03, 2020 at 09:34:25PM +0300, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: > On 7/3/20 8:17 PM, Davide Lombardo wrote: > > Good evening Debian User, I have found an old PC with these specs: > > CPU: Pentium III 700 Mhz; > > DRAM: 64 MB SDDR > I'm not sure what is minimum RAM requirement for Debian Linux

debmirror: apt update performed "unsandboxed"? ~=> file path not readable

irror, InRelease is out of date so setting Acquire::Check-Valid-Until=false but getting "unsandboxed" notice/warning: # apt update -o Acquire::Check-Valid-Until=false --->> 20200706@20:16:10 <<--- Get:1 file:/public/debian/sid sid InRelease [146 kB] ... Ign:2 file:/publi

Re: No "type=APPARMOR_ALLOWED/DENIED" logs

Hello, Sorry, I am almost totally Apparmor ignorant but would both set enforce and complain modes for your profiles give you the result you expect?

Swappiness in Buster

Hello, ever since upgrading machines to Buster the vm.swappiness sysctl parameter doesn't seem to do anything anymore and regardless on how I set it via sysctl or directly in /proc the system behaves as it would have a pretty high swappiness and thus is swapping out quite a bit under load, using t