Re: AMD Sea Islands GPU unusable

Sorry the delay, I am new to using mailing lists. I am using Debian Testing. The kernel version is '#1 SMP Debian 5.9.9-1 (2020-11-19)' according to `uname -v`.

Re:Re: AMD Sea Islands GPU unusable

in-reply-to=< cajmb-ykhtfsxmrbweychtebcvyseq+t4vltomjdowsmamjs...@mail.gmail.com> Sorry about that, I am new here. I am using Debian Testing. The kernel version is '#1 SMP Debian 5.9.9-1 (2020-11-19)' according to `uname -v`.

Re: Re (2): Installation instructions.

On Wed 02 Dec 2020 at 13:19:39 -0800, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > From: Brian > Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2020 18:51:38 + > > As David asks - where are vmlinuz and initrd.gz from? And what CD (?) > > image is being used? > > Answered in my reply to David here. > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2

Re: Installation instructions.

On Thu, 3 Dec 2020 at 07:54, wrote: > > > https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch05s01.en.html#boot-initrd > > Quoting paragraphs 2 and 3 from your link above ... > > Alternatively, if you intend to keep an existing partition on the hard > > drive unchanged during the install, you can do

Re: Installation instructions.

On 2020-12-01 5:50 p.m., pe...@easthope.ca wrote: but the CD image is not found. Peter, Can you please confirm if you are/are not trying to boot the ISO image from a USB stick? If you _are_ you are may be running into the same head-banging situation I was having the past week.  It was

Re (2): Installation instructions.

From: Brian Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2020 18:51:38 + > As David asks - where are vmlinuz and initrd.gz from? And what CD (?) > image is being used? Answered in my reply to David here. https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2020/12/msg00045.html If David finds an error in my procedure or insists that

Re: Installation instructions.

On Wed 02 Dec 2020 at 12:10:33 -0800, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > > 2) Given that choice (para 2 or 3), where did you get the vmlinuz and > > initrd.gz you are using? > > vmlinuz and initrd.gz are in the .iso. No need to retrieve again. You have a complete misunderstanding of what you are doing

Re: Installation instructions.

> > https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch05s01.en.html#boot-initrd > > Quoting paragraphs 2 and 3 from your link above ... > > Alternatively, if you intend to keep an existing partition on the hard > drive unchanged during the install, you can download the > hd-media/initrd.gz file and i

Re: Installation instructions.

On Tue 01 Dec 2020 at 14:50:52 -0800, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch05s01.en.html#boot-initrd > gives this sample Grub2 configuration. > > menuentry 'New Install' { > insmod part_msdos > insmod ext2 > set root='(hd0,msdos1)' > linux /boot/newinstall/vmli

Re: Cron Jobs and Time Zones Has Anything Changed?

On Wed, Dec 02, 2020 at 01:17:02PM -0500, Dan Ritter wrote: > As a name for the utility, I suggest "do-if-time-in" and require > three parameters: > > do-if-time-in timezone time "command" > > As an interim fix, though: (and I know Greg's going to fix this) > > --- > #!/bin/bash > TZ=$1 > NOW=$(

Re: Cron Jobs and Time Zones Has Anything Changed?

Martin McCormick wrote: > Greg Wooledge writes: > > I was vaguely thinking of a similar approach. Set up a job that runs > > every hour, or across a set of hours that will cover all the possible > > cases that you care about, in your crontab. Within the job itself, > > set a TZ variable and det

Re: Cron Jobs and Time Zones Has Anything Changed?

Greg Wooledge writes: > I was vaguely thinking of a similar approach. Set up a job that runs > every hour, or across a set of hours that will cover all the possible > cases that you care about, in your crontab. Within the job itself, > set a TZ variable and determine the time in that time zone b

Re: Advice on laptop with USB-C port and USB-Type C Multipoint Adapter (and VGA)

On Wednesday, December 02, 2020 10:56:24 AM Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 02 dec 20, 10:26:43, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > >* I don't have enough knowledge (yet) to confidently pick a laptop > >that will > > > > work with the multiport adapter I bought with VGA output > > It would probab

Re: Cron Jobs and Time Zones Has Anything Changed?

Apols..I hadn't read the original post, just saw this one from today! -- James B portoteache...@fastmail.com Em Qua, 2 Dez ʼ20, às 16:26, Andy Smith escreveu: > Hello, > > On Wed, Dec 02, 2020 at 01:58:45PM +, James B wrote: > > This might be wrong, but as far as I understand doesn't sy

Re: Cron Jobs and Time Zones Has Anything Changed?

