Re: Audio broken on Lenovo ThinkPad T14 by recent upgrade on testing

2021-01-04 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 04 ian 21, 21:57:20, Patrick Elsen wrote: > Hey all, > > I'm not sure if this is the right way or place to report this, but I've > been running Debian bullseye (Testing) for some months now and it's > been a really great experience, everything works out of the box > (backlight, suspend, dis

Re: Nvidia Optimus, Debian 10, and Firefox ESR crashes

2021-01-04 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 04 ian 21, 19:47:18, David Christensen wrote: > On 2021-01-04 09:14, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: > > > > > "xrandr" utility should help you with diagnostics and setup: > >     $ xrandr -q > > 2021-01-04 19:22:57 root@dipsy ~ > # xrandr -q > Can't open display The '$' in the post above

Re: Nvidia Optimus, Debian 10, and Firefox ESR crashes

2021-01-04 Thread Felix Miata
David Christensen composed on 2021-01-04 19:47 (UTC-0800): > And a new issue: > Xfce -> Settings -> Display -> Resolution now only offers three choices: > 1024x768 > 800x600 > 640x480 > The laptop has a 1920x1080 screen. The external monitor is 1920x1080. > The nouveau driver was able to driv

Re: Nvidia Optimus, Debian 10, and Firefox ESR crashes

2021-01-04 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-04 09:14, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: On 04.01.2021 09:31, David Christensen wrote: Reboot -- boots okay -- login manager displayed -- login okay -- Xfce desktop okay -- external monitor not getting signal. Xfce -> Settings -> Display only lists one monitor "default": Reso

Re: Audio broken on Lenovo ThinkPad T14 by recent upgrade on testing

2021-01-04 Thread 黃炳熙
Patrick Elsen writes: > Hey all, > > I'm not sure if this is the right way or place to report this, but I've > been running Debian bullseye (Testing) for some months now and it's > been a really great experience, everything works out of the box > (backlight, suspend, display brightness control, s

Re: Label printer Debian compatible

2021-01-04 Thread rhkramer
On Monday, January 04, 2021 07:29:29 PM Tom Browder wrote: > I do the same, except I create a new pdf with only the necessary cells > printed. But it's a laser printer so it does gray the paper a bit. But > great point on the inkjet. That may be the best option: an inexpensive b&w > inkjet. Consid

Re: Label printer Debian compatible

2021-01-04 Thread Tom Browder
On Mon, Jan 4, 2021 at 17:05 wrote: > On Monday, January 04, 2021 01:37:19 PM Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > > Tom Browder writes: > > > Has anyone had any success driving a mailing label printer for mailing > > > labels from either a LAN or direct connection with a Linux box? > > > > > > I can print she

Re: Label printer Debian compatible

2021-01-04 Thread rhkramer
On Monday, January 04, 2021 01:37:19 PM Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > Tom Browder writes: > > Has anyone had any success driving a mailing label printer for mailing > > labels from either a LAN or direct connection with a Linux box? > > > > I can print sheets of mailing labels from my main printer, but I

Audio broken on Lenovo ThinkPad T14 by recent upgrade on testing

2021-01-04 Thread Patrick Elsen
Hey all, I'm not sure if this is the right way or place to report this, but I've been running Debian bullseye (Testing) for some months now and it's been a really great experience, everything works out of the box (backlight, suspend, display brightness control, switching between speakers and headp

Re: Label printer Debian compatible

2021-01-04 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Tom Browder writes: > On Mon, Jan 4, 2021 at 12:57 PM Joe Pfeiffer wrote: >> I have had good success with a Dymo LabelWriter 450. > > USB connection? Yes.

Re: AMD Radeon 6490M

2021-01-04 Thread Felix Miata
Andrei POPESCU composed on 2021-01-04 21:45 (UTC+0200): > On Lu, 04 ian 21, 18:51:58, Hans wrote: >> What is not existent, can not be loaded. :) > An initramfs rebuild is still needed, maybe that's the reason. This is why I suggested to test first via radeon.modeset=0. Blacklist means don't lo

Re: Label printer Debian compatible

2021-01-04 Thread deloptes
Tom Browder wrote: > On Mon, Jan 4, 2021 at 12:57 PM Joe Pfeiffer wrote: >> I have had good success with a Dymo LabelWriter 450. > > USB connection? yes

Re: AMD Radeon 6490M

2021-01-04 Thread Felix Miata
LuKaRo composed on 2021-01-04 17:58 (UTC+0100): > Felix Miata wrote: > I'd be comfortable with blacklisting the NVidia graphics and just using the > Intel one for example. I just don't know how to do this. Maybe with some kind > of special Xorg config? Try appending to the kernel command line in

Re: AMD Radeon 6490M

2021-01-04 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 04 ian 21, 18:51:58, Hans wrote: > Am Montag, 4. Januar 2021, 18:42:14 CET schrieb Andrei POPESCU: > > > > An entry like > > > > blacklist radeon > > > > in a file under /etc/modprobe.d/ ending in '.conf' should achieve the > > same result. > > Thought of this, too, and agree! Howeve

Re: Label printer Debian compatible

2021-01-04 Thread Tom Browder
On Mon, Jan 4, 2021 at 12:57 PM Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > I have had good success with a Dymo LabelWriter 450. USB connection?

Re: Label printer Debian compatible

2021-01-04 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Tom Browder writes: > Has anyone had any success driving a mailing label printer for mailing labels > from either a LAN or direct connection with a Linux box? > > I can print sheets of mailing labels from my main printer, but I would love > to be able to print single labels from my adress db w

Re: Bullseye: setting and using $DISPLAY after su -

2021-01-04 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 4 Jan 2021 07:25:30 -0500 Greg Wooledge wrote: > > Today is Setting Orange, the 73rd of The Aftermath, 3186. All Hail > > Discordia! root@hawk:~# env | grep DISPLAY > > DISPLAY=:0 > > Clearly you're doing something special in root's .profile -- at the > very least, you're running that

Re: AMD Radeon 6490M

2021-01-04 Thread Hans
Am Montag, 4. Januar 2021, 18:42:14 CET schrieb Andrei POPESCU: Thought of this, too, and agree! However, I had had the problem, that although I blacklisted it that time, the module was still loaded somehow. Ok, this was long time ago, almost 2 or 3 years ago, and maybe that was just chance (ra

Re: AMD Radeon 6490M

2021-01-04 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 04 ian 21, 18:36:29, Hans wrote: > Am Montag, 4. Januar 2021, 17:58:56 CET schrieb LuKaRo: > > Hello, > > the other way is just to delete or move away the radeon* modules from /lib/ > modules/kernel*version/ and rebuild initramfs again. > > Did help me in the past with a corrupted nvidia-

Re: AMD Radeon 6490M

2021-01-04 Thread Hans
Am Montag, 4. Januar 2021, 17:58:56 CET schrieb LuKaRo: Hello, the other way is just to delete or move away the radeon* modules from /lib/ modules/kernel*version/ and rebuild initramfs again. Did help me in the past with a corrupted nvidia-module. Hope this helps. Best regards Hans > On 04.

Re: AMD Radeon 6490M

2021-01-04 Thread deloptes
LuKaRo wrote: > I'd be comfortable with blacklisting the NVidia graphics and just using > the Intel one for example. I just don't know how to do this. Maybe with > some kind of special Xorg config? nowdays Xorg does automatic configuration. You could bypass this by saving the configuration adjust

Re: Intermittent problem with integrated webcam / Thinkpad E130/ Stretch

2021-01-04 Thread deloptes
Dan Ritter wrote: > If you absolutely need a working camera as soon as possible, buy > a new USB camera. but the subject says it is integrated. I suggest just install a new kernel (may be from back ports if available and you want to stay on stretch) you can compile new kernel or simply upgrade to

Re: Nvidia Optimus, Debian 10, and Firefox ESR crashes

2021-01-04 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 04.01.2021 09:31, David Christensen wrote: Reboot -- boots okay -- login manager displayed -- login okay -- Xfce desktop okay -- external monitor not getting signal. Xfce -> Settings -> Display only lists one monitor "default": Resolution    1920x1080 (or 640x480) Refresh rat

Re: AMD Radeon 6490M

2021-01-04 Thread LuKaRo
On 04.01.21 04:28, Felix Miata wrote: > You may be able to disable the Radeon indirectly adding this to the kernel > command > line in Grub: > > radeon.modeset=0 > > I suspect doing this could functionally make the Intel GPU preferred. Thanks! Unfortunately, this didn't help :/