Hello, On Wed, Dec 02, 2020 at 01:58:45PM +, James B wrote: > This might be wrong, but as far as I understand doesn't systemd > now have the ability to manage cron jobs (as well as mount points, > home folders and other things)?. Is there anything in this newer > functionality that might make

Re: Advice on laptop with USB-C port and USB-Type C Multipoint Adapter (and VGA)

On Mi, 02 dec 20, 10:26:43, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > >* I don't have enough knowledge (yet) to confidently pick a laptop that > will > work with the multiport adapter I bought with VGA output It would probably help to determine whether the multiport adapter contains a VGA video chip con

Re: Advice on laptop with USB-C port and USB-Type C Multipoint Adapter (and VGA)

Thanks to all who replied -- I have some notes at the bottom of this email. On Sunday, November 29, 2020 01:27:12 AM Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Sb, 28 nov 20, 09:07:14, Rh Kramer wrote: > > Advice on laptop with USB-C port and USB-Type C Multipoint Adapter > > (I guess a key thing is USB-C "alter

Re: Cron Jobs and Time Zones Has Anything Changed?

On Wed, Dec 02, 2020 at 08:53:28AM -0500, Dan Ritter wrote: > It would not be ridiculous to run a wrapper program out of, e.g. > cron.hourly, which used an explicitly set TZ as a cue to run > another job. I was vaguely thinking of a similar approach. Set up a job that runs every hour, or across a

Re: Cron Jobs and Time Zones Has Anything Changed?

On 02/12/2020 10:30, Martin McCormick wrote: > In a recent discussion, someone indicated that there might be a > way to set individual parts such as accounts on a unix system so > that cron could use another time zone if needed to kickoff jobs > on that system based on the time in another country.

Re: Cron Jobs and Time Zones Has Anything Changed?

This might be wrong, but as far as I understand doesn't systemd now have the ability to manage cron jobs (as well as mount points, home folders and other things)?. Is there anything in this newer functionality that might make such a thing (re the request at the beginning of this thread) possible

Re: Cron Jobs and Time Zones Has Anything Changed?

Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Dec 02, 2020 at 07:30:22AM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote: > > In a recent discussion, someone indicated that there might be a > > way to set individual parts such as accounts on a unix system so > > that cron could use another time zone if needed to kickoff jobs > >

Re: Cron Jobs and Time Zones Has Anything Changed?

On Wed, Dec 02, 2020 at 07:30:22AM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote: > In a recent discussion, someone indicated that there might be a > way to set individual parts such as accounts on a unix system so > that cron could use another time zone if needed to kickoff jobs > on that system based on the time

Cron Jobs and Time Zones Has Anything Changed?

In a recent discussion, someone indicated that there might be a way to set individual parts such as accounts on a unix system so that cron could use another time zone if needed to kickoff jobs on that system based on the time in another country. As far as I understand cron, one can set the

Re: doing this does not make touchpad work

Hi, 2 déc. 2020 à 04:09 de guik...@gmail.com: > kaye@laptop:~$ ls -l /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/40-libinput.conf > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 209 Dec  1 18:02 /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/40-libinput.conf > > kaye@laptop:~$ dpkg -l | grep -i xserver-xorg-input > ii  xserver-xorg-input-all                          

Re: Sharing files LINUX-LINUX / LINUX-WINDOWS / WINDOWS-WINDOWS

On 12/2/20 6:39 AM, Kenneth Parker wrote: > LINUX-LINUX or it is better to use SAMBA for everything_  - maybe , it's practical to run windows as a Virtual Machine ? .  regards

Re: Some packages missing for latest zsh version on stretch security repo

On Tue, Dec 1, 2020 at 6:14 PM Sylvain Faivre wrote: > > Hello, > > On a Debian Stretch server with the security repo enabled, I have an error > today when trying to install zsh : >The following packages have unmet dependencies: > zsh : Depends: zsh-common (= 5.3.1-4) but 5.3.1-4+

Re: Some packages missing for latest zsh version on stretch security repo

On Ma, 01 dec 20, 18:14:47, Sylvain Faivre wrote: > Hello, > > On a Debian Stretch server with the security repo enabled, I have an error > today when trying to install zsh : >The following packages have unmet dependencies: > zsh : Depends: zsh-common (= 5.3.1-4) but 5.3.1-4+deb9u4

Re: doing this does not make touchpad work

On Ma, 01 dec 20, 19:26:13, kaye n wrote: > Hello Friends! > > This is my system: > Host: laptop Kernel: 4.19.0-6-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: Xfce 4.12.4 > Distro: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) > > >From this web page, https://wiki.debian.org/SynapticsTouchpad > I tried this > > $ mkdir -p /et

Re: Sharing files LINUX-LINUX / LINUX-WINDOWS / WINDOWS-WINDOWS

Kenneth Parker writes: On Tue, Dec 1, 2020, 9:10 AM Anssi Saari a...@sci.fi> wrote: Kanito 73 kanit...@hotmail.com> writes: > At first I thought to use both SAMBA for LINUX-WINDOWS and maybe NFS for LINUX-LINUX but I used NFS long time

Re: 780 files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/

On Ma, 01 dec 20, 08:11:01, Robert Tonkavich wrote: > I am very sorry for my Input. What is there to be sorry about? Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser signature.asc Description: PGP signature