Re: AMD Radeon 6490M

2021-01-04 Thread LuKaRo
On 04.01.21 04:24, Felix Miata wrote: > LuKaRo composed on 2021-01-04 03:24 (UTC+0100): > > Did you check to see if there is a way in the BIOS to disable the Radeon? Unfortunately, no, because this is a MacBook, and Apple does not allow such settings > Getting "dual graphics" or "hybrid graphics"

Re: Intermittent problem with integrated webcam / Thinkpad E130/ Stretch

2021-01-04 Thread Dan Ritter
Ottavio Caruso wrote: > https://paste.debian.net/plainh/1c22d1aa Your kernel believes you have two video cameras, one named Trust. They have different USB ids. They both get recognized repeatedly in your snippet, but because there is not enough context, I can't tell whether that means - you put

Re: [SOLUTION] Re: Bullseye: setting and using $DISPLAY after su -

2021-01-04 Thread tomas
On Mon, Jan 04, 2021 at 08:36:09AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Jan 04, 2021 at 07:48:03AM -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > > I parsed the preceding conversation as indicating that > > > > $ ln -sf /home/auser/.Xauthority /root/.Xauthority > > > > produced a setup that worked, but > > > > $

Re: [SOLUTION] Re: Bullseye: setting and using $DISPLAY after su -

2021-01-04 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Jan 04, 2021 at 07:48:03AM -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > I parsed the preceding conversation as indicating that > > $ ln -sf /home/auser/.Xauthority /root/.Xauthority > > produced a setup that worked, but > > $ cp /home/auser/.Xauthority /root/.Xauthority > > produced one that didn't. Th

Re: recommendations for supported, affordable hardware raid controller.

2021-01-04 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Jan 04, 2021 at 09:30:08AM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Du, 03 ian 21, 19:53:07, Michael Stone wrote: Applications which need more data integrity guarantees generally implement some sort of journalling and/or use atomic filesystem operations. (E.g., write a temporary file, flush/sync,

Re: Open Source Flash Alternatives

2021-01-04 Thread Curt
On 2021-01-04, didier gaumet wrote: > A little bit out-of-subject because it also mentions proprietary > software, but there is a very recent article precisely on this > subject: > https://www.fastcompany.com/90590201/how-to-use-flash-to-play-old-games-after-adobe-discontinues-it > > (and being no

Re: [SOLUTION] Re: Bullseye: setting and using $DISPLAY after su -

2021-01-04 Thread The Wanderer
On 2021-01-04 at 07:32, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Jan 01, 2021 at 07:52:40PM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > >> On Fri, Jan 01, 2021 at 10:24:44AM -0700, Charles Curley wrote: >>> Bingo! That, rather than copying .Xauthority, gave me a fix. >> >> Huh? That is strange. I mean: great it wor

Re: [SOLUTION] Re: Bullseye: setting and using $DISPLAY after su -

2021-01-04 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Jan 01, 2021 at 07:52:40PM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Fri, Jan 01, 2021 at 10:24:44AM -0700, Charles Curley wrote: > > On Thu, 31 Dec 2020 22:30:34 -0600 > > David Wright wrote: > > > > > $ /bin/su - > > > Password: > > > ahost ~# xeyes -display :0.0 > > > Xlib: connectio

Re: Bullseye: setting and using $DISPLAY after su -

2021-01-04 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 05:49:02PM -0700, Charles Curley wrote: > On Thu, 31 Dec 2020 17:15:40 -0500 > Greg Wooledge wrote: > Also, if I want to run as root, I want access to all the rootty system > administrator things like fdisk and fsck. Plain vanilla su leaves one > with the unprivileged user

Re: Intermittent problem with integrated webcam / Thinkpad E130/ Stretch

2021-01-04 Thread Georgi Naplatanov
On 1/4/21 1:00 PM, Ottavio Caruso wrote: > Hi, > > $ uname -a > Linux e130 4.9.0-14-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.246-2 (2020-12-17) x86_64 > GNU/Linux > > $ cat /etc/debian_version > 9.13 > > $ inxi -M > Machine: >   Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 33588QG v: ThinkPad Edge E130 > > I have had a

Re: Open Source Flash Alternatives

2021-01-04 Thread didier gaumet
A little bit out-of-subject because it also mentions proprietary software, but there is a very recent article precisely on this subject: https://www.fastcompany.com/90590201/how-to-use-flash-to-play-old-games-after-adobe-discontinues-it (and being not intersted in games, I did not know archive.